Sure, this is very light usage - just 5 hours SoT over more than 2 days of usage - but I couldn’t get this phone to even make it to two days with similar usage on Android 13. And it’s comparable to my previous budget phone, so the only thing the 7a was worse at is now fixed for me.
I still have a pixel 3A. I work in a factory and hardly ever check my phone while at work. In the evenings, I still use it pretty lightly.
Most of the time I’ll work a shift, go home and forget to charge it overnight, wake up and go to work again. It usually dies around the end of my shift on that second day.
Whatever sleep technology is in pixels is very good.
My girlfriend has a Samsung A52 and it is the same thing. She has had it for a few years and she still only charges it ever few days. Even when browsing Instagram reels and videos she gets like 10 hours SOT.
Meanwhile my sony 5ii with 75% battery life while only ever charging to 80% that gets 6hrs SOT if I’m lucky and discharges with the screen off on WiFi at 2% per hour…
Absolutely…I’m getting 9h SOT on my P8P now, confirmed by AccuBattery
I’m seeing improvements on my P7 as well. I’m ending the day of streaming YouTube videos (with the screen off) for several hours with less than 40% total lost. It’s actually pretty nice, and that’s an increase of about 15% I get to keep by the time I get home.
The overall battery life is pretty good. But the standby (when screen is off) is still taking like 1% per hour right?
I did 59.1% / 53,5~ hours.
I’m more a fan of 1% every 3 hours. Not 1% per hour. If Google managed to do something in the OS to guarantee that it would be amazing. (Note: always considering power hungry stuff like AOD off).
Also, I recommend checking this from 100% and only after reaching 1%. I’ve recently seen my Pixel 5 draining 1% overnight (like going from 40% to 39% in 7 hours), and that’s a lie in my experience it never does this little. I stopped paying attention to overnight standby drain after seeing this. So to be more accurate it is better to account for the full cycle (99%+ usage).
From my screenshot, 1% per hour is pretty much exactly the discharge rate I get when the screen is off. Also seemed in line with most posts about battery life I’ve seen
What’s your screen-off %/h like?
In this session it was 1.0% per hour (slightly towards 0.9% as you can see - 52% in 53 hours), and from checking past sessions it’s within 0.7% to 1.5% per hour depending on which apps get a chance to run and how much time is spent with mobile data on (but I do have adaptive connectivity enabled since switching to Android 14, so mobile data should theoretically be always on).
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