yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
Thanks bro:good::highfive: i was looking for this from long time:victory:

Hope i understand what in this page :eek:
[Xperia Z General] androidtweaker1:
Just click on the down pointing arrow in circle FTF download will start automatically :highfive:

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This site has a torrent link for US firmware so you could download faster ;):D
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Or you could link to the original thread that you took this from, that has a Google Drive link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2759636

Didn't we already discuss linking to uploader's threads instead of directly to download links? It's the polite thing to do. :)

But you already thanked [NUT] in that thread. It's the same FTF. ;)
[Xperia Z General] androidtweaker1:
[MENTION=2452820]kingvortex[/MENTION] I Googled the link so I shared the URL that I got. there are other URL's also apart from XDA ones :p
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Fair enough, but it's from that thread originally. ;)
[Xperia Z General] androidtweaker1:
due credit to [NUT] for the OP
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
Really? I Didn't noticed:silly:

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Thanks again:highfive: i will get the torrent bcz my internet very slow and keep disconnecting every minute:rolleyes:

Maybe the download will finish tomorrow :eek: 7kb/s:silly:
[Xperia Z General] JAsko_san:
Thanks Sony for this crappy update. Now whenever I listen music in Pandora, Walkman app or anyother app I get this shuttering :( what the heck...

Does anyone know how to fix this?

If not I would need to revert back to 4.3, where everything worked like it should
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Its not Sony's fault.. That's the bug of all 4.4.2 ROMs.. All bugs on KK of XZ is related to Google's original 4.4.2.. Only stutterings are the fault of Sony's since its kernel related.. All these bugs will not be in 4.4.3...
[Xperia Z General] JAsko_san:
Well we waited a year for this update, I can't even imagen when the 4.4.3 update gonna be out :/
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
4.4.3 is already built for all Z series phones.. By that i mean Z2,Z1,Z1c,Z.. But its yet to be certified by Google.. And Sony will update according to prior devices.. Like in the order i mentioned.. Z2 first, Z1 second and so on..
[Xperia Z General] alkesh95:
Sources are out but indian firmware is still not available

?
[Xperia Z General] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
google certified ? Nahhhh....
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Without approval from Google, how do u think OEMs will be able to build fw's..?? :silly::silly:
[Xperia Z General] JAsko_san:
So what you are saying is that is a matter of days now? Not weeks, months or years? :D
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
For Z2 series it will be matter of a couple weeks, then double more for others.. So in 2 months i think we will be getting 4.4.3 probably..
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
How do you know this? Or are you just guessing?
[Xperia Z General] neoxx3m:
He is just guessing. It's hard to expect that Sony will continue to give support after 18 months. We will probably get one more update (.233 maybe) and that's it. I hope I'm wrong, but that's their way.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Yes, that's my feeling on the matter as well.

The support for this phone has far exceeded anything from any previous device of mine anyway (Before this I had a LG Optimus 2X. It received 2 updates in 2 years that both broke the device). People complain, but in just over a year we're now on the 4th version of Android in the phone's lifetime. Pretty good going. There are bugs in the current firmware, but that also happened with the first release of 4.2.2 and they fixed it.

After official support is dropped, my bootloader will probably get permanently unlocked and PA will be on there. :)
[Xperia Z General] zeroed:
For me maybe this will be my last Sony phone to be honest.Terrible support,ridiculous bugs.Bought it at launch date,my first unit died on sudden death,waited 1 month for replacement.After that surprise,poor Wi-Fi reception,average camera,slow updates,and again bugs,bugs,bugs.Thank god for the AOSP roms.Even Samsung keeps updating s3/note2 which are older,faster than our device,and I can bet that after Sony drops the support for ours,Samsung will keep providing for theirs.Don't get me wrong,Samsung roms are beyond terrible with that touchwiz,but generally speaking their support is much better.On the other hand I feel tempted to buy HTC M7/M8 right now,because the stock units can be converted to their GPE editions which enables you to receive direct GPE OTA updates plus I can bet the duration of the support will be atleast 1-2 more years.Not quite the same with Z Ultra on which you need ported GPE rom instead.Nexus 4 even got the 4.4.3 update,it is older phone than ours aswell,why can't Sony continue to do updates?Exept the build quality,the rest is just meh.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Terrible support? Come on now. That isn't true and you know it. At least 8 updates (most of which back ported features from newer devices) over 4 major versions of Android in just over a year is not terrible by any stretch of the imagination. Terrible support is shoving a device out of the door that's full of bugs then not releasing an update for nearly a year that still didn't fix those bugs, which is what LG did with the Optimus 2X.

