Question Battery Life - Xiaomi Poco F3 / Xiaomi Mi 11X / Redmi K40

I'm really interested in the battery life of this F3 with his 4520mah.
As I've seen some early reviews on YT they come to the conclusion that SOT rounds about 7h...
Ofc the 120Hz drains a lot but compared to my F2 Pro with 4700mah (60Hz), I can easily get 14h SOT on average use.
Point is that I'm rather disappointed by the SOT with this 4520mah battery even on 120Hz. I would have expected ~10h on 120Hz with average usage.
Would like to know your opinion on this.

I don't think the panel supports variable/adaptive refresh rate.
Perhaps we'll just have to wait and see if the panel can do 90hz with a mod.

Nemix77 said:
I don't think the panel supports variable/adaptive refresh rate.
Perhaps we'll just have to wait and see if the panel can do 90hz with a mod.
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Panel doesn't support variable for now but can be done on custom kernel/mods. Afaik no major problem on that.
But a ~7h SOT with a running 120Hz on normal use and a 4520mah battery is a fairly bad result if you ask me.
Lowering refresh rate to 90 and even 60 compromises the real value of this 120Hz screen which is one of the main reason why I would buy this well designed phone...

For me 6/7 hours of screen with 120 hz screen frequency are excellent.
But I doubt that you can do those hours of screen at that frequency. Or am I wrong?

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That is so much better than I expected. I wonder how far we can stretch the screen on time by removing all the bloatware or installing a custom ROM.
How much can we expect the battery to degrade over time? If it's 9,5 hours now, can we expect it to be ~7 after 2 years of use?

Nemix77 said:
I don't think the panel supports variable/adaptive refresh rate.
Perhaps we'll just have to wait and see if the panel can do 90hz with a mod.
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user_refresh_rate and peek_refresh_rate to 90

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Nice better then expected, almost 10h....
Kom_zo said:
That is so much better than I expected. I wonder how far we can stretch the screen on time by removing all the bloatware or installing a custom ROM.
How much can we expect the battery to degrade over time? If it's 9,5 hours now, can we expect it to be ~7 after 2 years of use?
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Have bought mine since a couple of days (2 weeks waiting time) and intend to make the Offical crDroid for it and as expected this will improve drains too, especially idle which is worse on stock. Some YT vid mentioned a drop of 10% overnight where we can easily obtain ~0.3%/h idle drain.

raystef66 said:
Nice better then expected, almost 10h....
Have bought mine since a couple of days (2 weeks waiting time) and intend to make the Offical crDroid for it and as expected this will improve drains too, especially idle which is worse on stock. Some YT vid mentioned a drop of 10% overnight where we can easily obtain ~0.3%/h idle drain.
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I see you are already the maintainer for the POCO F2 Pro build. It would be awesome if you could bring crDroid to the F3! Please keep us posted

Kom_zo said:
I see you are already the maintainer for the POCO F2 Pro build. It would be awesome if you could bring crDroid to the F3! Please keep us posted
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Yea I'm maintainer for F2 Pro, MI9 and axon7 but when F3 is passing the test (can resend within 30 days) and feels smooth to use I sure will be setting things up to get custom rom running.
We'll see how things evolve.

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Yea I'm maintainer for F2 Pro, MI9 and axon7 but when F3 is passing the test (can resend within 30 days) and feels smooth to use I sure will be setting things up to get custom rom running.
We'll see how things evolve.
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Would be great, love your rom for mi9

The battery life really is amazing as shown in the linked video.
However most tech youtubers get ~7h for some reason.

sivajipro said:
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Aggiornamento della visualizzazione a 120 Hz ??? [/ MEDIA]
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huntersun said:
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I'll be doing this when my Poco F3 arrives in Canada next year...
Hopefully it helps with battery life, heat and ultimately minimizes screen dimming.

raystef66 said:
Panel doesn't support variable for now but can be done on custom kernel/mods. Afaik no major problem on that.
But a ~7h SOT with a running 120Hz on normal use and a 4520mah battery is a fairly bad result if you ask me.
Lowering refresh rate to 90 and even 60 compromises the real value of this 120Hz screen which is one of the main reason why I would buy this well designed phone...
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Sadly I have mine since 3 days ago and the battery drains very quickly. Completely debloated through adb, but the problem persists. In idle, I lost almost 20% of the total charge

ciccio83q said:
Sadly I have mine since 3 days ago and the battery drains very quickly. Completely debloated through adb, but the problem persists. In idle, I lost almost 20% of the total charge
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Same. Rather disappointing...
On 120Hz I had a 15% SOT drain and this morning had lost 20% overnight (~2.5% idle)
In comparison : my F2 Pro on latest stock rom from a user shows 7.8% SOT drain and about 0.33% idle... with a 4700mah battery.
So do the math. Even on stock the idle is way too high.
Going to test 60Hz for some time to check SOT as well.
Btw, sound is amazing. As screen brightness is (better then F2 Pro). Nice blazing fast fp scanner and cool design as well ofc. Haptic is a little weak tbh but doable.
EDIT : did some test this morning on 60 and 120Hz and surprisingly the loss was 5% on 60 and 7% on 120. Tested 1 hour playing around... so fairly ok.

