Once in a while, when your significant other yells at you, you might use your phone a bit less. Rate this thread to express how the Google Pixel 2 XL's battery performs under light use. A higher rating indicates that the device goes a long time when you're using the phone sparingly: no gaming or video/audio streaming, light web browsing, some calling and texts, etc.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Out and about (LTE/cell service only) - 13%/hour
At home on Wifi - 6-7%/hour
21h with 4h screen on, 40% left
With what I would consider light usage (email, web browsing, messaging, lots of YouTube) I have really been impressed with the battery life! Over 8hrs screen on time with my first few cycles so far. Based on this, I'm guessing that even with heavier usage (games, etc.) that I would still be pretty happy with the longevity. With very similar usage I was getting around 4-5hrs SOT on my original Pixel XL and was happy with it. Interested to hear how the battery has been for others as well.
I've been very happy. Last night I forgot to charge so I woke up with 48% battery. I plugged in for 25 minutes while getting ready for work. Left the house with 87%. Now, 9 hours later, I have had 2 hours screen on time of mixed wifi/LTE, browsing, email, Facebook, texting, a few pictures and a little YouTube. 20% brightness. Location set to high accuracy, Now Playing turned on, AOD off, Google account sync on. I am at 65%. That's a drain of 22%. Under the same conditions and usage my Nexus 5X would have drained over 40%.
This is the first smartphone I've had (I've had a Nexus One, Galaxy SII, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X and now Pixel 2 XL) that I can say that the battery life is GREAT.
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This phone is ridiculous. I haven't charged it since Monday...
I won't pretend I'm a "heavy usage" person with my phone. But I've never been able to get 2 full days of usage from any of my previous phones. Most of them barely lasted 24 hours. This one is going to reach 48+ hours, easy.
I work from home full time so I'm connected to my home wifi almost all the time, which helps. I get out of the house a total of 2-3 hours a day to walk the dog, go to the gym, or meet clients for lunch. So during that time it's on full LTE with no wifi. I tend to use the phone for 2-3 client calls per day (30-60 minutes each while paired with my bluetooth headphones), listening to music at the gym (~60 minutes while paired with my bluetooth headphones), some light usage of social networking apps and Youtube videos throughout the day.
I know battery life consists of a large amount of factors but it's safe to say that with the same usage, this phone outlasts all my previous phones by at least 1.5x. It's fantastic.
Battery life sucks now compared to pre-February security patch.
Light endurance usage: 15% brightness w/auto brightness off just browsing, Facebook and a little texting on wifi. That's no games, Bluetooth off, Location on high accuracy but not doing much (ie no Maps navigation), no video, no music, no camera, no phone calls etc.
Pre February security update:
Screen on: ~10%/hr
Stand by: ~0.3333%/hr
Best battery life: 9 hours SOT over 1 day, 16 hours off the charger
Now (after February and March security updates):
Screen on: ~15%/hr
Stand by: ~0.5%/hr
Best battery life: 6 hours SOT over 1 day off the charger
Stand by battery drain up like 60% and SOT battery drain up like 50%. Very disappointing for a phone that is only 5 months old. If I break it down to a per mAh it's now no better than my Nexus 5X.
After first charge I am getting 2%/h standby drain, hope things will improve
SOT and idle drain still holding strong for my usage patterns. April update + root + Flash kernel. Not a social media user, and don't use many power/ram intensive apps :good:
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SOT and idle drain still holding strong for my usage patterns. April update + root + Flash kernel. Not a social media user, and don't use many power/ram intensive apps :good:
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If you use all black theme you might get 30 min or 1hr sot more ???
Cheers ?
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If you use all black theme you might get 30 min or 1hr sot more ???
Cheers ?
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Oh but I do, and yes, I could! One of these days I'm gonna try for 14 hours of SOT!....just to watch you squirm! Bwahahahahaha! ??????
