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[Xperia Z5 General] antipesto93:
3 hours, only my second day but thats with bluetooth/wifi on all day + full brightness (auto) + I live in a poor signal area

I am sure It will get better, its definatly far better than my galaxy s6.

Possibily very slightly worse than the Z3 but too early to tell.
[Xperia Z5 General] PhillOS1:
3hrs SoT, WiFi all day, down to 29% now... Not stellar.
[Xperia Z5 General] alishmufan:
I've gotten 6 hours on my 3rd day, but I spent around 3 hours underground, so flight mode was switched on. Overall, I've spent a couple hours listening to Spotify and redditing for the most part of those 6hrs. I am pretty satisfied with the battery life, it's just a little bit worse compared to what I was getting on Z3.
[Xperia Z5 General] decomposed:
5 hours in typical use with wifi or 3G data on.
[Xperia Z5 General] schecter7:
~4.5 Hrs. Posted some screenshots -> http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63442175&postcount=97

Mine will soon hit > 5.5 Hrs though :D
[Xperia Z5 General] Phazonclash:
So far so good for me. Before my Z5, I has a OnePlus One (known for its stellar battery life). Yup, the Z5 battery seems to drain faster than the OnePlus One when using it, but on the other hand I noticed it seems to use less power than my OnePlus on bluetooth + screen off, in the car. I always listen to the same podcast when I go to work in the morning (it takes 1 hour), and my Z5 lost only 2% this morning (from 100% to 98%). My OnePlus One would usually lose 4-5%.

I received my Z5 yesterday though, so I'll let it settle down a bit too. I will report back in a few days

Awesome device though. It's well built, it feels very premium compared to my older phones (a cheap OnePlus One that I liked a lot and an ugly but very good Galaxy Note 3)
[Xperia Z5 General] PhillOS1:
Today I'm at 2hrs sot, and down to 40%. I've been offered a full refund, and I'll be taking the phone back on Monday.

I'm very disappointed in the z5, and perplexed how others seem to have great battery life.
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Today so far and i was sat nav'ing for half an hour

Sent from my Xperia z5 by Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 General] Funkmasterchilla:
I personally get decent battery life by deactivating 4G
[Xperia Z5 General] Funkmasterchilla:
So Xperia Z5 can make it to 6h SOT with stamina mode on and 3G as prefered network.
[Xperia Z5 General] tkruger206:
Same is true for most phones, 2G or 3G networks use less battery. But running in 3G is like owning a Porsche 911 Turbo but never taking it of 3rd gear.
[Xperia Z5 General] Funkmasterchilla:
3G allows up to 1.5 Mb/s here, way enough for my usage that is mostly web browsing with very little videos.
[Xperia Z5 General] tkruger206:
I was just trying to be funny. Didn't mean to be a ****. :)
[Xperia Z5 General] Funkmasterchilla:
Sure mate ain't no thing!! I didn't mean to be rude here :D
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Last night before bed -

(not even 3/4 battery gone)

So 6h should be easily doable without power saver

Z5, data or wifi always connected, syncs on, brightness on auto and @ about 40%
[Xperia Z5 General] benblb:
And you even have Facebook installed. Impressive. Are you doing anything special to get that type of battery life?
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Nope. Just using it as a smartphone
[Xperia Z5 General] schecter7:
Hey Ben, just noticed you're using Chrome beta. What's your usual MRA number from Chrome beta? Do you leave it in the background on LTE?
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Ok... It could be because it's 6am and my brain isn't functioning yet. Lol. But what's MRA?
[Xperia Z5 General] QKVenGeaNce:
Pretty decent in my opinion
[Xperia Z5 General] schecter7:
lol Mobile Radio Active. You'd find an MRA time under battery usage -> chrome beta. I was just curious what your number is at the end of the day (to figure out Lollipop's MRA bug impact on your battery). Please check that MRA time before your Z5 dies tonight (it's 1am over here lol) Have a great day!
[Xperia Z5 General] Phazonclash:
After 2 weeks using my Z5, I get between 4 and 4.5h SOT on average. Not on my OnePlus One level (would often reach 6h+ SOT), but very decent for a device using a smaller 2,900mAh battery and a faster SnapDragon 810 (compared to the 1+1). I'm happy with it so far, between 4 and 4½h SOT works for me. It's not stellar, but it's certainly not bad
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
happy with mine

Just over 5 hours SoT in 24 hours

Mobile network signal half green, half orange

WiFi plus 3G (minus 6 hours Stamina mode overnight. Yeah, not a great full night's sleep).

