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[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
Made a pre rooted firmware flashed and wiped only dalvik everything good to go
[Xperia Z3 General] binthe920:
awesome, could you share?would I be able to use your pre rooted firmware to flash mine two lollipops and have root?
[Xperia Z3 General] ngvuanh:
Just updated. Now let see if I can run the script for unlimited tether again.
[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
I made mines to flash via twrp recovery. So if you have custom recovery it will work. I am not sure about flashing it using flashtool. it includes SUPERSU 2.4.6, NUTZDUALRECOVERY, and XPOSED INSTALLER 5.0.2. Just wipe dalvik cache and flash this in recovery then wipe dalvik cache again. First boot will take a while. https://mega.co.nz/#!19oHzIrT!HlTGHgnUtPoiSNVksz7IRXHRViww7dc7scMQHfgy__0
[Xperia Z3 General] ngvuanh:
I am tethering now (watching youtube on laptop) without rerun the script and tether data is not going up.
[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
Did you root retain root after updating?
[Xperia Z3 General] binthe920:
Anyone know a way to flash that custom firmware without a rooted phone?
[Xperia Z3 General] ngvuanh:
I'm not rooted. I just need unlimited tether.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I got 7.5 Hrs screen time in a 12 hr period of usage. Not bad as this is after the first charge after factory defaulting the device. No Stamina mode and I had sync and location services turned on.
[Xperia Z3 General] Plurkk:
Did you lose DRM keys, or unlocked the bootloader?
[Xperia Z3 General] shilent:
Anyone's NFC stopped working?

I factory restored using PC Companion, and factory reset multiple times trying to get it to work. Everytime the phone boots for the first time after a restore/reset, I get a NFC firmware update failed (-1).

NFC is grayed and will not tick. My phone was rooted with recovery installed.

Is it possible to revert back to KitKat?

Edit: Downgraded to KK via Flashtool, updated to Lollipop via OTA, NFC is working.
[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
you only lose DRM keys for unlocking bootloader, but the T-Mobile version Bootloader is locked so no way of losing DRM keys.
[Xperia Z3 General] Plurkk:
How did you manage to root the lollipop version?
[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
I had root with custom recovery on 4.4.4 and created a prerooted firmware where i used it to flash via twrp. Check my post #58 for instructions.
[Xperia Z3 General] VinylJStar:
What is the decryption key for mega?
[Xperia Z3 General] serophia:
Edited Link with new decryption. https://mega.co.nz/#!19oHzIrT!HlTGHgnUtPoiSNVksz7IRXHRViww7dc7scMQHfgy__0 I don't know why the decryption was removed after 2 hours.
[Xperia Z3 General] ROne21:
Finally! Downloaded the update OTA, installed now Android is updating.......I'm hoping battery life will stay the same......
[Xperia Z3 General] ryan40r:
Yes! That annoying bug seemed to have gone away
[Xperia Z3 General] nyyankees3511:
when swiping up from the home button for google now does anybody elses home button stay highlighted?
[Xperia Z3 General] Plurkk:
Wait but how did you even flash a pre rooted firmware? Don't you need to unlock the bootloader to do that?
[Xperia Z3 General] Elysian893:
My thoughts exactly. You can't flash a Lollipop rom over KK if you can't unlock the bootloader.
[Xperia Z3 General] Elysian893:
Just found out part of my battery drain issue was Chrome, the Data Saver mode keeps the modem active, eating a lot of power. Disabled that and the modem isn't staying on nearly as much.
[Xperia Z3 General] nyyankees3511:
can anyone check this quick before I do a wipe?
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Just installed...

Just flashed it using Flashtool, waiting on initial boot. Im looking forward to see what changes were made that actually do something to the phone -_-; too many times do they release updates with "security enhancements" and "design changes" that dont really effect device performance at all...like 4.4.4.

