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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MountainDwarf:
So I think I'm finally getting the battery life I'm happy with. After A LOT of troubleshooting and testing, I'm finally getting up to 2 days of battery life with decent screen on usage. No stamina mode. The biggest things (I think) I did to improve battery life were to uninstall the facebook app, turn off location reporting, close apps from time to time when I don't need them, and switch to using (mostly) H+ instead and only LTE when I really need it. H+ is good enough in my area, in particular for video streaming since the Z3c only goes up to 720p anyway, no need to be able to stream super HD video and the like.

Results today - 1d 7 hrs of life. 6 hrs of screen on time with an hour or two of other usage (off screen streaming music and a couple of very short phone calls).

My usage factors:

-Crappy signal at work, but have wifi.

-On tmobile

-Brightness is on Auto at 50%

-Google now is on

-location based wifi-on

-no stamina mode

-queue background data on

-location is on high accuracy

-location reporting is off

-Wifi most of the time

-H+ all the time unless it's flaky and/or I need LTE

-Uninstalled facebook and facebook messenger. Use the browser instead

-Usage was mixed between lots of msging, reddit is fun, Youtube videos, and chromecast streaming (twitch, youtube). Very little phone calls (~30 minutes worth)

Again, I'm pretty happy with this battery life. It's starting to live up to the hype for me hehe. I'm on US firmware (.93). D5803. Let me know if anyone has any questions or if I missed anything.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
So far I'm impressed by the battery life, although it took me a while to optimize everything. I canned Facebook, went through all the apps to turn off their phone-home reporting "feature" and background updating, disabled all the Sony apps I don't use (which is most of them), LTE off, WiFi off during sleep, brightness on auto (which can actually be a bit dim indoors during the day), and use Automateit to turn off some stuff at night. I only use Stamina mode when the battery is below 50%. I also use Nova launcher.

For the last few days I've not used the phone terribly intensely -- it's synced with a couple email accounts (one push and the other polled every 15 mins) and I've done a bunch of web browsing and social media-ing, made just over an hour of calls (1h 1m), sent a few dozen texts, taken about 30 photos, and played around installing and testing a bunch of apps. NFC is enabled during the day and I connect to my car's BT for phone calls when driving. It's been 2 days 22 hours and I'm currently at 28% battery. Screen time so far totals 5h 49m :D

I'll update when the battery finally runs out.

UPDATE: battery is down to 2% and I need to charge it because I'm going out, so the experiment ends. Final numbers:

Total time on this charge - 3d 20h 18m

Screen time - 8h 3m

Voice calls - 1h 19m
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] doggyxxx:
Hi, could you tell us what apps you have disabled?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
Lifelog, Movie Creator, Playstation, Smart Connect, Sony Select, Video Unlimited, What's New and Xperia Lounge. I think that's all. Some other Sony apps have stuff you can turn off.... Album, for example, has an option to turn off the SenseMe Slideshow. I also set a bunch of apps to only update when they're open. Stuff like Twitter, news readers etc. will otherwise constantly be downloading in the background. I don't mind having to wait a second or two for updates.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] boojay:
For me, the biggest culprit has been screen brightness. If I have it set to around 75-80%, I get at least 6 hrs SOT daily. If I lower it to around 50-60%, I can get 8-10 hrs.

I like my screen bright so I haven't tested any levels significantly below 50%, but I imagine I would exceed 10 hrs SOT daily.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
I'm on T-Mo and getting good battery life, but I do have LTE turned off. I don't really need the speed since I'm on WiFi a lot of the time and LTE gives me one bar reception vs 3-4 bars for 3G. Better reception = better battery life.

---------- Post added at 12:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:23 PM ----------

Agreed... screen brightness and strength of cell signal are two big factors impacting battery life. I have my screen on auto-brightness most of the time and since I spend most of the day indoors the screen is fairly dim.