No 4G.

42 minutes SatNav in Google Maps

Adaptive brightness ON, screen brightness @ 68% (nice and bright)

"OK Google" voice detection OFF
[Xperia Z5 General] Bramzzz:
Batterylife is great for me, stamina is always on, sometimes playing games, mostly social media, YouTube and all.. Wifi or 4G on during the day, depending of my whereabouts..

Never had this batterylife with any other phone though, very impressed!

Now at 6,5 hrs SOT at almost 24 hrs standytime and still have 13% left... Wow, just wow! Happy customer here!
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
There u go
[Xperia Z5 General] _LLJY:
I'm getting about 4-5 hours of sot
[Xperia Z5 General] gimmetaffy:
E6653

On Tmobile USA

Stamina ON

SoT = 2Hrs 8Min

40% remaining

I've had the phone for 4 days. I'm hoping a few more cycles will improve battery a little bit more.

FYI for US customers. E6653 works GREAT on T-Mobile US.
[Xperia Z5 General] schecter7:
Thanks! Mine is around 4 hours from 'regular' chrome. But I don't close it & it just sits in the background whenever I'm not using it. Do you close beta frequently while you're on LTE?
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Nope. I never close anything ever. I've never seen the need to. I just let the system cache and do its job
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Weirdly today, cell standby has jumped up my battery usage... No idea why tho as it hasn't actually effected battery life still

Oddly Facebook is only at 2%.... Maybe they've swapped roles for the day? Lol
[Xperia Z5 General] lost_:
Thanks. Is it getting band 12 LTE?
[Xperia Z5 General] peltruquin:
I do get band 12 LTE in my Z5, only when underground, band 4 LTE (tmo) is pretty solid in NYC
[Xperia Z5 General] Sensination:
I'm getting over 5h so can't complain really but I don't use Facebook, NFC, Bluetooth and location at all. Also my mobile Internet is on for no more than 5h per day as I have WiFi at work and home.
[Xperia Z5 General] wakers:
Struggling to get much more than 3hrs, stamina mode to kick in at 90%, screen brightness 50%, today 1hr 15min screen on time 57% battery left might struggle to get the 3hr mark it's a good hour or 2 less sot than my nexus 6 was getting under the same conditions ?

Sent from my Sony Z5 ooossshhhh
[Xperia Z5 General] a00r:
what settings do you have on and apps?
[Xperia Z5 General] wakers:
Got x-reality screen setting, adaptive brightness, brightness 50%, stamina mode kicks in @90% got Facebook, paypal, emails set as exceptions screen is by far the biggest battery drain, then android system, I do have Bluetooth and wifi on all day, but like I said earlier this setup on my nexus 6 could get 4hr 30min ish

Sent from my Sony Z5 ooossshhhh
[Xperia Z5 General] Shinyufc:
Z5c

Hello guys very helpful thread. So far I've had two full charges. First had 5.2hours So. Second had 6.2 SO. Never used stamina made in both. Hopefully it averages at 6 hours. WiFi on most of the time. 4g on one hour tops daily.

I got a question what stamina mode do you guys use and what does it Do?
[Xperia Z5 General] twitchyzero:
no SOT stats from Z5P?
[Xperia Z5 General] cj1171:
That's about what I'm getting on T-Mo US two weeks in.
[Xperia Z5 General] doministry:
My usage gives me always like 4:40 SOT with alot of FB, internet, camera and 10% left.
[Xperia Z5 General] MagicManu:
Hi,

From my E6683 dual sim with Stamina activated
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
Stamina mode activated and deactivated
[Xperia Z5 General] langeveld024:
Sorry for the non-English language on screen.

I used camera a lot yesterday and today, including 4K, AR effects etc. Screen brightness 100%, mobile data, WiFi, and Bluetooth and GPS enabled.

