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[Xperia Z General] koimr:
From reading the Kingroot thread it seems some Sony devices have a problem with un-rooting themselves after a reboot. I had this as well, Root Checker would claim my phone is rooted (C6616 running 5.0.2) but all root requests would fail.

Using these instructions I was able to not only get a permanent root but change from Kinguser to SuperSU.

These instructions are for the Xperia Z Tablet but worked fine for me - your results may vary so you've been warned!
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
about the battery issue.

i'm rooted and use greenify, and that seems to make battery better... here's some screenshots
[Xperia Z General] Paduretu Ionut:
Xposed is supported on lollipop, but you have to flash the arm trough a recovery, if you have unlocked bootloader ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811) Or flash a rooted rom with xposed, if you have your bootloader locked. (http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/development/lollipop-5-0-2-10-6-0-454-pre-rooted-t3116205)
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
I don't have a wireless and networks under more.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
You don't have this?

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
I have more but not wireless and networks.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Press "More" and the option you want is in that section.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
The entire point I am trying to get across is that I dont have a wireless and networks under more. I only have:

Airplane mode, Default SMS, NFC, Android bean, VPN, Mobile Networks and Internet Settings.
[Xperia Z General] r.ifat381:
Thats strange. We have the option in settings....try other variant .ftf...i'm using hk variant...
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
It is very weird. I'm on a Canadian C6616 ROM since it was the first LTE ROM available and the C6616 handles band 4 like the C6606.
[Xperia Z General] koimr:
That's bizarre. I'm also on a C6616 ROM and I have the hotspot option (and use it in my car).
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
So you actually meant that you don't have "Tethering & portable hotspot" in your settings? You kept saying "wireless and networks". That's where the confusion came from. ;)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
I was told to look for that and no I don't have tethering. Wireless and networks is a category not a menu option so I do not have a menu option for that either.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
You kept saying that you didn't have "Wireless and networks" in "More". Nobody does.

It doesn't matter anyway. I was just explaining why your post confused me. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] HeisenbergBB:
Camera: They have worsened enough. Too much noise often with natural light, in low light it is much worse

I have 6 7 photos of the sunset, with stock kitkat, BlissPop-v2.1, miui v6, SlimLP and olthers roms. the worst are with stock lollipop, much noise.

Does anyone know any solution? i tested "open camera" already so you get better results
[Xperia Z General] msc3169:
Well,for me, the battery never improved even after a few days letting the rom settle, the battery drop while using any cpu intensive app was massive. To top it off the phone overheats too much. All of which means I'm reverting back to 4.4.4 rom ( read PA:) ). Although its just my personal opinion about this , those who are not power users wont mind staying on stock lollipop as its otherwise a decent update.
[Xperia Z General] poran123:
i have enable stamina mode still battery is draining here...
[Xperia Z General] r.ifat381:
Try prerooted & xposed flashable.zip of stock lollipop. Then use amplify module with xposed installer. It improve the battery life....in standby mode about 7hours,, my battery loose only 2%-3%. And i get easily 4-5 hour screen on timing. In my opinion sony lollipop update is much much better then kitkat.
[Xperia Z General] adisaptana:
Canot Hear without speakerphone

I am unable to communicate via phonecalls when using normal headphones (without microphone) together with the phone's microphone. I can hear perfectly the people I want to talk to, but they cannot hear me. I did not have this issue with Android KitKat.
[Xperia Z General] nathmani:
will u help me ?

Can the screen resolution be changed and will it save battery if i low down the resolution ? I dont know about this plz help me

thanks in advance

I have a rooted xperia z --k4.4.4
[Xperia Z General] deerhurst:
My phone has always been like that. On KK it will eat 10% battery per minute in a benchmark or highly intensive game. Mine has always gotten warm after good bit of usage, especially intensive apps.

My call and standby battery life is much much better. On Monday I hopped into the truck to go into work with 74% battery, enabled airplane mode because I get no cell service at work, and 12 hours later when I walked of work 12 hours later on Tuesday I had 74% battery. On KK I would have been lucky to be at 64% after that.

