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[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
It depends on many things...signal strength...How do you touch the screen, how do you use the device. The apps you have installed. Etc.

If you factory reset your device, you install WhatsApp only (just for the test) and you use the phone for 6-8 hours non stop (7-8 hours of standby time) you should easily reach 6 hours of standby time or more (don't abuse gps, Bluetooth and camera). If you don't reach that SoT in this context, then we can start talking about a real issue.

SoT over a day is affected if you have bad standby time during the day (specially if you have many apps that are constantly affecting the standby time or if you use Bluetooth all the day).

But is specially affected If you abuse GPS, Camera, you have high screen brightness, or you force the CPU and GPU with a heavy app like a game or constantly touchscreen inputs. (You can't get 6 hours SoT if you swype the screen for 6 hours, but you can if you swype the screen, you read 10 seconds, swype again, read 5 seconds, swype again, read 20 seconds and so on). People who read too much generally get better screen on time.

Sent from my Pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ApoelEllhnwn:
My best!!

Heavy use
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] pnguyen86:
Upgraded from Nexus 6p. Battery life almost double. 60 hours uptime with 6 hours SOT.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
Anyone use the now playing feature? Does it change the battery life much? I'm probably going to put it on and scrutinize it, but I'd be interested if anyone else has tried it and did you see any diminished battery life. Thanks.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gvsukids:
How?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Smp197878:
I'm surprised so far with the battery life of my regular pixel 2. Get 5-6 hours sot as a heavy user - games, social media, browsing, Spotify, bluetooth for earphones. I don't have that music listening thing on or always on display on.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gvsukids:
How long have you had it? What settings do you use in kernel?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Smp197878:
About 2 weeks. Haven't made many changes other than turning down animations to O.5. Don't use GPS. Keep screen brightness down. Haven't done that much to it really.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gvsukids:
I might make that if I didn't use Skype, for a half hour call Skype use 26% of my battery
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Gadekarsatish:
Around 4 hours of SOT ?

my new pixel 2 is giving approx 4 hour of SOT, I am testing it from 1 day I got.

should I return it? Overall 11 hour including stand by and 4 hour SOT.

I guess video call on Pixel 2 drain more battery than other phones, anyone experienced same?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] dstnzxc:
I don't know why you guys think mentioning "heavy usage" with a good SOT is actually a good measure of the battery life. The SOT will obviously be more if you're using it heavily. A good measure of SOT is when you use your phone normally, read emails, text, browse the web (like the average user) and then mention the SOT. That SOT will be lesser than when you do 'heavy usage', because in that case your screen is on most of the times, which actually jeopardises the very purpose of the parameter observation.

The perfect scenario, IMO, to measure SOT is when you do regular usage, from 100%-10%. With that, you can really estimate how good the battery life of the device really is, and not when you've always kept it on. A good example to illustrate this is when you're reading an ebook on airplane mode, it drains very little battery, but the SOT will be blown out of proportions.

My point is, including 'heavy usage' and higher SOT is not really an indication of good battery life, it only indicates that you had your screen on for longer.

That being said, I get an average of 4hrs of SOT with regular usage, on LTE.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Garunix:
Have you noticed a drop in the battery since the update? Before I did easily 5h, now I do not 4h ...
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mrdoug:
Yeah, I do. It's hard to quantify because Google seems to have fixed the big where it hangs at 100% for an extended period. I used to see around 6hr SOT, but now I am in the 5hr range. Also, I feel like standby drain is higher. Coming from the Moto G5 plus, it's hard to live with a small battery life, but at least it charges quicker. [emoji16]
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] JasonJoel:
As long as I have WiFi off, and reboot after turning WiFi off, to avoid the current Play Services CPU usage bug my battery is the same on 8.1 as it was in 8.0.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] gvsukids:
Naptime is really helping me, 3hrs so at 51%
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] KeLsTaR:
I've installed AccuBatttery, and as of my stats I see that phone is i deep sleep for 52% of entire stanby mode, and average consumption in standby is 2.5% per hour

is it good stats, or should I think what is the problem?

