Crazy Battery Behavior - please advise - Sony Xperia C5 Ultra

Hi,
Using the C5 Ultra Dual for the last couple of days - this is the E5533 Dual french variant (original firmware as the french variant is one of the few which didn't get the latest firmware update).
Before using the phone I performed full factory reset to be on the safe side.
However, I ran into a very strange battery performance - I fully charged the C5 to 100% (SLOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) - This is a thing everyone complains about and even using LG G3 1.8A charger does not speed things up - I used a USB charging meter and is shows that the actual charging current is a poor 0.65A which explains this slow charge rate. I do not have the supplied sony 850mAH charger so I can't tell what this charger is doing.
My issue is different - After disconnecting the charger at 100% battery started draining at a very alarming rate - overnight 8 hours it lost 15% in stamina mode (Wifi On - all other functions OFF - BT/GPS).
Then used the phone - battery didn't hold well, went down to %65 with minimal use but here comes the surprise - had to restart the phone - after restart phone battery went UP to 91% !!!
Again used the phone down to 70% - restarted the phone and it went up after restart to 85% !!!
I know i need to try 2 things:
1. Wipe Cache (how do you do this for the C5?)
2. Recalibrate Battery - long process
Tell me what you think
Appreciate your help

I think factory rest would help
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Factory Reset did not help - charge went from 14% suddenly to 40% and then phone shutdown after 10 minutes of use with battery drained (cannot power on phone until I charge it).
Just went with Software Repair using PCC - will report how things are after it

Have you tried draining it to 0% and then do an offline charging to 100%.
FYI, offline charging is plugging in the charger while the phone is off, remember not to turn it on until 100%.
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I guess you can just download xposed and there's an app call battery cealibrate and its easy you just hit the button and job in done or you can boot into recovery and you will see the wipe Cache think

Maybe things started to get fu*ked up when ou used that 1.8a charger. I may be wrong but Oems have plenty of reasons why they only provide certain chargers.

How to boot into recovery in order to wipe cache ?
How to boot into recovery in order to wipe cache ?

Just turn off ur device and then press vol + and power together and wait till the vibrate

Mohanad.elsamaty said:
I guess you can just download xposed and there's an app call battery cealibrate.
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Lol, download Xposed? That requires root access and so do most battery calibration apps.
Unfortunately, root access is not yet available for our beloved Sony Xperia C5 Ultra...

i saw some methods that you can actually calibrate battery without root. It is a long time to do it like you have to charge and decharge it like 3 times. But i forgot how to do it and it was in a Turkish Forum. I remember it said that most of the conpanies adjust battery calibration to %90 rather than %100. So you should give it a try

Actually it is avalible just doenload kingoroot on your Pc or laptop and connect your phonr but afyer you enable usb debug and it eill root you Device
( tested by some other users and ut works!)

Mohanad.elsamaty said:
Actually it is avalible just doenload kingoroot on your Pc or laptop and connect your phonr but afyer you enable usb debug and it eill root you Device
( tested by some other users and ut works!)
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Which version you are referring to? As the 29.0.B.1.55 version cannot be root due to vulnerability has been fix by Sony.. But I haven't try the 29.0.B.0.161 version
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Kingoroot still failed to root this device, still searching solution

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Hi all,
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This will not calibrate battery...
@OP
You said you recently bought the phone. If so, just wait. Make sure you charge battery completely and then let it discharge until the phone tells you to recharge it. Keep doing that for a couple of weeks. New batteries can give such problems
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This will not calibrate battery...
@OP
You said you recently bought the phone. If so, just wait. Make sure you charge battery completely and then let it discharge until the phone tells you to recharge it. Keep doing that for a couple of weeks. New batteries can give such problems
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Yup, I bought it just 13 days ago, never experienced this with my older phones ( 3 Sony Ericssons )
Gayan said:
Yup, I bought it just 13 days ago, never experienced this with my older phones ( 3 Sony Ericssons )
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Well, you were lucky in the past
Feanor88 said:
Well, you were lucky in the past
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I hope this will be solved in few days, anything you want to add ?
Nothing more to say
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Thanks. I feared it may be a hardware problem. If it becomes far too much of a nuisance, or gets worse, I'll look into getting a repair done.
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I forgot to mention - you reminded me.
When I leave my phone off and plugged in, it will charge to 100% - however I have to do a HARD RESET every time I go to turn my phone back on, after turning it off. (Holding power and volume up) or it sticks on the "SONY" screen and will not advance.
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espe0 said:
Since xperia S there is a feature which helps battery keeping good condition
Its charge to 100% and turns charging off till 95%
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It is indeed a problem, because the screen is staying on and causing my phone to over heat - it once over heated so badly because of this I had to leave the phone off for a very long time.
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I try everything in the software level. Restore the firmware using pccompanion and also flash the lollipop firmaware but the problem persist. Just not tried delete the battery stats because my phone is not rooted yet.
dzegarra said:
I have the exact problem. The phone work ok for a few days and then stop charging at 92% and the screen stay on. I plug the charger in the night and in the morning was only at 92% and hot, very hot.
A few days ago I bought a dock charger and an usb cable to plug in the magnetic lateral charging port. And with both chargers the phone shows the charge icon for a second and desapear for another second and repeat the loop.
I try everything in the software level. Restore the firmware using pccompanion and also flash the lollipop firmaware but the problem persist. Just not tried delete the battery stats because my phone is not rooted yet.
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Did u manage to fix the problem? Or did anyone here manage to fix the battery charging issue? Mine charges to 78%, then sometime 85% then hard-reset - 91%. Cant charge anything above that! : <
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https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z2/Lollipop-charging-bug/td-p/965384
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Very good question and very giid analyse , i have the same problem , i was about to calibrate my batterys but seems to do nothing according to your experience . i m using lg external battery charger , i think using two devices for the battery ( lg charger + phone ) give this problem , i m very confiuesed how to solve this probleme
Picoh said:
Very good question and very giid analyse , i have the same problem , i was about to calibrate my batterys but seems to do nothing according to your experience . i m using lg external battery charger , i think using two devices for the battery ( lg charger + phone ) give this problem , i m very confiuesed how to solve this probleme
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