New mate 20 pro user canadian variant. Really liking the phone main reason got it because of the excellent battery life I keep hearing. However that has not been the case. Currently this is my 5th day of use right now battery is at 78% with 42 mintues 'screen awake'
Someone help me with this?
Also having another issue using the usb c dongle for headphone jack, using pair of samsung akg headphones music youtube works fine but i cant use the headphones during calls it defaults to the phone speaker what gives?
One more thing wondering possible to turn off the swipe up gesture brings the 'control center toggles' everytime i swipe up from lock screen to unlock it brings those toggles up instead of going to home screen.
Please help!!
Canadian user bought from Rogers. Not a heavy user shows average is 43 minutes a day. Battery last charged full on Saturday night, currently at 61% Monday at 4 pm. I am sure my avg time is a bit higher on this phone than my previous, Honor 8 which would be down in the 40% range when I charged at night.
Haven't tried the dongle so can't help you.
Suggest you go into settings and under face recognition change to direct unlock from slide unlock.
GTT1 said:
Canadian user bought from Rogers. Not a heavy user shows average is 43 minutes a day. Battery last charged full on Saturday night, currently at 61% Monday at 4 pm. I am sure my avg time is a bit higher on this phone than my previous, Honor 8 which would be down in the 40% range when I charged at night.
Haven't tried the dongle so can't help you.
Suggest you go into settings and under face recognition change to direct unlock from slide unlock.
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Hi just wondering so you use your phone rarely? Because i'm a heavy user and i get through one day with around 20-30 percent left and around 7+ hours of sot.
You should easily get 7 hours of SOT. I get between 7 to 10 Hrs of SOT. However each person's usage is different so you might get less depending on your app usage
Check your battery stats and its likely that some apps are running on the background upon boot up which drains your battery faster than normal.
Hazzay88 said:
You should easily get 7 hours of SOT. I get between 7 to 10 Hrs of SOT. However each person's usage is different so you might get less depending on your app usage
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Ahhh ic so far i'm 8 hours and 17 mins in with 3 hours and 30 mins and i'm at 60% with heavy use of line and hours use of line as well as bluetooth with spotify on and for line it stated almost 15% of it used up my battery. Should i be getting more battery life(?) or no(?)
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Ahhh ic so far i'm 8 hours and 17 mins in with 3 hours and 30 mins and i'm at 60% with heavy use of line and hours use of line as well as bluetooth with spotify on and for line it stated almost 15% of it used up my battery. Should i be getting more battery life(?) or no(?)
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Nah you are getting decent battery life which should get over 7 hours of SOT
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Nah you are getting decent battery life which should get over 7 hours of SOT
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So i'm having no problem with the battery right?
Hazzay88 said:
Nah you are getting decent battery life which should get over 7 hours of SOT
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With heavy usage anything over 6 hours is great. I usually get 7 to 9 Hours of SOT. I don't think many phones come close to this. I doubt even the new S10+ would either
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With heavy usage anything over 6 hours is great. I usually get 7 to 9 Hours of SOT. I don't think many phones come close to this. I doubt even the new S10+ would either
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Alrite ahahaha thank you for the clarification ?
Gizmoo32 said:
New mate 20 pro user canadian variant. Really liking the phone main reason got it because of the excellent battery life I keep hearing. However that has not been the case. Currently this is my 5th day of use right now battery is at 78% with 42 mintues 'screen awake'
Someone help me with this?
Also having another issue using the usb c dongle for headphone jack, using pair of samsung akg headphones music youtube works fine but i cant use the headphones during calls it defaults to the phone speaker what gives?
One more thing wondering possible to turn off the swipe up gesture brings the 'control center toggles' everytime i swipe up from lock screen to unlock it brings those toggles up instead of going to home screen.
Please help!!
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Can I ask you something? As you said you have Canadian variant, i too have a Rogers sim card. Now rogers says, when you insert the sim card the first time, it brands the phone as Rogers and install couple of additional softwares. I was in international roaming when i did that, so it did not install that bloat rogers software on the device. Can i ask you what Canadian or Rogers app you have on your phone to brand it as rogers. Can you please let me know?
