Battery life: tips?

[mrmetacrisis]

Hi, everyone. I bought the Z5 in January and I love it. I'm impressed with the design and the phone overall, but the battery life is pretty poor. I have Stamina mode on and it lasts me a day max; without Stamina mode, it's less. 

Does anyone have tips for extending the battery life further? I have adaptive brightness on the screen, wifi turns off when the screen is off, etc. But I have not been able to get 'up to two days' battery life' out of it once. 

[Uliwooly]

@mrmetacrisis

We'll need more info to better assist you

restart the phone > charge the phone 100% use it as you normally would then once the battery reaches 10%

settings > power management > battery > take screenshots of:

1. the list

2. tap on the graph and take a screenshot

3. back > tap on the top 4 items on the list > take a screenshot of each 

post them all here or upload the screenshots to box or dropbox or google drive or etc and post the link

[Karim]

Well the only option that really saved me battery was the background wifi scan. I get 49 mAh when device is on standby compared to 72 mAh.

go to wireless - advanced and untick the 2nd option ( scanning always available )

[TerryQ]

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@IA64 wrote:

Well the only option that really saved me battery was the background wifi scan. I get 49 mAh when device is on standby compared to 72 mAh.

go to wireless - advanced and untick the 2nd option ( scanning always available )

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Good point, I only ever use my own wifi, so why have it scanning all the time. Tip used 👍🏻

[Bhonder]

Interesting: how do you measure current draw? Is there an option?

[korom]

try this , it gives me like 120% more battery life
Go to Wifi > Advanced setting
untick all the the options like in the picture

[Karim]

Download AIDA64 / Battery section .

Note that it used to work fine and update every 1 sec on my previous Xperia. On Z5 it updates every 10 secs. You have to be patient. 

[mrmetacrisis]

Hello.

Here are those screenshots. Please note that I manually turn Google Fit on and off only when I'm walking, running or going to the gym, so I don't have the app or location services running. My screen brightness is rarely on full. I have it on low and adaptive brightness enabled. (P.S. Thank you to the people above who suggested the Wifi trick.)

[mrmetacrisis]

After a full charge, it's saying I can get an estimated 19 hours of battery time: that's with Stamina enabled, wifi scanning and location services disabled, etc. So how does one get 'up to two days' battery life**'? My Z2 used to get two days easily on KitKat, so why is battery life on my Z5 so weak? It seems to be on a par with an Apple phone. 

[Karim]

It needs time to adapt and estimate correctly.