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How has your Battery Life Been After Upgrading to T889UVALL4?

How has your Battery Life Been After Upgrading to T889UVALL4?

arjun90 said:
How has your Battery Life Been After Upgrading to T889UVALL4?
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Same....no changes.
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I feel like my battery is discharging faster. With the previous firmware, even when 4G is enabled, the battery lasted for 2-3 days. Now, after the upgrade, the battery last's a little over a ~1.5 days (4G enabled as well).
Is there a difference in battery life when 4G is actively in use and when it is on stand-by (On, but not in use)?

arjun90 said:
I feel like my battery is discharging faster. With the previous firmware, even when 4G is enabled, the battery lasted for 2-3 days. Now, after the upgrade, the battery last's a little over a ~1.5 days (4G enabled as well).
Is there a difference in battery life when 4G is actively in use and when it is on stand-by (On, but not in use)?
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There is a difference if you throw a 2g only toggle on your home page most likely. Personally though I use 45-55% a day so it doesn't bother me.
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My first charge cycle was awful. After that it seemed about comparable to alk8...
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

Mine has been awful. Tryna come up with some tricks now
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Been the same for me...
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Will the XL have just good or great battery life ?

I will say this, I'll bet the Pixel XL, actually will have pretty good battery life.
I briefly had the LG G5 and HTC 10, which use the SD820 + 4GB RAM, and both were rooted and ROM'd, and shockingly they both gave me some very impressive battery life for those sized phones.
And with the Pixel having similar hardware, and underclocked SD821 ( being a good thing ). And running Android 7.1 with the better Doze than what those above MM phones had, and the larger 3,450mAh battery, I'm betting the Pixel XL does great for battery life.
My Nexus 6P is no better than my old Note 5 battery wise. Even though the N5 had a smaller battery my 6P just matches it, doesn't best it. I get ok battery life on my 6P. With kernel tweaks and everything maximized, I get like 5.5h ScreenOn time. And that's with the phone heavily modified to give best battery life, and it's good, but not amazing or great.
Here's hoping the Pixel XL offers some great battery life.

I think a lot of 2015 phones batteries were really bad because the SD808 and SD810 chips. Didn't they have some serious issue with destroying battery life? I owned the 6p for about 5 months, but finally got rid of it because I couldn't take the battery life anymore. It was just horrendous for the battery size. Turned me off of Google and Android for a bit. There's no reason why it should have been that bad, unless of course the 810 chips were just bad. I'm in the same boat as you. The Pixel XL is really my last hope in Google and Android.
I'm very particular about battery life, and I'm hoping the battery life on the Pixel XL is not just good, but great. I see no reason why it shouldn't be. I mean come on, you're running the latest software, on a device made specifically for it, which they keep barking about everything being "built in". They're using an under clocked 821. The only reason I can see it for eating battery is if they keep data collection services running 24/7, which I imagine they might want to do, since it's their first real Google phone, and they'll want to collect as much information as possible. Or perhaps the assistant will eat away at the battery for some reason. To be honest, I'm sceptical about the Pixel XL battery life ever since I got burned by the 6p.
It frustrates me that I have to install a custom rom to get a battery life the phone is capable of. My latest phone is the S7 Edge, which was getting me about 4 hours of SOT. I threw a custom rom on there that not only improves function and performance, but also provides me with 8.5 hours of SOT with the same usage patterns. Why? It's just not right. Why can't the multibillion dollar companies, employing the best engineers and software developers in the world provide a better OS and battery out of the box than 90% of the roms posted on this site?
Now we wait on benchmarks and reviews.

I, too, am concerned about the battery life. I'm coming from a Nexus 6 which I've always gotten decent battery with -- around 4.5 hours SOT. I'm really hoping the Pixel can push that to 5.5 or even 6.
I was recently gifted an LG v10 and the battery life on that thing was horrid. About 2 hours SOT. Here's hoping Google works some magic!

Had Nexus 6, Note 7, the Pixel will have phenomenal battery life.
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neyenlives said:
Had Nexus 6, Note 7, the Pixel will have phenomenal battery life.
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Sources? Or are you just speculating?

As Frankiefaithful said the 821 is clocked no higher than the 820 and I'd like to think that is in the name of improving battery efficiency by lowering the voltage and thermal throttle. I hope there are many other software optimisations since they've spent most of their time and effort on software, I understand that Google worked closely with Qualcomm on the pixel so there may very well be many improvements in the OS to run the processor efficiently. Furthermore given that the battery is the same size as the 6P, the screen slightly smaller and all the above specualtions I would hope the battery is going to be Incredible.
The guy on reddit who had all his posts deleted said he was at 5hrs SOT with 53% left after a heap of benchmarks. I take this with a pinch of salt but it could be a good sign.

