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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] joshw0000:
Ok I understand what you're asking and I believe it will always be a Verizon phone because of the serial/IMEI # but you should receive Google updates if you're on stock Google firmware. No need to relock the bootloader for updates.

To further support this theory, back in the day I tried to help a buddy with a G3. He had unlocked a Sprint G3 and flashed a stock T-Mobile rom. The phone received a T-Mo update that lead to a pretty good soft brick. We worked on it for several days and finally managed to hard brick it lol. This wouldn't be a case with a Pixel, but I do believe if the phone is on a stock firmware without OTA's disabled that it will receive updates.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Yeah, I believe you're right regarding the IMEI. But as for relocking the bl I'd need to do that since an unlocked bootloader will not pass SafetyNet checks and thus my Android Pay and banking app will not work. Well, unless I root and flash another kernel that tricks the software into thinking it's locked. That won't last and I just don't want to keep chasing the dragon. I use AP and the banking app more than I use any root app at this point. Adaway has been replaced and was problematic, no need for root explorer, Viper is shot and really not needed, which only leaves Titanium backup as what I would want.

But I did buy the $240 version so when the Pixel 2017 comes out I'll pick one up on Black Friday next year and unlock it if I'm not happy. :D I do believe that the December vzw update will kill DP8 but we'll know for sure next week.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakete:
Received my VZW Pixel 128GB (regular, not XL) last night, currently have 28% battery left with 4h7m SOT. So pretty darn good, and that's while running Netguard in the background for adblocking.

Curious, what are you using to replace Adaway right now? I'm currently running Netguard, but curious what else is out there (that's opensource and decent).
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
I'll post the xda link and the download link below. It's called dns66 but there are a couple of issue. The only one that affects me is the download problem. If I'm surfing around or on most sites then I'll keep it active. If I need to d/l a file then I'll long press to disable it. Hopefully he'll get this fixed but for now it really works well for non root ad blocking and it's open source.

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-dns66-source-host-ad-blocker-root-t3487497

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.jak_linux.dns66

edit: Sorry, I see you posted on the thread.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Sakete:
Yeah, I tried DNS66 over the weekend when I still had my old phone (with Android 6.0). It's okay, but gets kinda finicky when switching from WiFi to mobile data, at least in my experience. I have to manually restart the service then. Netguard so far transitions seamlessly, although I had some initial issues around getting a good hosts file loaded for adblocking (the default hosts file didn't block some ads for an app I use a lot), and otherwise it offers a ton of features for monitoring traffic, etc. And battery drain seems reasonable, as I got 4hrs SOT with still almost 30% left, which seems to be about the average for most users.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Is there anything we can do with root to fix Android OS and system wakeloxk?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
What is your overnight drain?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Nothing. Its more during periods of inactivity that are flanked by activity.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Do you have BBS installed? What's alarming? What is your drain over 12 hours during the day?

edit: Just in case you don't. I'm not sure if you're rooted or not, but if you are not then go to post #4 and run the adb commands listed in order to get the stats you need. Also, there is tons of help in that thread especially if you upload a log file. Good luck, let me know if you find anything because I'd probably try some stuff too even though battery life has not been horrible for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] heelhook79:
I had a weird thing with Google Play Services hogging up the battery but I had about 3.5hrs of SOT and I didn't need to charge it for 48hrs.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ewans:
I have no measurable evidence, but it seems that turning off NFC makes a big difference in battery life for me - seems like around 20% per day. Now that I've turned it off I'm a bit happier, generally get through the day on a single charge although not if I'l using it heavily. Coming from Sony Z3 compact and Z5 compact I'm a bit disappointed.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
A lot of com.google.android.gms which we can't do anything about
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Yeah, same here. But I am getting thru the entire day with normal use at around 50% left. That would pretty much give me 24 hours if I didn't plug it in after about 14 or so. It's not super great but not bad. I would have liked a little more mAh to end the day at 70% but I can live with this. Are you getting similar results?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
How many hours of SOT?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Usually about 2 hours or a little more or less. So I could probably get about 4 hours if I ran it down all the way.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Sounds right about what I get. My honor 8 could clear 7 hours in a day with 20% more battery
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Slightly larger battery but only by like 20%. I think if you can get thru the whole day then that's about the most you're gonna get with this device. I know it's not a great answer but the only other thing you can try is a factory reset. Well maybe the update on Tuesday will help. Also the fast charge is very helpful. There are times if I run Strava on a hike or ride then I come back 3 hours later with 25% drain or more depending if I'm out of cell range. By the time I get out of the shower I'm back up to 90%+. Once again, probably not the answer you're looking for.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Soooo bad
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] kulwinder baidwan:
mine is good
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
This looks like a case of bad cell reception. This happens to me at work. After and before work or in the weekends, it performs admirably. Just a theory.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
No location where I had bad reception for more than 1 minute in a garage
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] aholeinthewor1d:
That's the only thing I can think of for mine. I've factory reset twice and have installed 2 apps. Brightness is down and everything is off and I stil don't get good battery life. The update didn't do anything for it either. I haven't run a single test but my signal shows around half. Yet my old g5 is full bars
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] harshjain1:
sot 5hrs

