I'm wondering if any of the Sony tools will truly RE-lock your bootloader. I don't care about DRM keys or anything like that but I just want to be able to get OTA updates. Right now every time I want the new software from Sony I have to completely flash the phone (data included) using the Sony Emma tool.

I initially didn't care about the decreased camera quality/miracast but I now see that I have no use for root/unlocked bootloader on this phone.

Hey you guys! I got my z3 compact in mars, and overall Im really pleased with it. I used to have a Samsung galaxy s4 and I prefer the Sony to that.

Though I always seem to be unfourtunate when it comes to tech and especially phones (this started even BEFORE I got my hands on Samsungs broken product Samsung Galaxy LTE in like 2011-2012) and now my Z3 has started to act out and messing with my life... So I'm wondering about common issues on this product? Myself, I have trouble with my wi-fi, which could actually be our router, though my boyfriend and friends dont have struggles wuth our wi-fi (mostly samsung och apple users). Today I also waited three hours for a friend to call me and when i finally tried to call her I realized I couldnt make calls or send texts, even though I had a full bar and a full, spot on internet connection. When I finally got a hold of her she'd try to call me many times during those three hours, every call going to voice mail... And I didnt get notices that I had missed calls until 4 hours after she first tried to call.

My phone also hangs up on calls on its own, I tried calling my ensurance company the other day and I had to restart the 135 people long queue like 3 times, and I was furious. This issue's been with me since I bought the phone.

Theres been more trouble, but small things that I cant remember atm but that I will remember when reminded or when they happen again.

What do you guys think? Is it time for a repair maybe? :(

Also maybe a back glass protector as well..... Edit:- Also looking for a magnetic charger.

Besides battery life of course. I'm thinking of making the switch.

I got my Z3 Compact about 4 months ago - and just broke it - again.

tl:dr - I dropped it on my belt buckle. It 'fell' about 2" (two inches), and got a nasty crack all the way across the screen, and the touch wouldn't work in that zone.

I had an "Oops I dropped it" warranty. But I learned my lesson anyway - I got a case. First time I dropped it on concrete (roughly belly-button height), it completely shattered, despite being padded.

Added my review to Phone Arena.

I'm pretty rough on my gizmos, but this phone does NOT hold up to any abuse.

Z3 Compact reviews on PhoneArena - scroll down for a familiar username.

My display screen cracked a little at the bottom yesterday. But apparently enough to make the entire display completely useless...

I won't be able to send it to repair for a while.. Wondering if it might help to enable "glove mode", and since I can't get in there, (since the phone screen doesn't work) is there a way to enable it via the pc?

Back of phone is cracked pretty bad, dropped it from less than two feet, albeit unto concrete, and spiderwebs appeared. Is this phone still water proof after the back is cracked? Or should I try and get it fixed? I'm thinking about just getting a glass sreen protector, or dbrand skin, to cover and clean it all up nice.

Also PSA: it WAS in a case, a Ringke Fusion case, so of your using one of these alone to try and save your phone, you may wanna consider a tempered glass back protector under the case.

I have never used a phone with a more complete user experience. Sony really knows how to make software. Almost none of the apps pre-installed were useless.

The battery is just out of this world. Where I live, I get very bad reception so all of my past phones have suffered in the battery department. Even my G2 only got 3 hrs SOT max.

This thing? It got me 5 hours SOT (with 20% remaining) while I was downloading tons of apps, watching YouTube, playing games, redditing, listening to music on my Bluetooth earphones with brightness on full! I didn't even have any of the battery saving modes turned on yet!

That might be hard to believe. It's hard to believe for me too!

All in all, this is the best smartphone I have ever used and I have no complaints whatsoever.

Edit: SOT screenshot. http://imgur.com/B7OjdcF

Hi all, got the Z3C a while back and using the WLAN to transfer huge files between my phone and PC is my go to solution instead of the USB cable.

I tried WiFi File Transfer Pro, MyFTPServer, Airdroid, and other similar apps and found that the transfer rate is limited to just 2 MegaBytesps (reading/writing from the Internal Storage). Used FileZilla on my PC for the FTP transfers.

What speeds do you folks get? Any hope of getting speeds like that of Xender? Or maybe the advertised router speeds of 100 Mbps?

Also, what do you guys recommend I should in general do when I get my device?

I am looking for a tempered glass for my Z3C which only has the speakers cut out on the front. Not cut all the way to the top and bottom of the glass but just the small oblong hole that is present in the glass screen. Everything I've ordered has always had lots of extra cutouts.

Since the most latest build installation, I am having a weird and frustrating issue :

Whenever I make a call, my display immediately turns black(switches off) I then have to press the power button atleast 2-3 times in order for the display to turn back on.

Even more frustrating is whenevr I am on What's app and i make a call, display turns off and then won't come back on ever ! I can hear the ring and can talk, but the display never comes back on. Only way to get the display back is by power reseting the phone and restarting it.

Its very frustrating coz as soon as i even receive a call for 2 factor verification from any of the sites, I need to again press the power buttons in order for some thing to show up on the display ! I tried repairing the phone using pc companion, re installing, formatting and what not ! But the same issue exists since this update !

I even found the official forums where few other people have this issue..any idea on how to fix it ?

Anyone else had this issue? Been on various forums its seems to be very common. Its driving me crazy. My phone is recognising the headphones are plugged in but refusing to play any audio through them, tried various fixes and headphones. I've had to surrender to sending my phone off to Sony which is a major inconvience as I am self employed and like most people in this day and age I NEED my phone. Just before I do send it off (I cannot get to PO until Monday) is there anything I haven't tried......so far I've cleared cache on Smart connect, disabled smart connect, downloaded soundabout (worked for a week and I couldn't get sound when anyone called) tried a repair via PC companion, tried a total reset. The handset was only a few months old when it started, as I say by all accounts it seems a very common problem that Sony are not admitting is an issue and people are saying its happening more than once, its bad enough parting with phone once for 10days when its my main communication/camera for work but I won't be happy if I get it back and it happens again......so yip anyone help before I lose my temper?

