Question Battery life thread

[Utini]

I already posted this before but there are a handful of kernel wakelocks that keep the phone awake and at least with Despair Kernel we can block them. It was a few pages back.

It is just weird because initially I had great battery life. Now suddenly this. Which is why I thought that it must be an app.

Extreme battery saver seems to enable deep sleep.

 

[Mtha86]

Hello . .. i will share my experience here...

I am constantly getting around 6 hours SOT. Yesterday i had 6 hours and 20 minutes with 4 % battery left. Mostly on mobile network.

When i am on wifi the whole day, i get 8 hours + SOT.

I love the battery, especially coming from a buggy Oneplus 8 Pro: mostly got around 4.5 - 5 hours SOT on mobile network.
Maybe the Pixel is not Iphone 13 like , but the battery keeps me through a wohle day.

I see that mobile network uses around 30 % battery .. I have 5G enabled, so i guess i could even get better battery life by switching to 4G, since theres no 5G around here ..
But still i get those 6 hours SOT.! So who cares about it if battery is good?
If Google manages to squeeze a little more out with some future updates, i m more than happy!

What i need to say: i did a factory reset and installed all manually, and it seems this has helped a bit. At first i was around 5 hours SOT on mobile netowork (with 5g disabled).. Just try it

For me , its just the perfect device and i like the battery But still i m hoping the manage to fix mobile network drain in a future update, the we can get sick SOT.

just give google some time, its their first custom made chip!

 

[Paz9]

I disabled the below apps and my battery seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY better. Losing roughly 5% every 40 minutes, 5G on. Phone seems cooler too.


Anyone willing to try and report back?

 

[Az Biker]

I'm getting more than good enough batt life for my normal use.

Most settings are default, 5G on, Adaptive Display on, nothing special. Rotted, Despair kernel, and .36 factory image.

 

[pharazonic]

Do i win the award for the worst battery life lol?

I couldn't even get to 4.5 hours SOT today and I was mostly home. My usage is probably light to moderate - browsing social media, texting, opening the camera app here and there. No heavy video recording or editing. Have 5G disabled, AOD disabled, lift to wake disabled.

I want to love this phone but this is quite unacceptable for a flagship. I just want to break 7hrs SOT. I'll be doing a factory reset + clean install to see if it helps...

To add insult to injury, the lack of a OP style dash charging, and the lack of a headphone jack makes this even worse. My previous phone was OnePlus 5 and I'm sure I'd charge it quite a bit given that the battery was much smaller. That said, it was a lot more seamless to top up over the day because I could charge it in my car and still listen to music and the user experience was not impacted.

Again, I want to love my pixel, but it is really bothering me that I'm beyond the return period. Hoping / praying that Google implement something to help those of us that have battery life as bad as I do.

 

[pharazonic]

I disabled the below apps and my battery seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY better. Losing roughly 5% every 40 minutes, 5G on. Phone seems cooler too.


Anyone willing to try and report back?

I'll definitely look into this. My SOT is abysmal so I'm willing to try anything.

 

[Mtha86]

Do i win the award for the worst battery life lol?

I couldn't even get to 4.5 hours SOT today and I was mostly home. My usage is probably light to moderate - browsing social media, texting, opening the camera app here and there. No heavy video recording or editing. Have 5G disabled, AOD disabled, lift to wake disabled.

I want to love this phone but this is quite unacceptable for a flagship. I just want to break 7hrs SOT. I'll be doing a factory reset + clean install to see if it helps...

To add insult to injury, the lack of a OP style dash charging, and the lack of a headphone jack makes this even worse. My previous phone was OnePlus 5 and I'm sure I'd charge it quite a bit given that the battery was much smaller. That said, it was a lot more seamless to top up over the day because I could charge it in my car and still listen to music and the user experience was not impacted.

Again, I want to love my pixel, but it is really bothering me that I'm beyond the return period. Hoping / praying that Google implement something to help those of us that have battery life as bad as I do.

