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[Xperia Z3 General] Blaalad12:
Cant post screenshot but iam currrently at 1day 5 hours and 30 mins with screen on time of 9 hours 35 mins and still have 10% battery :) The battery life alone makes up for any other minor flaws this phone may have :)

However i do have most battery draining features turned off and brightness reduced but none the less iam really happy, Easily lasts twice as long as my previous phone the htc one which i even thought was decent at the time
[Xperia Z3 General] shook187:
Hence why I carry the iPhone 6 plus... With that said, is the Xperia Z3 battery better? I need to find out before I make one of these device my daily "big screen" driver.
[Xperia Z3 General] sephstyler:
Yes, although my location services was ON, I was consciously not using many apps. I know it would ping its location at times, but I was not actively using anything, so that does not explain the significant battery use.

Regarless, I'm using my replacement Z3 now, installed all the same apps and accounts last night, and charged it full over night. I'm currently tracking at ~4% usage per hour, which should take me to approx 20 hours, as opposed to 10-13 of what I had before.

Similarly to a few people above, I'm not looking for the advertised 2 days life, I know that is highly optimistic and dependent on more factors than I care to list, however, I wanted to Z3 to get through a full day without me having to do intensive batt management. It failed to do that, and this replacement unit looks like it will do it. I think i'm on track for happy days ahead/
[Xperia Z3 General] shook187:
I have the 6 plus
[Xperia Z3 General] se1000:
YMMV but http://www.phonearena.com/news/Our-...s-are-done-both-trail-the-competition_id60920
[Xperia Z3 General] shook187:
Thanks for the link but I got to see those results for myself cause my phone 6 plus is giving me fantastic battery life, better than any Android device I have ever had so far.
[Xperia Z3 General] se1000:
Right. Have you tried adding your past devices to that chart to see if it makes sense to you? I would start there. Again, YMMV since things such as usage patterns, carrier reception, etc etc can affect battery life.
[Xperia Z3 General] hussan882:
I am currently at 32% after 1d19h - screen time approximately 4 hours. I expect it to last the day with moderate usage.

I was travelling on the tube yesterday, so lots of browsing and poor signal, hence the battery consumption being higher than usual (from my experience so far). The last full charge lasted well over 2.5 days.
[Xperia Z3 General] Shudder123:
Latest stats. Pretty good idle life. Stamina mode activated at 30%. Low battery mode at 20%. I don't think my stamina mode is working properly though. Just turned them off for the screenshot.
[Xperia Z3 General] sephstyler:
Per my previous posts, I'm now on my second Z3.

First one, after about a week of use, was getting 8-10 hours of total life, with just 2-3 hours on screen on time (2 push email accts, whatsapp, stamina off, location on, adaptive brightness on), and even on Sunday (with minimal emails and notifications and most of day on WiFi) it only got to 13 hours with 2 hours screen on time.

Returned it.

Second Z3 - yesterday was day 1 - 14 hours with 3 hours SOT (same configuration and apps), and today looks on course for 16+ with 3 hours SOT.

First one was definitely a dud.
[Xperia Z3 General] Mity85:
Meh

I just got my Z3 yesterday. It arrived with 60% battery and it took nearly 4 hours to get to 100% while charging (although I was playing with it during this time). I went to bed at 7pm, right when the battery reached 100% and when I got up at 5am, it was at 94%. I'm quite surprised by this. My iphone 5 would only lose 1% or 2% max during night time. I closed all apps and turned of mobile data before sleeping.

Are these numbers representative? How much do you lose at night?

I'm not a heavy phone user. Email, calls, maps/GPS occasionally, no games/video. I'm really hoping the battery life will be better with an actual day's use.
[Xperia Z3 General] iBuzman:
^^ after few battery cycles you'll see a lot more representative nbrs than out of the box performance.
[Xperia Z3 General] Governuh:
So I got my z3 about a week ago and the first 4 days I was actually getting 2 days battery life with normal use and Stamina mode on, but now my battery can barely get through the day. Any suggestions? Should I return the device?
[Xperia Z3 General] Roger117:
Does anyone know if these battery stats are in line with what I should be getting?

