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[Xperia Z3 General] vRS Carl:
Just keep clicking download button on the phone. It eventually starts. Took about 10 goes for mine to start. That's both times as I restarted it to see if it would go quicker.
[Xperia Z3 General] herasymcuk:
I forgot to say that i updated to the uk unbranded version. not too slow. 40 minutes.

someone can help me?
[Xperia Z3 General] eddyfr:
Thx, but I tried like 50 times already :) Seems not to move, so I'll wait a bit.

http://oi58.tinypic.com/2na72u1.jpg

edit: Yes finally the download started but slow speed.
[Xperia Z3 General] bradleysmith:
Changed my mind and downloaded and installed it. Not much to say really. It reports it's running 5.02 now. Seems to work just as it did before. What cool stuff should I be lookin for?
[Xperia Z3 General] cadboncopyvw:
WTF - My device has suddenly decided that there isn't an update available even though there was earlier :confused:

I guess 3 are delaying as usual :p
[Xperia Z3 General] Ulver:
Got the OTA for the 26 incremental update. Only 17mb.
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
The O2 one had more network options than UK unbranded.

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On kitkat I should add.

Also, bloat is optional with o2
[Xperia Z3 General] warface:
In what way? (Not having a go, just curious!)

Lol, just seen your edit!

Also, I've created a FTF of the generic UK unbranded release.

Where would I upload it to, to share with the forum?
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
Not sure with lp but kk only had 3 to choose from

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Put it in the pinned topic at the top

Mega collection.
[Xperia Z3 General] Tmel14:
Managed to download it (had to retry a few times) after it told me to free up 1.2GB from my phone and I uninstalled a few apps. It's then downloaded and has requested I free up 1.2GB in order for it to install. Fantastic.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I expect that sort of thing from Apple, not Android!

I wonder if the delay was to fix the memory leak on launcher issue. Anyone reproduced that?
[Xperia Z3 General] joepontanoni:
I had the update 'available' earlier but it wouldn't actually start downloading. I tried at least 100 times. Now its not even available to download. I'm on 3.
[Xperia Z3 General] Tmel14:
Exactly! I can't shed another 1.2GB so I'm now very much in limbo. So frustrating.

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Does saving apps to SD card work as it should on Lollipop? If so I can quickly uninstall Spotify & Google Music to create the space and then just download them back to my SD card when Lollipop is installed.
[Xperia Z3 General] nic85:
where I can find the unbranded .726 tft to flash with flashtool?
[Xperia Z3 General] bradleysmith:
Maybe. I can move some apps to SD, others I can't. Not sure why some can and some can't but maybe that's normal.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
use xperifirm to download it
[Xperia Z3 General] warface:
I've uploaded a link to the generic UK unbranded D6603 firmware into the sticky thread.
[Xperia Z3 General] cadboncopyvw:
The update is back again now and actually downloading this time albeit slowly :good:
[Xperia Z3 General] mtbgus:
UK lollipop update

Light blue notification bar on Strava (should be orange), also on ebay, Facebook, imdb, amazon app store, paypal.

Why? strava looks the worst bight orange with light blue bar.

I take it the apps devs must need to change this.

So far on screen time is 34 mins on battery at 81% from 100%, kitkat was around 1hr 30mins by 85%.

:(
[Xperia Z3 General] tel033:
How can I know what region my firmware is?i have just receive .726 OTA
[Xperia Z3 General] bradleysmith:
What theme are you using?
[Xperia Z3 General] mtbgus:
The Default Xperia one. tried a few others like the blue, black etc. and the same thing.
[Xperia Z3 General] Cryssie:
And we have touchdown on T-Mobile in the Netherlands! I am very pleased so far.
[Xperia Z3 General] bradleysmith:
Notification bar matches the colour of the theme for me e.g. orange theme and I get an orange notification bar (the bar right at the top of the screen yeah?) when I'm in eBay and PayPal apps.

EDIT: You do have to close any apps that are already running when you change theme colour in order for them to respect the colour change though.
[Xperia Z3 General] mtbgus:
Ah right I see. yeah it's theme based. So some apps don't over write the theme as material design apps like playstore, gmail etc. do.
[Xperia Z3 General] limcc:
Singapore Starhub Set. both OTA and PCC indicate the update

ignore the Chinese language display, my old folk prefer mother tongue.
[Xperia Z3 General] joepontanoni:
Just updated. It seems that the brightness settings on the quicksettings panel have been nerfed quite a bit. Why doesn't the menu disappear while we toggle the brightness so we can see how bright the actual screen is? And where is the auto brightness tickbox?