AlwaysOn is off (only notifications)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] -gloim-:
2.5% per hour in standby. ouch
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] KeLsTaR:
Well, it is bad, isn't it? Hmmm, do you know how to figure out what app or something consume energy? Regular battery stats doesn't help
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Enable developer options. Go to "see running services" find out what apps are running in the background. Go to those application's settings and disable background activity and background data.

My drain is roughly .8-1% an hour.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jithuelad:
Not bad, not bad at all.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] KeLsTaR:
I've looked, but nothing really special there. Just standart services + telegram\instagram\viber, and that's all.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Disable all of those. Especially Instagram!!!!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] barondebxl:
That's good. How many hours off charge?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] kemalcenk:
Great after 4hr SOT s8. No games, WhatsApp messaging, mailing, alot social media.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jascolli:
Can't complain at all...!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Bingley:
50% 1h44min screen time :/
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] illuminati_13:
please share your thoughts ... do you think is normal?

brightness at 55%

GPS off
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] JasonJoel:
I think that is better than normal...
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] cswithxda:
10h up and 4h SOT, at >40%

I'm happy.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] teakdamar:
Mine is NEVER better than that and I don't know why! I don't use a lot of features, but my SO gets phenomenal all day battery life. plugging in at 55 but I plug in at like 15
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ErikFry:
Not bad! Started using Allo with my girlfriend and boy is it a battery sucker. Still managed 6 hours + SoT
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jfdebo779:
Battery life amazes me.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] illuminati_13:
how did you get this dark theme in the settings?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] DumbleCore:
I am totally okay with that :good: usual stuff, what'sapp ,Facebook, gplus, YouTube, camera
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ApoelEllhnwn:
Amazing.

Facebook messenger instagram chrome clash royale and youtube!!!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jfdebo779:
I used Andromeda and Substratum. You don't need root to use it. Although it if you have an issue with substratum and it causes system UI or other things to force close it can create a need to factory reset. I only use a few elements from themes to change the settings and messaging apps.

[youtube]fucUpgNjlKk[/youtube]
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] alibotan:
What is ur setting ? Costum kernel ?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] ApoelEllhnwn:
I use ex kernel with cpu changes. See screenshot
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] alibotan:
thx for ur fast answer bro!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Beretta143:
Hi I am extremely satisfied with the battery. Impressive.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] kolyan:
Check this out. WiFi ON, GPS ON, Bluetooth ON, Stock 8.1, Brightness set to automatic at 27%
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] evilhny:
Very poor SOT.

Why am I getting this kind of SOT. Too worried.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
That gaana app is the suspect number 1 don't you think?

Sent from my Pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] 91kome:
I reach 5-7 hrs SOT. It depends on which apps I use. IMHO it is decent.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] krabban:
He uses substratum. Check this

https://youtu.be/fucUpgNjlKk
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] TenTuTego:
Snapchat draining battery

What do you guys think about it? I didn't really spend much time on snapchat butl it's on the top with huge battery consumption.. I think SOT itself isn't any bad but could be better.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] -GK-:
For me also very good results :victory:
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] alibotan:
Can u share ur settings and Thema also ? :cowboy:
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] -GK-:
Simply flashed ElementalX kernel, greenified most apps and you´re ready to go ;)

Thema is PitchBlack :good:
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] _ruVic:
Has anyone tried switching to a static wallpaper instead of the advertised dynamic one? I am yet to do a complete test. But I can see some improvement in my pixel's battery life.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mikeynavy1:
Out of curiosity, how much battery does NFC use, compared to Bluetooth, Wifi, etc.? Safe to leave it on all the time or is it wasting battery? Somewhat of convenience for Android Pay but not worth battery drain to me...I would rather just add the extra step of turning it on temporarily, pay, and then turn off....if leaving it on is costing me measurable screen on time. Thanks.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Stretlow:
Standby on this thing is one of the worst i've had and ive bought every nexus since the first one..

