Is this a joke? battery life :( - Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

96 percent with 5 hours left? .... that's atrocious...
Hopefully that's only because I just got the phone and it hasn't been calibrated with the correct usage time...
got it an hour ago... already removed forced encryption, unlocked bootloader, root, and got pure shamu on it.

There's a whole thread on battery life in general section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2946742

dustin4vn said:
96 percent with 5 hours left? .... that's atrocious...
Hopefully that's only because I just got the phone and it hasn't been calibrated with the correct usage time...
got it an hour ago... already removed forced encryption, unlocked bootloader, root, and got pure shamu on it.
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Those estimated times are straight rubbish when you first take it off the charger, especially if you use it striaght away too...
Give it a chance, not sure this needed a thread tbh

The estimated time remaining just seems to figure out the average drain per hour since you fully charged your phone. It then takes that same drain rate and computes the time until you run out of battery. So, if you fully charge your phone and then use it for 10 or 20 straight minutes, its going to compute its projection based on 100 percent screen on time since that's your usage since you fully charged it. In your example, it looks like you just took it off the charger so that's probably whats happening to you. After a couple hours and more mixed usage, it should give a more realistic projection.

TheSopranos16 said:
The estimated time remaining just seems to figure out the average drain per hour since you fully charged your phone. It then takes that same drain rate and computes the time until you run out of battery. So, if you fully charge your phone and then use it for 10 or 20 straight minutes, its going to compute its projection based on 100 percent screen on time since that's your usage since you fully charged it. In your example, it looks like you just took it off the charger so that's probably whats happening to you. After a couple hours and more mixed usage, it should give a more realistic projection.
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Exactly!
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standby battery drain?

Sooo. I have had my Optimus 2X for 2 days now. I charged the phone fullt before goint to bed and left wifi on. (should turn off when phone sleeps)
The first night i lost about 3% of the battery. Great....
But... The second night i lost 42%!!!
I have been trying to investigate the issue and after some digging with spare parts i found out the wifi was on all the time the second night... Also for some reason car home allways runs in the background (starts at boot and restarts if killed) and spare parts claims car home uses the phone sensors 100% of the time.
Anyone else having battery draining issues?
Im going to charge 100% again tonight and run with no installed user apps. If the problem persists i try and freez some of the loads of sys apps that run in the background all the time.
I also noticed some battery drain on mine but not over 40%... its more like 20%. The battery really disappoints me anyway. I have to recharge two or three times a day?l maybe thr battery needs to get trained over time, I hope...
You found a solution yet?
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Divicio said:
I also noticed some battery drain on mine but not over 40%... its more like 20%. The battery really disappoints me anyway. I have to recharge two or three times a day?l maybe thr battery needs to get trained over time, I hope...
You found a solution yet?
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My battery already holds up alot better now, then when i got the phone four days ago.
About 60-70% left after a 14 hour day with some surfing, benching and calling/texting. Much better then my Desire on stock ROM, but still nowhere near the Desire on custom ROM.
Looking forward to some community goodness
BTW, removing carhome.apk seems to make quite the difference.
londahl said:
My battery already holds up alot better now, then when i got the phone four days ago.
About 60-70% left after a 14 hour day with some surfing, benching and calling/texting.
BTW, removing carhome.apk seems to make quite the difference.
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That's good to hear. Is it common for batteries to act this way? Talk about wildin' out.
londahl said:
BTW, removing carhome.apk seems to make quite the difference.
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In case anyone's interested what "carhome.apk" does, Google explains it here.
With mine no problem, wifi actived, all the night it's abourt a few %
I nerver seen that on my olders android phones
Great battery
Battery seems the get better every day.
Weird but good stuff
xmoo said:
Battery seems the get better every day.
Weird but good stuff
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Same here
Quick question about best used on the battery ...
Should we dry the battery to 0 for the first cycle ?
Or only to 20% ?
Is it bad if we start to charge the phone whent the battery is at 60% ?
On the contrary:
modern Li-Ion batteries don't like it if you discharge them to a minimum. Moreover they don't have the memory effect that you seem concerned about.
In a nutshell: Charge your phone whenever you can, at any charge level. Your battery will thank you.
On the first few charges though, you should always charge to 100% to help the battery gain her full efficiency
hey thx about those informations
but then i'm concerned about people saying stuff like "have been doing 3 life circle" for me it does mean they put the battery dry clean ...
Went to bed with 64% charge on the battery. When I woke up (8 hours later), still 64%.
KernelCrap said:
Went to bed with 64% charge on the battery. When I woke up (8 hours later), still 64%.
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That's cause you turned it off.
fen_nyc said:
That's cause you turned it off.
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I think it might be because I froze all the applications I didn't need.
Been really impressed by this phone's battery. Definitely better than everything htc has to offer.
peacekeeper05 said:
Been really impressed by this phone's battery. Definitely better than everything htc has to offer.
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What's your usage like?
Hmm... My phone last for 6 hours before drained... Had it for a week now... Takes about 2 hours to fully charge up again..
I even hardreset, turned of wifi etc... but alas, 6 hours and it was out of power again...
And that was just by being in standby.
If I actually use the phone, I can see the percentages going down from 100 - 0 in no time..
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What's your usage like?
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7 am: Full charged
After 2 hours of 3g, 5 hours of wifi, heavy texting, 30 mins of call, 30 mins of games
7pm: still has 36%
Not bad for an android phone.
TakenName said:
Hmm... My phone last for 6 hours before drained... Had it for a week now... Takes about 2 hours to fully charge up again..
I even hardreset, turned of wifi etc... but alas, 6 hours and it was out of power again...
And that was just by being in standby.
If I actually use the phone, I can see the percentages going down from 100 - 0 in no time..
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My battery is useless to. Yesterday ive charged my phone 3 times hehe.
On moday I'll send it to the service as DOA.
Gonna try getting a new battery tomorrow... Hopefully it isnt the phone that is faulty...
2:nd day in my phone lasted about 5.5 h before I hade to recharge. Turned off the option for applications to sync and 20 hours later im at 32%

