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[Xperia Z5 General] komnaspap:
Hey guys,

coming from an iphone 5, its battery was nowhere near these counts. My Z5 is doing a great job of lasting a whole day and i usually have to charge it at night with always 10%-20% battery left. But even though i am satisfied from my device, i see on the thread some amazing 5-7 SOTs which i have never reached. I am around 3-3.5 hours of SOT and that makes me wonder what am i doing wrong.

I have read all about the bug and my cell standly uses about 7% of 100%. Still cant deside if my devise is "infected" or its the usual thing.

So i was hoping for some tips on how to make the battery last longer. I am not using Stamina as i didnt see much of a difference. My wifi is always on and i use 4G one hour/day. I have searched many blogs for tips and have done pretty much anything i could find. Would be great if anyone could help. Thanks.

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[Xperia Z5 General] jamiehooper89:
I have Z5

I get no more than 2 hours if im lucky and its overheating and bent but the screen has not yet cracked is anyone else had this?
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
Yeah i get around 3-4 hours SOT over 1-2 days. With the cell standby usually consuming 9-12% of battery. That is pretty average for this phone. Which is still good, but not as good as previous Xperia phones.

Sony told me to expect averages of 3.5-4 hrs in a single day to be the standard.

The cell standby issue is a Lollipop bug, along with the mobile radio active bug. Im just hoping and praying that Marshmallow will fix this when it does get released OTA.
[Xperia Z5 General] Mario.D:
Skickat från min E6653 via Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 General] E5823:
Here's mine, Z5C:

Mobila data off, auto brightness off, stock rom, no root.

Brightness setting of around 40% contributes to good SOT.
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Can't compare with z5c, but good enough for me, since a few hours of this is music listening via bt. Also radio on all the time, auto brightness, on stock software. Also one hour or so of playing ticket to ride late last nite.
[Xperia Z5 General] E5823:
My phone's battery capacity has pretty significantly improved - compare to two posts up from about a week ago.

Two days ago:

Yesterday:

Today:

Z5Compact, same usage as in above post. One thing that may have changed is I now have GSM as default network, I cannot remember if last week I already had it set or if it was on 3G(preferred)/GSM? In any case, that would make a small difference, GSM signal is quite a bit stronger at my house, but not nearly enough to explain such a big improvement in endurance.

So, what else has changed? A few more apps, potentially further taxing battery. Have exchanged a couple of apps for others that are better and also less resource heavy, a small gain. And one app that seems to have really made most of this huge difference: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.netguard&hl=en

Apart from being a really well built app with a very engaged and present developer behind it (no relation or association), and potentially really useful for privacy and user control, it has worked wonders for the battery drain. Blocking or limiting bloatware and some system app's (looking at you Google) access to network is behind most of this improvement. Most apps are set to only have access to network with screen on, others blocked from access completely, and some system apps and a few user apps have unlimited access. It's a working, configurable firewall that does NOT require root, so great for us not-quite-expert users who are wary or unwilling or uninterested in rooting and custom kernels and ROMs and sofort.

My user case is particular as I have mobile data always off, wifi almost always on, location off, don't use the telephone for calling much, don't play games, hardly use bluetooth, use the camera a little but usually don't shoot video, keep screen brightness relatively low. I am however a heavy user; browsing, email, different kinds of apps, some music/podcast playing. I was relatively happy with 6.5-7 hours of SOT like I used to get. Now regularly getting around 9 or more is pretty damn good.

Try this out, it could be great for your privacy as well as battery!

Also, for very general no-root battery usage tips check out this if you haven't already: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60425086&postcount=2
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
This app look at you too lol
[Xperia Z5 General] mrc77:
Z5

In stamina mode

Auto brightness

Wifi on and of from time
[Xperia Z5 General] InFlames03:
Xperia Z5 Premium

The most I've got is 6 hrs 30 mins of Screen on Time with Stamina Mode (minus Extended Usage and Stamina Clock) while listening to music over Bluetooth most of the time and heavy use.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
I only get 2 hours and 40 mins screen time? Is this the bug on lollipop or something wrong with my device? I used to get 4hrs before. I even reached 6hrs once with same usage.

