topic Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact in Z Series

Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sat, 09 May 2015 12:16:37 GMT

Ever since I updated to lollipop , my phone is having multiple issues
1- heats up sometimes so much that I can even use it for ironing my clothes
2- refused to charge more than 2-3 % WHEN using phone whether playing games or browsing through opera mini and Facebook app.
3- battery drainage is very quick, it drops 1 % with every song played through speakers at around 70% volume
4- while typing this my battery has gone down from 18% to 12. It just drops every few minutes or more so seconds whether I install apps from sd card, or do other stuff
5- it lags few times while scrolling through setting menu and I noticed a log during opening of apps like opera as compared to other versions.
6- previously in kitkat my phone display had problem of displaying washed colour but it was fixed in lollipop as suggested by the care centre.
I did everything thing suggested by the forum members like. Reinstall and repair through pc companion but battery issue had not been fixed.
7- before upgrading to latest firmware released few days ago battery was draining at 1% per 30 sec rate with few minutes gap in between.
8- latest firmware hasn't fixed it yet and I did Turning the ph off via small button near sim slot and charging it fully.
9- I also did factory reset fully and reinstall via pc companion again but didn't work
10- last night battery %age was 79% before I locked it and went to bed closing all apps. But in the morning it was at 71 %. And then it went to 69% within using phone for a minute or two.

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Thommo — Sat, 09 May 2015 13:59:21 GMT

I can't help with your issues you are having but you could consider manually downgrading or waiting for firmware bug fixes

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:01:46 GMT

I did a fresh installation of latest firmware which was available 2 days ago.

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Thommo — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:06:59 GMT

If you found KK to be a good firmware then a manual downgrade would be an option to consider

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:11:04 GMT

One more thing I noticed.
I tested z3c against z1c. I removed external card, and install 10 apko files which I downloaded from playstore and kept their backup. I noticed two things
1- z1 c installed same apk's faster than z3c atleast 2 sec in small apps and more in bigger apps like Facebook etc with size more than 20mb.
2- z1 c battery went down only 4% but z3c went down 8%.
Both were on latest lollipop firmware and we're restarted before the test took place. Z3 heated more than z1. Now now have another problem of slow disk write speed. Any Sony employees here can help. Me because if I go to care centre they will again flash my phone with firmware but the problem will no go away and I don't want to loose my data again again. Is there a way they can flash kitkat if there is a problem with lollipop

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:12:14 GMT

How to manually do that. Can Sony flash tool can do that. Because I don't want to void my warranty and hurt my phone

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Thommo — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:13:26 GMT

I don't think a service centre will downgrade your phone but you could certainly ask - Performing a downgrade will however require your phone to have all data erased

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Thommo — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:14:17 GMT

To downgrade you need a .ftf firmware file and a program called Flashtool

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sat, 09 May 2015 14:56:00 GMT

I will give it a try asap

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Tue, 12 May 2015 13:28:23 GMT

I downgraded to kitkat and noticed most of my problems are gone. Kitkat is alot better than lollipop in many ways.
1- battery drainage is consistent.
2-heatup problem solved
3-scrolling through menu is smoother
4-phone is charging while playing games.
5-the way sony implement its ui in kitkat is way better than lollipop pop. Like app drawer with full screen, notification menu etc.
6- I also noticed louder volumes in notification and may be in music player through headphones (not truly sure about that). But notification were louder.
7- i liked old music player ui than new, i mean its easy to switch between clear audio, and new one is very colorful for my taste.
8- installation of apk from sd cards doesn't drain battery as much as lollipop.

I think what sony did with kitkat is way better than what they did with lollipop, the only reason i will consider lollipop upgrade if raw support is provided.
I think sony should start tweaking their ui instead of implementing other manufacturers small features.

Loving my compact

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Mano_Z3C — Wed, 13 May 2015 19:33:58 GMT

How can that be done?

Thanks.

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

Mistabeak — Thu, 14 May 2015 03:25:10 GMT

You're dreamin if you think you are protected by a Sony warranty.

Sony Losing its innovation and Difrentiality

wasimariflone — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:22:44 GMT

Here are my thoughts as a current xperia user, never had a single sony product in before the z1c and now z3c , only one sony wega tv lying in guests room.From year 2004-2013 had few nokia phones and when symbian died bought a couple od Samsung as they were leading in Android race (never liked it though personally) great products but didn't liked. Didn't picked up a sony because of bad reviews and tft screen tech. And bad compression in camera output (my nokia n8 12mpx outshine xperia z and zl ) . Then the race for phablets comes in phone's with 5.0 in screen became normal and a pain for my small hands and single hand usage .just when i was leaning towards apple a leak came out as xperia z1 mini (compact) and waited for it . was happy you finally opted ips over tft , size was good build quality was good , and waterproof too (that was a problem though) used it for a while, and bought z3c as an upgrade . loved the innovation you did , loved the clean ui. Zippyness, sound quality, camera, feel in hand . for me it was a perfect phone . but things goes wrong , lollipop came out , and you rollout a uncooked firmware to public, all that good battery backup, ease of use , hi-res sound messed up, music replaced walkman , ui messed up, switching between clear audio needed extra button press, app drawer looked like stolen from booring htc, most things required extra steps to complete. The reason i choose sony for doing something different is gone and my device feel like a mixture of several products of other companies.
Thanks, hope you start doing what you did best.

Re: Lollipop 🍭 ruined my compact

wasimariflone — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 20:30:25 GMT

you can you flashtool and ftf file for your z3c as per region . check out xda z3c threads for step wise info .