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[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] pbigband:
I've had my Pixel 3 XL for roughly 7 days now and SOT have been consistent around 4:30 - 5:15 hrs going from 95 - 20 percent discharges before I recharge.

Not bad, but I have to admit that I was expecting something better like easily reaching 6+ hrs for normal usage.

My last hope is that boy "Adaptive Battery" if it would help after couple of weeks at learning curve.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] nickporwal:
Try turning off the Always ON display. It drains the battery a lot. Initially i was getting 5 hrs max on wifi. Now its a little stable and i am able to clock around 8hrs SOT with average use. On LTE, it will drop drastically to 5hrs maybe.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] tawer:
I've have pretty bad result being pretty much 95% on wifi with low app usage
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] HiddenSanctum:
I'm seeing mixed results with SoT on two separate Pixel 3s. On my SO's Pixel 3 its getting 8 hours while mine is only getting closer to 3-4 hrs and she is a heavier user than me usually. Seems to me that the information the adaptive battery has on usage matter a great deal on your battery life. I opted to start fresh on my Pixel 3 while she opted to transfer from an older Pixel.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Legendhidde:
Getting consistent 6-7 hours of SoT without ambient display, half WiFi, half data and some Bluetooth usage. Using amoled black or dark mode with many apps and an amoled themed wallpaper. This is at 90% brightness. Quite impressed.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] YorbenB:
getting 5/6h SOT

Screen brightness at about 75%, and nightmode at the end of the day.

Mix of WIFI/ LTE during day and Bluetooth in the car obviously.

So far impressed since the size of the battery is small compared to other devices.

My HTC u11+ was getting about 6h SOT with a much much larger battery capacity.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] stl-fan:
I'll be the first to admit I dont have much running in the background right now, but I'm still pleased. In case the links don't work -- 6 h 30 m screen on time. Phone charged 20 hours ago. (I'm not usually that heavy of a user, just wanted to see how it would fare in the real world. ) Mix of WiFi, LTE, bluetooth on about half the time.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] THRUSTer:
How?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] YorbenB:
Use battery saving mode on time. I'm getting similar results. I accidently plugged in the charger at the last bit (thought I took the screenshot but I didn't) but you can see it only charged about 2%.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Canaan77:
1 Hour of Screen on Time???

I just received my Pixel 3 3 days ago, and the battery is awful. 1 hour of Screen on time? Is this normal?[IMG="SOT"]https://imgur.com/a/qi88zxw[/IMG]

I was barely using any apps.

[IMG="app usage"]https://imgur.com/a/iyDwA0E[/IMG]
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] YorbenB:
"I just received my Pixel 3 3 days ago, and the battery is awful. 1 hour of Screen on time? Is this normal?

I was barely using any apps.

"

You're using ambient display, turn it off for a day which should resolve all your issues. Yes it means you'll have to wake up the phone in order to see whatever messages you may or may not have received. But it'll extend the battery time.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] selw0nk:
I was having bad battery life too and wanted to sell it for the OnePlus 6T. What I did was left on battery saver all day and it worked out pretty good. Try that for now and see how it works for you.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] HiddenSanctum:
If you opted to start from scratch when you set up your Pixel 3 and did not transfer the data from a device that already has the adaptive battery feature getting about 1 hour of SoT seems to be normal based on my experience. I haven't been able to confirm this, but based on my experience the adaptive battery feature seems to use machine learning. It learns what apps you use over time and how often you use them. The more data it has, the better the battery life you will get. It took about 3 weeks for my battery to settle down. Currently, my battery is estimated to last about 17 hours from a full charge. My suspicion is that the Pixel 3 start out running everything you install and slowly learns how aggressive it should limit the battery usage of an app. Aside from leaving it on battery saver, I would also recommend not charging it overnight a couple of days and letting it sit there. That seems to have helped me with the battery life and my device knowing to limit apps I don't use frequently.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Mr-Islamburkha:
Water battery lol

Ive not felt any need to delve in to any stats. Like most people I know charge before going to bed, wake up fully charged and aim for that to last till I go to bed. This happens or has been with previous pixel phones too.