I notice that massive battery drop happens when the screen is on aswell. Also eats a lot even if I'm just listening to walkman with the screen on,
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
When you say you used to get 6hrs, was that on your Z5 or another device? Because anything between 3-4 hours screen on time with moderate usage is quite standard for this phone.

Maybe the Mm update can also provide longer battery life?
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
MAX SOT I got on this phone was 6hrs when it was still new last December, but started draining quicker the past few weeks. I updated the software when I got it and that's the last time I updated it.
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
Start by ruling out any other problems with your phone such as actually having a bad battery, which I don't think, but just in case :

Put your phone in airplane mode and try to determine the battery usage. If it's OK, enable the Wi-Fi only. That will reveal maybe some sync issues. Keep a record of screenshots on both these modes and let us know if you need further help.

If Wi-Fi in airplane mode works fine though, there are a number of things you can do to improve the radio. There's a only radio reset that you can do, otherwise factory reset. If none works, maybe the radio signal quality is really bad so you might wanna change the radio mode. Good luck
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
Will do, meanwhile, I changed the preferred network to 3g instead of lte, it didn't help much.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Ur notification bar is full, this wont let the phone go in deep sleep.
[Xperia Z5 General] VaanClancy:
With wifi on MM 7h SOT , with 3G/LTE only 4h max.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
Got this on almost purely flight mode. I was testing it by just reading a book. I ran out of things to read so I turned WiFi on at the end bit. Is this reasonable for purely flight mode?
[Xperia Z5 General] a00r:
compact or z5?
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
Z5
[Xperia Z5 General] millicent:
I got same 8 hours sot on airplane mode with Wi-Fi. You might try it too, should yield approximately same time.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
:( I did airplane mode with WiFi but got only ~3hrs. I Got rid of most of the apps I have to isolate the problem. Last screenshot shows the apps I have downloaded from the play store.
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
Something is not letting your phone from sleeping. You have lot of wakelocks when screen off.

Maybe do a factory reset or repair ur phone with xperia companion.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
I just did that before doing this test. I used the repair software from Sony companion a few days ago
[Xperia Z5 General] tOrNadO™:
Remove the gsam battery monitor. Try to use good apps that conserve battery such as Amplify or greenify.. ;)
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
I did a full software repair using Sony Companion after updating to MM and my battery usages were quite horrid for a about a week, before the phone settled down. I think the phone is working extra hard to optimize apps (if you have MM) and also to re-learn how you use your phone.

Just use my phone for one week normally without worrying too much about the battery. If it doesn't improve than it is either a rogue app, or something else that is keeping your phone awake.

For me, I had a very similar issue as you do and something was constantly keeping my phone awake and the Android OS would always have a very high "keep awake" reading. I narrowed it down to my WiFi at my University. Whenever i connect to my uni WiFi my phone just would not go to sleep. So deleting the Uni WiFi from my phone (By actually resetting all network preferences) seemed to fix my issues. Now i get decent 2 day battery life.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
Im currently still on lollipop. I used to get pretty good battery life before(I got to 5+ hours SOT) then it suddenly dropped to just around 2-3hrs. I havent installed any apps at all aside from the one on the screenshot. I dont think GSam uses much battery as well as some people here use it and get decent battery life.

one thing I notice though is that when I charge my phone, as it approach 100%, charging slows down a lot. I use an aukey Quick Charge 3.0 charger, and charging up to around 90%, it charges quite quick, but after that it slows down a lot. seems like 90-100% takes like 30 mins. and when I was using the factory charger(1.5A from sony), there are times it gets stuck at 93%. I'm thinking maybe its a battery problem, but I dont really know.
[Xperia Z5 General] a00r:
from 0 to 100% how long can you use your phone for?
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
On flight mode, it lasted 2 days, 8hrs SOT, flight mode with WiFi, lasted 1 day, 2hr 40m SOT
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
From my understanding, It is very normal for chargers to slowdown charging once they reach over 90%. This is to prevent damage to the battery. Especially quick chargers which do charge quickly until they reach 90% and then they slow down. Maybe someone who is more educated about how charging a battery works can explain in more detail

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That doesn't sound like a battery issue to me. Its sounds to me like your WiFi is playing up or you do have a rogue app

TBH 3-4 hours of SOT is pretty average for this phone. Also i would NOT be using SOT as a measure for battery life.