Pretty good article chronicalling what has been found so far.
https://verdictforu.com/2016/10/17/google-pixel-battery-life-seems-as-good-as-expected/

[whops, wrong thread, sry]

Buddyfunlove said:
Pretty good article chronicalling what has been found so far.
https://verdictforu.com/2016/10/17/google-pixel-battery-life-seems-as-good-as-expected/
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Good find. Thanks.
It does look promising. All I know is, right now I'm averaging 8 hours of SOT on the S7 Edge (with my usage). That's 8 hours of just browsing on chrome using LTE, nothing else except a bit ( about 1 hour a day) of music playback using Google Play Music on LTE with the screen off. Also location is set on high and Bluetooth is on, and screen brightness between a quarter and half through out the day.
The Pixel XL should be able to accomplish at least that. I don't see why it shouldn't. The Pixel XL has 150mah less battery than the S7 Edge, so maybe a tiny bit less battery life would make sense. Another difference is the Snapdragon vs the Exynos. Either way, you're talking about Google's first phone, I hope they impress.
I'll have my hands on one this week, and I'll start posting all kinds of stuff regarding battery life. It what I'm most passionate about when it comes to smartphones. You'll get the real deal benchmarks and real usage tests when I'm through with it.

jal3223 said:
Sources? Or are you just speculating?
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I owned them all?
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jal3223 said:
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I own them all?
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the XL has a pretty meaty battery unless something is off it should have good battery life. I was getting a day of normal use and ending on about 50% on my note 7 (dropped to about 45% if I forgot to put it on charge overnight) Note was 3500 and Pixel XL is 3450 so if google has made it properly it should have a strong battery life. (altho my Note was an Exynos chip and they generally use less power than SD)

It will have after EX puts out a kernel.

Battery Life issues after updating to 7.1.1?

Has anyone noticed battery life has decreased since upgrading to the latest OS?

mdonnelly1127 said:
Has anyone noticed battery life has decreased since upgrading to the latest OS?
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I've seen a decrease in battery performance but this has only been my first day on the update

I haven't noticed any difference. Still fast and battery has been good.

Seems the same to me. I'm on Elemental's kernel though.

Mine is back to the way it was before the 7.1 update.....better.

mine seems like its the same

It depends on what you have enabled, that will make a difference from 7.1 to 7.1.1. For example double tap to wake and lift to wake, you're turning on sensors and having them running, using more power.

clockcycle said:
It depends on what you have enabled, that will make a difference from 7.1 to 7.1.1. For example double tap to wake and lift to wake, you're turning on sensors and having them running, using more power.
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Very good point. I am only running dtw
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oneandroidnut said:
Very good point. I am only running dtw
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"only" ddtw, actually tuns on the digitizer 24/7 waiting for you to ddtw. I don't think it uses too much, at least I've not noticed.
Ive noticed the radios working differently too..

clockcycle said:
"only" ddtw, actually tuns on the digitizer 24/7 waiting for you to ddtw. I don't think it uses too much, at least I've not noticed.
Ive noticed the radios working differently too..
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Interesting my battery life is the same though
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If screen brightness is over 70-80â„… the battery will gone be flat in 6 h keeping just to 50â„… the battery is holding like 14h its strange but the usage is not showing nothing strange,or maybe my phone is defective...
Pixel XL User

My home has weak (or non-existent) cell signal strength. Since 7.1.1, Mobile Standby uses twice the power compared to anything else, and as a result overall battery life is hugely reduced. Under 7.1, the battery curve flattened off nicely overnight; now, it just continues downhill.

richlean said:
My home has weak (or non-existent) cell signal strength. Since 7.1.1, Mobile Standby uses twice the power compared to anything else, and as a result overall battery life is hugely reduced. Under 7.1, the battery curve flattened off nicely overnight; now, it just continues downhill.
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Can you not change the radio? I'm not sure if their backward compatible but worth looking into
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I've wondered the same thing, but until now, I've been happy to keep my Pixel in original, stock condition.
Will see how it goes over the next few days, but might have a go at changing the radio if it's as bad as it currently seems.

richlean said:
I've wondered the same thing, but until now, I've been happy to keep my Pixel in original, stock condition.
Will see how it goes over the next few days, but might have a go at changing the radio if it's as bad as it currently seems.
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That's fair enough!
Let it settle and have a look into it! Hopefully it'll get you back to a better battery life
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Battery is still good for me.

