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it's failure by design..

One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!

Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.

I make it through the day no problem, and with LTE on. First few days were terrible, but things seem to have improved drastically since then.

Take it back. Threads like this show that it's not for everyone.
Example - I have a car dock, I commute, I work on a comp. all day, easy enough to charge at home. I've never had this battery life issue everyone is talking about.

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First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?

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uhhhhhh what? The majority says the battery sucks. Where have you been?
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I have read WAY more posts about good battery life than I have bad. Where have you been? Yes, there are occasional posts about it but the vast majority after a little bit of tinkering have said good battery life.
My personal experience.
Took my phone off the charger at 96%. Used the GPS on a hour drive, sending texts and listening to music the whole way. Ate some dinner while continuing to send texts. Went to a hockey game and took ~30 Pics. Used the GPS to get back home with music and finally put the phone back on the charger. Time off charger 7 hours. Battery percentage 82%. Only 14% decrease with what I would say is some pretty moderate use.

One thing I actually thought was funny is I pulled out an old Sammy flip phone to see what size battery it had. 1100 mah. 5 years ago they were shipping dumbphones with 1100 mah batteries. Come to present day, a phone with 4G, a 1 ghz processor, and a ginormous lcd screen has a bump of 300 mah. Is something wrong with that?
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miketoasty said:
First off I get plenty fine battery for a phone as fast as this with LTE. The large, bright screen is just a bonus. If you are getting bad battery you have yourself to blame if you would read these forums as almost everyone here is getting great battery life.
Also, your battery size complaint is terrible, the droid X has almost the same battery and runs fine as well. The LTE right now is the killer, verizon has admitted it so either switch to 4g or 3g only and stop flooding the boards with this crap.
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I don't want to sound like a jackass, but I bought a 4G phone, not a 4G phone I need to use in 3G so I can make it through the day. In the end I just bought the extended battery. Solved all my woes.
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If I can figure out how to go 22 hours with 43% remaining on my phone with moderate to heavy use, than sure as hell you should be able to get at least 12-15 hours out of the phone, not knowing half of what I know.
cause that is all that matters right, making it through the day for how long your awake, so for most people 12-15 hours, then you are home and can plug it in.
who cares if you make it home and plug it in at 5%, it still lasted you all day.

I've done the 5 tips for better life, and thou it has a improved.... its a minor improvement. the phone is with out a doubt sweet, im just pissed bc i cant get a full day out of it. i work for 8 hours and leave the friggin thing in airplane mode, then on my way home i listen to music with it still in airplane mode subway kills it mad quick....i do and dont wanna bring it back i want the newest thing out, im coming from a OG moto droid.. 50-60 bucks for a goddamn battery that makes your phone last longer and turns it into a potential weapon...data/voice together is the only feature right now that is making it hard for me to decide if i should bring it back or not.. i got it this past Saturday i have 8 more days to decide, not to mention vzw wants the 35 dollar restock fee now. who remembers when they had the 30 day test run??? lmao they stop doing it because people kept bringing phones back within the period...

my phone definitely lasts me the day, but i don't think it would last the 10 to 15 hours that others are reporting. i already turned the brightness down to about 25 - 30 percent, turned off unnecessary widgets and sync'ing plus i set setcpu to throttle the cpu down to lowest speed when the screen is off. as such, i'd like to know what others are doing to squeeze so much battery time out of their TBs.

Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.

I'm getting awesome battery... My phone has been up for about twelve
Hours now and I still have about 45 percent... Heavy usage texting music internet and xda posting.
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TBJared said:
Custom Rom and Kernel seemed to help my battery life a ton. I can now easily make it all day with moderate to heavy use on stock battery. From the battery monitor, it looks like the screen will eat the most power, be sure to keep it set low. The underclock/volt while screen is off uses hardly any batter power and is really nice as well.
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On all Android devices the screen is the battery eater, except on 2.0/2.1 with Exchange Sync issues... then it could hang and eat the battery.