I updated my post above with my final numbers with battery at 2%
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] km8j:
I got stupid good battery today. Screen is set to auto brightness but about 15% on the scale. 12 hours off the charger, 4 hours total screen time, 2 hours of navigation with screen on (included in 4), 1 hour of voice and still had 45%. Unbelievable
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] playagiron:
Hi,

How do you disable apps completely without root? The only things I found was "force stop" the apps settings, but have to repeat or everything I restart the phone. Another solution there is workout root?

Now I also disabled location reporting, but I wonder whether or really consumes much given location is on anyways?

Anyway, this phone had incredible battery life, just to optimize it [emoji2]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
Maybe it's a Nova Launcher thing. I go to the apps section in Settings, view "all" and then when I select an app that's otherwise not uninstallable there's an option for force stop and also to disable (as opposed to force stop and uninstall options for apps that can be uninstalled). Alternatively, in Nova, you can long-press an app in the app drawer and drag it up to the "App Info" menu at the top and get to the disable option that way.

I suspect you're right and all the various background notifications and reporting don't consume much power, but I'm kinda staggered by just how many are running in the background on this phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Rootwind:
I've been struggling with ~16 hours total usage and 3-4 hours of SOT for a few weeks now, disabling most Google services.

Then I finally disabled Chrome sync yesterday and switched to CM Browser/Dolphin. Battery life is a whole lot better so far. Only going down 3%/hr in my deadzone work place instead of 5-6%.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
I find cell signal strength has a big impact on battery drain. During the day my phone is in a strong reception area and if I don't use it I'll see only about 1-2% drain. In my bedroom the reception sucks and battery drain overnight (even with sync off) is often as high as 3-4%.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MILJANN:
8 hours of screen on time and whole day of using
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] infmz:
I've only been averaging 4h15m of SOT. It's definitely a little concerning after seeing so many people report 6+ here. Wondering if there's an issue with my battery. I'm on AT&T and travel between North NJ and NYC daily. Could also be an issue of cell service as it goes in an out a lot on my train ride. Wondering if many others are having a similar experience.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] phantomblu:
On Stamina settings I have my wifi set to off when display is off. But the battery usage still shows my wifi on the whole since I've charged.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alan Slade:
Good morning everyone.

I would like to know how much battery usage is shown in your Z3C in the first big box.

Mine is 13 hours. Isn't it a bit few?

[IMG="Battery usage"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8931966/Screenshot_2014-11-16-09-24-12.png[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sikatsirx:
Yea its something like a bug. Maybe its firmware related. I have 23.0.A.2.93 and it happens to me also, in a different way.

I have Location-Based wifi set to ON. So during a day, while i am moving in and out of range of wifi networks i am using, my wifi turns on and off often.

I can confirm its working cause i see my wifi to OFF state when i am outdoors using 3G.

The battery Graph though shows the wifi like it was consonantly on.

It must be a bug, cause when i installed GSM battery monitor, i saw that this app can detect my wifi on and off time correctly on its Graphs.

So i believe it is a bug related to 23.0.A.2.93 firmware.

If someone else can confirm this, would be great.

ty

---------- Post added at 11:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:47 AM ----------

The Hours shown there when stamina mode is on or off, is related and calculated with usage statistics gathered by the phone in some set time interval. Maybe 24 hours or 48 or 72 hours intervals, i don't know exactly. Or even more probably, calculating your usage within 1 or 2 or 3 charge cycles.

So for example if for a 1-2 days or 1-2 Charge cycles, you will use your phone extremely heavy, watching videos or playing games all day none stop or having 8h talk time, draining the battery in 20 hours, then the phone will assume that this is your normal usage, and will show you the estimated hours remaining, with that kind of usage.

If you relax a bit on how heavy you use your phone, then your phone will recalculate your statistics and adjust the estimated time remaining accordingly, showing a greater number of hours or days remaining.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alan Slade:
Understood.

Yes, in the past few days I used the phone very much, and sadly yesterday battery died after 4:30 hours of screen on.

I don't know if this values are normal, because other Z3C owners sometimes reaches much more hours of screen.