@raystef66 i hope you will do some magic to the device

I heard the haptics on the F3 are near flagship quliaty from most YouTube reviewers.

unrated87 said:
@raystef66 i hope you will do some magic to the device
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We are currently busy on setting up some stuff to build...long way to go though
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I heard the haptics on the F3 are near flagship quliaty from most YouTube reviewers.
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Haptic feels nice although it's a but faint. But not a big deal for me anyway.
Btw, did some test this morning on 60 and 120 Hz with YT playing in the background and actually the results are better then I thought : lost 5% on 60Hz and 7% on 120Hz
So seems ok.
EDIT: measured idle overnight and now had only 0.2%/h drop overnight ! Also today +-6%/h SOT

Also having a heavy drain on idle sometimes like 20~30% overnight, not sure what triggers it, did a reset and the drain was fixed temporally, on next charge the drain started again, another reset fixed it. Let's see if settles down or maybe a firmware alleviates it.
That bothers me the most is that doesnt show on battery statistics, it just drains til i reset the device.

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Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Mi A3 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
13 hour of SOT
Still 50% left.. wifi/4G.
https://i.imgur.com/JuWIQ50.png
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9-12 hours depending on the workload and brightness. I easily get a day of use out of the device despite SOT. On top of that, %90 of the time I get 2 days without any issues.
iPusak Gaoq™ said:
13 hour of SOT
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how did you do for the battery to give you that performance ??? I can only get 8 or 9 hours of active screen with WiFi and without playing.
LuksKcrs13 said:
how did you do for the battery to give you that performance ??? I can only get 8 or 9 hours of active screen with WiFi and without playing.
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I have less apps (below 100 apps including preinstalled google apps & system apps) back then...now i get average 9-11 hours with lite gaming and social network...
iPusak Gaoq™ said:
I have less apps (below 100 apps including preinstalled google apps & system apps) back then...now i get average 9-11 hours with lite gaming and social network...
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I just have 8hrs or 9hrs no more doing the same thing.
Havoc Os + BitKernel v.3 (wifi+4g)
Just reading manga y play Clash of clans with minimal brightness
8h in mangadog
Here is mine
Here is mine
Are you all sure that SOT isn't calculated also while displaying fingerprint area? I didn't test it yet, but it probably also counts sot, so the displayed parameter may show bs.
hmm I don't know, could be.
I used chrome a lot but not sure if it adds up to 7h. I mainly used the phone in bed with lights turned off so the brightness was at lowest setting the most of the time...
I might disable the fingerprint display if thats possible an post another screenshot.
I disabled some sensors with an xposed module and have the feeling that the battery lasts a bit longer since that.
Can give u a list of disabled sensors if you are interested.
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Are you all sure that SOT isn't calculated also while displaying fingerprint area? I didn't test it yet, but it probably also counts sot, so the displayed parameter may show bs.
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I'm sure, because I don't use password or fingerprint
i must admit. The new sot after january update is way better. I was angry i coudnt get more than 9 h sot with full battery until now
XDA_RealLifeReview said:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Mi A3 before depleting the battery.
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With wifi , dual sim 4g always on. And brightness at level 50 all the time. Outstanding
Are these info's alright?
I woke up and found my phone fully drained today.
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I woke up and found my phone fully drained today.
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You should have send a screenshot of what made it drain so fast
did anyone noticed with android 10 more battery drain?? 5h sot seems a bit low..

