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[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
You can't root the S23 Ultra in the US, just like all the previous Samsung phones going back to I believe the S4. This hasn't bothered me at all though because unlike Google, Samsung provides more than enough stock customization to suit my needs. Honestly I used to hate Samsung, swore I would never have another, but my experience with the Pixel 7 Pro was so poor that I had to switch and it was either Samsung or an iPhone. I really didn't want the locked down iPhone experience again and I had been reading about expected efficiency improvements of the 8 Gen 2 for months so I took a shot. Now I don't think I'll be going back to Pixel beyond tinkering with my 7 Pro because Samsung has improved so much since the TouchWiz days that I don't have any major complaints about the device -- a first since the HTC days.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
I can believe that. I see people argue about bloatware and that's why they hate Sammie, but that's a cope argument. That crap can be uninstalled via ADB or force stopped, not updated, and totally ignored as if it's not there. Even if u don't force stop it is it really using that much battery or power? These phones have 12GB of RAM now.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
I haven't uninstalled anything but YouTube (so I could replace it with ReVanced) and I have no complaints. I turned off Samsung's virtual RAM function to regain that performance and multitasking is wonderful on it. None of these apps are even running in the background, I've checked wakelocks and everything, they're just sitting there unused in case I ever decide to use them. I may debloat one day but I'm not particularly bothered by having that Samsung folder there either. I was actually surprised today when I went to open the Play Store that it was still there from the last time I used it like a week ago to look for something. It was still on that very page. That's actually a first for me, having a background app running that long. I have even had to get in the habit of force closing my Boost One app because each day when I go to log in to spin the wheel and watch ads to get my free phone service, it's still running, and the main page won't refresh until I force close and re-open it lol.

Anyway, we should stop with the OT in the Pixel forum. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] triczu:
I have already gone through several softwares, different kernels and there was no super effect. I got the best effect on stock software and kernel. The key was to install all applications as new, not restore them from a copy.

After the update, the battery drains appeared again.

The solution is to set almost all apps in battery saving mode "restricted". I left only a few apps such as Whatsapp, Signal etc. All notifications work fine and I have much better battery performance.

I have everything turned on, GPS, bluetooth continuous connection to the watch, mobile data.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] oko17:
I'm very happy with my P7P. Everything stock, no root. And for me march update improved it even further.

I can get over 7h SOT for medium days, although mostly on WiFi. My drain during 8h sleep was 4-5%:
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ppaasseeii:
It's fine for now.. But again the phone is new and I'm home on wifi. What if I have an emergency at the end of the day and I have 10% of battery left? What about when I have to travel? Yeah ok I could and I will probably use power banks but I sort of stopped using these with the Onepluses (5T, 5, 6T).
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
Yes, thats my job for later. Hopefully that will sort it.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Agenesis:
Picture in picture mode the phone got so toasty that I busted out my thermal camera. I'm left handed so to my luck the hottest part of the phone is on the left side.

The governor for this phone is too aggressive. I don't understand why the x1 cores needs to be constantly ramping up alongside the medium cores.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
You would be in the same position as you would be with pretty much any other Android device. I can't think of any outside of gaming phones with ludicrous battery sizes that would be better than this. In terms of flagships with a top camera what you have here is a phone with a battery to match or exceed the competition. The S22 Ultra for example has an inferior battery life to the S21 Ultra and I know the latter is marginally worse than the 7 Pro as I owned one.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Were you on 5G? That sure looks like 5G modem heat to me. I had the same issue with my 12 Pro Max. Ice cold on LTE, molten lava within minutes on 5G when it was actively using data.

That said, if I'm reading that image right, 90F is nothing. 32.2C is downright cool compared to many phones. My HTC 10 regularly would hit 40C...
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Agenesis:
The temps are misleading, don't read into it. Thermal cameras need a calibrated heat source to use as a reference before it can be used as a thermometer, otherwise it's wildly inaccurate.

Also that's the g2 heat for sure, I was running a benchmark to determine where the heat was coming from.

All I know is this phone gets toasty while I'm watching Twitch/YouTube and multi-task at the same time.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Gotcha, figured it would have been calibrated.

I haven't noticed any heat problem of any kind with this phone so far. I'm actually insanely happy with it. Sorry that it hasn't been as good for you.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Same here, don't think I've seen it go above 35c yet although I've not been gaming at all.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Currently sitting at 4 hours SOT and 44% battery remaining. That means a screen on time of around 7 hours if I get to that point before putting it on charge.

Not sure what these people are doing to end up with such abysmal battery life. I'm not just sitting here with my screen on, I'm doing things with the phone too.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Agenesis:
I think it's probably the twitch app, their media player is full of drm and bloat.