[Q] Htc one battery charging time

Htc one X full charge take around 3hours and it is painful.
Any ONE user can let us know how much time to do a full charge from 1-5% battery towards 100%?
I read somewhere in other thread is around 100 minutes. Better to confirm from different users.
Thanks!
No one can answer it?
Is it still 3 hours for a full charge?
mmx6688 said:
No one can answer it?
Is it still 3 hours for a full charge?
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its about the same but I haven't timed it. If you use the phone while charging then it will take a lot, lot longer.
recklesslife85 said:
its about the same but I haven't timed it. If you use the phone while charging then it will take a lot, lot longer.
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Thanks to let me know. Since I read some where it is only 100 minutes which make me wonder how it can be so fast.
3-4hours
my need up to 3-4 hours for a full charge
mmx6688 said:
No one can answer it?
Is it still 3 hours for a full charge?
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I've had my One for a few days and have noticed that it charges very slowly. 3-4 hours at least, longer if it's being used.
I charge it overnight while it's off so it hasn't been much of a problem for me.
GonzoDuke said:
I've had my One for a few days and have noticed that it charges very slowly. 3-4 hours at least, longer if it's being used.
I charge it overnight while it's off so it hasn't been much of a problem for me.
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I've noticed some very slow charging speeds, I put it on charge at midnight and at 6am it was at 84%!!. I was using an older HTC charger and not the one that came with the phone so it could be that but I doubt there's any different in output between them.
I've recently installed a battery app that tracks my usage and predicts when the battery will die. I took it off charge at 5:30pm tonight and it things it will flatten out at 6am tomorrow!.. that's only 12 hours on a full charge!.. I hope it's wrong but I'm already 10% down.. maybe it's no better than the HTC One X but I thought it was supposed to be better with a 2300mah battery
on mine from 5% to 96%is about hour half then hour half for the last 4%
mmx6688 said:
Htc one X full charge take around 3hours and it is painful.
Any ONE user can let us know how much time to do a full charge from 1-5% battery towards 100%?
I read somewhere in other thread is around 100 minutes. Better to confirm from different users.
Thanks!
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Anandtech tests report a battery charging time of 3:40 hours... so it is still painful.
I'd kill for 3hr charge time
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Anandtech tests report a battery charging time of 3:40 hours... so it is still painful.
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I just got my HTC One a couple of days ago and noticed it was taking forever to charge. So today I timed it. I put it on charge 3 hours ago and it's gone up 30%. It's taking around 6 minutes for 1% of charge. This is using the wall charger, it's slower if I plug it into USB. I'm barely using it while it's plugged in.
My Battery Widget says voltage is 4262mV and temp is 34.6C
It's discharging on normal use at around 10% an hour with power saver on, which I guess I'm fine with, but not if it takes that long to charge up again.
Anyone have any ideas what might be causing it or what I can do about it? (It's my first Android phone and I don't know what the factors are with this).
Thanks.
HTC One on AT&T running Nova Launcher
Dont forget to turn off wifi, blue-tooth and gps, these will kill your battery.
apps like "juice defender" can automatically turn these off if you forget them.
Change from 4g/3g to 2g/gsm it saves battery life
Dont have your screen brightness set too high
use an app like "watchdog" to find high cpu using apps and system processes
also use "wakelock detector" to see if any apps are waking your phone up and wasting battery power when it should be asleep when you are not using it.
You can also turn on the built-in "power saver" from the drop-down list.
their are lots of threads on how to save battery power
John.
mmx6688 said:
No one can answer it?
Is it still 3 hours for a full charge?
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i dont bother how long i always put it on charge when am going to bed .. and morning i see green light
