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[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] N5X_ita:
I have another question: once the lock screen shows that the battery is fully charged I move to the battery setting's menu where it says that the battery is still charging and I have to wait at least 2 hours before it shows full. Is it ok? It's a feauture or a bug?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] semada:
It's your battery, it needs to be replaced. The actual capacity isn't 100% anymore these phones are getting old.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] N5X_ita:
Would it be a problem for you to check this behavior? When your charges reaches 100% what does your battery settings says? Charging or Full?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] semada:
Just to be clear your lockscreen is going full, do you have battery percentage on? And your battery setting are saying it's not full?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] N5X_ita:
I have battery percentage on.

This is what happens: I charge the phone. It reaches 100%. In this condition the lockscreen says Fully charged. I then move to battery settings and here I read Charging. After 2h in this state that charging becomes Full.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] htcdesire24:
My Pixel2 is now 18 month old and battery is getting worse from day for day.

I have all updates installed but only get a SOT of 3 hours - that´s one day of usage from morning to night.

When it was new I had to charge it after second day of usage.

I can´t identify special apps or changed sync, apps or behaviour over last 18 month.

Which app would you recommend to test (rest) battery capacity?

Which options do I have to change the battery? I think google won´t do this on warranty as it´s 18 month old :(
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] maniaccrack:
yeah,me too, sot is gradually bad
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] punkmangg:
3.5 4hs maximum SOT on Android 10. Google should fix this drain problem on Android 11.

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[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] GohanBurner:
I'm on the July Android 10 build and losing 10% every 36 minutes...wtf is this normal?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Nalub:
It's not normal. On my Pixel 3, in the last week the Facebook and Messenger apps started draining my battery, having a lot of background activity. After I use them I must force close every time to stop this. You can check if it's the case for you too
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Ceezar:
Stock 10 not rooted all I did was remove some Google service permissions. Battery drain gone
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] maniaccrack:
please re upload your image
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] GohanBurner:
Your image doesn't work
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] hanifh:
well if they did that then nobody would buy their new gen phones no? thats how capitalism works.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] cooltime:
Just got a used Pixel 2 and did some tests. No idea how worn-out the battery was before I bought it. brightness around 45% for all tests. Didn't log in. Close to a "factory fresh" OS. Developer options and USB debugging were enabled the whole time.

12h54: VLC, playing Opus (stereo) music @ 128 kbps on shuffle via bluetooth (Ambient display enabled) - (Ambient Display used 9%, VLC used 40%, I think the OS/battery isn't identifying the correct battery levels). Wifi on, airplane off, but no cell network connected. (911 should have been okay)

3h18: VLC, airplane mode (after the first 10-30 minutes). Playing 1080p blu-ray (AVC / m2ts) of My Neighbor Totoro on loop, subtitles on, non-DTS-HD audio track. volume 80%

5h26: YouTube, max quality, muted, plus some standby (on top of the 5h26)

All values reported from Android OS, I wasn't watching.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] chris1abc:
My Pixel 2 is 4 years old. My SOT is 4-5h hours with the old battery. Screen brightness 30%. Mostly email and whatsapp and wlan enabled. Mobile Data disabled.

I charge only up to 80% percent. I think my battery is still good. I am still happy with the phone cause of its smaller size. I is quick and the camera is still ok.

Ok , you can not compare the camera with new Phones, like an Iphone 12 or Huawei P30 Pro or others new models. But it still makes a good job.

My Pixel 2 is not rooted , it runs with the original rom. I only installed Lawnchair Launcher.

I also owned a Huawei P30 Pro. Great Camera ( much better than Pixel 2 and newer Pixels Phones) , great battery life. But the Phone is too big for me. I went back to my old Pixel 2.