Thankyou in advance.
Hazzay88 said:
With heavy usage anything over 6 hours is great. I usually get 7 to 9 Hours of SOT. I don't think many phones come close to this. I doubt even the new S10+ would either
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Samsung phones all suck when it comes to battery life
They all do. I've had s8 s8plus s9 note 8 note 9. The mate 20 pro I've had for 2.5 months is consistent and easily gives me 8 hours SOT almost daily!
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With all the questions and complaints on battery life, lets determine what your realistic expectations are with an Android Device.
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With all the questions and complaints on battery life, lets determine what your realistic expectations are with an Android Device.
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I've only had one other android phone, and that was an Atrix. I got about 12 hours from each charge and 2 hours screen time--- compared to when I first got it when I got 20 hours and 3 hours screentime.
It seems like this galaxy note is going to be the same way so far -- although i REALLY want to be bale to get 30hrs and 5hrs screen time. Let's see if I can
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I've only had one other android phone, and that was an Atrix. I got about 12 hours from each charge and 2 hours screen time--- compared to when I first got it when I got 20 hours and 3 hours screentime.
It seems like this galaxy note is going to be the same way so far -- although i REALLY want to be bale to get 30hrs and 5hrs screen time. Let's see if I can
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Wow...Really? I had the Atrix as well and could get well over 30 hours of charge on it after about a year. The first few months I was seeing between 12 and 20 hours. For me it seemed the longer I had it the better the battery life was.
I'd frequently have it unplugged from 6 AM to 1 AM daily and have 60% left. That may be because all my usage came over a consolidated period of time and the rest of the time was light usage.
My first Android phone was the original Droid...I was able to coax around 24 hours out of it...but I was rooted with a custom ROM and a LV overclock kernel for it.
I'm hoping that I can get at least 14 hours with the Note on the same sort of routine...not so much this week because I don't want to put it down! LOL...my usage has gone from Light/Moderate to HEAVY...I fully expect to be able to hit this after a few more charge cycles (provided my usage goes back to normal...with the screen size I can see myself using this more than the Atrix, so we'll just have to see).
Over 20 hours of use with wifi, Bluetooth, LTE, auto-brightness, web browsing, video playing, texting, emailing and forum posting.
Yea, that's 5h 14m "screen on" time, too. 5.3 inch LTE device with those battery stats - yea, I'm happy. If your expectations are any higher you're delusional. 100% stock.
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I want to select 14-16, but in this poll are you implying that at 16 hours I need to hit the charger or turn it off? This is rather subjective because I have a few friends that consider a phone "dead" the minute it hits 30%. Hell even the custom power saving profile is defaulted to kick in at 30%.
16 hours from my workday wake up time is only 11PM. I'd like to think if I decide to go out on the weekends I don't need to worry about charging up unless I've been using the phone like crazy throughout the day.
So we are at 10-12 hours so far in the poll. I hope we can get more input.
It's just $25 for TWO (semi-decent) spare batteries and a charger on Amazon... so no worries!
That said, the first few days with this phone have been rough! I've been using it so damn much that I have to plug it in at just 6 or 7pm when I get home from work. (DOH!) I'm sure my usage will go down a little after the honeymoon period wears off (maybe?). Luckily, though, my spare batteries are set to arrive today... so it's all good!
Just like the title says, how's everyone's battery life, all i can say is mine is meh, not as good as i thought it could be, it's about the same or less than my previous phone surprisingly.
20 hours total, 3:15 screen on time with 25% battery left. My Xperia Z1s would've have gotten around the same maybe 4 hours at 25%
I'm only on my 3rd day with the phone, but the battery life yesterday really shocked me. I came from a water-damaged Xperia Z3v (thanks Sony), and I could easily get 2 days of use out of it. This phone appears to have similar battery life, but I spent most of the day on voice calls and only using it occasionally. Not a ton of heavy browsing in an airport, for instance. I was at home on WiFi all day.
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I've been getting 20+ hours with around 5hr SOT these days. Left with ~20% battery.
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Between YouTube, Facebook, and a bunch of other stuff ive been going just over 12hrs.
