After the 6.0.1 my battery drains like a rocket. I used (before the "upgrade") to pull it off the charger around 5:00A.M. and by 11:00P.M. I still had around 35-40% Battery (I'm a moderate to light user). Now (Sunday); after the update to 6.0.1 (I didn't receive the update until Saturday) I pulled my phone off of the charger around 8:30A.M. and by Noon it was at about 40% battery left. Thank God today was Sunday and I didn't need to use my phone. In fact the phone literally sat next to me (screen off) and the battery discharged that much, I didn't send a text, make a call or have any "Social Media" running!
I was able to re-start in "SafeMode" and the battery only discharged another 10% over the next 6 hours. As far as I can tell this phone is almost as useless as my old HTC Thunderbolt that ran out of gas by 4:00P.M. There is no way it will make it through the day and get me home; it's at this point a "Paper weight".
In addition to that I had all sorts of problems w/ it not connecting to the WiFi (I had to give it a "static" I.P. address & totally re-work my Asus RT-N66u) just to get it to stay connected & that should not be necessary!
The front "blinking light" notification no longer works when I recieve a text or email. Who knows what else may or "may not" work anymore.
Is this Sony's way of getting you to purchase a new phone and toss this one in a lake; oh wait, it's "water proof", I'll have to find a better way to distroy it so none of my "personal" imformation remains: Hmm Microwave?
This is very sad to me: I did a lot of research before I purchased this phone and they are not popular here in the U.S. but, I took a chance on it and it served me well but, only for just about a year. I paid "cash out of pocket" to purchase the phone vs some contract deal: Now I'm just plain "Cash out of pocket" and no functional phone.