Here is what Gsam is showing

[IMG="Gsam"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8931966/Screenshot_2014-11-16-11-15-14.png[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sikatsirx:
Relax your usage for a few days, don't get paranoid about it :)

Read one of my previews posts where i write down my views and suggestions regarding z3c battery life.

SoT is just a measurement. It varies a lot from user to user because different users, do different things while on SoT and many users do a lot of things with screen off.

I never have more than 4h SOT, but i have 3 hours Talk time on my Bluetooth on each cycle. Is that bad ??

Optimize your settings a bit, and start using your phone normally.

I am sure your battery usage statistics will settle down.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MILJANN:
[emoji2]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jbhkhc:
After having my phone for a month, and never getting over 1 days usage out of a full battery before it died, I decided to reset mine.

After doing so, and disabling as much of Google and Sony's stuff as possible, my battery is finally as awesome as advertised :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Matteo Mazzu:
2 days and 14 SoT?! My xperia is coming this week, still I'd like to know what you have done for having such great battery life please! So as soon I get mine I'll try those setting too :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mariodiniz21:
I never seen anything like it, no chargers inbetween? The maximum I'm getting is 7 hours SOT which I though was more than average.

3G, wi-fi on etc? There must be a trick...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jbhkhc:
As Sikatsirx said, SoT varies depend what you do with the phone. In this instance I had been working from information from PDFs saved on the phone, so the screen was constantly on. When I use the phone more heavily, I tend to get around 7-8hrs SoT only.

As for settings, only using 3g as the coverage out here is ****e. I deleted all google and sony updates, and turned off the auto update. All the location and google sync stuff is off. Sony enterprises is off. Other than that, stamina mode does the trick :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alan Slade:
My yesterday heavy usage. 1, 5 hours Gmaps, 1 h of podcasts via headphones, calls, a lot of whatsapp, wifi and 3g, stamina mode always on.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] phantomblu:
Is this normal for google play services to keep my device awake for so long?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
Normal? Yes, unless you carefully go through all the Google apps, services and sync settings to turn off what you don't want (it takes a while). Also make sure the phone's location setting is set to battery saver. That cut down a lot of Google's background activity for me.

Does anyone notice that the battery drains really fast when fully charged before settling down? I seem to go from 100% to 90% in a few hours, and then the rate of discharge drops sharply and I can get 2-3 days from the charge. That first 10% is weird though. Can't tell if it's typical for Li batteries, a battery calibration issue or a phone issue.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] wah007:
Yes I get the same. Next time only charge the battery to 99% and watch how slowly the percentage drops down.

I read somewhere that when the phone has been charged fully to 100% the battery level starts dropping to 90ish percent even though it shows 100% on the phone, it does this to protect the battery.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] cj1171:
Average day for me

And it's not pretty...

I'm positive part of it is the god awful reception this phone gets. Compared to my prior phones (G2 and Nexus 5), it's poor LTE reception and mostly poor speeds, probably because of the reception.

But, not sure if that's the entire reason either...

:confused:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] smanet:
Here it is mine:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] getdunexpected:
Just Like the post above - even mine seems to use a lot of battery with phone calls. Though the battery life itself is phenomenal but voice calls have a very high percentage of battery usage - even with good signal strength. Any clue/suggestions for the same? :confused:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] smanet:
Yep, I noticed this too. It doesn't look dramatic, but looks like something is consuming battery a bit more than we are used to. I'd try to look for active processes during calls, next time I'll do.

Inviato dal mio D5803 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] leoking3:
Well, for me, the first day of use after first full charge was going fine. Unplugged it at around 6 AM and at 12PM at night I still had 53%. AND now it begins. Never touched the phone during the night, and when I woke up at 8AM, I only had 26% left. So I checked the battery stats and found that the stupid file explorer that is embedded (I think its called File Commander or smth) was active for almost 2 hours and consumed 9% of the battery life. So I stopped it from the App manager. Now I unplugged the phone at 87% and in under 30 minutes , is went to 84% (doing almost nothing on it).

