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[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bryanlimy:
I am new to the Sony game, have been a long time Nexus user. Just updated the firmware to 32.0.A.5.32 using the PC Companion thing. I gotta say, its noticeable smoother than it was. But still lol, I don't feel any faster than my old Nexus 5
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Nexus 5 is on Marshmallow. Z5 Compact is still on Lollipop for now. I'm expecting really good things from the upcoming major Sony Marshmallow update.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] xaps:
Cool story, bro.

But seriously, it would help, if at least a few people were running a couple of benchmarks before they apply the update, and the same ones after the update is installed. That's the only way to verify, if there have been any changes, which affect the performance - for the better or for the worse. I'll try to do that once the OTA is arriving. But one device isn't representative. We'll need the results from a number of people to draw any conclusions. Reports of a "smoother" system aren't helping anyone, especially when the changes are so minor.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bryanlimy:
BTW Benchmark doesn't mean anything to me, at least since Galaxy S II era

But I did run GeekBench before and after I updated the firmware

The first result is AFTER the update

The second and third results are BEFORE the update
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] xaps:
Word. That's better than no benchmarks at all, thanks for posting.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dillalade:
I did several Antutu benchmark before and since updating firmware.

My score remains at ~65000 on both .11 & .32 firmware.

However I sence a much better user experience with the latest firmware.

Weather this is down to the firmware or the fact that my battery charging procedures needed refining as one of my goto charge points was failing to successfully charge (dodgy cable perhaps.)

Since numrous proper charge cycles with a working cable the device seems to have settled into a decent groove (with cpu, temperature and battery.)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] mele80:
Antutu

.11 61908

.32 62352
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
Anyway....benchmarks have nothing to do with general performance/smoothness.

Because benchmarks usually tend to increase the CPU/GPU speed to the limits. And in different situations.

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
No UK release yet. Ugh :/
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tom1310:
So, for those who did the updates, would you recommend to update from stock (32.0.A.4.16) ?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] mmm286:
I have last update and I don't see any improvement so... You can do it if you want

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[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Where's that promised .115 update :(
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] kitch9:
Where's the damn UK update?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] xaps:
That depends on the type of benchmark. Sure, if you're just using a few apps with the typical synthetic benchmark tests, you won't learn much. But there are a couple of real world oriented benchmarks that are really useful. And you don't even need any benchmark apps to perform benchmarks yourself. Use a camera or an old phone to record yourself performing a few specific tasks on your phone before the update. Repeat the identical steps after the update, then compare the results side by side. Even a stopwatch can do some very basic measurements, if you don't have a camera available.

What I want to say: Trying to "feel" the difference in performance never works, if you only have one device to test. Telling people something feels better, faster, smoother, or whatever after you performed an update or changed something else, is completely meaningless, because you can't even be sure about your own subjective impressions. The only effective way to measure any differences in performance, speed or whatever is to perform honest measurements, usually with the help of benchmarks. Yes, that's a lot more work than just using your device and trying to feel the difference, but it's the only method to get results that other people may be able to reproduce.

Sorry for the tl;dr, but I'm sure you understand what I want to say. :)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] darthbane7:
The problems with micro stuttering are not measurable by benchmarking apps that we can just use, IMHO. My guess, it is a timing problem with clock speed adjusting.

So Benchmars are useless in this case. It really come to subjective observation :)

Unless there is a way to debug this scenario with some more in depth Benchmarks.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] CLShortFuse:
Can you guys with the new firmware see if your WiFi is always on? My wife's Z5C shows WiFi as always on in Battery Usage (click the graph) regardless if the WiFi is toggled on or off.

This might be a part of the new WiFi module fixes since it relates to suspending the WiFi threads.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
[MENTION=3186028]xaps[/MENTION]

I understand you xaps. I was referring to the typical Antutu benchmark and all similar ones (where some phones or just kernels are better than others but then "in real" usage is the opposite).

But, for example, I approve other kind of benchmarks like "real games" benchmarks or this one in this video that compares multi tasking capacity between 3 phones https://youtu.be/vt9YF8d6lm4 (with the exception of the "boot time" part ).

I'm not saying this bench is excellent but it could be something better to compare some (and not all) performance facts between the old and the current Z5C firmware.

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] mele80:
I have currently .32

Was this present at .11 fw?

Sent from my Z5C device (shiieeetttt!!!)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
The last one still had one or two (I can't remember) more failed certificates. This one didn't fix them all. G'job Sony!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dd23:
iirc, the old firmware 32.0.A.4.11 was vulnerable for all but one of the CVE entries. So the new one (...5.32) is a good improvement, but not perfect yet.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] phositadc01:
In location settings, do you have it set to allow use of WiFi even when WiFi is off? If so, that will cause the behavior you are seeing.

