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[Xperia Z3 General] Newbyallthetime:
First lollipop experience for me was bad. I returned to kitkat for better battery. A few days ago I installed 23.2.A.1.62 prerooted (it seems I can't find the thread anymore). Anyway many thanks to the dev Richy99!!!

This is the first time I get 9 hours of SOT on my device :)

Unfortunately I forgot to take SOT screenshot so you'll have to trust me :)

Backlight of screen on 33% on automatic!

EDIT:

Before this version of android while I was using the phone the battery was decreasing fast but on stand by (over night - 7 hours) I lost about 1%.

Now over night I loose about 4% but while using the phone the battery decrease much slower!

Great phone!!!

EDIT 1: link is here https://mega.co.nz/#!bcRAEAqT!tL-2qOkN-hlIrGSXFapSTuWSOv9w1PtVy9ZlA1up2w0

All credits goes to Richy99! Thanks mate!
[Xperia Z3 General] Rotkaeqpchen:
What theme is this?
[Xperia Z3 General] Newbyallthetime:
Xperia BlackGold
[Xperia Z3 General] danborza:
Hello guys! My battery seems to be draining pretty fast.i managed to get around 5h45 min SOT while on wi-fi using stamina mode and the battery was at 20%!

Charged the phone back to 100% and got around 3:45 h SOT while using mobile data and battery droped at 30% meanwhile!

I wanna know if this is average battery drain and if there are any tips for improving this! I keel wi-fi/mobile data on only when i use them,no bluethoot,nfc,auto brightness and a few sync accounts(2 mails,facebook,twitter,xda).added a few screenshots of today's usage
[Xperia Z3 General] SlapYoSelf:
I can't complain

Auto brightness ?

Stock settings with stamina mode enabled
[Xperia Z3 General] AdiSimpson:
posting SOT without brightness setting is useless.
[Xperia Z3 General] Rizera:
Bad battery life :(

Hi, guys.

Any idea why I am getting such bad battery life?

I use adaptive brightness at 50% brightness level.

Dual sim model, Smartband on all the time, no Stamina mode

For whatever reason, I get a quite noticeable battery drain even with the phone in very low use. Around 2h35min SOT for 96% total battery drain looks VERY off what most Z3 owners in this thread get...
[Xperia Z3 General] sphinxy:
There is obviously something keeping you phone awake for periods of time when you don't use it.

Have you checked in battery settings what is taking up most of the juice?

Install gsam battery monitor, over the next day, see which app is showing up as the culprit taking up most of your battery.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
The battery drain is really bad for when mobile data is on; the mobile radio active time sky rockets and leads to a steady drain. On mobile data, the android battery app predicts a day of usage; when I'm on wifi it is easily over 2 days. There is a bug with LP where by the apps will keep the mobile radio active for extended periods. Google has known about it for more than 6 months but still haven't come up with a fix. Lollipop was meant to boost battery life but everything I've seen has indicated the opposite...
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
I have the same.

Whatever mobile device is consuming more battery wile on mobile compared to wifi.

Having said that I think that the Z3 has a bigger gap/difference (in between wifi vs 3g consumption) compared to other flagships I used in the past like LG G2, OnePlus One and Nexus 5.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
I have a Nexus 4 but I don't use it often so I can only make a comparison with my stock LP Xperia Z3. It seems silly that they took so long to push out this update but haven't fixed a glaring error.
[Xperia Z3 General] kioshi:
There is a serious google ticket in place with multiple posts of users using Nexus 6, Nexus 5, Nexus 4, One plus One, Xperia Z3/Z3c, etc on phones 5.0.2 and 5.1 with mobile radio active wake lock issues. Bloody hell Google wont acknowledge the problem as high priority.

You guys arent alone....
[Xperia Z3 General] Rizera:
OK, I just got to 4%, now I monitored everything with GSam Battery Monitor, and attached are the results. Same configs as yesterday, 50% adaptive brightness, Lollipop, Dual sim version, no Stamina mode (it does not seen to help much anyways).

My Z3 battery life DEFINITELY is not insane, and not only that, but according to Gsam, Mobile Data is not the problem, and neither is wakelock (or could they be? I can't analyze the screenshots below properly). Moreover, WiFi seems to be reported as "always on" even though I am 100% sure it was not, and I have the "Always scan for WiFi even if WiFi is off" turned off...

