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Battery was 28% last night, the phone gained 3% overnight when It usually drains 2%, no usb connection as you can see in the graphic. What could cause this behavior? I’m just curious.
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NVMENOR said:
Battery was 28% last night, the phone gained 3% overnight when It usually drains 2%, no usb connection as you can see in the graphic. What could cause this behavior? I’m just curious.
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Perhaps its an issue with your battery controller. It was projecting a certain loss of battery but when it did not after waking from sleep it assumed it had charged and displayed a higher %?
That is completely conjecture based in no fact other than those made up by me, so please take it with a grain of salt. =)

i'll keep saying this, but nobody wants to look at the nexus s battery driver code. seems the phone is based off voltage tables, which fluctuate under load, and hence when you charge to 100% and unplug, it drops to 97%. because the voltage drop.
same could apply to this situation, very often you can see your voltage drop like that. especially if you left the phone idle all night after using it hard prior. voltage drops then increases.

Yes, I was using maps very hardly (at least in comparison to the rest of the day) and that’s the reason of the fast drop in the graphic, then the phone went sleep for almost 7 hours. I’ll take a look at what you’re saying about voltage tables. Very interesting info here.

NVMENOR said:
Yes, I was using maps very hardly (at least in comparison to the rest of the day) and that’s the reason of the fast drop in the graphic, then the phone went sleep for almost 7 hours. I’ll take a look at what you’re saying about voltage tables. Very interesting info here.
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you were using maps right around the time of that drop? then yes that's the reason. i wasnt directing the "code review" to you lol, just more of a general thing that was discussed in the forum previously. sorry
but this would definitely show, in my opinion, why there is also the 100% to 97% drop when taking the phone off the charger. voltage drop always ocurrs here.

RogerPodacter said:
... i wasnt directing the "code review" to you lol, just more of a general thing that was discussed in the forum previously. sorry...
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No reason to be sorry about, I didn’t take it that way; I just like to learn new stuff about how things work.

its the battery meter. you probably rebooted. the battery meter in android is known to be inaccurate. sometimes after a reboot it can gain or lose percentage. ive gained 25% before after rebooting! in reality, you didnt gain anything, its just the meter being off by a bit.

I just want to know how you get nearly 4 days of use out of a charge!
Don't you use your phone?

simms22 said:
its the battery meter. you probably rebooted. the battery meter in android is known to be inaccurate. sometimes after a reboot it can gain or lose percentage. ive gained 25% before after rebooting! in reality, you didnt gain anything, its just the meter being off by a bit.
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I haven’t seen this after reboot, this happened after awake and it wasn’t sudden. Phone without signal in the graphic is the “airplane-mode” It wasn’t off. I know that battery didn’t gain any charge, of course, It’s just the weird behavior of android reading battery information.
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I just want to know how you get nearly 4 days of use out of a charge!
Don't you use your phone?
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lol, yeah, It was a very quiet week.

it would be awesome if you could test this if you dont mind. turn your screen brightness to max, make sure your on 3g and not wifi, open google maps and scroll in one direction for about a minute or 2, check the battery percent and voltage. then turn off the screen, leave it sit for a few minutes, then see the percent and voltage readings.
maybe try a test a few times just for fun...you wanna place as much load on the phone as possible, so maybe even turn on the camera flash?

RogerPodacter said:
it would be awesome if you could test this if you dont mind. turn your screen brightness to max, make sure your on 3g and not wifi, open google maps and scroll in one direction for about a minute or 2, check the battery percent and voltage. then turn off the screen, leave it sit for a few minutes, then see the percent and voltage readings.
maybe try a test a few times just for fun...you wanna place as much load on the phone as possible, so maybe even turn on the camera flash?
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does any body else has an easier way, or can recommend a market app to test the battery life by using full features?

Quick test here:
Beginning with 3728 mV, stress the phone a little and It drops to 3622 mV, then I let the phone sleep for couple of minutes and after wake it battery shows 3730 mV. It seems to show higher values than those that were present before sending the phone to sleep. What could be said about that?
I’ll do another test with full charge and more stress, but for the moment, my phone is charging, yeah…. Finally.

