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[Google Pixel 6 Pro] skimminstones:
Turned aod off yesterday. Over night my idle drain was only 2 percent in 8 hours as opposed to 8 percent when I first got the phone
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DeeStyles:
Kinda blown away. From a full charge, doing some Facebook Marketplace, music and videos playing most of the day (YouTube Vanced), chats, a few 20 min phone calls and some 5G activity cause I went grocery shopping, in 24 hours waking up at 8:30am I got 13 hours of screen on time. No joke. Nothing disabled, AOD on.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Samitro1:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/google-pixel-6-battery-life-tested-we-have-bad-news

Disabling 5G increased battery life in the test from 8:13 to 10:52 on the regular 6, that's like 25% difference.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] PhilipL2021:
Phone arena seem to have better results for battery life, with 13 hours of Internet browsing. A lot depends on the testing methodology used of course, and when you are testing against cell masts, then performance and even the mast you connect to can vary hour to hour.

Google Pixel 6 Pro review

The Google Pixel 6 Pro is here, and it's aiming to set some high bars but does it have grounds for that?

www.phonearena.com
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] liver20:
How can see Screen on Time since latest charge?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] cultofluna:
FKM or EX kernel manager
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Labellecabresse:
Third charge

Third charge, seems to be better, mostly wifi again, and 75% brightness at least. No 5g coverage.

Still impossible to reach 50% percent After 30min charge, does anybody succeed ?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] kickassdave:
I feel like that's a similar experience for me. I left it untouched overnight and it didn't use much at all, but I find the battery use when using the phone drops pretty fast.

I've only had my Pro for a few days though so giving it a chance to settle.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] mikemod:
I find the battery really good compared to my 3XL, although it was three years old.

This was yesterdays log, off charge at 7.45, back on charge at 23.59
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] skimminstones:
I find the battery is absolutely fine. Doesnt matter if it's fractionally less than another model as long as it lasts a day
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
are you sure this SOT is since the full charge or the last 24 hrs

it seems it's the last 24 hours, within which you charged your phone.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
pretty much inline (if not more efficient in p6p) compared to my s21U on 5g..

5g is a battery monster.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] 94b20gsr:
Surely you aren't referring to my post? I was relaying that my battery life is excellent at 8hrs SOT and I'm quite happy with it and believe it will improve further. No trolling on any level. I work from home, workout here, and have a full life. Got so much screen time because I was intentionally trying to run the phone down to 0 to get a good gauge of what it can do.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DeeStyles:
Look at the graph. Yes it's 24 hours but the phone came off charge around 8:30am. There's was no screen on time before that within the 24 hour frame. Night before I was on charge and asleep by 12:15am until 8:30am. I ran the phone til it was at 5%. Might've been able to get another half an hour out of it.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Izy:
Someone pointed out in the reddit that you can Disable Background Blurring in Dev settings which may help
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Sammae7:
98% when I woke up at roughly 9am. Sitting at 60% now with minimal use. Amazon ate 12% of my battery while browsing for 2 minutes. That also heated my phone up fairly decently. Not impressed so far.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] combat goofwing:
Getting great results so far ,this is today's stats so far after being taken off charge .

Only things switched off are AOD and lift to wake ,don't need either as tap to see screen works fine for me .Have it synced to my Garmin watch all the time so get my alerts on that .
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] 94b20gsr:
Yours is looking similar to mine. Sitting at 2hrs SOT and 17hrs screen off and 70% battery currently.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] jaythenut:
It's in settings, apps bloody strange place to put it lol
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
I thought that was since full charge? Appears to be 24hr SOT
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I feel that my battery performance has improved noticeably over the last 24-48 hours. Note that I only ever let it get down to 25% before I charge, and I only charge up to 75%. I'll check again after using the phone for seven days for more accurate averages. I also don't ever do any quick charging.

