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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PuffDaddy_d:
I just upgraded from KitKat to LP (5.1.1) and saw an immediate drop in battery life, and not just by a small amount. Unless I'm connected to WiFi, the stupid mobile radio active bug just chews through my battery - at the rate of 3% per hour - even when the phone is asleep. As long as LP continues to be plagued by the mobile radio active bug, there's simply no comparison between KK and LP battery life.

KK wins all day!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] shrazy:
[MENTION=2899068]PuffDaddy_d[/MENTION] I ain't agree with you on that. How much screen on time do you get? I get easily 6-7 hours on LP and I think it is not more on KK??
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PuffDaddy_d:
I'm sorry, but which part of my statement do you not agree with?

It's simply a fact that the mobile radio active bug is only present in LP, not KK. So how can a device that is being drained at 3+% per hour while the screen is off have longer battery life than KK, which consistently consumes less than 1% per hour?

As for Screen On Time, we seriously cannot and should not be using that to compare battery life performance. I mainly use my device to listen to streaming music - which means the screen is off most of the time, so my average SOT is around 2-3 hours. However, if I were to spend all day watching videos from my SD card, my SOT would likely jump to 8+ hours. It's a useless measurement of battery life.

We should focus more on the average battery drain per hour (measured in percentage). Even that is only applicable when both devices are using identical setups (wife, 3G/4G, BT, NFC, etc).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Jomar Vazquez:
Good I guess?

Got this while using WiFi all the time, watching YouTube and constantly replying to WhatsApp messages, surfing the web, Facebook, Instagram, checking Snapchat, checking Boom Beach and playing a couple of matches on Clash Royale. Didn't turn off the screen too much. Currently using SLiM ROM 5.0
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xyzhunter:
3 hours ago it was circa 25-30% with 36 hours of total activity

It was off, like google now.

Inviato dal mio LG-V500 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] krugu:
It does not seem so bad. however, someone tried to reflash the firmware wiping the cache, you can try ...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xyzhunter:
Yes I'm waiting for Official release of my country
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] krugu:
Ok. Which version you have now? Nordic or Baltic?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] J.Hook:
How's are your battery statistics looking?

Even when I have 4h SOT my battery stats are showing 26% of Google services and only 5% screen.

This was completely different on KitKat already 1h SOT showed as biggest battery user as it should be.

I've read some posts on other devices that google services has battery drain issues..
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jarayn:
Its got to be just a weird way of showing the stats.

Theres no way that google services consumes that much more than screen on at least in the sense we know it from KK.

If that were the case then removing the google services drain would result in an unrealistically high battery life.

The actual life on LP is pretty much the same as KK .. certainly not much higher or lower. I still get around 5 hours sot or so regardless of what the other stats say.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sichroteph:
After 2 days my YouTube / camera record problem came back. Don't know what to do......
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] FcukBloat:
it appears as always ON in battery stats also when the option "keep wifi during standby" is set to ON or WHEN CONNECTED

if that option is set to OFF, you should then see wifi off all the time when it is really switched off
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] xyzhunter:
Actually Baltic

