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[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Tethering itself is data and power consuming, it can deplete the battery at alarming rate. With this level of usage, I don't expect normal smartphones can withstand 1 full day. Even phablets like LG G Flex and Sony Xperia Z Ultra may not be able to withstand too.

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Hope that 12.1.A.1.192 can fix the issues of 12.1.A.0.266 without adding more bugs (which is so typical for Sony Mobile)... :P
[Xperia SP General] syedada:
this is the max screen on time i got
[Xperia SP General] asanmaca8:
Teach me, oh my Master.

Enviat des del meu C5303 usant Tapatalk
[Xperia SP General] k.dimitrovski:
Since upgrading to 4.3 I had plenty of problems like random reboots and bad battery.

First I did a factory reset but the problems continued.

Then I did a clean install with SUS and the situation is a bit better, except the battery life/awake time.

These are my stats and as you can notice that the awake periods are not shown correctly in Battery Stats.

Additionally if I sum all the wakelocks recorded in BBS/WD they are a lot less then the whole time the phone has been awake.

This difference is visible in WD statistics screenshot.

It looks to me like "Android OS" wake-locks are not recorded in BBS or WD for some reason.

Any idea how to fix this Android OS battery drain and/or how to log it in BBS/WD?
[Xperia SP General] Rui Oliveira 21:
:confused:People, I'm considering buying this phone for my gf, but battery life is the Key Factor!

do you recomend it?? I wana know,
[Xperia SP General] @non4:
Best battery I ever had on stock ROMs (bloatware removed) and decent battery on CM/AOSP based ROMs too!

My stats from vanir rom, did some heavy gaming and YouTube streaming, easily lasts me the day and stock is even better for me:

Sent while my supervisor wasn't looking
[Xperia SP General] Bazilli:
My 254 24h+ battery stats. Rooted stock rom without any special mods. Wifi Off, 3G data on... Background apps: Facebook, Whatsapp, Dropbox, Tapatalk.

Android OS seems to be biggest battery hog. :(
[Xperia SP General] ZZerker:
I installed CM11 FXP308, and the first thing i noticed was, that the battery was going empty much faster than Stock .254 or 266. Even without any Energy saving options or Stamina mode. Now im on Existanz 2.0 and i can see how much better the battery lasts. It was really the main reason to go back to a Stock mod rom.
[Xperia SP General] Rui Oliveira 21:
I also flashed the latest 4.3 firmware, CE version and battery went down pretty quickly, let's see if it settles down.

Btw, do you know by any means if I can flash the unbranded PT firmware???

as mine is non-rooted i cant do this: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z/general/guide-download-firmware-customization-t2311211

is there any good soul willing to create a .ftf for unbranded pt??:fingers-crossed:
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Restart your phone to see if it helps. If not just go to the (Xperia SP) Android Development -> Stock Ftf and download the ROM that you want. Generic variants are most likely not customised. Reinstall/ Downgrade is found on other forum also in the Xperia SP.

Hope this helps.
[Xperia SP General] Rui Oliveira 21:
Thanks for the reply ;)

After a couple of days the battery seems more stable, but still, the user interface seems laggy, not as smooth as 4.1...it pisses me of, the casual lag, the non-responsive screen for 1-2 secs when I'm installing apps from play store.

I have CE unbranded.

Any advices?
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Enable Developers Mode (Settings -> About Phone -> Tap Build 7 times)

Go into Development Mode (Settings -> Dev) Set all three animation scales to x0.5

Hope this speeds up a little more. :D
[Xperia SP General] Rui Oliveira 21:
Thanks man, really hope that works, I was about to flash the 4.1 JB and get done with it, phone was really smooth and snappy.
[Xperia SP General] coombes69:
My battery life has improved since the original stock 4.1.2 with the .201 update but i still find i have to charge every night :| usually about 30-40% left after 16 hours.
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Xperia SP isn't built for days of usage in the first place like a phablet/tablet!
[Xperia SP General] lilliput222:
plz use gsam battery monitor app ...
[Xperia SP General] st3ch:
guys I'm having a heavy battery drain, it's on stock 4.1.2 unrooted

should I activate stamina or do something else ;)
[Xperia SP General] le grande magnetto:
5

Is that some kind of a joke?
[Xperia SP General] velnens123:
Stop trolling. Please. :good:
[Xperia SP General] st3ch:
nope, it was from 2 days back, now I'm testing diff. email apps to see which has the least power drain

