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[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] imatts:
The results are basically in. Over the course of 10 days, I've recorded all of my results. The average SOT is 10hrs 24 mins at 29.5hrs off charger. I believe it is reasonable to say that the OP6T should comfortably last all day on a full charge, regardless if you game or not.

These numbers are based on very light usage (reddit, video, browsing and small sessions of random things, but mostly consistent)

I have gotten as low as 5hrs SOT at 13hrs off charger, which was gaming at full brightness for 4hrs straight, sleeping, then immediately gaming lol.

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Not entirely sure what day each result were taken. I started on Nov 1 and ended Nov 15. I also experimented between hiding the notch/using gestures, and using "Nacho Notch" which is why sometimes the nav is shown, sometimes not.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Yes mine drops faster up top. I've only had it for two days so last night I was trying to drain it down and the bottom half of the charge was lasting forever. I wanted to get down to single digits but I had to plug it in around 25% cuz I had to travel for work today at 4am.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
Not getting that awesome battery life like everyone else. First day got about 3 & half hour SOT. Listened to audio for about 8 hours, from midnight to 8 am i got to 47% from 95%. Does anyone else getting this? Just fin it weird, at the end of the say it's just audio
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] vhc:
Depends on the app I guess. If you're streaming music then for sure it will drain alot.

I use tunin app and it drains about 10% an hour
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Dedzdedz:
I am not streaming, the app is google podcasts, i just download the content and listen to it at work. I might do a factory reset to see if it fixes. I also listen to music on spotify with downloaded content, no streaming. I just think overall it is discharging more than its supposed to.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
I came from the essential phone which consistently got 5 to 6 hrs SOT .However the 1+6T is a tank ,7 to 8 hrs SOT with out restricting stuff or even trying
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
Like I said it's a tank
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] crusht:
No gaming. Lots of YouTube, browsing and emails. Half hour of gps and some bluetooth music. Thoroughly enjoying.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] robbieast:
This is beast I see you used maps quite a bit. Was that on mobile data?

Did you do anything to your phone such as limiting wifi scan and Bluetooth scan to perserve more battery? Any social media apps?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Full Lte all the time

No wifi

Bluetooth on

Gps on

Tons of music

I'm happy for my first cycle
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] vhc:
Here mine. Pretty good I think
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
My last ones,had the phone 6 days now,I'm not even trying to save battery always on either wifi or 4g,NFC on and BT on linking to fitbit
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] texasaggie1:
I'm averaging about 9.25 hours SOT in light mode and about 10 hours SOT with everything in dark mode
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] BubbleOne:
Happy about the battery life so far. got the following results after my 3rd cycle. still sitting at 50% battery

dual sim

dark theme

50% brightness

100% wifi

no bluetooth no gps

disabled smart boost

7 hours 17 min SoT

last charge 23 hours ago
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] imatts:
No, the phone is 100% stock in regards to anything battery. Battery saver was kept stock (which I believe turned on at 20%), no external battery saving apps, no manual battery optimisations etc. The only thing I've done to the phone is set up Nova Launcher and increase minimum width to 597 to make everything super tiny (stock android is huge imo).

The GPS days I believe were with LTE on, although I do have offline maps saved so I honestly don't remember.

I'm gonna continue to try and track battery usage, especially when the weather becomes really hot. I find my phones usually last quite long in the winter months. My 3T for example usually got 6hrs in the winter and barely 4 in the summer.

Image: 4 individual results, 10 days
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] eshipp31:
Good battery

Good battery
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] havis23:
With greenify (unrooted setting) I always got AT LEAST 8 hours SOT without battery saver (till 15%).

Rarely played games, other than that are normal daily usage.

oh and Yandex browsers with at least 10 tabs are always opened because i read web novels.

I would normally charge my phone at 1AM (around less than 10-20% left) and the next time i charge would be around the same time, 1AM.

I gotta say im very happy with this phone
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] robbieast:
Here is another discharge
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] throwback1718:
This is a great real life gauge for me. Since I'm not near any WiFi at work
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] lendawg:
Current stats...battery only seems to be getting better! TMobile variant, no root.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] crusht:
Great battery life. FYI you may be doing injustice by posting the first 50% drain. In the 3-4 cycles I've had I notice the last 50-30% battery lasts more than the first half.... :cool:
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] lendawg:
Oh I know that for a fact as well. I usually drain to about 10 percent or less before I charge. I just get so excited after being off the charger for almost 2 days, being at 50 percent and almost 5 hours sot I can't help but post it lol.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Ohitstarik:
... I'm only getting around 4 hours of SOT. what's going on?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] woodardbg:
Battery life is insane. Very happy
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Still going... sleeping like a baby.

