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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] SalsaleroDominguez:
some weird battery usage results

After upgrading via OTA update to .270 firmware (on EE so this was my first lollipop), like many others I noticed that GooglePlay Services is using the most of the battery. I tried to fix that by repairing the phone via PC Companion.

The battery seems to behave better after this, as I left the phone last night with about 80% and it was on 78% this morning. I switched the stamina mode on, but deliberately left the location services and 3g on all night (4g is very weak signal in my flat so 3g works better there). Normally on kitkat that would be between 0-1% usage over night, but seeing that i just updated the phone this seemed ok.

Now here are some funny results:

Before I went to bed screen was the major battery drain at 14%, but in the morning it was googleplay services (I was updating apps before bed so that may have taken time to display properly)

WiFi usage is constant throughout the night, although I switched the WiFi off!!!!

There's a massive difference in estimated battery on the power management and power usage screens

I've included some screen shots to illustrate this funny behaviour.

Can anyone tell me if they also have this WiFi constantly ON issue? I know they removed location based WiFi which I never used anyway, but what's the point of the wifi toggle if it works all the time (though the battery consumption of 2% may indicate otherwise).

Another issue, did anyone else notice that getting a GPS lock is much harder on Lollipop? Is this some 'battery saving' signal power reduction I am not aware of?

I rebooted the phone 3-4 times after repairing the firmware, but will keep it on now for a few days to see if the battery usage stabilises and post the results here. I regret updating and if it wasn't for the adware infecting my phone again, I would still be on kitkat. I am aware the major issue is related to location settings and GP Services. I'll probably switch to GPS location only if the problem persists as it seems to prolong the battery a bit.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] MaxPayne3004:
Hello,

For the WIFI, have you verify in wifi advanced option "always dipsonible search"
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] SalsaleroDominguez:
Thanks, I switched the 'scanning always available' option off. It made Google location services scan for networks regardless of the WiFi setting. Hopefully that will improve the battery life, since it was the location services that were using the most of the battery.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] zlata:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/06/0...rom-july-says-sony-includes-xperia-m2-series/

so it begins
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Altherion:
Nice... Sooner than expected.

And it also might be pretty soon even to think about, but... Any chance on Macadamia??? :cool:
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] DomusX10:
I really hope this update to 5.1 is really something better. I'm increasingly glad that I don't update to 5.0.2.

I'm a Sony fan, my first smartphone was a Sony Ericsson and since then I have not left Xperia line.

But I must admit that this upgrading to Lollipop, at least for Z1 Compact, is something purely graphic. And nothing else.

Besides the increased consumption of battery is not a good thing and lose further camera quality is out of the question for me: I stay in kit kat 4.4.4.

So, I really hope that Sony texts well next firmware.

Certain characteristics make the Xperia chosen over others: namely multimedia. Losing audio, camera and video quality on an update for me is the worst thing that Sony can do.

Sony, please...okay the clean and light interface, very good about low memory consuption of UI.

But it's important to preserve and continuously improve the quality of the drivers for the multimedia part of the smartphone and not the other way: please fix the camera quality, fix low volume problem ... improves the equalizer of this phone through headphones ...I can say with sadness, that photos taken with my X10 mini pro are better quality than the Z1C ... and the sound of the X10 Mini Pro? Crystal clear that small speaker who finds himself ... and yet feels great.

How is this possible? Leaving aside the speaker (to be waterproof on Z1C which is a little lower), but how can a camera 20mpix face photo of inferior quality compared to a 5.1 mpix? I talk about pictures of the same resolution, in which those made with the Z1C are grainy, with imperfections, not very bright or overexposed ...

"best camera for best smartphone" ... I do not think so. And now with 5.0.2 even worse. I believe it is appropriate to review these drivers on next lollipop.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] zlata:
I guess 5.1 will come mid August.Before z1c there is z3,z2.They are rushing because bugs,battery drain and I hope fixing the camera software. I'm still on kitkat and I won't update again until xposed is stable.And for android m ...... I guess it will be like 5.0.2 . I don't want it!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] SalsaleroDominguez:
UPDATE: WiFi and battery life issues

Hi all, thanks to [MENTION=3250628]MaxPayne3004[/MENTION] I have solved my battery life issues. As mentioned in a previous post, I noticed that WiFi used the battery even when it was supposedly OFF with even stamina mode ON. Also, having Google PLay Services (location) as the major drain on the battery, this seemed to be the cause of my shorter battery life.
[MENTION=3250628]MaxPayne3004[/MENTION] pointed out that there's a new feature in Lollipop under Settings/Wi-Fi /Advanced/ called "Scanning always available" which makes your radio and WiFi work pretty much constantly - even when "switched off". I unchecked this and my battery life has improved massively.

