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What is your battery life experience?

This is the second full day of usage that I am getting out of my Pixel 2 and the first day of moderate-to-heavy usage. The previous day I was at home, so I did not use it as much and I noticed that the battery life was not too bad. But given that I did not use it intensely, I cannot tell for sure. But today, I noticed significant drain in the battery during my morning commute. As an example, my battery went from 79% to 76-75% in a matter of minutes (about 10 minutes). This was very concerning and made me feel like the battery performance was not really much better than my nearly 2 year old Nexus 5X whose battery has noticeably depleted in capacity.
I don't know if this battery drain has anything to do with poor cellular network connection during my commute as it completely cuts off in many places, so may be I am draining more battery trying to connect to a network. Or may be it is due to using bluetooth earphones. But I want to get a sense of what others are noticing and how I can more carefully test the battery performance to get a clearer understanding about its performance.

Never judge battery life from a single day or two of usage. You'll need at least a week to see if the battery performance remains consistent.

Much better than my iPhone 7 that I switched from. Can't ask for much more than that. (never should have jumped to iphone 6 in the first place)

I certainly get much more battery out of my Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android One (Oreo).
Though 4-6 SOT hours in the Pixel 2 are not that bad, it feels like not enough in comparison to 6-9 SOT hours I get with my other smartphone.
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I get at least a full day if I leave for work fully charged. Much better than iPhone. The best I ever got was 21.5 hours but that was only after having it a week.

crewster said:
I certainly get much more battery out of my Xiaomi Mi A1 with Android One (Oreo).
Though 4-6 SOT hours in the Pixel 2 are not that bad, it feels like not enough in comparison to 6-9 SOT hours I get with my other smartphone.
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what other smartphone? cant imagine any other else getting that SOT except the oneplus 5T.

NOSTALGIA said:
what other smartphone? cant imagine any other else getting that SOT except the oneplus 5T.
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Xiaomi Mi A1, comes with built-in Android stock, dual camera...bang for the buck right now, costs like 150-200$. You can check it out on xda, its battery numbers are impressive.
And installing Google Cam makes it perform great even in lowlight conditions, perhaps not very far from Pixel 2...
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I'm getting hardly 5-6 hours of SOT with medium to heavy usage. Battery capacity could've been bigger!

I'm not even getting 2 Hrs of SOT. I've had my Pixel 2 XL for a week now and the battery performance is abysmal. I have the screen brightness set to less than 50% and the phone is not modded or anything out of the ordinary like that. Thinking of formatting and setting up the phone again. This is so annoying.

Pretty crappy IMO. I can get a full workday but thats at min-med use.

Oyeve said:
Pretty crappy IMO. I can get a full workday but thats at min-med use.
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What does "min-med" use actually mean? SOT is a flawed metric, but at least gives some standard of reference (though as people use different brightness settings, do different things with their screen on time, have different signal conditions, it's still not easy to meaningfully compare).
FWIW the one time I didn't charge mine overnight it ran for 41 hours, > 6 hours SOT, still 7% left. Of course I'm not playing online games on LTE at full brightness, and I'm sure it wouldn't last close to that if I were, but for my use (as a PDA, phone, browser, a bit of audio streaming and a bit of light gaming) it will reliably last a full day (not workday) with charge to spare. I don't see this phone's battery as a problem at all.

Alright, I gave this a few more days of usage. I am getting around 3.5ish hours of SOT with 30% battery left. Sometimes less, but around the same ballpark. I think I can safely say that this is significantly more battery than my old Nexus 5X, which I had to constantly charge throughout the day and still have issues with depleted battery by the time I reach home. So that's good!

For me the battery life is super, I didn't get such stats with my old OnePlus 3.

litetaker said:
I don't know if this battery drain has anything to do with poor cellular network connection during my commute as it completely cuts off in many places, so may be I am draining more battery trying to connect to a network.
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Poor reception is a HUGE drain on battery. Specifically, modems will try to search for service more agressively when they start nearing their poor signal thresholds. I have a friend who lives in an area that has just enough cell signal to destroy my battery! I always have to put my phone in mode when I'm at her house to save battery!