I will use it until the battery dies. I will not be parted from this phone. I can not recommend to change the battery in Pixel 2. You must seperate the LCD. In most cases it will brake and you will need about two hours to change the battery. I am really surprised that the old battery is still healty. I hope it will last for another year. I still love my old Pixel 2 . It was for me the best phone and I used a lot phones.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] pgsxdjp:
Not as great yesterday. I've never been able to get massive SOT out of any phone I've owned (S6, HTC One X) when compared to some of the times I'd see here on XDA. Here's what I got yesterday.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] dsaucex:
Yes, have turned that off since yesterday, have installed Naptime as well. Not much difference. I am getting my phone replaced my device anyway due to the NFC clicking sound issue.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] dsaucex:
This is more like what I am getting. See my screenshots - 3h50m sot with 21h40m uptime.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jzun223:
I'm really impressed with battery life. I was a little worried about the battery size of the Pixel 2, but things seem good.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] foosion:
Screen on time is not a very comparable measure across users. One person could have the screen on to watch a video with the file on the device and another person could be playing a high-end game. They will have very different screen on times.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] dsaucex:
True. However, I am concerned because I hardly use my phone for any processor intensive app or game or anything like that. Basic browsing, Facebook, Whatsapp, Spotify etc. :(
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] foosion:
Many social media type apps have bad reputations for battery drain. For example, https://www.lifewire.com/how-facebook-messenger-apps-drains-battery-3880043
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] phobos512:
Pixel 2 5" -

This was the end of my first day, during which I installed approximately 70 apps over WiFi (the rest I had the night before prior to charging overnight), as well as watching a few YouTube videos.

https://i.imgur.com/lmsU0H4.png

Today, I setup all my apps (logged in, updated passwords, etc.), watched some more YouTube videos, browsing, etc. Even did some voice texting with the Assistant while I was walking to lunch, which was pretty cool. I expect I'll surpass six hours before bedtime no problem (3+ hours away).

https://i.imgur.com/KWKEOEb.png
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Those battery apps don't do anything. I wouldn't trust them.

Try this out today..disable adaptive brightness, disable always on screen, put brightness at 30% and make sure GPS, Bluetooth and Wifi are only on when you are using them. Post screenshots at end of day.

With all that being done and you're not getting at least 5+ SoT, you need to RMA your device. Possible lemon battery, it wouldn't be unheard of with the QC issues ongoing.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] zathus:
Usage
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] kolyan:
I wonder how Pixel 2 compares to Pixel 1 XL as far as battery goes? My Pixel 1 XL is about the minimum I would want in my battery, but due to newer and more efficient hardware perhaps Pixel 2 is roughly the same?

Any comments on this? I am not a big fan of 2 XL this year and have an ability to pick up regular 2 almost for free, but I am not sure it's a good idea due to 2770 battery vs 3500 that I have now in 1 XL
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
Ok here's my screen on time for my first day with my pixel 2, a little over 4 hours but I had the phone off or the screen off I should say and I had hotspot on for a couple hours. So I think without the hotspot on I could have gotten five to six hours of screen on time
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
This could be because of your usage. Battery life is different in each person. It's not just about the apps...signal...settings etc. How do you touch or swype the screen also matters. The more aggressive you are with the touch screen the more frequencies the kernel raises.

Sent from my Pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] pgsxdjp:
I def agree, SOT tells only part of the story. I just have no idea how people are getting over 9 hours...but I don't doubt it either. After a little over a week of use, I'd say I'm OK with the Pixel 2 battery life. It makes it through the average day with juice to spare. At the very least, close to 4 hours SOT for me, and hitting over 5.5 hours on other days. Sounds silly to say but the more I use the screen (browsing, videos, etc), the more SOT I get. Just wanted to share my experience.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
Getting great battery life on my pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] pastapie:
Just curious, is anybody using Greenify? I don't think it really helps on this.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] foosion:
My Pixel 2 was draining about 1.2% / hour idling overnight. I installed Greenify and got 0.4% / hour last night. I'm not sure if that's worthwhile.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] duckstardeluxe:
I find the SOT okay considering the battery size. Not like it's MI Mix 2 's 7-8 hours during 34 hours good, but 3 hours and 50 percent left with these numbers it's acceptable. Happy to see that apps usage doesn't use more than than screen.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] penciluser:
Drain at about 9% an hour. This is with watching videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] pastapie:
Settings

