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[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I'd like to know too. I'm used to doing this between minor custom rom (slimkat etc) updates, so it seems odd not having to after a 1+gig major os upgrade. And it is a pain because for some reason app developers find it impossible to save your config in your google account somewhere so all the settings are wrong when you reinstall with the exception of a couple of apps which let you save the config files manually; at least then you can hunt around for the files so that you can back them up yourself.
[Xperia Z3 General] SweDunda:
Ok. Now the Walkman app and Account manager have been updated to support Lollipop. But I have NO high hopes at all... We may not see it this month...

If I'm not wrong, the 90 days to release Lollipop end's this week or next.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Only htc had that 90 days things..sony announced beginning of February so...we wil definitely see..it this month..for newest Z3 family..rest..maybe next month....
[Xperia Z3 General] bhant10:
It sucks android l
[Xperia Z3 General] Run_dawn10:
Got the new Account Manger in Malaysia also.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Everyone has their own taste..
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
I personally don't like vanilla Android L. It's just too green :D just like Samsungs version of it... If Sony gets it right im sure it will look way better than all other OEM Software :)
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Well Sony's UI is fairly close to stock which is pretty good by itself, HTC Sense is probably the best looking though.
[Xperia Z3 General] danw_oz:
So don't use it, none of us will hold anything against you

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I am pretty sure we will see it, they don't seem to have had too many issues in the past releasing buggy firmware, and progressively update it :)
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
I wouldnt be surprised if they dont release it this month or in the last few days / week..
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Maybe ur right... Excitement is already kinda dying..half of the people doesn't bother about os version and other half..might give up upon the late update strategy...
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
Relax, the update is arround the corner :)

But how far to the corner, will see. In all cases, if there will be a delay, it can't dissapont me. An update full of bugs can do, instead.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
No other choice than to wait..damn i hate that guy in my college who show off lollipop in moto g...
[Xperia Z3 General] dnzdeniz:
I'm a Z1 user, but I'm really curious about when the Z3 will take it. Because Z1 update will be similar to Z3 update, so it will be a sneak peek of Z1 update :D
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Ask him if he has problems with apps just stopping while he's using them, for example music playback, due to the overly aggressive memory management!
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
The memory management is better than kk..and apps works fine..my other friend has moto g..whose phone i myself updated to lollipop and first thing i checked was..that..btw its 5.0.2
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Yeah, it's easy to underestimate the terrible cost of a few not strictly necessary posts in this thread.

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I wasn't talking about Lollipop's memory management, but the Moto G's.
[Xperia Z3 General] yoorie016:
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[Xperia Z3 General] sxtester:
I sense you might have touched and possibly played around for a couple of minutes with your friends' phone, but never ever did you use it for a day or longer. 5.0.2 is buggy as hell, and I can judge that from having had(!) exactly that version running on a Nexus 7.
[Xperia Z3 General] Artood2s:
2012 or 2013 version? I have read horror stories on 2012. I had a Nexus 5 with 5.0 (not even 5.0.1) and no major issues other than reduced battery life (may have been subjective). The N5 w/ lollipop was absolutely the smoothest android experiences I have ever had. As in Project Butter promise finally made good.
[Xperia Z3 General] dgattenb:
5.1 is out.. At this rate it will 6
[Xperia Z3 General] STYXS:
I was rooted and installed via TWRP. No wipe, works fine 6653.
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
You always can try without wiping. But, if you experience some bugs after that, re-flash the ftf with wiping, before blaming Sony :)
[Xperia Z3 General] augie7107:
Xperifirm
[Xperia Z3 General] hogofwar:
Are we still waiting for DR to be fixed for a properly working prerooted firmware file?
[Xperia Z3 General] rspy:
that's a pretty common problem with the youtube app in any android.. I got that problem ALL THE TIME in 4.4.4, in lollipop I don't see it yet.. usually closing and open the app make it work for a while.. (you can watch 3 videos in a row before the message appear again :rolleyes:) and for the Titanium, I don't have that issue, is working fine for now.. :good:
[Xperia Z3 General] jonmorris:
Some people will insist on it, just like they will still argue that you should charge a new battery for xx hours and always let it fully drain before charging. You'll never change their mind!

