Hi I'd like to do a casual comparisson of battery usage with each phone. Add any info. that you like. I currently have the Sola, and I hate the battery so much, I'm already looking for a new phone. (I have tried a lot of things already)
Phone: Sola, MT27i, battery 1320
Video usage: usage is little, occasional video on YouTube etc. not much
Music usage: can use for maybe 2 hours per day, with equaliser on, with earphones
Internet: maybe 3-4 hours usage per day, check emails often, use apps to read news on the internet for most of the time, some other apps e.g. Twitter/Facebook
Settings: auto brightness on, screen on full, 30 second delay, power management on, power saver activates at 15%
Result: Charge 1-2 times per day, phone dies when travelling, need phone for work etc.
The two phones that I was most curious about was the Go and U, the GO I notice has something like a 1305 battery, I think the P and U has a 1320 like the Sola.
??? Can someone who knows much about screens please tell us a bit about these phones? For example, I suspect that the screens on these phones is too powerful for the batteries to cope. Is the resolution a key aspect of this? Perhaps the Bravia Engine? Anything else? I note that like most phones these are LED so require the backlight, unlike OLED.
Specifications (e.g. battery, screen etc.)
Xperia Sola http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_sola-4408.php
Xperia GO http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_go-4782.php
Xperia U http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_u-4437.php
Xperia P http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_p-4436.php
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The reason i start this post is to gather experiences and facts about Xperia P's battery life.
Sony was advertising that the compination of Novathor and Whitemagice results to almost 50% less need in power energy for the mobile and for that reason the battery of 1305 mAh is enought.
My opinion is that Sony has ultimately failed in this part.
My phone:
Rom : 6.0.B.3.162 (i dont have the signal drop problem)
network : WCDMA (3g)
Data: always on
Ayto sunch: Always Off
Live Wallpaper: No
Battery life: 10-13 hours
I usually use my cellphone for calls / texting / whatsapp/facebook. The thing that use my battery the most is always Display (always 60%-70% of battery) and the hour that the dispay is active, is 1h 30min to 2h 10mins. The average talking time per charge is 30m - 50 mins.
I usually charge my phone twice a day but if i use it for games or internet or photographs i have to charge it three times per day.
I m waiting for the ICS in order to see some battery life improvement . If i dont , then i ll sell it.
my battery drains 3% per 11 minutes on standby 3g / wifi on (with profile set at max 200mhz on screen off)
Can you please post your battery usage screenshot?
Sometimes even when the screen is off the phone stays awake due to some apps running in background. Generally battery monitor apps causes such problem. I have autosync on & network mode as WCDMA Preferred/GSM and use WiFi a lot though it is not always on.
For brightness as soon as I enter home I keep it at 0% & when I am to go out I change it to auto. 0% has good brightness. There is a widget available for this easy toggle. Also check your WiFI policy. Apps like VIber have tendency to keep WiFi always on even though you have kept the WiFI sleep policy.
I agree the battery is not that good but mine easily gets me through the day inspite of gaming, always Whatsapp on, Viber online & Facebook.
Note:- I have kept auto retrieval off for Facebook & default email client though notifications are on for Facebook.
Make ur phone root first than see wat ll happen after makd root battery life ll increase and u can control ur applications. If u need any help reply......
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royalbloodvi said:
my battery drains 3% per 11 minutes on standby 3g / wifi on (with profile set at max 200mhz on screen off)
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Mine drains like 2% over ten hours of idle use... And I don't have the screen off cpu profile....
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Battery Bad = SONY messed-up
kourkoubas said:
The reason i start this post is to gather experiences and facts about Xperia P's battery life.
Sony was advertising that the compination of Novathor and Whitemagice results to almost 50% less need in power energy for the mobile and for that reason the battery of 1305 mAh is enought.
My opinion is that Sony has ultimately failed in this part.