HELP!!!!
[Xperia Z3 General] infinitylook:
Are you rooted? If yes, did you install gsam root companion? If yes how about you toggle option on the apps to number of times waking the device and number of times held awake. I'll attach screen shot on where to change view mode
[Xperia Z3 General] sseuorosal:
I just unplugged it and I'll post some screenshots at the end of the day.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
Disable lifelog and google now if that is on.

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Yes, I did notice that. Google have dropped the ball big time on this....
[Xperia Z3 General] Cilai:
I have Google now on and my battery life is still insane, however I have my preferred mobile network set to GSM only and just toggle via the LTE button when I actually need the speed. The battery drains much faster when on LTE and the signal is way worse in my area.
[Xperia Z3 General] funky0308:
Had Z1 and Z2 and I was quite satisfied with both but Z3 is something else...

Z3 powered by Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 General] dizzyman44:
My phone is for some daily use and I'm not a heavy gamer so the battery lasts long. Happy with the battery life too.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
Is that temperature the CPU?

I'm at 40° in idle (3G) and it easily get up to 50°-55° under normal usage (browsing and chatting - no gaming). I live in Italy and the outside temp is 20°-25°.
[Xperia Z3 General] miiichal.er:
I think it's battery temperature rather than CPU.
[Xperia Z3 General] brozef:
Stamina mode on with mostly on 2g internet, wifi scanning always on (forgot to turn off) SOT 6:30 (forgot to ss it)
[Xperia Z3 General] Andrev01:
Nice. Any Greenify's or other battery apps? Sync on? Location on?
[Xperia Z3 General] brozef:
No greenify or other battery apps, sync on, location on device only, google now off
[Xperia Z3 General] SirRobin78:
GSAM Battery Monitor is fine but is there anything what can we do on non-rooted devices?
[Xperia Z3 General] bad4life07:
Trying for 3 days of battery but my area has fairly bad coverage so I don't think it's possible.

I'm using a T-mobile z3 D6616
[Xperia Z3 General] joonlin:
Realize everyone need stamina mode to almost archive 2 days battery life, but I still remember when I was in kit kat, without stamina mode, I can archive 2 days. Not sure what happen in lollipop. without stamina for me is almost reaching 1 day. Brightness below 50, mobile date on (40% in use), wifi 100% on, sync on, location off. greenify and amplify installed.
[Xperia Z3 General] Rizera:
Easy answer to me:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61021587&postcount=6
[Xperia Z3 General] joonlin:
Cool. Thanks for your info but seems like the only solution is downgrade to kitkat which will be bad, no more latest sound mod of z3 then. :(
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
I can't believe Google hasn't fixed this yet. What a joke.
[Xperia Z3 General] enfurno:
Lollipop is definitely chewing through power. I've noticed a pretty big drop in screen on life during a full charge cycle. Definitely needs some tweaking.
[Xperia Z3 General] aw1974:
Just picked up the Z3 this week used. Had LP installed and I got 7 hrs SOT on my first full charge. Insane battery life is right. Double that of my G3. Loving this phone so far!
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I also noticed that before I factory reset yesterday, that there is an issue where internet apps keep the cellular radio on even when dormant, draining battery when mobile data is activated.

Apparently this is a known issue in Android 5.0/5.1 but Google labeled as "Small" priority. I have not used LTE since resetting as I am on WiFi Calling but I am sure this issue is still there.

https://code.google.com/p/android/is...tail?id=165558

Other than that and a weird issue where "Android OS" kept my phone awake for 5+ hours while I slept, it's been pretty great in terms of SOT ~7Hrs, but standby time seems to be reduced in comparison KitKat but not to the point that it's bothersome yet.
[Xperia Z3 General] Spectre51:
Bad link for me.

Battery life is bad for me on my z3. Took it off the charger this morning and in less than an hour of use (email, facebook, reddit, feedly) I an down to 84%. Brightness is about 25%, mobile data and WiFi on, Bluetooth on and connected to smartband talk.

Hardly ever get much over three hours SOT. My Z2 seemed to do better.