Sent from my Nexus 5X
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
I have it off and it still has liste wifi as always on even while it was off for the most of the day and on .32 update running. Strange...
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
Anyone else having problem with the z5c that it doesn't seem to keep holding the screen improvement setting? Like when i select the X-reality or vibrant i see that after a while it turns back to normal.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
I'm noticing another thing, my SMS messages don't send to abroad numbers. I can send texts to numbers in my own country, but if I try to send to say, a belgian number the recipient never gets it. Is it just me or are there others to whom this is happening?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Anyone noticed .152 update for customized Hong Kong and Singapore? Anyone knows changelog or whats changed?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] masi0:
Its also for Singapore,hope for other regions soon
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] rycek0:
A few regions have the newest software .152 Maybe today Central europe get this update :p I hope. Anyone know whether it has been repaired camera?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
The camera has been improved (shutter-speed is way faster now)!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Sony, why have you forgotten about the UK? We're one of the biggest markets for Sony phones. Gah.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] rycek0:
The blur in left site and corner repaired?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
I never had an extraordinary amount of blur, so i can't tell.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
My mistake. It's out in UK! Sorry Sony for doubting ya. Downloading now :D
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
Damm I've to wait until night!! Can't download it at the office QQ

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] hispanico957:
Yes also in Europe and Italy 32.0.A.6.152 with PC Companion or XperiFirm.

With many adjustments: the camera start is very quick now and opening the messaging app doesn't cause lags anymore. Looks good :D:D:D

Yesssssssssssssssss Sony

Hispanico

P.S.

Change-Log

update "Home" versions.

Optimization "cameras" startup speed.

Re-optimized phone heating problem.

Upgrading contacts database.

Optimization of fluency.

"Camera" photographs accelerated storage time!

Optimization "cameras" code.

"Fingerprint" to Enhance the Ability to Identify.

Optimize "RAM."

"Calendar" optimization interface.

Add "shutter" function.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
I cant find the changelog, downloading update will comment after installing. Hope its a good one :D
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Camera is definitely snappier.

Is it just me or is the entire phone feel snappier too? Could be a placebo I suppose. Have to wait and see.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] darktheory:
yeh it does a bit. amnimations seem smoother
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] rycek0:
My z5c with .152 software again have blur's problem in image...
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Like mentioned in Z5 thread, changelog is:

Update "Home" version.

Optimization "cameras" startup speed.

Re-optimized phone heating problem.

Upgrading contacts database.

Optimization of fluency.

"Camera" photographs accelerated storage time!

Optimization "cameras" code.

"Fingerprint" to enhance the ability to identify.

Optimize "RAM."

"Calendar" interface optimization.

Add "VoLET" function.

And regarding of camera blur, theres a word from a user in Xperia forum who contacted Sony in his country and got reply:

''that the problem is identified, and it will be fixed with upcoming updates...''
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Thank you for this kind sir!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
Pardon the seemlingly dumb question (fresh from iphone, here, first android ever), will I lose root by flashing this update from Xperifirm?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
I recommend you to use PC Companion. Just connect the phone and start downloading the update.

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Yes you will.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
I'd have to relock my bootloader for that to work... I saw on other posts, apparently I'll lose root, so I'd rather wait a bit :) Thank your for your input
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Companion does not work on unlocked bl.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
Thanks. I'll wait for nilezon and you to make magic happen :p
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
You can simply flash via FlashTool and then root afterwards, you will loose root but you can re-root by flashing su via TWRP ;)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
Sorry I didn't know that.

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
That's right, thanks!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] pocii:
Hows the update guys? I can't wait to download it
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] astalavista66:
Unlocked the device, flashed it with the one click root firmware and everything worked like expected. then flashed the newest firmware and lost root. also like expected. but how do I get into twrp now? already downloaded su binary but didn't get into the recovery to flash it? can you give me a hint/short description?

Edit: Awwww, got it. Thanks for the hint. Didn't see the link to the new TWRP version. Working like expected with the new firmware :)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] kitch9:
Wow, low light camera processing is hugely improved, standby battery drain is fantastic and performance is much better.

Very happy.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] mmm286:
For me is improved opening camera, album and dialer.

Enviado desde mi E5823 mediante Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tom1310:
Great update ! But a problem is still there, the "washed colors" symptom when you wake up the screen ...
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
The little (1.5Ghz) cores are much more aggressive. I like this new firmware.

