topic Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434 in Z Series

Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

pda — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:22:31 GMT

Hello,

I experience much lower battery life after updating to 10.1.A.1.434.

Before that the I had to charge the phone every 2-3 days. Now it requires charging almost every day (can't go over 1,5 day even with limited usaged).

Android OS consumes 2 times more battery. It was 24% before the update and now it's 50%+.

I suspect the wireless driver is causing it as when I (or location-based wi-fi) switch the Wi-Fi off then the Android OS goes back to normal.

I liked the battery life before - my record was 3,5day with Stamina mode OFF and both Wi-Fi (connected) and Bluetooth (disconnected) ON all the time and syncing 2 Google accounts and 1 Exchange until battery capacity was below 30%.

Now I'm quite disappointed.

Any plans to fix this bug soon? Or any way of reverting back to 10.1.A.1.350?

Thanks & best

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

Zann_H — Wed, 08 May 2013 02:01:39 GMT

pda,

This is normal when you install or update your Android. Firstly, because all battery statistic is empty. And secondly, because Android(miainly Media Server) have to do a lot of indexing of all the content both in Internal & External SD the first time it run. Dont' be alarmed because everything will be fine once this process is done. Which could take hours. Just use your phone normally and after a few battery cycle(full charge and discharge), your battery consumtion will return back to normal. Or even better. :smileygrin:

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

pda — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:41:55 GMT

Thanks Zann, it took almost a week but it seems to be OK now.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

hsoc — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:07:05 GMT

This is not normal and this is definately not the correct answer. The latest firmware (10.1.A.1.434) has battery issues, this is no news and complaints about it are all over the net. Please release an update soon if you want to have satisfied users. Thank you.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

Zann_H — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:34:05 GMT

All over the internet? Can you link these complaints?

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

hsoc — Fri, 10 May 2013 19:31:26 GMT

You mean besides these:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/search.jspa?resultTypes=&dateRange=last90days&peopleEnabled=true&q=xperia+z+battery&containerType=&container=&containerName=&username=&rankBy=relevance&newq=battery*&numResults=15

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/442322#442322

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/449312#449312

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/120247?start=0&tstart=0

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/125650

and please don't make me search on xda:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2150786&highlight=battery

(yes, there are a few possitive ones there as well, I know)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2225879

or if you prefer to watch a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI5hxNWlvAc

and finally this:

http://communities.sonyericsson.com/thread/125825

I love xperia Z but the current firmware has issues.

take care,

John

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

Zann_H — Sat, 11 May 2013 06:32:40 GMT

anyone can google. no big deal. just wanted to know where u got your sources.

I'm on XDA everyday reading almost everything related to the Z. Or android in general. And If you have actuall read all these links you posted, instead of just googling them, you will know that Z's battery is on par with current leading smartphones. Including the current HTC One X.

And things i stated above are information your can find on XDA. Not something i conjure with magics and spells.

When mobile phone owners complain about battery rain, it's always because they're comping from a non-smartphone, or they don't understand how battery is consumed and/or calibrated in Android.

The only solution to this is either they learn how to managed their phone, or buy external battery charger.

As long as you don't know how to manage your apps, your phone, you won't last half a day regardless of what mobile phone you use.

FOr the past 10-15 year, mobile technology has increases exponentially when compared to battery technology. An era where information means more power consumtion. And if you expect more information to be available on your mobile, expect more battery consumtion.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

pda — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:38:36 GMT

I must agree with Zann.H. I've marked this thread as answered because (s)he was right. The phone battery life is now back to normal. It took a week, so others who complain about the battery life should wait before resetting the phone into factory. It will start reindexing and they'll end up in the infinite loop.

As I use my Z mainly for reading emails I can easily over two days.

I must say the Z is the best smart phone I ever had. I used Nexus S and sometimes it died after few hours it has been idle because of bug in WI-FI.

The other point is battery gauge. It shows incorrect information but this won't force me to factory reset.

Best,

Petr

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

hsoc — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:27:19 GMT

Hello,

a. I have read all the above threads.

b. I have used other smartphones.

As I stated, my conclusion is that the issues are in the latest firmware, not the actual device. The reason I am sure that something is wrong is the following:

Before I buy the Z I had a similar (like 100% similar device) with the following differences:

(battery: 2140 mAh & display: 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.7 inches), no need to name it here.

So same use, same apps, same network. Well, you guessed it right, the battery lasted longer.

I don't expect miracles, just lasting 1 day is enough (for my use).

No need to keep arguing on this, I am a 95% certain that there is some serious issue (it is possible that it is because of the low gps signal for example) but whatever it is, it results in battery draining.

best regards.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

Zann_H — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:37:53 GMT

The accuray of the battery gauge will increase with time as the application learn more about your daily phone usage. no reason to reset.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

azzido — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:28:30 GMT

pda, what is your brightness setting you normally use? Do you use Stamina mode? What do you have enabled? Do you often use 3G network? I wish my Xperia Z last for 2 days... 😕

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

pda — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:24:16 GMT

azzido, my brightness is set to ~80% with auto-adjust. I don't use Stamina, I rather take a benefit of LED which says me when to wake up the phone. I have both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on all the time even in low-battery mode. Most of the time I'm in 3G covered areas (no LTE here).

I've identified apps below as main battery drainers:

- Google+ - when I had photo/video auto-upload on, the battery went down pretty fast

- Native E-Mail app connected to Exchange servers - after 2-3 weeks it started to bomb the Exchange server and the only remediation was to delete and re-create Exchange account on the phone. I started to use Touchdown from Nitrodesk instead and it's much better.

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

skyZ — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:06:22 GMT

On my Z, it shows that the screen is consuming40% of the battery.

it has been more than a month since i updated my phone.

any suggestion?

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

GeoffH — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:40:57 GMT

depends how much screen time you have but yes if the screen is on offten it will consume

40% of battery is exactly what it says - it could be 40% of 5% battery drain - it's all relative and quite normal, there are many htreads here on the subject, have a browse round the forum

Re: Battery drains off 2 times faster after updating to 10.1.A.1.434

skyZ — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:57:14 GMT

i love the phone, but battery backup is really killing it for me.

thanks tho.