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[Sony Xperia ZL] htc fan89:
I ended up doing a factory reset, because my notification led was not working. That solved the media server using too much battery, really strange...anyway it's solved now.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Hardcore73:
Cool thanks for the heads up.
[Sony Xperia ZL] kinshinar:
Hi Guys,

I would like to ask how much on the average does your media server consume in terms of battery life.

Thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] htc fan89:
for me it's between 18% to 21%....
[Sony Xperia ZL] nik.taylor:
Anyone installed and checked Better Battery Stats? I notice that the biggest kernel wakelock is from msm_hsic_host. I'm seeing around 17%. The N4 forums have several posts about this (unsurprising as same SOC) and it seems to be concerning modem handoff from the qualcomm chip. Not sure if this is caused by heavy network usage from an app I’ve installed or whether it’s just symptomatic of having an external modem to the SOC.

What are other people seeing under kernel wakelocks?
[Sony Xperia ZL] safuan7822:
The batt life is quite good speaking from previous note owner. With stock rom Iv managed to get 1day yesterday with stamina on, normal phone calls, lil bit of youtube, google, poweramp and stuffs... Inshort normal usage. And today im trying to get it again, or maybe more.
[Sony Xperia ZL] safuan7822:
The batt life is quite good speaking from previous note owner. With stock rom,Iv managed to get 1day yesterday with stamina on, normal phone calls, lil bit of youtube, google, poweramp and stuffs... Inshort normal usage. And today im trying to get it again, or maybe more.
[Sony Xperia ZL] cheapshot789:
Here is mine on first day use it was ok, complete first discharge cycle and I left it unplugged over night woke up still at 100% but battery drains seems faster today.
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
True battery goes faster on LTE I hope Sony will improve the battery life on the new update is ridiculous to have a big battery and die so fast
[Sony Xperia ZL] fineazbro:
I have question for you guys, how long does your phone take to get a full charge, cuz my phone goes from 10% to a 100% in less than 40 minutes all other phone i had before take way longer than that, in other word is that normal for the battery to charge that fast?
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
Wow that's fast, mine take like one hour and a half or 2 hours
[Sony Xperia ZL] fineazbro:
i know, so maybe something wrong with the battery, but the phone hold charge very well
[Sony Xperia ZL] glovesave:
I didn't time my charge of my 6502 but it is significantly faster than my old Nexus 4 (that seemed to take forever)
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
Charges faster goes faster too :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
ZL discharges faster than a N4? You must have a faulty unit. Mine holds charge very well. Whereas battery life on the N4 was atrocious. It was a pretty phone with a dead battery any time after 5 pm in my case
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
Yes the discharge time goes faster in my case than n4 and I dont know why??,first 5-6 days ok after that every time when I turn on the screen loose one percent :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
BetterBatteryStats my friend. That'll tell you what's going on.
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
I had that and eats more battery :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] nX3NTY:
My phone varies, usually I can get 4 hours screen on time which means depends on my use I can get two full days of use. Be sure to use stamina mode and whitelist the apps you need.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Ha ha. No I mean, do you have wakelocks, any particular program that's eating up your battery? Because the battery drain you are reporting is definitely not normal.
[Sony Xperia ZL] nutzuTo:
Ok now cuz I'm new with this can u pls explain how to use this battery wakelocks??
[Sony Xperia ZL] Faddy89:
Much better than my previous S3.. About 7 hours of heavy use, 15 hours of moderate and a day with less activity. I am satisfied with it :good:
[Sony Xperia ZL] duraaraa:
I've noticed that having wifi on makes the battery run out quite quickly while sleeping. Is there any fix or more information regarding this?
[Sony Xperia ZL] hobbes09:
hi guys, i got my ZL this Tue and I have got some questions on charging. The phone is showing some weird behaviour and I just want to ascertain if it is normal or should I bring it back quickly for a swap.

I tried to do the initial discharge and charging to optimise the battery. Somehow, I realise that the phone doesn't charge when it is powered off. This means that if it's 2% when I switched it off, it remains at 2% when I switch it on, even after hours of being plugged in to the charger. This has happened 3 times for now. So the only way for me to fully charge the phone is to leave it on, with display off. This is really strange because I have not used any phone before that has to be on to be charged.