DK253 said:
I've been getting 20+ hours with around 5hr SOT these days. Left with ~20% battery.
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WAT, is this through data or wifi only or combo of both? I have data on 70% of the day from 7am to about 4-5pm and so i get home with about 55% at 5pm with 1 hour and 30 min of SOT then once i get to 4% (at like 8pm) on wifi my SOT is 3 hours and 50 minutes to a little over 4 hours
my phone must be defective
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I'm only on my 3rd day with the phone, but the battery life yesterday really shocked me. I came from a water-damaged Xperia Z3v (thanks Sony), and I could easily get 2 days of use out of it. This phone appears to have similar battery life, but I spent most of the day on voice calls and only using it occasionally. Not a ton of heavy browsing in an airport, for instance. I was at home on WiFi all day.
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Impossssibruuuu, my mom has the z3v and we took it to the pool and used it for 1 hour under water (of course taking it out every 1-3 minutes then dipping it back in) her phone still works fine, but i do have a question, did some of your google apps not work through data? I might have to factory reset hers to fix it (i've tried everything such as resetting google play services/framework etc) also i find the s6 edge+ battery not that great as it is about the same or worse than my Xperia Z1s i had on tmobile. Actually, my Z1s easily made it to 4 hours where my Edge + struggles and through the same combo of lte/wifi what I said in the post earlier
edit: just noticed your phone doesn't get a horrible google play services drain, my edge + does it's like 1st or 2nd on the list to cell standby (going to test out advanced calling on mobile data to see if that helps)
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Between YouTube, Facebook, and a bunch of other stuff ive been going just over 12hrs.
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How's your average SOT?
LaosPerson said:
WAT, is this through data or wifi only or combo of both? I have data on 70% of the day from 7am to about 4-5pm and so i get home with about 55% at 5pm with 1 hour and 30 min of SOT then once i get to 4% (at like 8pm) on wifi my SOT is 3 hours and 50 minutes to a little over 4 hours
my phone must be defective
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WiFi 90%. Used package disabler pro and disabled a boat load of stuff. Bloat free life
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WiFi 90%. Used package disabler pro and disabled a boat load of stuff. Bloat free life
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Ah interesting I don't have such money to buy apps >_> (only 15) would have to get a google play card
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WiFi 90%. Used package disabler pro and disabled a boat load of stuff. Bloat free life
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-facepalm- i forgot someone created a app for windows to connect your phone through adb and disable anything without root i just need to remember the name now
edit: it's literally called debloater
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How's your average SOT?
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about 5 hours
LaosPerson said:
Impossssibruuuu, my mom has the z3v and we took it to the pool and used it for 1 hour under water (of course taking it out every 1-3 minutes then dipping it back in) her phone still works fine, but i do have a question, did some of your google apps not work through data? I might have to factory reset hers to fix it (i've tried everything such as resetting google play services/framework etc) also i find the s6 edge+ battery not that great as it is about the same or worse than my Xperia Z1s i had on tmobile. Actually, my Z1s easily made it to 4 hours where my Edge + struggles and through the same combo of lte/wifi what I said in the post earlier
edit: just noticed your phone doesn't get a horrible google play services drain, my edge + does it's like 1st or 2nd on the list to cell standby (going to test out advanced calling on mobile data to see if that helps)
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Google Play wasn't working on my Edge+ out of the box, I had to clear its data and begin again, then it worked properly. Might try that for any Google apps she's having trouble with.
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Google Play wasn't working on my Edge+ out of the box, I had to clear its data and begin again, then it worked properly. Might try that for any Google apps she's having trouble with.
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Just reset the whole phone, and it seems fine now, I hope lol
I am getting 12 hours a day.
14 hours with 40% left. Been flinging things at chrome cast for about 2 hours then about 4 hours of music via Bluetooth. After a normal work day.
It ain't bad.
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When i first got mine battery was incredible. It seems like clean master suite of apps makes the battery a little slower but i think it makes up for it by closing apps on background even after you close then out. My battery started dieing quick when i had all the clean master apps running. Cm locker, phone boost, and regular clean master. I Uninstalled cm locker and phone boost but by just leaving the original app i just click the one-click standby, and hibernate to kill background apps draining battery without having all of the CM apps running all the time draining my battery the most.
