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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrsatan:
My battery life was **** when I first got the phone, but it now seems to be much much better. I easily get through a day, sometimes I have 40% plus left over. I usually only surf the net and use music on it though. If you play games, it will blaze through the battery but I think that is true for most phones. Considering how fast it charges, it shouldnt be a huge issue. I wonder if the xperia P will be able to make it through a day with this sort of usage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Just take a look at my post ( last one from the page back). That confirms what you say. I think that I have a better battery because I don't use data, thought...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adicuigrec:
I also had galaxy s1 s2 and a white iphone 4s. I bought xperia s because not everybody has it. But to have 1.5 day of standby time.... if i watch 2 hours of youtube videos -40% battery
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GT35pro:
If you are indoors, turn your screen down to 25% brightness.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamidych:
When I was choosing my phone, I have read lots of reviews... So I was ready for the battery problem, didn't surprise me.

I tried different battery management tools right away. Some of them are very intelligent, such as Easy Battery Saver, others are very simple like the Power Saver (the default app).

But of course you have to spend some time configuring your phone. You can turn off many things that you will not need, or configure stuff to optimize battery life, that combined will make a difference.

I recommend to install Quick Panel, so that you can switch OFF and ON WiFi, BT, Data, Sync, etc. very easy, so that you don't need to go to the Settings all the time. This way you will spend the battery on them ONLY when you are actually using them.

Then configure the sound alerts, vibrations, key tones, key vibrations. Configure this not only in the phone settings, but in every app that you use, such as WhatsApp.

Use a battery manager to at least switch off the unnecessary services during the night, or when the phone is idle.

#EDIT: choose your antivirus carefully if you want to use one. Lots of them available, and lots of them eat up your battery more then others. I personally recommend Dr. Web Light.

Knowing that SONY has a problem with the battery lifetime, try to do everything from your end to make it longer.

It's a beautiful phone after all. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Another good battery day today:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Hi guys,

if i text a lot (like 40 - 50 texts per day, so screen being turned on for a lot of time),

browse the net for like 30 minutes (let's say 15 minutes by wi-fi and 15 by data, 3G in my case),

take a few pictures,

and download/use a few apps, can i make it until the end of the day?

Let me know, i'm considering of buying this phone but i'm still undecided.

Thanks. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] belek1979:
I installed UEFA EURO2012 official app and it was eating battery in 10 hours even if I didn't run the app...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
When your day starts and end? Mine starts at 6 AM and end 11 PM ( not that I am far from charger, but my wake up time). Take a look at my post, it may help you ( about SMS on it, it was about 15 sent, 15 received, + or -)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sonic_boom:
I bought my SONY XPS few days ago. I was very disappointed with Battery Life with Basic Usage of the phone. U can increase your battery life by Using Browser to replaced apps like : FACEBOOK, GOOGLE READER , GMAIL and many more. And Update it manually. Brightness on minimum as well . I will post some screen shoots soon ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ormetkruper:
It takes a week or two before the battery has full capacity.

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sonic_boom:
I yeah. Anyone here belive that ICS will increase battery life?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] looker1:
I hope, that ICS will not decrease battery life...:) Mine +-40hrs of business use (Exchange sync every 30min, Gmail, +15x calls,+10x sms, 30min internet browsing... ) is more than I've expected
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dragunov:
My XPS has been energy efficient since updated to .73.

Before the update, I had to charge it every night.

Now, I even get 3 (2,5 - 3) days with the same usage.

