Android 11 Battery Life - Google Pixel 2 Questions & Answers

It seems like the battery life of on Android 11 to be worst than ever, there has been a thread open on google troubleshoot page as well https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/70445129?hl=en. I only get around 2-2.5 hours of SoT, In my mind I thought it was the phone's battery that's degrading, but I checked for battery degradation, it's at 12%, so definitely it's the software, also i noticed sometimes in the battery section it shows the apps that are consuming more power as pixel launcher . A launcher sucking up battery??
anyone else facing this issue???

I have noticed battery life on A11 is significantly shorter.

Yes, it is horrible, and makes my phone literally unusable sadly. I think I'm going to root the phone, use TitaniumBackup and go back to a proper android 10 rom and restore. Very dissapointed.

Also, in that thread, they traced it to the process that handles internal storage. Disabling that eliminates the battery drain. But then you won't have internal storage.

piggyslasher said:
Also, in that thread, they traced it to the process that handles internal storage. Disabling that eliminates the battery drain. But then you won't have internal storage.
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Yeah, that's interesting how a simple media manager that too one by google itself seems to be the cause, but I did disable it and it did not do anything for me, but on my device strangely pixel launcher seems to be the cause of battery drain.

October's OTA seems to have solved it for me!!!!
https://developers.google.com/android/ota
Reboot into twrp and use adb sideload. Let me know if it fixes it for you! So happy

piggyslasher said:
October's OTA seems to have solved it for me!!!!
https://developers.google.com/android/ota
Reboot into twrp and use adb sideload. Let me know if it fixes it for you! So happy
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I am on October update, did nothing for me. Though I got access to kdrag0n's protonAosp rom, I'll flash that sometime soon and give a update on the battery life.
Ps, people are reporting 4+ hours of SoT on that rom, it's not ready for full launch yet, few things don't work.

Same here. I spoke too soon. Nothing was fixed. I thought I was losing 2.5% an hour but even on idle that's a false value.

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Has there been any fixes to the battery drain issues with 7.0 update on Honor 8 (US)?

Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
try apps like greenify to fix wakelocks
adisarun said:
Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
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Many users are dealing with this problem and I've reported before.. This update is broke, and shouldn't have been pushed officially. There are a lot of bugs, and the most irritating one is the battery consumption.
And I don't think Honor is going to fix any of it since we're used to them not caring about what we deal with.
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
It's not the update. From my experience, I had this issue since I bought the phone. I would factory reset it all the time and this issue would persist.
It turns out that in my case, I would always turn off LTE and use WCDMA instead. My logic being that WCDMA uses less power, so therefore I would get better battery life. Nope. There's a glitch that happens if you do this and have wifi on, It doesn't let the phone go into deep sleep. Ever. So your battery drains about 20℅ overnight.
The solution for me was to simply leave LTE on, and now my battery consumes like 1℅ overnight.
For those suffering from battery drain, check your consumption and see if Google calendar sync is taking up a lot of it.
I had that issue, and had to manually kill the sync (from the accounts screen).
It seems to be an issue on all Huawei devices on 7.0, the native calendar isn't playing well with sync, and unless you're rooted and can uninstall it, you're stuck. (I'm waiting to root until a patch comes out for all these issues first)
All in all, if this is how Huawei treats their devices, and their customers, I won't buy another one of their devices.
I updated via Charles method, but my mother's L04 still hasn't gotten the update. And probably never will unless I do it manually.
Very disappointing.
b1tt1 said:
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
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Thanks. I was thinking of waiting for a couple of days too. Its just been 12 hours and the battery is almost down to 25% from 100%. If it doesn't improve in the next few days, I'll revert to 6.0 with which I had solid 1.5 days battery life for my usage level.
On my frd 09 i got a update after the nougat update which fixed my battery drain it was around 356 mb big. But since maybe 1-2 weeks already. And my battery drain is lower as on MM
I do feel Nougat on my L14 is draining faster than MM. It's mostly Android System or Android OS so I have no idea what is within that taking the power. There is also a weird bug with LTE enabled when I make a call to another cell phone. Most of the time, my phone says it's ringing on the other side but there's no "ringing" sound on my side. Weird. Turn off LTE and you can hear the ringing.
It is always hard to determine what is going on in these sort of circumstances. For me, EMUI 5 doesn't seem to have badly affected my battery life. I just got almost 3.75 hours SOT using Waze for navigation, and still have about 30% battery. According to the detailed power info, Waze was using 1340.27 mAh.
b1tt1 said:
My personal experience with the Nougat update was that battery drained quicker than usual for the first few days, then it stabilized to normal levels (i.e. more or less what it had been in Marshmallow). I was expecting this behaviour, since system upgrade clears out battery optimization data, and it takes a couple of days for the OS to learn what to optimize. Also I suggest you recheck your battery saving settings (Both the Huawei version under Battery settings and the Google version under Applications).
And since someone is going to ask anyway: no, I haven't done factory reset. There was no need.
But this was just my personal experience with nougat. It's of course quite possible that for some people there is a real constant battery drain (wouldn't be the first time, I had a similar experience with my old Motorola when I upgraded to Lollipop a couple of years ago).
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Just for balance, my experience is more like this one, although I don't think I had to wait days for it to not be a battery drainer. Is everyone in this thread talking about b360? (for whatever variant you have)? I did see this on b320, but have used b360 for about 1-2 months now (Charles) and haven't had any noticeable difference in battery life from Marshmallow. It drains 1-3% / night. Screen on time , say browsing is pretty regularly 5.x hours, and typically I get 2-3 days out of a charge.
