yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NotOverHere:
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/mobile-phones/1402071/best-battery-life-2014-60-smartphones-tested I wonder what brightness they used. Regardless clearly it doesn't have to be low-res video only to get crazy on screen time (although if its full screen being low res wouldn't matter anyway, it would be upscaled to full resolution).

I agree with you in general though, 6+ hours is a decent good performance and standby will have an impact on the level you can reach. I have had some really good results as a light user (approaching moderate on occasion), but nothing even close to 11 hours - over 7 once but mostly between 6 and 7.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] YongJeah:
I dont think it is possible
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] vikingsail:
This is after rooting the phone and with greenify and xposed.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] YongJeah:
here you go! these shots were a month ago . no root ,but I did disable a lot of bloatwares including all google about. Stamina was on all the time and greenify was installed. around 50% brightness with auto adjusting. wifi was on all the time except flight mode .no cell data all the time. battery from 100% to 2% , I just did a lot of browsing and Wechat messaging see how long screen time would last without heavy use
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] vikingsail:
absolutely amazing.

and since Google services are mostly blocked in China, it's quite a good choice to remove/disable them if you live there.

but trust me, in most cities and towns of China, the mobile signal is for sure better than here in Germany.

btw i think it''s better to post a screen shot with english menu here. :) but anyway 我还是看得懂的。;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RayRewind:
How long his battery lasts since u know chinese :p?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] vikingsail:
Absolutely. 1 day 13 hours 42 min.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] remko71:
My stats
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
Are you rooted?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] fmlogin:
Mobile data ON all the time (gsm only), wifi ON sometimes, some apps in Greenify, stamina OFF, location OFF and screen brightness automatic 100%.

Fast Dormancy was draining battery in stand by, how I couldn't disable this function I set mobile data to Gsm only.

Also, I turned location OFF and it reduced lots of wakeups.

These stats represent my normal usage.

Now I'm really satisfied.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] remko71:
Yes, using greenify and amplify
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
Can you share your amplify settings please?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
Yeah same.. Please help out with amplify :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] remko71:
Still "playing" with amplify, at the moment only three wakelock's blocked, all of them set to 800 seconds. Also disabled fast dormancy with this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2382680
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Diddymies:
did u use root? or stock 98-.77. and how exactly did u manage it. with flashtool?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] robertkoa:
Interesting results.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Gangsteris:
light browsing in internet, some calls and sms.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
I guess I can't complain about mine:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] darkflyer1983:
No, you can't! :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mrrflagg:
I'm pretty happy mine, especially after coming from my one X with a maximum of 12 hours no matter what I did.

Zurgthe3rd
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] djpeesh:
Can someone help me. I did a factory reset but it doesn't seem to help. My phone doesn't last for more than 14 hours.

I took it to the service center but they said this sort of battery life is normal. Please help.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kimchi0400:
It's gotten a lot better after that Facebook update. Around 3 hours SOT was the commute to work and back by train and regular usage in an office tower (going in and out of service areas, losing reception whenever taking elevator or stairs) and a lot of reading and web browsing, some YouTube. I'm pretty happy.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] gsusx:
Ive just come from an M8 .. jesus christ this phone is ridiculous....

What I want to know is, how the hell does sony do it when no other android manufacturer can even get close to matching this type of battery life :|
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] riedos:
Over 1 day
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] thetemplar90:
CM 12 nightlys are godlike

About 5 days to 1 week with my every day usage (including surfing, phoning and a bit of navigation)