Mine around 5 hours plus from 5%. If I use it gaming or watching YouTube while charging, it even took longer to charge full.
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Anyone use Better Battery Stats? Need help lowering %/per hour

So I'm burning 1.8% per hour according to BBS. Does anyone here know how to decipher the info and tell me what's the culprit?
1.8% per hour? That's not even bad. Round it up to 2%. That's 50 hours. What's wrong with that?
Jayanthy said:
It may be likely that your Moto X’s battery is fine, but having trouble correctly identifying how much battery life is left.
Simply run the battery down to about five to eight percent and let it die. You can speed this up by streaming a YouTube video. Then, when the Moto X has died, let it charge for a few hours before turning it back on.
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http://gizmodo.com/how-to-take-care-of-your-smartphone-battery-the-right-w-513217256
Never go to zero
Obviously, using your battery is going to make it degrade. But it's going to slowly die even if you just leave that iPad in the closet for a bit. There's a trick to minimizing that inevitable aging though: leave it a little bit of juice.
If you're going to be shelving any lithium-ion battery for a long time, try to leave it with at least 40 percent battery power to tide it over. Lithium-ion batteries don't hemmorage power at 30 percent a month like nickel-metal-hydride batteries do; they'll lose maybe five to ten percent of their charge each month.
And when lithium-ion batteries get too low—like, literally zero percent—they get seriously unstable, and dangerous to charge. To prevent explosion-type disasters if you do try to charge one, lithium-ion batteries have built-in self-destruct circuits that will disable (read: destroy) the battery for good, if it reaches rock bottom. And sure, that'll save you from a face full of battery-acid, but it'll also leave you short one battery.
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Always have heard it is bad to drain the battery in a phone. I know other people swear by it, but its not worth the risk of it not charging again, or worse blowing up.
Charging sooner doesn't hurt since there is no "charge memory" like nickle based batteries. so just plug it in when you can, and if you your away from an outlet for too long, maybe it time to consider an external battery backup.
OP, here's another thread that has been discusing the same issue, its a good read.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2418077
I burn around 6% after the last update, with no other changes to the phone. And that's with Battery Saver on too. Used to be around 1.5 to 3%. Everyone said "just wait, this always happens after an update, it will eventually settle out". Total BS. My daily battery life has been cut in half for months.
Well I did a better battery stats 6 hours test ( let it sit no touching etc ) and Im only at 1% an hour. Im pretty happy with that.
I've tweaked the crap out of my phone....and get 24+ hours with 5 1/2 to 6 1/2 hour screen times. Extremely happy......and best I've got on standby is 1ish per hour.
Again....tweaked the crap out....for battery life. LOL. So 1 percent even may take sacrifices some may not wanna make. I'd say a stock sorta phone would get 2 even and you'd be doing alright.
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wow you guys are getting great battery life! According to GSam Battery Monitor, I'm at 9.7%/hour. Currently 6 hours since unplugged and I'm at 35%! With only 2 hours of screen on time.
I think I messed it up when I first got the phone. I immediately upgraded to the 2 OTA's and forgot to do a factory reset. I think I might do one now and see if it fixes the battery life.
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rda990 said:
wow you guys are getting great battery life! According to GSam Battery Monitor, I'm at 9.7%/hour. Currently 6 hours since unplugged and I'm at 35%! With only 2 hours of screen on time.
I think I messed it up when I first got the phone. I immediately upgraded to the 2 OTA's and forgot to do a factory reset. I think I might do one now and see if it fixes the battery life.
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1 percent per hour is with no use. 9.7 per hour with you using it a lot and depending what you are doing could be perfectly normal.
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Question What is your 'a full charge will last about' number? (Hours)