Generally speaking, you'll be fine doing an upgrade without wiping and the upgrade process will work fine, everything optimising as required, and nothing going wrong. And believe me, I've done a fair few firmware updates in my time!

In my experience, if people have problems then it's more likely to be a bug than because of not wiping. Going ahead and doing a full wipe then spending an hour or two setting everything back up by hand (with app/data restoration sometimes not always going to plan) often results in the exact same problems being apparent.

Oh and don't even dare use the installed Backup & Restore app, as once you update the OS to a newer version it nicely tells you upon restarting (when it's now too late to do anything) that it can't use the data. What a total waste of time!

So, I'd always say do the update without wiping and see how you go. If there are problems, look around to see if other people have them and see if there's a fix before taking the drastic action to do a clean install.

Of course if you fancy doing that because you know you'd installed loads of crap, and there were loads of old legacy files and caches on the phone with hidden folders that weren't removed, by all means go ahead. From 5.0 onwards, it's a LOT easier to restore your apps and data than before.

The native Google Now launcher will even restore all your shortcuts and widgets (does anyone know if the Sony launcher will do this from 5.0 onwards?). Apart from the time taken, it's now a pretty painless experience.
[Xperia Z3 General] undercover:
Because whatever app is accessing it now and calling drain was not able to access that file on Kitkat.

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Also, this guy, listen to him.

High five mate.
[Xperia Z3 General] hellraizerN7:
Did they fix the panorama feature of the camera?

As in, in 4.4.x you cant make a panorama unless you fill out the complete panorama template Sony has made. If you stop half way (to make a smaller panorama, duh Sony), no panorama will be made.
[Xperia Z3 General] moses_dx:
Because some people were looking up to Sony for the Xperia ui, wich used to be the fastest. I guess lollipop ui proved to be faster than Xperia and so they had to ditch it. Still I would have wanted the dialer to stay the same, Google dialer is terrible
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
100%+ agree with you.

A factory reset or full wipe flash never solved my issues!! It's an overrated solution (used by our friends in various customer care to gain time and hope the issue go away on its own) to find solutions.
[Xperia Z3 General] gibbo82:
Anyone else not impressed with the blue notification bar when in certain apps?.

They took the quick notifications on/off for apps away in personalisation in settings! [[just found that they are now under sound & notifications in settings]]

No more silent mode in quick settings!
[Xperia Z3 General] robbiekhan:
The volume rocker is multi stage now, silent is in there. The blue bar is because you've got a blue theme enabled and loaded up a non Lollipop aware app. This is not Sony's fault but the app developer of whatever app you're running!

Simply change the theme colour to something more neutral if you don't want the blue bar when running non Lollipop aware apps.
[Xperia Z3 General] gibbo82:
Sweet, didn't realise that about the themes, cheers.

Thanks for the heads up about the volume rocker! ??
[Xperia Z3 General] midnighttofu:
I have a D6653 international version, but I'm on T-mobile in the states. Is it likely that I will get an OTA update or do I have to flash some version of lollipop on my phone myself? I appreciate the help!
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
You will get it at the same time as the region of origin of your phone.
[Xperia Z3 General] daniel2744:
Is the PC companion program finally showing the update? i wanted to wait for it but i couldn't so i just flashed the nordic version however I would like to use the pc companion to update to US version if i can.
[Xperia Z3 General] augie7107:
Its showing the update for firmware regions that have the update, Baltuc generic, Denmark, Nordic, Sweden.
[Xperia Z3 General] augie7107:
I'll agree to disagree. I have also been flashing for years. In any event, its user preference.
[Xperia Z3 General] Hussain_Salam:
So basically for regions who haven't received the Lollipop 5.0 Update expect to see it on the 30th of March (Week 14)
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Quite! You try getting help on a custom rom forum and tell them you've done a dirty flash and see how far it gets you!
[Xperia Z3 General] goTouch:
What the h... is happening with Sony? D6633 will not see Lollipop so soon :crying: :crying:

They just updated Iran, Islamic Republic and others with kitkat:

23.0.1.F.0.96	Unbranded/Unlocked MAA	19th March 2015 06:24:33 PM (CET)	Anonymous (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

23.0.0.F.1.74	Promoter	17th March 2015 02:22:36 PM (CET)	Anonymous (Italy)

23.0.0.F.1.74	StoreFront	15th March 2015 11:33:02 AM (CET)	Anonymous (Bulgaria)

23.0.1.F.0.96	Unbranded/Unlocked CE1	11th March 2015 04:27:45 PM (CET)	Anonymous (Poland)

23.0.1.F.0.96	Unbranded/Unlocked CE4	17th March 2015 12:34:45 PM (CET)	Anonymous (Poland)
[Xperia Z3 General] Schumi 01:
Quick question, i have updated to lollipop, really like the look of it, but one annoyance i have, is that user icon in the status bar on the lock scren, is there any way i can get rid of it.