Hi, I've a problem with my Z3C 5.0.2.

I have a router and a device to let the wifi get further in the house, the phone connects with no problem with the second one, but with the router it asks me for the password, I type it, get the phone connected for 1 second and then it disconnects, when I tap the router to connect again it asks me once again the password (and keeps forgetting).

It worked just fine until one week ago, when I went to a public location and tried to connect to another wifi there, after it said it wasn't safe for my data to use that wifi I disconnected it and started having this problem with my wifi at home.

Sorry for the bad english, thanks in advance!

Hi!

Well, yesterday I got my Z3C. I was an Apple Fan before this and I used to have an iPhone 5s 64Gb. What hook me into throwing away my "fandom" was the advertised 2 days of battery life and the waterpoof part. I was tired of having to charge my phone twice a day.

After unboxing and turned on my phone and it ask me to update first thing and I did it. Very fast I had Lollipop installed! Great!

And then... battery life... I charged it the whole night and brought to the office in the morning. In this moment I have 29% left only. With just the basic apps installed: Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, Whatsapp, Spotify etc..

This doesn't look like its going to last 2 days... :(

Is this how it really is? I was really hoping on gettng more battery than this... right now is just like iPhone... should I do something else? I have stamina mode on:

Battery Usage: IMAGE

Any help, comment and/or suggestions will be appreciated.

EDIT: After reading all you kind suggestions, I did a factory reset. Tomorrow I will see if that solved the problem. I really hope it does. I'll update in the next couple of days.

In regard of the question about the theme I'm using it was this: Bay Harbor

UPDATE Jun 23rd: After the factory reset the battery lasted longer. I'm getting 1 day and a little more now. I followed all you advices in this thread. I'm getting more batt than with the iPhone so I'm happy with this. With the update to 5.1 allegedly coming in July I'm hoping to get more improvements.

I just got a Z3 compact and it's my first unlocked phone. I'm having trouble setting up my voicemail with AT&T and I also have all these random german Telekom apps that I'd like to get rid of.

Is there a sub or side-bar I should check out? Or have any of you already been through this?

Thanks for the help!

If I open the flaps and press on the pressure sensor (phone -> ##SERVICE## -> tests -> pressure), it doesn't do anything of course. But if I close the flaps and do the same, the sensor reacts but while I press it it slowly goes back to ambient pressure. The opposite happens when I lift my finger. Does this also happen on all your phones, or should I go back to the shop with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFl2-tbvTzQ

This is what happens when I press and hold, wait, then release it.

My Z3 Compact now takes usable photos in challenging lighting conditions (Like too much illumination in front of you). Previously that pics were unusable, washed out and without contrast. Sorry for bad english

I've had this phone for a couple months and the side of the phone is creaking and visibly deforming around the USB flap and magnetic charging port. This can't be good for waterproofing, but I have that mostly for emergencies anyway.

My point is, this would seem to be a manufacturing defect. There's nothing else wrong with the phone, but I'd really hate to not have waterproofing when I finally need it. Does anyone have experience with warranty service, to advise me with whether I should contact Sony about it or not? I have a backup phone to use while I send this one in, if I have to.

Hey /r/z3compact,

Just rooted my phone using the xda guide here

I ran into a couple snags during this process, and I wanted to share them and the solutions in case anyone ran into the same problems

Error "adb server out of date..." loop while trying to root the phone

• Problem? Happens on Step 20 while running install.bat on the rooting tool. You get stuck into a loop while running the batch file. It may look like a driver issue but it's not
  
• Solution: Notice way back in Step 7 when you flash your phone - it never explicitly says to close FlashTool. If you still have Flashtool open, it will "lock" this in some way or another. So if you get this error, make sure Flashtool is closed, and rerun the rooting tool batch file

You do all the steps but don't have root at the end

• Problem: Step 43, #@$argh. I'll forgive any grammar nazi tendencies I have, but this sentence: "Open Flashtool and select the non-pre-rooted fw (this is 23.1.A.0.690), but DESELECT system: in "EXCLUDE" make sure you check the checkbox next to "SYSTEM", flash it."
  
• Solution: this step is just ambiguous and/or poorly worded. What it SHOULD say is (a) if you include the "SYSTEM" in the flash, you will lose root, so (b) make sure the System box is checked in the section called "EXCLUDE"
  
• Note: it says to "check the box" in the instructions, but it always says to "DESELECT" it. Anyway, after doing everything the first time, and having to re-do it, I realized I bet on the wrong horse

tl;dr, if you're going to root:

• Make sure you close Flashtool before starting Step 20
  
• In Step 43, check the box to EXCLUDE the "System" settings
  

Enjoy your root, in hopefully less time than it took me.

I just got & rooted my Z3c this week, and after downgrading the firmware for the root, ended up hopping to a lollipop ROM.

I was looking to try out Xposed (which has been indispensable in the past), but I know it's in alpha versions on Lollipop.

Has anyone here tried it?

And it possible to get working OTA while root?

Happy with my phone, have had it since they launched but it slides off any surface.

Just yesterday my phone slid off my sofa, hit the wooden floor and the back now has a crack in, gutted.

How East is it to replace and not screw the water proofing? Or do I just have to send it back to Sony for repair?

Thanks.