There are too many variables that go into battery usage to get any meaningful insight. Different apps, cpus, screen brightness/refresh rates, active radios, etc... It's an endless list. Best you can do is compare with someone you know with the same model who has similar usage patterns. Good luck.
My Motorola G Power lasts for almost two days of regular use. I love not having to worry about running out of juice!
@yoz batteries have evolved a lot lately, with those having 5000 mAh or more being more common. My phone has one and it lasts me well over 1 day with moderate use. Previous one had just bellow 3000 mAh and I was happy if I got a full day with it while trying to get the most spartan on it.
That's true
Fold3 5G, I charge to <85% nightly and it almost always lasts me all day from 6am to 11pm.
I'm not a super light user, but my screen on time is nowhere near yours, 7 and a half hours screen on seems crazy high to me. I usually come out at 3 to 4 hours.
I keep the screen brightness down, wifi and bluetooth are automatically on and off only when needed, very rarely receive phone calls or video chats so that's saving quite a bit.
All my previous phones had 3-4hours screen on time and battery might last for 12 hours max. Now if I don't use my phone much , little browsing and calls then my phone lasts around 4 days on a single charge. Its crazy !!
Depends. Running in 90hz mode and on 5G, dual sim with low connectivity on one sim, 6-7hrs at best. Setting the refresh rate to 60hz and turning off 5G and the 2nd sim, it can be an hour or 2 higher and easily all-day battery life with some to last the next day.
This is my Fold 5, battery reliably lasts a 16hr wake to sleep day.
I've got a pixel 7a. Disabled all trackers, custom launcher, with heavy use I get over 24 hours even using 5g.
I've got a pixel 7a, and it lasts me a 10 hour shift at work with Spotify playing constantly. Which is all I need it to do.
Hard to believe with stock. Share a screenshot
It's not stock, I have a custom launcher (Nova) and DuckDuckGo browser installed which blocks all trackers in other apps (tracking is pretty egregious in this phone and without tracking blocking I wouldn't recommend it)
Lol sure whatever makes you happy.
I have a Pixel 7 running Nova, not got the DDG browser, but 24 hours is a fantasy. I plug in twice a day, bare minimum. BARE minimum.
Yeah, 24 hours of SoT is impossible with Pixel 7 series. I mean, the idle drain alone will kill my 7a in 48 hours, and any amount of active use will just make it worse.
This is after two days of sporadically checking email and taking a few photos (about 40 total, no video) on stock Android 14:
Try blocking trackers. You will be surprised at how much of a difference it makes to battery life, and horrified at how much you're being tracked.
Yesterday I was at 50% after 24 hours, though admittedly not the heaviest use in the last 24 hrs.
Done, I've downloaded it and will test drive it for a couple weeks, thanks!
You might find the occasional app that it 'breaks' (which you can then disable for) but generally everything works as intended. Apps I've disabled blocking for are:
firefox
google play store
home
signal
banking / credit card
For the longevity of the battery, you shouldn't let it get that low. Lithium batteries really dislike being below 10% or above 90%. Ideally you should charge above 30% and stop at 90%. Samsung even offers a feature for when to stop charging. Apple has a battery health report that tells you how well it's performing compared to when it was new. Fast charging above 30W is hard on health too. You should use a charger below that. I personally use an 18W charger.
You may have long battery life now, but it won't last with poor battery hygiene. I've personally ruined batteries in the past in 3-4 years to where the phone can no longer accurately read the battery level. People I know have done it too. My last phone lasted a whopping 6 years before the battery finally started screwing up.
Sony also has a feature that will limit battery top-up, called "Battery care". You can set it to limit charging to 90% or 80% (they recommend 80%), it has several modes (e.g. always vs "smart" that will resume charging if you replug), and it will go to 100% once in a while just to check your max capacity.
What's the secret?
Mine changed after installing evoX ROM. Before it used to be really shitty battery backup.
I charge my phone over night with battery protection limiting charge to 85%. Then one hour before my alarm, it tops up to 100%. The phone claims that from there it would last 30 hours which is above the advertised time for the model. But it seems congruent as I rarely go to bed with less than 30%-40% and I'm not a light user. I'm usually texting and browsing internet all day, Bluetooth and GPS location turned on continuously. Batteries have come a long way the past decade.
I charge my phone over night with battery protection limiting charge to 85%.
How do you go about that? Is it a setting with your phone, or...?
It's a setting with Samsung. But I guess some other Android vendors have some similar stuff. Allegedly limiting the time the battery spends on the extremes, nearly empty and completely full, is supposed to help with battery longevity. It's a heavily technical and disputed topic. But they bothered to put it there and it doesn't hurt anything, so I use it.