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 General] persian_redhat:
This update is for Portugal where it was not updated to 23.0.1.F.0.96 before.
[Xperia Z3 General] android167:
Owners of Z3 regular, do you have problems with front camera. On Z3 Compact i cannot turn off beauty mode and because of that my photos are alway blurry.
[Xperia Z3 General] gibbo82:
Aww man, they've took away "close all" in apps running in background! ?
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
Yes, but there's already a mod to add a button :)
[Xperia Z3 General] robbiekhan:
For anyone interested, I did a quick video of Lollipop on my Z3, outside of the "Xperia Launcher" environment and more tailored :)

[YOUTUBE]/enqLLjiKm9w[/YOUTUBE]
[Xperia Z3 General] undercover:
Factory reset might be overrated, however refreshing images (ftf) isn't. It often fixes badly flashed stuff.
[Xperia Z3 General] gibbo82:
I'm not rooted
[Xperia Z3 General] bartolo5:
You need to tap on the label on quick settings, not long press. That's why it was not working for you.

Thumbs up for noticing the much smoother google maps now. There's a world of difference between 5.0.2 and 4.4.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Good; it makes your phone slower.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1966571
[Xperia Z3 General] robbiekhan:
Aye it was noted in the comments section and I don't know why I didn't simply try single tapping the label before lol!
[Xperia Z3 General] Huey85:
could you please let me know what the mod is called and where I could get it? I'm dying to get Close All button back in my recents screen!
[Xperia Z3 General] JoernH:
Is it just me or are there more people that cannot open this link?
[Xperia Z3 General] xSirAKx:
I can't open it either. :-/
[Xperia Z3 General] robbiekhan:
Which link do you guys mean? The video or the XDA links in the description?
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
It's fine on a PC but on android shows the "dodgy plugin" icon like its using flash or something.
[Xperia Z3 General] robbiekhan:
Hmm I just used the default Youtube embed tag on the forum post editor box.

This is the full link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqLLjiKm9w
[Xperia Z3 General] juanvera3:
Hi, sorry if I bother you. I followed the instructions to install Lollipop on my Xperia Z3 but I can not download the file GLOBAL (to create the FTF firmware but I shows an error regarding some missing files and the download stops) from Xperifirm. Can i use the Nordic Combined? of which one should i use?

I am using a Xperia Z3 D6603 in Mexico. Unbranded.

Under file system version it shows: GLOBAL-LTE_23.0.1.A.5.77

Thank you

:confused:
[Xperia Z3 General] freddy1991:
There is still no lollipop for the GLOBAL.

So you need to download either Nordic or Baltic ftf.
[Xperia Z3 General] freddy1991:
Found one minor bug.

Whenever I reboot the Z3, it would show "No Service" on the top left corner of the lockscreen and the notification drop-down but the phone has full signal ?.

Can be solved by turning on and off the airplane mode for the carrier name to appear.
[Xperia Z3 General] felipondrioxcl:
I don't have share "Facebook for Xperia" option in album, i miss that option.
[Xperia Z3 General] gripfly:
This?: http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/mod-button-recent-panel-t3057345
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
Yes, that above or specificaly this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59554857&postcount=44

I like the button more the the in the OP. No offence to naiboc.
[Xperia Z3 General] cheetah2k:
Old bug. Simply go into your network settings and manually select your preferred carrier. I select the 4G one for Vodafone here in Australia and works perfectly every reboot.
[Xperia Z3 General] freddy1991:
Thanks

Never noticed that bug before lollipop
[Xperia Z3 General] bplogan:
Oh wow native cifs file shares available as natively, sweet!
[Xperia Z3 General] morebube:
When? Lollipop for 6653? :crying:
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Seems like Sony is happy seeding for D6603
[Xperia Z3 General] morebube:
Lol, Want swearing
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
What's the benefit of this? I'm not familiar.
[Xperia Z3 General] bplogan:
Well I have a synology NAS that I have exposed to the internet.

