Sony Xperia 47.1.A.12.235 update

[JascaDucato]

Hi all.

I am wondering if anybody here has updated their Sony Xperia devices to firmware version 47.1.A.12.235 yet? (I believe that it's only available on XZ Premium, XZ1, or XZ1 Compact.)

Sony has a rather annoying habit of forgetting to publish their changelogs with their updates, and some preliminary research into the upgrade suggests that is has introduced a camera bug that actually prevents the device from taking photos. If this is indeed the case then, obviously, I'm going to avoid upgrading the firmware.

Thanks in advance,

[MI5]

@viridis ?

[Cleoriff]

@JascaDucatoI'm sure our Sony expert @viridis will be able to advise you on this issue...

[viridis]

Let me check this, I've not heard about a bug such as this tbh, gimmie a minute.

[viridis · Accepted solution]

Ok so there are a two reports on XZ1 of users unable to save images to sd after the update. However I suspect clearing camera data should fix that. Even reinserting SD can fix that tbh. I see no issues on xz premium and when I was running that software I had no issues on it.
Myself personally I'd say it's fine and if any issues do occur, a backup and reset would sort it.
But also, it's a small security update so there's probably no harm waiting for another either.

[JascaDucato]

Thank you all for the quick replies.

@viridisThanks for looking into it - based on your response, I'll likely go ahead and upgrade as I'd hate receiving the constant prompts to update my software.

Thanks, once again.

[viridis]

No problem