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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] zepeters:
To be honest, I can't complain at all. I'm getting way more battery life on this phone than on my 5X, or any other smartphone I had to be honest (check attachments): Almost 5h SOT, unplugged it 8am and got to 1% at around 10:30pm

This was with:

GPS high accuracy ON

Google assistant ON (Voice recognition on and from any screen with screen off)

Auto brightness (bar slightly below half most of the times)

Bluetooth OFF

NFC ON

Google apps all on auto sync

Facebook, Instagram, FB Messenger, Whatsapp, Twitter.... all installed and syncing

Google location reporting ON

Wireless and Bluetooth scanning ON

About 30/40 mins of calls

At least 2h of music streaming (Google Play Music)

Backups ON (over wifi only)

I think this is pretty darn acceptable!

Regarding charging times, yesterday I plugged it in at 3% and timed it to test the quick charge speed: after 10 mins I was on 18% (+15%), after 15 mins I was on 28% (+25%). You can charge a quarter of the battery's full capacity in 15 mins.

Basically that's almost 5h of SOT without charging and I could easily go past the 5h mark with a 15 min charge.

Note the awake bar as well. I was actually using the phone and still got a pretty decent battery life
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] RoccoN4:
Has anyone tried clearing cache from recovery?

I tried going into recovery but cannot find where to clear the cache.

I have done it many times with my Nexus 4,5 and OnePlus 1 and 3.

Is there another way of doing it with the Pixel?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Sorry about that. I'm so used to TWRP that I forgot stock recovery don't have the wipe cache feature. But selecting wipe data/factory reset will do the same only it'll factory reset your phone. But this is the same fix that used to be implemented on the Galaxy S6 when Android OS was high in battery usage.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] matrix0886:
I left work today with 73% battery still remaining. On my Galaxy S6, I would be at between 55-60% by lunch and have to charge while I was on lunch just to be safe. And that was with wifi and bluetooth off. On my Pixel, wifi is the only thing turned off. So far, loving this battery and this phone. Flying home to Ga for a wedding next week so i'll get a chance to really see how this battery lasts while I'm screwing around before my flight, during my layover, and on the way to my brother's house from the airport.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] hevangel:
The battery is better than my Nexus 6. Unplug it at 7am, go to work the whole day, usual use pattern, like Spotify, web surfing, phone call, plus lots of photo demo to show of the phone, at the end of day when I got home at 5p, Pixel still have 51%. For the same amount of usage (minus the photo demos), my Nexus 6 only have 30-40% left.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
2hrs 15min sot and 33% left. Horrible horrible
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Sot is a bogus value to me. What is syncing in the background? I have 23 min sot and 53% left and it's incredible. But I had my gps running for 2 hours which kept it awake while I hiked. No sot but active nonetheless. Sot is a silly value that means nothing imo unless that's all you do. I am not blown away by the battery but it's doing quite well. Normally I'd be plugged in at least twice today and now I have not charged since this morning. Very, very happy.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] hevangel:
It is way better than my Nexus 6. For a normal day daily usage, go to work, listen to Spotify when I drive, surf the web here and there, make a few phone calls, Nexus 6 would have 30-40% left when I got home, while the Pixel still have 60-70%.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
I get what you are saying, but I have nothing going on intentionally in the background
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Well the other day I was dropping rapidly. I got better battery stats running and checked alarms. Android pay was draining my battery over 25%. And I had just woken up! I was like wtf how is that possible? So I rebooted and it came to a grinding halt.

Point being even though you think nothing is running perhaps, unbeknownst to you, there is something.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Checked battery use and gsam. Nothing crazy. Ive also posted my individual mah consumption some posts up.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Yeah I just saw those. I'm getting pretty similar results. I have "phone idle" using like 88mah. What is that? The battery is less than stellar, imo. I'm still not sure if I'll keep it or not due to this. Would have been a no brainer with a better battery.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
These are my battery results from yesterday's use. For me it's amazing. I came from the galaxy s6 where I could barely make it through the day and had 2.5 hours of screen on to this phone where I get over a day of use with 4 hours of sot. Anyone feel free to ask for my settings or app usage.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] perrocaliente:
Finally somebody who actually uses their phone with some stats. This looks promising although I'll be curious to see if you can still do this in a month
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Diaze:
My s6 has better battery life than the pixel.. Sad
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rkial:
Have you used the pixel? or are you comparing your 6hrs SOT to people's 5 hrs in this thread?

