Why does the Pixel 7 battery life seem worse?

[Kizzy Catwoman]

Yeah basically the processor on the P5 was really good for battery life but was lacking power in other areas.

 

[Crispy]

So I put every app I could see usage for (WhatsApp) in 'Restricted' vs 'Optimized' mode and it hasn't made any difference, I am still getting 1-1.5% drain during idle with screen off and nothing running. Its also been a few days since I've been using the phone.

Funnily enough the 2 things I read the most complaints about - fp unlock and face unlock, have worked almost 100%. And the speaker sounds good.

Still rather undecided about this phone. I still cannot get over the battery life being not any better than a 2+ year used phone.

 

[Crispy]

it seems to be an issue faced by many others, all talking about exact same high idle usage which was never a problem in previous (non Tensor most likely) phones.

this makes me feel much better as I thought I might have a faulty phone or that I was doing something wrong or just needed to wait more.

Massive Battery Drain when idle after the March 2023 Update - Google Pixel Community

Pixel 7 battery drain in less than 24h with small usage - Google Pixel Community

Pixel 7 | Very high System Idle battery drain? - Google Pixel Community

Google Pixel 7 & Pixel 6 'excessive idle battery drain' issue

Google is currently investigating the issue of excessive standby or idle battery drain with various Pixel 7, Pixel 6, and other models.

piunikaweb.com

 

[livetovacation60]

I've been recently having the same issue with battery drain. Not much running at all overnight.....from 11PM to 4AM a 15% drain.

 

[Morty2264]

Yeah basically the processor on the P5 was really good for battery life but was lacking power in other areas.

For sure! It performed well, but the last couple of months of my using it, the phone's battery suffered a bit.

 

[PGrey]

I remember this used to be an issue back in the early days of Android.

There used to be lots of discussion about Android system usage, wakelocks, disabling network/location when sleeping using Tasker etc.

I don't remember ever facing these issues since I got my Pixel. I think there is definitely something in Android that is still there and causes battery drain.

I didn't see this on the P6P (coming from a OP device that was a non-issue in this area), which is "interesting".
Yeah, tracking wakelocks requires root, and it's kind of a PITA, for something like this, IME/IMHO. I'm pretty sure you can only view enabled-apps/services, via adb?
If I get desperate, perhaps I'll go this route.

 

[PGrey]

I see what you're saying about it potentially being a carrier update -- especially if you don't have any active apps running that are notorious battery hogs *and* you have adequate signal. Keep us posted on what happens!

This is an interesting example, from a few nights ago, where I took a shot first-thing, so it's all "overnight drain":
Weird, eh? I was definitely seeing this after the Oct/Nov updates, but it completely disappeared, after the January update, and now it's back...

 

[Morty2264]

This is an interesting example, from a few nights ago, where I took a shot first-thing, so it's all "overnight drain":
Weird, eh? I was definitely seeing this after the Oct/Nov updates, but it completely disappeared, after the January update, and now it's back...

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That's odd, indeed, especially if it took a hiatus until now!

 

[Zorrak]

My Battery life seems great, especially stand by. Went from a Galaxy s21 to P7Pro on Verizon. I rarely get home(8-9hours) below 50% and on a long days seen maybe 37-40% I even noticed a few times checking my phone hours into my day where I hadn't used it at all and it was at 98%.

 

[PGrey]

My Battery life seems great, especially stand by. Went from a Galaxy s21 to P7Pro on Verizon. I rarely get home(8-9hours) below 50% and on a long days seen maybe 37-40% I even noticed a few times checking my phone hours into my day where I hadn't used it at all and it was at 98%.

Yep, I saw the same, after the Nov update, until the Jan update.
After that, it went away, for two months, until the March update.

If it wasn't so dead consistent, I'd chalk it up to odd apps or something, but I see this most nights, 10, 15, 20% drain, overnight, ZERO app usage (at least according to the tracking algorithm), and 50,, 60+ percent Mobile Radio drain (of that 10-20%). In between those updates, this was a non-issue, same set of apps, although obviously not the same versions, or at least not likely.

I tried using WiFi only (airplane mode with WiFi re-enabled) one night, and saw almost the same drain overnight, which leads me to believe that it's more about what's considered "Mobile Radio" by the algorithmic categorization, and less about the actual radio use (since my carrier, TMo, fully supports WiFi calling/texting, it's using that data-stream for carrier data, even though the cell radio is disabled).

 

[Morty2264]

My Battery life seems great, especially stand by. Went from a Galaxy s21 to P7Pro on Verizon. I rarely get home(8-9hours) below 50% and on a long days seen maybe 37-40% I even noticed a few times checking my phone hours into my day where I hadn't used it at all and it was at 98%.

Wow! That's pretty good standby time! Mine isn't bad on my Pixel 7. A noticeable difference from my Pixel 5.

 

[Jx J]

I've been recently having the same issue with battery drain. Not much running at all overnight.....from 11PM to 4AM a 15% drain.

I'm also getting wierd behaviour overnight with my Pixel 7, when I'm sleeping and the phone isn't supposed to be doing anything.
Some nights, it loses about 3%, dropping from 80% to 77%.
Other nights, it drops all the way from 80% to 50%, so down 30% between midnight and 8:00 am.

I checked this in the battery menu and it has "Phone Idle" as the main culprit. Not very helpful.
The battery settings for that are set to "Optimized".

In normal use, the battery life is quite reasonable. I just wish it was more predictable.

 

[Morty2264]

I'm also getting wierd behaviour overnight with my Pixel 7, when I'm sleeping and the phone isn't supposed to be doing anything.
Some nights, it loses about 3%, dropping from 80% to 77%.
Other nights, it drops all the way from 80% to 50%, so down 30% between midnight and 8:00 am.

I checked this in the battery menu and it has "Phone Idle" as the main culprit. Not very helpful.
The battery settings for that are set to "Optimized".

In normal use, the battery life is quite reasonable. I just wish it was more predictable.

Wow! What a big difference! Keep us posted on what happens!