All LTE

GPS always on

Bluetooth always on

Tons of music, YouTube and browser

White theme
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Same. I've been checking to see if I have any apps that are hurting batter but I've found nothing so far. Best I got was like 5hrs of screen on.

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Same. Best o got was 5hrs SOT.

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How many of you guys that are getting this amazing SOT are running smart boost?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Smart boost? Is that kernel related? If so I'm on EX and haven't changed anything.

I am rooted and have greenify with aggressive doze and doze on the go enabled. I have denied some Google play store, framework and Google play services permissions. Also turned background data off for a bunch of apps
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Smart boost is supposed to be a new OnePlus feature where it uses ram to make apps load faster.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Where is that feature?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Settings>Utilities>OnePlus Laboratory
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Where is that feature?

Edit: NVM found it. Yeah mine is on

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Thanks found it. Mine is on
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
My best stats so far ,came off charge Tuesday night and now Thursday morning ,been on either wifi or 4G all the time ,I reckon that 36 hours off charge would use at least 20% of the battery ,so to be on nearly 7 hrs SOT with 19% left is excellent
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Literally how?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
Without even trying ,only thing I have switched off is account sync as I just sync stuff as I use them ,apart from that wifi,BT,NFC all on
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Duku01:
Very happy with battery life.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] LoqOs195:
Something is strange with my battery, the first two days I got like 6 hours of SoT from 100 to 50%, but now with the new updates I barely pass 4 hours of SoT from 100 to 50. Something really went wrong with this new updates, and my fingerprint sensor also got slower with the last one where they suppously made it faster.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] kousarali:
Very light usage.

used the phone for calls, texts and checking notifications.

I feel Standby drain is very low on android Pie and thats why it lasted 5 and a half days on a single charge with 7 hours SOT.

Complete Stock OOS 9.0.5/9.0.6 ( updated in the middle of the charge cycle).
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] eshipp31:
Battery

Battery life
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] fxrdr31:
Battery life

Was on wifi most of the time
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Wtf how?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sonic1675:
Battery life, some bluetooth during my car ride home, wifi, autorotate & NFC off

I changed nothing except one thing. It's already obvious, but even moreso with this phone, low brightness is KEY. try not to use auto brightness at all and bring the slider down to one spot for the whole day. When I used it with auto brightness on/anything above half of full brightness battery averages around 6hrs if I kept it for most of the time. After leaving it at the bottom half of full brightness with auto off for at least 75% of the day I got this
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Treshy:
sorry, accidental misclick
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Treshy:
All stock, white theme everywhere, everything turned on, no optimisations for battery life whatsoever...
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] dj_ooms:
Battery life on rooted OnePlus 6T.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] IllyaK:
What were your reasons for rooting?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] dj_ooms:
Mainly for stereo sound and ad-blocking. I used to root my phone's ever since I started using Android, but recently found less and less reason to root. I previously had a Pixel 2 XL as my last phone and didn't root that. I didn't really see a need to root it though I did miss the custom ROMs and messing with kernel settings. I used DNS66 for ad-blocking on it but found that it slowed my internet/data speeds. Part of the reason why I went for a OnePlus phone is the that you can mess around with it and not worry about voiding the warranty. I use Google Pay and also wanted to see if tweaking with root could still get it working and it does. :fingers-crossed: This is my first time using Magisk for root also as I used to previously do a full system root. This phone has by far the best battery life I have encountered on Android so far. With similar usage on the Pixel 2 XL I was getting a day to a day and a half with lighter usage. I've gotten 3 days with the 6T and that's using the stock kernel. A custom kernel could possibly get even better battery life. There's also apps like Greenify that can get you even better battery life and this also requires root. Loving this phone. The only thing I miss is the great camera straight out of the box with the Pixel 2 XL. The camera isn't bad on this phone but it would be perfect if they could get a similar HDR+ algorithm into the stock camera. I would prefer using the stock camera app, but there's always the GCam port till then.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Battery is definitely starting to get better.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] koreyg:
How are you all getting such high battery life? My first two 100%-0% I was getting barely over 6 hours of SOT.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] throwback1718:
How?! You weren't really on WiFi and you got 6 hours and still on 62? What were the final shots on that?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] TheROMGuy:
Mine was like 4 hours of SOT 100%-0% before the 9.0.6 update.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] chienb:
4-5 SOT with mostly stock settings - auto brightness, BT, wifi, etc. seems pretty mediocre... at least on the tmo version :(((
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Duku01:
Pretty good for me
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
I feel like my Google play services is high...I have GMS module enabled and optimizing. Any idea what some of these wakelocks are?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] INSM Sin:
Love it

Crazy battery especially coming from a OnePlus 2 getting about 1.5-2 hr SoT. Off and on with wifi, Bluetooth, videos playing through phone speaker, lite gaming etc.

