Congratz on the v9, my XZ still serves me well

Use for 5 months dropped 3 times with thin casing from 2 feet, so far no problem

Plenty of them in ebay

Just back from Langkawi, recorded 10++ underwater videos of around 1 min length each,captured few photos as well while snorkeling at Pulau Payar marine park. Whole snorkeling session around 4hrs including lunch. So my xz is officially waterproof tested.

Ps:water indicators still in white color

I use phone for casual shooting only. Want a better quality photo,I use my EM5

Btw, .67 OTA is rolling out now

I am using GMD auto hide nav bar (PAID), so far so good. I think there's another free app doing similar job in XDA, do google around

Something wrong there with your phone either software or hardware side. I been using XZ since April and found it has the most stable stock rom compare to others. My phone easily hit 4hr+ SOT. With my usage, I unplug at 7am and got around 60~70% battery left at 7pm(SOT around 1.5 hours), so I would say the battery life is more than sufficient for my usage. Maybe you should install batterystats app to check what's running behind that drain your battery

Last time I used betterbatterystats, now I switched to wakelock detector, more suitable for me. But I didn't use it for long time cause never had battery life issue for so long

Some only, not all, I used for snorkeling no problem

I did,shot some photos & recorded 20+ short video clip during my trip to Langkawi snorkeling

I used another way,I set my quick lauch to "take photo after quick launch" or "record video after quick launch", the just hold the volume up button underwater,when the camera launched, it will auto take photo/video. For video recording, just press power button once when you finish recording, then press the volume up button again for next video clip