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[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
It's not a question of not believing it, I've owned enough phones to know resolution can make a big difference to battery life. I'm simply telling you what some reviews I've seen have reported.

And it sounds like you have decided to return it already, which you're certainly right to do if you don't believe it's worth what you paid. Speaking for myself, and I'm only basing this on a couple of days use, it's a great phone with a fantastic camera, a great battery life (the irony of posting that in this thread isn't lost on me) and overall is well worth the money.

And yup, when I take it off charge tomorrow I'll run a day on 1440p and come back with the results. If I remember!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
Too

were you on WiFI? 5G?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] xgerryx:
Thanks, I appreciate that. Mine should be here mid-end of the week. I really do not want to send it back. I've never sent a phone back before actually, but I am still worried because even after a year and very minor changes from the 6 there seems to be a lot of wise spread annoyances. I did cancel my 6 pro preorder last year, however. Some could be solved with a custom kernel, which is nice. Rooting and unlocking the bootloader can solve other issues too, like the weak audio. The s22 ultra is just a massive, heavy, brick of a phone. I hate the sharp corners, it barely fits in my adult male jeans pocket. So I am hoping for the best.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
mine is on 1080p and the battery life is worse than my old HTC M8 in the drawer
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Sort of backs up my suspicion it's not resolution in that case.

What apps have you installed? I strongly suspect you have a rogue service causing a constant wakelock if you are getting 2.5 hours SOT with 80% battery loss.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
I hear ya. The cheap feeling hollow screen has a reason for being so as there is basically air behind it and not attached to the mid frame. Speakers are not great. I've been holding out for this for months. With the poor battery, i'm just going to have to go back to my Mate 20 X. There is nothing else out there to tempt me, but I can't put up with this poor battery life. I'll see how it goes over the next few days.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] xgerryx:
TBH if it was me, even though it's a pain in the ass, I would wipe the phone, start fresh without transferring apps over, and try it for 2 days. If it's still bad there is obviously something wrong with the unit they sent. I would ask for a replacement.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] mwatson:
loads of apps copied over from my old phone. I haven't logged into many though. They are dormant if you know what I mean. I'm going to do a fresh install later. Down to 14% in the last 45 mins since my initial post. One thing I'd like to try is 4G only, but I don't have preferred options on my phone. Its stuck on the blazing battery hoggin 5G!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
We've found your likely culprit. Factory reset and don't copy apps over, install them from the Playstore if you need them and don't bother if you don't. I can pretty much guarantee a big improvement in battery life.

I never copy anything over from an old phone in this way, I install from scratch and sync to/from the cloud.

I must be on my own in liking the feel and sound of tapping on this phone.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] refedit:
Thx for advice. I was thinking on transfering data as soon as I get the 7P
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Download the app Force LTE Only (4G/5G) from the Play Store. Method 2 works on our Pixels. Then you will be able to change the preferred network type to remove NR.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ppaasseeii:
Fresh install here since Thursday. Around 5 hours SOT for 24 hours, which is really bad for 1k$. And this is mostly on WIFI, high-res turned off, screen brightness low, 5G off. I do have AOD on though. Keep it mind, the battery is brand new, after a year or two, 5 hours will become 4 hours. Coming from a Oneplus 6T which still lasted me through an entire day even being 4 years old, this is hugely disappointing.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Yeah I hate to tell ya but 4-5 hours is standard on flagships now.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
I had a 6T, the battery life on it was decent, but the 7 Pro is 100% better than that ever was. And 5 hours SOT in 24 hours is a full day, isn't it?

Anyway, it's genuinely intriguing how battery life differs between the same model of phone for different users. I have WiFi and mobile data turned on so it swaps between the two, 5G is off, screen brightness at around 60%-70%. Yet my SOT had been upwards of 6 hours yesterday and today the same if GSam's prediction is correct.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] dudekk602:
Im on the second cycle on fresh install and what worries me the most is the fact that I got around 2,9-3,7%/h on screen OFF.

