Below average battery life or it needs changing? - Google Pixel XL Questions & Answers

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?

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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?

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Sub-par battery life?

So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
It could be anything. At least with the root access, you can get many decent apps to track the apps that may be causing this. The battery on my 2 XL (stock) has been spectacular so far. I was a little bit worried that 8.1 may change that, but seems like it is even better now. For the first time in years, I am not worried about the battery at all. Even if I forget to charge overnight, I am OK going to work with about 40% of battery as I know I can get home with still something left in it. The only reason why I often check battery stats is because I still can't believe what is going on.
I am. Getting great battery life also rooted
Do a factory reset
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YoshiFan501 said:
So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
i think im gonna give it a few charge cycles before i do anything. i havent let this phone die yet, and i think the culprit might also be the life360 app.
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
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I agree with this and I remember similar findings on the OG Pixel XL. I'd start by disabling the doze tweaking apps and see how it goes.
YoshiFan501 said:
So I am loving my new Pixel 2 XL, but i have noticed my battery life isn't nearly as what i see on the review forms. like with light usage only 2 hours of being unplugged, im at 77%. I came from my nexus 6 and transferred all my apps from it so it might be an app sucking my battery life? i don't know. any suqqestions would be good. I am rooted with magisk with the GMS Doze addon to try to help with this problem
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Check which app is draining the battery. My brother's unit for some reason had Google Play service draining 46% of the battery. After I flashed back to factory (without wiping) and enrolled the phone into beta program for the service. That worked out for him. (version 8.0 November patch)
My battery life has taken a significant hit since going to 8.1. No new apps (a few app updates through) but it is a noticeable difference from just a week ago. It's still impressive, but prior to 8.1 I would be at 70-75 at this point in the day with around 2 hours screen-on time, currently at 60% with only 1.5 hours screen-on time. I just got super spoiled for about a month or so with absolutely incredible battery life. Now, I have to live with "just" very good battery life.
First-world problems.
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I personally had worse results when I tried to tweak doze. Greenify also made things worse. My best results are leaving everything alone.
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That's my experience as well. I haven't done anything to tweak my phone to try and get better battery life. I'm 100% stock. No unlocked bootloader. No root. Just out of the box. I'm getting 7-9 hours SOT over 24-32 hours depending on what I'm doing.
What I have noticed with 8.0 it use to drain a lot slower the first 30 to 40%, then it will drain faster, in 8.1 it is more consistent, I still average 7 to 8% SOT per hour and .3% an hour when screen is off. The phone still last 2 days with 7 to 8 hours SOT and I will be at around 25 to 20% still available. I had the phone since Oct. 20th and based on Accubattery I have charged it only 25 times in total
Remember that they fixed how battery life is calculated with the update. Also, you can looks under Background check under developer settings to stop specific apps from running in the background
Superdad_98 said:
What I have noticed with 8.0 it use to drain a lot slower the first 30 to 40%, then it will drain faster, in 8.1 it is more consistent, I still average 7 to 8% SOT per hour and .3% an hour when screen is off. The phone still last 2 days with 7 to 8 hours SOT and I will be at around 25 to 20% still available. I had the phone since Oct. 20th and based on Accubattery I have charged it only 25 times in total
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Thing is I'm not even getting that
https://i.imgur.com/DO8gHom.png
YoshiFan501 said:
Thing is I'm not even getting that
https://i.imgur.com/DO8gHom.png
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That's some heavy battery drain, mine wasn't that bad, but close. If you spend most of your day somewhere with a weak mobile signal, try switching off "Mobile data always active" from Developer options. My office has very bad signal, and by switching off that setting, my battery improved a little bit. Nothing major, but it was noticeable.
Mine has changed noticeably, though not anything enough for me to be concerned in my daily use. Still getting 7 hrs SOT, just less stand-by time.
jimv1983 said:
That's my experience as well. I haven't done anything to tweak my phone to try and get better battery life. I'm 100% stock. No unlocked bootloader. No root. Just out of the box. I'm getting 7-9 hours SOT over 24-32 hours depending on what I'm doing.
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I rooted mine for like 2 weeks. I ended up relocking the bootloader and unrooting it. It just runs better that way.
This was me leaving it screen off unplugged for half the night and I can tell you right away the walelocks don't look right but I can't figure out what. https://imgur.com/a/SPIdL
I'm getting 7 hrs of SOT consistently. Not even close to sub par for me. That's heavy use as well.
I've noticed that many times people with poor battery life transferred everything from another phone. It seems like a crap shoot compared to starting fresh. Pre and post 8.1 I'm getting 6 to 7 hrs sot using around 55% brightness and mostly lte.
Seems like a lot of people are experiencing battery drain from Google Play services 11.9.51 (including myself).
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So i factory resetted and reinstalled all my apps and stuff and still not getting good battery life. in 30 minutes from a full charge i was down to like 85% and that was just from listening to music
i cant tell what is causing it besides probably Google Play Services, so i enabled Doze on it via magisk, and still nothing. i highly doubt it's a defective battery