I want to charge my phone no more than once a week

this screenshot is without having any linked accounts, just to check if the battery was still OK

i use only calls, mes., player, wifi and data, no camera or facebook so I get about 5 days, 8 at most

but when I add an account, then no more than 2 days...
[Xperia SP General] le grande magnetto:
I hate stock charger, its just the same as on my previous LWW (amperage) ant battery is almost twice as big, so it takes foreeeeeeever to fully charge.
[Xperia SP General] lilliput222:
Why battery stats Thread is so Inactive ?? .. Anyways heres mine battery stats with lots of whatsapping and Tune in radio

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[Xperia SP General] ashis.kyal:
SOT is pretty impressive!

Sent from Sony Xperia SP :)
[Xperia SP General] lilliput222:
Yepp , Mostly whasapping late night .. Its somehow better than my note 2
[Xperia SP General] Levered:
Just simple

New firmware

Long time to full charge, but short time the battery usage.
[Xperia SP General] Dark Mist:
My battery does not last more than 5 hours with heavy gaming,browsing (little) and tweeting.:D
[Xperia SP General] UsernameWasTaken:
Extremly good battery life! Nearly 7 hours of on-screen time with heavy usage and no stamina mode. Official .254 firmware (4.1.2).
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Are you serious? You keep on charging and use, of course you can get 7h. I can get 100h too what. Zzz.
[Xperia SP General] UsernameWasTaken:
You do know that the stats reset when you charge the battery? This is 3 days of continual usage, no charging whatsoever. I didn't even syncronize it with a desktop via USB cable.
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Stats only reset when battery is charged to 90% or above, mind you. Also, don't lie. The graph increase and the accommodating green line denotes it has been charge. Don't think I never use the Xperia SP before, thanks.
[Xperia SP General] UsernameWasTaken:
Didn't know about the 90% limit, I just know the stats reset when you connect the charger.

I really don't need to lie. If I wanted to, I would've photoshopped the images, at least that's not hard to do. You can believe or not, it's up to you. All I want is to share the proof of what we all already know and that's the fact the SP has a great battery. I was away for two days and forgot my charger. There were no computers around. The periods on screenshot indicate that "the charging" happened when I was in transit and then in another town. I can read the graph, too, but I know what did and what I didn't do. The green line and the spikes can only be software glitches, probably when switching heavy/light usage, and the voltage spikes up/down.

Even If the green line represents charging periods, they are so short that can't possibly contribute much to such a large screen-on time.
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Okay let's don't argue here. Yes it does not mean much. However how do you manage to get such a long duration even with so much standby time?
[Xperia SP General] UsernameWasTaken:
While traveling alone on the bus, forth and back, I used the phone as audio (briefly) and video player (mostly). I must say the MX Player is a magnificent piece of software engineering, it always astounds me with how little it drains the battery on playback. The screen was/is at 25% illumination, but on auto mode, so it varies. Thankfully, I was traveling along the road with great network coverage, meaning there were no drops in GSM signal. Maybe 20-30 minutes calls duration and some sms, but my wifi was on for a day and a half, at least and just under an hour of web browsing. The rest of screen time is all MX Player playback, about 5h.

I was highly surprised the phone lasted this long, so I posted the screens. That's it.
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
This means you're connected to just the GSM network and not HSPA/LTE? Data services is off too all the time? This may be the reason why battery life is better than average...

*Deleted because I mixed up MX Player with other music apps, even though its video player*
[Xperia SP General] UsernameWasTaken:
Yes, just 2G GSM, for calls and messages. Fees for data connections are high in my region, if you don't include a plan (which I don't have & need), and the coverage is spotty leading to unnecessary battery drain. It's better to switch it on only when you need it.
[Xperia SP General] chewlohseng:
Quite contrary to typical Singaporeans. Expectations of high speed mobile data network led to telcos rushing to be ahead of another (especially SingTel and M1, StarHub much slower) to upgrade their network just to gain customers.

However, not all things are good. In train tunnels mobile network simply crawls if there's only GSM/3G, no LTE.

Because of this, battery life indeed received a big hit...
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
In 205...
[Xperia SP General] spix123:
Have you done any modifications to the google apps on this phone? I bet during this charge you never used Play Store? I can get battery life like this but only by never using google Play Store. The moment you use it standby drain increases to 2-3% per hour which limits the phone to 1.5 days battery life even with no screen time.

