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[Google Pixel 6 Pro] andrea.ippo:
No, nothing like that.

This is from a clean factory reset I did a couple of weeks ago, which already made a night and day difference (previously after restoring a backup I would get 20/30% overnight drain, at times).

I suspect that the Google app or some service like hotword detection is sometimes staying on longer than it should or gets stuck somehow.

During the day it'll probably go unnoticed in the stats since it only causes a minor hit on battery after all, but at night it shows up.

Then again, it's weird that it's only happening some nights, and not some others.

I really hope they push an update soon.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MrBelter:
Mine is now nearly as good as my Pixel 5 was and most day i have well over 50% left before i pop it on charge.

I took it off charge at 10pm last night, so just about 11 hours ago and i have 97% left with crap cell signal, with Wi-Fi on, with BT on, with NFC on.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] PhilipL2021:
The "always on features" doesn't use the main CPU, there is a separate low powered processor that does all that.

The latest versions of Android on the Pixel's do kill all apps as doze kicks in seconds after the screen goes off, this means no apps can run until set maintenance windows which get further and further apart if the device isn't used, this is why Gmail notifications are often delayed as they aren't processed immediately and basically Google have copied the sorts of tricks that have been used by other manufacturers for years to improve battery life. They haven't gone quite to the extreme, but they aren't far off.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] somethingsomethingroot:
Checking with this... different new way of measuring battery, today I'm getting 5hr of SOT @ 50%. I did have to turn off 5G because the battery was dropping fast when it was on, and I still dipped into LTE a bunch.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] AlkaliV2:
I wanted to let others know that if you are using a smartwatch with WearOS your idle drain will be significantly higher than someone without a smartwatch or Bluetooth active. In the screenshot attached you can see kernel wakelocks causing ridiculous screen off uptime due to both wifi and Bluetooth kernel wakelocks. Despair Kernel let me see and block some of these which helped a little but blocking the Bluetooth wakelock could cause issue with the watch. My idle drain without WearOS/Bluetooth installed was <1%/hr (.73%/hr) and with my watch I am losing 1.36%/hr on Despair Kernel 1.042 without any wakelocks blocked as I am still experimenting with idle loss changes. Stock kernel is a different issue altogether, I had significantly worse screen-on drain (~11-13%/hr) compared to Despair Kernel which has almost halved that (~7%/hr). Something needs fixing in the stock Google kernel and software for this device but I wanted to share this with you all in case you are aiming for low idle drain and cannot achieve it with a smart watch. The wakelocks below are why. Added screenshot from yesterday and today to show the amount of time in a span of about 16 hours including overnight phone unplugged face down no AOD.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] hello00:
I bought the 6 pro just for the hell of it. I took it off the charger at 10pm and woke up at 6am and it was still at 100%. Amazing. My s21 ultra 5g would have been at 95%. Also, if you use the samsung's charger, it will charge your 6 pro faster. About the same as the s21
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] PhilipL2021:
The gauge is non linear, and at 100% there is some extra capacity above that. See how you get on during the night with a battery level below 100%.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MacGuy2006:
Yeah, it's them, it's PCMag, and a bunch of other reviewers who have actually tested the phone, they all must have an agenda against the P6P...

The poor battery life is probably largely the result of the older, inefficient 5G modem, as several reviewers have suggested.

Which explains why some who never take their watch out of wifi range have better battery life. But that's not how most use their phones. The other explanation for the denial of a significant shortcoming is that some come from old phones, often Pixels, that have piss-poor battery life, so the P6P seems great to me. My last Pixel before the P6P was a 3XL and I got rid of it because it didn't even last a day.

Having to turn off expected features so that the battery lasts a little longer, like 5G or connected smartwatches, is not something most consumers would consider acceptable at the end of 2021.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] android_dan:
I have 5G on, bluetooth on, spend most of my time with screen brightness at 100 percent, spend no small amount of time on that screen, and go to bed with 25-40% (up at 4:45 am and to bed 10:30). No smartwatch. IDK what tests this reviewer might use or what opinion that one might have, I just know that works for me. And I come from a OP8 running custom roms and kernels, so I'm use to good battery life.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MacGuy2006:
You might have 5G on, but you are also probably within wifi range most of the day, so the inefficient modem is not affecting you.

