Xperia Lover

PC Companion (PCC; in the past PC Suite) is official software from Sony for complete administration of your Xperia smartphone. It contains a number of tools for back up & restore, reinstalling your phone software and file management in your smartphone, and it also can move data from your iPhone to Xperia.

What PCC CAN do?

• repair your smartphone software without data loss
• transfer user data (contacts, files, SMS) from iPhone to Xperia
• tranfer contacts from other Android smartphone to Xperia
• organize your music and photos 
• synchronize contacts and calendar from Xperia to your Google account
• move files between your Xperia and PC

 

What do I need? (System requirements)

• Internet broadband connection
• Intel® Pentium® 4, 3.6 GHz or equivalent AMD processor
• 500 MB free hard disk space
• 2 GB RAM
• 1 available USB 2.0 port and USB cable
• Microsoft® Windows XP™ SP2 (32 bit), Vista (32/64 bit) or Windows 7 (32/64 bit) or Windows 8 (32/64 bit)

How does it work?

There are many possibilities for usage, but we will focus on the most important one - how to repair your smartphone without data loss?

First you need to prepare your Xperia. Go to Settings -> Xperia -> Connectivity -> USB connection mode and choose Media transfer mode (MTP).

Connect your Xperia to PC with USB cable. PCC will recognize your smartphone and sutomatically finds available updates. If there some updates available, PCC offers you installation. Else, click on the text under your phone name. You'll get a new window, where you can find the option for firmware repair. Just follow the onscreen instructions. PCC will guide throught the whole process.