I've never really had an issue with battery life. That's not to say my battery lasts longer, i just use different methods to keep my devices alive.
AA USB chargers have always been a good friend of mine, as well as plugging my phone into my laptop while it's in my backpack.
I can't wait for an external battery charger to come out for the TB, then you just have 2 or 3 batteries and swap them out as needed.
But if you're expecting more than 8 hours or so off of one charge they're right, you may look for another device

Yah man, 3 hours of navigation, with music going, many calls, 3 hours of internet use, txt & talk and LTE and 3G switching through out all day because of traveling . I was really heavily using the phone with an extended battery but made it just over 24 hours... Try trading it in for another battery. Your not Wifi tethering all day as home network are you?

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Well take it back then. Try a blackberry out. Oh yeah those things have even worse batteries and the bis always fails.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about. Blackberries are known for having excellent battery life. I had 12 hours 40 some odd minutes and was at 69% last night when i plugged my TB in to charge. I really don't understand the problem.
edit: proof, this was a few hours before i plugged it in.
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Stop whining about the phone. If you don't like the phone, take it back. No one here is forcing you to keep it.
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One would think by now, that after HTC put out the evo and other large screen devices they would have better batteries. Also not to mention the thunderbolts delayed release. No we waste more on extended batteries, and have no cases to protect the dam thing. I've tried all the tips out there for tweaking the battery to get max use and it still sucks. I'm still in my 14 day trail period and I'm thinking of bringing it back. I'm just pIssed companies have the nerve to do this BS!
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You bought a device with a 4.3" screen and a brand new radio technology. Honestly, what did you expect.No phone out there with a screen that large has what could be considered great battery life. Sure some are better then others, but these are not BB devices. And while we are at it, lets be realistic here... if they put in a bigger battery you would be in here complaining about how large and how heavy the phone is.... You can't have everything, something has to give at some point.

[Q] average or bad battery life?

thinking about getting my battery swapped if VZW lets me (have had the phone since 7/10).. if not, then get a new one. but before i go into the store, i wanted to see if you guys think this is normal battery life from these screenshots. i have GPS off, Google location on, and only my Google account (Gmail, contacts, calendar) is in sync. i'm running a rooted stock rom (debloated VZW and Samsung apps by me).
in addition, the back of my phone gets really hot during regular data use (web, Facebook, Instagram, Engadget and Verge apps, ESPN, etc.. no games), to the point where it's uncomfortable to hold. i've heard that there might be a batch of bad batteries for the earlier shipments, so i was wondering if mine might be one of them. thanks for any input.
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Do you have 4G on at all times? I think my battery might be pretty bad too...I've been losing 10% every hour, so my phone pretty much lasts only 10-12 hours. I'm impressed by your 1 day battery life. Even if I have wifi only on and turn 4g off, I still only get 10% every hour. I think something might be wrong with my battery...I've factory reset it many times before too, wiping cache, and dalviks, I'm now on the stripped rooted stock.

that's not bad battery life. Especially sense it looks like you are not in great coverage area.
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so you got 32 hours on your phone and you are wondering if that is bad?????
from what I understand, these phones tend to get warm after lots of screen on time. so I believe thats normal.
I would accept your great battery life and call it a night.

I get up to 8 hours with 4g on at all times with heavy use. Phone only gets warm when i got the charger in it
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My phone reached 110° that's cause I was running my mobile hotspot and browsing the web.I've read 140°degrees is bad.do?? Your phone temp ever get this hot? My battery does get hot but only if I push it.
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After using the Chrome app for 30 minutes straight, my phone doesn't get noticeably hot. I've also used the Engadget, Verge, and Facebook apps for 10+ minutes in a row, and it doesn't get hot. The only time I have seen it get hot is playing games and charging. Even then, it's not bad.

I would say you have a gold battery lol, I rarely even get 18 hours on my batter even when 12 hours of that is just standby/listening to music.