well, it is strange because it's seems random (also with "keep wifi during standby" set to ON). Sometimes I had in the stats the WiFi on (also if it was OFF) and sometimes it shown the real status OFF also in the stats....I don't know why.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kwl147:
In general the update seems to be ok (mainly wanted it because its unbranded and the carousel app switcher) how battery life for me is very poor. 20% drain in 9 hours of not using the phone. When I look in the battery stats, Android OS comes up as the main offender at 24%. Divulging further into the stats, CPU total is just shy of 35 minutes and keep awake is just short of 6 hours. Barely used the phone (this 9 hour stint was in the night, was charged before) and switched my 4G antenna off (run on 2G). So disappointed. Does anyone have any possible solutions or theories as to why its so poor? Any help would be much appreciated.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bzow:
Is your battery so poor after the update or was it like that before?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kwl147:
It was pretty decent before the update (4.4), however since flashing the android 5.0.2 Nordic version its been nowhere near the same. Phone gets hot every now and again. Initially I wanted to just unbrand my phone because of bloatware and not wanting to be restricted to carriers pushing updates. On a positive note, the wifi issues I had beforehand, they have disappeared which is nice. The interface changes are refreshing and generally the phone is every bit as fast as it was before. Annoyingly there is still some of Sony's own bloatware still on it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bzow:
It's really too bad you're seeing these issues. You might have to try a factory reset to solve them.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kwl147:
Well, I've tried un-installing/disabling Google Play Services and then re-enabling it. So far it seems to have made an impact. Hopefully this solves the issue or I might have to downgrade to an unbranded 4.4.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] basti2909:
Looking good After one Day
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] superpipo:
I think it drains battery a bit more than kk
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ProQuiz:
Updated to 5.0.2 "officially" few days ago. It seems the update (even tried a clean install through the "repair" function of PC Companion) has cut my battery life in half. Any idea what's going on?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NeidRider:
Same here. On 50% after 24h where I normally had about 75% left with more screen on (only 1h14 today). Loss over night around 15%, on KK it was more like 2...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] _katho_:
No Stamina. Everything on.

Tapatalked
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ProQuiz:
I've noticed that with data on, the phone usually stays a little warm all the time. Does this mean it is doing something in the background? Could this be the reason why my battery life with 5.0.2 is about half of what I got with 4.4.4?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] _katho_:
Probably, do a factory reset and start clean if you haven't done so.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] intoxiktu:
Hello all... 2 days after clean flash, these are my stats:

Are they normal :confused: ? W/ stamina mode on, i see the phone awake most of the time ... This hasn't happened on KK. I used to get about 4.5h SOT (wifi on location, location on, 3g on all day + Clash of clans, 9gag browsing on app, fb, messenger, whatsapp, 3 mails on sync and lifelog on) per full charge in 18h.

// Wrong forum. Wanted to post in Z3 D6603 but ended up here. Apologies
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
When I first installed Lollipop, I had crazy battery drain from apps with Mobile Radio Active. I reflashed, even did a fresh clean upgrade, still happened. Went back to KitKat for a while and then I saw the US variant was out. Downloaded and flashed it last night. Phone has been on for 8-9 hours now (granted, mostly idle, maybe 30 minutes SoT) and I'm at 95%. Not sure what's different about the US variant but I'm very happy with Lollipop now.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] webwude:
Hm, started from scratch and got a dip of 22% overnight (9h) although wakelock detector tells me the phone was sleeping all the time...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] darkflyer1983:
Here are my stats, first Lp cycle. Pretty solid.

Clean flash of European firmware.

Screan is on auto with preset at 20%,

Mostly on wifi, GPS, bt, nfc on, sync off.

Happy with my z3C
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] SizpeK:
Here is mine . just wifi and location on . and i use whatsapp and xda only

Sent from Xperia SP with Lollipop 5.1 (RR 5.4.0)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] SizpeK:
I forget the screenshot -_-
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Dsteppa:
I really can't complain about mine:

I use the first build of LLP that came out:

http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/development/stock-firmware-23-1-0-690-generic-t3056413

Unlocked BL with Andro Kernel (non tweaked) Greenify and DS Battery Saver Pro
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ProQuiz:
Have already done two "repair" installs through PC Companion.

What is Mobile Radio Active? The reception signal thing? I too notice drain from it.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Mobile Radio Active is a new item in the battery usage info screen in settings. If you click an app it will say "Mobile Radio Active". Assuming it's how long the app keeps the radio awake. Strange how stamina mode doesn't seem to do anything against it. Would probably have way better battery life if it did.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
Had my first full working day on LP yesterday. From taking my phone off the charger at 5:30 am until going back on at around 10:30 pm (17 hours) i would end with about 65% on KK. On LP my first day, i had about 45%.

Will tinker with settings, see if it goes back up.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mdck yaa:
I am running a rooted Galaxy S4, i take the phone off the charger at about 9:00 and i finish at about 00:00. Through that time i have that time i have to charge my phone about 2-3 times and that is just..... I mostly play games on my phone.