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the OnePlus 7T Pro McLaren before depleting the battery.
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Here are my screen on time results with 60hz and FHD. Just experimenting with different settings to see the results. Honestly I don't feel battery is bad with auto resolution and QHD either I feel like this phone does very well on battery.
Not as good as the 6t but, it's pretty good.
Looking even more like the 6t screen on times now!
How do you guys set up your devices , so it can last so long?
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How do you guys set up your devices , so it can last so long?
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My last screen shot was wifi, lte, no 5g, fhd, 60hz, printing service off, find my device off and I believe that's it. Honestly I don't see a dramatic difference in screen quality with these setting either. It's noticeable but definitely not THAT noticeable and honestly it's worth it if you need your phone to last for long periods between charges.
lendawg said:
My last screen shot was wifi, lte, no 5g, fhd, 60hz, printing service off, find my device off and I believe that's it. Honestly I don't see a dramatic difference in screen quality with these setting either. It's noticeable but definitely not THAT noticeable and honestly it's worth it if you need your phone to last for long periods between charges.
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I get 5- 6 hours of SOT. 60/ FHD, dark override/ wifi filter/ all apps are optimized, location only while using an app, 5bg is off. WTF else need I do? I can't root it. Thinking about returning it to TMobile cus i heard that 5 g chip is always on eating the battery.
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I get 5- 6 hours of SOT. 60/ FHD, dark override/ wifi filter/ all apps are optimized, location only while using an app, 5bg is off. WTF else need I do? I can't root it. Thinking about returning it to TMobile cus i heard that 5 g chip is always on eating the battery.
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Yes, it does. I m returning mine tomorrow
I was getting quite good battery life on 10.0.19 but battery has taken a pretty good hit since the 10.0.25 update. I may try factory reset to see if that helps.
I'm pretty sure people with bad battery live have 90hz on and 5g on. And so do I, I get about 4-5hrs sot in a whole day of usage, between WiFi and 5g .. light gaming, texting, Instagram, Facebook, messenger and some other apps.
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I'm pretty sure people with bad battery live have 90hz on and 5g on. And so do I, I get about 4-5hrs sot in a whole day of usage, between WiFi and 5g .. light gaming, texting, Instagram, Facebook, messenger and some other apps.
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The problem is the 5G modem is pretty much on all the time. Even if not in use. There isn't really any way to actually turn it off. (Unless you get really creative and make your own firmware...)
pantmunu said:
I'm pretty sure people with bad battery live have 90hz on and 5g on. And so do I, I get about 4-5hrs sot in a whole day of usage, between WiFi and 5g .. light gaming, texting, Instagram, Facebook, messenger and some other apps.
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That is actually not entirely true, I have the European variant of McLaren without 5G modem I this is by far the worst SOT I ever experienced on an OnePlus device. And I have had them since the beginning. I can barely scrape up 4h - 4.5h SOT over an 24-48h time period
on a full charge cycle. Note I'm not even on stock kernel so I would expect SOT be up 8-10h without any bigger problems. What I'm trying to make out if my battery is bad or the complete phone, and if that would come to that I would return it to the seller in flash.
Batt stats and kernel logs show active drain between 8-10% per hour and idle drain to 1.5-2.5% per hour. Numbers don't say much to me however active drain seems very high to me. I know that the display consumes a lot for sure but I'm not really sure if this is too high or not.
I'm on FHD+ resolution but with 90Hz refresh rate and adaptive background light. To summarize it all, I'm hugely disappointed with my device in perspective of battery life. Feel free to drop comments or suggestions on what I can do. Perhaps give some figures on idle and active
drain if you have them.
kallekula33 said:
That is actually not entirely true, I have the European variant of McLaren without 5G modem I this is by far the worst SOT I ever experienced on an OnePlus device. And I have had them since the beginning. I can barely scrape up 4h - 4.5h SOT over an 24-48h time period
on a full charge cycle. Note I'm not even on stock kernel so I would expect SOT be up 8-10h without any bigger problems. What I'm trying to make out if my battery is bad or the complete phone, and if that would come to that I would return it to the seller in flash.
Batt stats and kernel logs show active drain between 8-10% per hour and idle drain to 1.5-2.5% per hour. Numbers don't say much to me however active drain seems very high to me. I know that the display consumes a lot for sure but I'm not really sure if this is too high or not.
I'm on FHD+ resolution but with 90Hz refresh rate and adaptive background light. To summarize it all, I'm hugely disappointed with my device in perspective of battery life. Feel free to drop comments or suggestions on what I can do. Perhaps give some figures on idle and active
drain if you have them.
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Your battery life is pretty normal. Mine is around 5 to 9 hourss it's not the kernal but the rom and screen that uses up the bsttery
Install doze to lower ur idle time.
c01e said:
The problem is the 5G modem is pretty much on all the time. Even if not in use. There isn't really any way to actually turn it off. (Unless you get really creative and make your own firmware...)
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Did anyone try to select only 2G/3G/4G in Preferred Network type and then check the battery life/ drain?

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.
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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.