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[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
so 55 minutes of SOW with 2% usage only?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] combat goofwing:
Latest update ,may be early days but battery is tank so far ,mainly on WiFi but some 4g .....no 5f where I am and don't have an option with EE in the UK to change network
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Lughnasadh:
My battery life seems to be getting better as time goes by. The last 3 nights my overnight idle drain has been .85%/.83%/ .68%. In the last 15 hours active drain is 7.36%/hr and idle drain is .76%/hr.

The one time I paid attention to SOT it was 6.5 hrs with 25% battery left. But pay no attention to this. This is based on my usage, my apps installed, my settings, my frequency of notifications, etc., during this specific time of use. Comparing 1 person's SOT to another's is meaningless, imo. Active and idle drain are much better ways to judge battery life.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] kboya:
I've not much interest in the whole SOT or .003s of a %, nor do I switch off features unless I find them useless (eg AOD). Things have sure moved on from earlier Android phones with poor battery life. Nevertheless, here's something for the naysayers as the below is captured from a full charge beginning around 0600 (UK GMT)
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] combat goofwing:
Got the phone on Thursday,did a full charger ,,since then been charging at about 50% ,until this morning let it get down to 20% then charged to 100%
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
The screenshot shows 2% battery usage, 55 mAh in 8 minutes. I didn't see anything about 55 minutes. I actually don't usually pay too much attention to these stats but I know others do. So I don't really know how to get some of the most useful information out of these stats. I pretty much use AccuBattery for an alarm for when my charge reaches 75% so I can unplug it.

I just go by how my phone feels to me, such as "Holy **** I'm having to charge this often! or "I've gone for two days without charging!". :D

Oh, I did charge to 100% exactly once, when I got the phone.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] orlans21:
I'm wondering how I should treat this bettery from the first time I power it on when i get it. Should i let it go to 0 then do full charge or keep it between 20-80 the whole time
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I vote for 20-80. I'd definitely not take it down to zero by choice.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] orlans21:
Would the software adjust for the battery? I hear that it takes a few days for the battery to improve but will it know that I have the extra 20 percent that I dont charge up to?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Yes, it will know - if all you mean is that it will know there is still lower capacity on the bottom end and higher capacity at the top end. I only charge once it gets down to 25% and only charge up to 75%. I have gone lower and higher but by accident or at least not completely in my control. I've been treating my phones like this for the last five years. The last couple of days my battery life has made the impression on me that it's improved.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] orlans21:
That's good to know then. I always keep my battery between 20-80 and I'm always slow charging it at my PC via USB. I only fast charge when I need to
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] combat goofwing:
Update before bed ,battery is a tank ,just keeps on going ,now going to see how it deep sleeps over night
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Labellecabresse:
Fourth charge even better
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
you spent this whole time without mobile data on? (i.e Airplane mode?)

if not, how much is it on wifi, on mobile and on airplane mode?

That'd skew the results drastically.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] spr33:
Can anyone check 3C task manager to see if Chrome is at the top using almost 5% CPU please?

I had great battery on my first run now it's nowhere near as good and is likely due to Chrome (I'm not rooted yet else I'd be checking BBS and top in terminal).
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] combat goofwing:
Final stats at 20% battery ,over 7 hrs SOT, mainly WiFi bout about 20% time on 4G

pleased with how the battery is performing
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] znel52:
I don't really play close attention to my SOT stats unless there is an obvious problem but after a couple of days usage it is pretty obvious this phone is outperforming the battery on my Note 20 Ultra. I am perfectly happy with the battery life I am currently getting.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] notfaded1:
It's nice to hear some positive data points for a change. I know there will always be nitpickers but from what I've been able to see it looks like a phone this big with this speed screen refresh and 5G is going to have decent battery life I can live with! It'll be interesting to see how the new Pixel Stand (2nd Gen) works if they'd get it out already! I'm coming from Pixel 5 with it's charging stand and loved that combo.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DespairFactor:
I am here, but I am far from good, still trying to grasp this GKI stuff since this is all new to me, coming from a 4 XL

