as i remember,

since May or June system update, the lag problem is unresolved. I'm start feel tired of this phone..so disappointed.. haihh. I'm not expect will face this kind of problem on the flagship phone actually..

now need to think if can avoid this with use of custom rom.. but.. extra time need to spend..again..

all this workaround is for a temporary solution and it could be the hearsay only.. normally i would not follow it rather I just restart the phone.

my personal view... if we need to disable this disable there to get back the performance so it's not a smartphone anymore.. semakphone maybe.. haha.. joking bro. 

What kind of issue?

haha, i thought you encounter some issue

so far working fine for me, best release in month, feels snappy
yes, the movie creator still disabled, but i keep google now all this while

now i reluctant to update next month, scare sony "screw up" again   

so far bug fixes and security patches.
most likely the next major update to the xperia UI should comes with Android 8.0
hoping it will support apps shortcut

September security patch is up. should be available by tomorrow.

http://www.xperiablog.net/2017/09/06/xperi...es-41-2-a-7-65/

is good to buy the phone now, DIRECTD selling RM1399 Free shipping and it's ori Msia set

Maybe sony want to clear remain stock only.
Its direct successor xzs & xz1 kill it, not to mention its premium series xzp & rumour coming xz1p.
If sony don't stop half year cycle + 1 year 4 flagships method, this history will happen again.
No point buying latest flagship since it has 50% discount after 1 year.

RRP now is 1899.
Probably Sony / distributor want to clean the stock, since Directd is one of the biggest seller, they can offered a very competitive price.
For my opinion, XZ/XZs is a very failed project after Xperia S/SL. Both projects were sharing the same design, probably 98% same thing, except some small hardware/chipset.
The 2% different made no advantage for Sony to sell it at higher price, only able to replace its predecessor. It is just embarrassing.
If i were Sony, i definitely won't allow this happen. I will either keep XZs technology (small motion camera) to next generation. So the XZ1 can sell at RM2899 while outdated XZ can stay at RM2000-2300.
Or i will discontinued the XZ, and totally replaced by XZs. And not to pissed the customers, i will allow all XZ users exchange their phone to XZs for free, or a very minimal cost like RM100~ for transporting/handling fee.
Wasting resources to develop XZs, i rather save the cost, and release some special edition XZ, like more colours of choices. Just like many of us choosing XZ because the special forest blue colour.
But what did Sony do now, is pissing their loyalty customers. Sony (Ericsson) was the top brands, but now not even in top 10 list to compete with some chinese OEM. Sony is not able to compete with other in price and spec. They have a niche market, which mainly loyal customers and supporter who loves Sony unique trademark & technology. But these actions are blowing away this small group of customers too.

1399, i didn't think much and bought it.
I was thinking to buy xzs for my gf, but no point to pay rm1000 for extra 1gb ram + better camera.
Luckily i didn't buy last weekend, if not i really pissed again.

RAM management is more important than RAM for android. (Of course it only apply when the app is smaller than your total RAM, you can't fill 1L water with 0.5L bottle.)
My nexus 10 (2GB ram) flashed with custom 7.1 rom is much stable (not faster) than my XZ. My Z3 (3GB ram) is still stable than my XZ. If you read XDA forum, many custom roms are faster and stable than official rom. Even just debloat + custom kernel will help on official rom.

I am dilemma to unlock my phone now. Just finish the 1 year official warranty last week, but still have 2 years extended warranty. I am giving chance to Sony fix the system on Android 8, probably will release as soon as next 1-3 months.
If no improvement i will just unlock the phone.

Maybe too much memory in locked + RAM management too conservative.

Blessing for android 8.

If it still suck, i want to unlock and flash sound mod, i missed great speaker from z3 sound mod.

Maybe too much memory in locked + RAM management too conservative.

Blessing for android 8.

If it still suck, i want to unlock and flash sound mod, i missed great speaker from z3 sound mod.

RRP now is 1899.
Probably Sony / distributor want to clean the stock, since Directd is one of the biggest seller, they can offered a very competitive price.
For my opinion, XZ/XZs is a very failed project after Xperia S/SL. Both projects were sharing the same design, probably 98% same thing, except some small hardware/chipset.
The 2% different made no advantage for Sony to sell it at higher price, only able to replace its predecessor. It is just embarrassing.
If i were Sony, i definitely won't allow this happen. I will either keep XZs technology (small motion camera) to next generation. So the XZ1 can sell at RM2899 while outdated XZ can stay at RM2000-2300.
Or i will discontinued the XZ, and totally replaced by XZs. And not to pissed the customers, i will allow all XZ users exchange their phone to XZs for free, or a very minimal cost like RM100~ for transporting/handling fee.
Wasting resources to develop XZs, i rather save the cost, and release some special edition XZ, like more colours of choices. Just like many of us choosing XZ because the special forest blue colour.
But what did Sony do now, is pissing their loyalty customers. Sony (Ericsson) was the top brands, but now not even in top 10 list to compete with some chinese OEM. Sony is not able to compete with other in price and spec. They have a niche market, which mainly loyal customers and supporter who loves Sony unique trademark & technology. But these actions are blowing away this small group of customers too.

I am using this creator sound mod since z3.
Incredible.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevic...ria-xz-t3569123

Unlock&flashing need a lot of courages, but do not need much of skill lol.
I prefer the old phone which can expoit root, no need to unlock. Anything worse happen, just factory reset and send to warranty. But unlock is a bit more risky, anything bad happen to usb port or screen, it may not able to re-flash back to official rom and send warranty.
But seem like it will never able to do that, after Z5 series. But luckily, XZ is the last phone which has android 6 rom, which still exploit to dirtycow bug, still able to backup TA partition.
Nowadays new phone doesn't really need root. Official rom is good enough for daily usage. But official rom usually is more balanced setting, which limits the performace and the true power of the hardware.