Pretty satisfied!
[Xperia Z5 General] Kiwito22:
No stamina. Spend like 2 hours talking on a WhatsApp phone call or so while browsing and messaging.
[Xperia Z5 General] max24328:
About 5 hour SOT on z5 premium with data on and brightness on auto, a little bit of gaming and movies
[Xperia Z5 General] bplogan:
Stamina mode disabled
[Xperia Z5 General] D4rk_nVidia:
Second charge

Stamina only if battery under 15%

Gesendet von meinem E6653 mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 General] Electroz:
This phone has the best battery life I've ever had. Been getting this good or better all week. This is with 15 hours since last charge.
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
Screenshot while charging
[Xperia Z5 General] ninjy:
Just doing some Chrome on Wi-Fi since it was plugged out
[Xperia Z5 General] thetitanium:
Two hours of Chrome

One hour of Instagram

One hour of gaming
[Xperia Z5 General] Lambo16:
3 hours SOT with around 1 and a half hours of browsing (Chrome), no Facebook running, some Twitter now and then, 40 minutes of YouTube videos and the rest was just sorting apps on my home screen and using the camera. Now at 30%, I'll be happy if I hit 4 hours SOT.

EDIT: So I've drained my device down to 2% and I've had 4 and a half hours of screen on time. I'm happy with that as this was a heavy usage day for me as I was testing the camera, doing a lot of browsing and download/updating apps. I should probably mention that I was also using stamina mode just to turn my WiFi off when the screen was off (not sure if that worked though) and I wasn't using any mobile data.
[Xperia Z5 General] Vcaddy:
Usually i will get 10mins sot for every 1% of battery, sometimes more

Just browsing chrome and watsapp with music over bluetooth, the usage in pic below also mixed between wifi and mobile data( mostly mobile data with rma bug )

All in all i would get a full day use ( 16 to 18 hours ) with 5 to 7 hours of sot and would still have abt 10% batt left
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Data or wifi always on. Auto brightness at about 45%. No battery saver at all. And some youtube watching as you can see
[Xperia Z5 General] Oemenia:
Quick request, can you guys also please post your brightness level, would be of great help.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Impossible to take screen shot for brightness slider but i have mine on 50-60% adaptive on.
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Edited my post before yours to include it
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
How did you screencap the brightness?
[Xperia Z5 General] Lambo16:
Got very good results with this
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
I forgot that we can capture the screen by holding volume down and power at the same time.
[Xperia Z5 General] Lambo16:
You can do that as well but you can also just hold power button and click on Take Screenshot.
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
That was the point. You can't take a screenshot of the brightness level if screenshotting via power button as that dismisses the brightness popup. However, you can using power/vol down.
[Xperia Z5 General] Lambo16:
You can, just tap on Take screenshot and quickly show the brightness slider
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
Ha! You sneaky dog - that does work!
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Lol yea i just use power and volume down ?
[Xperia Z5 General] Oemenia:
Thanks. Would anyone say that a higher brightness affects the battery time much? I like to play games at 75% (though only at home and even then on emulators), its one of the main reasons I got a new phone.
[Xperia Z5 General] VaanClancy:
Here is mine usage. Brightnes 30-40%. No stamina active - more battery drain for me, same auto brightnes.
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
Checkout these screenshots
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Wow.... And you only charged it 3 times!
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Lol
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
Check out these attachments
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
You're missing the point of this thread by a mile. How much SOT does your Z5 get on a SINGLE charge. You've partially charged yours three times so your SOT has no meaning!
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
My mistake, I will update after fully charging the device
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
Lmao. Keep going. I think you'll manage 20 hours eventually!
[Xperia Z5 General] KbaB.BroS:
How is this?
[Xperia Z5 General] Ben36:
That seems more normal!
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Normal usage during a work day, 1h30 sot, listening to Spotify for approximately 4 hours, no videos or camera usage, only other service allowed by greenify is aquamail. Brightness is managed by lux, approx 50%. I have this device for 3 weeks now, already couple full charges. I am replacing a 3 yo HTC one m7. Under approximately same usage pattern, indeed, Z5 battery is better, but not by far, as at this moment of the day, m7 would be at 30-40%.
[Xperia Z5 General] rajkant1984:
Thanks
[Xperia Z5 General] halloga:
My second day, never used stamina.
[Xperia Z5 General] ciprianmp:
Here my first day ever with Z5:

Just upgraded from Z3+ (which I accidentally dropped in the Atlantic lol) and pretty happy so far. Same insane over 200 apps installed though. [emoji1]

Xperia Z5 E6653
[Xperia Z5 General] DeathStroke:
Walkman beta version. Clean and fresh. ?
[Xperia Z5 General] :
Something wrong with my phone but idk. Where is 2 day ?!
[Xperia Z5 General] Benjamin Dobell:
Since December 28th my phone has an average screen on time of only 2 hours and 50 minutes (recorded with GSam Battery Monitor). Prior to owning a Z5 I never installed GSam Battery Monitor (or similar) on a phone before, as I'd never experienced such woeful battery life so as to prompt me to do so.