Also you did charge your phone twice, not big amounts (looks like 5 and 10 % ) Stats only reset after full charge.
[Xperia SP General] mmman5on:
Uoo, 7 days !!!

Everything disabled : no WiFi, no data, no GPS. Just few calls a day, aprox. 10-15 minutes, 5 photos taken/day, 5 min. of data/day, 5 SMS/day.

1 song played/day and 1 trailer (2 min.) watched and 26 photos transferred via BlueThoot.
[Xperia SP General] QBerto:
Fix'd
[Xperia SP General] Marília de Oliveira:
That is your attachment of my battery. Lasting amazingly, I only use the services disable :victory::good:
[Xperia SP General] claudio917:
Hi guys, I don't know if this is just my opinion but I think that the latest google play services updates added some battery draining...! I've been using the same rom (Stock .207 or Existenz 4.0) in the last 2 months and google play services used to have a small impact on the overall drain percentage. In the last week more or less it is always around 20% or more... I usually don't have auto sync and my GPS and location services are off... Does anybody feel the same??
[Xperia SP General] digory007:
Yes, i am facing this from past 3 days....my phones gets drained in almost 8 hrs without usage (overnight)...google play services is using 70% of the battery which always keeps my phone awake....
[Xperia SP General] TieNN89:
Same issue here with Google play services

Phone will only last approximately a day doing nothing but the battery usage will say 99% Google play services

Any solution to this?
[Xperia SP General] QBerto:
First try to discover exactly what is causing battery drain....use wakelock detector or better battery stats

Then, Try using 'disable service' from play store. u need root. Then go to app, go to system apps, find Google play services, and disable the one causing problem, for me, worked disabling all process with 'Wearable' in its name
[Xperia SP General] rdlegy:
Guys I am on stock and google play services drain a lot of the battery. Is there any way I can fix this? Also are there any mods/tweaks I can make the battery to last more? Thanx
[Xperia SP General] qenthankz:
Hi there,..

Hi....

I think SP battery isn't that good. I never have my phone life more than 24 hours with normal usage.. and I think google play services is the main cause. is there any fix for that?
[Xperia SP General] dorolan05:
what about those cm13 or currently rom:)

sorry for reviving this thread.. i might check if my battery is still okay coz.. i barely get 3-4hrs sot hehe
[Xperia SP General] gabrielbolner:
Mokee 60.1

I'm using Mokee 60.1 MM with Helium Kernel and the battery is really great compared to Stock JB
[Xperia SP General] ExclusiveBFS:
I get around 5 or 6 hours of screen time with Carbon LP Rom and Helium Kernel. I recommend them both!
[Xperia SP General] gabrielbolner:
Have you tested Mokee already? Do you know if Carbon LP is better than Mokee?Or can you sugest another MM or LP ROM?
[Xperia SP General] ExclusiveBFS:
Nope, I haven't. I tried a few lp roms, but carbon is the smoothest and the most stable one i've tested so far. (I haven't tested new roms yet btw. I've been using carbon for the last 2 months.) But I will be testing new roms for a few days, so I can let you know if you're still interested.
[Xperia SP General] SunnyChrono6:
I know that it's not bad. I've already thought of this stuff. I know it's not fair to compare it with an iPhone which is weaker and smaller. But, there is some kind of inefficiency because the Galaxy S3, with it's quad core(albeit lower clocked), less efficient CPU, AMOLED screen, and smaller battery gets almost 6 hours of screen-on time, and.....you know, it should be better for us :P
[Xperia SP General] raziel123:
the biggest battery drain in terms of hardware on phones is the screen,

Super Amoled screens

light up ONLY the Pixels it needs

so NO Blacks are lit up,

IPS/LCD screens which the SP has ALWAYS lights up the whole screen, even if it is completely black ...

hence the brighter screen, but

greater battery drain

,

so 5-6 hours with such a battery draining screen is quite good.

regards
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
I got 7 days this time (I'm starting to suspect the battery needs calibration) and over 5 hours screen on time. Usage was heavier than last time (Whatsapp and Walkman mostly) but still generally light use.

I'm not using it much at the moment. Waiting until the case I ordered for it arrives. Too scared to use it like this.
[Xperia SP General] raziel123:
7 days?!!!

