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[Xperia Z General] HeisenbergBB:
Hi all, my z with lollipop is very smooth and fast but i have some problems with battery.

10h without charge. Stamina mode active, greenify and brightness automatic at minumum. 3g data activated only for 30 40 minutes.

-9.55h standby

-display 2.30h

-"system android" 23 minutes

-facebook 11 minutes

-maps 23 minutes

-whatsapp only for 3 4 messages

-5 sms and 2 minutes call.

Some advice? I am ready even return to kitkat, 4.3 or olther roms for have more battery. thanks all for help :)
[Xperia Z General] silviuilie:
Problem with proximity sensor

I have made a clean install, stock rom,with pc companion twice, full reset before and after,so,when i make calls and receive calls the screen goes black.With the app diagnostics,the sensor seems to be blocked. Only after restart is workin once ok,then fails.Waiting soft update solution quick,before was ok in kk,making on off screen light when closing to the ear.The battery consume is whorse,in the first update the radio cell was consuming most,now is android system,still,badly.
[Xperia Z General] BaDKaRmA:
Give some pressure on the sensor it will work
[Xperia Z General] yashkadam0012:
anyone upload xperia z home apk from stock rom plz
[Xperia Z General] LosserKlosser:
Whenever I leave my house and DON'T turn off WiFi, and then come home again, mobile data continues to be active. This only happens with stamina mode activated.

Sendt fra min C6603 med Tapatalk
[Xperia Z General] zemko:
guys, did you experienced any of the below problems ot it is just me?

- huge battery drain when display is off (brightness lowest as can be) - for example 7% down in 3 minutes of reading an email, playing games is almost impossible withou fully charged phone

- sound setting is changing without any attention - I always turn off the sounds when I am at work and when I turn them on again, they have different level of volume although the speakare volume line on the display is in same stage as the day before

- when I am using wifi and go out of the range mobile data (sometimes) didn't recover

- high temperature when doing simply taks - call, reading emails, chating via Hangouts/Whatsapp, browsing...

- extremely high temperature when playing games

- lags during even a simple games which worked on KK without any flaws

- horrible photos from official camera app
[Xperia Z General] SaySayonara:
I don't know if any of you guys noticed this, but if you turn on the Ultra Stamina Mode, when you get back to normal usage, almost all of the bloatware apps that you have disabled are now enabled. Why?
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
well, so far a clean flash (instal) via flashtool (wipe everything) + factory reset before and after should improve the battery issue.

yes it was mentioned in this thread before :) ... this apparently is something intended by Sony.

i attached the stock home apk to this post
[Xperia Z General] ~iPod~nano~:
I'm upgrading my Xperia Z to lollipop around a week ago.

Now, my mac address changes, really weird. from e0:63:e5:xx:xx:xx to 00:0a:f5:xx:xx:xx

checked the trimarea mac address partition using *#*#7378423#*#*, it's still e0:63:e5:xx:xx:xx

I'm flashing using flashtool, and I'm excluded the TA.
[Xperia Z General] poran123:
today i flash lollipop again after many days.. After booting my phone hangs sometimes while scrolling in settings or using the phone i dont know whats wrong before i didnt notice this
[Xperia Z General] SaySayonara:
Do a full backup, then a hard reset, then repair with pc companion. Should solve your problem.
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
Quick Question.

Anyone tried MHL cable after LP update? Because I just replace my old one that was broken, and after I plugged it to my XZ temp kick to almost 72*C and after few minutes phone cut image and sound on my TV and after another few minutes phone reboot...

Even in hand phone get hot like hell in matter of seconds!

I tried 1080p 30fps, 720p 60fps and vga 60, its still turn off image and reboot after few minutes...

And no, its not MHL cable problem. Work perfect with other phones, and the same cable also didnt had any problems when I had 4.3 and 4.4
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
if found this thread with a good trick to help with the battery

it works fine with me

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2382680
[Xperia Z General] deliler:
hi i have locked bootloader and using purex L v2.2 everything okey but i have some problems.

i see rajeevs some apps removed his rom. i download stock ftf, edit sin editor and make system.sin to system.ext4 and open extexplorer then compare and listed removed apps from stock lollipop rom between Rajeev's Purex L v2.2 rom

i copy folder by folder what ı want app with root explorer and make permissions i reboot and wipe cache dalvik cache , apps showing menu but when i open it has stopped message showing. what wrong make i dont understand in kitkat this method working. how install stock apps to custom rom.

