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[XPERIA X10 General] instigator008:
I am at 31 hours now with 10% left. Very happy now after about two weeks. I have settled on Taskpanel and JuiceDefender. Wifi is set to sleep when the screen turns off.

I use the phone fairly often for email and surfing (google sync always on) but very little voice calling. Some music while jogging.
[XPERIA X10 General] imugur:
Yesterday I installed an update from SEUS. After fully charging it, I turned off wifi, data and all apps. After 12 hours my battery is at 92%

Mugur

http://mugur-ionescu.ro/tag/xperia
[XPERIA X10 General] ShadowFlare:
My X10's battery is behaving rather weird now. I went to bed last night with the phone at 37% charge left, woke up 8 hours later and it's at 41%. No, it's not plugged in, in fact, this has happened quite consistently the last few days.

So when it does this, then I start using the phone again, after a minute or two, the battery indicator will change back to 37% and will drain at a faster rate. Have used 2 different battery indicator app, both behaving the same.

Think I'll drain the battery till it switches off by itself, see how that goes. I have been resetting the phone to factory defaults a few times 2 days ago, trying to pin point a problem, maybe the OS needs battery calibration.
[XPERIA X10 General] ratheen:
losing interest?

so i have tried everything in this long chain.

but most of it is about making the x10 into a dumb phone, which is not why i bought it.

so over the last few days i have had almost everything "on" GPS to when needed, screen on Auto, 3G pref and auto sync

i get about 14-16 hours.

however one of the last few posts here had a note to:

1: reboot the phone after a full charge, i don't know why, but it helped me

2: remove the standard Micro SD card (which is class 6) and replace with another one, i replaced it with a Class 2 (which is supposed to be worse)

both of these steps helped me.
[XPERIA X10 General] ratheen:
which version did you update to?
[XPERIA X10 General] Purehazard:
Turned everything off except 2G on my phone around 10PM last night. I even turned the ringer off. Used Advanced Task Killer to close everything except ATK itself and CallFilter. It went from 38% to nothing by 6:30AM.

I've done 3 full drain and full recharges on this phone so far. I think I've only done one full reboot though. I may have to try that. Issue I have is that it takes 6 1/2 hours to recharge regardless if it's plugged into the computer or the wall.

EDIT: The first thing I did when I got the phone was to drain the battery (it was at 60%) so I'm not sure if that screwed it. :(
[XPERIA X10 General] cashaw:
For the past week whenever I have recharged it to 100%, I have then rebooted it. The phone has then worked for 24+ hours without needing a re-charge with relatively high usage.

This morning I forgot to do a reboot after charging and within 3 hours the battery was down to 75%. I recharged it to 100%, did a reboot and now 5 hours later it is still on 95%.

So for me anyway, the reboot is the key part of the process to keep the phone going for long periods after a recharge, I have location services on, use Moxier mail, but do not use task killers or Juice Defenders. The battery life is fine for me, even if it is a little erratic.
[XPERIA X10 General] noblackthunder:
i dint read mutch of the post's her but as far as i can tel .. with alot of use my phone holds atleast a day ( and i talk about hole time 3g(facebook/xda) hear musick over bluetoth, and forgot that i had on gps or wifi but it still last a day at least .. my recharge takes only 2 houers as mutch as i can tell. and yes i use task killer to but i make exaption that non of the program get kill that are startet at boot ... cant understand it .. meybe there is somthing wrong with the hardware or you resseler has mest some how with the phone software? its at least not normal to recharge batteri 2 times a day with liddel use.
[XPERIA X10 General] Vin87:
It seems that Juicedefender (and thus 3G) hasn't got a big impact on the batterylife, although Juicefender states that the battery life has been improved by 2.04 times. With Juicedefender I just cross the 48 hour mark before the 'you have to recharge the battery because it's only at 15%' message kicks in. The same applies without Juicedefender.
[XPERIA X10 General] figofigo:
guys please helppppppppppppppppppppp

i have taskpanel to kil moxier mail + face recon + ......

and have startup auditor to disabled moxier mail

when it is in standby loose 1 or 2% per hour and it is okkkkkkk

but when i am using it it loose 20% per hour or more !!!!

i am using wifi only browsing , playing , timescape , mediascape !!! is this normal ?

if i play with it for 2 or 3 hours battery become 30% !!!!
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
I tried this morning, rebooting after pulling it off the charger. It lost 1% charge in the hour between doing so and connecting it to my laptop at work to tether. Now that it's tethered, it's sat level at 96% charge for the past 3.5 hours (whereas is usually slowly loses charge when tethered).