NVMENOR said:
Quick test here:
Beginning with 3728 mV, stress the phone a little and It drops to 3622 mV, then I let the phone sleep for couple of minutes and after wake it battery shows 3730 mV. It seems to show higher values than those that were present before sending the phone to sleep. What could be said about that?
I’ll do another test with full charge and more stress, but for the moment, my phone is charging, yeah…. Finally.
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its too bad my app (my sig) doesnt work for the nexus s, because i just recently added real time voltage vs current graphing, taking 2 second readings, for these exact circunstances. its fun doing these types of tests on my n1. but the battery driver and model is too different in the nexus s to use the app...
n1 doesnt use voltage at all for percent readings, but my hunch from code was the nexus s does. that's why i was so curious. check out some screens though for fun. you can really do some interesting tests with such high sample rates.

[Q] Freezing / battery charging

My Nexus S constantly freezes on battery. It's very slow, and unresponsive, it rarely stays alive fore more than 5 minutes. It's completely unusable on battery. Oddly, if it's charging it might work (still pretty slow and unresponsive after booting but it eventually sorts itself and works.) Another thing is the battery has *never* held a charge above 95%. Every-so-often it will charge to 96 or 97 but left connected to the charger it will start discharging and settle back to 95%.
It's running CM nightly. the battery charge problem happened even on the stock ROM. The freezing is probably a recent problem, I don't use this phone often enough to know.
Does anyone know about either of these problems? Is it related to CM? I don't want to switch to the stock ROM if I don't have to. The only reason I'm trying to use this phone is my DHD gets abysmal battery life. The other day, barely using the DHD, I went from 100% battery to 10% in just 6 hours.

what do you mean by "freeze on battery" ? i know single word , but when these 3 words combined a sentence , i have no idea
by what you say 95% , that's normal , if you are using kernel that does not indicate it can makes battery charge to 100% , then you won't be charge to 100% , mostly 95% tops , sometimes get pass 95% due to overcharge protection.
i assume your problem is your phone running pretty slow ?
you may wanna check your CPU usage because some applications may be running background and has high CPU usage
also you need check your battery's voltage , low voltage output will make CPU run slow due to not enough power ...
anyway , personal suggestion , first of all , back up your personal data and then flash stock ROM see if it is ROM problem , and then we could think of something else
good luck

Newest cm7 kernel charges to 100, older ones 95 is the norm.
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corythug said:
Newest cm7 kernel charges to 100, older ones 95 is the norm.
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its not a real 100%, its a cosmetic change. its actually charging to the same place it was before, just the number was altered to say 100%. if you look at the mV you will see. 4195-96 is a real 100% charge

simms22 said:
its not a real 100%, its a cosmetic change. its actually charging to the same place it was before, just the number was altered to say 100%. if you look at the mV you will see. 4195-96 is a real 100% charge
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hold on a second
mV or we are looking for mA ?
mV = output
mA = capacity

qtwrk said:
hold on a second
mV or we are looking for mA ?
mV = output
mA = capacity
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with bump charging..
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qtwrk said:
what do you mean by "freeze on battery" ? i know single word , but when these 3 words combined a sentence , i have no idea
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"freeze on battery" means that it only freezes when the power source is the battery. Plugged in to my computer or a charger and it doesn't happen.

try use another battery , i think it may be freeze due to low power output that makes CPU and other hardware do not have enough juice to function properly

Solved
I've solved the problem... I removed 120 apps from the phone and have had no problems since. I don't know if it was one particular app causing a problem or just that I had so many installed.

i think it's some of them , becuase i have also that much applications as well ...

