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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] N1k0la89:
Can you please tell me what software you use? Is your BL locked, is your wireless always on? I have an xperia that cant last above 12 hours and somethimes if i use it 2 much battery goes from 100% to 10% in 3h 40min. I tryed all softwares, reduce bightness, turn of almost everytnig... So please tell me how did you configure your phone? Mozda je problem sto je meni na engleskom :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] true-blue:
How much screen do you get on lets say 50% brightness, on normal use, i see that you used your phone 2h and you only lost about 20% off your baterry. I can barelly get 4h screen on, and i have wi fi, 3g, or nfc off.

Which androiddo you use, and whats your firmware version.......or do you use some special software....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vad84:
While playing Ashpalt 7 , eternity warriors 2 , most wanted , wild blood , lil kingdom , deer hunter and many other games I have over 1 % (maybe 1,3 %) per minute battery drain without any other background apps running , no wifi and brightness 30%. Is it normal ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Its quite good rather..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vad84:
After 1d 22h 41m i have 12% left

phone calls 1h 44m

android system 1d 0h 32m

screen 2h 5m

lil kingdom 34m

media server 1h 3m

firmware 6.1.A.2.45

When I'm using my phone only for phone calls usually 3 - 4 hours and nothing more, battery last for 5- 6 days
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
This test was only screen on time, so not touching the phone, only screen was on.

I posted some screenshots of normal usage on page 132. Usually I also get 3-4h screen on. This is all stock ICS.50
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 3vilhomer:
i was only on 10 mins phone call total

about 50 whatsapp total

gmail refresh every hour

facebook manual refresh

brightness on 25%

bluetooth and NFC always on

jumping back and forth in HSDPA and EDGE... for the whole day i basically get about 13 hours of battery life...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PedroEspiga:
The batteries of my smartphones are always the same, do not last long. There are applications for optimizing?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zn533:
This is my usage... Cyanogenmod 10 and Nova Kernel OC to 1.7GHz. Some calls, games, messaging, facebook, whatsapp and browsing, as well as a couple of pictures. My normal usage...

Not bad at all!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scorpionSE:
For the last few days, ive been cheking my batery usage I always get the most use of batery from " serviced that cost you money

What can i do to reduce this usage?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] akashgupta222:
I went into the service menu to see the battery capacity and it says 1680 mAh, while the official should have been like 1750.

Is this normal or my battery has been damaged ?

I had got a phone which was charged to 22% out of the box. Is it possible that the shopkeeper sold me a one which had already been used ?

PS. Its only been a month since a got this phone
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SilentEYE:
This was my record with appx 17 min of calls and 40-60 min Screen on. (I lost my other screenshots after sending my phone to service)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rent0n:
Hi guys,

Sorry, I don't have the time to read the whole thread.

I've got a new Sony Xperia S with stock ICS and battery barely lasts till I arrive home after a normal day of work...

What are the best tips and tricks to make the battery last longer? Is there any app that really helps and is worth installing?

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] CollectoR13:
AW: [DISCUSSION] Xperia S battery life

Try juice defender app.

If you have WLAN,Bluetooth and nfc on and you dont need it that much, turn it off.

Also try to decrease screen brightness a bit.

This helped me on stock Rom.

gesendet von meinem Sony Xperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
I wouldn't recommend juice or any battery savers. It's much better when you manage stuff like that by yourself . First i would recommend rooting your phone (it's real easy) , and installing apps like "link2sd" or "system tuner pro/lite" There you can freeze(block) apps you don't use from running . Keep the screen brightness between 25-40%, use 2G network when you don't need 3G ,.....

Here are my latest results . XTX9 , stock kernel with some pimp my rom tweaks , deleting fast dormacy apk, after dealing with various wakelocks.. and few other tweaks here and there.