So - though I'll need to do more testing over the next few days - rebooting the X10 after pulling it from the charger definitely seems to help. It shouldn't, but it does.
[XPERIA X10 General] cashaw:
Great ! Hope it continues to work for you. Currently after a 15 hour day between recharges (and bed!) my battery is only falling to about 50% so that is good enough for me.....

Although battery drain does seem to accelerate when it is under 50%....

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[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
Cool.

Cashaw, have you contacted SE about your findings? It really comes across as either a bug or some other sort of issue that this works, and as such may be something they can fix in a future patch.

I'll be emailing them once I've had a few days to test this on my own, but the more who contact them the better.
[XPERIA X10 General] Purehazard:
I have unplugged my X10a for exactly 24 hours now after a full charge (I've done a full discharge and recharge 4 times now). In those 24 hours:

-3G data on for about an hour of browsing

-BT on for about 2 hours while driving

-About 1.5 hours of talk time

-Watched about 20 minutes of MP4 video in Mediascape

-Brightness set to auto

-WiFi and GPS off the whole time

-About 15 minutes of gaming

-Made sure I used Advanced Task Killer to shut down all apps after each use

Currently 58% battery remaining after the above 24 hours of use and standby.

Battery use says:

Cell standby - 38%

Phone idle - 36%

BT - 13%

Voice calls - 8%

Display - 4%

Android System - 3%

Far from scientific but seem acceptable to me. I leave 3G data off since I don't have any important updates I have to check right away.
[XPERIA X10 General] Bialynia:
WiFi kills the battery, as does GPS. If you are constantly using it and have the screen on for an hour with streaming media or games that use the processor then 20% usage seems reasonable.
[XPERIA X10 General] gmarcoux:
So I tried the whole power cycle thing after charging somewhat skepticaly but holy CRAP! after 16hrs I still have 65% battery with relatively heavy use connected to WIFI almost the entire time. I don't know why it works but it's at least doubled my battery life (likely more)
[XPERIA X10 General] imugur:
I have now R1FA016. Anyway, Wifi, GPS and Data connections are eating most of the battery. If you don't use them all time disable them. I had the phone on for almost 3 days without them!

Mugur

http://mugur-ionescu.ro/tag/xperia
[XPERIA X10 General] tuxStyle:
Well, i can live without GPS but why in hell i bought smartphone if i keep WIFI/3G (data) disabled ? :)
[XPERIA X10 General] dubdec99:
I think what Mugur meant was disable them when you don't require them thus saving battery juice...however this may not suit your needs
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
I leave my GPS turned off most of the time, as I have a car GPS, and spend most of my time in the city. If I need/want to use some functions that require the GPS (such as using My Tracks to track my route as I go for walks), I simply turn it on via the widget.

For WiFi I generally leave it off as well, as even when at home I tend to use my 3 connection (it's adequately fast for most uses and I have a 6GB plan so data usage isn't a problem). However, I do have JuiceDefender (with UltimateJuice) enabled and set to disable WiFi automatically when out of range of an available network. Just in case.
[XPERIA X10 General] Deadmon:
Just chirping in here..

Got my x10a from Rogers last week, ran one full discharge on it.

