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[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Superdad_98:
I use to get about 9 hours with excellent stand by time almost 2% over 8+ hour now it is 8% drain over the same period, and bairly getting 6 hours of screen time
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] benleonheart:
Been having 6.5 to 7 hours average SOT with aod on and all gestures except the squeeze meme
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] robertmputt:
Best device ever. Can easily get 7 to 7 and a half hours of SOT. Any previous top end samsung like note 8 or whatever could only get at tops 4 hrs SOT. And this pixel 2 xl is old. Will be hard pressed to change this deivce. Will probably keep using it until it stops working hahaha
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] beache:
I am very happy with this insane battery life!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Got a Digital Wellbeing screenshot of your usage? Curious as to your top 3 apps using your screen.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] beache:
No, not from this one. I will take a screenshot when I can.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aaditya91:
That SOT <3

Just wanted to share mine. :) Have been getting amazing SOTs constantly since I got the device almost a year ago. No AOD; I use double tap to check.

It is really good to have a device that can keep consistent battery cycles. I have to never worry about the battery running out in the day.

Every second night, plug it in for a charge & I 'm good for the next 48 hours at least.

Edit: Battery saver turns on at 15%
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Very impressive SOT and total time off the charger!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Hazzay88:
What apps are you using? Also is this mostly on WiFi?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aaditya91:
Yeah, mostly WiFi. My phone is stock, not rooted. These are the apps installed on my phone apart from the pre installed apps:

5217

adobe acrobat reader

aetna mobile

airbnb

amazon

android auto

google authenticator

blokada

bofa

confluence

discord

expensify

fasthub

gasbuddy

Jira

linkedin

google measure

musicxmatch lyrics

netflix

google opinion rewards

sheets

docs

slack

sleep for android

snapseed

spotify

stack overflow

starbucks

steam

tasker (paid)

uber

venmo

xda labs

zoom
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
You have any Digital Wellbeing screenshots? Gives a better idea of your usage.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aaditya91:
Not using it. Waiting for the final version to be released..
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
Today
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Wow. What's your top 3 most used apps?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Prattham:
Gotta be kidding me ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
Better than recently my OP5T
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aaditya91:
NOICE! Are you completely stock?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
yes bro
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aur3L:
I've got around 7hrs and 40 min SOT during the last weeks, Pie has improved the phone longevity over Oreo, and while I'm not getting 10hrs SOT as the previous poster, or on my P20 Pro it is really nice. And I am running completely stock as well. Maybe I've purchased a lucky unit but until now, it is good in my books.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] ivan_ak7:
I've never had so much SOT on my Pixel 2 XL. Root, not root, xposed, not xposed, oreo, pie, just restored: my battery never lasted so much. How can you have so much sot? I usually have 2-3hrs SOT at the end of the day, with 15-18 hours since the last full charge. Now I unplugged my pixel 2hrs ago, 19 min of Chrome Beta, 13 min of Twitter and 38min sot: 83%.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bibikleio2013:
It's not normal. I think you must do a hard reset.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Got any battery graph or Digital Wellbeing screenshots?

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2-3 hours SOT after 18 hours but with how much battery left? Almost dead? I do that and have 40% left usually which is fine by me.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bibikleio2013:
Here you go
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Over 8 hours of SOT but your top three apps only add up to a little over 4 hours? [emoji53]
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bibikleio2013:
I was playing with Hyperion launcher for 1 hour and 30 minutes and I deleted in the final.

That's why.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] ihategame:
Getting about 4 hours SOT mainly because i get poor signal H+ inside the building where I work so the phone keeps pushing for better and better for about 8 hours and a half. That drains alot of the battery, also i have my phone on my desk all day with the always-on display showing the clock, not sure how much this affects but...that's about it. 4 lazy hours
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Are you a witch? Did you sell your soul? Seriously, how are you getting such absurdly good battery life?

That kind of usage and still 36% left? The best I ever got was about the same screen on time and time off charger but a dead battery and that's when my phone was brand new. You still have 36% left?

That's like the equivalent of getting 50mpg on a V8 truck. Amazing.

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The most impressive thing about that is the YouTube battery drain. 4 hours of YouTube only used 36%? That's only 9% per hour. That's INSANE. My Pixel 2 XL uses DOUBLE that battery on YouTube. If I unplugged my phone at 100% any did nothing but watched YouTube until the phone died I'd get maybe 5.5 hours and that's over wifi. Did you tweak something?

