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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MSG:
Solution for low battery life!

As I posted earlier my battery life was 2,5 to 3 days on initial firmware 23.0.A.2.98,

after updating to 23.0.1.A.5.77 it was hardly 1 day!

Downgraded to 23.0.A.2.98 again but still only 1 day,

updated to 23.0.1.A.5.77 another time and still 1 day.

Now I did the update to 23.0.1.A.5.77 again but with all "wipe" and partition turned on (wich is usually recommended every time, but I didn't want to lose data and settings in my 300+ apps).

So now after exactly 24h I'm at 71% of battery! So this should lead to 3 days. Perfect!

I think something in the update (or some installed apps) goes wrong causing this battery drainage.

So try to do the update with all 3 wipes and partition turned on, hopefully this should solve the problem, as it did for me.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] boojay:
Keep us posted if you still manage to achieve the 2-3 day battery life or if it eventually reverts back to the one day as the system settles.

Look at us spoiled Z3C users worrying about multi-day battery life when virtually all other phones are struggling to last through the work day XD
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AM Radio:
now i keep mobile data disabled when not needed. check out this sweet action:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] calinro:
Just the best!

All I can say is that Z3 Compact has the best battery time of all the smartphones I ever put my hands on.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jakem90:
First full charge, this was light/medium usage but still this is the best battery life I've ever had on a smartphone and I've had a lot. Will continue to test with some heavy usage and post when I can.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pw1nce:
hi , amazing battery broo , can you tell me , whats your firmware version? .77 or .93 and region? thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
Hi,

This is wonderfull. Can you explain more?

What is your firmware version? Do you have any special settings or extra program?

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AM Radio:
i'm on .77 and my region is Canada.

---------- Post added at 12:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:09 AM ----------

nothing special, stock firmware .77

i think it's taken several charges for the battery to get to this point -- my first few charges/discharges weren't this dramatic for sure. Stamina (aka "Beast Mode") = ON all the time. i have Textra, Gmail, Hangouts, Whatsapp active in standby, and that's it.

if i know i'm going to be in front of my computer for a few hours, i just turn mobile data off, unless i'm expecting some important Whatsapp msgs. that said, in the last three weeks alone, i've used just over 3GB of LTE data, so i'm not exactly being frugal with that.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
i'm wondering, google play services does not appear on the list. at me it has a significant usage and around 1 hour active time.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Lazer72:
I'm having this exact problem! Could you please please tell me what you did exactly!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Vectee:
At first I was disappointed with battery life but after couple charges it's like this. Isn't this pretty good? About 2,5-3hrs of netflix, tinder asking location all the time, auto brightness and 3G. Stamina mode after 30%. So pretty heavy use I'd say.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jakem90:
This phone is a beast, this was what I'd say is medium usage, mostly on WiFi tho so that does make it last longer for me. Stamina mode overnight but other then that everything is usually on.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] H117:
I got this phone about two months ago. After messing around with settings, yesterday I reached a new record. And I used it quite a lot, watched 3 hours of video while commuting, surfed reddit, texted, the usual stuff. I don't use phone calls much, so that might play into it as well. I wonder if I could squeeze more out of the battery if I rooted the phone and played with cpu, diplay settings.

Suffice to say, I'm quite happy with the phone as it is.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] boojay:
Wow, now THAT is impressive! Ridiculous SOT, nice.

Care to share your settings?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
more than perfect

how did you succeed this
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jakem90:
11 hours screen on!?!? Share your settings that's insane, I really love this phone and can only hope that lollipop will improve battery life even more :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] zwirek75:
4 days+

I had problems with Google Maps not releasing wakelocks, so I did factory reset

AFterwards I am getting a quite good result :) with following settings: Stamina on, data on, wifi on, bluetooth off
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
Do not know how I got it but...

JUST AMAZING!