As for bugs, well, there's currently nothing that stops the phone functioning for me. The worst problem currently seems to be the Google Play services battery drain (which I'm not experiencing), which is the fault of Google, not Sony. Yes, the sudden death bug was really bad, but they fixed it and replaced handsets of those affected, which is also not indicative of terrible support.

Your other complaints also don't affect me. I get decent wifi reception around 50-60 metres from my router at the end of my garden. The camera isn't stellar, but it's a phone. I have a digital camera for anything past quick snapshots.

It seems you just had very high expectations which weren't met. That's fair enough, but if you go to the forum for any device you see people posting the same sort of thing as you did, so other manufacturers are no better really. I've had devices from them all and Sony is nowhere near the worst OEM now. :)
[Xperia Z General] zeroed:
Yeah,probably you are right.I had bigger expectations,That is the reason probably.I know that every device and manufacturer have their issues,that's the truth.As you said they do backport features from newer devices to older,which is kinda mistake on their side.Because it slows the updates plus this and that feature remains exclusive to the current flagship.But yeah,thats what I've got,so gotta live with it like it or not.Just over the course I realize that I see myself more like a Nexus user,rather than fan of custom OEM firmwares,i was not aware exactly what I want feature wise when I bought the phone.Currently I am on AOSP and I don't miss anything from the original Sony rom.But yeah,people learn on the fly.
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Finally someone who speaks some sense here.. You are right dude.. XZ is a premium device.. Same goes according to Sony.. And i have been mentioning to many of the people that XZ's KK bugs are all from Google's 4.4.2, not just Sony's.. All those will be solved in 4.4.3..
[Xperia Z General] :
Has anybody realized that the maximal cpu frequenzy is set to 1200mhz-1300mhz on the .230 kitkat firmware?

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[Xperia Z General] neoxx3m:
That is not true, you can check with CPU-Z. Max freq is 1512 MHz.
[Xperia Z General] crazymister:
Max freq will scale down though if the device gets warm. But it'll scale back up to
[Xperia Z General] zeroed:
Here I disagree.battery drain may be because of the Gapps,but the lag,the audio sluttering are due to Sony fault,not to mention that they persisted in the leaked build,people reported,nobody listened to fix them.Plus you are telling me that your camera takes 4+ seconds to start due to Google fault?This is here since the 4.1.2 and it will remain here it seems forever.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
My camera starts up in around 2 seconds every time.

Yes, there's a bit of lag and apparently music stutters for some, but those were issues in 423 and they fixed them then. ;)
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
I didn't say that camera starts 4+ seconds.. And my camera opens just fine.. No probs with it since 4.1.. And audio stuttering is there in original 4.4.2 too.. In case u haven't read in the internet.. Google for the bugs of 4.4.2 and u will know all kinds of bugs.. And about lags, its kernel related.. Sony probably are still working on the kernel and its likely for XZ to get 4K video recording.. And its blobs are also inside the kernel.. So give them time.. Obviously they have listened to all the people complaining and they probably are working on it right now.. And if u must know, XZ KK is way more stable than Z2's KK.. :silly:
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Basically you're right, but the audio stuttering is not even half as worse on a Nexus 5 with 4.4.2, it only happens with some FLAC's.

Also don't think we'll get 4k, that will never happen due to hardware.

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[Xperia Z General] JAsko_san:
Question people:

If I would like to revert back to 4.3 - could I go trought it via NUT's thread:

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/development/stock-update-to-10-4-b-0-569-t2565850

Also is there an easy way to get root access without reverting back to 4.2 and then flashing 4.3 ??