Don't get me wrong, I lov...like the phone. Certainly better than the S22U I'm trading in right now. Samsung removed the ability to change radio bands. It's absolutely insane what they're doing on the software side of things.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] joshtb86:
I haven't looked at my battery stats but I just came from a galaxy s21 ultra and there is definitely more battery usage on this phone. I have not been able to go a day without charging it at least once during the day. However, I've noticed this same trend with a lot of my pixel and nexus phones in the past and am assuming it will be fixed if it's a software issue because this is happened before
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
About to put it on charge. Not bad for only the second full charge cycle - that is two days of 6 hours+ screen on time.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] sam2c:
I general you can't compare your battery life to anyone else's really. Even when someone says "on wifi, I get so an so SOT" it doesn't mean much. A home wifi with few devices, public wifi with many devices and constant pinging of your devices are not equal. On work/public wifi your phone may never go into deep sleep. I can get 8 hrs SOT at home wifi, at work on wifi I get 4hr. I get better SOT on 5g than some public wifis.

Also, there is the matter of what apps you're running. If you have IG, FB, Whatsapp, telegram, multiple Gmail accounts, etcs etcs, these all drain battery in the background. So again, you can't compare SOT with anyone else unless they're running the same apps and number of accounts.

I saw a message regarding Poco phone getting better battery....I believe you. Poco phone has none of the fancy Google services on it that make the pixel special.

One thing is for certain, battery life is not a main selling point of this phone. It's better than the 6, but still has some improvements to do.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] silverkin:
What's that exclamation mark on cell signal? :(
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
I'm quite happy.

The only things I changed was I left it on FHD and I turned off 120hz. I use low brightness (about 25%) most of the day and I was on WiFi but still, that's way better than I expected, so no complaints about the battery.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] xgerryx:
So you altered the 3 main things to get better battery life, and you're using a 500 dollar phone without 1440p, high refresh rate. I don't get the point. The phone should perform well with all its features and capabilities on. The jury is out on that still.

Looking for someone to post this info with auto brightness on, 1440p on and a 120hz.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
120hz doesn't make enough of a difference to be worth the battery penalty on any phone I have used as 60hz has been and continues to be fine on a phone screen, auto brightness is too damn bright in basically every situation for me and it gets annoying seeing the brightness constantly shift while I'm using it, and QHD again doesn't make enough of a difference to be worth the battery penalty.

At least I was up front about what I turned off. What works for me won't work for everyone but I'm sure there are a few who would be happy to see that such battery life is possible period.

Edit: Oh and for the record, I was getting 5-7 hours with everything turned on. It was only yesterday that I turned it all down to see what I got.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
I turned on 1440p resolution today, with 120hz and ambient lighting turned on and I'm sat at a SOT of over five-and-a-half hours with 19% battery remaining. And that's with a mixture of wifi and data.

Not sure what people expect from a phone but that is decent battery life for me.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Seems you didn't experience much of a penalty. Guess I'll turn them on tomorrow myself and see how it goes. Maybe the almost 10 was just because the phone settled in and not because of me disabling things after all.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Linuxkek:
Maybe they use it with not 90/10 wifi/mobile data ratio and don't use Youtube most of the time?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ericDraven77:
Anyone here who reset his phone to factory and improved his battery with that??

Don't know if this could fix my problem, cause if I do reset the phone I will have to set it up again which would take a long time.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] boontje3:
factory reset made mine worse ,

I thought it was going to work too but it was even worse

make it through the day with difficulty 12u battery life and 2.5 screen on time

eventually sold it and switched to a 1 + 11 and no regrets about the battery 3 days and 6.5 hours screen on time
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] HipKat:
If you use a backup a;pp like Swift Backup, do NOT restore anything except user apps and I do let Google restore my phone and SMS records, you can really do it all in about an hour or so.

The long part is moving all your photos, etc to a computer and back to your phone
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] TheMystic:
No wonder your battery drains. Not a good idea to have something run in the background continuously, unless it is only for testing purposes.

I hope this is only a temporary change to save battery life. Otherwise what is the point of buying a premium phone and then set it up like a budget phone.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ericDraven77:
Just read about the battery drain on a Blog and that it is known by google.

There was also a hint on how to temporaily solve the problem.

You have to disable the System App "Adaptive connecitvity service" via your Options - Apps - three dots - show system apps.

I will give i a try and write you tomorrow
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ericDraven77:
As I told above:

Yesterday I set the option Adaptive Contection to "off" and disabled the App in my Options (Need to show System apps to find it).

Now my battery drain over night was 20%, which is 15% over normal before march update, but is 15% lower then before disabling Option and app.

Maybe sombody else could try and have luck with it.