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Do you have 4G on at all times?
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yea i do leave 4G on all the time.. still have unlimited, so i'm gonna take advantage of it and say screw you VZW!
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that's not bad battery life. Especially sense it looks like you are not in great coverage area.
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yea at home i get crappy coverage, but when at work (which is most of the day) in Midtown Manhattan, i get excellent signal. so it's a mix. i also stream Spotify a lot.
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My phone reached 110° that's cause I was running my mobile hotspot and browsing the web.I've read 140°degrees is bad.do?? Your phone temp ever get this hot? My battery does get hot but only if I push it
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haven't had a proper measurement of the temp, but it feels like it does reach the upper 90s, and that's with light web browsing, so that's what worried me.
it's just that i see people who claim "heavy use" and get 4+ hours of screen time, which i found hard to believe, if they really are pushing the phone a lot, so i just thought maybe something's up with mine. thanks for all the input so far.

Looking at your battery consumption log, I'd say your battery life is pretty great.
Seeing as how your cell standby is 50%, you're either using a lot of 4G or you're in a crappy signal area. Or both. Haha.
Even if you buy a new battery, chances are that you won't get better battery life. Just charge the phone overnight and unplug in the morning. As a general rule of thumb, if you can squeeze 16 hours of usage out of your phone, you're doing pretty great.

yup, that seems pretty darn good to me. I get about the same 4G coverage as you with Verizon in my home 2-3 bars max (-100 to -120dBm), and I get ~14 hours before my phone is about to die. I also think I just use my phone a lot more than you lol. You only had 2.45 min of on screen time in a little over 1 day. I usually have close to that in the 12-14 hour days with my phone.

Agree with last two post...what else are you looking for looks good....

Should I ask for a new battery? 3 hours 30 minutes 30 min screen time and down to 67% battery.
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Horrible battery life

I just picked up my S3 on Friday and my battery life has been horrible. I haven't made it past 7pm yet without having to put it on the charger. I'm coming from an iTurd and would get through a whole day until bedtime with that.

lennie paz said:
I just picked up my S3 on Friday and my battery life has been horrible. I haven't made it past 7pm yet without having to put it on the charger. I'm coming from an iTurd and would get through a whole day until bedtime with that.
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Welcome to Android!
You're on a larger screen with LTE. That will make your battery go through a lot faster. You'll have to change your charging habits and turn off LTE when you don't need it and turning down the brightness on your screen as the day goes on.

Should get up to 24 hours on stock depending on usage. Make sure you are closing apps with back button and not home or they remain running in background.

Also check how often your apps sync data, I make Facebook and Twitter sync every 4 hours. By default they are set to hourly.
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Okay guys, I'll follow the tips you've given. So keeping the screen to auto is not good enough? Do you guys keep the power saving option on? What does that actually do? I'm rooted and unlocked using Synergy rom too.

lennie paz said:
I just picked up my S3 on Friday and my battery life has been horrible. I haven't made it past 7pm yet without having to put it on the charger. I'm coming from an iTurd and would get through a whole day until bedtime with that.
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It's a new toy and you are playing with it non stop ! It happens every time !
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I have to get that screen percentage down, right? Anything else look out of whack?
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Long press that onscreen on and will tell you how many hours it was on. If you got 3 hours screen on and 13 hours up time that about as good as it gets.

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Long press that onscreen on and will tell you how many hours it was on. If you got 3 hours screen on and 13 hours up time that about as good as it gets.
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It's actually at 4 hours 23 minutes
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Battery life should increase over a few days. Your ROM needs a few days to settle in before you get maximum battery life. Also make sure you do not have any rogue apps causing Wakelocks. Many things come into play when it comes to battery life.
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lennie paz said:
It's actually at 4 hours 23 minutes
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Nothing wrong with your battery life. Never been an Iphone that could pull that off and you still got battery left.

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It's actually at 4 hours 23 minutes
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then your battery life is about as good as its going to get. 4+ hours screen on time is pretty darn great

Is this bad?

