Zibri's Blog

Since a few days the phone of my girlfriend (a SONY ERICSSON XPERIA Z3 dual) had all kinds of problems including the notification sounds totally gone. I solved the problem without losing any data! I remebered that years ago I posted on this blog ( www.zibri.org ) about a way to solve another problem (my phone was not going to deep sleep anymore) and I found out that just resetting a few settings solved the problem, I used the same method to solve a lot of situations including this. The reason why this hapens is that some phone settings get corrupted with time (freezes, battery removed abruptly or jusyt software glitches). The simple way to solve this it to enable USB debugging mode and connect to the phone using "adb" (android debug bridge) utility. Then issue the command adb devices (on the phone a popup will appear asking you if you want to authorize this operation. Once authorized, all you have to do is issuing 3 commands (probably only one of these is need...

In the last few weeks I noticed a heavy battery drain on my Galaxy Note 3, which has always been perfect battery-wise. After further inspection I noticed that the phone stopped to go to "deep sleep" when it was connected to my home WiFi. I even banned my phone from my LAN, just to exclude any external cause. Nothing changed. I checked the wakelocks and didn't see anything "strange". After a few days of inspecting and testing, I found nothing. But that nothing, meant something: no application was to blame. Apparently it was the O.S. I didn't factory restore my phone, because I "sensed" that restoring the backups I may be facing the same problem again. Excluding the apps, and after checking all settings (and finding nothing was wrong) ,and thinking "out of the box" I came with a "stupid" theory: what if a bug or a glitch messed up some internal settings? What if one of my many tests launching "act...