It is to say, I am no facebook user, which saves me a lot of battery (and several other positive effects ;) )

its german: 1day and 12hrs remaining, in the end it was at 7% after exactly 7days.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nielsbrakel1998:
Best I ever had :
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Diddymies:
How??? Settings?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
Guys I have a little problem here. I have a Z3 compact. I'm travelling now a days so I barely use it. It has both messenger and whatsapp, and runs on 2G, but I've currently put it on stamina mode which turns off data when phone isn't in use. Now for the past 2 days, it only dropped about 1% every 7-8 hours is I didn't touch it. Yesterday I charged it and left it, and today I'm opening it after about 20 hours. And the battery is down by 27%. Battery usage shows android system at the top, but keep awake time is only 3 mins. Phone is rooted and better battery stats shows phone has been awake for 13 and a half hours out of the 20, but partial wakelocks has gsm connection on top with a time of only 3 mins. I'm also using greenify and amplify. Please help me understand why the unpredictable performance. Thank you :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Are you able to post your screen-on time? Like the bar that show when the screen was on?

Cause that's really impressive if you have a good amount of screen on-time. I'd want that ROM if it's good!

(Noticed a lot of results look so different now... android 5.0 looks weeeeeeird!)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] fenchai:
Whut...How can you get 11 hours SoT? xD the most you get is 5 hours maybe 4 or 6 hours to 7 max... unless you use your phone with 3% screen brightness :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Hansoliv:
Holly crap!

Think i'm going to ditch my old stupid disappoint galaxy S4 and buy one of those.

With the arrive of lollipop (my s4 got better battery with lollipop), greenify and amplify installed must be the best!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Rainalkar:
GPS tracking

Hi guys, could someone test the phone battery usage by turning on GPS and using a tracking app (MyTracks, Strava...) and leaving the screen on all the time (max brightness)? Everything else can be toned down, except being able to answer a call. Thanks!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] fusk:
Estimated 16 hour left.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Playing a 2 hour and 11 minute movie back to back. Half brightness with auto in a okay lit room, balanced mode.

Each 2 hours it ticked off 25% of the battery, so that'd mean like 6 hours of screen on time but for some reason when the third finished it cut off an extra 5%.

Not fussing, I'm okay with it. Wasn't a test to squeeze all battery power anyway, just an average.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Flattopa:
I'm at a loss. How basic apps can absolutely kill my battery life. Any idea how to fix would be greatly appreciated. I restored the phone removed the SD. Battery just wants to disappear on me. Overnight drains come to about 15%
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Greenify. If you're still having problems after that, really, you can only blame Facebook for being notorious for draining battery.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
You can greenify Facebook and Whatsapp both provided you are on Kitkat. Try getting the donate package. Not expensive and worth much more than what it costs. With the donate package, you won't lose push notifications on either of whatsapp or Facebook. Greenify hasn't been updated for Lollipop, so you're out of luck if on lollipop, doesn't look like you are though. You're lucky you don't use Facebook Messenger. Hogs battery 5 times faster than Whatsapp, and not push notifications don't work with that if greenified. You can also use Amplify, and if you're not willing to pay up for the premium version, you could couple it with Lucky Patcher like I have [emoji12] Do get back to us with your results though, since I too have been trying to minimise battery drain without losing on push notifications from any app. Hope I could be a of help :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Flattopa:
Thank you. I will try greenify although I am not rooted and it seems I am losing whats app notifications. My concern is I had these apps installed before and my battery life didnt seem to drain like it has been doing. I'm afraid Ill have to sit around for 2 weeks waiting for SONY to tell me there is nothing they can do during their repair process. I thought there were plenty of z3c users who have apps like these installed and dont experience the drainage I have been getting.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
You'll lose notifications if your phone isn't rooted
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] J.Hook:
I've noticed significant difference in idle drain on Kitkat 4.4.4 Z3C(now running LP) when I've disabled option to keep wifi on during sleep.

I noticed this first at work where I have only mobile data on that it drains battery much less than wifi on idle. This seems to apply to LP also. I get now solid 2d with 5-6h SOT.

I have however removed the FB app and keep stamina mode on all the time with only whatsapp in allowed apps, before the wifi settings change I had constant idle drain on Kitkat.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Averell:
Did you mean Stamina or Ultra-Stamina?