i got screen on time of 5 hours
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] UK_Wildcats_Fans:
When at work, I am normally streaming Pandora via cellular to my Bluetooth speaker. The screen is usually off unless I am answering text messages. I don't put it on the charger. Prior to the Dec update, I usually have about 60% battery left when I leave work. After the update, my battery life seems to be draining much quicker. For the past two days with the latest update, I seem to be at 60% after just about 4 hours now.

Is anyone else noticing higher battery drain than usual after the update?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] sovanyio:
I did, in my case it was hangouts. Cleared data for it and seems to be back to normal.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Has anyone messed with something like SetCPU with good results?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Wow, a blast from the past. I haven't seen that in years. Do you need root for that? I just looked, yes you do. The app hasn't been updated since 2013 so I think I'd probably leave that one to the dust bin.

I'm really sorry you haven't figured this out yet. I'm usually a battery whore and it's my main focus. But I've been having some great results with 7.1.1 lately. Overnight my drain is 0.5% / hour which is about as good as I think it will get. During the day I can do my usual stuff and plug in at night around 60% give or take. Before 7.1.1 it was perhaps 50%, so just a little better. Are you on any custom kernel, rooted, unlocked or basically anything other than stock? Did you ever factory reset with a locked bootloader and stock kernel? Your frustration is obvious and understandable. You really do need to get this device to a state where you are satisfied. Just too much money to be unhappy.

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No. On the contrary it's been better for me. And each day of use it's getting a little better as well.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rgerrans:
I am as well. Was seeing solid 18 hour days with normal usage on the previous build and with December those have dropped back to the 14-16 hours days that I left my Nexus 5X because of. Did an App cache wipe last night which "seems" to be helping today (got a ~1% per hour overnight drain, which isn't great but doable). Since there is no way to do a system cache wipe on these, may break down and do a full wipe / restore over the weekend....

Update: It looks like wiping the app cache seems to have improved my usage today. I'm 6 hours in @ 75% w/ more doze time then the straight line down I was seeing the last couple of days.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] fix-this!:
battery life is pretty good, especially in standby.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
Somebody recommended the data saver option in system settings. Enabling this seems to have prolonged standby improvements and put a leash on abusive apps like whatsapp.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
Not bad. It was better when the phone was new. But that's all par for the course.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] nednednerb:
Don't plug it in overnight. Charge before bed and after waking, but not during sleep. Sitting at 100% for hours and hours and days and weeks after months and years of use is NOT ideal for Li Ion battery.

Keep off the charger longterm and not close to 100 or 0 for significant periods.

My battery seems better now than when new. Now a custom kernel, and as apps are updated for Nougat, no complaints, things are quite settled. 7.1 to 7.1.1 saw some improvement to battery life too. I noticed right away. That day I went down to 3% then charged for 90 minutes while device was powered down. Things were normal next day.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Sh0X31:
My battery usage:

- I don't use G Assistant

- Location is off

- debloated

- Brightness 1/3

- Stock Kernel

Now flashing EX
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Casyis:
I just wanted to offer a quick PSA by saying that if anyone is using Accubattery, it constantly runs a foreground process that does affect battery life. See the screenshot here (I've boxed in red the longest stretch of the foreground process, but that entire bar is all Accubattery being #1): http://imgur.com/a/7i2IV
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rgerrans:
Came across an approach on another site (didn't bookmark it so can't give them credit) but under the Developer Options in your Settings, there is an option for seeing all your running services which shows how long they've been running. Seeing some of my background services (like CarstoGo) that I seldom use and removing them has definitely impacted positively my battery life in the last 24 hours (of course I did switch WiFi to off when Sleeping). Overnight I had zero battery drain compared to slightly less then 1% per hour I was experiencing before. Today I had an hour of phone calls, an hour of screen time, 30 minutes of Maps and 30 minutes of podcasts and am sitting at 50% 10 hours in. Last week I would be down below 30% or less with that type of usage (though not close to my wife's 70% remaining after 10 hours yesterday......).
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tejasm1:
That's amazing! Mine lasts till like 8 with 3 hrs of sot. Android OS takes a lot of battery
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
Now what phone does your wife use?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rgerrans:
Pixel just like me. Just not as heavy of an app user....
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
LOL I see.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Sh0X31:
Round two but this time EX kernel with no changes.