I believe everyone that says they've got a problem, but I guess some of us got lucky. Just so it's known: Mine is a US L04*b360 variant.
Note: Just as a possible point of difference. Before I was on b360, I had the phone rooted, with TWRP, and had to wipe the entire thing , rollback to b160 and use Charles to get b360. I never did a reset and I don't turn off functionality. Also, maybe most important. I don't use social media hardly at all. I haven't got Facebook or Twitter installed because I don't like either.
i would suggest a factory reset, then install only essential apps and test it for a couple of days.
L04 here, OTA updated and I'm seeing better battery performance than MM.
adisarun said:
Hi, I have upgraded to Android 7.0 on my Honor 8 yesterday and since then the battery is draining at an insane pace.
I used to get an overnight standby drain of 3-5% on average with 6.0 and it is well over 25% with 7.0. Something called "Android System" has consumed a disproportionate majority of the battery. A similar problem is reported here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/help/battery-dropped-40-nougat-honor-8-t3558197
The background app settings haven't been changed -- have about same 6-7 apps like Whatsapp, Outlook, etc. However, when I open the current background apps, I see a few unprotected apps (like Maps) also running in the background. Is this a bug?
Please help out, if there are any fixes.
Thanks.
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Try going into settings, accounts, google.
Look to see if anything looks like its stuck syncing. If there is, turn that off. Go into the app that was stuck, and swype down to cause it to refresh, then go back into the setting and turn that syncing back on (if you want it to sync).
Does root and Greenify help?
I contacted Honor Support and reported the problem.
I was suggested to "Wipe Cache Partition". It helped a bit but the battery was still draining at a faster rate than 6.0. So I have now been wiping cache partition on a daily basis after a full charge.
I know it doesn't make much sense but it helps contain the drain a bit, at least when connected to the Internet via WiFi. The drain rate remains the same as soon as I switch to LTE (about 2-3% drain per hour with roughly 5-10 minutes SoT).
brownd7380 said:
Does root and Greenify help?
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My phone wasn't rooted. I'd have tried Greenify but it wasn't any app causing the drain; "Android System" is the culprit. I don't know if Greenify could help with that.
amarryat said:
Try going into settings, accounts, google.
Look to see if anything looks like its stuck syncing. If there is, turn that off. Go into the app that was stuck, and swype down to cause it to refresh, then go back into the setting and turn that syncing back on (if you want it to sync).
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Thanks for your comment. I checked the settings; there are no issues with sync.
hachamacha said:
Just for balance, my experience is more like this one, although I don't think I had to wait days for it to not be a battery drainer. Is everyone in this thread talking about b360? (for whatever variant you have)? I did see this on b320, but have used b360 for about 1-2 months now (Charles) and haven't had any noticeable difference in battery life from Marshmallow. It drains 1-3% / night. Screen on time , say browsing is pretty regularly 5.x hours, and typically I get 2-3 days out of a charge.
I believe everyone that says they've got a problem, but I guess some of us got lucky. Just so it's known: Mine is a US L04*b360 variant.
Note: Just as a possible point of difference. Before I was on b360, I had the phone rooted, with TWRP, and had to wipe the entire thing , rollback to b160 and use Charles to get b360. I never did a reset and I don't turn off functionality. Also, maybe most important. I don't use social media hardly at all. I haven't got Facebook or Twitter installed because I don't like either.
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Thanks for your comment. My model number is: FRD-L14 and the build number is B360.
Honor Support recommended to "Wipe Cache Partition". I did that without much luck. I have now been wiping the cache partition after every full charge (which is a ridiculous thing to do!). It does help arrest the drain a bit but only on WiFi. As soon as I turn on the Mobile Data, the battery drains at insane speed (about 2-3% an hour with just 5-10 minutes of SoT).

