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[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CollinsJ:
Never bothered with stamina modes. I connect charger every other night so I brevet have to worry about a busier day. Normally about 30% when I do that.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jauhari:
waiting and see what cause this problem
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uluk:
z3c androoid os keep awake

i also notice quite high drain of android os - keep awake for 4:22 hours when 2d 10h on battery with 2:35 screen time

(stamina off, facebook uninstalled, sync only gmail and exchange mailboxes, no other social app installed & used)

actually i found that google updated my google account sync settings with few more options - all turned on (google fit, push subscriptions, google+), so i turned them off and will see if that helped
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mat_oli:
ok so in an effort to isolate the issue, I disabled wifi, mobile data, AND the cell radio overnight - battery drain was still 5% over 6 hrs! So I still dunno how ppl manage to get 1% drain in 6-8 hrs..I guess it must be an app I have installed? I'm going to start trying to uninstall one at a time to see which app exactly it is that's causing this drain.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
Same here. I'm losing around 2%/hr and it doesn't even have a SIM card in it and Bluetooth is off. Something isn't right, especially given all the positive reviews on battery life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uluk:
yesterday, when i unplug phone from charger at morning 9:30 it consumes 6% until 12:00 (strange it was sunday, no work emails and , so i started to play with some apps and found that file commander had by default turned on sending usage stats & auto update. after turn off these options i found quite better battery consumption. android os is still around 10% with 1h45m wake time after 1day on battery, but consumption for last night was 2% ... maybe this is not root cause of all problems, but it's a good example of app with unknown settings
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mat_oli:
Thx for the tip uluk, I turned off that option in File Commander, and last night, instead of my usual 11% drain over 7 hrs, it was only 4% drain. However, I also uninstalled a couple of apps (namely LINE and Any.do) in an attempt to figure out what was causing battery drain, so not sure if it was the setting change, LINE or Any.do that was causing the extra drain. I've reinstalled LINE today, and will update this thread with my results after tonight.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tofu-:
thanks for the file commander tip!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uluk:
another app

another app that has same options as file commander is office suite (send usage stats & auto update)...

---------- Post added at 08:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 AM ----------

both file commander & office suite makes some indexing of files on background and there is no option to turn off or configure this activity
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mat_oli:
did a bit more testing over the last couple of nights - I've found that restarting the phone (and thus killing all running apps) before going to bed results in about 2-3% less battery drain over the 7hr period that I'm sleeping. I read in another thread about disabling the "double tap to wake" setting, will disable that and see if it changes anything this weekend.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipspeak:
I was also quite surprised at how much the battery drained during the night and equally surprised when I looked at apps that were running -- there were waaay more than with my N4 thanks (probably) to Sony bloat and Google's desire to track everything we do. Anyone know anything about these:

- Enterprise Service -- includes GoogleAnalyticsLogger service. How do I turn that off? I assume it's linked to the Google search widget.

- Smart Connect -- Don't use it and can't uninstall it, but how do I stop it running anyway?

- Google Search -- I presume that's related to the search widget on the home screen

- Google Play services (twice) -- any secrets to killing these insidious Google services? Stuff like BrokeredFitnessService, GoogleLocationManager, and WearableService, for example. I thought I'd turned everything off, but apparently not. I know turning some Play services off can cause wakelock, but there seem to be far mroe services running here than necessary.

I'm also curious if anyone's found Nova launcher causes much additional battery drain compared to the Xperia launcher. I'm considering installing Nova simply to get rid of some of those fugly Xperia icons like dialer and messaging.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerophyll:
also, i found out that Facebook and Messenger app really does suck away your battery...after uninstalling them, better battery performance!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdyr08:
Here is another hidden feature to turn off that I think occasionally chews up battery power.

If you go into the "Album" App, start a "SenseMe Slideshow", Photo Analysis, and turn off the Scan Photos toggle.

I still haven't cured the battery drain problem. I'm getting about 3.5%/hr battery drain at night/throughout the day. Hence, can't see how its possible they can call this phone a 2-day battery life handset, when this would only equate to 28hours in standy (on 3G).

