Official 8.1 is smooth and great battery life - Google Pixel XL Guides, News, & Discussion

Just got the official 8.1 system update yesterday from the Android beta program on my pixel xl 128gb. It seems to be running smooth no errors so far.

It sure is, except it broke the most useful feature I have, the ability to edit APN. This in turn kills unlimited hotspot with mobile.

Zmydust said:
It sure is, except it broke the most useful feature I have, the ability to edit APN. This in turn kills unlimited hotspot with mobile.
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APN edits are possible in 8.1, just as they were before.

kboya said:
APN edits are possible in 8.1, just as they were before.
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Not if your pixel is connected to tmobile

How are all of you getting good battery life, mine is horrible after the 8.1 update, surviving with 4 hrs SOT with a ton of battery saving apps

kingbri said:
How are all of you getting good battery life, mine is horrible after the 8.1 update, surviving with 4 hrs SOT with a ton of battery saving apps
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Get rid of the battery saving apps

What about my custom kernel
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kingbri said:
What about my custom kernel
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I myself am rooted

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Possible new lg g2 owner ,need advice.

Thinking about picking up a 2nd hand lg g2 T-Mobile phone and was wondering what you guys with this phone think of it.
1.How is the battery life? I use my current phone a lot for web use and I'm looking for something that will give me good battery life .
2.How is the custom ROM choices for this phone?
russ722 said:
Thinking about picking up a 2nd hand lg g2 T-Mobile phone and was wondering what you guys with this phone think of it.
Also have a D801 / T-mobile and it has been a great phone.
1.How is the battery life? I use my current phone a lot for web use and I'm looking for something that will give me good battery life .
Very good battery life here, but I am careful with managing the screen back light and adjusting it to deal with the ambient light conditions (not brighter than I need it to be).
2.How is the custom ROM choices for this phone?
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I tried 2 or 3 and settled on CloudyG3 2.0 (KK 4.4.2 IIRC).
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The phone is awesome.....cloudy 3.3 lollipop + Dorimanx kernel....performance and battery are smooth
Thanks guys went ahead and ordered it , now I gotta download the rooting tools and such.
russ722 said:
Thanks guys went ahead and ordered it , now I gotta download the rooting tools and such.
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how much were you able to get this phone , ive found one for 100Euros and dunno if its worth it
Factory refurbished with 30 day warranty on eBay for 79.99
russ722 said:
Factory refurbished with 30 day warranty on eBay for 79.99
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Are you aware that you may have phone with cheap, chinese display, for example?
How's that
Key word: refurbished. Unless you are 100% sure it's from manufacturer.
So how do I tell?
The phone is great, battery life is not that good though(stock lollipop). Also the device kida heats.
Try Aicp Rom current getting 6-9 hours SOT over day and a half usage.
Marshmallow so up to date as well
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Treboeth said:
Try Aicp Rom current getting 6-9 hours SOT over day and a half usage.
Marshmallow so up to date as well
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Marshmallow?
Got a link? Thanks.
Marshmallow =Android 6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/rom-aicp-11-0-mm-6-0-1r10-nightlies-t3305324
post 197 has my screenshots of battery life.
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Marshmallow?
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My phone on this ROM does not overheat lag or FC battery life is pretty good.
Makes an old phone worth keeping
Wael007 said:
The phone is awesome.....cloudy 3.3 lollipop + Dorimanx kernel....performance and battery are smooth
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Marshmallow =Android 6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/rom-aicp-11-0-mm-6-0-1r10-nightlies-t3305324
post 197 has my screenshots of battery life.
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My phone on this ROM does not overheat lag or FC battery life is pretty good.
Makes an old phone worth keeping
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Trird flashy this and got a black screen.any idea why?
Treboeth said:
Marshmallow =Android 6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/rom-aicp-11-0-mm-6-0-1r10-nightlies-t3305324
post 197 has my screenshots of battery life.
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My phone on this ROM does not overheat lag or FC battery life is pretty good.
Makes an old phone worth keeping
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Tried flashung and get black screen,what did i do wrong?
Treboeth said:
Marshmallow =Android 6
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/development/rom-aicp-11-0-mm-6-0-1r10-nightlies-t3305324
post 197 has my screenshots of battery life.
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My phone on this ROM does not overheat lag or FC battery life is pretty good.
Makes an old phone worth keeping
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Nice, I'm gonna try this ROM.
russ722 said:
Tried flashung and get black screen,what did i do wrong?
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Did you follow the steps in the OP?
Did you install the latest Twrp and bootstacks.
Yep kitkat bootstack