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Oh but I do, and yes, I could! One of these days I'm gonna try for 14 hours of SOT!....just to watch you squirm! Bwahahahahaha! ??????
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just went 1 day 20 hours with 4 hours SOT and 20% left.
Data or wifi always on. Bluetooth and gps always on
No one listens to music offline only anymore ?
What is the battery consumption e.g. with PowerAMP (or similar players) and listening to music for several hours like in battery % ?
Thanks
Not me. I stream my music and play over Bluetooth. But for reference, the Nexus 6P was rated at 100 hours. So I doubt the Pixel 2 XL would be any worse.
zacharias.maladroit said:
No one listens to music offline only anymore ?
What is the battery consumption e.g. with PowerAMP (or similar players) and listening to music for several hours like in battery % ?
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sruel3216 said:
just went 1 day 20 hours with 4 hours SOT and 20% left.
Data or wifi always on. Bluetooth and gps always on
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Mine is just as bad now too. For the first 3 months the same time would leave me with almost 50% left.
zacharias.maladroit said:
No one listens to music offline only anymore ?
What is the battery consumption e.g. with PowerAMP (or similar players) and listening to music for several hours like in battery % ?
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I listen to music offline. For the first several months of having the phone I could play over Bluetooth and I'd use about 7% per hour. Playing over a wired connection used 4% per hour. Now it's like 8% per hour over a wired connection and 12% per hour over Bluetooth. Damn monthly updates.
jimv1983 said:
Mine is just as bad now too. For the first 3 months the same time would leave me with almost 50% left.
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Bad? LOL. What's bad for you is, I'm pretty sure, good battery life for him. I didn't get the vibe that he was complaining.
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EeZeEpEe said:
Bad? LOL. What's bad for you is, I'm pretty sure, good battery life for him. I didn't get the vibe that he was complaining.
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Compared to what it was for the 1st 3 months, yeah, that's bad. Maybe he never experienced how good battery life was before several of the updates so he doesn't really have a basis for comparison. Like I said, with the same time off the charger and screen on time I have about the same 20% battery left as well but for the first few months that same off the charger and screen on time left me with about 50% left. Draining almost 30% battery for the same use just a few months later is a big deal. Oh, and that's after trying a factory reset which at first (about a half a day) seemed like it helped but quickly showed that it didn't help at all.
What you were getting for the first three months was remarkable for sure but wasn't what everyone gets. Like a lot of things battery life has a bell curve and you were just on the extreme right of it. Now you're "only" getting what the majority, middle part of the bell is getting and unhappy with it. Still doesn't mean it's bad. Now it's just average.
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Compared to what it was for the 1st 3 months, yeah, that's bad. Maybe he never experienced how good battery life was before several of the updates so he doesn't really have a basis for comparison. Like I said, with the same time off the charger and screen on time I have about the same 20% battery left as well but for the first few months that same off the charger and screen on time left me with about 50% left. Draining almost 30% battery for the same use just a few months later is a big deal. Oh, and that's after trying a factory reset which at first (about a half a day) seemed like it helped but quickly showed that it didn't help at all.
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i want to know if Z3 has good battery life..
in gsmarena i saw 101h < z3c, but i don't see Z3
NightWizard said:
i want to know if Z3 has good battery life..
in gsmarena i saw 101h, but i don't see Z3
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Its insane lol Iam coming from a htc one and this easily lasts double what i got from the htc! Now i have adjusted my settings to help with battery life, I always do when i get a new phone. I turn alot of stuff off that aint being used and only turn them on if need be! None the less this is by far the best battery life i have ever experienced from a phone! It also drains consistently where as with the htc it used to drop from 100 - around 96 within a few minutes and then when it got to 30 it seemed to suddenly start draining faster! I took this off charge at 100 and left in standby for over 4 or 5 hours and it was still at 100%
I had great battery life when I first got mine. Since I updated the software, it's tanked.