My battery life on my Pixel 2 is horrible. All radios off, full charge this morning, phone is completely wiped as I am selling it and its down 35% by doing nothing. No wifi, no sim, no apps, just on. Its garbage. That and the stiff buttons is a quick sell-off to me. Its a work phone so I dont really care. Having a much better experience with my moto Z2 play that i now use as a work phone (personal phone is a Note 8).

Oyeve said:
My battery life on my Pixel 2 is horrible. All radios off, full charge this morning, phone is completely wiped as I am selling it and its down 35% by doing nothing. No wifi, no sim, no apps, just on. Its garbage. That and the stiff buttons is a quick sell-off to me. Its a work phone so I dont really care. Having a much better experience with my moto Z2 play that i now use as a work phone (personal phone is a Note 8).
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Sounds like a warranty issue. Did you try getting it fixed?
And how can you sell a phone that belongs to your employer?

PuffDaddy_d said:
Sounds like a warranty issue. Did you try getting it fixed?
And how can you sell a phone that belongs to your employer?
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I bought the phone and use it for work.

Got a new Pixel. Battery Life sucks. Is it normal?

Hello,
I've sold my S7 and bought a Pixel phone because of updates and design. It is very elegant phone and very very fast. But I've got a problem, battery life sucks seriously.
Here's some screenshots.
Because it is a new Pixel, don't think there is a faulty. I did Geekbench 4 battery benchmark and got 1700-2000 points and got over 162k Antutu.
Is it normal? Should I roll back to Nougat? Or else I will send it back and Pixel XL. I cannot afford Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL.

Rolling back to Nougat will do nothing good. Did you buy a new Pixel or an used one?

Same here. Bought a used Pixel 128 GB model last week that provides only 3 hours of SOT with normal usage (browsing, music, videos).
It's on Oreo 8.1 with latest security patch and NFC, location turned off. Still no good.

Excluding gaming, for chrome browsing, reddit, YouTube and Instagram plus a few other misc apps, I get approximately 3.5 hours on data and 4+ on wifi. Rma brand new set from Oct 17.
SD 820 is not really known for its battery efficiency vs the 835.

raffaels said:
Hello,
I've sold my S7 and bought a Pixel phone because of updates and design. It is very elegant phone and very very fast. But I've got a problem, battery life sucks seriously.
Here's some screenshots.
Because it is a new Pixel, don't think there is a faulty. I did Geekbench 4 battery benchmark and got 1700-2000 points and got over 162k Antutu.
Is it normal? Should I roll back to Nougat? Or else I will send it back and Pixel XL. I cannot afford Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL.
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Your first 5 apps listed are using about 50% of your battery. On my pixel XL I could easily get 8 sot if I wanted. You should look for ways to reduce battery useage, like battery optimization and limiting power to apps not in use. What does the acc battery app say your battery health is? My battery preformed better after installed dp2, but was very good before installing dp2, it just got better.

I've got 100% battery health. Now I get 3-4 SOT, 10-14 hours standby. It is not the best, but it's ok.
How can you limit power to apps not in use? You mean deactivating background process? I did that already.

raffaels said:
I've got 100% battery health. Now I get 3-4 SOT, 10-14 hours standby. It is not the best, but it's ok.
How can you limit power to apps not in use? You mean deactivating background process? I did that already.
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That doesn't sound particularly bad. I normally end a day on about 20-30% with 3 hours of screen time or so. I know it's a bit of a cliche, but it really is hard to compare two setups like for like. Even SOT is not a great measure because if you watch a 2 hour downloaded movie on Netflix with low screen brightness (for example) that will consume A LOT less power than playing a game or browsing the web for 2 hours... but both will just show on battery stats the same. Let's not get into whether you are a user of Google location services (for things like Google fit or Assistant etc), or streaming Podcasts over bluetooth...
Some people have already reported better battery life on Android P - though I take that with a slight pinch of salt as every Android release supposedly did that already.

New pixel 3, will battery life improve??