Sent from my Xperia Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Spectre51, here is the link to the bug again, it's the third highest on their bug tracking list in terms of votes/stars.

Also in the battery section check the apps to see if you see mobile radio active, it's probably your culprit + Facebook app is a known killer of battery in its own right as well according to some reviews of top 5 android battery draining apps, though what you are getting is much worse than normal, so it must be the mobile radio bug.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558

Any battery life improvements in Lollipop code seem to have been offset by battery draining bugs lol.

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I have band 12 in my area so I'm good, was good before too but I ordered a T-Mobile 4G LTE Booster from TMO for free for my dad as indoor reception sucks as the HTC M8 and my mom's iPhone 6 do not have band 12. I suggest you order one as it's free anyway.
[Xperia Z3 General] Spectre51:
Thanks. Seems like today gmail is acting up and staying active not allowing my Z3 to sleep at all. Not sure what the issue is but even after a reboot it stays active.

I'll monitor the mobile radio usuage.

Sent from my Xperia Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Just an FYI the mobile radio active shows up as part of any used app... Don't look for a separate app called mobile radio.
[Xperia Z3 General] Spectre51:
[emoji6] yeah I'm aware of that.

Sent from my Xperia Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Sorry, I did not mean to make you look foolish. Should have figured, you are a recognized contributor after all :).
[Xperia Z3 General] Spectre51:
No worries.

Got the gmail issue fixed. Had to uninstall all the updates for it and redownload and now it's behaving. I am seeing the mobile radio staying active specifically on Google Play Services and a couple other apps. Running much better though since I got gmail fixed. Will have to see how it continues to go.

Sent from my Xperia Z3
[Xperia Z3 General] cha_kumar:
:p:good:
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
Sadly the way I see it this update to Lollipop has done the opposite for battery life. I've already done two factory resets but it's the same story time after time.
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Had my Z3 for about just a month, battery was pretty amazing for the first 2 weeks, getting about 8 hours of SOT over 16 or so hours at about 70% brightness on mostly LTE. Was a massive improvement over my Note 4, however recently the battery life has dropped to about half, getting about 5 hours or less of SOT with the same usage patterns. Overnight standby time has also worsened, for 1%/8hr to 7-8%/8hr. Haven't noticed anything different in BetterBatteryStats and WLD. Factory reset twice, and changing to Moonbreaker's ROM didn't help either. Anyone facing the same issue?
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Just a random question maybe. Do you use BBM? Blackberry Messenger.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
If you have Lollipop, that could be your problem. When mobile data is enabled, there is a bug where any internet apps that are used "can/may" cause the device not to sleep and keep the cellular radio awake even when the used app is idle.

This is a known issue "Mobile Radio Active" affecting all Android devices running Lollipop and apparently even is in the M preview. It has the 3rd most number of votes on the Android issue tracker but was labeled as "small priority' by Google.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ultraman1966:
It's ridiculous, they've lied through their teeth about Project Volta and all the battery saving projects, it's all fantasy.
[Xperia Z3 General] Macianer:
My. Battery holds two days if I'm not using it too much. That's not that bad. To me.
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Nope don't use BBM, WhatsApp is the messaging app of choice where I'm from.

Hmm my phone was on Lollipop since day 1 and I always leave the Mobile Data as I've noticed the Z3 offs it automatically when connected to WiFi anyway.
[Xperia Z3 General] KurtHoyle:
Have to agree....

Purchased the Z3 after getting annoyed with my iPhone 5 and the awful iOS8....

The battery life on the Z3 triples that of my iPhone...

It's amazing!
[Xperia Z3 General] Jiyeon90:
If I can achieve this with the Z2 the Z3 surely is gonna be insane
[Xperia Z3 General] maxx228:
2days 14hr....
[Xperia Z3 General] viking2.0:
After full days use. Very impressed with the battery life
[Xperia Z3 General] Zanr Zij:
Show me your usage and screen time detail in GSam. I think about low brightness and most Wifi.
[Xperia Z3 General] redlee:
This could be the best mobile in everything @_@
[Xperia Z3 General] 3Shirts:
I used my phone all day yesterday (7am to 11pm) including WiFi tether for my car stereo, lots of photos, calls, streaming a few youtube videos and playing music, tracking my location and reading my bluetooth HRM when I went for a run. All that and it was still at 50% when I went to bed!
[Xperia Z3 General] Bäcker:
I'm also very happy with the battery. Went out with the bike and had Strava (bike tracker) on for over 5hours - that would normaly make me worry about my remaining battery, not with the Z3.