I have repaired and factory reset it and i've optimised everything with battery savings, but went from 8 hours SOT and two day battery to around 6 screen on and at about 20% when I go to bed after one day.
HTC One M8 gave me around 6 hours screen on time, and lasted a day and a half.
Hoping this sorts itself out, as the screen temperature issue, speaker notification volume, and now battery life, is not enough to of justified my jumping ship :/ (Even though I really wanted it because it's waterproof) lol.
All that said, the battery life even now is excellent still.
It's not that good as some people say but still ok. I would say that maybe 20-30% better than htc one m8. This means that you can easily go through the work day but if you would be go out after the work day (partying) you would be a bit worried if the battery lasts.
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Jonathan-H said:
Hoping this sorts itself out, as the screen temperature issue, speaker notification volume, and now battery life, is not enough to of justified my jumping ship :/ (Even though I really wanted it because it's waterproof) lol.
All that said, the battery life even now is excellent still.
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I feel you bro. Also miss my HTC now :/
GsmArena already reviewed Z3 after Z3c.
Z3 battery life:
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I have hight demand about battery life but I'm also happy with Z3 dual. I wish it can be charge ( much ) faster by microUSB port, best could be about 2 hours.
I am actually disappointed by the battery. It's down to 80% after just an hour and a half with medium usage. How is it going to last 2 days like that? Don't know if my phone is a faulty device or I am doing something wrong. It's charging now, I will put up some screenshots if it's still bad. Everything else is perfect so the battery being bad (which should be the best thing with this phone) is making me sad :/
Playdough96 said:
I am actually disappointed by the battery. It's down to 80% after just an hour and a half with medium usage. How is it going to last 2 days like that? Don't know if my phone is a faulty device or I am doing something wrong. It's charging now, I will put up some screenshots if it's still bad. Everything else is perfect so the battery being bad (which should be the best thing with this phone) is making me sad :/
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Maybe due to very high brightness and full of 4G/3G
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Maybe due to very high brightness and full of 4G/3G
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Sadly no. I'm only on WIFI and the brightness is on half and auto. I haven't gone a full day with this phone yet so I will let the battery go down to zero and take a screenshot before that to see if the results are really that bad or just like everyone else
I charged my when i first got it since i unplugged at 20:00 its now 22:13 the next day with heavy use im at 46%
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I charged my when i first got it since i unplugged at 20:00 its now 22:13 the next day with heavy use im at 46%
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Damn. I have used mine for 5.5 hours and it's already down to 55%.
What are you doing with it
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First charge and use,
Been unplugged for about 9.5 hours. A lot of whatsapp usage today. Battery life currently sitting at 65%. About half LTE and half WiFi.
This is a lot better than my Samsung S4, but not sure how it compares to other users.
I'm actually curious if anyone has compared the z2 and z3 battery performance in real world usage with the same usage pattern? Which has the longer sceen on time and standby time etc.
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What are you doing with it
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Nothing special
Could anyone tell me if this looks right? Is it good or bad? I didn't charge it overnight so ~10 hours are included in which I didn't use the phone.
Here's my battery usage the first day after I got it (charged up to full overnight before starting to use):
http://imgur.com/a/RyftP?gallery
Summary: 13.5 hours on battery, leaving me with 6%, with 8h43m+ screen on time and 3+ hours of music. Coming from a Nexus 4, I'm very very happy.
coming from LG G i'm very happy.
I'm struggling to get 4 hours of screen time before it dies after less than a day. No apps at all hogging the battery or anything like that.
Standby battery seems to be awful, even with stamina mode on blocking everything other than facebook messenger and gmail. It's losing 1% an hour, which doesn't sound bad, but my Galaxy Note 3 was draining 1% every three hours on both stock rom and Cyanogen 11. Moto G 2014 similarly does around 1% every 2-3 hours.
Standby for the most part should be represented by an almost perfectly straight line in battery stats, but on the Z3 its a constant curve downwards, much like the standby battery bug in the OnePlus One.