I came from the Nexus 6 with Lolipop 5.0.2 (which i rom'd up to 5.1) and man was nothing really done lol other than some slight battery enhancements (2k screens on giant phones have crap battery in comparison to this phone..or any phone really)

Im looking forward to a few things i was promised by a Sony Customer Service Rep would be coming. They stated many camera improvements to me after i got someone who sounded like they new what they were talking about... well at least to the algorithm. Aparently the phone focuses less on high ISO now and more on shutter speed adjustment... which as they stated may take away from low light shots but should add to adequate lighting shots with the camera...

Dont know if any of that is true though lol. Gotta look and find out, sure ill have alright battery life, if it beats my nexus 6 or M8 still we still have a winning phone.

Its also been quoted in a few places that Sony fixed the memory leak associated with this update for the Tmob version, which may mean no battery decay.

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So finally got it booted up, Camera auto white balance is extremely improved in the lolipop update, and it seems like no blur, much sharper image, with no image enhancement engaged in the display settings.

Seems like the camera was a massive update to the d6616 o.o from what i can see...

just checked it out, Auto is pulling a lower shutter speed, compensating with iso...image is much sharper because of this in alright lighting o.o noise removal looks less present...

The white balance thing is easier noticed if you look at front facing camera, as the white balance isnt all jacked up, and the image looks much sharper in similar lighting as before. As do normal pictures...

Massive improvement noticed by me anyways.
[Xperia Z3 General] shilent:
Yes, mine does the same. And I've wiped and restored multiple times trying to get NFC to work. Does your NFC work?
[Xperia Z3 General] naripsta:
Updated it earlier this morning when I got to work, been running it for about 5 hours. Loving it so far, really impressed by this. It runs a bit smoother/quicker than Kit Kat imo.
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
Well, this isn't cool... Nlpcollectorwakelock is keeping it awake it seems. I haven't seen this one in forever.

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Yeah you can. Serophia made it work.

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Mine is off and yet Chrome still keeps radio awake.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I believe it's an OS issue apparently the preview of M also has it as well... Its the "Mobile Radio Active" bug. There have been numerous complaints and yet Google put the priority as "small". Basically apps that use cellular can prevent cellular radio from idling even when inactive causing a drain. I am certain it's on practically every phone with 5.0+, depending on the app in use it may or may not be severe. Check the battery stats per app and you will see what I am talking about.

Bug Complaint link:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558
[Xperia Z3 General] marksee:
Okay so, any one else hates lollipop already and wants to go back to KK ? the notification bar is such a mess.... i can't even stand it.
[Xperia Z3 General] sid3track3d:
I wouldn't say I hate it but I do preffer KK. Only reason I'm going to keep lollipop at this point is for Android Auto. :eek:
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Wakelocks.

See i wouldnt say i hate lolipop either with the better camera implementation but thats something i regularly use...and really wanted them to fix...

As for wakelocks, im unsure why but my battery is doing better than it was on kitkat. Or atleast seems to considering no cycling has been done since my wipe earlier today and Zombies, RUN! drained about 5% less battery than normal on a 41 minute run...

Screen is still on the top of my battery usage list which was the issue with the Z3 compact.

If i have a wakelock though thats not something that I, as an extremely heavy user, would really notice.

The NLP collector wakelock is network location provider, its been said that on occasion turning off location reporting (possibly just turning it off high accuracy which uses wifi spots around you) and turning off wifi always scanning will help with that, but thats in debate.

Wakelock terminator and amplify solve this issue though..just need root on lolipop and xposed (which is working with some modules, i believe including both of those, even on art) and dont break parts of the phone in the process. Just need to get root and that wakelock (and many others) vanish from lolipop forever and we have stable battery drain...

Personally im digging the camera so much i probably wont revert until i see something massively wrong with lolipop, like if that battery drain bug hits me sometime too.

EDIT...

Woot...Im rooted? ;)
[Xperia Z3 General] id3alistic:
Anything new about the camera besides the new layout/ui?
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
I just stated a little while back, auto mode more regularly chooses faster shutter speed (a lot faster) and images are coming out a lot clearer on my end. Iso lowered. Smooth skin on front and rear camera fixed (you can actually turn it off). better auto white balance. Less noise removal (sharper shots) faster focusing (or it seems like it)

So basically...auto mode is pretty awesome, from what im seeing.