I moved from the S6 to the Pixel.. and the Pixel definitely has better battery life.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] zepeters:
I'll let you know in a month :p so far it's been pretty consistent: everyday I've been getting between 4.5 and 5h of SOT with roughly the same usage I described ;)
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thesebastian:
I'm pretty sure I will be I the group of people between 3 and 4 hours SoT when I get the Pixel. But that's amazing to me. Always had less SoT than the other ones in any phone. And almost 4hours SoT would be great for my usage.

And this has nothing to do with standby apps signal etc. Is mainly because I interact with the touchscreen most of the time the screen is on. (A lot of scrolling...overview...actions, spam the digitizer etc. And no Youtube of course).

In fact...when I play Hearthstone I have better battery life than when I don't play it. This is because I don't do so many inputs between turns and the battery consumption of the game is still smaller than when I'm using the phone outside the game.

Since I have a 5X I'm delighted to read about people who is getting much better battery life between the 5X and the Pixel. That's the best info you can get regarding battery life. Because that increment (%) is the one you will probably get upgrading despite your usage patterns.

Sent from my Nexus 5X
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] perrocaliente:
I really want a pixel but I'm wary to pull the trigger because I know new phones battery life is usually better than reality and also it has a kinda meh battery (2770 mAh) which is not much better than my 5x and the 5x SUCKS

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Same here man. I actually use my 5x and I'm hoping the pixel will be a worthy upgrade.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] M3thodbombz:
I think my battery life is stellar. I can get 5 hours SOT with heavy usage. Light gaming, YouTube, Facebook, Chrome, inbox by Gmail, Android Authority, XDA, SMS, the works. I have 3/4 of my Gmail apps unsycned, wifi always on, Bluetooth and NFC always off, adaptive screen brightness on. At the end of the day I'm around 14% with 4.5 to 5 hours SOT
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This phone is no where close to my Honor 8. Another one in my house has been off the charger for 10 hours, has 2.5 hours SOT and still 65%
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This is so bad. Only two hours off the charger. 20 mins sot and at 85%. Has to be related to Android system
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Have you tried anything to remedy this? I have to admit a lot of the posts on this thread have me wondering what I'm doing different. See my attached pictures
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
How much screen on time? Not much I can do. Tried wth and without wifi, voice detection on and off etc
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This is so sad
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Currently at 3 hours and 20 minutes(see picture). I'll share all my settings hopefully it helps someone.

WiFi on - only when in WiFi area

NFC always off

GPS always on set to high accuracy - I do have wifi and Bluetooth scanning turned off

Bluetooth is off - unless I'm using it

Screen brightness is set to auto - with it always turned down to about 35 - 40%

All animations set to .5x

My two email accounts are set to push notifications (Outlook and Gmail - both using their respective app)

°popular app I don't have installed - Facebook, instagram, snapchat, Facebook messenger.

Definitely feel free to ask me any questions that you may have.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
I don't think your sot was in your pictures? Anyway, when you say wifi only in area, you mean manually or automatically? I basically mimic your settings, including scanning being off. This is really annoying
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Going out on a limb here, but I believe your massive drain is coming for your poor cell signal. As you can see in my screenshot my signal is all green.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I manually turn it on when I enter my home and turn it off when I'm leaving.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
I actually don't have poor cell signal though. I have like 60% full bars wise and data speeds are outstanding. I also have a Honor 8 Right here with the same signal and has no issues. I don't think lack of cell signal even if there were, would cause Android system to wakeup so often
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I'm honestly stumped. Mostly because you're not the only one with poor battery issues. Only thing I can think to do is a hard reset through recovery but going through the setup process is a pain, so I understand avoiding that.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rkial:
1d4hrs off the charger. 34% left.

3.5 hrs SOT. Was on wifi all day.. always on. Location switched from high accuracy to battery saving (for a few hrs) and back to high accuracy when I was out and needed to look something up. Havent bothered changing it since.

Dont use facebook. No bluetooth use.

Twitter/instagram syncing.

Its been pretty good for me. Havent tried it as a hotspot, which I do at times. No idea how long it'll last when I do that. But other than that, I have no complaints.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] nednednerb:
Don't charge overnight.... And this is likely.

Never plug in a Li-ion battery for 8 hours if it only takes like an hour and at most just a bit more to fully charge.

Why?

You'd be eroding slowly the max topped up voltage level.

The longer it stays at "100%" the fewer mAh you will be able to get in future.

Use your phone, don't charge it.