I'm in a full 4 bar LTE area as well, so it's not poor signal doing the damage.
The strangest of all, is the first day I had the phone it managed to get me through 2 full days easily. That included 8 hours of music streaming over bluetooth each day, and 4 hours screen time. Yesterday I was just over 3 hours screen time after 17 hours, and it was on 6% battery, including the 8 hours or so music streaming. That is exceptionally poor compared to both the Note 3 and Moto G.
But who knows, maybe disabling all the bloatware is causing issues. Either way I'll have a replacement device from amazon tomorrow which hopefully wont have the screen issues or bluetooth/wifi dropouts (thoguh I suspect that is software related).
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I'm struggling to get 4 hours of screen time before it dies after less than a day. No apps at all hogging the battery or anything like that.
Standby battery seems to be awful, even with stamina mode on blocking everything other than facebook messenger and gmail. It's losing 1% an hour, which doesn't sound bad, but my Galaxy Note 3 was draining 1% every three hours on both stock rom and Cyanogen 11. Moto G 2014 similarly does around 1% every 2-3 hours.
Standby for the most part should be represented by an almost perfectly straight line in battery stats, but on the Z3 its a constant curve downwards, much like the standby battery bug in the OnePlus One.
I'm in a full 4 bar LTE area as well, so it's not poor signal doing the damage.
The strangest of all, is the first day I had the phone it managed to get me through 2 full days easily. That included 8 hours of music streaming over bluetooth each day, and 4 hours screen time. Yesterday I was just over 3 hours screen time after 17 hours, and it was on 6% battery, including the 8 hours or so music streaming. That is exceptionally poor compared to both the Note 3 and Moto G.
But who knows, maybe disabling all the bloatware is causing issues. Either way I'll have a replacement device from amazon tomorrow which hopefully wont have the screen issues or bluetooth/wifi dropouts (thoguh I suspect that is software related).
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go into your battery settings and make a screen shot
I had z2 so will offer comparison on battery. It does last longer than z2 by approx 20-30%, on my usual usage with z2 I was at approx 15% remaining by end of the day, with the z3 I'm at about 35%ish.
Heavy use and relatively bright screen.
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Post here your findings with the A9 in daily use; or discuss methods to improve battery life (settings, etc)
How much screen-on time do you get? How long does your battery last through the day, with what type of usage?
Mention also your ROM version pls.
If possible, post screenshot from GSAM or similar app.
inspired by similar thread for the M9 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one-m9/general/battery-sot-t3067585
ps: I am in the process of chosing a new phone, which could very well be an M9 or A9.
I'm generally a fairly heavy user and I've been very pleased so far with battery life. This phone and OS have so far been much better at preserving battery when asleep and it charges much faster even from standard chargers.
Well I am more then pleased, and if you use the phone as a game console only and watch videos, then it uses more power, but it is a phone right?
Thanks for replies. If possible, please post numbers (screenshots appreciated).
E.g. how much screen on time in a day, how much % left when going to bed without recharging all day.
+ add ROM version, whether 2gb or 3gb RAM...
you know, the essentials to make comments comparable.
Personally I am still on a 2.5y old One X+ that I want to replace. I don't game but need about 4h SOT (browsing, social apps, ...) without recharging. Today, I need to recharge every day during the day, and I want to put that behind me. In gsmarena battery test, the One A9 scored barely better than the X+, and worse than M9. That has me worried.
/ Updated to add: I also need all day mobile internet on 3g/4g, and 1 hour streaming radio (tunein radio app) with screen off). Maybe in future all day bluetooth for a connected watch? /
Cheers
fred_be9300 said:
Thanks for replies. If possible, please post numbers (screenshots appreciated).
E.g. how much screen on time in a day, how much % left when going to bed without recharging all day.
+ add ROM version, whether 2gb or 3gb RAM...
you know, the essentials to make comments comparable.