Battery life has been great for me no issues since 7.1.1

Yeah my battery has been good now too... Idk very weird maybe it was the DTTW or maybe the new version needed to sit in for a few days. I don't know... But whatever thanks for the update guys!

i have a few tweaks in my build.prop that have seemed to helped with my battery, along with su.d scripts that run on boot that have helped alittle.

My pixel XL (unlocked bootloader, stock otherwise) shows 25% battery, then suddenly powers off the phone. When I plug into power while off it shows 0% battery. I power on phone and get into OS and it shows the same 0% or 1% and proceeds to charge properly. However, when it gets down to 25% again it just powers off and says 0%. Is my phone's battery toast or am I missing something?

Old/Bad battery

So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?

Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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ahent said:
Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.

That's interesting, there might be an app that isn't playing well with 8.1.
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snoprosledneck88 said:
So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?
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I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?

snoprosledneck88 said:
I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.
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Something is wrong then as you have said, 8.1 is awesome on battery.
I would bite the bullet and factory reset it, and hold off putting any apps on it, or making any settings adjustments for a couple of days.
If that works, go slow adding apps. If it doesn't yeah get the battery replaced.

AP2FTW said:
I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?
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Battery's don't like to sit. That's why a lot of people that have cars that sit or recreational vehicle put battery tenders on them. Maybe this doesn't apply to the batteries in our phones

I don't know if all battery types work the same. Car/boat/etc. have lead-acid batteries, the old rechargeable and battery phones were nickel-metal-hydride, and modern phone batteries are Lithium Ion. They all have different characteristics when being used and stored.
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I did a factory reset. We will see if that helps.

Doesn't seem to be making a difference. At 92% with 22 min sot

One more test. Airplane mode.

TonikJDK said:
One more test. Airplane mode.
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What is that going to show?

snoprosledneck88 said:
What is that going to show?
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We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.

TonikJDK said:
We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.
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I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful

snoprosledneck88 said:
I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful
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Valid point. But I think a bad battery will continue to drain, maybe not as fast....but too fast for while on doze.

I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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mwalt2 said:
I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to

snoprosledneck88 said:
I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to
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How much SOT are you getting in a day?

TonikJDK said:
How much SOT are you getting in a day?
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I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now

snoprosledneck88 said:
I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now
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Then i think your battery is good. Going by those numbers you will get around 6 hours of SOT.
I usually get around 3.25 hours of SOT with 50% remaining on 8.0 Oreo.

Below average battery life or it needs changing?

Im averanging around 2.5-3 hrs of screen on time on oreo n pie pixel xl. My usage varied between scrolling through social media(facebook, instagram, reddit) and 15-20 mins of gaming per charge(all game settings are high 60fps). Does this battery life is still fine within all pixel xl owners? Or is it that it needs battery change since i got it refurbished? Btw screen is always at 50% brightness

Idsay so how long have ya had it
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NickNick977 said:
Im averanging around 2.5-3 hrs of screen on time on oreo n pie pixel xl. My usage varied between scrolling through social media(facebook, instagram, reddit) and 15-20 mins of gaming per charge(all game settings are high 60fps). Does this battery life is still fine within all pixel xl owners? Or is it that it needs battery change since i got it refurbished? Btw screen is always at 50% brightness
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Did you ever get better battery/replace it? I get that currently on my XL on Pie and it's very frustrating.

cobrajet7 said:
Idsay so how long have ya had it
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Ive had for around 4 months already, battery life was pretty much the same when i got it

snappycg1996 said:
Did you ever get better battery/replace it? I get that currently on my XL on Pie and it's very frustrating.
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Nope i didn't have it battery changed yet. What is ur usage and sot?

NickNick977 said:
Nope i didn't have it battery changed yet. What is ur usage and sot?
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Use AccuBattery and see what capacity % it shows after a week (first few charges will be inaccurate). I bought a refurb and it had 90% capacity, and I was able to get 4-5 hours SOT with always on display turned off, data, bluetooth, wifi always on; Oreo 8.1 and no gaming. I never upgraded to Pie, so I don't know if that made it worse.

I had a similar problem with mine, first i was on stock pie, so i tried changing to different custom roms, kernels, nothing worked. i thought my battery was getting bad, so i decided to flash a stock factory image (pie) just beacuse i was frustrated and somehow, that fixed it. I dont know why or how, but i got my battery life back. So maybe try that i guess?