Note that, with both firmware, I did exactly the same usage (per day):

1. Approximatelly 5 SMS

2. More than 1 hour total talktime

3. Browsing the net, mostly via WiFi, for about 30 minutes

4. Playing mainly puzzle games 30+ minutes average

5. Manually checking e-mail about 5 times

6. Checking the "Settings-> About the phone -> Update" about 50 times :) (OK, not really...)

7. Using the camera just to play and test conditions vs settings vs quality

8. 3G Watchdog is always active

9. Transfering files using SwiFTP via WiFi of course (2-3 FTP connections).

Also

1. Data (WiFi and 3G) are switched ON manually whenever I need them

2. My providers signal is really crap (low) in most cases, especially @ my house

3. I have MUCH more apps installed while on .73 (20+ more apps&games)

4. I manually use the Advanced Task Killer after each phone use (many times). Note that I have "ticked" all apps that are immediatelly rerun automatically by system, so that they wont go On and OFF all the time, I think it is more power efficient...

Generally, I am really happy with my Xperia S now.

Waiting for ICS...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamidych:
On the manual it says charge as often as possible...

Can anyone tell what is the proper healthy charging habit? Should I really charge whenever I can? Should I disconnect the USB once charge reaches 100%? Should I charge only when the battery is less then a certain %? How often should I completely discharge the battery?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] looker1:
Charge as you wish. But DO NOT DISCHARGE BATTERY COMPLETELY! This is really not healthy for batts.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adicuigrec:
what are you talking about? it very recomended to draing your battery once a month. it's also important NOT TO CHARGE YOUR PHONE OVERNIGHT
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ntduyphuong:
Can I consider this as heavy usage? Can't believe your phone made it through 2-3 days without charging.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rawimage:
Read all about batteries here:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

I try to avoid draining the battery completely and I've been charging all my phones overnight for the last 8 years or so.

My old HTC Desire has just as good battery life today as it had two years ago when I bought it. So I will treat my Xperia S the same way.

The charger provided by Sony is charging our phones quite slowly, probably to keep the temperature down to prolong the battery life.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adicuigrec:
:confused: my phone charges completely in one hour and 15 min
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dragunov:
I believe that:

1) Closing all unnecessary background applications

2) Switching all DATA sources (WiFi & Cellular) OFF when not needed

improve battery life dramatically (prevent the stand-by consumption a lot).

Moreover, I have set my e-mail to NOT automatically update (only manually), and I have not set up any exchange mail client account.

Believe me, I really get at least 2,5 days. Imagine that, during sleep time (approximatelly 7 hours) I might get 2-3% battery drop (I will notice that tonight and come back to you with more accurate percentage).

This HUGE difference came with .73.

Before that, I was on .62, and battery life was dramatic (max 1 day).

--EDIT--

E.G., I am now 18 hours after my last full charge. I have played a little Azkeng, some solitaire (Hardwood Solitaire, I recomend it :) ) and tested the newly downloaded Mini Motor Racing. Talk time approximatelly 30+ minutes, no texts, and some browsing.

Remaining battery is 65%.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
Well , my xperia s is holding up for 1,5 - 2 days with this usage:

10-20 text messages per day

1 hour calls

facebook 30 mins+

browsing 15-20 mins

facebook updating every 30 minutes, same for the weather widget updating every 30 minutes

googlemail sync

facebook syncing gallery, contacts + timescape automatically updates..

i think this is pretty nice with 3 - 4 hours screen on time?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TyrionWarMage:
I locked the sonyericsson.wakeup process to prevent the high amount of wakeups (phone is awake 95% of the time) .. and the process is still wakeing up the phone like crazy ?

Tried Gemini and Titanitum for the freezing.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] yudicihuy:
My battrey life is not really good, i dont know how people can get 20+ battrey life with android.