I have been using the phone on and off, not too much during the day. My last charge was on Tuesday (almost 48 hours ago).

I have WiFi all all day with HSPA+ on when I'm not in range for WiFi. No Stamina mode is on, only Low Battery Mode at 15%, Location-Based WiFi and Queue Background Data.

I've gotten a bit over 4hrs SOT with 33% battery remaining, cell standby seems a bit higher than normal.
[Xperia Z3 General] Shudder123:
considering you have almost 2 days standby and only at 33% with mixed data and wifi, i'd say it's pretty good.
[Xperia Z3 General] mwep:
OMG I love this device!!!!

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[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
This phone seems like a good transition from the Sprint LG G2 I have which gives me 7-7.5 Hrs screen time. The G3 was a step backwards thats why I preordered the Z3.
[Xperia Z3 General] Jonathan-H:
Battery life is pretty good, but mine is getting worse with time it seems. Can't work it out lol.

As for charging times, mine took hours for the first few days, but now it's charging much quicker.
[Xperia Z3 General] kerman19:
Standby time without Stamina is pretty awesome so far!

40 minutes screen on time, about 10 minutes worth of calling, 3 accounts sync, with some light texting. No suppression of my data connection etc.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
I think Android wakes up far too much in general (looking at the screen on time versus awake); hopefully project Volta will sort that out!

My Z3 seems to have settled now to give up to 5hrs SOT on mixed game/casual use on wifi/3G mix. Not bad, my Nexus 4 was barely giving me 2 hours!
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
My G2 gives 7.5hrs SOT, the Z3 should give similar or more just give it a few charging cycles. Can't wait for Lollipop, just imagine up to a 30% boost in battery life.
[Xperia Z3 General] s17nj:
First day with the phone and have to say battery is so much better then the one m7, camt post screenshots but i got 1 day and 2 hours with 6hours and 45 mins ost. This was with a lot of phone setup and alot of netflix/youtube/whatsapp mainly over wifi. On my second cycle so this would be the true test for me.
[Xperia Z3 General] isaali93:
Upgraded from my Z1 just yesterday and I must say that the battery life is simply amazing on this device so far! No battery saving features enabled and loads of accounts synced.
[Xperia Z3 General] derrickonline:
Received my phone yesterday with 34%. It's now the next day I'm at 9pm and I'm at 3%. I thought the M8 was great...whole new level here.

And my experience has been a full discharge then full charge and another full discharge and things only get better.

I also been waiting to dunk my phone in water. But was so scared hearing the defects out there on XDA. But I did the pressure test the then bit the bullet. Submerged it and took a pic. She lived to see another day.

I did order mag chargers for the car.and home so I don't have to open the flaps. I would hate to wear it out over time and get water damage.

I also don't really plan on taking my phone to the beach and getting in the the water. But it's nice to know I don't have to worry about spilling a drink on it while at my desk. I would be more worried about dropping it and having it float away or sand scratching it.

So far loving it. Came from an M8...Tried a OnePlus for 24hrs before deciding it's too fkng huge!

The OnePlus is ridiculous. I remember laughing at my friend who is 300lbs for talking into what looked like a tablet. It was actually a Galaxy Note. Only to get a one plus and dwarfed his phone. Tooooo big.

The Z3 is on part with my M8 which doesn't look big until you clip the Seidio naked holster on your suit pant for work. Lol
[Xperia Z3 General] RCJ89:
I got my Z3 around 4.45pm on thursday started playing with it aroudn 5pm while I was in the que at the samsung store in stratford battery was on 51% I am only charging it now after plahying subway surfers, listening to music with noise cancelling on, using the internet screen brightness around 60-65% and no power saving mode and basically doing everything I can to kill the battery so that I can charge it to 100% and give it a proper analysis but my word this battery is just awesome it takes ages to go down!!!
[Xperia Z3 General] dedei:
My battery seems to be pretty lame, maybe because it's the first full charge?
[Xperia Z3 General] fain2daniel:
I can only say crazy battery from sony...i can only imagine how Lollipop will react on it.