- Stagefright fixed.

- Camera 2 API still pending

- I would like to have "Always On" enabled in Google Now. But still not supported. (I don't know if its Google's fault or Sony's fault).

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[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Battery life doesn't seem to have been impacted. I'm getting great battery life whilst out on my daily walk. It's draining quite slowly indeed during active use.

85% left (1hr screen on time) with brightness slider (adaptive enabled) at 50% and having had a 25 minute voice call.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Im kinda not satisfied about that camera2 API flop :(
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] ricostuart:
Still no update for me unfortunately. Would the fact that it is an O2 (UK) phone mean that the update might be later than others?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dondavis007:
Got the new one but camera still takes ages to open? Ages Btw is more than 4 seconds and sadly no burst mode

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Somehow I don't see how software can solve soft left corners. If it's like dng / raw where all corners are soft or dark you use ps or similar to fix the pic, but my phone is just left corner. Taking a photo of text, like a workshop, it's very easy to spot.

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[Xperia Z5 Compact General] SirRobin78:
can´t imagine that a hardware lens problem can be fixed with a software update - this would be magic but i really hope i´m wrong in that point of view...
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Logic makes me believe that a company like Sony wouldn't do plain suicide with just releasing whole bunch of its brand new flagships with critical hardware error which will cause them nothing more then a triple money loss for exchanging or fixing devices, along with a false marketing expenses and penalties. That would mean instant closing of mobile division and put a whole firm in a rather itchy position with shareholders. So, im gonna bet that they identified the problem and are working on a complete fix, everything else would mean complete failure of their mobile division, a horrible consequences for the whole company and brand thrust issue. So, given all that, i have no reason to believe that thousends, if not million fo Z5 devices have their lenses defected, but i do believe that it is an unfinished software because they had to push Z5 series a bit earlier then they planned because, well, sales are goind down fast and competition is not going to be mercyfull.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] mtilson:
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Have you tried the "ok Google everywhere" trick? Worked for me to solve the greyed out settings for "ok Google"
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] pocii:
Oh man this new update is amazing. I'm loving it.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] charlie460:
I have an unlocked UK device and still do not have the update either.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Use Sony's PC Companion software to update manually. It doesn't take long, it's not very complicated. Just plug the phone in to a computer and choose the update button.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
I'm talking about the "always on" option. Tell me if you were talking about the same.

https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xper...-Or/td-p/1036146/jump-to/first-unread-message

Sent from my E5823
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
PC Companion can not find the new firmware for me. Any clues why that is?

By the power of Sony Xperia Z5 Compact
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
It's unlocked and you live in the UK?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
I live in Sweden and have Three as a carrier.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
That's probably why. I'm sure it'll start rolling out in Sweden soon.

I wish Sony would just release updates to all countries at the same time.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
First time Sony mobile user here, hence my questions regarding firmware updates.

By your experience, what method is the quickest for getting a new firmware update?

Through PC Companion or OTA or some other method I'm not familiar with?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] milesg:
OTA will likely always be the slowest way.

If your phone uses a carrier / network customized firmware, it will take a long time to roll out even using PC Companion.

The fastest route is using FlashTool and XperiFirm (XperiFirm lets you browse and download all the available firmwares, FlashTool will install them on your phone). If you are running Windows, download FlashTool and it will automatically download XperiFirm for you.

For example, I have a phone supplied by Vodafone UK. They have their own customized firmware which hasn't been updated. Yesterday I downloaded and installed the generic UK firmware (which is on .152) and flashed that.

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Yep, not perfect (what is?) but improved all round for me. This is the firmware it should have shipped with.

The camera seems a bit faster, but I have still had the odd 3-4 second open (from the lockscreen "cold" ).
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] stevo_125:
Well on the whole this update seems good. More snappy, small cores are definitely more aggressive now. Camera and album launch times seems marginally improved, but still a bit crap. I'm wondering what they've done. I would guess the phone tries harder to keep these apps cached in ram now before dumping them for something else. I'm also wondering what "ram optimisation" is in the changelog. adjustment/removal on the zram perhaps? - someone that knows what they are doing can probably inspect the source to find out.