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Facebook actually is one of the best apps on my phone in terms of battery usage. It uses much less than Chrome for the same amount of time. Facebook drains 1% every 8 minutes. Chrome lasts about 6 minutes for every 1%.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Aaditya91:
Well, I didn't tweak anything at all, BUT I have observed that blokada helps a lot with battery life. It blocks a lot of ads system wide. Even some on YT if not all. Also, a lot of that YT time is with ear plugs on and not the speaker. That also makes a difference.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Still that HALF of what my phone uses for YouTube. I wouldn't expect audio to have that much of an impact. Maybe I'll try a test with no audio.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] wazza1991:
Screen brightness is also a major factor...maybe he used it at a very low brightness (just a guess).
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] jimv1983:
I use low brightness too. On Oreo usually about 20% with the brightness setting change on Pie I'm usually at about 60-65%.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Remember that in that battery usage view, it's only the apps it's looking at. That doesn't take into account the screen and Android System so it's actually even less. When I show full device usage, my YouTube have 5% in 60 minutes of use today. I'm pretty sure you should get more than 5.5 hours of SOT from 100% charge. Run a 30 minute test and see your true drainage with the batter percentage at the top and don't get so caught up with battery usage percentages.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
so, after almost all day playing movie (and didn't use so much the device as phone, web browser, email, whatsapp) i got 9:30HRS SOT and 18:32HRS idle time.

is it allright?

the question is what will i get when i use the device for using phone, web browser, email, whatsapp.

so here is the result of playing movie all day long plus night sleep start from 100% charged battery.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] DMart9406:
That result is really good

I did yesterday 6:30 with 23% left browsing , whatchinf youtube , 9gag etc...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
here is after regular use we can say...less screen time but more idle, it considereate as good?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Good? That's amazing! I can't even get that kind of battery life just browsing and video uses a lot more battery.

What's your secret?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
look at my second messege , i got less SOT, i think that playing movie is taking less battery than using the device as phone
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
these is good?

i had to get 7 hours SOT before november update, what has wrong?

thanks
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] MrRisan:
Maybe my the screen was the whole night on? I don't know how I got that sot.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
No that's doable. It's clear that your phone went into doze overnight with the flat line. Can't do that with the screen off.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Hello guys,

I bought a Pixel 2 xl a week back and immediately upgraded to Pie. I experience bad battery life. I only managed to get 2.5h sot. Currently I'm rooted and with Elemental x kernel. While I was not rooted G play services was draining my battery like anything.

So I rooted and installed Doze GMS magisk module, put GP services under doze, installed custom kernel, enabled back light dimmer, installed swift theme installer and blackened all apps, installed naptime and reduced times for light doze so it would trigger soon, installed the darkened mod to increase battery life and performance etc.,

Even with this i get the following as my accu battery stats. I dunno why the screen on drain is so much. I use wifi and data in similar level. Weekends wifi and weekdays data at work. I have GPS enabled. Even the screen off is much.

Especially if I start using camera and I take couple of pictures my percentages drop like anything. Once I close camera and check percentage app it would be certainly 3-4% down just after taking couple of pics.

I've not experienced the so called great battery life people were saying in Oreo. So can't tell if Pie actually degraded or not.

Previously I was using 6P and it had heating during charging and low battery life, Thanks to SD810. So I was having very much hope on SD835 and latest Android updates only to still have the urge to ensure my battery is not dropping.

Now I've recently disabled the adaptive battery and G location history. Dunno if that would have any impact. But if you guys have any other option, even that means going back to Oreo (which I don't want to do as I want latest camera tweaks) let me know.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Badger50:
Here's my recommendation. Uninstall all the doze and naptime stuff. Go to magisk manager download section and look for..."Sysconfig Patcher" and install it via magisk and reboot. Then start your tracking again. If that doesn't help, then factory reset, and start over again :good:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Hi,

Thank you for the recommendation. I can live without Napgime and I can even do the device idle constants via Adb. I've the sys config patcher already installed but never knew how to use it. Let me check out.

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I've just read about the sys config patcher. I've disabled the gms doze and related module. Let me see. Also it says to disabled Google device admin. Does it mean I've to disable find my device? Or is that anything else.?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Badger50:
I've actually never had to do anything with the sys config patcher. I just let it do it's thing in the background. Haven't disabled the google device admin either. But if you think it helps, let me know. I think maybe your play services has just gone rouge on you. I've heard of it before, and about the only fix was to do a factory reset. Which, as you know, bites the big one :eek:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Thanks sir. I'll try for couple of days with sys config and with device admin disabled. Let me see if anything goes better.