Are you using any battery conserving app or any other special settings?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] VadimTk:
I am getting about 5h SOT, would be very interested to see how to get more
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] giant22000:
The trick to getting better battery in most cases is simply to use your phone more. It's easy to get 6-8hrs SOT within 12hrs of unplugging your phone. It's almost impossible to do over a 48hr period.

Try for yourself.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] a103:
That's right. It you constantly use the phone after 100% charge you are most likely to get more SOT which I think is true for any phone. Key is how long the device can survive with minimum idle drain and maximum SOT.

I'll get mine next week. I'll be happy if the battery last ~ 24 hours with ~ 4 hours of SOT with light to more use. Also the Pixel 2 XL definitely outperforms Pixel 2 in terms of battery life due to it's significantly larger battery.

My 2 cents.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] phobos512:
Crossed 8 hours with my non-XL yesterday. Spent the afternoon at home since we were gone all day Friday with car maintenance and shopping. Here's the battery usage and the apps with both system showing and not.

I have 183 apps installed, always on display on at high battery usage, no weird tweaks or battery saving apps or any of that nonsense. Screen set to 33% with adaptive brightness on. AT&T LTE and home WiFi.

https://imgur.com/KaqoLru

https://imgur.com/a/sGEdJ
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] delsus:
Literally just with location disabled I've got 65%.

Last full charge 14h 58m ago.

Screen on time 2 hours 49 minutes

About 15 hours 5 minutes left based my usage.

https://imgur.com/gallery/s5Iew
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] phobos512:
What do you mean "I've got 65%"?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] delsus:
Sorry uploaded a different screen shot after I posted that, but at the time I made that post I was at 65% battery, sorry for any confusion
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] kolyan:
P2 looks like similar to my P1XL. I had 15 hours SB and 2 hours of SOT with 50% battery left. On Pixel 1 XL I had about 30% left with 16 hours of SB and 3.5 hours of SOT < WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC, and all sycns are all ON
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
That's what I am afraid of...

I keep Bluetooth on constantly. I don't use NFC and I keep GPS to battery mode, but still GPS is always on in some form. When I briefly tested it out the drain felt like it would be poor battery life. That's, of course, a subjective measure though. I need to see 5-6 SOT in order to be happy.

As a baseline, I have a g5 plus. I keep Bluetooth on, GPS on battery save mode (but on), use wifi when I can. I work in a low signal area... 2 bars max. No wifi to alleviate that. I see about 6 hours SOT using the chrome, Feedly, and Napster mostly during the day.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
I think I can hit 6 hours SoT every day. But I charge my phone before that happens.

On vacation day it lasts less (because of constant Google maps and Camera usage) but much more than my previous phone. In these cases the SoT could reach 3 hours I guess.

Sent from my Pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
I've got to admit screen on time is amazing on this phone for such a small battery I'm totally amazed.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
My sot without charging all day.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gm007:
Second day with my pixel 2 , I'm very pleased.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] carloandreaguilar:
I also have a g5 plus and am looking to switch to a pixel. Does your g5 plus also have a bug where activating speakerphone during a call takes a few seconds?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
Everything has a tiny delay, as it's not an 835 processor, but I don't recall it taking too long. Hmm...

The problem I'm running into with my g5+ is the vibrate cuts in and out. It's very annoying. It's also troublesome as I use the vibrate notification when I'm at work.

I'm still on the fence. The convenience of the front facing button that doubles as a power button (great when it's on my desk AND saves my power button from wear and tear).

