[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
Because Im a nice guy(that just swears a loot) I give LP second chance. And here is small rant about it :]

But before some fanboys start comment: just because Sony give us this update it doesnt mean that we need to say that its amazing, and we need to be thankful. Nope it dont work like that, and just because some of you are just trolls that protect this update at all cost it doesnt mean that everyone else need to have the same opinion as you. I hope its clear :]

Second clean install from FTF file( this time Customized NCB_1270-7280)

What I can after this second install(first was via PCC and its work the same):

1. Heat... Yes, this update is hot, literally. Not for all time but if you use it for a while even with simple tasks, its get REALLY hot. Im in Spain right now, and such hot phone in hot day is not good... After heavy usage its impossible to hold it, and its take his time to cool down(even after 30min in my pocket it still hot).

Weirdies thing is that it get hot even when you just browse settings

, thanks to amazing ideas behind "material design" that in terms of optimization is just worst innovation from google(useless shadows in some places that you cant even see, too much useless layers of graphic etc etc)

2. And if we talk about Material design, we should mention Sony design ideas, and Im not talking only about ugly icons back from 2008 like they cant decide if they want flat design, rounded or textured...

Also they where so lazy that they didnt even touch design and icon of small apps menu... like it would cost them few millions to make new one that would fit to LP...

Even If I finished Art school, graphic is just my hobby, but I know that making most of this graphic and icons its not more than week of work for two persons... But OK, maybe they hire someone who take 10000$ for one day of work...

Lets mention few amazing GUI ideas that Sony and/or Google give us in Lollipop:

First of all, and most important(because its a PHONE):

Im not gonna ask who get idea to click TWO F TIMES to get keypad in dialer... What next? you gonna hide it deep in phone settings?

I thought that its just after first run when you dont have any contact in list but no, they really want to remove phone function from phone...

Next one: kill all apps button:

AMAZING IDEA! Every tester and designer should take a look at it and say that its look good, and this button should be on top, and its good enough to put it in final version...

Other thing that is related to new look of android is speed of this menu... as many of you mention it its feel faster than KK, but after some time you realize that its look smooth because animations are longer. I found out that its look smooth but its not fast, its millisecond different but I prefer speed over smooth but slow animations(I had the same problem in iPhone) and in LP It look smooth but it nothing more than animation->half second pause and then action. After I speed up animations in programing menu it turn out that its lag sometimes and it take his time when you click button, just like in KK.

Its not big problem but still it show that material design is just annoying, and in terms of speed of menus its the same like on KK: optimization lvl google.

3. Notification panel and quick settings...

I would like to ask Sony if it was huge problem to leave more options in quick setting menu, and make it... smaller by moving icons in line style. Its not huge problem to do this, because for now its look like they just throw icons n this space and forget about it...

Beside Im not fan of TouchWiz

but still it would be nice to have QUICK settings straight in first panel

, now we need to slide it down two times or use two fingers(small thing bit still...)

4. Annoying new ideas:

firs one that annoy me most because I have this always on lockscreen: "Disabled Roaming Data Transfer Notification"

I tried removing it. nothing, after few times its still there... And Im not gonna turn it on, because Im in Roaming network.

Next one. Two days ago I restored all my apps from backup folder... and I get message about "Google Regular Security Check" when I tried to install new app...

I clicked decline everytime times, spend few hours trying to find options to turn this off... nothing. And Yes I tried "Google Settings -> Security" still I get this prompt.

Guest mode...

I liked idea of it, but like always they just turn it in to the nightmare.

First of all, I used it for two days, and it take so much battery that I cant understand how they manage to make it, not to mention that overall usage of it is annoying and options to manage those account are just poor.

Account manager.

Its not that big deal but I found that now my phone have problem with managing what app have access to my google account, I spend few good minutes forcing my phone to download my contact, because when I tried to sync them it just keep prompting me that this account is already in use... after reboot is finally sync them... had that with few other apps, especially sms backup and image backup that use my google account.

5. Now time for some overall Sony stupid ideas.

Firs of all, and most important, that is not related to LP but I need to mention it.

WHY THE F YOU REMOVED WALKMAN NAME???

Because those small changes, you are dying dear Sony. No matter what you think, people like names, you think why people catch names like iPhone, galaxy or FB? Because they are attached to the brand!

And Walkman brand after PlayStation is one of best what you got! and you just kick it and replace it with... music... no F comment related to this name.

Not to mention that some ideas that you made in this new app is just pure stupid, like simple fav options that you replace with smallest star I saw, and lame text hidden in menu... Im not gonna even talk about other fails you made there...

Camera!

I never liked camera in Xperia Z, its one of worst I had. I jumped to xperia from my good old Xperia Arc S, and compared to it, XZ is just bad, really, really bad.

And now in LP camera is even... hard to believe, its just worst. Its not huge difference, but I get more focus problem in dark light, colors balance is a bit off sometimes, speed is weird, because sometimes its really fast, and sometimes its slow as hell. Not to mention overall bad look of camera UI... ugly(hard to believe taking in to the account that its just text menus and few icons), options are useless or hidden and they reset them self sometimes, especially ISO, that I always set to 200-400, because it give me best results in quality without huge amount of noises and well known Sony heavy image processing.

And hell yeah,

Panorama mode

in Xperia is still ONE OF WORST YOU CAN GET... to be honest even my old Sony Ericsson W890i had better ones xD

Jesus... its really funny how bad this function is in Xperia camera app...

And now best part: Battery.

Oh battery on LP is just amazing...

especially ghost apps that where removed...

Few days ago I deleted guest account, but still it show in battery usage! xD

Other think is that typical power hogs apps(twitter, image backup, WhatsApp, Google apps) that I used in 4.3 and 4.4, take less than 2%

Even screen take less than 30%

But still after I take it from docking station at 5AM(yes, some people voluntary wake up at this hours) at 13:00-14:00 I have 40%... I had the same problem after first installation of LP, this one was clean using flashtool and still battery just suck so bad even compared to 4.4 that, compared to 4.3, was bad...

I never expected too much from battery in our xperia z, just like camera it just suck.

I knew it after I got this phone(funny huh?), but after this update I can say that updating system just for more fancy look is hilariously retarded...

So no, there are no real reason to jump to this update, and if you think that new is better, you should wake up from your dream...

For most of time I used 4.3 and I found one think that I could use more in 4.4 or 5.0 ...and its my wall charger :D

Beside that I dont see any REAL reason to update phone, its not like you could not use your apps or anything...

Of course there are other smaller problems but most of you encounter them(like Network problem etc) So I didnt mention them :]