What horrible battery life?
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Battery life sounds great. You might be using the phone more since it's new to you and you are playing with it a lot more than typical daily use. I think as you settle into it you will see it last the full day for you. Screen time seems good, and that's really the most accurate test of battery life. This thing will last for days if you don't use the screen at all, so battery time can be misleading.

Hey man can you post a screenshot of your battery life so we can see what is using up your battery?
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You have to cycle your battery a few times. My battery life was awful at first, now I can go 25-30ish hours between charges.
At the moment I'm at 22 hours, 38 minutes and still have 67% left.
This is what I do/did:
Turned off auto sync, if I want to sync email or anything, I do it myself. I turned off haptic feedback, don't like it. Also, when I'm at home, I turn off mobile data, and just use my wi-fi. A few times a day I hold down the power button, and remove all open tasks. On S-Voice, I turned off the 'wake up command' or whatever, that can use battery for no reason, if you want to use S-Voice, how hard is it to tap the button twice... I also turned on the 'power save' not sure what it does, but obviously can't hurt.
My phone is totally stock. Hated the battery life at first, but now, it's awesome.

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lennie paz said:
I just picked up my S3 on Friday and my battery life has been horrible. I haven't made it past 7pm yet without having to put it on the charger. I'm coming from an iTurd and would get through a whole day until bedtime with that.
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You mentioned Friday. I updated friday to VRLHE stock rom unrooted and ARG!!! battery live has been terrible since the update and the phone gets really hot all the time now. before i could usually get a whole day without charging and now its 11 am and i am at 59%.
not trying to hijack, but this is terrible. Sunday a very light use day the phone was dead by 3pm

scubastevexj said:
You mentioned Friday. I updated friday to VRLHE stock rom unrooted and ARG!!! battery live has been terrible since the update and the phone gets really hot all the time now. before i could usually get a whole day without charging and now its 11 am and i am at 59%.
not trying to hijack, but this is terrible. Sunday a very light use day the phone was dead by 3pm
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So odd, I updated too, and am getting the best battery life ever, loving it!
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Where is the obligatory battery thread? So far, day one. Just under 2 hours sot and 53% left. Not great. Android OS showing 350mah usage which is horrible so I'm hoping it was just syncing and stuff

km8j said:
Where is the obligatory battery thread? So far, day one. Just under 2 hours sot and 53% left. Not great. Android OS showing 350mah usage which is horrible so I'm hoping it was just syncing and stuff
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Yeah, that's probably all it was. After I synced everything and set up my phone,I recharged it. Now I'm sitting at 50% with 3hrs SOT and I was playing Eternium: Mage and Minions for about 1:15hrs of that. Pretty impressed, personally, compared to my N5X.
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Yeah, that's probably all it was. After I synced everything and set up my phone,I recharged it. Now I'm sitting at 50% with 3hrs SOT and I was playing Eternium: Mage and Minions for about 1:15hrs of that. Pretty impressed, personally, compared to my N5X.
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I think there was a lot of drama last year though and s7 had Same issue with excessive OS usage

Coming from 2013 Nexus 5 as my daily driver where 2hrs of Screen time meant battery is at 4%.
I should be fine when my Pixel arrives tomorrow.
Felt spoiled with Note 7 , although that affair didn't last long.*

mariano3113 said:
Coming from 2013 Nexus 5 as my daily driver where 2hrs of Screen time meant battery is at 4%.
I should be fine when my Pixel arrives tomorrow.
Felt spoiled with Note 7 , although that affair didn't last long.*
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Off the charger 3 hours, Android OS at 200mah. Grr

Not particularly impressed with battery here - 37 minutes of SOT on 6 hours off charge and I'm at 71%. WhatsApp Web is running but I haven't done anything intensive.