Keep trying fellas, eventually we might find a solution.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uluk:
i also found that mentioned "Scan Photos" is present in Faces folder inside Gallery app, strange that this one was off and in "SenseMe Slideshow" it was on. And Faces folder was full of scanned faces of my photos..

anyway, when i disabled app named Photo Analyzer Service these options are greyed now and also when i removed all faces, folder named Faces dismissed.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farhadtarapore:
That's if you get too many notifications. Same case holds true for whats app also. If you're on many groups that are constantly sending you notifications, battery will probably last you for only 12 - 14 hours. App has nothing to do with it. It's the activity on the app. To confirm, you can keep the app installed, but disable mobile (2G/3G/4G) data through the day and see what the battery usage is.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdiddy_ub:
My phone lasts about 1 1/2 days with moderate/slightly above average use. Screen on time is about 7-8 hours but i also listen to music and do other things that will not be accounted for in the SOT. This phone has fantastic battery life compared to my previous devices (and i've owned many from the G1 to the samsung S series to the Nexus line).

A clear and absolute way to test the battery is to perform a factory reset and use your phone bare (minimal apps installed-not using any known battery hogging apps ie: fb etc...) and see how long the battery lasts for you. If it lasts a while then clearly it is an app or something setting that is draining the battery.

The 2 day battery claim is a strong one, however considering that Sony can't possibly account for all the variables (apps, gaming, music, browsing), i would say 2 days is certainly possible if you aren't a hardcore user.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Isocadia:
I only use my phone to listen to some music while cycling and to check my messages once in a while and to play batman every now and then. I check Facebook through the browser and have disabled almost all of the bloatware that comes preinstalled and my battery lasts 2 1/2 days when keeping wifi on during the night and 3 days if I turn wifi etc on ( never use airplane mode due to my work requiring me to be reachable at night).

So the 2 day claim for me is proven to be true :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdyr08:
I don't know guys, there's plenty of people on here saying otherwise. Check out my attached screen shots. I charged the phone to 100%, booted into Sony's "Safe Mode" which disables all 3rd party apps. Then took it off charger, and it drained 3% per hour in standby mode over 4hrs and 37mins. If Ido the math (100/3%) I'll only get 33hours on standby use without even using the phone! Generally I've only been getting about 16hours of use throughout the day with 3hrs SOT.

Mine is the D5833 model running Australian firmware (where I live) and the Wifi access point in in my bedroom. Something's not right!!! I've already done factory reset twice.

Perhaps the D5803 model is living up to Sony's 2day battery life claim but not the D5833???. Anybody else on here have a D5833 model achieving the claimed 2 day life?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsieur_debile:
suspicious, i believe some apps are running at background

Maybe some options enabled like either sending anonymous data or sync...

I lost even less during day with 3G enabled (around 1% per hour and half)

Disable all apps with such options

Disable Google services and apps that easily running at background

Check through BBS if there are persistent wakelocks
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mat_oli:
what's BBS? I'm curious to know if I have persistent wakelocks but not sure how to check this..
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uluk:
BBS is app named Better Battery Stats, you can find it here on xda or buy on play. but on 4.4.4 kitkat it doesn't fully work (only kernel wakelocks, cpu states..) without root. so if you are on z3 or z3c it will be problem to really use bbs app.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsieur_debile:
That's the bad thing about BBS

Dont forget WIFI if sent dynamic IP can let your phone awake and making a persistent wakelock (called wlan)

There actually numerous reasons why battery life sucks at idle, for no reason i lost few percentage within few minutes although i lost 1% in 10 hours!!!

Android really sucks, its an open door for apps, connections... while Apple strictly watch their OS and do not let them screw your battery life

I owned iPhone in the past, you never worry about idle consuming, battery life was fairly average in use but at idle, it wont consume unlike many android phones, once you got installed all your apps and settings

My concern about Android, looks awful but i dont want to spend time to figure out the issue

Hope Android L brings more efficiency and make OS stable!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xerophyll:
try using wakelock detector guys, even without root u can still check it..here's the guide for that:

https://docs.google.com/presentatio...AF7z06_ysl1kUKME4/edit#slide=id.g259567f19_00
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mat_oli:
ok so I figured out what was causing a big part of my battery drain - Location services. I had this on because I use this app "Moves", which is like a daily activity/location tracker. Once I turned off location services completely, Google Play services battery usage dropped to the bottom of the battery consumption list, and I'm able to get a full 2 day battery life now.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonetalk:
Are you on Vodafone? Looks like a network jumping around is draining you battery the most
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipspeak:
Oh yes, Facebook is an evil app. Not only does it drain the battery like crazy, but I used to find it randomly running in the background despite having disabled all the autoupdates and even after logging out of my account. Not to mention it's always been buggy as hell. That app really made me loathe Facebook!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdyr08:
No, I am on Boost Mobile (3G) which runs on the Telstra network.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phantomblu:
Does this mean if I have adblock plus it drains more battery? Since I have to modify my wifi settings for it to work.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Z_whippie:
should i be worrid

