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[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Xperia Z3 Battery Life test

As I mentioned earlier, i just got my Xperia Z3. I rooted it and tweaked or setup my phone just the way i like it, to get the most out of the battery. And the Z3, BETTER STILL, MY Z3 (lol), was able to manage just over 11 hrs screen time in a period of about 34 hours running time. See the screenshots below and get a link to my thread showing you how to Maximize the battery life of your Xperia Z3.

Note that...

- I didn't use Extended Usage in the test below. This would have given me maybe 30 mins extra screentime but the phone would feel a tad slower.

- I use BBM always which is a HUGE battery drainer (see BBS screenshot), but i need it for my business, so can't do without it really.

- I didn't have a SIM Card in the device the whole time because my Z2 used a MicroSD and before i cut it to a nano, I had already started the test and didn't want to interrupt as putting a sim card while the phone is turned on reboots the device.

HERE ARE THE SCREENSHOTS

Screentime

Consumption

Graph

GSam Summary (No idea why it's always a few minutes off)

GSam Usage List

BBS Wakelocks

If you want to know how to get the most out of your Z3 battery, head over to my Battery tips thread and I'm pretty sure you would learn something. Link below. Cheers! :D

===>> MAXIMIZE THE BATTERY LIFE OF YOUR XPERIA Z3 <<===
[Xperia Z3 General] shawnaye:
Well.... Not having a sim card would not drain so much battery because your radio isn't on.

Makes sense to have great battery doesn't it?

Lol.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Was just at 72% with sim card in it and already had 3hrs 30mins screen time.

Here is from this morning. For about 5 hours.

- Sim Card present

- WiFi On throughout

- BBM, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Gmail and Yahoo mail (Stock email app) all Auto Sync.

Still sat at 100% the whole time. ;)
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
Great result.

Try to do it the same with LTE and no wifi. I'd be interested to see.

How many push services have you white listed in Stamina?

Thanks.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Sorry mate, No LTE in my country. 3G/HSPA only.

In white list - BBM, WhatsApp, Email, Gmail, Instagram, and Greenify (someone said it helps to whitelist it) lol.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
I see.

Try with 3G/HSPA instead of wifi.

Tx.
[Xperia Z3 General] mirkofast:
Kitkat rom used ?

thx
[Xperia Z3 General] kalintka:
I dont think that i need kitkat any more, lollipop's battery is crazy
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Standby time seems reduced, I used to get 7-8 hours SOT with WiFi calling enabled in a 32-36 hour period. With Lollipop it's barely 7 Hours SOT in about 24-28 hour period.
[Xperia Z3 General] NiteWolf92:
This might sound crazy, but i think different region ROMs have different battery life. It's the only thing that makes sense really. lol

I'll try it once i get some data on my sim.
[Xperia Z3 General] browngeek:
Here are my battery stats. Running rooted but lock bootloader. Mix of LTE and wifi, location set to battery saving. Screen set to very low, with adaptive. I have turned off all battery saving options, but have debloated and frozen a bunch of stock Sony apps. Ironically was getting roughly the same times with all battery saving options turned on (would usually get about 1 day 8 - 10 hours with about 4 hours SOT and the phone showing as about 8 hours active. Would be running Stamina with a bunch of IM and emails apps as whitelisted along with Greenify and Amplify). Am going to now test with just Stamina mode turned on and the Android clock as the only whitelisted app.

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[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Is this good?
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Yeah, at the end, I got exactly 5 hours at 12% mark.. How do you use your phone and how to save much of those battery?

Edit: did livelog has anything to do with it?
[Xperia Z3 General] sherlock5545:
My only problem with battery life is wifi_RX_wake and wifi_ctrl_wake. In 10 hours, they keep the phone awake for at least 40/50 minutes. In comparison, my Nexus 5 only stays awake for 1 or 2 minutes.
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Nopee, after all.. IT REALLY is insane.. I haven't charge my phone until now since Sunday evening with 5h40m mark in 21%.
[Xperia Z3 General] sherlock5545:
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Seems alright to me. I think I could have squeezed some more if it weren't for the WiFi wakelocks.
[Xperia Z3 General] thefanofmusic:
Damn I can't reach that kind of battery life. With very very light use I got 6:47 sot . Only on WiFi. As soon as I turn the screen on the battery flips it sh*t. I'm confused. Because if I use my phone normally it drops fast. Low brightness. Airplane mode. The cpu was fine to. I turned almost every useless app off on the phone. My guess is that my battery is faulty. Can someone help me out? :(
[Xperia Z3 General] aw1974:
How is 6:47 sot considered very light use?? :confused:
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
On WiFi, including WiFi calling I get ~8 Hrs SOT. in about a 24 hour period.