Dont know if it makes any difference but I have a C6606 on a C6616 ROM.
[Xperia Z General] zahid86:
It's OK for me but have two issues.

1.Speaker sound is very low.

2.Don't like new UI. Now this UI look like a very ordinary

Phone to me.
[Xperia Z General] w_ayon:
After using it for some time this is what I think.

ui is fluid smooth. Sony's material design gives fresh look with smooth experience.

Flashlight dissappears fr a moment after turning of is not a deal breaker bt definitely a bug. Homescreen rotation after docking is a little bit annoying though. after closing all apps from the recent manu it takes a bit time to return to the home screen again its nothing that much. About low volume and close all button in recent manu there is already mod available.

I realy miss the location based wifi and it would b better if we get to choose more quick settings tiles.

Camera definitely improved a lot I think. Both front and back camera. I have faced some touch focus issue in rear camera bt auto focus works well.

About battery which has been discussing a lot, for me its same as kk. Bt I have to say for me Standby time improved a lot. I get 13-15 hr standby with 2-2.5 hr sot. standby temp stays at 32°c . Some chating and browing it goes to 36-38°c. During charging it goes to 41-42°c. Highest I got is 46°c. May b in future some custom kernel with a bit undervolting would solve the problem. Oh! forgot to say, it took more time to charge than kk.

Overall i am enjoying the new ui. And I am staying. I know the bugs will be fixed and more mods r coming coz we have few great developers. Its the best firmware fr xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
so, this is new... KingRoot just lost root.

yes, as i'm using root explorer to add a mod it reported that the device isn't rooted, at 1st i suspected it's the KingUser app that's said to sometimes grants wrong permission (it was very good to be honest so far with me)... but it was the root access it self that was lost? KingRoot reported that the phone is not rooted (it was rooted 2 days ago with KingRoot) and at 1st failed to root the device again and restarted the device, but after few minutes i tried again and it rooted the device .

any idea why would that happen?

my theory so far that when the app KingRoot updates the device looses Root.

---------- Post added at 07:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:40 PM ----------

OK my theory is wrong...KingRoot just lost root again.

may i ask what other methods of rooting available that will not mean i have to revert to KK
[Xperia Z General] Pablosch23:
because you have to enable the low battery mod first, and if you want to change the default settings set the activation "always on" (100%) then change it if you want
[Xperia Z General] koimr:
Yuppers, this is a known problem with Kingroot and some Sony devices (like ours). Root is lost after a reboot.

I followed this which changes the root app from Kinguser to SuperSU which also keeps root after a reboot. This is for Xperia Z tablets but worked on my C6616.

An easier way has been posted today: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/development/super-su-xperia-device-lollipop-easy-t3119006. This looks to do the same thing but is much more automated. I haven't tried it myself though as the first link worked for me.
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
well m8, thank you, it worked...although on the 2nd link method (the automated one), people should use the provided KingRoot apk for it to work.(at least in my experience.
[Xperia Z General] eskimko93:
an anyone tell me what is the screen on time on android 5? :)
[Xperia Z General] kael2404:
Congrats to Sony! On Lollipop, today my phone (battery) reached 46 degres celcius! It had happened never before!!!
[Xperia Z General] palaboy:
as of now i'm happy using stock-lollipop :)
[Xperia Z General] langeveld024:
Nope, results depends on usage, settings, what apps u use, internet connection speed, WiFi, mobile signal weak/strong, and how old ur battery is..

7 reasons to not ask "what the screen on time is" and 7 reasons to check it out for yourself. (Off coarse after 3-5 days of usage after clean install) :thumbup:
[Xperia Z General] SmallsXD:
I am just confirming that the easier method listed here works
[Xperia Z General] jamminen:
Battery drain on use

Sony can prevent background usage quite well but the drain when using the phone is horrible! Ie. Chrome can use 30% battery while screen uses 10%. If I leave my phone idle batteries lasts well, hour or two and one percent drop. Now I have used this an hour and lost 30 % battery overall. what gives?!

