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My Experience

Started May 20, 2018 | User reviews
korraym
korraym New Member • Posts: 1
My Experience

i was interested to get it , and im really happy after own it - tell i upgraded to nougat ., it was like i let the devil in ., the hardware was running perfectly with lollipop . im looking for some way to downgrade , to lollipop .,

about the camera , its brilliant , it think its the best for this price range

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Nikon D7000 Sony Xperia Z5
Sony Xperia Z5
5.2 screen • 23 megapixels (rear) • 5 megapixels (front)
Announced: Sep 2, 2015
korraym's score
4.5
Average community score
4.5
onlyfreeman
onlyfreeman Senior Member • Posts: 2,498
Re: My Experience

If you are having trouble with the OS upgrade,  I would suggest backing up your data then doing  a full factory reset. That might help make everything run smoother, although you will have to set everything up again, and transfer your data back,

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harvey_43 New Member • Posts: 2
Re: My Experience

The only option you are left with now is to go for custom ROM and their are some good costum ROM out in the market

  • CyanogenMod.
  • Paranoid Android.
  • Cataclysm.
  • Resurrection Remix.
  • Dirty Unicorns.
  • XenonHD.
  • BlissPop.
  • OmniROM.
I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: My Experience

Before doing anything radical, like a hard OS reset (wiping all your personal data and apps) or flashing an alternative OS, you might - I'd say should - try a much simpler process using the power and volume buttons to wipe the system cache. Especially after a major update - and leapfrogging from Android L to Android N is that - a very large useless cache of temporary and unnecessary old files is created and wiping it can dramatically improve performance without wiping Android settings, currently installed personal data or media, or apps and their individual settings.

Here is a page from T-Mobile describing it for Experia Z5:

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-28294

(This seems to be the whole process for Sony Xperia - google turns up the same at several sites. NOTE that on my phone and tablet, and most other devices, using the power/volume restart brings up a hidden menu listing the partition wipe along with other things.  Navigating that buried menu with the volume buttons, and then pressing power will activate the selected cache partition clean-up. I did it after a very large upgrade to my Android M tablet and it improved performance dramatically.)

So I wouldn't jump to the conclusion the phone can't run Android N as currently installed, without trying this harmless intermediate procedure first. However, even though a system cache wipe is normally perfectly safe and doesn't interfere with the current install and settings, it is always prudent to have a good separate backup of important personal data and media needed on the phone.

wklee Veteran Member • Posts: 9,950
Not happening

Downgrading from a later Android OS version will never happen. It could not be done with Nokia Windows Phones, cannot be done with iOS, and not with Android.
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Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi

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