Unplugged Monday morning around 7:40 am, and it finally drained Wednesday around 9 pm. That's an astounding 62ish hours! I disabled some background services, not many though. I had wifi on after work, (5pm to about 7am next morning), did some heavy surfing and app downloading, and even fiddled a bit with GPS and Google on Tuesday. I made about 4 calls in those 3 days, which is why it lasted longer than it should've, but I'm still damn impressed.
[XPERIA X10 General] Purehazard:
Well, I'm just past the 48 hour mark and my phone battery is now at 15%. Since I'm around computers all day, I don't have WiFi or 3G on much. Maybe a total of 1.4 hours of 3G, 3.5 hours of talk and maybe 5 hours of BT on over the 48 hours? Not bad.
[XPERIA X10 General] habs101:
returning my second rogers one tomorrow

same as the first one i had issue battery life is horrible.

i took off the charger at 750pm two hours ago

i sent 15 sms.

i checked hotmail twice

turned off 3g,

wifi and gps all off.

spoke twice on the phone for 15 minutes

and once to *611 for 5 minutes

and my battery from 100% is at 79% at 10pm

thats pretty Horrible.

its not a smart phone if you have to turn off all the smart features or can't use ur phone as aphone because battery drains so fast.
[XPERIA X10 General] noblackthunder:
have you ever used an htc phone wit same hardware or the iphone? tjey drain batteri . the iphone is worst. had it draint comoletly empy in 2 houers without even touching the phone after a full recharge. thats bad and not tgis phone !!! even with every thing on and havy use it last 12houers not like the iåhon thats died after 2 houers standby ( had to disabel everything on the iphone to.last at least a work day!)

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[XPERIA X10 General] kruwreka:
OK am I the only person who's had a great experience with the battery?

I got the phone yesterday at 1pm. The box was sealed with the two Sony stickers and everything inside the box was factory wrapped once I opened it.

I installed the battery with no sim card and just let it charge. The white LED disappeared around 4pm and I unplugged it. Took it home and started playing with it at around 6pm with with the wonder of a complete noob. I tried and changed every setting I could just to see what it would do (BTW changing the language setting without knowing the language, not a good thing). I was up till 3:30am playing with it. Installing apps and trying them out. Installing swype and testing it out. Repeatedly connecting to my wifi and trying to connect to the GPS.

Took the phone with me to work today and showed it off to my boss. Sent out two dozen text during the day and made about 4 calls each lasting about 3 or 4 minutes. Took several pictures with the LED light going. Send a few email out with large picture attachments. Let my friend play with it for about 10 minutes. And finally at about 6pm tonight did it give me the 15% remaining warning and then it took till 9:30pm of full use in an attempt to drain the battery for the phone finally shut itself off.

Basically it lasted me close to 30 hours from full charge to full drain.
[XPERIA X10 General] habs101:
yep i have used htc lots of times

i also have the nexus one which i can get 12 hours daily out , or more.

it doesn't drop 20% after such a small activity that i know for a fast

somethign else is draining the x10 maybe the core
[XPERIA X10 General] iead1:
First time to post, but I've been following this thread from the beginning.

I used to have the terrible battery life everyone else has been complaining about...having to charge the phone after only 5 hours.... then one day, magically, the battery lasted 36 hours.... with heavy use.

Since that day, I can go a full 24 hours or so with heavy use of the browser, 5 minute checks for email, sending several emails, and playing media....don't use task killer anymore, and I leave data and GPS on.

I have build number R1EA018, on NTT Docomo.
[XPERIA X10 General] imugur:
Battery

Guys,

The good thing with this phone is that it uses the same battery as Xperia X1 (1500mA) so in case you are an SE fan and it happened that you bought in the past the X1 (like me :p), you are saved, you have 2 batteries already. Long story short: If you use radio resources heavy your battery will die fast! Just make sure that you disable them (wifi, data, gps, bt) when you don't need them!

Mugur

http://mugur-ionescu.ro/tag/xperia
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
No, it's not that easy.

Of course if you have WiFi enabled it will drain battery, and of course if you have push mail it will drain battery too.

However having a smartphone and NOT using push mail and data connection renders USELESS having the smartphone.

Now, I would like to have at least a full day with medium usage, but now I have to recharge nightly and in the afternoon, and with low usage (no BT, absolutely no WiFi, not using it as a media player, just a couple of SMSs and push email over 3G data connection)... that's not acceptable.
[XPERIA X10 General] Astral07:
heh, i don't know...i've managed to "stabilize" the battery and when idle it's loosing 1-1.5% an hour and when heavily used it can hold from morning till midnight no problem, so it's not so bad for me
[XPERIA X10 General] saltorio:
Have you tried rebooting the phone after pulling it from the charger in the morning?