Other then that I'm fairly impressed.
[Xperia Z3 General] Hussain_Salam:
Yeah, i've downloaded it; However i had the option to do it Over The Air, And i didn't have to hook my phone up to my Laptop.
[Xperia Z3 General] bradleysmith:
It is a bit nerfed yes. But, if you have adaptive brightness turned off then moving the slider changes the brightness in real-time. If it's turned on then there's nothign to show when you move the slider anway. I did prefer the old version though.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Settings/display/adaptive brightness
[Xperia Z3 General] Hussain_Salam:
Just aheads up for anyone who's going to update to Lollipop, Your device will gradually get really hot at times.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
During the upgrade (loads of work happening, not surprising) or afterwards (no reason why it should)?
[Xperia Z3 General] N3CR0M4NC3R:
Just got the update on my Z3 here [EE UK] and i can confirm even under gentle usage [couple of apps loaded and browsing] it can kick out a tad more heat,

Its not as bad as the 4k heatup when recording but still noticeable

Only thing i'm not happy about is the lack of RAW for the camera unless that gets implemented later
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Doesn't bode well for battery life. But i've not heard that lollipop is worse for battery. See if it settles after a few days; i'm sure even post upgrade there are silent upgrades to play services and the like.

Would be nice to get a proper answer out of sony about the new camera api.
[Xperia Z3 General] jonmorris:
Expect heat for a while as the various caches/thumbnails are rebuilt etc.

It should settle down after a while.
[Xperia Z3 General] Hussain_Salam:
Either way, I'm actually impressed with the new update;
[Xperia Z3 General] Memnoch30:
Whoa are you saying I can flash the generic international rom onto my US T-Mobile branded D6616 Z3?
[Xperia Z3 General] Bansheleh:
Update out today on o2 UK. Feels laggy and slow compared to KK.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Is it a good idea? I remember 32GB LG G2 users flashing 16GB versions' ROMs and it cut their internal storage to 16GB. I wonder if similar effects will happen to us as ours are 32Gb versions vs 16GB for other versions.
[Xperia Z3 General] meteor999:
Just installed UK generic. Will give feedback once the firmware has settled

For the record came from lollipop .690 didn't do a clean wipe as I need the phone for work and didn't have the time to set it up, but because I went from one Lollipop to the next it shouldn't matter. Its interesting that sony used Central Europe generic as a guinney pig for the rest of the locations. Also I can confirm that the close all function is not available in the recent tabs menu
[Xperia Z3 General] AnteusFogg:
No you can't. Read the first page carefully, each model is listed and T-Mo has a KK firmware link still.

As much as I would like to go with a wishful post like you, we're still stuck.
[Xperia Z3 General] Memnoch30:
Yeah I was wondering if things had changed since the first post. Thanks!
[Xperia Z3 General] vRS Carl:
No close all in the Vodafone version either. Also no bloatware apart from the Vodafone App which can be deleted.
[Xperia Z3 General] wigankev:
Just received update on Three UK Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] Zaim2012:
I'm not too sure I want to update to Android 5, I just updated my Z2 tablet and noticed the Sound enhancements no longer work on all apps, only walkman and apps that have an EQ option. So you get no enhancements on TIdal, youtube etc :(
[Xperia Z3 General] iKlutz:
Am I the only one that thinks the dialer is WORSE. I was kinda hoping for a larger contact picture, not a smaller one that's in the corner of a BLANK blue screen. And the number pad, wtf is with that? Lollipop dialer had an animated number pad, with the rest of the dialer content remaining in the background which was dynamic and interactive. Very intuitive, but not for Sony, it's just another blank-ass screen. I feel like I'm in the nineties, and not in a retro way.

Anyway, the rest is very impressive.
[Xperia Z3 General] gimbu:
Finally in uk update to 5.0.2 much better than 5.0.1 customized europe non problem with wifi 4g and cpu temperature btw now Im in Poland
[Xperia Z3 General] xSirAKx:
So now that the UK update is out, going to flash the unbranded UK, will see if it's any better.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I'm in London. Can anyone beat that?

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That's nice.