I have AOD enabled, almost all day on WI-FI, maybe an hour of bluetooth streaming. Don't know what is going on
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] MacGuy2006:
I just traded in a P6P and the P7P appears to have a somewhat better battery life after about 5 days of use, maybe around 15% better.

Overall, not a huge difference from the P6P. The Fingerprint sensor is worse so far than the P6P and the fake Face Unlock seems to be useless in less-than-bright conditions.

The 30x zoom is unusable on any screen larger than a tablet, I wish I could limit the max zoom range so a quick gesture does not default to 30x.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] piotrkruczek:
Bluetooth streaming, AOD, Loud speaker / Music listening while screen off - this adds up.

Also check all sorts of communicators - Email agents, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Messenger, Reddit etc. - They constantly ping data for new messages.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] nico933:
Also my battery life is not that incredibile, i think the culpit here is the mobile signal
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] jimv1983:
I'm curious to hear your results. Everything I've seen from my own experience and the experience of many others is that mobile data takes way more power. On my Pixel 5 it's almost double the battery drain compared to wifi for the exact same activity and that's in great cell service areas with a relatively power efficient Qualcomm modem.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] jimv1983:
Even for the Tensor chip and AOD on and on wifi that is definitely high. In those conditions I'd expect maybe 2.5%/h. Maybe you're in a really bad cell service area?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] dudekk602:
I'm living around 100m in straight line from antenna.

Before I did factory reset there was one or two cycles when I was around 0,9%/h on screen off. Don't know what's going on but I'm really thinking about switching off all of my notifications to see if that could change anything
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] sam2c:
I'll say this again as I see people getting disheartened when they see they're getting 10+ hr SOT like other people.

***comparing battery life to someone else is pointless ***.

- No wifi network is the same. Even if you're both on wifi , you battery drain depends on how "chatty" the wifi network is, how good your signal is, and how many clients are on the network, if it's public or private, etc

- reception quality matters a lot . You don't know what kind of reception the other person is getting. Also 5g will drain more than Lte. Verizon 5g will drain more battery than other carrier's 5g.

- you don't know how much background apps the other person is running that are constantly syncing . I have 4 Google accounts on my phone, IG, FB, Telegram all syncing and draining battery on the background. Someone else might have less stuff in the background.

- what you do with you phone matters a ton. I could watch YouTube for 11 hrs on home wifi. If I browse websites with lots of async requests (good example is lenovo.com...try configuring a laptop and see how fast your phone heats up) my phone will drain like a power bank charging a laptop.

-there are probably some important factors that I'm forgetting so...etc etc

Chances are slim that there is a hardware problem causing you to get less than stellar battery life. battery life is just a product of some of the variable mentioned above. That being said, pixel 7 pro is average in regards to battery life. If you're coming from Samsung or Apple, it will be most likely have less SOT than those. We're only on second get Tensor, Google still has some work to do
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] RetroTech07:
I don't see using wifi all day and mobile data disabled as a great indicator for battery life since it's not being tested in real world conditions. Test it out on mobile networks then report back.

While I could easily trade in my Pixel 6 Pro for the 7 and pay little to nothing for an upgrade, I'm not sure how I'd go about selling my Apple 14 device, lol.

It appears folks still struggle with battery on this phone compared to the last and that's a shame.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] terlynn4:
I understand that battery life is a complex issue, but I have to say it's my one complaint about this phone. I'm an extremely heavy user, and I find it frustrating that with all the technological advancements with these phones, there's not a single flagship on the market that can accommodate a power user through a whole day.

That said, this phone is so far the worst I've had in recent years. Even at 1080p and 60 Hz, I've drained the battery twice a day each day I've had it, and at these charging speeds that's just not sustainable. I'm hoping it settles a bit after more use, or maybe with a custom kernel, but I'm not feeling very optimistic so far. I'm really hoping there's some specific process draining battery that I just haven't identified yet.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Enough people in this thread have done precisely that, including myself.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
Mine, thinking about AOD and Bluetooth, those seem could kill battery life on Pixel 7 Po
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] masri1987:
i switched from iphone 13 pro max to pixel 7 pro, im charging my phone twice a day because it won't make it through a heavy 6 hours of use.

