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[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] zepeters:
I don't get 5h of SOT. To be honest, I never EVER gotten 5h of SOT on ANY smartphone I used (without messing with ROMs/kernels).

I do use my phone a lot, quite a lot, both with the screen on and off. And I don't turn features off so my battery lasts longer, if that was the case, I would just get a ****ing brick instead of a £600 phone!

But I am finding the battery to be very good on the Pixel. Way better than all the Nexus I owned. Still won't get me through 2 days, but it gets me from the time I wake up till I go to bed, which is - to be honest - what everybody really needs. I had to charge my 5X at the afternoon, sometimes right after lunch which was frustrating.

I only felt the need to charge my Pixel mid-day two times since I got it. Both cases I knew I was going out till late so I gave it a quick 15 min charge (the quick charge feature is also INSANELY convenient and also faster than the 5X) and it was enough.

I also had a friend visiting last weekend. We went around London and I took sh*tloads of photos (along with editing and Instagram posting) and the phone held up pretty good. I did charge it around dinner time (quick charge powerbank) and I was good to go for the rest of the day/night.

Overall I'm very satisfied! Especially cause in London the reception it **** (!!) and that must eat through a lot of the battery...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
I can only get 5 hours SOT straight through, i.e., Netflix.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Man I really wish I could help more with everyone and the bad battery issues. There doesn't seem to be a consistent reason for good or bad battery. Below you'll see a day where I got what I think is great battery performance. 5hrs SOT, 3.5hrs on the phone, 24hrs off the charger.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
I'm sorry but alien devices are not allowed here. Keep it on the down low, I'll pm you my address so I can get one of those.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
8 hours off the charger, 85% left. 14 minutes of voice calls (using 72mah), Android OS = 62mah, Android System = 61mah, 24min of SOT. I just turned off enhanced LTE and will see how the rest of the day goes. This is so bad. The Honor 8 in my house has been off the charger for the same time, but has 2hours SOT and is at 69%.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I did some research and it would appear that enhanced LTE causes the same drain issue on the nexus devices.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] varun.gid:
Well after a week of testing this is my usual average battery life. pretty happy. on course to 4+ SOT over one day.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] seanashmore:
The battery life didn't impress me much until today (I've had it a week today). So I charged my phone before i went to sleep last night, took it off the charger at around 11pm or so, played with it for a minute or two so battery was at 99% when i put it on airplane mode. This morning it was down to 97%. It's now coming up to midnight so we're just over 24 hours later and my stats are as follows:

27% battery remaining

3h 4m SOT

Allo held a wakelock on my device at some stage today, keep awake is around 1h30m :s.

In terms of usage I made + received 2-3 5 minute phone calls, Twitter, I use facebook but only via browser and I am using the lightning browser as chrome was a big battery hog for me, watched Silicon Valley episode on train home using Google Play Movies + TV. Other than that I just googled things from time to time and listened to music using Google Play Music at different times during the day. Oh, I also used Cardboard for about 10-15 minutes before I left work.

I'm very happy with that, however as I said before, this is a first. I'm not sure whether not having the phone on charger all night, or switching to the lightning browser has helped matters or if that is just pure coincidence.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Yea not making any difference for me
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
OK I thought I was the only one who thought that London network signals are the main cause of trashy battery life.

Like you, I normally get 4hrs of SOT but as with every new phone, I get the initial 5.5hrs after nearly 12 days of settling the battery in.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
[MENTION=4997693]km8j[/MENTION] are you on a none Verizon carrier? I decided to start using greenify (none root) and noticed that the hidden Verizon apps keep on running in the background. This was idiotic on Googles end for preinstalling these apps and making them system apps at that. Maybe give greenify a try. I started using it just to see how it would do on a none rooted phone. I went from losing 10% while I'm sleeping and my phone should be too (so about 10% for 8 hours of just idle) to losing 3% in 8 hours of idle. I've also attached a picture of the stupid Verizon app running in the background
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Yea, Tmobile. I have those apps disabled but am giving Greenify a shot. I just installed it but IMHO force-closing apps (which is how Greenify does it without root) can cause more problems than not.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I'm only having it close app that I hardly use to begin with but they're in the background doing who knows what. Everything else like messaging apps and things with push notifications I leave alone.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Agree. As you know I returned my Pixel due to this very issue so I don't have a dog in this game. But having to use Greenify on a 700 dollar device just doesn't seem right. But the question I have is, is this device running 7.1.1 or just 7.1?

