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Is it just me or is this phone the phone with the worst battery life ever seen on any device.
Seeing gingerbread on this phone is already annoying enough but the battery life is completely useless.
Considering that it has sealed in battery, we're truly stuffed. Can't understand it at all. Don't they test these phones.
I went to bed last night with the battery at 98% and woke up to find it this morning at 63%. Just ridiculous.
And like I said nothing can be done about it,
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What fw version r you running?
zodiac100 said:
Is it just me or is this phone the phone with the worst battery life ever seen on any device.
Seeing gingerbread on this phone is already annoying enough but the battery life is completely useless.
Considering that it has sealed in battery, we're truly stuffed. Can't understand it at all. Don't they test these phones.
I went to bed last night with the battery at 98% and woke up to find it this morning at 63%. Just ridiculous.
And like I said nothing can be done about it,
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It's just you
what firmware are you running? how long have you had the phone? If you are at .73 you should have no problems, even at update .67 its not too bad, so it's you... unless you sleep for 2 days .
Also, there's also a battery thread, which isn't even on the second page of this section yet. Or did you make this just to start a whine
thread?
Edit: Actually, its on the second page now, my bad
I'm on stock Rom the battery is pants, however I have used my desire charger, full charge from 40 percent in 15 mins, so it may be pants but it's ok ics should improve things
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Did you get out of bed at 5pm? Check your installed apps and you definitely need to read the battery thread to see what every1 is experiencing with the latest firmware etc.
-smc
I recall there is a battery thread. Do we need another one?
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i tested mine last night.
Over night with WIFI on, Network ON it eat just 9% of battery.
Also you got rapid charge, they give this to us with a reason.
Hope moderators will merge the thread with the other one
I am running .73 firmaware & have no battery problem.. 16-17 hours with heavy use is more than enough when everything is on auto update.. In my sleep time, battery goes down just 3-4%.
.73 Firmware says otherwise
same here after update (.73) it lasted more than 8hrs (heavy usage). 7:00am unplugged and came back home around 7:00pm with 20% left. Standby during sleeping now takes around 3-4% in sleep mode compare to 30-35% on firmware .63 or .62 (i forgot)
4 days here and still 23percent left...
.73 , 175000 trick active, wcdma trick active
zodiac100 said:
Is it just me or is this phone the phone with the worst battery life ever seen on any device.
Seeing gingerbread on this phone is already annoying enough but the battery life is completely useless.
Considering that it has sealed in battery, we're truly stuffed. Can't understand it at all. Don't they test these phones.
I went to bed last night with the battery at 98% and woke up to find it this morning at 63%. Just ridiculous.
And like I said nothing can be done about it,
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My phone charged during the night powered off. I turned it on at 9:00 am and it showed 95%. Now (13:00), just standing by, with data traffic enabled, but no use at all, it shows 78%. (.67 here)
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I'm on .67 and my battery life just sucks. Maybe I'll turn of automatic updates in timescape and see if that makes a difference.
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With .73 things really improve. More than a whole day with a lot of surfing.
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vitorugo-8 said:
4 days here and still 23percent left...
.73 , 175000 trick active, wcdma trick active
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What is this "tricks" you are reffering to ?? And where do we find this option?
Battery life is horrible compared to any Samsung phone i'm now selling my xperia s as it is just too bad...
you need a firmware update.
my Xperia S has been unplugged for 15 hours and still has 53% battery left.
normal use - texting, browsing, facebook, etc.
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I'm on .67 and my battery life just sucks. Maybe I'll turn of automatic updates in timescape and see if that makes a difference.
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I know battery suck on .67. Even my Arc did better. But don't you cry, be optimistic, the Xperia S in still in development, and still needs to optimized by Sony. And in the future it does! Then post yourself a happy smile ok?
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I know battery suck on .67. Even my Arc did better.
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On .73 it's lasting longer than my Arc did, with even more background synch events.
The Xperia Ray had a awesome battery, on that note
Firmware does improve battery, gingerbread did wonders for the X10, but like everyone said the latest firmware does fix the battery, I had to charge midday when I first got my XS because the battery would drop very quick with heavy usage and half a day with moderate use, now it's last all day till bed time, thou it still can be improved.
