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[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Johnmcl7:
I agree, I didn't actually realise just how much I was using the screen until I checked the stats so to be fair to the Z Ultra the batterylife is actually very good for that amount of screen time. Clearly the beautiful huge screen and nippy processor are a difficult combination to resist.

I tend to find in heavy use I don't get much more than a year out of a battery, the Note's battery failed around 14 months and the older Nokia N900's battery failed around a similar time as well. Sony tend not be particularly cheap for accessories or service so I assume if they offer a battery replacement service it's going to be pricey and I've seen no information on disassembling the phone yet although I assume because of the seals that's going to be more difficult.

John
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
As an old note user, I say with great gusto, Samsung intended the batteries on note 1 to fail early. They could easily have made them last a further year but as Samsung do, they used cheap parts. Sony use much better quality internals so I have great hope that these batteries will go the long run.

Time will tell :confused:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] justifyall:
Standby time getting shorter...

Hi Scottish Swan

Sad to say, It seems like my Standby time on Stamina mode went down from 4 days to 2 days on my 7th full charge. Looks like I'd better stop letting it Shut down due to lack of battery.... It might have been wearing it down quite adversely. :crying:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
No one is stopping you. Do what ever you feel like :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] justifyall:
Hahaha... yeah.. quite scary. Initially I thought not bad it is working slightly, then OMG! It's getting lesser and lesser. I'd remember that a full charge recycle does wear the battery down instead of helping to boast the "performance"

Any other tinkers about this my friends?:confused:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] l.Urker:
How does everyone here have such good battery life? Currently on 2.257 unrooted with piss poor battery life. With similar usage and exactly the same apps as on my S4 apart from apps that require root, it gets about 1/4 of the battery life or worse. This phone lasts about 8 hours max of web surfing and light gaming, with 2.5-3 hours of screen time. My S4 with an AMOLED screen that's supposedly bad at browsing gets 5-6hrs or screen time on the same usage. Might be switching back to my S4 soon at this rate. This phone doesn't last me through half a day usually . 8-6)

Edit : Both have brightness set to 50% at home and 70% outdoors and WiFi and Data enabled/disabled automatically via Llama
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] afridiim:
I have C6833(4G)... After first week usage yesterday the battery lasted for :

18 hours and 46 Minutes

While 4G was On and considering Thursday's are always a busy business day for me (More Voice calls)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Let me guess.. You have Facebook, Google+, Snapchat and Whatsapp installed? All of these are battery killers. Widgets that automatically update are also sucking battery, and also apps that updates in the background. All of these things causes wakelocks (waking them up while the device is sleeping).

Install Wakelock Detector and let your Ultra alone for the next hour or so.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tommo123:
for those who came from samsung/OLED phones, i'm in the same boat.

what i found though is that the screen on this phone is a serious hog for power. with all the apps mentioned above set to auto update as they SHOULD and using the screen at max brightness then i get awful battery life. i mean seriously.

But, if i leave the screen on lowest brightness then my normal battery life is about the same as on my note 2.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Okay. It REALLY depends on usage. Are you gaming a lot? Don't expect to reach 4 hours of screentime when the CPU is working its ass off.

If i leave my display on without touching it, I'll EASILY reach 6 to 7 hours of screentime. It's all about usage. If you're a big gamer, you bought the wrong device. Get one with a replaceable battery. If your an advanced user who reads and types a lot, you'll be more than fine. The only games I play are Simple Rockets, WarGames and other lightweight games. If you play Dead Trigger 2 and other CPU intensive games, forget about it.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] herogjan:
This was on a working day. Good that thei're no longer then 8 hour.