Only slight annoyance is that the Z3 seems to be a bit more battery hungry with a weak phone signal. The reception is fine, even better than with my S3 though.
[Xperia Z3 General] Jiyeon90:
didnt take screenshot of the display but on average it was on 15-20% manual brightness.

80% wifi, 20% 3G.

what really makes the difference though is turning stamina mode on

Here's the app usage

http://i.imgur.com/JdNYEry.png

http://i.imgur.com/rssPdzQ.png
[Xperia Z3 General] Shudder123:
Wrapping up my second charge. Amazing battery life I have to say. 10hrs on 3g/lte, 20 mins of calls, Google now and location on and set to high accurate. Didn't use any stamina modes either.

All previous phones before the z3 I had to turn off location or manually configure it to get good battery life. Now I don't even have to bother. Looking forward to testing with two sims together.

started charging at 5% remaining and 6h26 SOT and 1d 6hrs up time
[Xperia Z3 General] vidge1111:
Not so bad after a full days of browsing sites while on LTE.. on wifi the whole night last night.
[Xperia Z3 General] Shudder123:
A quick question. Does anyone else have excessively high google services usage? Any idea how to tone it down?
[Xperia Z3 General] viking2.0:
I had it few days ago. My GPS was on all the time even though I wasn't using it. Rebooted the phone and it went away.
[Xperia Z3 General] Blaalad12:
Anyone else notice a slight decrease in battery life since the first charge? I think i got like 9 hours screen on time off my first full charge which to be honest didnt mean alot to me as i have no idea what i was getting from my old phone with regards screen on time! All i know was that i was getting significantly longer from the z3 so i was happy :) Since then though i cant quiet get the same amount of screen on time? Iam still happy and battery life feels great but since monitoring the screen on time time iam a bit disappointed to suddenly be getting less! I assume this is because i have more apps installed now then i did when the phone was out of the box?? I particularly noticed this since i downloaded 'echo notifications' which is great but i might uninstall if its taken too much from the battery , I also installed nova launcher but doubt thats taken much toll on the battery?
[Xperia Z3 General] erasat:
I'm simply amazed of the battery life of my D6633 with just my first full charge (I received it last night), so you know that all day have been off settings and adjusting every single setting on the phone.

After the above, plus been unplugged at 5:00am, connected to my car and moto 360 all day via Bluetooth and about 3 hours of just LTE without wifi, dozens of pictures and some videos, we'll, you have the idea of the heavy usage, the only device that has given me this kind of battery life is my Galaxy Tab S 10.5, that was giving me 8.5 to 9 hrs. per charge.

Look at my battery life stats.
[Xperia Z3 General] fain2daniel:
^ What theme do you use in this pics?
[Xperia Z3 General] 3Shirts:
9 hours screen on time is very impressive in itself! With all your other use too, that's some pretty damn fine battery life
[Xperia Z3 General] pham077:
That really is amazing! Although I also find that you had the screen on for 9hr over 16hrs - that's crazy!
[Xperia Z3 General] kerman19:
Apologies for the late reply, been busy as hell!

I was using Chrome, ChompSMS, Viber, Whatsapp, Speedtest (Testing 4G speeds in our newly enabled area), Gmail, Pushover and Hangouts.

Background data was Queued, as per the setting but Auto-Sync was running the whole time, Stamina disabled entirely. So nothing was 'compromised' usage wise really, just slightly delayed notifications I guess, though I can't say I noticed any deficiently in that department.

Phil
[Xperia Z3 General] vidge1111:
You can expect a bit over 9 hrs of screen time with the z3..
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
If WiFi is on you will not notice it.... If you are only on Mobile Data there is a chance this may occur. With WiFi on I got great battery life like KitKat. I turned off WiFi and had just Mobile Data on but did not surf much, but despite that I saw some apps having "Mobile Radio Active" for 2-3 hour and battery life was much worse than KitKat in similar usage patterns.

Under battery usage check all the app stats, see if any apps show a large amount of "Mobile Radio Active", for me Chrome showed a lot of that.