Personally I am still on a 2.5y old One X+ that I want to replace. I don't game but need about 4h SOT (browsing, social apps, ...) without recharging. Today, I need to recharge every day during the day, and I want to put that behind me. In gsmarena battery test, the One A9 scored barely better than the X+, and worse than M9. That has me worried.
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If so then you will be fine with this phone,
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If so then you will be fine with this phone,
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Thx. I updated my requirements though. I'd been too brief
besides, this thread is meant to collect data from many users, to provide usage examples to all potential buyers
From my experience my a9 battery usage is impressive when the screen is off, but when the screen is on it's worse than hTc one M8
in the M8 the SOT I got is between 5 to 7 hours, and in my new a9 the SOT is 4 to 5 hours per full cycle!
this 4 hours screen I used them in 1 day and half, with all time wifi and sometimes 4G Data when I go out.
I will post Gsam battery stats in the next couple days.
Marshmallow's doze mode works as advertised, with seemingly infinite standby times. But there's only about four hours of SOT in the tiny battery, maybe almost five if you're miserly.
muhammaf1992 said:
From my experience my a9 battery usage is impressive when the screen is off, but when the screen is on it's worse than hTc one M8
in the M8 the SOT I got is between 5 to 7 hours, and in my new a9 the SOT is 4 to 5 hours per full cycle!
this 4 hours screen I used them in 1 day and half, with all time wifi and sometimes 4G Data when I go out.
I will post Gsam battery stats in the next couple days.
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Marshmallow's doze mode works as advertised, with seemingly infinite standby times. But there's only about four hours of SOT in the tiny battery, maybe almost five if you're miserly.
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That's about like my M9, which is what I expected with the A9. M8 was way better on battery than the M9.
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That's about like my M9, which is what I expected with the A9. M8 was way better on battery than the M9.
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810 is a battery hog. All that heat is wasted power.
But there's no excuse on the A9. Anybody could tell you a 2150mah battery isn't gonna last long. Would it really have been that big a deal to make the phone 2mm thicker and put a 2500 in it?
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810 is a battery hog. All that heat is wasted power.
But there's no excuse on the A9. Anybody could tell you a 2150mah battery isn't gonna last long. Would it really have been that big a deal to make the phone 2mm thicker and put a 2500 in it?
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Yeah, I agree. Personally, I would rather a phone the same size and the M9, with a 2840 battery, but with the 617 proc. But I'm probably not exactly who HTC was targeting with this device, either.
I was just saying that I think HTC decided that if the A9 battery performance matched the M9 then that was good enough. Once I faced fact that the M8 performance was a thing of the past, the M9 has actually been decent for me, using a custom Rom and flar's ElementalX kernel.
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Day 1:
I unplugged my A9 at 7am.
3 minutes of scrolling through facebook. Then drive to work.
7pm the phone vibrates and tells me I have 15% battery life.
I made 4 phone calls all less then 5 minutes. Turned the screen on maybe 10 times to do a time check. And spent a good 15 minutes on break scrolling facebook.
12 hours of almost non use...
Then the fast power dump came.
My 20 minute drive home it went from 14% to 2%.
This is crazy.... I may have to return this thing and get my M8 back.
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That battery will definitely be sufficient for the "average user" (by average I mean 9 to 5 day job with 1 hr lunch break and a 1 hr commute from home to work) that listens to music or watches movies on their way to work, uses their phone on their 30 minute or hour break, and watches movies/listens to music on their way home. Your battery stats are pretty good for 24 hours. The "average person" is out the house for about 12-14 hours a day and have time to plug unto the wall for atleast 15 minutes. If you can charge your phone for just 15-20 minutes while you eat on break (like most smartphone owners probably do already) with quick charge 2.0 (and soon to be 3.0) you'll have more than enough battery to last the day, and some, until you get home to charge for the night.