My phone:
Rom : 6.0.B.3.162 (i dont have the signal drop problem)
network : WCDMA (3g)
Data: always on
Ayto sunch: Always Off
Live Wallpaper: No
Battery life: 10-13 hours
I usually use my cellphone for calls / texting / whatsapp/facebook. The thing that use my battery the most is always Display (always 60%-70% of battery) and the hour that the dispay is active, is 1h 30min to 2h 10mins. The average talking time per charge is 30m - 50 mins.
I usually charge my phone twice a day but if i use it for games or internet or photographs i have to charge it three times per day.
I m waiting for the ICS in order to see some battery life improvement . If i dont , then i ll sell it.
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I have my phone for 3 days, an offer from the wife, no warranty though but the phone is like new. I'm considering selling it because I'm experiencing the exact same issues as you, charging the phone 2 or 3 times throughout the day is ridiculous. Had an iPhone 3GS and wanted to update my phone and migrate to droid. However I feel very frustrated about all the crap always running on the background, have 'easy task killer' and even killing apps then end up popping after awhile. I know I can solve this by rooting the phone but nevertheless I find myself always having to manually turn on/off wireless, 3G network, apps, etc... This is annoying and stupid, the whole purpose of a smartphone is to use its features, I find that although this phone has badass stuff (like HD camera) they are useless if one can't use them...
I'll try to fix this issue on the next couple of days if not I'll just sell this, go back to my old iPhone 3GS which with the same usage, wi-fi always on and 3G lasts a full 12hour day (at least) and save some more money to buy a 'decent' one like Samsung S III.
Thanks for your post, I thought my battery had issues and the more I read the more I understand SONY f-ed up!
Hi buddies, i was checking for the Xperia Z Ultra, it is really a good option???
I love this phablet, specially for the big screen. But I have some questions:
Can you tell me your user experience with Z Ultra?
Are the integrated battery smartphones sure? I use the removable battery all the time. You can tell me your experience with other Sony phones too.
Can you tell me all the bugs you found in it
Tell me general aspects of this phone (portability, heating, camera, sound, screen, etc.)
Anyone tried PPSSPP in the Z Ultra? Can you tell me your experience with high graphic games (e.g Crash Titans, God Of War)
I´m considering buy this phone, I love it. Thanks in advance.
Sorry for my poor English.
- If you mean user experience as in Sony UI, it's good. It's not bloated and things are fast and smooth. As for its physical size, it can be too much if you have small hands, but we - the users here, clearly like it.
- The battery is non-removable and it's good. You can expect to get 4-5 hours of screen time on each charge with 15-24 hours of uptime. My personal record is 7 hours of screen time and about 22 hours of uptime (on a single charge). STAMINA does its job very well, so it doesn't use much battery while it's in standby.
- There aren't many bugs, but there might be some small ones. I can't really say that i've noticed any bugs in the latest firmware (257), but i'm sure there are some small ones hiding some place. You won't experience any serious ones though.
- Portability is.. well.. not as good as an iPhone or a Nexus 5, but you'll have to learn to have it in your jacket (if you live in a temperate region), and also learn to take the Ultra out of your front pocket when you sit down, or it might bend, Heating isn't an issue as long as you don't play games while charging the battery or play an intensive 3D game for a long period of time. Camera is really bad. That is all. The speaker is not that good and it's like a 5 year old playing the drums. You'll certainly hear it and you'll hear it when you receive calls and notifications, but it's not powerful at all so I wouldn't use it as a boomblaster at a party (the vibrator is brutal though). The screen is fantastic and it's bright and does the job very well, so no complaints there.
That's it i guess.
Hi, good day I wanted to know if how much can I squeeze out battery on the Z Ultra. My brothers friend is selling a Z Ultra 1 yr used. I only have a basic phone Archos 40 Titanium. SHOULD I BUY THE 1 yr old Z ULTRA or wait for the 2 yr old Z3 to be turnover to me I dont know if Dec this yr. OR buy a local phone with good specs and camera OR should I fix my Xperia T2 Ultra Front Assembly for $117 US dollar??? I already fix the Motherboard last yr for $153 US dollar. I used phones for College and other stuff
Here are my settings on my older STOCK ROM 4.4.3 T2 Ultra LTE:
- GPS is off.