April update hopefully solves the problem fully. Will reset my phone before the update and update then to have it back to normal battery drain. Till then I hope I can live with a bit higher consumption as it is now "OK" for me to get over the day.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] HipKat:
As I posted in the other thread, there may be something to this as I disabled it yesterday and my battery life today has been much, much better. Taking it off the charger at 97%, six hours later with a lot of streaming SiriusXM, emails and phone calls, which I get a lot of phone calls with my job and, I’m at 81%. Before yesterday I would probably be at 20% lower give or take.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] DSF:
huh?

Been using AccuBattery for years and doesn't generate any discernible battery drain.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] TheMystic:
Any app that has to run continuously in the background will consume battery, CPU cycles, and use hardware resources to perform it's function.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] DSF:
You said battery drain.

Of course that anything is running in the background, both system or user, consumes resources. But AccuBattery really doesn't have a significant hit on battery like you implied.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] TheMystic:
Apps often use system resources in a way that you can't trace it to them.

Unless you have installed it temporarily for testing purposes, there is no point in letting an app run continuously that consumes resources to give you information that is mostly 'eye candy'.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] DSF:
Man.. I'm using AccuBattery for at least 4-5 years already on multiple devices. Never had an issue with battery life because of this app. Always running in the background.

It's very good to keep track of cycles, battery usage over time, deep sleep, battery charge alarm (I set it at 80%), etc etc.

Again.. battery impact is minimal.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
Battery impact is minimal. Thousand millions of people use these battery tracking apps. They're not resource intensive and there's a difference between giving resources to something you want or need vs something that is needlessly or unwantedly using resources in the background like GMS sending location info every 15 seconds or the messaging app checking for messages every 30 seconds.

You are right. @TheMystic, I'm not sure what you're arguing. This is a silly argument. This thread is being detailed by you arguing accubattery and similar apps are causing battery drain when a large percentage of people here use the app and have been for years. It's silly. I suggest you go to the accubattery thread with your concerns if you feel they're legitimate. Tell the dev his app uses too many resources and is causing only the pixel 7 series and no other phone to have bad idle drain.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] TheMystic:
I have no concerns. I have no interest in eye-candy either.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] freakearf:
i really dont know what people are doing with their pixel phone.

iam using it daily pretty often at work for 2fa, chatting etc. After 12hrs usage iam usually over 50%.

Iam also using also virus scanner and endpoint protection on it. 1440p. GPS on, Bluetooth on for my Pixel Watch. Actually iam pretty surprised how well the battery is.

7am - 5pm = 68% Battery
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
What's your screen on time over the 7a-5p time span? Are u using smooth display (120Hz) too? But ya, at face value it looks like you're getting pretty good results. Are you in excellent cell coverage during that time? Are you using any battery monitoring apps that can provide more granular detail like BBS or accubattery?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] thethruth:
Yeah I would love to know your exact settings because my battery definitely could be better
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] freakearf:
My screen on time was about 3h. I also did a walk at my lunch break with GPS tracking for 45 mins. No 120hz, no auto rotate, iam using 1440p, excellent cell coverage. Normally i would recommend people to just use 4G in my country(Germany) cause the 5G is kinda fake, and rarely is faster than 4G. But since i never had any batterie issues, iam using 5G. I am also using the option intelligent battery (not sure if i translated the option correctly). I dont have any battery monitoring apps. I also had the feeling that the pixel drained the battery way faster the first week than now. Maybe because of the battery option mentioned. Edit: i also heard about 1hrs music with Buds EditEdit: and of course iam dark mode User😜
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
Yeah it seems like you're having pretty good luck. I have smooth display (120 hz) just for the fact that I thought if I was purchasing a premium phone I need to use the premium features. I have read that without it on SOT extends considerably by about 1hr per charge. Without mine on tho I sometimes have a line flash across the screen about ⅓ down the screen. I traded in a previous p7p because I worried that could be indicative of a failing screen. This one has it too in the exact same place so I am thinking and hoping it's software related particularly software related to the GPU. I say this just to explain why I can't turn 120Hz off.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] MadMaxx:
Just adding my experience... Battery life was fair-to-good on my 7 Pro. I typically had around 25% by end of day. That was until the March update. Now, battery life is wretched. Mine drops 15% - 20% after just checking a few emails. I now have to recharge 2-3 times/day depending on the workload.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] cd993:
Adding my experience too.... Stock rooted + AOSP Mods

Jan was great, Feb seemed t decline and with the March update it's definitely much worse.

I've been using Pixel Flasher each month to update and think I'll backup and do a full wipe & fresh install with the upcoming April release. Plus will do the 32 bit app support and perhaps custom kernel support too.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] franco985:
try this command

cmd package bg-dexopt-job
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Homeboy76:
That command came from this article: How to fix battery drain of Xiaomi Devices with MIUI 13
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
What? Run this from a terminal on the phone? Does this require root permission? What's this do?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] franco985:
without root

adb shell cmd package bg-dexopt-job
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Schroeder09:
What's it do? I've done this on your pixel?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Excellent, they should buy the 7 Pro in that case.