Gov Profiles like saber v2 don't work?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Booink:
Dev here. You need to run as a foreground process to prevent Android from killing the app, side effect of needing to gather data continuously - Music apps do the same while playing audio, or apps like 3G Watchdog that track network usage.

The active time may be high, but we shouldn't use much power as it's optimized to minimize CPU usage, batch IO/disk writes, etc. We don't hold a wake lock during discharge either, so it doesn't affect the device going into deep sleep.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Casyis:
I understand (as much as I'm able without being a dev myself, I'm more of a systems guy). What I meant was in this case, the foreground process did have a negative impact on my active drain and standby drain. I'm not sure if I saved my previous bug reports for battery historian - if I did they're on another machine than the one I'm using at the moment. Although the process didn't interfere with deep sleep being engaged, the overnight standby drain was higher at 7-8% as opposed to 2-4% with it uninstalled. I (kindly) provided the feedback to the dev for further optimization - it's a great non-root tool, but I couldn't go 24 hours without charging. Now I'm back to my 36-48 hour stints.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thayil:
Hi guys,

I've got my Pixel since three days now and it seems that the Android system process drain my battery life a little bit. I reset the cache and the authorisations for every apps but no improvement there... The Android system drain as much battery as the screen. Normal?

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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] vaerio81:
What type of sorcery is this ... Just got the pixel a week ago came from 6p I miss the screen size but this battery got me in love ......

Weta ROM

Elemental x kernel
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] aholeinthewor1d:
How... I have everything turned off. Literally everything. I get like 4-4.5 hours screen on max.. I can literally watch the battery % decrease. Same results in 2 pixels set up as new and plenty of factory resets and flashing factory images
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] vaerio81:
I don't know it's been ready a few cycles I've gotten this time ....I mean I been messing with stuff like this for a while I underclocked the CPU little cluster to around max 1.2 and min 300mhz and big cluster to max around 1.5 and min to 600mhz a d it's been smooth still I mean I've done the same on my nexus 6p before ...I have sync on wifi and data on all the time .....My brightness I keep it at around 40% .....
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] canglan:
Side-graded from an S7 Edge I was expecting slightly worse battery life but thanks to ElementalX I'm getting on par if not better battery life out of the Pixel. :P
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] davey11:
9+ hours? This is up there with my turbo 2. Running stock mnf260 with elementalx. Good chit. ?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] diegodbm:
Awful battery life... But after the last update.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] !n0x:
Did you tweak any of the stock settings that came with the kernel?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thayil:
After which update?

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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] diegodbm:
7.1.1...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] keijikage:
Out of curiosity, how many of those in the "marginal" SOT have an android wear device?

What I'm finding is that when my moto 360 2015 is connected, there is a wake alarm triggered by google services (com.google.android.gms.wearable.node.ALARM_PROCESS_CONECTIVITY_CHANGES) roughly every 10 seconds . When I compare with a wear device vs without, there is an additional 1-2%/hr idle drain
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] k.s.deviate:
Doze doesn't really seem to be working for me. Fresh image install last night (could that be it?) Charged to 100% than went to bed. Latest 7.1.1, Google apps only installed and no root.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] !n0x:
I think I can do better, knowing I have Facebook, Messenger and Netguard constantly running on background

running stock (manually debloated) and ElementalX 1.02
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] TonikJDK:
Rooted with Franco's kernel. These numbers have been very consistent with his kernel.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
This does not look good at all. Something's wrong for sure as mine isn't as good as some here but still won't lose as much as you during sleep. I bet it's doing a backup and or restore. Or your network is pretty terrible.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] k.s.deviate:
Signal strength was perfect, all green per screenshot. I'm going to try it again tonight.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tranquill1800:
When on home screen, Google assistant always detect "ok Google" even though I have turned it off in settings... Serious privacy concern!!... Does this really hear me fart!

Any solutions?

Even, I can see that the phone is never in sleep state and is always awake..