At worse, if it's beena day in, as and many hours on YouTube video, I'll plug in, early evening or needing to plug in before sleeping.

So from my perspective nothing conclusive or definitive. There's some options, searching the settings menu about limiting background task energy.

Whilst it doesnt affect me at all, I do still do still run think power management hasn't been optimised. I returned end mate 20 pro a month or so back, and despite end energy nuances of daily charges did phones, thing lasted up to two days.

After having this phone for 3 days now my only concern is they've still not fixed the aggressive memory management
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Wow. I considered a Pixel 3 but based on the size of the battery I was worried the battery life wouldn't be very good. Looks like I was right. I'm glad I passed on it.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] mark_baguley:
Happy with the battery life

Pretty happy with SOT with my fairly light usage - this was fully charged at around 9pm day 1, left off the charger overnight and then a day at work connected to wifi, off the charger for another night and then needed charging after lunchtime at work on day 3.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] mrbelle93:
Ciao to all guys, I have one question regarding always on display function. I see that when it is active, my statistic of the "Screen Usage" is counting also when the Always On feature is on. I try to explain better, if I use my phone for 10 hours, and for 5 hours it is showing the Always On, this 5 hours are going inside the Screen Usage. So, if I use my phone for 1 hours in this 10, you will see 6 hours of "Screen Usage."

This does not appear if I keep my phone in a pocket (in this case Always On don't work since the prossimity sensor turn off the screen). So, any other user has the same situation? I think this is why Always On consume a lot of battery. Thanks
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jco23:
hi all,

I considering switching from my Samsung S8 to the Pixel 3. but my main concern would be the battery life. I get pretty decent battery life on my S8 whereby I no longer have any anxiety over having to charge the phone mid-day. I wireless charge it each night, and it can last me easily a full day, sometimes more depending on my usage.

since everyone's settings/usage varies, the big think I look for is battery drain when idle. can some folks please provide the average battery drainage when idle? for example, on my S8, the battery drains about 1.5%/hour when idle. I leave on all the time LTE, WiFi, bluetooth (connected to my watch constantly, to my car when driving, and ear buds when exercising/running), high accuracy GPS, and AOD only between the hours of 10pm-7am. I also have notifications set to vibrate - but only for texts/e-mails.

I also have the Samsung Ad-blocker installed as well as Greenify (from my understanding, adguard should work on Android Pie)

thanks for your responses.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Andrea_ciccio:
Hi all,

Does anyone get a fast drain from 100 to 90 even doing nothing ?

Thanks
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] AndroidGX:
I'm having between 3-4 hours max of SOT with very moderate usage per day (some SMS, little chrome surf, few photos, gmail account synced, no wifi, no games, etc), which is below my expectations of the Pixel 3, a bit sad :( I need to charge my Pixel3 (not XL) almost 2 times a day. For a brand new high-end phone in 2019, this is just unacceptable.

If it can help, I'm losing generally between 4-6% during pure idle overnight (4G LTE).
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Andrea_ciccio:
Yeah I have the same, and I have full coverage :/

Last week I was doing some research with this

Battery historian ( I can't post the link sorry )

Couldn't find any reason why it loses so much in idle.

It's like it doesn't go into doze mode or something like that
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] stratdroid:
Before the Android Q update, my phone ran approximately 5 hours SOT and now after the update I have only 3.30 hours SOT.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] crazy-gump:
Got my Pixel 3 recently and so far it's my best with 5h10 of SOT on 2 day (charged day 1 at 9am and screenshot took day 2 at 19pm):

AOD : only when tapping

Battery saver : turning on at 30%

App tracing trick : done

I also have a fast drain for the 5 to 8 first % of battery, I will try to recalibrate.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] gogo1984:
All Stock

Dark mode

I'm really happy:good:

7 hours sot.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] frustr8ted:
I am super underwhelmed by pixel 3 performance battery wise.