Mine is 10. It's always 10 hours Every samsung device I have ever owned has gone done 10% an hour. From my first note to this device ! Are people getting longer?? I'm not talking about screen on time. ...
Assuming you have the Snapdragon variant. Exynos = 7/8 hours... still pretty impressive.
Mine says 2d 2hr. I never come close to using that, I typically don't charge it past 75%, nor let it get below 40%.
13 hours
One day, 14 hours.
Will that happen? Maybe in the land of pixies and rainbows. In real life, if I unplug my phone at 8am then when I go to bed around 11pm the charge is usually around 55-50%. That yields an actual time of around 30 hours (so, 1d 6h) which is actually not *that* far off from the estimate.
I spend all my time near wifi routers so that might help. If I use my phone a fair bit it'll be at 50% by bed. If I don't use it as much I can go through the whole day and still be in the 70's.
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Mine says 2d 2hr. I never come close to using that, I typically don't charge it past 75%, nor let it get below 40%.
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It's of course your choice to do so. I don't think being so conservative is necessary. I do a lot of work with electric vehicles and really most manufacturers are intentionally making 0% and 100% not the actual theoretical maximums. 0% for a lithium cell is right around 2-2.5v. It's very unlikely that the phone lets you get there. I'd imagine 0% is really being set somewhere around 2.8v. Likewise for 100%. If they have any common sense at all it's not being set to 4.2v fully charged but rather around 4V. Keeping a lithium cell between 2.8v and 4V doesn't hurt it. It's going much past that gets dangerous. Heat is not good for batteries, cold is REALLY not good for batteries. I have to believe that the phone won't let you charge it if it is too hot or cold. Terrible things happen to freezing cold batteries if you charge them. Of course, charging them too hot leads to a nice side effect if you were too cold or wanted a new house. So, I would say that temperature is one of the biggest considerations for battery life. If you can keep the battery right around room temperature always then it'll last.
But, I am curious. Has anyone taken voltage readings of the battery at full charge and low charge to see where the voltages are at? That might be interesting to see. I'll try to remember to check that.
Edit: looks like the cell chemistry for this phone is way different from what I'm used to in cars. Way higher upper voltage. Interesting. Still curious about the limits.
19 hours and 6 minutes. Interestingly enough, yesterday it was 20.5 hours. So it seems to be constantly changing.
Collin80 said:
It's of course your choice to do so. I don't think being so conservative is necessary.
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Of course it's not necessary, but tests have shown that batteries last longer with frequent, shallower charges around the middle of their range. I have a charging pad on my desk at work, and at home. It's trivial to occassionally move it on/off the pad. On the rare occasion where I expect I might need a full charge I'll do it, but no sense in charging it up all the way when it's not necessary.
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Mine is 1d 17h. Pretty happy with the battery life so far!
Wow. I'm always at 10 hours. Wonder what I'm doing wrong
Think it's pretty nice
This
1 day and 6 hours. Exynos WQHD 120Hz, no AOD.
My S21 Ultra Exynos lasts about 1 day and a half (36 hours) with aod always on and synced to my watch.
22 hours, 21 mins (Ex)
Exynos.
Disconnect at 07:30 am with 100% and can go until I finish work and then some with some battery. I think I get about 10-12 hours and get to 20%
Fluctuates between 24-30 hours
Exynos
2d 2h, Exynos, 120Hz, no AOD. Now im at 39% on day 3. So 3 standard workdays is pretty nice if you ask me. My old S9+ got me over 2 days with one charge safely.
1d6h. Exynos S21 Ultra with 120hz
What do you guys do with your devices that allows them to last such a long time? I'm done in 10 hours every day! Perhaps it's my email?