Any help?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] perrocaliente:
what are your location settings and do you use wifi or bluetooth and how often? Google apps? Social media?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] !n0x:
I turn on Location only when I use them (Uber, Google Maps,Waze), which is not to often. It is set to High Accuracy.

Bluetooth, not so much, WiFi nearly all day, since it is constantly connected to my office's wifi.

Only frequently use GMail and Google Keep, occasional YouTube. I try to use 3rd-party wrappers for FB, but I use original apps for Twitter and Messenger.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] smohanv:
+1
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Sid_dominic56:
Just got my Pixel on Saturday and battery life has been terrible so far. Doze is not kicking at all and drain is a lot. I used to get over 4.5-5 hours sot with 2 sims in my OP3 but on Pixel even with one sim I am not able to get 3-4 hours.

I am on stock and that too the latest update for which I got an OTA on Day 1 and I reset my phone after that. Please help me.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tranquill1800:
I think the sleep mode is working good good for me after I hibernated many system apps which were uselessly running in background..
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] geoff5093:
I told myself I'd stick with stock rooted on the Pixel, but ended up going with PureNexus and then tried a few kernels. Boy was that a mistake, battery life is much worse. Both Franco and ElementalX seem to have much more battery drain, and the phone gets much hotter. I just reflashed PureNexus and running the stock kernel, and uninstalled a few apps so we'll see if that helps.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
So I get 5 hours of SOT if I use the phone a lot. This also means I charge the phone sooner.

If I don't use the phone that much it lasts twice as long and I can still get something like 3.5 hours of SOT, which is just fine for my needs really.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] fix-this!:
id say my battery life is pretty mediocre. definitely one of the weak points of the pixel.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] piperx:
Very opposite here, but then again, I never install facecrape, whatscrap, snapcrap, or any other crap ?

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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thesoldier:
I'm getting over 5 hours SoT over 24 hours usage, which destroys the battery on my 5x. I'd say that's far from mediocre.

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I have a few of these crap apps and still get good battery life lol
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
It's Google Location History

After reading a bunch and trying old/new stuff that folks posted - in no particular order - for several hours, I decided to be "scientific" and try one, see how it did, then another one, etc. Turning off Google Location History did it. Reasonable battery life, reasonable SOT.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ciorofleasca:
My friend's lasts 1.5 days, and my S7 Edge 2 days.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ph0b0z:
It's not dozing a lot on your screenshots, though!
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] RoccoN4:
This phone is weird. Some get great battery and some (me) don't. I am not a heavy user. Don't have any of those typical battery draining apps. Have location off. Wifi/Bluetooth scanning off.

Doze only really kicks in if the phone is left alone for a long period of time. I am constantly moving around at work so doze won't kick in but still. Just using the phone for a min or two seems to kill 2-3% like it's nothing. I have factory reset like 4 times, each time installing less and less apps that I don't use. Mostly icon packs...

Not sure why.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
FYI - I noted above that turning off location history does wonders for me. Location history is in settings->location, but is a different setting than location itself. I have location set to high accuracy...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] RoccoN4:
Sorry. I do have location history turned. That is one of the first things I have always done with every android i use. I also have location accuracy to device only.

I latterly just read an article on the phone. Maybe 5 min. Went from 74% to 69%. Brightness on auto about 3/4 full.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
Sigh... Well, the -other- thing I have is Greenify with aggressive dose set. I suspect that does not do much really though.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thesoldier:
That's a pretty crazy drop. I'd start to suspect the device is faulty if it's really that bad.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] PsiPhiDan:
I'm at 22% with 4 hr 56 min screen on time. I LOVE this battery life. With same usage, I used to max out at 4 hours. I'm on pace for about 7 or so now.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Bossmanwilson:
Getting amazing battery life. Coming from the V20 I am in shock on how good the battery life is. I might get the XL ... Btw running DU RC 1/12 build
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] chaitanya.krishna:
I'm getting around 4hrs of SOT IS there anything that I can do to increase it ......I did factory reset once ........
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thesoldier:
It's hard to say because it depends so much on things like which apps you use, if you're on WiFi mostly, cell signal, and location settings.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thayil:
Gosh! Before the last update on 7.1.1 my battery life was more than decent. 5 hours of SoT. But now... I barely get 3 hours of SoT. As you can see, I really don't know what is going on. History location is disabled as the wifi & Bluetooth search. I don't get it...

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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] thesoldier:
[MENTION=2573803]thayil[/MENTION] it looks like Android system is eating your battery, it shouldn't be at the top of the list. Sometimes that happens to me and usually a reboot fixes it, not sure what the problem is.