Xperia XA - Horrendous battery life

[andvivia7]

I am getting barely 2.5 hours on screen time with the Xperia XA. I'm not doing anything stupid like leaving it on max brightness (it's auto) and I don't run masses of apps - in fact as you can see from the screen grabs it is clearly the display which is the main culprit. 

How on earth is this supposed to reach the advertised 2 days battery life? By not using it? It's absolutely useless.... very unhappy, particularly because it is otherwise a rather nice little device with that edge-to-edge screen.

Have I got a dodgy battery?!

[Davethesaint]

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@gtxshreyasxyz wrote:
I did a factory reset, and it worked wonders...
With wifi and mobile data turned off, the device only burned through 6% of the battery overnight

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With wi fi and data off is like in aero mode. It is normal that the battery consumption is low (also without factory reset).

[1adrian1]

Even without the latest firmware update I'm highly impressed with the battery life so far

[TejaXA]

Sir, What is your XA's Screen-on time with mixed usage (FB, Whatsapp, Audio/Video etc.)

[1adrian1]

So far on first full charge down to 50% battery left just over 2.5hrs screen on time achieved with brightness at 50% WiFi on and I ain't put it down yet I reckon 5hrs screen time is easily achievable onon stock. .35 firmware only thing I don't do on a phone is a lot of games

[InsaneTrip]

You know nothing about draining battery, sir 🙂 3 hours of screen is realy good result for my xa. It is almost impossible result. 2.5 is average from morning to evening only reading. Reading this forum about battery issue 🙂

[1adrian1]

Is that right ignore the learner tag next to my name my proper user name on here from my m2 is 1adrian1 I logged in through the support app on my xa so it created a new account I actually know quite a bit about phones and Android I also regularly got 6hrs+ screen time on my m2 with a few tweaks. First full charge on my xa gave me just over 4hrs screen time on. .35 firmware with nothing disabled and brightness at 50% it also charges from zero to full in about a hour and a half tops I'm more than Impressed with it well done Sony Xperia

[InsaneTrip]

Why so serious? 🙂 You read me wrong. I told you, that you're lucky man. Your xa works fine, so you're not faced too much with its battery issue. That's why you don't know how bad it could be.
So I am not realy impressed with it. "Could be a bit better" Sony Xperia 

[dpgx]

still no update....  .73 has been out nearly a week was really hoping it'd push to the other models by now.  With Wifi draining battery so extensively even with scanning disabled, I can't make it from morning to night...

[1adrian1]

Funny with the WiFi scanning turned off, first full charge on Wednesday got just over 4hrs screen time yesterday got just over 4.5hrs screen time on firmware ending in 35

[nathancheow99]

Will factory reset fix battery draining issue?