If I am roaming with Mobile Data (full signal LTE), the "Mobile Radio Active" bug occasionaly kicks in and I get only about 5-6 hrs SOT with much lower standby time with that too with light use in about 16-20 hour period.

I'm glad PhoneArena recently did an article on the bug, don't know if that will force Google to be more proactive in solving it though lol.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Users-report-a-battery-drain-issue-with-Android-5.x-Lollipop_id71103
[Xperia Z3 General] kalintka:
Should get it rooted.
[Xperia Z3 General] thefanofmusic:
Nothing cpu intensive. I lose way to much battery in comparison with the others. The guys who have a brighter screen setting and use it more get the same battery life or even better.

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It was rooted but didn't help at all. kitkat or lollipop make no difference :/
[Xperia Z3 General] Klanac89:
What's about CyanogenMod and Z3 battery life?
[Xperia Z3 General] tel033:
My battery wasnt as stellar as most people here but I got 6 hours sot and j laated 2 days so I was happy, then lollipop came and all was the same (I'm not rooted and have GSam) my Sot was the same as kitkat, then one week or so I started to have really good battery life like 8 or 9 hours in 2 days so I was very happy but then the mobile radio bug became notorious, twitter and instagram where the most affected.. But android OS is also draining a lot, is this normal? (the android OS draining) I have grenify installed to kill Facebook mostly can this be counterproductive? I'm not rooted so it doesn't work automatically

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[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Finally it happened to me, with moderate to heavy use
[Xperia Z3 General] gregysk:
Me too [emoji6]
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Regularly i got 2 days battery life with normal to moderate use but with around 4-6 hours SOT, but with moderate to heavy use like that, the battery life is just closer to one day but with 7 hours SOT. The battery is insane though, i only got like 2-3 hours Sot with other android devices with the very same uses

Did root really make it better, like.. Really better?
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
Just root by itself won't do anything...
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Yeah i knew that
[Xperia Z3 General] utsav911:
I am using greenify. It improves the life but it's not that significant. I guess sony has it's battery management already worked out pretty well.
[Xperia Z3 General] Csetoue:
My first cycles arent impressive.

Maybe because Im with BT always on (smartband in use).
[Xperia Z3 General] Me Gusta:
My first cycles weren't either, but now after two weeks, I can get 6,5 hours sot with ease
[Xperia Z3 General] tugrululu99:
I Can get 4 h

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[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Me too, after 2 weeks, I always got 6-7 hours sot with ease and with heavy use

But in the first week i just got like 4-5 hours sot but with almost 3 days standby+sot. That's with just light to moderate use though so nothing to brag about with other z3 users ( although i can brag with other phones' users :D)
[Xperia Z3 General] Pandemic:
Battery life very good on MW Provolution V2.0 ^^
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
BATTERY ON STOCK IS FANTASTIC ;) And i was playing music for looong hours. Even when i slept off lol (see graph side when screen off but so much awake)

Total time: 24.5 hours

Screen time: 9hrs 14 mins

Auto Sync: Twitter, Email (Yahoo), Gmail.

Apps Running in Background: BBM (Huge battery hog - responsible for periodic wakes during screen off), Instagram, FB Messenger, Whatsapp amongst others.

Visit my battery saving thread here ;) - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2768544
[Xperia Z3 General] CentaXx:
I'm really not satisfied with the battery life of the Z3 anymore. Unfortunately i don't have the time to wipe it and have a clean install at the moment.

The battery life decreased to 4hrs 45mins average screen on time. :eek: I just had to search for an old post i did in this thread where i reached ~9hrs 30mins when the phone was new. So it decreased to half of the runtime. I don't use google now, don't have many accounts to sync... Something must be wrong. You can also notice a constant decrease in battery life.

e: Picture says 3hrs 10mins SOT, i started charging it at 16%.
[Xperia Z3 General] Mr.Elmmyr:
Anyone tried out the 5.1.1 Update?
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
Will tell you all later. I think it's a tad better
[Xperia Z3 General] zeeshan11:
Sony Xperia Z3 battery low. Wont charge wont turn on. HELP!