People who are complaining about the battery life must use android wear devices, wireless headsets, and keep your bluetooth on all day , and/or, are business men who are always traveling and don't have time to charge your phone, outside of those reasons I don't see why someone would need an incredibly large battery. I think that the fact that Android devices have been known for poor battery life for a very long time and people are expecting android 6.0 to be just as "battery hogging" which is why they think the 2150 battery is too small. Efficiency plays a huge factor that people are just ignorant to because they haven't used a marshmallow device or an iphone to understand it. Small batteries CAN last the day with the right operating system. Apple puts small batteries in their devices to maximize profit, but what if they put a 3200 mAh battery in an iphone 6s. the battery would probably last 2 full days with average usage. Point being the efficiency of android M seems to work wonders here. I'm wondering how much longer the Galaxy s6 battery will last after it receives the M update.
And to those who claim they don't have enough time to charge their phone or "find it annoying" to have to charge through out the day, you sound ridiculous. There are car chargers for people who drive, somewhat large (and affordable) portable chargers for people who commute via public transportation. Quick quick charging 2.0 & 3.0 . all you need to do is charge for 15 minutes, if needed, throughout the day and then you should be fine.
All in all, the average user should be fine with this phone. For you people that want a 4K display phone with a snapdragon 850 with a clock speed of 3.5GHz, along with 1 week battery life and 56 hours of screen on time for under $450, need to just pack it up. It's 2015 not 2051. Every phone will have its pros and cons. That's reality. If this phone isn't for you, then it isn't for you. Simple.
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Day 1:
I unplugged my A9 at 7am.
3 minutes of scrolling through facebook. Then drive to work.
7pm the phone vibrates and tells me I have 15% battery life.
I made 4 phone calls all less then 5 minutes. Turned the screen on maybe 10 times to do a time check. And spent a good 15 minutes on break scrolling facebook.
12 hours of almost non use...
Then the fast power dump came.
My 20 minute drive home it went from 14% to 2%.
This is crazy.... I may have to return this thing and get my M8 back.
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If this even is true, then you have a bad unit, I use mine like u describe and I got atleast 70% left when I come home from work.
At first I thought battery life sucked, but turned out to be a couple of bad apps (Sony life log and smartband). I ditched them and now getting similar life to my M8.
Last night I fully charged it then unplugged it to see how much charge it lost over night, so over 7.5 hours it lost just 2%. , which compared to the m8 (lost 9%) I'm pretty impressed.
Charge rate seems better too but could that be because it's such a small battery?
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If this even is true, then you have a bad unit, I use mine like u describe and I got atleast 70% left when I come home from work.
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I checked the battery use last night. Facebook. ( Which surprisingly didn't come loaded) used 46% of my battery Yesterday ( Per Battery Use stats. ).
There is a good chance it is hogging. ???
As it stands now. I had the same morning and now I'm at 82%. It's been off the charger for 2.5 hours and I've only responded to a facebook message.
I have already turned off unnecessary settings to include enhanced 4G LTE calling .
Hopefully I'll see how it goes.
My screen is on minimum and it has already dropped from 82% to 80% in the time it took to write this.
This kind of feels like the Old days when the HTC EVO came out.
That is NO news about fb app. Never used it never will.
After a couple of days of usage, the phone is doing about ok for me. Screen on time is just as bad as phone idle time is good. Put them together and they are lasting my average work day.
Had plugged it out yesterday at 7 in the morning and when I returned at 5, it was 33% which is acceptable , given that it had been on Wifi and 4G through the day.
I just left it unplugged from the charger last night and the Doze feature really shines through. Screen shot attached.
Is it worth upgrading from m8 to a9?
Im thinking of getting the new a9 but dont know wrther to get an m9 instead. I am currently using an m8 but want to upgrade. Should i get an m9 or a9? Im sticking to htc phones as i like the desighn.
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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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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Jank4AU said:
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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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!
Not encouraging....
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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It's stock Android. I watched a lot of movies that day.