My prime concern even more than standby is the screen on drain, especially when using camera. The numbers drain like anything. I'll watch for the next few days if anything gets better.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Badger50:
Roger that on the camera. She's a life sucking wench for whatever reason. Guess that's the price we pay for good cameras! :cool:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] von_block:
You should try to relock the bootloader and RMA you're phone, it's clearly abnormal.

2.5 hours no matter how your try to rationalize that is problematic and abnormal

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I get about 8-9 hours screen on time where my previous phone (Redmi note 5) with a 3900 battery gave me 9-11 hours.

That clearly great. I was nervous I would only get 6 hours, but it's constantly a minimum of 8 hours!
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] senthilrameshjv:
Thanks . The 2.5 sot is when I use camera very much. On days without such camera usage the most I was able to clock was 5h sot on 24 hrs off charge. Although it's no where near as urs I think it's pretty fine to me. I've already have a support thread going on with G support to see if I can replace it. If not this is good too
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
Pretty satisfying.

http://img110.xooimage.com/files/3/9/a/screenshot_20181130-154955-5577cd9.png

http://img110.xooimage.com/files/4/e/b/screenshot_20181130-155003-5577ce1.png
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] von_block:
Weird,

Why is pixel launcher drained so much battery?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
I don't know why too.

But I notice the internet connections drain the battery a lot.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] von_block:
Mobile data or WiFi?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
Mobile data
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Yeah that will usually use more battery. Unless you get to WiFi in a public place and are taking pics and videos. If you have Google Photos set to sync, it'll keep uploading every time. Really wish they added the "sync when charging" option again.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
We have Wifi, but the flow (signal intensity) is low so I have to use my data mobile.

With data mobile, I have less of one hour of SOT on youtube, 1h15-20 with the WIFI.

The difference is huge.

I disable the backup of photos/videos with data mobile.

PS: can you correct me if i make some errors. I would like to improve my english at the same time I'm using this forum.:eek:
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] bassgenerator:
today
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
What!?! [emoji50] [emoji2962]
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
8h I'ts what i'm doing with the socials app (snap, insta) and youtube everyday.

How do you manage your battery to increase her life?

-Max low level before charging it?

-Charging mode (all the night or just before sleeping)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
how did you got 8 hours??
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] von_block:
What is wrong with your Adguard?

Why does it drain so much battery?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Yeah I'm curious if he didn't have it installed, if his battery life would be even better. [emoji848]
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Sui77:
Anyone else with drastically decreased SOT after December patch?

I dropped from 5,5h down to 3h
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
I don't think he was. He was talking about standby times and not SOT. iOS devices are well known to have great standby lose a few percent or even 0% overnight. That being said, if he looked at our screenshots he could see people aren't getting 6, 7, 8 hours SOT with only a couple hours more in total off the charger. Some as much as 24 hours off.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] paranoid2007:
Maybe you are trolling. You do know, that the iPhone Plus models have amazing battery life?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Shahpur.Azizpour:
Right. After being focussed on SoT for a long time I realized that where Android falls short is not while I'm actively using the device (my record on the Moto Z Play is over 10 Hours SoT) but actually when I'm NOT using the device.

So the crazy thing is that I'm not getting much more battery life on my Moto Z if I use it only very lightly. So I'm hoping Google can sort this out finally.

On my 7 Plus I would stay at 100% over night, and even the commute to work (nearly one hour with bad reception) would not cost more than 5 percent.

On any Android device (and I used a LOT of them since I was responsible for the apps of a major German company) I would lose some percent over night and then again basically as soon as I turned the screen on the other day. On the commute I would lose around 10+ %.

I'm using Android devices since the HTC Hero and I actually like both iOS and Android for different reasons. The 7 Plus was more reliable when it was about having long standby times. Nothing is worse than not using your phone at all and realizing at some point that a rogue process ate away at your battery while it was in your pocket.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Might be more helpful to discuss standby times here then:

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3685548

On a quick note, I've been off the charger for about 4 hours and only 30 minutes SOT and at 93% for what it's worth.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] PhoenixPath:
10 hours SOT day 3 on 8.0, no WiFi, 50% screen brightness running Pandora most of the day through Bluetooth. Got 8 1/2 yesterday doing the same on 8.1.