I'm hoping the battery life picks up on mine over the next few days. 5 hours off charge with a bit of app setup (just configuration, the installs were already done) and about half an hour of photography left the phone at 50%.
I'll give it a little bit more time to settle before I panic and return it for a Pixel XL

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Azarin said:
I'm hoping the battery life picks up on mine over the next few days. 5 hours off charge with a bit of app setup (just configuration, the installs were already done) and about half an hour of photography left the phone at 50%.
I'll give it a little bit more time to settle before I panic and return it for a Pixel XL
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This is a very important thread and please all report truthfully. It doesn't do anyone any good when there rouge posts come in with 6 hrs SOT with 20% left. I am on the fence between the Pixel and the XL I was pretty sure the battery life would be suspect with the regular Pixel. Pretty much the same thing that happened with the Nexus 5X and the 6P. 6P was much better. Keep the posts coming please.
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I would like to see some screen shots of battery life after a week of use. One day doesn't make the battery life. The battery life is what will be the deciding factor for me. I have the S7 and I'm happy but I'm also a phone hore and I always want the latest and greatest. I ordered the phone from Google and it's not expected until Thanksgiving, but if I hear great things over the next few weeks, I made get it on my Verizon account.
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Azarin said:
I'm hoping the battery life picks up on mine over the next few days. 5 hours off charge with a bit of app setup (just configuration, the installs were already done) and about half an hour of photography left the phone at 50%.
I'll give it a little bit more time to settle before I panic and return it for a Pixel XL
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Haha, me too Gonna give it a week or so. The battery and the software need time to settle in I think. If it doesn't work, out Pixel XL here we come!

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What is a good SOT? I am getting 5-6 hours and that's way better than my 6P (3-4 hours) but people here are implying thats not very good? I am very impressed with my battery, I am an extremely heavy user and would never have expected 5.32 hours on this last charge with wifi on, and also location and Bluetooth on always.
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What is a good SOT? I am getting 5-6 hours and that's way better than my 6P (3-4 hours) but people here are implying thats not very good? I am very impressed with my battery, I am an extremely heavy user and would never have expected 5.32 hours on this last charge with wifi on, and also location and Bluetooth on always.
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Is that straight through, or over a day? I can get 6 hours SOT if I'm going straight through like on Netflix.

That's over a day, I plugged in with 5℅ left and I didn't charge it overnight but used it heavy last night and this morning...only dropped 1℅ overnight
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https://goo.gl/photos/v3MFBC4uMTRRWj7TA 65 percent left and approaching 3 hours screen time.. I got pixel XL and disable wifi and bluetooth scanning

Why is Android system keeping my phone awake when it is just sitting on a desk not being used for 4 hours

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Why is Android system keeping my phone awake when it is just sitting on a desk not being used for 4 hours
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Maybe has to do with syncing? See if there are any syncing errors in Settings>Accounts. In any case, try a reboot.

Anyone else seeing Android system eat 500mah a day or more

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Anyone else seeing Android system eat 500mah a day or more
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I am at 140 mah after 4hrs since near full charge. So lining up to be ~500 mah after 12-14 hours.
My screen on time is 2.5hrs at 383 mah so far.
Sitting at 68 % battery level.
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High accuracy on.
Google assistant on. (Voice recognition on and from any screen with screen off)
Auto brightness - Bar half way.
Bluetooth on.
NFC on.
Google apps all on auto sync too.
Fbook, insta, snapchat, messenger, Whatsapp, Twitter....all installed.
Google location reporting off.
Wireless and Bluetooth scanning off.
Better than my previous S7. Way better than previous to that 5X.
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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 Google Pixel XL before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

I decided to try and push things this morning and used my Pixel XL almost all morning non-stop. I used it to talk on Hangouts/Allo, check mail, facebook, feedly, Flipboard, google news, listen to music, etc. I had 3.7 hours of on screen time and the battery was down to 67%.So far it seems much better than my S7 was

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I decided to try and push things this morning and used my Pixel XL almost all morning non-stop. I used it to talk on Hangouts/Allo, check mail, facebook, feedly, Flipboard, google news, listen to music, etc. I had 3.7 hours of on screen time and the battery was down to 67%.So far it seems much better than my S7 was
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How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.

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How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.
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Maybe you got a dud? With millions of these being mass produced there are bound to be bad ones. Maybe yours is that case. Would suck, but it sounds like SOMETHING is wrong. Have you checked your battery stats in Settings to see what's using all your juice?