Is this normal? Has anyone encountered this?
[Sony Xperia ZL] urvilakhani:
Hi everyone, this is a screenshot from my ZL. As you can see the battery has been mostly consumed by the Android system. Usually most of my battery is consumed by the media server and screen. So this is weird. Can anyone please enlighten me on what the Android system is exactly and possibly why it is consuming so much battery suddenly? Thanks so much :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
[MENTION=5225118]urvilakhani[/MENTION] Thats some insane battery drain! Do you have Google Now switched on?

Here is a good read on BetterBatteryStats and Wakelocks for whoever is interested.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1827676

In short, install BBS, set a custom reference, wait for some time and check out Partial and Kernel Wakelocks to see whats eating up your battery. If in doubt, post a screenie here.
[Sony Xperia ZL] urvilakhani:
I did have Google Now switched on. For the last 3-4 days. But the battery drain only started today. Switched it off now. Will see if it makes any difference.

Anyway I just installed BBS. Will keep an eye on it. Thank you so so much!
[Sony Xperia ZL] asvlad186:
I have switched off all what i can found to do that, but my battery lives only 2 days :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] niftydl:
I have this exact same problem, going to install BBS and see exactly what is going on. Might force me to root if its a low level problem.

Android system is destroying my battery, way more than screen or even cell radio.

Using C6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
7:30AM - 12:01AM ~16.5h total time

3.3~h screen on time.

Phone is still staying "awake" way to much, not sure whats causing it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] asvlad186:
May be the battery is not properly calibrated? And controller assumes, that it is end of battery, but some power is still in it?
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
Not sure, i flashed PACman rom yesterday, went the full day with 50%+ left, ~1.5h screen on time. Was pretty pleased.

Im actually returning my ZL(friend offered to trade my Note 2 for a HTC One, cant pass that up), but i will probably end up coming back to he ZL, love hte device.
[Sony Xperia ZL] nik.taylor:
I scoured the threads and i didn’t see any reference to this. I've had the phone about a month now and on 3 occasions so far, I’ve powered the phone off at night at about 50-60% battery and I switch it on in the morning and it’s drained all the way down to 5-10% and beeps at me that the battery is low when after it boots up. It sounds more like a hardware issue, but I’m wondering if anyone else has experiences this?
[Sony Xperia ZL] wingzero2085:
I haven't had exactly that issue, but I've had mine about a month now and every so often I have one night where my phone will drain about 30% of the battery for absolutely no reason at all (the phone is on during this time). For me, a reboot returns the phone to it's normal rate of drain, which is very negligible (I usually lose 5-7% overnight). I typically get 2-3 days on a single charge, so when 30% disappears that fast, I notice. My phone is 100% stock, not rooted.

That nagging issue aside, I'm actually quite pleased with the battery life on the ZL thus far.
[Sony Xperia ZL] nik.taylor:
I'm pretty please with the battery life too. I normally get 50-60% battery at the end of the day. Soooo much better than my old Verizon GNex.

I'm 100% stock, but rooted.
[Sony Xperia ZL] wingzero2085:
I get nearly twice the amount of battery life out of my ZL than I did from my SGS3. I'm pretty sure the same thing (the occasional large overnight drain) would happen on my S3, but the drain was so much faster all of the time that I don't think it ever occurred to me to look for a problem. With the ZL, since I can normally get a couple of hours worth of phone calls, an hour or two of screen-on time in 2-3 days on a single charge, it's really obvious when something like this happens. I just wish I could nail down what causes the occasional rapid battery drain (I suspect it's an app or a signal strength issue, as my signal is pretty weak where I live with AT&T).

Thanks to the ZL's impressive battery life (for me), I've been able to pinpoint a few apps that were causing excessive drain (namely anything that pulls GPS data too often, especially apps that don't give you settings to alter how often they access the GPS).

Just to note, I get this amount of time out of my battery without stamina mode, too -- I only have low-battery mode enabled, and most of the time, it hasn't kicked in by the time I plug the phone in (around 30% left on the battery). So I could probably squeak a little longer out of my battery, but I tend to plug in when it gets below 30%.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rno:
Here is mine
[Sony Xperia ZL] einfachgaer:
Do you use google latitude? In my case it ate more battery than screen once... not sure why its acting like that.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rno:
Yes lattitude is always on ;) should try again without it to see the différence
[Sony Xperia ZL] FranzDages:
I got 13 hours out of mine yesterday. This included a couple of hours using GPS and navigation. While I would prefer even better battery life (of course), I really can't complain over-much. That is better than I ever got on my Galaxy SIII under those conditions. Sorry I didn't take a screen shot. I was about half dead after a 13 hour day.
[Sony Xperia ZL] coolrevi:
after 15 days of testing i can say that standby time is really awesome even if the data is on with most of social apps and texting in between. it will remain in same status for at least 5 to 6 hours. but active usage is pathetic. just half an hour of Iron man 3 game battery come down by 8 %.
[Sony Xperia ZL] longryu:
battery

how to get a good life battery?:confused:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Lonzo_SGS2_506:
Here is mine..