Even though I have no idea where to find the 4.2 tft for my region :/
[Xperia Z General] Saqib Nazm:
Sorry to interrupt Gentlemen, a bit of your time please, This is a thread on Kitkat update for Xperia Z. Please don't just keep continue discussion on other topics like you guys did on 4K. I would appreciate If anyone posts something relevant to the actual topic to fetch it back on the track if in future something similar happens. Thread Cleaned Up, Stay On-topic. Thanks..
[Xperia Z General] alkesh95:
Info for indian z/zl/zr device owners

We might have to wait another week for. 230 firmware

I called sony and i got reply that roll out has begun but it will reach slowly to all devices as it is depends on serial number of device
[Xperia Z General] lionboy12:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2014/06/16/live-on-youtube-camera-app-launched-for-xperia-z2/ anyone can port this for xperia z?
[Xperia Z General] gripfly:
Just install it.

Gesendet von meinem C6603 mit Tapatalk

Edit: Do you can log in?
[Xperia Z General] crazymister:
As xperiablog posted, it's not available in Germany...
[Xperia Z General] lionboy12:
cant conect give me error something to update google play service but i have daily update all app
[Xperia Z General] crazymister:
Well it does install, but probably there is something in the z2 services which are being checked before use, i mean, it does say exclusive to z2
[Xperia Z General] Mario210:
Its working perfect here.
[Xperia Z General] bludsugah:
Still nothing in Belgium..
[Xperia Z General] RJK75:
Root without unlocking bl

or you could try this to root your device, it worked on my Xperia - https://www.towelroot.com/ Your Antivirus might say its a virus but it did ROOT my device, Sony Xperia Z C6603 4.4.2 10.5.A.0.230.

let me know if it works for you - hit thanks.
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
No news about 4.4.3?
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Some guy had posted in another thread here in this same section with Australian carrier Optus which has 4.4.4 in testing for XZ.. Same info frol my Sony friend.. Surprisingly XZ is being considered for Android L.. I mean still under investigation...
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
Hmm thats interesting.. That give hope mean 4.4.2 is not last update for XZ :)

Xperia™ Z (C6602) with Tapatalk
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Same feeling here.. 4.4.4 is a major improvement over 4.4.2.. Tons of internal issues will be solved.. I would br happy with 4.4.4.. But its always good to see Android L too.. Lets hope for the best..
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
[emoji106]???

Xperia™ Z (C6602) with Tapatalk
[Xperia Z General] RyomaEchizen:
http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/general/android-4-4-4-update-sony-xperia-z-t2806451 :)
[Xperia Z General] jedisurfer:
Is the tmobile c6606 kit kat out? Where can I get the ftf?
[Xperia Z General] Mobe1969:
But the are going too far imho. Sure, have variants like compact, tablet, etc. but who else is doing it this fast? Samsung? Apple? Who are the two biggest? Is it hurting Samsung? No. In fact it is doing the opposite for Sony. Now I'm thinking about my next phone, and my mind is going Samsung S4 is already 4.4 kitkat, and they do one main phone per year, and the updates are pretty prompt, and you know that Samsung aren't going to loose interest/lower priority in supporting the phone in 6 months as there is a newer model. But Sony, I'm starting to feel like 6 months after the phone is released Sony has something more important they care about. And who is actually benefiting? Consumers? Even thinking about getting a new Sony, I'd never buy first up anymore. I don't trust some pretty fundamental things about my phone, mainly wifi, and the camera. And you know what? The same complaints seem to be in effect for the Z1, and probably the z2, so what the hell are they actually improving? The Z1 wifi is just as bad as the z. It is like deja vu looking at the z1 forum on the wifi. You'd think you were reading the Z forum.
[Xperia Z General] Wasmachinator:
Ugh, Sony is actually showing that it is willing to improve the downfalls off their telephones, IPS screen in Z2 and you are already shooting the Z2 down based on nothing.

I feel that Sony is way more commited, all the little performance updates they do. Bringing features of their new line to the old line. While mine experience with samsung is the other way around.

Sony is behind with their updates yes, but I can remember a post from someone in the know from last year that Sony wanted their Japan team to do the upgrades which went wrong and that the scandinavian team had to fix their ****, costing quite much precious time.
[Xperia Z General] Mobe1969:
I'm not shooting it down unseen as opposed to saying I have no faith in the brand and them fixing up any issue I had with the last two flagships. I am so sick of dealing with the crap wifi on the xz. And I'd have the same problem on the z1. So I have no trust in them anymore. Regarding the screens, I had no issues with the XZ screen. So as far as any improvements they do there due to idiots whining about the screen looking washed out when they look at it 60 degrees from perpendicular, and "realistic" viewing angle for sure (not) I just get riled up. So they waste time there, but the device has worse wifi characteristics than a first gen iphone
[Xperia Z General] OsiBasi:
I'm sorry but what's the problem with the wi-fi, it works great for me, It stopped having random "drops" after the first 4.2.2 update. Using it on other routers e.g. Starbucks free wi-fi works great too, my girlfriend has an LG G2, and she can't even connect to my router at home, and some out at town.