If it dropped badly even on just WiFi, then you may have a bad app or worst case the battery may have issues.
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Oh okay did not know that. However my main issue is that the battery was awesome when it was on pre-rooted Lollipop, until like 2 weeks later for no apparent reason the battery life started to drop off. Deleted like a ton of apps, and disabled some Xposed modules that MAY have affected it but to no avail.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Did you check battery stats to see which apps are causing the drain and also if the device sleeps? Also check individual apps statistics to see if the Mobile Radio Active wake lock is there..... If the radio active time is a lot more than you used the app or idled, that maybe the issue.
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Yeah I think i mention in my original post i watched the app battery usage with both Wakelock Detector and BetterbatteryStats. Today just got a screen-on time of 3hrs 50mins over 16 hours, and thats 90% on WiFi, pretty horrible, considering I got 8 hours with mostly LTE usage barely a month back and that i swapped to the Z3 from my Note4 cos of the battery.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Did you try setting mobile network to say 2G Only while on wifi? Try dat, ur battery life should increase. When u are back on mobile data, switch back to LTE.

Btw, just got my own Z3 today. Hopefully it's better than my Z2. Somehow!
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Well, that's too much of a hassle considering there's free WiFi from my carrier in most malls so I'd be switching between WiFi and Mobile pretty frequently. Plus since this is a smartphone there shouldn't be a need for me to cripple it for it to perform well. Well I think the only difference between the Z2 and 3 would be the design, with more rounded edges. Pretty sure the Z2 even edges out in battery life.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
My Z2 got broken, and i didn't want to buy the EXACT same phone again. Even tho i did, with a different name at least :p
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Why not the Z3+ though? Same phone newer processor and no ports for the microUSB.
[Xperia Z3 General] fabulous69:
i personnally tested a downgrade to latest rooted and debloated version of kitkat, and absolutely no problem of battery anymore.

8H SOT, rocking stable and waaaaay faster than lollipop. I Won't talk about RAM management, lollipop enough suffered lol.

I wanted to confirm my impression and updated again on a clean, debloated, rooted Lollipop .28 version :

5h SOT max and slow phone time by time

Downgraded again, impressions confirmed.

Kitkat is the way to go for this phone. And im almost 100% sure 5.1.1 wont improve the problems of RAM and battery life that users are reporting since ages to google...

Try by yourself ;)
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Newer, hotter, slower, more expensive phone.

http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/06/17/xperia-z3-shown-to-outperform-its-successor-the-xperia-z3-plus/
[Xperia Z3 General] l.Urker:
Wellll, I've tried my friend's Z3+ and it gets just barely warmer on anything but gaming or extended camera use vs my Z3! Worthy trade for the ease of charging and less risk of losing waterproof ability.
[Xperia Z3 General] KI_YOOU:
HEllo guys!

Iv bought the Z3 a few weeks ago and i like the feel and look of this phone, BUT the battery is kind of letting me down. This phone is used in Spain, Orange is the provider, its unlocked. Here are some screenshots iv made. Is there something wrong with the phone?

Its running Kitkat, generic (i flashed it, bc i didnt like lollipop)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64UIOqWBiGdMnNQSy1CeXpkbFU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64UIOqWBiGdckRFS3VFRGJPT3M/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64UIOqWBiGdcXpQOTBqdG92U1E/view?usp=sharing

Screen brightness is on 50%

I got worst results with screen brightness on 60-65% + automatic

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64UIOqWBiGdb3lTcUNDWnhpRFk/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B64UIOqWBiGdQ2kyTXVJM1JBRFE/view?usp=sharing

So if anyone could give me a hand with some tips or whatever, pls help me!!

Btw going back to factory setting didnt work. Maybe i need to install another firmware, idk...

Im not happy with the battery life at all. :rolleyes:
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
I guess it's a thing of personal preference. If my Z2 didn't go bad (which was my fault anyways), i NEVER would have got the Z3. I actually wanted to buy another Z2 but dat is even a worse idea. Why? The exact phone again. Lol. So i just settled for the Z3 and it's great so far.

See my next post.
[Xperia Z3 General] KI_YOOU:
Your next post?!

What do you mean by that?¿