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Twrp is back on the phone...grant access to ADB program as soon as adb connects and dual recovery will function.

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Xposed is back on the phone -_- man im just flying through this.

Installing amplify/wakelock terminator and greenify now.
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
What baffles me is why do some have and some don't. I just completely reset my phone, did not restore anything and yet it's still refusing to go into deep sleep, it just idles at 300Mhz. Ugh...
[Xperia Z3 General] 5igma:
Band 12?

I am experiencing drastically better signal inside my building at work. It's a metal building and I would typically have awful signal, so bad that I would have to perch my phone on a ledge and not touch it to receive messages. I am now able to receive messages with the phone in my pocket.

Do you think it's possible they enabled band 12? How can I check for this?
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
indeed.

band 12 was enabled with this update.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/0...rows-in-band-12-lte-support-for-good-measure/

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So im currently rooted, have xposed installed, greenified..amplify is functioning..bloat removed with app freezer..

no unknown wakelocks detected... to the guy who was talking about the baffling thing happening here, i see what you mean. I have not had any wakelocks since first checking with wakelock detector. If you do, i cant explain why for the life of me :( sorry about that.

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Found it... yeah i see what you mean. Amplify detects it as something we can limit, not block. I have it releasing every 600 seconds to check for a rough location for google. Thats as far as i can push it though. Only for a few seconds every 600 seconds isnt too bad but still kinda crappy lol.
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
What is it?
[Xperia Z3 General] AL2K3:
Root Lollipop

I got lollipop just now. Never hacked the z3 but it's heaphone volume i thought they will fix. It's way too low. I guess I got to root and flash audio mod. Question here is root possible on lollipop z3 and no drm issues, especially messing up the official camera and all. And if so can you link me to article of instructions. Thank you!
[Xperia Z3 General] salmanaman:
flashing stock recovery fixes deep sleep issue, I had this issue evan on kitkat.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
lollipop evidence

King root. Then firewall all root apps and remove Internet permissions. I didn't think about it but you should be able to airplane mode the whole root process to prevent your imei from being stolen and firewall after obtaining root. But firewalling both apps, freezing the Chinese one, and removing network permissions seems to keep them from being able to do anything. Considering it's just an app, no desktop required.

Warning tho.. Imei..I think..could be being recorded in this process, as xda has a general warning about the subject...use at your own risk.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
This is what that wakelock is. It's Google play services lol but the screenshot goes more in detail.
[Xperia Z3 General] kcwolf:
After update I see my contact photos when i click on them in contacts, but can't see the picture show up when I try and call the person. Is this happening to anyone else?
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
This is happening to me as well :/ trying to figure that one out too. I mean I like the stock contact images though...but still
[Xperia Z3 General] FranzDages:
I updated to Lollipop yesterday. I removed my phone from the charger somewhere between 13 and 14 hours ago. I'm now at 40% battery life. I've only had about 3 hours of screen on time, but considering that I spent most of the day in roaming I can't really complain.
[Xperia Z3 General] TracerBullitt:
Yeah, battery life is ridiculous. Lifelog is a battery life hog (heh), but it can't take the blame alone...
[Xperia Z3 General] lvlonkey:
Just flashed this. So far so good! However, I still had the KK xposed install so I think I have to figure out how to fix it so that it will have the new LP version.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
wanna see something interesting...

Look at that crazy wakelock. Location turned off.

what is *vibrator*? lol its kept the phone awake for an hour...i limited it to once every 60 seconds due to amplify not knowing what it is...
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
No crazy wake locks, but it's outright refusing to go into deep sleep.

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But Xperias don't have a recovery, AFAIK.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Keep in mind you can't see all wakelocks for the device unless you are rooted...I dont know if you are or not..

