Z5 compact a bit slow

[ADevotedFan]

So I have been using this phone for about a year now and I haven't really seen any performance increase with updating to the latest firmware.The z3 compact is way more snappy than z5 compact what is wrong with Sony updates? Can someone plz explain to me why Sony doesn't really put that much effort in ui performance enchantments? It doesn't matter if we wait a long time after we see an new firmware we can deal with that but plz Sony the next firmware u release plz make it worth the wait. Its a flagship phone in the end of the day!!!!

[Lord_viridis]

Not my experience tbh, the update to 6.0 made the Z5 range go mentally faster, even benchmarks went much higher.
On my Z5p it went from 66k to 92k on antutu, it was so much faster.

[ADevotedFan]

That is true but what I am trying to say is that they need to improve stability, boot times, app start times multitasking etc.

[Uliwooly]

Could you boot both phones in safe mode > and test them side to side? also which android version and build number are they running?

[G94N]

Exactly the things I've been feeling. In fact, I've filed an official complaint against Sony yesterday, exactly for this. In terms of hardware and build quality, I am very pleased with my Z5 Compact. However, I've never felt the premium flagship UI/firmware experience which I had paid hundreds of pounds for. And I bought my device back in October 2015 so, almost a year has passed in hopes of a real optimized firmware release, but almost NOTHING. I'm not denying that with each release it got better. MM build right now is much better than the initial LP release I admit that, but it's not as good as it was advertised to be! Seeing the new Xperia X Compact yesterday, in person, I have to admit I got really furious. Xperia X Compact's Snapdragon 650 chipset is nearly as powerful as the Snapdragon 810 in our Z5 Compacts, but not better! And X Compact's UI is almost as fast as an iPhone 6S (in terms of opening the apps etc, I tested in with my friends 6S) which means "real optimization" is not a fantasy request by us (customers) and can be actually realised! So why haven't we really seen this on our Z5 series phones? 1 more year and Sony might decide not to support Z5 anymore and we'll be forced to upgrade. How long will this wait actually be, that's what I'm asking...