General Horrible battery life fix

[nighthawk626]

To everyone that's been having horrible battery life on this phone and people didn't believe it, I've found the problem. Not sure what cheap parts they used but the 5g is the problem. I disabled my 5g and I was able to to go from 6 hours 100% -30% to 10 hours 100% - 30% with the same use. If you want to save more battery, just leave battery saver on. Disable the extreme battery saver though.
I've found that I'm able to use the phone for the whole day with little loss to function this way. Good luck to you all.

 

[Morgrain]

I disabled my 5g and I was able to to go from 6 hours 100% -30% to 10 hours 100% - 30% with the same use. If you want to save more battery, just leave battery saver on. Disable the extreme battery saver though.

That's the general consent of this forum and has always been the primary advice for people with battery life. problems. In like... 15 threads. But of course it's nice to see that you managed to improve your battery life.

 

[miravision]

External Samsung Exynos modem inefficiencies to blame here. VoWifi saves more

 

[ram4ufriends]

To everyone that's been having horrible battery life on this phone and people didn't believe it, I've found the problem. Not sure what cheap parts they used but the 5g is the problem. I disabled my 5g and I was able to to go from 6 hours 100% -30% to 10 hours 100% - 30% with the same use. If you want to save more battery, just leave battery saver on. Disable the extreme battery saver though.
I've found that I'm able to use the phone for the whole day with little loss to function this way. Good luck to you all.

How did you disable 5G?

 

[parakleet]

I have noticed improved battery life by disabling smooth display.
Doing so sets your display at 60 all the time.
the constant thrashing between 60-120 was killing my battery.
I expect this will be resolved in future updates

 

[blaze909090]

Don't forget to leave your display turned off, that freakin' bug needs to be solved asap!!1

 

[nighthawk626]

How did you disable 5G?

Dial *#*#4636#*#* then switch network to LTE/wcdma or something similar that doesn't have 5g in front of it

 

[racetrack_rob]

Unfortunately still get massive drain with NR(5G) disabled.

 

[nighthawk626]

Unfortunately still get massive drain with NR(5G) disabled.

To think I passed up on buying my first ever iPhone with the 13 pro max just to buy this **** stain of a phone. I can never trust Google for another phone ever again

 

[lemonspeakerz]

Dial *#*#4636#*#* then switch network to LTE/wcdma or something similar that doesn't have 5g in front of it

Why not just go to settings and select 4g as preferred? Doesn't that disable 5g?

 

[Alekos]

Why not just go to settings and select 4g as preferred? Doesn't that disable 5g?

some carriers don't allow you to do that (Fi, maybe AT&T, some in the EU etc etc)
just be careful using that dial code. I recommend anyone going into that setting, take a screenshot of the default "Network type" each carrier/region/country uses a different setting. there's like 19 different ones. you won't hurt your phone but it might cause a headache.

 

[henihazbay]

Whatever you do nothing really fixes Mobile network standby and horrible 5g drain. Unfortunately

 

[EeZeEpEe]

Whatever you do nothing really fixes Mobile network standby and horrible 5g drain. Unfortunately

The only thing that we can hope for is the "General improvements in network stability and performance" listed in the changelog helps. Personally, I haven't seen more than 17% battery usage for mobile network standby over 24 hours.

 

[Shipoftheline]

Talking of battery I was told this P6P has an adaptive display like the iphone 13 pro which would go down to 10hz but when I activated the on screen display it only went down to 60 which is the same as the S21 Ultra so another Google lie

 

[nighthawk626]

Talking of battery I was told this P6P has an adaptive display like the iphone 13 pro which would go down to 10hz but when I activated the on screen display it only went down to 60 which is the same as the S21 Ultra so another Google lie

It's very clear by now that Google outright lied about a bunch of stuff to sell this phone. Using cheap parts to sell a premium phone. The software improvements don't mean sh*t if the hardware got worse. Especially battery life and signal strength and consistency

 

[Lughnasadh]

Talking of battery I was told this P6P has an adaptive display like the iphone 13 pro which would go down to 10hz but when I activated the on screen display it only went down to 60 which is the same as the S21 Ultra so another Google lie

From what I understand, the screen display (from developer options) uses SurfaceFlinger to show refresh rate but SurfaceFlinger can't show/detect anything below 60Hz. Anything below that can only be shown/detected by the display controller. So the screen display will only show as low as 60Hz even if it's at 10Hz.

 

[skyman631]

some carriers don't allow you to do that (Fi, maybe AT&T, some in the EU etc etc)
just be careful using that dial code. I recommend anyone going into that setting, take a screenshot of the default "Network type" each carrier/region/country uses a different setting. there's like 19 different ones. you won't hurt your phone but it might cause a headache.

Fi allows you to disable 5g, but you have to be in "Safe Mode" to do it.

 

[Alekos]

Fi allows you to disable 5g, but you have to be in "Safe Mode" to do it.

i didn't elaborate. some carriers allow the change in normal mode, others in safe mode and some only in the dialer menu... and rarely, some in the EU don't even allow the change in the dialer menu to stay.

anyway, disabling Wifi Calling helped idle drain for me but it was only a 2 night test. went from 1.4% /hr drain to 0.3% when idle. that's a lot. too bad I need the feature.

 

[lemonspeakerz]

i didn't elaborate. some carriers allow the change in normal mode, others in safe mode and some only in the dialer menu... and rarely, some in the EU don't even allow the change in the dialer menu to stay.

anyway, disabling Wifi Calling really changes battery life wow. went from 1.4% /hr drain to 0.3% when idle. that's a lot. too bad I need the feature.

Tell me why I would not want to disable Wi-Fi calling. I have been using it by default but I'm not sure if I'm benefiting it from it at all. So if it's draining my battery I would love to disable it. At the moment my battery is not stellar, but it could be much better since it's such a large battery.

 

[pcriz]

They said they really need it. Depends on your signal situation where you make the most calls and texts. If your mobile signal is trash at home then wifi calling would offset that. If you aren't benefitting. Turn it off.