Battery life

[shanejones]

I have a new X10 mini and have used it for about a week. The battery life is appauling. On full charge overnight, by 5pm today the battery has been off mains for 10 hours and the battery is at 40%. 70% of the 60% drained is attributable to cell standby (36%) and phone idle (34%). Only 15% is to the display, 5% on calls and 5% on Bluetooth. With these settings (not unusual over past few days) my phone will be flat after less than 24 hours purely on standby and idle. SE claim 6 days!! What are other users experiencing - thinking of sending it back under trade descriptions as it is useless in the field as a phone. Out for the day, 2-3 calls and few texts and that would kill it dead. As for using it as a Smartphone with the screen bright enough to see comfortably and mine would be dead in less than 2 hours for sure.

[nharmon007]

wait untill it's been drained and charged around 10 times, do you have 3g, wifi, bluetooth on all the time? juice defender and app killer are handy apps to have

[shanejones]

WIFI is off, network mode is set to GSM/WCDMA, screen brightness on lowest setting, Bluetooth on but only used 5% in 10 hours, screen timeout to 15 seconds. Does it improve with repeated charges? It will need to improve a long way to be useable. I hardly use it and it just seems to lose charge like water running out of a bath! Thanks for the help so far. How long does your battery last?

[Large-s]

The battery life will improve by charging/uncharging the battery. If Im not misstaken it even says so in the manual that you can down load from SE webpage.

My battery last about 2 days (48 hours) with minimum usage of Wifi and bluetooth or 3G. but playing some games here and there. and some phone calls and texting.

/L

[sublow]

I left the office last night with a fully charged phone.

By the time I got in the office this morning at 9:00 the battery was at 5%.

I think I need to download some of those apps you mentioned (or buy some more chargers )

[mclovin]

I'm also experiencing very poor battery life. It's now 22 hours since I charged it to 99%. The phone has been idle most of the time, but the battery is now down to 25%. Not good. There better be a way to fix this. And yes, I have disabled wi-fi, bluetooth and killed all tasks.

[shanejones]

In fairness my battery has improved on charging/discharging. It would now last about 2 days on a full charge but I have almost everything turned off or down low to achieve this. Not exactly what I had in mind and not exactly what is portrayed in the Sony advert on TV at the moment! This shows a lively, vibrant, colourful and fully functional phone in use at the fingertips. It doesn't show a charger anywhere which is where the phone would be most of the time if used the way it is in the advert. Quite disappointing to be honest and something that needs to be addressed or more reasonable assessments of battery life published up front. SE's claim is 6 days on standby!

[sublow]

I want bluetooth, wifi and data switched on all the time as I don't want to have to switch things on and off when I get in the car/house.

If I have to charge my every night I'm fine with that but it must last the whole day. It has so far, but I need to start taking a charger with me on nights away.

I'm off to eBay to buy some cheap chargers.

[ayewhy]

I was very disappointed last night, I bought my X10 mini pro yesterday, fully charged it and took it off the charger at 4.30pm. At 10.30pm the battery was less than 10%. I kept wifi on, bluetooth off and closed off many apps with a task killer. But still, 6 hours is absolutely crap. I am coming from a Nokia E72 that gave me 4-5 days without needing a recharge, and before that a Blackberry Bold that gave me similar.

I don't know how much better it can get by constant recharge/discharge cycles... but my hopes aren't that high

[mclovin]

On the second cycle, my battery is now at 60% after 19 hours. Have done some youtubing, tracking with the gps and wifi-stuff. Big improvement.

[moamoamoamoa]

The battery life will improve by charging/uncharging the battery. If Im not misstaken it even says so in the manual that you can down load from SE webpage.

My battery last about 2 days (48 hours) with minimum usage of Wifi and bluetooth or 3G. but playing some games here and there. and some phone calls and texting.

/L

Interesting it lasts around 48 hours for you. How long have you had your mini??

[Andiiboy]

was having doubts about the new update given the previous battery issues, and was considering rolling back to rf16 but have canned that idea, i have recently discovered a vast improvement if you are prepared to spend a little time setting up some free apps, i installed, ATK, Memory Task Cleaner And Startup auditor, with some tinkering (blocking timescape, playnow and moxier and autokilling a few other needless processes and apps) i have now set it up and am losing less than 1% (if that) per two hours when the phone is not in use, using 3g will drain your battery as quick as 4% in 10mins (dependant on how close you are to an antenna (the further you are the more power is required for signal transmission) whilst using the phone as normal (calls and text and some facebook) and it is now lasting two days easy....................just some ideas and info for those thinking of rolling back or suffering from disillusionment.........

[Daeljan]

Hi there,

I really like my x10 mini pro but my battery performance is rendering the phone useless to me. Andiiboy or anyone else out there would you mind letting me know what you did in the way of tweaks? you can PM me if you don't want to paste here. It must be better than this. I even had it sent back to 3 Mobile who "serviced it" and QA'd it for 24 hours - they said there was nothing wrong with it, but for me it hardly lasts a working day and I keep finding loads of apps mysteriously running that I dont even use or want - cant seem to un-install them either.

Thanks!

[JayJ]

It's a smartphone and they are power hungry, make sure bluetooth and Wi-Fi are off when not in use and you can turn data off which will save battery.
There are some apps like Juice Defender which with you can set parameters to when the data/3G is enabled etc to slow battery consumption.
As For running tasks, services and processes, android is not like Windows OS and things are active ready to be used that the system determines you might need.
If you really want to uninstall certain applications that are system apps then you will need root access but if you do this be careful as you can semi-brick your phone, this us always recoverable via a fresh OS flash with SEUS but that means starting all over again. If you want to root I would suggest reading up on it first and then read some more. Lots of information on here and XDA Developers Forum on rooting.

Hope that helps some.

Swyped from my ZDZ Froyo X10i

[mutant_matt]

I've had mine since Christmas, have Wi-Fi, 3G, Data, Bluetooth, GPS, all turned off. I occasionally turn on WiFi for a bit of surfing, but apart from that, mainly just use it for texting and as a phone (but do use the Camera, Calc and a few other apps from time to time, and I have Easy Reminder and Firewall installed and running all the time). On average, I get approx on average 4 days use from a full charge, but have had 6, and also, 2.

I've uninstalled most of the Sony apps, run Task Killer, but that doesn't often have anything that needs killing, but I also don't use any Google apps, and have the MVPS ad-blocking hosts file installed. Every little bit helps I suppose, but it's mostly the heavy battery consumption stuff that's mostly off.

Current example:

Phone Idle 54%
Cell Standby 33%
Display 6%
Android System 6%
Voice Calls 3%

Time since last charge, 4d 12h