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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] chilllkroete:
I have different experiences then some of you guys.

I`m on the .128 Build, with root and XPosed installed. With XPosed I`ve installed AppOpsXPosed and disabled some of the permissions, that Google Play Services had (like auto-start, Keep awake). With this and stamina-mode enabled I`m happy with the results.

edit: Sorry, overread, that you can`t use stamina-mode for reasons. For a better comparison, I`ll disable stamina mode for a few days.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] deboopi2:
I can tell you're frustrated and I feel sorry for you when those problems start appearing.

I'm for the last couple of days on my Xperia Z1 compact and after that I'l start using the Xperia Z3C.

So what I tell you is not about the Z3C.

But right after upgrading to lillipop my Z1C had a lot of battery drain but after upgrading to the last 5.02 version (the bugfix version) and after a couple of charges (3 or 4) the battery life started behaving and now I'm back where I was before (running on kitkat) and this is recharging every 1,5 to 2 days.

As far as I know you have to wait a couple of charges before you can tell if you have a battery drainage problem.

I will not say there are no problems but waiting for a couple of battery charges helped out already a lot of people.

I agree with you that it should be stated more clearly that those charges are absolutely necessary and those problems should not appear after an upgrade but sadly that's the way it is right now.

Switching to apple might be a solution but remember the first release of iOS 7 and iOS 8 there were lots of complaints about battery life, so problems also exist at the apple phones, make sure you do not switch to encounter the same problems on another make and type of cell phone.

regards
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] iosmightreallybebetter:
already had over 15 charges, ie every day since the LP update...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] deboopi2:
Did you do a clean install or an upgrade?

I heard lots of complaints with people doing an upgrade on the z1c, doing a clean install also avoids a lot of problems, I know it is ridiculous if this the way to go.

I'm only repeating other people's comments trying to help you out on this battery problem.

Regards
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
Thanks for taking the time to answer :).

I already did 2 clean install and got over 10 charges already :/. Dunno what might cause that :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] deboopi2:
Are there any apps running in the background eating your battery?

If you look ay the battery stats, which app is consuming the most energy?

Some people can tell you what to do if they know what app is causing the problem.

Did you do a basic installation, only the included apps, no updates, no new apps and how is the drainage then?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
Nope no apps is showing consumption off the roof :(. I went to bed (around midnight) at 94%, wake up at 6h45 at 90% and right now (10h36AM) I'm at 70% with few reddit and 2 episodes of futurama during my commute.

Battery stats:

Android exploitation system at 25%

Email at 25%

Facebook messenger at 14% (I didn't even get or answer anything)

Chrome at 7%

Google play service at 5%

Exchange at 3%

Screen at 3% (SoT 1h39)

Email and facebook messenger are allowed to run under stamina (other exceptions are sms messenger and timely).

It's quite strange :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] deboopi2:
Sorry but now I'm out of answers, hope somebody else will read this and be able to help you out.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Rizera:
I am just going to copy and paste a post from another thread in here, because the problem seems to be exactly the same:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
Thanks I already starred it but some visibility might be good :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] iosmightreallybebetter:
just an update...if a clean install is needed really then i plan to dedicate this time to the iphone... 5 years of android is just too much hassle...

im sure very few apple users even know forums like this exist...which is utopia and how it should be for consumer tech.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] borda01:
Anyone can help me with this drain:

Prerooted 1.28

[IMG="drain"]http://i.imgur.com/ObK18DP.png[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
If it is mostly Google Contacts that is using your battery, you could stop them syncing.

Go into Settings > Accounts > Google: then select your account and control what is syncing
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
Count me as another lollipop user with absurd battery usage figures. Before I recharged the battery last time, the screen allegedly accounted for 5% of the battery drain, yet my SOT was over 7 hours. That is clearly wrong, confirmed by installing GSam, which has totally different (and more believable) usage stats that had my screen responsible for about 40% of the battery usage.

