XDA Senior Member shared with the Note 4 community a flashable bootanimation that takes the Samsung branding off and replaces it with Android Marshmallow’s bootanimation!
Join us in a fun Sunday Debate on the Z5 trio. Come with your opinions and feel free to read some of our thoughts, then pick your side or play devil’s advocate to get your voice heard and engage in friendly discussion. You can read our food-for-thought or jump straight into the fray below!
We’ve talked a lot about Sony, and how it is the OEM that XDA wishes to save. We even held a debate where we discussed how Sony ended where it is and how they could step up in a globalized world. This week we saw the Japanese giant announce three new flagship phones in their Xperia Z line, a compact one, a regular version and a premium variant with a ludicrous 4K display. All of these phones host the Snapdragon 810, with 2GB of RAM in the Compact and 3GB for the other two. The devices look sleek, and the new Sony IMX230 sensor looks promising. That being said, is it enough?
Sony has been stretching onto new price brackets and regions of the market in an attempt to grab a bigger slice of pie. This is a good move, but the new Xperia Z5 trio seems to have missed the mark around various enthusiast circles. So we ask you:
Some factors worth considering are listed in the table down below:
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A combination of a 4k display and Snapdragon 810 have left many concerned about the Xperia Z5’s ability to remain cool. A tear down has surfaced on Weibo showing exactly how Sony have tackled the problem including thermal paste and twin cooling pipes but will it be enough? Only time will tell.
At IFA in Berlin, Open Source Virtual Reality an open software and hardware platform for virtual reality, has announced the development and a preorder date for their Hacker Development Kit, which will go on sale October 1st. The OSVR content discovery platform has also launched ahead of this HDK release and can be found at OSVR.org.
Do you hate the RAM management of your Note5? Well, it turns out that if you have root, you can make it better. Yesterday, and once I was done with my Note5 review, I decided to dig around for the solution and it turns out it was there all along.
The same build.prop edit that made the S6 and Note 4 perform better seemingly works for the Note5 as well.
The fix involves editing your build.prop’s DHA properties. I personally tried it and can confirm it partially works, as shown in the video down below. However, please be careful and mindful, this is not an end-all fix and it most likely needs some extra tweaking before it works perfectly on every device. I was only able to test it for a few hours, and I found no performance issues, additional battery drain nor bugs. There still might be unintended consequences, however, so apply the fix at your own risk. That being said, it does seem to make RAM management better during actual usage. When the phone is idle for too long, though, the heavy applications appear to get kicked out of memory as usual.
Before going forward, make sure you understand the fix and make a backup of both your ROM and your build.prop file. This requires root to edit the build.prop, which you can do with a simple text editor or a dedicated app. In order to apply the fix, replace your DHA properties of your build.prop with the ones found in this article or in this thread. If you are missing some of them, just add them after the ones you do have. If you are missing all of them, adding them to the bottom may work (at least, it did with my Note 4).
I tried this on my Note5 and so far I have not encountered any issues. More testing is required, though, so if you are bold, apply the fix and tell us your results. It doesn’t seem to be risky, but please be mindful that it’s not a fix specific to the Note5 in particular, and that it doesn’t seem to entirely fix the problem. It might be wiser to simply wait for a better fix, as extended testing might reveal unintended consequences. That being said, the Note5’s RAM management can certainly improve, so XDA will find a way!
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In what is another blow to the struggling HTC, It has been announced that it is to be removed from the Taiwan Stock Exchange’s 50 Index on September 21, according to local media reports Sunday. It has also been stated that they will remain on the 100 index however which is a small comfort at this point.