Try charging the phone to 100%, restarting the phone into safe mode and then use the phone normally until it reaches 10% and see how your battery goes.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
SOT, might not be the best indication of battery life but I think its the best one to base upon since its the screen that eats most of the battery. IMO. and seeing that people usually get 3+hours, even 5+ hours out of their screens on the same device and I can barely get 3hours(unless on flight mode which is ridiculous since I cant even do anything apart from reading a book or play games), its quite frustrating really, since I paid a premium price for this phone haha. but yea, thats why im trying to figure out why. Ill try it on safe mode then.

Thanks for the input! :)
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
Do you have location reporting/history and Wifi scanning turned on by any chance? These run in the background and can chew through your battery even with the screen switched off.

But see how you go with safe mode. When i was having battery issues, i tested the phone out in safe mode and got excellent battery life.
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
I left everything stock to be honest. I didnt bother changing any of the settings. so location reporting might be on, and wifi scanning too, unless they are off from factory.

what kind of battery life do you get on safemode?
[Xperia Z5 General] milanelo:
Updated to 6.0 10 days ago and the battery life is pretty bad, even compared to 5.1.1. And that's ridiculous. Tried to test the battery - with mobile data on, with 30% brightness and with very light usage, 4 calls averaging around 25 minutes and 4-5 minutes of browsing for two days the battery dropped with 30%. On Lollipop i would still be on 80%. Sony shot themselves in the foot with the removal of stamina mode and i hope that the rumours for the return of stamina in an April update are true, otherwise that will be my last Sony phone.
[Xperia Z5 General] hansip87:
try a clean flash and clean start. My Z5P acts like that on first firmware (with restored backup from XZU) but after flashing the second time with clean install, it is better.
[Xperia Z5 General] milanelo:
First, i updated through PCC, 3 days later i did a clean install and reinstalled all my apps. There is no change in the battery life. Sony ****ed up pretty bad removing the stamina mode as it was one of their distinctive features. This whole 6.0 update is battery atrocious and useless and doze is absolutely useless compared to stamina. During the night on 6.0 i lose 5-6% with mobile data on, on 5.1.1. the percentage was in the range 0-2%. Even my older Z1 and Z2 both on 5.1.1. easily beat the 6.0 on Z5.
[Xperia Z5 General] brysonwong:
Bad battery life on 5.1.1. I've switched off WiFi scanning in advanced setting already too. Don't understand why is my WiFi still draining my battery even though I've switched it off?
[Xperia Z5 General] chrisftlse:
Here my result in a poor network coverage area...

Very pleased with it ?
[Xperia Z5 General] Allek84:
The battery is great for me on sitem 6.0

1 day and about 5 hours uptime and 4h 45 min display time and still left 28 % ;)

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[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Z5 or z5c?
[Xperia Z5 General] Allek84:
Z5 regular ;)
[Xperia Z5 General] grana92:
Very Bad Screen Time

Hey everyone, can someone please tell me what the hell is going on with my device? My battery can't last more than 16-20 hours of medium usage. And the screen (with adaptive brightness ON) is not even in the top 3 battery users. I took screens and basically it's similar every single day which is hilarious since were talking about a device that is praised for its long battery life.

I have this problem since day one (so to say) and what I tried so far is 2 factory resets and one software reinstall using the Sony PC Companion. I didn't try to get it fixed because that takes at least 3 weeks in Croatia for them to inspect and "fix" the device and I really need it every day.

So can you please tell me your opinions? Marshmallow didn't arrive yet to Xperias in Croatia and if there is no other option, should I wait for MM or get the device fixed/replaced immediately?

Aside from the poor battery life the device works perfectly, I'm 100% satisfied with everything except the battery.