some apks have stock lollipop in system/app and system/priv-app

i wanna install what i want stock apps to rajeevs rom. thanks
[Xperia Z General] Pyramid Head:
just back up your stuff and do a factory reset i had some problems with ultra stamina mode and it fixed them
[Xperia Z General] fl_Indigo:
using stock 5.01 rom incl. root since the beginning and i'm quite satisfied

- super smooth ui

- battery life as it was on 4.4.4 (with greenify and amplify active)

the only drawback is the problem with known wifi networks.

for example: my home-wifi and my work-wifi are known to the phone, but i always have to connect to them manually since initially there's a authentification error. when clicking onto it an connect it works, but not automatically...

i did not go through the whole thread, but reading the last few pages tells me that wifi problems are not new to many users.

solution is upcoming with 5.1 release i guess?

a ongoing problem is the TWRP issue, i can mount system partition only as read-only, which is fine, but restoring, as well a flashing ZIPs is impossible..

waiting for solutions...
[Xperia Z General] koimr:
Unfortunately (well, not for me!) I don't have the same wifi issue as you do, it works just fine.

I'm going off the top of my head here and I might be completely wrong but isn't there a way to change the wifi country code? If so, maybe this is your issue if you originally used one of the first 5.01 roms and weren't from that particular region/country.

For the TWRP thing, I also have the read-only system thing and I need to do this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61342495&postcount=25
[Xperia Z General] thunder141:
Dualrecovery is fixed now for Z too
[Xperia Z General] CosmicDan:
Has anybody else had any significant battery drain with Poweramp (or any music player) playing? Even when screen is off? I had no such problem in 4.4 but now it's terrible.

Sent via Tapatalk on my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] marek.ns:
Any news about it? I think about buying mhl cable, but does it even work on LP?
[Xperia Z General] control freak:
Bump!
[Xperia Z General] demoncamber:
So I have the Tmobile version xperia Z, does anyone know if Tmo will be doing the lollipop updates?? Because we're still stuck on 4.3!! I need wifi calling.
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
Well in 720 its stillbrestart after few minutes after it get hot like hell.

I manage only use it in bassic web and image browsing and short movies in vga resolution.

But when i try games or hd movies... Beside new record of temperature(attachment)

Its still restart...

I tried two different MHL cables and its the same. My main cable is cheap one with additional usb for charging(buy only that type and with 5pin microUSB, because most of MHL cables have 11pins for Samsung phones that doesnt work with other phones)

WiFi to TV works good, but still its get hot like hell and battery is empty after one movie. But there are huge lags so its useless in gaming or even browsing internet, so cable is only solution if you want actually use your phone on tv.

Because idea is damn amazing, cable cost me about 12 euro + cheap bluetooth mouse or bt controler and you have all in one device and with mouse even writting is not that annoying.

And because most tv have HDMI you can use it everywhere as a somesort of better version of tablet :) so yeah even if its suck in LP, im gonna go back to 4. 3 and use it. And to be honest most of phones support mhl so its good investition, because we not gonna see usb type c so soon in mobile phones.
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
I have a problem charging the phone, he only accepts a few combinations of cable/charger.

It only charges with 2 of my 10 usb cables, and not with all chargers neither, like my power bank.

It always works fine with a dock station.

This started with lollipop update... But Is it really related? Is the microusb connector or something like that? What can I do? THX!
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
Nope, I use noozy player(that have AMAZING sound quality with their own EIZO-rewire engine)

And even beside that Media server sometimes take even 25% battery I dont have any bigger battery drain. But still overall battery time is horrible compared to 4.3 or 4.4 Its never been amazing but its worst.
[Xperia Z General] BartholomeusJ:
Great update

Hi,

just signed in to report my upgrade experience, hope this is the right place, read a couple of pages of this thread:

I waited some time so I could read on others expriences ( I was pretty satisfied with the last android version)

I did a factory reset 2 weeks before the upgrade to have a fair comparison, working with nova launcher.

- Everything is working as before

- much smoother experience (really much smoother)

- battery life equal to before upgrade

- slightly slower charging via usb cable & dock

Overall best experience yet on my xperia z, the smoothness of the upgrade makes it feel like a new phone, happy to have an upgrade so long in the phones life.

I'll try to make time to read the whole thread and respond to any queries.

