We’re starting our Android 5.0, Lollipop upgrade from today for Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact.
You’ll see the upgrade hit first devices in the Nordics and Baltics, continuing to further markets, for more Xperia Z Series products, starting in around two weeks time* – we’ll share the latest here, as it happens.
After blending Google’s first Lollipop release with our Sony software, some of the goodies include;
Fresh, streamlined looks – based on Google’s material design, but retaining our minimalistic approach to interface and application design
New look notifications and lock screen – with fully customizable settings, so you only get the information you really need
Multi user profiles and guest mode – making it easy for family and friends to use your device, or the creation of dual environments for work and play…
Android for Work – not only are business-ready Xperia smartphones and tablets unique devices for work – with waterproof form factors, great battery life and productivity features – they will now also be part of the Android for Work ecosystem
Better storage control and customisation – with the option to easily move applications from internal memory to SD card – giving you more control over your content, particularly useful for devices with slightly less space
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http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2015/03...lollipop-rollout-xperia-z3-xperia-z3-compact/
Has anyone recieved the update yet
Look in the main 5.0 thread. Plenty of people have received it, region specific
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Is not the place to ask questions, and there are already enough threads about lollipop ?
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The X10 has an issue with the Bootloader being protected by Marlin DRM.
There is no obvious reason and no clear benefit to end users or the general public. Most likely a precautionary measure to ensure SE applications work as intended and to assist with purchases of games, music, updates to Android firmware (often mistakenly called ROM's) and features Sony Ericsson have not explained in any level of detail or even stated that it exists as part of their obligations and your rights to know as the consumer.
According to the W3C.
What are some potential invasions of privacy?
1. User authentication - current PKI protocols limit the degree of anonymity -- we need to know who are you so we can sue you if you infringe
2. Usage tracking for fraud prevention
OK. Now you have just purchased a Sony Ericsson Android phone and all your social network contacts from any social media site can be merged with your phone book, backed up into Google's Gmail and shared beyond any one or all of these service's. The man controlling 'everything' that happens on your device is SE.
The phone at core capability is able to run Ubuntu / Debian Linux, Windows, iPhone and emulate everything you might wish to or choose to. Thanks to this 'feature' in the form of the Marlin DRM and Seacert broadband bootstrap implementation being present on these phones... it isn't going to happen.
With the Xperia models, the entire operating system is virtualized on boot and impossible to modify the behavior of the boot loader, due to a very high grade encryption system, provided by Inter Trust.
Unlike HTC, Motorolla, Samsung (who own a stake in the Marlin DRM but choose not to use it for snooping or destroying the main purpose of Android phones) for that matter most other Android phone manufacturers, allow the boot loader to be modified without too much effort and load a custom bootloader for multiple firmwares.
e.g; Gingerbread 2.3.2 is the default o/s shipped with Sony Ericsson apps, you want to keep this but also load Honeycomb, or Gingerbread 2.3.3, a modified vanilla o/s without things like timescape and unnecessary apps that do nothing for saving battery life.. it's your phone and you should be able to have this choice, in fact the reason Android is open source, is stop one company from forming any kind of monopoly.
So what should DRM so for us?
Are there general requirements from the concept of free flow of information?
* avoid unnecessary use restrictions, respect fair use
* universal service --- equal and fair access right
* support variety of licensing options
* make it easy for users to act lawfully
* seamless operation, interoperability of DRMS
* Support Information Search(engines)
* make licensing easy to reduce transaction costs
* secure operating environment: integrity and availability of content
* avoid bottlenecks and monopolies when standardizing (production and distribution)
Conclusion:
* copyright laws give free hand to those who develop DRMS
* Only few compulsory requirements from Law, but Guidelines can be derived from Law
* when hesitating, think in terms of free flow of information
Now back on over in Android world at Google HQ...
On 24 September 2009, Google issued a cease and desist letter to the modder Cyanogen, citing issues with the re-distribution of Google's closed-source applications within custom firmware.