Did you install everything yourself or did you copy your old phone.. i copied all from my Oneplus 8 Pro, and it seems after i did a factory reset and installed all manually , it seems a little bit better.
I have about the same usage as you, and i am getting around 6 hours (sometimes 6.5 sometimes 5.5) SOT, with 5G but not AOD , in wifi around 7.5 ..

Maybe this could help :-/

Maybe they even give out a fix with December update

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Do i win the award for the worst battery life lol?

I couldn't even get to 4.5 hours SOT today and I was mostly home. My usage is probably light to moderate - browsing social media, texting, opening the camera app here and there. No heavy video recording or editing. Have 5G disabled, AOD disabled, lift to wake disabled.

I want to love this phone but this is quite unacceptable for a flagship. I just want to break 7hrs SOT. I'll be doing a factory reset + clean install to see if it helps...

To add insult to injury, the lack of a OP style dash charging, and the lack of a headphone jack makes this even worse. My previous phone was OnePlus 5 and I'm sure I'd charge it quite a bit given that the battery was much smaller. That said, it was a lot more seamless to top up over the day because I could charge it in my car and still listen to music and the user experience was not impacted.

Again, I want to love my pixel, but it is really bothering me that I'm beyond the return period. Hoping / praying that Google implement something to help those of us that have battery life as bad as I do.

Yeah that's definitely not great. I get around just over 5 hours SOT with 80% used. What's your screen brightness at most of the time when indoors? I'm on adaptive brightness and indoors at work it's usually between 70-78% brightness.

 

[pharazonic]

Did you install everything yourself or did you copy your old phone.. i copied all from my Oneplus 8 Pro, and it seems after i did a factory reset and installed all manually , it seems a little bit better.
I have about the same usage as you, and i am getting around 6 hours (sometimes 6.5 sometimes 5.5) SOT, with 5G but not AOD , in wifi around 7.5 ..

Maybe this could help :-/

Maybe they even give out a fix with December update

I copied everything but pictures from my old phone, a OP5. I'll be doing a factory reset and installing everything from scratch, soon.

I'm getting desperate my SOT somehow got worse yesterday: 3hrs 10 minutes, and again, nothing that crazy that a 5000mAh battery shouldn't be able to handle. I've turned off wifi and Bluetooth scanning, that didn't seem to make a difference. My AOD has always been off, as had lift to wake.

Honestly opening myself to the idea of selling this device, eating a loss and either replacing the battery on my OP5 or buying some other device because this is really stressing me out and bothering me.

(Oh, and just a vent from one former OP user to another... Man, I'd be okay with this type of battery life if the phone had Dash Charging and a headphone jack. I typically charger my phone at night but if it is draining the battery so quickly, Dash Chargings insane topups would be so handy. And i drive an older car so charging would be fine if i had a headphone jack. My phone died last night at work and on the way home, i had to listen to the radio i got 13% in roughly 13 minutes which wasn't terrible but yeah, sorely missing my OP )

 

[pharazonic]

Yeah that's definitely not great. I get around just over 5 hours SOT with 80% used. What's your screen brightness at most of the time when indoors? I'm on adaptive brightness and indoors at work it's usually between 70-78% brightness.

When indoors, during the day, anywhere from 39% (that's what it is right now clear day but indirect sunlight) to that 55-75% mark. I have Adaptive brightness and it generally does hover around that 55-75 mark which works for me.

 

[Gnaius]

I'm getting excellent battery life. About the same as my 3XL, I think — although I haven't done rigorous tests. I tend to go to bed with at least 30% left, and I use it throughout the day. Note: I do have 5G turned off.

 

[Alekos]

I was thinking this, why did Google create and enforce Adaptive Charging but all manufacturers have said it's ok to charge your phone at night. it seems like such a weird thing. is it ok to have your battery at 100% for 6hrs every night, or not? if neither what's the damage? interesting...

