topic Re: January patch reviews in XZ Series

January patch reviews

SamiSawani — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:37:04 GMT

Hi,

So it's that time again where hopefully everyone can report issues and such with this latest update.

I will post my review after 24 hours.

Cheers

------>update :

1)Ram management is a little better than before but still not that good. I guess 3 gigabytes is insufficient for oreo so sadly, I give up on this matter.

2) battery is still abysmal(can't even have 4 hours SOT)

3) camera still slow and the pictures takes ages to load and even more after that to be able to edit them.

4)4k mode still separate app.

5)no color gamut option in the display settings

6) not sure about spectre and meltdown whether they have been fixed or not. I read something about all patches released after january 5th do include the fix but not sure

7)adaptive brightness not aggressive anymore

Re: January patch reviews

alreg — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 17:54:11 GMT

My main concern is if this update actually fixes Spectre and Meltdown... Any info on that?

Re: January patch reviews

100rabh — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:12:57 GMT

Quick review

1) Feels better Ram management.. Phone feels faster

2)less camera startup time

3) Looks like auto brightness is fixed..still testing

Re: January patch reviews

xznewbie — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:20:56 GMT

Is spectre and meltdown an issue on Android smartphone as well.? I thought it was only for Intel machines..

Re: January patch reviews

xznewbie — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:24:23 GMT

Just received notification for updates but waiting for more comments from those that have done already. Can I just ignore for the time being this update prompt..?

Re: January patch reviews

yatheesh — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:33:52 GMT

Still No fix for

SRGB mode

Bluetooth pairing bug

Camera Flash blinking while charging

No tap to sleep

Re: January patch reviews

GJY — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:14:47 GMT

I want to know what had updated in january patch？

And I want to get better battery time:smileyhappy:

Re: January patch reviews

100rabh — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:30:41 GMT

Anyone on Android Oreo should update it without any thoughts..

The update has hardly changed anything but it has tuned the phone well and it's better than the first Oreo update...

My ldac and auto brightness problem are gone and seems like they fixed the alarm clock as well..

Battery life helps more or less the same

Re: January patch reviews

hellionprime — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:18:26 GMT

well so far I can tell that the new update is mighty.

very effective, the phone is very fluid no more lag apparently , fracking fast almost as fast than my XZ1

Re: January patch reviews

dquilon — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:16:37 GMT

Finally the phone is fast again after a couple of month of pure bs...

Anyway, I'm happy we can have a good Oreo experience now...

Almost no last, good performance, faster camera (still not as fast as when the XZ launched), and battery seems ok... Barely a day...

I might factory reset my phone later and see if the battery improves (too many junk apps)

Re: January patch reviews

klay79 — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 22:10:24 GMT

Is it possible that the effect of the update might differ from device to another!!!

For example.

1-Battery is discharging faster then before, mean it becomes worse.

2- im not able to use the camera more than approximately 1 minute since it raises the temperature of device, i was not suffering from this before.

3- multitasking is not an option since it involves slowing down the device.

Im not sure of those updates, i missed my XZ that i bought a year ago.

Re: January patch reviews

xznewbie — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 03:58:51 GMT

I noticed minimal improvement in battery life. There is slight improvement in RAM usage.. Well there is lesson learned here. When you buy underpowered Sony Xperia regardless if it's a flagship, NEVER UPDATE IT to the next Iteration of software.. This XZ us optimized for Nougat but not for Oreo. I also believe that those current, XZ1, XZ Premium are optimized for Oreo.The next iteration called Popsicle deserves a more powerful hardware as well.

Re: January patch reviews

xznewbie — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:02:32 GMT

@trashcan wrote:
I noticed minimal improvement in battery life. There is slight improvement in RAM usage.. Well there is lesson learned here. When you buy underpowered Sony Xperia regardless if it's a flagship, NEVER UPDATE IT to the next Iteration of software.. This XZ us optimized for Nougat but not for Oreo. I also believe that those current, XZ1, XZ Premium are optimized for Oreo.The next iteration called Popsicle deserves a more powerful hardware as well.

Those 2017 Xperia flagship phones versions will likely have problems with Popsicle OS..

Re: January patch reviews

DrAmr — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:20:12 GMT

I have the same problems too