I get close to 8 hours before it gets 25% but heavy use like navigation and Bluetooth/YouTube streaming simultaneous drains a little faster.
Like the phone dieing quicker in general since i first got the phone last month but i think the quick charge has slowed down sometimes. Im at 28% right now and it says approximately 1hr 53 minutes. When i first got it out would charge like 50% in 20 minutes and I'm using original charger and cable that came with phone.
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When i first got mine battery was incredible. It seems like clean master suite of apps makes the battery a little slower but i think it makes up for it by closing apps on background even after you close then out. My battery started dieing quick when i had all the clean master apps running. Cm locker, phone boost, and regular clean master. I Uninstalled cm locker and phone boost but by just leaving the original app i just click the one-click standby, and hibernate to kill background apps draining battery without having all of the CM apps running all the time draining my battery the most.
I get close to 8 hours before it gets 25% but heavy use like navigation and Bluetooth/YouTube streaming simultaneous drains a little faster.
Like the phone dieing quicker in general since i first got the phone last month but i think the quick charge has slowed down sometimes. Im at 28% right now and it says approximately 1hr 53 minutes. When i first got it out would charge like 50% in 20 minutes and I'm using original charger and cable that came with phone.
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I've noticed my charging wire is defective. I'm using a micro USB cable I had lying around of course still with the adaptive fast charging and now it always says fast charging when I connect it. @ 1 hour and 30 minutes or 20 minutes
I left my phone unplugged connected to Foxfi. So from 930 pm to 300 am I was at 29% left. If it was my M7 doing the same thing it would of died in 2 hrs flat. So compared to my old phone my edge+ does better and that what I like to see. Hate getting s phone where my old one battery last longer than my new one.
Plus with fast charging it doesn't take long to charge these phones. I can be at 75% when I go to lunch and when I charge it the phone will have a full charge way before I go back. Where as my M7 would take 3 hrs.
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It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the honor 5X before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
The longest I've gotten was just under 6 and a half hours with 9% battery left when I plugged in
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8 hr screen on time with moderate use
Great battery life
If I use my honor 5x moderately, I get around 5.5-6 hrs SOT. under heavier use it's usually 3-4 hours.
also battery would last a full 24-hr day with normal use and recharging would take ~3hrs.
Wow, this 5x is a beast on SOT.
5.5hours of sot 4me on average usage
Giving me 1 day usage
just pulled 5hrs sot
dual sim mode,
4g active
hostsopt and vpn was active around 1hr
rest all goes to insragram and xda app and some gaming
That's fantastic
The battery has been extremely amazing, I got this phone and got rid of my Nexus 5x. It was an upgrade in this category.
lovendei said:
The battery has been extremely amazing, I got this phone and got rid of my Nexus 5x. It was an upgrade in this category.
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same here, excellent deveice
lovendei said:
The battery has been extremely amazing, I got this phone and got rid of my Nexus 5x. It was an upgrade in this category.
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Yep you're right, but the nexus has an advantage of direct support from google (which results in a better dev support) and front facing speakers
PalakMi said:
Yep you're right, but the nexus has an advantage of direct support from google (which results in a better dev support) and front facing speakers
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Hence why I said in this category
I do understand
Best one so far, 7.5 hours. Location, 4G, lots of browsing. Running B350. I don't know if that amount of awake time is normal - like my phone isn't sleeping unless I turn wifi off...
Now With 4G ON 24 x 7, I'm getting a day exactly on normal usage.
With my stock 2A charger, it gets charged by 2hrs.
moving post to correct thread.
Quite good
With a lot of ROMs ( RR, crdoid,...) getting 4h30/5h SOT with still 30% left.
Of course i use forcedoze and frooze some system apps like devtools,inputdevices,timeservice and keychain.
