There is this setting im using, not sure if it will improve in your use case. I enabled the Battery power saver in the setting and set it always on even after restart or full charge. It was recommended by Sonywalkmanuser, to be fair not to claim any credit. From android white paper, this setting...

Ah, wifi and LDAC has been a known issue, I rarely do streaming, someone needs to try it, hehe. I do notice the previous firmware has improved LDAC connection with WF-xm5 in busy environment. Any further improvement from this firmware is a big welcome.

I have only tried the language setting with ZM2, the soundstage of Japanese is lovely, especially the height, but the vocal sound saturated, I end up sticking back to English.

Sorry for the late reply, thankfully SonyWalkmanuser has reply to you. Busy with new project lately, working around the clock, hardly enough sleep, lol

New firmware 2.02

Sharing my strange method of wearing z1r. There is a straight wedge shape at the bottom of the iem, I position the wedge to my lower ear where there is a groove to my ear canal. This position will make the iem facing bit backward and pointing bit down too, and the tip will be at the opening of...

Did you use the Sony Headphone app for the Sony headphones? cos there is a volume control in the Sony headphone app too.

Im not sure if this will work, there is a setting inside developer option to enable the disable absolute volume for bluetooth. Im only using Sony Music app at the moment, so can't try it yet. Then u can check to see if the chain of the main and media volume is separated like before. O, ya...

I think the stiffness of BSEP cable can be a good thing too. My Asuha series goes around my ears without touching it. It makes wearing Z1r like wearing TWS and it's light weight, so not an issue for me.

Yeah, that was very high volume with high gain pairing with Z1R, can imagine it's a dsd file with very soft volume rip source.

Nope, Power + Vol+ and play do not work too. I even try power + Vol- and play. Think Sony has lock it this time.

Have tried that too, doesn't work, it will stay at the Sony screen intermittently, when let go, it boot up normally as usual. I have even tried the ZX507 method with power + skip next and play buttons together, no avail too. Tried with ZM2 with android 11, it works with power + Vol- buttons...

ah, maybe I will dig up some adb notes, hehe. Just hoping an easier way, last resort. :D

By the way, anyone knows how to get to the recovery mode for A306 with Android 13? I have tried with power button + Vol-, and other combinations, but to no avail. Im just trying to do a factory reset from the recovery mode, seems some bugs cannot be fix thru regular factory reset.

yeah, strange, have read previous posts, seems like only mine not working, keep charging to full 100% with battery care, quite worrying to shorten the battery live.

Ah great, after factory reset of the previous firmware, it still charges to 100% with battery care. Finally, they fix it.

I recall it happened to my A306 before, and I did a SD card reformat with the Walkman and it works fine again.

An update on Sonywalkmanuser optimization guide on turning off the sensor, it has to be enabled in the developer option -> quick setting developer tiles -> turn sensors off. Recently I have updated A306 to android 13 and it has a bug off turning the sensors on again after every restart. And I...

Just guessing, dare not confirm, it stated Fr which is France and below LECTEUR is French too. Might mean it is an EU unit which is capped.

Just a quick post of recommendation, if anyone is looking for a new sd card for this cute player, give Samsung Pro Ultimate a shot. I love it so much after trying on ZM2, that I bought a 2nd one for A306. It has a new 28nm host controller that does some magic to both my dap, shall not go into...

It was power on while charging to 100% with battery care on, think as Mr Walkman mention, Android 13 has the percentage scale change, which the 100% is 90%. So far, no battery drains or abnormal issues. The charging is quite fast too, from 20% to 95% charge takes less than 30 mins with 20W apple...

Yea, I noticed that too, with battery care, it still charges to 100%, but it will stop charging there. Bit confused at first, got used to it now. Just speculation, maybe it is trying to do what iphone is doing, slowing the last 20% of charging. Im not very sure, perhaps someone with android 13...

I use indirect way to apply deoxit gold to the sd card as the pins are too near one another to avoid cross contamination. I would use an old card and apply layer on it, then insert and eject few times to let the deoxit transfer to the dap card slot pins, then after insert the new card without...

I apply this guide to my ZM2 and A306, it does improve the zippiness slightly. https://www.head-fi.org/threads/sony-wm1am2-and-wm1zm2-android-walkman-optimization-guide.962975/

Yes, I apply deoxit gold to all my sd cards, dare not post it, seems too crazy idea for many to accept, :stuck_out_tongue: . Do notice slightly longer play time from ZM2 and the new 28nm host controller in the card makes me want to try it as it is a good node.