The area where you start to see really little background awake activity is after i disabled google now and sony's DLNA .
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] N1k0la89:
Hi all, i use Xperia S for 6 months now and i had bad experience with battery, i wanna tell you my story i bought the phone and ofcourse charged my battery 3 times 12h to form it good, but it couldnt last more than 15hours on one charge, thats when it was idle all day, it last 10h on one charge, i had bih problems, a week ago i decided to buy another battery but i opened my phone and wanted to see my battery, i found 1700mah instead of 1750mah inside, strange... I tought it was 1750mah but nvm then i charged my battery out of the phone, on a external charger, charged it almost 6hours and after that charge i put it back to my phone, now my battery last 20 hours on high use and 32h on normal use. Sorry for my bad english.. I hope i helped sm1, try for yourself if you experience bad battery life.

and i dont understand why i have 1700mah battery inside... I saw on ebay 2800mah battery for xperia s, what do you think guys, should i buy it? ofcourse its not original, but mb it could last me 2 days... Btw i got stupid yellow tint on screen and bad battery, what a luck ha? :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] red.leader87:
I should flash back my roms more often... It seems to consist of some kind of battery enhancement feature embedded somewhere in the sequence..

Cm10 was the Rom used before restoring cm9.1 image. Yes there was an app (didn't check which one) running in the background and if not cm10 runs quit nicely on the battery. I found the phone was running every Rom but this one at 10+ degrees hotter under idle or minimal load on the cpu.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
Is this a lousy battery usage? Sync off, data switched on once in a while, slight game and internet browsing.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Javi22:
I've xtx9 and stock Kernel as you. I've noticed a big improvement of battery after flashing .55 kernel and disabling gps and Google network location service.

So should I delete fast dormancy as well? Google now too?

Well, here is my consume , not bad so far
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
It's not lousy but it could be better;) . I would recommend to keep your wlan all the time (even if you are not conneced to AP) which will reduce "android system" usage for sure, or install Better battery stats app , and start dealing with wakelocks :fingers-crossed:

Really not bad. We actually have pretty similar resault(only your WLAN was always on,which leads to less wakelocks..) .Seems like stock kernel is really not that bad after all :D . . I deleted it because i had many "com.sonyericsson.wakeup" wakeups caused by that apk. You can delete it , but keep a backup of the file ,because in some cases it can lead to even more battery drain ;). I frozen google now as i don't use it . I don't really use it's features and it was buggy for me . Could you post SS's from better battery stats after using your phone for several hours ? I'm really interested in comparing our's :D. Like this...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Javi22:
Sure, tomorrow I will post my better battery stats. I also want to compare if there is any difference if I delete fast dormancy

Btw, the consume also depends a lot in your network coverage. If you move a lot during the day it's gonna be much more drain than if you stay home. I have noticed it, the differences can be very high
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
Looking forward :good:

Yeah , that makes sense . I use 2G because i have much better coverage with it, and when i need 3G, i simply turn it on with toggle .

.I'll keep an eye on drain while moving :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lvtlong:
hi, i just flash nova cm10 rom and have a weird thing with battery, charge it to 100% and it last very long in this 100% percentage, 30m of screen on and still on 100%, that's weird?:D

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and it's the 3rd time i have encounter this thing..all way on cm rom ( 2 on cm9 and 1 on cm10 )....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Javi22:
This has been this morning. Screen on only for 1h 13m

I don't understand what gtalk does there. It is not installed, and auto sync is off

The network has been 2G about the 75% of the time. I'm using Toggle2G app, which I suspect is wasting a bit of battery in the background, but not sure
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
Little flashback...

All those gtalk alarms and "com.google.android.gsf" wakeups can be removed by freezing google service framework. You lose access to playstore, but you can always unfreeze GSF to download latest updates ;) . Now having almost perfect awake graph :)

Cheers
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NadavIs:
Hi, it would be very useful and greatly appreciated if someone that kept track of all this thread will write some tips for saving battery, for people that start to read only now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Javi22:
I don't meant the toggle of the notification bar heheheh, is another thing, it's an app that automatically can toggle 2g/3g depending on screen on /off, wifi... It's called toggle2g

So I want to make test about it, I'll let it enabled one night, and disabled the next night so I can compare consumes

After that I will try freezing fast dormancy, but I am worried about if data network doesn't work fine after doing that
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kaiseris:
I wouldn't complain with that kind of battery life :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
Who said i was complaining :laugh::cool: . I just wanted to achive round numbers :p . Here are the final results . Got in a long what's app conversation, so 2days were impossible task :) .