Ultra-Stamina is suitable for my sleeping time, but the bad thing is turning ultra-stamina off requires a restart.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] soremir:
Here is my Battery Usage, 4 days and 4 hours till now

Veeeeery happy :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] matthiastan5:
What's your sot? Do you even use your phone?

Sent from my D5803
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] soremir:
Here is my SOT + my new battery usage +2 hours since my last :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] arturiu:
Using it for 2 days (moderate use, but used camera quite a lot) and still have 32% of battery (~1 day).

Just lost 1% during night, no stamina modes at all.

Receiving whatsapp and LinkedIn notifications (facebook/twitter notifications disabled).

Google Play services: 26%

Facebook: 16%

Android OS: 11%

WhatsApp: 11%

Email: 5%

Google+: 3%

CalDAV-Sync: 3%

Google Play Store: 2%

Screen: 2%

...

Plain stock rom (not rooted/hacked).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Codrea:
Guys do any of u play clash of clans?

How is the battery life if u are heavy raider in clash of clans?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
Not bad actually as compared to other phones.. Though you have to keep in mind that CoC is really heavy on the battery.. But you should still squeeze out at least 4-4:30 SoT if you keep opening CoC in small intervals like twice every hour I suppose
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
4 day 14 hours;

- 4h 11m voice calls

- 5,5 hours screen

very good....

- 26% still left...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Averell:
What's your data connection? WiFi or 4G/3G? I don't see any such icon on your status bar.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
At home : wi - fi

Outside : 3 g
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
But I suppose you switched it on only when you had to use it and kept it off the rest of the time? Because if that isn't the case, this long a battery life would be phenomenonal.. And I get nothing near it
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
yes you are right
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] rakzztar13:
Lollipop usage :

Not bad [emoji51]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
How is everyone on lollipop getting good battery life and dealing with "Mobile Radio Active" or have you not had that issue? Stamina and greenify don't seem to deal with apps that aren't really taking up bandwidth usage but keeping some data connections open causing the mobile radio to stay awake?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Pedimento:
Same problem here, wonder how some people getting good battery life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
for my 4,5 days stats,

lollipop + root + remove bloatware

and stamina mode

ps: i did not use greenify
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
So you aren't having problems with any apps having a high "Mobile Radio Active"?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
no problem so far
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nagel:
Kit kat
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] agiss30:
Somebody told me that lilipop will draining battery so fast. Is that true?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Pfelgueiras:
My battery just holds up to 1 day and 4 hours screen on time, and charging only takes 1h30 from 30% to 100%, i think that i have a malfunctioning battery do you agree? I have used stamina mode and used 2G due to bad reception of 4G, location off, and even had the screen at minimum and only was able to get 5 hours SOT a 1 day battery, the wifi is allways on but my phone is allways near the router and i think there were no apps running in the backround

Thank you in advance
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nevrozel:
See screenshots after first full day of usage. Remember how you all use your phones in the first days when they are new and everything... All in all INCREDIBLE battery life. NO STAMINA modes used whatsoever, wi-fi all day, a lot of phone conversations. Stock auto brightness with slider at 50%.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Iruwen:
Just as a note, if you want to extend battery life and prevent the overall capacity from decreasing over time keep the battery between 30% and 90%. I.e. charge the phone as soon as possible when it's below 70%, don't discharge below 30% when possible and don't keep it attached to the charger for extended periods of time.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] clemz91:
Hey Ricky amazing indeed! Can you tell us what exactly did you activate in stamina mode? Thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NRG1975:
First real full day of usage, first full charge and it was what I expected. I am real heavy user, with many intensive running.

I got 1d 2hrs

SoT 4hrs 30mins

No Stamina mode, Auto Brightness

Charging now, next will be with Stamina Mode engaged. Will report back

Overall, quite pleased with the battery that is available to me. I think stamina mode will increase this overall feeling.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
Used the phone during 3 full working days, no Stamina, Bluetooth always on.