- network is on GSM.
- Autosync is disabled.
- Brightness lowest indoors while at 50-100% on Outdoors mostly 75-80% No Auto mode.
- STAMINA MODE is on. With Query background on.
- NFC is off.
- Bravia Engine is off.
- Not much app sapping installed.
- Airplane mode is not enabled.
- Rooted with Kingroot.
I usually charge it overnight and alarm it when its full then I start using my phone in the morning. (With breaks of course)
I don't bring powerbanks much.
I usually browse with wifi. I get around 8:15-10 hrs screen on time on my T2 Ultra at about 25-20-18% left cant remember. When at house with whole day browsing plus some youtube at between 60-80% volume. Plus brightness at lowest no auto mode enabled.
What kind of screen on time can I expect with Z Ultra at my settings?
battery life is so hard to assess, I reckon you should get roughly the same use, probably not as good as the T2 because the screen in the XZU has more pixels.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-z-ultra-1161408/review/8
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battery life is so hard to assess, I reckon you should get roughly the same use, probably not as good as the T2 because the screen in the XZU has more pixels.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/sony-xperia-z-ultra-1161408/review/8
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How much worse is the battery screen on time of Z Ultra cause I find reviews that its a bit bad?
Android Central says the battery is "great", but I don't trust reviews until XDA can prove it! Show us your screenshots if you happen to have an X Compact.
With mode Stamina performance.
well seems ok, thank you for the screenshot.
after 3 days in normal mode. (no stamina)
My battery life is insane, it's the best I've ever had on android.
I'm at 41% battery in the screen shot attached. And I've already got 4+ hours of SOT.
I've watched YouTube videos, been on Facebook, Twitter etc and been listening to the radio/music In the gym.
Some proper voodoo going on here, but now I get why they used the smaller, nippier processor. :victory:
Anyone who's used Z2 here? I wonder how the battery performs compared to my Z2. Endurance Rating in GSMArena says 73 hours compared to the 89 hours of the Z2.
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Anyone who's used Z2 here? I wonder how the battery performs compared to my Z2. Endurance Rating in GSMArena says 73 hours compared to the 89 hours of the Z2.
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gsmarenas battery test is personally not the best method. i rather like phonearenas. their method is much more realistic as they are not only testing video playbacks but also social media, browser and so on. usual smartphone usage.
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Anyone who's used Z2 here? I wonder how the battery performs compared to my Z2. Endurance Rating in GSMArena says 73 hours compared to the 89 hours of the Z2.
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GSMArena change the battery testing method in this year.
Every phone that GSMArena reviewed before 2016 have the brightness adjust by postioning the slider at 50% when do a battery test, but this year they fix the brightness to 200 nits.
http://gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_x_compact-review-1495p3.php
the article said the X Compact have 106 nits brightness when adjust the slider at 50%. That's mean it will get the better result if they use the old method for testing like Z2.
Nimda01 said:
GSMArena change the battery testing method in this year.
Every phone that GSMArena reviewed before 2016 have the brightness adjust by postioning the slider at 50% when do a battery test, but this year they fix the brightness to 200 nits.
http://gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_x_compact-review-1495p3.php
the article said the X Compact have 106 nits brightness when adjust the slider at 50%. That's mean it will get the better result if they use the old method for testing like Z2.
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Thanks, I like hearing that, I'm not one who keeps the brightness above 50% much, only in rare occasions, I usually keep it at 30-40%, and 0% during the night.
Mine sucks. Literally. I enabled the battery optimisation (on the top right 3 dots menu), Stamina should kick at 20% or below, no Ultra Stamina. The last hours have been good compared to the other days.
Miche1asso said:
Mine sucks. Literally. I enabled the battery optimisation (on the top right 3 dots menu), Stamina should kick at 20% or below, no Ultra Stamina. The last hours have been good compared to the other days.