Do you have any idea why this happens? Thank you.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AK4TAY7BEN:
Here's mine. Brightness was set to auto @ 50% for most of the time.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] akil2037:
With full day both data and wifi ON and more than 6:45 min screen ON time....

This device is great......:):o:laugh:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
ill be getting 2 days easy and 3 days if i turn the phone into flightmode when im sleeping. This has been the best phone/battery that i used in ages.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
May i know did you charge your phone the first time for 8 hours straight? And how do you charge it now, i mean when do you plug it in and how long do you leave it on the charger after its reached 100%?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
No i didn't charge my phone for 8 hours the first time. think i let it come to 100% and then waited for like 5 minutes but the first few charges i did charge it when the phone battery was completely empty to a 100%, My wifi is always on and i have the screen brightness to around 80%.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
Did you disable a lot of system apps?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] davebugyi:
I'm yet to post screens, but so far the battery life is a huge improvement over the HTC M7. The longest screen on time was 7 hrs, 45mins (versus the maximum 4 hrs, 32 I could achieve on the M7).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
Nope, i just turn off data sync and i do my email also manually (refresh). My battery now has 40% left after 1d8h and with 3hours screen on time.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mab71:
This is what I managed to get atm.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] BlueScreenJunky:
Pretty decent for me, it won't last me 2 full days, but at least if I forget to charge it one night I know I'll still have a phone in the morning.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Kratellismorru:
Fairly enough, and today, I'm getting the same battery life with around 5 hours screen on time :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ihaveabu:
According to GSAM, I average around 15 hrs of usage with 3-4 hours of SOT.

I have the following settings:

Stamina Mode: Turns on at 40% (Extended Usage is on, Stamina Clock is on, and Extended Standby on with Gmail and Hangouts excluded)

Queue Background Data: On

WiFi: location based, On at work, gym, home, starbucks, etc

LTE: On all day. When it's connect to wifi, mobile data is automatically turned off

Bluetooth: On all day paired to Android Wear (LG GWR) and when driving: my car, my headset

NFC: On but Beam is off

Sound: ClearAudio+ is on

Display: X-Reality is on, Brightness set to auto, 30 seconds sleep

Smart Backlight Control: On

Tap to wake: On

Smart Call Handling: On

Google Now and Location Reporting all on

Life360 is on but my location is not broadcasted

myXperia is off

My battery capacity is around 2660 mAh. It does fluctuate a bit throughout the day, dropping to 2659 at the low end but full charges all go back up to 2660 or higher. So after 1.5 months of use, battery capacity has stayed mostly the same, which is quite nice.

EDIT: I started using GSAM monitoring after I got my LG G Watch R. When I first started using the phone, I was getting closer to 6 hours of SOT. Nowadays I get less and looking at my battery usage, it's partly due to background apps refreshing (Amazon, Facebook, Life360, etc) and all the little things I've turned on in the settings. I don't think Android Wear has had a substantial impact on battery life by itself, but right now I am using my phone to it's fullest, and it's lasting me a full day easily. That is something I have not been able to pull off with any other phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] robertkoa:
The WIFI screen on times are impressive but of course

if you are sitting at home browsing as I often do on my

LG Phone , you can be on the Charger anyway.

For me the SOT on 4G LTE in the field is more important because the Z3 C would be my first

non removable Battery.

I like to stream Podcasts while I work , screen off , so should be no problem and with Location OFF and Rogue

Apps OFF screen brightness 30% since Z3C is a bright

little bugger , looks like SOT of 5 to 6.5 hours is likely-

Except the 4G LTE signal strength variable- lower signal

strength drains Battery more....hard to predict, but seems like lowest would still be 4 hours SOC.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] wingsfortheirsmiles:
Pretty good still, though I do toggle 4G/3G and auto sync on and off as needed.

Only time it's bad is if Location/GPS gets stuck with Maps.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] djpeesh:
Anyone know why I'm getting such pathetic battery life? Especially the voice calls are killing my battery.