Even a 30 min phone call eats 10% of the battery ,

iOS does not behave this way, it's kinda sad i left android 3 years ago in the exact same shape i came back to it.

Can someone explain the architectural differences between by these OSes eat up battery differently?

Ive used android since day 1, and lets be real, all the suggestions of turning off bluetooth mobile data wifi it's all trash , this shouldn't be the answer to what seems to be a issue with how android is written.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
I can`t compare to an Iphone 13 pro max. Imo the diffences by these OSes is how Google uses his apps, with constant, inefficient Syncing.

For the Pixel 7 pro I can say, that the battery life is for me comparable with the already good Poco F3 pro. On mixed usage inside and outside I do get my 6-8h SOT over 1-2 days. But I use custom ROMs with restricted PlayServices.

The battery life on the Pixel 7 pro is probably getting better with feature upgrades, like it did on the Poco.

If you want it the easy way, then stay on the iPhone, but as you switched from the fairly new Pro 13 to Pixel, there must be something, that didnt satisfy you.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] blackspp:
SUPER impressed with the battery. Second day, tinkering a lot throughout the day, a lot of searching and browsing, some 3 hours of music streaming, copied another 60GB of flacs to the music folder.

Switched the p7p on around 9 am, it's now 11:40 pm and I still have 32% juice left. This is so much better than i got on my Note 20 Ultra. Happy!
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] xflowy:
without information about wifi/mobile data pretty useless information.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
Turned off AOD, Bluetooth, Wifi, during a night the phone power consumption was still bad. Dropped off from 95% to 79% is unacceptable. My old phone with Snapdragon 865 with same condition only drops 4-5% during a night. Looking forward how Google fix this problem but pretty regret for the choice buying this Pixel 7 Pro.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] blackspp:
All of them on, bt as well
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
My phone looses about 2-3% over 8 hours night. Data and WiFi off. LTE network with 2/3 signal quality.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Charge my phone overnight so can't comment on that loss. But when my phone is not in use during the day, I lose less than 1% an hour if I don't wake my phone at all.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
2k resolution and 120Hz?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Given that the phone is in standby and the screen isn't on, what relevance would that have?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
Yeap, and 120Hz, 2k resolution also rooted, lsposed
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] DSF:
@Beefheart hi!

What variant do you have? 128gb or 256gb?

Curious if there is any connection between battery life and hardware components?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
128gb. But I really can't see the storage being relevant to battery life.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
You all got that and wonder why the phones standby is bad?

If yes, how can you expect that the risky apps you use are optimized (or bug free or trojan free) on the P7 Pro?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
Migrated from old snapdragon 865 phone as mi 10 ultra, and on this, my battery life was still great.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
You can not judge a phones battery life while using it with mostly hobby made apps, that work on deep system level.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
What about your? Non root and non xposed?

I don't think xposed and root, also 2 modules caused the battery draining. The problem came from the Pixel. I could uninstall xposed and test out.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] HipKat:
One way to help your overnight drain is to turn on Bedtime Mode. Mine typically drops only a few percentages, using that option. Plus, it's a cool feature
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
Unrooted.

As you can see on the amount of people here, the battery drain over night is not a main problem for the most. I stopped using xposed years ago, because its a battery killer, unsafe, etc.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
I've run this phone without being rooted and without Lsposed, and run it being rooted and

with Lsposed. The battery life was no different.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
It depends on the modules you are using.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
Obviously. But the point is, you can't just assume his battery life issues are as a result of being rooted and running Xposed/Lsposed, which is what you appeared to be doing.

I'm rooted and running numerous modules, and my battery life is still fantastic averaging 20+ hours use and north of 7 hours SOT each charge cycle.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] ghoster76:
Appreciate the suggestion
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
Yes thats right. But he can`t assume that the device has bad battery life, while having a lot system files deeply modified. If he is not using the device as intended, he won`t be able to give a conclusion.

