Battery Drains Faster After January Update

[brosko]

For those of you who are seeing faster battery drain, it'd be interesting to see what your battery stats say -- not just installed apps, but also system apps/services.

Mobile network dominates my system app battery usage. Not sure how it was before the January update.

 

[Blaize19]

Mine is actually significantly better after the update. I was getting pretty bad battery life on the November patch.

 

[PixelKing]

The battery will not drain any faster after the update. If you're leaving 5G/LTE, Bluetooth, or GPS on you will see a slightly higher discharge from your battery. If you have been using any battery monitoring app you could easily see that.

I feel like the phone has been optimized further since the update.

 

[Deleted member 2609113]

Mine is actually significantly better after the update. I was getting pretty bad battery life on the November patch.

I agree. Before the update on an average day my phone battery would be around 35% when I wake up at 3 am. Now it is around 50-65%. I didn't change any settings from one update to the other.

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

I always hear about batteries taking a few days to "settle in," but I'm not sure what the technical explanation for that is. It might also have to do with the Adaptive Battery feature relearning patterns?

In the "old days" I used to call it battery conditioning.

 

[Scott337]

My battery was draining much faster than normal Saturday & Sunday. Mobile Network was the highest battery user. I restarted again this morning (first restart since the update) and things have calmed down a lot, battery is holding steady again.

 

[Ben_70]

My battery was draining much faster than normal Saturday & Sunday. Mobile Network was the highest battery user. I restarted again this morning (first restart since the update) and things have calmed down a lot, battery is holding steady again.

Mobile Network is by far my biggest source of battery drain. It was high before the Jan. update as well but now is accounting for 32% of my battery usage over the last 24 hours. My second biggest category is AOD at 18%.
What is causing this? Is it that I'm not getting a strong cell signal and the phone is struggling with that?
P6P on Verizon and I'm a light user...I always end the day with plenty of battery but I'd just like to know what's up with the Mobile Network category.

 

[Blaize19]

Mobile Network is by far my biggest source of battery drain. It was high before the Jan. update as well but now is accounting for 32% of my battery usage over the last 24 hours. My second biggest category is AOD at 18%.
What is causing this? Is it that I'm not getting a strong cell signal and the phone is struggling with that?
P6P on Verizon and I'm a light user...I always end the day with plenty of battery but I'd just like to know what's up with the Mobile Network category.

Mine have been holding steady at around 13% Mobile Network and 8% AOD, which is better than before the update. The Mobile Network percentage still seems a bit high since I'm pretty much always on wifi (WFH), but it's a definite improvement.

AOD never actually shows, but I use an app that needs it turned on in settings to give me a notification light around the front camera. I'm able to prevent it from showing through a setting in the notification app.

 

[brosko]

Mobile Network is by far my biggest source of battery drain. It was high before the Jan. update as well but now is accounting for 32% of my battery usage over the last 24 hours. My second biggest category is AOD at 18%.
What is causing this? Is it that I'm not getting a strong cell signal and the phone is struggling with that?
P6P on Verizon and I'm a light user...I always end the day with plenty of battery but I'd just like to know what's up with the Mobile Network category.

Me too

 

[B. Diddy]

I see that the Mobile Network percentage has increased, but on the other hand, Cell Standby no longer shows up, so I wonder if they combined the two. Even though the percentage has increased, I haven't noticed any significantly worse overall battery drain.

 

[neil74]

I have noticed this too. Today after my phone had been on about 6 hours and I had been out of the house only about 30 minutes of that, cellular was at 40% of total system for only 29 minutes of use. Rest of the time I was indoors on WiFi. A

This is starting to feel like hardware to me either tensor or the radio, either way it is just bad. I switched 5g off ages ago too not that I have it where I live anyway.

 

[B. Diddy]

I get those stats as well, but I don't see it impacting my battery significantly. If I start the morning at 100%, it's only down to maybe the 70s by the end of the day with relatively light to moderate usage. That's what I've been seeing pretty much the whole time.

 

[StormnNJ]

Haven't really seen any difference in battery in my normal use. 2 hours phone calls, 3 hours screen time, 5 hours YTmusic over BT. At the end of my day it's at 40% which is on par with 12pro I was using.

 

[hannsoft]

This is where I am after a day and a half, with 12 hours left to go. 5 hours of SOT, too - more than usual.

 

[Deleted member 2609113]

I see that the Mobile Network percentage has increased, but on the other hand, Cell Standby no longer shows up, so I wonder if they combined the two. Even though the percentage has increased, I haven't noticed any significantly worse overall battery drain.

My Pixel 6 Pro battery life has dramatically improved. One battery usage stat that doesn't seem to be correct is Mobile Network use percentage. It is always somewhere in the 40s% and yet overall battery drain doesn't support that. Something just doesn't seem to correlate. Maybe it's my understanding that it is a bit half bubble off.

 

[B. Diddy]

I'm also not sure if those percentages are absolute figures (e.g., if the battery went from 80% to 60%, that would be reported as 20% battery use) or relative (e.g., if the battery went from 80% to 60%, that would be reported as 25% battery use). Another somewhat confusing factor is that the battery stats are for the last 24 hours, not since the last full charge.

 

[Blaize19]

I'm also not sure if those percentages are absolute figures (e.g., if the battery went from 80% to 60%, that would be reported as 20% battery use) or relative (e.g., if the battery went from 80% to 60%, that would be reported as 25% battery use). Another somewhat confusing factor is that the battery stats are for the last 24 hours, not since the last full charge.

It's all pretty confusing. I've decided it's per the past 24 hours from the time I actually look at the stats. So, to get any real idea I'd have to check at the same time every day. I'm far too lazy.

 

[B. Diddy]

It's all pretty confusing. I've decided it's per the past 24 hours from the time I actually look at the stats. So, to get any real idea I'd have to check at the same time every day. I'm far too lazy. ������

Right, it's definitely for the last 24 hrs -- but I still wonder if the figures are absolute or relative battery percentages.

 

[Blaize19]

Right, it's definitely for the last 24 hrs -- but I still wonder if the figures are absolute or relative battery percentages.

Good point. Hasn't it been relative since before 12? I can't remember for sure.

 

[brosko]

Right, it's definitely for the last 24 hrs -- but I still wonder if the figures are absolute or relative battery percentages.

Yeah, I miss the "since last full charge" stats for sure. This has me doing bar by bar on the graph adding up the screen time to get a figure.