Maybe im really heavy user :(

3g always on if there is no wifi connection

I install friendcaster(push notif) tweetcaster(every 20mnt)

Email ms exchange (every 1hr)

And im really often using whatsapp.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] naughtb4:
3G is a killer with regards to battery, i find
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fsrkewd:
Freezing it doesn't work, you have to uninstall it. Just backup before you do anything to be safe.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] smallz2k:
Juice defender is a massive help for me,customize it for every app,have the sync for eveything on manual and sync when you need to,use the stock powersave -timer at night so it cuts everything off between selected times and auto when power reaches selected levels...the biggest floor in some Xperia devices is the battery that can't be removed so you cant even have the opportunity to carry a spare,still don't understand why they do this.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] smallz2k:


Wrong pic :o
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TyrionWarMage:
Ok, just tried doing it with ES Explorer (Root+System R/W), but which one is the right APK ? when searching, i can only find a folder named like this ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fsrkewd:
I am not sure how to use other app to uninstall. I use titanium backup, which show a list of all installed app.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Frick_:
I noticed a big battery drain when telephone signal is very low.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
It's because the phone is using more power trying to boost the signal
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Frick_:
I know but my Desire hasn't this big battery drain in the same places (15-20% at night in my bedroom).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
This is one of the first days of the device? If yes, remember that the battery needs some time to settle down until it gets optimized. At first, mine dropped almost 70% listening to 80 musics. Next week I did the test it and it dropped about 25% with 95 musics.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Frick_:
I bought my Xperia S 40 days ago :-(

Btw switching/searching signal and monitor (30% setted) seam to drain fast my battery, other settings or apps are ok.

I hope those problems will been fixed by ics update.

Inviato dal mio Sony Xperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I don't know then. Sorry :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] b0ngma01:
My battery use 24-35h/changer.Set your phone to 3G or 2G only,dont use dual mode.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] take55:
As the screen eats up the battery pretty fast, I figured - besides reducing brightness - a dark wallpaper will be the best I can do in this respect to safe on power consumption.

Problem is, I didn't find any real dark wallpaper I like. So I ended up with one that I love and also brings the beauty of the hd-screen to life. :o

In how for do you guys think that wallpaper jeopardizes my efforts on optimizing power consumption by the screen?

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] keithwalton:
The phone has an lcd screen which uses more power to create a dark image than a light one.

The screens matrix actively blocks out light from the back light. Reduced power consumption comes from turning down the brightness of the back light.

amoled's and crt's are the opposite in that they both produce light per pixel and so dark images use less power.

edit - I believe there was talk of this being an rgbw screen however the principles remain the same with the white part decreasing brightness from the back light to the correct level.

edit again, the xperia p has the rgbw screen, the s has just a regular rgb so there goes any hope of a screen driver update fixing battery drain
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saanil:
I do not own an Xperia S but I could not find a forum for Xperia Sola and since my issue was related to battery I thought I would post it here. I recently got Xperia Sola for my father. It has just been 4 days but one thing that has been bugging me is its battery life. Battery is absolutely pathetic. Unfortunately this is one area where Sony has gone horribly wrong. Why couldn’t they just provide a 1500 mAh battery? The phone lasts a day on minimal to moderate usage. One of the major battery consumer is Android OS services – I think this is happening because of the bloat ware already installed. God knows how many times you will have to charge it if you play a game or watch a movie on it. For ex: today the phone went to 13% in 24 hours on just some voice calls and nothing else. This was after disabling background data, disabling data connection/auto sync, turning off Bravia engine and setting the screen brightness at 40%. A better battery would have made this device just perfect.

Any ideas on what else can I do to increase battery life?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheRafal:
i dont know if anyone have the same idea to me but i don't if the GPU frenquency and GPU voltage wasn't to hight in idle ?? i try to set it with Volatge Controle app but she can't set this values :( anyone know where we can find this ???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
Hi a got my XS yesterday and at 1 am I unplugged it and use it a bit..then i turn it off at 11 am I woke up and turned on the phone( my alarm didn't ring, no idea why?? ) and started using.. I downloaded apps via wifi set all the settings transfer music via usb play with it a bit and a bit of whatsapp and twitter and NO Music at all.. by 5 pm my battery was dead so i charged till 6.20 pm then i used for whatsapp and twitter and a few settings again and now is 10 pm here and my battery is already on 63%

Is this normal for the first times? when will it settle?

thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] richteralan:
Not bad
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
do you think mine is normal?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
^

Yes mine was the same for the first few days. Nothing abnormal. But what really improved battery life for me was uninstalling McAfee and installing Trend Micro Longevity Battery saver beta.

