Two months ago, Sony rolled out a Marshmallow update on the Xperia M4 Aqua. While improving battery life and overall performance a bit, this phone still has issues. Animations still lag on some non-GPU intensive applications, like Snapchat, Google Play Store and many more. Stamina mode is not how it was before, camera focus is still terrible and the most complained thing about this device is is that it does not have adoptable storage. The 8GB variant of this phone is practically crippled in its current state, being left with less than 2 gigabytes of free storage. All we want is a solid device. It has the hardware, it just needs the attention put in the software. Please Sony, fix this device, many owners are dissatisfied with it
Also, Sony hasn't released the current Marshmallow update to all countries, so this petition applies to that as well.
The following things need to be fixed:
- Higher audio volume with the new update has been cracky and really low. The last three highest volumes feel the same, no change at all.
- The return of the old STAMINA mode, just like in 5.0. With disabled animations it looks like it lags even more when swiping the status bar.
- Better camera focus. The new update introduced a new UI for the camera, but no focus improvement whatsoever.
- Better app optimization and animations fix. With the new update this has been fixed a bit, but not a lot. Non-GPU intensive apps lag, like the official Music app from Sony when swiping for the full list of My library, songs, artists etc.
- The full functionality of Doze. You can double tap to turn the screen off, however you can't double tap to turn on the screen.
- The global release of the latest Marshmallow update. It is still not available for some countries and that seems very unfair.
- Newer themes like the Orchid theme for the E5 (probably released to other Xperia devices as well) do not work properly. It does not display the theme properly on lock screen.
- The highly requested adoptable storage. The 8 GB variant is crippled in its current state. After installing and updating some essential apps, the phone feels very limited with storage, leaving us with less than 2 gigabytes of memory to spare.
That covers the majority of the issues me and other M4 Aqua users found. If I missed out on anything, please let me know in the comments and I'll add that to the list of issues. Please do this for us, Sony.