Hi,

I bought my sony Xperia Z3 6 days ago. It charged great the first time. But after the second charge, I removed when it showed 100% but after a little use it started showing 50%. Still gave a great battery time and when the battery was low, it again went to showing 1 or 2 %. But that problem also went away after another charge. But now, the same problem occurred again. I charged it to 100%, used it perfectly but when the charging was somewhere around 45%, it again started showing 50%. Even though the battery lasted for quite some time after that but now the phone wont charge would neither turn on.

Help me out please! I updated my phone to lollipop 5.0.1 after the first charge.

Really frustrated.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotroot:
Im on kitkat 4.4.4 and used ultra stamina ... Lost 2% in 4 hours...insane . I made two calls, send 4 texts, checked time whike in movies for previews and dinner. Awesome .
[Xperia Z3 General] zeeshan11:
No doubt the battery is perfect on this phone. The phone is AMAZING. Just a little underrated.

With my phone, i charged it on PC for while and it turned on after 20 30 minutes. But on resetting, it returned to the older problem. Plus when I unplugged it from PC after a few minutes, the battery started showing 50%.

Will get it replacing iA if I dont find any solution by myself.
[Xperia Z3 General] igotroot:
It's a possibility that you have a bad phone. Sony evidently must have had a lot of bad batches of phones because the phone that I have now is my second one which was fine. My first phone had the fuzzy screen issue that pops up from time to time and I had to get it replaced immediately but so far this second phone has been flawless I would suggest going back and swap out your phone.
[Xperia Z3 General] zeeshan11:
Sent it back through the retailer. Soon would get a new one iA.

Thanks for input. :highfive:
[Xperia Z3 General] kalintka:
Some one please update battery life after 5.1.1 released. What about SOT is before and after the update, thank you!
[Xperia Z3 General] AlvinZahran98:
It isn't reliable when we do something like that, because we don't use the very same things with our phones at different times like that. But my experience so far, I feel like the battery performance is slightly reduced on 5.1.1 but I don't know, since I used the phone hardly these couple of days.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Am I the only one on xda facing this deep sleep battery issue after updating to 5.1.1?

Someone reported this issue on his Z3 here - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=80274

At the end of the page.
[Xperia Z3 General] solucan55:
Thank yok sony for the 5.1.1 with lots of problem.

My Battery is draining since the f..ck 5.1.1 update. I alredy did a repair with PC Companion but did not help anyway! İssues like this is not good for the battery which is not replacable. The battery life could be negative affected. I became only 16 hours with 100 % power and all stamina options on! Shame sony.!
[Xperia Z3 General] zerofx_gth:
i have a battery drain, too. for the first 2 days. but now its settle and the battery drain is gone.
[Xperia Z3 General] solucan55:
I understand. And what do you get to see on stamina estimated battery time if your phone is charged till 100% and you stop charging? I only get 21 hours there. Beforfe get to see 2 days and couple of hours :/
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
I have same terrible drain. But 2 ppl now said it got better after ROM settled. I will do 2 cycles in 2 days. And if i don't see improvements, I'll go back to 5.0.2 permanently till next update. Maybe .570 will fix. If it's not an operator update...
[Xperia Z3 General] mattz3:
Complete Xperia noob here but my phone battery is pretty bad. Fully charged it says it only lasts for 16 hours or so, i'm now living in Germany which means its always on airplane mode ANYWAY. And battery life is still drastically bad than it used to be.

What is ROM? Can I factory reset and does that help? and are there any other methods to improve this. Its frustrating that this was the main reason i bought this phone and now the battery is as bad if not worse than the apple phones i left.

Please help i bed you haha
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
ROM is the OS. operating system. Android. Go to General section. There's a thread that explains many things. It might be in general section of Z1 i think. I'm mobile now, can't really Check.

Anyways, flash 5.0.2 using flashtool.should work better. 5.1.1 is also bad on my phone.

