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Tukan

Hello

I just updated to the latest avilable firmware (.270) with hope that all bugs from previous version (.242) will be fixed. I was wrong.

1. Issue with bad sound is still present. So i opened Music app, started song, played with equalizer and other options in sound settings. Everything was almost perfect, with nice bass and tops. But after i changed to another track my ears almost exploded. Sound became too loud and completely flat without bass. I know this has been posted so many times but i never found permanetly working solution. I tried everything. Clearing cache, unistall updates, reinstall Music app, restarting in Safe mode. Nothing is permanent solution, it's only for some time. I know that disabling all sound settings will fix this, but this make sound not enjoyable.

2. App2SD function is still broken. Basically on Android from 2.3 to 4.3 i was able to move to SD whole app with all data (data and obb). Now on 5.0.2 this function move only small part of data. For example i have game that has 1,5 GB of data. 120 MB in data folder and the rest in obb folder so i tried to move it to SD with App2SD function in settings. It only moved +/- 40 MB of data from data folder and nothing from obb folder so basically i have still in internal storage 1,46 GB of data. Out of curiosity i flashed old SONY 4.2.2 version and tried to do the same thing with the same app. Magically it moved almost whole app with all of the data. In internal storage left only 47 MB of data and the rest on SD. Why is this not possible on 5.0.2? Is it some kind of restriction from Google again? And another thing is that even apps like GL2SD are not working because system is clearly pointing into the internal storage instead of external and this can't be fixed with KitKat permission workaround.

But except this, .270 firmware is great.

If you have any tips how to fix those issues, feel free to help me. I'll appreciate it. Thank you.

toothpaste

as far as i can see, no change, don't bother.

if someone else has a different opinion, and considers this a significant update i'd like to see a list of improvements over the immediately previous release. Replying with just "this is a great rom update" isn't helpful.

i've mentioned bugs in other threads. so far i saw none to have been fixed.

Tukan

I resolved that app2SD problem by adding new permissions to platform.xml and setting new path to external SD and now moving apps to SD via GL2SD is working again same as on KitKat. And thank you for posting that link, now i understand how that function works. Thank you!

SunnyEricsson

so how is the battery life on this? worse or same as 4.3?

how about connections like Wifi and Bluetooth?

toothpaste

wifi performance is degraded when bluetooth is enabled

wifi hotspot dies randomly and you have to restart it. sometimes you have to restart the phone. i don't think it's different from 4.3, 4.4 or 5.0

battery is really really great, generally the problem with power consumption is stupid programs running in the background, like facebook skype or similar.

dejavo

Hi

i have upgraded to 14.5.A.0.270 and noticed that, all system icons now bigger then usual, with previous release (14.5.A.0.242) all were normal size.

i tried to figure out a way to re-size all icons to orignal size but no luck.

any suggestions?

toothpaste

try rooting and changing dpi

good luck

arup

Icons are looking bigger & dull like cheap Micromax Doodle handsets . No X Loud add ons, Video player does not auto resize the videos playing only on centre on mp4 videos. most worst update ever,, 1.5gb data lost fo this useless updates.

IcyBooks

So after updating my phone to Android 5.0.2, all the icons on my phone have suddenly grown big. I can't revert the sizes back to the way they were, thanks to the Icon Size functionality being removed. Anyone know how to change ut back to normal, without this rooting thing I've been hearing about?

I've always had the settings to 5x6 but now it's all changed. Please help. The large icons make my phone look small.

phQash

I haven't posted any feedback after first 5.0.2 build.
Now I've updated to .270 build and I still have the same problems.

1. LTE does not work. I have C6833, I had LTE before lollipop. The phone shows 4G network, but can't connect
2. When calling using SBH52, after ending the call I have my phone unlocked. Why is that? Moreover, it has its screen unlocked during the whole call, because it ignores proximity sensor when sound is going to bluetooth. If I switch to phone speaker - it starts to use data from proximity sensor.
3. Third is more like a suggestion. When I'm using phone as a navi and I have incoming call - I get small nice bar in the top of the screen. I was so glad when I saw that, and I was very disappointed when I answered the call. Because when you answer the call - you get fullscreen call screen and you can't use your navi. So the feature with small notification is actually useless.
4. I get a lot of I/O errors when writing to SD card. I don't know, maybe it's just a coincidence that it started right after lollipop update.

I don't know why I'm writing this. I don't believe that anyone from Sony technical team will get any of this feedback. But I still have some hope left.
If any of this problems is caused by Google restrictions - tell us, we at least wouldn't blame Sony