MDCK YAA
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Crewville96:
Day 2, pretty much same result (at 50% at end of day), though i have more screen on time. Yesterday i had around 1h50m or 2h, and 45% left. Today I'm at 50%, but with 2h40m SoT. Maybe in a few days thing will still be improving, IDK.

I do use pocketcasts and play music a lot though, so screen on time isnt important to me, since i use my phone more with the screen off probably while listening to podcasts and music.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maxolina:
Guys is it possible that STAMINA doesen't work on Lollipop?

There are zero apps in the whitelist, but I still receive whatsapp notifications after i turn the screen off with STAMINA activated...

I thought the point of stamina is to stop all network connections while the screen is off...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] --anx--:
Last day results:

19h of activity, 6h 42m of SOT and still 27% on battery...

Usage medium/high, with music, some games, downloads, videos, internet and HSDPA along with WiFi network (no Facebook and some Google services notifications disabled, like Music, Books, News etcetera...)

Absolutely satisfied with these results...I think that no one top phone ATM could have these numbers...at least with my usage.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ProQuiz:
I originally stated that my battery life was cut in half after the update. After 2 weeks of use, it seems to be improving immensely.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jmoore2:
I have changed from nordic generic to UK customised and over the past few days (admittedly too short a time period to accurately gauge battery life) it seems to be slightly better. Screen brightness at 100% most of the time (with auto adjustment on), poor mobile signal for a lot of the time, a number of phonecalls and video watching and right now It is at 10% with 5hrs and 13mins of screen on time, it has been turned on for around 38 hours.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Maverick-rezo:
can i really get 10 hours of active screen on time?

Hi guys, i own this device for quite a long time, and despite the fact that it really has best battery life i ever seen on smartphones im still dissapointed, because as a saw on many reviews and user posts, screen on time should be 10 hours while i can only get 6 on active day. So is it because am heavy user, or i just do something wrong?

By the way i use stamina mode but all messengers and mail app are still allowed to work in background
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] matiasmorris:
My first experience after 2 days in lollipop is not so good as with KK.

On 4.4.4 I got 36-40hs of total battery time (7hs in aeroplane mode) with 6-7hs of SOT and 25-30% of battery left, with wifi active for 30hs and location/google now off. Activity was mainly with whatsapp, chrome, twitter, facebook, walkman, album and 5/10 minutes of calls.

After 2 days in lollipop, the results are significantly worst, with total battery time around 24hs (7 in aeroplane mode), 4-5hs of SOT and 20-25% of battery left. Same activity.

Something strange which you can see in the pictures below is that while "Estimated battery time" says 2 days and 5hs, "Battery usage" time left shows 1 day and 5hs left....anyone with this bug as well?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] levesrei:
HI sir, can you tell what did you do in your z3?because mine was drained to fast. :(

Thanks in advance

---------- Post added at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:29 AM ----------

Anyone please help me, my z3 battery lifespan was drained to fast..

battery usage in screen is about 52%..

what to do guys?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] harryw66:
I recently upgraded from a Z1Compact to a Z3Compact (free with contract renewal) and was initially disappointed with the Z3C battery life. With the Z1C I typically only charge my phone every 2 days, but with the Z3C I would need to charge sooner.

I then disabled a bunch of apps I never use and the battery life is now better than my Z1C e.g. I unplugged my Z3C from the charger this morning at around 8:30am - it is now 16:25 and the battery is still showing 86%!!

Here are the apps I disabled

http://imgur.com/zJsln5D

http://imgur.com/qdNP1LU

I also have Stamina mode on, Extended Standby On and Queue background data enabled. I have 8 apps in Active Standby including Google Inbox and my work Exchange email client. The weird thing is that even with Extended Standby on, I can still receive emails whilst the screen is off - so all I can guess is that the Active Standby apps periodically enable the 3G / Wifi to check for emails etc.

I am going to try the above settings for a few days and then disable the Extended Standby and see how much difference it makes.

