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[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
I didn't test the app when I posted the link, but now I have done it and I can tell you that IT WORKS FOR GOOGLE PLAY SERVICES. However, Android OS and Android System started to consume as well... the situation is better anyway

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
LOL. It almost certainly doesn't do anything. Someone in the reviews looked inside the apk and it just displays a progress bar then tells you to turn off location. Which is already the workaround for this problem. Like I already said twice before. ?

A proper developer would say what it's doing or what files it's editing, but they want to shroud it in secrecy even when directly asked, because it's probably just a placebo.
[Xperia Z General] rajaganesan7:
FC Problems on Movie App
[Xperia Z General] neoxx3m:
Go to settings/apps/movies and clean cache.
[Xperia Z General] Metallijim:
New Google play services v5

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...gn=Feed:+xda-developers/ShsH+(xda-developers)

May help battery drain?
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
I have been using it for 4h and it is not helping

The update is not available yet at Google Play for everyone, but you can find the .apk here: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...security-tools-android-wear-support-and-more/
[Xperia Z General] aliemrey:
i've no problem with battery drain on KK but it's not smooth as before. keyboard and launcher has lots of lags. this may be the worst android handout of sony ever.
[Xperia Z General] luala:
how to disable update notification in status bar

How can I disable update notification icon at status bar in ROM 4.3?

After I tried 4.4.2 ROM many times with my Xperia Z, not luck to help the battery usage problem.
[Xperia Z General] mylove2004tc:
Use Titanium Backup (ROOTED) and freeze update program sony. You will nerver see notification notification icon at status bar in ROM 4.3.
[Xperia Z General] deyanimay:
Does anyone else have a problem with their phone becoming unresponsive for like a minute after locking the screen. I can't unlock my device again or even turn the screen back on immediately after locking it.
[Xperia Z General] phobos_1984:
fresh install?

Did anyone try a fresh install of KK? It is a little bit strange we have all those problems in so mnay...
[Xperia Z General] shehabskull:
All my problem is the lag in notification bar ? I was thinking the new update .233 will fix that ..but no this bad bug still here! A phone with quad core snapdragon and has a lag in the notification bar ?
[Xperia Z General] SXZdabbler:
Lots of display pixels to move around?
[Xperia Z General] deyanimay:
I figured out what the cause of the problem was. Somehow like 50 different instances of the default clock widget were added to my lockscreen. Once I went and removed them one by one my lockscreen started behaving normally again.
[Xperia Z General] Saelex:
New Google Play Services does not help me with the battery drain.

People I call consistently report that they can't hear me well. Testing the microphone works fine. TrackID is quite correct when identifying songs it listens too. Just during calls people can't hear me, apparently.
[Xperia Z General] harshalthedon:
you are right....laggy keyboard and launcher......
[Xperia Z General] Rajeev:
For Me No Lags. But Battery Draining...
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Battery draining? There is no battery drain if u turn off location.. :p
[Xperia Z General] Rajeev:
No. That's Not True. I Disabled more than 20+ Services and Make A Hardcore Debloat. I Removed Maps and All Unused Apps From My Mobile. Still Battery Drains So Fast..
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Lol.. I disagree.. How about this?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53969782&postcount=1586

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53799885&postcount=1581
[Xperia Z General] Rajeev:
Its My Opinion and My Experience Buddy. I Don't Know About Others...
[Xperia Z General] m4k97:
Try turn off Google now and reboot
[Xperia Z General] Rajeev:
I Already Removed All Google Related Stuffs.. But I Found The Battery Drain Because I Am Doing All Experiments In My Z Only. For Rom Test and Mod Tests.. May B A Fresh Install Will Solve My Problem.
[Xperia Z General] anagramgenius:
agreed. no lags but battery drain. google play services never drained my phone's battery. it's sony who have to fix battery drain like they did it in Jelly Bean.
[Xperia Z General] italian94:
I have a question for you, I would go back to the 4.2 seen all the problems with this new update, but I've read that some version of the 4.2 suffered from bugs of the battery percent and overheating, I know indicate the firmware free of these problems.