No stamina, full brightness. I don't have a high end phone to save power. Otherwise i should have kept my nokia 3310 from back in the day.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
What's up with "Alarmering Droid"? What app is that? Never heard of it. Uninstall it and see if that helps.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] l.Urker:
I only have whatsapp installed. Like I said I was expecting better battery life then that of a Snapdragon 600 Amoled device with a smaller battery to boot. The games I play are hillclimb facing and 8 ball pool, hardly a test of the phones power eh. With exactly the same usage as my S4, which is mainly web surfing and twitter/instagram, I get 1/4 of the battery life. On the contrary the G2 gets better battery then my S4. But thank for your input anyway (:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] herogjan:
That one realy suprised me. I always installed that one, first time it kept using my location. It's a dutch emergency services textreader. It should only use gps when i open the app.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tommo123:
i still say the screen is the issue with this phone. good screen but too power hungry.

herogjans battery use above - i mean when the screen comes on the battery remaining takes a massive dive. as i said earlier, fine on low brightness but on max brightness we get minimal battery life (unless just using it for watching videos maybe?_
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Hmm, have you installed Wakelock Detector? If not, do that and see if there's something that drains your battery. As you can see in this thread, most people have great battery life.

Well, i guess you'll have to decide if that app is crucial to you or not. It's clearly using a lot of battery.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] l.Urker:
No unnecessary wakelocks that i noticed apparently. Today i got a record 4 hours of screen time :3
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hansip87:
Really interested with the ultra but not yet convinced with the battery life. Some reviews often place it behind others, some other put it on the good level one. Myself with razr maxx usually only last for a day with 6 hours of screen time at best.. So if this ultra can reach 5 hour minimal with mixed usage, i might take the plunge :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cenkaetaya:
I just wanted to add my statistics:

So far i have owned the phone for 4 days and the battery life has been very consistent.

It has lasted most of the day with a screen on time averaging between 5:20 - 5:45 mins.

Which isnt so bad, actually a bit better then i expected. I was pretty worried at first reading this thread.

EDIT: this is with 4 email accounts, hangouts / internet browsing / phone calls / text
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] john.2011:
5h 20min screen time
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] omegafiler:
After using GSam and Wakelock Detector, I can easily make it a full day with light to moderate usage. I think the big issue most folks have is coming from something like the GN2 where you could install whatever you want and probably still make it a full day. :) Relatively smaller screen, slower proc, way lower res, comparably sized battery, etc. Of course it's going to last longer on a single charge.

Sure, I kind of miss that as well, but honestly, I don't mind at all. I'm kind of glad I've started the habit of going through this "optimization" process with all of my phones. Better battery life and performance is always a good thing. Even though it wouldn't kill Sony to add a larger battery in the future, the Pros of the Sony still easily outweigh anything Samsung has to offer, imho...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] boterkaaseneieren:
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[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Current battery status: Screentime 3 hours, uptime 14:40 hours, battery left 53%.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] techpal:
Really enjoying battery performance of ZU. Before buying I was bit concerned about battery life. But it has really surprised me.

On current charge got 4 hrs screen time till now with 42% battery still left and 15.20 hrs uptime. So can easily get 6 hrs+ of screen time. My previous device xperia z used to last max 3 hrs screen time so its great improvement.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tommo123:
i left videos playing yesterday and would have around 4 hours playtime before running out of juice.

this was at max brightness of course.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kumeipark:
As a secondary phone, I hardly use it.

Here's my result

Super Lite Use....

Sent from my Mobile using GPRS
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] techpal:
^

Thats very low screen time . Can see google services taking lot of percentage.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kumeipark:
As I said before....

Super Lite Use....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] incite_desire:
The best I could get from my XZU.. very light usage :D
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kumeipark:
As per your screenshot you were discharging, charging and discharging....... so many ups and downs in your graph....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Indeed. A little cheating but I'll let it pass :p My personal record is 7 hours of screentime and about 22 hours of uptime. I believe I can easily beat that, but I'll have to be REALLY bored if I'll do that :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
50% used

Wifi on all the time - I guess I should turn it off

poor to no cell reception for most of yesterday at work

about 1h of screen on time

GPS was on for some time yesterday at work
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tommo123:
for the people hitting several hours - i assume this is at low brightness?

i always have mine at max brightness and i get passable battery life. not good, just ok.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
I tend to use 100% at daytime and 0% at night. I get excellent battery life. It depends on usage though. If you play a lot of games, you won't get that far, but if you spend a lot of time reading news (Feedly, Press), ebooks, XDA, Reddit etc. you'll get a lot of time. If you play Vice City and other CPU intensive games, don't expect anything amazing.

