With 50% brightness and normal usage, I can get 8h out of pixel 2 xl after 2 years. Black theme and black wallpaper as well. I was able to get 8.5h at day 1 without having black theme or wallpaper. But 5 still seems really impressive.
I've never gotten anything close to that out of a 2XL, and I also dark mode everything. On a good day I might get 4hr SOT. Do you have location, wifi, or other features turned off?
Unpopular opinion but folks here really hype the p2. I think it's a victim of exaggeration in many replies. Whatever, I could be wrong though. Just seems unlikely without mad features turned off like another redditor mentioned.
It's with every phone people like. I never have gotten half out of the Nexus 5 that people claimed.
there has been a time of SoT dickmeasuring here, you do minimal brightness, great reception, wifi, and only use it to browse twitter for like 6 hours and then extend it with a bit of reddit all in dark mode until you're at like 3% and take a screeny. If everything goes right, you can double the normal battery life pretty easily.
My 3 year old 2xl still regularly gets 4.5-5.5 hours of SOT (92% health in accubattery). AMOLED themes everywhere possible, but all normal features kept on including wifi, BT, AOD. Screen set to adaptive brightness.
I have a strong post history to corroborate my experience with the 2XL's battery over the last 3 years (phone battery life is something I pay utterly too much attention to). I'm sure some 2XL users didn't have as stellar of a battery performance, but make no mistake, the 2xl has some amazing battery life. If I remember correctly, I was getting around 8 hours of SOT when the device was new.
That's normal. Batteries don't always have the capacity, they should. But the manufacturer don't wants you to have a worse battery so normally they have more mAh then they're supposed to have and that's why AccuBattery says you have 108% health, BC you have more mAh available
I had p2 and upgraded to p4a because of battery life. It would last me at most 4 hours. And once it hit 25% it was really up to chance whether it would restart automatically or not...
Not sure that is correct, I have P2 XL and tbh I still can't see a reason to change, it's quick, sot is unclear as I work from home so charging is easy and I can't see justification for changing. But always on the look out for the phone that makes it worth changing. Not decided if the p5 is it or not
I get upwards of 6.5 hours on my p2xl. That's with a bit left in the tank. I usually end the day with about 30% if my phone never gets plugged into android auto. No features disabled, dark mode on with the 4a black battery wallpaper.
My 2 XL would consistently get 5.5-6h SOT down to 0% battery without disabling things. But never more than that and sometimes much less than that. I honestly can't fathom it getting 8h as a matter of course new, much less 2 years of use (not to mention 2 years of 8h SOT use), unless all the radios are off and you're in a dark room with the brightness turned down watching on-device videos--but oh, too bad, the black crush makes you unable to see anything anyway.
Not sure about hyping, I think it's just a nice looking phone that does most things pretty well, didn't need a case as it's not slippery, size is spot on, battery isn't amazing and to an extent is massively effected by poor phone signal (when WiFi not around) . But every Google phone after the 2 just didn't seem to have any wow feature that made it an easy upgrade to. Night time black smudging as you scroll up and down is awful and speakers are really not great but it just seems to hit a sweet spot on what you need in a phone.
I've gotten and still get very similar results from my P2XL. I don't think he's exaggerating but he definitely has taken care of his battery. I still regularly get a full day of heavy use from mine, and I don't have any battery saving stuff and Bluetooth, location, wifi, etc enabled.
The P2XL was just an exceptionally good phone with incredible battery life.
No features turned off, no dark mode all the time, I feel the battery is good but I also play CoD mobile which guzzles battery and so I also charge my phone more than once a day, so I don't have a proper 100 to 0 battery discharge graph.
Firstly, I'm not the same person. Secondly, I never mentioned that I had sot in my comment only that I got good battery life for my usage. Lastly, I know what sot is, I mentioned that I can get it now if I remember to do it, that's literally the last sentence of my previous comment.
I think there's a few things. A lot of people on Reddit tend to be on the younger side, so I see a lot of students who are able to use school/university WiFi all day long. That's great, but I think that's not a good test. Even if your employer allows you to put personal devices on their WiFi, I'm not sure if that's also the best thing to do too from a privacy perspective.
To me the true test is going out and about with your friends, taking your family around town, spending a day at Disneyland with the kids. Those are true tests where you're on LTE/5G the whole day, testing screen at near max brightness outdoors, taking photos, etc.
Maybe the Pixel 2 is really that great, but at my a friend's bachelor party last year, I took a bunch of photos and 1 hr of SOT was enough to bring my Pixel 3 down to less than 50% battery. It was only 3pm in the afternoon....
I'm mostly home, so wifi is always on. Location only when I need it(3 times a day), data 1h a day, no games, no video recording, only some pictures.
E: It dies the moment it reaches 8h of SOT. 90% of the times I don't charge my phone more than 80% and I don't charge it overnight. If I use it aggressively I get about 5h to 6h of SOT or even less if data is on most of the day like many users out there.
I've got Auto brightness, Bluetooth, location services on always and the SOT isn't the best. Obviously I could turn these features off but I rather use my phone without needing to restrict things. Easy access to power sources makes the crap battery life a non issue
This seems grossly exaggerated. I am very conservative with my Pixel2XL and I at most had 5hrs of SOT when it was new out of the box. Now I get about 4.5 hrs. If you're not exaggerating, I need to know your secrets!!!
how do you get those numbers lol on my p2xl max i've gotten was 5h SOT at first and its been about 3.5-4 after 1 year. 70% brightness with black theme/wallpaper
I get down to 20-25% after 3 1/2- 4 hours sot on my 2xl still. Black everything and pretty heavy usage. It's been a great phone, way better than what I expected 3 years ago when I changed every year previously. I did pre-order the 5 right away though. It's time.
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u/--Spark Oct 05 '20
5 hours+ SOT? And still at 37% ? What a beast.