dibarnu said:
My Nexus S constantly freezes on battery. It's very slow, and unresponsive, it rarely stays alive fore more than 5 minutes. It's completely unusable on battery. Oddly, if it's charging it might work (still pretty slow and unresponsive after booting but it eventually sorts itself and works.) Another thing is the battery has *never* held a charge above 95%. Every-so-often it will charge to 96 or 97 but left connected to the charger it will start discharging and settle back to 95%.
It's running CM nightly. the battery charge problem happened even on the stock ROM. The freezing is probably a recent problem, I don't use this phone often enough to know.
Does anyone know about either of these problems? Is it related to CM? I don't want to switch to the stock ROM if I don't have to. The only reason I'm trying to use this phone is my DHD gets abysmal battery life. The other day, barely using the DHD, I went from 100% battery to 10% in just 6 hours.
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try reflashing ur rom if u havent already...i had the same issue n reflashing work for me...i used a back up
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phone heating up while charging

the phone gets heated up a LOT while charging is it normal for the phone?

Can you define "a LOT"? By the very nature of battery recharging, it is only natural for some heat generation, as I'm sure you are aware.
But as this phone has fast charge capabilities, it is expected to get warmer than we may be used to.
Luckily though, as it charges quicker, the heat generation is short lived, and you don't have to worry about it being hot all the time while plugged in (unless you are using it at the same time), as the charging will drop in potency and cool down.
If you are concerned though, I suggest that you rest your phone on a hard, cool surface while it charges. Not something soft, like on your bed.
If your phone gets too hot to touch though, you may want to head back to the shop

close apps, stop using the phone, let it charge. problem solved.

solitarymonkey said:
Can you define "a LOT"? By the very nature of battery recharging, it is only natural for some heat generation, as I'm sure you are aware.
But as this phone has fast charge capabilities, it is expected to get warmer than we may be used to.
Luckily though, as it charges quicker, the heat generation is short lived, and you don't have to worry about it being hot all the time while plugged in (unless you are using it at the same time), as the charging will drop in potency and cool down.
If you are concerned though, I suggest that you rest your phone on a hard, cool surface while it charges. Not something soft, like on your bed.
If your phone gets too hot to touch though, you may want to head back to the shop
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By a lot i mean significantly hot its difficult to keep on the ear but this happens only while charging when the phone is below 80% and the HOTNESS which i am talking about is generated after the phone is about half an hour on chargeing and between 30-705. i just wanna know if it is normal or not. The phone gets warn on usage but HOT on charging!

I was reading a link another member posted on battery technology, and it said that when batteries are pretty empty to critically low, they charge on a higher current, and then when they start getting "fuller" they start to drop the recharge rate. I can't remember much of the detail now, but from a technical view point, it is standard behaviour to heat up like "that". If you still want to use your phone a lot while it is charging, you could try seeing how another charger works for you. Because it will charge slower and thus, create less heat.

solitarymonkey said:
I was reading a link another member posted on battery technology, and it said that when batteries are pretty empty to critically low, they charge on a higher current, and then when they start getting "fuller" they start to drop the recharge rate. I can't remember much of the detail now, but from a technical view point, it is standard behaviour to heat up like "that". If you still want to use your phone a lot while it is charging, you could try seeing how another charger works for you. Because it will charge slower and thus, create less heat.
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keeping on power save reduces the heat and doesnt drop TOO much performance and double battery so thats a round about for me!
power save still gives 4k geekbench and 50000 antutu so pretty good just a slight bit of bearable lag which you wont notice easily!
thanks happy to know my phone is normal!

solitarymonkey said:
Can you define "a LOT"? By the very nature of battery recharging, it is only natural for some heat generation, as I'm sure you are aware.
But as this phone has fast charge capabilities, it is expected to get warmer than we may be used to.
Luckily though, as it charges quicker, the heat generation is short lived, and you don't have to worry about it being hot all the time while plugged in (unless you are using it at the same time), as the charging will drop in potency and cool down.
If you are concerned though, I suggest that you rest your phone on a hard, cool surface while it charges. Not something soft, like on your bed.
If your phone gets too hot to touch though, you may want to head back to the shop
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Hey last night I plugged in my s6 for charging at around 18 % after 40 min my phone was at 84% but with a whopping temp at 44 deg celsius. I was terrified as phone was hot as hell. Later by reaching 100 it dropped to 39. My phone never goes below 33 deg and average temp is 36-37 deg without any heavy usage with heating near chrome edges. I am scared as samsung is not offering me replacement and they say your phone is safe until 48 deg. Should I be worried??

