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. 

[_alexdon_]

@mrmetacrisis You can reset the estimation by clearing data for stamina app under settings-apps-all (first, make sure to disable stamina). Restart the device and turn stamina back on. But that is a battery life estimated on your past usage pattern. You keep the display on a lot.

[Syncr0s]

I use a couple of ITTT apps so that Wifi is only turned on in locations I want it, and when it disconnects then the profile for the location resets to out and about (i.e. leave the office or home and Wifi will turn off). AutoSync is tied to the same profiles.

My screen is set on about 35% brightness and is also adaptive.

Depending on what I am doing, I can get close to 2 days of charge, and before I got my Galaxy S2 Gear and BT head phones I used to get more than 2 days as I'd almost never have BT turned on.

[mrmetacrisis]

I only ever kept the display on when I'm using the phone. It's not like I activated the screen and left it on for no reason. I noticed there was a discrepancy between the display being on and the apps being used. After a bit of investigating, I noticed that the screen was staying active even with the screen locked and charging. I've sorted this now and my battery has settled. I can get a day and about 5–8 hours out of it now.