Refusing deep sleep is a sign of wakelock though usually. It's probably Google play services or nuplayer (unlikely) after amplifying those and greenifying all apps but necessary to be open I am loosing 1% per hour roughly in standby.

Also. All lollipop devices have the nlp wakelock with location services

services. If you are getting high drain from something called audio mix then it's because of nuplayer in develo options
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
Thanks. I am rooted but I'm still not seeing anything obvious. Take a look..
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Woah there is something definitely wrong there..never used better battery stats does it install as a system application for root? Gsam has a root companion to make it a system app so it has access to all wakelocks.. Which has been needed since kit Kat.
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
I got that installed. Where do I look in GSam? Never really used it...
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
You go into app usage after you let it look at what your phones doing for a while. When you click on an app in app usage it should show you its wakelocks and what their called. Google play services should have nlp and those in there

If nlp is listed kinda high than the real problem is location services..not nlp. As its woken my device 19000 times before amplify
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
Play services is behaving but..
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
amplify..

As you can see...

39000 wakelocks blocked in 1 day of use...kit cat it had blocked 4000 or so in a week.......something definitely wrong lol
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Nvm..sorry I didn't see that part.

I'd give it a while longer to see if android system calms down. But that's a percent of a percent of a percent reading.

So say if apps have use 50% of the 4% you've lost. Then android system is using 39% of that 50% of that 4%..

What you wanna look for is the nlp wakelock under Google play services..it won't eat a lot of battery by itself so gsam will show it as low, but if nlp is under Google play services that's why you spend a lot of time awake... Which causes other things to much on battery life.
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
Yup. This is in a few hours. It's driving me nuts that I can't figure out what it is.

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No, it's definitely not Nlp. Nlp is under Play Services and that stayed awake for 3 min in an hour or so, this I can live with.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Do you have this set to amplify every 600 seconds?

As for exactly what the main drain is I'll look through mine again to see if it's something irregular.

Also look for this..

1 hour wakelock..........

Edit used wrong screenshot.
[Xperia Z3 General] soujiro2350:
Just updated to lollipop. Mine isn't rooted. Just noticed that new dialer doesn't show contact pictures anymore. Tried changing pictures and its still not showing. Anyone else having this issue or do I have to do a factory reset again?
[Xperia Z3 General] sid3track3d:
During the call it's just blank right? Same with mine.
[Xperia Z3 General] kcwolf:
Mine did that as well not the showing up contact pics in my contacts page, but when I tried to call out it was a blank orange screen. I did a factory reset and it is back to showing pics while calling out.
[Xperia Z3 General] soujiro2350:
Yes. During the call. Nada. Just showing silhouette.

Mine is showing pics on contact page. Its when during call, pictures are not showing, just the name and silhouette. I'll probably have to try to do the factory reset again.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Clean install and it's happening on mine. Full data wipe during flash tool. Think it's an app issue..
[Xperia Z3 General] kcwolf:
Master reset with hardware keys

A master reset restores the original factory settings and may delete your personal data on the internal storage, such as downloaded content, ringtones, images, apps, and contacts. It does not delete data stored on the SIM card or SD card.

If the device menus are frozen or unresponsive, you can master reset using hardware keys. To perform a master reset, follow these steps:

Back up all data on the internal memory.

Press and hold the Power and Volume Up keys.

Wait for the device to vibrate three times (about 10 seconds).

Note: The device will vibrate once, then a few seconds later it will vibrate three times.

Release the keys.

Press and hold the Power and Volume down keys.

When the Sony screen appears, release the Power key only.

Release the Volume Down key when the System Recovery screen appears.

Use the Volume Up and Down keys to navigate.

Use the Power key to select Factory reset.

Use the Volume keys to highlight 'Yes,' then press the Power key to confirm.

The device will reboot and begin resetting.

