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[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] rlanglade:
Got mine since 6 days, very impressive battery life and standby battery drain. Actually, it's the best phone I ever had so far related concerning battery life. The combo big battery + SD765G is nuts.

My last charge gave me more than 8h of SOT over 1,5 day, with heavy use of internet (wifi and 4g), youtube (wifi), spotify (over 4g), bluetooth buds paired, and a bit of Call of Duty (wifi) + various calls.

It's so satisfaying to rely on a phone capable of lasting 2 days far from a charger.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] pemz82:
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Battery seems to be getting better and better for me. I currently stand at 4 hours 18 minutes SoT with 49% remaining.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
My second cycle. I'm impressed. This lasts me like 4 more hours than the Pixel 4

I still haven't migrated the banks and Google pay. But amazing battery so far

App usage:

http://imgur.com/a/pfYYjZh
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] andyscuff:
Impressive. I've been looking for a smaller phone with good battery. This looks excellent.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
This is still light usage. Some guy told me in Reddit he got 12 hours SoT. (Not sure if with the Pixel 5).

Some other guy told me 4-5 hours.

But I think 95% of the users will have 1 nice day of battery life in the Pixel 5.

Sent from my Pixel 5
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] ovinetim:
The battery on this is by far the best of any phone I've had. I can't kill it in a day. The S20 I had before this would be dead by early evening but this is going well into the next day.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] FireMonkeyLord:
Hi all.

I'm new to xda and I'm finding it very helpful for real life information compared to YouTube reviews. I currently have a Nokia 8 (coming up to 3 years old) but the battery is dying and hoping to get a Google Pixel 5.

My average usage is about 2-3 hours screen on time and would like to maybe get 2 days between charges (normally weekends when I'm away). From your experience so far, do you think the battery will last 2 days with light usage (Google Maps, WhatsApp, Facebook, email etc)?

If I do get a Google Pixel 5 I'll be sure to contribute so lighter usage figures as most reviews show how quick battery drain is with heavy media.

Many thanks,

FireMonkeyLord
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] thesebastian:
It should but standby battery life is really dependant on each place and user.

I have quite acceptable standby battery life generally.

But before the quarantine started I was traveling for work and used to have terrible battery life in one particular hotel I was staying. Battery was decreasing really fast.

The signal was OK, the WiFi was 5Ghz. But there was just something there that was f*** my battery in 2 of my Pixel phones (2 and 4).

In situations like this I don't think the Pixel 5 will give you 36+ hours standby with 6-8 hours SoT.

But in average situations. Should be fine. Just consider that there are other things that are power hungry despite of the SoT. Like GPS and some long voip calls, YouTube videos in Chrome at 4K or HDR probably as well. Using the phone outdoors for hours under the sun, video calls Etc.

Sent from my Pixel 5
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] wix1210:
The battery on this is amazing! :laugh:
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Cicada1o1:
9hrs 42 SOT

Won't let me upload the screen shot oddly.

Anyways GPs, Bluetooth always on and connected to my fitness band.

AOD on

90 refresh

No dark mode

No Dev options on.

The phone really is a all day phone and more if you need it to be.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
My battery life for the first full charge cycle.

Started at 100% at about 80% of the way of setting up so it does include some app installs.

90hz on but not forced

Brightness on manual at 65%

Wifi 90% of the time. LTE the rest of the time.

A call almost an hour long over wifi.

Out of the approx 2 hours of video/music about 50% was over Bluetooth.

Early on in the charge cycle I did plug it in for a few minutes due to transferring some files from my computer. That added back 4% so these screen shots are basically down to 1%.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] andyscuff:
Thanks for these. Looks like most people are in the 9 plus hours SOT.

The camera app is quite a drain isn't it. Was that photos or video you were taking?
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Both photos and videos but I did take a minute long video in 4K @ 60fps.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
So when I got my Pixel 2 XL 3 years ago I did a battery test to see the best battery life I could get. I limited as much battery intensive tasks as I could. I realized I still have the screenshot so I decided to do the same test (or as close as possible) on the Pixel 5 just to compare.