I couldn't be happier with my Z, it has held up well, I'll probably wait for next MWC to see what'll come. But no doubt I'd chose another Sony, if it looks better/as good as the competition that is... I've become very fond of the Water resistance/proofing as well.
[Xperia Z General] Mobe1969:
Drop outs, yes, better now. but the range is utterly rubbish. My old iphone 3 I was able to get a strong signal under my back deck, which is where I often use my phone of an afternoon. The Xz - got nothing in the same spot. I upgraded my router to something which had best rated range. Was a bit better, but still crap. But now 4 bars on the iphone 3. So I replaced the antennas too to get a bit more signal. Still crap on the xz. The range is absolutely pathetic. I really am sick to death on the wifi on it. And the z1, what I've read here and online, same deal. So when I look at getting another phone to replace this one, do you think I'm going to be wondering how crap the wifi range is going to be on it. And this is something I really need to get the phone home to test, then I'm stuck with the damn thing. So no matter how much I like most everything else about it, and the design, I think do I want to put up with more of this crap with my next phone? I can't even trust what people say here on the wifi as you just hear good" "bad", not qualified, and the subjective "goods" are no use at all. If I can have two phones side by side in the same spot, and compare the signal, that is comparative. If I get a z2 and get it home and find it is just as bad or worse... No thanks. Such a gamble.

And the camera? What can I say

And android in general - I'm sick of issues with gapless playback. I unfortunately had a lot of concert albums encoded using nero aac, and that won't play gapless under android. Fine on my old iphone 3. Fine on my old pc.
[Xperia Z General] OsiBasi:
I can agree with you. MY Samsung s2 had better range.

But It's not like I'm in the middle of the street using someone elses wi-fi, the range lasts at home - whats the point of having the max signal. Speed is good.

Camera is fine for pictures, I'm happy with the quality, I never film though so I can't comment on that :)
[Xperia Z General] Mobe1969:
I don't care about getting max strength. At that same distance though it is flakey and unreliable with the lower strength I'm getting on it, even with my drastically boosted signal strength. And it is in a place I always want to use my phone, and had no issues prior with my old phone. I've done as much as I can with the router itself, so I'm at a dead end there. And I don't want to then have to get into putting in a secondary wifi repeater, or poe WAP. All just to handle the utterly crap wifi range on this phone. Nothing wrong with my wifi. It is the frigging phone.

I"m really annoyed I can't find this information out about any phone though, without physically getting one home to test it. There aren't any stats online giving comparitive ranges, or actual figures.
[Xperia Z General] datdaigia:
Agree, I think new Rom will be releasing in march. Maybe leaks
[Xperia Z General] iamkani:
I have received an update notification ????? wow#### when i check ????? damn.!? It's not that i was looking for????? 4.4 needs much time to receive for XZ ????

Xperia Z monster ?
[Xperia Z General] greglord:
[MENTION=5361973]iamkani[/MENTION]: please stop with your bursts of unneeded comments. Lets keep the topic clean without posts that make no sense, ok? Great, thankyou.
[Xperia Z General] luciferzet:
waiting for existenz v.7
[Xperia Z General] shawnmychal:
yes indeed!
[Xperia Z General] gbil:
4.4 for Z is in early testing phase, probably will be released after 4.4 for Z1.
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
This are the words of the sony xperia prophet ?

Do you know some new fw numbers mr. Gbil?
[Xperia Z General] gbil:
10.5.A.x.xxx if I remember correctly.

14.3.A.0.6xx for Z1
[Xperia Z General] LitoNi:
noooo mr gbil.. .im so sad now :(

gimme some good news.......lol
[Xperia Z General] RoberM:
Yeah, we were already supposing we would not get 4.4 before Z1 users, but do you know when approximately will Z1 4.4, or Z 4.4 be out?