I use GPS on battery saving and no bluetooth. Every other service is on all the time, auto stop WiFi and mobile data during the night - 23h to 7h.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
How's my battery?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
Still have some juice, but decided to plug it finally :
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
What were you doing with it that whole 3 days?

Not making calls or using apps ... Just had the screen on doing nothing ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
Yep... Practically using it like a nokia 3310
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ErickGomes:
Mid usage, few photos and few minutes of gaming.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] papouche972:
You have lollipop 5.0?

Envoyé de mon D5803 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
Nope, 4.4.4. Not even rooted.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] papouche972:
This screen with lollipop buttons ?

Envoyé de mon D5803 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
It's a theme.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] H117:
I didn't write this guide, but it's pretty much what I've done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia...battery_life_is_out_of_this_world_bye/cnmj0vn

Take a look at this as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia...battery_life_is_out_of_this_world_bye/cnmjd7r
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
how did you succeed this
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Kryt0s:
Just used Stamina mode :D Had no apps excluded from stamina mode, though.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Z3c_SK:
Hows this for batt life?

If i do about 3 hours of heavy texting (online) via mobile data, and not much else except random time checks, calls, a bit of surfing, fb and hangouts, my battery lasts no more than 24 hours.. though data service is on 24*7. Is that even normal for a phone with such an over-publicized battery life?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
7 hours of screen on. Seems good to me. What are you expecting?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jerverg:
7hrs screen on is awesome.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] slipface:
I get around 3 hours of sot, which is only enough to get me through school, i need a battery pack always with me because the battery is very poor

Hello. I reseved my phone a week ago, the battery is so poor that even the z1 compcat had 1 more hour screen on time. And btw very buggy writing in chrome sometimes other places

Here are some pictures and settings:

Disabled most notifications.

Screen is full brightness

Wifi is off

Cellular data is on when i need it

Auto sync off

Nfc off

Bluetooth off

Automatic rotation on

Sound on when writing (low and also vibration

Stamina off

More pictures are coming! Im on latest version.. 77
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lstic:
I think you answered yourself.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] slipface:
Is it battery bug or what?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
I think he's saying if you use screen full brightness you aren't going to get a very good result. Which makes sense.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jakem90:
People who don't know much about phone battery life should understand that most other phones last only around a "work" day so like 9-5, people tend to always charge their phones when they get home. With this phone I've been able to have my phone last until mid lunch the next day before charging. That's just how I see it, I've had many phones and this beats every one in battery life. I now only charge my phone when I'm below 15% and unplug it only a bit after its fully charged, no more leaving it plugged in all night I just have it set to stamina mode overnight and it loses like 3% maybe. Love this phone can't wait for lollipop
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] slipface:
No, my friend has 9 hours screen on time with full brightness, dont know why i get an hour per 33%
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] monsieur_debile:
Mabye he uses his phone in a different way like watching movies

Yes watching video increases by far the screen on time (i could get about 14 hours of sot if i want to)

Screen on time doesn't mean anything if not correlated with others measures such as, the loss per idle, your typical type of use, impact of signal radio (LTE/3G, Wifi), installed apps on your device...

That why its difficult to give you an accurate answer since posting those battery life stats is kinda pointless without required tools

There are many great apps that could measure battery life and the app's impact

BetterBatteryStats, Watch Dog etc....
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jerverg:
If I just watch movies nonstop on my phone I can get 12 to 14hrs of SOT even more if I put it on Airplane mode.

If I play Clash of Clans or other graphically intensive games such as SIMS, et al. nonstop on the other hand, I can only get about 4hrs SOT or less if I am on LTE.

SOT varies from the way you use the phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
This, theres no way in hell you get 9 hours SOT actually using the phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] slipface:
No games using web easily.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nielsbrakel1998:
My battery life :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dungeonfighters:
Google Search could be a problem...

My guess is that it might be Google Search which is causing unwanted battery drain. Have you been using the search bar a lot?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] showstopper03:
I dont have screen shots, but here is how my first full day went.

over 14 hours off charge

roughly 3 hours SOT

40 min talk

wifi on and off through out the day.

no games

i most web browse, gplus, hangouts, and email

stamina mode on half the time. I turned it on mid day to see how things worked with it.