The only reason I've put up with it this long is that I work from home, so a charger is always near-by. But I took the phone on my honeymoon and it was terrible, never made an entire day. The GPS in particular destroys the battery life. Yes, GPS uses a lot of battery on all phones, but I've never seen anything like on my Z5. 30 mins is enough to drain 50% battery. I've always had Stamina Mode enabled.

I really like the physical aspects of the phone (hardware & construction), but the software is truly awful. I'm hoping that battery/phone is just defective so I can get a replacement Z5 with better battery - but I'm suspect that they're all defective.

EDIT: Oh, forgot to add. Screen brightness is usually set to about 20% during the day, and 0% (on the slider anyway) if lying in bed. Will only put it to 100% if I'm outside in direct sunlight and receive a SMS, but always put it back to 20% when I'm done.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
??You have a faulty phone,no way it can be that bad,can you post some screenshots.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Second time that i got this
[Xperia Z5 General] gdamarell@gmail.com:
I am getting around 4 hours. Well I hope this goes up with marshmallow... I can live with it. The standby time is amazing.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Time to charge :p
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
I find that stamina can actually make things worse for the battery when you use the phone. But i am having similar issues with my battery life too. I find that it has to do with the mobile data and the radio constantly been active. Last time i used Instagram for 15 min but the radio was active for 9 hours draining 40% of my battery!!

Im not sure if I should return it (had the phone for 2 weeks), or just put up with it until MM is released.......
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Same here ??? its a lollipop bug and i guess it will be fixed by the time MM is here.
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Not sure if it'll help your specific case, for me the standby radio against sot ratio has improved or so I think since I changed radio mode preference in service settings (not in normal settings/radio menu). I had it set to lte/wcdma.

I was complaining of around 3 hrs sot on these forums, I have now 5 hrs+, same usage patterns, no stamina mode, all stock, no greenify or other kinda apps either.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
You have bad cell coverage too, try with only 3g and only lte when needed should improve more the battery,that's what i do.
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
I tried 3g and there was a definite battery improvement.

I didn't buy this phone to keep it on 3g though. Since I switched the radio preference the signal strength seems to be better as well as battery drainage. For instance at my home I got lte now where with default settings (same apn) didn't. I am using though a bell phone in Roger's network, so your standby cell draining issues might vary.
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Okay!! I setted mine on 2g but am going to try now the 3g thing and tell you. Thanks
[Xperia Z5 General] cathain:
Had my Z5 a week now, 3-3.5hrs sot is what I'm getting. The battery level percentage is a bit slow to update as well, when I turn the screen on after not using it for a little while the percentage will drop by about 3-5% 30 seconds after the screen is on. My wife has a z3 and the battery life on that is far superior, she will regularly get 5hrs+ sot.
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Its the mobile radio active bug man!! Check and tell us. If its the mobile active bug, it should be done by the time MM arrives.
[Xperia Z5 General] cathain:
Interesting it does look like this bug alright, had never even heard of it before? I was previously using an LG G4 with Lollipop and the battery life was actually worse when it was upgraded Marshmallow so bit worried that it might be the same with the Z5?
[Xperia Z5 General] nookcoloruser:
Strange thing worth my Z5 is that with stamina mode on & auto brightness, I get around 3.5-4 hrs SOT tops before I'm at 5%

Turned them both off and much better battery life. In now at around 50% remaining and have over 3hrs SOT...
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Idk abt that but what i have heard from my nexus owner friends that the phone became better and faster. I hoping for the best
[Xperia Z5 General] sylwester.cz:
Hi All,

HELP !

I see many advanced Z5 users in this thread and I need your advice on the following. I was a very happy Z5 user for the last 3 months until I installed a 2nd firmware update (32.0.A.6.200) which was released in Sweden around 10h February. Since then battery drains much faster, and only overnight I have approx 25%-30% drop (without any 3rd party apps, locations, gps and so on and I use the phone in the exactly same way as during last 3 months. Also please do not be missguided by the Kaspersky app - I have this app since the beginning and the battery drop exist even without it, as tested 2 days ago).