Today I got 1:40 h sot

This can't be right. Aod is off, intelligent battery is turned on and I got it in battery saving all day.

Can somebody help

[IMG="img1"]https://imgur.com/a/XqsqV6C[/IMG]
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] falze:
AOD off, flight mode + battery saver on during night, wifi/mobile data/gps turned off for most off the time, BT on (except the night). I also use dark theme if app supports it. I also read books with black background and white text with minimum brightness.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] qualitymove13:
If you havent seen progress on "intelligent battery" yet. Turn it off. Many have reported better results that way.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jalado:
6h 45m sot

Im on regular pixel 3 and i was able to hit 6h 40min sot with 20% remaining over a 19h period. I was using LTE and I was mainly on Google chrome reading I was inside all day so the brightness was about 25%. I'm sure I couldve surpassed 8h... after a day of work with videos, music and phone calls im around 2h 45min sot with 55-58% remaining. disabling adaptive battery made a huge difference. I charged my phone to 100% just before bed and only 2% drained after 8h of sleep

aod off

NFC off

Bluetooth off

wifi scanning off

adaptive battery off

adaptive display off

lift to check off

double tap to check on

location on

keyboard sounds off

all vibrate off even fingerprint sensor
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Valeriuz:
So guys do you suggest disabling adaptive battery?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Salo444:
Battery Life of all Pixel 3 variants

Hello, (sorry for my bad english, I'm German)

I'm looking for a new device, bc my old HTC 10 loses massively battery life (1-1,5h SOT) and I have to charge it 1-2 a day, so I guess I have an average usage of 4-6h SOT per day.

Now I have to choose between a used Pixel 3/3 XL (~400€) or a new Pixel 3a/3a XL (~370-450€); Pixel 4 is not an option, maximum 450€

Main factors for me are the camera and vanilla android, so I can get along with all of them. But also the battery is a facotr, bc in my opinion it's the point who limits the usage in 3 years, so I will get the Pixel whth the best battery life (if there are appreciable differences)

I read that the Pixel 3 is quite bad, so first I looked for the Pixel 3a wit its smaller SoC (is this a notable factor?) because I liked the really handy size.

But now I read, that the XL models has despite their bigger screens a better battery life - is the difference between 3400mAh+1440p and

3700mAh+1080p a significant factor? Otherwise I doubt with the bigger size, is it worth considerung the greater battery?

I hope some Pixel users could give me advices to choose the best Pixel phone fpr the next few years.

Thanks!
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] YorbenB:
Hey mate,

Good choice informing on XDA first, I used the HTC 10 in the past and had the same issue so I can relate.

I'm now using pixel 3 and I'm having a sot of 5h still after half a year of usage, must say Android 10 is part of this.

Out of all of the pixel 3's the 3a XL indeed has the best battery, the lower quality screen is part of this. It also has a smaller screen surface and a bigger battery compared to the 3xl.

Check out some videos on YouTube as well regarding sot's there's plenty of them.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] benjomyhenjo:
Android 10

Well.....
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] YorbenB:
there there, if you're having battery issues compared to your previous installation android 9 please reset your phone and wipe all data and reinstall.

It was very common during beta, and it had not been fixed by google yet.

overall battery should increase a little bit, people have been getting 4/5h SOT like normal and in some cases 6+h with pixel 3 device.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] BBobby:
I got 5.5 hours yesterday, in the 3rd or 4th day running the Q on my pixel 3. No reset
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Jerber:
I wasn't expecting a good battery life honestly, pretty happy with it, almost all enabled except Bluetooth scanning and location history.

