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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...

Yes... this was driving me crazy but I finally found a fix tonight. Verizon's MMS server seems to place an extreme size restriction on MMS messages for devices it does not recognize (maybe around 30 KB). This ROM was ported from another model, so Verizon's MMS server views it as a foreign...

This is great news! The random shutdowns when the battery gets below 30% has been driving me crazy (not limited to this ROM). I wish I read this earlier... I just decided to order a new battery and try tearing apart the phone to replace it myself (looks like a very tedious project).

Thanks for releasing these GPE ports for Verizon so quickly! Release H10 has been working well for me so far and seems very stable. I am running into issues after installing the H10 mod pack though. Every time I try to play a video (HTML5?) In Chrome or Facebook, the phone soft reboots to the...

Is NFC working for anybody after installing 4.6.1 on Verizon hardware? I was never able to enable NFC on 4.6.0 without a force close "notification loop", and others had reported similar issues. This is the only thing keeping me from jumping to 4.6.x from 4.3.0.

I had this happen to me on my Asus EeePad TF101. It seems that TWRP has a bug that prevents it from setting a "boot to system" flag on some devices, causing it to always boot to recovery. The solution for the TF101 was to reinstall the stock boot image, which appears to align with the...

I have found that tapping the screen 3 times (instead of 2) will usually wake the screen while it is laying on a desk. Just use a little bit of force on the first tap... It seems like an accelerometer needs to detect motion before the screen digitizer wakes up. This would still be a nice...

I noticed this problem from day 1. Hangouts doesn't seem to work with MMS... it retries to send each message for 5-10 minutes before succeeding. It also seems to have problems with group messages... sometimes it starts a new thread of messages when someone replies to a group message via MMS...

Are you by chance using an Apple router or access point? For some reason, they don't seem to play well with Android devices, including my M8. I've had a similar experience with 4 Android devices and 2 different Apple routers. The devices continuously disconnect and reconnect.

Thanks for the tip. I also found the setting in the "Global" section of the db. The changed setting survived after the reboot, but unfortunately it didn't disable the notifications.

Well, this notification is "encouraging" me to just turn off WiFi altogether and just use my unlimited data plan full-time! :) So far I like the M8. Sense interface definitely has a learning curve, but it does have a few nice added features like motion gestures. The M8 is lightning fast...

Is there any known way to disable the CONSTANT notifications indicating that "WiFi Networks Are Available" or "You are Connected to [network name]"? These notifications are completely useless, because when are there ever not WiFi networks available? I also don't need a notification that I've...

nice. thanks for posting.