For the test I did the following:

Only light battery tasks like Chrome, Facebook, email, texting.

No video.

No audio.

No games.

Wifi only.

Bluetooth off.

No calls.

No GPS navigation but did leave on location if web sites requested it.

No camera.

Brightness at 25%. Just to note, when the Pixel 2 XL came out the Android brightness control was linear but was changed in a later update to be logarithmic. For the Pixel 5 I set to 65% since to me it looks about the same as 25% did before.

For the Pixel 5 test I turned dark mode off since the Pixel 2 didn't have that when it came out. Also 90hz off since the Pixel 2 XL didn't have that.

I'm pretty happy with the Pixel 5 battery life.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimmmysil:
Always on display, Data, wifi, gps, bt and miband 5 always connected. Adaptive brightness and force 90hz through developer options I get 9hours and 3mins sot.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] 1901madison:
Just got the phone on Thursday and still testing. But anecdotally it seems to drain at about half the speed as the S20 Plus. The longevity is truly incredible. As crazy as this sounds, the battery drain is roughly comparable to the Moto G Power.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Ksehwail:
SOT day 1

Smooth Display on

5g for 90% of the day (T-Mobile)

Batter saver at 30% (No extreme battery saver)
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Battery is unreal so far. This is my first full charge. I'm on T-Mobile but live in Japan so my service is trash. Coming from pixel 4.

Everything on with forced 90hz
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Still on my first charge. I upgraded from p4 just for battery. Completely worth it.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Wow. That's really bad. Not even any apps registering battery usage and still only 6 hours screen on time over two days. I'd return it as being defective with that kind of battery life. I don't have forced 90hz. Maybe that's it.

I know the Pixel 4 battery life was bad but damn. How bad could it possibly be to make that Pixel 5 battery life much better.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Lmao
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] BBobby:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/F9xLh2WePD1zgkUg7

Adaptive brightness on, 90Hz screen on. Light to moderate use, phenomenal battery life
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Golf c:
Show me an impressive SOT on mobile. Than I will be impressed. I think 6 hours on mobile is impressive

That's what I think I could get
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Blackblock92:
Graphic use applications?
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
Best I've had for years
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
First power cycle. 90hz off, mix of 5g and wifi. No games but lots of fiddling, Twitter, whatsapp, eBay and youtube (fell asleep with it on I think) No idea what that spike is though.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] BBobby:
Pretty minimal. I play one or two games, here and there.

On that particular charge I played maybe 30-45 minutes Motorsport Manager, not very graphic intensive
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
It's years since I could charge a battery overnight hammer it all day and it lasts
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
I know it's crazy how good the battery is. I'm not a heavy user so I get about 1.5 to 2 days of battery with 7-8 hours screen time on every charge. That's with 90hz forced, everything on, white theme, garmin watch connected 24/7. And I'm stationed in Japan on T-Mobile with terrible roaming service.

I think il finally found a phone that I'll keep longer than a year.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Laughing at me because of your poor battery life? Ummm....ok. :rolleyes:
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Terrible battery life! Got 9 hours of SOT yesterday. I should send it back!

Lmao
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
It's getting better as it settles down
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
Amazing. My usage gives me high SOT on most phones (8-9 hrs) but this is much better.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
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[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
12 hours
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] petzku:
What are you doing with your phones to generate those sot, stare at the home screen? There's no app on the list that you used the 12h screen on time with.

I get solid 7-8h of sot everyday, and very happy with it. Combined use (youtube vanced, facebook, instagram, brave, pokemon go etc.) and solid 4G connection with screen brightness 80-100%, Peltor WS lite com headset and Gear S 3 smartwatch connected 8-24h.

When you guys post your SOTs, plz share what you are doing with you devices.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Exactly my thoughts. What in the world do people do for 12 hours on a phone lol.

