Google Pixel - How is your battery life?

[bespinct]

Seems to be OK for me...

 

[ksc6000#AC]

Over how long of a period was this? And are you on Wi-Fi the entire time?

 

[MrSlippery519]

I have been seeing 3-4 hours SoT over the first 3 days, that is with Bluetooth on all the time, a mix of wifi/LTE, stupid outlook app pushing work emails immediately all day and night (buying nine soon) and playing a fairly CPU heavy game around 1hr a day.
I think without the game I would easily push closer to 5 but no way I would get more than that.

That said I'm perfectly happy with these results as I easily get a full day 6am-11pm off the charger. Add to that my old m9 would get 2-3 hours or less under the same circumstances

 

[AndroidBirdie]

I have my huawei watch connected all the time and lg headphones probably 5 hours a day. This is the best battery android phone I have used except the moto z play. I am getting about 6 hours of sot.

Thanks! Sounds good so far, are you having any problems staying connected through Bluetooth? Heard that seems to be an issue for some.

 

[jdfry15]

Thanks! Sounds good so far, are you having any problems staying connected through Bluetooth? Heard that seems to be an issue for some.

I have not had any issues with Bluetooth. I was on the road for work yesterday and listened to audible via Bluetooth for 5 hours with no problem.

 

[bespinct]

Over how long of a period was this? And are you on Wi-Fi the entire time?

Sorry about that, meant to include the battery graph too, I guess it overwrote the first image when I tried to attach the second. It was at 16 hours. Mixed wi-fi and LTE. And Nine was pushing mail all day, I've excluded it from Doze to make sure I don't miss work messages.

 

[hal1]

This should help.... Bluetooth headset on 100%, Pebble Time smartwatch on 100%, WiFi, on for 100% (but only connected to router for about 5 hours. After almost 9 hours - 37% remaining , almost 3 hours SOT

 

[dmxjago]

So far I love my battery life. I been using the phone since Tuesday morning basically 4 days. For example today I used the screen for 2hrs and 37 mins and the phone has been off the charger for 15hrs and I still have 54% battery left and says I still have 16hrs based on my usage. See attached screen shots, seems pretty good to me IMHO.

 

[bjrogerson]

I don't have any statistics for it but the 2 days it was incredible and while still very very good it worryingly seems be in decline already. Hopefully it's all in my head as I get used to it!

 

[psteve2005]

Had 15% remaining but not clear from the screenshots. Best Android battery life I've ever had. Love it.

 

[GearHead71]

I'm not super happy yet. I have been consistently getting about 2.5 hours of screen on time each day.... My note 4 could do that.

Off the charger at 7am, some YouTube, texting, and web surfing. Nothing crazy. Then I get home and at 10pm I only have maybe 15% battery left.

This was my day today. Not a great example since I had to charge it in the middle of the day and I used Netflix for a bit:

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

 

[maddy1213]

I have my Bluetooth on all day and the battery lasts from morning 7am to 9pm with medium usage

 

[1901Madison]

I love the idea of a smaller phone, but because of my job, I just can't get a phone that needs to be topped up in the middle of the day. How many of you are able to go morning until bedtime without having to charge?

 

[shady195]

I'm not super happy yet. I have been consistently getting about 2.5 hours of screen on time each day.... My note 4 could do that.

Off the charger at 7am, some YouTube, texting, and web surfing. Nothing crazy. Then I get home and at 10pm I only have maybe 15% battery left.

This was my day today. Not a great example since I had to charge it in the middle of the day and I used Netflix for a bit:

Any suggestions?
Thanks!

I mentioned this quoting another post, but im assuming during the day you are at work. DO you have a decent sized network in your office with WiFi? Looking at your android OS keep awake, looks similar to what mine is when I'm at my office with a large network of about 10k devices. Constant network traffic pinging the phone to figure out what it is will drain the battery pretty quick regardless of what the phone is, ive had it happen with every android device ive owned.

It seems to be very common, but there are very few discussions about it. Took rooting my phone and using a few tools to see what exactly was causing the wakelocks on my phone.

If you have a decent cell signal, and want an easy way to tell. Just don't use WiFi for a day in the office and check those stats.

 

[GearHead71]

I mentioned this quoting another post, but im assuming during the day you are at work. DO you have a decent sized network in your office with WiFi? Looking at your android OS keep awake, looks similar to what mine is when I'm at my office with a large network of about 10k devices. Constant network traffic pinging the phone to figure out what it is will drain the battery pretty quick regardless of what the phone is, ive had it happen with every android device ive owned.

It seems to be very common, but there are very few discussions about it. Took rooting my phone and using a few tools to see what exactly was causing the wakelocks on my phone.

If you have a decent cell signal, and want an easy way to tell. Just don't use WiFi for a day in the office and check those stats.

This is during a weekend day. At work is much worse. No wifi at my work and cell reception is terrible. The phone is constantly looking for a signal.

The screenshots are from a day where we were out and about most the day with plenty of clear 4G signal. And a little bit at home on my home Wi-Fi network.

I lost 5% battery just on a 30 minute drive to work this morning. All I was doing was playing an audiobook from my phone. That doesn't require any connection at all.

 

[GearHead71]

Here's my morning so far:
Unplugged the charger at 430am and left it on my nightstand
Woke up at 630am and had already lost 4%
Drove 35 minutes to work just streaming an audiobook through Bluetooth. Lost 6%
It's now 745am and all I have done this morning is posted a couple times to this forum... And I'm at 90% with less than 20 minutes SoT

Any help would be appreciated!

(Sorry for all the screenshots, not sure if one of them will help diagnose the problem)

 

[shady195]

This is during a weekend day. At work is much worse. No wifi at my work and cell reception is terrible. The phone is constantly looking for a signal.

The screenshots are from a day where we were out and about most the day with plenty of clear 4G signal. And a little bit at home on my home Wi-Fi network.

I lost 5% battery just on a 30 minute drive to work this morning. All I was doing was playing an audiobook from my phone. That doesn't require any connection at all.

Thats strange. I have WiFi/BlueTooth always on. 15 minute ride to and from work playing streaming audio.. Have facebook/messenger and other known "battery draining apps" and can manages ~5 hours of SOT.

 

[GearHead71]

Thats strange. I have WiFi/BlueTooth always on. 15 minute ride to and from work playing streaming audio.. Have facebook/messenger and other known "battery draining apps" and can manages ~5 hours of SOT.

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed right now. I'm down another 6 percent and all I've done is showed a co worker the screenshots of my crappy battery life... Something has to be killing the battery that I can't see, or maybe it's defective

 

[Harry Lyme]

My 6P was awesome, this Pixel XL beats it by far!

 

[GearHead71]

So just for fun I used the "Live Support" feature and they sent me an email to better your battery life. Most of it was dumb stuff like "turn off Bluetooth if not using it". But the 2nd to last step is enable "Safe mode" by holding the power button, then holding down on "power off". This just disables all of your 3rd party apps.

I've had it in safe mode for a couple hours now and have already noticed a big difference. I'm going to use it for the rest of the day and maybe tomorrow and if battery life is amazing (like most of you are getting) then I'm going to assume it's an app causing the drain. I only have a handful of apps installed though and they are all well known apps by trusted developers so I'm not sure how to figure out which one is the problem.