My phone is running the standard Sony 5.02 firmware and is NOT rooted etc.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] DrEzkimo:
I remember folk telling me 5.0 was going to be great for battery due to project volta etc etc and now it seems your lucky if you get what you had before....

so I wont be switching as battery was the damn reason I got the phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kind3r:
I don't know why people complain, but I get the same usage as with KK lately.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] harryw66:
I would say I am actually getting slightly better with Lollipop on my Z3C than with KitKat on my Z1C

34% remaining after 37hours on my Z3C + Lollipop

http://imgur.com/sIuT5FV
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Nplus1:
Excuse me for saying, but those stats are below average by Z3C standards...

On KitKat I was getting AT LEAST 8,5 h of SOT (brightness slightly lower than mid-level) and 24-30 h on a single charge. On Lollipop I'm happy if I ever reach 6 h, but mostly Android OS starts draining 10-15% per hour in idle so that messes up everything. All running apps consume significant battery life (mobile radio used in background) so Project Volta is a joke! I would admit its poor coding from some developers, but when I leave Chrome running with one or 2 open tabs, it becomes the biggest consumer in idle with hours and hours of mobile radio used. So either Google's developers are just as bad as any other developers (which I don't think) or Project Volta is badly implemented.

Either way, a user (client) should not care about this crap and shouldn't investigate to find justification. He should just enjoy his device, which on lollipop is impossible (sometimes I feel like throwing my phone against the wall when I see 50% drain over night because of the stupid Android OS).

So DON'T UPDATE to Lollipop! Just DON'T!

Oh, maybe somebody out there would be interested in moving apps to the SD card and would be motivated to ignore the battery issues and do the update anyway. Well just like Project Volta, moving apps to the SD card is another joke (at least for Sony's implementation). App data isn't actually getting moved so no way to free up the internal memory with this method.

You have been warned!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] heart_of_life:
Hello guys..

I just purchased the phone and pretty satisfied with the whole package, I'm just curious about the battery life since all I've heard is that it can survive for two days easily, and it's hardly getting me through the day.. What do you think of this chart?

My phone runs 5.0.2 standard and is not rooted.

Thank you.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] DrEzkimo:
whats the screen on time?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] heart_of_life:
Almost 6 hours, chatting, videos, brightness about 50%
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Deejay.vilas:
After the .28 update the battery holds up pretty good :D 6 hours of screen on time
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] harryw66:
Maybe I spoke too soon. I saw some really weird behaviour this weekend - the battery depleted quite quickly with the bulk of the usage attributed to 'Cell Standby' - which is usually near the bottom of the % usage list....Maybe Vodafone had some issues with the local cell towers??

I then charged the phone up before bed last night to 100% and left it in Airplane mode - it was still showing 100% this morning and is currently down to 93% - 2.5hrs after I took it out of Airplane mode.

I am beginning to think there is some intermittent / non deterministic issue with the battery usage under 5.02
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
Average is between 2 & 3 days

I tend to charge my Z3 every 2-3 days. I charge up to 80-90% and recharge when the battery is between 20-40%. The most I have gotten out of the phone was 5 1/2 days (from a full charge down to 2%).

I have stamina mode enabled, stamina clock, adaptive brightness, smart backlight control, I browse the internet, play games, take a lot of photos, and generally use the phone like a smartphone is intended to be used.

I took this screenshot last month. Since then I have been adhearing to the much less exciting charging regime suggested by batteryuniversity.com which recommends keeping battery level between 40-80% which, again, gives me 2-3 days (I usually end up recharging at the end of the second day). The other screenshot is my normal usage.

In both cases the phone was running on Lollipop.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] paulmt123:
Worse than before

My screen on time went down from 6 hours to 4. More worrying was that when idle and not using anything I could be down to 66 percent during a working day. With kitkat it's more like 85 percent. A big difference. I went back to kitkat and it's as good as before. Might try and upgrade again. Different build and see how it compares. Quite like kitkat ui mind.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nielsbrakel1998:
For me i stayed the same
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] heavy-razzer:
Just bought new Z3C, updated to last 5.0.2.

28 hours total heavy use: WiFi internet, installing and using different apps, few benchmarks, reading. Get 11 hours of screen uptime. Great!