It`s like using a custom kernel and saying that XYZ is not working anymore. Everything could work but there is a risk that it won`t do and the OS can`t prevent the XYZ bug.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Bxrider117:
So when I first got the pixel 7 Pro I downloaded the beta program immediately I came from the Samsung s. 22 plus. I use Smart switch to download all of my information from the S22 I immediately noticed that for the first week I couldn't even get more than 5 hours of screen on time with the battery and with the transfer data. I then did a backup with Google one and did a fresh reset and uploaded everything from Google one and the battery life has been night and day. I'm easily getting almost 2 days of battery usage. Mostly Wi-Fi cuz I work from home but I think that's has improved the battery life for this phone. That
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] schmeggy929:
both have no bearing when the phone screen is off overnight, lol
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] blackspp:
My solution for overnight bedtime drain is that I always switch my phones of when I sleep. Biggest benefit is that your battery (and phone) has a much longer lifespan
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] jaseman:
Sorry, not relevant.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
Just a report over two weeks of usage.

The battery is quite fine and comparable to my Poco F3 Pro and a Oneplus 6T.

I would say that its even better than both.

Setup on all devices:

- 90% Wifi

- no data over night

- auto brightness

- CrDroid on Poco and 6T, GrapheneOS on Pixel

Second screen with 120 Hz (from 100%) and first with 60 Hz (from 92%).

60 Hz will give you apps 2 hours more SOT with mainly on apps without video streaming apps.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Seeing that 2 hour figure reminded me of my OnePlus 9 and the hit the battery took with 120hz on so I figured LTPO wasn't working properly on Graphene. A quick Google and that is indeed the case.

LTPO display of the Pixel7Pro works exclusively with 60hz or 120hz · Issue #1688 · GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker

The Pixel7Pro has an LTPO display and should thus be able to switch variably between 10hz-120hz. If you activate the "Show refresh rate" function in the developer settings, where the current frame ...

github.com

If it was working, you would have far less of a battery penalty.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] dr.wtf:
Stock android does the same on pixel. This is not a grapheneOS issue.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
The way the user checked the LTPO function is wrong. You can't check that with the integrated software features on android.

Here you can read why and that LTPO is working at least on stock rom and I think on GOS too.

It's the higher battery drain at 120 Hz, compared to a Samsung S22 Ultra that did make a difference. At least at the time of testing.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] oko17:
How do you estimate the 2h difference?

Basing on your screenshots.

First used 97% battery with 9h 34 minutes SOT which is 574 minutes it gives 0.169%/min discharge

Second used 87% battery with 8h 17 minutes SOT which is 497 minutes it gives 0.175%/min discharge,

So basing on those discharging ratios, the difference is 20 minutes, not 2h for 100% discharge.

If the order is swapped because of uploading, so first is from 95%, and second from 89%, then the difference is even lower.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
I did much more video streaming on that 120 Hz run. On 60 Hz I had more touch inputs.

As tested on gsmarena there is big difference on the interaction you do.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] schalkeole:
My battery-life is really not that good. I transfered my old OnePlus 8Ts data with the cable option. Is this such a dealbreaker? I also use dual-sim and I think this might be a problem too?
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
I was using dual sim on my old phones. The difference wasn't so much. It can be helpful if you use 2G only on the sim card you are just using for phone calls.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] SilentEYE:
Yesterday I did a full 60Hz run. And I think that 60Hz does make a difference, as I wasn't able to get more than 10h SOT with 120Hz on similar usage.

This device does have good battery life and there is IMO a problem with some software / Google setups. It is comparable to other devices like my Poco F3.

(screenshot: transferred some files at 10% battery that charged device to 20%. Did the screenshot therefore at 10% to have a realistic comparison)
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] matrixhaj:
I call that big BS. "overnight drainage - approx. 0,15%/hr" So you are basically saying, that your phone will last 750 hours on standby? Good luck proving that.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] gigaboss:
Hi everyone,

I figured out what my issue was. It was not easy so I thought I would write my findings here.