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My dad's Xperia U used to last around 4-5 days with a bit of Wi-Fi, 40% brightness and a call a day. Battery would go down to 15-20%.
Now as you unplug the charger it goes from 100% to 96% instantly. After using it for half a second the battery went down to 93%. Wi-Fi is off, brightness is set to 30% and Auto-Sync is OFF. What do I do? It's not rooted and it's running Stock Gingerbread 2.3.7
Quick replies will be appreciated.
Additional Info: The phone is under warranty and it was purchased about 2 months ago.
Try calibrate the battery
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Nobody else. I know this phone doesn't have that much Dev Support but I'm asking a question!
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murtaza02 said:
Nobody else. I know this phone doesn't have that much Dev Support but I'm asking a question!
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It has nothing to do with dev support......
To the point now.....
Have you charged it till our showed charged and then disconnected or you waited for another half an hour and then disconnected.....
Try charging with fone switched off till it's fully charged plus half an hour more....
After you find this drop in battery did you restarted your fone????
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I charged it to 100% while the phone was on, plus about 20-30 minutes more. I unplugged it and the battery went down to 96% instantly. Whereas it used to stay on 100% for about a day. I've restarted the phone recently but no difference. I'll try charging it when its off.
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murtaza02 said:
I charged it to 100% while the phone was on, plus about 20-30 minutes more. I unplugged it and the battery went down to 96% instantly. Whereas it used to stay on 100% for about a day. I've restarted the phone recently but no difference. I'll try charging it when its off.
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In my opinion its good to send it to repair center mate, it can be a battery problem.
same thing happened on my Samsung Galaxy Y, so i disregarded battery full indication, when battery showed full i restarted. left to charge and did it again if problem persisted. problem disappeared gradually.
Thank you everyone!
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battery drain
had the same problems with the stock rom after installing a custom all this problem are gone
have all the time wifi on
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Hi to all
My xperia u does something quite weird. I can't get my battery to last more than one day. I tried different roms, kernels with governors and my battery seems to drain and the main consumer is my screen _ about 65 % while any other process doesn't pass over 15%. Has anybody conflicted with this problem?
How do I get it fixed? Do I need to buy another battery?
PS: I don't have warranty hence the unlocked bootloader
Volovate said:
Hi to all
My xperia u does something quite weird. I can't get my battery to last more than one day. I tried different roms, kernels with governors and my battery seems to drain and the main consumer is my screen _ about 65 % while any other process doesn't pass over 15%. Has anybody conflicted with this problem?
How do I get it fixed? Do I need to buy another battery?
PS: I don't have warranty hence the unlocked bootloader
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Decrease your brightness and turn of Mobile Bravia Engine if you don't need it. I have three Xperia U's in my house and two of them used to have the problem. Turned the brightness down to 30% and it resolved it. Also I charge it to 100% and kill it down to complete 0% by heavy usage. Try this. Works with laptops and phones.
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First charge after unboxing the device.
Incredible!
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How come. Only 3h30+ here @[email protected]
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Maybe because he was in WiFi all the time
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rockmaster said:
How come. Only 3h30+ here @[email protected]
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Only 3.30 hours?
I actually had 6 hours and 20 minutes yesterday but i forgot to take a screenshot before i charged the device. I will take one next time
But yeah, i am usually hitting at least 5 hours per charge.
How could that be? I even turn off my gps via wifi and set screen brightness to minimum auto. My god...
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Very light usage
brosenz said:
Very light usage
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Screen time???
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mozzy said:
Screen time???
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I recharged the phone, I no longer have that information, but since the last full charge here are the statistics, Screen time is 2 hours and 6 min:
ScottishSwan said:
Only 3.30 hours?
I actually had 6 hours and 20 minutes yesterday but i forgot to take a screenshot before i charged the device. I will take one next time
But yeah, i am usually hitting at least 5 hours per charge.
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Quick question do you take it off charge when light turns green and display reads 100%, my light goes green at about 97% charged, just curious if im doing it correctly
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Quick question do you take it off charge when light turns green and display reads 100%, my light goes green at about 97% charged, just curious if im doing it correctly
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The light normally turns green when it is around 90 - 95% charged. It is just to let you know that it is almost charged.
rockmaster said:
How could that be? I even turn off my gps via wifi and set screen brightness to minimum auto. My god...