akarsh094 said:
Hey last night I plugged in my s6 for charging at around 18 % after 40 min my phone was at 84% but with a whopping temp at 44 deg celsius. I was terrified as phone was hot as hell. Later by reaching 100 it dropped to 39. My phone never goes below 33 deg and average temp is 36-37 deg without any heavy usage with heating near chrome edges. I am scared as samsung is not offering me replacement and they say your phone is safe until 48 deg. Should I be worried??
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If the manufacturing days 48°C abs toy haven't reached out you should be OK. Is this battery temp, processor temp, or surface temp? 44° is high, but not to bad if out is processor temp, if it is battery temp it is a little concerning, but add long add it doesn't stay that high much it shouldn't effect much. If it is surface temp it is a big concern add that is to high.
The above is my opinion, based on my knowledge of batteries and computer processors. Basically though if samsung days it's good I imagine it is good.
As a matter of fact, here is a start teens got from my phone. Not charging or anything.
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Question Watch 4 stand-by battery drain

Why don't the stats add up? What else is taking battery but not being shown here? And is the overnight battery drain normal? It's just put on the table, not worn at night.
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anil2705 said:
Why don't the stats add up? What else is taking battery but not being shown here? And is the overnight battery drain normal? It's just put on the table, not worn at night.
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It is normal for it to consume energy at night, if you do not use the phone at night a few percent will also escape
if your battery life is low, you can try to "optimise" it (there are various tools for this on the forum)
kind regards

yangton said:
It is normal for it to consume energy at night, if you do not use the phone at night a few percent will also escape
if your battery life is low, you can try to "optimise" it (there are various tools for this on the forum)
kind regards
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At night... While sleeping... So phone is not used at all... And yet the watch drains battery.

I don't know the battery lasts about a day on watch 4
and you have to charge it more or less every day
regards

I charge my gw4c in late evening, wear it before I go to bed and by the next late evening I have abt 55%. I do charge it almost every day because I know it might not make it for two full days. Heart rate/stress/snore detection set to always and blood oxygen measuring during sleep to on.

thanito said:
I charge my gw4c in late evening, wear it before I go to bed and by the next late evening I have abt 55%. I do charge it almost every day because I know it might not make it for two full days. Heart rate/stress/snore detection set to always and blood oxygen measuring during sleep to on.
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I too

I got GW5 Pro and I was also wondering why the battery usage doesn't add up. For some reason it doesn't show every apps battery consumption. I was able to find some apps that didn't show up on mine, but used some amount of battery. Usage still doesn't add up but gets closer.
On your phone open wear manager and go to watch settings and then apps. Now go through every app on that list one by one and check battery usage there.
For me Find My Mobile, Settings and Samsung text-to-speech engine shows 5% (I'm at 26% battery now) battery usage for every of those app, yet none of them are listen in apps shown at battery usage page.

anil2705 said:
At night... While sleeping... So phone is not used at all... And yet the watch drains battery.
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That is normal. The watch is still "running" even if not on your wrist and with the screen off and idle. It is still connected to your phone and communicating some. The drain might not be a lot , but it will still use some power.

crxssi said:
That is normal. The watch is still "running" even if not on your wrist and with the screen off and idle. It is still connected to your phone and communicating some. The drain might not be a lot , but it will still use some power.
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So 2% an hour idle drain is fine for this watch?

anil2705 said:
Więc 2% bezczynności na godzinę jest w porządku dla tego zegarka?
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yup

anil2705 said:
So 2% an hour idle drain is fine for this watch?
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Not if it is off your wrist it isn't. My drain rate, off my wrist, with WiFi off (BT on), sitting a foot from my phone, is about 0.6% per hour.

crxssi said:
Not if it is off your wrist it isn't. My drain rate, off my wrist, with WiFi off (BT on), sitting a foot from my phone, is about 0.6% per hour.
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How to even figure what's causing the drain since the battery stats don't even add up to 100? Also I noticed when placed on a dark surface, the battery drain is higher. When placed on a white surface, drain is on the lower side...

