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[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NYC_ROCK:
I am seeing the same performance as you. Honestly, at the end of the day I still think the battery life is pretty solid, but not up to the legendary levels others are seeing.

Some guy said he left his phone sitting there overnight and saw a 1% drop? That is insane.

As an aside, how are you showing the Android L on screen buttons?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boojay:
Then good luck.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
Factory reset is the lazy answer and should only be a last resort, especially when the device had only been active for a few days.

That would be like telling someone to format their computer every time it slows down a little.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boojay:
A factory reset at the very start is the best time to do it, rather than wait weeks, months from now when it would really be cumbersome, but anyway, you do whatever you think will help. I already tried offering help and you were pretty rude about it so I'm done.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
You're kidding, right? Two days out of the box, I have every account set up, all of my music downloaded, all of my apps set up, and my interface tweaked to be the way I want it. It's not any easier now than it will be three months from now. There's also the fact that the device shouldn't run this way out of the box.

Whenever there's a battery thread or a person asking for help on this forum because they have a weird drain, there are two predictable responses that will be offered almost immediately:

Turn everything off - Yes, if you toggle everything off, you'll get good battery life, but then why even have a smartphone? Most modern smartphones are capable of getting decent battery life with all radios on all the time. This is not a solution.

Factory reset - I work in I.T. If I told someone to wipe their computer every time they reported an issue, I'd be out of a job. That should be an absolute last resort. I could see it on a phone that you'd been using for months that suddenly had battery issues and you couldn't figure out what the cause was, but a phone that has been set up less than a week? Please.

These kind of offered solutions aren't helpful, yet they're always the first ones offered. It has been this way since I took it out of the box on day one. So, it either it doesn't like one of the apps I installed from the get go, or it has another issue, or is defective. I mainly posted this thread to see if others were having my experience and a few have confirmed that they are.

So, I'm sorry if you're butt hurt, but I certainly wasn't trying to be rude. I was just disregarding a solution that I predicted someone would offer that is not an option at this point (and really shouldn't be). Anyway, thanks for trying, I guess. Just please be aware that if someone comes here looking for help, they're doing so because they don't WANT to wipe their phone or turn off all of its features. They're looking for an alternative solution. Even newbies know enough to wipe their phone when things aren't working right and it's the last thing they want to hear if they ask for assistance.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CollinsJ:
Actually without having the phone in hand there is little anyone can do to tell you what is draining the battery, the suggestions given are typical of tech support help if standard things don't work. So you can either take those suggestions or do more research since you have the phone in hand and find the problem. Based on the information given there really is no magic answer to help you.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nopain9nogain:
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one has this draining problem... My Z2 lost 2% after 10 hours of idle but this Z3C lost like 15% after 6 hours... Updated to Lollipop and battery still drain the same. I tried to turn the phone off wait for 10 hours and turn the phone on and see that the battery doesn't drain at all so this should be software problem not the battery itself.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdyr08:
I solved my battery drain

Hey guys,

I absolutely fixed my battery drain!!. After 6 months of 'putting up with' 16 to 20 hours of battery time, I just accepted that maybe that was all that the phone was good for. Even though I recall getting easily 2 days battery when I first bought the phone. This is how I got mine back.

I totally stumbled across this fix...Please try it yourselves and report back...

I went camping on the weekend to a remote location. Didn't have cell reception. Turned the data connection off, so that I could play some tunes through a bluetooth speaker. Forgot to turn the phone off overnight, resulting in a COMPLETELY drained battery. Like, drained to the point where I couldn't turn the phone back on. When I got back to civilization, I put the phone on charge. Noticed that the RED notification light was on, indicating the battery was completely dead.

I allowed it to charge to 100% using a 2A battery charger whilst the phone was off.

The result was refreshed battery. I am completely astounded, and can't believe it's back to the SONY claimed "2-day Battery Life".

I have already reported on this thread earlier about getting 3 to 4% battery drain per hour...Well last night, I left it on the night stand overnight, and lost only 2% - SO I KNOW IT'S A FIX. See attached proof.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] david_diesel:
Hey!

Thanks for this excellent update!

What do you suggest we do then?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luizlee86:
Drain the battery to 0%, then recharge it to 100%?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sdyr08:
Yes, drain the **** out of the battery as long and as slowly as you can (i.e. no data connection).

You'll know you've done it when the red notification light only turns on when you start charging it from 0%, and it won't turn on.

Then, connect to a 2A charger whilst off, and charge all the way to 100%..

And report back.

