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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] JaredP:
That was a huge leap forward. My wife had two Arias...both shattered with minimal effort. Sony has always had more durable hardware. It can store a lot more than the Aria too. I hope you enjoy the ion.

I have been playing with my ion a lot since I bought it on Sunday, and have noticed the battery does quite well. I have played games, downloaded a lot of apps, and used it to take notes. Tonight I heard the low battery beep for the first time. I usually charge it when I go to bed, and the battery icon has consistently been green each night. The battery does much better on my ion than it did on my X10.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ace5987:
I liked my Aria though it was small and pretty good until and its still unbelivable that my ion does not have ics yet and the aria does but its CM9. I can't wait to root this phone and get CM9 although I won't lie, i really like sony's UI its very light yet adds in a lot of nice features.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aruppenthal:
It definitely gets better. Ive run mine through 5 cycles now and im seeing almost a full day. Its definitely the most ive ever seen conditioning impact a batteries life.

Getting a little happier with the device every day.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jfalgout2003:
Sony phones have a reputation of needing battery calibration. Too bad we cant try the old x10 method thanks to no removeable battery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mehran_o0o:
Its confitmed for any rechargable baytery that if u let it go to 0 then charge it to 100 and let it go to 0 again it will last longer and perform better.., and yes for the first time you have to let it die and charge it for 16 hours.. Then ull see how it works...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reddog:
Turning off LTE mode

If someone could find a way to switch off LTE mode and switch to 3G/Edge this will help on the battery life.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jfalgout2003:
After 20 hrs. of moderate use, I'm at 30% battery. That's a significant improvement over last week. Just keep discharging fully and recharge. Battery life is better than my cappy now. Cant ask for more considering the size and speed advantage of the Ion.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zerrudo:
simply change the APN settings;

Name: AT&T

APN: wap.cingular

Proxy: leave blank

Port: leave blank

Username:WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM

Password:CINGULAR1 (yes this is in CAPS)

Server: leave blank

MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com

MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com

MMS Port: 80

MCC:310

MNC:410

APN Type: leave blank

this will force the phone to use HSPA/+ EDGE instead
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
That method most definately will work the closer to first use the better. Otherwise it'll take several cycles to callibrate all the while giving inaccurate readings. Works for all phones and the more this is exercised habitually the better as well. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
As mentioned already in this forum battery life will most certainly improve once we have root access and can erraticate all the damn services they have instanciated. Hate to be redundant on the att bloat issue but after receiving mine yesterday and pulling up the "running services" settings page all I can say is DAMN. I'm surprised as is one doesn't actually see the meter move down as it depletes.

Oh and other than the obvious and already mentioned issues my biggest complaint about the hardware so far is the difficulty in triggering the back soft-button. Maybe its something Ill eventually get used to but as of now I find myself repeatedly tapping in order to trigger. earbrain
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
I don't have an issue with the touch buttons. They are definitely easier than the Xperia S to me. They aren't a simple light touch. Just give it a more form touch and they work no problem.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Yes but I don't think thay disables the LTE radio which is what people want to be able to do.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] agd4life:
I think battery life is good...after 10 hour day with no stop emails attatchment downloads and 1-2 hours of YouTube HD phone barely passing 50%...still not gone down to 0% and.recharge
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Yeah, spec I'm already getting used to em. Went from the Droid to X10 w it came out. The Droid2 I believe had similar but soft-buttons but X10 actual raised buttons. Im just used to the X10 so that was a personal adjustment issue and not hardware.

I havn't yet encountered any other of the address book/sync issues/bug. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] paul-c:
I ended up getting 9 hours out of the battery today with pretty heavy use. I'm going to run it down to zero once more, and I should be good with the calibration.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] josemald:
I'm curious to know how it's taking to charge the phone. Since 2 or 3 days ago, mine is taking about an hour to charge from 20% to 100%, and then the battery lowers very quickly. Today morning I let it go to 0%, then charged it while off, and it took about 1.5 hours for the led to turn green. And within 2 hours with almost no use it went down to 80%.

I'm thinking of getting it replaced, but before I wanted to confirm if my batter was not working properly.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Corbanski:
I've been thinking about turning the bravia engine off to see if that helps. Also Ive had NFC on since I got the phone. Think that could have an effect?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] iJudgeMAN:
Battery life for me has been very good. I'm at 23% charge after 18 hours

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] erwaso:
In coming from an aria a well. Rooted cm7 and barely get 5 hours max. Great phone but it's sad they skimped on the memory, k barely run any apps lol.

Hope to get these 10+ hours of use like you guys!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] iJudgeMAN:
It really is a shame the Aria didn't get more ram.

