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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Got my ZenWatch yesterday and charged it up and used it all day today.. but after just 13 hours - the battery was down to 5%. Most of the reviews I've read suggest 24-36 hours of use.
Anyone else finding the batteries are a little light?
Give the battery a bit of time to settle in. And plus your using the watch a bit more intensively than designed for.
I would be very interested how you'll go after a few days, and a few charge cycles.
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Got my ZenWatch yesterday and charged it up and used it all day today.. but after just 13 hours - the battery was down to 5%. Most of the reviews I've read suggest 24-36 hours of use.
Anyone else finding the batteries are a little light?
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The reviews are definitely biased. Mine dropped 50% in only 4 hrs with brightness sett to minimum. Totally dissatisfied with this watch. The performance doesn't even come close to matching the looks.
my wife takes it off the charger at 7:30. When I looked last night around 12:00, it still had 35%. She has it always-on and I think brightness at 3...
I did notice that it seem to disconnect from her phone at a shorter distance than my moto would. Both watches connected to note 4s.
Here is something to think about. I had the moto 360 and returned it primarily do to battery life. Had it for two weeks and hoped it would get better but I would take it off the charger at 530 am and it would be dead before 5 pm sometimes even early afternoon. I got this watch set it up and charged it over night. Took it off the charger at 530 and it was dead by noon the first day. Second took it off the charger at 530 and it lasted until 5. I was thinking I would have to return it but yesterday I took it off at 530 am and at 11 pm it still had 13%. I have been going always on, brightness at 2 or 3. I get a ton of email and text. What I'm saying is maybe it's too early to tell....I got two full days with the gear neo but it just wasn't as cool.
The battery life is excellent here.
One of the review says the battery is horrible if you have "unlock my phone" feature checked on Zenwatch manager. So try to deactivate that feature and try it.
The battery life on my Zenwatch is excellent. I am confident that it will last me the whole day even with active use.
Usually there may be some 3rd party apps that can drain the battery, such as incompatible watch Face.
Couldn't be happier with the battery life! Getting through a full 12-16 hour day with plenty to spare.
Seems like the better battery life is holding up. Took it off the charger at 530 and it is now 10 and I still have 18%.....haven't changed my habits. Won't last even close to two days. But one full day is acceptable.
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Give the battery a bit of time to settle in. And plus your using the watch a bit more intensively than designed for.
I would be very interested how you'll go after a few days, and a few charge cycles.
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I think you're right - on day two, I'm at 33% after the same time elapsed. I actually don't use it too intensely and I leave the brightness at 1. We'll see how it goes over the next week.
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One of the review says the battery is horrible if you have "unlock my phone" feature checked on Zenwatch manager. So try to deactivate that feature and try it.
The battery life on my Zenwatch is excellent. I am confident that it will last me the whole day even with active use.
Usually there may be some 3rd party apps that can drain the battery, such as incompatible watch Face.
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Definitely, in fact, I removed all the Wear apps from my phone because Wellness was killing my phone's performance, then when I noticed the Watch still thought it was using Wellness, I factory reset the watch and reinstalled just a few apps and left things like 'unlock my phone' off... and it's doing better today.
Thanks everyone for the input.
Keep us updated
I'm waiting for it to be released in Australia.. getting impatient.
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I unplugged my watch at 6:30 yesterday morning. At 7:30 pm it still had 63% left. I don't bother with any type of wellness app, at all. I don't bother with any type of 'find my phone' or 'find my watch' or phone unlocking app. I don't use the always on feature, but keep brightness on 3 due to being outside quite often. I use the watch strictly for notifications, and replying to Hangouts messages via the voice input. I have 3 weather locations set in Google Now that all show on my watch, and I play Words With Friends with a dozen different people. Between all that, plus emails, texts and calls I get 100s of notifications throughout each day. To have 63% left at the end of the workday is very acceptable. I could easily go out after work till the wee hours of the morning without any worry of the battery giving out before I do.