I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!

mpetruzz said:
I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!
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It's not just your phone or usage, battery performance is just trash in this phone. I was wondering about the same thing when I got my Pixel 3 (November 2018), I think the overall performance of this phone is bad, Multitasking, I see foreground apps crashing which is ridiculous for a $1000 flagship phone from a company like Google. I don't even have heavy usage, I don't game, all I do is average 3 - 5 minutes everyday phone call, texting most of the time and Spotify 2 - 4 hours every day.
I have also gone through a whole defective phone exchange process because the phone which I received initially had freezing and lockout issues. I am not saying the replacement device is any good, I have seen this new one lock-out too, like completely go retarded, touch would stop responding, phone wouldn't come out of deep sleep, I could tell phone is ringing but I can't pick-up because it won't come out of sleep mode or the screen won't come on. I never had such horrible issues with my 4-year-old MOTO X PLAY which died because of my stupidity, even though it was old, I had better battery performance.
I think it's not the hardware but the whole Android Pie feels like its still in BETA. The whole point for me buying this phone was a Software optimization which is seriously poor and Camera optimization which is outstanding. If it wasn't for Camera, I would have returned this phone and bought a OnePlus 6T.
Let's just hope Google will fix everything.

ManthanRB said:
It's not just your phone or usage, battery performance is just trash in this phone. I was wondering about the same thing when I got my Pixel 3 (November 2018), I think the overall performance of this phone is bad, Multitasking, I see foreground apps crashing which is ridiculous for a $1000 flagship phone from a company like Google. I don't even have heavy usage, I don't game, all I do is average 3 - 5 minutes everyday phone call, texting most of the time and Spotify 2 - 4 hours every day.
I have also gone through a whole defective phone exchange process because the phone which I received initially had freezing and lockout issues. I am not saying the replacement device is any good, I have seen this new one lock-out too, like completely go retarded, touch would stop responding, phone wouldn't come out of deep sleep, I could tell phone is ringing but I can't pick-up because it won't come out of sleep mode or the screen won't come on. I never had such horrible issues with my 4-year-old MOTO X PLAY which died because of my stupidity, even though it was old, I had better battery performance.
I think it's not the hardware but the whole Android Pie feels like its still in BETA. The whole point for me buying this phone was a Software optimization which is seriously poor and Camera optimization which is outstanding. If it wasn't for Camera, I would have returned this phone and bought a OnePlus 6T.
Let's just hope Google will fix everything.
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Yeah I actually have a one plus 6t and am giving this a week or so before I decide to keep it. The 6t is absolutely insane when it comes to battery so I think I'm spoiled haha. Easily could get two days out of it

mpetruzz said:
Yeah I actually have a one plus 6t and am giving this a week or so before I decide to keep it. The 6t is absolutely insane when it comes to battery so I think I'm spoiled haha. Easily could get two days out of it
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Here's my absolutely outstanding battery performance.

ManthanRB said:
Here's my absolutely outstanding battery performance.
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So 7 hours plus of screen time?? Jeez I'd be happy with that!!

mpetruzz said:
So 7 hours plus of screen time?? Jeez I'd be happy with that!!
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That makes me wonder why my sleep time is so bad. I don't have any kind of apps causing battery drain. Everything reports fine.

mpetruzz said:
I just got a pixel 3 and so far am a bit disappointed in the battery life. I have on adaptive battery and am hoping that it will improve. I've turned off ambient display as I heard there was a battery drain issue. Overnight it drops like 15 percent!! I'm probably getting 3.5 to 4 hours SOT max.
Can anyone report back if they found theirs to improve after a few weeks or if you have any tips. TIA!!
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This sounds really bad. I'm sitting here at 3 hours SOT and 52% battery left.

Faspaiso said:
This sounds really bad. I'm sitting here at 3 hours SOT and 52% battery left.
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I am seeing a bit better battery after a few charges. I've read it gets better so I guess I'll give it a week or so.
As long as I can get 4-5 I'm OK

Why don't you try and switch off the adaptive battery? Some people complain about battery drain with adaptive battery on.
Coming from the Nexus 5 I find the battery life great! I always left adaptive battery on and don't feel any difference after 2 months...
And can't complain about any performance problems...

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Why don't you try and switch off the adaptive battery? Some people complain about battery drain with adaptive battery on.
Coming from the Nexus 5 I find the battery life great! I always left adaptive battery on and don't feel any difference after 2 months...
And can't complain about any performance problems...
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thanks for that tip, I'll try it now and see if it makes a difference!!