Question How is your batterylife?

I know it depends how you using it and so on. But generally?
I think mine is worse then pixel 4 xl. Have only charged it like 4 times but still. Using some Instagram, Facebook, Spotify, news , youtube.
Mostly wifi and feels like battery is dropping really fast.
I'm getting 7-8 hours SoT when battery hitting around 25-30% left. Here's my thread from my first findings.
Battery life?
So I'm coming from a 3 XL, and I even got the battery replaced April 2021, and I was getting about four hours SoT. My 7 in only two days is blowing my mind. Yesterday I had five hours SoT, and today after a full charge, It went from 100% to 99%...
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Today's usage.
its about the same as pixel 6 for me maybe a little less from daily usage...but smoother for sure and the phone is a little bit smaller which is always a plus
My battery sucks ATM. Only had like 3 full charges so might settle and getting better , hopefully
Another quick update. Haven't used the phone that much yesterday or today yet, and I'm happy with standby time. Over 34 hours off the charger with over 4 hours SoT, and still has over 40% battery.
bobbyphoenix said:
Another quick update. Haven't used the phone that much yesterday or today yet, and I'm happy with standby time. Over 34 hours off the charger with over 4 hours SoT, and still has over 40% battery.
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Doesn't sound great.
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Doesn't sound great.
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LOL what do you want? 20 hours SoT? Maybe because I'm coming from a 3 XL with a 3430 battery that after 4 hours of SoT, and only being off the charger for 12 hours, not well over 30, my battery would be at 10%, not 40%, but to me this is freaking awesome battery life.
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LOL what do you want? 20 hours SoT? Maybe because I'm coming from a 3 XL with a 3430 battery that after 4 hours of SoT, and only being off the charger for 12 hours, not well over 30, my battery would be at 10%, not 40%, but to me this is freaking awesome battery life.
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20 would be stellar.
Anyone getting battery drain with Spotify?
Was listening for 3h with bluetooth headphones and it said Spotify needed 23% which i feel is quite a lot.
3h display on used 5%
Mine is honestly making me regret buying the phone. Too late, sent my trade in yesterday.
I previously had the Pixel 5a and got around 9.5 hours of screen on time over 24 hours. I think most days I could go about 30 hours before running empty.
My P7 gets around 6 hours of screen time over about 18 hours.
So a battery that's 7% smaller is seeing battery life more than 30% worse.
I'm not very happy with the battery life as you can tell, and I just hope a software update can improve things.
boardrx182 said:
Mine is honestly making me regret buying the phone. Too late, sent my trade in yesterday.
I previously had the Pixel 5a and got around 9.5 hours of screen on time over 24 hours. I think most days I could go about 30 hours before running empty.
My P7 gets around 6 hours of screen time over about 18 hours.
So a battery that's 7% smaller is seeing battery life more than 30% worse.
I'm not very happy with the battery life as you can tell, and I just hope a software update can improve things.
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That's the only thing that scares me from getting it.
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That's the only thing that scares me from getting it.
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Other than the battery life the phone is fantastic haha. It's not unmanageable, I do keep good high-watt chargers in most places like home, work, car, etc. But sometimes I go do something all day and I'm not near a charger. Guess I'll just get used to using battery saver mode in those situations.
I do enjoy the phone, but the battery giving me anxiety is not very fun.
