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P7 owners, how do I get decent battery life? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/googlepixel

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I can't for the figure out how to get more than 3 hours of SOT. My battery is at a 100% health according to accubattery, and it was just replaced a few weeks ago so the battery is for sure good.

Whenever I check accubattery, it'll give me a claim of how a full charge should give me 9 hours of SOT, but 3 hours later my battery is at 20% or lower. I add up the usage per app and it doesn't add up.

I've got adaptive battery, adaptive connectivity, and adaptive charging turned on. I'm only using LTE since my carrier doesn't do 5G either way. I'm usually at 50%-80% unless I'm out in the sun. I've tried resetting the learned behavior for adaptive battery as well, but that hasn't changed anything.

It's not even like my units defective because the one I bought first had a defective fingerprint sensor and had the same battery life.

Give me your secrets people, I just want my phone to last me the day.

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[–] AMillionMonkeys 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if this applies to the Pixel 7, but with the 6a disabling 5G (setting preferred network to LTE) helps appreciably with battery life.

[–] zikk_transport2 4 points 1 year ago

Not a recommendation, but personally I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS once I repair my broken USB-C port on my P7Pro.

I've heard it isolates many apps, preventing them from draining battery.

[+] Android007 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Trapping5341 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the camera still work as well as on the factory image? I've been debating playing around with graphene for like a week now but that's my biggest hangup. Don't want to wipe my phone just to have to put it all back to factory.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's with the downvotes? You can install the same Google Camera app and just revoke a lot of the unnecessary privileges.

And I definitely agree with the user above. Battery life is definitely incredible with that OS.

[–] Trapping5341 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably a stupid question to people that use the OS. 🤷‍♂️ Or they all have a bunch of free time and enjoy spending it re setting up their phone lol. One last question. Will I lose googles call screening? Idk if I could leave that again 😂 left it for a bit when I went to an S21 but couldn't handle all the spam calls 😂

[–] QuadratureSurfer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not a stupid question at all. All of the stock google apps have been replaced after all.

Call screening does not work with the replacement app, but downloading the original "Phone by Google" app from the play store is an option.

I haven't played around with it on this OS yet, but I may have to as the spam callers have definitely stepped up their game.

[–] Trapping5341 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah ok. Let me know what you find out if you decide to test. My company phone is an iPhone and I feel like I get 10 calls a day on that thing. When I first switched back to a Pixel I feel like I got a ton that call screen handled but it's not as bad anymore.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far not looking so good. I couldn't get the normal call screening up with just Google's phone App. I think I need Google Assistant combined with the Google Phone app to get it... I'll need to play around with it a bit more. Pobably over the weekend.

@[email protected] dm in 2 days.

[–] Trapping5341 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for testing and letting me know. I really appreciate it. I've want to degoogle myself more than I already am but everything is just so much easier through Google 😂

[–] QuadratureSurfer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I worked on it for a bit, but no luck yet. It's probably better to avoid switching to this OS if that's a deal breaker, that or use a different call screening service.

[–] Trapping5341 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for letting me know. I still may try it see how it goes. Can always go back to factory. 🤷‍♂️

[–] amenotef 1 points 1 year ago

Google adds so much stuff to the Pixel that it starts to feel like bloatware.

If I move to graphene OS then I'll lose FRP right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pixel 7 or Pixel 7 Pro? I keep seeing people talking about their Pixel 7 and they mean the Pro version.

I would start uninstalling typical battery hog apps, like any social media apps you got, for a day or two and see if batttery life improves.

In general remove apps one by one, see what makes a difference. Or go extreme with a factory reset just in case.

[–] cdegallo 3 points 1 year ago

7 pro since launch day here. Always had really disappointing battery life.

I used mine for very trivial tasks. On WiFi virtually all day, indoors most of the day. I use my phone casually--no video games, no video chat apps. I will take it off the charger at 7:45am and use it for MAYBE 2.5h of screen time over the course of 11-12h during the day and I'll be at 35% battery left. If I do ANYTHING just shortly taxing and I have to charge it midday.

Google soc and hardware choices are very power inefficient.

My wife has a 7a and also had disappointing battery life.

Google isn't on a good path so far I'm my opinion.

For the first time I'm completely disinterested in what Google is doing with their pixel phones. I went to an S23 ultra and battery life has been nothing sorry of amazing, and the concerns I used to have with camera on Samsung phones isn't really an issue to me anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Accubattery SOT estimates are highly inaccurate, don't let them raise your standards to much

[–] amenotef 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Really? I was getting a bit more SOT in this app than in android system app. But BBS is reporting same SOT as AccuBattery, that means BBS is also wrong?

[–] B007 2 points 1 year ago

Setting the lowest brightness setting you are comfortable with in the adaptive brightness setting. Do this for indoors and outdoors. You may have to set it a couple of times for each, but the phone will eventually remember. Also, turn off Bluetooth if you don't use it.

[–] Mikey_donuts 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on the latest beta and I feel like battery life is improved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android 14?

[–] Mikey_donuts 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Prior betas were buggy but this one is stable and battery seems good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Get another phone unfortunately. There's nothing you can do to get a decent battery life on a Pixel phone, sadly.