Thank you very much
[Xperia Z General] essentin:
There might be a way without uninstalling Google updates, try to clean device cache and dalvik cache using CWM or something like that. Works for me. Before cleaning my XZ lagged so hard that fruit ninja was unplayable and even with everything turned off (wifi, 3g etc.) battery went from 100% to 20% in about 24-36h. Now fruit ninja plays like it should, no lags in UI (dont know about music playback, will need to test it) and with wifi and 3g turned on i get 6% battery drain in 15h!
[Xperia Z General] karun11:
After the Kitkat update, at times during a call, the earpiece stops working..only when I put it to external loudspeaker mode, I am able to hear the other person. Is there a fix for this bug?
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
I also have that issue but in my case is not software related, but a problem with the internal speaker and maybe a damaged connection or dirty inside the phone.

Try to blow and suck air from the jack port with other flaps opened.

I think is a common problem to add in the list...
[Xperia Z General] Sniper Spr3e:
Massive media battery drain now.

Interestingly I didn't have the bug on any previous versions

Only started 3 days no new apps or updates just out of the blue

Sent from my Xperia Z in a carbon fibre case
[Xperia Z General] saiofa:
Hi i have xperia z rooted 4.4.2 .233

I like to what happen to my phone

Every time i oppen setting >>app

Then give me a FC

I 'd like some to help me wat i do to fix this

Thnx
[Xperia Z General] neoxx3m:
Do a factory reset or clean flash via flashtool.
[Xperia Z General] saiofa:
I do it before and it work but after i root the phone it does the same problem

The message which appear

Unfourtiontly setting has stopped

Then it force close
[Xperia Z General] mankent7:
i also having this issue. i have two xperia z c6603 both also suffer in this problem. no matter i flash what kernel what ever rom also happen this problem. what i found out is when i clear cache and dalvik cache and reboot the phone the headset earpiece speaker is working again. but it just for a while only, it will go wrong again.

just want to know is that hardware problem or software problem.

i even tried to restore to 4.3 still the same. i wondering is it something rooted software or what crash to the system makes the earpiece speaker goes wrong.:rolleyes:
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
Try to blow and suck air from the jack port with other flaps opened. Seriously, i have to do it once per week.
[Xperia Z General] fl_Indigo:
this is definately a software issue with 4.4.2, i reverted back to 4.3 a week ago now and i dont have any issues again now.

4.4.2 died for me, maybe 4.4.4 will do the kit-kat trick in august, but until then...
[Xperia Z General] mankent7:
i don think it's help.

because i tried plug the earphone test it works.

i'm sure is not physical problem or dirty get inside the jack port.

i tried to blow the port it doesn't help and everytime i flash a new rom it works for a while then the problem come again.

the only way i found out the restore the headset earpiece speaker work is clear dalvik cache clear cache let it re-optimize those apps. then it work again.

i am wondering is it any google services or apps conflict with some services which occupied the headset earpiece speaker, so we can't hear anything while in voice call.
[Xperia Z General] Sniper Spr3e:
Turns out media battery drain is from download manager it seems

Sent from my Xperia Z in a carbon fibre case
[Xperia Z General] kekks:
For the earpiece I too faced the same problem, I am on stock kitkat and unrooted. I just rebooted the phone and it worked. I dont think there is a need to clear dalvik cache, just reboot the phone.
[Xperia Z General] mankent7:
i agree reboot the phone works but sometimes it won't work. still no solution to solve the problem. is't really annoying when you idle your phone awhile then i pickup answer a call and you can't listen by earpiece had to activate the loud speaker to answer.
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
OP edited with all bugs i managed to find out.. Do mention if there are anything else...
[Xperia Z General] Simosbj:
Lag ong games

Anyone have lag on 4.4.2 ? Cuz i have big drop of framerates in all games. With one word - all games laggs.
[Xperia Z General] Guihardrock:
Guys we have good news

Solve the battery problem the camera aparently work better and Solve all bugs to stay like 4.3 but in 4.4.4
[Xperia Z General] Simosbj:
Lag

Anyone with my problem? Or this is from Android Kitkat, not from my phone?
[Xperia Z General] CyrilThomas92:
NFC broken

I flashed my xperia z with another country's ROM and the NFC s broken, the phone is unrooted., Please help me!!
[Xperia Z General] Pandemic:
Unlocked BL, so no ? then repair your XZ with PC Companion or flash a JB or KK ftf with flashtool !
[Xperia Z General] CyrilThomas92:
I flashed it with KK and JB

I falshed it with JB and KK, the NFC works when Ive flashed with JZB but doesnt when I flashed it with KK, Sony compamion fails to update my device as my device is imported!! What should I do?
[Xperia Z General] rajmal:
Bug with microphone - clean stock 230 rom as shipped

I've found that the mic stops working occasionally and unit needs to be restarted to resolve. However this is hugely annoying as you can't be sure if the video you're just about to record will have any sound or not.