I charged it yesterday during the morning and one day later I still have battery enough for keep the phone on meanwhile I'm sleeping.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] seabro01:
I was already prepared for some disappointing battery life but it hasn't been that bad. I'll usually get around 5 hrs SOT with 12+ hrs off charger. That's good enough. I can bring a power bank or use the Pixel 2xl if I I'm in a situation that requires extended battery life.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] RacerAssasin:
Battery life has been pretty terrible, coming from the 2 XL and prior to that the OG XL. I've been barely able to get 2 hrs of SOT and it's not even dinner time yet. On the 2 XL I was getting a amazing 6-7 hrs of SOT, and on the OG XL I was getting around 3 hrs
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] onesolo:
Have a P3 in 1yr and 6 months and I discovered a few weeks ago that my battery is getting shorter as the time passes by... by now I just loose around 500mah!!! This is unacceptable...
[Google Pixel 3 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 3'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 3 Real Life Review] cn0MMnb:
AccuBattery is reporting 3.5%/h average battery use with screen off, measured with a total of 24h of screen off (non consecutive)

Not impressed
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] varun.gid:
Standby is terrible to be honest. Drains almost 1 - 1.5% per hour just lying on table. Pixel 2 used to drain 0.5 to 0.75% in an hour
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
I get usually 0.6% / hour overnight drain. I'll wake up with about 95%. Phone face down with AOD so it goes off. Once in a while an app will keep the phone awake unbeknownst to me until the morning. Either I restart or force close the app and it goes away. If you're getting higher drain than that you should check your apps keeping the phone awake with screen off. BBS is really good for that.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
If you have AOD on that sounds about right.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] varun.gid:
not using AOD at all. with AOD i doubt i will get even 12 hours seeing the standby drain.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
You need to figure out what is keeping the phone awake then. I tweaked my wife's 3 yesterday and she go 0.4% / hr last night and I only got 0.6% / hr. I have a little more running on mine though, sync wise. AOD / w/face down to turn it off.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] grifforama:
How do you tweak?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
First off I turned off adaptive battery. Then I removed MIPS and MVS completely. Deleted an unneeded app that gave a bunch of partial wakelocks and alarms. Rebooted and voila 1.8% / hour down to 0.4% overnight drain.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Wow. That's even worse than I expected. That's must be some misbehaving app. With a 2915mAh battery I think about 0.6% per hour with AOD off. With AOD on I'd expect like 1.25% per hour.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Rarelyamson:
Thought Adaptive battery was meant to help!?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
It was but it doesn't. Maybe in an update but not now.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] pbigband:
Turing of

f "Adaptive Battery" seems to give vastly more juices here, hopefully it gets fixed in the coming update cuz it's supposed to help not making it worse. lol
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] impruv:
Shouldn't it take some time for adaptive battery to actually work? It needs to learn after a week or 2 I assume.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] pomponazzo:
I guess you're right. But I switched it off yesterday, and I must admit the Pixel 3 sips much less juice when idle since. How come the learning process takes that much power?

Has anybody used the phone for at least two weeks with adaptive battery on and noticed any improvement?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
If it takes that long then it doesn't work. I had it on since day one, whenever that was, and turned it off a couple of days ago. Adaptive battery should be labeled accelerated battery drain at this point. It was a nice thought but it simply doesn't work. Now if they acknowledge the mess up and say they fixed it well then I'd try it again. Until then..
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] pbigband:
Okay guys, let's try to see if leaving

Adaptive Battery

on for 2 weeks would give us some what better SOT or standby. I've started yesterday.

However, as to share, my first week I kept switching between on/off and it is LEGIT that leaving it on is such a culprit! funny enough!
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
What is MIPS and MVS? How do you remove them? What impact do they have on functionality?

Also kind of funny that a feature like Adaptive Battery that is supposed to help battery life actually makes it worse.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Cyberz22:
Interesting. Got my pixel 3 today, coming from IPhone X

Standby time is not the best part of the pixel...
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] DinarQ8:
As I said earlier on another subject. When charging the Pixel 3 100% its takes 1% in less than 5 min compared to Pixel 2 and Nexus 6P its take over 30 min. So i think OS Pie is not good for battery
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] qualitymove13:
I second, what is MIPS and MVS and how do you remove?
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
Lol I forgot what mips was but it's gone now. MVS is my Verizon services under system services. Even with the app uninstalled the service runs unless you disabled it. I also think that's how they see what is installed on your device without your knowledge. I'll look back to try and find mips.

