The early reports are showing only 3.5-4 hours of SOT. If so, this is shameful on a 3450mah battery. Can anyone say they have seen better than this?
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Look in the review thread. Some reviews say 6+ hours, some say less. Depends dramatically on cell signal strength, screen brightness, and application cpu use so review numbers are really only useful for comparison to other phones that were tested the exact same way.
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In Dave Lee's review, he got 5.5 hours of SoT during a span of 32 hours.
Battery life is extremely subjective, most reviewers will have vastly different usage requirements out of their devices.
There is also countless optimizations that can be done to further improve battery life, most reviewers don't know this and tend to not include it in their reviews and thus end up with lower than expected battery life.
I can kill a smartphone in 2 hours with extremely heavy use, recording 4k and playing games will easily do this while you can take the same device and get 5 hours of use browsing the web and reading forums.
It's all extremely subjective and unfortunately you can't accurately predict the battery life you will get simply because your usage, signal strength and many other factors vary from other users.
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km8j said:
The early reports are showing only 3.5-4 hours of SOT. If so, this is shameful on a 3450mah battery. Can anyone say they have seen better than this?
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You are true for a few reports, however I saw almost all of them and most of them had between 4.5 to 6 hours SOT
Not that it will be necessary but is it possible to easily lower the screen resolution and would it substantially affect battery life?
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Not that it will be necessary but is it possible to easily lower the screen resolution and would it substantially affect battery life?
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You mean changing the dpi? I gues it's not hard. There's videos on youtube how to change your phone's dpi through adb without root... But I don't think it will have a difference in batterylife though...
Yes, sorry I did mean DPI. Having to power more pixels doesn't equate to more power?
I don't think changing the DPI has any effect on the number of pixels being used, since the entire screen is still being used. More likely it reduces load on the CPU/GPU by not having to render as high of a resolution.
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I don't think changing the DPI has any effect on the number of pixels being used, since the entire screen is still being used. More likely it reduces load on the CPU/GPU by not having to render as high of a resolution.
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But this is amoled and only the non-black pixels use power, not every pixel.
First full day on the phone 3:00am-3:57pm not touching a charger, currently at 3h 33m 28s of screen on time using 468mAh and 23% battery remaining (calculated to 4.5 hours SOT for a full 100%). This includes web browsing, facebook, inbox, navigation with screen off, audible book downloads on wifi with screen off, 1 hour of audible playing with screen off, playing 30 min of games, running 2 benchmarks, tweaking settings, 1.5 hours of screen off speaker phone, various xda posts. With the amount of work my phone has done I am perfectly happy with that run time.
Battery usage after first full charge, you can see doze working over night where it lost just 2%
How on earth are you people getting 6 hours sot? Don't get me wrong. That's what we should be getting in such a large battery but I'm trending at 4 hours and have perfect signal
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Battery life and Google now
Has anyone turned off Google now to compare battery life? Play services keeps the CPU rolling for a couple hours a day with it on so wondering what the impact would be
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3219700
Have a read of this thread,i have done tests over the last 4 days .Some using WiFi only,some using mobile data only( in poor signal area ) some using both .Best was 7 hrs + SOT over WiFi only ,6 hrs + over WiFi / mobile data, 4 hrs 48 mins( with 17% battery remaining) on mobile data only and that was mainly no 4G,just 3G and some times just 2G due to poor signal area
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I'm moderately using the nexus and only getting 5ish hours of screen time with brightness halfway. And people been saying that they get 7+ hours.
If you happen to be one of those people, did you calibrated yours? And how do you do it? I heard you have to drain the battery and then charge it back up. Does it work? Or is it just a myth?
They are many variables involved here beyond screen brightness. You are not going to hard core game for 7 hours out do anything that has CPU/GPU running high.
I keep my brightness set to auto.. Half way seems way to bright to get any decent battery life.
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I'm moderately using the nexus and only getting 5ish hours of screen time with brightness halfway. And people been saying that they get 7+ hours.