One big improvement I noticed is the last few percentages of battery:

Before the upgrade 5% to 0 happened in 2/3 minutes, now it is equal to the rest of the drain. I even lasted 2 hours with 1 % power with screen off in low battery mode!
[Xperia Z General] khachanedhaval:
should i update my phone to lolipop ?? or still remain on kitkat?? please suggest...
[Xperia Z General] Nameless One:
If you cannot reach the point of making a strong, definite "yes I should update" decision on your own then I'd advise to stay with what you have, it requires less effort and avoids any potential disappointment you may have after the update if things aren't as good as you had hoped.
[Xperia Z General] khachanedhaval:
i am just worried about the battery ...because many are telling that lolipop eats battery....is it true?? if i update my phone with keeping all my data will i get battery drain??
[Xperia Z General] aditzul89:
Weird app behaviour

Well, my 5.0.2 experience is overall good. Everything works as it should, and I only have 1 major problem which I will get at in a moment. Battery life is better than 4.4.4 but less than 4.1.2 but overall good. Ram usage is pretty good and I can say I had the following OS versions and the ram that was used / free:

4.1.2 - Free ram 1.3 GB at boot.

4.2.2 - Free ram 1.2 GB at boot

4.3 - Free ram 1.2 GB at boot

4.4.4 - Free ram at boot 1.0 GB at boot ( Was kinda disappointing of this free ram value, I expected better from kitkat )

5.0.2 - Free ram 1.3 GB at boot

So now I will get to the trouble part. Since a few days ago I noticed that two apps that I have moved on sd card were showing first in the app list but with missing icon and when I tapped on them it said " the app cannot be found ". I tried to uninstall only to get the same message. Then I went to Play Store only to discover that the apps appeared as if they were never installed so I had to reinstall 'em. After that I rebooted the phone and 1 app showed again that it's missing ( different app than the first two ). So I went to store and again I had to redownload it again.

All of these problematic apps were on SD card.

So I got angry -> flashtool -> OS 4.2.2 CE and now I am here to report the experience with the 5.0.2 . I wonder if my SD card was damaged or corrupted in some way but I tried a clean factory restore + sd card format just to see if that was the problem but it still happened.

So any thoughts on this or help? I would really appreciate it . Have a nice day.

P.S. Device: Sony Xperia Z ( C6603 )
[Xperia Z General] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
Lollipop? Here's my conclusion, it's true lollipop eats battery due to overheat i guess and i eats lollipop back because they're just sweet...

maybe because i'm a heavy user, i got to charge my phone more than twice per day.. sometimes every 4 hours i need to recharge it because i love to spend most of my time with Clash Of Clans..

I have tried to play CoC until the phones dead and it's lasted around 3 hours while on Kitkat.. It lasted more than that..

One more thing, in lollipop.. battery charging is slower than before while battery drain is faster than expected!

Sent from my C6502 using Stock Android 5.0.2 with Root and without Xposed

And i eat KitKat too..

(edited due to bad bad vocabulary..sorry, i'm not good in English)
[Xperia Z General] SaySayonara:
What I've noticed is that sometimes, when the phone is turned off and charging, it says i have let's say 40% battery. When i turn it on, it actually lies saying i have let's say 60%. Wtf?!

This may be the reason we have the feeling the battery drains faster. It shows a bigger % than it actually is..

The nice part is that it runs a lot smoother, specially if u disabled all the bs bloatware apps.

My advice for ppl who want to upgrade to LP is to hard reset the device before. Doing a dirty flash will cause bugs and other issues.

Better safe than sorry, right?
[Xperia Z General] KOCOBO:
Is Xperia Z worth 200$? How are underwater pics? Can i use it at pool? How is battery average Screen On Time ? P.S I'm not extreme user, just facebook, surfing and sms.

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[Xperia Z General] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
Buddy, go for Z2 or Z3 or newer..

for me, im not suggest you the early Z series because in term of small battery.

Ofcourse u can use it in pool but no sea water.. Almost all Z series is waterproof except ZL. I think

Correct me if im wrong.. Tq

Sent from my C6502
[Xperia Z General] Akinaro:
Yeah, Its a bit stupid to buy XZ now, when you can get z1 compact almost in the same price, or just add few bucks more and get z1 or z2.

About image quality I can say that in normal light conditions Xperia Z take worst images than Xperia Arc S that is from 2011, and underwater it have average quality compared to other waterproof phones. With LP update its even worst... I i didnt like using camera in xz, now I just hate it.