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.
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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.
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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
Thrillofit said:
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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Just use snapchat less and see
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Oh god, You giving me a really hard task now! Haha!

Google Pixel 3 XL thoughts on battery?

So my pixel 3 XL is arriving on November 1st (UK) and I'm curious about the battery.
Of course I know the phone is new, takes time to bed in, and for adaptive battery to work it's magic - however, I've read and watched videos on YouTube about how the battery isn't quite as good as the pixel 2 XL, which I find surprising.
I understand that the battery is a tiny bit smaller, but with the more efficient sd845 I would have thought it'd more than offset the loss of the smaller battery size. In quite a few comparisons they're saying the phone hits 0 much faster than the pixel 2 XL.
So for those of you with the phone, what are your own anecdotal feelings on this?
so far, havent had much time to use the phone without it being charged on pixel stand.
I did leave it off the charger since yesterday, and it is on par or better than with my pixel 2 xl. right now it has 60% with 2h 20m of screen time, was off charger for approx. 14 hours, just had it plugged into computer for a few minutes to do a backup.
Doing just what I normally do (email, web, feed, etc), though I did watch a couple 4K UHD videos on youtube for about 20 minutes.
I charged mine fully, and then non-stop used it right off the full charge since I just got it. I got over 6 hours SOT with 20% left. This was all while the phone was being set up, syncing, and being constantly played with. If I can get over 6 hours SOT a day, and still have juice left I'm quite happy with it.
My battery life is almost exactly the same as what I got on my 2 XL. I'm good with that. It still would've been nice to get a little better battery performance. Also, my phone shut down last night at 5% battery left. Not cool. I'm gonna see if it shuts down early again tonight and if it does I'll have to send it back. I also noticed that the battery meter is getting stuck on certain percentages and then skipping a percentage here and there, just like my 6p, Pixel XL and 2 XL did. Must be a Google thing.
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I charged mine fully, and then non-stop used it right off the full charge since I just got it. I got over 6 hours SOT with 20% left. This was all while the phone was being set up, syncing, and being constantly played with. If I can get over 6 hours SOT a day, and still have juice left I'm quite happy with it.
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Ok I'm happy with that. I love the battery on my pixel 2 XL, and it sounds comparable if a tiny bit better than what I currently get in stock.
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My battery life is almost exactly the same as what I got on my 2 XL. I'm good with that. It still would've been nice to get a little better battery performance. Also, my phone shut down last night at 5% battery left. Not cool. I'm gonna see if it shuts down early again tonight and if it does I'll have to send it back. I also noticed that the battery meter is getting stuck on certain percentages and then skipping a percentage here and there, just like my 6p, Pixel XL and 2 XL did. Must be a Google thing.
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That sounds like a calibration issue if anything, few charge cycles should help I would have thought
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Ok I'm happy with that. I love the battery on my pixel 2 XL, and it sounds comparable if a tiny bit better than what I currently get in stock.
That sounds like a calibration issue if anything, few charge cycles should help I would have thought
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Well I've just charged it once so maybe it'll get better. Every Google phone I've owned has had a battery meter that sticks on percentages here and there so I'm not looking for that to change. I just hope it doesn't keep shutting down early because that's something I'll send it back for.
Take this with a grain of salt as I do not have a sim card and only use as a media device but battery seems pretty good. At least on par with my iPhone XS Max which has one hell of a battery in terms of power consumption. Though with the pixel I probably get lower than average standby drain due to not having cellular.