Now I can 'map' or browse to the files on that nas directly as part of android versus inatalling a synology app to browse files.

Perhaps not significant by itself but a part of a larger connectivity push.

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Dude. I have a d6653/and dumped the d6603 firmware on it, no problemo.

So far I am a big fan, the updates to functionality are really great!

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If you are looking for this remote shares.

Goto settings>storage then remote shares choose either windows (cifs) or sftp
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
What do you mean with refreshing images (ftf)?

Are you saying that flashing images with full wipe can fix?

In my experience OTA is often worse than flashing images.

I've never experienced major difference, or consider it the way to solve issues, in flashing images + wipe vs flashing images + no wipe.
[Xperia Z3 General] bplogan:
Yeah fixed, thanks mate, all good.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
When you say "refreshing images" do you mean "flash the same image more than once"? I have heard this before, but I don't understand it. Technically, what's the idea here? Flashing an image is copying a bunch of files, right? They either succeed or they fail, and if they fail and you don't get told about it that's a fault of the software you're using to flash. Can anyone explain?
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
I think he meant "reflashing images" maybe an autocorect misspelling.
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
It's kinda strange that there is still no update for any other country despite the nordics and baltics. It's one work week since lollipop rolled out officially. Even Sony Xperia DE says that the rollout has already begun for Germany, but it didn't :confused:
[Xperia Z3 General] subash22:
I did not get the OTA but when i repaired my phone with PC companion it installed 5.0.2 in my phone...

Also if any one wants to block the small apps from the recent apps screen , pm block doesnt seem to work, but pm hide seems to be working for me.

adb shell
pm hide com.sony.smallapp.launcher
pm hide com.sony.smallapp.app.widget
exit
adb reboot
[Xperia Z3 General] Crazy32:
Where did you Ready this?
[Xperia Z3 General] realfelix:
https://mobile.twitter.com/sonyxperiade/status/578557784469454848

That's what makes me wonder if they even have a clue what they are talking about..
[Xperia Z3 General] Beno@:
still no update for me with an d6603 in Germany :(
[Xperia Z3 General] shusha87:
Just flash NCB, problems solved. Who needs OTA :D?
[Xperia Z3 General] undercover:
Exactly what [MENTION=2731409]G-FACE[/MENTION] said, autocorrect strikes again.

I had a thread in Nexus 4 when reflashing images has improved battery life considerably. Also, any OTA is patch, ie patching (changing) old files. What can go wrong with that! (/s).

Factory reset doesn't do anything to system, it's just clears all the data that is otherwise not accessible without root. But, I have discovered it does help in certain instances (Nexus 4 flashing images messed up cache and factory reset AFTER flashing images fixed it, there was a problem with "wipe" command in Fastboot).

Conclusion. If you want good quality update - flash ftf as it REwrites system rather than OVERwrites it. Give it a spin without wiping. If you experience issues, fix using PC companion. If still having issues - reflash ftf with wipe and if you want to be double sure all is wiped, perform a factory reset once booted. Can't get any cleaner than that.
[Xperia Z3 General] G-FACE:
^ True story
[Xperia Z3 General] Crazy32:
Doesn´t work for me. Now i have a fresh clean Kikat 4.4.4 on my phone :D
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I know you meant reflashing. Any chance you can revisit the rest of my question?
[Xperia Z3 General] undercover:
Well, since I corrected myself and your question has become mute (it's not flashing things twice) I don't really know what to answer. Will be happy to do so if you clarify.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I've only ever heard about flashing roms in the context of rebooting into recovery and writing a zip (of, say, slimKat, into the system folder). A dirty flash being doing that, and a clean flash being doing that followed/preceded by a factory reset. So...isn't the flash part of it just copying files? Or are you saying there's some two choices here; one where you copy files and one where you essentially format system and then copy files? if so, it sounds like there's no specific term for this as I've now heard them both referred to as flashing.
[Xperia Z3 General] Bobeobi:
So, while I'm still waiting: does X-reality fails for everybody or it doesn't?
[Xperia Z3 General] undercover:
Took me a while to understand it but I think I got what you mean.