I think this thread is done now! lol!
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
Could be a placebo, but I feel the camera has been tweaked a little.

Less noise.
[Xperia Z3 General] OrangeRafi:
The update is finally in Australia!
[Xperia Z3 General] mickyw1980:
Really, imo it's much faster and smoother
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
That's what I think too, much smoother.
[Xperia Z3 General] 9m2bal:
Finally in Malaysia...

Model : D6653

Telco : Celcom

Country : Malaysia
[Xperia Z3 General] morebube:
Waiting in Vietnam @@
[Xperia Z3 General] Aoi_sora9x:
Singapore Starhub is still waiting.
[Xperia Z3 General] caqo71:
You need at least a week for rom to settle,

"just installed" roms take its time to cache all yor apps. Same is for battery.
[Xperia Z3 General] Moonscoute:
Resived OTA update in Sweden to .726

Haven't noticed any changes so far. Running really smooth.
[Xperia Z3 General] Tmel14:
My main purpose for Lollipop was to be able to make more use of my SD card as my internal memory is constantly full. I moved the eligible apps to the SD card including GTA which is 1.2GB but my phone storage has shown no improvement. It's still stuck at 550MB when in theory it should be up around 2GB free now.

Also with apps like Spotify is there not a way to save downloaded music to the SD card rather than phone storage? I thought this was a main aspect of Lollipop
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Probably depends on the apps. Does Spotify support it?
[Xperia Z3 General] dante2086:
Mine shows full contact pic for all my contacts with assigned pics, except for one contact, where it just shows the smaller one and the blue background. Try reassigning a pic and see what happens.
[Xperia Z3 General] vif81:
On mine, took a week to "renew" my battery life. It was worth than KK all long the first week and now I'm pretty happy with it.
[Xperia Z3 General] wmq1964:
The small contact picture is only from the cloud if you add a picture from the phone it will display in full size.
[Xperia Z3 General] hussan882:
Yep - same here.

I'm impressed so far :D

Though a couple of questions , anyway to get the close all button back?

Plus, the notification bar is now more prominent /solid on certain apps - is there a way to tweak that?
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Some questions:

1)Any way to disable the initial swipe before the pattern unlock? Seems a little unnecessary.

2)Any way to get the nice analog lockscreen clock (with the little red dot for the second hand) on the main launcher desktop?

3)Queue background data enabled never means I miss a notification (from hangouts, facebook etc), right?

4)Can I get the physical camera button to launch a different camera. It's bad enough that it defaults to the auto mode and not manual. I use the great "open camera" app and it would be nice to be able to get that up and running from the button. But sadly it doesn't even let me use the lockscreen widget to launch open camera (which the open camera settings suggest should be possible).
[Xperia Z3 General] oSandmaNo:
Yes. This sucks. After migrating to this phone all my contact pictures dont show in full screen. I have to re-assign them.
[Xperia Z3 General] joepontanoni:
Anyone else experiencing really poor volume? Seems anything below half of full volume is barely/ not audible.
[Xperia Z3 General] JoernH:
Belgian version LTE/4G icon

Did anyone try out the Belgian build 23.1.A.0.762 "1288-5033 Customized BE" ?

On KitKat ( and Generic Nordic build 23.1.A.0.690 ) I had a 4G symbol. Now I have LTE.

Anyone else having this ?

I installed using no wiping, so I guess I know what to do - but I'd like a confirmation that I can expect 4G instead of LTE.
[Xperia Z3 General] Wardyboyo:
I just had it this morning, I believe :) downloading now :)

It's the 23.1.A.0.726
[Xperia Z3 General] iKlutz:
Yet when I view the contact it displays the image with the full width of the screen.

Thanks for the tip, and I honestly had no idea that reassigning the contact photos would make them larger. I've been syncing my contacts for at least 3 years, so I don't even know where the originals are. Which kinda sucks but I guess now I can take new ones that are higher res.
[Xperia Z3 General] warface:
Same thing, different name, isn't it?

I don't think it means you're actual connection speed is in any way slower.
[Xperia Z3 General] iKlutz:
It's an aesthetically 'correct' thing though.

We always have a 2g and 3g icon, not a WCDMA and GSM icon. So it doesn't really make sense that we have LTE instead of 4g.