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Is 3 hours of screen on time on Lollipop good? I keep hearing of people that get 5 or 6 hours of screen on time and No android device I get has ever achieved that. Even my xperia z3 tablet compact can't get over 3 hours of Screen on time. Am I doing something wrong? Like could I be using my device too much?
check apps wich draw most battery and get rid of them , if this won't work then do a factory reset ...
I get between 4 1/2 and 7+ SOT hours.
Depends mostly if I turn Bluetooth on (SmartWatch), GPS use (Google+ position tracking, weather),use a lot of Internet (chrome is a battery sucker, you don't believe it), sync a lot of mails n stuff like that.
Of course it depends on your apps, but 3 hours is really not a lot, may be your battery is not good.
The 3 hours screen on time is with heavy usage but the standby time is amazing.
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The 3 hours screen on time is with heavy usage but the standby time is amazing.
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I get 3-4 hours screen on time too. However, that's with heavy use. Viber, Skype & Talkray for 1-2 hours per day. I get 2-3 days standby with 3-4 hours screen on time based on the above. Also some light web browsing and some WhatsApp...
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I get 3-4 hours screen on time too. However, that's with heavy use. Viber, Skype & Talkray for 1-2 hours per day. I get 2-3 days standby with 3-4 hours screen on time based on the above. Also some light web browsing and some WhatsApp...
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It very much depends on a rom.
I was able to get around 4-5h sot on lollipop, but it was on Google style rom. On some more customized or stock roms you may get a bit worse battery life.
So to answer your question, 3h is a bit below the average result.
The reason may be an old battery.
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mr.loverlover said:
It very much depends on a rom.
I was able to get around 4-5h sot on lollipop, but it was on Google style rom. On some more customized or stock roms you may get a bit worse battery life.
So to answer your question, 3h is a bit below the average result.
The reason may be an old battery.
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Old battery? My Z2 is only 2 months old and was bought brand new. :laugh:
Perhaps rom related. Most ever SOT I got was around 4.5 hours and that was on Lollipop Google style rom...
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Google Pixel 3a before depleting the battery.
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Stock Android 10
Everything on, WiFi, BT, location, screen Auto brightness, dark Mode.
Im coming from the op3 a 4h SOT device so im quite happy with the battery life of the p3a
yabadabadooo said:
Stock Android 10
Everything on, WiFi, BT, location, screen Auto brightness, dark Mode.
Im coming from the op3 a 4h SOT device so im quite happy with the battery life of the p3a
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You got 8 hours on the regular one? I used to have the 3A XL but then gifted it to someone and an now using an galaxy S9. Really miss having a pixel though so am thinking about picking up the regular 3A and was wondering how the battery would differ
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You got 8 hours on the regular one? I used to have the 3A XL but then gifted it to someone and an now using an galaxy S9. Really miss having a pixel though so am thinking about picking up the regular 3A and was wondering how the battery would differ
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Yes it's the 3a. I think i could get more SOT without gaming.
From full charge to zero, I could get about 10hrs of screentime consecutively browsing, but that's not how I use my phone. In 48hrs of 'normal usage' I get about 5hrs of screentime.
I do about 3-6 hours of BT audio streaming daily which is why there is a larger than normal screen off usage. Still nice average SOT. I have so many sessions because I try to keep my battery between 50 and 80% for longevity.
I get 8 good hours.
What does Android 10 Battery say? Screen usage since full charge? Also Full charge lasts about???
Mine says 1 day 11 hours of typical usage. I always charge at night so it has rarely if ever run out.
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Yes it's the 3a. I think i could get more SOT without gaming.
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Well I switched back to the 3a (regular version this time not the XL) and I'm getting about 4 hours SOT. Brand new.
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Well I switched back to the 3a (regular version this time not the XL) and I'm getting about 4 hours SOT. Brand new.
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is it better or worse than the XL ?
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is it better or worse than the XL ?
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Worse, on the best day you can get 6.5-7 hours on the regular. On the XL it's possible to get 9-10
I got my pixel 3a a couple weeks ago and struggling the last week or so getting more than 3.5 or 4 hrs SOT. I did use GPS for a 2 hour drive home today but it's 3p and I'm down to 10%. Idunno what's going on.