One way I've managed to reproduce this:

Start recording a video

Get someone else to dial your phone (and hang up) to trigger a missed call

View the video you were just recording (this will have some sound)

Start recording a new video (This will have no sound).

Even the Xperia Diagnostics application doesn't seem to capture any sound at this point. I also don't think that the steps above are the only trigger.

I'm in touch with Sony to try and get this resolved. However at this point, my handset's gone for repair three times and the issue is still there (even after a replacement unit).

Note - this is on a stock 230 firmware, bootloader still locked, and ROM as as shipped from Sony without any extra apps installed or even login with Google account.
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
Thanks for your kind feedback.. I had experienced similar one.. I had recorded a very good performance from a friend of mine with his guitar and after recording, when i played there was no sound.. I was so trolled all day.. Still hpns.. Hate that.. :silly::silly: I was so busy i forgot to add it to the OP.. Thanks anyways.. ;)
[Xperia Z General] Hero2548:
So Slow

Hi guys,,, after update sony z to 4.4.2 it's started very slow even i didn't install any programs ..... so how can you help me !?

Many thanks
[Xperia Z General] androidfreak70:
That's sony's bug :)

Xperia™ Z (C6602) with Tapatalk.

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Anyone have problem with themes engine?

Sometimes i get that the themes start changing wallpaper only :(

That happen suddenly and any NEW themes get installed will not work fine

Only reflashing other rom will help. If anyone know any fix without flashing roms tell me please :)

Xperia™ Z (C6602) with Tapatalk.
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
Downgrade like I did, and stay in 4.3 until they release a new firmware and someone confirms works fine.

This was written today by Sony:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...rain-issue-Workaround-Fix/td-p/697685/page/80
[Xperia Z General] eryen:
Yeah me too. With Mw1 bluetooth headset, there is lots of dropouts.
[Xperia Z General] kamalmawa:
Are you guys having this issues even after a full wipe?
[Xperia Z General] SmallsXD:
Not related to the upgrade, suffering from that for the last 2 days. More likely due to google updates in their services.
[Xperia Z General] David.V:
some problems i've noticed so far

1) Facebook events and bdays don't sync properly to the calendar. They are show up when I tap on a specific day, but otherwise it shows "no upcoming events"

2) All xperia apps (walkman, movie, album) are old versions and won't update

3) YouTube, as always, opens up with 5 seconds delay.
[Xperia Z General] roanmy:
It's mostly good for me, slightly laggy, but nothing big.

There are two huge minuses though, and in my case they're both pretty extreme.

The phone heats up a lot faster than before, and it doesn't really cool down once heated. Secondly, play services is really eating into my battery, and accounts for more than 40% of my battery usage, despite the fact that I've had around90% brightness on all day.

WTF. -_-
[Xperia Z General] mustafakhalid:
I've noticed the easter egg bug too. The FC on red underlined words is still present, and lastly, the downloads app doesn't show anything, even if I've downloaded something
[Xperia Z General] anagramgenius:
c'mon guys. stop whining. sony gonna release an update for bug fix.
[Xperia Z General] jigodiass:
Why the hell you will release such a laggy update? I just can`t get it. You, as a company, will produce more negative and persistant reactions with such a fireware then with no fireware update :)

Sony`s final testers didn`t swipe down the notification bar, or they didn`t go to setting that`s for sure...It is scratching your retina.

We waited long time for this update and it is just a fart.

As an advice don`t update your phone, wait for the next release that maybe will kill the snails from the phone...
[Xperia Z General] warface:
Ever thought that not EVERYONE has a "laggy " phone? Mine is fine, and I did a dirty flash over xistenz 7!

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] Pablosch23:
flashed the rom and the last cwm by doomlord and i have no lags, you guys are crazy..settings, notificacion panel, everything working fine on my xperia, made a clean install, and to that guy saying that the camera app has a slower start well my camera starts up in 2 or 3 sec., you have to let the rom settle down! before posting lags. i don't know that's my opinion.