And yh, how to flash with flash tool is in that tutorial. Cheers.
[Xperia Z3 General] solucan55:
Dude the same problem. Im from germany too. Maybe i keep my note 4 and use this :( the battery is now better than the z3 :D
[Xperia Z3 General] kalintka:
Observer many people updated to 5.1.1, i can say the percentage of ppl "feeling worse about battery life" unfortunately is more than that of "feeling better battery life". So i guess that the new 5.1.1 is not as good at battery life as the previous :D
[Xperia Z3 General] mattz3:
Cool I understand nothing of what you just said. I've looked at different forums but still... Ive got no idea what they're talking about, theyre just talking like everyone should understand what to do and what theyre saying. How can I improve my bettery life? give me three bullet pointed options.

Turning it on to stamina mode doesnt even make a difference to longevity.
[Xperia Z3 General] Takisxx:
battery life JUSt SUCKS on 5.1. its simple:crying:
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Well, guys. After a day of use. I noticed that battery actually improved a little. Phone can now go into deep sleep... But doesn't sleep as good as on 5.0.2 still. However, let me get to the end of the second day and see what happens. Cheers! :)

Check my battery saving tips thread here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2768544
[Xperia Z3 General] jerverg:
Funny. It's the other way around for me. Battery is better than 5.0

Sent from my D6653
[Xperia Z3 General] kioshi:
Its quite the opposite for me. I dont see high usage of mobile radio active in battery stats. I dont see apps being awake even when i used Servicely app to put the to sleep.

Battery is improved for me except for when Google Play Services decides to act stupid.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
Good to see some ppl have good battery. I'm back to 5.0.2. I get up to 10hrs screen time on 5.0.2 compared to 6hrs on 5.1.1. I'll wait for another update, till then... I'm sitting tight.
[Xperia Z3 General] primary_lotus:
hi, i have a galaxy note 4 n910f and its like my 2º note 4 i had in like 1 year... for some reason every review i see they say the battery life is just awsome but on almost any android smartphone i had the battery life struggle to keep up with my day.

i get out of the house at like 06:30 with 100% battery and right away i start to listen to music "opie anthony episodes"... at the end of my work day i get like 30% battery life left and with like 2 hours of SOT at max, the reason for my battery life "drain" i guess is the cellphone reception signal that its terrible since where i work i mostly never have signal so its constantly looking for signal plus i play some games but not that much, like 20 or 30 min max.

My problem is, ive had an iphone 6 plus and with the same daily routine i would get home with like 60% battery with much more gaming time or even abit more and much more powerfull games, i know almost every game is optimized on ios and stuff but i rly dont understand the reason for so much battery drain on the note just for looking for signal reception and wifi on at all times, ive had the sony z3 compact and heard the battery was awsome but delivered the phone on the same week since it was heating up ALOT on just some simple tasks and the battery was also draining without much use plus the camera was crap imo.

Im no Ios fanboy, thats why i sold my iphone and went for an android phone, and for gaming i use my ipad mini 2 but i just dont understand the difference on battery life.

Please tell me if the z3 is a better choice for my case (10 hours of music, 10 hours of wifi, like 6 or 7 hours of looking for cellphone reception and like 30 min to 1 hour of gaming), on almost every review the z3 compact has the best battery life but i guess mine had some kind of problem, or my day to day use just drains that much.

Thx in advance, any help would be apreciated.

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Just to clarify, Ive had alot of smartphones ios and android, but the android ones just doesnt handle that battery life well, the ones ive had that wasnt that bad on battery was htc one m8, finish the day on 35% or something, LG G2 was very good also on battery life, 50% at the end of the day wich was awsome and the best 1 was a chinese phone Vivo xplay 3s, had the best battery life with like 65% at the end of the day.
[Xperia Z3 General] kalintka:
Z3 with 5.02 lollipop is superb battery life. Mine usually last 2 days with 6h30 to 7h30h of screen on time. It is better than ip6+ for sure.

With the new release android 5.1.1 battery does not keep that long, but for a day as your own using i think it is still good enought, may be 30-40% at the end of day.
[Xperia Z3 General] tel033:
Mobile radio active is killing in my battery in every single app that uses data, plus android OS is also high

Does anyone know why when I reboot the phone, the recent apps windows remains intact (the apps I used are still in there listed) isn't it supposed to be erased?

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[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
Recent app behaviour is a feature of Lollipop. They are there but it does not mean they are active.

I have the same issue with mobile radio and it is a very Google issue introduced with 5 and not solved with 5.1.