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Maybe you got a dud? With millions of these being mass produced there are bound to be bad ones. Maybe yours is that case. Would suck, but it sounds like SOMETHING is wrong. Have you checked your battery stats in Settings to see what's using all your juice?
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"Combined APP CPU" takes up 60% in GSAM battery stats. No idea what that means

I finished my day yesterday (day 3 of owning) with 5.7 hrs screen on time and had 22% battery left when plugging in. I hadn't watched any videos but spent alot of time reading, browsing and chatting. I kept my brightness around 1/3 the way to full and never moved it. Adaptive brightness was left on but seems to change very minimally in different lighting conditions. My G3 used to drop to an unbearable dark when in lowlight situations. The Pixel XL 128gb has stayed more bright in lowlight situations than I'd like making it straining to my eyes. I tried nightmode but was a pukey looking orangish red. Not cool. Either way, it seems screen time is best I've had in recent phones. I averaged around 3.7 to 4.2 hrs on my Note 7 but only owned that for 3 weeks and had returned due to it being an incendiary device! KABOOM! So far I'm Pleased with the Pixel XL aside from the lack of lift to wake or double tap to wake. I hate hitting the power button to check notifications.

40 mins screen on for 10% drain ends up being about 6.5 hours of screen on time....don't understand your problem.?
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Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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evobyte said:
Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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I'll say your SOT are good, seeing that most of the time you had bad cell signal.

When posting your screen on time could you possibly include your how bright you keep the brightness and if you use adaptive brightness or not. That would help comparisons.

Yesterday I got awesome screen on time.
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Ive been really happy with the phone so far. Majority of the time the brightness is between one third and half. Never use auto-adjust.

Over 9 hours! What kind of voodoo magic do you have on your phone!? Is that plain ol' vanilla android? Any kernel?

It's stock Android. I watched a lot of movies that day.
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DrexelDragon said:
How are people getting this? My screen seems to drain so fast even when I'm just constantly using it to see how much I can get. I barely get 40 minutes of SOT per 10% drain and that's if I'm using it straight through. Brightness kept low too. On wifi or LTE if doesn't matter.
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Damn id get a replacement. Im a heavy user and i litteraly charge this once a day and thats in the afternoon. Im on fb google plus. Youtube and i listen to music via bluetooth

I just got through my first full charge and ended up with over 7.5 hours SoT over about 32 hours of use. I didn't get a screenshot because I was trying to push for that 8 hour mark and the phone died...But I'm going to get it next time.

Best battery life I've ever experienced on a phone! Took of our charger this morning at 100% charge and it is 3:13 AM the following morning. Been doing the usual. Taptalking to check for Pixel Root method/. TWRP, YouTube, few photos, downloading apps, texting, few calls, and whatnot.
Still says I have 5 hours left on my battery give our take.
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evobyte said:
Almost 5 hours screen on time and I was using Waze and listening to Alex Jones pretty much the whole time the screen was on. This is the best better life I have gotten ever.
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With such bad cell reception for a large part of the time and Chrome(a known battery hog) pretty high on the list as well as a small battery that's pretty good.
And I couldn't help but mention it but.... seriously? Alex Jones? That dude is crazy! Does the Pixel XL come with a free tinfoil hat and straight jacket? LOL Alex Jones HAHAHAHA

jrock34 said:
It's stock Android. I watched a lot of movies that day.
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edved said:
Over 9 hours! What kind of voodoo magic do you have on your phone!? Is that plain ol' vanilla android? Any kernel?
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That's the only possible reason for that SOT... youtube 25%... lol... no way in other "normal" conditions you would get over 5/6h SOT

onesolo said:
That's the only possible reason for that SOT... youtube 25%... lol... no way in other "normal" conditions you would get over 5/6h SOT
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I'm a heavy user anyway and I've never had a phone except the iPhone have more screen on time. I don't think it matters how it happens.
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