The first few days I had to charge almost thrice daily. Now I get about 23 hours on a single charge with moderate usage. And again, mine is completely stock and nor have I updated to .73 firmware which supposedly improves battery life.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pixy132:
I think u can get 2/3 day battery life. At best may be even 3/4 day. The battery is good enough for your use.

My own experience is that with similar usage after one day i still have about 30% left at night.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MrBelter:
1 day 2 hours on battery and im at 67% using generic .67 with light use.

3 photos

3 20second 720p videos

4 minutes of calls

40 texts

20 minutes wifi

15 minutes 3g

20 minutes playing games
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
The first charge cycles are normal like that. My battery was the same way. Give it about 2 weeks, you may be surprised.

About the alarm, I learned the bad way: due the phone run a LOT of thing during boot, it does not have capability to turn on itself, even less turn the alarm on. I guess you are coming from a feature phone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
2 weeks or a month for the battery to settle is a joke.

When you first buy a phone you use it 24/24 ;) then after one month you get bored little and you use it less,that's why the battery improve, not because it settled down.

I'm still having a bad battery life,just 10min talking, 10 whatsup messages and browsing xda,display level at 25%.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bustervic:
the real thing I would like to see with half the people ranting how crap their battery life is the actual screen on time.

The post above for example, if your screen use is 73% you must have had the screen on for 3-4 hours correct?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Yes maybe 3-4 hours so what??

Should I buy a smartphone to keep it off or to use it just for calls???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bustervic:
with a 4.3 inch display, you will always be tied to how long your display is actually on for.

It isn't just Sony.

Now that said, some guys with the N/A One X are getting 30+hrs with 2/1-2 to 3hrs of display time. With tweaks they are getting 5-6 hrs display and 16hrs of battery.

Now HTC worked a lot with that battery to get the most out of it, AND they are running ICS.

When I run Juice Defender I can easily get 32 hrs out of moderate usage.

This is wo jd running.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
I think both are true actually. The batteries do take a while to 'bed in', 'settle down' or whatever you want to say - but that's more to do with the chip inside the battery measuring the charge more accurately over time.

But, you're absolutely right that using it less after a while helps reduce the load on the battery - so when both aspects are combined, you might appear to see a big performance boost.

A battery should only take 5-6 charge cycles though, not two weeks or a month.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
My battery life for today: pretty happy with it:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
Ok I'm on my third cycle still not so good.. So the alarm will only ring when my phone is on??? I think that SGS2 does ring when off.. Btw I coming from a SE Satio
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Third charge is still the beginning. My battery started to get a decent life after about 1 week and a half.

About alarm, as far as I know, no Android can turn on by itself. I said a feature phone because, one year ago, I had one and bought a Xperia X10 Mini Pro, and it did not turn on. I almost got late for school that day.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] milton.bain:
Yes he is right draining the battery will not give juice to our it will reduce the battery life. Soon I'll post a blog about dos and don'ts
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Oriono1:
It has been 3 weeks since I got my XS, battery is still pretty poor. Unplug at 11pm, drop to 90 when I wake up in the morning, 15% left at 4pm, normal use, some messages, 1 or 2 calls, less than 1 hour of drawing and browsing :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] naughtb4:
My on screen time is still very low and also there seems to be an issue with Wi-Fi draining the battery very quickly.

Getting a day out of it at present, lets just hope some ICS changes will improve it a bit further
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
How though?

My best efforts give me a little over a day. Only way I can think of is either not using it at all or keeping airplane mode as default
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dream2001hui:
To reduce the mobile phone screen brightness :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Oriono1:
I always set it below 50% and feel comfortable with that. But this looks not as bright as my friends' iphones :( A little bit jealous of their battery life :mad:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dragunov:
Yes, but your friends iPhones have a much smaller screen (almost an inch smaller).