Charged it last night and unplugged it before going to sleep just short of 8 hours later ive lost 10%

ive even turned off a lot of stuff i normally dont, google assistant, nfc etc and its still terrible.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] JoseJames27:
Those are some impressive numbers. Google really put it together for this phone.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Future32:
Very good.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jericho246:
Honestly very impressed. Didn't expect such good battery life at all.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Brandon 5474:
I've never gotten over 4 hours of SOT this is the 3rd pixel 2 they have replaced it twice because they thought I had a bad battery, guess its just normal
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mamarcac:
I average 5-6 hrs SOT typically, and charge every 3rd day. This weekend I used it more setting up the new security cameras, and with 8% battery left, had over 7 hrs SOT spanning 2 days. Overall I'd say I'm pretty dang happy with it.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Brandon 5474:
I get 4 hours of sot over 12 hours is that good
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Koostis:
Unless you're gaming or doing anything else CPU intensive, that's somewhat below average. Getting 5:30-6 hours sot over 24+ hours of use here. YouTube, browsing, messenger etc.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] BwS32583:
Best after time I've ever gotten on this phone.. Made a few kernel changes... Very impressed!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] BwS32583:
Best screen on time I've ever gotten on this phone.. Made a few kernel changes... Very impressed!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Bock93:
I don't do anything gaming just Facebook and Snapchat both less than an hour
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Stretlow:
Id say 4 for this phone is acceptable and for me is enough, i go to sleep every night so have no reason to not charge it. :D

Have a small power bank for long trips, flights etc.

I have mine set up practically identical to my 6p which was struggling to get 3 i can get 4 - 4.5 on my P2.

There are other factors involved obviously like what you have sinced and how bright you have your screen etc.

Also the Facebook app has been notoriously heavy on battery when I've used it so i just use the mobile site now.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] illuminati_13:
The phone was unplugged at 95% yesterday and during the night (about 7 hours) was in airplane mode.

Then...

- Display brightness at 60% with adaptive brightness on.

- GPS off

- Always 4G, WiFi on for about 1h.

I feel it could go much better. Am I right? What do you think?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Colday96:
I get around 4h to 4:30h of screen on time. I lose about 10% overnight. I will be waiting for the February update and install the factory image because something is wrong with my pixel 2

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I get around 4h to 4:30h of screen on time. I lose about 10% overnight. I will be waiting for the February update and install the factory image because something is wrong with my pixel 2
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] spensicle:
here's my best: LTE all day, stock, no root, mostly web browsing/social media, brightness (adaptive) around 30% Looks like I'm on track for exactly 8h
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] litetaker:
Worse battery life than 2 months ago!

I feel like my battery life has significantly deteriorated recently, may be since the latest update to 8.1.0. I only got the phone a few months ago and back then I was able to consistently get 4 to 5 hours of SOT with light usage, sometimes even more. I was very happy with it. But now I struggle to get just 3 hours of SOT and often it is much worse, like just 2-2.5 hours of SOT! The good news is that the battery seems alright in the night and I only lose about 3-4% battery overnight. So it goes from 100% to 96%. But once I head to work it starts to go down really fast.