My whole point is that this is a real issue, supported by a number of reviews, tests, comparisons to other flagships and user reports, yet some here dismiss and bash anyone who dares to point it out.

Are you saying that the P6P's battery is not poor compared to its competitors from Apple and Samsung? Because that's not so.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] android_dan:
I guess I'd say that reading here, user experience about every aspect of the phone, including battery, is so all over the place it's hard to form an opinion.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
Simple. Plug the phone in and chill
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] bobby janow:
I'm on a P6 not the pro but I've been bouncing on the battery threads. I turned off adaptive battery stuff but no adaptive network. I went from 2.6% / hr to 0.7% last night. What have you found with the network adaptive turned off?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
I don't think it worked for me. Mobile standby drain is still high. 5g drains the phone faster for sure. My idle drain last night was .78% really good for me. My problem is during the day with no wifi. On wifi battery is fine. I'm coming to the conclusion of throwing out all battery apps and plugging my phone in on the way home after work. Hopefully Google can give us a few software tweaks to make it better
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Saurabh1392:
The battery drain even on 4g is awful! The network standby drain is practically killing the phone.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] skipabeat123:
Network standby battery drain exceeding 36% in safe mode. Replaced my device and the problem is still there. This phone has terrible power consumption. I guess it's time for a refund and an iPhone.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MacGuy2006:
Yeah, I missed the window to return the P6P and decided to give it another week. There are things I really like about the P6P, but playing with the iPhone 13 Max is another level altogether. The P6P is still the best Android currently, IMO, and I've been trying to convince myself to stay on the Android side for a daily driver, but there are just too many issues.

In addition to the battery drain, there is the substandard 5G modem, the inability to use the telephoto for most 4x shots, the weir overprocessing across all lenses...
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] sunNsnow:
I received the P6P yesterday and notice the battery draining quickly but I'm not sure if it's because I just received the phone and spent much of my time setting up the phone from scratch. I charged the phone to 100% before turning it on. I used the phone heavily (mostly on Wi-Fi) for about 10 hours and it was at 38% battery by bedtime. I did not set the mobile SIM to 4G because I forgot to do it.

On comparison, on heavy use days with my P5, it will drain from 100% to about 47% after 17 hours of heavy use (Wi-Fi and mobile SIM that's set at 4G, not 5G). Most of my use are streaming music, emails, browsing, and minor usage of GMaps/Waze. No games or video.

Today, after 9 hours, from 100%, the phone is at 67%. It seems to be draining quicker than the P5. But the P6P is a bigger phone with a massive screen (and different chip). And comparing P6P to the P5 does seem a bit unfair given it's ability to last almost two days without charging again.

But, I'm concerned. I'm waiting to see if the P6P settles once I resume my normal routine.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] DrayMeista J:
I have to leave the screen on full brightness all day plus set 30 minutes of inactivity before screen timeout to drain this battery.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] thethruth:
I've never had an experience like this. Really hope Google can push out an update ASAP
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] lawtq:
I'd give google a change to update the firmware and fix a lot before deciding about this phone. And it better be good! Of course it might be too late to send phone back by then. Sigh.

I want to like this phone. But even without a sim and in airplane mode on it drains like a mofo, in standby too
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Saurabh1392:
Lucky you because I've tried changing my sim as thought the previous one might be damaged or something. Same results the network drain is horrible.

I've seen many people complaining of the same as well. However some are totally unaffected. So this is confusing as if it is a software issue or hardware.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] vittogn:
Hi what's in your opinion the difference between transferring data from the cloud at set-up and install all your apps one by one (with related data)?

Did you delete your backup in Google Drive of all your apps data before installing them again one by one manually?