Mine is still going strong after 4 days. I am confident I've fixed/reset my battery back to the way it was supposed to be (i.e. 2 day+ battery life).
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boojay:
I'm actually having trouble completely draining my battery. I've tried letting it run until it shuts down, but there's still a bit of juice left for me to power it back on and see the drained battery graphic before it shuts off again.

Is there another way to ensure that it totally empties short of powering it on over and over again until it becomes unresponsive?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trandaa:
Just starting it until the drained battery graphics dissappear and just the red led is blinking when starting

Sent from my D5803 aka Xperia Z3 Compact
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrkobayashi:
Xperia theme causing battery drain

FWIW I think I fixed my battery drain. The culprit was MixaDJ's theme downloaded here on XDA. Uninstalled and everything seems back to normal.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankie_p:
Hi,

I'm trying to decide if I will get the Z3 or Z2 or something else, but the main motivator is battery life. I am a bit scared due to the sudden shattered glass issue affecting the Z3 and Z3c.

Anyway, you can use Tasker to change the network type or even turn it off. I did find an app that does the trick so I didn't need to play around with Tasker. The app name is: Intelli3G play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voidvapps.intelli3g&hl=en
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nopain9nogain:
Tried your method but I still have my battery drain problem.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
I've been checking my "running apps" list under the apps menu within settings recently and I'm finding a number of apps that run constantly in the background for various reasons. As I find the ones that don't need to be running, I kill them. I just started this today, so it will be a day or so before I can report back with results. Give it a shot as well!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nopain9nogain:
It is really funny that we customers paid $500 for the phone and now we have to figure it out the way to fix the problem ourselves...
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amplifiction:
I just bought my Z3C yesterday, fully charged it and then starting using it. It went from 100 to 0% in about 21 hours. During that time a SIM card was inserted only during the last couple of hours, but I did use the phone fairly often. The attached thumbnails show the details.

I don't know if I have an idle drain problem, but I did expect more from this battery based on reviews and Sony's claims, like many others here.

Is this normal or is my battery faulty? While some here report similar numbers, others seems to get a lot more out of their batteries.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
When I first got the phone, the battery life was as advertised. I could go two full days with stamina mode enabled. As I've downloaded more apps and customized nearly every feature of the phone to no longer resemble the stock sony software, I noticed that the 2 day battery life started to erode. The phone never left me stranded at the end of day one, but it was not going to make it through day 2 without a charge. Plus, I also noticed that my battery percentage would drop from 100 to 99 almost immediately after waking up the phone. I checked all the apps that might be causing the battery drain, but couldn't find the culprit. I finally just gave up, assuming I'd have to factory reset my phone to get the old battery life back. But when I woke up today and checked the battery. The charge showed 100%, but the stamina graph said it would only last 1 day & 5 hours. That was scary to me because it usually states nearly 2 full days when the phone is fully charged. It hasn't lasted that long recently, but I grew very concerned. I didn't really touch the phone for about 4 hours and then checked the battery again. It still showed 100% (which NEVER happens anymore), and the stamina mode still showed 1 day & 5 hours of battery life remaining. After 6 hours (and some moderate usage) the battery percentage has dropped to 94% and stamina mode shows 1 day & 3 hours of battery life remaining. Mathematically, this makes no sense. How could I only lose 2 hours of battery after 6 hours?

At this point, I'm just happy. Even if Stamina mode is glitching right now, it's the best battery life I've seen since my first week with this phone. I'm going to keep it this way and not restart the phone unless I absolutely have to!

***UPDATE***

My phone has now been off the charger for nearly 24 hours with usage somewhere between light and moderate. The battery life is at 77% and stamina mode somehow is back to showing 1 day & 5 hours of battery life remaining. I don't know what's causing this glitch, but i'm TOTALLY okay with it! ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qaqarox:
Poor battery life from day 1

Hi,

I'm running 5.0.2 on my Z3C (updated through an OTA updated). I seem to have mediocre battery life from the day I purchased the phone, about two weeks ago. On the whole, I am getting around 1.5 days of battery life with regular usage - Whatsapp, browsing, GMail and voice calling mainly. I have a screen-on time of around 4 hours, before the battery reaches 15%.

No particular apps are showing up in the battery usage charts. The biggest battery consumer is "Android OS" at 18%, followed by Google Play services at 15%. Screen is in-fact way below the list at 12%. Strangely, hangouts (which I never use) is showing up at 8%.

Guessing that there must be a misbehaving app or two, I did a complete factory reset. However, the battery usage remained the same.

Are there any particular Sony services / apps which are known to drain battery? Any ideas on how I can track this down would be very helpful.

Now, I'm a bit handicapped in the kinds of tools which I can use. My phone's USB port is kaput [water damaged], due to which I can't root or use PC based methods of identifying battery drain. I'm happy to do a factory reset any number of times however!