Battery?

Battery suck, especially with LP.

For past few days I was playing with under-clocking CPU and GPU, and lowering power to max 1000Mhz and bumping deep sleep and using MSM-DCVS governor, and with turning off 2 cores after reaching 50% battery, I manage bump stand-by time to even 12 days. After 10 hours with touching phone only to check time, it lost 2% of battery... but no matter what you gonna do, when you use phone even for music and browsing Internet, battery is dead after 6-8 hours. I even under-clock it to 600Mhz and still the same.

And Im not gonna mention about temperatures that I get, from 60*C to even 80*C if I try to use MHL cable(after 3-5min its auto reboot to lover this temp).

So dont buy this phone, add this 50-100 more and get never phone and dont update it :] Im serious. Dont update your phone, because new its not always better, and phone ALWAYS work better with first system, I can say you that LP beside fancy look didnt have any major changes if you are typical user. Its not like you could not use apps or anything. Its still the same phone.
[Xperia Z General] huteusz:
Can anyone say something more about camera in Lollipop or post some pics? I saw some posts that they are worse, but i am just curious, and i don't want to update if they are really worse.

Thanks for replies.
[Xperia Z General] zviki:
Are you talking about new or used phone?

---------- Post added at 20:36 ---------- Previous post was at 20:35 ----------

There is a whole thread about xz camera with samples http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2172712
[Xperia Z General] huteusz:
Thanks, though I just wanted to hear some opinions about photos taken with new software. What is more there in this topic there are potos taken from many different roms, most of them doesn't even have caption telling about which rom was used.

I am interested how it is working in good and bad light condition etc, just a honest opinion of person who moved from KK to LP. :)
[Xperia Z General] langeveld024:
I'm using my car radio with Bluetooth as hands free kit and there's a little menu which says: "last dialed - missed - contacts" as u scroll through it.

Now, on KitKat and before, it would read last dialed as selected last dialed, and reading missed calls when selected.

But now on lollipop it only reads contacts and no longer the last dialed items and missed calls..

(Already cleared device memory and reconnected, happens on stock as well as custom roms.)

So I became a bit curious, am I the only one having this?
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
i can confirm this, using greenify (especially the donation package) will fixx a lot of the draining and overheating issues, just make sure not to hibernate important system apps or ones you want to receive notifications from... (you always hibernate the browser whether it's chrome or any other browser, you don't need it when the screen is off)

another suggestion would be Amplify, there are several guides on how and what to edit, generally Amplify will decrease you drain especially when the screen is off to 1% if not less. (that if you edited the right wakelocks ..etc on Amplify)

THIS THREAD by [MENTION=5867207]vaisakh7[/MENTION] has a very good guide for both... everyone with a battery issue should check it.
[Xperia Z General] khachanedhaval:
Updated today to lolipop with all data kept ...but battery drains quickly even in standby any solution ?? :(
[Xperia Z General] sipe1:
Flash with flashtool with factory reset. Only solution.
[Xperia Z General] Pyramid Head:
wait a few days if it doesnt fix do a factory reset
[Xperia Z General] 100rabh7791:
Need help lost some files from System .....any1 on stock rom n rooted ? please help
[Xperia Z General] khachanedhaval:
ok... is there any way to get small icons without root?
[Xperia Z General] Pyramid Head:
download and install this apk to your phone its an update for xperia home that doesnt need root http://www.apkmirror.com/wp-content/themes/APKMirror/download.php?id=18723
[Xperia Z General] ~iPod~nano~:
Quite disappointed with this update.

My Xperia Z was last around 40hours of usage in single charge in Kitkat

Now, my phone doesnt go to deep sleep at all! Tried uninstall everything, checking wakelocks, etc, found nothing

I need to charge my phone every ~12 hours. Really bad...

except in Battery Usage, Android OS is taking around 50-60% battery and have CPU time around 80% of uptime! Not a good sign. But dunno how to fix this.

