topic Re: Battery tips/advice anyone?? in X Series

Disappointed with battery performance

Xcompact — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:42:26 GMT

Why can't the battery hold longer. Z3 compact with same usage, last about 2 days! X compact not??

Re: Battery

Uliwooly — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 03:44:06 GMT

Test both phones side to side in >>> safe mode for few hours.

Re: Battery

1adrian1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 04:22:06 GMT

Go to settings location tap the three dots right and turn both sliders to the off position. WiFi and Bluetooth are always scanning on mm for google, even if they are both turned off in settings. This was a huge drain on the xa model

Re: Battery

Didrik — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 07:52:14 GMT

Hi @Xcompact,

Welcome to the forum!

Have you checked what applications use the most power in your phone? Wait until about you have 10% charge left and look under Settings > Battery > Press the battery icon and take a look in the list there.

Also, how long would you say that the battery lasts in your Xperia X Compact? How much screen time are you getting out of a full charge?

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Xcompact — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:51:21 GMT

The irritating part is that the highest battery use only 11 % is, screen.

I use the phone during the day a few times to check mail or to app someone. I also listen to about 2 songs on YouTube. From 100% to 36% in 7 hours.

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Uliwooly — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:56:30 GMT

Make sure to post screenshots

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Didrik — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:06:08 GMT

@Xcompact,

As @uliwooly suggested, is there any change if you use your phone in safe mode for a few hours?

Could you also post screenshots of your battery usage here when there is about 15% charge left?

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Hekkie — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:03:46 GMT

I have the same disappointment. With my Z1 Compact and Z3 Compact the battery lasted over almost two days. With my new X Compact there's only 10% left around diner time. The usage is the same. And also the most energy consuming is the screen, but only for about 12%. I'm not using the battery life expanding feature. Therefore, when a full charge is 100% and I pull of the consuming apps the outcome must be the percentage of energy left. Wrong! The outcome is about 40% of energy left (right about the amount I'm used to with my recently deseased Z3c), while the Xc is giving me a 12% left. There's 28% missing. Do I have to go outside and search for it or something?

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Hekkie — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 20:05:35 GMT

Oh and I've tried and activaded Stamina. It should last hours and hours longer. To my surprise the battery draint even faster.

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Michelasso — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 08:22:23 GMT

Same problem here, actually. This since when I bought the phone. The first days it was even up to 6% per hour. Constantly. But I had the phone synched with my old Xperia M2. Then using it and uninstalling some unneeded apps it went down to 1.5-2% per hour with screen off, up to 4-5% per hour with screen on. Basically from morning to midnight it goes down 50% or so.

The wakelocks, for what they can be monitored with an unrooted phone, are quite high. Also I've noticed that all 6 cores are always active?? Is that normal? The Xperia M2 was shutting down up to 3 cores over 4 when doing nothing.

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Hekkie — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 17:36:54 GMT

I've tried what Aidylucas said. Turned of the wifi and bluetooth scanning in Settings-Location-three dots upper right.
It works! 71% remaining at 6.35pm.

Battery tips/advice anyone??

alex_ncfc — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 14:27:08 GMT

When I got my Xperia X Compact in mid-November, I was amazed at the battery life, totally astounded - even after setting it up with all the apps I want and would usually install, I was getting the promised 3 days battery out of the phone, something which is never usually the case. It was unbelievable to get to day 3 and still be on around 35% battery.

However, only 4 weeks on, and I took my phone off 100% charge this morning and I am down to 70% already. What ?? I haven't changed a thing for this sort of dramatic decrease. Also, I can't see any rogue apps, or anything indeed using up my battery power.

Have I done anything wrong in terms of looking after my battery and getting the most out of it? It seems far too big a decrease to me in such a short time, and it's averaging just a day now, or even less, compared to the 3 days I was getting just one month ago. Anybody else noticed severe battery drain? Wondering if it could be from an update or something.

Re: Battery tips/advice anyone??