If you happen to be one of those people, did you calibrated yours? And how do you do it? I heard you have to drain the battery and then charge it back up. Does it work? Or is it just a myth?
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I get about the same battery life on 50% brightness
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About 6 hours of use. If I let it sit I get a day of standby.
Games, Internet, and netflix kill the life for me.
Last week I took it to work and forgot my plug. I watched Netflix on the battery for about 4 and a half hours. It was at 8% when I left.
Avg of 6 seems the norm. /shrug
That seems about right actually at 50% brightness. I keep mine on auto but it is usually at about 10-15% brightness and I can get 6 hours all day long over a bay or two of the charger
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They are many variables involved here beyond screen brightness. You are not going to hard core game for 7 hours out do anything that has CPU/GPU running high.
I keep my brightness set to auto.. Half way seems way to bright to get any decent battery life.
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I barely game on mine.
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I'm moderately using the nexus and only getting 5ish hours of screen time with brightness halfway. And people been saying that they get 7+ hours.
If you happen to be one of those people, did you calibrated yours? And how do you do it? I heard you have to drain the battery and then charge it back up. Does it work? Or is it just a myth?
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From initial setup (battery came at 62%) I let it completely die and then proceeded to do an initial battery charge cycle (charged it for 6 hours). After which I put it on the charger at about 14% which is normally right as I go to bed for regular charge cycles.
As for my battery life, I get an average 8 hours screen time while doing heavy gaming, watching Netflix/Youtube, listening to music, reading, and lastly browsing the web. As for standby time 3 days on battery on average (with Wi-Fi off during Sleep and always scan for Wi-Fi off).
This is with auto-brightness as I've found zero need to adjust it save for a few occasions I had to raise it for a few minutes while outdoors. If you want great battery life, leave the Nexus to it's own devices It knows how to handle it's brightness; very well I might add.
Granted your mileage my vary drastically as my Nexus 7 was flawless when purchased with zero of the known issues. (It also brought me to this lovely forum. )
Realistically you only need like 10-25 percent brightness on this thing at most times. This thing goes really bright.
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auto brightness
About 10Hours of battery life.
Get about ten hours of battery life. I have brightness set to half. The real part that was saving me battery is the advanced wifi settings. I set it so that it never searches or keeps wifi on when sleeping. Also manually turn off wifi when I don't have coverage. I use alot of YouTube, internet and Netflix.
This poll is to help everyone better understand what the average screen-on-time for Nexus 5X users is.
Please vote in the poll and share what you were doing with your device and what sort of settings you have changed (disabling system apps, Greenify, etc).
I don't mess with any battery saver type apps and I get 4 hours SOT consistently. The only time I don't is when I end up having 3-4 hours of phone calls.
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I voted 2-3 only because I don't use my phone that much
Giving this a bump because I think it's very useful. Hope more people vote.
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Lets just say if I can get 2hrs I'll be happier.... I usually get 1-1.5hrs and can get 2.5 if I disable bluetooth, location, and have adaptive brightness off with the display at 0 brightness. My phone is a unicorn of bad battery life
I've been getting 2-3 only and I am NOT very happy with this. I'm really considering strongly to send it back. I don't want the stress of my Phone not lasting me all day with the usage that I want. I don't want to need to live tethered to a charger.
I voted 4-5, but am a light user compared to most people I know, so that's well over a 24 hour period. I do believe if I used the phone as much as I used too, and most people I know do, I'd easily be close to 6.
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... share what you were doing with your device and what sort of settings you have changed (disabling system apps, Greenify, etc).
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Settings & apps usually have far less to do with SOT than use habits. If you want huge SOT, charge your phone to 100% and read a Kindle book in the dark with screen brightness turned down as far as possible until the battery dies. If you want lousy SOT, leave the phone off most of the day, then play a graphics-intensive FPS in full sunlight for an hour. An app syncing in the background every 15 minutes isn't going to have nearly as much impact.
My first day with the Nexus 5X game me just shy of four hours of SoT. 3 hours and 40 minutes to be exact. Mostly reddit and texting.
