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Battery Discussion

What's it like for you Sprint S6 owners?
I'm struggling here and my S5 was without a doubt wayyyy better... I'm starting to wonder if I have a defective battery to be honest. Averaging like 2 1/2-3 hrs SoT and 16 hrs total time on...

My girlfriend's S6 is going almost 3.5-4 hours SoT. I haven't checked her total time.
I believe she took an update when she first got the phone, she is on 5.0.2, OC9 build.
There is a software update available, but we are hesitant to take it, not knowing if:
1. It will make te batery life better or worse
2. will the tether without root continue to work
Have you taken the latest update?

Mangu said:
My girlfriend's S6 is going almost 3.5-4 hours SoT. I haven't checked her total time.
I believe she took an update when she first got the phone, she is on 5.0.2, OC9 build.
There is a software update available, but we are hesitant to take it, not knowing if:
1. It will make te batery life better or worse
2. will the tether without root continue to work
Have you taken the latest update?
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Read around. There's plenty info out there. Battery discussion only plz n thanks.

I'm on my first day with it, but its definitely a improvement from the GS4 as of late atleast. Im at about 2 Hours screentime and 38% battery, first not even full charge, Started at like 82%.

I did a factory reset earlier in the week and that has seemed to help a TON. 4 hours of SOT and thats with extremely poor signal around home.

Battery is barely acceptable for me. My phone is not rooted. I average between 12-14 hours off charge and average around 3 hrs screen on time give or take a few minutes. I'm a heavy user and use my phone pretty much all day. Saving grace is it charges really fast. Thinking of rooting but not sure there's anything I can do to help the battery life

i have the s6. yeah battery life is poopy but its expected. im struggling cuz idk if i shud switch to the s6 edge. yeah those side displays r cool but im told if that thing drops the wrong way even with a protective case then its bye bye screen. oh decisions decisions

Battery life Here is actually not bad, especially after the Samsung Push update from the Play store. Many tech blogs wrote about this possibly helping the battery life on the S6. I just finished 1 day and 5 hours with 30 percent left, so for me that not bad at all.

reverepats said:
Battery life Here is actually not bad, especially after the Samsung Push update from the Play store. Many tech blogs wrote about this possibly helping the battery life on the S6. I just finished 1 day and 5 hours with 30 percent left, so for me that not bad at all.
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What was your SoT though?

JoeFCaputo113 said:
What was your SoT though?
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Wasn't that high, just under 2hrs. But for me, that's normal..... And I'm totally cool with that. The battery life really ALmost pushed me to the Note 4, UT after all this, I'm here to stay

I am averaging 3 hours 50 mins SOT in my house on wifi all day. It seems to be getting better since the push update.

I've had great battery life with my regular s6 thus far. 30+ hours and 5.5 SOT average. Location off at home, bt off, wifi on, location history off, no samsung/google/sprint apps or features enabled (like s voice), auto brightness, black wallpaper, disabled samsung push, turned off LTE at home, only on CDMA, cant remember what else.
I've seen a lot of people on forums complain their battery for their s6 is bad, but I don't get it?

My battery sucks.. I have gps off, syncs to minimum, all notifications offs, and took the last Samsung update. Still battery life is not the best.

So far today gettings my best screen on time yet.
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I wouldn't say my battery life is fantastic, but its certainly better than it was on my S5 when it was either stock or on CM.
I'm in Houston, so I generally have very good signal, but I use it a lot throughout the day. Bluetooth music to and from work, games during the day when I have downtime, some maps usage when I do mobile calls. I take it off the charger around 9am and get home around 630pm with anywhere between 40-60% left. That's with GPS always on (highest location settings), 3 gmails and Facebook synced, screen always on auto, Bluetooth always on and paired to my Moto 360.

Battery FIX:
1. Turn off WIFI calling.
2. Turn off Location History.
The above two changes doubled my battery life. Went from maybe 3 hours Sot and dead in 7 hours, to 5.5 SoT yesterday and still running after 16 hours usage. MAJOR difference. Any my screen stays at or near full brightness.

syphen6 said:
So far today gettings my best screen on time yet.
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Dude what are your settings to achieve those screen on times? That is nuts.

