Battery Monitor after a full Charge.

AssClowns

I heard great things about the OS. I shopped around bought a pixel 6 and installed GrapheneOS. Ever since battery indicator is stuck at 100% after a full charge and only drops a little after subsequent reboots. It also seems to lose all the previous data on usage. When this happens and it mentions information not being available. Is there a fix to recover this basic functionality? It’s kind of heart breaking to do all this work to get here and not have basic usage that I had since flip phones. Any suggestions?

matchboxbananasynergy

To be clear, what do you mean when you say battery indicator, can you provide a screenshot?

You can find steps to attach a screenshot in the forum here:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/72-discussion-forum-markdown-syntax-and-image-support-via-our-media-proxy

The battery usage screen isn't very reliable, but that is an AOSP thing, not something that GrapheneOS has changed. Though it is expected that battery usage data is reset after a full charge.

AssClowns

The power indicator stays 100 percent for hours at a time without showing loss of percentage. Only after multiple reboots of the phone does the battery indicator go down. Its crazy to run the phone for a couple of hours and have the battery monitor not indicate usage drain or the apps & functions that are used.

Blastoidea

AssClowns
Why are you doing “multiple reboots”, what did I miss?

matchboxbananasynergy

That is not expected behavior. We haven't heard that from anyone else. It may be an upstream issue, but I don't know what would trigger it.

Did you use Stock OS for any length of time before flashing GrapheneOS? If yes, did you notice whether the behavior was the same there?

AssClowns

matchboxbananasynergy
Only had it for a little while. The stock Google Os seemed fine. There are lots of post on the internet talking about similar issues with pixels going back a number of generations though.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/133677868/pixel-6-battery-percentage-gets-stuck-at-100?hl=en
I am not sure what the solution is. It feels really crappy giving up so much to get GrapheneOS just to have this second rate experience.

AssClowns

Blastoidea
Its the only way to have the battery level drop below 100pecent charge indication.

matchboxbananasynergy

Judging from the link you have provided, it sounds like a Pixel thing, and not a GrapheneOS thing. I'm not sure what we can do to help.

It may be an issue of something in the hardware being off. Did you buy the phone new? If so, you might want to think about returning it/getting it replaced.

AssClowns

matchboxbananasynergy
The posts refer to similar issues on pixels 2,4,5 and 6. I am not a situation were I can return it. It also did not appear to have this issue on stock. Is there a way to limit the charge so it does not reach 100 percent?

Oggyo

I can share similar behaviour. I bought two new P6a from Google web-store. Mine went to GrapheneOS immediately, when the other stayed with the stock OS (my son is not GOS ready, yet).
I rarely charge it fully to 100% but when I do, it shows 100% for an hour/two and then the battery starts decreasing, no reboots needed.
And this happens on both phones - GrapheneOS and Google stock OS, too. So, not GrapheneOS related.

joyful

Are you sure you're waiting long enough for the thing to drop? I have my wifi and bluetooth and gps off, so my battery life is really good. It takes it maybe seven or eight hours to drop down to 99% when I fully charge it, and I have standby time of over a week. I probably could go ten days without charging if I don't use the phone much. The stock operating system uses a lot of juice.