Sent from my D6603
[Xperia Z3 General] caff111:
May I know at what screen brightness level u r on? Thanks
[Xperia Z3 General] fain2daniel:
Auto low

Sent from my D6603
[Xperia Z3 General] SweDunda:
~60% screen light

Live wallpaper

Autosync: Facbook, Skype, Google, Sony Entertainment Network, Dropbox
[Xperia Z3 General] dedei:
My battery life is still not perfect as yall are :( is my device faulty?

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[Xperia Z3 General] kerman19:
Almost 6 days!

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[Xperia Z3 General] dedei:
Woo thanks. I'm kinda neurotic because I'm using an imported D6653, and can't replace it.
[Xperia Z3 General] dante2086:
This is from sister's Z3. Don't have one myself. But the battery life is awesome.

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[Xperia Z3 General] Run_dawn10:
Here's mine right now. I'm going to challenge myself by not charging it, see if it can at least last me a day at uni. :)
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Wow Dante2086, 8Hrs SOT with 13% left is great, my LG G2 would shutdown around 7-7.5Hrs SOT.
[Xperia Z3 General] goodpenguin:
Google Play Services started appearing in my power management. Before it wasn't there, is it safe to disable it? I noticed my Z2 gets warm even with light usage since I plugged it to my laptop and the battery drains faster. Stand by time is still ok but using it with games and calls makes my phone warm compared to before.

Whoops! I thought I'm in Z2 thread. :D Mods pls delete my post here.
[Xperia Z3 General] rotsloeh:
http://www.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile/Sony+Xperia+Z3/review

have you guys checked this website out? the z3 really scored really low here. i'm not sure if it's the screen on time or what but it's really low. only 4hours and 3 mins? :confused:
[Xperia Z3 General] anirudhks:
Here is mine.. Feels ok not insane..
[Xperia Z3 General] Zanr Zij:
They are very famous in enthusias computer, 3DMark, Future Mark, their products, as standard tool to measure how well your computer. You can also find it on Play Store now.

About Z3 battery life: about 4h SoT is normal if you play games all time outdoor.
[Xperia Z3 General] rotsloeh:
Well the z2 scored 7hours so I was actually expecting the z3 to score higher. But anyway, they are the only ones who gave the z3 a low score. Maybe they got a defective unit?
[Xperia Z3 General] Golgo:
I'm having battery draining issues with my Z3.

Twice now I've discovered that the "Android system" process has drained the battery because of "Keep awake" even when the phone is in standby with Stamina enabled.

I have no idea what's causing it :(
[Xperia Z3 General] Shudder123:
No power save modes, about 11 hours of 3g/lte. The red tint is from an app called twilight.
[Xperia Z3 General] tsachi:
There are two problems with numbers like that. First they don't tell you brightness level and second they don't tell you what is their version of "working".

On the first, some sites set the phone at max brightness for the comparison. The problem with that is that most people don't use it at max all the time and also different phones have different maximum brightness. To have a fair comparison it would make sense to have a test at a fixed absolute brightness.

On the second, the long battery life comes from the new technology that doesn't refresh the screen unless there's a need. That means that for web browsing, FB, texts, phone calls, and games with little screen change the battery would last significantly longer. For fast moving games and movies, however, the benefit is minimal. There was another site that showed 4 hours, but they test by running YouTube over 4G until the phone dies. Phone Arena have shown 9+ hours, but with what they consider "typical use" (65 mins a day for web, email, texting, and social media, 15 min games, 15 min videos, and 12 min phone Plus some other stuff).

At the end it depends on how you use it to put you somewhere in the middle with probably some battery variability based on luck.
[Xperia Z3 General] dedei:
My battery finally sorted itself and gave me 8h SOT in 1 day 7h of charge! ?
[Xperia Z3 General] diggity:
Ugh what am I doing wrong? Day 2 of having this phone I purchased to replace my M8 strictly for the battery, and I'm at 37% with only 3.5 hours of screen on time, with stamina mode always on!

Anyone have any recommendations?
[Xperia Z3 General] kerman19:
I'd be investigating why your phone is awake so much, you have a considerable amount of wake locks that are no doubt hurting battery endurance.

Phil
[Xperia Z3 General] diggity:
Thanks. How do I do that?