Just be mindful of all the things syncing and after a few cycles of charging you should be getting pretty good results from the battery. Assuming there are no rogue apps that eat away at the battery.

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] paul-c:
I've been wondering the same thing about the Bravia Engine. I don't really want to turn it off because I'd probably forget to turn it back on. lf it's a significant drain on the battery I will, though.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
so i've had my Ion for a few days now. I didn't want to post this issue right away as i assumed it might clear itself out. But i've noticed while doing the 0 to 100 cycles over the last few days that sometimes when i check my phone it for some reason Won't be charging.. even tho 10 seconds prior it was *still plugged in*. sometimes i'll watch it and it just won't charge i'll have to unplug the charger wait a few seconds and plug it back in *don't mistake this for the battery icon flashing from the charge symbol and then back to batt symbol, while charging* if this does continue over the next few days i will be taking in for a replacement. just curious if during your 0 to 100 cycles anyone else had noticed it not charging and had to unplug and re-plug to get it going again... other than that i think my battery is finally getting to know it's capacity and soon it will be lasting me all day on a single charge. def getting better day by day

p.s. during this charging period i've been disabling data quite a bit. i use WiFi a lot at home and it def drains the batt faster tho i think. i also use System Tuner Pro ... great lil app and great task manager. i recommend it.. plus it's great for controlling governors once we get root and the ability to flash kernels!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] paul-c:
I haven't had any issues like that during the full cycle charge.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] iJudgeMAN:
It has happened to me once or twice
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 722ish:
My girlfriend has had an ion since the release day and has cycled it a few times now. The battery is pretty bad still, and even when she isn't using it, it seems to drain very quickly. The past hour she has sent two text messages and otherwise it has been idle and it has used 10 percent of the charge. Anyone think it is potentially the phone? It won't make it 8 hours without charging even when she is working and using it very little. Has anyone else had such trouble? Thanks for any input, because she really loves the phone, but it has been a bit of a pain as a result of the battery!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 0000alex0000:
for the back soft-button issue.. same for me, but the rest of the buttons are just fine. guess that's a hardware issue?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
Take a screenshot of the battery usage screen after it gets low. See what all is hogging the battery. Are u in LTE area? Do u have brightness up? Or a bunch of timescape accounts constantly updating ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Hey Guys, sorry for the double posts, etc coming from my account, I've been experiencing some weirdness w the XDA mobile app esp w pics. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
I personally don't recommend Timescape unless you're a big fan of battery usage and unnecessary resource consumption. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
Possibly hot battery?

I know with my X10 if it get to hot it will show a charging led color and status bar charging icon but will not charge until temperature goes down. From what my 'CURRENT WIDGET' app reads at temps higher than 45 Celsius no charge

sent from my X10S on DooMKernel 6 @ 1113mhz
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
I've been using this, seems to help w wifi a little maybe.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bladewififix
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
Press and hold the menu button and keyboard coming up. I don't know what the use of this or is this a bug?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
not a bug. and it's useful if you click inside a text box and the keyboard doesn't auto come up .... happens sometimes.

and what does this have to do with battery life?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
I know its off topic but if you do the same with keyboard on it will disappear

sent from my X10S on DooMKernel 6 @ 1113mhz
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Yes this is a NORMAL Android function. Long-press: SHOW KB, Press while KB up: HIDE KB. Def not a bug. Same on x10 bro. eb

ps: Works on "home" button as well. Long-press: SHOW RECENT APPS
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Geenus008:
Button-touch method

I have yet to accidentally press the Home or Back button since the these buttons require more force. Not a lot, but more than light touch.

Been successful with the dragging my finger over the button, either up or down seems to alleviate the need for multiple touches on the Home Buttons. Try dragging your finger across them instead. Works for me, just a suggestion, hope it helps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Thanks bro, that actually helps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
For those of you claiming to be getting a full day out of the battery... this is for you...

so i've gone an entire week now... i've been trying my best to do nothing but 0 to 100% charges.. which has been kinda a pain in the ass as i'm pretty busy and travel a lot... so staying in one spot to let this thing charge all the way has been a bit inconvenient but nonetheless i knew it had to be done.. i've also followed the train your battery guide and gotten it to stay consistently at 100% after a hard reset... here's what i notice