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Glad you like it, bet it feels like a big jump up from the m2. Go to settings location tap the three dots top right and then turn both sliders to the off position WiFi and Bluetooth are always scanning in the background for connections for Google even if you turn them off in the settings on mm it crucified the battery on my xa. I'm getting between 3.5-5hrs screen time from a 2300mah battery not used stamina mode since getting it in July.
Another top tip install greenify and activate the aggressive doze and doze on the go feature via adb it's literally two command lines it makes doze work more like old stamina mode did and it works on unrooted stock devices.
aidy.lucas said:
Glad you like it, bet it feels like a big jump up from the m2. Go to settings location tap the three dots top right and then turn both sliders to the off position WiFi and Bluetooth are always scanning in the background for connections for Google even if you turn them off in the settings on mm it crucified the battery on my xa. I'm getting between 3.5-5hrs screen time from a 2300mah battery not used stamina mode since getting it in July.
Another top tip install greenify and activate the aggressive doze and doze on the go feature via adb it's literally two command lines it makes doze work more like old stamina mode did and it works on unrooted stock devices.
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Hey Aidy, long time no see!
yeah, I already did the trick of disabling WiFi and BT on Location settings. This could be why my battery improved in the last couple of days. It was consuming up to 6% per hour! But there must be something wrong with my settings. I synched the XC with the M2 via Xperia Transfer and something may have gone banana.
I mean, now I am at 22% after 32h, but only with 1h 40m of screen. The battery life raised also because I didn't touch the phone much. I dunno, my feeling is also that MM on XC is pretty bugged at the moment. The brightness goes to down 0, the WiFi connection is worse than the one on M2 (!!) and the stupid Xperia Home breaks my themes (fixed installing 10.0.A.0.73 from apkmirror. But also the latest Xperia Home beta is fine). And sometime it heats just doing nothing.
The performances are amazing, though! I can't make it lagging!! Well.. Actually I can. Enabling the Stamina mode. It isn't real lag but it feels like it goes down from 60 to 30 fps. I'd love to know why many complained about the lack of Stamina mode if the most it seems to do is to reduce the performances. And what the heck is that Ultra Stamina anyway.
PS: But yes, it has been a quite nice jump! Hopefully this one will last AT LEAST 3 years in terms of updates. :laugh:
Miche1asso said:
Hey Aidy, long time no see!
yeah, I already did the trick of disabling WiFi and BT on Location settings. This could be why my battery improved in the last couple of days. It was consuming up to 6% per hour! But there must be something wrong with my settings. I synched the XC with the M2 via Xperia Transfer and something may have gone banana.
I mean, now I am at 22% after 32h, but only with 1h 40m of screen. The battery life raised also because I didn't touch the phone much. I dunno, my feeling is also that MM on XC is pretty bugged at the moment. The brightness goes to down 0, the WiFi connection is worse than the one on M2 (!!) and the stupid Xperia Home breaks my themes (fixed installing 10.0.A.0.73 from apkmirror. But also the latest Xperia Home beta is fine). And sometime it heats just doing nothing.
The performances are amazing, though! I can't make it lagging!! Well.. Actually I can. Enabling the Stamina mode. It isn't real lag but it feels like it goes down from 60 to 30 fps. I'd love to know why many complained about the lack of Stamina mode if the most it seems to do is to reduce the performances. And what the heck is that Ultra Stamina anyway.
PS: But yes, it has been a quite nice jump! Hopefully this one will last AT LEAST 3 years in terms of updates. :laugh:
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3 years of updates would be amazing but ill doubt it, if it reaches at least 2 years, thats good enough, but hey, its Sony's decision
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3 years of updates would be amazing but ill doubt it, if it reaches at least 2 years, thats good enough, but hey, its Sony's decision
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I dunno. The Xperia Z went through all updates from Jelly Bean 4.1.2 up to Lollipop 5.1.1. The Z3 won't get Nougat because (so I understood) Google simply doesn't support that HW for new Android releases.