One thing I'll add is that I'm on mobile all day, as I don't have access to WiFi at my office. Not sure if that's doing it or not
[Xperia Z3 General] Zanr Zij:
- Restart phone if update Google Play Service and Play Store. Google just update both.

- Turn Stamina Mode Off. I feel better battery life for regular usage. Maybe there are something wrong with it now.

- Control brightness manual as your need. Z3 brightness bump too high outdoor.
[Xperia Z3 General] diggity:
Thanks I'll give that a shot. I user Lux to control brightness. Think that's a good solution? I'll try restarting and turning stamina mode off.
[Xperia Z3 General] maverick1103:
Tbh this is pretty good comparing it to mine.

You say your on mobile and have no WiFi, turn WiFi off might help save some juice, when on mobile remember your phone will be constantly be searching for masts so that draws a fair bit of power.

When I'm at home just on WiFi I get easily 6/7hrs SOT, but on a work day where I use mobile data alot I prob get 4/5hrs SOT tops, which is easily better than what I've had on previous devices.
[Xperia Z3 General] Dimitri_010:
I don't seem to be having the best of luck with my battery either...I just threw it into Stamina Mode to see if it will make a significant difference.

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[Xperia Z3 General] itsjustJOH:
Uhm, it may have to do something about your signal? It drains your battery until it gets a strong signal. That happens in other devices and in my Xperia L as well. Dunno.
[Xperia Z3 General] Dimitri_010:
Sorry for the noob question, but how am I able to tell what a good signal strength is.

I do have 4 bars of signal strength & -107 dBm 33 asu (I'm not sure if those are good or not).

Edit: Upon research, I now realize this is utter ****.
[Xperia Z3 General] viking2.0:
Full days use with GPS in full accuracy and Google now turned on
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I got 5 Hrs SOT and 17Hrs total on first charge. I live in area with horrible signal.
[Xperia Z3 General] dontbelive:
My battery life is sooo good on my z3 5hrs screen on time compared to my old Z1 ~3,5 screen on time

EDIT; after throttling the battery down in reached 6 hrs on scream time watching spongebob hahaa battery is insane
[Xperia Z3 General] dedei:
hey, it's good to see you here! I was a major fan of your work on Z1!
[Xperia Z3 General] OnSugarHill:
Here's what I got. I did plenty of battery draining things over this time span too. Took 4k vid, took pics, played walkman, installed apps, etc. This phone has GREAT battery life
[Samsung Gear 2] kadeve:
Hi today gear manager did an update then asked for a reboot on the gear. when it rebooted it returned to factory settings I thought it would be a new version. But then it didnt restore my settings or apps. Now when i go to gear app store and try to install the apps it says they are already installed, but they are not
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtofdc:
Hello,

I rooted my S5 G900F qith Towelroot and my knox is still 0x0. So thanks to xda for its good work on this !

I then installed SuperSu and it disabled Knox.

Now some questions :

- Do I have to freeze or delete Knox process with Titanium or SuperSu did the job completely ? I read some guys used Titanium and others said 'no needs'...

- How can I check Knox is ctotaly disabled ?

- I never saw Knox popup or anything else... How Knox interacts on a standard phone ? Is it popup when trying to access the OS ?

- When Knox is disabled, does that mean it cannot be updated to 0x1 on the download mode ?

A lot of questions but I didn't find answers for that...

Thanks in advance for your help !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtofdc:
Someone to help me on this topic ?

Thanks in advance.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] koolcat7:
Anyone know why when my sprint phone is completely off, it will ring once before being sent to voicemail? Its been this way for several years, and im wondering why it does not go straight to voicemail. Thanks for any input.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] koolcat7:
Thanks for the reply! However, I'm wondering why its only Sprint that does this. Verizon and AT&T goes straight to voicemail (no rings) if phone is off.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluejeanstv:
I've tried to google it but I have no idea what it is called or where it's located. I was able to change the color of the other tabs but not the one that is clicked on. And how do I change the color of the other bar below it? :confused:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
SecContacts_OSup.apk.

