Want to improve battey life on Pixel? Try this

[devsk]

Those are some great stats. What ROM/Kernel config are you running? Are you rooted?

I am running stock and running my own mods with root.

 

[AndroidGX]

Gonna try this, thanks for sharing that tips :highfive::good:

 

[webvan]

Can confirm it shows on my OnePlus 6 running the latest Oxygen (9.0.4). Turned it off there, battery hasn't been as good since 9.0.4 was released, wonder if it's a 'new' deal where it's turning on with enabling Dev Options. Only have a couple of days before my 3XL arrives, though, so doubt I'll *really* have a chance to see a difference.

Found that setting activated on my Nokia 8 running Pie so I deactivated it!

 

[AndroidGX]

Just a quick report : after checking for few days, I can say turning off this option is useless. It has absolutely no battery impact at all.
But I remarked that the double-tap to wake up screen is draining battery like hell. I think it is the same with the option of waking the device once in hand.
Better to disable full AOD options then for best battery experience :good:

 

[qualitymove13]

Just a quick report : after checking for few days, I can say turning off this option is useless. It has absolutely no battery impact at all.
But I remarked that the double-tap to wake up screen is draining battery like hell. I think it is the same with the option of waking the device once in hand.
Better to disable full AOD options then for best battery experience :good:

Yeah, I saw no discernible change in battery life either. The search continues....

 

[millbean]

Yeah, I saw no discernible change in battery life either. The search continues....

Same here. Going to turn off AOD and see what happens. I've gotten used so it might be hard to let it go!

 

[Archer]

Can confirm it shows on my OnePlus 6 running the latest Oxygen (9.0.4). Turned it off there, battery hasn't been as good since 9.0.4 was released, wonder if it's a 'new' deal where it's turning on with enabling Dev Options. Only have a couple of days before my 3XL arrives, though, so doubt I'll *really* have a chance to see a difference.

I can confirm it's on the 6T and enabled with Developer Options (no surprise though, if it's on the 6). My 3XL turns up this week too so I'm pretty much lurking the hell out of these forums at the minute

 

[jimv1983]

I’ve had this for days and I can’t say it’s actually helping much . Ambient display drain is heavy; googles pie battery optimizations are poor on stand by mode. The biggest myth of all time is stock android is light hence the battery should last longer than a skinned version, this theory is dog sh$t. Google has marketed its battery savings like no other oem with a bunch of different names through out history such as project volta, doze, super doze , adaptive battery etc lol

It's absolutely true. Especially when compared to Samsung phones. Look at the battery life of a brand new Galaxy S10+ compared to something like a Pixel 2 XL when it was new. The S10+ has a 2 generations newer processor and a 16% bigger battery. That means a new S10+ should have much better battery life than a Pixel 2 XL did when it was new. In reality that isn't the case. The real world battery life of the two is about the same. That's because of Samsung software.

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I'm a big stock Android fan but I have to say the battery life on this phone is mediocre at best. I get like 5.5h to 6h SOT. Lately more like 5.5h when drained to 1%.

Is funny I've owned just about every Nexus phone and the pixel 2 XL and this 3XL and I can't say any of them have been stellar or amazing on battery life. Whereas a Samsung Galaxy phone, the larger plus models always seem to give great battery life, but I'm no Lagwiz fan.

I have a Pixel 2 XL and I had excellent battery life for the first 3 months. It dropped noticably for the next 3 monthly updates. Samsung software is a huge battery hog.

I haven't had this good a battery life in on any phone (and I feel there is room for improvement because memory killer eating cycles unnecessarily killing processes when its not really truly under pressure, only to restart them few milliseconds later, is a big waste of CPU and memory bandwidth).

With my light use, my phone lasts me at least 3 days, many times 4 days. For the screenshots below, over 4 days, I had cumulative call time of ~30mins, whatsapp ~1hr, sudoku ~2hr, slack ~1hr, gmail ~1hr, some youtube videos, many google searches, firefox...i.e. very light use. I accumulated ~6hrs of SOT.

Its been cloudy off late, so, auto-brightness keeps the slider close to 40% or so. I also use dark theme (pitch black) on my 3XL. I also believe configuring swap helps with LMKD induced process restarts and with memory leaks (all leaked memory gets swapped out). I also only charge upto 93%, so charge to charge battery longevity variation is reduced.

I am pretty confidant that if I used my phone continuously non-stop, I can easily last 10-12 hours.

I wouldn't can that light usage. That battery life seems too good to be true. Even when my Pixel 2 XL was new the absolute best I could do was 9% battery drop per hour with similar usage to yours and that's with a lower resolution and bigger battery compared to the Pixel 3 XL. Even if you managed the same battery drain rate that's still 54% battery drained in the 6 hours of usage (which would be impressive).

 

[MArtyChubbs]

https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
@freak7 pointed out to me that nothing is happening until you enable "Record trace"


Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

 

[EMJI79]

https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/systrace-on-device
@freak7 pointed out to me that nothing is happening until you enable "Record trace"

I haven't quite understood. Does that mean the advice of this thread is probably inefficient?

 

[MArtyChubbs]

I haven't quite understood. Does that mean the advice of this thread is probably inefficient?

My understanding is that the setting is only relevant if "Record Trace" is enabled.

Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

 

[Paz9]

My understanding is that the setting is only relevant if "Record Trace" is enabled.

Sent from my Pixel 3 XL using Tapatalk

i just disable it with TiBu

 

[gettinwicked]

Want better battery life? Disable digital wellbeing. I went from on battery saver by 9pm to ~30%.

 

[totzkitotz]

Want to try this and take an observation, because my 3xl batt is draining fast eventhough in light use

 

[Scythe]

I think since last updates(few months I guess), it is disabled by default. Ofc it does not hurt to check

 

[Nalub]

Since the upgrade to Android 11 the battery is significantly worse, the screen on time shortened with 1 hour. I tried this and unfortunately it's not effective

Edit: Pixel 3 XL