nope, it doesn't work, not sure alignment or sim problem, think twice before doing it

by rooting for adjusting small mod like speaker quality, u going to lose few camera image processing feature (lowlight,etc), display enhancement (x-reality,etc), screen-mirroring, Xperia Lounge VIP treat, and many more.
sony malaysia dont bother much regarding unlocking bootloader. warranty still in-tact.

deng. my sim+mSD mod still working fine on Note7 since S7E. eager to test on my In Progress XZ.
frm ur pic i can see the 2nd sim misaligned abit. not sure that might be the issue.

photo taken prior to sticking sim to memory card, so, i aligned correctly dy, twice
after heard by forcing it into the slot, it'll damage the sim's reader pin, not dare try liao

yups, that's not ideal for me because at one time,i must use 1 memory card & 3 sims - 1 personal & 2 company lines. There was no problem before because my previous phones are both android with dual sim hybrid..

now my other phone is iPhone7+ with single sim and no microSD support. So my other phone must have dual sim slots and a memory card slot..

i've tried this mod before with my s7 edge, but unluckily the sim was damaged after sometime. So lazy to do it again.

By looking back some old threads at XDA, seem like z3 was the last permanent exploit root.
For z3+ and z5, there were still having temporary root(used for backup TA before unlocking).
Since X series, there are unlikely any root without unlocking.

Rooting without unlocking won't lose the DRM and features but unlock will. That's why i hope, at least some dev can help with something, at least temporary root to backup TA.

by restoring TA, if possible, removing root as well. BL will auto relock & stock kernel is required to boot. u going all stock again. which i highly doubt the exploit will be found less than 6months.

DRM patch/hack doesnt really works for all DRM linked features.

Restoring TA actually doesn't unroot, but relock bootloader. Because root&recovery modified the system partition, which cause it cannot pass through dm-verify, which will bootloop. Finally you have to reflash stock kernel&firmware again.

I feel so wasted if the android machine cannot be rooted(at least sony is better than some other brands who didn't offer unlocking bootloader method, but sacrifice DRM was against my objective to root, to make the device better/perfect). OEM always set the device to a well-balanced setting. But actually our phones are more potential to do better (because the "well-balanced" setting will cause lesser trouble like overheating etc.) Not every flashing will need modify the kernel level, some little tweaks or system level.

Well, that's unfortunate.

The only Sony phone I could think of with such slots is Z5 series (last year's flagship), with Z5P of 5.5" screen and Z5 of 5.2" screen.

This year's phone seems many already adopted to hybrid sim already...

exactly. my point is, once u restore TA, everything must back to stock.
restore TA > BL lock.
BL lock need stock kernel.
stock kernel : need stock system.

Note 7 is indeed louder. But imo, the quality of the sound coming from it is also muddier, not as much clarity as what comes out of the XZ. Also, when in the standard watching a video position, the front facing speakers sounds better than the downwards/side way facing speakers. Also, while playing games landscape, with the N7 I tend to cover the speakers. No such issue with the XZ.

Pretty much this.

Same, wanted to pick one up yesterday for the missus but they had none in stock.

I was playing with the phone just now, when i zoom in into a picture i realised there were a lot of noise in the picture. Is there anything we can do bout that?

This post has been edited by aKatoRA: Oct 17 2016, 04:39 PM

my experience...
- never use the full 23MP unless u need to crop your picture. the quality of a full 23 MP picture is actually so so only
- i find capturing in 2MP actually give very sharp and clear picture. but the picture size is very small la.
- i still recommend taking picture in 8MP, which is a balance between quality and size
- in most cases, manual mode with auto settings better than superior auto mode
- for best result, use manual mode and adjust all the settings accordingly (of course this require time and knowledge and not for everyone

Thanks for the tips.
Will explore further.
Manual with auto settings means, the SCN set to OFF rite?
How about superior auto with 8mp? If my memory serve me right, it should be downsamples and merged like Nokia pureview ?

This post has been edited by squall_kay: Oct 17 2016, 05:24 PM

guy does this phone comes with preinstalled FM radio app? if doesnt, can try NextRadio app whether working onot.

Thanks for the tips. It's a bit tedious if need to adjust the setting and i expect just point and shoot. Not a bit hesitating to buy it as the camera surprisingly too much of noise.

doesn't have FM chip anymore. need to use the individual FM station App.

This post has been edited by yuhhaur: Oct 17 2016, 05:36 PM

its a shame. previously they only disabled it.
internet radio sound quality mostly bad even on good network speed.

yes agree about 20mp picture quality was so so only and slow interval to take another pic than superior auto 8mp

Beside, average person only need 8mp for a magazine photo quality @ 8inch @ 300ppi. Capturing a 23mp photo does not seems practical. Sharing to fb instagram and so on don't even need that.

http://design215.com/toolbox/megapixels.php

This post has been edited by yuhhaur: Oct 17 2016, 06:21 PM