I'm not voting because of course the battery completely depends on the that day's specific usage and there's no options for multiple votes.
But I can tell you that my results so far have been 3 hours SoT with my heaviest usage (low signal mobile data with some gaming thrown in) and 5-6 hours SoT on more normal days (good signal, WiFi). A noticeable improvement over the N5 in as I do not have to disable software features to obtain these results.
I'll be posting more results in the Battery Life thread over time but you can see my first shared results below (50% brightness, all software features enabled except Locations).
http://imgur.com/a/gVuT3
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bblzd said:
I'm not voting because of course the battery completely depends on the that day's specific usage and there's no options for multiple votes.
But I can tell you that my results so far have been 3 hours SoT with my heaviest usage (low signal mobile data with some gaming thrown in) and 5-6 hours SoT on more normal days (good signal, WiFi). A noticeable improvement over the N5 in as I do not have to disable software features to obtain these results.
I'll be posting more results in the Battery Life thread over time but you can see my first shared results below (50% brightness, all software features enabled except Locations).
http://imgur.com/a/gVuT3
http://imgur.com/a/xjSTe
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The poll is used to record your average SoT throughout multiple days. So let's say I got 4 hours on day and 2 hours the next then my average would be 3.
It looks like the average SOT is just under 4 hours but there is a surprisingly large variance. Most people are near the average but the results are more spread out than I would have guessed. I wonder why there is such a big difference in the battery life people experience.
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After a week of me owning this phone, I average a little over 3 hours of SOT but I like running my phone screens at near full brightness. This screen gets much, much brighter than my M9 so I usually run the screen at like 80% brightness and adaptive brightness.
However, I recently discovered that SMS, MMS and calls still work when Wifi is enabled during airplane mode. So hopefully this has a positive effect on battery life when I'm home, at a friend's house, or at work (90% of my life).
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I voted 2-3 only because I don't use my phone that much
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Which points out the fact that the only measurement this poll will accurately show is how long most people look at their screens before they need to charge. It really can't be used to draw any realistic conclusions about 5X battery life. I answered 4-5h based on my experience over the last week, and this level of usage always required daily charging. But over the last 2 days, I made a point to try to reduce SOT and right now it's looking like I'll go nearly 3 days before I need a charge.
For me the phone will last alright when I don't touch it (with the exception of the occasional weak cell area) but as soon as I turn the screen on, the battery drops really fast. Ive been averaging about 2 hrs SOT which is disappointing because that's about the same as my n5.
After a week I'm averaging around two to three hours. Doze seems to not be working correctly. Oh well.
With N DP3, 5-6 hours should be the average on heavy usage and 7+ for light to medium
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66970008&postcount=1203
Ok,i think you don't use your phones!
All day open
4G,wifi,location saving battery,messenger,whatsup,viber,facebook,instagram,skype,tmbrl,gmail 3 accounts(about 20-30 mails per day),4 ebanking accounts use them very much.Also minimum 1 hour calls.
Games,
candy crash and subway surfers
I use gps too rarely.
210 apps installed to my phone as i see into titanium
stock rom,elemental x kernel,profile,until now i can't decide which is the best.
with extra heavy use i get 2 hours,usually 2:30-3:15 i have see also 4-5 but i didn't use my phone
Post your battery results and discuss how to make it better :good:
Let's hope Kirin 950 is efficient because with the right setup, Mate 7 does well and I see no reason why Mate 8 should be much different.
See how Mate 8 owners compare, once the phone is in your hands and rooted etc.
I run LeanDroid and Kinscreen, phone is rooted and Google de-bloated.
Here's where my Mate 7 was at this morning.
the biggest worry is as always the modem...they drain a lot battery.
not many people think about it since it is "hidden" statistics
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Let's hope Kirin 950 is efficient because with the right setup, Mate 7 does well and I see no reason why Mate 8 should be much different.
See how Mate 8 owners compare, once the phone is in your hands and rooted etc.