Question Z Fold 3 battery life discussion

Hi to all F3 owners hope your enjoying your new toy?
Only query / disappointment for me so far is that battery life is nowhere near as good on Fold 3 as it was with Fold 2.
1.5 hours light usage today and I am down to 58% - mostly indoors and on WiFi
I expected the latest Snapdragon 888 to have as good of not better power management than last year's CPU.
What is other F3 owner's experience?
WhatsApp has been running for 25 mins and eaten ~30%? You have something deeper going on there it looks like.
Digital wellbeing is a battery eating feature itself. Turn it off and you will get more battery time.
I have similiar problems with battery. But in my case, it's Calls that take a lot battery, windows link too..
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Digital wellbeing is a battery eating feature itself. Turn it off and you will get more battery time.
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Believe it or not to today has been very light usage compared with a typical day
I have same Apps and settings as i had with my Fold2 so don't know what's up
Hopefully after a few more days of battery usage learning things will settle down
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Believe it or not to today has been very light usage compared with a typical day
I have same Apps and settings as i had with my Fold2 so don't know what's up
Hopefully after a few more days of battery usage learning things will settle down
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Can you take screenshot of battery info like I did?
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Believe it or not to today has been very light usage compared with a typical day
I have same Apps and settings as i had with my Fold2 so don't know what's up
Hopefully after a few more days of battery usage learning things will settle dow
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Can you take screenshot of battery info like I did?
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A completely different list of apps with top battery usage is shown with the 2 screen shots...hmmm
This happens with every release of every new phone. It always takes a few days for it to settle as it's downloading apps, settings, updates, etc. It's WAY too early to compare battery life. Give it a week.
Give it time to take a calibration and you to stop using your device not in the muscle memory you and the phone will develop.
Then they'll push a firmware upgrade that destroys all that hard work you and your new fold put in getting to know one another.
See Buds+ battery stat.
Only paired them with phone 2 hours ago to so recording 10 hours of background battery usage is quite an achievement
I reckon the battery usage stats are unreliable on my Fold3 ...
Estimated 15 hours on a full charge..... Spectacularly BAD if accurate long term
Battery drain (mostly standby) in first hour is 6%
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Estimated 15 hours on a full charge..... Spectacularly BAD if accurate long term
Battery drain (mostly standby) in first hour is 6%
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Total app usage in 90 mins since coming off charge is 1.9%
Therefore standby drain is 4.1% per 90 mins. Not ideal.
I didn't notice a particular issue whith battery life on mine l nearly 10H of uptime with 35% remaining is alright in my book)
yah i definitly see what you mean
dezborders said:
Hi to all F3 owners hope your enjoying your new toy?
Only query / disappointment for me so far is that battery life is nowhere near as good on Fold 3 as it was with Fold 2.
1.5 hours light usage today and I am down to 58% - mostly indoors and on WiFi
I expected the latest Snapdragon 888 to have as good of not better power management than last year's CPU.
What is other
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Estimated 15 hours on a full charge..... Spectacularly BAD if accurate long term
Battery drain (mostly standby) in first hour is 6%
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yah but alot of time its not always accurate
I'm having a 6h30 SOT with lot of web browsing and gaming with mainly usage of the big screen so not bad at all for me
Update: today I put !y SIM card in another phone and used Fold3 on WiFi only
Normal battery drain and good SOT
Can only hope September OTA improves network radio power consumption
dezborders said:
Update: today I put !y SIM card in another phone and used Fold3 on WiFi only
Normal battery drain and good SOT
Can only hope September OTA improves network radio power consumption
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Thanks for the feedback ! I'll try disabling my sim (esim) for a day to see if it makes a difference
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Thanks for the feedback ! I'll try disabling my sim (esim) for a day to see if it makes a difference
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Accubattery estimates 6hrs SOT time is, which I think is a out what I got from Fold2. My previous high battery drain does appear to have been network / radio related

Question Improve battery life (change resolution/refresh rate) possible?