Sony pioneered that one, I reckon over the lifespan of a phone - especially since people tend to keep phones longer these days - it does make a difference. I'm glad other manufacturers have done the same (I believe Apple has something similar, and maybe one other Android OEM).
My Xperia 1ii (mid 2020) still reports around 83% of its original battery capacity, and it's been plugged in overnight more or less every day of its life.
I have an xperia 5ii. Only charged to 80% of capacity daily for its entire existence (may 2021 when I got it)
Accubattery on 100% of the time, 151 charge cycles. Battery at 75%.... sony might have decent tech but their physical batteries suck ass. My horrible HMD Nokia's battery lasted much longer with many more charge cycles.
Plus the whole only 2 years of any updates thing...
Want to love sony phones, love the camera software and niche features, but they just completely drop the ball.
Have you tried fully discharging it? It depends on the specific battery management system in your phone, but my Pixel 7a doesn't take being kept at 30-60% battery too well and loses track of the actual charge level. AccuBattery was reporting about 80% capacity on it after two months.
Then I decided to let it fully discharge and found out that the thing just refuses to die at 1% - that last percent took me about the same time to discharge as going from 20% to 1%. And now I'm back to 98% capacity reported by AccuBattery and the actual battery life has improved noticeably.
Interesting, I will try this. I have only let it die like twice. Restart regularily, but not letting it die. I don't use my phone enough maybe 😅 SoT still isn't bad though at a reported 6 hours from accubattery. 80% of what it was at start.
Aah, thanks! Was hoping it might've been a third-party app or something.
I'm always on a VPN usually on WiFi unless I'm driving. I get a day or so if I'm not working and not taking a lot of photos, and since my phone is usually plugged in while I'm driving around for work I don't charge it at night except for weekends.
I should probably plug it in at night, does anyone know how the feature that does a slow charge until your alarm is scheduled to go off in the morning affects battery longevity?
13h screen on time if I can trust accubattery
My Fairphone 4 I generally charge every second night.
Please share a screenshot
For me it depends greatly on usage, but currently I drain about half battery in a day, and a full charge will (with light to medium usage) last me two full days.
Phone is a Oneplus 5T, though I replaced the battery two years ago.
Damn which ROM ?
Stock LG V60 on A13.
My Poco X3 NFC lasts 8 to 10 hours of continuous use with 80Hz
There are too many variables that go into battery usage to get any meaningful insight. Different apps, cpus, screen brightness/refresh rates, active radios, etc... It's an endless list. Best you can do is compare with someone you know with the same model who has similar usage patterns. Good luck.
My Motorola G Power lasts for almost two days of regular use. I love not having to worry about running out of juice!
Not a very powerful phone, but it meets my needs.
@yoz batteries have evolved a lot lately, with those having 5000 mAh or more being more common. My phone has one and it lasts me well over 1 day with moderate use. Previous one had just bellow 3000 mAh and I was happy if I got a full day with it while trying to get the most spartan on it.
That's true
Fold3 5G, I charge to <85% nightly and it almost always lasts me all day from 6am to 11pm.
I'm not a super light user, but my screen on time is nowhere near yours, 7 and a half hours screen on seems crazy high to me. I usually come out at 3 to 4 hours.
I keep the screen brightness down, wifi and bluetooth are automatically on and off only when needed, very rarely receive phone calls or video chats so that's saving quite a bit.
All my previous phones had 3-4hours screen on time and battery might last for 12 hours max. Now if I don't use my phone much , little browsing and calls then my phone lasts around 4 days on a single charge. Its crazy !!
Depends. Running in 90hz mode and on 5G, dual sim with low connectivity on one sim, 6-7hrs at best. Setting the refresh rate to 60hz and turning off 5G and the 2nd sim, it can be an hour or 2 higher and easily all-day battery life with some to last the next day.
This is my Fold 5, battery reliably lasts a 16hr wake to sleep day.
I've got a pixel 7a. Disabled all trackers, custom launcher, with heavy use I get over 24 hours even using 5g.
I've got a pixel 7a, and it lasts me a 10 hour shift at work with Spotify playing constantly. Which is all I need it to do.
Hard to believe with stock. Share a screenshot
It's not stock, I have a custom launcher (Nova) and DuckDuckGo browser installed which blocks all trackers in other apps (tracking is pretty egregious in this phone and without tracking blocking I wouldn't recommend it)
Lol sure whatever makes you happy.
I have a Pixel 7 running Nova, not got the DDG browser, but 24 hours is a fantasy. I plug in twice a day, bare minimum. BARE minimum.
Yeah, 24 hours of SoT is impossible with Pixel 7 series. I mean, the idle drain alone will kill my 7a in 48 hours, and any amount of active use will just make it worse.