FlowingAway said:
Dude what are your settings to achieve those screen on times? That is nuts.
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Automatic Brightness - On
NFC - off
Wifi Calling - off
Wifi always scanning off
Switched to CDMA only. I did have it on LTE for a little bit when I went to the grocery store.
Everything else is on
I am still really surprised at the change in the battery life from when I first got it because I could only get 2 hours SOT for like the first week.

syphen6 said:
Automatic Brightness - On
NFC - off
Wifi Calling - off
Wifi always scanning off
Switched to CDMA only. I did have it on LTE for a little bit when I went to the grocery store.
Everything else is on
I am still really surprised at the change in the battery life from when I first got it because I could only get 2 hours SOT for like the first week.
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I have dove way deeper into disabling things than just these items and today it looks like I'm going to get around 4 hrs of screen on time. But I've only had the phone for 6 days.
One quick question: In the time you've had it, have you factory reset the phone, rooted, or flashed firmware, or have you just stayed the course and let it settle in? It sounds like I may just need to let it settle before the awesome battery life starts happening.

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I have dove way deeper into disabling things than just these items and today it looks like I'm going to get around 4 hrs of screen on time. But I've only had the phone for 6 days.
One quick question: In the time you've had it, have you factory reset the phone, rooted, or flashed firmware, or have you just stayed the course and let it settle in? It sounds like I may just need to let it settle before the awesome battery life starts happening.
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I factory reset the phone after 3 days of owning it because my battery life was terrible. After I did that I was getting close to 3-3 1/2 hours SOT with the phone which was about what I was getting on my M8. Then all of a sudden it just started getting way better. It might of been that Samsung push update or maybe the battery just needed alot of time to break in. Also i'm not rooted and I haven't flashed any firmware.

7.1.2 battery life

Is anyone else's Pixel XL having not so great battery life since the update? I'm getting 3-3 1/2 hours of sot today i was at 70% so far and 45 min of screen time and barely been on phone. I did a hard reset 2 days ago to see if that did anything but still the same the past 2 days.

Mine isn't that bad, but I definitely noticed a drain after 7.1.2. It was enough that I was checking to see if some rogue app was running in the background. Glad to hear I am not the only one.
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yea, i talked with google support and they had me stick it into Safe mode and to try that for a couple hours to see if the drain persists. Basically every app I use is blocked in safe mode so we will really get down to see if its phone or apps

Gilley said:
Is anyone else's Pixel XL having not so great battery life since the update? I'm getting 3-3 1/2 hours of sot today i was at 70% so far and 45 min of screen time and barely been on phone. I did a hard reset 2 days ago to see if that did anything but still the same the past 2 days.
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I have noticed it too.

for me my battery drain was from play music. I had the same battery life as you, I went to pure stock with only my bootloader unlocked and the drain persisted. I stopped using Play Music and started streaming with a different app and my battery life jumped to 2 days after a while

I think it has been about similar to what it was prior to update. I typically average about 4 hours talk time and stream music on Play Music, typically a few hours worth a day. I am also in a terrible Cell reception area. On screen time is usually 2hrs+. Typically after a full work day I still have about 60% almost religiously every day.
Did you do the OTA or did you hard reset the phone after the 7.1.2 update? I had a drain issue back on 7.1.1 --> 7.1.2 beta and the hard reset fixed it.

fatapia said:
for me my battery drain was from play music. I had the same battery life as you, I went to pure stock with only my bootloader unlocked and the drain persisted. I stopped using Play Music and started streaming with a different app and my battery life jumped to 2 days after a while
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Yea i've been using Spotify as my music streaming app.

iceman4357 said:
I think it has been about similar to what it was prior to update. I typically average about 4 hours talk time and stream music on Play Music, typically a few hours worth a day. I am also in a terrible Cell reception area. On screen time is usually 2hrs+. Typically after a full work day I still have about 60% almost religiously every day.
Did you do the OTA or did you hard reset the phone after the 7.1.2 update? I had a drain issue back on 7.1.1 --> 7.1.2 beta and the hard reset fixed it.
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I did OTA 7.1.2 and been on it since it was released and then did hard reset 2 days ago. And I know some of my apps kill it like I said but even when I havent been on it today I was dropping fast. My buddy is at 54% with his and has 54 min of SOT so something is up with this patch.