I didn't think this would impact too much

The battery gets better due to adaptive battery and using the standby buckets that android introduced a couple releases back.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MrBelter:
Mine is nowhere near as good as my Pixel 5 was, i'd say maybe 50% worse. However i really doubt i'll run out of battery during the day, it just looks like i'm not going to be getting 2 days any more, plus i doubt adaptive battery has done its stuff yet so it'll improve i guess.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Sammae7:
I have no idea what's going on with my battery but I woke up at 6am with 100% and by 11am I was down to 63% with 8 minutes of screen on time. Spotify ate away 47%. I was listening to downloaded music, not streaming.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] silverkin:
Look at your cellular reception this ate your battery! Are you sitting now in the basement or what?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Sammae7:
I'm in my work building. Fairly terrible signal here, but I've also been in this building for 4 years and have had at least 7 devices through that time. None has had as bad of reception and battery loss. S10+, S20, S21, S21+, a few Asus phones, Pixel 4A 5G, none have done this.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Gentle reminder for Anyone who just got a new Pixel
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] greatdiablo:
I know a lot of people are using accubattery and other stuff to calculate SOT and drain, but if not make sure to take the default battery stats with a grain of salt. My brother bought the Pixel 6 Pro as well and his phone shows the same issue. Somehow it is even reporting that stats are going backwards for things like screen and Wi-Fi. A bunch of the stats make no sense on my phone and on my brothers phone. For me this phone seems to be getting amazing battery life so just needs an update to fix this bug.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Sammae7:
My Pixel 4A 5G is having drastically different battery life under the same conditions.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] 86rickard:
The cellular modem especially 5G enabled doesn't seem to be efficient enough. With poor signal the battery gets crucified. I'm having to keep mobile network to manual ATM and battery has significantly improved. Mobile data always active is also toggled off in developer settings.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] RetroTech07:
I don't like that mobile network standby eats so much battery. Hoping for some custom roms that may help to improve this area, as I'm reluctant to use my phone at times because I'm afraid of being disappointed with how the battery lasts. My pixel 2 XL has been retired with this new phone, and I couldn't last but a few hours with that battery as it was showing it's age.

The iPhone pro max is impressive with it's battery usage and idk why it's hard for Google to get this part right. Hopefully someone can calm me down because this really bothers me lol.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] kevinireland11:
This is literally a new android version with a new CPU, updates will solve all these issues, I'll give it a few months anyways
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Izy:
thats a strange looking 100% pretty sure you were half asleep
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Sammae7:
Wow, I didn't even notice that. I was rage posting at work. I suppose I assumed it was at 100%, as I always toss my phone on the wireless charger when I go to sleep. I let the battery die before tossing it on. Six hours of charging. Giving this another go tomorrow.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] danw_oz:
Yeah my battery life has turned to crap since the latest November build. And to be honest there is probably a heap of apps out there that work on version 12 but not written for 12, therefore will or could cause issues.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] edved:
I've had the phone since Friday and my battery life sucks big. Using primarily 5G maybe that's it. Fast drainage. No where near as good as my P5.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
I'm convinced the only way this phone will be close to the P5 battery is too turn it off. That being said, it's not horrible.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] johninsf:
FYI, I found a battery hog in the Google Companion app for Nova Launcher. I have turned it off and battery life is better. Amazon is another as someone else mentioned. I have observed the Amazon app seems to activate the mic and gets stuck there.

Overall, battery life is okay so far. My usage has normalized today from the first few days of constant touch, try and test. I am sure my assessment of battery life will change in the next few days.

Acknowledging the less powerful / very efficient processor and smaller screen, the Google 4a5G has great battery life.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] skimminstones:
Mine seems to be going into deep sleep pretty well. I'll do the same tonight but leave the WiFi off and see if there is any difference. Lost 3 percent in 9 hours over night
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] PhilipL2021:
That is pretty reasonable for deep sleep overnight and 3 percent overnight is good as Wi-Fi will use power and the phone will wakeup and still use data every so often.

