topic Re: Guest account! :( in Z Series

Guest account! :(

Saeedom11 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:30:26 GMT

Hi everyone! I just wanna know if there is anyway I can get rid of the guest mode (account) in my phone, I think my battery drains faster than before updating to lollipop because of it.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Guest account! :(

Jake-SonyXperia — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:43:19 GMT

Hi Saeedom11,

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This generally indicates that the Guest user account has been in use, it would not show unless this has been active, have you use the Guest account?

Re: Guest account! :(

Uliwooly — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:44:09 GMT

What makes you think that the battery drain faster because of the guest account?

you can't disable the guest account.

settings > power management > battery > check what's draining your battery

Re: Guest account! :(

Jake-SonyXperia — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:56:23 GMT

Hi Uliwooly,

there was an image attached to his post, I have now approved it so you can see the User account using battery power.

Re: Guest account! :(

Uliwooly — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:04:21 GMT

@Jake-SonyXperiaSupport

Thank you

Re: Guest account! :(

Uliwooly — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:05:16 GMT

Open the Guest account > settings > battery > check if you are running any apps/services

Re: Guest account! :(

_alexdon_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 07:24:09 GMT

What you can do is switch to guest mode and go to settings-users and remove guest. It will remove all data from that session.

Re: Guest account! :(

Saeedom11 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:50:55 GMT

Yeah I've tried it once but didn't like it, so I switched back to main user.

@Jake-SonyXperiaSupport

Re: Guest account! :(

Saeedom11 — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 23:56:54 GMT

Thank you for your advice, that's reduced the consuming to 4%

@alexdon

Re: Guest account! :(

Jake-SonyXperia — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:51:19 GMT

From what I am aware, performing a simple restart stops the app from running so it cannot consume battery. May be something to try in the future if you ever do use it.

Re: Guest account! :(

_alexdon_ — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 04:14:05 GMT

Great,I hope it will be fixed.

Re: Guest account! :(

HarikrishnanP — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:14:59 GMT

Guest Account eats considerable amount of battery. If you check running services you can see it takes around 80 MB of RAM. Remove Guest Account and restart the phone. Check Running Apps and confirm Guest is not present there.

Re: Guest account! :(

GrvCat — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 16:45:31 GMT

I have tried to remove the guest account by restarting, switching to guest then removing, disabling calls, etc... There is persistant data usage by this account on my phone, dispite the fact I never have used it and have turned off the calling switch on this account many times (which appearantly turns itself back on without consent). I didn't enable this feature nor did ask for it. I have absolutely no need or use for it, I don't like it, I really don't appreciate it being forced apon me and I don't want this on my phone.