edit: Ok found MIPS. It was actually com.verizon.mips.services which I disabled and believe it got removed when I uninstalled MVS app. I still disabled the system service MVS which does not get uninstalled. Was warned that it might do this or that but I've found nothing that does not work. Other than the fact that they can't see my installed apps now unless I dial a code.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] slayer1991:
Heya, did you use BBS to detect partial wakelocks? Trying to Greenify all unnecessary background apps, not sure what else to hit. Currently at 1.5%
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Morgrain:
My staindby drain is also terrible, loosing about 18-22% per night.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bobby janow:
I don't use anything like Greenify. Look at alarms too. I have all kinds of crap running and I'm basically at 0.6% / hr at this point. Sometimes an errant app goes haywire. Try clearing recents and a reboot before bed to see what is going on.

---------- Post added at 05:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:00 PM ----------

Well that's just ridiculous. That is way off the charts.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Oberbergler:
I had last night battery drain of about 40 % in 8 hours. The phone was switched off and it looked like it was in charging mode but not connected to the charger.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Bluffer94:
Do you have TWRP permanently installed?

Gesendet von meinem Pixel 3 mit Tapatalk
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Oberbergler:
No, I had it only temporarily installed for root with Magisk but I rooted it a month ago.

Now I'm running stock rooted.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Bluffer94:
Okay. I had similar problems before I went back to stock boot.img.

Btw, when your phone is turned off and charging, do you see the percentage with animation effects like wireless charging, or just a battery icon?

Gesendet von meinem Pixel 3 mit Tapatalk
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Oberbergler:
I can't see the percentage. Now I've seen that the phone doesn't go out of charging mode once i plug it in and unplug it while it is switched off. This drains the battery :(
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Mav155:
Hello everybody!

I'm in full stock and at night in airplane mode the drain Is about 1% per hour, while enabling "Power saving " , the drain is a 2% in 8 hours.

I think I'm satisfied, even if in "Power saving" I don't have the clock when moving the phone

Inviato dal mio Pixel 3 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] engineer000:
in the latest software update, should I turn off the adaptive battery or not? The idle battery life is not good. turned off wifi at night.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] GibsonSGJ:
I lose slightly less than 1% an hour with the phone face down on my night side table, maybe 2% per hour if it is face up. I only place it face down if I'm using my Bellroy case which has a lip around the screen. My fabric case has no lip around the screen so I only place it face up. Either way, I'm not complaining and the drain is not enough for me to go through the trouble of turning stuff off an on to squeeze a few extra percent out of the phone. When I drive to work it's in a car mount and plugged in and topping up anyways.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] cc999:
For me trying to decide between the Pixel 3 and iPhone XS. I like the Pixel 3 better but this overnight/standby drain is terrible. As a comparison the iPhone XS overnight (10 hrs) loses 1% total, some nights it loses nothing. I tested this several times. That's .1% /hr at most.

For people who have the battery optimization on does it get better after 2 weeks or stay the same?

CC
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] 2nd Sky:
I came from nokia 8 sirocco and thought pixel 3 is better in all but the battery drain is terrible! Maybe no deepsleep?!
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] icstrim1:
Running Android Q beta, standby drain at least as good as on the Pixel 2. Happy with the current situation.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] bmw9651:
PSA: you can disable carrier services and you should. runs all of the time drains battery. could be spyware.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Xebeck:
Hi guys,

Does the standby battery drain gets better after 10 update?

Looking to buy one at a sale...

My pixel 2XL used to drain 0-1% overnight (total).
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] icstrim1:
No changes, same as before, around 0,5% per hour with GPS disabled.

This device got a lot of bad reviews due to short battery life on the initial Android build. Fortunately, things improved a lot after the updates.
[Google Pixel 3 Real Life Review] Xebeck:
.

.

Thanks for your time...

So does that mean that it'll last me from 8 AM to 7PM every day?

*I'm not a gamer at all. Typical day is calls, social media and an hour or so of Ytube etc.

Thank you