I can about 2-3 dsays on normal use, although I charge mine every night or morning

getting really good battery life under normal use, with Stamina Mode on all the time.

just checked on trickster mod and it shows the phone going into Deep Sleep a lot more than it did ...:D

regards
[Xperia SP General] ashis.kyal:
My Battery stats with screen on time also.

Could get max 5 hours of screen on time
[Xperia SP General] noob_user_:
I dunno what's wrong wid most of your phones. I get a lot of screen on time at 30% brightness
[Xperia SP General] ashis.kyal:
Is this really 9 hrs in a single charge??

Do u use data connection every time or u disconnect It often?

Do u also use wifi
[Xperia SP General] noob_user_:
Full time data on. A couple hours fb and a movie plus lots of ebook reading with walkman. I regularly get 6 - 8 hrs screen time on 2g but less on 3g...
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
I have bought XSP 4 days old, I have .245 firmware and I have same problem with battery... :/

Phone is smooth, but battery go 0% in 7-8 hours... =(

If you need screen, quote me plz... :/
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
Are you heavily using your phone? What's taking up so much battery? Post a screenshot of the battery usage.
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
I believe I don't use heavely my phone, I'm in college et I can't use all time my phone, my brightness is in 50% + Auto and phone is in sleep 75% of time.

Look consommation of my phone plz... And for more informations, I go to Facebook, SMS, XDA, Dolphine Browser, but 10-15 min by hours.

I do not understand, I bought there about 4 days and the battery is not as powerful as the tests say... Yet I have the latest update from Sony in my country (France : 12.0.A.2.245) and my phone is not rooted.
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
Check auto-sync option, glove mode and bravia engine. Disabling those really boosted the battery for me. Also try Stamina mode.

Bravia engine & Glove mode (Settings > Display)

Auto-sync (Settings > Account > Google)

Stamina mode (Settings > Battery)

Try it out and let me know if it made a difference.
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
Thank you, I test this. But is not normal Xperia SP have this battery life with superpower battery on hardware...

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For your survey. My phone turned on on the battery -> 8h35, I have 18% at this moment. Screen used 2h46. Normal ?
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
I think it should last a bit longer even with over 2 hours of screen-on time. It does with mine.
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
Ok ! Really thx ! I return in a few days to tell you if it has improved. :p
[Xperia SP General] GaEul:
Hi guys, my Media server is eating up my phone's battery even in standby.even greater percentage over Screen Display. Also my stamina mode always show only 2 days 5 hours estimated standy time in full 100%, pretty low compared to the other users that have 4 days. I have Greenify installed so all my social media apps were hibernated. Any suggestions on what causing it? do a simple factory reset will solve?

I'm charging my phone 2-3 times a day and I'm starting to hate it!
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
Fck my life.... :'(
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
Media Server is a known issue in some Android phones, you probably have a media related app (music, images..etc) that's constantly running in the background even while the screen is switched off. Note that 4 days battery is with light usage, with moderate use its about 2 days or less for most (judging by this thread).

Try installing a battery calibration app. Sometimes the battery retains old data and shows an incorrect percentage. This happened to me on my tablet, the battery depleted very slowly, then suddenly run out and shut down at 50%. I had to calibrate it to show the right percentage.
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
I bought the phone there a week, and I have rooted there two days, the bootloader is locked. I have launch a battery calibration this morning, in fact, my screenshots shows the result. 10% less battery with 25 minutes of screen-on. It really is not normal! I expected much better battery life with a battery of 2370 mAh ... :(

I even greenified (with the pro version I bought) most of applications that I use very rarely. :rolleyes:

What gets on my nerves the most is that people who have never touched the phone for improve the battery, play the latest 3D games for most of the day, stand up to the end of the day with 40-50% battery, while I, with normal use, the phone is fully discharged before the end of my day... FML. :eek:
[Xperia SP General] Th3Duck:
I dont know, your battery drain is just normal looking at the pictures. If you keep using your phone that way the phone will be off the charger for 20 hours with almost 5 hours screen time. 10% battery loss in almost 2 hours with almost 0,5 hour screen time. Nothing to worry about I think.
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
New screenshots that I just captured... ^^

I have just Facebook, XDA, SMS, 10min of game and reading actuality.

Thank you for your response ! :)
[Xperia SP General] Joku1981:
I tested all firmware and I had same problems.