Actually I had another 25 mins after taking this screen shot yesterday.

Sent from my ZL monst@
[Sony Xperia ZL] shah_vm:
thats amazing battery life. is it on stock rom?
[Sony Xperia ZL] bucho2004:
So Just about over 5 hours of playing a graphics intensive iron man game. How the is that pathetic? Ian confused. even a dedicated portable gaming system can hardly manage that.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Lonzo_SGS2_506:
Yeap stock Rom. It really surprised me this time. But I usually get 3 hours at day on screen time..I think it's pretty nice mate..I still don't see what everybody was complaining about this device.. Good batt, awesome screen, and many many other things that makes it a masterpiece... Feel me?

Sent from my ZL monst@
[Sony Xperia ZL] ah_hin:
the phone is fantastic while sleeping! never had a phone that can sleep for 9+ hours and only consuming 12%!
[Sony Xperia ZL] bullghost:
amazing sony stock rom

here is mine

xperia is really great with its stock rom , sony really got great stock developer

my phone can stay 100% battery on 8 hours idle

and have a good fast dormancy system

xperia type is C6502,

region is south asia

firmware version 10.1.A.1.350

only leave that stupid media server service , what is it doing in background ?!?! i never use it *sign
[Sony Xperia ZL] Jagerzero:
It's being caused by the MMC1_DETECT kernel wakelock. I do not know how to fix it but it only occurs while on wifi. On mobile data this wakelock is never over 1% but on wifi it's between 12 - 22%.

Best advice I can give you if you having high drain during sleep is to turn off the wifi.

Hopefully a software update will fix this.
[Sony Xperia ZL] TitoXx:
Battery life after firmware update
[Sony Xperia ZL] mahmoud.kunbaz:
please could you tell me , what do you mean by stock rom?

what is it? how can I get it ?

I am really suffering with my phone so I really need help :(.

Thanks a lot mate :).
[Sony Xperia ZL] EightFinger:
How do you guys get such a great battery life, my phone is now 8 hours on and I have only 19% battery left. I had Stamina mode always on, with what's app enabled in stamina. And 3G was active too. Sometimes my phone gets very hot in standby mode or doesn't cool down, and have a relative high battery drain for standby and stamina mode active.
[Sony Xperia ZL] bullghost:
stock rom i mean default firmware with no tweak or change and no stock app remove

xperia type is C6502,

region is south asia

firmware version 10.1.A.1.350

if you feel your battery drained by some of your app, maybe you need try to remove the app that you think it was the cause.

i thing media server is not big issue.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mahmoud.kunbaz:
aha, Got it :D

Thank you :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I am loving the battery life on the ZL. I come from a Nexus 4 and no matter what ROM and battery saving technique I tried, I could barely get 2 hours of screen time and it would be dying on me by 3 or 4 PM every day. Luckily I'm always near a charger.

The ZL will be at around 30% by the end of the work day, and I have been able to achieve 3 hours of screen time without trying to save battery. I have the same apps and background services I ran on the Nexus 4, AND, I catch more LTE with the ZL now that T-Mobile has been rolling it out and making it more available around San Diego.

Today has been a heavy usage day since it's my birthday :P. Facebook, Twitter, and email notifications, texts, calls and even Sensorly running in the background burning up to 10% of the battery.

I am running rooted .253 with some Sony Apps and services disabled or uninstalled, but not many.

I do find as others have mentioned that with the screen on, the battery will not last as long as an S4 for example, but I'm not a fan of the Samsung screens.

I do miss 4.2 and not being able to access the battery screen easily. Does anyone have a shortcut or know of an app to open it easily?
[Sony Xperia ZL] paul-c:
I've been getting around 8 hours on pretty heavy usage.

Sent from my Sony Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] sturmtruppler:
I get 2 days with about 4h screen time.

I just stopped using the stock email app and switched to k9, it looks life battery life is better now!
[Sony Xperia ZL] ghost_razr:
AFAIK it may be because of some media server tweaks in some init.d file.