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not me..made a clean install and everything is working fast and smooth, only bug that i found so far is the music skipping.
[Xperia Z General] marcoplo:
Yes it so crap, my battery did not last 4 hours after the update

On 4.3 lasting at least 19hours with 60+ app installed :crying: the fact that i have 64 gb memory card make me cry even louder

We coming back to xperiaX10 xperience...:roll eyes:

I can not even use the Sony backup to restore the copy of my data makes 4.4 even worse
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Exactly what i'm thinking.

I'm staying on 4.3.

Seen 100's of comments about this fw beeing laggy, and for me too.
[Xperia Z General] Dark_SE:
The only bug i have is the google services that's eating battery a lot.

Otherwise everything is smooth.. Did first a dirty install from existenz to the kitkat leak .227 and now a dirty install to the .230 ftf. And everything is working fine. :D
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
There is a general bug with 4.4 and Play Services 4.4 regarding a battery drain on com.google.process.location. You can currently work around this by disabling network location.
[Xperia Z General] intellix:
Location Search Failed

Any one facing problem with the GPS after the 4.4.2 update? My phone is unable to do a current location search time and again after the update. Turning Off and then turning On the GPS works sometime, but it is still a hit and miss. However, once it starts working, it seems to be working fine till GPS is turned off again OR the app is closed. Opening the app again OR another which uses location search, the phone struggles to find the current location and gives Location search Failed notification. Never faced this problem with Jellybean. I flashed my phone with the generic nordic rom btw.

Also the only other problem I am facing is the battery drain owing to Play services. As of lags, the phone has settled down real good and I am not experiencing lags any more.......atleast not noticeable ones.
[Xperia Z General] christianfgs:
Just flashed the 4.4 firmware. First bootup was hell, everything was too slow. But after rebooting, everything seems to be smooth again.

Reboot after inital update. 1-2 reboots wouldnt hurt.
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
forcing super sampling removes lag? o.o
[Xperia Z General] tOrNadO™:
I heard it did by one of the XZ users..
[Xperia Z General] DiukPL:
Is there a stamina problem with singal lost after wake phone? I think it is...

EDIT:

Ok, on GSM only everything works fine. I think i have just bad reception.
[Xperia Z General] rajaganesan7:
Water Proof and Pressure Sensor Test Not Showing in Service Menu
[Xperia Z General] John98Zakaria:
I never saw them before
[Xperia Z General] warface:
Well, the Z doesn't have a pressure sensor, and it's not waterproof, so I guess it's why they took them out!
[Xperia Z General] rajaganesan7:
I saw Pressor Sensor and water Proof Test In Android 4.3 Stock ROM Generic SG ROM

After I Update 4.4, I Did not See The Water Proof Tests and Pressure Sensor Test
[Xperia Z General] junkerss:
Lock screen wake up so late and the lock screen wallpaper is not seen sometimes. I see just black screen and then the wallpaper.

C6603 cihazımdan Tapatalk kullanılarak gönderildi
[Xperia Z General] wbit:
Huge battery drain... I read something here about disabling netwerk location, can someone explain this please ? Thanx
[Xperia Z General] davros93:
Not so happy

I've flashed this http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/development/rom-rooted-deodexed-zipaligned-stock-0-t2759467 coming from a .67 firmware, followed the instructions except enabling gpu rendering, all is super smooth, settings and notification area are smooth. With the .230 sony fixed wifi therething which not worked in .227. The only problem I had until now are the dropouts when listening to music with any headsed.Very annoying. SO i tried to fix this problem by flashing optimized dalvik & optimized bionic, not solved at all, but after that i flashed spl engine which removed the problem.

In summary i'm not satisfied at all with this update because the original update, as it is, so without deodexing, and other modifications is unpresentable; mainly because of the laggines of the settings, in which they omitted to turn on hardware acceleration and the dropouts when listening to music. would be appreciated if they had added the answering machine. Sony, please do at least an update without bugs, at least for who doesn't know anything about flashing a zip or downgrade.
[Xperia Z General] ravdo:
So, the dropouts in music happened even with the wired headset?

I thought it happened to me because i was using a bluetooth one :silly:

If that's true, then this KitKat firmware is really messed up........