I run LeanDroid and Kinscreen, phone is rooted and Google de-bloated.
Here's where my Mate 7 was at this morning.
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impressive! whats your usual SOT?
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jbmc83 said:
impressive! whats your usual SOT?
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People with extreme long battery stats are usually those who use wifi only..
normal usage include 4G. I use no wifi only 4G.
The best apps for battery life?
Running on lenovo,Huawei mate 8,Note5, S6
Epic battery for me yesterday, first full charge, performance mode on all day, 19 hours up time with 6hrs39mins screen-on and 11% remaining when I turned in for bed. Looks like 7 hours screen-on over a full day should be doable, in a straight line I would think 8hrs+.
Similar again yesterday, 18hrs on battery, 5hrs 20mins screen-on, 23% battery remaining.
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Similar again yesterday, 18hrs on battery, 5hrs 20mins screen-on, 23% battery remaining.
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Your battery life does not say us anything unless you are using wifi or 3g/4g ?
you would see that in the mate 7 thread people using only wifi would get very superior screen on time while we normal people using 4G
would get more realistic battery life around 4-5 hours.
I hope you do not use wifi since that consume a lot less power as you might understand, and the modem
is a "hidden" battery drainer which is not shown in battery statistics ( I wish it did )
Mostly on WiFi, but if I contrast with other devices we can still make a meaningful comment.
My Note 4, in the same use, would not reach 4 hours of screen-on time. Neither would the 6P that I had. The P8Max would hit around 5 hrs.
So far the battery life here is best I have experienced on Android.
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Mostly on WiFi, but if I contrast with other devices we can still make a meaningful comment.
My Note 4, in the same use, would not reach 4 hours of screen-on time. Neither would the 6P that I had. The P8Max would hit around 5 hrs.
So far the battery life here is best I have experienced on Android.
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IF you have been using mostly wifi I would be little bit worried about the battery life when using 4G for data.
Also the software is still in early phase ..so big improvements can be made still in most areas.. battery life and camera etc.
battery life also depends on your usage pattern concerning apps. independent from wifi vs 3g/4g ull get far less SOT if u use cpu/gpu intensive apps all the time. so a direct comparison with other devices from the same user with identical usage patterns makes sense
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Similar again yesterday, 18hrs on battery, 5hrs 20mins screen-on, 23% battery remaining.
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Mind posting more screen shot of battery life of your usage? I am very interested. Battery chart + sot. Thanks.
I'm sure with time and people getting their hands on the phone, battery life will only improve. I avg 1d 4-5 hours with 6-8hr sot on my note 3 with 4g but the phone has been out for a long time
The Note 3 had pretty good battery life, from memory when I moved to Note 4 there was a reasonable regression there.
After a couple of charges and latest firmware update my battery life has been stunning. Yesterday/day before yesterday I went 36hrs on a single charge and had 6.5hrs screen-on. That's totally unprecedented on Android for me. Today I am down to 60% and have had 4.5hrs screen-on. For me at least is a new high bar for Android battery life.
Mate 8 root
RobboW said:
See how Mate 8 owners compare, once the phone is in your hands and rooted etc.
I run LeanDroid and Kinscreen, phone is rooted and Google de-bloated.
Here's where my Mate 7 was at this morning.
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How about a tutorial on how to root the phone?
he was talking about his current mate 7, not mate 8...
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Yesterday's battery report - 18hrs on battery, 7hrs20mins SOT, 17% remaining (another hour and a half or so or SOT for general use I would think). Indoors, WiFi, low screen brightness etc, but nevertheless destroying every other Android I've ever owned. Spent 50mins playing some emulator games towards the end - Wipeout Pure (PPSSPP) and Fire Emblem Path of Radiance (Gamecube game in dev build of Dolphin). They got the phone warm and were, as you would expect, much heavier drains than browsing and so forth (probably more so than higher end native Android games as they stretch the CPU as well). For those interested Path of Radiance played seemingly perfect for the first level proper of gameplay, overclock set to 0.2.
wait, ure able to overclock the cpu already? nice
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wait, ure able to overclock the cpu already? nice
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No, sorry if that was unclear, that's a change in Dolphin itself. I'm a bit in shock at how well Fire Emblem is running on a phone.