Top of the battery list in lollipop's stats (by a long shot) is usually Google Services, Play Services or Android OS, yet when you look at their detailed stats they account for only, say, 10 minutes of wake time and GSam is not identifying any rogue wake locks. Additionally, my overall battery life is as good or slightly better than KitKat, which suggests there's nothing rogue about any of these apps/services.

Twice now I've installed Lollipop from PC Companion, rebooted, then done a factory reset, so I think I can rule out an OS glitch. I also noticed this happening before I'd even installed any apps, so this has to be a bug of some kind.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] issak42:
What am I doing wrong? My dads Z3 compact lasts 2 days, I barely get to the evening. Both on Lollipop.

All screenshots are from my phone

I use bluetooth audio + gps 45 minutes a day, other use included bluetooth music, some browsing, reddit, rss, emails, some calls. Nothing major, but obviously too much. Which app to use to really tell me whats hogging the battery? I keep getting 'Android system' so it must be something there.

I keep all functions (bt, wifi, gps) on all the time (except LTE, i keep it off), but so does my dad, and his battery lasts much longer, with more phone calls and just as many emails, and bluetooth in the car.

Please help :( I want 30h+ battery life...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] deboopi2:
Of course you may switch to apple.

Maybe it will be a better experience.

If you don't use any custom rom or other changes to the system it may be ok, if you want to make system changes it will prove to be a lot harder to achieve this since from iOS 8.1.3 onwards there's no jailbreak, so you cannot customize these roms.

But why should you care if you do not need to use customizations.

But be aware Apple's iOS isn't flawless, there were lots of complaints from iOS 8.0 up to 8.1.3, things seems to be stabilized since version 8.2.

But I have some friends already using an iPhone since version 6 of iOS and they too had complaints when upgrading to version 7 and even more when upgrading to version 8, among those complaints are battery drainage and other problems as we encounter them with Android's upgrades.

So if you want to switch, go ahead but be aware of the fact that you can encounter problems with Apple's iOS.

Maybe at that time you wish you never made the switch from Android to IOS
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pakjebakmeel:
Have you got the 'mobile radio active' for long periods of time? If so, are you and your dad on the same provider?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] issak42:
So after turning on stamina mode I managed to get it to over 24 hours with 8% to spare. I checked the radio, see screenshots if anything is useful please.

Yes, I'm on the same provider as my dad, but we are usually in different areas with (probably) different coverage. I know signal is quite poor at my work, but it's very good at home, maybe that drains my battery at work.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mr72:
Yes, it can do that.

---------- Post added at 09:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:59 PM ----------

Yesterday I put my 5.0.2 Z3c on the cradle after 18 hours of normal use including some web surfing, couple of short phone calls, some texts, some Twitter, etc., and it had 81% battery remaining. I thought that was stellar. Before that I was getting down to about 50-60% end of the day for the first week I had the phone, but uninstalling the Facebook app seems to have dramatically improved battery life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sumon511:
what about getting battery drained 1-1.5 % per hour without any sim inserted!!! :eek: ....yes you right.thats whats happening with my phone after lollipop.:rolleyes:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] smartuser8:
Hello guys, I made a very simple test for you. Everybody can do it, compare, and post their results here.

- I put my Z3C in

airplane mode

(because every Z3C are not the same with network, if search good network etc...) and enable WiFi

- I let my Z3C playing a long YouTube video with auto brightness

DISABLED

(display settings)

- I put the brightness at

maximum

(in the notification bar) for more visible battery drain

- I MUTE the volume (0%), because I want to keep it near me without sound when I do somesing esle

- And I launch a chronometer/timer/stopwatch (launch it with an other phone or with your watch or find it in google, their is website versions ;) )

My results:

LOLLIPOP 23.1.A.1.28

(auto brightness OFF / brightness 100% / volume 0% / start chronometer when the video start / put YouTube on landscape/full screen mode)

Exemple of chronometer website > http://online-stopwatch.chronme.com/

After...