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I am not sure.
I have brightness set to about 50 - 60%. Mixture of wifi and 3g, mostly wifi.
Gmail and auto sync on. Stamina mode ON.
I have been hitting 5 hours every time and sometimes more. I will say though, it took my battery a good 5 - 10 charges before the capacity improved a lot. To begin with, stamina mode would say around 1 day and 12 hours battery remaining. Now it says sometimes 11 days remaining. This shows me that you need to give the device a good few charges before the battery will work at its fullest capacity.
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I am not sure.
I have brightness set to about 50 - 60%. Mixture of wifi and 3g, mostly wifi.
Gmail and auto sync on. Stamina mode ON.
I have been hitting 5 hours every time and sometimes more. I will say though, it took my battery a good 5 - 10 charges before the capacity improved a lot. To begin with, stamina mode would say around 1 day and 12 hours battery remaining. Now it says sometimes 11 days remaining. This shows me that you need to give the device a good few charges before the battery will work at its fullest capacity.
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I'm on fourth one and see little improvements since first cycle. Thanks for the info. That's pretty much awesome battery. So i don't have to switch to butterfly s for bigger battery
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The light normally turns green when it is around 90 - 95% charged. It is just to let you know that it is almost charged.
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Cheers for that, do you leave it charging after the 100% has been reached as ive been unplugging at 100%.
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I am not sure.
I have brightness set to about 50 - 60%. Mixture of wifi and 3g, mostly wifi.
Gmail and auto sync on. Stamina mode ON.
I have been hitting 5 hours every time and sometimes more. I will say though, it took my battery a good 5 - 10 charges before the capacity improved a lot. To begin with, stamina mode would say around 1 day and 12 hours battery remaining. Now it says sometimes 11 days remaining. This shows me that you need to give the device a good few charges before the battery will work at its fullest capacity.
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How do you do the full cycles?, do you allow the phone to turn off by itself (1% battery left) and then fully charge to 100%?
brosenz said:
How do you do the full cycles?, do you allow the phone to turn off by itself (1% battery left) and then fully charge to 100%?
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Yeah, I just let it drain until it switches off and then charge it again.
I would do this for the first week then after that, just make sure i keep the battery topped up when im near a charger.
The charging is super fast though which is 1 thing i love. After owning an HTC One which was painfully slow to charge, the Z Ultra is a revelation haha
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Cheers for that, do you leave it charging after the 100% has been reached as ive been unplugging at 100%.
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Yes i do. I will let it hit 100% and then leave it for 20 minutes more just to make sure it is actually at 100%.
rockmaster said:
I'm on fourth one and see little improvements since first cycle. Thanks for the info. That's pretty much awesome battery. So i don't have to switch to butterfly s for bigger battery
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Yeah maybe give it a little time.
I have absolutely no complaints with the battery life. A minimum of 5 hours screen on time is a lot and more than enough to make it through a full day.
I can see a lot of people who currently own a nexus 4, Galaxy S3 etc, if they decide to switch to this will be blown away by the battery life.
After 1 day of Full Usage
After 13 hours since the phone was removed from the charger I still have 1% of battery left. I was able to get 9 hours of Screen Time, pretty impressive.
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After 13 hours since the phone was removed from the charger I still have 1% of battery left. I was able to get 9 hours of Screen Time, pretty impressive.
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That's impressive but.. there's no apps seen on the list which suggests you did nothing with it with screen on for 9hrs
Hey guys
I got my ultra yesterday and it came with about 40% battery and it took nearly 2 hours of screen on time to kill it which was amazing
I've given it a full charge so this is my first cycle and battery life isn't great with just over 1hour and 10 minutes screen on time which is worse then my 18 month old s3
Will it get better over time? I've got all the power saving features on
Thanks
J
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JackHanAnLG said:
Hey guys
I got my ultra yesterday and it came with about 40% battery and it took nearly 2 hours of screen on time to kill it which was amazing
I've given it a full charge so this is my first cycle and battery life isn't great with just over 1hour and 10 minutes screen on time which is worse then my 18 month old s3
Will it get better over time? I've got all the power saving features on
Thanks
J
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Yes it will get better over time.
