High battery drainage Xperia 10 III

[direc85]

Low power mode of mce isn’t for lowering power consumption, but controlling the behavior of the display when it’s taken out of pocket:

Sony Xperia 10II - Low power mode

mcetool - prints all current settings mcetool --long-help - prints ALL options with short descriptions of settings mcetool --set-low-power-mode=enabled / mcetool --set-low-power-mode=disabled To prolong the time the display is active for, you need to adjust the DEFAULT 5 seconds, you can do this with the folowing; mcetool --set-blank-from-lpm-on-timeout=15

About lower CPU usage while charging: my X10III sets performance CPU governor, which locks the CPU clocks to max. The little load it has hence appears as lower percentage. I believe you can double check this by setting the governor while the device is not connecter to charger/computer/powerbank by running this:

echo -n performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
echo -n performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu6/cpufreq/scaling_governor

and checking the graphs then. The default governor is schedutil (but ondemand works fine for me, too).