Is it the bug that apps use mobile connection wildly, when phone is awake they go berserk?
[Xperia Z General] TechKiel:
It's working fine on Generic HK and now, I'm using Generic NCB.

My problem is that music playback stutters A LOT. : |
[Xperia Z General] Avatecer:
I wish there'll be kernel for

tap to wake

battery drain fix (at least reducing battery from draining is something i'm looking)

undervolting (of course, I got 57 degree for the battery, and the cpu runs at 42 on the average), that's quite hot
[Xperia Z General] codfx:
Hopefully when kernel resources are available.
[Xperia Z General] emeemisri:
Seems like viper4android cant be installed on lollipop. Please anyone who have any work around on how to install v4a for our device on lollipop.

Sorry for my bad bad bad english
[Xperia Z General] Chronic2k13:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=60981250

Worked a treat for me!!!
[Xperia Z General] afeeq:
I have tried it. Switch on/off but nothing happen. Even put it as always 100% still same..
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Turn the low battery mode off, then on again. When you activate it, a notification should appear. Pressing the notification will show the settings.

I have no idea why it's this way. Probably a small bug.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] muphetz:
Tweak Mod for Your Lollipop..

http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/tweak-l-speed-v1-0-02-02-2015-t3020138

read carefully,,its work fine for me.,,nice Mod
[Xperia Z General] hamzar99:
Well I ve installed lollipop a weed ago on my z and well everything is as smouth as ever I rooted my device and till now everything seems good the ui is reallly good
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
No heat or battery issues here. Complaints about the UI are subjective. I personally like it.

There are a few annoying things that I solved with GravityBox and Xperia Xposed (added more quick settings and an expandable volume panel etc) but I think anyone here is capable of doing so if they don't like something.

If you want to see a botched Lollipop update, go and try a Galaxy S5 that's been updated to 5.0.2. My wife's phone has been made slower than my Z with several large bugs. She restarts it 4-5 times a day just to stop it being incredibly slow.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] jamminen:
Downgrading back.

I can't understand why some don't have problems, I tried clean install twice and downloaded nothing, updated nothing. Still my Z used battery like mad. And heated. Screen was not nowhere near the worst battery hog. I went back to kitkat. Phone uses enough when used even without this. I even disabled all Google related I could and installed Amazon, soon it started again though.
[Xperia Z General] thunder141:
I have upgraded from KK with Xzdualrecovery with a self made prerooted with PRF Creator. Installed with only wiping davlik and cache.

But deinstalled all Xposed before updating.

Battery is normal when not using Mobile Data. Temperature the same.
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
They dont have problems because they have 3 ways of hiding it:

Best of them all: turning something off...

Its hilarious that they call it solution, because why do we need to use LTE, NFC, brightness at 80-100% After all we didnt bought phones to use this functions xD its just for show off right? xD

Big /S for that of course.

I just literally ROFL when someone have problem with battery or anything else and they say "turn it off" xD

No, its Sony/Google problem and we have HUGE right to complain about it.

Second way that they have is hiding it using xposed or other mod, because its also hilarious that in one way they say its ok, but in other they need to use other programs to fix what Update did...

I prefer watching forum, because most of users are hypocritical as hell in this term: "I dont complain" but in the same time they install xposed, custom ROMS etc... amazing...

Third it nothing more than fanboy'ism and they just love something that much that they just dont see it... really sad...

and [MENTION=2452820]kingvortex[/MENTION] You think I didnt saw other LP updates? After first time I saw Lollipop in news I saw that its gonna be fail.

Its perfect triumph of form over content. Of course we can say that its look cool, but just like lollipop candy its look colorful but its 95% pure sugar: Not that good if you think about it.

Its not like its BAD and we should remove it from earth. Its just nothing special or its average as hell in overall.

But on our Xperia Z it could be WAY better, half of this bugs are clearly lack of willingness from Sony to do this good, for example look at this "close all app" button. Its most hilarious think I saw in xperia in the past few months... how they could not see how its look and behave?

And as I said, just because Sony kindly give us this update it doesnt mean that we need to accept it without saying anything.