GambaXC — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 03:56:19 GMT

My X Compact's battery has been draining quickly even when I haven't been using the phone. I think I finally found the problem. My cell phone service provider (Ting) uses T-Mobile's network. I am in Seattle and I don't think T-Mobile's LTE signal is very strong. I think the phone uses a lot of energy as it keeps trying to reconnect to the LTE signal. So on Android 6.0.1 I went into Settings > Wireless & networks > More > Mobile networks > Preferred network type and changed the setting from "LTE (preferred)/WCDMA/GSM" to "GSM only".

That seems to fix the problem. The quick battery drain has stopped and it looks like I can get through a full day of moderate use again. This is not an ideal solution because data is very slow. You can keep the "GSM only" setting most of the time and switch to LTE only when you need it. At least your battery won't be dead this way. I just found this yesterday to I haven't tried this solution long but so far, so good.

Anyone else found another solution?

Edit: There are 2 other settings "WCDMA only" and "WCDMA (preferred)/GSM" that are worth testing. They have high data speeds. Now I need to check them to see if they drain the battery quickly. If not, that could be the answer I've been looking for.

Re: Battery tips/advice anyone??

UGLYDOLL — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:39:22 GMT

I'm on WCDMA ONLY and I'm blown away by the amazing battery life on the X compact.

Heavy use, goes for 6+ hours screen-on time.

Re: Battery tips/advice anyone??

Michelasso — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 07:41:13 GMT

Yesterday I upgraded to Android 7.0 Nougat and the battery has been even worse than before. Like twice as bad. I'll see how things will go today, and in case I'll try resetting the phone. Hopefully the backup/restore will work fine.

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Hekkie — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:55:00 GMT

Since the Nougat update battery life is phenomenal. Stil at 60% in the evening when I turn to bed. With the previous firmware the phone was allready connected to the charger at diner time.

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

Alanslade — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:38:22 GMT

Could please someone post a screen of his battery consumption?

I have Phone Idle and Google Play Services draining my battery life, and at 13:00 I have 79% with only 33 minutes of Sot.

I'm very sad about battery life of this phone

Re: Disappointed with battery performance

UGLYDOLL — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:55:21 GMT

I have read Perhaps it is possible old files on an old SD card from a previous phone may be causing Idle? I have the X compact in every color and then an additional Japanese version with none of these battery concerns... so perhaps Idle is from some sort of situation with an SD card which is in need of reformatting?

Re: Battery tips/advice anyone??

allure — Tue, 16 May 2017 12:36:15 GMT

@GambaXC wrote:
My X Compact's battery has been draining quickly even when I haven't been using the phone. I think I finally found the problem. My cell phone service provider (Ting) uses T-Mobile's network. I am in Seattle and I don't think T-Mobile's LTE signal is very strong. I think the phone uses a lot of energy as it keeps trying to reconnect to the LTE signal. So on Android 6.0.1 I went into Settings > Wireless & networks > More > Mobile networks > Preferred network type and changed the setting from "LTE (preferred)/WCDMA/GSM" to "GSM only".
That seems to fix the problem. The quick battery drain has stopped and it looks like I can get through a full day of moderate use again. This is not an ideal solution because data is very slow. You can keep the "GSM only" setting most of the time and switch to LTE only when you need it. At least your battery won't be dead this way. I just found this yesterday to I haven't tried this solution long but so far, so good.
Anyone else found another solution?
Edit: There are 2 other settings "WCDMA only" and "WCDMA (preferred)/GSM" that are worth testing. They have high data speeds. Now I need to check them to see if they drain the battery quickly. If not, that could be the answer I've been looking for.

This is a good way to save battery life, but it would be good if we could set the mode to change automatically with data on->data off->data on.

Ideally I would use GSM for most of the time, but when I want to use data, it would change from GSM only to all connections and prefer the quickest possible (4G) with pressing the data button. And with pressing the data button again to turn it off, it would return to the earlier network mode, meaning GSM only, to save battery.