Screenshot form GSam is here (sorry for Russian language).

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=513845&view=findpost&p=40261713
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
Things have changed

Yesterday I installed the new lollipop update. I fully charged my phone during the update process. During the night the battery went down to 95%. I didn't have to use the phone at all until 14:15. After checking my mail through 4G and a two minute phonecall the battery went down to 91%.

Now, after about 2hrs of idleness, and typing this, the phone stands at 87%. I know that a loss of 13% might not seem like a lot, but I have never experienced the battery draining this quickly since I got the phone in February.

The update seems to have caused a drain somewhere... Now I just have to find it.

EDIT: A few hours ago the battery was down to 54%. I decided to restrict background data and thus far (3 hrs. later) the phone still sits at 54%. It seems like STAMINA mode was not restricting data transfer while the phone was idle.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] dgold21:
I don't use stamina mode, don't restrict data, wifi and BT are always on, and I'm perfectly happy popping it onto the bedside charging dock every night with it still having 50% or more left in the tank.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Alan Slade:
I installed yesterday Lollipop after a reset of the phone.

I confirm that Lollipop drains battery faster than KK, especially in idle it seems.

What I like very much is that wakelocks seems completely disappeared.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] DrEzkimo:
so I think we can safely assume that project volta really was a big fat bag of BS.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ShadowFlare:
You have just updated to Lollipop, your Z3C has not settled down. You'll see improved battery after the second or third full charge.

Mine was draining fast too, but after 3rd charge, it's only draining 2% while I sleep.

All of these people complaining battery drain -right after- update really irritate me, just give it a couple battery cycle before you make your conclusion that Lollipop drain your battery.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
You might be correct. In the past 24hrs I have 2 1/2hrs SOT, copious amount of browsing, and some gaming, and the phone is sitting at 66%. Perhaps it just needed a 'calibration' cycle or three.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Cazteclo:
Mediaserver

I got home from work tonight and noticed that 'mediaserver' drained my battery down to 3% in the space of a few hours... Is that the phone 'settling'?

Is there a non-root way of fixing this mediaserver drain?

EDIT: I rescanned my SD card and reset the phone and the 'mediaserver' drain seems to have gone away.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] akira96:
i don't even know if lolipop are most save battery (here my stat)

Firstly I charge till morning going to college and not charge it until night and here my battery life and my buid number
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] hawkeeyee:
So far my best result is:

41h up time (2.5x better than m7)

6h SOT (2x better than m7)

still short of 8-10h SOT
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ShadowFlare:
Media server usually shows up when you are watching videos using the video app long enough. Maybe you watched a video then for some reason the video app experienced an error and kept running in the background.

I listen to music on my journey to and from work, but never seen the media server appear on the battery history list. But glad you sorted it out.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] iosmightreallybebetter:
same issue here, z3c battery appalling on lollipop

i'm as mad as hell and i won't take it anymore.

this is ridiculous...z3c battery on KK was OKish for me, but LP update killed it, barely lasts from 8am-5pm...with the LP update it got better but now back down..

Mind you i use moto 360 all day, and data during the day. no stamina.

i did all the google service auto update fixes, i disabled the apps not used, i restriced background data for most non messaging apps (chrome etc).... screen on time on the best day doesnt get past 3h for 95% of battery used..

so this morning, phone was on for 2.5h...SoT is 23 minutes..battery drained almost 30%!

consumers really shouldnt be spending time trying to figure this stuff out..maybe apple is really the way to go.

edit: uploaded SoT screen.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Bya:
I'm in the same boat... Finished charging at midnight (100%). Wake up at 6h45 (92%). Listened to some music on my way to work (82%). Business meetings during the morning so basically just receiving mails while the phone is on table (75%). Ate a bit while doing some reddit and browsing with my phone and, right now, at 15h00 the battery is at 62%.

I lost 38% of battery by listening to +/- 1h00 of music off-screen (on my sd card) and a few browsing for a total of 1h39 SoT...

Just can't deal with it and don't know what to do...