We have right to say what we think about it, so other people would know what they gonna have.
[Xperia Z General] comax70:
is soo mucht my device is fire[emoji91]
[Xperia Z General] blkcr:
I just have 2 complaints.

1- Camera sucks.

2-Check the image.

Other than that, for me it doesn't heat any closer to KK, I have no lags or anything else that I'd consider annoying.
[Xperia Z General] Dreiundachzig:
Since update to Lollipop my phones doesn't go in deep sleep. I can't figure out what keeps it awake. On KK everything was fine.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
I'm not going to get into an argument over this, but have you ever thought that people just aren't experiencing the same problems that you are? I have nothing disabled. All syncs are turned on, location is on etc and I have the same battery life I always have. My phone doesn't get excessively hot under any type of use.

Complaints about the new UI elements in Lollipop are subjective as I already stated above. I actually like material design and like Sony's take on it. Yes, the "Close all" button looked like a placeholder that was forgotten about, but I replaced it easily with a material design alternative. Honestly, functionality is more important to me anyway.

As for saying that using Xposed etc to fix problems is wrong; this website is based on the whole idea of using mods etc to better your experience. I'd sooner just install a couple of Xposed modules to fix the couple of small issues I had than post lengthy rants to people that have no influence over these things.

Yes, you have the right to state your thoughts about it, but by the same token those of us that aren't having issues also can state our opinion and it would be great if we could do so without anyone saying that we're fanboys, lying or covering things up. Thanks for not doing this in future. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] ken bentley:
Those people with battery drain problems did you root with Kingroot?

I did notice particularly bad battery drain with Kingroot, had install three times to get rid of it now batter better than kikat.
[Xperia Z General] mrsamkhar:
anyone has a problem low speaker volume?
[Xperia Z General] jamminen:
My Z is out of the box

I have not rooted my xperia Z, never. It is out of the box. I did factory reset before and after, with data wipe. And I installed the official Lollipop OTA my phone offered me. And touched nothing on my second try afterwards. THAT's why it is so strange, the phone should be exactly the way they meant it to be after the update and how it was probably tested. Still the problems!

Yeah, this forum is about bettering your experiences, but the released OS shouldn't be broken. I have loved my xperia, i have never had same phone so long, and i thought staying in this brand. But now this worries me, does they care what they release, Sony or Google or who ever is faulty. Seems Google, cause other phones have similar problems. Well it's free and people gonna use it anyway so why bother right? As long as it works somehow so you can spend on play store...

And yeah, i use mobile connections a lot, it IS mobile phone. 3g speed is mostly quite enough but i pay a small fee and use unlimited data with full speed, like most customers in my country. This is the way we prefer here and operators sell it that way accordingly. Don't tell me to go airplane mode :D
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Has anyone in this thread actually suggested disabling anything? Those of us that aren't having problems haven't got anything disabled. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
You totally didnt get what I mean,of course using xposed and custom ROMs is amazing and good, After first HTC Dream I liked this idea, but we talk about UPDATE. I hope you understand that.

I know that is whole point of XDA, but here, especially in this topic WE TALK ABOUT SPECIFIC UPDATE, and not only good stuff that you can find there.

And clearly this update is not that good. And covering SIMPLE BUGS, that could be fixed in less than one day is not solution. Its good if you want modify system to fit your needs, not to fix really lame bugs made by Sony...

And [MENTION=5256614]muphetz[/MENTION]

I dont give a S about emailing Sony, I think you have no idea how this system work(tip: they also dont give a S about what you/me think)

I wrote this not for Sony, but for other users, so they would know what to expect. And for now, even f this update is usable and in everyday usage its work with no major problems, Its not "must have", You could go back to 4.3 and you would not see any big difference in terms of app usage. Hell! you could have few more hours on battery and better camera :]

PS. by that "disabling", I mean general habit of some xda users who think that its solution. Ist hilarious as hell, Actually whole concept of apps like STAMINA is amazing, instead of spending this time and resources to make better battery and optimizing system they give you option to turn off features that they give you in the first place... hilarious...
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Once again: I have zero functional, battery or overheating issues. Minor issues with the UI are nothing to scream about and are certainly no reason to rollback 2 major Android versions.