Hopefully Sony can fix it in the next update. For now I'm staying on 4.3
[Xperia Z General] jervine:
Using GSam Battery Pro or BetterBatteryStats I've seen that Google Play Services was the cause of significant battery drain on my Xperia Z. Drilling down a bit further I could see that this was due to Partial Wakelocks coming from Play Services. A swift bit of googling revealed the following link reddit.com:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com...yet_for_google_services_battery_drain/ce14b0a

The suggestion here is to install the Wakelock Terminator Xposed module, and filter specific wakelocks on Google Play Services. This does seem to all relate to location services within Google Play Services. If you've rooted, and have Xposed installed, I'd recommend Wakelock Terminator as a good solution as discussed on the reddit link above.

If you haven't/can't root, then, for the time being at least, you will probably want to disable Google Location Services to try and work around the battery drain. You can set this in the 'Google Settings application', but it doesn't seem to be very fine-grained, i.e. you will probably end up disabling location services entirely to work around the bug.
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
with every month google get worst and worst in almost all departmend... first was google chrome that changed to useless google app/service behemot that take even 80% of RAM, then Apps, like Maps, stupid ideas with android pseudo security SD card, that is just forcing to use Gdrive cloud service, info about 5.0 that would be almost impossible to root, Google services that without user knowledge drain RAM and battery...

There is few other smaller things but I think old google motto: "Don't be Evil" is with each passing day more outdated.
[Xperia Z General] nemer12:
sometimes I can't see my CALL LOG, when I use LIVEWALLPAPER the MENU SUCKS (Draw APP or what's is his name), feels I dont know a little bit slower than 4.3, old sounds (for ringtones), old apps there are more but I'm too nervours about this UPDATE.

I dont understand how u can release this kind of software on the market :( . Sad again, sony!
[Xperia Z General] LuHp:
I just flashed the Commercial & Journalists version of 4.4.2 and everything is fine now.

I had some lags, too. Forced GPU rendering and removed all animations and now it's likely fast. :)

After flashing the device heated up but now it's okay.

Will have a look at the battery time.

The issue with SD card privileges is bad.
[Xperia Z General] luluchambler:
The problem is linked to "Force GPU Acceleration".

I was able to to reproduce exactly that behaving after enabling GPU-Acceleration under 4.3 and listening to music on the Walkman-App.

:good:
[Xperia Z General] ravdo:
Pretty sure I didn't use Force GPU Rendering when that happened
[Xperia Z General] luluchambler:
Just saying that exactly the same thing you mentioned happened to me on 4.3 after i forgotten to turn off "F. GPU Acceleration".

Not sure if it is the same on 4.4, iam still waiting for the rom to be published here :)

You can check if that does happen on your 4.3, after enabling it.

It happened to me about every minute, just a little skipping once in a while.
[Xperia Z General] lpchaz:
Framework colors doesn't match in some places
[Xperia Z General] nemer12:
its NORMAL to not have ANIMATION to a system that HAS Animation ?? GEsss people ...u dont want quality things.
[Xperia Z General] iDroid8:
Kit Kat is super smooth for me - the notification screen stopped lagging for me after a few reboot cycles - I didn't even need to force GPU rendering (does this decrease battery life?). One problem I've had is that the Google Play Store doesn't connect: I've tried all sorts of fixes but nothing has worked, including fixing my date and time, clearing the cache, signing out and signing in on my Google account. Another issue with Youtube, I appear to be signed in on the app but my subscriptions and stuff will not appear, it'll act as if no-one is signed in. Anyone else had this issue?
[Xperia Z General] Roronoa-pt-:
The throw function isnt working. It doesnt connect to my wireless tv, doesnt even recognize it. Someone suffering this issue?
[Xperia Z General] xianpu:
battery drain

is it true that there is battery drain issue with google services?

to all 4.4.2 updates xperia z's, is this true? for example in standby mode lets say 1 hour with nothing to do on the phone does it drains fast?
[Xperia Z General] CiscoX:
Hi.

Some bugs:

- Is very laggy in "settings" menu when scrolling up and down

- Wake up from Lock Screen is very slow and sometimes is just black screen on the wallpaper.
[Xperia Z General] burger30:
Stamina

Anyone else missing the Stamina Icon when its active?

it use to display in the top menu when it was active.