Android OS is currently my biggest battery user, but I've just reset the phone yesterday so after updates that will settle down. Started the day with 77% battery left overnight, in the meantime had 3+ hours of screen time (4 hours since charge), use of maps, fiddling with GPS settings (yep, Lollipop factory reset messes up my compass and gps) and several app installations and updates and now 14 hours later (I get up very early ;) ) i'm on 26% which I think is perfectly reasonable.

Hope it works for others just as well it did for me - on that note: friend I told the fix today at lunchtime just reported that her M2 battery life has been much better since!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] grisu59964:
I don't think that Scanning always available is a new feature in Lollipop? It was there at least in Kitkat and as far as I remember in several other versions before.

But even though I switched of Wifi and Scanning always available, Wifi is always displayed as switched on in the battery statistics.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] ltcdata:
I had the same battery issues.

After turning off "Scanning always available" i now enjoy almost the same battery life as kitkat!!!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] o-l-a-v:
Question for all you 270 users: Have anyone of you tried it with ANT+ gear? Does it work as natively like the ant+ site states?

I've been a long time cm11/12/12.1 user, but I'm considering moving back to stock FW. Mainly because I'm tired of basic functions like WIFI, video playback and ant+ don't work/ is not working sufficiently. :)
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] grisu59964:
I use an ANT+ heart frequency belt and it works properly. As good as in previous versions.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Emperor.dk:
After 1 week on LP .270 I am downgrading to KK .157.

At first I was hoping that I would get used to the new UI and high power consumption, but...

SONY, you can do better than that!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Giargo:
Can you please post your impressions about it?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Emperor.dk:
Sure, sorry.

I'm in to the eye-candy stuff; Themes, nice looking UI, buttons that looks so good, you would like to tap them.

Opening a system app like messenger, contacts, phone etc... at first, you don't know if you opened the right app, they look all the same.

Everything is flat (no button-like bottons, and textfields look like any other part of an app).

Had an idear it could be themed back to KK-UI, but SONY made limits to that. Even payed themes looks like... well, if they were not there.

The lockscreen is nice enough with notifications. But it makes you feel too important and too wanted. There are just too menny of them all the time.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
I flashed a pre-rooted UK customized 14.5.A.0.270 R5D version of Lollipop and everything was fine until I realised there was a problem with charging it using the dock (original Sony). Essentially it gets to around 90%, the LED starts blinking, as does the battery icon and it won't charge any further. Having googled the problem I found a thread on the Sony Support site where many others had experienced the same problem after the update. Strangely, charging with the USB cable seems to work (but not always). Anyway, I restored to Kitkat and the problem went away. I also tried DE customized 14.5.A.0.270 R2D with the same result. It seems clear to me that there is a software fault with the Lollipop update (nothing to do with battery calibration though) that affects some phones, but not all. (I have searched through this thread and not found specific mention of problems when charging with the dock - apologies if I missed it.) Sony are apparently investigating the issue but for me, not being able to use the charging dock is a deal-breaker. I can't see much advantage to having Lollipop apart from a couple of nice graphic features and fortunately I am able to downgrade to Kitkat.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] camaro322hp:
Strange. I use both the dock and the USB cable to charge, and I've never seen this problem on 270 nor 242 (I made pre-rooted zips of the Customized US firmware). Charges full to 100% every time. Did you do a full wipe before flashing?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] HooLIMAN87:
I don't use original Sony dock, but for me charging with dock is working as it should. I'm on Nordic Combined 14.5.A.0.270 and did a factory reset when it came out just to be sure for unexpected behavior.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
Yes, I did a factory reset / clean flash in both cases. I can't see there would be any difference between the Nordic Combined 14.5.A.0.270 and the 14.5.A.0.270's that I tried so perhaps there is a difference in the hardware of different production series of the phone and how it works with the update. I bought my phone on Amazon and it came from Germany. In any case, I am not alone in experiencing this bug - there is a long thread about it on the global Sony support site.

Another possibility is that one of the apps I have installed is causing a problem. I guess I should try a clean flash / factory reset and then see what happens before I install any apps from the backup.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] HooLIMAN87:
It should not make any difference between these firmwares, i just stated on which i am. :) I heard some people had this bug on earlier lollipop version, but who knows why. I know it's a bit a pain to reset everything, but you could try it and don't install apps to be sure they are not the problem. I forgot to mention that my phone is not rooted..
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] reubenbarca1998:
OTA Updates

I dont know why,

but I just dont get any OTA's if I use flashtool and flash ftf's directly.

Can someone help.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
This afternoon I did a clean flash with factory reset and installed no apps at all. Started blinking at 93%. Did a safe mode boot. Same result.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] eumanoid:
maybe it's your battery. you may need to replace it.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] the.igorr:
Same blinking led at 80-90% here. And I don't think it's a battery issue because blinking isn't happening while charging via USB port. I has something to do with magnetic charging port.