Reason being that when I installed 7.1.1 on my 5x the battery life jumped incredibly. I mean I'm getting the exact same as I was on my brand new pixel and I didn't before. So perhaps a software fix from Google will solve the issue?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] piperx:
I deleted everything Verizon and Sprint period, (as root) I use T-Mobile, no need for them
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] k2buckley:
So I've been using flagship Android devices since the Evo. Never have I gotten battery life as good as I did on my first charge with the Pixel. I got it Wednesday night, charged it fully, then turned it on and set it up. Normally setting up a phone and syncing everything eats the battery. Not this time, and I never charged it again until this afternoon. I'll be curious to see if it gets even better, because normally battery life gets better as it breaks in. I'm always the guy watching everyone post about how great their battery life is, and I'm over here getting crap battery life, like what the hell, why does mine suck. This time it's off to a great start. Don't think I'd ever seen more than 3.5hrs on any device I ever owned.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] guysalami:
Damn, is this with cell service the whole time? I see your bluetooth was on, do you leave it on? My battery line never trends horizontally, overnight I lose between 2-3% per hour it seems. I can only rely on 3.5 hours SOT it would seem. Any tricks you are using to get this kind of life?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] k2buckley:
I'm not using any tricks really. All I did as far as altering settings is turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning, I don't see a need for that. I had Bluetooth on the entire time, not connected to anything always, but a good amount to my headphones and car. Wi-fi was on probably 50% of the time of a little more. Screen brightness probably around 40% I guess? Lower at night. I really didn't do anything, normally I'm flashing ROMs and kernels to try to get decent battery life. Knock on wood, so far mine rocks with a factory set up. I haven't rooted this thing yet. Not sure if I'm going to. I'm on project Fi and have good service in my area, and yes it was always on, never went to airplane mode. The battery saver was on for the final 15%, which was a long ass time. I went to bed with 15%, I think it was at like 13% or so when I got up, but I had been snoozing my alarm for at least 25 minutes, so it was vibrating. It lasted until around noon when I finally charged it, it had drained to 1% at that time. Again, I'm surprised and impressed.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] jay661972:
First cycle very impressive
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Bxrider117:
I have the Verizon version of the pixel 128gb coming tomorrow. I look forward to using it. I have not canceled my Google order either. I just can't wait on Google. I hope I have battery life like some people on the thread.

My S7 is okay. I make it thru a day mostly with 3.5 hours of screen on time. But if the pixel gives me 4-5 and has as good of a camera that people are saying, I'll be happy
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] calebv2:
I've never seen any phone I've ever owned do this much screen on time. I'm home sick today and have been on my phone non stop. I've even played several different games. I'm amazed.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rkial:
There is a separate Pixel XL forum. Posting battery results for the XL in the Pixel section is just going to create confusion.

http://xdaforums.com/pixel-xl/how-to
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
8 hours is pretty darn crazy. I get 5 hours or 5.5hours on my Pixel. Which is v good. That's with cell data, location battery saving mode, wifi and Bluetooth scanning enabled, Google now everywhere listening, full sync.

Basically I have not taken any measure to save battery life except for turning location to the battery save setting.

Now if the Pixel XL gives me three hours more SOT... Then Google have really hit this one out of the park. I heard the bigger one has better battery life. But 8 hours? Dayum...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Wanted to post an update. I gave some advice to a user to give greenify a try (without root). Below are my results of my first two days using it. Now I haven't had as much screen on time as I've posted in the past but this is me using my phone how I normally use it (real world use).
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] RoccoN4:
I seem to be the only one judging by everyone's screen shots they've posted of their battery stats that has Gmail near the top of my battery stats. Is it better to not have it optimized or to optimize it? Or should I just change email apps. I have to Gmail and a work email account set up. I've cleared cache and data. I also hard reset my device once which actually made the battery last longer.

Thanks for any advice.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
This is good battery life if it was over a period of 2 days. You don't use your phone like an addict such as me. But still, after 2 days? That's pretty good battery life right there with over 4 hours SOT.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
Nearly 6 hours of SOT. Not bad...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] kvlt:
You folks with your green network signals... I'm getting about 3 hrs of screen on time with my half bars of 3g ringplus (sprint) service.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] rickyg946:
Yea that's the only thing that can kill battery life with this phone. At work I have less than stellar reception and struggle to get 3 hours SOT. On the weekend when I'm mostly at home or in areas with good reception I can easily get 4-5 hours depending on use.

Sent from my Pixel
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] munkle:
Anybody have issues with play services using tons of battery? I'm not sure how to fix it but I'm only getting 3 hours screen time, and usually play services is using most of the battery and keeping the phone awake when the screen isn't on. I do use google now, are all the people that have good battery life not using google now?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
I use Google now/assistant and do not have this issue. Have you tried clearing data and cache from play services. Also check your version. And try updating to the newest version. The new version gives you the check for update button when you go into your settings to check for new firmware updates.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] daewond3r:
For some reason the ESPN app went rogue this morning and drained 13% of my battery. Uninstalled.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This is beyond sad. Doubt new OTA will fix either
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] bobby janow:
Do you know when 7.1.1 is due out for the Pixels?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Adrianturingan:
Pixel vs Pixel XL, in terms of battery life?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] johno86:
I got around 5hr 2min of Screen On Time off my first charge.

