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Battery drains faster with Lollipop

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Stenbocken
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Battery drains faster with Lollipop

Has anyone else noticed that the battery drains faster with Lollipop, lasts now 2/3 of the time compered to before upgrade. All battery saving settings are set as before.
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Adriano09
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Just to let you know how my experience has been after "upgrading" to Lollipop on my Z2. I feel the battery life dropped. Not by 75% like most of you are experiencing, but I lost fairly 30-35% of life battery depending on how much I use it over the day. I had set the Stamina mode to something a bit more saving than I used to, and I have to be honest that the battery life on stand by actually improved! Not much, but I can guess the standby battery life got better by something like 15%. But it the other hand, under use, even checking messages, the drain got considerably faster, almost twice as fast. The discharge curve seemed to change a bit as well as it seems to drain even faster below 20% of charge. Under use, it goes like 20>15>7>2% in minutes...

Well, this is just to share my experience that the standby battery life improved by some 15% while under use it got like 40% worse... I think at the ende of the day (when I reach the end of the day...) I lost overall maybe 35% of my previous battery lifetime.

I actually have no hopes to find a solution for this as nothing moves me from the idea that this is on purpose to make you buy a new phone. Motorola is the champion of doing this, their high-end mobiles becomes useless as battery life drastic fall after one year of use. That's the main reason I switched for Sony after 15 years using exclusivelly Motorola mobiles. My expectation turned true to discover the almost unbelievable battery time the Z2 had... Just to discover that Sony, sooner or latter, or to be more specific, after the Lollipop, would do the same to make me buy a new product. The Z2 had an awesome battery life even after one year of use, until last week when I did the "update". Now it is just another useless smartphone.

Thanks Sony...

Roy66
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(due to Censorship?) I will re-post.

@uliwooly : suggesting to reinstall Lollipop with your PC doesn't do anything so please stop giving that advise.

There is a bug in Lollipop which is not going to be solved by Google

They will solve it in the next version named Marshmallow

http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/08/mobile-radio-bug-to-be-patched-with-marshmallow.html

As long a Sony (and all other phone makers) do not push google to solve it in Lollipop we are left with a 'broken' device.

mrmetacrisis
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Hey, @uliwooly.

Sure. 

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BR4DOKYBrazil
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I'm having trouble with the slow WiFi in this latest update as well as the battery drain! Can anyone tell me if improved camera quality in this update? If it is the same kernel that the .28, I will downgrade!

ahliung
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My Z2 can't stand by up to at least 1 and a half day after 5.1.1 update. The theory I have was (or I found out that) Wifi is not fully turn off even though I had turned it off from the status bar or manually at settings. I would say like this because when I view back my battery usage the wifi is on throughout the time although I seriously had turned wifi off.. Can anyone help with this issue? And I didn't use mobile data.
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Uliwooly
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Do you have any app that might keep wifi on?
ahliung
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No....
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Roy66
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Hopefully we won't have to wait to long for marshmellow!

http://www.chinatopix.com/articles/62164/20150818/android-m-android-marshmallow-sony-xperia-z-sony-x...

Z2 is according to the link almost at the end of it's lifecycle... at the end of 2015 (which is imho far to soon...how dare they!!!)

and it is not even sure that the Z1 will receive it and thus will be stuck at a broken 5.1?

mrmetacrisis
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It's all deeply frustrating. Sony employees won't even acknowledge the issue either except for the rare occasions where they surface to say, "Try reinstalling with PC Companion." 

My battery life is so poor now and my Z2 gets so hot that I'm sending it away for repair. It's ridiculous. I should never have updated my device and stuck with KitKat. KitKat's icons may have been ugly, but the OS was at least solid and functional without any of this mobile radio active / constant wifi nonsense or CPU drain.

I honestly can't see myself buying another Sony phone again, which is quite a drastic change for me. This is the first Sony phone I've ever owned and I was so impressed before Android Lollipop. Now I realise that Sony's customer care / service is atrocious and they're not willing to accept any responsibility for the problems despite them having a hand in the Lollipop code and rollout.