anil2705 said:
How to even figure what's causing the drain since the battery stats don't even add up to 100? Also I noticed when placed on a dark surface, the battery drain is higher. When placed on a white surface, drain is on the lower side...
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It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).

crxssi said:
It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).
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Well, it has bedtime mode on, so AOD isn't an issue I guess. It's relatively a new watch, been just a month or so.
Will try keeping the watch upside down and see nonetheless.

crxssi said:
It isn't easy.
For one, it is important to store the off-wrist watch on its side or up-side-down. That is what I do. Since I have AOD on, it is often necessary to keep the display off. But it also stops the watch from trying to measure heart-rate/etc. Store it near the phone, so the signal to the phone is strong and it doesn't have to expend as much energy (assuming it ramps up/down for transmission power). Reboot the watch once in a while (I do at least once a month; I have my Samsung phone set to reboot each Sun). I am not sure what other apps or systems installed will affect battery life. I don't have Samsung health thing running, since I don't care about it.
Battery stats never add up. Not on the watch or any Android device I have ever seen.
If you use and recharge the watch (or any modern device) very often, as it gets older, the battery indicator will become less and less accurate, overstating or understating drain/remaining life. At that point, a recalibration is helpful (drain it COMPLETELY until dead and shuts itself off, charge it fully. Might require a repeat).
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Kept the watch upside down, still drains @2%/hour.

Question Adaptive Battery or not?

So I have a new Pixel 7 Pro and after being away from Pixel devices since the 4a I am back.
I am used to turning adaptive Battery off on my Samsung devices because generally it throttles performance. Generally doesn't seem to increase battery life much.
Does Google implementation work better? Do people use adaptive Battery?
If you do why? Have tried it with it off and on and seen any difference?
Does adaptive Battery affect performance?
What are people's experience with it here?

I use it and unlike on my Note 20 Ultra all apps that run in the background like my smart thermostat with geofencing, blink cameras and so on all keep on running. On the Samsung that was always problematic. had to use macrodroid to sort of keep them running and to get geofencing working.
Battery life on the p7p is stellar too,

So most people use adaptive Battery.
Anyone with experience with it off?
I guess most people don't seem to really care?

I have never turned it off because I've never had any problems with it and I expect that with it off, battery consumption would greatly increase. Admittedly I have never tested it though so maybe that's what I'll do today.

robbbzilla said:
So most people use adaptive Battery.
Anyone with experience with it off?
I guess most people don't seem to really care?
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I'm running Android 9 and 10 on Note 10+'s. I never use it as it doesn't work. Turning that junk on isn't the same as hand optimizing the phone, not by a long shot. Even with degraded battery at about 80% of its original capacity I get 9-10 hours SOT.

How long does it take charging time for you? I put it at night and it gets charged after 6 hours? Is it by purpose?

albsat said:
How long does it take charging time for you? I put it at night and it gets charged after 6 hours? Is it by purpose?
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Yes, it remember your usage pattern. It will try to complete the charging process around time you wake up in the morning. Like, in my case, it will only hit 100% around 6a.m

otonieru said:
Yes, it remember your usage pattern. It will try to complete the charging process around time you wake up in the morning. Like, in my case, it will only hit 100% around 6a.m
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that's adaptive charging not adaptive battery

There was an issue with losing granted permissions when adaptive battery is on. I still have it happen sometimes.

MrBelter said:
that's adaptive charging not adaptive battery
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well, that's because am answering the question about the charging from user above me, lol

No one mentioned adaptive charging, i thought maybe albsat had got the 2 functions mixed up, my bad.