:angel:
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Charging overnight has nothing to do with over 1/3 of my battery being eaten by Android system. What gives
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Definitely not normal. I highly suggest a hard reset from the recovery. How did you initially setup the phone? Did you select to transfer your data from another phone or did you do a clean setup?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Used the transfer cable. First time in history Android has made any sort of progress on moving to a new phone. Still relied on developers to use app backup which is stupid but whatever. Setting up phones manually is brutal
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
OK so same process I used. I'm trying to think of all variables that would cause such a difference in our experience.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Allen_Jolynn0:
hich has the better battery? pixel or pixel xl ?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] 123cyborg:
Pixel xl i guess . Not going to be a major diff though
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] 123cyborg:
I am getting good battery life out of the pixel based on my normal (medium)usage.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] guysalami:
I've got both and the XL seems to walk all over the regular in terms of battery life. I suspect there may be a battery drain issue on my regular but can't seem to find it. Both phones are setup the same, same apps etc. My XL seems to be able to get 6 hours SOT pretty easily where at my regular is really struggling to hit 4 hours. Also I've had 2 nights now where my regular went dead from 40% to 0% before morning. Definitely some sort of battery drain issue in those cases but I haven't been able to pinpoint what the cause was.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
These are my latest battery screenshots. Let it drop to 5% this time.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Those of you getting good battery, what carrier are you on and do you have enhanced LTE on? reason I ask is that I have another Pixel here that has been on for over a day on wifi, with no sim card, BUT it has absolutely no wakelocks associated with android OS/system. it has all apps installed doing things like push, pull, etc
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I'm on AT&T and I don't believe they supposed VOLTE on unlocked devices. When I go to cellular network settings I don't see anything for HD voice. Quick Google search did show that this caused battery drain on other nexus devices.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] mrnovanova:
My battery went from 84% to 68% overnight. 5h30hours all while being in deep sleep the whole time. Which makes the cause of the drain extremely hard to find. Deep sleep should not cause the battery to lose more than 2% per hour and that's generous. I know it's been said only 2.9% per hour but it still seems like a lot for deep sleep.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] calebv2:
Pretty good

I thought this was pretty good.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
It's ridiculous, I agree. I just boxed up the device and it's going back tomorrow. I did not spend almost 7 bills to watch the battery. Until they figure this out I'm out. The device is beautiful, speed incredible, perfect size.. battery not worth the paper it's printed on. Figure it out Google and you got my money. Until then you now have a refurbished device you can send out. Back to my 5x.

I want 2 solid days with everything enabled like my iPhone. If they can do it then you can too. Figure it out and get back to me.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] nednednerb:
I was talking about long term health of a battery not your app config or hardware defect....

Do you have any GSAM or BBS stats?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Yes. Without root, they are useless
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
That is not true. There is an adb command for BBS that gives you everything root gives you. If you can't find it I'll link it in about an hour when I get to my computer. I believe it's the second post on XDA BBS thread.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Hollllyyyyyyyy jeebus. Had no idea BBS could do this. I know all of this stuff is under android system though so not sure what it will find. Doing this now on BBS. Thanks
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Lol! No problem. It's a hidden gem that someone here told me about some time ago. My apologies, it's post #4 not 2 with the actual adb command at the bottom of the post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67819528&postcount=4
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Yea no smoking guns. Here is my horrible battery
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Missed one
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
I know the feeling. I felt really let down with the battery size after a few days myself. At first I thought it was ok but as the days wore on I realized it was not much better than my 5x. I don't need to spend 700 dollars for not much better. They should have figured out how to put in at least a 3400 mAh since the services drain so much when idle and light use. I'd like to know how an iPhone 6 can get easily 2 days with an 1800 mAh battery.

Well maybe that's a little unfair since Apple has total control over the software and hardware and Google does not. And the iPhone is .. well an iPhone and just not my style on a daily driver basis. (although it is beautiful to look at) So back to the point at hand. I absolutely would have kept this phone had it given me double the daily battery life. Meaning, when I plugged in at night I had about 20 something percent after about 13 hours. Not horrible but my 5x would be not much lower than that. If I could have plugged in after 13 hours at 60-70% (down 40% vs 80%) I perhaps would have kept it. Right now it's on the way back. I loved the phone and everything about it but I just couldn't justify that cost for so little in return.