Even though most of Android OS is open source, phones come packaged with closed-source Google applications for functionality such as the application store and GPS navigation.
Google asserted these applications can only be provided through approved distribution channels by licensed distributors. Cyanogen complied with Google's wishes and is continuing to distribute this mod without the proprietary software.
He has provided a method to back up licensed Google applications during the mod's install process and restore them when it is complete.
The exact same principle can be done with SE closed source apps and SE do provide the source code for their firmwares as part of the open source license. Anyone withing to check this out can simply head over to http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/technology/android/ and start developing straight away. The source code, test keys and everything you need is either there or linked from there back to the places you need to be.
Semcboot security algorithms are not required and serve no benefit. The day that SE stop's supporting updates for this device, the same as they did with the Xperia X10 at 2.1 Eclair, your phone will be useless and stuck with older versions of Android.
If this is acceptable and your not bother by having no bootloader mod's, a hack to be able to change firmware that may someday soon be blocked and privacy issues built in as a matter of due course that you were not even correctly informed of, except for via a specialist forum (your looking at it), then good luck with your Arc, Neo or Play.. and I suspect that there is the real rationale here - Play.
Marlin DRM exists in the PlayStation 3 for the market and guide as it does in the PSP and also will in the Xperia Play. SE became rather unhappy when the master cryptographic key to the PS3 was discovered and distributed on mass over the internet (I have a t-shirt with the codes printed...) as it bypassed their protection ad allowed among other things, pirated games to play and unauthorized content to loaded, custom operating systems etc..
Sony Ericsson watched carefully at HTC and thought about how best to implement all of their technology in an extremely secure manor and this is the result. It may actually benefit end users, so far Sony have yet to state their side of the story and will be looking forward to seeing posts on anything relevant in this thread, for anyone interested in the subject and for anyone thinking of buying an Arc.
Wish I had of known this information before I purchased my x10 but is it such a perfect world?
Isn't the X10 hackable?
This forum here has tons of custom roms for the X10
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=617
Sorry for the stupid question. I'm new to SE and considering an Xperia arc.
yoyohere2 said:
Isn't the X10 hackable?
This forum here has tons of custom roms for the X10
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=617
Sorry for the stupid question. I'm new to SE and considering an Xperia arc.
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No it is not. We cannot get a newer Linux kernel with new feature hooks that support functions like tether and hotspot and speed or security improvements. All the roms just overlay newer Android on top of the older kernel.
Other phones have been fully hacked and can get a newer kernel to support the newer Android without any mismatched functions. The devs here have to work hard retrofitting Android.
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well the X2 wasnt hacked yet
This thread shows how to root a X10.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=711907
So the xperia arc and xperia x10 can be rooted?
Geohot recently announced that he bought a Xperia x10 and will be first in cue for the Xperia play. Keeping his success in mind I've got a good feeling about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXxw71oxjxs
Well looking at the SE blog in the coments about the gingerbread update someone post this link for a global petition to SE about their actual strategy on the market
i´ve allready sing what do you think of this are you agree or not? http://www.petitiononline.com/se2011/petition.html
umm...what?
The future is smartphone, and I will argue that the X10, arc, Vivaz, all SE smartphones, DO have the Sony Ericsson touch. You can see it from the style, the looks, everything.
I don't see the point of this.
Apparently the petitioner does not know anything about how much it costs to actually produce those "simple phone" interfaces. If you look at the later phones with that generic OS, they are powered by better processors, but the speed of those are only on par with the older phones. The reason is behind the poor OS structure to begin with. The foundation was not solid enough to be built upon, hence, the little improvements from model to model. SE did try to fix the foundation. W395's software was written by a total new team from ground up. If you have played with it, the speed is much faster than any other similar OS devices from SE. However, the timeline from that point on was touched upon Android, and people were looking for phones with the ability to expand its capabilities(such as applications and such). To revamp the whole OS, or to adopt a new OS and just spend on development, the answer should now be clear. Plus, SE has been doing a heck lot to simplify users who are not customed to smartphones, which is why Yendo and such have similar UI's so users can easily switch or move up models without having to relearn everything. Software and applications also came out where users have everything they need. IMO, that petition will land no where but in the scrapyard. It's understandable, but on the development front, it is no where to become a new reality.