All apps using too much battery now

I don't know what I did, but now every app, even streaming apps like Youtube and Twitch, seems to be pegging my tablet, making it warm and dramatically dropping the battery.
It started when I was playing a game and my battery was low. The K1 switched into battery saver mode which was killing my game performance, so I stupidly changed the power setting to max performance. I then plugged in and set the tablet back to normal. Now every app is killing my battery. I tried messing around with app optimization settings, which I never touched before, but that hasn't helped.
Any idea what I did and how I can fix it?
Battery really isn't great on this Tablet, I need to charge it at least once a Day. You could just try to use Better Battery Stats to identify the Rogue app, or as a last Resort Factory Reset. It could also very well be just Batter degradation.
The battery was fine for me before this incident. And it's not a single rogue app, it's all apps, which makes me think I've screwed up my general power/performance plan. Could I be stuck in Max Performance?
strells said:
The battery was fine for me before this incident. And it's not a single rogue app, it's all apps, which makes me think I've screwed up my general power/performance plan. Could I be stuck in Max Performance?
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Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
Well, if they are really going to fix the Battery then we can wait those few Days. Hopefully
NGowtham said:
Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
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This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
strells said:
This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
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Found on Nvidia forums. Many users reported the same issue.
Battery Drain Issues
NGowtham said:
Battery drain is caused by 5.3 update. Nvidia is working on this issue and new 5.4 will be released by the end of Jan. Meanwhile you can rollback 5.2 tho.
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How do we roll back to 5.2? Thanks!
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This is a known issue with 5.3? Documented anywhere?
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I have the same/similar problem. I used to be able to get 6 hours or so SOT with relatively light tasks like streaming video, web browsing, etc. On 5.3, I get about 2 hours (maybe less). And the tablet gets very warm near the power/vol buttons (didn't use to).
A few other users complained about battery drain on the 5.3 update thread:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75007359&postcount=43
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=75322052&postcount=55
ltcbing said:
How do we roll back to 5.2? Thanks!
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Before proceeding do remember it will wipe all your data on the device. Do at your own risk!
1. Enable developer mode on your tablet then download & install Minimal fastboot and ADB on to your PC (you can find 'em on XDA)
2. Download Recovery image.
3. Find "NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet K1 Recovery OS Image " and the version should be 5.2
4. Download the zip file from the link above and extract them.
5. Copy the extracted file to the Minimal fastboot and ADB location.
6. Connect the device to your PC and type "adb reboot bootloader" on 'cmd-here.exe' (found on the above mentioned install location)
7. To flash this recovery image, run the following commands:
-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
-fastboot flash boot boot.img
-fastboot flash system system.img
-fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
-fastboot flash staging blob
8. Reboot your device and you are good to go!
DM me if you have any doubt!
Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing... I guess the battery just sucks and it's gone "already".
ruskylfc said:
Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing... I guess the battery just sucks and it's gone "already".
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I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
NGowtham said:
I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
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Wow! Which exact version did you flash? Did you get it from that NVIDIA developer website?
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Wow! Which exact version did you flash? Did you get it from that NVIDIA developer website?
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v1.5 and yes.
I guess the battery degradation is quite fast on the Shield Tablet. Heat is really bad for a battery, and it's not good for the battery to use the device while charging either. When playing games you have to have it plugged in to get more then like 1 hour SOT. And we all know how hot it can get.
ruskylfc said:
Sorry for jumping in, but I did reroll mine back to 5.2 a while ago (seen it elsewhere - just found this thread here) and it did nothing actually. Still huge drain no matter what I'm doing...
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No joy for me either, downgrading to 5.2. First tried a "dirty flash" (using TWRP) keeping user data, and the battery drain and heat continued. Then tried a clean flash of 5.2. Maybe seemed better for a couple days (hard to tell for sure . . . maybe just placebo) but now the power drain and heat issue are back.
Strangely, I didn't have this problem on 5.2 before. And in fact, I think 5.3 was fine for a couple months, but just started draining the battery recently (past few weeks). So those fact tend to make me think it has something to do with user data.
Another observation, is that battery drain seems to be fine when viewing video files saved locally on the tablet/SD, or reading ebooks saved on the tablet/SD. But doing anything that requires WiFi, such as video streaming or even just browsing webpages, makes the battery level plumment, and the battery gets very warm.
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No joy for me either, downgrading to 5.2. First tried a "dirty flash" (using TWRP) keeping user data, and the battery drain and heat continued. Then tried a clean flash of 5.2. Maybe seemed better for a couple days (hard to tell for sure . . . maybe just placebo) but now the power drain and heat issue are back.
Strangely, I didn't have this problem on 5.2 before. And in fact, I think 5.3 was fine for a couple months, but just started draining the battery recently (past few weeks). So those fact tend to make me think it has something to do with user data.
Another observation, is that battery drain seems to be fine when viewing video files saved locally on the tablet/SD, or reading ebooks saved on the tablet/SD. But doing anything that requires WiFi, such as video streaming or even just browsing webpages, makes the battery level plumment, and the battery gets very warm.
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Dude! That's EXACTLY my situation. I never had this problem before on 5.2, as well as the 5.3 was fine for some time. The issue started about a month ago. I also noticed this exact same thing you said about doing anything that requires WiFi.
Another relevant point is: standby battery life is GREAT. If the battery was that bad, wasn't it supposed to drain also on standby? I'm not really into technical stuff but it makes sense to me thinking like that.
NGowtham said:
I downgraded mine to Marshmallow! Damn its snappy af. No unnecessary battery drain at all.
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I'll have to give this a shot. I've tried everything else so far, including Lineage 14.1 and RR ROMs. Lineage eliminated the heat and battery drain, but has some OpenGL related issues, and of course leaves the device uncertified as an unofficial build.