This is after two days of sporadically checking email and taking a few photos (about 40 total, no video) on stock Android 14:
Try blocking trackers. You will be surprised at how much of a difference it makes to battery life, and horrified at how much you're being tracked.
Yesterday I was at 50% after 24 hours, though admittedly not the heaviest use in the last 24 hrs.
Done, I've downloaded it and will test drive it for a couple weeks, thanks!
You might find the occasional app that it 'breaks' (which you can then disable for) but generally everything works as intended. Apps I've disabled blocking for are:
For the longevity of the battery, you shouldn't let it get that low. Lithium batteries really dislike being below 10% or above 90%. Ideally you should charge above 30% and stop at 90%. Samsung even offers a feature for when to stop charging. Apple has a battery health report that tells you how well it's performing compared to when it was new. Fast charging above 30W is hard on health too. You should use a charger below that. I personally use an 18W charger.
You may have long battery life now, but it won't last with poor battery hygiene. I've personally ruined batteries in the past in 3-4 years to where the phone can no longer accurately read the battery level. People I know have done it too. My last phone lasted a whopping 6 years before the battery finally started screwing up.
Sony also has a feature that will limit battery top-up, called "Battery care". You can set it to limit charging to 90% or 80% (they recommend 80%), it has several modes (e.g. always vs "smart" that will resume charging if you replug), and it will go to 100% once in a while just to check your max capacity.
What's the secret?
Mine changed after installing evoX ROM. Before it used to be really shitty battery backup.
I charge my phone over night with battery protection limiting charge to 85%. Then one hour before my alarm, it tops up to 100%. The phone claims that from there it would last 30 hours which is above the advertised time for the model. But it seems congruent as I rarely go to bed with less than 30%-40% and I'm not a light user. I'm usually texting and browsing internet all day, Bluetooth and GPS location turned on continuously. Batteries have come a long way the past decade.
How do you go about that? Is it a setting with your phone, or...?
It's a setting with Samsung. But I guess some other Android vendors have some similar stuff. Allegedly limiting the time the battery spends on the extremes, nearly empty and completely full, is supposed to help with battery longevity. It's a heavily technical and disputed topic. But they bothered to put it there and it doesn't hurt anything, so I use it.
Sony pioneered that one, I reckon over the lifespan of a phone - especially since people tend to keep phones longer these days - it does make a difference. I'm glad other manufacturers have done the same (I believe Apple has something similar, and maybe one other Android OEM).
My Xperia 1ii (mid 2020) still reports around 83% of its original battery capacity, and it's been plugged in overnight more or less every day of its life.
I have an xperia 5ii. Only charged to 80% of capacity daily for its entire existence (may 2021 when I got it)
Accubattery on 100% of the time, 151 charge cycles. Battery at 75%.... sony might have decent tech but their physical batteries suck ass. My horrible HMD Nokia's battery lasted much longer with many more charge cycles.
Plus the whole only 2 years of any updates thing...
Want to love sony phones, love the camera software and niche features, but they just completely drop the ball.
Have you tried fully discharging it? It depends on the specific battery management system in your phone, but my Pixel 7a doesn't take being kept at 30-60% battery too well and loses track of the actual charge level. AccuBattery was reporting about 80% capacity on it after two months.
Then I decided to let it fully discharge and found out that the thing just refuses to die at 1% - that last percent took me about the same time to discharge as going from 20% to 1%. And now I'm back to 98% capacity reported by AccuBattery and the actual battery life has improved noticeably.
Interesting, I will try this. I have only let it die like twice. Restart regularily, but not letting it die. I don't use my phone enough maybe 😅 SoT still isn't bad though at a reported 6 hours from accubattery. 80% of what it was at start.
Aah, thanks! Was hoping it might've been a third-party app or something.
I'm always on a VPN usually on WiFi unless I'm driving. I get a day or so if I'm not working and not taking a lot of photos, and since my phone is usually plugged in while I'm driving around for work I don't charge it at night except for weekends.
I should probably plug it in at night, does anyone know how the feature that does a slow charge until your alarm is scheduled to go off in the morning affects battery longevity?
13h screen on time if I can trust accubattery
My Fairphone 4 I generally charge every second night.
Please share a screenshot
For me it depends greatly on usage, but currently I drain about half battery in a day, and a full charge will (with light to medium usage) last me two full days.
Phone is a Oneplus 5T, though I replaced the battery two years ago.
Damn which ROM ?
Stock LG V60 on A13.
My Poco X3 NFC lasts 8 to 10 hours of continuous use with 80Hz
Custom ROM?
Yes, Evolution X.
Lol same