My battery life was ****ty. According to Accubattery my phone was almost never in deep sleep (less than 20% of the screen off time). I was not able to get 12h of battery life without charging, making it impossible to go through a full day.

It was hard for me to figure out if that was because of my use of the phone (I am a very heavy user) or if there was an issue.

The main thing that would make it hard to identify is that I use an app called "sleep as a droid" at night that watches my sleep and would probably prevent the phone from going to deep sleep.

But my issue happened during the day as well so I installed Better Battery Stats and after doing some research realized what I was looking for, "partial wakelocks". And I had to look for them during the day, ideally after not touching my phone for an hour or 2, to make sure that it was not related to my use of the phone but to an app.

I found out that Samsung Health was the culprit. I have a Samsung watch so I need Samsung Health to sync my steps etc. But Samsung was also trying to count the steps using my phone, not only my watch, and for that was syncing multiple times a minute and preventing the phone from going to deep sleep.

I deactivated the step counting from the phone and everything was much better! Deep sleep is way higher (around 50% of screen off time), I am able to get 15h+ of combined use (again I am a very heavy user), this is way less stressful than it used to be, I almost returned the phone haha!

I hope this helps people having a poor battery life :)
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] piotrkruczek:
If you're losing 1,2% overall during 7-8 hrs night - how would you put it differently? Also - it's a 5000 mAh battery. 98-99% of idle time is in deep sleep. Do not disturb mode cuts off notifications and background checks.

+ just FYI - I have my Pixel 5 as a backup phone - it lasts 6-8 days on standby - LTE, few apps with notifications (eg. Facebook Messenger) AND with much smaller battery.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
I would love to only lose 1.2% per night. I'm averaging .8%/hr screen off no matter what I'm doing with my phone. It's honestly been perfectly fine for my usage. In fact, as time goes on, I'm not even getting under 40% across a whole day now because I'm just simply not messing with it as much (newness novelty has worn off), but more battery is always appreciated lol.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] RetroTech07:
I honestly hope the Pixel 8 improves upon battery performance. I just keep reading mixed reviews and think Google and others should step up to improve upon this area so that we're not turning features off just to squeeze out a tiny bit extra of our batteries because its not optimized properly.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] CBET:
I've got my P7P three days ago and i'm getting very good SOTs around 7 to 10 hours so i just can't complain. Great device!

I've uninstalled everything i don't need with universal android debloater tho.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Yoshito93:
I got my pixel 7 pro last week. My SOT is 4.40 hrs average. I left the option of screen 120hz on. During the night i lose the 5% of the battery.

I think it is enough to arrive at 6 pm with a battery level of 30%. Not really happy about it, but at least i can go to work and come back home without charging my phone.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Yoshito93:
Did someone experience an improvement of battery with the december update?

Personally i arrive now at 5.20hrs of SOT with 30% of battery, leaving on the 120hz screen.

I keep losing the 4/5% of battery during the night in standby.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] AKN_92:
I think my battery life seems a bit worse after the December update. Phone runs warmer too.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] blackspp:
Not here, cool phone (in fact I think its cooler), battery runs well over a day with lots of use, picking it up for this or that, surfing streaming, working, wifi, bt.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] EtherealRemnant:
Battery is significantly worse for me in the December update.

It's at least 30% worse. I also have had my phone drop the radio a few times. Contemplating a factory reset but just really don't want to go through all that so I'm just charging twice a day.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Misterxtc:
My battery is worse on December too and I did a factory reset yesterday. I'll give it a few days to see if things settle down after the reset. I still wouldn't call mine poor battery but it is worse.
[Google Pixel 7 Pro] Beefheart:
On the December update, and currently sat at a SOT of 4 hours 32 minutes on 52% battery with a combination of WiFi and data. About what I was getting on November so no worse for me.