*POSSIBLE SOLUTION: All battery is drained for the programs in background + Screen. I recommend ya unactive the AUTOMATIC BRIGHTNESS and REMOVE ALL BLOATWARE :highfive:
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
Yes but... Why automatic brightness ?
[Xperia SP General] sanjayatlive:
Battery drain

Hello guys,I'm having the same problem as Drakomord.I'm losing like 16% of battery over night.every half an hour 1% is lost.

with stamina mode on,power saving on,Bravia engine off and glove mode off,30% brightness set to auto.Any solutions??
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
I'm going to try testing my battery. I'll play a game on the phone and see how much battery gets drained in 10 minutes.

You need to check the battery usage and tell us exactly what's using up the battery. Post a screenshot if you can.
[Xperia SP General] cbarai:
Guys.. please. Post the relevant information before starting flame wars. I can get an easy 2 days battery with medium/heavy internet, but its not about me. Its about you and your phone usage that matters.

If you need help, post all screens from Battery stats plus which is available at HERE

Also need a screen of WakeLock Detector

Once installed give each app 24 hrs to pull up relevant stats and then post. BTW 12-24hrs of continuous running time before posting screens.

We are willing to help but there is no point just talking here unless we know whats really happening on your device before we can sugest corrective measures.
[Xperia SP General] sanjayatlive:
Battery drain issue found a FIX!

Guys I found a fix for the battery drain issue.looks like weather widget is the culprit.

All those who have battery drain issue perform the following:

Go to settings-apps-all apps-Eco mode controller-force stop and clear its data

Go to settings-apps-all apps-Weather widget-force stop and disable it.

reboot
[Xperia SP General] Hnk1:
I just didnot buy this phone because of its irremovable battery. I like removable batteries. With only 20 quids I could have bought this, which isnot much of a difference esp when I could get 1.7Ghz, headphones and bigger screen out of the box!

Xperia L
[Xperia SP General] ByteFalcon:
Yeah the internal battery was a drawback for me, but all the other specs the phone has were exactly what I wanted so I had to compromise.

Btw what phone are you talking about?
[Xperia SP General] Ainster:
Im using xperia sp for 8days now im really loving this phone but battery are for me just terrible ... There are 2370mah battery and im dosn't notice that its are so big in this phone phone for me can't handle one day... In 9hours of sleep ~12% off battery and 3h on screen are total dead for phone ... So im thinking did there can be software issue ? Becouse on xperia ray 1400mah battery i can easy stand one or even 2 days screen on 6h + and overnight drane 1-2%...
[Xperia SP General] persian99:
Thanks to the battery getting drained in deep sleep, I only get 17 hours with less than 3 hours of screen time
[Xperia SP General] mrjraider:
Same issue here :(

My attempted fixes:

- Factory reset

- Disabled Google apps (all but not the playstore and services)

- Disabled stamina mode (temporaly to see if the wakelock occurs)

- Reflashing stock rom (< Solved it for me for now..)
[Xperia SP General] nathanmiller:
The battery is very powerful of this device.
[Xperia SP General] persian99:
i did all of those as i unlocked my bootloader, the issue comes back after a few days of normal usage
[Xperia SP General] copel:
I had the same issue with the battery... Amazon replace thé Phone and now no prob since 2 days.

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Envoyé depuis mon C5303 avec Tapatalk 4
[Xperia SP General] cbarai:
Noticed from the screen there that the Wifi is on all the time.

that is probably preventing the phone from going into deep sleep.

Get Wakelock detector from play and see what's stopping the phone from going into deep sleep.

Post back for more help.
[Xperia SP General] persian99:
Here you go:

Does this mean that my phone doesn't go into deep sleep?
[Xperia SP General] cbarai:
Mate,just that screen is no help. Need to see the screen from wakelock detector and from battery stats plus.

All the screens.

Also are you using 4g?
[Xperia SP General] Drakomord:
After flashing stock rom what is the stats of your battery ? :0
[Xperia SP General] persian99:
I will take another screenshot once my battery drains, but my phone has been unplugged for 4 hours so far and I found this:
[Xperia SP General] mrjraider:
After some tests i have this:

AndroidSystem is really the issue with me but ive reflashed 3 times now and still this annoying wake lock thing

Its not bad but the wakelocks are annoying. I hope Sony can fix them because on my Samsung I did not have them xD