Like you, I get 7-8 sot with 1.5 to 2 days on a charger. I got 27 hours a few days ago. Battery is amazing.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
Plenty of apps, further on down, I work on my phone using Chrome , drive sheets loads of stuff, and yes that means staring at my phone
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] shopman59:
I'm lite user but I been getting 3 days with 6-7 hr screen time loving the batt. life
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
That's a hell of a lot better than the battery life shown in the screen shot I was originally commenting on. Only 6 hours without doing anything battery intensive is pretty bad even over two days. I wonder why it was so bad on that charge cycle.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
What do you mean not doing anything? I had 6 hours of SOT so I'm obviously using my phone. I'm not just staring at my home screen for 6 hours.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
Millions of life styles out there that are not like the few you've been exposed to. The pixel 5 cannot take a scrolling screen shot so you cannot see the rest especially if you want to show the system apps.

I typically use dark mode, didn't turn on 90hz because I couldn't see a substantial difference and don't game. I use a lot of email (Bluemail manually synced) and whatsapp for work and watch Youtube Vanced a lot + Twitter and chrome. Mostly on wifi, about an hour on 5G everyday with medium reception. All notifications on except for a few annoying apps.

Right now I'm at 9 hours 34 minutes with 26% battery left and 28 hours off the charge. I know I will easily get 10-11 hours every day with my usage.

The size, the processor that is power efficient but plenty for my usage, screen, the camera and the updates are perfect for my work and family.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] bigmike35:
Almost a month since having it. Mainly been home so mostly wifi through out the day. I have just been keeping it between 40-80% but wanted to see what a almost full charge/discharge can do. These are my results over the last 2 days. Not bad at all coming from an OG Pixel. Turned off Tap to wake, and it seems over night drain has went down pretty good. Normally lose about .5-.8% and hour, about 4-5% a night but now it has been 1-2% during the same time. Turned off Auto Brightness. Smooth display enabled but not forced.

https://imgur.com/a/SOb3DEH
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
I didn't say you didn't do anything. I said you didn't do anything battery intensive. Your screen shot that I was referring to shows the top 6 battery users as Screen, Android System, Phone idle, Wi-Fi, Android OS and Google Play services. Any task that was battery intensive enough to make 6 hours SOT good battery life would have shown up in the top 6 battery users on the phone. Battery intensive things like games, streaming, navigation, heavy camera use, etc would have been in the top 6. Non battery intensive tasks like browsing, social media apps, texting, email, etc might not show in the top 6 but those kinds of things should give a lot more than 6 hours SOT on the Pixel 5. In my experience doing those non-battery intensive things with 6 hours of screen on time and about 48 hours off the charger would leave me with over 30% battery left.

Given the fact that one of your later charge cycles had over 9 hours SOT and Android System, Android OS and Google Play services was so high in the list on the screen shot I originally commented on I'm guessing one of those was behaving badly during that charge cycle. It happens. It looks like it corrected itself.

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Getting better as it "settles down"? What does that mean?

I wouldn't expect tap to wake to use any noticeable amount of battery. I leave it on all the time and I lose about 1/3 (.333)% per hour during stand by. That's interesting that it's making that much of a difference for you.

How were you watching YouTube for 14 hours with only 12 hours of screen on time? A bug in battery usage reporting? Maybe a bug in the YouTube app causing a battery drain during standby? Seems very strange.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] bigmike35:
Well Tap to wake would need to keep sensors active or more maintenance checks, so disabling it would cause those checks to stop and go fully into a deep sleep would be my thought.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Davey Dual Sim:
I'm getting my sot by using predominantly chrome, drive, the phone app and Twitter, sorry they aren't using more battery for you but hey ho that's what I do, use the phone for work .

I'm getting more now than I did when first used it, I don't know why
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
YouTube Vanced let's you turn the screen off while still listening. Use it a lot while working in the house and when I go for a walk. That's probably why it looks weird.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Il try disabling tap to wake also. I lose about the same each night you do.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] bigmike35:
Well I did my normal thing where I charge around 70/80% and it went back to the higher drain rate with tap to wake still disabled.

