Battery life since Feb 5 update

Andrew_404

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Hi everyone. I own a Pixel 2. Is anyone else experiencing faster battery drain than before? I'm not a heavy user but before the Feb update, I coud easily get 15 hours + from a fully charged battery. Now, 8-9 hours is the norm. Significant drop off. I've checked to see if there are any apps draining or miss behaving as all is normal.

Suggestions please? Thx
 

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I just finished my first full day on my pixel 2 with that software and actually thought the battery life was tremendous...came from a note 8 which was getting worse with each passing hour!
 

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Are you talking SOT or total use between charges? I get from morning till night with plenty of juice to spare. Now I get 5-6 hours of SOT after the update. About the same prior.
 

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Are you talking SOT or total use between charges? I get from morning till night with plenty of juice to spare. Now I get 5-6 hours of SOT after the update. About the same prior.

Total use between charges. When you say plenty of juice I assume you are fully charged at 100% first thing in the am and by evening you have what % left? Thanks
 

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Great.. Good for you.

No reason to be salty ;).

You really didn't give us anything to really suggest or help. You just basically said it is draining more without showing any stats or anything we can use to gauge why it may be happening. Try snapping some shots so we can see if we notice anything wonky that you may not be seeing.

I personally can't comment on mine because I am hard on my phone daily so my usage isn't normal.. I can rock any phone down before the end of a work day.
 

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My battery life has been better since the update. One of the fixes in the update list was better battery life for some pixel 2 XL phones. I guess mine was one of those
 

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I haven't noticed a change after the update, however today I thought it drained faster than normal. Phone hadn't been restarted recently so gave that a shot to see if it gets better.
 

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My battery life has always been exemplary. I literally live on my Pixel 2 XL and always have plenty of battery to spare at the end of the day. I honestly see no difference after the Feb update.
 

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Mine with and without substratum, not as good as 8.0 but it does OK


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If anything I seem to be getting a bit better battery life. Could be my imagination but it certainly is no worse.
 

Andrew_404

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No reason to be salty ;).

You really didn't give us anything to really suggest or help. You just basically said it is draining more without showing any stats or anything we can use to gauge why it may be happening. Try snapping some shots so we can see if we notice anything wonky that you may not be seeing.

I personally can't comment on mine because I am hard on my phone daily so my usage isn't normal.. I can rock any phone down before the end of a work day.

I'll go ahead and share some screen shots later today. I have a full charge we will see where we are later this evening thx.
 

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Since the 2/5 update, my SOT usage seems about the same but idle time has been perhaps a bit better than ever.

The only time I notice increased idle drain (and associated battery temp rising) is when I first start moving by foot, bike or car. It's as if multiple apps or services say, "hey we're moving...we gotta wake up and do stuff! Look busy!"

Here's a screenshot of a mostly idle weekend. I was using my backup phone since I was riding some pretty rough trails. Not great example of my everyday usage patterns but this shows some pretty efficient idling (about 0.69% per hour avg utilization).

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I've not had problems with battery life with 2/5 update on my PHONE. Make sure you restart a second time so that you clear out anything left around after the finish up after the first reboot.
 

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