I bet it is not before April. early testing sounds like... well it will need some time.
[Xperia Z General] reptile64:
I bet that all of the Z's out there will get it after the Z2 release for marketing purposes! :mad:
[Xperia Z General] Ben Ling:
4.4 for Z1,Z1 Compact & Z Ultra are almost done...

So probably will be release in end of March,while Z,ZL,ZR & Tablet Z will only get the update in April.
[Xperia Z General] RoberM:
Of course, first they will launch the Z2 by the end of march, beginning of April, then Z1 update a couple of weeks after, and then Z update a couple of weeks after that, probably we will be seeing Kit Kat in May.

Well, Galaxy S4, had their Kit Kat update yesterday, even if the S5 is not out yet, i wish Sony had the same way of thinking
[Xperia Z General] St.Jimmy90:
The latest version is 10.4.C.0.814, which seems to be Jellybean
[Xperia Z General] ChrisCh22:
Wow, there are people out there who are still on jb...
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
Kinda frustrating when the Z1 compact isn't really a flagship, yet it gets the update before the Z lol..
[Xperia Z General] DoubleYouPee:
Same for ZL?

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Why? Because it's smaller?

It has the same specs and roughly same price as Z1, which is more flagship than Z.

Also, it's newer than Z.

I don't think it's weird.
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
Goddammit I was expecting it mid-march lol, I thought for a second it'll be released before Z1 haha, and who am I kidding lmao. anyways I will be happy as far as I get the update and till then hopefully we'll be able to play with Z2 apps :D
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
Maybe we will get a comercial and journalists ftf first like with 4.3 .

I never thought we will officialy get 4.4 before the Z1
[Xperia Z General] doministry:
I won't see it probably.

I will switch to Z2 as soon as it comes out.
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
See, This is what happens when you release it so fast,

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_kitkat_update_suspended_in_the_uk-news-7979.php

So hope Sony's KitKat won't be like this :D

Yea Hopefully we'll get something earlier to try it out, they always do it cause to collect the users opinions I assume, and they add more to it which is much better :D :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z General] iKillCypher:
Lets just hope the 4.4 turns out to be much better then the 4.3 ? Sony release two updates yet they failed to fix the graphic issue.. On the second note.. I'm disappointed that most of the interest are being pushed on Z1...
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Well you can't expect Sony to focus on a 1 year old phone instead of their current flagship.

But the graphical issue should have been fixed already...

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[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Indeed. Do people forget that a lot of Android OEMs used to dump devices very quickly and sometimes leave them with old buggy software in the process? 3 upgrades to new versions of Android and lots of bug fix releases in between is pretty good going from Sony. I'm still happy with my purchase a year on. :)

As for the graphical glitch when installing apks, I can live with that. It doesn't affect how the phone works, after all. ;)
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Exactly :thumbup:

I honestly like my XZ more than my Nexus 5 because oft Sony's Software.

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[Xperia Z General] Aka91:
Zu got a leaked fw! Kk... :(
[Xperia Z General] macshanemike:
Update

It looks like there will be an early release for xz as well if the zu got a leak. Hopefully the ftf file will float around in the next week or so. If it does it will be like the update to 4.3
[Xperia Z General] nemer12:
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia...89.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
[Xperia Z General] RedZ19:
well it's not a leak anymore.
[Xperia Z General] Aka91:
I am so sad of waiting! :P
[Xperia Z General] Kotin89:
Ofiicial update out for Z Ultra !!

So update is finally out for Z ultra .

So we may get it pretty soon guys .

See this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2672980
[Xperia Z General] REInnocent:
cool

awesome..thank about that news
[Xperia Z General] kenny-tetsuya:
But the new UI of S5 has not been ported to S4...
[Xperia Z General] RoberM:
You are right, but they ported the old UI to Kit Kat, which is harder to do than simply copying the one they have already done for the S5. Rearding this i am with Sony, they simply copy+paste the launcher, UI and apps from the newest device, that way it is easier and cheaper for them, and we get all the new goodies from newer phones :good:
[Xperia Z General] iamkani:
Yess.. My frnd 'z S4 also updated to 4.4.2 and there's nobnew things.. But phn become bit speed... Smooth and some few new things.. No major things that.we can speak about.... What will we get from Sony!!!!!

From my Xperia Z monster ???