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Yea i've been using Spotify as my music streaming app.
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I haven't tried the Spotify app since I've updated, I've been using the Amazon Music since I have prime and the music is free. Hmm I wish I could offer more help

Crap battery life here. I've even gone as far as a factory reset and not restoring data/apps. Sitting on my desk on wifi (lte makes no difference) with nothing running, 10-20% battery drain after about 2 hours. I went from about 2 1/2 days of moderate (for me at least) usage to where the hell is my charger.

bernsy said:
Crap battery life here. I've even gone as far as a factory reset and not restoring data/apps. Sitting on my desk on wifi (lte makes no difference) with nothing running, 10-20% battery drain after about 2 hours. I went from about 2 1/2 days of moderate (for me at least) usage to where the hell is my charger.
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I use Force Doze, i.e. forces device to doze on screen-off immediately.
It reports a 5% drop during 10 hours of dozing.
Why the hell

For me it's fine. Same battery like 7.1.1.

I did that support with google and they said to email them back after a couple hours to report what happened, that was 2 days ago and still nothing in return. So thats neat

So following up on my battery issue, I contacted Google and told them about my problem. They take about 3 days to reply so its been a long process. Told me I could send my phone in and they would look at it and decide if a replacement would be granted. The turn around time is ONLY 5-10 days without a phone. I have my own business so this wasnt an option. Next they were asking questions and one came up is there any physical damage. The attached picture shows the "damage" of a 5 inch fall out of pocket when i was sitting on sidewalk with my daughter. They then told me that I would need to send it in to their third party provider UBreakIFix to get it fixed then I could send it in and have them look it over and then TRY to get me a replacement. I dont think I've ever had a worse possible experience with customer service. Between taking as long as they do to reply to the whole 5-10 days without a phone option even after I tell them I cant be without a phone that long. Needless to say I dunno that I would ever buy another warranty for a google product if this is how they provide it. I love the phone but I guess it shouldnt be at 80% within a couple hours of the day after it is unplugged.

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thenessus said:
Don't use wifi scanning for location.
Turn off Google Voice completely.
Don't use Facebook App.
My battery life is 6-7 SOT, with idle drain at less than 1%. Pure stock.
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I don't use Facebook at all. I've tested with Google Voice turned off and with all location settings off, makes only a minor difference. I'm talking minutes of battery life difference. I don't even know that 7.1.2 is at all to blame. It does seem slightly better since this month's update. I've even tried to factory reset without loading any of my apps back on to see if something was hoovering up the battery. Same deal.

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Don't read it if it bugs you when people talk about stuff on forums.

Odd. I have tons of apps on my phone and use Facebook often(including messenger) but with relatively low brightness, Bluetooth, GPS WiFi scanning for location constantly on and still occasionally get a good 4 hours SoT. On occasions I get lucky and get something magical like in tagged pictures. Maybe a replacement for anything lower than 3 1/2 of SoT would be in order.

For me, it was Android Auto.
Don't know why, but that seemed to have done the trick for me. My battery was showing a few apps that seemed to point to streaming or using BT (Google Play Services, Podcast Addict, Samsung Accessory App were taking more battery than Phone Idle, when my phone was sitting idle most of the day). So, over a few days I uninstalled/reinstalled all various apps (Samsung Gear Manager, Podcast Addict). Nothing seemed to work. Then I uninstalled Android Auto, and battery life went back to "close" to normal. Reinstalled it, and it was fine until it connected to my car. After that ... the battery drain came back.
Haven't played around with settings in android auto to see if there is a setting that can resolve the battery drain. I have just left it uninstalled for now.

mikaole said:
For me it's fine. Same battery like 7.1.1.
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Same here. If battery is hurting then get BBS from Play or XDA thread. Check out what's alarming overnight and you're bound to find the culprit. For me it was MiBand 2 app draining 0.5% / hour overnight while doing absolutely nothing. I'm now down to 0.5% / hr total and can also spend and entire day plus without a charge since deleting the app and removing the band. Some of these apps insist on pinging home or keeping the phone awake with screen off. Get rid of them and you'll be fine. Either that or give it a quick charge during the day for about 15 min.

Brand new Pixel XL battery drain?

