topic It says that the battery lasts up to 2 days!! in X Series

It says that the battery lasts up to 2 days!!

Thesnowman24 — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 16:00:41 GMT

So my battery life is shocking at most 20 hours (not like my old Z3 compact which is over 2 and a half years old still get nearly 2 days out of it..) what can be done to help battery life?

Re: It says that the battery lasts up to 2 days!!

CameronT — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 02:29:06 GMT

Hi @Thesnowman24, welcome to the community.

The battery life is advertised as up to 2 days. The total life you will get off a charge will depend on how you use your phone. In certain conditions you can indeed get up to 2 days, but the more you use your device the more you will need to charge it.

Apps that consume a lot of battery, like facebook, messenger, snapchat, whatsapp, YouTube and most games for example, are going to limit the amount of battery time you can get on a single charge.

Here's what it states on the product page:
"Battery life has been measured against Sony Mobile Communications AB’s smartphone usage profile, defined in September 2014 to represent the typical smartphone user’s active condition, including, but not limited to a range of usage scenarios (calling, texting, web browsing, social networking, game playing, music listening, picture taking, picture browsing, online video watching, video recording and playback)."

20 hours is a respectable amount of use per charge for a modern smartphone. With my position in Sony, I have to use my phone a lot. I currently use the Xperia X as my main phone, and I will get approximately 15 hours per charge.

If you are concerned that you are getting a lot of drain and your use doesn't account for it, I recommend you test your phone in safe mode. Safe mode will start your phone with only the pre-installed apps loaded, so it is a good test to see if third party apps are causing excessive drain on your device.

Re: It says that the battery lasts up to 2 days!!

YoGem — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:26:44 GMT

I get about 24h and some times one day and a half of battery life on my X compact but I decided this time to avoid using Facebook (not a big fan anyway) and especially the FB messenger. Social networks with almost real time push notification such as Facebook are battery drainers but believe me that @CameronT is right, 20h is a great great battery life!

Re: It says that the battery lasts up to 2 days!!

ykphuah — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 08:07:36 GMT

I can get 2 days if I enable stamina mode constantly, or I just turn off mobile data and wifi, and only turn them on when I need to.