Time to throw it on the charger for bout 1 1/2 hours and good to go for another day. awesome.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] SPyxOff:
Quick question regarding battery life on OP6T

:confused: Are these results on completely stock setup, or do you guys use custom kernel?

I will be getting OP6T this week and I am not sure if I need to flash a custom kernel day one.

Could anyone give any advice?

Thanks! :fingers-crossed:
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] jukyO:
Average medium use...SOT is 5,5 hours and still little juice remains.

Wifi on, BT on, mobile data on, GPS on.

3 days almost without changing.

I'm impressed.

Pure OOS, no mods.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Funk2641:
This is baffling - I barely get over 6 hrs screen time. Are you guys completely stock? Did you do a system reset?
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] vhc:
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I am also baffled. I have no idea how people are getting 8+ hours over 3 days. Just leaving my phone on standby drains quite a bit throughout the day
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] imrock0:
Initially I got 8 hours but now I barely touch 4 hours. The 8 hour SoT I got was at home where Wi-Fi and cellular signals with excellent. Now I'm at university and the Wi-Fi signal sucks, may be that is causing the drain. I even did a factory reset (was unlocking the bootloader actually, so no choice) but still the battery stats remain the same.

I think it has to do with signal strengths. I lose about 6-7% overnight with Wi-Fi on.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] AhsanU:
5 hours and 45 minutes of SoT with 30% left. Fair to say I'd get 8 hours if I were to milk it. This is with a lot of YouTube, 90%+ brightness, on WiFi 100% of the time, and lots of Instagram/videos.

I'm rooted with GMS Doze, and Greenify Magisk modules to help with battery life. Adaptive battery/battery optimisations are on.

After updating to 9.0.6, I was experiencing very bad SoT and standby. I was on a custom kernel, but then flashed my stock kernel and now am getting respectable battery life again. Still nothing compared to my Mate 20 X, but this is more than enough to last me an entire day.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
After latest update I'd say battery is better ,my latest stats ,mainly on WiFi .Just seems to get to better
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] jukyO:
As said, pure stock. No mods at all.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] myloarsul:
Just ordered the device a couple of hours ago and immediately when I get it I want to root it. Could that, by any means have an impact on this great SOT that this device is getting? I have rooted before, but I want to take good care of this new device I have.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] justinn01:
My usage, good or nah? :confused:
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] hoevito:
Coming pretty close to hitting 11 hours screen on time if milked all the way down.

T Mobile variant, now rooted and running otherwise stock 9.0.6 international firmware. Adaway is the only root app being used currently.

Phone performance has been nothing short of phenomenal... International firmware only slightly noticably better than the most recent t Mobile update, primarily with fingerprint reader and face unlock... Haven't personally noticed much different elsewhere.

FYI... I've noticed zero difference in Mobile data performance between t Mobile/international firmwares.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] hoevito:
Yup... Officially hit 11 hours screen on time.

No power saving features were used at any point during this battery cycle. I did turn Mobile data off when it hit 1% just because I was intent on reaching 11 hours SOT lol.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] robbieast:
Were you just sitting at your launcher flicking through your icons and apps the whole time lol. Getting anything above 8 hrs always baffles me. Can't be real wrold usage
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
No clue how people getting that high sot. I get 6 maybe 7 if I'm lucky.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] hoevito:
Easy...very much "real world usage" for me us. Over 5 hours of screen on time during that cycle was spent in Samsung browser, the rest was social media apps, messages, YouTube.

Steamed around an hour of music, close to another hour of voice calls, too. In all fairness, much of this cycle I stayed indoors and was on wifi 90%of the time. Obviously battery life would be far shorter if out and about relying on the cellular connection instead.

I restrict background usage of apps however, which you can see via the screenshots. I also run dark mode in everything I can, use wifi as much as possible, and usually operate with screen brightness 50% or less most of the time (adaptive brightness on). I also keep location services turned off, but Bluetooth was active for a good bit as I use a wireless headset.

It's not hard to reach 9 hours or more of SOT if you implement simple battery optimizing settings and just use common sense imo. Of course with cell phones, "your mileage may vary" is extremely apt here lol...
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
I see. Yeah I'm always on LTE but have good connection here in Oahu. I keep location on all the time and Bluetooth on all the time I. I play downloaded music a bunch. Also use some social media and YouTube at night.

I may try turning location off. I thinking a bunch of these apps are pulling my location a bunch which is draining. I still get over 24+ hours and 6 hours SOT on a single charge.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] koreyg:
Same here. I barely hit over 6 hours on a medium-slightly heavy usage on a full charge. Nothing to complain about, but I just have no idea how people on here are able to get 8-9 hours of screen on time.