Official 7.0 battery life worse or better

Would like to know if everyone's experiencing better or worse battery life on mm vs nougat official release
I was only on mm for a few days but I'd say better...
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Can't complain at all.
For me, worse!
Hoping for an fix update....
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Much better for me
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Way way way better for me than with 6.0.1 (stock and N7 port)
Pichulec said:
Can't complain at all.
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sorry what beautiful theme are u using ? xD
im using 7.0 [UK firmware] and battery life is great, i have almost 30h on 100%
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Pichulec said:
Can't complain at all.
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rooted?
Talentooman said:
im using 7.0 [UK firmware] and battery life is great, i have almost 30h on 100%
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rooted?
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Nope
Pichulec said:
Nope
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i had 29h on 100% battery, how u have 23,30h on 50%haha :/
Talentooman said:
i had 29h on 100% battery, how u have 23,30h on 50%haha :/
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Because i have 0% drain in the night, and I'm hardly use the phone recently. Working night shifts
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ilirpirani said:
sorry what beautiful theme are u using ? xD
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DarkEmerald
Still waiting for the update
Yesterdays results:
Could be worse, but definitely can be improved if Android OS can be controlled...
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This is my battery usage from two different instances, battery life has been very good to me on Nougat, however a week ago or so I had to factory reset my phone because "media server" drained my battery very quickly. These screenshots are made after that factory reset.
Can't complain.. it's absolutely better than MM
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Wesley0104 said:
This is my battery usage from two different instances, battery life has been very good to me on Nougat, however a week ago or so I had to factory reset my phone because "media server" drained my battery very quickly. These screenshots are made after that factory reset.
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thats insane!!, did you figure out what was causing the media issue, have you disabled anything with package disabler? if so what , i would love to get what your getting
Shuthefrontdoor said:
thats insane!!, did you figure out what was causing the media issue, have you disabled anything with package disabler? if so what , i would love to get what your getting
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No unfortunately not. But after a factory reset it never came back in such a huge way, before the factory reset it suddenly appeared on top in the usage list with 45% usage, dropping my phone's battery from 90% to 40% in less than 1 hour.
My settings aren't really special, I only use sync when my phone is charging (regular charging, I don't ever use fast charging), I don't use AOD, Location or NFC, and I have disabled pretty much everything that can be disabled through the phone itself, without using a package disabler. Also, my screen resolution is on 720P.
I love the batterylife on my s7 edge with 7.0 btu. It's way better then mm
I am getting good battery life with Nogat
Archmag3 said:
I am getting good battery life with Nogat
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hi all, has anyone seen this: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s7_edge_battery_life_on_android_70-blog-23204.php
I don't know what to do now, I am thinking to disable the autoupdate....