I did buy one..... waiting but I hope the battery life is going to be excellent.
The size of the battery is not huge and even though they say excellent battery life Google does not give you stats.
Screen on "50%" how long....
Can you wake up 6am set the phone in charger at midnight and still have battery?
Me I typically play a game, use my language learning programs a few hours a day.
Check maybe 20 emails, and 20 text messages.
Location services and bluetooth are always on. (need them for Play services and Android Wear)
And I believe and I hope the device proves me wrong but if I know it will be a long time between charges I will need to modify usage.
Is the type of usage I go through unreasonable ?
Yet all they say is you can get 7 hours of usage (what type of usage?) in 15 minutes.
So you are in the airports all day the battery is at 20% and you need to have the charger with you and find an outlet.
1) do not always have the charger handy
2) can not always find A/C
Does anybody really expect better battery life than with other phones ?
I am wrong Google did post some stats
3,450 mAh battery
Standby time (LTE): up to 23 days
Talk time (3g/WCDMA): up to 32 hours
Internet use time (Wi-Fi): up to 14 hours
Internet use time (LTE): up to 14 hours
Video playback: up to 14 hours
Audio playback (via headset): up to 130 hours
I should have no problem going through a long day moderate usage if this is correct.
AstroDigital said:
I am wrong Google did post some stats
3,450 mAh battery
Standby time (LTE): up to 23 days
Talk time (3g/WCDMA): up to 32 hours
Internet use time (Wi-Fi): up to 14 hours
Internet use time (LTE): up to 14 hours
Video playback: up to 14 hours
Audio playback (via headset): up to 130 hours
I should have no problem going through a long day moderate usage if this is correct.
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They stated similar stats when they released the 6P (the shop page was deleted so I can't paste them) and I got one....
Best screen-on-time I can get is 5 hours (with custom rom, custom kernel and a lot of system tweaks).
Don't rely on those stats, they were (in the best case) made under ideal conditions (probably in a lab) or (and that's rather the case) just calculated and without promise....
I am somewhat underwhelmed with the 6P battery life, but I'm stock as I can't root per company policies.
Hoping the Pixel XL will be better. Or at least same... If it is worse, then it will be going back in the 14 day return window.
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Potentially we're looking at better stats.
Same size battery in a smaller body with a smaller screen and Supposed CPU optimisations, could explain the underclock.
My 6p makes it through the day without a charge, but I'm never far from an outlet, car charger or power bank just in case. Now that I've USB C proofed my home and office the rapid charging serves its purpose.
We've all seen the garbage spouted about days of battery life before and usage varies so much per user it's hard to compare. As they say the proof is in the pudding so we'll soon see, the price definitely isn't going up so why not wait and see?
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They stated similar stats when they released the 6P (the shop page was deleted so I can't paste them) and I got one....
Best screen-on-time I can get is 5 hours (with custom rom, custom kernel and a lot of system tweaks).
Don't rely on those stats, they were (in the best case) made under ideal conditions (probably in a lab) or (and that's rather the case) just calculated and without promise....
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Why not rely on Google's internal battery life tests?
They did the same for the 6P, so they can be compared.
All that matters in the end is how it really works for you, also stats are always overly optimistic. You buy a car an the dealer says the car is rated 5 litres per 100 km and every time the best your car does is 7 litres per 100km
What I had to do in the past is when I know I will be travelling without easy access to a charger is ration battery usage.
The stats though are encouraging hopefully and only time will tell is my next device I will not have to ration too much.
I really miss removable batteries remember the carefree way I used devices in the past with huge Zerolemon batteries. They will like sell a case for the Pixel XL but a case that adds battery capacity is not as elegant as just using a bigger battery.