10m >>> -3+%

20m >>> -7%

30m >>> -10%

1h >>> -20%

So, with full screen YouTube video with no auto brightness at 100% and no sound, my Z3C loses a little more than 3% every 10m and 20% every hour.

5x20%=100% /// My Z3C is good for 5H full brightness and full screen YouTube video.

What about your Z3C :cyclops: ?

I can't really tell you if it's normal or not / good or not... but if everybody do that, even 10 minutes, we will know.

Peace!

EDIT: If you want to do this test and share it here, don't forgot the 100% brightness with auto disabled.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] fratzika:
I`m back to kitkat, on lollipop after 1 day of use and arount 3:30h SOT i had to charge the little one, now on kitkat my battery is back, i`m getting around 2 days of use and being at the 3rd charge i got:

day 1: 5h SOT and 38% remaining when i charged it

day 2: 7:40h SOT with 9% remaining

Settings were: all connections off at night, WCDMA only+mobile data and wifi by the day, brightness around 70% auto and around 1h of bluetooth in the car.

BTW: i use spotify, facebook and gmail a lot:) but no games.

PS: i tried different methods and roms on LLP(greenefy, amplify, etc) but no luck.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mr72:
Last night, again after about 16 hours of use including about 2 hours of phone calls and other normal daily use I went to bed with the phone at 77%. I put the phone on the charging dock and within probably half an hour the LED was green.

Phenomenal battery performance. I'm using a D5803 with LTE almost all of the time, little or no wifi, a lot of bluetooth headset for listening to music, streaming music, etc. Even the other day I did about 2 hours of GPS navigation with Google Maps with it on battery and it barely made a dent in the battery life.

Best battery life since switching to Android back in about 2009. Actually the last phone I had that performed this well on battery was my last Sony.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
That's pretty impressive.

After 5 minutes of navigon gps I lose about 3/4% of battery... I kinda think it's related to the poor coverage in our country compared to the states... I bought two phones (one on kitkat and one on lollipop) and it's the same on both. I recently switched the kitkat one to lollipop and it's still consuming battery like crazy :(

I
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] issak42:
Wow well just yesterday I compared the battery with my dad, same OS version, same everything, and the difference was amazing. Looks like I'll be restoring my phone to whatever, might as well go for the root as I'm doing it.

I'm only attaching his battery, mine is similar to one above. And he's not a very light user, he's browsing a lot, emails, youtube, etc. And his brightness is double of mine.

Okay, this weekend his phone was mostly idling, but it wasnt on full use on monday already.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xb91:
The snapshot says it all :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
I don't know if it says anything at all :)

What is your SoT?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xb91:
Alright...

SoT is 1min. I've turned all the smart features on ( like backlight control etc. ) also Super Vivid mode is on and Stamina mode all the time ( Stamina clock feature is On ). Auto sync is off. Display brightness is at 50%. What else do you wanna know ?? :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] syedkamal92:
this is what i got from latest lolipop :good::good::good:

i got 8 hour of screen on time..

what i do :

-STAMINA (only keep whatsapp to active in background)

-Restrict most of app background data that not mostly used..

-Uninstall update of google play services..

-Untick use nuplayer on developers setting..
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] luisffp:
Hi guys, i have some troubles with my battery.

I have stamina Mode on, and nfc, Bluetooth, everthing off, and with normal usage my Phone have a very poor battery. Is this normal? Anyone can help me?

The screenshots are in the link: https://drive.google.com/folder/d/0B_N_Y8io4I4vN3ZRRm1MQkRreGc/edit
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AudioAw2015:
I suggest you try re-flashing your firmware or try an unbranded one. My carrier branded firmware had battery drain issues and a very inaccurate battery chart. A fresh install solved most problems and battery life became stable after 2-3 charge cycle.

Here's my battery life, 2G (No Data Plan), WI-FI, Stamina Mode Off, Mixed Usage / Phone Calls:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] luisffp:
Re-flashing firmware where? In PC-Companion?