One thing that is arguably detrimental in this update is the thermal throttling is more aggressive at the top end. Definitely shuts down and/or throttles the "BIG" cores much earlier during intensive runs. Antutu score has dropped ~5-10% as a result. However, this probably does mean that 4K video can go for longer without the temp warning. Probably a necessary evil, but its sad to see that even with the effort Sony put in with the dual heatpipe to cool the SD810, they still need aggressive top-end throttling. I really hope Qualcomm have done a better job with SD820! Z6 or Z7 compact eh? :)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] leocooper:
Have you checked your Wi-Fi settings? There's the option for background scanning which shows up on the battery stats as Wi-Fi use even when it's "off"
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Best not ask me, I'm new to Sony too :)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] NPK06:
Early reports suggest they didn't, unfortunately
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Indeed, rumours claim that Samsung is feeling it necessary to implement dual heat pipes in the Galaxy S7 much like how our Z5's do.

I personally am having no issues with heat with the Z5 Compact though.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dillalade:
Post #69

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=63478051

If your still not clued up after reading that previous thread then unfortunately you're ill equipped with the necessary principles.

If your totally in the dark I will upload the UK .152 I created for self.

All the best
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
Gratitude!

Any risks or negative sides in unbranding / flashing stock firmware to be aware of?

For instance, will this void the warranty of the phone?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] x2srj:
I've just debranded mine and put a clean install of the latest update on there... agreed is very snappy, currently re-installing all my apps again... So far so good
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] kitch9:
Its a 14nm process part. The actual heat output will be much less, but it is concentrated into a much smaller space so the chip may get hot with much less energy used. Heat pipes are an efficient (ish) way to move heat away from its source quickly and sensible to use.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] supercakefish:
Yes, which is why Sony Z5 series are so good :D
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
So I live in Sweden and have Three as a carrier and don't want to wait for ages until newest firmware show up. So I'm downloading the newest firmware 32.0.A.6.152 via xperifirm and will then flash it with flashtool.

I'm downloading the following firmware:

market: nordic combined

operator: customized NOBA

network: generic

Just to confirm, am I doing this right?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dillalade:
Only negative would be losing your native carrier specific WiFi calling settings feature which is missing in the unbranded stock Sony firmware.

Positives are total removal of any carrier bloatware installed in your pre installed branded firmware.

Would not void warranty, if worried about that when going through a warrenty process simply flash back your branded firmware (available within xperiafirm.)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Drakorcarnis0:
I don't know what you guys are complaining at. My z5 compact remains BY FAR cooler than my former 14nm-galaxy s6. The s6 too was barely using the a57 cores. Only when opening an app, loading a web page or playing a cpu-intensive game. And that's perfectly normal.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Adrift98:
The latest version of flashtool actually has xperifirm built into it. I flashed my phone recently to T-Mobile Austria by downloading flashtool, clicking on the big xperifirm button on the face of it, selecting my phone and desired firmware, clicked on the downloadbutton, and flashtool went ahead and also automatically created the FTF file for me. Then I clicked on the Flash button, left everything at defaults, clicked flash, waited for the instructions to pop up: unplug phone, turn off phone, hold volume button down, plug phone in. I let go of the volume button when I saw the steady green light on my phone, and flashtool took care of the rest. Made me a bit nervous cause the flash bar that shows you how much more you have to go paused right towards the end for a few minutes. I left the room to grab something, came back, and it was done. Easy-Peasy. It's pretty dumbed down. This is my first Android phone, and the first time I ever flashed anything, so if I could do it, probably anyone can.

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Yeah, I had an iPhone 6s for a few days, and that sucker got pretty warm too. My mom even commented on it when I was showing her some pictures or something. So far my Xperia hasn't gotten any warmer than that iPhone.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
Flashtool indicating drivers issues. I'm going to take care of that and then have at it!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Adrift98:
Yep. I forgot. I had that problem initially too. The drivers are in the Flashtool folder on your C drive (assuming that's where it installed). The driver you need should be at the top of the list. I had problems actually installing the driver. Kept giving me an error. Turned out that Windows 10 was blocking it because the driver is unsigned. I followed this guide to allow Windows to install unsigned drivers, and it worked no problem.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Mythos123:
Everything went fine and I'm now on newest firmware. :D

Thanks [MENTION=7003693]Adrift98[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2053413]dillalade[/MENTION] for your pointers!
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] charlie460:
Perhaps placebo as another user said in the thread but the device does seem overall more responsive to me after this update. Very pleased.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Tommy-Geenexus:
It indeed is. The reason for it is the tweaked interactive governor, which samples twice as fast as before, thus increasing snappiness.

However there are still some lag spikes, which could be resolved by increasing some interactive freq thresholds.

But i know Sony wants to workaround this, thinking that it would hurt battery life. If i have time i'll look into gov tuning.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] tania247260:
you are doing right

du gör rätt
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
Edit:

Does anyone know the meaning for each character in the firmware version (example: 32.0.A.6.152)? Particularly the "6".