I thought it may be because of some battery intensive apps I use. I recently started playing a couple of casual games on my phone as well. So, to eliminate them as possible culprits I reduced my usage of those apps and I hardly use them anymore. Just may be for a few minutes a day. Still I struggle to get 3 hours of SOT! :( I am really sad that the battery life deteriorated so quickly! I expected this sort of decrease in battery life after 1 year of usage or so. What am I doing wrong? Do I have a bad app somewhere that I am not aware of? Here are my screenshots.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Rukbat:
How low do you normally draw the battery down before recharging it?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] litetaker:
I usually charge my battery after it reaches about 20-30%.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] litetaker:
Damn, come to think of it I got this phone just over a month ago. Like in January 5th. And the first few weeks I was getting 5 hours of SOT easily. Now I am lucky if I get half of that! Clearly this cannot be a fault with the hardware or anything like that. I don't even notice overheating of the phone. Must be some software bug.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] davidisflash:
Doesn't sound silly. Assuming your workloads are probably light, keeping the screen on with use and your CPU in a low power, constant state will consume less energy than the constant state-switching of deep sleep to that. Think of it like keeping the RPM constant in your car for maximum mileage.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Rukbat:
That shouldn't be the problem after just one month. But it will be in the long run. 40% should be an absolute, drop-dead minimum.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] litetaker:
That's odd. Why does it matter at what point I start charging? I thought old Nickel Cadmium batteries have issues if you don't wait till you drain the battery to charge as they have memory. But the new Li-ion batteries don't have that issue, right? So why would it matter if I charge the battery when it hits 20% vs. 40%?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Rukbat:
Because lithium batteries aren't deep-discharge batteries - if you discharge them too much (lower than 40%) they start deteriorating inside.

It's not too nice for us, because we're only getting 1,200mAh out of a 3000mAh battery, but it's due to the chemistry of the battery, and there's nothing anyone can do about that.

There are deep-discharge batteries - lead-acid is one type (the kind you have in your car), but a lead-acid battery large enough for a phone, about 3 Amp-hours, would weigh more than an old MicroTAC phone. If we want light batteries (and the manufacturers want flexibility of shape, which is why so few phones have removable batteries these days), we have to go with lithium. and that means learning how to take care of them or constantly buying new ones. Read how to prolong lithium based batteries - this isn't just something I'm making up. (Cadex, the people who run the site, is the largest battery testing manufacturer in the world. They know batteries.)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] BwS32583:
This is pretty good battery life for me.. I'm rooted... Verizon pixel 2.. ElementalX kernel..underclocked.. ondemand kernel
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] litetaker:
I had to factory reset my phone to fix my battery problem. But once I did that I am again getting good battery life. I am now able to get a SOT of about 5 hours and even up to 6 hours some times! Back to normal!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xFirefly93:
So..

I reflashed February update on my Pixel 2, flashed latest ElementalX Kernel (with a tiny bit of underclocking enabled in the Aroma set-up) and latest Magisk and did add some init.d scripts for reducing CPU wakeups and what not, for maximizing power effiency and so on.

Here is my results so far (6 hours and 8 minutes Screen On Time) with 28% battery left. Pretty impressed, and this is only after the first full charge cycle..
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jcubed0120:
Tried factory resetting today. Didn't help much. I tried installing less apps after the reset to try and rule out any apps that aren't as popular to try and see if those were the issue. Don't seem to be.

[IMG="battery stats"]https://i.imgur.com/yCTAox2.png[/IMG]

[IMG="second"]https://i.imgur.com/C5ImwI3.png[/IMG]

after the update, my battery life dropped.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xzfddd:
Agreed
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] steelbeans:
Ive sent google some bug reports, hoping to get it sorted. Similar SOT etc to above. Was down to just over 2 hours yesterday and actually felt pretty warm whilst just sat idle on the side. Would love to see some of these 6hr SOT's that ive heard about
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Sziehr:
Verizon, pretty happy with battery so far.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] jyn1989:
I get about 7.5 hours of SOT.

Here are some things that I have done.

• Google Assistant is left on and activated only by squeeze, Not Ok Google.

• Turn off Ok Google. Google app > Settings > Voice > Voice match > turn off

• Remove Google search bar on Pixel Launcher (activates Ok Google when the screen is on) by installing Nova launcher. (Ok Google is not really turned off as long as Pixel Launcher has the Google search bar)

• Turn off Now Playing music recognition

• Turn off wifi-scanning for location. Location > Scanning > turn off

• Make sure there is no Google Fit usage.