The reviews on the battery life seem pretty terrible so far and is really worrying me as it was my only concern. I have been rocking a Hauwei Mate 8 recently, which I consistently get around 7 hr SOT. Reviews for Pixel XL are coming out at 3.5-4 hr, which is not good for how big it is. It has only a slightly smaller battery than the S7 Edge, but the Edge performs much better, I was getting 5-5 .5 hr SOT with my Edge before switching to Mate 8. Google Assistant always being present and doing stuff may be a pretty severe drain. Just as someone else mentioned, nice that we have a 15 day return window.
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The reviews on the battery life seem pretty terrible so far and is really worrying me as it was my only concern. I have been rocking a Hauwei Mate 8 recently, which I consistently get around 7 hr SOT. Reviews for Pixel XL are coming out at 3.5-4 hr, which is not good for how big it is. It has only a slightly smaller battery than the S7 Edge, but the Edge performs much better, I was getting 5-5 .5 hr SOT with my Edge before switching to Mate 8. Google Assistant always being present and doing stuff may be a pretty severe drain. Just as someone else mentioned, nice that we have a 15 day return window.
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3-4 hours SOT sucks. Im getting 6 hours on 6p and 5 on Nexus 6
SOT is dependent on multiple factors, like what apps are running in background and what you do on the phone. Web browsing habits of sites visited, some sites have a lot going on.
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The reviews on the battery life seem pretty terrible so far and is really worrying me as it was my only concern. I have been rocking a Hauwei Mate 8 recently, which I consistently get around 7 hr SOT. Reviews for Pixel XL are coming out at 3.5-4 hr, which is not good for how big it is. It has only a slightly smaller battery than the S7 Edge, but the Edge performs much better, I was getting 5-5 .5 hr SOT with my Edge before switching to Mate 8. Google Assistant always being present and doing stuff may be a pretty severe drain. Just as someone else mentioned, nice that we have a 15 day return window.
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Where are you seeing these 3.5-4 hr SOT reviews??
Many of the reviews that came out yesterday gave the Pixel highly positive ratings on battery. MKBHD said he got 6hrs SOT on full brightness, Dieter at the Verge said it might be the best battery life of any phone he'd ever used. Wired and a couple others also noted it as a high point. But then Mossberg said the smaller Pixel got so-so battery, and I think one of the Android Authority guys also called it average.
So... it sounds like basically any other Android phone. Varies highly for different people.
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Where are you seeing these 3.5-4 hr SOT reviews??
Many of the reviews that came out yesterday gave the Pixel highly positive ratings on battery. MKBHD said he got 6hrs SOT on full brightness, Dieter at the Verge said it might be the best battery life of any phone he'd ever used. Wired and a couple others also noted it as a high point. But then Mossberg said the smaller Pixel got so-so battery, and I think one of the Android Authority guys also called it average.
So... it sounds like basically any other Android phone. Varies highly for different people.
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Pretty sure the AA review, he was getting 3.5-4 hours for battery life and called it good/above average, which is not. I remember his specifically because that is where I got the idea that google assistant could be having a large impact if used heavily, which he said he was using heavily. I don't remember MKBHD saying 6 hours but I would have to go rewatch. I know I saw at least 2 reviews that said 3.5-4 ish and they both called it good. Which makes me worry that all the other reviews that called it good without giving specific numbers were under this same impression. I watched a crap ton of reviews, many didn't give specific stats. They must be comparing it to htc10, lg g5 and iphone to consider that good, leaving samsung as the only outstanding if they are considering that anywhere near good.
Turned my phone on right out of the box around 12pm and started using it and I hit over 3 hours of sot
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Turned my phone on right out of the box around 12pm and started using it and I hit over 3 hours of sot
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I wouldn't put too much stock in the first charge out of the box but that is still not a good indication. No bueno. Guess I have two weeks to try it out.
I'm at 90% right now with 56 min screen on time. Just reading the news/web browsing. On wifi.
I'm happy.
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Turned my phone on right out of the box around 12pm and started using it and I hit over 3 hours of sot
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I'm at 90% right now with 56 min screen on time. Just reading the news/web browsing. On wifi.