Unfortunately, a SOT of almost 10 hours won't be achieved on any Android device without sacrificing functionality.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
But you literally just lost less than an hour of your 6 hours with the same things on that I shut off (120hz, QHD) so I would think I could still get at least 8.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
With 1080p, 120hz and ambient lighting on I was getting a SOT of between 6 and 7 hours over the last two days. For me turning on 1440p today reduced the SOT by around an hour.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Well I guess I'll see what it does to my battery.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Yup, I would expect it to be there or thereabouts but as we all know there are so many things which effect battery life it could end up quite different.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Ugh. I really don't like the feel of the screen with 120hz on, it doesn't feel right to me, but I suppose so that we can get a clean "I didn't shut anything off to get this" result, I'll leave it on for a day or two.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Much prefer 120hz myself.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Mugetzsu:
Here's my usage for my pixel 7 pro. 5G all day, ambient display always on, 120hz QHD on, 50% brightness. I setup my phone from scratch so I think that helps.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] george.smarandache:
This is my first charge after fresh reset with manually installed apps.

When trying the data copy function I was getting 2h of SOT in 8h of use.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] arsenal74:
The battery life on mine is not terrible but noticeably worse than my 14 pro max (not a fair fight I know). I have it on 1440p and 120hz on.

I am starting to think that it is the radios again just like the 6 pro, at home on wifi it is ok but away from home using mobile data then it takes a dive? That would be worrying and was the reason I ditched my 6 pro in the end as if I was heading away from home all day it gave me battery anxiety.

I need to test properly to be sure though.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Shebee:
I've only had my phone for 2 days but so far I've been satisfied with the battery.

Could it be better? Yes. Is it bad? Not imo.

Just yesterday I took it off the charger at 8:00, went on a full day, taking pictures, browsing, went to a concert, took videos, at around 23-00 I had around 10% left. Screen was on for like 7h if I remember correctly.

Is that AccuBattery? I might install it to get some better metrics.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] silverkin:
Yes, it is.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Was out and about yesterday a lot. I've got 5G turned off because, for me, it's a battery hog for little to nothing in the way of benefit.

So a lot of 4G, 120hz, 1440p (just to test, I've now turned it back to 1080p as it's more than sufficient for me), a decent amount of camera use, ambient turned on and I had nearly 6 hours SOT when I put it on charge after 16-17 hours with around 15% left. That for me is good battery life. On 1080p that would have increased by around an hour I'd say.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
I'd be very happy with that. I got 3 hours 19 mins SOT over 12 hours. I only have 2 apps installed and 5G turned off. 1080 120hz. YouTube was the most used app. Maybe these phones aren't very efficient with video rendering. Maybe tomorrow I should use as normal, but without YouTube to see if there is a difference.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
You can see there an average of over 7 hours SOT on my 3 full charge days so far. And currently sitting at 83% with 1 hour 40 minutes SOT.

Sorry to bang on about it, but I'm extremely happy with the battery life of this thing.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
such a huge difference. Maybe its pot luck!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] george.smarandache:
I am not sure how you manage to get that...
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Not sure what to say. I use my phone for mostly browsing, YouTube and camera/video and on a combination of wifi and 4G. If I do run games on it they're not intensive ones like PubG etc.

I'm just getting decent battery life, I'm unsure how yours is so bad unless you're using it for gaming all day which I suspect not.

Currently on for an even better return today. 74% left after 2 hours 45 minutes SOT.

EDIT it's worth pointing out I'm very careful about what apps I install. What do you have installed? Something could be roguing in the background.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
I have one app installed. Audials. Never been an issue on other devices. Strange
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] george.smarandache:
No games whatsoever, not even installed 😅

I attached the list of apps installed... Not a great bunch.

I even limited the network to 4G, put display on FHD, kept 120Hz though.

I mainly use Chrome, IG, WhatsApp.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] xgerryx:
So you've had your screen on for like 35% of the time your phone has been off the charger. This is typical of concentrated usage like you are doing. By this metric you'd get to 6 hours screen on time with the phone off the charger for less than 14 hours. The issue is that if you got that 6 hours over a period of 20 hours, you would likely not make it to that point. By your usage so far you're on pace for 11 hours of screen on time. But that won't happen.

Your usage may be why you are seeing such good battery life. You used zero % on radio, only wifi (unless I am seeing that wrong), and it seems like you aren't listening to music on your phone through bluetooth, which a lot of us do for work, or in the car, android auto/bluetooth. I do not think your example applies to most people. Even still, it shows you're only going to get 17 hours of battery life. That's not good, by any measure. My Oneplus 8 pro was easily getting 21-22 hours of battery life with everything turned on and little attention paid to it. And that was an older chip.

I'll start testing this tomorrow when I get mine and I'll post what I find.