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Sony Xperia go (Jellybean 4.1.2) severe battery drain and sudden death

sudu — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:18:45 GMT

I have been using Sony Xperia go for more than an year. I've already updated it to Jellybean(4.1.2). My battery life was used to be a day or so on normal usage. But now its reduced to 2-3hrs max. When the battery is charged to around 80% it shows 100% and when I disconnect the phone from charging and restart the phone, it shows 80%. Battery drain is too fast.I always force stop the apps which are not required, keep Wi-Fi switched off and use 2G internet. When I check the battery usage AndroidOS and Android system are eating around 30 to 40% of the battery, sometimes more than the battery used by screen.

Similarly when the battery level is 30% or so, phone experiences a sudden death and turns off showing battery level is 0%. And when I turn on the phone,it shows correct battery level around 30%.Then battery level reduces like a countdown timer.

I tried to repair the phone using PC companion and in the end of preparing stage,I'm getting an error message showing "Cannot connect to Sony server (error 10)". I can't recognize whether its battery problem or software problem.Looking for the solution to this problem. Please help.Thank you.

Re: Sony Xperia go (Jellybean 4.1.2) severe battery drain and sudden death

Thommo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:30:06 GMT

Maybe it's just the battery that has seen better days and needs to be replaced

Re: Sony Xperia go (Jellybean 4.1.2) severe battery drain and sudden death

sudu — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:51:20 GMT

Are you sure that this problem is not because of some bug? Does this happen if battery becomes old and needs to be replaced?

Re: Sony Xperia go (Jellybean 4.1.2) severe battery drain and sudden death

Thommo — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:53:29 GMT

Yes this can and will happen as it won't be able to hold a charge - like for example a laptop battery - But as I said maybe consider replacing the battery