Because it's not? I keep it around 50% most of the time because that's what works best for me. The one dark screenshot is because I had Twilight on as it was already late.
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Thats not good. Maybe any apps are blowing the battery away in the background?
Weak mobile signal? GPS always on? Using AoD?
I use my device as daily driver, AoD on, GPS off, mobile signal most of the time, ~20% of the time wifi.
I get around 2 days of using with 4-6 hrs SoT.
I'm connected to wifi most of the time. Location is mostly on Battery Saving, which means GPS is off (but I'd switch to High Accuracy a few times throughout the day when using location apps like Google Maps or Instagram). I also have AoD on, Bluetooth on, NFC on. Now playing is off, always listening is also off (I only activate Google Assistant by squeezing or holding down home key, not by voice).
Re: Overnight battery drops, I actually have tried going to bed with the phone on airplane mode, with wifi on, and it still lost 10% the next morning. Weird. These days I sleep with my phone on Battery Saver mode and it would drop between 2% and 4% overnight.
I have the GSam battery monitor app, the top "offender" is always Kernel (Android OS). I don't know what this one does.
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I heard AOD uses a bit battery... I keep mine to only when new notifications arrive. Wonderful if that would help any?
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I was about to ask the same thing.....
Have you tried one night disabling Ambient Display Always on?
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Have you tried one night disabling Ambient Display Always on?
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I always put it on Battery Saver mode when I go to bed now, which deactivates the Always On display.
It loses between 2% and 4% overnight now, which is better compared to 10%!
But for regular day-to-day use, I'm still getting only 3 hours SOT all the time.
It's not bad, but it's just strange (and a bit disappointing for me) that most people can get up to 5 or even 6 hours SOT.
It loses between 2% and 4% overnight now, which is better compared to 10%!
But for regular day-to-day use, I'm still getting only 3 hours SOT all the time.
It's not bad, but it's just strange (and a bit disappointing for me) that most people can get up to 5 or even 6 hours SOT.
It depends on many things...signal strength...How do you touch the screen, how do you use the device. The apps you have installed. Etc.
If you factory reset your device, you install WhatsApp only (just for the test) and you use the phone for 6-8 hours non stop (7-8 hours of standby time) you should easily reach 6 hours of standby time or more (don't abuse gps, Bluetooth and camera). If you don't reach that SoT in this context, then we can start talking about a real issue.
SoT over a day is affected if you have bad standby time during the day (specially if you have many apps that are constantly affecting the standby time or if you use Bluetooth all the day).
But is specially affected If you abuse GPS, Camera, you have high screen brightness, or you force the CPU and GPU with a heavy app like a game or constantly touchscreen inputs. (You can't get 6 hours SoT if you swype the screen for 6 hours, but you can if you swype the screen, you read 10 seconds, swype again, read 5 seconds, swype again, read 20 seconds and so on). People who read too much generally get better screen on time.
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If you factory reset your device, you install WhatsApp only (just for the test) and you use the phone for 6-8 hours non stop (7-8 hours of standby time) you should easily reach 6 hours of standby time or more (don't abuse gps, Bluetooth and camera). If you don't reach that SoT in this context, then we can start talking about a real issue.
SoT over a day is affected if you have bad standby time during the day (specially if you have many apps that are constantly affecting the standby time or if you use Bluetooth all the day).
But is specially affected If you abuse GPS, Camera, you have high screen brightness, or you force the CPU and GPU with a heavy app like a game or constantly touchscreen inputs. (You can't get 6 hours SoT if you swype the screen for 6 hours, but you can if you swype the screen, you read 10 seconds, swype again, read 5 seconds, swype again, read 20 seconds and so on). People who read too much generally get better screen on time.
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Upgraded from Nexus 6p. Battery life almost double. 60 hours uptime with 6 hours SOT.
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Anyone use the now playing feature? Does it change the battery life much? I'm probably going to put it on and scrutinize it, but I'd be interested if anyone else has tried it and did you see any diminished battery life. Thanks.
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I'm surprised so far with the battery life of my regular pixel 2. Get 5-6 hours sot as a heavy user - games, social media, browsing, Spotify, bluetooth for earphones. I don't have that music listening thing on or always on display on.
How long have you had it? What settings do you use in kernel?
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About 2 weeks. Haven't made many changes other than turning down animations to O.5. Don't use GPS. Keep screen brightness down. Haven't done that much to it really.
I might make that if I didn't use Skype, for a half hour call Skype use 26% of my battery
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Around 4 hours of SOT ?
my new pixel 2 is giving approx 4 hour of SOT, I am testing it from 1 day I got.
should I return it? Overall 11 hour including stand by and 4 hour SOT.
I guess video call on Pixel 2 drain more battery than other phones, anyone experienced same?
my new pixel 2 is giving approx 4 hour of SOT, I am testing it from 1 day I got.
should I return it? Overall 11 hour including stand by and 4 hour SOT.
I guess video call on Pixel 2 drain more battery than other phones, anyone experienced same?
I don't know why you guys think mentioning "heavy usage" with a good SOT is actually a good measure of the battery life. The SOT will obviously be more if you're using it heavily. A good measure of SOT is when you use your phone normally, read emails, text, browse the web (like the average user) and then mention the SOT. That SOT will be lesser than when you do 'heavy usage', because in that case your screen is on most of the times, which actually jeopardises the very purpose of the parameter observation.
The perfect scenario, IMO, to measure SOT is when you do regular usage, from 100%-10%. With that, you can really estimate how good the battery life of the device really is, and not when you've always kept it on. A good example to illustrate this is when you're reading an ebook on airplane mode, it drains very little battery, but the SOT will be blown out of proportions.
My point is, including 'heavy usage' and higher SOT is not really an indication of good battery life, it only indicates that you had your screen on for longer.
That being said, I get an average of 4hrs of SOT with regular usage, on LTE.
The perfect scenario, IMO, to measure SOT is when you do regular usage, from 100%-10%. With that, you can really estimate how good the battery life of the device really is, and not when you've always kept it on. A good example to illustrate this is when you're reading an ebook on airplane mode, it drains very little battery, but the SOT will be blown out of proportions.
My point is, including 'heavy usage' and higher SOT is not really an indication of good battery life, it only indicates that you had your screen on for longer.
That being said, I get an average of 4hrs of SOT with regular usage, on LTE.
Have you noticed a drop in the battery since the update? Before I did easily 5h, now I do not 4h ...
Yeah, I do. It's hard to quantify because Google seems to have fixed the big where it hangs at 100% for an extended period. I used to see around 6hr SOT, but now I am in the 5hr range. Also, I feel like standby drain is higher. Coming from the Moto G5 plus, it's hard to live with a small battery life, but at least it charges quicker. [emoji16]
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As long as I have WiFi off, and reboot after turning WiFi off, to avoid the current Play Services CPU usage bug my battery is the same on 8.1 as it was in 8.0.
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