70% battery left

Coming from a moto x this is amazing to me! :silly:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] qwerty147:
First charge from 100% to 10%, using Chrome, Wifi only, checking Emails, GPS, installed and removed lots of apps, 3h of music. Stamina mode was active with just "CPU Throttling" enabled. Auto brightness, 50%. AdBlockPlus was activated.

8h SOT!!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] i7icegy:
Hows CPU Throttling? Did you notice the slowness?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] qwerty147:
Sometimes, but its not slowing down drastically. It stutters occasionally when scrolling through a large website or play store app descriptions but thats it. You'll barely notice it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] charliebigpot:
How long did you guys charge the phone before using it the first time?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] getdunexpected:
Oh and what are the average charging times - say 0 to 100?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] charliebigpot:
3 hours
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
What settings are you guys using for Google Now (location settings, hotword detection, etc)? My GSam Battery Monitor app shows that I'm getting an average of 4 hours SOT and 21 hours total per complete charge. This is with stamina mode enabled (both standby and usage), around 60% screen brightness, and x-reality enabled.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alex2x3:
Damn this is what I was expecting! What am I doing wrong, your around double my battery life!

I need to try the cpu throttling and see how that effects it.

I have noticed that 100-90 drains incredibly fast for me, like morning emails and website checks and its already at 92. Is anyone else experiencing this? Could I have a dud battery? Any way for me to check?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] diwata:
Maybe better battery stats can help?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alex2x3:
Installed it last night, going to see what it shows after a full day and report back.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] qwerty147:
[MENTION=3211679]Alex2x3[/MENTION]

Btw. "CPU Throttling" is the 2nd last option in the STAMINA Mode menu. I always use wifi, never mobile internet. That probably makes a big difference.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] justbychance:
I took my phone off of the charger at about 6am and so far I'm down to 87%. I haven't turned Stamina mode on but I'm pretty sure I can get 3 - 4 days out of this thing from one charge which is pretty amazing. I don't use it that much but I like knowing that it's ready to be used whenever I want to use it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xShin:
That's amazing lol. What was your screen on time? Do you have Google now enabled? I took mine off the charger at 7:30, and I'm currently at 4% with 5 hours screen on time..
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] justbychance:
I don't have Google Now enabled and so far SOT is at an hour. 5 hours is awesome. I'm looking forward to testing this thing over the next few days.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bialynia:
Heavy usage my first day, Bluetooth, GPS, WIFI, data all on. No battery extending functions on. Over 6 hours of on screen time, 35 minutes of navigation, lots of video playing, installing apps and so on. I have 20% battery left even though I was trying to drain it with the phone being on 17 hours. Time to go to bed.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lawonga:
http://imgur.com/a/eG7PG

I must say, I now realIze how much battery my apps take. I blame facebook.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] rickyoon.vegas:
Left home at 11am for work.

Got home at 9pm from work.

Left home at about 90% charge. Turn Stamina mode on.

4G only. No wifi.

4 hours of Screen-On-Time.

2.5hr of browsing reddit and 0.5hr of browsing on Chrome.

20 minutes of playing games (Puzzle and Dragons and Star Wars Commanders)

30 minutes of turn-by-turn Navigation (with screen off half the time?) + Streaming music on Pandora.

30 minutes used to check time, reply a few text messages, writing email, etc.

Got home, and had about 58% battery left.

Wat. Is this for real. I don't believe it. I'm sure the battery meter is lying to me.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nizarnoor:
My battery is draining faster than I expected :(

I still think mine has got a good battery life like my Z1C. But I expected more....
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] slipface:
And you even got bluetooth on man!!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Lazer72:
Mine has a problem I think.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] alenkvaka:
Turn off stamina mode, better battery life
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] TomNokoe:
What up, Xperians! I haven't posted on any XDA forum in a long, long time.

