Phone idle ... 6 Pro, utilizing Verizon LTE ... running at 3%. This seems acceptable, especially with a new phone.
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I woke up pretty early this morning and was not going back to sleep. So I started reading things on my phone. After 3 hrs SOT I was, according to the gauge, down to 46%. I have noticed what I thought were some pretty inconsistent battery life charge to charge, but I thought this was a bit extreme. I took note of the time I plugged back in. 15 minutes later it said 90%. That is on a Pixel 3 charger. So on one hand that looks like faster than normal drain and on the other faster than normal recharge amounts. I wonder how many who have seen faster than they like battery drain numbers have actually taken their phone clear on down to its lower limits? Just wondering how reliable the charge indicator might be, or not be. A 44% charge boost in 15 min on that charger does not seem quite right.
anthonium
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I read last week on reddit there are some developer options that can be disabled to increase battery life.
1. Turn off "Mobile network always active". NOT recommended if you do Wi-Fi calling (I don't)
2. Turn off "Allow window-level blurs". You can see this blur when you go to your home screen and slowly pull down the notification shade, the background wallpaper gives a blurry effect (think iPhone like). When disabled pull down the notification shade and you'll see the background just looks faded and not blurred. Apparently that blur effect can be resource intensive and I'm not sure in what other aspects in the UI you can see it but I disabled it anyway.
Still testing if the above saves some battery percentage but even so, without having done this my battery life through the day has been really good, as well as standby time. Based on my minimal phone usage (calls, text, occasional browser and Youtube) the phone easily lasts me until the next day.
It's not as good as my 5A (that I'm selling soon) but that form is lower spec'd so it makes sense.
I think Kizzy Katwoman also mentioned in another post that she goes into Apps -> Android System Web View -> and clears storage, force closes, and reboots phone and that's had an impact on her battery when she used to use her Pixel 5.
I for one also keep Bluetooth disabled until I actually need to use it and also disabled "Notify for public networks" under Wifi settings. I also have zero use for Always On Display. I find it too distracting.
There's little things you can do to improve battery though in an ideal world you shouldn't have to!
1. Turn off "Mobile network always active". NOT recommended if you do Wi-Fi calling (I don't)
2. Turn off "Allow window-level blurs". You can see this blur when you go to your home screen and slowly pull down the notification shade, the background wallpaper gives a blurry effect (think iPhone like). When disabled pull down the notification shade and you'll see the background just looks faded and not blurred. Apparently that blur effect can be resource intensive and I'm not sure in what other aspects in the UI you can see it but I disabled it anyway.
Still testing if the above saves some battery percentage but even so, without having done this my battery life through the day has been really good, as well as standby time. Based on my minimal phone usage (calls, text, occasional browser and Youtube) the phone easily lasts me until the next day.
It's not as good as my 5A (that I'm selling soon) but that form is lower spec'd so it makes sense.
I think Kizzy Katwoman also mentioned in another post that she goes into Apps -> Android System Web View -> and clears storage, force closes, and reboots phone and that's had an impact on her battery when she used to use her Pixel 5.
I for one also keep Bluetooth disabled until I actually need to use it and also disabled "Notify for public networks" under Wifi settings. I also have zero use for Always On Display. I find it too distracting.
There's little things you can do to improve battery though in an ideal world you shouldn't have to!
Keep that phone! It's a good one. lol hopefully mine will settle down and stop being such a gas hog. Mine is on att... stuck on 5g.
Over time your phone will learn when you personally are active with the phone, and will settle into "deep sleep" during those times you are not. Battery life with the same use over a 24 hour span on day 20 will be far better than over a similar span with the same use on day 1.
I'm surprised there are so many issues. But then on previous Nexus and Pixel handsets I've also had worse than my wife. But again today I got this and feel pretty happy. Took it off charge at 8am and now 9.30pm
YankInDaSouth
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Battery has been very disappointing on the 6 Pro for me. I have 5G off and I've since turned off Bluetooth and WiFi scanning and haven't noticed a difference. Thought maybe it was Samsung Health and my Galaxy Watch Active 2, so I deleted Samsung Health and all apps associated with my GWA2 and haven't noticed a difference.
Did a clean setup when I first got the phone ... Not sure what else to do. May do a factory reset and see if that makes a difference ...
Did a clean setup when I first got the phone ... Not sure what else to do. May do a factory reset and see if that makes a difference ...
I switched my P6 to battery saver and tested idle drain. In 8 hours it drained 3%. Without battery saver enabled it drains 11%. Battery saver forces phone to switch to 4g. The phone is alot quicker here at home on 4g. Battery saver is the only way I can switch the phone to 4g, as AT&T doesn't allow it in settings menu. Battery saver also won't allow some apps to run in background and apps won't refresh till they are opened.
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YankInDaSouth
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Yeah, 10% overnight drain is about what I'm averaging too, which seems insanely high to me.
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I'm going to have to do an overnight drain. I usually charge while I'm sleeping.. I think 10% is kinda high. I would think Max 5% or so overnight... I have to say though my battery has been good. I can definitely do 6 hours. SOT depending on what I'm doing and that includes using AA.. I've not shut off the 5G but we'll have to test that as well..
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My battery is going great so far. I tried to run it down to empty yesterday. It actually took a long time, and that was from less than 70% to start with.
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If we run alot of data through a VPN will it drain considerably more battery than without a VPN?
YankInDaSouth
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IDK ... Maybe my expectations were too high, but this really isn't all that impressive:
Unplugged around 10 after 7 this morning and it's now 10 to 4. With barely any screen time I thought it would have some more juice ...
Edit: This was with a clean setup upon getting my 6 Pro ... No data transfer or apps restored.
Unplugged around 10 after 7 this morning and it's now 10 to 4. With barely any screen time I thought it would have some more juice ...
Edit: This was with a clean setup upon getting my 6 Pro ... No data transfer or apps restored.
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There isn't one in quick settings. Go to settings/connected devices/connection preferences
Yeah I saw that but a quick toggle makes a lot of sense. I have an app that makes shortcut tiles in the notifications bar, but Google should have a native one.
I use Google pay on my phone so I want a fast way to turn NFC on and off
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