Battery Drain on Android Pie?

Hi All--
I've been on the Android P Beta for a while.
However, starting with the final beta that was released (and now on the final version of pie) I've been experiencing really quick battery drain.
Tried a total wipe and restore, and the same thing. My wife (also the pixel) isn't having those issues at all.
Thoughts?
(nothing shows up in the battery section)
Yes, I had great battery life. Then once Android Pie was released, jumped on the beta to get 9 sooner. Then got the upgrade from beta to final and battery life is horrible. I did not factory reset, I have battery saver on and it doesn'tseem to matter. If I leave on standby, no issues. If I use the phone, it can bleed as much as 10% per hour! Unacceptable. I may try factory resetting, but idk...
have you allocated sufficient time for app battery optimization?
I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
Yesterday I had roughly 2.5 SOT (with battery saver enabled) and this seems consistent with what I can expect typically. I did factory reset and have tried restricting "background activity" for my frequent apps - seems to make no difference. Obviously it had not time to do full battery optimization yet I guess, but I doubt it would mean a that big difference?
Saw a thread where someone mentioned it seems CPU-freq is high/inc. very rapidly when just tapping the screen (GPU-0%), and I can agree with that although I have not the prev. experience of what to expect.
My previous experience is with Xiaomi mi6/mi5 (lineage 15.1), similar usage would give 2x or 3x SOT (however with some other hw-issues.. ).
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I also have a pixel, Android 9.0/Pie (bought it brand new three days ago) and think battery is draining very (!) quick.
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Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
post-mortem said:
Reinstall factory image & see if that helps.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
Thank you for your information, I will stay on Oreo.
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Flashed factory image without -w/"wipe". Will that do or should it be "full" factory reset to make sense?
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I don't think it would make a difference. The user data is on a different partition.
You could try flashing the image again, without Magisk or any other additions.
I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
I had the same like the OP: everything was fine until the last beta came, and battery is draining faster, phone gets hot from even the smallest usage even in the prod release of android pie.
I was thinking it has something to do with being about 36 degrees (summer time....), but it is the same even in cooler temperature rooms. It's like if the phone is constantly doing something in the background, but only if I use it.
It has been a few days since I upgraded my Pixel 2. Battery life is noticably worse, maybe 20-30% more battery drain in a day than what I saw in Oreo.
I notice the issue as well. I did factory reset after update it's been a week. I was on beta and started noticing battery issues in the first beta and throughout. I decided to install Accubattery to track my battery usage and ended up with a result.
My phone states the battery is in good condition but this app says otherwise. I guess it's time to change the battery along with cracked screen!
i'm curious if my battery is shot as well... Seems like after I purchased my used Pixel.. the battery is not as lasting as I hoped for the smaller pixel phone... I may try one of those battery testing apps to see if it will tell me its current health..
I normally welcome up updates, but this update screwed up my battery life so bad. I mean everything was perfect until the update. Now the battery drains so fast I can watch the percentage count down like a timer and now when the battery gets anywhere from 15-40% the phone will just shut down.
I would like to go back to oreo, but it's such a pain in the ass having to back everything up and flash a ROM considering I haven't done that since before I bought the pixel
I have the same problem. I hope Google can fix it.
Wow, that is not normal. Stock android 9 with root and elemental kernel.... I go back to android 8.1.0 and wait for feature releases
I think I found an Draining App/Setting
I disable the RCS Service on my Phone. It can be found under Messages >> 3 dot Menu >> Settings >> broadcast News. Disable it.
And then Bluetooth and WiFi scan disable.
Same here, crazy idle drain after pie, only 50% deep sleep, tried factory reset and no luck
Try BetterBatteryStats. People in that thread spend their free time analyzing logs to tell you what's eating up all your battery life.
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I had used up 50% with only 21 minutes screen on time.
I noticed the app Device Health Services, was constantly active in the background.
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Same problem :crying::crying:

OP6 Always Awake, Poor Battery Life

Hey guys,
I bought OP6 8/128 version and first, the battery life was ok, I was getting 4-5 hours of sot. Now, I see that battery is discharging in constant rate and something is keeping my phone awake all the time. Firstly I thought it was Instagram when it helped when I force stopped it. Now I'm lost 20 percent overnight and battery stats show, that all the time my device was awake. Cannot see anything suspicious through gsam or better battery stats as I believe the put it under android system. Help anyone?
Did you already do a reboot?
gabris said:
Hey guys,
I bought OP6 8/128 version and first, the battery life was ok, I was getting 4-5 hours of sot. Now, I see that battery is discharging in constant rate and something is keeping my phone awake all the time. Firstly I thought it was Instagram when it helped when I force stopped it. Now I'm lost 20 percent overnight and battery stats show, that all the time my device was awake. Cannot see anything suspicious through gsam or better battery stats as I believe the put it under android system. Help anyone?
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From personal experience, i found that updating OTA was the culprit. To get around this, download the full update from Oneplus and update that way.
Ever since i started doing this, I have not had the battery drain issues i used to have. Also, wipe cache before booting phone after update.
hallo dare said:
From personal experience, i found that updating OTA was the culprit. To get around this, download the full update from Oneplus and update that way.
Ever since i started doing this, I have not had the battery drain issues i used to have. Also, wipe cache before booting phone after update.
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So I should try to do fresh install from OnePlus site? Awake time drops when I clear recent apps, so I believe this is either Instagram or Facebook doing this. Really weird. Even without awake time shown in graph, I got 35% drain in 1h sot and 11h standby, this shouldn't be normal, right?
It's crazy, because I used to have a good battery life
gabris said:
So I should try to do fresh install from OnePlus site? Awake time drops when I clear recent apps, so I believe this is either Instagram or Facebook doing this. Really weird. Even without awake time shown in graph, I got 35% drain in 1h sot and 11h standby, this shouldn't be normal, right?
It's crazy, because I used to have a good battery life
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for testing, can you uninstall Instagram and Facebook for 1 day and see how your battery life changes.
I can tell you right now Instagram has a prefetch service which causes close to 1-2 hours of wakelock per day for me. I have root so I can disable it but there's no other way from the app itself.
spartan268 said:
I can tell you right now Instagram has a prefetch service which causes close to 1-2 hours of wakelock per day for me. I have root so I can disable it but there's no other way from the app itself.
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You can just set the app to not use any background data from within Android. I have it on all that's not important for me.
Loose about 0.3% per hour without any apps or mods on beta 2.
whizeguy said:
You can just set the app to not use any background data from within Android. I have it on all that's not important for me.
Loose about 0.3% per hour without any apps or mods on beta 2.
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So, the story continues... After following your advice and restricting background data for Instagram the wake up time fixed itself, however battery is still draining. Screenshots attached (facebook and time sensors used??)
I will test every available option and if they won't work, I would consider moving to beta oxygen os. Now I'm on 5.1.11
I am ready to trace this to it's roots for people who will potentially encounter this problem in the future.
gabris said:
So, the story continues... After following your advice and restricting background data for Instagram the wake up time fixed itself, however battery is still draining. Screenshots attached (facebook and time sensors used??)
I will test every available option and if they won't work, I would consider moving to beta oxygen os. Now I'm on 5.1.11
I am ready to trace this to it's roots for people who will potentially encounter this problem in the future.
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It could be your spotty connection. Your awake time is fairly high when the mobile network connection goes south. Can you try using something like 3G instead and see if the awake time goes down? As well as the battery drain?
Naturally 3G uses less battery but if you see a drastic difference then it could be the tower connection you have. When the signal gets worse the modem tries harder and effectively uses more battery trying to stay connected.
Have a look if Facebook is allowed to use unlimited background data, I believe there is a setting for it on 5.1.11 aswell (I'm on beta,its a beast.)
There are many reasons not to install Facebook apps on your phone, and this is one of them.