Thanks.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] KedarWolf:
NFC is enabled by default and from my experience it's a battery drain problem. Need to search Settings, turn it off until you need it.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
Do you have some more info about this? I did a bit of research and the general agreement seems to be that the drain is negligible.

Of course, it is entirely possible that this is a pixel problem. Since NFC can drain a lot when being active, but this should not be a problem as long as NFC is not in active use.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] KedarWolf:
I just know on my old Note 10+ battery drain was worse with it on.

And it can't hurt to turn things off if you're not actually using them by any means.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] awarman:
You were hoping better?? That's crazy good SoT!
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] varcor:
Sadly the official release of Android 12 is just as bad as the beta versions, maybe worse. Google really whiffed on this turkey!
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] AwkwardUberHero:
I had no idea that mine was turned on. Just disabled it on mine.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] fyoory:
Mine will sit at 100% while being heavily used for a good while, but I am coming off a long run on a Galaxy S6, this has been my first upgrade in many years. So my comparison is not the best. But its been good.

I've had it run wireless tether for many hours and it does not suck the life out the battery like older phones did. Now the question is how long will this new algorithm google put into the p6 and p6p will maintain the battery properly over the span of years.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MArtyChubbs:
The s6 had the worst battery life ever! How did you survive?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] fyoory:
Mostly I prefer desktops. S6 was mostly charging when not in use, it did eat electrons all by day long tho.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
I read that it is actually.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
That would be really nice. I just don't see it right now. It's getting closer.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Nekromantik:
i just hope we get some good kernel devs coming to rescue and giving us better battery if stock is bad
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
We don't even need entire kernels, I had some very good experiences with a mixture of LKT, Naptime & Servicely over the years (needs some manual setup), so running stock rom and easy updating the firmware is not a problem, even though even with a custom kernel that's not a big deal.

Hopefully the "old" way of updating whilst having root is still legit

https://xdaforums.com/t/update-keep...agisk-patched-stock-boot-dtbo-images.4330689/
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Shipoftheline:
I went out (first day with it) yesterday and it went from 100% to 50% in 3 hours but its brand new so I'm hoping this is due to that and over time it improves
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
I think I can live with that.

Edit: screenshot doesn't show the status bar.Im at 94%
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
Battery is killing it today. 3hrs SOT at 75% Always does on wifi and hardly turning the screen off. Real world weekday is a better test.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] henihazbay:
Pretty sure the issue everyone's having is due to 4g/5g
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
For sure. On average we should get 20% more battery on 4G. I'm thinking 6 or 7 hours of SOT on a weekday. I hate turning features off though. I will grab a charger. Not turning stuff off
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Shipoftheline:
My phone hasn't even detected 5G yet but I'm told it uses the last gen 5G chip which also uses more power
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] 86rickard:
I've reset the entire phone to start a fresh as I'm not getting good battery at all. I seem to be getting lots of drain from Mobile network standby!? Same sim as my pixel 4 and same if not worse battery life!

I also don't like how it now does battery over 24hr instead or after each full charge. This distorted the SOT that I calculated was only 5hrs yesterday. No games or intensive stuff.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] 94b20gsr:
Just finished the 3rd cycle on my phone with a total of 8hrs SOT and 32hrs total off the charger and expect it to only get better. Marked increase since opening it on the 26th. Using Accubattery for SOT.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
Dashboard shows you SOT
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
Dashboard in digital wellbeing. Accubattery shows alot more SOT
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Podster16:
battery life is pretty disappointing among other issues , i'm thinking of going back to my Huawei p30 pro, the UI is so poor on the pixel 6 i cant believe its so bad its like 4 year behind EMUI
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] gettinwicked:
Give it time. Every single new Google phone release the trolls come out. Folks that use phones like LG even :ROFLMAO:. They like to pick on threads like these. They go away after a while though.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
This big ass beautiful screen sucks the daylight out of the battery. It was going crazy at home on wifi. Now I'm out and about. Went to **** quick.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
The best troll is still that guy a couple posts over you that claims that something like 8 hours of screen on time is bad, I mean, wat? I was happy to get 4 to 5 hours out of my Pixel 4 XL. Another matter entirely is, of course, how the heck can you even manage to spend 8 hours a day CONSTANTLY using your phone, how do people find time to spend that much time? Don't they have work, don't they need to eat, or work out, or take a shower, or have a life outside of the Internet?