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37056254&postcount=2727
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
I just did some tests on browsing time 15% brightness vs. 50% brightness and got some interesting results.

I did test in Dolphin with "tab reload" add-on set on 1minute. The site I was reloading was technobuffalo which is really heavy to load. But before testing brightness I was curious what is difference in battery usage desktop vs. mobile website on 50% brightness. And the difference was really obvious.

Desktop site was so power consuming, that the phone got a bit hot. And in 30 minutes it ate 15% of battery. So, 3 hours of browsing and only 10% to spare.

But luckily mobile sites are a lot friendlier. In 30 minutes 12% on 50% brightness, so 4 hours of browsing and 4% to spare. But the most interesting part was when I changed the brightness to 15% and I got the exact same results. 30 minutes 12%...

And then I wanted to isolate web browsing so I tried the same tests in airplane mode in case of mobile network eating battery.

Without network connection half an hour of browsing mobile sites ate 10% of battery with 50% brightness. So, exactly 5 hours of browsing to 0%. But what happens with 15% brightness? Nothing much, 30 minutes 9%. That means 5 hours and 10% to spare, or 5 hours and 30 minutes and 1% left.

Is it really worth to hurt your eyes on 15%???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sai.shing:
I'm can use about 1day if I'm not play any games but just phone.

But If I play game, maybe around 4hrs will totally used.

So, I charge my phone every night.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Javi22:
Thank you for sharing these brightness tests :) good to know

Btw I've a question for anyone, does your phone drain any battery when idle at night, with airplane mode on and no apps running in background?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
A bit..about 1-2%
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mmm273:
With playing battery only 1 day... without playing can be 2-3 days, for me
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Plzz share your io scheduler and voltage and governor settings
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Efe64:
@PLovdiv

We need things like this!

And now a test between white and black:p

Verstuurd van mijn Xperia S met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mmm273:
on STOCK ICS ROM, i dont change this things...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
I'm also greatfull for those brightness tests. I have set brightness between 25-40% which i find suitable for any condition

Even there was lot of wakeups, i didn't lose even 1% :)

Send using Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MafiaManV:
Didn't touch voltage or frequency.. Under kernel tweaks i ticked all options

Send using Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tnt4ever:
xperia S

hello

same issue i was facing rubbish battery timing

i done a hard reset removed everything comes in it

disabled few apps from application pannel in settings( since they come with the software cant remove them)

disabled bravia engine( dont know this make difference or not but for peace of mind

the lcd contrast is at 23%

using stock launcher no awd or any third party

specially removed mail droid and reinstalled it cause i believe it was the main thing consuming more and more battery to sync

set the time out to 30 seconds instead of a minute

charged full last night around 11:30 and disabled wifi blue tooth and location sharing but enabled data and at morning around 10 am it was 73 Percent with constant data connection on going) not bad thoug

till now the phone is just resting doing nothing except few calls , few notifications from ebay, few mails, and few small apps for a while and still stands on 68 percent since 11:30 on WIFI

i noticed the best thing to stop battery being over consumed, that the constant data connection is very heavy either way wireless or gprs.

i noticed another thing my phone was slightly heated up yesterday when i was in community centre but dont know if it was just inside my pocket and room temperature was slightly high or the phone it self does this...

i got the stock power saver widget on screen so its good for me to stop it when i dont want things to go anyway, the phone is alright but not a 100% what i believe it should be...my perception for Sony or Old Ericson remained the same '' expect the unexpected compared to other brands''

bdw my battery is still at 68% :highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tolrojus:
I think miui rom is very good at battery durability :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AndroidInsanity:
Can someone tell me if this is good battery life? Am using the turbo ROM 2.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
Assuming yr screen time is more than 4 hour, I think this is decent enough battery life. At least, it's better than stock
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
You can get more than 4h even on stock. I got 6.1.A.2.55 recently and I can see some improvment on battery life. I am happy with it but I can't wait to see battery life on jelly bean.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] spliffos:
Generally I make whole day without charging, but only if I turn off 3G. That 3G sucks my battery even on standby.

