Fix for: Android OS using excessive amount of battery

[#1]

Sorry if this has already been on before. If you battery meter is showing that the Android OS is using large amounts of battery (mine was 43%) then all you have to do to fix it is connect the xperia play to a computer but instead of safely removing from the computer, you must pull the bar down from the top of the phone screen and press disconnect, then unplug the phone and the OS then returns to normal battery usage. I found this on another forum for a different phone, so I presume its a fault in the OS not the xperia play.

[#2]

Hmmm some very interesting information Keir99 cheers (Can you supply the link to this article so that I can take a peek at the follow-ups?).

Do you know if this is just a temporary fix that needs performing after every phone restart? My phone Android system usage has been up as far as 38% and the battery life just started to deplete at an alarming rate, I even had the battery glowing for no reason when I had it clipped to my belt, no apps running.

Mark

[#3]

The oringial post was here: http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=2d75d37c709aac6c&hl=en

Posted by nahuel999 at the bottom, but theres not much after that comment. I think you only have to manually disconnect each time you connect the phone to the PC and not whenever you restart it, but im not sure as my xperia never gets turned off.

[#4]

This actually works! Experienced the same crappy battery endurance getting my phone drained from 100% to 0% in about 12hours. But when I did as said in the post and started unmounting my phone from the pc before unplugging, it now goes from 100% to about 75% with normal use for about 16hours(when playing more it drops further =). It was always the android-system that had 30-40% use of the battery, now it is down to less than 10%. My phone can most likely survive 3-4days without charging now, though I do charge every night anyways

Loads of thanks to Keir99 for bringing this to my notice =D

[#5]

Thanks Jokked17, yeah its amazing the increase in battery. I managed to get 4 days of just using the xperia play as a phone, just calling and texting and I managed to get 4 days with 20% battery still left. I never turn the phone off, however I put it in plane mode at night.

[#6]

Cheers

[#7]

What am I missing here gents (and gentettes?)

When I pull the top menu down as suggested I don't get an option to disconnect from the PC, only to CHANGE CONNECTIVITY MODE. When I select this option I can only change between MASS SOTRAGE and MEDIA TRANSFER modes.

I have changed to MASS STORAGE and now the status has changed to CONNECT YOUR PHONE - should I assume then that this is now disconnected from the PC?

If this works I'll be so happy - only got the phone two days ago and already charged it three times.

Thanks in advance!

[#8]

If your in Media Transfer mode, you need to pull the bar down from the top then press Change connectivity mode, then Change to mass storage mode, then pull the bar down from the top again, and press Connect your phone, then press Connect phone memory card, then wait around 10 - 20 sec. After that when you pull the bar down it now has the option to disconnect.

Also New update: I've found that even just using the charger causes this bug, so I now just charge via PC so I can disconnect, as you cant with the charger.

Also if any sony people read this, please please fix this bug its so irritating.

[#9]

Thanks Kier99, that seems to have worked. Much appreciated!

And I totally agree - if anyone from Sony is reading then fix this bug! This can't possibly be a long term solution to battery life problems!

[Sam]

This is interesting, I will see if I can replicate that here.