I don't know if my phone has the same problem. Because my thumbs are kinda big. Sometimes I get to type super smooth and fast without any mistakes and sometimes it will go all crazy, typo everywhere.

As I promised in the V6 thread, I will do a review of the bumper I bought from eBay. It arrived just moments ago. Anyway without any further ado, here you go.











You can get it here, on eBay. I don't get the premium feel when I first grab this with my hand. It feels like a cheap piece of plastic, but not entirely made of plastic. Only the bottom cyan coloured part is made out of plastic, hard plastic. However, the top black coloured part is made out of rubber-like silicone. Move on to the ports. As you can see in the photos above. You may only get access to the audio jack on top, SIM card slot, the spot where you tie a strap on it, speaker on the bottom, micro USB charging port, the whole front and back and secondary noise cancelling mic at the back. Move on to the buttons. After putting this case on, it requires slightly more force to press them. As for the camera shutter button, you may actually press all the way down without giving the enough time for your phone to focus if you apply more force accidentally which happens occasionally. About charging, I don't have a magnetic cable or dock, so I don't find it a big problem. But, as you can see in the fourth photo that when my cable is plugged in, it will slightly push/stretch the rubber upwards. Which I think it will loses its default shape after some time. To my eyes, it makes me feel like the black bezel around the screen becomes a lot thicker/bigger when you have this case on. It also makes me feel like the screen went a little smaller, but that is only the look of course.

That's all I've to say about this hybrid bumper case for Sony Xperia Z1. Let me know what you think of my review, and sorry for the bad grammar though. I'm trying to give my best review of it. Please tell me, if you wish to see more photos from other angles or whatever. Or you can just ask me whatever questions related to it.

Edit: It also comes with a screen protector. So, kudos to the store for that. At the time I bought this, it only costs USD5.59, but for now it is USD5.94.

This post has been edited by JkzsBlog: Mar 5 2014, 08:01 PM

According to this, it costs me about RM18.28 as of now.

Guys, I have no idea how it happened. My AR Effect app just went wrong all of a sudden. As you can see in the pictures below.






All 3 of the .APK files highlighted in red are downloaded from XDA Developers forum. Unfortunately, I can't get all of them to work. I have also tried to force stop, clear data, clear cache, disable and re-enable it in the settings. I just can't get it to work. Please help. Also, I don't know why I can't get it updated from the Play Store as well.


Edit: If there's anyone of you who's interested in my wallpaper, here you go. Credits to the artist, Justin Maller. You have to rotate the picture 90 degrees clockwise to make it exactly like mine.


This post has been edited by JkzsBlog: Mar 13 2014, 06:52 AM

Thank you so much. I hope this will work.

Sorry, have to trouble you.

It's still the same.

I don't know how to do rooting, plus it is too complicated for me. I don't want to risk my phone just yet.

Any guide on that? And what will happen? Will I lose my personal data and all?

Thanks for the help guys. I've done a repair and trying to restore everything into its original form. It's taking a lot of time. Nonetheless, the repair fix my AR Effect camera app. Thanks!

Just usual stuff, like backup your files. Speaking about backup, you need to do backup everything thoroughly. If you do a normal/recommended backup in Sony Companion software, it will only save stuff like your pictures, songs, personal data and all. It won't save apps data. You will have to do a backup for your apps data somewhere else in your PC or maybe try some other ways of doing it. My downloaded apps are all saved in my Gmail account, after the restoring of my files, Play Store automatically downloads everything back into my phone. But not my apps data, like my games records, everything is gone. I was using this Expense Manager app to record all of my expenses monthly, it is also gone. I forgot to do the backups for my apps data. Lesson learned, if you're gonna do a backup, then do it THOROUGHLY. Whatsapp, Wechat and etc. chat history are all gone. But at least, now everything is working fine. Also, these backup/restore/repair steps won't fix some major bug. For examaple, the WiFi connectivity issue and all. Those are not fixed. I guess we will only have to wait for the next OTA update from SONY to fix them all.

Guys, is this site trusted? Might be getting this one too, I think.
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This post has been edited by JkzsBlog: Mar 15 2014, 11:58 PM

Update is done. Everything is running fine. But there was a minor problem though, it happened after the update was done. My Facebook Messenger app couldn't send any message out. I re-install the app, and it is running fine once again. Everything now is still fresh, the update was done only seconds ago. So, let's just wait if all the previous major problems will appear once again. For example, the freaking WiFi connectivity issue.

I don't know much about that though, many said that it will mostly be software issue. But I don't know, my guess will be software issue as well. So far, I'm liking this new UI. And of course, I really do hope SONY release some other update as well. Like, double tap to unlock, Timeshift video and more.

Yeah, I noticed it too. It is a good or bad? I think bad, maybe? Because we only have like 300+MB left.

Just in case if there's anyone wondering. My results are all untouched. No tweaking like rooting and all. No, I have done nothing to tweak here and there. Running the latest update, Android 4.4.2.
Antutu:



Quadrant:


Geekbench:

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg175/j...zps1be5d7ce.png(This is the full details of everything. The picture's dimension is 1080 by 14606 pixels, you might have to zoom in to see it clearly on your browser or maybe PS.)

This post has been edited by JkzsBlog: Mar 21 2014, 01:24 PM

One more thing, after this new update. My camera loads up pretty slow. Slower than before. Anyone else?

YES! I noticed the same thing too. But this only happens to the apps, I am not facing any issue like this when someone is calling in. My ringtone volume is as loud as before.

I wouldn't call this a review, but I would call it more of a complain from me right now. Lately, problems are starting to reveal themselves one by one. First of all, I wanna talk about the latest KitKat update. It has a few bugs here and there. For now, it is very laggy and delaying to launch the camera app. It doesn't matter if I swipe it up on my lock screen or even by just tapping on the app in my home screen. It is really frustrating. I was trying to snap a quick shot yesterday at the Education fair. It took about 5 seconds after tapping on the app. Then, my phone just went idle. The screen went black and the camera doesn't load itself up. I couldn't do anything, I even tried tapping everywhere on the screen. I end up rebooting my phone, by holding down the power button. Next, it is about the micro USB charging port cover/flap. This has been happening for at least a week. I thought it was my fault at the beginning, maybe because I didn't apply enough pressure to close it. It is starting to loose its tightness. I find myself repeatedly closing back the flap from time to time, even though I tried to hold it down super hard when I am closing it. I push the cover/flap back in like usual and put my phone back into my pocket like usual. After a short period of time, it is once again opened by itself after I took it out from my pocket. I don't put my phone together with anything in my pocket. There must be something wrong with the cover. It is covered by the warranty? I actually still have a few more complains on whatever problem I'm facing about this phone, I have been busy lately, so I can't really recall of them right now.

Nope, but it is the same as doing a repair with the Sony Companion PC software? I don't wanna go through the same thing again, man... Among of all the problems right now, I just wanna fix the flap/cover first. It is really frustrating and dangerous.