I've done it once and did not result...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AudioAw2015:
You can use flashtool to flash any ftf files, there should plenty of guides on XDA.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Ultraman1966:
I've already flashed and wiped twice, I have no intention of doing it again. There's something wrong with the update inherently which means it uses battery more than KK. I'm not using my phone any different than before the L update and I am getting about 25% reduction in SoT. I also know that if I didn't have access wifi a lot and had to rely on mobile data I will get even less usage time. They need to fix this pronto, I do regret getting a Sony now...

I wouldn't mind if I could wipe and install CM12.1 but with the camera issues I really can't do that right now.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] luisffp:
I flashing today my phone with a Spanish unbranded firmware. I will see in the next days, if anything about my battery changes.I forgot to say that I have already sent to the official Sony Support to complain about the battery and they sent it to me with the same problem. They have done a range test, which consisted in leaving the loaded phone, connected with the sim card 4 followed days and at the end of days was 70% battery. But my battery is very poor, don't support more than 4/5h SoT, also don't support 24h active and all this things with a regular use.

Any opinions!??
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sumon511:
can you please tell me the model and which firmware you are using . i am having nightmare in battery life (D5833 Taiwan)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AudioAw2015:
I suggest turning location services off for things you don't use because a lot of Google services uses GPS/WI-FI/Data to determine your location and when it does, they use up your battery. Happened to me a couple of times, when the GPS was stuck trying to lock on to my location.

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I'm in Canada so I'm using the D5803 model but flashed the US unbranded firmware because my carrier firmware had a lot of problems. If you're using D5833, I think the most updated firmware is the Hong Kong version. I had no problems running the HK firmwares on my previous Xperia phones.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sumon511:
I've tried lots of D5833 firmwares (india,australia,taiwan) ,all of them has battery draining issue in idle mode.1.5%/hour just sitting idle.I've even tried without sim card.still the same draining.so it is not network issue.But if i put the phone in airplane mode,it doens't drain anymore.Strange problem.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AudioAw2015:
Could be your router's problem at home or weak signal with LTE or 3G. I had issues with my previous router causing my session to time out every so often so my devices kept trying to refresh the connection. My Nexus 7 would lose about 5-6 % overnight until I bought a new router recently and now I only have a 2% drain.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Chigster:
Could I flash a firmware made for the d5803 onto a d5883 model xperia. Silly question but I just want to know?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sumon511:
yes you can.i did.nothing wrong with that.

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It is not a router issue i can confirm.In both conditions wi-fi were connected.It is probably a bug with d5833 firmwares with the modem/radio.

do you use your z3c as a regular driver? or a spare device?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Chigster:
Can others please confirm that rom's aren't specific to devices as I just realized my HTC got bricked due to the rom having issues with the phone
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AudioAw2015:
It's my daily phone
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Microxda:
performance is very high, very good battery
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] pipspeak:
After having used my second install of Lollipop for a week (updated from KK, reset phone, repaired software, reset phone again) I can say that my battery life is slightly improved from KK. It's most notable when the phone is idling, when battery drain is less than 1% an hour. Generally the drain is between 1% and 2% an hour, depending on use. This is with Stamina mode running.

One thing that is certain (and is why I did a software repair) is that L's battery-use stats are completely broken. If I look at the stock stats, my screen accounts for a tiny, tiny percentage and things like email or Chrome are using 20-30% of the battery with "mobile radio active" time off the charts. When I monitor the battery using the GSam app, I get what I would call "normal" stats -- voice and screen accounting for the majority of the battery use, with apps far behind. The GSam stats also seem to correctly correspond to how fast the battery drains -- for example, there's no way my email app, which checks two accounts every 20 minutes, accounts for 30% of battery use and hours upon hours of mobile radio active time, which is what L's stats suggest sometimes. If that was the case then my battery would be draining far faster than the 1% an hour it does when the phone's idle.