I just got mine and it first said i have todays but yesteday it started saying i have one and thats on stamina mode without it its like 7 hours
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonetalk:
Phones been on 10 hrs, with 48% bat left, 2.30 sot. And I'm running all the energy efficient settings. Come on. I must have a dud.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pipspeak:
What does battery settings say has been using the most power?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lasy:
Perfect
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsieur_debile:
if people still facing against battery drain at idle

Wackelock Detector may help you to find the issue(s)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2179651

There is a method that works in order to run it on Kitkat, it only takes few minutes
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] korkyra:
battery

If somebody could answer. I have installed viber and under applications that consume energy viber appeared. Then I unistalled viber and now it's an older version and still two days later again appears that consumes energy . Today turned up two applications that consume resources : Skype and Viber . Anyone have a similar problem ? This is my first sony cell phone so I am not sure if evertything is ok withe the battery or applications. I added screenshots and I apologise for any grammar mistakes :) English is not my native language.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KevinN206:
I have a different issue about battery life. I have been using the phones for a couple of weeks. I notice that my phone drops by 1% to 99% after being charged to 100% for extended period of time by using it for just 2 minutes after removal from the charger.

Every night, I plug in the phone to charge before going to bed. In the morning, I like to browse the web reading news, and within about 2 minutes, the battery % drops to 99%. And then within another 3 minutes or so, it's down to 98%. All of this is over wifi and not cell data. I have never really seen this behavior with my prior phones, so I am not sure if this is normal. I have also NOT seen my battery estimates to be greater than 24 hours of usage. It's always 1 day or less even while charged at 100%.

With that said, the battery life on the Z3 Compact is far superior to all my prior phones. I went for 13 hours yesterday with about 5 hours of SoT and 30 minutes of GPS. By bed time at 12 am, it still had 10% left.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arj154:
I've been using my phone as I would do normally and I've found that my phone stays awake for the majority of the time the phone is on. It never seems to truly enter deep sleep and during the day i am on mobile data and I have wifi off. I do this as the signal is really strong at work and the 3G is faster than wifi. I also have a android wear device connected but again this did not affect my nexus 4 as harshly. Today I have been listening to podcasts for about 1:30 hrs and at that point, The screen on time was 1:15 hrs.

I really cant work out why the phone is draining in battery and being awoken so much. I've had messenger installed on my nexus 4 and it didnt drain my battery as much. I've tried switching to 3G only, only allowing wifi on during sleep if its charging, uninstalling facebook, switching off image enhancement, switching off and smart backlight control. I really cannot work out whats causing the issue
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 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 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brazilianoob:
Double Tap to wake up

I was having the same problem that most people described, which is why I came to this thread in the first place.

Someone told to turn off the double tap feature to wake up the screen, and it seems to have done the trick. I still have to observe a little longer though.

FYI, I was getting around 1 day and half of battery on stamina mode, which is pretty decent imo.

Hope this help others.

Cheers.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _katho_:
Checked with Wakelock Detector on PC and it's as usual Google location/history it seems (nplwakelocks), have turned it off now and will check in a few hours what it looks like.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NYC_ROCK:
I can report the exact same behavior. Some days I take it off the charger and it stays at 100% for over an hour, other days I take it off the charger and it drops to 99% within minutes. No difference in terms of my behavior. I find android phones are simply unpredictable in terms of battery life behavior. Some days they are great, other days? Not so much.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobbeh84:
I personally found that disabling Google Now improved my battery drain. It doesn't seem to appear in the list of consuming apps so you might not notice it but i found when i had poor signal it really zapped the juice.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _katho_:
Quoting myself. :P

This solved it, turned off the location history-thing, battery is perfect!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VForss:
No new apps installed since the first day of use, battery life is half of what it was. 12% drain after 4h of standby. Uncertain if it might be the hardware failing with a such a dramatic decline of battery life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratemoon:
SD Card

Hi Everyone,

I've been following this thread since I got my z3c because I've not been able to figure out why my phone had so much phone idle battery loss. Screen on time has been great comparatively, but it didn't seem to sleep. Tried going down to a bare minimum of apps, tried deactivating google now and decided I was going to try a factory reset so I unmounted and removed my SD card then got distracted. When I went back to do the reset I checked the battery stats and I saw my phone had actually been sleeping...