Battery life is just OK I think. It gets me through a day with moderate use but not sure yet if it is better or even with the 2 XL.
Battery gets me through the day. It gets me through the day and more if I drive somewhere since my car mount has wireless charging built in.
Battery life for me so far is great. I'm sitting at 18% at midnight after being off the charger since 630am with just over 6hrs of screen on time.
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Its just okay for me... I think I got better on my 2XL so far. Maybe 4-4 1/2 hours of SOT if I'm lucky... right now i'm at 80% with 38 min
Mark me down for about 6 hours SOT on average daily after about 4 days of usage.
I try to goto Greenify immediately to see the list of "who's talking to their mothership in the background".
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I read the always "ON" display dragged the battery down and did not "really" add to the phone so much. . . . Is it 'on' by default ? . . . . I mean, if you're staring at the screen "that much", well . . . .
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( for those with root ), Greenify made my last setup last more than two days / almost three ! . Subjective as to what need to always "run".
Battery has been pretty much a disappointment. It is nowhere near a One+ 6 or iPhone Xs Max - I'd even say worse than the Pixel 2XL.
Mainly disappointing since the screen brightness is so low even running full brightness outside makes it barely tolerable. This is after a couple of days but don't see it getting better.
xphyle1971 said:
Mark me down for about 6 hours SOT on average daily after about 4 days of usage.
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How?
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How?
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How? I'm a heavy user but I don't game. Lots of internet via Chrome, tons of social media, pictures, etc. I turn off always on display and set it to turn on when I lift up the phone. I turn off Google location accuracy mode in settings and just use GPS. I don't use adaptive brightness. I don't sync/push emails. And I always have both wifi and data on. Just normal stuff. Nothing special. I don't use any battery saver app garbage. It's just stock. Been pleased with the battery.
Confirmation. Not as good as 2XL. But close. Max 8 hours SOT
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How? I'm a heavy user but I don't game. Lots of internet via Chrome, tons of social media, pictures, etc. I turn off always on display and set it to turn on when I lift up the phone. I turn off Google location accuracy mode in settings and just use GPS. I don't use adaptive brightness. I don't sync/push emails. And I always have both wifi and data on. Just normal stuff. Nothing special. I don't use any battery saver app garbage. It's just stock. Been pleased with the battery.
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I just got my phone yesterday. Think I need to adjust some settings. Definitely need to turn off location and the brightness thing. Also, I'm on stock and have a much of new stuff on my home screen. Trying to remove that too. I'm not a gamer either so I should get good battery soon
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I just got my phone yesterday. Think I need to adjust some settings. Definitely need to turn off location and the brightness thing. Also, I'm on stock and have a much of new stuff on my home screen. Trying to remove that too. I'm not a gamer either so I should get good battery soon
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Oh forgot a most important thing! I use a pure black wallpaper. OLED displays don't use any power to display the black color so it only uses power to illuminate the icons when you are using a black wallpaper. Saves a ton of battery. Use a black background wherever you can. Dark mode is your friend.
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Oh forgot a most important thing! I use a pure black wallpaper. OLED displays don't use any power to display the black color so it only uses power to illuminate the icons when you are using a black wallpaper. Saves a ton of battery. Use a black background wherever you can. Dark mode is your friend.
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Question about location. Did you turn it off on the top or bottom? I remember when I was on andriod before there was a way to turn it off and on in the control center.
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how is your battery holding off?