I'm happy.
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That's what I have been wanting to hear! Would you be willing to post some screen shots of your battery life, etc before you plug her in tonight. How heavily have you been using the new assistant? have you done anything to customize your settings like turn off always listening or anything like that, adaptive screen brightness, etc?
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I got mine yesterday at 5pm, Used it straight, setting it up with everything turned on and screen @ %100 (setup, music, movies, games) and it died after 5.5 hours. It was also on 86% charge when i got it.
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Good to see.
frch0603 said:
That's what I have been wanting to hear! Would you be willing to post some screen shots of your battery life, etc before you plug her in tonight. How heavily have you been using the new assistant? have you done anything to customize your settings like turn off always listening or anything like that, adaptive screen brightness, etc?
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Right now, no tweaks everything turned on (assistant, always listening, Bluetooth, wifi).
Mostly web browsing. 15 minutes or so of Clash Royale. On wifi most of the day. Auto brightness.
Looks like about 6h SOT if I took it to empty.
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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 Huawei Mate 10 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
6 hours 20 min
Just got mine a couple of days ago and wanted to test the battery out.
I had 100% at 7.36am and then went out. I did some normal chrome browsing during that time. I also did the first big update. The translator one that was about 300meg. I downloaded around 500 songs to Spotify.
I got home around 4pm and this is where I really used it almost non stop until 8.34pm.
I watched some YouTube, a 45 min Netflix episode, a ton of web browsing, checking out all the phone settings, Facebook, and about 90 min of gaming (tower defence, top down 2D scrolling shooters).
I stopped at 8.34pm at 5% left. Phone has been on battery for around 13 hours.
Screen on time during the above time reported at 6 hours and 20 minutes.
I was pleased with that though doesn't hit much of the hype I've read lately.
Coming from a Nexus 6P, which my only complaint was battery life (3.5 your SOT on average) I'm happy and really my wish was to have a phone that I could use heavily all day without needing to recharge either at home or out with a power bank.
It's still early stages and I will keep monitoring.
I forgot to add this was at 1080p resolution.
Sad that Moto Z Play beat this 4000mah on my Mate 10, I did lyft for 8hrs no turning off screen non stop playing Spotify and YouTube red on the background and using lyft app and Google map on the Z play and after 8hrs I still have 15% left on 40%screen brightness. The mate 10 only last 6hrs and 10%left. So lesson is don't buy Z Play then buy another more expensive phone. Bought mine $703 on ebay and I am using AT&T and I get same speed as iPhone 7 plus with regards to data speeds. I have a S8 too which I sold because of screen burn in, but the Mate 10 is a beast. It beats my S8 speed with regard to experience using the phone. And IPS is really the way to go if you use the phone how I use it everyday 8-16hrs of screen on time.
So after a few days use and after a 100% charge I get this estimated use. Hmmmn
tboy2000 said:
So after a few days use and after a 100% charge I get this estimated use. Hmmmn
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Were you using the phone heavily during those days?
Jamdonut said:
Were you using the phone heavily during those days?
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Yes.
So far I get an average of 6.5 - 7hrs of SOT with average of 18-22 hours battery. Is that good?
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So far I get an average of 6.5 - 7hrs of SOT with average of 18-22 hours battery. Is that good?
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IMO, it's very good considering the screen size :good:
Did you try comparing SOT with QHD vs FHD resolutions? I understand that SOT won't really improve if you go for lower resolution..
All pixels on the screen are used regardless. Just a bigger sample size with FHD. However, QHD will use a little more battery if you are changing the image on the display. For the fact that it has to draw that many more pixels each time the image changes. Which is millions of pixels. But I believe a lot of static image changing is done by the cpu and not the gpu. where gpu is used mainly for constant motion on screen.
But honestly part of the reason they have such high resolution is for VR. That and to make more sense of taking UHD pics and videos. Most people won't notice a working difference between the two through regular use unless they keep it really close to their face, or have very good eye sight.