Will try to re-install firmware from PC Companion.. Hope it will fix the problem...
[Xperia Z General] aditzul89:
Did you try to restore factory settings ( wipe everything)? I know it's a pain to back up and then recover everything u have but many ppl (myself included) found that the phone will work so much better after this operation. In 4.4.4 my battery life was poor and if I used it intensely I would run out of juice in 10 hours ( approx.) but in 5.0.2 the battery life is improved greatly. If I used it like I used to on kitkat I will get around 18 hours of battery life and if I idle my phone it can last up to 4-5 days ( stamina mode) and with ultra-stamina mode, it's just wow. For me the android versions that I loved the most are in this order: 4.1.2 ( for me it was the best) , 5.0.2, 4.2.2, 4.3 and on last place 4.4.4. I usually downgrade a lot so if I don't like an OS, I simply go back to the one that worked for me :). Anyways, good luck and I hope u will solve your problem. :):rolleyes:

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] beespoison:
Oh god, android OS is taking around 40-50% and causing my battery draining so fast, its all about "mobile radio active" taking all of the battery power, even though my phone go to deep sleep. When i googling i found that some people says "mobile radio active" is a bug -_-
[Xperia Z General] kote.nyaka:
lolllipop is draining battery much than 4.4.4 and seems my phone started heating more than on old rom(
[Xperia Z General] thuc960:
wifi on 5.0 always active however I turn off it, maybe this is problem

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[Xperia Z General] FakeSmile:
Battery drain is inasne big on 5.0.2. I made a comparisson between existenz 4.4.4 and 5.0.2 both after factory reset and just lol. 5.0.2 battery lasts for max half day and KK at night i have 10%. Also on LP in recents menu if i have more than 3 app and i press "Close all" i got lag for 2-3 sec. More apps=longer lag. This is one of the main reasons that i downgrade to KK . Also not to forget SBGame hacker is not supported in LP :D
[Xperia Z General] BaDKaRmA:
Please Post Reviews On 5.1 also now guys :) ...I'll try N report and update the thread
[Xperia Z General] Ben Ling:
try this :)

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/general/rom-pre-rooted-supersu-xposed-framework-t3195782
[Xperia Z General] palaboy:
going to test 10.7.A.0.222 - Customized PH
[Xperia Z General] jerryhou85:
Waiting for FTF for customized HK... :)
[Xperia Z General] TheMysteryouse:
Dumb question but I wanted ti ask, Im from Bosnia and the uodates are very slow here so I wanted to ask if I could download the latest update from some other carrier on XperiFirm or would that break my phone? ( still a noob at this device )

Thanks in advance!
[Xperia Z General] Diatomix98:
There won't be any problem, go ahead and flash it.:)
[Xperia Z General] TheMysteryouse:
Thank you sir!
[Xperia Z General] nuclearwire:
how to root 5.1.1 please explain
[Xperia Z General] BaDKaRmA:
Unlock bootloader will do....No other methods or just flash a prf
[Xperia Z General] TheMysteryouse:
Okay after half of the day of using the new 5.1.1 I must say im impressed.

Battery life is fine I guess still have to test it

The sound sounds ALOT louder

I dont feel feating that much anymore like in the past when listening to music or something

Wanted to ask, how come the bootanimation didnt change? Its still the old purple one

If I see anything new, different, better ill write it here, so far, Good Job Sony!
[Xperia Z General] Ben Ling:
It's way faster and smoother...

Even the AnTuTu benchmark has a higher score
[Xperia Z General] MrGohut:
How is that possible? I have ~24500-25000 :(

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[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
if anyone is wondering, at least from my Experience, The OTA update will not install on a rooted 5.0.2, it will download and fail to install.

the only root is as usual for locked bootloaders is to flash a pre-rooted zip (if if anyone has just an ftf file he can make his own with prfcreator it's very easy.
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
Can Someone Help with something,... i need the original setting folder from /system/priv-app/ (from the latest firmware 5.1.1)

i need the folder (the apk file and the arm folder with the file inside it)... this is really needed , hope anyone with root can help soon.

EDIT : never mind that request , i extracted it from the ftf file.
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
For People Who have Issue with XZDR 2.8,21 ..heres a repack i made with the fix added by [MENTION=4421569]sigprof[/MENTION] & [MENTION=5292989]Rootk1t[/MENTION]

it's on google drive (it's only a flashable zip, installer version uploading)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9UXi1UID7ZBS3Y2ejZ3S1BpQk0/view?usp=sharing

EDIT : there was an issue with my file, this one works by [MENTION=4931701]Ben Ling[/MENTION]

Installable

http://d-h.st/wMMT
[Xperia Z General] theduke7:
i can safely say that the heating issue is very minimal on this Rom. I'm impressed so far.