Question Pixel 7 standby drain issue.

[richb518]

Rooted running current beta on my 7(non pro). No service yet, only wifi. My phone didn't even make it 24hrs on 88% charge completely unused. Absolutely terrible.

 

[sic0048]

Rooted running current beta on my 7(non pro). No service yet, only wifi. My phone didn't even make it 24hrs on 88% charge completely unused. Absolutely terrible.

This might be the worst post yet.

I can make ANY phone go from 100% to 0% in a lot less than 24 hours depending on use. Saying that yours went from 88% to 0% in less than 24 hours is completely meaningless without context and facts about your useage.

Not only that, but you are running beta software that may very well have issues and yet you still want to blame the phone.

 

[O.J. Simpson]

I'm on T-Mobile and my 5g service area isn't the greatest sometimes so my p7 will fight itself and try to switch between 5g & 4g for the best connection. This may be what some of you are dealing with as well. If you turn off "adaptive connectivity" in the network settings it should help your battery life because your phone won't be constantly trying to optimize the connection in the background.

 

[New Folder]

I always use 3G and bettery life is great - guaranteed signal everywhere i go and now they try to shut it down.

4G is way harder on battery due to my location where the signal is poor.

5G is just catastrophe for battery. Quite useless tech for phones in my opinion. Stationary devices - sure. (until they increase masts and eventually kill 4G).

The 3G handles 1080p video fine, i don't see any benefit of 4G and beyond. The VOLTE functionality was not worth rooting. The quality increase is minor.

I guess people living next to signal towers don't experience the toll on battery (living in urban instead of country).

 

[O.J. Simpson]

I agree about 5g signal being a problem - which is probably causing most battery drain for people. Between carriers and google themselves, it seems like we are all beta testers for 5g networks right now. 5g definitely has some issues - especially depending on where you live - but it's great when it works.
For me, it's hard to tell if this is a hardware/modem issue or a software issue that can be corrected. Hopefully it's just software and Google can adapt on the device side of things while using us as guinea pigs.
Google engineering staff: "Who needs quality control - just rush it to market, let people complain, and fix the bugs as we go. It's the pixel way, after all "

 

[webhook]

My friend's Pixel 7 Pro, yet only used for a month, has experienced significant battery drain even on LTE/3G. My friend doesn't even have a 5G plan nor lives near a 5G area. He's using the stock Android, with no bootloader unlocking or custom romming done - he only uses it to message using the messages app, and plus on stand-by, it'll drop to at least 10% or more.

 

[O.J. Simpson]

Yikes. I love my p7 and I'm not crapping on pixels (I'm coming from a p6, had a 3aXl before that), but sometimes it takes a while for Google to get the updates right and fix some bugs. Again, back to my point as using us all as beta testers because companies need to churn out phones every year now and QC testing isn't as robust as it needs to be before a phone hits the market. But, eventually, after many complaints and updates - Google + carriers usually figure things out.
But if our p7/p7 pro phones have garbage modems...there will be no fix and most of us will move on. Anyway, let's all have fun beta testing for Google - woo hoo!

 

[richb518]

This might be the worst post yet.

I can make ANY phone go from 100% to 0% in a lot less than 24 hours depending on use. Saying that yours went from 88% to 0% in less than 24 hours is completely meaningless without context and facts about your useage.

Not only that, but you are running beta software that may very well have issues and yet you still want to blame the phone.

I literally said COMPLETELY UNUSED! Meaning standby.
I know reading may be hard for some, but next time before you criticize someone, make sure you understand and read thoroughly and maybe ask a question first.

 

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I'm getting standby drain in night when phone is all the time in deep sleep at rate of a bit less than 1% per hour.

 

[New Folder]

Yeah, i updated all the apps accidentally and now also have some weird drain.

The problem is that when doing nothing with the phone it is constantly using 2.2 to 3.5w sometimes it peaks to 8w.
Probably sending data somewhere / pinging home?