Recently my mother was more than overdue an upgrade, from an iPhone 3GS. I personally had my eye on the Z3c and so wouldn't stop recommending it to her. I'm British, there was a great tariff on O2 for £18 a month (300 mins, unlimited texts, 500mb), and it fit her perfectly.

I periodically check on her phone to see if the battery life is as we're all told. Boy am I never disappointed. Her battery graph will almost always hit 72hours+ and her screen on is well clear of 5 hours, and she usually has some % left in the tank. She runs the screen pretty bright, too!

What a great device, kudos to Sony.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jerverg:
So happy for your mom. Might recommend this to my mom as well.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RayRewind:
I will upload mine as soon as I get this 10 posts together-.-
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RayRewind:
Mine is quite ok

It's okay

[IMG="ok"]http://i.imgur.com/6lFJBwk.png[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
this is my statistics...

this is my statistics...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nobodyreally:
I use about 10% per hour for reading and browsing, is that OK?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sean09:
Here are some screen captures to assess battery life. Hope it is helpful to some. Best phone I've ever had for battery life without an extended battery. I am pretty impressed. Albeit some cycles are worse than others, it is pretty darn good and consistent.

I started once I got the phone, and have been doing it since. I notice there is usually shoddy charge cycles on the first few, or right after a firmware update. It was kept current with firmware releases.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sean09:
More battery life screen captures.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Manu88:
My is good, all time with 100% of brightness without autoregolation of brightness :D and all day with 3g (WIFI line is bugged). :D :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pw1nce:
Rooted , de bloated , stock , stamina mode all time , greenify , what's app and viber added in background use , used the phone mostly indoors , on auto brightness but screen was still very bright , browsed nternet , Facebook , what's app plus around 4 hours of music while using the phone! :) and yeah an hour of call on viber!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Gabriel_G:
I've only had the phone for a handful of weeks, but the battery doesn't seem to be as good as others are posting, i'll try to put up a screenshot. Any advice?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Jiyeon90:
Looks like that bus app is consuming more battery than asphalt 8..
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] m4dd0gg:
some games, whatsapp use and surfing internet
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
Forgot to take a screenshot but. Today i had 10% left with about a day and 1 hour of uptime. Screen on time was 9 HOURS AND 10 MINUTES. I just love the battery!

The screen time was mainly of using whatsapp/viber/messenger/facebook and like 3.5 hours of hd movies. I really thought the latest update messed up my battery but it's back to normal :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Gabriel_G:
Haha thanks Jiyeon, I forced quit the app and restarted the phone. Seems to have done the trick nicely! Thanks!!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kaguryo:
Awesome battery life, much better compare with other phone. L925, sammy s4, note 2,nexus 4
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] rage971:
Come on guys, what s the point having such a good phone and not using it, just to have a good battery life ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NotOverHere:
I am a light user anyway, but do occasionally use it heavily. It means I get a device that lasts a huge amount of time for me in general, and still lasts longer than most when I do use it heavily.

Over the past week I have used it lightly compared to most but have done the following; ive taken a few photos and also been playing around with the other camera modes occasionally, browsing for a while (on multiple browsers ive been testing), spent about 1h30m talking on the phone and also texting, I ran a few benchmark programs multiple times (see my post on the benchmark topic to find out why) and Ive used snapchat and facebook sporadically. It's mostly been on wifi but there was some use on 3g.

I could have reached 5h30m screen time easily, I just couldn't be bothered to browse online pointlessly for 20 mins for this post!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] rage971:
I dont see any apps in your battery usage which means that you use it like a Nokia 3310
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NotOverHere:
Yea it has nothing to do with the fact that they are spread over 4+ days, and I already stated with light usage, so are relatively small and don't appear on that list.