Stock OnePlus 5 Android Pie Fast Battery Drain

Hey!
I got my stock OP5 updated into Android Pie last January 26, 2019. After receiving the update and updating it, I seem to notice that the battery drains faster. Anyone experiencing similar?
I honestly haven't but I ended up doing a full wipe attempting to fix a problem that was actually hardware related. Have you tried clearing all cache in recovery?
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No, not yet. Also, I can't do it right now since I have lot of files and important apps. I will let you know if I do it.
Here is an update on my battery status.
When you get the chance, I suggest you do a backup and do a full wipe. Stuff like this is rather common when you do a upgrade of the OS and this is why everyone here recommend a clean install when it comes to major updates.
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No, not yet. Also, I can't do it right now since I have lot of files and important apps. I will let you know if I do it.
Here is an update on my battery status.
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Clearing just the cache (not data) won't lose any of your files. I don't think you lose anything really if I remember right. It may not fix the problem but it can't hurt to try. It should probably be done every now and then anyway.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Haven't really tried your suggestions yet since I am really busy these days.
Here is an update. My status is improving.
What happened was my battery was totally drained, 0 and off.l, when I woke up. Then, I charged it to 100 then turned it on. After that, my battery became tolerable.
Hi
Can I suggest you to download the naptime app from PlayStore (by Francisco franco?). It's just about to open the app ,activate it ,go down and choose which apps you won't put on sleep like Gmail/ WhatsApp/ messenger or whatever you need always up. All the other processes will be putted to sleep. Francisco Franco is the king of this things . Don't need to be rooted. You can have a Go. Today after use it a lot,I still 33% left. Hope it's help as the op5 is still a so great phone but for business they need to put it down.
Battery drain after pie update
Hi I'm currently using oneplus 5. I'm facing battery drain issue. When i charge my phone to 100 percent it starts. Draining first 8 percent very quickly. Almost in 10 mins. And after that it works normally. I'm getting just 5-5:30 hrs of sot with moderate usage. Its quite frustrating. Kindly someone help me with this. I've cleared my cache but no luck with it.
Paracha93 said:
Hi I'm currently using oneplus 5. I'm facing battery drain issue. When i charge my phone to 100 percent it starts. Draining first 8 percent very quickly. Almost in 10 mins. And after that it works normally. I'm getting just 5-5:30 hrs of sot with moderate usage. Its quite frustrating. Kindly someone help me with this. I've cleared my cache but no luck with it.
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If you are rooted. Install better battery stats and upload your summary, kernel wakelock, partial wakelock and alarms here. Do remember to keep better battery stats unoptimsed.
No I'm not. I'm on stock pie. Now what to do?
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sleepwalking0593 said:
If you are rooted. Install better battery stats and upload your summary, kernel wakelock, partial wakelock and alarms here. Do remember to keep better battery stats unoptimsed.
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No I've not rooted my phone. Its running on stock os. What should i do now?
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No I'm not. I'm on stock pie. Now what to do?
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No I've not rooted my phone. Its running on stock os. What should i do now?
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Under location. Find scanning and disable wifi and Bluetooth scanning if you haven't done that already. Disable Bluetooth, NFC, hotspot, location when you are not using them.
sleepwalking0593 said:
Under location. Find scanning and disable wifi and Bluetooth scanning if you haven't done that already. Disable Bluetooth, NFC, hotspot, location when you are not using them.
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Okay. I'll do that. And will update here
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Okay. I'll do that. And will update here
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https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...ting-tips-how-to-improve-battery-life.556988/
Look at these steps too. Do those if you can find them. Some may not be available maybe related to old android version
sleepwalking0593 said:
https://forums.oneplus.com/threads/...ting-tips-how-to-improve-battery-life.556988/
Look at these steps too. Do those if you can find them. Some may not be available maybe related to old android version
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Thanks mate. I think my phone battery will work fine now.

