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    Help Sony Xperia Z3 - Maybe Pink Damage?

    Hi, So today I noticed there was a little bit of pink on my screen display, its not only there during pictures. Its only truly noticible at an angle or when the screen has a black picture on it. Its not there when the screen is locked so its definetly the display. Any idea how i might have...
  2. abbieb

    Help Z3 making loud radio buzzing sound randomly

    Since I updated the phone on Monday with the latest Sony release 5.0.2 Build Number 23.1.A.1.28 the phone suddenly omits a loud buzzing sound like an out of tune radio station. It lasts about 2-3 seconds and then goes off by itself. What is this all about and why are these updates causing SO...
  3. abbieb

    Latest Sony Update WIPED entire SD card

    After the monumental screw up of Lollipop, Sony issued a new update to my phone yesterday which promised bug fixes and performance improvements. What it failed to tell me however, is that after the update the entire contents of my SD card had been wiped. ALL music, photos, videos and...
  4. chloe0103

    Help Lost photos to album LOST.DIR < help?

    Hello everyone, I bought the z3 a few months ago and put my memory card - from my old phone samsung s4 - into this phone and everything seemed fine. I have recently noticed some of my photos are missing. I have searched my phone and found them in a file called LOST.DIR I cannot view the files...
  5. M

    Help Touchscreen broken, Bypass lockscreen in order to back up?

    Hi my Sony Xperia Z3 just cracked a while ago and the touchscreen itself is not working and its locked. I am currently trying to find out possible ways to get to the internal storage of the phone to back up some files?
  6. M

    5 virus in my phone!!!!!!!

    Hi everybody I scan my phone and found this virus!!!!! http://s6.picofile.com/file/8186431000/IMG_20150503_WA0003.jpg http://s4.picofile.com/file/8186431026/IMG_20150503_WA0002.jpg http://s6.picofile.com/file/8186431100/IMG_20150503_WA0001.jpg...
  7. E

    Help Broken camera images

    My Z3 keeps breaking my pictures also. Lost a lot of pictures and videos. Not impressed with this phone at all.
  8. S

    Root sony z3 5.0.2 ver. 726 root

    I need help rooting my z3 d6603 5.0.2 ver. 726. Is there a way to root it without unlocking bootloader? any advise for a newb?
  9. Henrik Sommer

    Root Root a Z3 Compact on iMac?

    Hello. As this is my first post on this forum, I will just tell who I am and what The background I have. I have been a DIE HARD apple geek since the very first iPhone came out, and have ONLY had the iPhone since my Nokia 6600 classic. I have pretty much everything in Apple, for example iMac. I...
  10. tracebloom

    Help text messages

    Since updating my sony xperia z3 to the new lollipop, I'm having my sms messages show up in a box on my screen so everyone can see who they are from and the message itself. I use to have just a tone and a little box with a smiley face in it pop up in the notification bar, which was brill as...
  11. S

    Video Cannot Play: Invalid URL Error

    I am using a 128GB class 10 Samsung SDXC UHS-1 memory card to store all my photos and videos from my Xperia Z3. Recently I have encounter two videos that I recorded, cannot be played back in the phone itself and even after the video files have been downloaded to computer. In the phone, when the...
  12. Amro Gamal

    Help Sony Xperia Z3 low ringtone

    Dears I have bought Z3 6 months ago from US. Since last update 23.0.1.A.5.77, I got ringtone is low when I receive a call but it is perfect in preview the ringringtones. Is any way to increased knowing that I have updated my Z3 yesterday to Lollipop but I still has the same issue. Is there any...
  13. O

    What is your favorite and least favorite thing about the Sony Z3?

    My favorite thing: being so waterproof. To be honest, I don't know why. It's not like I use my phone in the water all the time! It's just a major thing I don't Jane to worry about. My least favorite thing: how slow it charges. Nothing worse than getting down to 30% battery before a night out...
  14. AntonyBaker

    Help Have I been hacked ? Xperia Z3 reset itself to factory settings

    Hello I woke this morning to see that my phone which I left charging all night was sitting at the setup screen. I had no choice but to comply with the regional settings etc, and prayed that once I had completed, my data would still be there, it wasn't. What would appear to have happened is...
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    Help Battery Percentage problem

    Over the past few weeks I have noticed a problem after charging the phone, very shortly after disconnecting the phone from the charger the battery level drops right down even if I have not touched the phone, drops about 50%, restarting the phone solves it but its not right that I should have to...
  16. M

    Help No Touch capabilities, need to change USB settings

    My phone has a heavily damaged screen. Colors are displayed in lines but I can't do anything with the touch screen. I'm trying to get the data off it by connecting via USB to my PC. However, the current USB setting must be defaulted to "charging." I need to get it changed to "data transfer." I...
  17. M

    Help Trouble with Widgets

    Hello, I just purchased this phone and I seem to be having a problem. I installed Sol Calendar because I wanted to use the widget on one of my screens. With the Xperia Launcher, the widget shows up in the list and I am able to add it to a blank screen. I wanted to use the Google Now...
  18. R

    Help Why is notifications playing through headphones?

    Ok, so this is my first ever Sony phone (Sony Xperia z3). Before, I used to own a Note 3. When I have my headphones plugged in, the notification plays through them. It scares me and I don't like it. I've never had that problem with the Note 3. Is there any way I can disable that? Maybe through...
  19. C

    Z3 dual sim D6633 : is the bootloader locked?

    Do you know if the D6633 dual sim version of the Z3 comes with a locked or unlocked bootloader? Is there a way to check? Thanks
  20. A

    Root Root Help REQ

    I have a sony experia z3 and i have been trying to root it without the computer and non of the root apk available on the net are supporting this fone..if anybody can help me out with this one would be of great help...thanks in advance
  21. R

    Help calendar settings

    I have a z3 and my husband has a z3 compact. my calendar events show up as a notification on the home screen but my husbands, with the same dates do not. As far as i can see the settings are the same. Are there hidden settings?
  22. partridge

    Lolipop!

    Apparently, Android 5 is imminent for the Z series, starting with the Z3 handset. No sign of it yet on mine though.
  23. O

    Gutted this forum is not active

    This is the best Smartphone i have ever owned and i genuinely look forward to our next 18 months together! Normally by this time im already planning my next phone. But not with this one. Its just such a shame it doesnt seem to have had a huge uptake and that there is hardly any activity on this...
  24. I

    Xperia Z3 - The Endless Beauty

    a video I've just made. I hope you'll like it! (:
  25. T

    Help Weird data issue with Z3

    Myself and my partner have recently purchased an Xperia Z3 each running Android 4.4.4 and love it but experiencing a very strange issue with mobile data. Periodically on both our devices we lose mobile data (no 4G, H/H+ symbol) despite have a good connection. A phone restart fixes the problem...
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