Go to res/drawable-xxhdpi
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluejeanstv:
Well I didn't have that apk, but I went back into seccontacts.apk and it got rid of the bottom bar color. But the tab is still bright blue. I don't understand where it's at.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
What are you running? 4.2.2?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluejeanstv:
No I'm running 4.4.2. Is it impossible to change?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] The Sickness:
Then look in SecContats.apk

Res/drawable-xxhdpi
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] bluejeanstv:
Unfortunately, I still haven't found a way to change the dialer keypad. Didn't know it was this hard.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ShinySide:
The selected one is in the framework. The bar under I have no idea. Never seen that
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treevana:
Hi everyone.

I have trouble getting cell and data service on my VS980 with tmobile using Cloudy G3 rom. Does anyone know how to fix the problem?

Thank you very much
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James.iksdi:
Hi i have the I9300 , i was on 4.3 , then i came back to the 4.1.2 with 4 files odin , i didn't lost the imei and the signal , but i had a lot of trouble on it , i tried the cm11 and a lot of costumes , the problem is for 4 min i have signal then hoooop , emergency calls only ,

pleaase help ,
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
You need to use 4.3 or use a modem that supports efs "V2". The reason CM does not work is because it doesn't touch the modem so its still using the one from 4.1 which was the last one you tried.

Options:

1. Flash and use 4.3.

2. Flash 4.3 then install another rom like CM.

3. Flash a efs "V2" Modem.

Either way I suggest you backup your efs become you corrupt it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2393289

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] James.iksdi:
Either when i came back to 4.3 the probelm still please could.u give me a 4.3 4files and the efs V2 pleaase
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darke5tShad0w:
Looks like you didn't read the links i gave you or even looked at the stickies or done a basoc search.

Im not willing to help someone who won't help themselves.

Im here to help and guide not to do it for you.

If you thought otherwise im sorry i gave that impression. If so you need to wait for someone else.
[LG G Flex] jacktackle:
any one having flex D958 with kitkat update

can you upload your twrp backup? will be appreciated.

no matter what i do, but can't update or flash stock rom

any help will be appreciated.
[LG G Flex] henslo:
Post this in the Q&A threads! This is for development.
[LG G Flex] mattwheat:
There is no recovery on KitKat so no one can make a backup in twrp to restore with the twrp we don't have for KitKat
[LG G Flex] Maikeu Locatelli:
I can install recovery, do the backup, but, neither me, neither you will boot again
[LG G Flex] mattwheat:
True true. OK so technically there is a twrp backup on KitKat but you can only use it once. Can't reboot from it. So having a backup will do no good.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] cushcalc:
I've read, I think, everything in here about Extended ROM.

I know it is possible to unlock it, and I've done it.

I know it is possible to create a custom ROM.

What I wonder is, how useful and/or important is this?

Putting more items into Extended ROM does not increase the available RAM or storage ROM, does it? I thought at first that programs installed from there, stayed in that area, and didn't take up precious storage ROM, but that doesn't seem to be the case. (If it IS, then there really IS a huge value to it, so correct me if I am wrong)

Since the Extended ROM only has a little under 10 MB available, and I've got scads of room on my 2 GB SD card, of what value is it to put my loading programs onto Extended ROM? The only value I have been able to determine is that everything that is in the Extended ROM will automatically reload upon Hard Reset, where if I have it on my SD card I have to manually reinstall after each Hard Reset. Now, auto-loading programs, is in itself a NICE thing, but not a critical thing, yes/no?

Please enlighten me if there are more good things about tweaking the Extended ROM that I have missed.

I look forward to a lively discussion, or to be shot down in flames if I am looking at this with a blind eye.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario Software Upgrading] Lurker0:
IMHO you're right that putting CABs into Extended ROM is not that useful. For me, a recent backup is much more useful ;)

But you can install apps into Extended ROM, saving internal storage space this way. Why not a storage card? There are apps that are better not to be installed on a storage cards, like Today plug-ins. Also, there are people who have more than one flash card, and they need software to access card's content installed somewhere off the cards (to play movies or to format cards)... Extended ROM is here.

You may find other reasons, but the key point is: the most useful feature of Extended ROM is to install apps on it.

I keep my ringtones there as well.