Auto brightness till 40%

Also used the phone @ home with GPS and Runtastic while jogging.

Next time I'll try with Stamina mode on, having root would also matter a lot, since I could then just get rid of some bloatware.

Here are my battery stats:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xavifm:
And what about battery usage in celular data 3g -4g drain very fast? As a iphone 5-5s?

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Legdotus:
Sounds promising. I mostly like to do browsing, facebook, some youtube, and watching some dota 2 streams through the twitch app, but the latter one I will be doing not as often as the other things and that's pretty much it for me. I also keep the brightness very low compared to you guys, usually on 15-35% during the day indoors, 70-90% outdoors, and during the night I keep it on 10-20%, sometimes I even use an app called Screen Dimmer to reduce the brightness even more.

I intend to buy this, and by looking at the stats provided up to now, sounds perfect for me.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Rootwind:
For those getting more than 1 day of battery life do you have double-tap to wake turned on? Google Now?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
I would like to know this as well lol. For what it's worth, I have both of those on, and I get 4-5 hours SOT, ending up at 5-10% after ~17 hours off the charger. This is with Stamina mode on, screen at around 60% brightness, always on mobile data, no WiFi.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Fruktsallad:
+1

On 3G/Wifi only. DT2W on. Auto brightness. Stamina mode set to turn on at 20% left.

Not feeling that great battery vibe. :-/
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
And then the next day, this happened......

More info here:

http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/help/weird-crash-issue-t2894018
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] marumari:
I've been managing about 5-6h of screen time on this device, and that's with double-tap to enable screen, persistent Google Now w/ Nova, and using Lux to crank the typical brightness well above what the stock auto-adjust brightness knob will let me use. I'm quite impressed. Consistent two day battery life with typical usage.

I did uninstall or disable a ton of the Sony background services, which is probably helping.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
Going to try disabling every Sony service I find now lol
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] clemz91:
Which ones did you uninstall and how did you do this? I can't uninstall most of them. Thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
I've got Double tap to wake on and I think also Google now, did disable Google Search and Google+ tho

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55780038&postcount=45

I am using the case that came with it, so my screen can't be touched by mistake.

I guess he means disabled and not uninstalled.

You can disable apps in: Settings > Aps
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
I thought Google search and Google now are the same thing? Or do you mean you removed the Google search bar from the home page?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
I don't know if they are the same. And of course not just removed, disabled it. I never use it. But if Google Search == Google Now, then yes I have it disabled.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] real_per:
Been home all day playing with my new phone.

Everything is stock, and Google now and tap to wake is enabled.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
Wow that's amazing.. Were you on WiFi the whole time?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tribemac:
WiFi was on all the time if you look at the picture

Skickat från min LG-V500 via Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] wingsfortheirsmiles:
Moderate use, toggling 4G/3G and auto sync on and off as required, very little wifi and Google Now enabled. Location set to battery saving.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
38 hours on. 4 hours screen on time, along with 5 hours of Pocket Casts. 9 hours total uses and still had 11% left. Not bad for day and a half.

On a side not, I let my Moto X sit on my dresser for the past two days. It's on wifi, Touchless Control and Active Display turned OFF. I haven't used it at all, except just to see what the battery is on. It has 10 minutes SoT in those 48 hours. It's on 16%. A full 38 hours of use on the Z3C left me at 11%, two days of just sitting there with the X, worst battery draining apps turned off as well, it's at 16%. I'm so happy I switched. Z3C is a far superior device to the Moto X. Also, the Z3C gets same or slightly better battery life than my old Razr Maxx HD (2012), and that's with Greenify turned on and the screen brightness on a lower setting.