Screen on time

It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Waiting for this. Someone pls share! Very curious how power efficient sd 675 is compared to 660
Great screen on time.
I got around 8hrs of screen on time :victory: . Don't have the screenshot at the moment though. After the recent update all the bugs are solved except the most annoying one... :crying: The earpiece cracking sound on call. Xiaomi confirmed me that they will surely going to solve the issue within a week but don't really know when they really will.
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I got around 8hrs of screen on time :victory: . Don't have the screenshot at the moment though. After the recent update all the bugs are solved except the most annoying one... :crying: The earpiece cracking sound on call. Xiaomi confirmed me that they will surely going to solve the issue within a week but don't really know when they really will.
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Ty!
Here is the screenshot. :good: :laugh:
Here's mine.
Its a battery beast as well.
http://imgur.com/a/0atXZNh
Here's mine..
Ty all! Looks like it can average 8-10hrs on moderate/heavy usage and 10+ on light like most of its predecessors except with a noticeably way better gpu. Probably the perfect mid range soc that most users can be satisfied with
Screen on time is only 7 hour in normal use and also high ideal drain (restricted all app in background also).
There are some screenshots in telegram channel if anyone is interested in seeing some sot. But I know xda doesn't allow linking it here. Don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about it at all
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Here's mine..
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Which theme and font are you using?
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arnabdraco said:
Here is the screenshot. :good: :laugh:
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Which update were you running during this sot?
Have you updated after that?
[email protected] said:
Which theme and font are you using?
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Which update were you running during this sot?
Have you updated after that?
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I was running 10.2.7.0 at that time.
anon1135 said:
There are some screenshots in telegram channel if anyone is interested in seeing some sot. But I know xda doesn't allow linking it here. Don't even know if I'm allowed to talk about it at all
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Hello Which channel is it ?
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arnabdraco said:
I was running 10.2.7.0 at that time.
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Oh okay.so have you updated now and how's it now?
Apart from sot, do you face any bugs?
In my case I have low wifi strength issue. I've confirmed by comparing the range with my old redmi note 3.
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Hello Which channel is it ?
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Oh okay.so have you updated now and how's it now?
Apart from sot, do you face any bugs?
In my case I have low wifi strength issue. I've confirmed by comparing the range with my old redmi note 3.
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no bugs as for me till I got the latest update.
arnabdraco said:
no bugs as for me till I got the latest update.
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Okay, I request you to please test your wifi range by comparing with a different phone, preferably a Xiaomi device.
Wrong device
I get 4 hours. My battery is being drained by littarly everything.
Amazing SOT with mild usage. MIUI 10.3.10.
AbhiAbhiBisht said:
Amazing SOT with mild usage. MIUI 10.3.10.
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I am getting 12 hours SOT consistently on xiaomi.eu beta rom
sidS6 said:
I am getting 12 hours SOT consistently on xiaomi.eu beta rom
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Nice! On mobile data or Wi-Fi?

improve battery life and memory management

So since there are a lot of mods available to improve battery life and memory management as well i thought it would be a good idea to have a place to talk about what fellow users are using on their daily driver to improve the most important things on pixel lol
Magisk modules scripts kernels build prop edits and you get the idea
So lets begin
for me, any custom ROM's battery life is better than stock ROM, the usual SOT is 7.5-8 hrs on average. If yours is much worse, the battery seems to be replaced.
As for the management issue, you can flash the custom kernel and expand the volume of ZRAM which is a conception of virtual.
jayxiao171735 said:
for me, any custom ROM's battery life is better than stock ROM, the usual SOT is 7.5-8 hrs on average. If yours is much worse, the battery seems to be replaced.
As for the management issue, you can flash the custom kernel and expand the volume of ZRAM which is a conception of virtual.
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What custom kernel do you use?
jayxiao171735 said:
for me, any custom ROM's battery life is better than stock ROM, the usual SOT is 7.5-8 hrs on average. If yours is much worse, the battery seems to be replaced.
As for the management issue, you can flash the custom kernel and expand the volume of ZRAM which is a conception of virtual.
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im lucky if i get 4hrs SOT... jeez
Logan0829 said:
im lucky if i get 4hrs SOT... jeez
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That's easy to get...pixel3 can even get 5hrs SOT..LOL
jayxiao171735 said:
That's easy to get...pixel3 can even get 5hrs SOT..LOL
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What am I doing wrong? No matter what room/kernel combo I use, it never lasts. Battery just ALWAYS drains. Used accubattery and I still have like 97% health.
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What custom kernel do you use?
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Same question
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Same question
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Sart with W...I can't remember the exact name, you can easily find it in the ROM/Kernel community
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Logan0829 said:
What am I doing wrong? No matter what room/kernel combo I use, it never lasts. Battery just ALWAYS drains. Used accusatory and I still have like 97% health.
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Could you please post your screenshot of battery usage? Ideally, you can flash the Google factory image using the adb method to clean all files and aches in the internal storage.
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Sart with W...I can't remember the exact name, you can easily find it in the ROM/Kernel community
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Could you please post your screenshot of battery usage? Ideally, you can flash the Google factory image using the adb method to clean all files and aches in the internal storage.
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About the kernel, you can check it in the about device section. Also is it the kirasakura-wahoo kernel?
Sentheb3ast said:
About the kernel, you can check it in the about device section. Also is it the kirasakura-wahoo kernel?
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yep
What is the best kernel for stock?
Sentheb3ast said:
What is the best kernel for stock?
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Sultan kernel
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kirasakura-wahoo with zram increased to 1028mb drastically increases ram management for gaming.

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