Yeah it's not great. I've got 5H SOT here and there but mostly 3.5-4.5. It lasts me the day so I guess it's ok. Performance is really great otherwise.
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Mostly I'm at 3h when I hit 20%.
Overall I've gotten 3-4h SOT over one day (so around 15 hours).
Sleep drain is about 1.25% per hour with AOD off.
I keep location on all the time, BT off, wifi off if I'm on the go.
Other than that everything is at its default setting.
What are you guys doing to get over 4h SOT?
I know it's heavily dependent on your screen brightness, signal strength, how much standby drain and general use/settings.
Maybe you can give some tips.

Android needs time to adapt all for your personal usage. Battery get better and better in couple of days.
I had Galaxy S8 before and Pixel3 batery life is probably 50% better.
But night drain must be around 5%. Bigger drain is probably from weak network. Or bad app.

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Android needs time to adapt all for your personal usage. Battery get better and better in couple of days.
I had Galaxy S8 before and Pixel3 batery life is probably 50% better.
But night drain must be around 5%. Bigger drain is probably from weak network. Or bad app.
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I got my pixel 3 at launch, left adaptive battery on for 3 months, non-root, all stock, no special tweaks or mods etc.
With adaptive battery on, overnight drain with screen facing down is about 10% over 7-8hrs....
After 3 months I gave up on adaptive battery, turned it off, overnight drain is now consistently less than 5%.
Can't say I'm not disappointed...

Good upgrade?

I'm looking at the pixel 4a as a replacement for my Huawei Mate 10 Pro.... my main usage is photos, whatsapp, instagram, youtube, email - no gaming.
Wondering if this is even worthwhile? Will I be disappointed with battery life?

If the Mate 10 battery life was anything like the Mate 9 (which I had before the 3a) then you might be disappointed with battery life. I could usually get about 36 to 48 hours of battery out of that thing. But the 4a is somewhat better than the 3a. Your usage sounds similar to mine. I can get around 20 hours on the 4a currently. I have A11 on it also and that might be helping matters.
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Should be fine with that. I can almost squeeze 2 days out of mine. I use mine similar to yours. It's no xperia phone but they did pretty good with battery on this one.

The other day, I went to bed with 6 hours screen on time, and it had 22% remaining. I don't know about your old phone, but this is significantly better than my old lgv20. I have no complaint about the battery.

My last was M10Pro. P4a getting daily 7hr SOT with 50% at bedtime. Obvious differences but battery is better on P4a for my usage.

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My last was M10Pro. P4a getting daily 7hr SOT with 50% at bedtime. Obvious differences but battery is better on P4a for my usage.
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Thanks, some decent replies - specifically is there anything else moving from the M10Pro you'd say was a big pro/con?

Mostly screen and device size, both are pro for me on P4a but that's a personal determination.

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Mostly screen and device size, both are pro for me on P4a but that's a personal determination.
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Yes, I think I'd actually prefer a slightly smaller handset - I think my main concerns for moving away from M10P was if battery was going to be at least as good and I was hoping photo quality would be better. Also the added benefit of moving away from huawei to make sure I get clean android with plenty of guaranteed updates.
I think the only other thing worrying me a little are these recent reports of touch screen issues from people moving to A11.

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I think the only other thing worrying me a little are these recent reports of touch screen issues from people moving to A11.
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Only if you install a screen protector. I never do and have had no issues with A11 touch sensitivity/accuracy.

Question Poor Battery

Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery

trevagreene said:
Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery
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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.

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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.
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Yea. I agree. But drain seems very rapid. Just dropped 3% since i posted the question. Will wait a few days and report back

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Dude it's your first setup and install. Give it a day or two. Normal. I have used the 7 and 7 pro now for 3 weeks which is great.
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Hows the face unlock and fingerprint ? Fast and responsive or laggy ?
Iam waiting for my 7pro and iam affraid about problems from 6 series

saiiint said:
Hows the face unlock and fingerprint ? Fast and responsive or laggy ?
Iam waiting for my 7pro and iam affraid about problems from 6 series
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pixel 6 fp issues are mostly fixed now because of software updates

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Got the pro delivered today. Ive noticed battery life is quite poor. Dropping 5-10% every 30 mins or so. Battery usage seems to suggest the google app is using about 25% of the battery. Usage is nothing over the top. Coming from a pixel 5 with excellent battery
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Just try to charge it fully and use it for a few more days, also for new phones there will always be updates for battery issues!