 

[Saurabh1392]

Yeah that's definitely not great. I get around just over 5 hours SOT with 80% used. What's your screen brightness at most of the time when indoors? I'm on adaptive brightness and indoors at work it's usually between 70-78% brightness.

Hey bud! Did you upgrade from 2xl to 6 as well?

Btw are you having network standby drain as well?

 

[RetroTech07]

Because of an unexpected bootloop I was unable to solve, I had to factory reset (again) and rooted the stock firmware. I was able to get just under 10hrs of SoT which is awesome.

I've not done anything different this time around, except leave Adaptive Connectivity on, including Adaptive Battery + Charging. I did have 120hz display running but I always turn off AOD as I don't care for that feature.

A majority of my usage was texting, some web browsing and online chats. My phone was charged to 100% right as I started work at 2:30 PM, then minimal usage throughout that same day, but heavier usage that evening and next day.

I'm sure once I charge to 80% I'll get around 8hrs of SoT which is usual, but even at 100% before I always had less than I did this time, so idk what's happening lol.

I cropped out a few names of apps I use for privacy reasons.

 

[Alekos]

Because of an unexpected bootloop I was unable to solve, I had to factory reset (again) and rooted the stock firmware. I was able to get just under 10hrs of SoT which is awesome.

I've not done anything different this time around, except leave Adaptive Connectivity on, including Adaptive Battery + Charging. I did have 120hz display running but I always turn off AOD as I don't care for that feature.

A majority of my usage was texting, some web browsing and online chats. My phone was charged to 100% right as I started work at 2:30 PM, then minimal usage throughout that same day, but heavier usage that evening and next day.

I'm sure once I charge to 80% I'll get around 8hrs of SoT which is usual, but even at 100% before I always had less than I did this time, so idk what's happening lol.

I cropped out a few names of apps I use for privacy reasons.

I thought my 9 hours was insane from 100% to 5%. your usage is a lot like mine. I guess everybody has different apps installed and uses their phones completely different. If you can get 6 or 7 hours from 100-10% I think your in good shape.

 

[kheltek]

I thought my 9 hours was insane from 100% to 5%. your usage is a lot like mine. I guess everybody has different apps installed and uses their phones completely different. If you can get 6 or 7 hours from 100-10% I think your in good shape.

I stopped looking at mobile network standby because my ocd was.goimg bonkers. After a factory reset and restoring from backup, battery life has been great after a few days. I put a few apps to restricted, turned off AOD and location history,, everything else on. Started the day at 100%, at 6 am and was on 5g or LTE depending on signal (and sometimes.a poor signal), and ended the day with 28% at 11 pm with a little over 5 hours of sot. Phone didn't get hot at all which was really impressive considering how my signal is at work.

 

[RetroTech07]

I thought my 9 hours was insane from 100% to 5%. your usage is a lot like mine. I guess everybody has different apps installed and uses their phones completely different. If you can get 6 or 7 hours from 100-10% I think your in good shape.

Yeah, I usually do YouTube on my drive home for work or listen to music, and play some games on occasion but haven't really set all those up yet.

6-7hrs of SoT isn't a lot IMO, since my old P2XL probably had 4-5 with the state the battery was in. That device used to get 11hrs of SoT, so if I can still get around the same of 10hrs I'll be happy.

I like your Spy vs Spy avatar BTW!

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Hey bud! Did you upgrade from 2xl to 6 as well?

Btw are you having network standby drain as well?

I went from 2 XL to 4 XL and now 6 Pro. My mobile network standby is anywhere between 11% and 17% over the last 24 hours.

 

[AKN_92]

Did the December update improve anyone's battery life that was bad?

 

[MArtyChubbs]

Did the December update improve anyone's battery life that was bad?

Funny, I was just thinking about posting that exact same question here. ESP? I dunno.

I've noticed battery improvement mainly due to the phone going into deep sleep. I have everything turned on and can finally get through a day without having to recharge.