Anything that's throttling your CPU will use more power (like everything else, like a laptop). I don't play a lot of games, so I get a lot of screen time.

Be aware that 4G is a hungry fellow, so disable it when you can (if you get poor 4G coverage where you spend the most time, i.e at home or at work). You'll make your life easier if you add it to your quick toggles in the notification "center".
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tommo123:
my usage is quite random. sometimes it's light gaming, othertimes not much if any at all.

will be interesting once 4g hits my area to see how much of an impact that will have
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pablodelouis:
This is me on a very very light usage as i'm a super heavy hardcore user , so you can imagine the results with a normal or a heavy usage lol .
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Your signal is weak and that will use a fair bit of battery. Disable 4G if you're only getting one bar.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pablodelouis:
Oh thanks for the tip ! :good: I'm always on wifi at home and i thought there's no need to disable 4G when wifi is on...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] EVO'D_OUT:
I've been seeing 5hr15min - 5hr45min of screen time on my C6806 over the last 5 charge cycles. Moderate use, WiFi connected about 80% of the time, LTE the other 20% - no battery saving apps or tricks.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
I could've gotten some more screentime if I hadn't actively tried to empty my battery from 25%. I recon i could've reached almost 8 hours.

I'm on 290, rooted.

Sent from my Z Ultra
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
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Sent from my Z Ultra
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hansip87:
Well i was using the phone as a note taker (more like Word editor device) yesterday. It was around 4 hour of screen time with 50% battery still intact before i decided to plug it again. Maybe if i kept continuing, this thing can go 8 hours on screen till the end :) And it was with 3G Turned on at the background, Bluetooth connected with keyboard and mouse, and 90% of the time is Evernote app on the foreground. C6802 here.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
NFC looks suspect, and who needs LTE in New Zealand - We dont even get cell coverage :D
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] freddylam:
Have you disabled some system apps or what?

My Android System and android OS is taking around 10% and 7% respectively regardless of my screen-on time.

I'm just getting around 5 hours or less screen on time usually.

Same on 290, rooted.

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yes. I have removed around 2-300MB of system apps.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Shadow of Chaos:
Ehh, I don't feel like dealing with pictures.

On Battery: ~6:30 Hours

Percentage: 76%

Screen: 46% of drain

GoneMad Music Player: 8% of Drain

Various system/phone apps: Rest of it.

It's not bad, by any stretch of the imagination.

OS: Modified version of GPe to remove bloat/useless apps.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] freddylam:
That's quite a lot.

Mind sharing what you have removed?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
A lot :p Every Sony app/service (excluding Album and Movies), every social app/service, some Google apps/services, Small apps+launcher, etc.. it's too much really, but hopefully you'll get the picture. I only have the basics left.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
Second charge cycle. Would probably get about 4.5 by 1% so far im pretty happy

J
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] ps000000:
Every ROM I install (include official ftf)

Custom ROMs /// sony base /// cm base

I got drain overnight 100 to 88% - 90% every morning

(not use for 6-7 Hours)

I have

Twitter NotSync / Facebook Sync / Email Sync / LineMessenger Sync

Does those app use battery or my C6833 got a problem ?

(I alway turn on 3G data no WiFi)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yes, they all use battery, and there's nothing wrong with your Ultra. Are you using Stamina? If not, use it. It really helps, but remember that Stamina blocks the data when the screen is off, so whitelist apps that you want to still function in standby; like IM and email apps. IM apps use a lot of battery though, so you'll have to decide if you absolutely have to read the IM's straight away or if it's something that can wait.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
2nd charge cycle I.got 4.5 hours screen on time not so much this time

Was expecting battery to get better not worse haha

J
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
It's getting better and better
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pablodelouis:
Hi Jack, is it really getting better and better for you or did you have a light use this time ?