Brightness is on 50% always.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Don't know which build you use. I also had problems with 3g eating a lot of battery on 6.1.A.2.45. Now that I have .55 it is much better.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamad335500:
Deep sleep battery saver app which is like a battery stamina mode in Xperia z it extended battery 4x long
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
Just curious, do u install whatapp or line or any other messaging app on yr phone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mmm273:
and one advice for rooted users -

install setCPU, make profile, add all apps wich works on low mhz (launcher, mesaging, etc), set 500mhz and tadaaa - battery life improved without lose performance...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Nope, don't have anything like that. Just 2 gmail accounts always syncing.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] spontigo:
My Xperia SL lasts almost 17 hours with this settings and using it a lot, 2 hours of music, whatsapp, twitter, like 30 minutes of talking

- Bright at 30%

- Only 2G (what is perfect for me, i use whatsapp, twitter, mail)

- SetCPU whit this settings

- In call (384-810)

- Battery 15% <=== (384-810)

- Screen off (384-810)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mr_Comple:
Can't achieve a full charge

i have a big problem withi my xperia s...!

i plug it to the charger when it had about 17%

after some logical time battery was 94% and then stops there...!!!! can reach 100% why that...? generally when battery reaches 90 % and more charging stops between 90 an 100...but never exact 100% :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mmm273:
Brightness 40%

No OC or UC

All stock + blotware removed

Normal daily use ( calls, messaginf, wifi, games)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Efe64:
Reset your phone.

Power + volume up untill 3 vibrates.

Verstuurd van mijn Xperia S met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
I have SL and my battery get sucked really fast, have WiFi on, logged in to Skype, Facebook,Gmail and have instal several apps, screen. is set to 60% I get only 3 hours of browsing or playing, or if I Play games 2 Hours I can get 9 hrs more on standby, I don't talk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Sirence:
Sounds normal. Skype and facebook drain battery in the background like crazy.

2 hours when you play is also normal, especially if it's a game with 3d graphics.

If you want more battery life disable facebook and uninstall Skype.

Gesendet von meinem LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
xda ete

I still think my battery is drained too fast,

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I still think my battery is drained too fast, can't post image because I am a newbie, get 3 hours of use with one charge screen brightness 60%
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] true-blue:
thats normal i think, you have few acc synced, and screen on 60%, lower it to 20-40

a got about 3:30h to 4h of 3g surfing, ill post pictures later so you can compare results

But if i play games it drains much faster

post us some of your ss
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
I tried but I should make 10 posts before I can place links
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] true-blue:
this is mine, from last night

http://imgur.com/a/CnKmm#0
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
postimage.org/image/5aapnykj5/

postimage.org/image/41dx24zk9

Copy these and paste in your browser

Your screen consume 2x less then mine
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lordriguez:
Me too i have juste 4hours before a new charge 3g or wifi enable with Facebook.and whatsup!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] true-blue:
3,5h on 60% brightness isn't that bad, but duno....

what do you mostly do with your phone, e.g. today i got new rom (xzx v1), and tonight while i was on work, i had 96% battery, when i was going home 45%, aboue 2h 20m screen on, but brightnest was 0, and i was using it for 3g surfing all the time, and face, gmail, tapatalk synced for push notification

what rom do you use, what firmware, maybe try something different
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xdax1:
The battery life is not very good in Xperia S, but I can now have around 8-10 hours life under 3G running, Used to have only 4-5 hours max, what I did is to ROOT the device, and used "ROOT app delete" to delete Time Escape, emaill app, google+, tweeter, some widgets, live wallpaper, ANT+ and many many others system appz, it makes my phone so much smoother and less CPU drain, so it's now very stable and fast, battery is alright too, love this device.