You must be using some audio enhancement mod. If you are, try to contact the dev and report about it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ChuanHong:
she olsdan

with 3G, Wifi, GPS turned on all the time..

screen on time around 3-4hours with total 12 -15 hours total time.

mostly is surfing via firefox, gmail, messenger, fb, and seldom for light gaming..
[Sony Xperia ZL] Ingvarr:
Its a simple fix, disable "keep wi-fi on only when screen is on".

If you make wifi always on, this wakelock should disappear. Also the power draw will actually decrease, because phone will not use 3G mobile data instead of wifi when screen is off.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Jagerzero:
Thanks for replying. Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep was already set to Always on my device and the wakelock is still high. If I switch it to Never the wakelock goes below 1% but the wifi is turned off during sleep.

For the sake of better battery I've turned wifi off all together and use 3G but I would really love to fix this issue.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
[Sony Xperia ZL] JRBT24:
I guess this is a decent battery life considering I played real racing for about an hour.

But I really hope we could get more :(

Press thanks if I helped :)

Sent from my awesome Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] Golok:
mediaserver battery drain

manage to resolve mediaserver battery drain on my XZL.

Now battery is 45% compared to 20% previously with similar usage at 6pm.

Please refer to this link at XDA

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1583653

what i did

1. revalidate and fix all mp3 using http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/

2. check all pictures - delete those corrupted pics ( pics that can't be viewed in album)

3. do the same for videos

4. put .nomedia files in all non media folders

a lot of work but worth the effort.
[Sony Xperia ZL] DoubleYouPee:
Mediaserver or MMC1_detect?
[Sony Xperia ZL] Golok:
Mediaserver .

Before this fix mediaserver is always second after screen on battery utilization.

Now its not in the battery utilization anymore
[Sony Xperia ZL] DoubleYouPee:
For me it's only there if I watch movies/pictures or play music etc.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Golok:
good for you.

mine is caused by this old mp3s and corrupted picture. this causing loop on the mediaserver scanning thus eating up the battery.
[Sony Xperia ZL] danieldp1990:
GOOD performance?

Ok I come back to know how well is battery performing on the new 4.2.2 now that its been out for some time. any improvements?
[Sony Xperia ZL] shah_vm:
It is quite good I get around 1.5 days with 3 hours of screen on and 2 hours of talk.
[Sony Xperia ZL] control freak:
Using chrome for abt half an hour this is what i get.

From 98% to72% in 55 mins... :mad:

and im on 4.1.2 jb(.253)
[Sony Xperia ZL] danieldp1990:
hmmmmm I think its much better on 4.1.2, 253 :P
[Sony Xperia ZL] ryude:
Using CM10.1 I get about 1.5-2 days usage with screen on time around 4 hrs, plus music and calling.
[Sony Xperia ZL] einfachgaer:
System →in my signature

I dont think that i have been talking in these 3 days just surfing and music. And an E-Mail app with 4 IMAP accounts the whole time.

I did not use stamina or any other powersaving option.

3g was the whole time enabled but mobiledata wasnt.

The short time charging is because i had to copy some files on my PC.

I hope i gave enough information.

Sent from my C6503
[Sony Xperia ZL] danieldp1990:
but we can see that you charge some times your phone.
[Sony Xperia ZL] einfachgaer:
Thats right, I also said it in my first posting. And also because of that I made the screenshot at 7% left and not at 1% which is approximately the amount I have charged it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] daniLaLaLaLaLa:
My stamina seems useless..

Neither i turn it on nor off.. The standby time still the same..

my ZL Battery would last around 16hours per day with my daily usage (wifi, call & message only)
[Sony Xperia ZL] einfachgaer:
Go into Stamina settings, there you can set at what % battery level it shall turn on.
[Sony Xperia ZL] MtotheEikel:
Using 4.2.2 Stock Rom
[Sony Xperia ZL] bouvrie:
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but can I persuade someone to perform a Battery Life test on the device that illustrates the difference between plain display on and actual 1080p video-recording with the camera? I posted this in the Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting section, but perhaps it's better suited in this Battery Life thread. Thanks in advance!
[Sony Xperia ZL] NestorC:
Can somebody please post some screenshots of his battery life, screen on time, and tell something about it, like how much sreen on time he get usually in what time untill his battery dies, is battery life ok with you, is it bad or average, better than nexus 4 ? Because I want to buy this phone in a couple of day's and battery life is very important for me so its urgent. Thank you very much. :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] ren2008:
I have both phones and id say battery life on the ZL is about 85% of the N4. More pixels and way better screen, so awesome! Depends of use, gps, apps sync, data use, brightness level, etc...