Screenshots on this link: "https: //goo.gl/photos/NVevCndUSZnhNgJx7" (remove quotas and space)

Note that the top battery usage apps are screened in their info and the entire list from the Screen and bellow is after them.

I am eagerly waiting for a response. I really don't want to have a "broken" device :crying:
[Xperia Z5 General] mik_1995xp:
I was having the same issue as you, I even tried safe mode, and I still get below average(from what I've seen here, average should 3-5hrs for screen) usage time. I sent mine for repair, its been a week now and I havent got word from them yet
[Xperia Z5 General] Eienkei:
After 185 update (MM), I got 8 hours SOT while streaming movie via Wifi on regular Dual Sim Z5!

That's amazing!
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
Same here, I find after the 185 update that my battery is lasting me longer. I charged the phone up to 95% about 2 days ago, with my normal usage, I got 4hrs 15min SOT. If I charged to 100% and depleted phone to 5% i reckon I would have gotten closer to 4.5 - 5hours SOT.

This usage includes plenty of streaming spotify via Bluetooth to a speaker which was connected almost all day. A lot of YouTube videos, instagram, some games and chrome browsing. And a mix of 4G and WiFi. Usually i would get about 3-3.5 hours of SOT with this type of usage.

Also I live in a low coverage area, as you can see by the large amount of yellow/orange.

Also, throughout much of my extended usage, the phone never got hot. Just warm which was barely noticeable to.

Pretty happy :)
[Xperia Z5 General] grana92:
Mate did you have SoT issues before or is your Xperia working as it should since the beginning?
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
Yep. When i initially got the phone, I was getting pretty horrid battery life. The phone would not last me a full day and would get SOT's always under 2.5 hrs. I had the mobile radio active bug too.

Once I updated to Marshmallow, I did a clean install (Repaired the software using PC Companion). I was still getting pretty poor bad battery, but this is kind of expected because once you start from fresh, the phone needs to "re-learn" your usage, and after 1 week of me just using the phone normally the battery started to pick up significantly.

However, My battery woes were not because of my device, but actually I found it is due to the WiFi at my University. When ever I use the WiFi at uni, even the eduroam network (which is a global academic network), my phone would constantly stay awake refusing to sleep and the battery depletes very quickly, even in standby.

So at Uni, I use strictly 3G/4G, at home I use my own home WiFi (which works nicely) and I get usages similar to what I got in my post. The only Issues I have now is the poor reception, but thats due to my carrier.

Have you tried turning off WiFi and use the phone strictly on 3G/4G?

I recommend you try that, and even try booting the phone in Safe Mode and see how your battery goes. Charge the phone to 100%, boot the phone into Safe Mode, deplete the battery to around 10% and see if you get any improvements.

EDIT: I noticed in your previous post, that you said you performed 2 factory resets and a software repair. Its important to remember that doing this will not automatically give you good battery life since the phone will be using more battery to set up app, back ups, and "re-learn" your usage. You need to use the phone normally for at least 1 week after a software repair
[Xperia Z5 General] c0des:
I have the exact same issue with my Z5 and my wifi network at university, good to hear i am not the only one. If i leave wifi on, andriod OS will keep my phone awake downloading via wifi constantly. I just changed the setting so that wifi turns off when sleeping to avoid this. Although i still only get around 3 hours SOT over 2 days. I even disabled 4G and removed facebook app to try save on battery, you could try 3G only to see if you get better coverage?

I have clean install of marshmellow.
[Xperia Z5 General] grana92:
I'm aware of the fact that it takes some time for the device to "get to know you" after a clean install or f/reset. I did wait and see but still my battery life is poor compared to others.. As far as I've seen I do have the freaking mobile radio bug and I've noticed that voice calls consume a massive part of my battery. In the battery stats, voice calls (around 1h and 30m of talking) consumes around 30% of the battery which is ridiculous..

About the WiFi thing.. Did anyone manage to pinpoint the exact reason why is WiFi using so much battery? Note that I have disabled WiFi "Scanning Always Available" and "Network Notification" (more because of the annoying popups than of battery).

Is it maybe because of the DHCP? Something else? Anyone?

