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Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

cvcanoza_gmail_ — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:26:47 GMT

For the past four months of using Xperia V, I have come to like the phone and be contented about it, except for one thing: battery life.

I understand that smartphones really consume much power compared to any feature phones, but the battery life of my Xperia V, and I guess even other users would agree with me, is so disappointing that I have to resort to this forum in order for Sony to listen (if they really care about their customers).

My phone, even with the updates I have had, only lasts at an average of 15 to 20 hours (about 50 percent of which is on standby/idle) so I need to charge even before the day ends.

Now to the everdearest Sony customer support group, if you can't do something about the battery life through software/system updates, isn't just possible if you just produce higher-performance battery life (with higher mAH of course) for Xperia V users?

I am quite surprised that since you introduced Xperia, there have been so many Xperia models already released. I don't care if you think this is the best marketing pitch, but I just hope you won't take for granted customers who have already bought the Xperia V. The model itself is good, but there is one important department to which your tech people have forgot about this phone--battery life.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

Uliwooly — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:37:39 GMT

do you leave your data and/or wifi on? are you auto-syncing?

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

cvcanoza_gmail_ — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:30:22 GMT

I don't leave my data/wifi on the whole time. I only browse most of the time, so I turn off data/wifi everytime I'm done. The collective, average time I spent to browsing (through data OR wifi) is about 1 1/2 hours (two hours the most) per charge

I did sync as well, but I do manual, not auto-syncing. My screen's brightness is about 15 percent only and adapts to environment brightness. Seems to me that even when the phone is idle, battery drains 1 percent every two or three minutes, and drains much more faster when you are using it.

Are you an Xperia V user? How long does your battery last?

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

Uliwooly — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:32:54 GMT

charge your phone 100% > let it drain to 10% then take screenshots of

the battery graph

the list

and tap on the top 3 items on the list

total of 5 screenshots

I don't have the Xperia V, I have the Xperia T, S, Z, Arc, etc

my Xperia T does drain the battery fast but I have the LTE version and well I use it quite a bit so its normal that it will drain in few hours (heavy games, brightness 100%, gps on, sync on, music, camera, etc)

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

cvcanoza_gmail_ — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:49:19 GMT

thanks. will try to do that.

I think though battery life is a serious problem. I don't mind charging every night, but I just do hope the battery would reach even for at least a day under normal use. but my xperia V, i think it would last for a day when I just let it on standby mode.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

Uliwooly — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 03:53:37 GMT

normal use with a smartphone its about 10-12hrs, heavier use 8-10hrs, also check this

settings > about phone > status > signal strength

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

JT0099 — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:54:05 GMT

Totally agree with thread starter, Sony should produce a hihger capacity battery with the same dimenssion with the original ba800.

By the way thread starter, you could try to disable google location service in setting>location service. It helps me to squeeze out 5-6 hours more

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

Hewlett33 — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:53:58 GMT

Try this battery:

http://pdaphone-battery.com/zaspx/product_details.aspx?file=pr&productno=1630&PageNo=&catno=5&subcatid=148&sortby=sortid&orderby=desc&type=general

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

cvcanoza_gmail_ — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:03:03 GMT

Thanks dude. I feel it's Sony's obligation to their customers (especially the loyal ones, like me) to introduce updates to the phones (be it software or hardware), especially those they have just released. What they are doing now is to introduce new models. Since they launched Xperia V at IFA 2012 and the actual market release last December, they have introduced so many models already. It seems to me that the new models they are introducing are something like a mere improvement of the previous models they have just released.

Introducing new models is really good, but if you do it every month, I feel like Sony is doing a Nokia, remember when the latter introduce new phones (from late 90s to early 2000s) as if they are just changing underwear?

Well, I would still root for Sony though, one of the trusted brands I know. They just have to wake up, imho.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

cvcanoza_gmail_ — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:04:37 GMT

thanks for the suggestion dude. I've heard this mugen battery and I've almost convinced myself to buy one. One think i didn't like with mugen power is the enhanced battery comes too bulky. besides, i really wanted Sony to fix their failure for the Xperia V model.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

chinshijing — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:44:20 GMT

Hi Sony,

Yes i have the same issue. I just bought a new battery cost me SGD58 yesterday.

And I charged it the whole entire night.

This morning, my battery dropped 1% every 15mins. I am dissappointed.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

arturiu — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 23:39:42 GMT

My V battery usually lasts for more than 1 day (+24 hours).

If you let all your apps to sync whenever they want, then good luck .

Also, just activate the radio functions that you need at the moment (wi-fi, bluetooth, gps, ...) .

LTE is known to drain your battery fast.

Re: Calling on Sony to Release Higher Performance Battery for Xperia V

276216 — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 08:47:45 GMT

Iv got the same problem with Sony xperia v !

The battery discharges fast even with high current dragger software and features setting to off.

I think the original ba800 is not suitable for such a smart phone.

Easily remember old nokia E71 with a 1500 mAh battery which doesn't use large display and new features ... !