So now I just ignore L's battery stats altogether and I'm happy with overall battery life.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Chigster:
So I just got my z3c today and since I've bought it used I've got absolutely no idea if the previous owner was a power user or not. I got it with a reset kk after which I went on to directly update it to lollipop since it was a fresh kk install anyway. Turns out I got just under 7 hours of sot with stamina mode, location, facebook etc all on. Coming from a phone which struggled to make it through the day I'm damn impressed. Didn't get any screenshots today however will be posting them soon as lollipop settles in and I can get a couple days average. Also have the d5833 with build number 23.1.A.0.726 and the phone is a Telstra unlocked variant i.e has telstra bloat which I can live with for now considering how long it's lasting.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Stu C:
I got this from a friend, and the phone is nearly new and already updated to Lollipop... wow, just wow... I should say that mobile data is turned off, and stamina extended standby is on, but I have just gone 5 days since the last charge with regular casual use (no gaming).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] eranyanay:
These are my stats using 5.0.2, I thought it will be better, because everyone gets 6+ sot and I dont see how it will happen

Im with stamina on, with only whatsapp and inbox selected and almost always on wifi, after 12hrs with 60% left and 2.5hrs sot, no phone calls
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
I went on a roadtrip in Germany and the battery lasted longer than I thought it would.

My GPS was on for more than 8hrs. with voice directions at maximum volume. The screen was on for more than 6hrs with 100% brightness.

The place where I was going has bad cellphone coverage so the phone also had to search for a signal time and time again.

I began with around 90% battery and ended in 9% after 8hrs of actively trying to run the battery dry.

I really like the blessed Z3C
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kopiarz:
Now I have checked batery stats and theres "Google Play Services" on top of the list. Is there a bug with it? Or is it related to bad signal?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mbgheban:
Very happy with my battery life !!!

Android 5.0.2_23.2.A.1.62, rooted, debloated, greenify.

2 days with:

- SOT 5h41min

- 1h13min call time

- WIFI always connected

- email sync 9h per day
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cirra92:
Hi everyone. I've bought Z3c two weeks ago roughly, and it came with .28 lollipop on board. After a couple of charging cycles device settled and I have to say the battery life is on a higher level compared to other phones out there. I can say that I can easily average 2 days on a single charge with moderate usage with ~8h of SOT. I use Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp and Viber on daily basis most of the time, few pictures here and there and a few calls.

However the device is rooted, has Xposed installed and I am running Amplify and Greenify, in order to minimize standby battery drain, and it's actually great, after 8 hours of sleep, it loses just 2%.

With ~6h of SOT, it could probably run for 4 days, but I have to test that yet :)

Here is one sample :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
8hr sot. Wow. Mine never even goes close to that. Today for example im at 64% with 1hr 30m sot. That is super unimpressive. Worse than my last phone, note 2.

8hr would be great.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cirra92:
Well, that is bad, considering all the results I had :/

If you are rooted, install Better battery stats and check wakelocks and alarms, there is something heavy running in the background surely, something is messed up...

Currently, I am on battery for 22h with 4,5h SOT and sitting at 54%.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] `Ghost`:
he never stated what his screen brightness is at, or yours. I have mine around what looks to be 65%. he may have his down to 0% or 10%
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] V4LKyR:
On battery for 22 hours with 4,5 hours Screen On Time and you have 54% battery left?

Cool story, bro. :good:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
Its not that different to his battery life proven with screens on the previous page. 8.2hr SOT total.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cirra92:
Well if you leave your ignorance aside, maybe you can see that it is possible, but with the aid of tweaks and apps, not completely stock.

Above all, I don't have to prove anything to you, but I'll post for others to see, you won't believe anyway.

This is what I got about 10 days ago.

Cheers.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
What is you awake time versus sot in better battery stats?

Mine is like 2:1 at best
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cirra92:
It depends, but most of the time, SOT takes around 80-90% of the total awake time, which can go worse if you often wake up your phone to use it for a few minutes, and if you listen to music or have a lot of calls.

I am very satisfied with the deep sleep times due to Greenify and Amplify working their magic, so battery juice loses in standby are very low. There is a thread here on how to set up those apps, I can give you a link.