The fingerprint scanner on the p2 does not double as a power button, so it'll only turn the device on. Further, with it sitting face up, you can't access the scanner to begin with.

I'm so undecided... I like the quality the power, I have hopes for comparable (or at least acceptable battery), I welcome the newest software guarantee, and I like the camera. But real world use, I don't know if I can live with the loss of convenience. Lol.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
That's what I've been getting for battery. I'm also very happy about this. I triple the sot of my wife's g4 lol
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] carloandreaguilar:
If you are facing vibration cuts, it might be because you're on a custom rom or kernel which raised the vibration strength. Like elemental x. Try stock.

Also, what I meant is if you are already in a call, and you activate speakerphone midcall, it takes like 3 seconds to activate. I just read this is actually a safety feature, not a bug. Slowly cranks up volume.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
Hmm, I'll have to pay more attention for that and see. That's interesting...

Nah, mines just defective. I don't do custom ROMs... Never rooted a phone, etc. The most customization I've done is a launcher, lol.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] omgabunny:
I've been very happy with how this little phone performs.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] haloimplant:
7hrs SOT over 24 hours with 7% to spare after I forgot to plug in last night. Pretty impressive, nice to know I can make it pretty far into the next day in a pinch (usual SOT will be lower).

50% adaptive brightness and always on display disabled. 1.5hrs playing one of those racing games. Only turned on battery saver at 10% right at the end.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Wartickler:
My Nexus 6 lasted longer than this thing. I lose almost 1% per minute with mine.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
I had been thinking about this phone and it struck me... With the battery appearing to be in the 5 hour realm as an average, does anyone think that it'll tank to an unacceptable level when they start using the photo processor chip? Won't it drain more battery than it does with it off? Just a thought.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] foosion:
A dedicated photo processing chip could be more efficient than using the main SoC, in which case it would use less battery. Or not.

We'll have to see how it works in practice.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] sstanton86:
If you read up on the visual core that's the whole point in it existing, the fact that it's far more efficient, battery wise and far speedier than using the soc.

Based on what we know so far, we should be lead to believe it'll make our batteries go further.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
Thanks folks... That makes sense. [emoji106]
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Karand93:
I'm only getting about 3hr SOT on my pixel 2. I even used it on safe mode for a day and it only seemed to push it up to a Max of about 4hr SOT.

I have AOD off, Bluetooth off, now playing on and adaptive brightness on.

Any advice on what the issue could be?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidstjohn1:
They have talked about it already the soc photo chip is actually going to save a lot of battery.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ghettopops:
Coming from my 1+5 I am not a fan of this battery life. Been on the fence about grabbing the 5T or sticking with this.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] DaKoin:
I am having soo much issues with this phone and the battery is just one of them. I am actually scared to use my Phone now. I still use my 6p in the days along side it just so that it doesn't drain too fast. the very first time i got the phone i used it for like 1 and a half hours and my SOT was 1 hour and i only lost 2%in battery life i was so excited. I think on that first charge i got close to 5 hours. but that was the first and last time it was so good. now i get 3 hours of SOT and i am not doing anything extreme. no gaming or long snapchat sessions. just Instagram and YouTube mostly. I haven't even used whatsapp on it because I haven't inserted my sim card in it. so its been on WiFi this whole time. also i keep my brightness way down...every phone i have i had to keep the brightness down because i wanted to get good battery.. i was hoping i could be like every one else and get to use atleast 50% brighness. but no such luck.

other issues i have with this phone is that fingerprint fails 50% of the time

front facing camera when in video mode looks messed up ( over processed..as if the face retouching is permanently on)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gm007:
That's because you don't use adaptive brightness and maybe the brightness at 100% :D
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] quakeaz:
This was with a bit of camera usage and a little bit of gaming as well. I am pleased with this device's battery life so far.

