Battery Life Thread

[wyelkins]

Pixel 2 XL. Apparently 24 hours is no problem on this phone for me during the work week with plenty of SOT. Just snapped this but pretty good example of a usual day so far. Enough juice to use the phone as long as I want before going to bed with it on the charger.

 

[mmcclure0453]

Pixel 2. Kind of normal business day. This thing definitely does not disappoint.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Jeremiah, do you recommend the Pixel 2? I'm torn between that and the 2xl.

I think it just depends on how you you're willing to spend. I took a gamble on the 2 because of the T-Mobile offer. I'm really liking the pocketability of it. I think it's more fun to use the smaller one, but I'm not doing much video on it. So to answer your other question, I HATE bezels, but I basically ignore it and it's very easy to.. I feel like every opinion I have has been shattered.. I just love that the phone works so well.

 

[KWKSLVR]

Not bad for being on Project Fi (which seems to be a bit of a battery drain by nature.

 

[sselemanrm]

Not bad for being on Project Fi (which seems to be a bit of a battery drain by nature.

You sure its not something else like.. data or always on/high brightness setting?

 

[Aquila]

This is my total time and SOT for the last 11 charges when they are normalized (actual time/(1-% used)).

Here's the actual data of what I got so you can see how the above was formed:

 

[KWKSLVR]

I don't believe so. I also keep most things beat down with Greenify. I'm heavy on camera/video recording so I probably gobble up a lot of battery with those things.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I don't believe so. I also keep most things beat down with Greenify. I'm heavy on camera/video recording so I probably gobble up a lot of battery with those things.

Not sure you need greenify nowadays.

 

[Aquila]

Not sure you need greenify nowadays.

Yeah it's possible Greenify is hurting battery life.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Yeah it's possible Greenify is hurting battery life.

Yup.

 

[KWKSLVR]

I didn't think that battery life was bad. I do not use it's auto functions. I have an app or two that are designed like crap and I let Greenify kill them.

 

[KWKSLVR]

I am a Nova Launcher user too

 

[Apple2Droid]

I think it just depends on how you you're willing to spend. I took a gamble on the 2 because of the T-Mobile offer. I'm really liking the pocketability of it. I think it's more fun to use the smaller one, but I'm not doing much video on it. So to answer your other question, I HATE bezels, but I basically ignore it and it's very easy to.. I feel like every opinion I have has been shattered.. I just love that the phone works so well.

Did you return the 2 XL or did you buy the P2 as well?

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

Did you return the 2 XL or did you buy the P2 as well?

I have three.. Took advantage of the TMobile deal. I should be getting 975 dollars back from them. LOL

 

[KWKSLVR]

I made some....eerrrrr adjustments to my device last night before bed. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Flytetymex]

 

[1901Madison]

This is with the Pixel 2.

 

[Aquila]

Redid the chart including the data from all the screenshots in this thread so far:

Our mean SOT is 7.0 hours and mean up time is 37.9 hours, when the trend from each screenshot is extended to 100% (value/percent used). The standard deviation of SOT is 2.1 hours and the standard deviation of usage time is 17.4 hours.
Our median SOT is 7.5 hours and median up time is 34.7 hours.

Values where less than 2% of the battery was used tend to create outliers, both on the high and low end of the spectrum. If I removed everything more than two standard deviations from the mean, we get these values: SOT Mean 7.1 hours with St Dev of 1.8 hours; Total time Mean 35.3 hours with St Dev of 13.7 hours.

Based on that data, most of us should be experiencing between 5.2 and 8.9 hours of screen on time on a charge that lasts between 21.6 and 49.0 hours. But that's at 100%*. And that should work across, so that 5 hours of SOT should be over the course of two days, while 9 hours of screen time would be the expected max for a single day.

The ratio of total to screen on time, at the low screen high total end of the 1st standard deviation is 9.4:1, while the other band has a ratio of 2.4:1. From the low band to the high band, each additional hour of screen time comes at the expense of an average of 7.4 hours of total up time.


*Given that this data is presented with the trend at a full 100% of battery, and that recommendations are to not allow the battery below 20%, multiplying each value by .8 would give us a better representation of the values most people will actually experience. This would give us a mean of 5.1 hours SOT and over 25 hours of up time, a median of 5.9 hours of SOT with 26 hours of up time, and so normal use would be to experience approximately 5.5 hours of screen on time in a 24 hour period, with a standard deviation of 2.8 hours SOT and 11.7 hours of up time. This means that 7+ hours of SOT in a 12 hour period is pretty normal as is getting 36 hours or more up time, with around 3 hours of SOT, and then plugging in at around 20%.

Working on one more chart to show the expected values as such. ^^

 

[Aquila]

Points that would intersect in the yellow shape are within 1 standard deviation of normal usage at 80% battery consumed, based on results to date in this thread:

 

[Aquila]

This might be an easier visualization.

Same chart as the first time, but the yellow box represents 1 standard deviation from normal (at 80% depletion) and the blue box is 2 standard deviations from normal (at 80% depletion). So if your usage falls into one of those boxes, then we're good. If not, then you're either an alien, or a liar or maybe our data is bad or some other sort of jerk style explanation that makes it YOUR fault, not the device or variables such as signal strength, app usages, brightness, etc.