I did factory reset 2 days ago and of course all was fine after all and at midnight I had 100% and estimated battery time 2 Days 10 Hours. When I woke up 7 hours later I had 74% of battery left....

Yesterday I charged my phone to 100% around 11pm and estimated battery time was 22 Hours (only!). When I woke up today 8 hours later I had 67% of battery left (!) with estimated battery time of 16 Hours. It seems that weak network signal casuses such big drop overnight - (see pics below) am I correct? If so, this is weird as the phone lies on exactly same place in the bedroom where signal strenght was always the same (weak) but during the last 3 months since I bought the phone battery loss overnight was approx 3-5 % not more, and definitely not >25%.

Do you know what causes such big battery drain and what can I do to fix this? Any help is appreciated.

Thx

Sly
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Sly, am sorry to tell yu that its the radio mobile active bug again i guess -.- disappointing i know but it all because of the new firmware and a prove on that

There is no mobile radio active part in cell standy by as long as you are nt using ur data, anf you have been using you wifi all night long. We can solve that by xposed module (nt recommend now or you will void your warranty) or wait for the Marshmallow and hope that sony gets rid of that bug (the official sonyxperiaGB said it will roll out about the 7th of march and u can go check for the tweet yourself). There is no solution for at the moment except those (or that am aware about). Am sorry for that and best of luck and stay tuned to find more about that.
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Also, what might trigger the 'bug' somehow legitimately after a factory reset, especially if on Wi-Fi, syncing programs might start resyncing everything all over again. Of course you may choose what to sync, and anyways when everything is done your battery life should be fine again.

One thing to at least rule other issues out and confirm the cell standby 'bug', put your phone in airplane mode, you can keep the Wi-Fi on though, you should see that battery life is greatly improved.
[Xperia Z5 General] sylwester.cz:
After the factory reset I did not install any apps so the phone was like out of the box. I guess there was not much to be synced.

Tonight I will charge it to 100% and put on airplane mode and will see tomorrow morning the results.

( how annoying it is that I was on 32.0.A.6.200 firmware and even before on 32.0.A.6.152... and have not had any battery issues until that lovely 2nd update of 32.0.A.6.200 :mad: )
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Lastly, after the airplane mode test, provided that goes fine, you can troubleshoot some more the data connection. There are several things I'd do. Firstly, double check your carrier's apn settings. Then, if you're like me and mostly using 4g, there's an option in service menu's radio preferences that's not available under normal settings menu, I chose lte, wcdma and since I did that I got a slightly better signal. That should help (having good signal) with that draining bug.

Lastly, I assume even with no user app installed, there are still google services that might cause it. Just give it a few days, it should eventually settle. Myself, I had huge drains, usually caused by background sync (such as Google photos, which is part of the google framework, unless you disable it on purpose). I also had trouble with media scanner having trouble with too many photos on my sdcard, so I just deleted them and instructed photos to not sync cloud stuff anymore.

Good luck

Update: not sure makes a huge difference, I enabled queue background transfers in power mgmt settings
[Xperia Z5 General] sylwester.cz:
So yesterday evening I charged my Z5 to 100%, turned on airplane mode and when I woke up at 7 I had still 100%. Right now at 10.30 I am at 75%. I decided I will not do any more investigations/settings change/etc as whatever I do I will not fix the bug, maybe only minimize it a bit (also I use the same settings, apps etc since the start). It is clearly software issue and I am not going to accept it in the long run, especially that:

- on 32.0.A.6.152 battery was great, no issues at all, overnight battery drop by 3-5% (even from the 1st turning on the phone)

- on 32.0.A.6.200 - (original update) battery was great, no issues at all, overnight battery drop by 3-5% (after update from ..152 was no battery issues at all)

- on 32.0.A.6.200 - (2nd update on 10th Feb) - overnight battery drain by 25%-30% - not acceptable.

Someone on the forum tried to flash with another firmware and it did not help. I will wait for Marshmallow - if the issues will not be fixed then my journey with Android will come to an end, even if I do not want it as I really like my Z5.
[Xperia Z5 General] Sckank:
Here's mine average. My max was about 3h but it reports 3.5h as an average. Guess I have the salw bug as so many hours. I got the phone back from repair a couple of days ago but it's the same as always.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
I see all who have bad network coverage has bad battery life too.