It doesn't bother me much but I can see why there's issues with it.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
Actually you can spend many happy minutes on wikipedia reading about 4g vs lte. It's not the same thing technology wise, although so many people treat them as such that they people do now "officially" treat them as interchangable.
[Xperia Z3 General] jemeljsh:
Do you have "Close All" button in recents?

BTW, which version of.726 besides "Russian .726" has "Close All" button ?
[Xperia Z3 General] 9m2bal:
Deleted.
[Xperia Z3 General] 9m2bal:
I have 'close all' button in recent on .726 in Malaysia Region.
[Xperia Z3 General] iKlutz:
Another dialer issue. Where it says "Recent", it looks and behaves like a button and seems it's only 'function' is to display an amazing little toast that happens to also say "RECENT". How novel.
[Xperia Z3 General] 9m2bal:
Have issues in 'what's new'... When trying to install the updates....' no data connection ' appears....
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
Make sure it's set to download over any connection and not just wifi
[Xperia Z3 General] Moonscoute:
No "close all button" ?
[Xperia Z3 General] bosas200:
In which day of the week they pushed the update to the most regions?
[Xperia Z3 General] rubiconjp:
D6603 US - 726 has no close all button.

Any changelog between 690 and 726?
[Xperia Z3 General] JoernH:
No close all button in Belgian version 726
[Xperia Z3 General] 9m2bal:
'Download via any connection'.... But the error still appear... Anyone facing similar issue here?
[Xperia Z3 General] parthsony2000:
Strange, my D6653 has close all button on 726 firmware.
[Xperia Z3 General] hanime:
Same here. Updated to 726 yesterday.

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How does your close all button look? Is it the blue rectangle that looks like a tile in Windows 8? Why can't they do it like the close all notifications button?
[Xperia Z3 General] dgattenb:
Got 5.0.2 in the uk OTA yesterday ... Battery is worse
[Xperia Z3 General] nic85:
let the system settle
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I'd agree. I've let it settle. I'm not sure how many days I have to leave it before it's clearly a problem. I've not used it that much today; it was 100% at 9am and now at ~11pm (14 hours) it's 54%. At this rate it's about 24 hours per charge, half as long as before. As always, the battery stats are useless:

screen: 18%

chrome: 14%

google play store: 7% (why? hardly installed anything! what's it been doing?)

Hangouts 7%

Facebook: 6%

Few more at 6% and 3%.

I've barely used facebook. It's showing 3% for tweetcaster even though I've used that for longer than anything else except perhaps chrome (neck and neck with tweetcaster I'd say). I have `queue background data` enabled.

I don't really want to use stamina mode and start whitelisting loads of apps, and i'm not sure how effective stamina mode is when you do that; what's the difference between that and just using regular mode?

One thing: I did use the encryption option to encrypt the whole device. Does that involve constant battery usage? I'm not really too sure how it works; it takes quite a long time for the phone to reboot with it enabled; what's it actually doing then? It can't be decrypting everything as there's not enough space for a copy of all of the storage in ram.
[Xperia Z3 General] Cryssie:
I like my lollipop battery.

After 14 hours I have 61% of battery left with the screen taking up 63% or more then 3 hours. This is easily 2 days of use. The entire phone is very quick and responsive.

I did not do a clean install so I am very happy.
[Xperia Z3 General] mickyw1980:
It will get better, like you said, you only flashed yesterday, give it a few charging cycles and it will be better than KK ?
[Xperia Z3 General] TheTeslaCoil:
Let the ROM settle. The battery will get better.
[Xperia Z3 General] nizmo_freek:
Hi guys

I am from New Zealand and have an unlocked D6653 Z3 which i purchased from a importer, i think it was imported from Hong Kong.

I have seen a number of user with the same model as mine receive lollipop, so it appears to have been released in H.K.

However i have had no update yet which seems strange, i have checked via p.c companion and OTA.

Is it just a matter of being patient and waiting for the update to arrive or is something not right?

Any help would be great.
[Xperia Z3 General] nikhilpai:
Phone getting hot after the update. #D6653
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
For those complaining about battery and heat dissipation rate, as usual, you need to do a full wipe and allow the phone to settle for a week before complaining.
[Xperia Z3 General] kurosawa79:
It's quite funny everyone saying "let it settle"...

It's like we're baking bread or something.