Here is the other day :/
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sippinhenn said:
I got my pixel 3a a couple weeks ago and struggling the last week or so getting more than 3.5 or 4 hrs SOT. I did use GPS for a 2 hour drive home today but it's 3p and I'm down to 10%. Idunno what's going on.
Here is the other day :/
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the app usage of 66% is a clue. maybe you got some crazy app eating up battery. if you have bluetooth and/or wifi scanning on continuously that can drain a bit. gsam can be setup to show which app is using most by doing the adb command. just select apps for the details if you have not already.
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the app usage of 66% is a clue. maybe you got some crazy app eating up battery. if you have bluetooth and/or wifi scanning on continuously that can drain a bit. gsam can be setup to show which app is using most by doing the adb command. just select apps for the details if you have not already.
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Check out the second screenshot in that link. I've setup this via adb and had that included originally but probably wasn't obvious
9h+ , with lots of YouTube .
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dkryder said:
the app usage of 66% is a clue. maybe you got some crazy app eating up battery. if you have bluetooth and/or wifi scanning on continuously that can drain a bit. gsam can be setup to show which app is using most by doing the adb command. just select apps for the details if you have not already.
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Here we are after factory reset and flashing the latest OTA from
https://developers.google.com/android/images
Still can't hit 4 hrs SOT. Not once. I really don't know what to do at this point. Incredibly frustrating with everyone else on this thread having MUCH better results.
GSAM is showing some pretty beefy wakelocks on that "RemoteSoundTriggerDetection" and "*alarm*", ActivityManager-Sleep, etc.
I bought it from Best Buy. Should I go up there and see if they'll replace (highly doubt it) ? Maybe flash a custom kernel?
screen on time is a function of what a person normally does with a phone. one way to get high screen on time is you could set display intensity to 25% and timeout to 30 min. if you need that number to be higher. just let the screen be on as much as possible. when you first got it did you fully charge it then fully discharge it then fully charge again? screen on time is about the last metric i ever think about. i don't understand at all why it's so important. i'd be willing to bet some users set intensity to 20% and time out to 30 min or always on and do very little else then they get s.o.t. of 8-9 hrs or higher and think it's great when it's a joke. that's the way i look at it anyway.
dkryder said:
screen on time is a function of what a person normally does with a phone. one way to get high screen on time is you could set display intensity to 25% and timeout to 30 min. if you need that number to be higher. just let the screen be on as much as possible. when you first got it did you fully charge it then fully discharge it then fully charge again? screen on time is about the last metric i ever think about. i don't understand at all why it's so important. i'd be willing to bet some users set intensity to 20% and time out to 30 min or always on and do very little else then they get s.o.t. of 8-9 hrs or higher and think it's great when it's a joke. that's the way i look at it anyway.
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Not sure if you're replying to me but I'll answer anyway. Yes I fully charged it then fully discharged it then fully charged again when I first got it.
It's not the SOT that is so worrisome but the constant Android system and kernel drain on my device.
I'm getting worse battery life on my 6 week old 3a than my 2.5 yo OnePlus 5 which wasn't good to begin with. This device was lauded for having excellent battery life and I'm not seeing it.
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9h+ , with lots of YouTube .
Elemental x Kernel.
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hello , what version elemental kernel?
regards
dkryder said:
screen on time is a function of what a person normally does with a phone. one way to get high screen on time is you could set display intensity to 25% and timeout to 30 min. if you need that number to be higher. just let the screen be on as much as possible. when you first got it did you fully charge it then fully discharge it then fully charge again? screen on time is about the last metric i ever think about. i don't understand at all why it's so important. i'd be willing to bet some users set intensity to 20% and time out to 30 min or always on and do very little else then they get s.o.t. of 8-9 hrs or higher and think it's great when it's a joke. that's the way i look at it anyway.
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It isn't that at all. I found using it for anything where the phone needs to utilize the GPU a lot, like gaming, drains battery substantially. "Light" workloads, like web browsing, using social media apps, streaming video, etc give you really good battery life. Once I start up a game, I see about 5-6 hrs compared to 9.5 hrs if I just stream YouTube, check the XDA app, email, Reddit, etc.