So I hope that Google will figure something out for the 2017 version next October which I'm sure by then I'll get almost no matter what. The 5x will have lived a good long life and would want to keep my N5 company in the drawer or as a night clock with a data sim from Fi.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Diaze:
Guys how much sot do you get on 4g with medium signal strength? I know on WiFi it s easy to get 5h sot.. Even 6..but how about 4g
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] CollinFX45:
This thread has me a bit worried. I'm returning my Pixel XL and going with the regular-sized Pixel and am concerned at how much battery life difference there is. I don't have any hard stats, but my XL has been the best device I've ever used (and I've used virtually all of the flagships over the last few years) in regards to battery life. I use it moderately and always finish the day with 60-70% left. Not a ton of SOT, but lots of notifications, syncing, photos, and streaming Tidal HiFi. Hope I don't see a massive drop with the Pixel vs. the XL!

-Collin-
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
The only thing I can try is turning off enhanced LTE (basically VoLTE) and see if that is any different. If so, it is a bug and they need to fix it.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Not even gonna be close. You might want to reconsider.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] CollinFX45:
Well, I ordered it shortly before your reply lol. I'll report back on how they compare. It's got to be better than my iPhone 7. Honestly I liked the XL so much that I wanted it to become my daily driver and for that I need a bit smaller phone and not a "phablet." It's dethroned the iPhone 7 :)

-Collin-
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
I'll be curious to hear. The size of the phone is great, that you'll love for sure. Display incredible too. What was wrong with the iPhone 7? I have a 6 and the battery life is great although I don't use it as much as my android.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] CollinFX45:
I've experienced very poor battery life on the iPhone 7 with talk time and generally using it as a phone. Not sure what the deal is, but, I've been looking for the Android phone that can replace it and I hope I have found it with the Pixel. I've always been an Android guy, but there were compelling reasons to use the iPhone (one of which is my spouse having one, and she likes facetime, iMessage, and all that). But anyway, I shouldn't get into an Apple rant here lol. I'll definitely post my comparison of the XL and regular Pixel when I get it on Wednesday. Keeping my fingers crossed!

-Collin-
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
An hour of sot over 5 hours and I'm down to 70%
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tluley51:
Weird that you said this. Do you have both?

I myself have the regular Pixel and am getting roughly 24 hours off charge and 4+ hours SoT with everything you can think of turned on, brightness 3/4 of the way up. About half wifi and half mobile data.

My roommate has the Pixel XL and he gets 24 hours off charge and 4 and a half to 5 hours SoT with the same setup, everything turned on and brightness the same. We both got ours last Monday. We set our phones up very similar purposely to debunk that the XL gets that much better battery life.

We also live in a bad spot for reception, so a lot of people are getting better numbers.

The regular Pixel is a better performer as well, noted by many people since the processor doesn't have to work harder to push all those pixels in the XL. I love the size, performance and battery life on my Pixel. Would never go to the bigger one.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Wow congrats. I couldn't get that if the phone was off and I was looking at a black screen. Seriously, I never look at sot because a lot of my activity is with screen off. Phone calls, music, computer linking. But I'm glad for you.

As for the xl post vs regular, no I don't have both. I base it off the 6p vs 5x of which I had both. So perhaps your empirical data is more valid. I too would never use the xl.

Back now on my 5x with 7.1.1 beta and battery life is very similar to what I was getting on the pixel. Discount it 200 on black Friday and I'll reorder probably. ?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
To be clear, its ONE HOUR of SOT. This is horrible.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] zepeters:
Quick midday update: if anything, the battery life's getting better!

I unplugged my phone before 8am and I'm on 69% battery with already 2h of SOT. All of the settings remain the same as stated above except for Bluetooth scanning that I turned off. Not due to issues or draining, but simply cause I don't use bluetooth at all and don't want the radio to randomly turn on to figure out my location (GPS + wifi + cell signal seems good enough).

Check the attachments ;)
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
I have to learn how to read. Know of any college classes I can audit? ;) I read that as 5 hours sot with 70% left. Yikes..

Yes, that is horrible, although that's about what I was getting also. I did read that to get to the battery in the Pixel was not super difficult. If a company can come up with a compatible battery for the device with an mAh rating of 3400 or above I'd be willing to bet they'd sell like hotcakes. And the frustrating thing is that I read on G+ Pixel group how some are getting 5+ hours of sot, streaming music, syncing, gps, everything and have 28% left after 24 hours. I'm sorry, I find that very hard to believe.

edit: No offense [MENTION=6985831]zepeters[/MENTION] It just was not my experience at all.