Hi, my Pixel XL arrived last night (got it very cheap brand new) and today, the battery seems very bad. I've installed the 8.0 OTA and 2 security updates since last night and installed all the apps I need (had no issues with the same apps on my 6P) however, the phone doesn't seem to be dozing properly and seems to be draining fairly fast. When I took the phone out of the box, it was at 52% and I drained that all while updating and setting it up, with 2 hours and a half SOT. However, today, I am on a data connection, with an hour of SOT and at 65% battery.
Do I need to give it time to settle? Seems odd to me...
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gman88667733 said:
Hi, my Pixel XL arrived last night (got it very cheap brand new) and today, the battery seems very bad. I've installed the 8.0 OTA and 2 security updates since last night and installed all the apps I need (had no issues with the same apps on my 6P) however, the phone doesn't seem to be dozing properly and seems to be draining fairly fast. When I took the phone out of the box, it was at 52% and I drained that all while updating and setting it up, with 2 hours and a half SOT. However, today, I am on a data connection, with an hour of SOT and at 65% battery.
Do I need to give it time to settle? Seems odd to me...
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I would definitely give it time to settle. If your worried about the drain you can check battery usage with an app like AccuBattery. Also some apps have not been optimized for Oreo yet. If your still seeing this in a week I would start to get more proactive on figuring out a reason why.
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ahent said:
I would definitely give it time to settle. If your worried about the drain you can check battery usage with an app like AccuBattery. Also some apps have not been optimized for Oreo yet. If your still seeing this in a week I would start to get more proactive on figuring out a reason why.
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Gotcha. So is it not worth factory resetting yet then?
I suppose if it still is bad, I could revert back to 7.1.1 after a week. And at the very worst, I can return it within 30 days. (I don't want to return it though!!)

gman88667733 said:
Hi, my Pixel XL arrived last night (got it very cheap brand new) and today, the battery seems very bad. I've installed the 8.0 OTA and 2 security updates since last night and installed all the apps I need (had no issues with the same apps on my 6P) however, the phone doesn't seem to be dozing properly and seems to be draining fairly fast. When I took the phone out of the box, it was at 52% and I drained that all while updating and setting it up, with 2 hours and a half SOT. However, today, I am on a data connection, with an hour of SOT and at 65% battery.
Do I need to give it time to settle? Seems odd to me...
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1) Your experience with draining 50% of battery charge while installing new OS and 2 security updates plus apps with SOT of 2.5 hours is not unusual. Just having the screen on for 2.5 hours should drain between 35 and 55% of battery of XL depending on brightness and screen content. Add to the fact that many files need to be moved in the process, and that adds even more battery drain.
2) However, an hour of SOT should not drain your battery for more than 15-25%.
3) I don't think modern Li-Ion or Li-Po batteries "settle." They are very carefully crafted, calibrated and tested at the factory. Their voltages are very consistent with regard to their capacities.
4) What you need to do is figure out what drained your battery by simply looking at the Battery page of Settings. If your biggest drain is from Phone Idle, then perhaps you are in a low cellular signal area - the phone uses more cellular chip power in such areas to maintain connection to cellular towers, and that drains significantly more battery. If your biggest drain is from Android System, you may have a rogue app that keeps your phone awake when it shouldn't. It may also be a combination of the two.

Decreased Battery Life

Has anyone else seen a noticable battery life drop recently? Standby time as decreased noticably dropping from 100% to 96% instead of the original 98% after 8 hours. Screen on time has noticably dropped as well. For the first 2-2.5 months I was seeing a 10-12%/hr drain while doing light tasks like browsing and using the Facebook app. Similar usage now is resulting in a drain of about 18%/hr. Previously it was normal for me to get 8 hours screen on time over like 32 hours off the charger. Now in the last few weeks, with similar usage, I'm getting like 5 hours SOT over like 18 hours off the charger.
I've looked at the battery stats and nothing seems unusual.

Mine has dramatically improved. I get 8 hours + since Feb update. It dips a little if I bring the brightness up over 75% though.
Standby is excellent also. Last night I lost 0 battery over 7 hours. Data was off granted. Still good.