I mean I am a pretty strong poweruser of technology, my PC is probably running 12-14 hours a day, work, gaming, videos, movies, you name it - and I constantly react to my phone whenever something happens, and love music with bluetooth streaming, and even if I am busy outside, I'd never get more than 6 or max 7 hours of direct contact with my phone.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Golf c:
It's not all about SOT. It's idle drain too. I could have got 11 hours today if I never turned the screen off. That's not real world
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] gettinwicked:
FYI, turn of digital wellbeing. It was a huge drain when I first got my 4xl. It got better, but disabling it still helped a lot. So, remove it from usage access, then restrict it's battery use. I disabled it Thursday night, and yesterday my battery life was much better.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Dutt1217:
I'm not a Pixel fan boy or samsung fan boy because I like aspects of both and is the reason I bounce back and forth all the time. I sold my S21 ultra 16gb 512gb for the pixel 6 pro and I'm not so sure I made the right choice. I'm past the window to return so I'm stuck with the pixel. I really want to like the p6p and be glad I made the switch from S21 ultra, but unless Google can fix/improve the battery drain and and all the bugs, then I think I'll have to switch to S22 ultra. At least you know Samsung won't skimp on hardware or cut any corners. While samsung won't be getting insta updates because they aren't Google and have to add One UI, but they sure have increased the speed of their version of Android 12/One UI 4 to a couple months instead of 6+ months. I want to root for Google but they always find a way to screw something up hardware wise.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Ultimoose:
Random data point -

P6P, unlocked and rooted. Apps restored manually not from Google from P2XL using either the built in back up restore option of the app or TB.

Only stock change so far was turn off carrier fast switching in Dev options (forget the specific one). AOD, lift to wake, blah blah blah no changes. No apps/services as of yet have been disabled. Still very much stock other than unlocked/root.

Set the phone down around 9:00 p.m. picked it back up around 6:00 a.m., checked accubattery and cpu spy.

Phone spent 88% of that 9 hours in deep sleep, burned 0.6% an hour.

Other factors:

Phone is on wifi during this time.

I have a Garmin watch that's bound to the P6P via BT that gets text and phone notifications typically but I have notifications stopped between 10:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. on the Garmin side.

Smart Lock is turned on for my watch.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] MArtyChubbs:
The last Samsung phone I had was purchased at launch and bugs were fixed with subsequent monthly updates. Are you saying that's not the case with the current lineup? Bug free at launch would be an accomplishment by Samsung... Also skimp on hardware? Aren't the display processor and modem made by Samsung on the pixel 6 pro? Maybe they saved all the shortcuts for Google?? 🤷
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Morgrain:
There are no device lines without problems in hardware or software. I have several S21 Ultra running in my family and 2 of them have a yellow tint, I tried a lot by playing around with several display color programs (native and other) but was never able to produce true whites, whilst my Pixel 6 can do it out of the box.

Now there are people in this forum, however, that have a pixel 6 with a yellow tint.

Whilst all those S21 Ultra device owners without any tint will claim their device is perfect, even though I've seen hardware faults.

So, where's the truth now?

In the end, every device made has defects or quirks, question just is, how many, does the manufacturer care and will they actually reduce those over time?

Google has a long history of minor hardware defects, whilst Samsung has a history of exploding phones (compared to a series defect which results in thousands of potential explosions, every other defect is minor), so I'd call that best case even.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Dutt1217:
What annoys me the most is how apple is able to get double the battery life compared to Android flagship out of only 4350mah and still has 5G, big 120hz display, and A15 chip that equals / exceeds all competition. If Apple can do it, then why the hell can't Google do it? Especially if they designed the chip they way they wanted and should have some of the smartest engineers in the world as big as a company they are.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] thethruth:
I agree 💯 it doesn't make any sense to be this behind on battery especially with such a bigger battery most of the time.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] RetroTech07:
If you're comparing the iPhone 13 pro to a P6P, the two have different screen sizes which is going to result in less pixels on screen being used and less battery consumption.