Hi, i have been noticing that my battery its just getting me through the day with 4hs SOT in 14 or 15 hs of use. I have tried many roms and kernels and there is no difference. My phone its not too old (1 year and a half) so i wanted to ask you how was your battery doing. And if mines dying. (Sorry for poor english)
lineage os 15.1
I get from 4.5-6h of SOT depends on how heavy or how many pics I abuse the phone
stock pie, I barely get 2.5h of SOT and if I go heavy use on it, I barely crack 2h
18 months is more than average use, and that usage is normal, and mine is exactly like yours by the way, and the device is of same age too LoL. I am gonna keep using it like this and when SoT drops below 3 hour mark might consider replacing the battery. You can already consider changing the battery anyway.
PS: Tip, stop using those stupid Adaptive ****s Pie brought, both the battery and brightness thingy, those do nothing except drain more.
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lineage os 15.1
I get from 4.5-6h of SOT depends on how heavy or how many pics I abuse the phone
stock pie, I barely get 2.5h of SOT and if I go heavy use on it, I barely crack 2h
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What about like stock pie with a custom kernel?
Stock Pie here, latest security, just rooted with TWRP.
Get about 2.5 with mixed media and gaming and little gaming I can get about 3.5 hours SOT. Just got the phone about two weeks ago, coming from a 6P. Accubattery shows 71 battery health.
It's not too bad but not that great either. Personally it gets me through work and back home and it charges very fast using the 6P charger even when gaming.
I wish the battery was better, other than that I LOVE my Pixel XL!
Stock Pie, not touched, not modified, not rooted. Perfectly happy with battery life so far, up to 8 h. SOT, up to 1 day of moderate usage.
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Stock Pie, not touched, not modified, not rooted. Perfectly happy with battery life so far, up to 8 h. SOT, up to 1 day of moderate usage.
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Can you share some more details regarding what apps you have used, was it on WiFi full time and the brightness of the display?
ylapas said:
Stock Pie, not touched, not modified, not rooted. Perfectly happy with battery life so far, up to 8 h. SOT, up to 1 day of moderate usage.
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8h SOT seems pretty crazy for a 2 year old device but I can see it. Mine usually gets upwards of 5-6 depending on what games I'm playing on it etc. Mind you I'm rooted with a custom kernel installed. Either way I am still very much impressed with the Pixels battery life.
LeMoise said:
8h SOT seems pretty crazy for a 2 year old device but I can see it. Mine usually gets upwards of 5-6 depending on what games I'm playing on it etc. Mind you I'm rooted with a custom kernel installed. Either way I am still very much impressed with the Pixels battery life.
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Well, in my case is totally possible as the one in my hands is only two months old
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Stock Pie, not touched, not modified, not rooted. Perfectly happy with battery life so far, up to 8 h. SOT, up to 1 day of moderate usage.
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Sorry to say, but are you sure you didn't charge your phone to 90 percent and unplug it a few times? That doesn't reset SOT.
Hard to believe that my phone is still bate minimun, stock Pie and can barely squeeze 3.5 hours SOT out of it at 72 percent battery health.
There are legit nothing keeping my phone awake either. I use gsam and BetterBatteryStats.
There is no way you're getting 8 hours SOT on a two year old devices, when even the Note 9 isn't getting anywhere near that.
As I have mentioned before, the one in my hands is brand new, born from Pie. So I am holding barely 2 months old device, far away from two years and it easily last from morning till next morning. 8 hours of SOT is possible depending on usage, double checked. Even GSM arena test says it's holding 11 hours of video playback. Moderate usage, dark themes in every possible app, some YouTube, Facebook, Google Play Music, browsing, on WiFi almost 24 /7, up to 30 min calling per day. But no gaming at all.
My first screen shot may be a bit confusing one as I unplugged my device from charger while taking it and posting. 5 h SOT, half juice left, but it will go a bit faster now, never exceed 8 hours here. If you are using if for processor intensive task I agree 4-5 hours will be most what you'll get.
Stats at this moment.
How do you guys get such crazy battery life?! I'm lucky to scrape in an hour of screen on time! And that's just using it to look at Facebook and Snapchat here and there.
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Custom pie rom here. I usually average about 5 hrs sot. Sometimes if im just texting and light browsing I'll get to 3 hrs at 50% but no matter what else i do it magically ends at about 5 hrs even when Im on track for 6. Now if I start using snapchat, youtube, camera the battery drops like a rock and I'll show only 3.5 maybe 4 hours. this is with LTE, not much wifi, but that doesnt seem to alter the outcome much one way or another.
Oh and share, Im getting 1 less with pie compared to oreo. Someone in another thread tried to tell me it was just me and my phone but looks like thread everywhere show pie is a battery bogger.
What's a good app to measure battery health
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hi I'm actually xda passive user from 2011, since then I always using sony devices (xperia arc, xperia SP, xperia Z2 xperia XA2 Ultra, XZ Premium) but this is my first time to have an account and be active user. My pixel XL using custom pie rom (liquid remix) and kingkernel by KingBri, Blu_Schedutil gov can least up to 4.5-5hours SOT in 30% LTE and 70% wifi moderate use (WA,IG,Youtube,Chrome) but it can drop to 3-4hours SoT when I'm gaming PUBGM for total 1hour. I think thats good remind I bought second hand Pixel XL in Indonesia just about less than 2 weeks ago. sorry no screenshot because I forgot to capture it when still in liwuid remix and now I'm in BootLeggerROM 3.5 Pie and wanna test the differences. Thank you :good::good:
cobrajet7 said:
What's a good app to measure battery health
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Accubattery
6 month old, so far everything is good.
Stock Pie I get maybe 3 hours SOT without any gaming... 70 percent battery health.