That was over the course of 1 day and a half. I plugged in the phone at 14% battery. So 5 hours of SoT w/ 14% battery left. Color me impressed.

Now that I have more apps installed onto the phone I will see if the extra data usage drains it much faster or not.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] munkle:
I updated to the newest build and factory reset my phone as well. I charged to 100% before going to sleep and unplugged my phone. It lost 6% over 8 hours which is much better than before, play services didn't take any battery but as soon as I start moving the phone play services starts doing stuff. I have only turned on the screen a couple times to check the time over the last 6 hours and its gone down to 89% so roughly 1% an hour, a little more than at night but not too bad. Play services using the most battery. Hopefully it doesn't get worse. Yesterday before I reset my phone, I had 43 min on the screen and 49% batter after an 8 hour work day with play services at the top of usage. I still have 3 days to return it, if it gets worse again, I'm going to return it and just get a 6p as they are cheap used, I don't want to pay $650 for a phone that I'm going to constantly have battery life issues with.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] d-pak:
IMHO, this is this best battery life of any android device I have owned (S6 edge, M8, M7, even older iPhones). Use it daily for tons of GPS navigation, GPS, Wifi and Bluetooth are always on. Simply amazing. I do not run too many background apps and widgets, but normally where my phone would be 10% by 5pm, I am 50% a lot of times. I travel a lot, use it for navigation exclusively, boarding passes, email, tethering, news, music.

Edit: I have non-vzw Pixel 128GB.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Bxrider117:
I've had the Verizon Pixel 128gb since Saturday. Previously I had the Samsung S7. I still think that is a great phone, but I'm a phone hore and I have to try the latest phones.

I'm thoroughly impressed with phone. I'm easily getting 19-22 hours of battery life from this phone. I've been charging the phone at night and then let it sit overnight till the morning. I'm a regular user, Google play music for 1-2 hours, some GPS, some games, Internet browsing and always an hour of calls. Today is the 1st day I left it on the charger overnight to see how my day ends. My 1st couple of days I've always ended with a small amount of battery left and I've achieved at least 3.5 to 4.5 of screen on time.

So far I'm happy. I'm going on vacation this Friday to the Dominican Republic. I'll use the camera a lot on that trip. If the pictures are on par with the S7 then this phone will be a keeper.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] daewond3r:
Received the Nov security update this morning with about 95% charge at the time of update. This is the best day I've had with my phone yet.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] flintfirewalker:
I've had the phone for 3weeks now and I didn't want to share screen shots, since they only tell you about one specific day - and every day is different. Instead I'll give a battery update after having gone through all different types of usage patterns.

Btw, I just came from z3c and battery there was phenomenal. So I have high standards and care deeply about battery life, enough to study my usage everyday.

My regular usage included half the day on wifi and the other half on T-Mobile LTE. I also go through some spotty cell coverage areas, but don't spend more than an hour in the bad coverage area. Brightness auto and middle of the slider, no Bluetooth or wifi scanning, GPS on battery saving mode unless actively using maps/Waze, Bluetooth and wifi always on, no battery killing Unoptimized apps .

With these settings, my use includes at least 4-6 calls lasting 30-60 mins, 60-120 mins of Google play music over Bluetooth, another 60-120 mins of reading news and other usage (googling, assistant questions, wiki, look up reviews or times, etc), hangouts, WhatsApp and messaging usage all day long and 30-90 mins of casting you tube and Netflix to TV.

My typical screen on time is 2.5 hours (min) and 3.5 hours (max). On min days, end the day with 30% remaining, and 15% on max days.

On days I use GPS, my other usage are lower due to travelling, but screen on time is still 3hrs (during driving and maps usage) and music streaming one LTE and playing using Bluetooth in the car. On these days, I almost always have to charge around 6pm or keep it connected in the car. Need to top it off before days over.

Overall - I give this phone battery a score of 7/10, or in other words, good. Better than other mediocre phones, but definitely not as good as some battery champs such as z3c which I would rate 9/10.

Hope this helps.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] perrocaliente:
The best and most honest review so far. Thank you
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Bxrider117:
I've found that for a 2770 mah battery this phone holds up very well. I have the Verizon S7 and this phone can outlast the S7. Especially if you unplug the phone over night and then use it for the day. My stats show I can constantly get 4 hours of screen on time and I use my phone as a phone WiFi at home LTE at work. It's definitely a keeper.