It seems weird but I feel like battery life doesn't feel the same from 80/40% charges vs the full charge I did. Yes I know now full but like screen and idle drain felt much faster that normal and screen time vs percentage drain seemed higher.

May try a factory reset, mainly to get root.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
Damn ok. I only want root for EX kernel but I'm also over dealing with root, so idk what to do. I like everything to work and don't like dealing with gpay fixes and such. Ugh
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Panic84:
Someone has installed naptime app and see better idle battery drain?
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
I installed the other day actually. But not sure if it helped cuz I changed a few other settings.

I also switched off "keep mobile data active" in developer settings and switched mobile network to 4g instead of 5g. I'm in Japan for a few years for military, but I have tmobile so I don't get 5g here.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Pretty bad battery life this charge cycle. No camera, no games and no GPS navigation. Very little streaming video or playing music. Also only off WiFi for two hours. I'm not sure why it's so bad for that kind of usage.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
The touchscreen digitizer that converts touches into electrical signals has very low power consumption. I have tested on several phones over the years and having tap to wake has never shown a noticeable difference in standby drain. I get a drain of about 1/3% per hour with that feature on or off.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Jackie Coyote:
That's fantastic. You almost got 6 hours SOT. You also got 1 day 9 Hours on that charge.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] dukat0s:
Battery life is great every single day. Last whole day easily without even worry about it.. can't kill this phone in 1 day .. .. 7+ hours Sot every single day. Easily for me..
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
I don't consider that to be fantastic because it was light usage. With heavy usage it would be pretty good. That's 6 hours with no mobile data (wifi only), no camera use, no GPS navigation, no music, no Bluetooth, almost no video streaming (only 20 minutes of YouTube), etc. Basically just browsing, email and texting. Imagine how much worse it would be if I did all those battery heavy things.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Polybof:
I completely agree. This is frustrating. It is almost the same consumption with or without screen. It is ridiculously high power consumption when stand by!
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] oceaan:
In your opinion is it normal a so high battery drain with chrome? by the way, I'm not using it anymore...
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sruel3216:
i have been getting the same lately after the chrome update
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] ulxerker:
I'm on the latest version and I don't have that problem. Maybe clearing cache or disabling background usage will help.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Yeah, that's really high. 20% in only 16 minutes.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] mr.b4rt:
im really impressed :D
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Ducter:
Have had the phone a few days now, enough for everything to settle in and somewhat learn my routine. Today I had full intentions of running the battery out, I digress, it beat me. Combined wifi and mobile data, I use both the esim and sim card so it's limited to LTE. Adaptive and smooth display and a bit of navigation. Nothing to complain about here, beats my OnePlus 6t handily.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
The screen shots show you were on wifi. Was that the case the entire test time? Most of the time. Doesn't seem very good really. Especially if on wifi most or all of the time.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Ducter:
As I said, it was a combination of wifi and mobile. I'd say maybe a bit more wifi, maybe 60/40. For me, how I use my phone this is terrific as it easily lasts me a day even when I purposely tried to kill it.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Biggenz:
I'm getting phenomenal battery life.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
Wow! What are your settings?
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Biggenz:
Nothing. Just use it as it came out of the box lol. No restricting any apps with anything.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
So I've had my Pixel 5 for two months now. Battery life has been fine for the world of COVID but I'm not very optimistic about getting a full day away from a charger.

I can typically get 8 hours screen on time with 24 hours off the charger but that's with very low power consuming tasks. On wifi the entire time and only things like browsing and Facebook. That's no streaming video, no music, no Bluetooth headphones, no GPS, no camera, no mobile data, low screen brightness, etc.

A real full day away from a charger doing those high battery consuming things and the battery life will be half. So like 4 hours screen on over 12 hours.