I do have Bluetooth always on, location on, wifi on location based mode.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ebbox:
Im allright.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nobodyreally:
How's mine? I feel like others with similar configuration are doing better.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AM Radio:
50% battery got me over 2 days!

STAMINA MODE = BEAST MODE!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] JJ2525:
Dumb question, how are you guys getting the Android L Navbar? Root necessary?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] punkyd:
there is a theme in Play store called Galardo for xperia z,i also use it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nobodyreally:
What was your screen on time?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AM Radio:
nuts, forgot to check and cap that. next time i'm at 50% i'll update.

in another thread in the Z3 forum, i posted this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57523168&postcount=416

at that point i had 2d 10h 23s on battery / 7h 19m 30s Time on Screen, with 23% power left.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] getdunexpected:
Same problem here! Voice calls eating way too much battery!! :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] avpk787:
Poor Battery Suspected

Hi kindly let me know your opinion, am I getting good battery life for my usage or do I have to get it replaced.

In the past 2 months that I have owned the Z3C, I have never had the battery more than 12 hrs.

yesterdays screenshots are attached. I was travelling, had music streaming, some internet browsing.

Edit: Upon reading all the posts and more suggestions on similar forums, I have decided to back up my phone and do a factory reset. Having done so, My estimates are showing in the range of 3 days. I will keep the phone in this state and report back.

Thank you all for this thread.

Regards
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jessisxp:
guys i need help, i just got my z3 compact and my battery last about 12-14 hours on a full chargge and about 1 day on stamina mode is that normal?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] JJ2525:
First charge. Stock, with some bloat disabled/uninstalled. 95% LTE. I was hoping for a bit better, particularly in terms of OST. Hopefully it will improve a few charges in.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] boojay:
Wow, those are the numbers you're getting using almost exclusively mobile data, i.e. very little Wi-Fi, and you expect it to be even better? 99% of other phones won't last anywhere near close to what you're doing on Wi-Fi, let alone 4g. If you incorporate regular Wi-Fi usage into your daily routine, you'll easily add 33-50% more battery life to your current numbers.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pw1nce:
how did you get the android L soft keys? did you root ? i wanna have them too , and is there any way to make the icons small? they are too big
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xDD64:
There's a xperia-theme for that: Xp Theme: 5.0 Lollipop (search in PlayStore)

Apparently there's no way to make them smaller.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sravanz:
I found this apk somewhere.. Credits to the developer. This theme made the navigation keys look like lollipop.. No root required
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pw1nce:
thanks allot bro :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Esben Ludvigsen:
Pretty happy with the battery life

Sendt fra min D5803 med Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AM Radio:
side note: my phone never charges up to 100% -- only goes to 99%. anyone else notice this?

using a magnetic charger.

edit: and just as i posted this, it charged up to 100%. go figure.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MSG:
My Z3c with it's initial firmware 23.0.A.2.98 lastet about 2,5 days on my usual usage profile (no stamina or ultra-mode turned on), I was so HAPPY!

Mid december I upgraded to 23.0.1.A.5.77 (Russia as this was the first available version) it lasted only 1 day with same usage profile!

Now I switched to 23.0.1.A.5.77 Germany but still the same. I hardly manage 1 day (24h)!! So now I'm going back to 23.0.A.2.98.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
After two months I am still very very happy with my battery life:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tkd-alex:
I've a low lifespan

This is my usage:

I think is very low. I've bought this phone five days ago. It's normally? You say that? Otherwise port my cell phone in assistance.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] spromper:
Great Phone, had it for 5 days now. Very good battery life and excellent performance. This was my first charge:

I'm also amazed by the battery life I get while using 4G, my previous phone (Xperia T) could only reach 2,5 hours of SoT on 3G. This phone more than doubles that.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] anas machraoui:
Guys is this normal ?

I used my battery life mainly for chatting instagram and browsing

3g on most of the time
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] neol23:
It gets better and better