• Turn off traffic notifications on google maps. Maps > Settings > Notifications >

• Turn on data saver

• Turned off notifications for unnecessary apps

• Turned off background data for most apps (settings > apps & notification > see all apps > background data). Including Google

• Adaptive brightness turned on

• Ambient display (AOD) turned on

• Lift to wake turned off but tap to view is turned on.

I get a drain of 3% while i slept overnight for 7 hours with AOD on.

Edit: I noticed that Nova Launcher is consuming battery even without the Google search bar. WIll test with Pixel Launcher.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] yinaiyin:
One full cycle:)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Beretta143:
hi extremely satisfied with my Google Pixel 2 battery:)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Syahdaahyar:
Only get this SOT on my pixel 2. 3 hours top:confused:

Should I make reports to Google?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xFirefly93:
Sounds more like that you have not optimized your system and is all stock.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Syahdaahyar:
Do you mind sharing the tricks or link that you can refer to? I'm kinda new to using this Google's phone and still yet to get the best of it (beside the camera)

Thank you.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xFirefly93:
1) Disable everything in the settings app that you doesn't use and manually enable them when needed.

*Advanced steps*

2) Root and "debloat" your ROM of choice.

3) Unlock the bootloader and flash a custom kernel.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Syahdaahyar:
Is this okay though?

I've already done the 1st step (still considering the rooting steps)

[IMG="screenshoot of sot"]https://ibb.co/jRHjh7[/IMG]

If it doesn't load: 25% remaining after 11h29m last full charge and 3h34m screen usage
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xFirefly93:
For getting more screen on time - you need a custom kernel that gives you full control over the hardware, so you can adjust it toward battery life, by finetuning the kernel.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] achyut:
I disagree with the above. Pixel is already running barbone Android. The ONLY thing you can "debloat" is around 100mb. Maybe the Google Play movies and two or three iterations of keyboards. Custom kernel is a good move, but even without it I can safely hit~4 5/ 5 hrs of SoT on an average day. Search for rogue apps and if possible, do a factory reset.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] Skeithh:
3-3.5 hours, 5"
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] mesajoejoe:
My best so far that I noticed was 5h SOT with 52% left. According to GSam my average is 6h SOT and 1d 17.9h. Wifi/GPS/Bluetooth always running. I have very few apps installed, and I spend a lot of time initially setting things up to tune for low battery consumption.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] kubis111:
weekend with Pixel 2

SOT 5:15h.

AOD + DT2W OFF

Wifi ON + connected the whole day, BT ON disconected

cca 1h calling + cca 1h GPS tracker with screen OFF

Synch emails every hour

Kernel ElementalX 1.06

I use xposed and gravity box.

chrome + gmail + several keyboards + googl movie deleted

most applications prohibit background data and notifications.

any suggestions from experienced ???:confused:

previous phone without problems SOT 9 (2-3d)hours (4100mA 5"HD) without edit settings apps. Battery life Pixel 2 bad....maybe it's normal, but the previous phone was "magician" ;)
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Google Pixel 2's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] xstokerx:
Stand by amazing like international s2 amazing when the phone locks and goes to sleep even with all the listening it's doing this thing is solid ur at 5 percent and u lock ur phone u can guarantee that it won't move for a few hours
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] GohanBurner:
Went to be with 93% woke up 7 hours later with 93%.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] guysalami:
Night 1, went from 55% to 47% in 8 hours. Hoping this is an anomaly and it gets better tonight. It's not terrible, but not great either, and not consistent with other reports I've heard.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] dsaucex:
Mine is average 7-10% overnight drain. Have had the phone for 3 nights. Will continue monitoring
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] PuffDaddy_d:
Do you have auto sync disabled or something?
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] GohanBurner:
Nope, everything enabled.
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] yas1987:
I noticed when my phone was not fully charged , around 94 percent , I lost 8 percent overnight . Gonna do a full charge tonight and see if another drain happens
[Google Pixel 2 Real Life Review] VadimTk:
From 11pm to 7am overnight the battery dropped from 90% to 80%