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Have a look if Facebook is allowed to use unlimited background data, I believe there is a setting for it on 5.1.11 aswell (I'm on beta,its a beast.)
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Background data off both for Facebook and Instagram fixed (at least it seems) the overnight drain issue even with airplane mode on. Last time I lost 20-30%, tonight less than 4-5%
Just when I thought I found what was causing the drain, take a look at this: 20min sot and 20% down in 4.5h
Screens attached, still searching for the issue. Android battery stats show no awake time, but something is definitely draining (app usage insanely high on 80%)
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Background data off both for Facebook and Instagram fixed (at least it seems) the overnight drain issue even with airplane mode on. Last time I lost 20-30%, tonight less than 4-5%
Just when I thought I found what was causing the drain, take a look at this: 20min sot and 20% down in 4.5h
Screens attached, still searching for the issue. Android battery stats show no awake time, but something is definitely draining (app usage insanely high on 80%)
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So strange.. I feel we still have 3 options here.. 2 old and one new.
Flash 5.1.11 without wiping anything (you won't loose data so it's just an upgrade)
Flash beta 2 dirty as an upgrade, (you might get device corruptednat boot, press power 2 times and forget about the message) you won't loose any data or apps this way either.
Last option is the least fun, clean install of rom :/. If you ask me, I'd go for beta 2 option, if you wanna run something you know is stable go with 5.1.11.
I didn't run into any issues with beta 2 but some are (I believe user error here..)
Changed my mind.... I have 2 more posible fixes.. (I think)
Hmmm, one more thing I just came to think of is try using SD Maid, now this is just a guess that it will do anything at all..
The other thing is flashing a kernel, something could have happened there after an upgrade or something (just a guess.)
I'm running flash kernel now, it's really good
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So strange.. I feel we still have 3 options here.. 2 old and one new.
Flash 5.1.11 without wiping anything (you won't loose data so it's just an upgrade)
Flash beta 2 dirty as an upgrade, (you might get device corruptednat boot, press power 2 times and forget about the message) you won't loose any data or apps this way either.
Last option is the least fun, clean install of rom :/. If you ask me, I'd go for beta 2 option, if you wanna run something you know is stable go with 5.1.11.
I didn't run into any issues with beta 2 but some are (I believe user error here..)
Changed my mind.... I have 2 more posible fixes.. (I think)
Hmmm, one more thing I just came to think of is try using SD Maid, now this is just a guess that it will do anything at all..
The other thing is flashing a kernel, something could have happened there after an upgrade or something (just a guess.)
I'm running flash kernel now, it's really good
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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Thanks for your thoughts, thinking of going to beta 2 since I am on 5.1.11 right now. As for flashing kernel, I've been there with custom roms and kernels with several other phones and in the end most of them (except galaxy s5) were working better on stock ones after a while... However, doesn't rooting void the warranty on OP6?
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I would suggest doing a factory reset or uninstall your apps one at a time. Considering it's saying kernel wakelock (could be false positive) I would start go straight to factory reset. If going to Android Pie beta 2 is overall stable and forces a reset anyways, then go ahead and do that instead.
Im just getting 5-6hours SOT on my new op6, is this the normal battery life? Was planning on flashing custom kernels? Any suggestions?
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Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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So, I can close this case as SOLVED.
Today, phone was mainly on 4g, doing photos, videos, calls, 4 hours of spotify via bluetooth. 3h50min SOT, 16h standby and still 27% left. Dirty install of Beta 2 fixed it! Thanks for your help!
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So, I can close this case as SOLVED.
Today, phone was mainly on 4g, doing photos, videos, calls, 4 hours of spotify via bluetooth. 3h50min SOT, 16h standby and still 27% left. Dirty install of Beta 2 fixed it! Thanks for your help!
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Really nice to hear mate!
whizeguy said:
Beta 2 is really good
48 hours and I'm at 18% with soon 9hrs of screen (usage and SS in battery thread)
As of warranty, no, you will still have full. However this shouldn't have to be done as a "fix" , i was just curious if stock kernel somehow got messed up :s
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Where can I download beta 2?
I am on 5.1.11