Mine goes all day and evening with plenty of juice to spare. I have taken no measures to preserve the battery. I use it to unlock my moto x as well. No issues with battery life that I have seen after 3 days of using the watch.
After the first day of crappie battery life. I am getting a good 18 hours. I'm not doing anything either to preserve battery life. It is WAY better than my moto 360 experience. I usually only have 10 to 13 % left when I put it on the charger but I would charge every night anyway.
It's been good for me... I've been using it with the display always on plus one or more watch faces with weather. Gets me about 16 hours or so. I've been using turn by turn navigation plus media control quite a bit. I've also spent an hour or more playing with facer watch faces.
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My watch has now been off the charger for a little over ten hours and I still have 63% battery life left. Holy crap! Best battery life yet, by far, since I've had the watch. Guess it takes about a week to settle in. Couldn't be happier.
Update: It's now been about 13 hours off the charger, and my watch just hit 50%... Starting to think this 2 day battery life claim holds water... Very happy right now!
Much improved now... 14.5 hrs on constantly and I'm at 52%.. which means it should be good for another 14.5 hrs which is 29 hours total run time.
I only need 18 so getting 29 is more than excellent!
I think the battery "guestimate" needs a short while to settle in with such a small battery. The first couple days I actually saw my battery percentage go *up* 3-5% between checking it. When it's saying it's low the first few days you have it, it likely actually isn't.
One last note - as has been mentioned before - some apps can really just suck the watch's battery dry, even apps that seem like they shouldn't. I hope Goog gets a handle on this because there's no really good way that I can see to know in advance other than installing and checking battery use over a day.
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One last note - as has been mentioned before - some apps can really just suck the watch's battery dry, even apps that seem like they shouldn't. I hope Goog gets a handle on this because there's no really good way that I can see to know in advance other than installing and checking battery use over a day.
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Can anyone post anything they have done differently to get the better life. I'm getting close to 2 weeks with it, have seen it get better after it "settled in", but I'm still trying to get a little better. I can make it through the day, but usually only barely and I'm over the constantly fiddling with it part of ownership. I get maybe 50-60 notifications a day. I've tried uninstalling apps, trying to stick with stock watchfaces, it's really hard to tell.
I'm really looking forward to the next update so that I can see what apps are using the battery. I tried the Wear Battery App, but someone suggested they thought it was draining the battery itself. Just seeing if there is a consensus on what works and what doesn't. I have removed almost all the ASUS apps, the unlock one really helped a lot. Thanks.
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Can anyone post anything they have done differently to get the better life. I'm getting close to 2 weeks with it, have seen it get better after it "settled in", but I'm still trying to get a little better. I can make it through the day, but usually only barely and I'm over the constantly fiddling with it part of ownership. I get maybe 50-60 notifications a day. I've tried uninstalling apps, trying to stick with stock watchfaces, it's really hard to tell.
I'm really looking forward to the next update so that I can see what apps are using the battery. I tried the Wear Battery App, but someone suggested they thought it was draining the battery itself. Just seeing if there is a consensus on what works and what doesn't. I have removed almost all the ASUS apps, the unlock one really helped a lot. Thanks.
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I have no such problem but a co-worker was having terrible drain and he uninstalled the Asus Zenwatch manager itself and it fixed his problem. Best advice I can give is to uninstall all the apps other than the android wear app, and maybe even kill it just to see what happens, and then slowly add them back in.
For comparison, I took mine off the charger at 7am this morning so after 12 hours I'm at 55%. I dim the display but don't turn it off. I'm using a nice face from the Intellicom app and I probably get several hundred notifications over the course of the day. I'm more than happy with this device.
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?
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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
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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.
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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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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
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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
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Thing is I'm not even getting that
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
dieselhazza said:
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)
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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)
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Here you go i do actually use my phone lol?
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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?
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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?
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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!
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.
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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.
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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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