I have found that helps alot with preserving charge over the course of the day. Not sure why.
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
Hi - Sounds to me like you may have a faulty handset.. I'm not using push mail.. syncing every hour, which is enough for me.. I've left my wifi on all day today.. and 14 hours later it's down to 65% remaining.. have surfed a little sent a few texts and watched a bit of video.. Install Juice plotter (if you haven't already) - it will show you what your phones doing with the batter whilst the display is off.. it should stabilise down to c.1% an hour.. if it's not then there might be something running in the background which is preventing the phone from acquiescing... if not.. then sounds like a fault.

I'm using task manager and startup auditor to keep a few things at bay (like moxier).. but not using juice defender as I think it was actually causing more trouble than good in the end...
[XPERIA X10 General] soeuriffin:
battery

I love the phone but I hate battery so do we have any fix, I have used htc touch hd after I cook a new rom it is long life batter maybe we have to cook too
[XPERIA X10 General] rknuette:
face recognition service

I have noticed the face recognition service running in the background as a battery drainer. When this service runs, the battery heats um and the CPU usage rises up to 47%.

When killing this task, the battary cools down.

Regards,

Rudi
[XPERIA X10 General] mynameispaul:
how do you turn face recongnition off.??

also my 3g symbol seems to flash on & off all day? anyone else have this? is it normal? i have turned all background data etc off.
[XPERIA X10 General] rknuette:
I've installed a Task Manager and kill the task manually.
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
If I've a faulty phone, also the dozens of people posting in this forum have faulty phones. I don't think so. I'm forced to use push mail, because the GMail app could not be configured to periodically check the mail (or, if it is possible, I haven't figured out how). I'm using Battery Graph to track battery usage. It is really consistent to what others have posted.
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
Recap

This thread is getting longer and longer, but the life of my battery is still unacceptable: about 10% per hour. This is without BT, without WiFi, 3G and data connection always on, and GMail in push mode.

I'm using stock not branded and not locked R1DA014 firmware, European/Italian version, baseband 1.0.14.

I would recap some attempts I've made and some urban myths found in the thread:

- Battery improving after some power cycles: I've not experienced any noticeable improvement since I've purchased the phone.

- Disable push mail: of course, this helps a bit. No matters if the push mail is Moxier or GMail, it is obvious that push mail drains battery. However, GMail is one of the top reasons for me to use Android, and it is not possible to have a scheduled mail check, only push :(

- Disable data connection: disabling APN improves battery life, but not as much as I've expected. Of course disabling APN in a smartphone renders the smartphone useless, I would go back to my Ericsson T28 instead...

- Removing SD card: improved a bit, but not so much.

- Airplane mode: surprisingly the battery still drains too fast!

- Reboot after full charge: no improvement.

I find inexplicable people telling very good battery life. This means that either these people are cheating, or there are a LOT of phone with hardware issues and a FEW unaffected.

Can all you share your mileage?
[XPERIA X10 General] wai_lai416:
i've managed a day and a half on my phone with moderate usage. 1.5hrs listening to songs on mediascape. timescape update every 30mins, occasionally check scores, and facebook. and some online games that i check once every hr or so for a few mins. i kill all the task with advance task killer once i'm done. at first my phone's battery life is similar to what you have.. but i no longer have that problem. i dunno how you can say only a few ppl are unaffected as most of them that complained about battery life seems to have gotten over the problem with the exception of you.
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
I'm sooo happy that you have solved your battery issues. I'm sooo sorry that I've bothered you with my stupid question about my battery still draining, as I'm the only exception that has not solved the issue. My apologies and thank you for your valuable help.

By the way, I dunno how you can say that most of the people that were affected by the battery issue have solved the problems. I think that only few people have now reasonable battery life. I think that we have still not figured the root cause of the issue. I think that we have still not identified certain workarounds.