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Other than the battery life the phone is fantastic haha. It's not unmanageable, I do keep good high-watt chargers in most places like home, work, car, etc. But sometimes I go do something all day and I'm not near a charger. Guess I'll just get used to using battery saver mode in those situations.
I do enjoy the phone, but the battery giving me anxiety is not very fun.
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Yeah. I guess. Working 10 hrs makes me nervous about battery life. Lol.
dont reference your SOT, reference it to your previous phone, everone usage SOT is different, one person maybe have 5 hours SOT but on the camera for 70% one person may have 10 hours but only use it for texting or internet.
What ways have you guys found to extend battery life during normal use? Without having to severely reduce the functionality of the phone, ie 5g or reducing screen brightness a ton. I feel like a modern phone a lot of the point is the screen and 5g so those I wouldn't want to sacrifice
Are there settings or other apps that can help? I'm fairly new to Android and so far I've been a bit disappointed with the battery life of the P7.
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What ways have you guys found to extend battery life during normal use? Without having to severely reduce the functionality of the phone, ie 5g or reducing screen brightness a ton. I feel like a modern phone a lot of the point is the screen and 5g so those I wouldn't want to sacrifice
Are there settings or other apps that can help? I'm fairly new to Android and so far I've been a bit disappointed with the battery life of the P7.
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What kind of battery life are you getting? I only play around on mine (Instagram, Pinterest, SnapChat, and some Candy Crush games), and my main drain is Clash Royale, and I get around 7-8 hour SoT with 20% remaining. I switched 5G off, and only use LTE because 5G (at least in my area) is bad.
Man, y'all must've been spoiled with like 10+ hours of SOT with your old phones... I get around 6-8 with 30 hrs total which I think is pretty dang good. But like someone else said SOT will be much different from person to person based on device usage. I watched a 2hr downloaded movie from Netflix with airplane mode on and it only dropped 12%. And with adaptive charging, I just charge it all night which it will charge, slowly, till full until my alarm goes off.
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Man, y'all must've been spoiled with like 10+ hours of SOT with your old phones... I get around 6-8 with 30 hrs total which I think is pretty dang good. But like someone else said SOT will be much different from person to person based on device usage. I watched a 2hr downloaded movie from Netflix with airplane mode on and it only dropped 12%. And with adaptive charging, I just charge it all night which it will charge, slowly, till full until my alarm goes off.
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Exactly. My experience is the opposite though. I came from a 3 XL, and by the time I switched from it to the 7 my battery capacity was down to around 2800. My 7 is like a God send for me. 7-8 hours SoT with the same use as my 3 XL, and I still have 30% left, when my 3 XL would be down to 2%. I couldn't be happier.
I came from the OnePlus9 and all around the OnePlus9 is a better device.
Google has a great UI experience, but these Tensor2 chips do not compete in performance or efficiency with the Snapdragon 888s or higher.
Theyre missing a lot of the refinement that Qualcomm has done with the hardware and it shows.
For those coming from a Pixel 3-5 series, yes this is a big upgrade, and many got great trade-in deals which is what made me give this phone a shot. It does not however live up to it's MSRP. Im hoping Google is able to refine things to greatly improve efficiency on these devices.

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