There is a difference between flashing rom and images.

Here's an analogy.

I'll use sheet of paper with text on it. That sheet of paper is your software as intended to be. Imagine it. Now you have to copy it onto another bit of paper.

Flashing rom. You retype text with all punctuation, headers, signatures, logos etc. What's the possibility of having an error on a copy? Fairly high but since you are very careful, it most likely be OK.

Flashing image. You photocopy it. Bam. Error? Unless printer burns the paper-none!

OTA. You rub out letters and all the stuff listed above, that needs changing and write new ones on top. Error possibility? Much higher than any of the above.

Hope that clears the difference.
[Xperia Z3 General] zepelinhead:
Any news for D6653 users?
[Xperia Z3 General] DakotaBMacDonald:
A couple things I've noticed

Bought my phone locked to Rogers in Canada. Flashed the Baltic FTF. Before the flash I had the option to be connected to LTE or 4G. Now however, I only have the option for 4G. Maybe they don't have LTE in the Baltics so their firmware only has 4G capabilities. I'm not sure, but either way my 4G connectivity is very poor, when before the flash I always had full bars (I never used LTE because LTE service is awful where I live). Problem will most likely get fixed when Rogers gets around to releasing Lollipop, whenever that may be.

The colour accents don't match the theme. Has anyone else noticed this? When I used the white theme in 4.4, the toggles & keyboard swipe would be light blue, but now they're orange. In 4.4, when using the red theme all the accents would be red, as you'd expect, but now they're light blue. The messaging app is nice & red, but the keyboard doesn't match. And none of the accents match the themes, not too sure what's going on or how to fix it, but it's definitely a very annoying issue I've experienced.
[Xperia Z3 General] Meannekes:
Lte = 4g
[Xperia Z3 General] DakotaBMacDonald:
We have 4G, and we have LTE. I use to be able to choose which one I wanted to use. I could have full bars of 4G then turn LTE on & only get one or two bars. They were two separate things. Now what it appears that yes when it says 4G I'm actually on LTE, but when I lose that connection it drops down to 3G. In 4.4 I'd never see 3G, I would always be on 4G.
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
That's something extremely unusual. From what I understand 4G and LTE are the same thing. Different region uses different terms.

Your eyes might be deceiving you seeing "3G" as "4G".
[Xperia Z3 General] DakotaBMacDonald:
That's not even the main issue though, I know it'll go back to normal once Rogers releases the update. It's the theme accents that is really the main concern. Has anyone else experienced that same issue?

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On Rogers the ranking goes E H+ 3G 4G LTE, I'm not sure what it's like on other networks. Like I said, I would never see anything lower than 4G, and LTE was something you could toggle on & off.
[Xperia Z3 General] projectvii:
I have Virgin Mobile, and it goes from 3G, H, H+, LTE. With the Baltic rom, it just says 4G instead of LTE for me.
[Xperia Z3 General] rubiconjp:
The ITU has officially classified HSPA+ as 4G (previously only LTE and WiMax as well as their Advanced versions were classified "loosely" as 4G). So usually H refers to HSPA/HSDPA, H+ is HSPA+ (on many phones it's also labeled as 4G). LTE is also labeled as 4G LTE on some phones.
[Xperia Z3 General] moses_dx:
Just run a damn speed test and you will know for sure
[Xperia Z3 General] DakotaBMacDonald:
Alright so the Baltic firmware labels their internet connection differently than what I've been previously use to. Got it. It'll be put back to normal when Rogers releases it, so it's not the main issue here. Has anyone else experienced the wrong accent colours in the themes?
[Xperia Z3 General] Cozmos23:
No. With a good Hspa+ connection and Provider he could reach 42+ mbit.

This advice is as useless as LTE :)
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I've got 59MB before on 4G. And 28MB up. I was quite impressed!
[Xperia Z3 General] moses_dx:
I guess you mean 3.5g, don't know about that, only that it will drain more battery than lte, the same as standard 3g I believe.

I have more than 50 when running speed test with my lte. Why is useless a speed test with lte?
[Xperia Z3 General] Drzfr3shboialex:
C'mon T-mobile bring the lollipop goodness already!
[Xperia Z3 General] xtenas:
Where is the generic Lollipop for our devices, it will bea good gift for the weeked.

Is there any camera difference in lollipop?