My Z3C screenshots:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bobb_o:
I'm getting about 16 hours. The screen doesn't seem to drain a lot, it seems I Ike it's something else so I've been trying disabling push notifications and stuff. I don't get how people can get 2 days without disabling screen off updates.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
You install a lot of apps? Have something like Facebook or Groupon that's always running?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bobb_o:
Uninstalled groupon but I do have Facebook and messenger.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] brocnical:
Do any of you guys know who manufactures the screen on the Z3C? The reason I ask is because on the Z1C they used two different models of screen -- one from Japan Display Inc. (JDI) and another from AU Optronics (AUO). You could find out which model you had by browsing the file system on the Z1C as described here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2652220

The model of screen used in the Z3C should be interesting from a power consumption point of view, because much of the reduced power consumption on the Z3C is apparently due to some fancy new screen tech which powers down circuitry when the picture is not changing.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] javierdsv:
I was getting the same thing, I also have Facebook and Messenger (And TW, IG, WA, Drive, YouTube...) and was getting up to 16 hours.

I disabled the Google bar from the Home Screen and after a few hours it changed the estimated to longer than 2 days again (the change will not be immediate).

Also, after 5 charges or so, the battery will hold the charge for longer.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
Groupon is terrible. I have FB and Messenger as well. I get 1.5-2 days battery.

In another thread someone talked to Sony support. They said a mix of Gorilla Glass 3 and Dragontail (I think that's what it was called) was used. Never heard of Dragontail, it's a GG competitor or something.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] brocnical:
I was talking about the make of the LCD panel itself. You are talking about the make of the glass on top of it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kprse:
I try to charge with USB cable only but not charge.

Why?

With wall socket is OK
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
What do you mean?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kprse:
Only with the cable connected to pc.

(with my old phone worked)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
It works for me, what PC do you have? In fact I think it charges from any power source, it doesn't require a data communication like the iPhone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jose97ct:
Maybe the amperage of your PC is lower than your mobile phone need. Try out in another port. [MENTION=5088527]kprse[/MENTION]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
Try with the original cable, sometimes cheap usb cable have bad connection
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] phroenix:
A few words before the stats.

This is after first charge to 100%

The first couple of days the phone was on standby most of the time after initial setup, so you could minus the fist two days, but its good to know battery drain is very low in standby.

I'd say I'm a medium-light user.

No accounts linked up yet, but downloaded some apps from F-Droid

Not using this as my primary phone yet - so no phone calls or texts - sim card is in & it is connected to the network, but no data use (4g switched on).

Usual stuff, web browsing, testing all the camera modes including manual settings, video record, timelapse etc (too much to mention), photo editing apps, walkman, youtube, gba emulator, probably couple other things...

Disabled a bunch of apps.

Settings

Stamina mode on (Extended standby, Stamina clock)

Low battery mode on (below 20%, bluetooth, data, gps & wifi stay on)

Queue background data

Stats:

Battery usage: 4 days 6 hours

Screen on time: 7 hours 24 mins
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] phositadc:
What is the little plus (+) icon next to the battery?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
Stamina mode

Sent from my D5803
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
I'm trying out Stamina Mode today (and tomorrow). With no battery mode on, I could easily get 1.5 days or more on a charge, including 9-10 hours mixed use (SoT and Pocket Casts).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tribemac:
I'm very pleased with the battery life
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] bilboa1:
Dont wanna risk getting too close to 0% but i do 2 days easily. first day is always around 70% when its sleep time. second day is always around 30% when its sleep time. Could do 3 days technically but not a lot of room for emergencies.

Thats without any stamina thing and regular amount of push from various apps, mixed wifi/LTE usage, and about 5h to 6h of screen time at the end of the 2 days. thats much better than my z1c which was already the greatest phone i had battery wise. (lasted 1 day with 50% batt left so could do 2 days but without a lot of margin.. i basically gained one day.. lol)

quiiite awesome if you ask me... i wonder if thats due to the queuing of push that is on by default or if that was there before.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] folo81:
Friendly reminder:

Li-Ion batteries need multiple charges before reaching maximum capacity. Don't expect good battery life right out of the box