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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristianity77:
Yeah I had a thread on here a few days before I sold it. I was getting the media server issue on a completely clean install, with no SD card inserted, no music, no apps installed and the phone on complete silent with no vibrations. It was eating 30 % of my battery overnight, everynight, causing the phone to never sleep. Wakelock detector put it down to something called AudioOut_3 but no one had a clue what was causing it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Sounds like maybe one of the pre-installed apps causing it. I have all sony apps either frozen or uninstalled. Like I said no issues with I am actually happy I can finally use an android a whole day without much worrying.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristianity77:
Oh yeah I have no doubts that if I had gone to a custom rom with everything stripped out it would have sorted it, but I didnt want to go down that route incase I did something wrong or messed up a phone which cost me over £400 only a few months back.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
I have stock Rom. Well it is all good. I am sorry u had such a bad experience with it. I got mine directly from sony and i wonder since I am a musician and starting to become noticed that they made sure I am getting a perfect one. What is nice but still should be to everyone equal sony lives from there costumers and things like those kill a good name.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cimbomege:
I have no regret for buying this phone. I solved low sound in this forum. I did lot's of things with this phone. Maybe I can be a bit regretful about not waiting for Xperia i1 Honami :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arcaddiction:
I love Sony and that's the reason I probably have more than 10 Sony mobiles @ home. The reason I love Sony is because of the Walkman and the camera. I do agree that camera optimization can still be done on the Xperia Z but the clear audio and clear bass is freakingly amazing! The only thing I'm not happy is that when I like a song in Walkman, it doesn't show a track ID link and posting that result doesn't help fetching album and artists details on Facebook which never happened with my other Xperias.. Hope it gets a solution! Rest all is Boombastic!!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styxter:
I saw my friends s4 how vivid it is but the heck its not noticeable in speed. Battery will be the main grin on z. I have to charge it twice a day just to complete my day. 16 hours estimated. After 4.2.2 the camera improved a lot its sharper but really needs more improvement. So for me, i love my phone but i had to change it either the upcoming honami or next year 2nd to 3rd qtr. Just to change my cycle. All phones have downside and upside. You just have to live with it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SXUsr:
The only thing I regret is not buying it SimFree, never again will I get my Phones direct from a provider.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THUDUK:
Must admit, now ive updated to 4.2.2 the wifi has improved a little, well enough for me to use the device where i like to sit, around the house, still not as powerful as other devices i own, not sure if its my imagination, but the screen seems brighter and has little better viewing angles, real racing 3 plays better now and generally feels more improved, still miss the speakers from my HTC ONE, don't miss anything about my Iphone 5, so love cleaning the Xperia under running water and soap, brilliant phone for taking out on a wet rainy run, can even shower off after whilst uploading my endomondo runs...:o
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mkstevo:
I regretted it, yes.

The Sony software for Mac was claimed to give seamless integration with iTunes and the Apple Mac. The fact that the Sony software is the worst software I've seen on a Mac in all the years I've owned a Mac was enough put me right off the handset (which to be fair is not a bad handset).

I've put the Xperia to one side and am now using a Huawei Ascend P6. While the software side of the Huawei is PC only, at least they never (rashly) claimed it ever was going to be anything else. And having bought Eltima SyncMate to get two-way syncing of the calendar (yes, the Sony software was one way only!) I can use it to sync the Huawei.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
I don't regret it at all, this is literally the best device I have had in ages. It's fast, battery is fine, good AOSP support. Completely loving the waterproofing!

And what are you gonna use the software for? Copy music to the phone? Sync contacts? You don't need Sonys software for any of that, and anyway, get Spotify or Google Play All-Access instead, in my opinion there's really no point to owning music anymore with those two alternatives so readily available.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweets55:
I like phone just wish it was easy to root and flash Roms like the S4. The process seems complicated with the Sony Z. Guess blame Sony for that.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
It is easy to root. Flashing roms is easier.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweets55:
I'm talking about the T-Mobile Sony Z. I don't want to flash just stock Roms (locked bootloader). This section just seems confusing to me but I don't really like to read I just like good video's. lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Hardly. All you have to do is visit unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com to get an unlock key, after that you are basically done, just flash a recovery and put some ROMs on an SD card and install.

And don't bring up the fact that you have to give Sony your IMEI. Samsung knows if you've been naughty as well, it's just more transparent on Sony phones.