The phone itself is worth it so id say go for it!
[Sony Xperia ZL] ThuCommix:
Here you go.
[Sony Xperia ZL] NestorC:
Then its not so bad, i guess it has better battery life than n4, 4hrs sreen on time in 1day :)

Thank u very much :)

I want to buy SONY and my budget is up to Xperia Z, so thinking SP, ZL, ZR or Z :)

Like the ZL because of it compact size and IR, but want a phone with as much good baterry life as i can get, wanna buy phone next week :)

Sorry, English is not my native language :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] ThuCommix:
Its pretty good. Bought it 3 days ago. On my i9100 I only get 12hrs with 2hrs screen on. No problem, it isnt my native language too.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ren2008:
Still, i can get 6 hours of similar usage with my N4, when my ZL gives me 4.5 hours max. Screen on ZL is much more of a battery eater.

See the tests in the Nexus 4 forums here on XDA.

Battery on the ZL is more than decent, but I can't say for sure its better than the N4. You'll see that soon enough.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ThuCommix:
Does the n4 have a full-hd display? If not, its out of argue.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ren2008:
Exactly, battery life is a little better on the N4.

But screen PPI is just one out of the thousands differences between these phones. Still, battery life is measurable on both.
[Sony Xperia ZL] NestorC:
Tnx guys. I aksed for n4 only because everyone says that it has poor battery life, so i wanted to compare it with ZL and see the rate of its battery life. What would u do if u could buy SP, ZL, ZR or Z, which one u would pick, i guess that SP has a better battery but a lower class, and i think that its not so drastically better than ZL in battery life ? Tnx in advance :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] ThuCommix:
Give the ZL a try, it is worth it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] NestorC:
Anybody with 4.3 stock status ? :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] pedromsouza:
If I activate STAMINA mode and put Whatsapp on whitelist, will it get real time notifications? I ask because Whatsapp requires internet and I read that stamina turns it off.
[Sony Xperia ZL] NestorC:
You should get notifications :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] pedromsouza:
Just downloaded the Snapdragon app that is suposed to do something close to what greenify does. Let's see if it can save some battery life.
[Sony Xperia ZL] scifan:
You can white-list applications from within settings -> power-management -> stamina mode... the only time I get popup's from stamina mode is when application x doesn't allow stamina mode to function properly...
[HTC EVO 3D] In4matX:
Hi, Im using teamgenesis rom on my evo 3d but, I saw that publisher is banned and the thread is closed. I dont know why this is happened. ppl are talking about kanging, dont know what it means.

So I want to update my rom, can you suggest any stable rom with 3d camera and video working? And with jelly bean also. Saw team venom but it doesnt let 3d camera working. Any idea?
[HTC EVO 3D] Taimou:
There isn't any JB rom with 3d camera/video.
[HTC EVO 3D] MYckel6:
Negalite BluROM is awesome everything works.

---------- Post added at 09:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:05 PM ----------

here is the link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1745093
[HTC EVO 3D] In4matX:
Thanks for answers, its sad that jely bean is not supports 3d right now.

Negalight is cdma? My device is GSM. Thanks for advice I'll research.
[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] erank24:
Hey,

Does anybody knows if it's possible showing android's notification bar while using fullscreen mode?

I found this cool app called full!screen.

It allows you to use fullscreen mode and gives you 2 buttons on the bottom corners with adjustable size and transparency, one of them is HOME and the other is BACK, you can slide them and get more options like RECENT APPS or canceling the fullscreen mode...

The only thing that missing here is the notification bar, its a deal breaker for me and I really want to use this fullscreen feature.

If there are any ideas please feel free to shoot :cowboy:

Thanks
[Nexus 4 Themes and Apps] Paddington:
I've tested several things with stock and Nova, but no luck. I was surprised the nova action for expand notifications wouldn't work. This isn't with the app you mentioned, though, it is with AOSPA and JDX, both of which have full screen options built in. The custom ROMs that have this feature built in typically allow you to show the notification bar. You could combine a custom ROM that allows removal of nav keys without removing status bar, then use a launcher like Nova to hide the status bar on the home page.