Build OPD1.170816.025.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Amazing
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] quakeaz:
Impressive! Any particular settings or behavior to achieve that? What screen brightness do you typically run?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Indoors I set brightness around 15-25%

Outdoors I go for 35-50%

I swear this phone gets better battery life as I use it. I think Google is learning my habits lol.

My usage pattern is pretty average. I spend about 2-3 hours SoT web browsing articles with chrome. 15-30 minutes a day SoT camera app.

1-3 hours Mixed social media (Snapchat, insta, Reddit, xda)

I also use a decent amount if streaming with Spotify it usually only uses up around 10% of my battery.

The one thing I don't do a lot is gaming. Some days I wont play a single game. Other days I'll play for like 3 hours, which will bring my total SoT down 1-2 hours.

Completely honest, I've never gone under 5 hours SoT with this phone. The brightness setting absolutely is the largest variable to look at if you're chasing battery life.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Kypariss:
Roughly 4.5 hrs over 10 hrs (20% left), lots of camera use (Night shots seem to use more power), videos, music, browsing (Mainly WiFi). Very pleased. My 5x would be at 50% with just under an hour of usage in the morning. Not using always on, All other ambient features on, Adaptive brightness @ 50%, everything is on but Bluetooth and NFC(Don't use it).
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] sdsurferbob:
6+ hours with 25% left. Definitely one of my better days, at home on wifi all day. Lots of social media, general browsing, and video streaming.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] sdsurferbob:
Here's the screenshot, couldn't upload the first time.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] strebalicious:
Averaging maybe 4.5 hours screen time. Not even enough to get me through the day most of the time (not shown in

the screenshots: the days I had to top up a little just in case). Admittedly, I'm pretty rough on my phones. A 3.5h round trip commute while streaming music on a bluetooth headset will do that, I guess.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Why is your brightness so high if you don't mind me asking.

I've had days with over 4 hours of streaming over Bluetooth and I only get sub 3 hours SoT if I have brightness cranked up to max. 15-35% will work fine trust me! You'll get 5 hours SoT even with all that streaming.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] nizarnoor:
I only get 3 hours SOT most of the time. Or less.

My battery loses 8-10% overnight every night.

Here are some screenshots of the battery usage stats:

https://imgur.com/a/qADD9
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] strebalicious:
Because it's not? I keep it around 50% most of the time because that's what works best for me. The one dark screenshot is because I had Twilight on as it was already late.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Redrockzz:
Thats not good. Maybe any apps are blowing the battery away in the background?

Weak mobile signal? GPS always on? Using AoD?

I use my device as daily driver, AoD on, GPS off, mobile signal most of the time, ~20% of the time wifi.

I get around 2 days of using with 4-6 hrs SoT.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] nizarnoor:
I'm connected to wifi most of the time. Location is mostly on Battery Saving, which means GPS is off (but I'd switch to High Accuracy a few times throughout the day when using location apps like Google Maps or Instagram). I also have AoD on, Bluetooth on, NFC on. Now playing is off, always listening is also off (I only activate Google Assistant by squeezing or holding down home key, not by voice).

Re: Overnight battery drops, I actually have tried going to bed with the phone on airplane mode, with wifi on, and it still lost 10% the next morning. Weird. These days I sleep with my phone on Battery Saver mode and it would drop between 2% and 4% overnight.

I have the GSam battery monitor app, the top "offender" is always Kernel (Android OS). I don't know what this one does.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
I heard AOD uses a bit battery... I keep mine to only when new notifications arrive. Wonderful if that would help any?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
I was about to ask the same thing.....

Have you tried one night disabling Ambient Display Always on?

Sent from my Pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] nizarnoor:
I always put it on Battery Saver mode when I go to bed now, which deactivates the Always On display.

It loses between 2% and 4% overnight now, which is better compared to 10%!

But for regular day-to-day use, I'm still getting only 3 hours SOT all the time.

It's not bad, but it's just strange (and a bit disappointing for me) that most people can get up to 5 or even 6 hours SOT.