Apple isn't free from having "low battery" themselves. Last year's iPhone 12 pro and non-pro models had 8.5 - 9hrs of usage, with their mini coming in at 7.5.

You have to look at what's under the hood before saying, "if Apple can do something so well, why can't everyone else?" They've also been in the game longer, which means more time to develop and tune their sw and hardware to be as efficient as possible.

This is Google's first attempt at using an in-house chip while being paired with a very buggy Android 12 release and less than stellar modem. Give them time to fine-tune everything and see what they can cook up in the future.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] spawn985:
I'm getting about 9 hours SoT from 100 to 0. I'm pretty happy with that.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Dutt1217:
Wow. What settings do you have on/off? 5G, 120hz, on wifi? I can barely manage 6 hours SoT but I have everything on. 5G, BT, 120hz.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] spawn985:
I don't have anything disabled, wifi on, 5G,120hz, AoD, Bluetooth with my Galaxy watch 4 constantly connected and sometimes my pixel buds, I'm using Despair kernel v1.04. But this is fairly ordinary for me even before that. Also rooted with magisk and lsposed enabled. Also, I set a timer when I plugged my phone in for 30 minutes. I was at 5% and in 30 minutes it went to 46% with a supported power delivery max speed charger. I have a multimeter and confirmed that it does charge at 23W.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Dutt1217:
So is it that kernel that's helping?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] spawn985:
I think it is some, but it's mostly helping with idle drain, I was losing around 3 prevent an hour with screen off on stock, now it's below 2 during the day and usually below 1 at night since it goes into deep sleep. Even when I was on stock though I was getting pretty decent battery I felt. I charge my phone Weird, I'll charge it at 8:00 or 9:00 at night 100% and I go to bed after taking it off the charger, I've had no issues making it through the night and then the next day until about 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. and I'm on my phone A LOT
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] kheltek:
Do you have location on, as well as location history and accuracy?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Opensystem:
My stats, did a clean install a few days back. They're maybe a little better than before, but nothing crazy.

My girlfriend's regular P6 shows 19hr SOT and around .8%/hr idle, for comparison.

Regarding Tensor vs A15, gotta remember this is a first gen Google chip. Give them some time and I'm sure they'll be squeezing a lot more out of it :)

Oh hey, a side note: my adaptive brightness is starting to change more quickly/appropriately finally, it only took 2 1/2 weeks :P
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Paz9:
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[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Utini:
Do these stats look normal? To me it reads like my phone is never going into deep sleep?

And battery drain is also pretty high although I use my P6P as dual SIM for work and private.

Not using 5G (only 4G). In Wifi with good signal all day.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Utini:
Okay here are screens that make sense. Somehow gsam battery updated itself and now it shows me that the kernel is keeping the system awake for 5h during a 14h day. But why?
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] spawn985:
I do.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] EeZeEpEe:
So here's my phone with adaptive battery on the whole time since I got it, October 29th, up to the morning of November 22nd.

And here's my phone with adaptive battery off for the last 7 days.

I would say my results are kind of inconclusive. I technically got more screen on time and screen off time with adaptive battery on yet my combined use was more with adaptive battery off. That being said, I'll still leave adaptive battery on as I don't notice a performance difference between the two and I have had a combined use near 17 hours with it on too.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] AlkaliV2:
I already posted this before but there are a handful of kernel wakelocks that keep the phone awake and at least with Despair Kernel we can block them. It was a few pages back.
[Google Pixel 6 Pro] Utini:
It is just weird because initially I had great battery life. Now suddenly this. Which is why I thought that it must be an app.

Extreme battery saver seems to enable deep sleep.