Battery And Power Management - Sony Xperia M5 E5606 User Manual

Battery and power management

Your device has an embedded battery. You can keep track of your battery
consumption and see how much power applications are using. You can remove apps
and activate a number of power saving modes to get more out of your battery. You
can also view an estimate of how much battery time is left and adjust your settings to
improve performance and make your battery last longer.
To view your battery consumption and estimated battery time
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From your Home screen, tap
2 Find and tap Settings > Battery. An overview appears showing the battery
percentage and an estimated battery time.
3 Tap SHOW BATTERY USAGE to view a list of features and services that have
consumed battery power since the last charging cycle. Tap any of them to see
details of its energy consumption.
You can configure and activate power saving modes from Settings > Battery.
To view how much battery power applications use
1
From your Home screen, tap
2
Find and tap Settings > Apps.
3
Select an application and review its battery consumption under Battery usage.
Battery optimisation
Battery optimisation is a powerful and convenient built-in mode which improves your
battery life significantly by reducing battery consumption when you are not using the
device or certain apps.
This is achieved by suspending battery draining network activities, such as location
services, syncing and Wi-Fi® scanning in the background when you have not been
using your device for a long time.
Phone calls and SMS messaging are not affected.
To make specific applications exempt from optimisation
You can make applications exempt from being optimised.
1
From your Home screen, tap
2 Find and tap Settings > Battery.
3 Tap and select Battery optimisation. You will see a list of applications that are
not optimised.
4 To add or remove applications from this list, tap Apps and select or de-select
an application from the list to edit its optimisation settings.
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The list of applications that are not optimised will get updated according to
your settings.
You can also configure Battery optimisation from the Apps menu by tapping
Power saving modes
There are several power saving modes available for you to use if you want to make
your battery last longer:
STAMINA mode Disables Wi-Fi® and mobile data when the screen is turned off, and restricts hardware
performance.
Ultra STAMINA
Limits your device's functionality to core tasks such as making phone calls and
mode
sending SMS messages.
If you are sharing a device with multiple users, you may need to log in as the owner, that is, the
primary user, to activate or deactivate a power saving mode.
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