Been using both 7 series for 3 weeks. Fingerprint is perfect. Hardly use it with face unlock though

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Been using both 7 series for 3 weeks. Fingerprint is perfect. Hardly use it with face unlock though
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OK...let's have it...how in the world have you been using the phone(s) for the last three weeks?

It's a 5nm(or 4nm) Samsung fab made SOC, it's going to have poor efficiency.

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OK...let's have it...how in the world have you been using the phone(s) for the last three weeks?
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Because I work for a network in the UK. Only allowed to talk about them after launch

I'm not sure if others have issues with battery drain and I did see the article on display on the Pixel 7 Pro being a battery killer...but after using the phone for a few days now, I can confirm that the phone, software, all the fancy features are absolutely great but the battery sucks. This phone is a battery killer indeed. I'm monitoring with accubattery and trying greenify but no luck yet. I have even tried keeping the Smooth Display disabled/turned off (to prevent refresh rate being increased to 120 Hz) but the brain drain literally is insane. I am not an expert and I am not sure if more battery charge cycles, optimization through phone use etc will help over time either. I have tried restricting battery use for many apps as well and tried disabling background data for some apps - no luck on this one too. Hopefully the underlying cause can be fixed with some usual Google software patch magic...if not, it's going to a year of battery misery I guess. I'm curious to hear others experience and any suggestions. Thank you.

I am on the same page when it comes to battery... I have the 7 Pro and since 6PM last night it dropped to 38% with only 1h 45 min of SOT... That is never going to get close to even 3h of SOT.
It is on 1440p and 120hz but still, I don't think this is ok.

Mine is so much better than what my P6P was, yesterday i had 54% left after 17 hours off charge and playing with it given its a new toy, My P6P would have been down to 20%'ish.
I've lost 20% today (since 6.20am) but i have had Poweramp playing music for a couple of hours, i have been out and about taking photos and i made a 30 minute call.

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Mine is so much better than what my P6P was, yesterday i had 54% left after 17 hours off charge and playing with it given its a new toy, My P6P would have been down to 20%'ish.
I've lost 20% today (since 6.20am) but i have had Poweramp playing music for a couple of hours, i have been out and about taking photos and i made a 30 minute call.
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Yeah, mine has been really good also. Really good idle drain and overnight it's in deep sleep around 97% of the time. Active drain has been good as well.

Mine seem to be be about on par with my P6P. Not great, but not horrible.

Compared to my poco f2 pro which only has a 4700mah battery the pixel 7 pro's battery life is pretty abysmal. I used to run twice the **** on that phone and it still didn't die as fast as the p7p. Hope a few firmware updates will get it to a better place. Turing off pick up and tap screen to wake made a little bit better but it's still abysmal imo.

For whatever it's worth, I've had mine (unlocked google / 512) since Thursday. Accubattery has been on since Friday when I rooted and started restoring apps . Just checking it and coming off a full charge overnight (trickle charge) it's estimating I have 11 hours of SOT, 62 hours screen off time. Since it was off the charger around 3 hours ago it's dropped 2% with 26 minutes of SOT.
To be fair I use my phone for email, texts, minor information/news gathering and music streaming and light photo/video recording without much running in the background so I'm not a high power user. YMMV

Weird. My experience is completely the opposite - 6 hours 23 minutes SOT with 21% remaining yesterday on my first full cycle when I put it back on charge. No complaints at all.

Did anyone with poor battery performance transfer apps to the new phone through cable? This has been bad for battery on new phones as ooposed to letting the new phone download the apps.....

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Did anyone with poor battery performance transfer apps to the new phone through cable? This has been bad for battery on new phones as ooposed to letting the new phone download the apps.....
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The Pixel 7P and 6P I have here ran like total garbage when I transferred data between the two with a USB cable. A fresh install made both phones run great.