I have used chrome today for about 20 mins before posting here, and that along with opera mini, opera mobile and Firefox account for between at least 2-3 hours of the screen time. I have used youtube app several times and must be at least 30m probably more and I have ran 4 different benchmark apps multiple times. I have used snapchat quite a few times (ive sent and received a lot of snaps, AVG shows 137mb from this app since last reboot which I know was when I posted on the benchmark 2 days ago!).

I've also just counted; 17 photos, 4 timeshift videos, 6 background defocus pics and a couple of motiongraph pics as well as played around with ar briefly all this past week. That's all I can really say off the top of my head apart from checking my bank account daily with the app, and the bbc news app every day.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Aircondition:
Is this normal battery life? I think screen should use more power than 39%. First charge after I upgraded from my Nexus 5. I only paid 170$ so I guess it's a win even if it feels like an downgrade (720x1280, 4.6 inch compared to 1920x1080, 5 inch).

I've downloaded Amplify and increased interval for NlpWakeLock and NlpCollectorWakeLock wakelocks, and uninstalled Google Fit after first battery cycle when I saw it had excessive wakelocks. Audiomix also had a lot of partial wakelocks (if I remember correctly, 30 min), I believe they're created from the touch sound but I dont know how much it affect total battery time. I had stamina mode always on but according to betterbatterystats wifi was never turned off, time without signal is 34% on cell standby.

I kept brightness between 10-20% with Lux depending on ambient light.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
Here is my Stats

Here is my Stats
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] monx®:
[MENTION=1274472]draligus[/MENTION]

frm ur 1st sshot, i can see the stats was not on single charge.

heres mine on single charge. very good batt life so far.

Sent from my D5833
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] draligus:
# "i can see the stats was not on single charge.??"

- what do you mean?

see additional 3 pics in this post...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] punktnet:
I can not pass 3h.30 screen on time. AndroidOS and GP Services draining battery very fast. If I deactivate mobile data, they dissapear from batt usage, but until now i have no idea why they eat battery only on 3G...

Tried several factory resets but no luck. Might be something related to network.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lngl:
ok:)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] YongJeah:
around 10 to 11 hours sreen time only wifi and no game playing or photo taking after full charge
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Lefteris Fragiadakis (Frago):
I'm coming from HTC one m8, when I went to sleep in the morning it was down 6 percent, now with Xperia z3 compact maybe it will eat 1 percent, I'm impressed!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] abj2aqua:
Hi

So I've owned this phone since 2 months and it's generally given me great battery life... But recently since the last 2 weeks I have been getting drain even when I'm not using the phone at all. If not touched, phone still gives about 2-2.5% drain per hour with data on but not getting any notifications. As the pic shows, phone stays awake half the time. Better battery stats verified this. Not rooted yet but will be doing so in a few days. Can somebody please help me out? Thanks a lot :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Aircondition:
First of all you should uninstall facebook messenger, then you can download BetterBatteryStats to monitor wakelocks and use paid version of Amplify with Xposed to limit them to 240 sec.

Your screen on time usage should be 40-50% if used normally on 15-30% brightness (indoor usage only). Everytime your phone is awake its usually consuming 45 mA running on 300 MHz and when syncing facebook messenger it will use another 643 mA when transmitting on 3G/4G. This is why Android OS is using 23%. When the LTE modem is not actively transmitting it should be in standby using not more than 4 mA, on my phone Cell Standby is only 6% (time on is 12 hours).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] vikingsail:
I just rooted my phone last night and this is what I get after I wake up in the morning.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Aircondition:
Maybe you get 11 hours screen time starring on your homescreen with 0% brightness or playing low-res video from your SD card.

On 30% brightness and WiFi on power draw is usuallly 300 mA (12% each hour) using facebook, whatappp or chrome. That's 8.6 hours screen on time at most, if your phone is on standby a lot it will be less. Everything above 6 hours screen on time should be considered very good. When someone have above 9 hours screen on time they always have sub 20% brightness or not using their phones like an normal person would.

Not hard, download Lux auto brightness and put it at -10%.