My only drawback is the lack of water resistance like the S7. I'm on vacation now and I brought my S7 for pool videos and photos. The pixel has a good camera and the battery is worth an upgrade are from any phone from 2015.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
The battery is just sooooo bad. See attached. I'd be at 80% still on the Honor 8. Not much going on in the background.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] shindiggity:
Under location and three dots (top right) is there a scanning option?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
Bluetooth and wifi scanning turned off since day one
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] TurboBot247:
I know what your problem is. I was having the same problem with my Droid Turbo 2 on Thursday and Friday, where my phone, sitting in my pocket on idle, no cellular data on, drained about 20% within an hour, on both days. Why? Because WiFi is always on on my phone, and the internet at my school had crashed that day, and my phone was trying to get a WiFi connection and draining. No other background apps were running. The problem with your Pixel is that your phone seems to be in many locations with poor WiFi signals and connection, and your battery seems to be draining because your phone is trying unsuccessfully to establish a decent connection. So what I would try is this: If you have been traveling a lot, whether out and about, actually going on vacations, or stationary in a place with not-so-great WiFi, try to turn WiFi off more and see if that helps. If you are mostly at home or in a place with solid WiFi signals, then check the battery drain on other devices connected to the same WiFi. If none of all this works, then I would RMA your particular unit, because I've not heard of anyone getting as horrible of battery life with any model of Pixel as you have been. My turbo 2 normally gets good battery life (an average of 5 hrs of SOT and I'm a really heavy user), but lately, whenever I go to school and leave WiFi running all day, my phone's battery drains like crazy. Hope this helps...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] km8j:
This isn't a hardware issue that RMA will solve. It is also not a WiFi issue. The root cause is Android System/OS consuming batter.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tluley51:
Any help appreciated...

When I am home on wifi, I'm like the rest of you here. 4 to 5 hours SoT, everything on but wifi and Bluetooth scanning, great battery life to me at least. When I start moving though, it's like a different phone. For example, when sitting at work with full LTE (Cricket), I'll get thru my 7 to 3 shift with 60 percent left and only like an hour SoT. I tried with wifi on and turning it off and it's still the same (not connected to any wifi either way). See screenshots of today's usage. This is about average since getting the phone 3 weeks ago.

Again, on weekends when I'm home on my wifi, it's amazing...
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
Something is definitely odd. It shows your WiFi running for 2 hours?! You positive wifi scanning for GPS is turned off? I've been home since 5pm. It is now 9pm; been connected to WiFi that whole time and I didn't accrue that much wifi time. Something odd I noticed with my phone since the November update is that battery stats show my WiFi has been turned on even though it wasn't on from 7am to 5pm.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tluley51:
Thanks for the response. I may have had wifi running when I first got to work while on mobile data only. Sometimes I forget to switch wifi off when I leave the house (tried IFTTT to do it automatically but it's terrible at determining location). Regardless, even if that said 0 hours, my battery life wouldn't change. I've definitely had wifi off right when leaving the house and still seen this crap battery life.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Ballymakaveli:
Here is my stats guys .3 weeks old pixel 128 GB .Off the charger at 7.30am..am a heavy user ..using greenify to handle my 30 over active WhatsApp groups ..constantly on data as no wifi in office ..also not very good signal in office ..colour me impress
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tluley51:
You're off wifi and it's turned off yet your Google services isn't high at all. My Google services SKYROCKETS when I'm off wifi and strictly on mobile data.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] Ballymakaveli:
Damn ..never ever had so much SOT on my 6p and it had a huge battery
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] drock212:
What's weird to me is how you've racked up over 2 hours of WiFi while me being on WiFi for 6 hours I've only gotten 13 minutes. Only thing I can think of is for one reason or another wifi is being used by a background process. Maybe Google photos is syncing causing the massive drain. Can you think of any apps where you've set them up to only do their syncing over WiFi? Or not even syncing but functioning strictly over WiFi?
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] tluley51:
I think that references wifi being turned on but not connected to a network. So you had wifi on for 6 hours but 13 minutes, you were on mobile data with wifi on.

I don't have anything syncing...I will say after doing a search or 2, I saw to check at different syncing options under settings - accounts. I saw that both of my Google accounts had Google Docs with the arrows. Not sure if that means it failed sync or it was continuously syncing? But I toggled them off and clear cache for all apps. I doubt it will help, but it's worth a shot.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
When I'm at work, I get no network reception where I sit. It is very intermittent. Despite this, I still got 4.5hrs SOT. This isn't great by any standards but acceptable. Lasted me into the night.
[Google Pixel Guides, News, & Discussion] subhani:
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