I'm sure there are locked bootloader versions of the S4 as well. Blame your operator for that instead, not Sony.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweets55:
Pretty sure Sprint S4 came unlocked. One-click root. Thanks for links.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PNuT.:
I seem to recall media server starting anytime you fone makes a noise.... keyboard tones ring tones message tones....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
regret? yes Looking for a phone to change...I will missed the lanyard, seems like sony the only one that thought about that, props to them on that but this phone suck.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Pretty sure Sprint and T-Mobile are different operators as well.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweets55:
I already miss how friendly the Sprint xda section was. Hehe Oh and your info above was wrong. I can't unlock my bootloader.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Yeah we know already u hate the xperia z. U basically let us know on each of ur post's in here. But thank u again for letting us know.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joejoe23:
Haha I have never seen so much hate from a single person.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
I mean seriously almost every post is about him hating it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
It isn't wrong, but it only works on phones with an unlockable bootloader. I was just saying that there are Samsung phones which can't be modified either. If it is important for you, don't give money to a carrier that locks down its phones. In Sweden there isn't a single carrier that locks down bootloaders... hell most phones don't even come network-locked these days.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
Because it's just that bad. I actually was looking at the iPhone 5s I have never own an iPhone before only ipof but after this phone I'll consider it and HTC phone.

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Because op ask for it? I don't know why u feel the need for everyone to come in and say how wonderful the phone is when it's not that great. You don't see the phone is on anyone top 5 phone to own. This is a good phone if it's your beginner smart phone or someone who is not into flashing.things.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Are u talking about the xperia z not a flagship device and for beginners? Well those specs are consider flagship just for ur info and u also need to realize that only ppl complain about something of they have issues with it and this are only a handful ppl that do there are many that don't have issues with the xperia z at all. Ppl that are happy don't complain about it. There is a reason so many have this or the S4 here. Those two sell the best in Germany and surrounding area. So just because u don't like it doesn't mean anyone else has a grutch or hates it. Mine works perfectly fine. Never had ones an issues. Just saying.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
U need to re-read things...I said flashing not flagship. The issue on the Z should never be an issue for a 2013 phone. Phone display and audio output is inexcusable. Flagship? hardlly, maybe in Sony mind.

This is a beginner phone Becuse the Ui is more or less flawless after. 423 I'll give Sony that. True android user love to flash things and this phone is not for them.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
If u like flashing thing's so much then an iPhone is totally wrong lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
I gotten over the flashing phase I'm fine with not flashing stuff.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
And u ***** about specs and stuff well the iphone 5 is a spec wise android from like 2 years ago almost, dual core 8 mega pixel 4 inch screen. Sound very S2 or LG 2x to me. Lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
No u call it beginner phone and that is normally way lower spec phones then the xperia z.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THUDUK:
I had an HTC one before this Xperia z, there are pros and cons with both, but for me the pros on the xz come out on top.

The iPhone 5 doesn't come any where close.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Well the iphone is limited because the software is limited but that isn't a secret android is the most powerful OS. But not very good optimized that's why it lags and has issues and needs even with 4 cores still more to run smooth. Still android is my go to os. And think about spec wise the iphone 5 is a LG G2x or 2x or speed or 990 all the same phone. Dual-core 8 mega camera and 4 inch screen and how old is the LG 990? Old. Lol that's apple way behind. But that's a different story for a different time.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
Not really regret but the phone isn't on par to my needs. Battery life is important for me and using my sisters s4, her battery is a lot better than my Z, easy 5hr30mins on screen time or even 6 at a push where as on Z I get about 4hr 20mins and that's me being careful, maybe if I pushed I could get 5hrs. Also the keyboard is laggy on the Z but this was fixed by downloading the Google keyboard from playstore, I recommend everyone download Google keyboard as it is WAY BETTER than any keyboards I have used on android. My Z camera gets grainy images even with manual settings, the s4 also suffers from this however the images look a bit more crisper than the Z. Now I'm contemplating on getting the s4 since I've used it however I don't like s4's design

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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
I'm able to get 6h of screen time @30% brightness. 22 min calls. That's with undervolting, though. 4.5-5h on stock is about average.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
That's pretty decent but I don't want to unlock my boot loader as it would void my warranty so under clocking isn't really an option, my sister also leaves her brightness to Max (crazy) and still somehow gets those hours. Still though props on getting 6 hours, never seen anyone accomplish that on the Z before.

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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Well, keep in mind that, while unlocking the bootloader voids the warranty, you can always relock it if your phone ever needs service.

I had an Xperia S before, unlocked the bootloader the day I bought it, and installed **** and everything, only to find out I had dead pixels on the screen, took it to service the very next day, I totally forgot about the warranty thing when unlocked, they filled the papers, and since I bought the day before, the guy told me, wait 10 min, it's an easy operation, I'm not gonna leave you without phone after just one day. 20 min later, the guy came running to me yelling what did you do to the software!! I cant register the part I just replaced!! This is gonna cost you!! Etc

He said 150€ for the screen replacment. Oh, no no, I said, I paid 500€ for the decvice just yesterday, etc.