You might need to reset phone.
If not a rogue app may cuaee this. Have you installed any new apps recently

Jonathan-H said:
Mine has dramatically improved. I get 8 hours + since Feb update. It dips a little if I bring the brightness up over 75% though.
Standby is excellent also. Last night I lost 0 battery over 7 hours. Data was off granted. Still good.
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For me it has been bad for weeks but got worse after the February update which is strange since one of the things mentioned in the February update was a battery improvement for the Pixel 2 XL. Almost 2 hours ago I unplugged my phone from fully charged and it's already dropped to 98% in less than 2 hours. The battery stats show phone idle using 1% of the battery with nothing else showing at all.
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You might need to reset phone.
If not a rogue app may cuaee this. Have you installed any new apps recently
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I really don't want to have to do a reset. It's such a hassle. Backing up, resetting, restoring, putting all my music back on, reinstalling all the apps. Probably 4-6 hour job. No new apps in the past several weeks. Also, nothing in battery info that would indicate any specific app going rogue and sucking up battery.

jimv1983 said:
For me it has been bad for weeks but got worse after the February update which is strange since one of the things mentioned in the February update was a battery improvement for the Pixel 2 XL. Almost 2 hours ago I unplugged my phone from fully charged and it's already dropped to 98% in less than 2 hours. The battery stats show phone idle using 1% of the battery with nothing else showing at all.
I really don't want to have to do a reset. It's such a hassle. Backing up, resetting, restoring, putting all my music back on, reinstalling all the apps. Probably 4-6 hour job. No new apps in the past several weeks. Also, nothing in battery info that would indicate any specific app going rogue and sucking up battery.
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I second that. My battery life has got worse too, and it's mainly the standby which is getting worse, and phone idle is the main culprit I can see in the stats.

sandip_909 said:
I second that. My battery life has got worse too, and it's mainly the standby which is getting worse, and phone idle is the main culprit I can see in the stats.
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Same. My battery life has been way worse since the February update. I might try to factory reset when I get home from work later.

jimv1983 said:
I really don't want to have to do a reset. It's such a hassle. Backing up, resetting, restoring, putting all my music back on, reinstalling all the apps. Probably 4-6 hour job. No new apps in the past several weeks. Also, nothing in battery info that would indicate any specific app going rogue and sucking up battery.
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4 to 6 hours??? Wtf do you have that takes 4-6 hours to do lol. I notice i drop down to 98% really quick after I pull from the charger on this update but i'm still getting more SOT then I did in any of the other phones/patches i've had on the 2xl. anywhere between 5-7 hours of SOT

Massive decrease of idle battery life in this February update

Gilley said:
4 to 6 hours??? Wtf do you have that takes 4-6 hours to do lol. I notice i drop down to 98% really quick after I pull from the charger on this update but i'm still getting more SOT then I did in any of the other phones/patches i've had on the 2xl. anywhere between 5-7 hours of SOT
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Not necessarily all of that time is spent hands on but to be back to normal usage yes.
Take screenshots of home screen layouts.
Backup a little data. Mainly texts and my Mileage app data and a few pictures that I don't have on Google photos.
Do the reset and go through setup again.
Reload all my music. When I first did that there were some ID3 tag issues that didn't some up on my computer that I fixed manually on the phone plus some album art that didn't show up and had to be relocated.
Reinstall all (or most) the apps several of which need set up that's tricky (like resetting 2 factor authentication apps I use for work).
Restore backups like texts and Mileage data.
Setup home screens.
Again, some of that I can just let go on its own like transferring music and reinstalling apps but the overall process takes a long time to be totally finished.
I'm probably getting about 5-6 hour SOT now too over about 18 hours but like I said. I was getting much better than that before.
The attached screenshot was taken on November 9th. That was with battery saver off and I haven't been able to get even close to that in the last few weeks even with battery saver mode turning on at the normal 15%.

My battery life sucked and for me it turned out to be Facebook I uninstalled and reinstalled fine since, try your phone in safe mode will tell you if it's an app or not

I was literally bragging about getting 37 hours without needing to charge (only around 2ish SOT) 4 days ago. Then like the phone heard me I started having the phone completely die after less than 10 hours with the same amount SOT. That has been the case for the past 3 days. I don't think anything else has changed except the update.