Still great - hopefully they'll shore that up a bit as 8.1 progresses.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Lambetts:
Hrmm, not sure what's happened to your device/s but, I've owned both also and know plenty of unhappy Apple users that whine about crappy battery life continually, on or off...you have absolutely NO control over any apps, services, connections or permissions (which a huge security issue...) on any iOS device, this is one of many reasons they fall short in, well, all areas. I've had standby times of crazy, crazy amounts with Android, as in no battery drain for long periods on standby, it's actually never been an issue, custom rom/kernel or not. That's the thing though, with Android, you can run it how you want, what suits you, if necessary. Since you own the device, hey, so you should be able to do what you want with it.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] melvinftw:
For those of you getting 7+ hours SOT, did you transfer data from your old phone over (either through usb or google account)? My SOT is usually under 5 hours and I am wondering if it was because I transferred data over. I had a rooted Nexus 6P with horrible battery life so I am very happy about my new phone, just wondering if I could possibly squeeze some more SOT to get as much as I have been seeing! I'm thinking of just factory resetting to see if battery life will improve
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Mega Montana:
Not too shabby here
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
I did a previous phone Gmail cloud restore for my phone.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] CyberpodS2:
This had been my typical day, and I have crappy service half the time.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] zathus:
Actually the plus models are pretty well known for great battery life. The iPhones have amazing standby drain. They have plenty of faults but that isn't one of them ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] proof2006:
pretty damn good
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Image still not showing up.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] proof2006:
Not sure what's wrong.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Now that worked. Impressive for sure. Funny cause Juan on Pocket Now said it wouldn't be a "SOT Champ" but I would have to disagree.

Correction:

It was a review for the Pixel 2 not the XL.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] AndrasLOHF:
I have everything....and I mean everything turned on and am at 50% adaptive brightness and am averaging 6 hours SOT. It's the best I've ever seen as much of my SOT is playing Clash Royale or other games.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] skw5115:
I'm going to have to disagree with that one. Maybe in some cases but my wife's 7plus has always had complete garbage battery life, often needing to charge the phone throughout the day without much usage aside from web browsing and texting
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] proof2006:
Going to have to agree here. People at work with iPhones are constantly attached to chargers.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] a.demarco:
Here is my heaviest usage day so far...
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] benjamminh:
Almost any phone in 2017 using the Snapdragon 835 chip has had surprisingly good battery life. Of course, the Pixels don't have junk apps and skin and that helps also.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] shinigami777:
Nope, still solid 7h SOT.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] I7210I:
i dropped from 7 hours to 4.5h from november update already
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] mookiexl:
Coming from Essential PH-1 to this phone I must say the battery life of this device sucks compared to what I can still get on Essential. I averaged 7.5hrs SOT on the Essenti, I can still get 7hs on my Z2force(2700mAH) and I have yet to get even 6hrs on the pixel 2xl though they have the same chip set. My high on Essential was 11hrs15mins SOT
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] sandip_909:
Still holding good I'll say.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Anyone care to share Digital Wellbeing screenshots? Really curious what apps people use the most with these high SOT times.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] nonamesoldier:
I recently bought this phone and find it pretty good overall. Not a heavy user though.

Edit: Although I should say that charging takes a while like more than 2.5hrs
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
You're not a heavy user but definitely not a light one. Good numbers especially the amount of time/percent left. How long ago did you get it? Also it's well known it takes 2 hour and 15 minutes or more to go from 5% to 100%. You're better off just topping off at 1 hour max (Gets you to around 80%) as the rest of the time need is kind of wasted time waiting.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] nonamesoldier:
Bought it a couple of weeks back. After about 80% the charging speed drops to as low as 200mAh. So as you said I might as well be done with charging it up to an hour as it would be enough to get me through the day anyway.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] enyaj:
Mine just 3hrs SOT. Just using text, Viber, FB, FV Messenger, Chrome. No games. 50% backlight, with battery saver on.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
Screenshots? Also, 3 hours over how long a period off the charger? If it's only 3 hours over 16 hours off the charger and your at 5% that's can be poor. But 3 hours over 48 hour+ off the charger can be considered very good for a super light user.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] zgeo:
Same here. 2 hrs sot
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] von_block:
Jesus!

Did you tried factory reset?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] dane1312:
Not bad for old phone
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] dane1312:
Opp
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
How much of SOT did you do with 10% of battery ?

I never exceed 1h-1h10

Did you limit the battery use in background of certain applications ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Le_Combattant:
Well 7h20 but with a lot of movie/YouTube vidéos.

Dire you disable the adaptative battery option ?
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Opius90:
I have charged my phone from 20 to 50% once over the past 24 hrs :)
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] EeZeEpEe:
I think the graph would've been a more helpful screenshot. Even better, a Digital Wellbeing screenshot of the apps you used over the last 24 hours.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Opius90:
Could have. Will keep a note of that for later :)

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[Google Pixel 2 XL Real Life Review] Opius90:
Here you go :) one charge from ±20 to ±50%