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Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:03:19 GMT

Hii all

I have had this problem with Lollipop on my Xperia Z5, but it is now still present on my phone after I updated to marshmallow.

My phone has very huge battery drain, with the battery bairly lasting my a full day. Android OS is almost always one of the highest consumers and is constantly keeping the phone awake. I usually get 2-3 hours SOT from a full charge.

I also find that my cell standby consumes alot of battery and I have the mobile radio active bug that consumes battery too.

Can anyone please help?

Do i have a faulty phone, since these issues carried over from lollipop into marshmallow? It actulally very poor from Sony to sell a phone for $999AUD and advertise it as having 2 days battery life, when the battery barley lasts a single day with light usage.

Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed because I am nearing my wits end with this phone.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Karim — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:34:16 GMT

No.... too many things cause CPU issues from apps to corrupted files....

Download CPU monitor advanced Lite from google store and paste the output here as screenshots... let it run for 2 mins...

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:35:47 GMT

I have installed my MM again doing a software repair over PC companion. So i have started a fresh. But i did download the CPU monitor app and these are the results

Screenshots

So its seems. It doesnt show it in these images but the CPU temp hits 54C too

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Karim — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:37:30 GMT

can u upload pics to some website ? i cant see anything

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:51:09 GMT

Hi Sorry for that

Try This

regards

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Karim — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:58:42 GMT

@rossk25 wrote:
Hi Sorry for that
Try This
regards

You have to record when the device gets warm that would give a much easier hint... I had such problems before and turned out to be my contacts corrupting everytime it sync with google contacts

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

jeff1414 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:19:12 GMT

What I did after the update is I did a factory reset and wipe the cache partition. Also the phone is still adapting to the new OS that is why having a battery drain after an update is normal. Usually a week will stabilize it. I suggest doing frequent restarts and drain the phones battery to 0% once.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:17:27 GMT

@jeff1414 wrote:
What I did after the update is I did a factory reset and wipe the cache partition. Also the phone is still adapting to the new OS that is why having a battery drain after an update is normal. Usually a week will stabilize it. I suggest doing frequent restarts and drain the phones battery to 0% once.

I performed a software repair using the PC companion app just to start afresh. Do you belive this would be the cause of my heavy battery drain issues? Should I just give it about a week to see if this would solve anything?

Ill try wiping the cahce partition. But having done a software repair seems to defeat the purpose of wiping the cache partition.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

HenningJ — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:01:44 GMT

I have the same issue. Huge battery drain and phone gets really warm after a few minutes of usage

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:10:41 GMT

@HenningJ wrote:
I have the same issue. Huge battery drain and phone gets really warm after a few minutes of usage

Have you done a factory reset? or performed a software Repair at all?

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Dzung10892 — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:29:54 GMT

I have the same problem. I tried factory reset, repair through Sony Bridge for Mac, and flashtool, but the problem is still there. Android system is always on the battery usage, which drains my battery . Do you have any suggestions for that matter? Last night I charged my Z5 fully, and now the battery is empty eventhough I haven't touched it.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Juanp8910 — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 01:26:36 GMT

Same problem here the android system use the 20% the my battery I'm desperate and I don't know what to do

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

simon2u — Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:01:47 GMT

My Z5 Premium Dual was giving me 1.5 days battery when I was using Stamina mode during Lollipop days...but this superb feature is now missing after I received Marshmallow update (it seems due to native Doze mode from this OS)...and now I need to charge my phone by mid day! Totally unacceptable especially when I bought this phone primarily due to Sony's product claim of providing 2-day battery life (via Stamina mode). I've called and written to Sony asking for reinstatement of Stamina and Ultra Stamina mode. You should do the same.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

BritinSA — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 06:40:58 GMT

Finally got the Marshmallow update yesterday.

This morning took my Z5 off overnight charge (100%). Sat in bed using the phone (reading Pocket) and just noticed the battery level had reduced to 28% !

In 90m of normal usage (reading)? Battery app reported that 50% of my battery usage was screen.

Suddenly I want to lick my lollipop again. Defintiely my first and last Sony mobile.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

LarsSk — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 08:02:35 GMT

Doze mode is not working as god as stamina mode. Need to recharge battery in the evening now wich I didnt have to do before the update. Give me back the stamina mode.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

rossk25 — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:00:02 GMT

Ok, So my phones battery usage has returned to normal.

I did some testing and found that it must be some wakelock that is causing my phone to stay awake and not go to sleep. I have narrowed it down to 2 things.

1. Bluetooth: When my phone disconnects from my cars bluetooth, I think a wake lock happens and something keeps the phone awake and doesn't allow it to go to sleep or doze. A restart usually fixes the issue. But then again, sometimes this does not happend.

2. Uni WiFi. On my Uni WiFi, especially the eduroam network, the phone stays awake too, if i forget the eduroam network (or just switch WiFi off), and restart the phone, the issue does not return.

Im not sure what exactly causes these to happen. But i have found that either one or the other sometimes cause the phone to constantly stay awake. I would love to do more troubleshooting but I am not rooted and dont want to tamper with the phone any further.

Not using the eduroam WiFi network, or not using my cars bluetooth stereo seems to prevent the phone from staying awake.

Now, i get 1-2 days battery life with 3-4.5 hours screen on time. But on average my phone lasts me easily 1 day with around 50-60% remining when i am in bed.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Danial1989 — Sun, 22 May 2016 08:16:56 GMT

I updated my Z2 yesterday to Marshmallow and therez no stamina mode... I agree 100% to the above comment

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

alpere — Sun, 22 May 2016 09:56:16 GMT

Can you check if location improvement from bluetooth and wifi is on

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

Crimpshrine13 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 05:58:09 GMT

I'd been experiencing this horrible problem after updating to 6.0.1, and after many attempts, now the battery drain had stopped. Not sure if it'll happen again, but today was the very first day after the update when I unplugged from the charger and spending 9 hours outside, and only 15% used. I think there was multiple problems going on behind my Xperia Z3 Compact (D5803).

The factory reset I did (start button and volume up) did nothing to fix it.

It appeared to be multiple issues caused by Google services and Wifi.

#1: It could be the location service running behind with apps. I forcefully terminated location serice on some of the apps.

#2: Someone already mentioned here - I had two devices both Xperia tablet and my Z3C simultaneously getting location service from same Google account. I disabled the tablet's location service.

#3: Disabling Wifi search. I was manually disabling Wifi, but I think you can actually go to Developer Option and turn on to force switch to mobile network when Wifi signal is weak instead of searching for Wifi network.

After playing with these settings, I think the battery drain stopped. By the way, I am not using battery saver mode or Airplane mode. I spent 3 weeks trying to fix it, but I hoping these had resolved my problem.

Hope this post give you some hint.

Re: Huge battery drain with Marshmallow. Android OS never lets phone sleep

tomo100brt — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:39:34 GMT

Nothing of this helped for my problem. Android System is still draining my battery on XPERIA Z5.