Technically, it should be possible to get some great battery life with this phone's big battery. Is it possible to change the resolution and also limit the refresh rate to let's say 10-60 instead of 10-120?
This alone should help a lot with battery. I am hesitate buying this phone because of the battery life I have seen in reviews.
JDUS said:
Technically, it should be possible to get some great battery life with this phone's big battery. Is it possible to change the resolution and also limit the refresh rate to let's say 10-60 instead of 10-120?
This alone should help a lot with battery. I am hesitate buying this phone because of the battery life I have seen in reviews.
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You can force refresh rate (60-120) in the developer options as far as I know. 10hz is not yet available to force (as far as I know), but stay tuned to what the root community can do about that in the future.
So forcing to 60hz would help. What about resolution? Yes, absolutely. I am excited to see what kind of battery life is possible with some kernels/tweaks
Definitely turn off 5G. If you can. I heard some people don't have that option. Sucks we have to turn off all these features for better battery life. Mine is getting better over time. But coming from P5, this battery sucks
I actually got an iPhone 11 Pro Max a while ago and the battery life is just awesome. Never have to think about it and I don't turn off anything. I was expecting the same from the 5000mah battery of the P6 Pro... I read that with 5G too already. I really want to go back to Android but I don't want worse videos or battery life..
Y'all must not of fully charged your phones before using them allowing the device to calibrate properly. I have no issues with battery on the P6P with heavy usage... Lasts through an 18 hour day without needing charged.
I'm not sure what's going on with my phone idling overnight but I lose about 10% when I wake up. Happened consistently 3 nights now.
Since I have never had 120hz refresh rate I don't know what I am missing so I am cool with forcing it to permanent 60hz if that saves battery life. Same with resolution. Curious what kind of battery life can be achieved with these tweaks.
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Y'all must not of fully charged your phones before using them allowing the device to calibrate properly. I have no issues with battery on the P6P with heavy usage... Lasts through an 18 hour day without needing charged.
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My mistake is comparing it to my P5. Not even close with battery. But their are a ton of differences. I get it. That's what chargers are for. I love the phone though.
JDUS said:
Since I have never had 120hz refresh rate I don't know what I am missing so I am cool with forcing it to permanent 60hz if that saves battery life. Same with resolution. Curious what kind of battery life can be achieved with these tweaks.
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The display is one of the main "extra" features you get going from 6 to 6 Pro aside from extra camera. If you're worried about battery life because of 120hz then just buy the regular 6.
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The display is one of the main "extra" features you get going from 6 to 6 Pro aside from extra camera. If you're worried about battery life because of 120hz then just buy the regular 6.
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I hear what you are saying and I thought about it. I saw a review that put the front cameras next to each other and that put me off the regular Pixel 6. The 5000mah just sound so great and if we can change resolution and refresh rate that must increase battery life a lot.
My battery doing great off charge at 9 this morning ,used a lot and on 72% ,but I can't find anywhere in battery info that give time or SOT since last charge
My battery life has been great so far, Accubattery is estimating over 11hrs SOT and over 75hrs standby at this point. 120hz/5g both enabled. If someone is having bad battery life you may want to monitor specific apps that are keeping the phone from hitting deep sleep. Took mine off the charger 3.5 hours ago with 1hr SOT and sitting at 92%.
You can't change the resolution to 1080p, no. You can't change to 90hz or 60hz (no idea about dev options). So no, the easiest ways to save battery aren't available.
Cares said:
The display is one of the main "extra" features you get going from 6 to 6 Pro aside from extra camera. If you're worried about battery life because of 120hz then just buy the regular 6.
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Nope, this is certainly not the right answer. Google should have enabled users to change the resolution and refresh rate like other phones have and this would be a non issue.
Voyager2008 said:
Y'all must not of fully charged your phones before using them allowing the device to calibrate properly. I have no issues with battery on the P6P with heavy usage... Lasts through an 18 hour day without needing charged.
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Nothing needs to "calibrate properly" when charging a battery.
Golf c said:
My mistake is comparing it to my P5. Not even close with battery. But their are a ton of differences. I get it. That's what chargers are for. I love the phone though.
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Coming from a P4 XL and the battery life is great, but as we all know, the P5 had good battery life, because it had a smaller screen (le pixels), lower refresh rate and a weak ass processor, so it was definitely to expect that the P6 Pro would have less battery life, except if people life like a gremlin in a cave with unrealistic expectations^^
stuff said:
Nothing needs to "calibrate properly" when charging a battery.
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Hmm. Not true, your phone needs to understand where top and bottom is on that battery it's not a flashlight
Voyager2008 said:
Hmm. Not true, your phone needs to understand where top and bottom is on that battery it's not a flashlight
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As far as I know, Battery calibration is a myth. At least, it may as well be these days. It's a relic of recommendations for older, nickel-based batteries. Those needed calibration, modern lithium ones don't.
Morgrain said:
As far as I know, Battery calibration is a myth. At least, it may as well be these days. It's a relic of recommendations for older, nickel-based batteries. Those needed calibration, modern lithium ones don't.
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I dare you to put "lithium battery calibration" in your favorite search engine and do some reading.

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