Hope it can help.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
I really want the zl model it has much more than sl
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
i dont really think there will be any major help in battery life coz though zl has bigger mAh than s.. it also has a quad core processor..and a 4g radio..if u use 4g.. please buy a portable charger.. battery drain is gonna be HUGE with the quad core
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tnt4ever:
Well so far I fixed mine

I been using my phone since past 50 minutes and battery discharged only 5%

Also my th and all accounts are synced but m going to replace facebook with seesmic Much lighter
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
On gsm arena blog Xperia s battery test for web browsing gets 5 hours and 25 minutes, how is that possible
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Where did you find that? I don't know that gsmarena did that test. Are you sure?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] igork1000:
Yes I am sure it is the compare of Samsung Sll vs Xperia S

They have battery test section also l, check out their blog

On other test site found result that Xperia s holds 5 hrs and 45 min web browsing with maximum screen light
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sixdaysandy:
I'd have to agree with shmoejoe.

Out the box, completely stock, on the 67 firmware I got about 12 hours constant use off the first charge with everything bar bluetooth enabled (WiFi, Data Network, 35% Brightness, NFC, GPS, playing with the HDMI output to my TV) and didn't drop below 25% Battery. Second day I used the phone moderate/heavily for 15 hours and managed to get it down to 20%. Today I've had the phone running for 6 hours slightly above average use, as I'm still showing people the new phone, and using an hour of audio playback, an hour with WiFi on, about 3 hours with Mobile Data & GPS on and I'm down to 80%. Considering what the phone's spec is that's pretty decent to me, and the battery will only be bedding in over the first week so it should improve.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Pett0:
Lucky both of u...Hope that tomorrow I will get a better battery in the new phone cos mine is bad so far and I cant see any improvment at all. Like I said it before I have had the phone for 6 days with light use and the battery last 8 hours top. Like the phone thou so I will give it another try.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Rashkae:
I think it's just one or 2 rogue services. Once we have identified these and verified things after freezing them, we should be good to go.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GalaxyS2R:
So far despite my battery stats saying 1540000 uah. I have had excellent battery life with my phone no complaints what so ever

now this is confusing, i have just used the battery monitor widget and it says my battery is 1750mah
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sticlmo:
Battery issue

I have had mine for less than a week and have had problems even when off. Last night I charged it to 100% and then turned it OFF. This morning when I turned it on it was at 92%. The previous night I did the same thing and woke up to it being at 85%. So yes it is getting better, but should it be losing battery power when it is OFF?

FYI, I did just update it to version .67 from .62 today.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andoridkiller:
That 1540000 is the amount currently being used, im pretty certain it is.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GalaxyS2R:
My battery is indeed 1750mah, the battery app thingy I downloaded is showing me my usage out of 1750mah and the lower the battery goes the lowe the value out of 1750mah, my phone is on charge now and the battery is getting higher again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] electric0ant:
i'm slightly concerned about battery life too, i know it takes a few charge cycles to get the battery to its best capacity, but at the moment it seems to drop quite fast.

i.e. this morning unplugged from charged at 100% after 15 mins and sending 5 messages on whatsapp its now at 97%.

i love every other aspect of the phone, but if the battery is going to be this poor i'm not sure i can keep it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Joshseadog:
I picked mine up yesterday on O2 UK after fully charging, battery only lasted 7hrs to empty. It only had light use and all was set up whilst charging. In fact have not used it yet to make calls or texts. I dread to think what its like if you watch videos or surf frequently. Like the phone very much but if battery will not improve I do not think it will be a keeper.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
In contrast I left the phone on 17% and after 8 hours it dropped 1%.

On Flight Mode.