Anyway, I was using an SD card I got to use with my HTC HD2 way back in 2009. It's a SanDisk 8gb card that I think is perhaps class 4 (there seems to be a 4 on it, my eyes are straining...) I think this is causing my issues - anyone else with the same? If anyone agrees here, what class card will not have this effect?

Cheers,

Mark
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andry_naples:
http ://imgur.c om/5EJDrJv

http ://imgur.c om/UGDgsAz

(sry can't post links)

This is what i used to get until yesterday, with lte/wifi on, no airplane mode or stamina (except for the last 5%) etc. I have had the phone for almost 2 weeks.

But today the "android system" process keeps running and draining battery!

I'm gonna try wakelock detector on my pc.

Does anybody know a solution? :crying:

EDIT: It looks like the "dboxed_process1" was the guilty one. Discovered it with "GSam battery Monitor"!

I killed it with ADB ( adb shell am force-stop dboxed_process1 ); now the battery drain seems like stopped. I'll let you know if something else happens :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] piratemoon:
Edit: apparently it's to do with location rather than the sd card.... ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnppc:
My battery stopped working well after about 3 weeks of excellent battery life. I found that it would discharge at a constant amount regardless of usage that persisted through factory reset. I had to call SONY for an RMA. The most obvious part was that it would be losing the charge even when off :eek:

I don't know how many others are experiencing this but it's very frustrating to have a defective product and not know why.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brahmadath:
experiencing bad battery life

hi all,

I have been experiencing bad battery life in my z3 compact.

I have turned off all the bloatware (literally everything that can be disabled except google services),activated stamina mode. but no use.

even in ultra stamina mode battery goes down fast.i have disabled location services. i have tried factory resetting,memory card formatting to fat32( mine is 64gb).

i am attaching some screenshots. even when the phone is idle in 3g/2g (mobile data is off) battery keeps discharging fast. i reverted Google play services to 4.4. i did extensive tests still no luck.

Please check the images with the post. I tried everything i can; don't know what else to try :(

I had z1 compact previously now i am very much worried why i upgraded. please help sort out the issue.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sveintore:
Try one day without sd card. And turn off android backup services.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andzhiks:
on airplane mode

Hi guys,

This what happened during night in airplane mode

Any ideas?

D5803 is one week old, after first full charge went for 3days, now last two charges last only a day.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brahmadath:
hi i did as you told ; disabled google transport and removed memory card and tried still no luck. :(

what i am surprised is even in ultra stamina mode there is battery drain which should never happen. right? or am i missing some point

please help guys
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andzhiks:
I had 30%drain during night in airplane and ultra stamina modes :eek:

My wife has xperia L and this kind of drain happens time after time not on regular basis.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnppc:
Write down your % charge, turn your phone off, then wait 30-60 minutes, then turn it back on.

If the battery drains while your phone is off then you have a defective product and you need to call SONY or whoever you bought the phone from.

See my previous post, I was having the exact same drainage. I think there may be some bad batteries out there.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brahmadath:
i noticed yesterday that the drain during idle in 2g is 1% in 7-8 hours which i am okay with.;

but with 3g in idle mode the drain is 3-4 % every hour (mobile data off) which is not normal as i have other gadgets with 3g sim which doesnt have this issue.

how to sort this out?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monsieur_debile:
Stamina mode

Even with 3G and data enabled, there is no loss at all at idle

During whole, 0% of loss

Magic saving battery life mode, that Stamina mode :good:
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andzhiks:
I think that is some kind of bug.

Now my phone works good and bat life is ok, after two days still 36% left

The same is with wife's L big drain happems rare. Maybe sony can explaon that?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toufikgilo:
i have probleme withe of sony xperia z3 compact draine very quikhly plz help me

Is there any solution to stop drainig batterie of sony xperia z3 compact
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Yes, if you find out what really drains your battery and check the settings. Based from those screens you've posted, it's impossible to tell.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toufikgilo:
the screeen use the most of batterie whyyyyy i 50% brithness what i can do with this

the screeen use the most of batterie whyyyyy i 50% brithness what i can do with this
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cschmitt:
Completely normal for screen to use the most battery.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArcherGT2:
Just wanted to day that I thought that I had a chappy battery case as I took every available option... Turns out it was just a bad signal. If I selected the gsm only option, the problem fixes by itself