Brilliant I look forward to it
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1 hour 10 minutes from 100 to 0%? You should get around 5-7 hours of screentime. Just keep using it though and it should get better in a few days.
LordManhattan said:
1 hour 10 minutes from 100 to 0%? You should get around 5-7 hours of screentime. Just keep using it though and it should get better in a few days.
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Just went through the first cycle and it was about 3 hours, Battery seems weird on this device, I unplugged it from full at 100% but I leave it on 100% for about 20 minutes after and it went straight down to 99% where as my nexus 7 doesnt do that :S
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Just went through the first cycle and it was about 3 hours, Battery seems weird on this device, I unplugged it from full at 100% but I leave it on 100% for about 20 minutes after and it went straight down to 99% where as my nexus 7 doesnt do that :S
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Hard to tell if it's normal or not. Are you using any apps that updates themselves frequently in the background? Widgets? Whatsapp? FB Messenger? I've had mine in standby for 8 hours (while at sleep) at 100% before, and it was still at 100% eight hours later, so it shouldn't drop 1% in 20 minutes.
Just keep using it for a week or so, and if it isn't better, you might have a lemon. But again, it's incredible hard to say what it might be. You can also do a factory reset and see if that solves anything. It might simply be a bug or an app that's gone rogue.
Agree with LordManhattan and 3mL.
When I first got it, I had the same questions about battery life. I was literally seeing it draining a percent a seconds. There were some rogue apps, like whatsapp and pinger (textfree), that were constantly doing something in the background. Uninstalled those and got much better results. After about a week or so and a few battery cycles, the battery also improved drastically.
Try some of the apps that monitor and hibernate apps, e.g. greenify and wakelock detector. I'm sure there are others but those are the ones I use.
I had a 2 percent drop last night so not to bad
And im not rooted so I cant use those apps at the moment
Ill see how it gets on
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I m on stock rom rooted. using stamina mode while allowing some of the apps to run in background. battery life is great
never let battery life go below 50%. on contrary to popular belief, it is not wise to let ur batter drain completely. for the first few cycles refer to the manual
I normally get about 1-2% drain over night, a bit more if the cell signal decides to play up a but.
Over this week I got 4d 12h on one charge with 12% still remaining - very light usage: 3 or 4 calls, a few emails, a few geo-tagged photos, a note or two with poor signal most of the working day.
Its been rather strange for me, on the first charge cycle I got 4.5 hours of screen on time and the 2nd I got 4 hours
Im now on my 3rd and im at 85% with only 48 minutes of screen on time which isnt too bad but I feel like I have to have low battery mode and stamina mode on just to get it through the day
Hopefully Sony release a fix or 4.4 with better battery life
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Its been rather strange for me, on the first charge cycle I got 4.5 hours of screen on time and the 2nd I got 4 hours
Im now on my 3rd and im at 85% with only 48 minutes of screen on time which isnt too bad but I feel like I have to have low battery mode and stamina mode on just to get it through the day
Hopefully Sony release a fix or 4.4 with better battery life
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Well i don't want to be rude, but are you just stare to your screen for 4 hours? Or are you also doing something with the phone?
Because it really matters what kind of activity regarding your battery life you're doing. Smartphones are not battery friendly, get your charger with you or buy a mobile charger.
Hey guys so the title says It all really, over night I can lose up to 10% which isn't normal I know
If I charge my phone up and use it straight I'll get about 5.5 hours out of It ( screen on time ) but if I don't use it to intensively it'll be about 4.5 which doesn't make sense
Sometimes when I reboot the device it goes down by a few percent as well, anybody had this issue?
J
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Are you using STAMINA mode?
That's strange. Do you have a lot of IM apps and widgets/apps that updates in the background? As you probably know by now, you shouldn't see more than 1-2% drop in battery in 7-8 hours if you don't touch it. I'm on GPe now that doesn't have the fancy battery saving features, and i'm getting very good battery life. It's currently at 70% after 10 hours on and 2 h 30 min screentime.