In the end, he called his manager, had an argument, and he let me get away with it. without paying anything more He warned me though, that next time my S wouldn't be covered by warrabty. Don't worry, I'll relock the bootloader next time. That's imposible, he replied, oh, it isnt, is just that I forgot before coming over here

A couple of months later, I needed service, the mic needed replacement. I locked the bootloader back to normal, took the phone to service. It was covered by warranty and the mic was replacdd for free no troubles, no arguments, see.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calvat:
Even with all my issues to the point I'm willing to pay someone to fix my device (but none do it here locally), not really no. It was much lighter than I thought in my hand than when I held my friends (he uses a case though) and it's so slim.

I thought the button had more of a tactile feel to it, but it sure beats those plastic ones!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
Seems to be much easier now with TA partition backup too so nothing actually gets deleted, might look in to this and take your points aboard before or if I choose to make the switch lol. Right now I've been offered an s4 so that's the only reason why I'm considering it

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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILoveXperia:
Well:cool: Been happy with my xperia z for the past 3 month and am really loving the features and every thing about the phone.. With all the update rolling in I never feel so appreciate by sony for buying their product:victory: loving the development here and appreciate the veteran/professional developer for making our xz an amazing phone.. But as happy I am with the phone I am abit disappoint and wish I could change only one thing about our xz.. Not the camera, not the screen, not the designs, not the cpu,ram,system... ONLY THE BATTERY:crying: how I wish we can change the battery manually or ask sony to change with some pay I dont mind.. Just want to get to play with my phone without charging it constantly... I know what u all going to say, buy powerbank, case with battery and etc.. But if sony would offer like replace new and higher capacity batteries e.g. 3000mh I would gladly pay them to do so:D why nowdays phone come with removable battery its a mystery to me but if there is xz with removablebattery iI would gladly buy it:cool:

Just my honest and stpd opinion/wish..

Sorry for my bad English..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Xperia ZR.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naeem76:
Nope I do not regret it at all, probably one of my favourite phones now, I had the Galaxy S2 which I used for around a year and a half.

The battery life is good, it lasts me whole day with a full charge, with me using it, I only found problems, when using other chargers except the sony one.

About the headphone flaps, well you get used to it :) The S4 gets way more heated up, so I wouldn't recommend it, The NOTE 2 on the other hand is still a battery beast :D
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgtPower:
I'm very disappointed with the phone, and this will be my first and last Sony smartphone...here goes why....

As many people mentioned here, the camera is sub-par in low light situations....cmon Sony, really? As a camera producer you're going to screw this up?

Then, my screen cracked. Not because the phone fell on the ground, no, because I put my fingernails in the earpiece as it was slipping out of my hand. THIS CRACKED THE SCREEN. Such a weakpoint with the exposed screen edges around earpiece and microphone. Worst part is, the touchscreen doesn't work where it's cracked. So I can use 2/3 of my touchscreen. I saw many cracked screens, but Sony's smartphone is the first where the touchscreen stops working after cracking.

I contacted Sony about this and they don't give two s.... about it :(

And recently my SDHC card stopped working. I don't know if the phone fried the card or it just broke randomly. GREAT. Anyway, after this the phone wouldn't connect to usb to access internal storage. So I had to hard reset the phone. The whole thing! Not only did I lose my data on the card, no I couldn't save the rest on the internal memory either :(

NEVER EVER am I going to buy a Sony smartphone again! I regret so much giving away my galaxy S2, which I never had a problem with. Two years of service, fell several times on concrete/street ground and never stopped working. Sony's hardware can't even handle a fingernail to the edge of the screen, what would happen if I were to drop it on the ground?? It'd probably fall into pieces...

Sorry for the long rant but if you read this and think of buying an Xperia Z, don't!! Go for a SGS4 of HTC one, you'll be better off....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ILoveXperia:
Been thinking about that but wouldnt want to :p because development for xz is nice.. Screen size... Well I've test the xzr at shop its nice.. But as the saying goes "when u go 5inch, u never go back" lol:cool: if u know what I mean:cyclops:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
That's what you girlfriend said too. Lol

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Ouch that's sad to hear. I am sorry for all ur troubles with it. I only made positive experience with it. Well but I almost feel like sony are sure I am getting a perfect one since I am just releasing my first album and they might give artist and so better units to ensure they have some to artist to advertise it. Idk. Anyway. What country u r in. In Germany sony was always very helpful.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Northwoodpen4:
No regrets at all...

