topic Re: Battery drain in XPERIA archive

Battery drain

Mimgig — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 09:27:20 GMT

Hello!

So since 1,5 week I have my Sony Xperia XZ. What I noticed from the beginning is the battery drain. I already had a few times that I go to sleep with 40% - 50% battery and in the morning my phone is like out and only gives warning low battery.
First I thought it was because of Stamina mode. I started using that since day one, cause I like to get best out of my battery. So I started to use other stamina mode but still same problem.

So yesterday I turned stamina mode off and still the battery is poor. Yesterday I went to sleep with 53% and woke up this morning with 14% left. I think that's not normal when you are not using your phone, am I right?!

I already turned off apps that I don't use, I use low screen brightness and always clean apps running on the background.
Update to Nougat also didn't approve battery life.

This morning I took a screenshot of what is using the battery most:

Android operatingsystem: 25%
Phone inactive : 14%
Android system: 12%
Screen: 9%
Google play : 9%
Mobile standby : 8%
WiFi : 5%
And some apps like WhatsApp, snapchat using less then 5%

So anyone has tips how to improve my battery, And are there more Xperia XZ users coping with the same problem?

Re: Battery drain

100rabh — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:22:38 GMT

probably some app misbehaving .... so you should try to keep your phone in Safe mode n sleep today to check if the problem still persist

For me i would've checked the following things first .... Setting > location > scanning > Wifi n bluetooth scanning is off

or I might try a factory Reset

or Find any app which might be misbehaving ... It's not difficult to figure out ... just check the recently installed apps ...and find out when your phone started behaving like this n which apps you installed that day

Re: Battery drain

Mimgig — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:48:13 GMT

Yeah Bluetooth scanning and WiFi scanning already turned off also location.

How do I put my phone in safe mode? Then I will give that a try!

Re: Battery drain

Mimgig — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:52:13 GMT

Or is safe mode same as airplane mode?

Re: Battery drain

100rabh — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:30:23 GMT

Press the power button and then press the power off button until it asks you to reboot in safe mode

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:08:49 GMT

@Mimgig

This is how >>> safe mode

Re: Battery drain

Mimgig — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:21:05 GMT

Thanks I'm gonna try it out!!

Re: Battery drain

Mimgig — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 09:19:04 GMT

Hmm tried safe mode last night and battery still drained with almost 40%😕

Re: Battery drain

100rabh — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:52:46 GMT

Test this dail *#*#7378423#*#*... Go to service settings...scroll down and check battery health

Re: Battery drain

Mimgig — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 12:58:42 GMT

Hmm battery health is good. I will keep trying. Maybe phone still needs to get used to being used? Because I have it 1.5 week now. But the draining seems to be mostly at night.

Now I changed something in settings with WiFi connection for sleeping mode. Maybe that'll help too.

Btw does the phone go in sleeping mode by itself or you have to set some settings for that?

Re: Battery drain

100rabh — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:51:06 GMT

Battery HEalth is good then i think you should try to Factory reset the device or Repair via Pc companion

I don't think so it should've drained this much in Safe mode .... anyways keep monitoring

Re: Battery drain

Uliwooly — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 22:14:20 GMT

@100sailo

PCC is no longer supported @Mimgig

You have to use XC

Xperia Companion (XC)

Software Repair Guide

Alternatives on How to backup Xperias

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36355

Re: Battery drain

nas2016 — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:24:23 GMT

I had same problem and sent phone back, fault was identified and have now over 2 weeks without a phone been finally sent a replacement phone which is draining battery almost as much, So I give up on Sony the battery life is worse than my 2 year old Z2 and I have to ask for refund unfortunately as I have always been a loyal Sony customer from TVs to MP3 players and phones this experience has really turned me off.