So you will see it use some extra battery. Not a detrimental amount more unless you are a heavy user of games and whatnot. Or if you force GPU rendering, then you should see a big difference in battery
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but its still interesting to see the results. If its like 0.5-1h of SOT to a SOT result which on QHD is 6-7 hours, I would never go for lower resolution..
jemeljsh said:
IMO, it's very good considering the screen size :good:
Did you try comparing SOT with QHD vs FHD resolutions? I understand that SOT won't really improve if you go for lower resolution..
but its still interesting to see the results. If its like 0.5-1h of SOT to a SOT result which on QHD is 6-7 hours, I would never go for lower resolution..
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I didn't try the higher resolution yet as 1080 for me is absolutely fine looking to my eyes. I came from a nexus 6p which was poor on SOT which I attributed to partly to the resolution.
Still it will be worth to try it at some point to see the difference.
My worst result with battery was today. 4.5 screen time but I did the most gaming and had hours of messenger chats with a 40 minutes voice chat thrown in.
super battery
i want to share my mate 10 battery with app ( gsam batterry )
i used whatsapp , instagram , twiteer . youtube , snap chat , phone calls lte , the screen is wqhd 2560x1440 all the time , screen bright is manual on 50 % level brightness
this what i got 13h 49 mint
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Now after 10 days, mine is usually around 5-7 hours, if I just surf internet, Youtube, using FB, IG, RSS reader and camera (usually without flash). I'm mostly on WiFi using also only 1 SIM at a time (the other switched off).
If using games, this drops to 4-5 hours max. Seems the GPU is burning through battery like butter, the phone is also getting somewhat warmer.
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Now after 10 days, mine is usually around 5-7 hours, if I just surf internet, Youtube, using FB, IG, RSS reader and camera (usually without flash). I'm mostly on WiFi using also only 1 SIM at a time (the other switched off).
If using games, this drops to 4-5 hours max. Seems the GPU is burning through battery like butter, the phone is also getting somewhat warmer.
Also been noticing that the mate 10 performs bad in games, could be because the games are not optimized to kirin ?
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Please can the posters just say if it is the Mate 10 or Mate 10 pro, that they have ? thanks
Regular Mate 10
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This is what I got so far.
8hrs 50mins 23s
* Max resolution set - WQHD - disabled Smart resolution toggle
* Social media, surfing, on WIFI like permanently all throughout the day
* Minimal youtube, no gaming (since I'm at work)
* first couple of days I was able to get around 7hrs SoT average
https://imgur.com/a/zAXPx
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You guys know this is a waste of time without giving which model as the Pro in theory should have a better SOT with lower res and OLED
Mate 10 with AT&T Sim and always on Wi-Fi. This is what I get. Most of the time is on Twitter, Chrome, 30 minutes on sling TV today.
Seriously??? [emoji23]?
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Not bad at all, gps on, Bluetooth on for miband 2, mostly wlan connection. Definately more sot than my s7 edge
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This is what I got so far.
8hrs 50mins 23s
* Max resolution set - WQHD - disabled Smart resolution toggle
* Social media, surfing, on WIFI like permanently all throughout the day
* Minimal youtube, no gaming (since I'm at work)
* first couple of days I was able to get around 7hrs SoT average
https://imgur.com/a/zAXPx
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what update were you on ? 115 gave me a very good battery, but with 119 update i m loosing battery a lot faster !
Also, i m using only Full HD mode... but now i toggled smart resolution toggle, tho i m not sure how it really works.
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what update were you on ? 115 gave me a very good battery, but with 119 update i m loosing battery a lot faster !
Also, i m using only Full HD mode... but now i toggled smart resolution toggle, tho i m not sure how it really works.[/QUOTE
...still on 115.… the smart resolution changes the reso automatically depending on the app requirements (from my understanding) ... haven't received the 119 but will definitely check as soon as I get it.. ?
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Mate 10, FHD, Auto Brightness
https://imgur.com/a/nPUWx
I'm definitely impressed with this phone's battery life