But I see now that Sony calls the Xperia XC a "Premium Phone", the flagship for the X series starts with the Xperia XZ. And as premium we don't even get the Xperia Lounge gold subscription. Stingy b***s.
Yeah.. Android 8 might be the last. So annoying.
How do you know if quick charge is working? I downloaded Ampere and another battery tester app. Used the provided usb and an expensive Anker one and both apps and cables show 1050 mA charging using the provided QC3.0 charger. Does the screen need to be off or do I just not under quick charge? This is my first new phone in 4 years lol. Still loving my optimus g.
Anyone compare it to a Z3c? I typically get 5-7 hours of SoT on my 2014 Z3c and regularly go 3 days between charges if I don't use it much, which I've come to consider the norm now. This with Stamina mode only set to come on when the battery is under 35%. Will the Xc do as well?
Granted, it took a while to configure the Z3c to maximize battery -- disabling various pointless background apps and processes etc. -- but after size, the battery life is my favorite aspect of the Z3c.
Hi,
Been using the Xperia 1 for 2 weeks,
the battery time is quite short for me.
I do most whatsapp, youtube
start working at 9am and around 2pm the phone is around 30ish %
I don't like using Stamina mode (the balance saving version), because i like the always on display (ambient display)
the power saving mode will save more battery however it will make the scrolling chopping which i hate the most
anyways, any bro out there been playing with the "background process limit"
the default is set as standard limit, if i reduce it to 2, will it really save battery or will make the phone not running properly.
or any other hint to save battery throughout a day like 9am to 9pm?
Display is always set to adaptive.
Wifi always on, in the working 9 hours will have over 6 hours with WIFI connection.
Battery life is awesome! Never had this before with a sony phone...
5 hours sot and still 30%
Be sure to use the "adaptive battery" thingy, seems usefull.
Efe64 said:
5 hours sot and still 30%
Be sure to use the "adaptive battery" thingy, seems usefull.
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Thanks and it is already turned on.
My previous phones were Huawei P20 and Mate 20 pro, can't compare to those.
So i compare with my more previous phones which i still own, the Samsung S8+
battery life is even less.
Is there a way to reduce the screen resolution? I know it is a bad move buying a 4k phone and reduce the resolution but i just want to see if it will help.
My other phones would allow me to select 1080 or 1440, but i don't see this option in Xperia 1
rayraymond said:
Thanks and it is already turned on.
My previous phones were Huawei P20 and Mate 20 pro, can't compare to those.
So i compare with my more previous phones which i still own, the Samsung S8+
battery life is even less.
Is there a way to reduce the screen resolution? I know it is a bad move buying a 4k phone and reduce the resolution but i just want to see if it will help.
My other phones would allow me to select 1080 or 1440, but i don't see this option in Xperia 1
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Phones mostly in 1080 so reducing it further won't make much difference to battery
Smartcleaner should be turned off. This causes the drain of battery.
I experienced a noticeable increase in battery life with Creator Mode disabled...
It fits me just right because you can't use Creator Mode an Night Light at the same time, and I use Night Light all the time...
Also, Always On Display uses a lot of battery...
marius3191 said:
I experienced a noticeable increase in battery life with Creator Mode disabled...
It fits me just right because you can't use Creator Mode an Night Light at the same time, and I use Night Light all the time...
Also, Always On Display uses a lot of battery...
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So you mean choosing standard mode and "auto creator mode" turned off?
I also notice always on display will drain the battery a lot so I disabled it too. When it is plugged in to the power the always on display will be displayed anyways
This phone is a battery champ, Sony has always impressed me.
This thing just doesn't die, Amazing software optimization.
leony74 said:
This thing just doesn't die, Amazing software optimization.
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Yes This phone has very good autonomy with 4000 mah would have shattered competition.
With only 3300 mah and the best market display, the autonomy it has is incredible
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I turned off Smart camera launch and get much better battery life. Who uses Smart camera launch when you have Camera button that is quicker for launching camera.