Battery Life Thread

[pappy35]

Battery 'conditioning' is something that dates back to Nickel Cadmium batteries of old. Lithium Ion batteries don't develope 'memories' like NiCd packs did.

 

[pappy35]

For grins, Accubattery tells me the phone's battery can do the impossible.

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Pretty good evidence that that app doesn't really work. Haha.

 

[Richard Servello]

Battery 'conditioning' is something that dates back to Nickel Cadmium batteries of old. Lithium Ion batteries don't develope 'memories' like NiCd packs did.

Lol. Lithium is quite the opposite. By draining and charging you are killing it faster...since LIon batteries have a limited full charge discharge cycle life.

 

[dannyar11]

By everything, does that include always on and now playing?

Yes, both have been on since I got it.

 

[Mrdouglas]

I keep brightness around 24-30% sometimes I tweak it. Aod off, I found the feature to be more annoying than anything else really. I leave now playing on. I still get phenomenal battery life.

I am getting my p2 today. In the meantime I tested this on my Moto g5+. Wow, for months and months the AOD has been killing my battery. Seriously, big difference I've noticed in just 6 hours with the Moto.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I have 60 percent left, phones been unplugged for 6h 30m. I have 3 hours of SOT.

Inturned adaptive brightness off a couple of hours ago because I came from LCD, so even this dim OLED display is bright to me.

 

[1901Madison]

I have 60 percent left, phones been unplugged for 6h 30m. I have 3 hours of SOT.

Inturned adaptive brightness off a couple of hours ago because I came from LCD, so even this dim OLED display is bright to me.

XL or regular?

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

XL or regular?

XL.

 

[Guyinbox]

I have 60 percent left, phones been unplugged for 6h 30m. I have 3 hours of SOT.

Inturned adaptive brightness off a couple of hours ago because I came from LCD, so even this dim OLED display is bright to me.

Since i know you had the v20 at one point, what do you think about screen brightness? To me, it looks like at similar levels (say 65%) the xl seems brighter, but at max the v20 definitely seems a little brighter. As long as it gets bright enough to use in direct sunlight it's all good since for me 70% would be good enough for any other scenario.

 

[nelamvr6]

Here's my battery life story:

Today was a pretty standard work day for me. I may have actually had a bit more SOT than usual. When I got home I took some screen caps and then plugged my baby in. I still had 60% battery left.

I should say I've done absolutely NOTHING to optimize my battery life. I run with Now Playing enables, with the ambient display on.

I don't think I'm going to have any trouble at all living with this battery. Now, battery life is going to be something I really don't worry about.

 

[madcrabs]

I'm working with about 36% with 4 hours 2 minutes of screen time. TBH this is only my second day with the phone but it didn't start the day looking so promising. I had probably 30 minutes of SoT this morning and it had drained 15% in an hour from charge.

Things seem to have evened out a bit.

 

[1901Madison]

Here's mine. Very happy!

 

[jephanie]

First day. After a full charge up, I've spent a lot of time taking pics, browsing articles from the Google Now whatever it's called nowadays thing, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, IMDB, YouTube, some Chrome, a little OneNote, etc. The 2016 Pixel XL was already very good with battery life; this looks very, very promising to me.

 

[AGReklaw]

Gross, conditioning should be avoided if at all possible. That's a method that hasn't been advisable for at least 8 years.

Do a Google search and you will find everyone is contradicting each other on this matter. But I think I did right; because the first time I charged the phone when I received it, it jumped from 100% to 94 in a blink of an eye. But everything is set now; I went from 100% to 99 during two to three hours recently...

 

[Aquila]

Do a Google search and you will find everyone is contradicting each other on this matter. But I think I did right; because the first time I charged the phone when I received it, it jumped from 100% to 94 in a blink of the eye. But everything is set now; I went from 100% to 99 during two hours recently...

Ok hoping the best for you and your phone

 

[longtime44]

At first I thought there was a battery percentage glitch in the notice bar. Every time I go from 1% to 100% I was watching 30 mins of YouTube and surfing Facebook for 5-10 mins before I dropped one %. The battery on my Pixel 2 is absolutely incredible. Best battery life I've ever had. One charge will last an entire day without a problem. I've went more than 24 hours of moderate to high usage (of course with some long screen off times) from my house, to the gym (Bluetooth music) to work (games and YouTube) back home (more YouTube) and back to the Gym in the AM with about 20-30% then back to work before I had to charge up again. This battery is legit for sure.

 

[theobject]

3rd full day. I have crappy cell signal but this is better than I could have hoped for.

 

[dsignori]

Day 1. So far, excellent for the 2 XL.

Got it this afternoon, it had about 80% battery, ended at 6% before I plugged it in. 6+ hours SOT. Pretty awesome for my use case. AOD on, Now Playing on, 50% brightness (automatic). Mostly Wifi ..

 

[enderhexfyre]

Loving this battery life.

 

[sselemanrm]

^^holy ****.. now that's what I call beast mode. How much battery did you have on, and what else did you do to your phone to save the battery? I'm assuming this is the XL.