It's probably something that's going rouge in the background, but check your apps that updates automatically.
Same as me
I lose up to 15% overnight
I have Line / Weather widget / Twitter / Facebook / and more
I did not turn on Stamina mode
ps000000 said:
Same as me
I lose up to 15% overnight
I have Line / Weather widget / Twitter / Facebook / and more
I did not turn on Stamina mode
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Turn it on and watch the miracles ensue.
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Turn it on and watch the miracles ensue.
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Nowp. Got Stamina mode on, with only 2 exceptions: email + weChat, and also see a 10% drop each night.
I assume the problem is that Wifi or Data connection do not get disabled in stamina mode. You expect them to be disabled, until a request comes from the programs for a "poll event", reactivated, task finished, and then disabled again. But from what i can tell, the connections stay live.
Have you try juice defender. I use it better then stamina. I only have home page and none live wall paper and I only get 1 to 1.1/2% loss all night from 100% to 99 or 98 in the morning
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Have you try juice defender. I use it better then stamina. I only have home page and none live wall paper and I only get 1 to 1.1/2% loss all night from 100% to 99 or 98 in the morning
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I have noticed this once or twice before, last culprit was google keyboard in about 8h overnight it was almost always awake (about 50%), almost 2h of cpu time, used near 400meg of data - this was in SlimRom
Last night I had 81% battery before I went to sleep at 10:00. I then put my Xperia Z Ultra in Stamina mode. At 6:05 (8 hours 5 minutes) after my battery dropped to 80%
Therefore I only lost 1% overnight which is excellent.
Damn. Thought i was getting decent battery life (currently at 1d 6h on, 5h 25m screentime), but the way you're going you might reach 7 hours screentime on one charge...
And the cp12 isn't currently available where I'm at. Bummer.
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That's strange. Do you have a lot of IM apps and widgets/apps that updates in the background? As you probably know by now, you shouldn't see more than 1-2% drop in battery in 7-8 hours if you don't touch it. I'm on GPe now that doesn't have the fancy battery saving features, and i'm getting very good battery life. It's currently at 70% after 10 hours on and 2 h 30 min screentime.
It's probably something that's going rouge in the background, but check your apps that updates automatically.
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Are you using STAMINA mode?
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Yes :/
LordManhattan said:
That's strange. Do you have a lot of IM apps and widgets/apps that updates in the background? As you probably know by now, you shouldn't see more than 1-2% drop in battery in 7-8 hours if you don't touch it. I'm on GPe now that doesn't have the fancy battery saving features, and i'm getting very good battery life. It's currently at 70% after 10 hours on and 2 h 30 min screentime.
It's probably something that's going rouge in the background, but check your apps that updates automatically.
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That's really good, I'm on 70% with stamina mode on and 1.5hour screen on time
I'm thinking maybe my battery needs calibrating using an app? It shouldn't drop that much and it shouldn't drop a few percent by turning it on and off
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I'm thinking maybe my battery needs calibrating using an app? It shouldn't drop that much and it shouldn't drop a few percent by turning it on and off
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Those battery calibration apps are a complete farce IMHO, modern batteries don't have their own internal memory like the old ones did, the best calibration you can do is a full recycle.
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Those battery calibration apps are a complete farce IMHO, modern batteries don't have their own internal memory like the old ones did, the best calibration you can do is a full recycle.
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Yep. Also had a out of sync battery. Fully loaded ( green light ), it still showed 97% on the meter. So i drained the battery down to 1%, charged up to 100%, and voila ... Battery indicated correctly 100%, and has been correct every time.
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Yep. Also had a out of sync battery. Fully loaded ( green light ), it still showed 97% on the meter. So i drained the battery down to 1%, charged up to 100%, and voila ... Battery indicated correctly 100%, and has been correct every time.
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just a reminder that the LED turns green at ~90% not fully charged
If you are in an area with very poor cellular reception and your cellular radios are on this can happen. It would help if you would post some screenshots of your battery usage in different scenarios; otherwise we can't help you too much
You could have a transistor leaking current or a short somewhere inside the device. Try a factory reset if you've exhausted all other options and if it persists contact Sony.