My battery also started to act up so i just clean flashed the feb update and here is the result
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Prattham said:
My battery also started to act up so i just clean flashed the feb update and here is the result
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Whatafak?! 10hours of SOT?!
Could you show us what apps you are using? Mine dies after 5-6 hours of SOT. But then im using moslty only social media apps. (Mostly snapchat)

Thrillofit said:
Whatafak?! 10hours of SOT?!
Could you show us what apps you are using? Mine dies after 5-6 hours of SOT. But then im using moslty only social media apps. (Mostly snapchat)
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Here you go i do actually use my phone lol?
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Prattham said:
Here you go i do actually use my phone lol
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That is really strange...
look at mine etc - it went from 100 to 5%!

For me it's android core apps which is killing the standby time. It seems to be related to contact sync. Any fix for this

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That is really strange...
look at mine etc - it went from 100 to 5%!
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That's good considering you used snapchat for hour which would kill battery on any android lol
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Prattham said:
That's good considering you used snapchat for hour which would kill battery on any android lol
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But still, You do have double the battery length than me, I doubt my snap takes that much compare to urs?

Thrillofit said:
But still, You do have double the battery length than me, I doubt my snap takes that much compare to urs?
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Just use snapchat less and see
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Prattham said:
Just use snapchat less and see
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Oh god, You giving me a really hard task now! Haha!

April 5 patch battery

Is anyone else getting battery drainage since the April 5th update? Before I could go the whole day and every once in a while get to 10% but now my phone has already dropped 5% in 15 mins with minimal usage.

Try factory reset
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Update. Google acknowledges and has received several complaints about battery drain with update. They gave me a 15.00 credit for the Google store.

KevTN said:
Is anyone else getting battery drainage since the April 5th update? Before I could go the whole day and every once in a while get to 10% but now my phone has already dropped 5% in 15 mins with minimal usage.
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Yes, I am. Getting horribly battery with phone doing nothing.

Yeah battery on my pixel has gone from averaging 5-6 hours SOT to now 3-4 hours with same use.
How did you manage to get the 15 play store credit KevTN?

I had horrible battery drain after applying the April update as well. After clearing cache for Google, Google Play Store and Google Play services (I think this is the primary culprit) my battery life returned to normal. I suspect all Google needs to do is clear cache for all of their services after they update. Seems like a reasonable thing to automate anyway.

channi3 said:
Yeah battery on my pixel has gone from averaging 5-6 hours SOT to now 3-4 hours with same use.
How did you manage to get the 15 play store credit KevTN?
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I just called them to ask about battery drainage and they gave the 15 for my inconvenience. Actually I did a live chat with P2xl support.

Glad its not just me. Battery is terrible now

Ditto. I wondered about the battery drain. Glad it's not just me.

I just got the phone with this update preinstalled. Really disappointed with the battery life compared to my old 6s Plus. Can't get past 3 hours SOT ... I hope it gets fixed or in going back as poor battery life was the reason I left android a few years ago

The battery drain was apparent for me one day as well. I could watch the battery percentage fall as I used the phone. It took 2 or 3 reboots, but now it's back to normal. However it only happened that one day and it was nearly 2 weeks after the April update. So I'm not sure what the true cause was.

I hope Google fixes it quickly this is almost as bad as my 6P before I replaced it

Factory reset fixed it for me

My phone I have noticed over the April patch as well has not been getting good battery life at all. I hope they fix it in the May update. Because it is a great phone. But battery life is horrible now.

bradmill08 said:
My phone I have noticed over the April patch as well has not been getting good battery life at all. I hope they fix it in the May update. Because it is a great phone. But battery life is horrible now.
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I had bad battery life because of the AOD. After turning off AOD, I again have a very good battery runtime (>6h of SoT).
Before the April patch I haven't used AOD, so I cannot say whether it was better before, though...

What's aod thanks

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What's aod thanks
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Ambient On Display. It's when the clock is always on your screen even when the phone is locked. Go to settings- battery- ambient display to turn it off.

Okay thank you so much. I do already have that off. It's crazy it says one minute of screen time it goes down to 99%

Just noticed my device dropped 6% in about ~10 minutes of screen on time...
I really don't want to do an RMA since this unit has virtually no blue shift or other major issues other users are experiencing.

Mine is doing pretty fine
I'll admit it was worse before i did factory reset
Cheers ?
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