Android 5.0, Lollipop rollout: Xperia Z3 & Xperia Z3 Compact from today 16.03.2015
As promised way back in October 2014, Sony is now starting to roll out an upgrade to Android Lollipop for users of its existing Z3 and Z3 Compact devices.
Announced today in a blog post, it says that other Z Series products will start to get the upgrade in about two weeks. For now, it’s only Z3 and Z3 Compact devices for users in Nordic and Baltic countries, but a wider European release is expected shortly after.
the upgrade hit first devices in the Nordics and Baltics, continuing to further markets, for more Xperia Z Series products, starting in around two weeks time* – we’ll share the latest here, as it happens.
After blending Google’s first Lollipop release with our Sony software, some of the goodies include;
•Fresh, streamlined looks – based on Google’s material design, but retaining our minimalistic approach to interface and application design
•New look notifications and lock screen – with fully customizable settings, so you only get the information you really need
•Multi user profiles and guest mode – making it easy for family and friends to use your device, or the creation of dual environments for work and play…
•Android for Work – not only are business-ready Xperia smartphones and tablets unique devices for work – with waterproof form factors, great battery life and productivity features – they will now also be part of the Android for Work ecosystem
•Better storage control and customization – with the option to easily move applications from internal memory to SD card – giving you more control over your content, particularly useful for devices with slightly less space
Be sure to follow the blog and @SonyMobileNews for all the latest as our rollout continues.
*Timing and availability may vary by market and/or carrier
Source> http://blogs.sonymobile.com/2015/03...lollipop-rollout-xperia-z3-xperia-z3-compact/
Please search, there is a lollipop ? thread already
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I have a Lenovo Yoga 10+ HD; not a bad machine as far as tablets go, but with an ancient Android on it - 4.4.2 - and Lenovo do not indeed to provide upgrades. From what I've read, the version of 5.0 which can be bunged onto the (rooted) machine is a bit hit and miss; some things don't work as well as they should. This seems to be a problem with Lenovo hardware in general.
So I'm vaguely in the market for a new tablet, and I think rather than wait for the company to provide upgrades, I'd be better off running with a custom ROM right from the beginning, thus taking full control over the machine. This is analogous to my use of laptops, on which I run Linux: one of the deciding factors for me is the quality of the Linux experience (and curiously, Lenovo Thinkpad laptops are very good for Linux).
So my question is: if I was to buy a large tablet, mainly for academic use and multimedia, and I wanted to put Omni on it - what would you recommend?
Thanks!
Right now, most of our supported tablets are "legacy" devices.
Of the best-supported ones, I'd say Nexus 7 (flo). Sony Tablet Z used to be well supported but I haven't had time to keep it alive lately. Sony Tablet Z4 will eventually come, there are pros and cons to this from an Omni perspective:
Pros - We'll be tracking Sony AOSP so that reduces maintainer effort significantly
Cons - I'd be handling the Omni-specific stuff and the rest of the team will agree that I really haven't been around too much lately. Also right now Sony AOSP doesn't do camera very well at all - this is actually one of the few Android issues I've spent time on recently vs. non-Android projects lately.
However, pros of this device in general - Sony's stock firmwares are excellent and Sony does a pretty good job of updating their devices nowadays, and they're improving too (see for example the Concept firmwares, which wound up with the Z3 being one of the first devices to receive an OEM Marshmallow build although it's still a "semi-custom" build not normally deployed to users...) My Z3 held the record of "longest time I've ever owned a phone without even bothering to root it or unlock the bootloader" (from November 2014 until around March/April 2015) - my Z5 Premium is currently in second place, have been running bone stock since early December.