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I don't get this lol. Are you just scrolling through the pages all day not loading anything? With medium-slightly heavy usage, I am getting BARELY over 6 hours of screen on time. That is with having battery saver kicking in at 20% battery left.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] hoevito:
Bottom line is this phone is capable of some amazing battery life folks.

Again, no two user's battery life will be the same since usage habits and location believe it or not greatly affect battery life from device to device.

Simple steps to maximize battery life?

*turn location services OFF until you're actively needing to use it...contrary to popular belief you don't need it active 24/7

*restrict background usage of social media apps and other apps you may use frequently...otherwise turn it OFF for apps you use infrequently

*turn notifications off or restrict them for apps that you do not rely on critically (social media apps play a huge role in keeping your phone from entering deep sleep or proper standby modes, plus they keep it constantly waking up running processes in the background...big difference maker here)

*use wifi as much as possible when available

*use adaptive screen brightness or keep it under 50% as much as possible

*use dark mode

Location services and background app usage are by far the biggest battery drains on any smartphone.

Otherwise, location plays the next biggest role in battery life, particularly when on celluar data. Mind you devices have to keep an active cellular connection ON practically at all times...your proximity to the nearest cell towers and your devices ability to maintain that connection play a very significant role in battery life.

Hard as it may be for some of you dudes to accept, in a nutshell...people in areas or countries with under-developed or over congested cellular networks will unfortunately experience worse battery life than those who aren't. These are facts.

FWIW...my other daily driver is an iphone 8 plus. It also gets excellent battery life, and honestly might even have better/less standby battery drain than my 6T...but my 6T absolutely demolishes it (and any other phone I've ever had) in Screen On Time. Can't say it enough...YMMV
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Very well put. I have restricted over 30 apps. I'll try location off next cycle to compare. I really don't need it on unless I use maps.

My battery life is not bad by any means. Def the best battery I have had since Moto z play.

Currently im at 71% at 17h 25m and 2h SOT with everything enabled.

Thanks for the tips!
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] eshipp31:
Another battery life

Battery life
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Ichibahn SLC:
I've hit above 9 hours one day. Usual I hit 7.5 or so. Battery life is great for me on this phone.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] c8ilu222:
Ok, so. Coming from GS 9+. I'm completely impressed with this battery, even tough on paper it doesn't seem to be much difference.

The cycle started at 60%, Adaptive Battery turned on as well as Deep Optimisation and Sleep standby optimisation. The only not optimised apps are WhatsApp, Allo, YMail and Fb Messenger.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] robbieast:
Man since the update battery went from 9-10 hrs of sot to 6-7.

International version
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] dalle3:
on mine too on 9.0.6 ,have yesterday downgraded to 9.0.5
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
Check Google play services ,noticed recently on my phone and the wife's essential phone ,that it is using battery .
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] hoevito:
Still getting amazing battery life on mine after updating to 9.0.7...so far it seems as if it may even be slightly better than 9.0.6, particularly with standby drain levels....but that may just be the newness factor.

Either way 9.0.7 is drastically better than the latest 9.0 V2 version Tmobile devices are running.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Metall Boy:
Usage after first full charge... :D
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] JahBoson:
Getting good battery life here:
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Marine41991:
First time I've gotten over 7 hours.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Cheesus182:
I think 6-8 hours is what people should expect. It's incredible battery life. If anything more towards the 8hrs.

I keep seeing people saying they are getting 10hrs of SoT but forget to put the disclaimer that they are running mostly blacked out OLED apps.

It leads to some people thinking they are getting bad battery life. Generally, if you are using apps with a lot of white like Facebook, don't except 10hrs of SoT.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] joaste:
Would also make sense to add if people are using 2 SIMs or not as this will also affect battery life.

I've only gone through one full charge on my unrooted purple 6t with 2 SIMs and reached 7h, over a +34h period. Not bad but am hoping to get a bit more once the battery has settled in a bit.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] efkka23:
Hey :) how charge new phone i dont want ****ed up my battery :)
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Jadefalkon:
I love my battery life, here's my work day usage. On the weekend it's more video watching.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] combat goofwing:
What is the volte icon in your notification tray ? ,I'm in UK ,I don't have this mine shows 4G
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] Jadefalkon:
Thats "Voice over LTE". I'm on T-Mobile, one of the companies that support it here.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] maxq1:
my best SOT so far on 5.0.7, stock kernel/battery optimizations, dual sim & w/ a live wally at that - wow! disabled some apps from auto-starting on boot on next cycle. good job, OnePlus :good:
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] krypt0:
This is my best SOT thus far. On 9.0.7, elemental kernal, greenify and the magisk module GMS doze.
[OnePlus 6T  Real Life Review] bnutz8:
Yes. That is my only gripe thus far. Within minutes of charging, 99%, then 98%, has happen with each of my ten total charges. I'm loving the phone though!