It looks like when life gets back to normal carrying a battery pack and cable in my pocket on long days away from a charger will still be necessary. 😞
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
I usually get above average SOT with most phones with my setup and usage. Here is what I do:

- Dark mode

- No gaming

- 2.4 ghx wifi (5ghz doesnt reach far ends of house)

- Restrict apps I don't need notifications for like Netflix, Craigslist, Word, Speedtest, translator etc.

- Always use 60hz, can never see the difference

- Wifi calling off, dont need it

- Vibration on only for calls

- Solid black wallpaper (preference)

- Sync and notifications on for Ebay, Swappa, Gmail, Offerup, twitter, paypal, skype, calendar

- Mostly read/write stuff, call friends on whatsapp and watch youtube

- Just a little bit of Bluetooth and maps

- Brightness medium to low but max only for about 1 hour a day.

- Phone set to 5G

- Call screening, adaptive sound on

- Gesture navigation

- Few pictures taken very other day

I have never gotten below 10 hours. Most people should get at least 8-9 hours. This is with phone reception at 50% or lower on Mintmobile

In previous phones Adaptive Battery has actually decreased SOT and this last cycle I turned it off (kept the restricted apps though) and I will probably get another solid 1 hour more than usual. I will keep on testing this. Right now I am at 13 hours 17 minutes SOT - 1 day 16hrs total) - at 7 % (stayed home over weekend except for 30 minutes maybe). I have not seen any other phones even with bigger batteries that were better... I had a pixel that I sold and bought another one...couldn't stay away....

There has to be something thats not right with your phone...
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Ducter:
Just posting an update, I'm self employed and own a small construction company so with that said my days aren't always spent at home even during this covid crap. I still do jobs, I still see customers, pick up supplies, go to the bank etc. I am thoroughly satisfied with the battery life of this phone, running it out the box with root only for adaway. I do run dual sim so no 5g but idk which would consume more battery, dual sim or single sim and occasional 5g? I also have 3 accounts syncing, work and 2 personal. Anyways, here's another typical day.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
Here is my usage for at home low power consumption tasks:

- dark mode on

- no gaming

- wifi all the time on 5Ghz (better signal through walls)

- only notifications for texts, Gmail, Facebook and a news app

- 60Hz

- Wifi calling on

- dark wallpapers (but not pure black)

- no Bluetooth

- only one account syncing

- no streaming video

- no camera

- 60% brightness w/ adaptive brightness off

- no streaming video (I use my Chromecast on my TV for that)

- mostly just browsing and Facebook

That gets me about 8 hours SOT over 24 hours

My heaviest use day away from a charger is

- dark mode on

- maybe 30 minutes of gaming

- mobile data the entire. LTE like 70% of the time and 5G 30% of the time just due to mobile network availability

- same notifications as above

- 60hz

- maybe 2 hours of music over Bluetooth with locally stored music

- about 1-1.5 hours streaming video

- about 15-30 minutes GPS for walking directions

- a few pictures and videos - camera on maybe 30 minutes the entire day

- browsing

- Facebook

- Brightness usually 60-80% and up to 100% if I'm outside in direct sun and can't see the screen

This kind of use cuts down battery life by half to about 4 hours SOT and 12 hours off the charger which I consider bad. Not good enough for an entire day away from a charger. I currently have adaptive battery on but just like my old Pixel 2 XL it doesn't have any impact either way.

P.S. I know my post might come off as "complaining" I'm just venting. It's frustrating. I was hoping a 1080p screen and 4080mAh battery would finally get me a phone that could last an entire day of heavy use. Sadly that isn't the case. 😞
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] crusht:
Did you migrate apps, data or settings from your old phone or setup from scratch?
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] sharik2009:
I also had a high battery drain with chrome but it seems to be fixed with the latest chrome update. Try it out!
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] jimv1983:
I set up from scratch.
[Google Pixel 5 Real Life Review] Panic84:
How do you set the 2.4 ghz wifi only ? There's not such an option in the wifi settings