That's not to say I don't believe in this whole settling process - just that my phone never had to "settle"

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The Lollipop update is not out for HK so that's why you dont have the upgrade notification yet. Not sure when it will be out but all the other 6653 generics have upgraded to .726 so it shouldn't be long now. You could flash one of the other 6653 tft if you cant wait though.
[Xperia Z3 General] lee480:
I don't get what's so funny about this. When you upgrade your firmware, apps needs to rebuild their cache, emails needs to be resynced and obviously causing the initial CPU usage higher than average.
[Xperia Z3 General] kurosawa79:
Not saying you're wrong but the things you've listed are generally completed on initial boot or a subsequent reboot. You don't need a week to rebuild app cache nor sync your emails. If there are other more technical behind the scene processes going on to warrant this settling in period do share.
[Xperia Z3 General] Newt182:
Telling people to 'just be patient' doesn't help anyone. It's normal for people to be impatient, nobody likes waiting for things. You do realise you told people not to post anything unless it's 'relevant to the links' and therefore posted something yourself that is irrelevant. This is about a new OS and people will be excited, and they will post about it, expressing how much they want the update.

(btw, you might consider this post irrelevant but I'm not following your rules)
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
I think telling people to "be patient" on a site devoted to mobile phone technology, and on a thread in a discussion on that site about the new version of an operating system for that phone, is about as close to utterly pointless as it's possible to imagine. The best thing for these people to do is to unsubscribe from this thread. Perhaps go and find a thread about bugs in a piece of software and start pointlessly complaining that they're just finding faults in software and never talking about how good it is.
[Xperia Z3 General] bergoulle:
What would you like to talk about as the soft isn't there ?

If you want to review kit kat, you should be the one to create a new thread.

By the way welcome to xda-developers.
[Xperia Z3 General] Webern:
This thread's about lollipop; it's not out yet-should we close the thread?

What's KitKat got to do with anything?
[Xperia Z3 General] oualidbenadid:
Common guy we already said that carriers bought phone always receive the updates later than stock.

Flash FTF when someone will upload it and stop whinning please

You picked the info from melty... , common don't be hopeless they will upload it when they thinks everything is fixed.

Sony makes awesomes phones, they have money issues but it's Sony... i check firmware update everyday with sony pc companion and Flashtool by Androxyde do the same and stop asking.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Well since they are already late...they might have worked their part..if google rushed...i don't think sony can do much on bugs..themselves.. N as we know no os id bug free whatever u do...
[Xperia Z3 General] mattlawk:
Man step you game up than.... Be patient, post correct links.... If you read everybody same the same thing....Where and when? Learn something before you speak than think before you speak..... If I wanted bed bugs in my phone, than I wouldn't be patient..... If you need some facts or some help I am here to help not fight..... Stop wasting my notifications and xda forum space
[Xperia Z3 General] cjoc:
Why don't you stop following this thread? Better yet start your own.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Well i think only the owner of xda would say that and as per my knowledge u r not one of them!!!
[Xperia Z3 General] SovPanda:
That is what i always hear but when sony does finally release these larger updates...well they are usually bad than the previous version. Like it or not I feel they are struggling with the updates
[Xperia Z3 General] corallus:
Probably as a direct effect of staff layoffs.
[Xperia Z3 General] Huey85:
biggest waste of a thread on XDA.. as i had previously suggested, should this thread be closed until it's actually released? or at least some more tangible news/screenshots?
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Well then y don't u unsubscribe the thread and think it doesn't exist.

Is that too difficult for u?

If not then admit u are also interested in what is going on in the thread...
[Xperia Z3 General] Hushmina:
This has become more of a thread discussing the thread than actually discussing the update. It should be closed until there is any other news about the update or the update has come out.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Then u should ask the org poster..not others..gud luck..with that..
[Xperia Z3 General] Huey85:
i'm not subscribed. but when impatient people keep talking and complaining that it's taking too long for the update, it bumps it to the top of the sub-forum.
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Well just ignore it..when something of this kind happens to certain threads i have subscribed.. i just ignore..the members of the forum have rights to post their views and no one can forbid them...
[Xperia Z3 General] Huey85:
That is well beside the point. I keep checking to see if there's any real news being posted in the thread, but sadly, 90% of the posts are complaints or whining..
[Xperia Z3 General] unmaskedfalesh:
Well we cant do anything about that..its frustration towards sony... Let ppl take it out..eventually..ppl will settle