adjust your battery settings to improve performance and make your battery last longer.

To manage your battery consumption

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Power management > App power consumption. An overview appears showing applications that have high data traffic rates or that

you have not used for a long time.

3Review the information, then act as required, for example, to uninstall an application or restrict its usage.

To view which applications use the most battery power

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Power management > Battery usage.

To view the estimated battery time

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Power management.

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.

appears in the status bar when this mode takes effect.

Ultra STAMINA

Limits your device’s functionality to core tasks such as making phone calls and

mode

sending SMS messages.

appears in the status bar once this mode is activated.

Low-battery mode

Modifies your device’s behaviour, for example, to adjust screen brightness and

 

screen timeout setting, when the battery level drops below a certain percentage.

 

appears in the status bar when this mode takes effect.

Location-based Wi-

Sets your device to only activate the Wi-Fi® function when it comes within range

Fi

of a saved Wi-Fi® network.

Queue background

Optimises outgoing traffic when the screen is off by sending data at pre-defined

data

intervals.

 

To activate a power saving mode

1 From your Home screen, tap .

2Find and tap Settings > Power management.

3To activate your preferred mode, drag the relevant slider to the right or mark the relevant checkbox and then confirm, if necessary.

4If no slider or checkbox is available, tap the name of the mode that you want to activate, then confirm, if necessary.

STAMINA mode feature overview

STAMINA mode has several features that allow you to optimise your battery performance.

Extended

Prevents applications from using data traffic by disabling Wi-Fi®and mobile data

standby

when the screen is off. You can exclude some applications and services from being

 

paused when this feature is active.

STAMINA clock

Keeps network connections paused in situations where you frequently press the

 

power key to check the time.

Extended usage

Restricts hardware performance when you are using your device.

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Sony D6603, D6653 Power saving modes, Stamina mode feature overview, Find and tap Settings Power management Battery usage