Maybe your battery is nearing the end of its life. Perform a battery health check in the service menu if you're back on 4.3.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] CambaStorm:
For me it was one of the best updates my phone had. (4.3 was the other)

Good:

Battery similar to previous android versions. (4-4:30 hours of screen on time)

Fluid transitions. I really like it, I don't liked the super buggy notification shade from Kitkat, that was a really stupid bug because you always pull down that shade.

Overall performance is better than kitkat for me, maybe not as good as 4.3, but give my phone more time with me :)

Bad:

Mainly some design things: WiFi and signal icons looks like ugly previous android version (default Google). They could use the sony's one or the LP defaults than Looks better.

The close all button, why they put it there?

Super big icons in launcher... Seriously Google and Sony, bigger screens, and the icons are getting bigger instead of putting more in the screen. (I just installed another launcher and I'm happy)

The battery stats "leak": it says than the cell is getting your battery, but battery life for my is not compromised.

This phone always get hot in heavy tasks and browsing, always... On LP is not an exception, but it throlles the processor less than other firmwares, I prefer it get hots than see it slows down.
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
actually most of the bugs reported seems to be Lollipop 5.0.2 issue in the 1st place , if you googled any of them you'll find pages reporting the same issues on different devices... so for sony to put out a rom where the bugs are hardley noticable or even not there for some people, it's a great work.

those few bugs were fixed on 5.1 and i read somewhere that sony may update all the Z series to 5.1 on August...

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_z_series_to_get_android_51_lollipop_in_august-news-12185.php

that may change though.
[Xperia Z General] Roronoa-pt-:
I'm having no problems with Lollipop. I used to have 3h screen time, now with LP I get about 2h30-2h45. My z is rooted, has xposed, greenify and amplifier installed, but didnt seem to get any battery gains. Not a big issue.

No lag, no hot issues with the phone. I just have a request, not sure if this is the right place for it but there it goes. There is a way to install another clock in the lock screen ? In customization/clocks there are three clocks: Sony, digital and analog. I wanted a clock widget with the weather/temperature, I wonder if there is a way to include a weather and clock widget instead of the clock in the lockscreen without using widget locker.
[Xperia Z General] Xeon:
Problems....

1 - very slow recharging

2- Overheating and battery drain ( if your battery is not draining then smthin is wrong with your phone... )

3- Slow charging ( 3 hours from 0-100 .... 1:40 h:mm on KK )

4- Low volume ( lower by more than 20% than KK )

Also I hate the big flat icons... really not sure what's the deal here but dumb move.

LP HK - no root / no boot unlocker

cheers...
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
I'll counter that and say if your battery is draining then something is wrong with your phone. LOL. J/K

It would be great if those with battery drain would list their installed apps, network/country and settings so we could perhaps narrow down what is causing this. :)
[Xperia Z General] Xeon:
Honestly nothing worth mentioning very few apps ( FB, Insta, Whatsapp, Viber and outlook )

network and country ( touch / Lebanon ) and everything was perfect on KK. I wonder what's draining the battery really but .... I'm pretty sure it's the ROM.
[Xperia Z General] msc3169:
Agreed on all of the points you mentioned as i moved away from stock LP within 3 days. As far as the battery drain is concerned, you will notice that the rate of discharge is high when you are using the phone whereas on standby it is good even without stamina.
[Xperia Z General] muphetz:
What?no root?..:what:
[Xperia Z General] comax70:
My battery charge full 1.50 battery is good system is fast... I have HK root unloock bootloader
[Xperia Z General] vdchong:
Messaging not working!

Since updating to lollipop this morning, I can't send any texts cause messaging won't even load! Anyone else with this issue? HELP!!!

Apparently I'm not receiving any notifications of texts either.
[Xperia Z General] comax70:
Updating wrong use flash tool a clean install
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
well it was mentioned before for KK, but the 1st time i try it on LP, i found that switching off LTE improves Battery life noticeably