Battery life

Hello
I just received my s20 plus for a week now and the battery life just like my old s7 edge after 4 years .. 3.5 to 4.5 SOT .
Is this normal ?
Same here mate, but this might improve with software updates.... At least I hope so
s3riouss said:
Same here mate, but this might improve with software updates.... At least I hope so
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I hope.. i am afraid that the device has high power consumption design that with time should only get worse.
Give it 4 days to settle down. But yes it does drain faster than s10+. I knew that before pre-ordering but I thought Samsung would have figured something out...
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Guys this is completely normal for the phone to drain this fast, the phone is learning all your usage patterns in order to adjust the battery, use this time to go over the settings and tweak it to your liking. Also in the s10+ forum there is a battery optimisation post, go over there and apply it to your phone. Also maybe you are using the ultra high definition and 120hz, maybe start with that to tweak it.
Another thing is if you just restore the phone from a backup, this can bring corrupted settings that might be the culprits do factory reset and install all from zero without a backup.
''maybe you are using the ultra high definition and 120hz, maybe start with that to tweak it.''
thats physically IMPOSSIBLE now
I assume that you are using the exynos versions?
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I had 7 1/2 sot yesterday SD 120hz
Second day, 120Hz is lovely but damn, I'm at home connected to my WiFi and it's draining like crazy, I'm worried how is it gonna look when I go outdoors to the college and will be using LTE. I'm on Exynos
I'm getting 2 hours of SOT through my day (7 am to 10 pm)
It's been a week that I've been using the Exynos version @ 120Hz RR. Battery life is way worse than S10+ on similar settings, tweaks and usage pattern.
I have charged my phone for the 2nd time and i get +- 5 hours of sot. I use everything on the phone, 120hz etc. The battery is still in the learning pattern phase...getting same battery life as I got on my S10+. I get roughly 24 hours with one charge and 6 hours is included when I sleep...The battery will get better. With my S10+ I got 24-36 hours of battery time with +- 3-5 hours sot...depending on usage...So if I can get the same or a bit better I would be very happy
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It's been a week that I've been using the Exynos version @ 120Hz RR. Battery life is way worse than S10+ on similar settings, tweaks and usage pattern.
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True. Battery life is horrible. I don't want to use such a phone tbh
iamnotkurtcobain said:
True. Battery life is horrible. I don't want to use such a phone tbh
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I'm reading pretty bad about the Exynos Ultra as well in different but reliable sources. It's a pain to have a primary driver that dies mid-day on medium usage, that era of "unacceptable batterylife" on a flagship is believed to be over years back. I remember me behaving in an uncivilized? manner with the ones who tried to defend Exynos S9+ in every online forum when the culprit was the SoC itself to start with..
no wonder they didnt want to enable 120hz at 2K res - it would kill the battery in 1h probably
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I had 7 1/2 sot yesterday SD 120hz
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7.5hrs screen on time? How? First person I've heard that high.
I have the S20+ with the snapdragon processor. I think the battery life is very good, way better than my P4XL. I have 4 hours sot right now and have 60% left. I'm using 120 hz refresh rate. I believe it has gotten better over time, either from "settling" or updates, or maybe my imagination, haven't actually checked but some nights I go to bed after a day of light use and I'm shocked at the battery left. I unplug at 6am and at 10pm I've seen 80% battery left. That's minimal use like I said, not a typical day.
I think the battery life is quite alright, on par with my second phone (OnePlus 7 pro)
Exynos/12gb ram/120hz: stranded on 12%, so it would be around 7.5hours of SOT in full day.
Note: got the phone 3 days ago, it's still settling.View attachment 4977585
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I have the snapdragon version and the battery on this thing is a BEAST!
Going on 34 hours off the charger and 7 hours of sot. I have done nothing to conserve battery. Loads of apps/accounts syncing. I am super impressed. Way better then my s10+ was.
120hz on, about mid-brightness, I'm lasting all day use with my personal usage habits. Battery life is as good if not a bit better than on my Note 10+. Snapdragon here on T-Mobile. Mostly WiFi. But it's only been about a week of use.
Can't complain at all.
ETA: Also BT always on using with my Frontier watch and Galaxy Buds on occasion.

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