I guess we are done for security updates. It has been right at 2 years. Sad thing is, this is still a great little phone. I am not in the mood to root and tinker with issues. I wished there was a stable ROM out there to use. I wished that LineageOS would pick this little jewel up. Oh, well. It has been a good 2 years of a small, but very informative community of X Compact users.
I am still searching for a small phone replacement since Sony does not make small phones anymore. Post here if you have any recommendations.
Cheers!
del
I feel you. I think I've said it before on this forum, but I really don't get why there isn't a lineageos build for this phone. Lots of sony xperia phones have official lineageos builds and there even is an unofficial build for this device (so it's not exactly impossible to build).
That being said, I generally prefer omnirom and luckily they are supporting this device. I've been on omnirom 8.1 for ages and haven't encountered a bug yet, so imho it can definitely be considered stable. Right now I'm using a self-built omnirom 9.0 (security patch level 5 november 2018) as a daily driver and for a pre-official build it is already pretty stable. Sony's 'Pie' software binaries (which thankfully they still provide) are still in beta, so coupled with the omnirom team efforts the stability will only increase.
Bottom line for smartphone manufacturers: Just provide what is needed for the open source community to flourish, it'll cost you next to nothing and will pay you back in goodwill many times over.
Next upcoming problem is the lack of support for the Project Treble in Xperia X series devices which at least may cause significant delay in releasing ROMs based the newer Android versions or in the worst case might result in stopping their development as the successor - XZ1 series - supports it. I hope developers will follow the Z5 series path as there already is LineageOS for these. And hopefully some Xiaomi devices path as there are devices which now have unofficial support of the Project Treble.
BTW, we should also thank to the Google for an unwise cycle of releasing new Android version every year which accelerates fragmentation significantly as its main reason seems to be to persuade people to buy newer devices with latest version of Andoid OS on board.
harryharryharry said:
Lots of sony xperia phones have official lineageos builds and there even is an unofficial build for this device (so it's not exactly impossible to build).
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I suppose more recent Sony smartphones have been sold in significantly lower quantities than older ones (I read many times about Sony's smartphones poor sales numbers) and it might be the reason of a smaller community gathered around those newer devices.
Software security updates stopped?
If Sony stops providing software updates after 2y, it means those of us with a Sony Xperia X Compact (F5321) are unable to add Work e-mail accounts as the Microsoft Intune app requires an Android software update dated May 2019.
This silly policy by Sony is preventing me from adding my work O365 account to the device and means I am very unlikely to buy another Sony mobile phone ever again as its usable life is 2 years max. I am actually quite raging because I like the phone -this is beyond stupid from Sony.
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If Sony stops providing software updates after 2y, it means those of us with a Sony Xperia X Compact (F5321) are unable to add Work e-mail accounts as the Microsoft Intune app requires an Android software update dated May 2019.
This silly policy by Sony is preventing me from adding my work O365 account to the device and means I am very unlikely to buy another Sony mobile phone ever again as its usable life is 2 years max. I am actually quite raging because I like the phone -this is beyond stupid from Sony.
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use browser.
intune sucks anyway.
RTV_1974 said:
If Sony stops providing software updates after 2y, it means those of us with a Sony Xperia X Compact (F5321) are unable to add Work e-mail accounts as the Microsoft Intune app requires an Android software update dated May 2019.
This silly policy by Sony is preventing me from adding my work O365 account to the device and means I am very unlikely to buy another Sony mobile phone ever again as its usable life is 2 years max. I am actually quite raging because I like the phone -this is beyond stupid from Sony.
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This device has pretty lackluster support even in the dev community as well. All it's really got going for it atm but fortunately we have Lineage 17.1 and Project Treble. I recommend flashing a new rom if you don't want to switch phones.