Is there any known solution to this mess? I really liked lollipop...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Saylin:
No problem with my chinese magnetic charger :) :) :)
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] grisu59964:
Do you only have problems when you use the Sony dock? Have you tried other magnetic cables like magnector etc.?

I have not experienced loading problems with my magnector cable or with the USB connector.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] the.igorr:
I've tried both (cable and dock) and none of them are branded by Sony.

I've noticed one more thing today: when led started to blink, disconnecting phone for a moment resumes charging to 100%.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
Definitely not a hardware / battery problem. If you restore to kitkat the problem goes away.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] the.igorr:
I'm still wondering why it's so uncommon. Most of lollipop user isn't facing this issue.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
Yes, it's a mystery but not so uncommon in fact if you check out 'lollipop charging bug' on the Sony support forum on their global site. Personally I think it must be something to do with varying parts in different production series, but who knows.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] the.igorr:
So for now there are two options for me: lollipop + USB charging or downgrade to kitkat.

I'm hoping that Sony will solve this mess in 5.1.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
Apparently there's an OTA udate which fixes the problem. But I have no more information than what a user reported on the sony forum 'lollipop charging bug?' thread.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rjkmadison:
Crash errors

After 96 hours since boot, I tried to take a picture and got this (see screenshot). I first pushed/held the camera button with lock screen up and the camera launched with no error. Then, changed my mind and unlocked to get to manual settings and this happened. A launch of camera again produced no error and I took the picture. Then, I wanted to crop the picture, but got "Photos has unfortunately stopped."

I rebooted my phone.

This is a Z1c that got an erase/repair install of 242 and I setup up everything from scratch. It then got the 270 update OTA.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] the.igorr:
So there's something newer than .270 firmware that is charging-bug free?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] lebooo:
Has this happened to you more than once? I get the "camera not available" error too often on KK. And it is usually (but not always) after the phone has been on for a few days.

Does this happen to anyone else on sony's lollipop? I was hoping that sony fixed it...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rjkmadison:
I had never seen "camera not available" on my phone before this morning. I have owned it since November last year.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Mirhawk:
I got the error once on Kitkat, but it seems to be fixed on Lollipop now, since I haven't got it after the update.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] nagusia:
I think it was probably the .270 firmware and in any case, the poster reports that having let the battery discharge to 70% on recharging it won't get past 88%. That mirrors my experience. So, the mystery charging bug story continues ....
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Sichroteph:
Can you try when it occurs if you can still play YouTube videos? I had this combo error from times to times

Envoyé de mon D5803 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rjkmadison:
I will try, if it happens again. Do you mean playing them in Chrome or the YouTube app?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Sichroteph:
On the YouTube app. Just had this bug yesterday again, happens every week or so.

Envoyé de mon D5803 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
14.5.A.0.283 is released for austria and germany. I am downloading the german version, I will share info as soon as I flash it
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] DomusX10:
Thanks ;)

...let we know if Sony did a GREAT bugfix or not, in the second case LP remaining a garbage full ROM....

I hope the first :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] ltcdata:
thanks!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] LukeHorizon:
That is a branded version from Telekom/T mobile!

Gesendet von meinem D5503 mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Yes it is. I flashed it already. The first thing I notice is, It is getting hot.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Here is the first screenshot.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Here are two night shots. First is on auto Mode the second is manual with auto ISO at 20,7 mpixels. Seems like the night shots are still awfull :(
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] awojtas:
Your lens is quite dirty. Check out the halo around the lights. Try clean it with lens cleaner (like you can get from an optometrist for glasses) and a microfibre cloth.

This will improve the contrast of images.

I find even with a case - and therefore a more recessed lens - it can get fingerprints on it easily.

The other option is that you may have a plastic back and corresponding poor quality outer lens protector. When I changed the back of mine to the Japanese back I noticed an improvement both in daytime and nighttime photos. Daytime photos had sharper corners, nighttime photos had less "glow" around bright lights such as in your photo.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] grisu59964:
Well, here we are again.

View attachment 3366732

After some weeks with a nicely working system, the system now eats up my RAM again.

As I am currently not at home, I cannot fix it with a full wipe. I assume there is still no solution for this problem?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Current ram consumtion.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] grisu59964:
It was like that after the .270 update. I'm curious if it gets better with .283. But I don't think so. Android 5.1 will fix it. But until then, I still hope that someone finds a workaround.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] maninder singh bali:
can we flash the german firmware to the unbranded xperia z1 compact? i m using generic .270 firmware. should i wait for the next update or should i flash the .283 update?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Yes you can. But the ftf should be prepared carefully otherwise it shows error during the flashing process. I saw a topic in xperiablog describing, I am sure you can find one also in the xda Forums.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] sinple:
I only get this if I accidentally open the default camera application and another 3rd party camera application. If purely just 1 camera app, no such error. Already much better than kk
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rjkmadison:
Data roaming does not work

I was just out and about in an area with no native T-Mobile (US) service. I was roaming on ATT&T and a local provider (Bug Tussel - yes, funny name). Though my phone was set for "National Roaming", but wouldn't enable date with error "No data connection. Data roaming is not enabled."