take the phone off of charge in the morning when i wake up... now i keep data disabled all night long... and i don't turn it on now, don't yet need it... i have ALL accounts sync turned off.. no timescape.. no weather... nothing is checking for **** unless i tell it to. so i get in my truck and i send and receive maybe 30 texts on my 2 hour drive..snapped maybe 5 pictures... use gps for about 30 mins (to be clear i turn data and gps on let it lock do my search quickly skim the directions and then turn off gps, leave data on but shut off the screen until i need to glance at it and see what the next step is.. i dont' leave the screen on constantly watching my progress while using maps)... one or two quick calls... and turned data right back off as soon as i was done using maps.. now in those two hours i was in the truck.. i went from 97% to 71%

and thats with data off most of the time... i'm always very battery concious with my devices.. background data is turned off.. i've hardly installed anything on this thing... pretty much just stuff i've always used on my other devices and know for sure is safe (i.e. isn't a batter waster ram hogger)

wtih my inspire i didn't turn data off ONCE during the day.. and i COULD get a full 11-12 hours of USE out of my phone...

i'm wondering those of you claiming to be getting a full day out of your phone. what do you consider a full day... as in ... before you need to put it back on the charger.... 8 hour work day? 10-11 hours of light outside day? or the 18 some hours you are awake all day....either way..do you have data turned on this entire time?

i'm at a loss at this point why this phone eats and i mean EATS away at the battery... is it the cpu? is it the display never auto-dimming? what is it... i really wanna get a full 12 hours out of this thing.. without having to turn data off just to save battery... is it possible? i mean i do use my phone pretty heavily but i figured for sure i'd be getting more time out of it after a week of training the battery.... and before anyone asks.. yes i'm using the proper cable/charger! hope to god this is different once we get kernels with good govenors...sigh... i really don't even think that's the issue though.. i've been watching CPU times in system tuner pro and it seems like the ondemand govenor is doing a great job ant keeping the cpu running pretty low when not in use..

thoughts anyone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] iJudgeMAN:
That's insane that your battery is dying that quickly. I am at 57 battery after 7 hours. I have weather updating every two hours. Sent and received many texts and emails (Around 50 or more texts). Music has been playing for around three hours. Wifi has been active for four hours or so. I have a little over 2 hours of screen time at 30 brightness setting.

Maybe you can exchange it for another one?

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ace5987:
wow thats insanely bad battery. I get pretty much 14-18 hours a day of battery (when its like 18 hours, it gets down to like 5% battery) but by then im already going ot sleep. I have wifi turned on ALL the time. i never turn it off cause i use wifi randomly thorugh out the day and i hate waiting for it to connect. I have wifi at work and at home so the only time its disconnected is the commute which is about an hour both ways so i lose an hour of wifi not connected to anything battery. I have automatic updates on everything really (never really remember turning anything off).

I dont use data often though, i have that turned off almost all the time since I only have 200 MB? so that could be the big problem. I have timescape widgets (i actually kind of like them) and I take like 3-5 pictures a day just to test them out or when im bored.

I come home, and i watch videos on my phone too and it seems to do very good on battery. Then again, i have lived on my HTC Aria for two years and maybe somehow im just used to not doing much on my phone?

Oh i almost forgot. I text so much during the day and still it gets me thorugh the day.

My advice to you is. Charge the phone. Don't worry about battery life. Just dont look at it and dont concern yourself with it. Go though a day like that and see where it is at the end of the day (if it hasnt already died) You would be surprised to know that the phone itself will last but maybe from 100 to 50% battery goes down faster or something.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] paul-c:
I take the ion off the charger at 8:30 every morning. Around 5:30, when I get off work, it's down to about 35%. I'm on Twitter, surfing the internet, making phone calls etc. I don't turn data off and I leave Timescape running. Screen is set to 25%. The battery just seems to be off in your phone, especially since you are being so diligent about your usage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] WolR:
hi guys. I've bought ION for a couple of month. But when I update to 111, something goes wrong. I fount it usually drain down battery at night when I'm sleeping. When i check battery using, cell standby take the most. Look in the graph,I saw the time using bettery most is from 0:00 to 6:00 (what the hell it's doing at that time ?). I turn off 3G, Wifi and even turn light down, but it keep draining again night after night.Should I factory reset my phone ?:confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
WoIR, yeah and you probably need to use the calibration method found in this forum. The update probably caused some calibration issues, fairly typical but not well informed. eb

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1760207
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Guys I've found that leaving the backlight off helps considerably. Even with it off the ion is still brighter than most phones. Just a thought. eb

NOTE: Thats w the brightness power widget off, not completely obviously.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mroach:
It's something I've never done hard scientific testing on, but I swear my battery life is significantly worse when I'm in the US compared to when I'm in Sweden. I first noticed this on my HTC Incredible S. When I'd travel to America my battery life was so bad I couldn't believe it, and most days my usage patterns weren't any different from being at home in Sweden. I was recently in the US and imported an LT28i from HK. I was shocked at how bad the battery life was. I used it for a month there. I just got back to Sweden and suddenly the battery life is actually good.

