Z3 Battery Madness (1%/50%/100% Cycling constantly) - Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My battery life keeps bouncing between 1%, 50% and 100% and doesn't show anything else, you can be looking at the screen and you randomly see it flick between all three values and even more weird, the battery menu is no longer listed in the settings menu and I have no way of knowing what amount of charge my battery actually has.
This morning the phone went off saying low battery (whilst also saying 100%) and when I turn it back on it shows the low battery symbol in the centre of the screen and does not boot-up, great, the battery must be dead. I put the charger in and the red LED light comes on and battery low indicator come on for two seconds, then switch off and endless repeats no matter what I do..
I left it for an hour doing that and turned it on and used the phone for 30 minutes without any problem, then it turned itself off saying low battery, and started doing another loop of the low battery and red light in standby mode round and round again even though it wasn't plugged into anything. I pressed the reset button and after that I couldn't turn on as just a standard, battery low message.
I did a repair of the phone, which surprisingly was able to be carried out despite the fact that the phone wouldn't turn on because of "low battery" before I did it (which makes me doubt it is low) and the moment I turned the phone on after the repair it was still "Low Battery" and refused to turn on, which is somewhat strange bearing in mind it clearly had enough battery for a repair.
I left it for 4 hours charging and I turned the phone on and it operated for an hour in a factory reset mode no problem, however the indicator cycling was still going on. I plugged the charger in and the sound for charging was made, but the phone showed as not charging, despite the fact it made the sound that it is (I think it is actually charging but nothing to indicate ti is)
Again I go into settings and there is no battery menu there, if I search for it using the hourglass it tells me no battery data is avaliable. I search for Stamina mode and put it in Stamina mode and it refuses because just when I hit it, the battery reader says 1% and it says battery is too low. With some good timing I manage to press Stamina mode when it was on 100% and now it's in Stamina mode with 942 hours remaining,, the phone has been on for 3 hours now and now says 950 hours remaining.
Meanwhile the battery gauge continues to cycle 1%/50%/100% all of the time.
Has anyone seen this before?

I did not have this exact same issue, but Battery menu disappeared and battery would mostly show 50% (and very rarely the real data).
Got my battery exchanged now, everything back to normal now. Might be Sony used crappy batteries (though as long as they don't explode I'm somewhat happy).

I sent it back to Sony and I am now am about to go into a third week with no phone.
For the last week they have been waiting for stock to exchange the phone, since they have no stock (no joke) I am still waiting and they cannot tell me when they will get stock.
The fact a mobile phone company have no stock of phones, is pretty funny.

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My phone is discharging even when is turned off!
Besides it have high battery drain compared to my BravoC, which in stand by last for days.
This Inspire 4G last max 15 hours, changed the radio, and flashed it to reach that, before it lasted ~9 hours max. I'm talking in stand by, not even using it nor data/wifi/gps turned on. I have checked the processor use and it was in deepsleep most of the time.
Yesterday I fully charged it and inmediately turned it off. Today I tried to turn it on but is dead, completely drained. The battery is new and it does have the sufficient capacity, i mean is not a battery failure (checked it with a hobby charger).
I bought the phone on ebay, it has the volume up button dead, so I dissasembly it to if it can be fixed easily and found out that the phone was previously open. Also the screen seems to be a replacemente (a crappy one) since the light bleed in the dark state is high, alsio the light bleed at high angles. This would explain the high drain using it, but not the drain when is turned off.
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So for several weeks I had that - my phone heated up very fast, and very hot, in fact, even when charging the battery would deplete if my phone was in use (but if I left it on low power usage it's battery precent did go up). The battery is fixed.
A few minutes ago, I was on 1%, which happens to me a lot, I watch youtube videos, my battery goes below 15%, and I connect my phone so it charges, but the battery keeps emptying until it shuts down (it says 0% as it's shutting down) and then it starts charging "turned off" from "0%". So this time, my phone didn't get into charging mode, when I tried to turn it on, it didn't even give me the indication that my battery is too low to start android.
Right now it is unplugged, turned off. I'm about to sleep, should I leave it plugged for the night or let it stay unplugged? Is my phone hard bricked? It shows no signs of anything. (I'm on my laptop).
I did switch ROMs, long ago, but that didn't cause any problems, the battery problems were from almost the first week (when I still used the original ROM), but it doesn't make sense to me that it suddenly hard bricks when it's battery says to reach 0%. When it shutted down it turned off by android, not instantly (it turned off as if you would shut it down from the power menu), so I wasn't worried.

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I just had my Xperia Z5's battery replaced due to it bloating up. After two weeks, I noticed that the battery indicator isn't working properly.
It would go down from 100% really fast (even during standby - not using the phone) but stay around 30% down for a really long time. No difference in usage. Then it also started restarting on its own even during standby. I would check my phone and it would need me to input my pin saying its required after a restart. Another instance, I was still typing out a text message and it restarted on its own. The battery was around 60% before it restarted but after it turns on again the battery indicator showed that its at 40 something %. I don't think the battery would drain that much just from restarting.
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So my phone just died earlier and I just went to plug it in hoping it would still work. The battery was stuck at 0% for the longest time so I just went and left it for a few hours. Coming back to it, I noticed that the LED indicator is green. I pressed the power button and it showed 100%, then I tried turning on the phone. It still turned on, showing 100% on the battery icon and could be used like usual.
I can still use the phone, barely, but this issue is really annoying. I'm not even sure if the next time it drains it would charge again.
So far, I've tried:
using a different cable and charger
doing a factory reset
doing a repair via Xperia Companion
But the issue still persists...
Is there anything else I can do on my end to fix this?
You should replace your battery
Hello.
I'm sorry to hear that your Xperia Z5 got this problem.
Here're some personal experiences:
1.Just replace a battery for it.My Xperia Z5 had same issue last month:Its battery lasts for only 2 or 3 hours,and charges much faster than before.Then I think maybe the battery life loss too much,so I bought a battery from taobao(A Chinese Website),then everything's fine just as when I buy it.
2.According to your description,maybe the sub board(It's responsible for charging and data transmission)is broken too.You can find a used one at ebay.
That's all.I hope this message can help you.And...I'm a Chinese so maybe you can't understand my Chinglish(It means "Chinese English" )...Sorry for that.

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I plugged the phone into the charger it came with, put it in Airplane mode again, and it went from 10% to 70% just now in less than 30 minutes.
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