Any thoughts / ideas are welcome!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PuffDaddy_d:
If your phone is only 2 weeks old, you should easily be able to get it fixed under warranty for the water damage. As for you battery life, nearly 2 days is typical as advertised by Sony. I too wonder which apps have the tendency to misbehave, but stamina mode seems to do a decent job of keeping them in check so that we don't have to.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nopain9nogain:
Hey guys, I think I addressed the problem. While I use my Z3c I've noticed that my reception was not always really good and it recently jumped from 4 bars to none and jumped back to 1 bar then kept jumping around. I've got my Z2 back from sony service and I used my Z2 immediately and left my z3c without any sim card. Then guess what? My phone some how just loses only 1% in 8 hours at idle while it used to lose like 15% or more in 8 hours. I guess bad reception keep the phone away from deep sleep to constantly seeking signal.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi guys,

1) I'm not associated with the author but anyhow I recommend that you can try UU AppPurifier to restrict the third-party apps to not run in background all the time and you'll be back with battery friendly phone. What this app does is wrap your app (ie. Facebook, games, etc) in a 'sandbox' like thing and disable autorun and background service to your liking, in order to restrict the app to function only when it's open in foreground. At least it works a charm for me and my battery life can last longer than TWO days of moderate usage. Quite cool.

UU AppPurifier: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-uu-apppurifier-t3071441

2) Moreover, install "CPU Deep Sleep Info Widget" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cmweb.deepsleep&hl=en) and place the widget on your "desktop" (phone) and the higher percentage pretty much sums up your deep sleep performance ie. the higher the better, I've got >85% that's awesome. Deep sleep means the cpu process is kept to minimum on screen off.

3) Again I'm not sure if it helps, I've also installed and applied GServiceFix (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.gservicefix&hl=en) after reading so many positive feedback.

Give them a try and let me know if it works for you. Hope it helps!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pajo100:
Re battery

Left my Z3 in standby since Friday and it lost 14% of battery ,nothing on except signal.

Sometimes get a message that charger is not putting enough power in to battery to maintain!!

This has only happened since upgrading to Lollipop.:confused:

The main culprit for losing so much battery is normally if you have mobile data enabled all the time so switch it off when not using it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldoc2307:
Does anyone else has smart connect enabled, with an event for connecting the charger? If so could you please post its details and settings (conditions, start actions and end actions) and any information you have that may be related to a possible drain? I think it makes my battery last less when enabled.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aldoc2307:
By the way these are my own settings ( xperia z3 compact running lollipop 5.0.2 no root)
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyeagley:
My Battery

I bought this phone due to the reviews of what a great phone, camera and battery life, well the battery life stinks. I had a Blackberry Z30 before buying this phone and the battery life was awesome on that one. I have disabled everything possible and it still doesn't make a difference. I like the phone overall but battery life sucks, have to make sure I take the charger with me everywhere I go. I'm not even on my phone that much and haven't downloaded very many apps, so I just don understand why?????

Diane
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tracy1988:
I'm in the same boat with you here. Battery drains so fast when I use the camera or phone app. Doesn't matter it's on Sony stock ROM 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1 or debloated ROMs from moly82. I have my phone wifi off in sleep mode, data off permanently, location off, sync off, stamina on, heavily debloated... I disable everything to the point that I feel it's not even a smartphone anymore, and yet the battery still drains fast when using phone or camera app. It also drains fast in sleep mode if I have data on. Some people assumes that if you have weak cell signal, battery will drain. What about I have full bars with LTE off and the battery still drains? lol

This phone is just like every other Sonny phones, I used to have the ZL and ZR - they suck. Sony drivers/softwares are horrible. Some Samsung phone uses the same Sony lens but takes much better pictures, go figure. Let's pretend Sony didn't pay those tech sites for positive reviews and all the hypes and fanboyism didn't exist.... Anyway I feel being such a fool after paying for a 3rd Sony phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Norup58:
Highly recommend you visit this link: http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884

Just follow the OP's guide as closely as you can (post #3 & 4) - I only installed Greenify, Amplify & BBS and I omitted Power Nap as I use Sony's Stamina mod.

If you cant find some of his suggestions/items then thats because you dont have them, so no worry.

Once you have completed the guide make a log/dump (at the bottom of post #4) and the experts/OP will view it and assist you where necessary.

