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

[rossk25]

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.

[CameronT]

Hi @Jimbo_oc,

Welcome to the community. I am sorry to hear about this.

Could you please test your phone in safe mode and see if the same thing happens?

[PaulSM]

How about you help instead of trolling? I came here thanks to Google...

[Bolush]

HI,
I have the same issue. My Z5 drains from 100% to 20% easily at night being idle. I did reset, didn't help,
It shows that android OS absorbing battery

[ARJUN_SINGH]

After I updated to Android Nougat on it's first Arival I am experiencing a Battery Drain by Phone Idle ( 20% to 25%). I have done a clean installation and have not yet installed a single third party app. To eleminate this battery drain I have flashed my Z5 Dual (E6683) with 32.3.A.0.372 INDIA. I saved this firmware file using Xperifirm when it was available.

[somart]

Am also having the same problem.can someone pls help cos I love this phone and don't want lose it just like that

[ddt123]

@CameronT,

Is there a solution to this battery draining problem yet?

I'm in the market for a new phone, and had my mind set on the Z5c (which, in my opinion, looks way better than the Xc), before finding this page and /t5/Xperia-Z5-Z5-Compact-Z5-Premium/Insane-battery-drain-for-nougat/td-p/1195171.

Thank you,

David

[ezy2ezy]

@DDT1

don't forget the Z5c is a 2015 phone, the Xc is a 2016 phone... 

the Z5c at least may "soon" be going end of life as it will be 2 years old in 4 months.... 

you might not care for updates to the o/s (and the Xc might not get any) but as second hand the battery might be getting a bit old if it is a launch phone...

[ezy2ezy]

why has my relevant post been removed?  if it is because of cross posting then that is daft as the same solution may be affecting 2 different problems that have been highlighted on 2 different threads.

it had a possible solution to the issue and a screen print showing the battery life.

i really wonder if Sony want people to see if they can replicate the issues their O/S has caused the users that frankly are really annoying us users.

i bought an X10, S, Z1 and Z5 on pre-release and from next month can upgrade early or wait until Sept and buy on the end of my 2 year contract...  I have been loyal to the brand and frankly if I have had enough of this then casual users must have...  but instead of helping work through the issue the mods on this forum just make it useless posting (they dont help, they just say "do a reset" which we know will not fix things"

smarten up sony, start sacking these people who are ruining your help boards.

[Mc19]

Here is my about phone information.I purchased this phone yesterday.The problem is i am facing minor battery draining .It is horrible .How can i solve this please answer

[Burello]

Had the same problem with my z3c with android 6.0.1, I flashed android 5.1.1  with flashtool and now I have 2 days of battery life again.

Android 6.0.1 is awful, at least on z3c