Once the device has been reset, it will power on.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotlostintampa:
Does it work for you? Lol a clean flash of the whole phone including data and recovery from flash tool is giving me the same problem...
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
Please tell me mine isn't the only one that's refusing to sleep...
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Mine stayed awake while I slept:D That was last night, there was a nice green bar of wakefulness while the screen was off during those 5-6 hours. Today however it seems to be doing fine, going to sleep when screen is off, I did not restart or anything between yesterday and today. It shows "Android OS" as keeping it awake during that entire period in the battery stats area.

Another potential cause for battery drain:

I also noticed that, before I factory reset yesterday, that there is an issue where internet apps keep the cellular radio on even when dormant, draining battery when mobile data is activated.

Apparently this is a known issue in Android 5.0/5.1 but Google labeled as "Small" priority. I have not used LTE since resetting as I am on WiFi Calling but I am sure this issue is still there.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558

I lost the screenshots of the cellular radio battery drain after I factory reset, but here are images of my current situation after my first full charge on WiFi, as you can see below there is a large area of "awake" while screen is off in the first few hours due to "Android OS".
[Xperia Z3 General] herzzreh:
I'm giving it another day to settle and do what it needs to do. If it doesn't, back to 4.4. Sad because I like 5 :(
[Xperia Z3 General] scoobdude:
Lollipop fixed the phone book/call logs not appearing in my car radio. Yay. So far I am liking it though.

Calendar app lost the agenda from what I can tell.

I also have the no picture while calling.

Digging the new trusted devices, but trusted places is not working at home. Assuming it's sure to only being on WiFi.

Band 12 is helping in certain areas.

Missing the close out button for Google music from the window shade.

Nice to finally get full screen cover art again

Not sure how I feel about only having the 3 clocks available on the lock screen. I miss my sparkles ✨

Man that was a long wait...5.1 is going to be an eternity
[Xperia Z3 General] kcwolf:
If you do a hard reset to factory settings and clear out the cache that gives you back pictures while calling
[Xperia Z3 General] sid3track3d:
delete
[Xperia Z3 General] kcwolf:
No but the lock screen doesn't work for Pandora which sucks looks like I am going to go with Spotify till it gets fixed since the media tools works on the lockscreen.
[Xperia Z3 General] scoobdude:
Some of the responses said test did not work to get the pictures back.

Google music, YouTube and podcast addict all work for me on the lock screen. Though when carrying you have to wait a sec for the YouTube widget to poop up and adjust the background
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I got 6:45 mins SOT in 23Hrs after using till it shut off, which is pretty great but not KitKat great where I could reach 7-8Hrs SOT and have a few hours more standby time. Most of my use was just web surfing/Youtube on WiFi with an hour of WiFi calls.

Well I'm also getting a replacement from TMO due to severe top speaker rattling in calls, for $20 and I don't have Jump!/Insurance lol, so I should get a bit more battery life with a fresh device vs my 7 month old one.
[Xperia Z3 General] accts:
I have the same problem, in fact any picture related ... Viber couldn't load/send any attached picture... Camera has to set to SD card otherwise won't take any pictures - one inoying thing no more one click turn off sound control, so many steps..... Only use for few days on lollipop - so many bugs....Urrgggg!!!
[Xperia Z3 General] OCedHrt:
I suppose as long as you make a zip with the appropriate script for recovery flash, you can re-root and re-install recovery in the same session. If you reboot before doing so you will lose root/recovery.

This is what pre-rooted firmwares are.
[Xperia Z3 General] Elysian893:
You can't replace the kernel with a locked bootloader, and as far as I know Lollipop needs a newer kernel.
[Xperia Z3 General] soujiro2350:
Was trying everything. Factory reset. I think I found the culprit on mine. Since I'm not rooted, I'm just disabling the apps I don't need. Every time I disable TMobile Name ID app, I would lose the pictures during call. So I didn't disable it and got the pictures during call now.

On another note, noticed that mine don't get automatically connects to mobile data after I go out of range with my wifi connection. I would travel and would see my phone don't have the data. I would have to go to mobile networks then it will search automatically to get LTE. It happened to me throughout the weekend. Anyone else having this problem?