This is quite bad since for comparison my OP6 has idle drain of constant ~0.4... 0.5w and it has standby of 7days before battery is empty and this was with dual sim with battery health at about 75%.

This is super annoying. I have disabled everything i can think of and it is still doing something in the background.

Only when phone was fresh and i didn't log into play store it was using stable ~0.5w and i had very good battery life.

This phone has capability for awesome battery life but i can't figure out why it needs to drain itself.

I expect Pixel 7 to outlast my OP6 and i will find a way. Looks like time to root.

 

[sic0048]

I literally said COMPLETELY UNUSED! Meaning standby.
I know reading may be hard for some, but next time before you criticize someone, make sure you understand and read thoroughly and maybe ask a question first.

You are right.

That being said, to completely drain a battery from 88 to 0 in 24 hours of UNUSE means you averaged a 3.67% battery drain per hour.

Is that abnormally high? It sure is. I generally see about 2.1% drain per hour on my Pixel 7 when the screen is off. However my phone also sleeps properly. If you had a rouge app/process that prevented the phone from going into deep sleep, it is completely in the realm of possibility that you would see 3.67% drain/hr.

Given that you were rooted and running a Beta OS version, it shouldn't be surprising that there might be some app incompatibilities or OS bugs that is preventing the phone from sleeping properly.

 

[richb518]

You are right.

That being said, to completely drain a battery from 88 to 0 in 24 hours of UNUSE means you averaged a 3.67% battery drain per hour.

Is that abnormally high? It sure is. I generally see about 2.1% drain per hour on my Pixel 7 when the screen is off. However my phone also sleeps properly. If you had a rouge app/process that prevented the phone from going into deep sleep, it is completely in the realm of possibility that you would see 3.67% drain/hr.

Given that you were rooted and running a Beta OS version, it shouldn't be surprising that there might be some app incompatibilities or OS bugs that is preventing the phone from sleeping properly.

After I set the phone up to limit backround services and actually began using it... I am able to get 16-18hrs on full charge. I haven't monitored how much screen usage that is, but I spend a lot of time reading news articles and scrolling fb videos. I don't game. I do have AOE notifier running on the regular with my 16-18hrs use as well. This phone with the restrictions I put on apps gets better battery than the s10e that I came from.

 

[surya467]

Pixel 7 standby battery drain is very annoying. Really need to fix this google. Overnight 10% discharge, eith everything turned off.

 

[doggydog2]

Congrats to just 0.7%/hr to OP. That's is on the deep bottom of my tests with various brands longterm. I can burn tripple overnight but i have all wakelocks on, 24/7 song identification, google assistant, sleeping noise recording on. And of course nonstop BT connections, VPN, and tons of background sync apps.
Battery is great given considering the smart extras. 2 days without use is given. I could double it if I used it as a blank phone (OnePlus). In mixed scenarios it's ok.. Charged yesterday morning, and will charge tonight, with 4hr SOT. Now THAT is good.
All that sucks is the charging. So slow. And of course Samsung qi charger will charge it with just 4 watts. So Samsungs didn't charge with others well, I had to buy expensive original Samsung charger. Now Google doesn't charge with Samsung charger, and i have to buy Google Pixel Stand. Thanks for nothing.

 

[doggydog2]

I've bought this incredibly expensive Google Pixel Stand to pathetically increase the charging speed to irrelevant 23W which means nothing in Google/Samsung world. At least it serves as a Google Nest.
Watching with AccuBattery, I see average standby 1.4%/hr -> good for 3 days. Deep standby 0.7%/hr -> good for 6 days if i turned wakelocks off. Screen on 7+%/hr -> good for 8hr ETA.
Battery seems to be totally fine, i wish it was smaller, so the phone could be lighter. It's way too heavy.
Lightest case on Aliexpress is whopping 23 grams. No offer of a light one from X-Level. Carbon is ugly for me. I willprobably go with transparent foil + camera glass. (everyone claims "ultra thin" but maybe i found a real thin one)