I'm getting a second SIM today for same network and testing battery drain when on the mobile network compared to my Pixel 2 XL with Qualcomm modem, I'll see which drains the fastest. The Pixel 6 Pro should go for longer, but I'm beginning to suspect the Samsung 5123 modem is not very efficient, and if I find that the case I'm going to return the Pixel 6 Pro. I would not find it acceptable if a new phone, with larger and fresh battery with new supposedly more efficient chips can't last as long doing the very basic thing of connecting to a mobile phone network for a call or basic data duties, than a 4 year old device!
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] johninsf:
Keep us posted.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Az Biker:
To be fair, the P5's batt life is absolutely incredible!

Haven't had my P6P long enough to quantify batt life.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
For what it's worth, Nova's companion Google app hasn't been a battery hog for me at all, and I do use it a lot.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] andrea.ippo:
It truly was.

The P6P by comparison seems to drop % points just by staring at the screen.

Standby drain also seems worse :(
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] PhilipL2021:
Anandtech has taken a deep dive into the SoC, it seems essentially to be a Samsung chip with some odd design choices by Google, and it isn't the most efficient thing ether.

It throttles very quickly as it gets hot and heatsinking hasn't really been implemented that well, so you get good performance for a few seconds then it slows down, whilst still burning through the battery.

Google's Tensor inside of Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro: A Look into Performance & Efficiency

www.anandtech.com
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] TiltedAz:
I used the google map navigation for about 25mins and the phone's backside got hot pretty quick. I'm curious why but maybe the glass back and less heat sinking.

I'm not a power user but so far the battery has been sufficient for my needs.

5G is almost ridiculously fast. This morning I got a peak of 475Mbs.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Labeled:
My battery life has been improving every day. My first day with it at work I got home with 30%. Yesterday I got home with 60% I had the same behavior with my Pixel 4 XL, the first week I owned it the battery life was pretty bad, it was enough to make it through a work day but eventually I was going to bed with 50%. I assume eventually my battery life is going to normalize to the same with the 6 pro.

I use my phone pretty heavily through out the work day, with audible, spotify, slack, and camera usage.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
The first thing has been known for a while, even though you are not summing up Anandtech correctly, since they added on their previous statement concerning Googles own Custom Hybrid ISP Pipeline. Meaning they did chose most of the basic ARM modules that Samsung envisioned for it's non-released S5P9845. But then Google customized how they connected each and every model, "wrote"/designed the entire backbown of the chip (how the individual moduls connect to each other), added its own stuff on top of it (TPU, Context HUB) and called it a day.

So Samsung laid the groundworks for what Google would opt to go for in a general direction, but in the end they not only changed the modules (we all know the stories about our 2 strong cores that make no sense at all), but also decided to use a customized ISP.

So it's not a Samsung chip, it's based on a chip that Samsung thought about making, but in a refined and (if you care for the details) meaningful way. It's not meaningful to debate on whether or not we call this custom chip or semi-custom. What is clear, is that Google did this in cooperation with Samsung - to what extend Samsung would have modified it's own Chip in a way that Google did, none of us can make that assumption.

Personally I don't see Tensor as a big advancement. A Snapdragon 888 and custom TPU / Pixel Visual Core / Titan M2 chips would have been more meaningful and better for overall performance and battery life.

Still, it's nice to see that Google is trying to do its own thing. Hopefully their next (and by then "only" second iteration) will improve upon those aspects, especially throttling.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DespairFactor:
This is true, the problem is they are trying to solve a decade long issue of qualcomm market monopolization. The throttling can be addressed by Google or third party developers on XDA, this is not too big of an issue. Remember, the general rule of thumb on Pixel/Google devices is that the first real monthly update has a ton of fixes( I am not counting November patch here as it was literally a day one patch) and also the first major android revision carries a ton of enhancements.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Burt Squirtz:
Of course anybody can do this, but it simply doesn't stick on reboot which is incredibly annoying. People want a permanent hands-free solution.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] wgrant:
First full day with the phone today and I'm getting crazy battery drain from the Google app. It's using a huge pint of the battery every hour.