I'm around 4h / 4h30 of screen time, never get more but i'm a really heavy user so ...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
Absolutely not, this way heavy usage, it only lasted me 20 hours and 9 of which i was asleep!

I use stamina mode, brightness all the way down with auto brightness on, no root or anything and i took low battery mode off

J
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KeikiNYC011:
Hello so I had my Sony Xperia Z Ultra for about 30 days now and stressing the device extremely. For what I've gather as data by turning off the transitions and animation transparent features in developer setting and also kill all start up apps when booting up the device, also the notification light was disable

Bootup times are for 30 seconds to 55 seconds from 1:31-1:42

With screen brightness at 50%, with stamina on battery life for me was 5 hours and 37 minutes.

With music playing from times 9pm to 8am without touching the screen/idle battery life was at 100% and drop to 81% with headphone jack in and with house speakers it drop from 100% to 69%.

Gaming continuously battery life drop from 100% to 20% in one hour time with brightness level at 50%

Movie playback the battery life drop from 100% to 23% (watching two movies) in 4 hours and 22 minutes.

Note : brightness level was always on 50% while my 30 days usage of the device was repeated.

The battery size for this device is a bit small but It's physical size is huge. Yes I've open up the back and the battery takes of 60% of the space and believe that sony should have taken the interest in a large battery size 3500mAh because th3 battery looks like an 3500mAh.

Note to never use a pen or pencil with the phone. I have a deep scratch on my screen even thou It's protected with Sony screen protector. Now my screen looks like a cat toy with my phone. ( I don't have pet )
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Narvarr:
I got my Z Ultra yesterday an I must say that I'm impressed with the battery life. I'm on stock ROM running 4.3. It has been on par with my first gen Galaxy Note running a 4000mah extended battery.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Then you'll probably get happy when i tell you that it'll get even better in a few days :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] golfinggino:
Ever since I switched to the 4.4 gpe ROM my battery life has doubled, I was previously running the 4.3 carbon ROM and getting around 5 hours screen on time
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] justsomebody:
I am having trouble getting into deep sleep as the android os takes up 60-70% of battery usage, is there any way to solve it?

I am in stick 4.3 rooted.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
You have a rouge app, its keeping the device awake

Uninstall anything you recently installed and keep the phones screen on on a 10 hour YouTube video until it dies. Then charge back up and it will go down a lot
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] golfinggino:
For the hell of it I ran the phone today with the screen on the entire time to see how long it would go I had 13 hours screen on time with 5 % remaining, I picked up a cheap battery case yesterday and now seeing if the case can charge the phone back up to full looks like it will do it but it is very slow
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] ps000000:
my social network apps eat upto 10-15% overnight

but when I turn STAMINA mode on it reduce to 1-2% overnight

Oh it is a big different
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yup, that's because it cuts the data connection. You can whitelist apps, but there's no point in using Stamina if we're whitelisting everything that uses a lot of battery :p I unplugged mine when i went to bed, and it dropped 1% in 8 hours :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
Stamina and low battery mode off. Brightness on low
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bucho2004:
Here are my battery results after 5th charge cycle.

Iam loving this phone, using it constantly

Brightness throughout the day is at 20% with auto ticked on, and at 0% in the evening. Auto sync is turned on for Gmail and Email app, Google now is Off. And I only swith on location services when I need too. Stamina mode on.

Also today I found out how to get

Get wifi off in the advanced wifi menu (makes a big difference in standby battery consumption)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KeikiNYC011:
Everyone that has a Xperia Z Ultra Smartphone

This morning my headphone jack was giving me a problem where the headphone axle kept on coming out of the headphone jack.