Question 7 pro battery drain

In last few days I noticed battery drain. And as well I think it started same time I noticed screen flickering when in battery settings. Video explaining attached. As you can see its fine until I get deeper into settings then "system operacyjny Android" starts flashing slightly and screen flickers and it's laggy. It stops and then starts again Anyone else has similar problem?
XDA allows 200+MB attachments?
It'd be easier to describe (in English?) the settings path you took.
I was surprised too sorry it's in battery settings and that's what's flashing "android os"
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In last few days I noticed battery drain. And as well I think it started same time I noticed screen flickering when in battery settings. Video explaining attached. As you can see its fine until I get deeper into settings then "system operacyjny Android" starts flashing slightly and screen flickers and it's laggy. It stops and then starts again Anyone else has similar problem?
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Hi mate, I do have the same problem with the battery settings view. But no solution so far.
Looks like a small glitch then. What app can you suggest to have a proper look into battery usage? Like idle etc with details. Something is draining my battery. I have accu battery now but I don't see any details there
mateusz3112 said:
Looks like a small glitch then. What app can you suggest to have a proper look into battery usage? Like idle etc with details. Something is draining my battery. I have accu battery now but I don't see any details there
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I've rooted all android phone since I bought my pixel 7 pro a few days ago. Don't want to root again because of magisk hide etc. But there a a few things, like the battery section or the missing nfc quick tile, that makes me to want to flash a custom Rom. But so far I stay strong and keep the stock Rom.
I don't have that glitch... Rooted here.
I don't have that glitch, either
Perhaps a full device wipe is needed.
If I continually update and re-root my phone each month without the "wipe' parameter, I eventually run into some not-super-noticeable OS issues. But, of course, once that occurs I just make a Google Drive backup and re-image my phone with the same factory image. However, I just leave the wipe parameter in the flash-all batch file when I do this and any OS or root problems seem to be resolved after doing so.
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Perhaps a full device wipe is needed.
If I continually update and re-root my phone each month without the "wipe' parameter, I eventually run into some not-super-noticeable OS issues. But, of course, once that occurs I just make a Google Drive backup and re-image my phone with the same factory image. However, I just leave the wipe parameter in the flash-all batch file when I do this and any OS or root problems seem to be resolved after doing so.
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You don't need to re-root with every release. Just use Pixel Flasher.
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You don't need to re-root with every release. Just use Pixel Flasher.
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If I remember correctly, Pixel Flasher is re-rooting after full system images are flashed. Or perhaps it updates over the OTA method? Regardless, I have never used it as I have never needed to, haha =P. Re-rooting only takes me a a few seconds =)
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Nope, it patches and flashes the image automatically itself.
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So, it is re-rooting after the updated system image is flashed, haha =D.
Just for clarification, rooting a Pixel is done in the act of patching the stock init_boot.img and then flashing it. When the system is updated, the entire factory image is flashed, and thus, the previously patched init_boot.img is replaced with a stock, unpatched init_boot.img. At this point in time, the phone is no longer rooted. But that is why users like us re-root our phones afterwards =). The Pixel Flasher is just incorporating that re-rooting process into its convenient, ease-of-use application experience - which is a very good thing to provide an option for.
Every day is a new day to learn something different =).
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If I remember correctly, Pixel Flasher is re-rooting after full system images are flashed. Or perhaps it updates over the OTA method? Regardless, I have never used it as I have never needed to, haha =). Re-rooting only takes a a few seconds.
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Nope, it patches and flashes the image automatically itself.
battery drain on a smartphone can be caused by various factors, including:
Screen brightness: A bright screen can drain the battery quickly. Try reducing the brightness of your screen to conserve battery life.
Background apps: Apps running in the background can consume a lot of power. Make sure to close all unnecessary apps when you're not using them.
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS: If these features are left on when not needed, they can drain your battery. Try turning them off when you're not using them.
The thing is that that drain started on Friday I think. Didn't install any new apps etc. I have around 30% phone iddle - is that normal?
What do you mean 30% idle?
Like that
Ehhh when idle apps are still running in the background checking for stuff etc... It'd be better if you used some other battery analyzer like GSAM for more details.
Ok so looks it's back to previous battery performance after yesterday's update. Definitely flickering problem is fixed and that's my today's battery result. And the phone idle seems gone down from 25-30 to 15%
I have the same issue since the last update from I think Monday evening.
Since then my battery drains a lot faster then before. I have a loss of 30% during a night without doing anything within these 7 hours. Before the update it had around 6-8% less in the morning. And it drains a lot fast during the day too. I have 100% after charge in the morning, go to work and when I come back it is down to ~30%. Last week it was on ~60% or more when I came home.
No new apps, nothing changed except the update.
This is really annoying me!
Don't want to wipe the hole phone as I don't use any Cloud on my ohones and would have to backup via MyPhoneExplorer and set up all by hand again.
Or is there any backup solution to backup everything on a phone all at once without root?
Oh and my Idle has around 30% battery usage, before the update it was on maybe 10% during a day.
ericDraven77 said:
I have the same issue since the last update from I think Monday evening.
Since then my battery drains a lot faster then before. I have a loss of 30% during a night without doing anything within these 7 hours. Before the update it had around 6-8% less in the morning. And it drains a lot fast during the day too. I have 100% after charge in the morning, go to work and when I come back it is down to ~30%. Last week it was on ~60% or more when I came home.
No new apps, nothing changed except the update.
This is really annoying me!
Don't want to wipe the hole phone as I don't use any Cloud on my ohones and would have to backup via MyPhoneExplorer and set up all by hand again.
Or is there any backup solution to backup everything on a phone all at once without root?
Oh and my Idle has around 30% battery usage, before the update it was on maybe 10% during a day.
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I've been through this. For no reason, it's an insane battery drain. I ended up wiping and reflashing the newest firmware, staying on Stock Kernel and restoring my Swift backup - user apps/data only - and only logged into the apps I actually use and it got better. Not perfect, but better. After I week I reflashed the Kira Kernel and it's been back to pretty stellar again, like you said, only dropping a few percentage points at night

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