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The Xperia 5 II hardware does not support any of the bands used for 5G in the US currently. International firmware may enable 5G on the hardware, but you will not receive a 5G signal anywhere in the US. This is why Sony disabled 5G on the US model and marketed it as a 4G device.

It's quite difficult. The screen adhesive is insane... you WILL crack the screen when you remove it from the device. Once the screen is removed, disassembling the phone is not too difficult if you are patient and very careful. There are several modular components you must disassemble from the...

My battery failed after 13 months. If the battery indicator dropped below 25%, the phone experienced all kinds of random shutdowns or reboots. After rebooting, the battery indicator would drop from 25% to 2 or 3%. Since replacing the battery, the phone consistently remains stable down to 1%...

It sounds like your battery is physically worn out and can't hold its voltage. I fixed this long-time issue on my phone by replacing the battery. This is exactly the type of behavior Apple was trying to avoid by "slowing down" its iPhones after so many charge cycles. When the CPU usage spikes...

My battery started decaying very quickly after about 14 months of use. The symptoms suddenly appeared within a rather short time frame... screen-on time fell to around 90 minutes per charge, and my average standby time was under 10 hours! The phone would also charge from 0 to 100% in under 30...

Ah, you are in the UK. I'm pretty sure CMAS is a US-only broadcast alert system. Thanks for confirming!

CMAS Extreme alerts Thanks for all your hard work on this ROM. I have been using it since day 1 with my HTC 10 and love it! I live in Honolulu and received the erroneous "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII" CMAS alert this morning. My phone was in "silent mode" at the time, and I...

A few other Verizon-related requests while we are on this topic: 1) All MMS messages in Android Messages or HTC Messenger are being compressed to 30 KB (the "Verizon Messages" app does not have this restriction). On the HTC M8, this was corrected by changing the MMS User Agent to match the...

Your battery is likely failing. I put up with this same issue for months, and finally broke down and replaced the battery. It immediately fixed the issue... now the phone doesn't shut down until the battery indicator reaches 1%, and averages 4 hours of screen-on time or 36 hours of standby.

You can easily tell immediately if a video was recorded with 1 or 2 channels of audio, especially when wearing headphones. Here is a clip I recorded with my HTC M8... Notice how the sound pans when I turn the camera away from the stage! https://youtu.be/-yqL9uD2oxY 2 channels is simply more...

Are you by chance using a Pixel purchased from Google on Verizon's network? I ran into this when I converted my Verizon HTC M8 to the Google Play version of the M8 by switching ROMs. There is a device identifier string inside of the framework-res.apk file and if Verizon's APN servers don't...

Wow thanks for looking into this! I'm really disappointed to learn that the "best phone camera ever" doesn't record videos in stereo! Google really needs to address this in an app update quickly. Good to know that the hardware is capable, at least. The Pixel also seems to do well in very high...

Can any of the early adopters here confirm whether the Pixel (not XL) is capable of recording stereo audio when capturing videos? All of the example videos I've seen on YouTube seem to be recorded with monaural audio. This could be the only deal breaker for me. I take my HTC M8 to concerts...

Maybe it depends on which build you are running? I'm on H10 unrooted (with modpack), and the menu animations are still smooth as butter after installing the MMS fix ZIP file.

Thanks for posting the ZIP file for the MMS fix! I am very, very new to working with framework-res and wasn't confident enough to post it myself. My own version of the apk did have an issue that resulted in an "Android System has stopped working" message every time I tried to open a file as an...