So I've decided to take a look at the jack and open the phone up to maybe fix it switch by the way, I did but happen to notice that the battery information says 3.8v 3000mAh 11.4th Li polymer battery.

Wait, didn't Sony stated that this phone comes with a 3050mAh Li polymer battery?

That's also has me thinking if Sony is misleading us on any other hardware on this device.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yes, it should be 3050 as far as I know. Keep in mind that your warranty is as good as dead when you open it yourself, so if the minijack is damaged, you're kind of in a pickle now. I guess Sony can see if it's been opened (like the PS3/4 etc).
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KeikiNYC011:
Ive replace everything including a new seal. Luck for me I had a extra but doesn't give the right for sony to make a statement on a device battery spec when It's clearly not an 3050mAh li pokymer battery
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
How?!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Nothing special really. I don't play games, so.. I watched a lot of episodes of my favorite TV shows, watched a movie, browsed, took some photos, browsing XDA etc. I didn't have access to a computer yesterday, so I pretty much used the ZU as a computer.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gabrriel:
With stamina on

With Stamina mode on
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Unreal988:
very good! hour of screen?

inviato dal z ultra
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
My guess is way less than an hour.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] JackHanAnLG:
This is getting ridiculous. -.- its getting worse and worse

J
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Not sure if serious...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Narvarr:
This was my usage from yesterday...screen brightness at 50%:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Tiamath99:
Im getting about 5 hours of screen time.

Mostly 2g or wifi

No sync

no gps

screen brightness in auto with about 60-65%

One thing i noticed is that the power goes down quicker when i use Chrome , since i use Dolphin thing are going better with the battery life.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
Want to see poor battery life over night?

Unplugged the phone at about 8pm to make 3 calls - ZU was at 98%

Pick up phone in morning at 5am head to work and then drive 2h and check phone (so around 7.30 am) and see I have only 8%:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] dadme:
Turn off Location Access in settings. Then force stop Google Play Services.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
It's the first time it has done that, but have had Google Keyboard do the same overnight - Both on SlimKat. This Google Play bug is on the latest build of SlimKat

A reboot seemed to fix it as the last 8% lasted another 10 hours with a couple of uses of GPS
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] Law91:
First of all, sorry 4 my bad english.. i need help from expert.. i want to root my xperia j and can move my apps to external sd card.. someone can help me? show me step by step how to rooting my xperia j.. before this, im already tried to root my xperia, in the first step, i need to put my xperia in fastbook mode but it failed, my pc says doesn't have driver or something like that..

im using xperia j, android 4.1.2, build number 11.2.A.0.31
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] xrhstospro:
download "unlock root" and root your j (i dont know if it work 100% but try it)...when you root your j go sownload root browser or else and go to system>etc>vold.fstab, copy and paste here everything that writes then i will say what to change (to make your sd card as internal memory and internal memory as sd card)...this is the easiest way...

Edit: if vold.fstab is like that:

dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard0 16 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc0

dev_mount ext_card /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.1/mmc_host

then change the "sdcard0 16" to "sdcard1 16" and "sdcard1 auto" to "sdcard0 auto"
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] Suxter:
how to root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2366577
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] neil.thomas:
Hi People

Does anyone know when (or if) the utterly fantastic Universal is going to be released & what it is going to be called? I get to upgrade my phone on the in july and i sooooooo want one

thanks for you help :D :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] :
Its been touted as the SPV 3G due with the rest as either 3rd quarter or sept/october-ish.

Can't wait
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] neil.thomas:
I dont know weather i can hold out that long :( im trying not to go for the m2000
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] :
I got the M2000 at the start of March and unless the Universal is too big, which i doubt, I'll be getting it, new contract, whatever it takes!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] xda-rocks:
Hold on! You'll regret being stuck with the M2000 for another year when the Universal comes out.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] neil.thomas:
thats true, i will try to hold on :)

i wonder if tom tom 5 will work on it?