Every other apps usage looks normal for me but not the Google app. I am using Nova7 but not the Google companion app. I wonder if disabling pixel launcher would help at all.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I'm using Nova 7 and the companion app. Every 2-3 days I felt that the battery started lasting noticeably longer.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DespairFactor:
I had the same issue, it was location on the Google app, I force stopped it and turned off precise location, restricted background battery usage
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] wgrant:
I'll keep an eye out for increased performance, thanks. What does the companion app get you? Also, isn't it really old and not updated since 2017?

Appreciate that, a lot. I've made those changes and will hopefully see a positive uptick in battery. Any idea what the negative to those changes would be? Also, is the Google app directly linked to Google Assistant or are the independent? I manually open my browser and do Google searches, I don't ever use the search app in the launcher.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DespairFactor:
I never use the app, I believe that it is linked to assistant, it may break screen off with the restricting of battery usage, I had to reopen the app to get assistant to trigger via voice. I am testing to see what else it could break, I only think assistant would be affected

EDIT: tried setting back to optimized and the same thing with triggering the hotword from lockscreen, not working for me. I suspect there may not be any adverse affects of these changes, just make sure to reopen the app after or assistant likely won't work

EDIT 2: Seems like it may be a bug I am hitting on my phone, this is unfortunate, but I do usually just use my Nest Mini for all assistant features anyways
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] roirraW "edor" ehT:
The companion app merely enables the same stock Pixel launcher behavior where when you swipe right on the main home screen, you get Google Discover. Yes, the app only had two versions, 1.0 and 1.1, last in 2017. It doesn't actually do anything but enable Google Discovery while using Nova Launcher, so it hasn't needed any updating. It's more just a plug-in for Nova in behavior. It works fine to this day, and doesn't do anything else, doesn't have a UI, just needs installed and enabled on Nova.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] RetroTech07:
I've seen folks here saying that battery life is getting better over time from just using their phone, but I don't understand why that should even be a requirement in the first place? Shouldn't the battery be good out of the box? I know bad optimization of s/w can also be to blame, but most of my drain is from mobile standby time. I don't have 5G and any option to change my preferred network type is missing, so idk what else to do to resolve that.

I typically charge my phone to 80%, and did so today around 2pm. I've had minimal usage over the course of 5hrs and have lost 23% with my phone locked mostly. Does that sound right to anyone?

I really like this phone but if battery is an issue it's almost tempting to switch to Samsung since their battery life is where the pixel should be.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Izy:
The phone optimizes all your apps.

Don't forget you have to install apps,setup device,etc

All phones optimize the battery usage, it needs to nlknow what apps to sleep properly what ones have notifications.

One of the things about the pixel is that it gets notifications faster than other devices.

Samsung's app sleeping is very aggressive and it results in delayed notifications etc
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] RetroTech07:
So what's your opinion of those battery tests where iPhone 13 pro max is getting 12hrs and Google is only getting less than 8? It's disappointing to know I'm not even using my phone and battery is dying because of mobile network standby which isn't even showing up on my work phone that's also on Android 12
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Srbija2012:
Post a screen shot with the likes of BBS or Accubattery.... At that rate, your claiming you'd get close to 20hours SOT?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DR4LUC0N:
Forgive me for being completely unknowledgable, but I just got a Oculus Quest 2 and my Pixel 6 Pro today, I had both the Pixel out and my One Plus 7 Pro out next to each other turned on....

I noticed a non stop blinking light on the top of the Pixel 6 pro that my One Plus 7 Pro didnt have.

I have no clue what that light is... but could that be part of the battery drain? I'm sure its not helping considering it's constantly blinking but we can't see it normally.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] danw_oz:
Over half my battery drain is network related, can't really blame a mobile manufacturer for crap service providers, and to be honest the problem here is the one I am with is the best. 48% as we speak