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My 4G is always disabled because the signal in my town (and country in general) is terrible, while 3G signal is great. + the 4G speeds here are not above 20Mb/s which I really don't need and there's no point to force the device into a constant struggle to get 4G signal
[Xperia Z5 General] ross23:
I would try a couple of things to troubleshoot your phone:

Try using the phone only on 3G without connecting to WiFi. Or if you must use WiFi then select "never" in the 'keep WiFi on during sleep' option in WiFi settings.

Charge the phone to 100% and restart the phone into SafeMode (hold down the power button until the Menu to power off the phone comes on, and then long press the "power off" button until you get the option to boot into SafeMode). use the phone as you normally would in SafeMode until you get down to around 10% and see how good your battery life is then

Booting into safe-mode disables all third party apps, so you can determine if your battery issues are due to a rogue third party app, or maybe due to your device.

Let us know how you go.
[Xperia Z5 General] ninjy:
Looks like Google ****ed Play services again. I have battery draining again since last week. Wiped my phone but still the same ****...

All my apps are always closed and memory free up with clean master.
[Xperia Z5 General] djurkash:
I am a Z3+ owner, but the issues are similar across the whole Xperia Z lineup...

What I found so far is that some Wi-Fi routers are really causing drain vs. others. Here, best advice I can give is to turn keep the Wi-Fi off when phone is sleeping in the settings...But with some routers, even this is not helping, as phone doesn't get into sleep mode.

Second, mobile data is also big drainer, especially if the device is on idle, and the signal is weak, bit Android is still doing the sync, which in such circumstances drains the battery a lot.

Next thing is location services, turn them off, especially turn off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning in location settings.

Bear in mind that some apps are really power hungry like Facebook in case of [MENTION=4090762]grana92[/MENTION] .

In my case it's mixed picture and I get between 4 and 5h SOT, on 1.5 day, as it's the case in below picture (yesterday's and today's use), but it's some light use without any gaming, and lot of browsing, with brightness on some 25-30%...

Bottom line, I believe this 2h of Android OS is keeping the phone awaken, can be shrunk, with some tricks such as tasker, and as soon as I test this I'll let you know...

Sent from E6533
[Xperia Z5 General] TimAhKin:
Recently my phone never goes to sleep. :)

Google Play Services is keeping my phone awake all day all night. Anyone with same issue?
[Xperia Z5 General] Envious_Data:
:D
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
How did you do that??!!!!
[Xperia Z5 General] TimAhKin:
Meh.
[Xperia Z5 General] Envious_Data:
Ive modified the corectl to allow the little cores to turn off and the big cores to fully turn off

Meaning there is no wasted battery on cpus being online

(the screenshot above are from without modified corectl parameters)
[Xperia Z5 General] Wess.a:
Guide please and how is the performance now?
[Xperia Z5 General] Envious_Data:
Ive noticed if you allow the small cores to entirely turn off it can glitch out and become extremly laggy but if you set both big and little to have a minimum of 1 core each then there is literally no noticable lag aside a few small stutters here and there which usually arent there in stock but i'd prefer battery over super fluid UI

I am going to make a performance and battery related thread in the

general

section as well as planning to make a all you need to know thread in the QnA section soon so look out for those.
[Xperia Z5 General] ricodredd:
I've noticed that Bluetooth audio stutters when the CPU is under fairly minor load. Do you have BT headphones to test this scenario under this CPU core profile you have?

Thanks.
[Xperia Z5 General] Envious_Data:
i have a bluetooth speaker somewhere around here which ill try soon.

---------- Post added at 07:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 PM ----------

i wrote this guide as ive been wanting to for a bit and it answers your question :D

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z5/general/root-required-performance-battery-t3376233

im playing some music via my bluetooth speaker and not noticing any, im intentionally opening apps and closing apps, it did take a very long while to descover my bt speaker though

anyhoo im going to stop replying to questions on this thread, its somewhat off topic as is and im pretty sure thats against rule 16 of the xda forum rules ;)
[Xperia Z5 General] Allek84:
Sent from Sony Xperia Z5