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No one mentioned adaptive charging, i thought maybe albsat had got the 2 functions mixed up, my bad.
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So are you saying that "adaptive charging" has been the reason for the late charge? My goodness. I will try today. I thought I had a defective battery. Lol
@otonieru thanks man.

albsat said:
So are you saying that "adaptive charging" has been the reason for the late charge? My goodness. I will try today. I thought I had a defective battery. Lol
@otonieru thanks man.
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Yes it times the charge by when you will be unplugging it in the morning or whatever so that it will reach 100% when you're ready to grab it. I have that option office cause I just wanna charge as fast as possible in case it's needed unexpectedly. Adaptive battery so far works better than whatever the equivalent for Samsung was.

From what I understood from Google documentation : Adaptative charging will hit the 100% charge, few minutes before your alarm time. For this feature (that is supposed to protect the battery) to work, you need to have the alarm setup between 6am and 10am.

This actually seems quite good without adaptive so I'm just going to leave it off. In fact I was doing some 5G speed testing using Network Signal Guru on this charge and I would have expected something more like 10-11% screen on drain as a result. It was hovering around 6% before that testing.
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This was my average when I took a screenshot before turning off adaptive battery yesterday.

EtherealRemnant said:
This actually seems quite good without adaptive so I'm just going to leave it off. In fact I was doing some 5G speed testing using Network Signal Guru on this charge and I would have expected something more like 10-11% screen on drain as a result. It was hovering around 6% before that testing.
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Very helpful information. Thank you!

I have had both adaptive features enabled since I got the phone from Google.
Charging speeds seem just like normal? I didn't know the longer charge cycle is only enabled if you have an alarm set on your phone? I use a regular alarm clock but I may try and set my alarm as I charge the phone tonight. Would be interesting to see if it does something like a trickle charge.
It says adaptive Battery learns your usage patterns and optimized charging speeds based on that so I just thought that was it and every time I have charged the phone it seems to charge pretty quickly and get slightly warm. Depending how low it is around an hour to an hour and a half.

robbbzilla said:
Charging speeds seem just like normal? I didn't know the longer charge cycle is only enabled if you have an alarm set on your phone? I use a regular alarm clock but I may try and set my alarm as I charge the phone tonight. Would be interesting to see if it does something like a trickle charge.
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If you have your alarm set some time up to 10AM, it stops charging at 80% and then trickle charges to 100% right before your alarm goes off IIRC. I don't use it because I don't have an alarm set before 10AM lol.
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Very helpful information. Thank you!
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I am going to leave it off for a week and I'll report back with my results. So far though, it almost seems better to just leave it off, which is weird.

EtherealRemnant said:
This actually seems quite good without adaptive so I'm just going to leave it off. In fact I was doing some 5G speed testing using Network Signal Guru on this charge and I would have expected something more like 10-11% screen on drain as a result. It was hovering around 6% before that testing.
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Gookill Adaptive battery never worked going back to Android 9.
You can see its status real time; Developer options>standby apps.
When off all buckets show as active and their states can't be altered. When on the bucket states vary and can be manually altered, which doesn't seem to do a damn thing except use more battery and cause erratic behavior especially with bluetooth apps.
Instead, target the hogs individually, altering background battery/data usage in individual app settings doesn't invoke adaptive battery or alter the standby apps bucket state.
They call it Gookill for good reasons. Lol, every dumb bunny thinks they win with Google...

EtherealRemnant said:
If you have your alarm set some time up to 10AM, it stops charging at 80% and then trickle charges to 100% right before your alarm goes off IIRC. I don't use it because I don't have an alarm set before 10AM lol.
I am going to leave it off for a week and I'll report back with my results. So far though, it almost seems better to just leave it off, which is weird.
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I have generally found adaptive Battery only throttles performance but doesn't really offer a significant benefit in battery life. My experience with it has generally been tied to Samsung devices though so I was curious if there was any difference on Pixel devices.
I am of the opinion that if you let a chip work as fast as possible it completes tasks faster than throttled and that actually helps with battery life. Basically throttling may give you a slight battery advantage but the difference is generally insignificant but the hit to performance is generally real. So you get almost the same battery performance but better overall performance without any adaptive Battery features enabled.
It will be interesting to see the results of your test to see if my experience is true or if Google has implemented a version of adaptive Battery that actually works and gets better over time.