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[Xperia Z3 General] CouldntThinkOfAUsername:
Battery life on 5.1.1 is awful, draining so fast with the same stuff that I had when I was on KK.
[Xperia Z3 General] infinitylook:
Mine has been good especially standby time. Usage time is pretty much the same with 5.0.2 but standby time is really awesome.
[Xperia Z3 General] Mr.Elmmyr:
To you guys having ****ty battery life, may a suggest trying out MoonWalker Epidemic Rom??

Sent from my Unicorn using Magic.
[Xperia Z3 General] Ketzal:
If you are experiencing bad battery life on Z3 5.1.1 update something is wrong with your flashed copy. I had this issue when I updated. I factory reset and battery life is now back to incredible, maybe even better than 5.0.2. So if you haven't factory reset do so immediately. If that doesn't work repair with PC companion app. Try this before commenting on battery life. If you still have issues you have a rogue app or a broken phone. Good luck.
[Xperia Z3 General] CouldntThinkOfAUsername:
Factory reset will delete everything so I'm not doing that. I updated through the PC Companion.

It's a wide spread issue, an update shouldn't drastically decrease the battery life.
[Xperia Z3 General] vittogn:
I agree. Rarely a factory reset solved my problems. There's just placebo effect of a reset, then when you're all set up like before problems come back.

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[Xperia Z3 General] infinitylook:
Then that means you have a rogue app or an app not made efficiently because they wake phone often. There are a lot of apps like that. Facebook and Facebook messenger for one. A lot of bad apps can really drain you down. Try installing app one at a time to see what causes the problem
[Xperia Z3 General] CouldntThinkOfAUsername:
Yeah factory reset will just prolong the issue as you reinstall everything. I use FB and Messenger, the phone was perfectly fine on KK 4.4.4 with a beastly battery life, just become abysmal since 5.1.1. I missed out 5.0.2.

I've managed 3 hours and 44 mins SOT and phones been off charge for 24 hours and battery is on 17%. On KK, I'd have 50% left allowing me to charge every other day.

It could be an issue with the phone radio as I don't think any app is sucking more battery than usual.
[Xperia Z3 General] pantelis1867:
I have that battery draining problem, too. After 2 clean installs the phone probably can't deep sleep. In about 10 hours of close screen (during the night) i have 6-8 % battery discharge. Phone radio seems responsible for this(according to GSAM Battery Monitor) and Android System according to Sony's app. I have the Customized_GR 5.1.1 ROM.
[Xperia Z3 General] Apaar:
So it looks like im not alone.. terrible battery life on 5.1.1 :( I have to charge my phone daily as opposed to once every 2 days on 5.0.2 Android OS almost always on top in battery usage and phone isn't going to sleep, tried repair phone option in PC companion but still its there. I have 16-18% battery drain in about 8 hours on 5.0.2 it used to be only 3-4%.

PS: I dont use Facebook the only messaging app I've installed is Whatsapp.

As of now I'm going to flash my phone back to 5.0.2 until this is resolved.
[Xperia Z3 General] heywheelie:
Try this: Go into settings -> Apps -> All ad find one called Media Scanner or Media Storage and press clear cache and clear data. Press force stop and then reboot.

See if that helps.
[Xperia Z3 General] tanago:
I was so happy with the battery life on Android 4 - 1 week of standby & usage, hoping that google and sony will finally fix the 'mobile radio active' bug, its just terrible...
[Xperia Z3 General] Apaar:
Ill try this tonight! hope it helps, thanks if not back to KitKat or 5.0.2. :good:
[Xperia Z3 General] Sniper Spr3e:
My z had the same problem going from 4.4.4 to 5 were battery life went from 2 days to under 1 and Android system was draining. When I got the z3 I did a complete wipe from the pc to change customisation and battery is 2 days good use
[Xperia Z3 General] Clipse79:
I'm having issues where battery gets under 20% it drains within minutes to zero. It will even skip multiple percentages like 13 to 11.
[Xperia Z3 General] stanley08:
This is normal, happens on Samsung phones too. It's normal on Android i think... Then u find out that it lasts longer at a particular %. Say 1% lasts forever before it finally goes off... yh.
[Xperia Z3 General] mariovp:
I'm getting about 6 hours SOT with Lollipop 5.1.1, Facebook, Whatsapp, Messenger, etc, etc installed... Is this good battery life?
[Xperia Z3 General] Clipse79:
Ya its wild I have been at 7% forever and now on 5% going strong....