Pixel 7 (w/ GOS) - worst battery life of all my phones in the past 20 years

applesbana
True. The Pixel lottery is indeed real..

f13a-6c3a

No, I'm living in a swiss city with full LTE (or even 5G connection if I wanted).

f13a-6c3a

I don’t know the distance to my cell tower. However, I can say that with other phones I haven’t experienced the same battery drain (and fingerprint reader and warm/hot phone) problem despite living in the same place so I’d imagine it has something to do with the pixel 7.

spl4tt No

No as in there was no changes on the cell towers? No construction? Or no, I dont whant switch to LTE only? Or no, LTE is consistent?
My point is - you dont know answers to those questions and any of them could affect the signal, quality, and consistency which could possibly be reflected in your phone battery performance. We also dont know what you have installed on your phone or what other configuration changes were made to it.
What I'm trying to say is that if majority users are ok but some experiencing an anomaly, the troubleshooting should start NOT with the OS, but examining use cases of those experiencing the issue. Do a factory reset and run for a few days to establish a base line, then go from there adding variables.
Best of luck

f13a-6c3a

I have 5g disabled, but I'm not on 4g only. You think that would help? 4g is indeed really consistent here. and even if some antennas would change, that wouldn't wreck my battery life for multiple months, right? :P
I also don't think it's a fault of the OS, but a modem issue as with last gen Pixels. The P6P just got warm and had bad connection, while the P7P now has worse battery life, eh. I don't think we can do much

spl4tt You think that would help?

If I were in your shoes, I would definitely start there and if no help sigh factory reset

spl4tt The P6P just got warm and had bad connection, while the P7P now has worse battery life, eh. I don't think we can do much

Yeah, 6 was an abomination in many regards, but 7, 7P in particular, for me is great in everything, including signal, VPN, and battery life.

I also have pixel 7 and I don't have that issue at all. The phone is using 5G all the time, it's now 7PM where I am and I have 55% since morning when I unplugged it having full capacity.

This phone easily goes almost 2 days without charging and what I use it for is mainly internet browsing, using apps like codecademy and learning JS on it, GitHub and in general more other programming related apps and Signal for messaging.

Unfortunately all of these anecdotal experiences are pretty arbitrary. Your phone habits are likely unique to you and result in a different battery usage than that of others.

A slightly more meaningful comparison is how the phone performs when compared to similar phones when used by the same person with the same overall workflow.

In my own case, my previous P20 Pro and P30 Pro phones were slightly smaller in battery capacity but similar in overall CPU and memory performance. The displays were quite different however (OLED vs AMOLED, and 60Hz vs 90Hz), and were generally much brighter on the older phones. Neither models supported 5G. The older phones were Android 10 as well, and Huawei is known for its aggressive power management, often killing apps shortly after losing focus.

My current workflow is more minimalist than ever before, yet battery consumption has been quite a bit higher with the Pixel 7, regardless of whether it's stock Android or GOS (with and without Play Services).

I would typically go to bed with 60%+ battery remaining (and this with two and three year old phones), but I am now consistently ending the day with around 35-50%.

I can only surmise it is due to the differences in OEM Android optimizations, the display panel, and/or the modem, but obviously I can't make any meaningful comparisons due to the variation of hardware.

Thankfully, I'm not needing to reach for a charge cable before the end of the day or anything. I could probably recoup some of the increased battery loss by simply disabling the 90Hz refresh rate. Setting the preferred network type hasn't had a noticeable effect though, but that may be due to using a carrier which only supports 3G/LTE anyway.

warnod

My Pixel 7 Pro with GrapheneOS can last for more than 2 days on 4G and WiFi connectivity with "always on" VPN. With a very heavy usage of NewPipe (YouTube private client), mixed use of MS Teams and Signal video calls the battery will still last a full day. I hope you can resolve your issue in full soon.

mythodical this worked for my P7.

LeaveMeAlone I've had a similar experience with Samsung phones. The S20 has a slightly smaller battery (3880mAh) and a higher refresh rate (if enabled), but I've generally found them to have poor battery performance regardless.

Reducing the refresh rate seems to be the single most significant factor for me. I went to sleep last night with 79% capacity remaining, which was a first!

warnod I discovered that I could double the battery life of my Pixel 6 by keeping it in Airplane Mode.

After 50+ installation of custom ROM-s in my life every single one of them had shit battery life first few days, every time! Same like every big update wrecks battery life for a few hours after installation.

I just bought Pixel 6a after using iPhone for many years and I put GrapheneOS within few hours. First few it drained battery super quick, even quicker than I thought it would. I thought that something was wrong. Now I'm on fifth day and battery life is great, just as good as iPhone 13 I own.

Use it a few days and then judge.

I would start with a clean install, and absolutely nothing added.

Use this for a few days, and see if it eats the battery

warnod

I can tell you, when I got my pixel 6a, I immediately put GOS on it, didn't even use it for half an hour without. After that I had the phone in airplane mode for a few weeks before I started using it.

I am coming from a 5 year old LG V30 with a 3000mAh battery (original ROM). I used the phone very lightly compared to other people, and charged it once maybe every 4-5 days on average in these 5 years.

Comparing the two of them in airplane mode (even though I didn't actually test with careful attention) I felt that the LG one actually lasts equal or maybe longer. That's just ridiculous. This is WITH GOS on the pixel which means it probably uses less battery than default.

So, indeed I feel like this is the worst battery life I've experienced on a any phone ever. The Tensor is really garbage in this area.

Also yes, the cellular network connection double the battery use. Wifi doubles that too.

I'm a light user, but I feel if I was the regular user who has their wifi and bluetooth on all the time and actually "uses" his phone for "things", then this phone won't make it a full day.

Just a note, the battery will live longer than 500 cycles. Just treat the battery right. Read this post.

pixel 7 pro with latest graphene OS terrible battery life, is there any way to disable tensor chip or whatever causing the battery drain?

stock rom lasts 2 days, graphene os 12 hours

grapheneman You're doing something weird, because most people observe the opposite. GrapheneOS is way better on battery. Especially if you do without the gcrap.