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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
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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
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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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Hi. I've pre ordered the moto one vision yesterday, basicly out of curiosity about a moto running on Samsung Exynos 9609 soc.
I have a motorola one already which is built on Qualcomm msm8953 and battery is great on that device.
How's the battery holding up on Moto One Vision, concidering it only has a 3500 mAh battery and a 6"+ screen, 48MP cam etc?
I kind of feel like the battery is a bit undersized for this device, but I may be wrong.
Please comment about your battery experience below, or fill in with questions about battery.
Fully charged yesterday, today still i have 81%
After the first charging: 5,5h SOT and still about 22% was avalible. Not bad.
i bought it last Friday, charged twice since then, i have an impression of battery drain, but i think it's because i just use it more often, just like every phone while it's new
Thanks everyone for your replies. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought after all.
Please continue with replies and / or questions about battery.
I read somewhere that Motorola One has great battery back-up!
today, here confirmed !
For me, 1,5 days
As it's said... a picture worth a thousand words...
Here's what AccuBattery says about my One Vision.
I use it mainly to Instagram and some youtube (light usage on that one). Whatsapp and Google Maps.
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I just bought Motorola One Vision, but I´m concerned about battery life (while waiting for the cell phone to be delivered for me). I saw some reviews tellign that battery life is poor , and some telling that battery life is OK (1 day - 20 hours - normal use). Can anyone tell me if for a normal user like me that don´t play games in the cell phone, just use social networks, and a little of youtube the battery lasts at least from 6 AM to 11 PM? (my normal daily use)? I´m in doubt since there are people telling the battery life is good (one day and a half) and some people are telling that battery lasts only 6 to 10 hours. Which one is true? If someone have a trusted review, please share.
Thanks!
I've had the One Vision for 3 weeks now and have no problems with battery life.
I get around 6-7 hours of SOT.
I 'm what you would call a normal user like yourself.
Battery seems drain fast took of charger 100% 6:45am took couple photos in garden checked FB/ Twitter emails 7:10am 93% , this could boil down to fact it's had one full charge over night since getting and may settle etc in few days this is with latest update with June security , hope future updates can improve battery and camera
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Just got a Vision One, after sporting a G5s + for the past 3years.
Wheras i could still get 2days of use out of my G5s+ , i have the impression the Vision just drains really fast. Maybe i'm just using it more because it's new ? I don't really have that impression though.
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I just bought Motorola One Vision, but I´m concerned about battery life (while waiting for the cell phone to be delivered for me). I saw some reviews tellign that battery life is poor , and some telling that battery life is OK (1 day - 20 hours - normal use). Can anyone tell me if for a normal user like me that don´t play games in the cell phone, just use social networks, and a little of youtube the battery lasts at least from 6 AM to 11 PM? (my normal daily use)? I´m in doubt since there are people telling the battery life is good (one day and a half) and some people are telling that battery lasts only 6 to 10 hours. Which one is true? If someone have a trusted review, please share.
Thanks!
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Just like you - sort've...
I'm considering getting either the 'Moto G7 plus' or 'Moto One vision' .
At first I thought I was going down the 'Vision' route due to 'better specs' - until I started reading about 'poor battery drain' despite having a 3500mAh battery
My current phone 'only' has a 3000Mah with 5.2" screen that with my [very] light usage it'll last the day with still ~35-50% battery left over (depending if I get bored @ work & play a game or 2)
I mainly only have phone for emergency, some occasional game playing (subway surfer etc - no 3d intensive gaming) & music listening (not into watching videos on a phone or social media usually) - so 'screen on' time is usually pretty low - & would also like to hear 'real life' reviews of how long the battery does last
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Just like you - sort've...
I'm considering getting either the 'Moto G7 plus' or 'Moto One vision' .