I am also using [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION]'s debloat ROM (modified to my liking but highly recommended) and after doing above I have ZERO battery drain over night - you can check my log/dump on the site.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tracy1988:
Thank you. Yea I tried Greenify and Amplify. I'm also on molly82 debloated ROM with nothing else installed. My phone is practically a dummy phone. I shut off everything except the phone lol and display brightness on manual is always less than 30%. It's the only way so that battery can last for 2-3 days with light usage. But the phone and camera apps still use way too much energy. The battery would go from 100% to 10% for about 4 hours of talk time. The camera battery drain is even worse. I guess I'll have to make a log dump as you suggested and ask for help but I have very little hope.

Ughh... I can't even sell this junk to friends because its display is terrible with ugly visible touch grids all over the screen. Damn I was so freaking stupid paying $520 for this crap and the troubles along with it. Someone plz just shoot me.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sadman Khan:
Not like everyone has the same issues. I don't even use stamina mode and i lose 0% overnight. With wifi/data off though. If wifi is on, i lose around 4%. With stamina i lose even less. There might be an issue in your phone or software. My battery life's not bad at all. I usually get around 5.5 to 6 hours of screen time and that is with heavy usage (Video Calls and gaming too). I switch between 3G and wifi and my data/wifi is usually on unless i sleep for like 7 hours.

Stock 5.1.1.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MY12345MY:
Battery drain AT system idle

i'm using sony xperia Z3 I also have the same issue.In overnight i lose 1-2% in system idle without autosync,location,wifi,data,apps. Why the heck is that? and when in aiplane mode it drain my battery like HELL! pls help!
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nyt_Wolf:
Out of curiosity which stock 5.1.1 firmware are you using (region)?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aakm:
Solved Battery drain for Me

I was also suffering from the same battery drain issue, but after doing a lot of research on this forum, few tricks mentioned here worked for me.

It had been 6 days I bought the phone, so was very disappointed by battery life, did upgrade from PC to Lollipop, but still the problem persisted and even worse. So I decided to go back to Kitkat and followed steps here: http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/general/list-stock-firmwares-d5803-d5833-t2906706

After downgrade the battery got somewhat better not satisfactory, so I followed the trick of complete drain upto 0% and charge to 100% (switchded off) after reading posts: http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/help/battery-drain-especially-idle-t2904714/post59797105#post59797105 by Sydr08 #182

and cache clearing trick after 0% to 100% charge http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/general/clearing-phone-cache-discharge-recharge-t3207737

After doing 100% charge I turned ON with vol+ pressed but phone did not respond (I guessed that it didn't worked, so switched ON normally) but after booting I found few settings to be reset so I guess it worked :)

So finally this trick seems to work for me, now the drain has slowed down to a lot extent. I have used phone regularly (calls, games, whatsapp, Music etc), the battery has dropped to 76% in around 8 hrs ( without stamina mode :) ) just expecting it to last for two days, and more than that with satmina mode.

Firmware: .77 (India)

Model: D5833
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
My job is tech support. When someone reports an issue, I do not tell them to turn everything off or wipe their device, so I'm going to go ahead and call BS on that. I do tell them to restart the device as a first troubleshooting step, but yeah...not a wipe or "turn off all the features". When someone has an issue that we absolutely can't solve and nothing else works, then we back up their data and wipe. But that's a last resort.

I think people misunderstood the purpose of this thread. I wasn't looking for someone to solve my battery issues. I was asking if anyone else was experiencing what I'm experiencing as a troubleshooting step in my own diagnostic process. I have owned dozens of Android phones over the last few years and I'm quite versed on how to troubleshoot most of my own issues. But my battery stats were telling me nothing and I'm not rooted, so I can't use Gsam to look for what may be the cause. I only posted battery screenshots because someone asked. If there was an easy answer, I would have already found it.

Anyway, I'm not bashing the people who are trying to help here, I was just putting up my hand and saying "whoa whoa whoa! Wiping isn't an option at this stage". And really, if I wiped the phone and it did magically fix it, I'd never know what the cause was and if it returned after installing everything again, I'd be back to square one, minus a few hours of my life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CollinsJ:
You didn't get just answers of wiping. Perhaps you should read some of the suggestions and do some of that 'tech support' you say you do for a living on your phone. Being an ass to people here won't get you help. You didn't bring this up as are others having this issue, you brought it up as if you wanted people to resolve it for you.

That aside we'll start again. You will need to go through the battery stats and see what might be using your battery, the built in stuff may not get you the details you want so you'll probably need to find another app to help, unfortunately many of them will require root so the best way to troubleshoot it without root would be to turn off apps a few at a time till you can narrow down the problem. Now as with all electronics sometimes you may need to do a factory reset to clear some inner settings that for some reason aren't showing in the gui and are incorrect. Beyond that without the device in hand for a few days it would be hard to narrow down the problem as others have not posted any issues here that were not resolved with a factory reset.