When I switched my phone to "International Roaming", I was able to use data without error.

(Firmware customization is 1279-6214 on build 270 with T-Mobile postpaid service.)
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] balanced_emotions:
Why does Sony publish updates only for branded ones?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] patoberli:
Maybe there is a bug in the "branded extensions"?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] skyhirules:
They should inform us if .283 is only a carrier based update, so we don't wait in vain.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] jayanabelle:
hello everybody,

Have you any informations about lolipop for people who live in Belgium?? For my Z1 compact nothing yet...........and we are in the end of june....

Thanks in advance and sorry for my english
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] patoberli:
Jayana, try to contact Sony directly if you have an unbranded phone, they respond fairly fast on Facebook and Twitter, but also e-mail works fine.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Olivier V:
I'm in Belgium as well. The lollipop update is done with your computer if you're still on kitkat. Try it with the pc companion software sony provides.

Sent from my Z1 Compact
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] jayanabelle:
thanks very much for yours answers but i have tried via pc compagnion and nothing and i called sony belgium and they said i must waiting

I think it's very strange since april............

But my phone works great but i would like to transfert to SD card.................
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] rjkmadison:
It appears that .283 may be a carrier only update. I looked at a couple of other Z series and it looks like the same carriers got a version bump over the rest.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] benitorios:
Is anyone else experiencing Wi-Fi connection drops on .270? My Z1C loses connection all the time. It looks as if the erstwhile option of "avoiding poor Internet connections " is now permanently on. Now, the phone keeps switching back and forth between SSID.

I've tried changing the settings (Wi-Fi on during sleep, auto Up,etc.) but nothing seems to fix it.

Any known solution? Thanks!
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] SpyrusTheGreat:
I have the .270 installed when it came out, but today after i charged the phone to 100% it stays stack at 100% for about 6 hours.

Edit: fixed after reboot
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] eldarkh98:
OMG, finally got it! After such a long time it just came. Will update my z1c in a few weeks!?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] penicks:
have fun with an update that downgrades your phone considerably
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Olivier V:
And how exactly is your phone downgraded? I don't experience any weird behavior and battery life seems ok.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] eldarkh98:
I read a lot about these problems. Hope everything will be fine after some days or maybe a week, after all I could downgrade back to kitkat. Correct me if I'm wrong
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] camaro322hp:
Agreed. I've been on 242/270 for a few weeks now and I have no issues with it. Same or better battery life compared to KK.

Sent from my D5503
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] DomusX10:
So,

- you say that camera is better o equal to KK? Same for video recording?

- App to SD works?

- After reboot, disabled apps are still disabled?

- Battery drain is better o equal to KK? Really?

- Same system responses, i.e opening apps like contacts, messaging...is fast like KK? O feel more heavy?

- google play service battery drain is normal? Because on LP an 80% of user notice Play service battery drain increment...

- stamina mode works correctly?

Please, confirm these things...because some users having troubles with these things on LP....thanks.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Redstarr1:
- Can't say anything about camera, I have unlocked bootloader. The camera is serviceable but it will never replace a proper camera. But I thought the same on stock JB with locked BL.

- App to SD: No. But why? You can use most of your internal storage for apps. I remember my Xperia S only had 2GB available for apps even though it had 32GB of internal storage. I have a LOT of apps and still have GB's to spare. Maybe you should only install games you play often.

- Yeah battery is quite the same. Except for when a service hangs, that happens sometimes and is more related to that app/service.

- System is just as fast or faster. Some users report very big system memory usage but I have never witnessed any of that, always below 500MB. I have some hickups once in a while when unlocking from sleep, but no memory problems.

- Google Play has drained a lot of my battery once. But not systematic, could have been a bug that's been updated in GPS. GPS has also drained a lot on my Nexus 7 at times. It's not related to Sony.

- Don't use stamina, it sucks and defeats the point of a smartphone.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Makiavell:
Lollipop is a totally waste of time! I've tested all compilations (.242/.270/.283) and in all of them the same crap: delay on opening apps like dialer, phonebook, settings... fast battery draining compared to KK, camera is terrible lagging and a long list. I'm stay on KK until lollipop 5.1 is released for our device cuz for me, KK is awesome better.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] aakash43:
Sony's camera is pathetic whether lollipop or kk.

For me this function is of no use

battery drain a little bit more but i still get 5hr and 30 min of screen on time.

this is the only thing in which i can agree with you, response time is very high 2-5 sec after i activate and app but not always.

never for me even on first day

stamina mode not working but i have not seen much a difference even after switching on kk.