In the US I was using T-Mobile in both cases. In Sweden, I use 3. The thing I wonder about is T-Mobile's patchy 3G network. From what I understand, the radio in a phone will automatically adjust its power usage based on signal strength. So if signal is weak, it will boost power to hold onto signal. If signal is strong, it can reduce power.

All I have to offer is a comparison of battery usage on what I'd consider a normal day of usage for me. A few texts, a bit of Twitter and Instagram, maybe some Skype chat.

First image is from a normal day on T-Mobile in the US. Second is from a normal day here on 3 Sweden.

It would have been interesting if this app (BatteryViewEx) were also logging things like how much power the radio was using.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mehran_o0o:
How did u turn it off?

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mehran_o0o:
Same here... Cell standby is draining battery on mine but here i get lots of signal issues which makes sense.

Sent from my LT28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
I have better battery on Xperia S than Ion but like the Ion more.. :) only 8 hours before it shut down completely.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
Cell stand by on mine
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] siuming720:
great battery life
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Sorry, my bad I actually updated the post with explanation.

I just use the brightness widget which is part of the "tools" and also available as an individual widget. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] WolR:
I found out the way to save batt on ION now. All things you have to do is turn off all data transfer when you go to sleep. And i just lost 3-5% batt for 6 hours off-use. Turn off: 3G, wifi,

background data traffic

. And you will get your Ion a full-day-work tomorrow.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] accts:
At night reasonabe - daytime to turn off 3G, wifi, sync. defeating the purpose of a smart phone :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
And at night just throw it on the charger. I charge my phone every night so when I get up in the morning I have a full battery and leave pretty much everything turned on. If I need a little more juice during the day I use my car charger or plug it into my computer at the office. though I do routinelyt carry 1-2 other phones with me if I just feel like switching out the sim, so I guess I don't worry too much about battery life.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] josemald:
The AT&t version comes with a Power Saver program, you can configure it so it turns off the wifi, data, sync, gps, etc. between certain times in the day. By default it is 1 am to 5 am.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] WolR:
i know that app already, but it's worthless. What it shutdown do not save any power at all. You still have to turn off what it's left such as background traffic.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andersenk:
If I am using my phone, any app, my battery drops about 1% each 2 minutes. Is this about normal? I know there is no way I can get a 12 - 14 hour day out of this phone. I know about the power save option, but I may as well get a flip phone if I have to shut off all the features.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shahkam:
I'm about to buy the phone could some of you please upload battery life screen shots whit screen on time? Thanks

:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] guyenxda000:
i took it to europe trip and life was miserable. Along with it I took my sony tablet S which seems to run forever. However with my xperia ion, the battery can not last an entire day and runs out after few times of fb checking and picture taking. Also big concern is that in my understanding that battery is not removable. What happens if battery worn out? Except for these issue it seems to be pretty good phone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] souperman7340:
Here is what I got today, had to plug my phone back in part way through the day, but I was streaming tune-in radio over 4G through Bluetooth for a few hrs today! Had it plugged in for most of the time that it was streaming!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
while i seem to get longer batt life than you by a few hours... my cell standby is in the 70% range... i'm trying to figure out if this is good or bad and i'm still undecided
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shahkam:
Guys id really like to see some screen on time screenshots because that is for me the best way to know if it has good battery or not :)

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shahkam:
Your phone is not sleeping properly something is preventing it...

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
I don't know what it is. Maybe push email? No? maybe that's why battery is ok and not very good for me. I kept wonder what wakelock was
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] earbrain:
Yeah Im w spec, although I dont carry multiple phones with a little bit of common sense-type habitual power management techniques I never really have a problem. I don't like settings management apps that run in the background so I just remember to do all that stuff myself.

It's been my experience more often than not people who vigorously complain about battery use simply just forget to plug the damn thing in then when they jump up and take off they're screwed. Just keep it charged. Some people have a real problem w this it seems. However as spec mentioned starting out the day with a full charge is half the battle. Then it really just depends on what you're using your device as far as where it goes from there.

More than likely if you're depending on background management apps to do things for you you may be carrying that mentality on with the other habits, charging, etc. If one is to learn to self manage their own device it will probably lead to better habits & practices all the way around.

Simply put with a little bit of "force of habit" this shouldn't be that big a deal. eb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shahkam:
That could be it you must get from the play store the following app : betterbatterystats this will help you find out what is causing the wakelock !

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
Whomever said the battery dies so fast BC our phone runs so hot. I'm inclined to agree.