Smaller screen, less power consumption.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
but its bad or not to charge while i'm sleeping?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
You can charge the phone over night while you are sleeping with no problem.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
Quite Impressed !!. Mine is on .62 firmware. All stock (Not rooted either :o)

Screen on time 3 hours 5 mins

WIFI on 5 hours

30 mins Web browsing, mostly watching 1080p videos in browser

30 mins browsing play store and installing apps

30 mins google talk

30 mins music

30 mins gaming

15 mins Calls

20-25 text messages

6 Photos with flash

30 mins misc

Above screenshot with 10% remaining. So I guess I could have gotten an extra hour with the remaining juice ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dante2086:
Weird what I'm seeing in this thread. Ever since the 73 firmware. My battery life rocks. And I mean, rocks!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adicuigrec:
battery life

Finally I am seeing some improvements in battery life. Brightness 40%. wi-fi always on. It,s probabily with the help of doomlord kernel 04a. just over a day. Beats the hell out of 20 h:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
How did you manage yo do this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
^

I uninstalled McAfee Security app, manually stopped unnecessary running apps and installed Trend Micro Longevity Beta battery saver app. :) Excellent app I must say !!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
Mine got a bit better but still not so good.. This Sunday it will be a week that I got my phone just unplugged it and I'm 10 minutes 1% without doing anything..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
I am getting 1.5 to 2 days of battery life with per day usage as follws:

2hrs calling (GSM)

2hrs web browsing (via wifi)

1hr gaming (ie Angry birds)

30 min HD Video playback

Clicking 20-30 photos (~15 with led flash on)

1hr music playback using earphones

10-15 sms etc.

The best i got so far is 2days 20 hrs with moderate use :D. So, I'm pretty much impressed with the battery life.

I'm on .73 stock CE firmware (rooted) and most bloatware (incl Facebook/Timescape) removed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
You are funny :)

This battery graph show that you didn't touch your phone for 2 days and 20 hours ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
You may say that.. actually I used my phone for 6hrs calling (gsm) and at least 1/2 hr video playback and no gaming no internet except updating some apps. Like I said it is the best I could get out of a single charge :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ray3andrei:
Really disappointed, I can get 2 days if I do nothing.. with wifi off, while on my nexus I get like 5 days wifi on , no usage,....

Sent from my Samsung GNexus <3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Efe64:
6hours called with charger yes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Or was a nice dream :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
I suppose you are pointing to my earlier post.. please see the attached screenshot again and look at the small graph at the top, it shows downslope all the way to bottom (with no upward spike) showing that the phone has not been charged during that duration of time. A phone which is charged frequently must show a graph with upward slopes/spikes somewhat like the one in the screenshot below.. c ya
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] masi0:
I can see you have data disabled LOL
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Of course the background data is disabled (most of the time), besides i don't see a point keeping it enabled if one is not online all the time :rolleyes:.

P.S. Oops.. if it is the mobile data access you are saying, then yes, that too is disabled as i don't use it often.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] masi0:
Enable that and do the tests again
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
How do you do this?

my best wad 13 hours HELP!

Tomorrow will be a week since I got it

Average use involving whatsapp always backwards so data on most of the time a bit temple run and death rally facebook update every hour Twitter every 15 5 musics per day
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Fekish:
I was think buying the S but i can see that a lot of people are dissapointed with battery performance...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
^

Battery Life improves after two weeks and especially with the .73 firmware its quite good ! :)

With ICS it should improve quite a lot further.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] masi0:
Battery life is not that bad. My ex i4s managed to get ~20 hours of battery life assuming few email accounts sync, some calls, sms, photos.

My SXS was connected to charger after 18 hours which is also good number as I play with it a lot.