So I think it's time to recap as the thread is very long. Not only for "the only exceptions" like me, but also for the people that has just bought the phone.
[XPERIA X10 General] proatiku:
i do second you, my battery life is still unacceptable. its a disgrace as a matter of fact. i have to use two batteries for a day and i have nothing running besides gmail. i do listen to music, but not for more than 45mins - 1hour. and am using GSM only connection
[XPERIA X10 General] Bikram:
Has anyone considered this, http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...xperia-x1-1800mah-extra-eros-akkumulator.html ???
[XPERIA X10 General] wai_lai416:
perhaps try updating to another firmware.. and make sure you backup the original firmware just in case you want to switch back. is ur gps disabled? i make sure mine is off unless i turn on google map. gps eats up a lot of battery
[XPERIA X10 General] yoshik777:
@Bikram it wont solve battery problem. Its only 20% bigger than normal one, mine now can work at really medium usage ( music,3g data in back) for 5-6 hours, so this one more hour is a laugh. Wont make any difference.

SE f***ed the X10 with this battery. If this stays like this im gonna think about changing it to Legend or Desire.

For a smartphone to work only half of a day is completely not acceptable.

I cant imagine how to use it in normal life with this short battery life. Making calls sendind texts etc. without two additional batteries You can forget about it.

I remember that i laugh about mine friends N95 that he needed to have two batteries just in case, now i know how does it feel.

@wai_lai416 a doubt that other firmware will change something. It just looks that SE did something to android which makes it like that. I played a lot with my friends Hero and it didnt had any problems like that, but on the other hand look at android ported to WinMo devices, they had the same problem, short battery life. So it can be a problem with f**** core or other files, at least this is what i think.

I did send a message to SE about that but im still waiting to answer.

If nothing changes within a week im going for back to HTC.

Guys i dont know how does it looks in other countries but in Poland it would be possible to give the phone back and demand cash for phone as product which does not meet the description of it. By SE battery should last for 8 hours with constant use and more than 400 hours in stand by, as we can all see its a bul**it.
[XPERIA X10 General] ShadowFlare:
Do you even understand the phrase "Up to"? I'd laugh at anyone who believes manufacturer's battery life claims, so, lol. You'll get 400 hours alright, if the X10 is switched ON with extreme bare Android OS, then let it on standby and don't touch it at all for 16 days, probably.

Currently my X10 has been ON and unplugged for 100 hours (ok, 100.5 hours to be exact) and battery is at 41%. It's been on standby most of the times, I've listened music to it about half hour through wired headset, half hour through Bluetooth, and I think 5 mins through the speaker.

I have Task Manager Pro, Startup Auditor, and only have the following widgets on desktop: Smooth calendar, default Timescape icon (not the widget), default Mediascape icon, default Messaging icon, default Dialer icon, Google search, default Wireless control widget, and Task Manager Pro's kill-all widget.

WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, 2G/3G Data, Location Services, Background Data, all off.

I've also debranded my SIM free X10i (Indonesian X10 looks like since it has Indonesia & English only in the box), originally 1.0.14, now 1.0.16.

So yeah, go ahead and switch over to HTC, I don't really like listening to complains without anything constructive.
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
The problem is that the phone should have an acceptable battery life, with real-life usage patterns, without the need of third part applications and hacks. And my idea of "acceptable life" is pretty basic, it is 18-24 hours with few minutes of phone calls, some SMS, a bit of web browsing, BT and WiFi OFF, 3G data plan ON.

I have 3G operator and almost flat data plan, and I want to have 3G data always on with at least GTalk and push GMail. Otherwise having an "offline smarphone" would be pointless... If I have that nice device, but I have to stay offline, well, I would switch back to an old GSM phone and my iPod touch...
[XPERIA X10 General] lornova:
So I'm not the "the only exception"... of course there are a lot of people still with this issue.

Your phone usage is actually very basic, nothing to justify that battery drain. Maybe is GMail the cause of all problems? Do you have a GPRS data connection always on?
[XPERIA X10 General] ShadowFlare:
Don't get me wrong, I've used the phone moderately, using 3G Data, GPS, WiFi, some calls and texting, listening a couple hours of music over Bluetooth throughout the day, I'll get home with the battery life at 40-50%.

Of course, people use the X10 differently. I don't use any Push Mail features for example, and yes, Push Mail is heavy on the battery life, especially with Moxier on.

That Mugen battery actually interests me, an extra 1/5th of battery life is a welcome for me.