Batteries and battery life.

[blueb4sunrise]

Hi everyone. I have recently acquired a sony xperia P LT22i smart phone.

I really like the features and build quality, but I am finding that battery life is pretty darn poor. Even with battery saving mode enabled.

I have done a little googling and disabled one or two pointless apps that I don't use.

I am also considering buying a new battery, so I have done a little bit of homework.

Taking the back off the phone was easier than expected and after googling the part number (I love google), I am now a little confused about some of the information.

My phone has battery p/n AGPB009-A001 1265 mAh

after market batteries are available with both part numbers AGPB009-A001 and AGPB009-A003 with either 1265 mAh or 1320 mAh.

1) what is the difference between A001 and A003 ?
2) Is a battery upgrade really likely to make much difference ?
3) is there a battery to fit this phone with a much higher mAh rating
4) is there anything else I can do to help make the battery last longer?



Thanks for reading

 

[SkyJackpot]

Hi everyone. I have recently acquired a sony xperia P LT22i smart phone.

I really like the features and build quality, but I am finding that battery life is pretty darn poor. Even with battery saving mode enabled.

I have done a little googling and disabled one or two pointless apps that I don't use.

I am also considering buying a new battery, so I have done a little bit of homework.

Taking the back off the phone was easier than expected and after googling the part number (I love google), I am now a little confused about some of the information.

My phone has battery p/n AGPB009-A001 1265 mAh

after market batteries are available with both part number mbers AGPB009-A001 and AGPB009-A003 with either 1265 mAh or 1320 mAh.

1) what is the difference between A001 and A003 ?
2) Is a battery upgrade really likely to make much difference ?
3) is there a battery to fit this phone with a much higher mAh rating
4) is there anything else I can do to help make the battery last longer?



Thanks for reading

It's unfortunate that some developers are either unaware or just haven't included code to never start their programs up on system start if they aren't needed, or put in unnecessary trigger events that will enable and open those programs based on other programs actions.

For example a program I have called Picfolio which I have set up to not sync at startup, but using a program called Rom Toolbox can see it's still set to open every time a Boot Completes (switching on of the phone). So i just nuke them and make sure the majority aren't starting up before backing up the system.

Unfortunately it's only a rooted solution. I would suggest if you keep finding programs that are needlessly opening up randomly or after rebooting your system and find them draining your battery then seek an alternative and alert the developer to switch off the unnecessary autostart, so that it will behave in a more efficient manner and use battery when you request it to open and then completely close the program when you close it

 

[blueb4sunrise]

Thanks for your reply.
I decided to go ahead and get a new up rated battery any way, the stock one has been run hard by my wife for the last year and is probably tired.
So the plan is a dual pronged attack.. New battery and a battle against unwanted bloatware type apps.
I need to get googling again too to try and sus out what they do to decide weather I need them running or not.

 

[bluebayou]

^I know you've already upgraded your battery, but i'd still like to answer your questions so other people can kind of get an idea of how these things work. I work in the mobile backup battery industry, so I have to deal with these numbers/ratings quite often.

1) what is the difference between A001 and A003? From the looks of it, the A003 should have a slightly higher mAh, which is the amount of amperes a battery can store (essentially its overall capacity- the higher the number, the better. it will be able to keep your phone alive for longer)

2) that being said, 1265 vs 1320 mAh really won't make that big of a difference. you would want the difference in amperes to be at least 500 or 1000 mAh before it'll be worth the upgrade. This is because 500 mAh is usually 1/3 of a smartphone's battery life, so anything lower than that number is only good for "flash charges" - aka give you 5% battery life to work with (the first 5% are usually the "heaviest").

3 & 4) You can try out backup external battery packs, which tend to carry a much much higher capacity, ranging up to 13,500 mAh (and are usually about the same size as your smartphone itself). Some well known brands are new trent, powergen, and anker. You may also be interesting in trying battery cases, which are cases that come with a built in battery in them.

 

[clapper66]

With phones getting faster and slimmer each year a big a major bottle neck is the battery's size if your phone has a removeable battery then you could always get an extended battery. If you don't like a thicker phone then you can always buy an external charger to charger the phone when it needs charging