At first I thought I was going down the 'Vision' route due to 'better specs' - until I started reading about 'poor battery drain' despite having a 3500mAh battery
My current phone 'only' has a 3000Mah with 5.2" screen that with my [very] light usage it'll last the day with still ~35-50% battery left over (depending if I get bored @ work & play a game or 2)
I mainly only have phone for emergency, some occasional game playing (subway surfer etc - no 3d intensive gaming) & music listening (not into watching videos on a phone or social media usually) - so 'screen on' time is usually pretty low - & would also like to hear 'real life' reviews of how long the battery does last
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I've it for one month and for me the battery usage is ok. I go to work at 7 am, and I put it on charge at 10 pm with 40~30% of battery which for my use is ok. I noticed that if I play a game for 40 min or play a video for around 30~40 minutes the battery is at 10% at 10 pm. So my verdict is that for a user that don't play games/watch videos a lot, the battery can stand a day and ends up with 40%, but if you like to play then maybe you should consider another option.. My guess is that the battery drain is due to the screen... The good points are the screen is very good and Android is very fast and good (I had a Samsung A50 before).
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I've it for one month and for me the battery usage is ok. I go to work at 7 am, and I put it on charge at 10 pm with 40~30% of battery which for my use is ok. I noticed that if I play a game for 40 min or play a video for around 30~40 minutes the battery is at 10% at 10 pm. So my verdict is that for a user that don't play games/watch videos a lot, the battery can stand a day and ends up with 40%, but if you like to play then maybe you should consider another option.. My guess is that the battery drain is due to the screen... The good points are the screen is very good and Android is very fast and good (I had a Samsung A50 before).
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Yeah sort of guessed the screen may play a big part in battery drain... Larger Screen needs more power to display,
Those that check their Twitbook accounts ever few minutes may be the ones that complain about fast battery drain the most, although I have seen some personnal reviews about battery loss overnight when left alone
Some have said that it's 99% when they go to bed but when they wake up it's down to ~80% (I assume it's like 10pm to 7am), which surely can't be because of the screen .. I assume this is because of overnight syncing issues from social apps running in background etc.
Since (I'm led to believe) the vision is 'pure android' - no bloat (apart from a couple of additional moto apps - I think) I guess as long as I disable all auto sync apps & not have too many app installed running in background (I mainly only have Sophos Security [Antivirus etc] & Tasker [For 'While in zone change volumes etc]) I should get less drain overnight.... In theory
It's a mostly pure android experience. I'm not a heavy social media user. Here are some screen shots. I unhook at 545am and I'm on 20% at 10pmView attachment 4803617
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Yeah sort of guessed the screen may play a big part in battery drain... Larger Screen needs more power to display,
Those that check their Twitbook accounts ever few minutes may be the ones that complain about fast battery drain the most, although I have seen some personnal reviews about battery loss overnight when left alone
Some have said that it's 99% when they go to bed but when they wake up it's down to ~80% (I assume it's like 10pm to 7am), which surely can't be because of the screen .. I assume this is because of overnight syncing issues from social apps running in background etc.
Since (I'm led to believe) the vision is 'pure android' - no bloat (apart from a couple of additional moto apps - I think) I guess as long as I disable all auto sync apps & not have too many app installed running in background (I mainly only have Sophos Security [Antivirus etc] & Tasker [For 'While in zone change volumes etc]) I should get less drain overnight.... In theory
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For me it's ok drive regardless of the battery % at night I always charge it overnight, so it's fine for my use.
Hi, my moto on vision after two weeks...
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50hs total and 4hs 37min sot
My phone has SOT (at 63% birghtness) around 5-6 hours and with normal usage it lasts about two days.
But I'd recommend having a charger nearby. After 40-ish hours I still had 25-30% battery.
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My phone has SOT (at 63% birghtness) around 5-6 hours and with normal usage it lasts about two days.
But I'd recommend having a charger nearby. After 40-ish hours I still had 25-30% battery.
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Yeah Im having a same experience as you ,5 to 6 hours of SOT is typically what I get when using wifi,lop off an hour when using LTE though.