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Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:23:18 GMT

I upgraded last year and selected a sony experia, worst choice of phone I ever made

Software is slow and locks repeatedly

Refuses to allow me to swipe to accept incoming calls regularly

Battery life very poor

UI is poor

Generally crap!

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:27:44 GMT

Hi

I always suggest if a person can to check out YouTube reviews and to have a play with working demo models at shops to see if it's a phone that matches your wants and needs.

I assume the phone is on the latest firmware and if you've recently updated a hard reset may help to clear out old files making it possibly glitch.do a back up first to save your data in the phones memory.

Edit : I suppose you could sell it and purchase a better for your needs phone.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

jonsie — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:26:34 GMT

Maybe a factory reset would help, back up first.

Personally I don't like the Xperia models but there are plenty that do. Personal preference really.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:31:30 GMT

Try deleting any old / unused apps , videos etc that may be throttling the phone.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

jonsie — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:34:37 GMT

It is possible that an app is causing the problem but I would go for the factory reset and reinstall the apps one by one to see if they cause issues.

The phone does have a 2 year warranty so that's an avenue to go down. I would deal directly with Sony myself.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:41:59 GMT

Which model of Sony Xperia do you use @Anonymous ?

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

MI5 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:30:27 GMT

Sounds like an SP with the 4.3 update...... 😞

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

jonsie — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:36:48 GMT

Enough said..:smileysad:

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:39:56 GMT

MI5 said "Sounds like an SP with the 4.3 update...... "

If so I'm not surprised it may be sluggish after a years use with 8GB of internal memory but only 5.8 GB user available.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

MI5 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:44:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
MI5 said "Sounds like an SP with the 4.3 update...... "

If so I'm not surprised it may be sluggish after a years use with 8GB of internal memory but only 5.8 GB user available.

That actually means very little in reality....

The important factor is memory management - Something that Sony inexplicably missed completely with the 4.3 update.....

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:57:54 GMT

I believe the more apps accrued over time ,and their data that takes up the internal memory does go onto slow the phone down.

So the more user available memory available the less micro management needs to be done.

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

Sammy_boy — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:45:53 GMT

You don't have an Xperia Z by any chance? The last couple of updates have introduced a battery drain bug caused by Google Play Services, good news is it should be getting an update to KitKat 4.4.4 soon which will hopefully fix that bug

Re: Do not get a Sony Experia - save yourself the pain

MI5 — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:49:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I believe the more apps accrued over time ,and their data that takes up the internal memory does go onto slow the phone down.

So the more user available memory available the less micro management needs to be done.

Partially true for older android devices but won't affect any newer devices with unified storage.