Actualy, I do regret buying crappy docomo version instead of global version!:D
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Whats the docomo version?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Docomo is a Japanese mobile network provider. The SO-02E is their branded version of the Z.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
And is it worse then the C6602 C6603 or the C6606?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
I don't know about worse. It has an IR blaster, a TV tuner (I believe) and a non unlockable bootloader.

The UI is also slightly different to the standard Z as far as I know.

I don't know a great deal more than that about it. :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Well the t mobile xperia z C6606 has a non unlockable bootloader. Well cool a TV turner and it blasted the other xperia z don't offer that. So u have the special fancy version. Be happy.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leeshjnn:
Not really. I think XZ has great design. That's the sole reason I picked it up and it still holds true until now. Unlocked the bootloader and install ROM on it, all of my friends told me my XZ Is much smoother than the original ROM XZ came with. XZ is not as popular as S4 or HTC One so less support and dev's attention is expected. I think we still have great people continue supporting it day by day though. Lumia 1020 will be released next month in my country and it got me extremely excited. Might jump ship and keep XZ as my backup if I find WP8 enjoyable. It was a great ride with XZ, nonetheless.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adielee:
No regrets (so far)

Only had my Z for about a week so probably not in a position to come to a full conclusion but so far IMHO it's the best "overall" phone out there.

Not a perfect screen, camera, battery or even the newest processor but an amazing look and overall feel when using it.

How you experience it really depends on how you modify the software. With the right rom and settings you can make it as good as any other phone on the market.

I'm using the ★ monxDIFIED ★ ESSENTIAL i1 for honami interface, apps like grenify to conserve battery, software adjustments to the screen etc..

Only small issue really is regarding the camera... Hopefully with some new mods soon it can be improved. I'm a normal user and not a professional photographer so it's really personal opinion.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Northwoodpen4:
Yep, in order to fit docomo's crappy apps, there is no stamina mode. I could just use it in other roms, but with that, mail won't be pushed and NFC will die.

And to fit docomo apps, updates are very delayed and sometimes even canceled(Still using 4.1 in this)

Of cource, it's locked bootloader and sim locked.

But the worst is the logo printed above the screen...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
I've this phone a week now and loving it.

Came home second day in a row in pouring rain and the phone is still running without a problem.

The only thing i don't is the sound of the speakers.

Why do some people think that the s4 is far more superiour then tha Z??

One example i asked someone to trade for the s4 and he wanted €200,- extra???
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Because it is like with the LG 4x HD great phone way cheaper did the same stuff basically same specs as the htc one x and S3 but a lot cheaper it didn't get the love as the other 2 phones but it was in many regards equal to the s3 better then the htc one x. Samsung screen has to burn in issue and the LG didn't. Also u still could use a normal MHL adapter where u had to buy a special one for the s3. But anyway back to ur question. It is just isn't a samsung that's it. If the sony xperia z would have samsung printed on it ppl would be crazy about it i guarantee that. I state way back that after the 4.2.2 update they made re reviews on the xperia z here in Germany and they said besides a few apps samsung has special it is pretty much equal and it is water proof what the s4 isn't. And for the most parts u can download in some way the apps samsung has special. So and the xperia is a lot less then the S4 and better build quality and better looking.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
Not really tbh. Using both handsets you can see why the s4 has the edge. Forget the gimmicky features, the battery is really amazing compared to Z with no need to reduce brightness or switch on stamina mode. Easily get about 4hr30mins with 100% brightness but with it set to 50% I recorded 6hr 20mins. The camera even though similar, takes crisper images even on auto the camera is great while the Z comes out grainy. The speaker is also better, I didn't experience any lags on the device but I don't get much if any lags with my Z (only album lag) anyway so both are similar in that aspect. The led doesn't function properly on the Z when stamina mode is on...only white light is enabled for the Z when stamina mode is on which is annoying. The keyboard on the Samsung is more responsive, less laggy while the Z isn't great but this can be fixed by downloading the Google keyboard. The s4 is a lil smaller too which I didn't expect and I'm not a fan of galaxy design but the metal sides, lipped design and is overall much lighter compared to the Z is pretty amazing considering the power and battery life you get from it. I do still prefer the Z design though :) . Constant updates too is a great thing with the galaxy. I've hated previous Samsung galaxy phones, never liked the design, especially the s3 but trying it out myself for a few days while I've had my Xperia for a few months you realise why it is a superior handset

EDIT: Also chrome lags and doesn't perform well on the Z which I don't know why since it works flawlessly on the s4

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