3d ago

On Pixel 8 Pro, have you noticed a dip in battery capacity since July?

I was looking at this chart in AccuBattery and this dip looks rather strange. It does not look like normal battery wear. Did we get nerfed by the July update like the a-series with bad batteries? What's your graph look like, if you use AccuBattery or equivalent?

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Google rolled out some battery changes recently to prevent lithium explosion s/malfunction. Not sure if the 8 is affected but yeah the a series was part of that and a couple of other models.
- Prevent, or create? Lol. Nothing sells new phones like current ones melting.
  
  Reduce the risk. Melting and exploding phones might sell new ones, but for your competitors. And if shown to be intentional, that's a slam-dunk lawsuit.
  
  Your not wrong! Mine was one of them....

Here's mine from Accubattery, running Graphene on Pixel 8 Pro
- No dip.

PSA This data correlates almost exactly with my battery stats before I realized the very dangerous battery swelling up like a balloon under the screen.
I'm very not observant and didn't notice any physical difference until the screen fell plum off the chassis
- Good call. Measured the flatness of the screen and back glass. Both are perfectly flat. If there's any swelling going on, it hasn't pressed against them yet.
  
  Good deal. Hope I didn't frighten ya too much. :D I was also told that you should be able to feel the pressure against the screen before seeing a visible difference too. (I'm still a little peeved I didn't get more of a warning from the makers of my device, but that's life)
- My Samsung note 4 did that with every single replacement battery. Super annoying
  
  I'm at the point where I'm no longer interested in better battery longevity --we gonna need safety ratings like vehicles at this trend
  
  Isn't that the note that explodes?

I haven't noticed yet, but I will install Accubattery as soon as possible.
- Awesome. Let me know what your battery capacity looks like when you had a few charge sessions.

Yes! I'm suddenly needing mid-day charges.
- Assuming you're on an 8 Pro, install AccuBattery and clock its capacity over a week.
  
  I'm on the base model currently, so not sure how it would compare.

Don't have accubattery, but I also run GrapheneOS and haven't noticed a drop.
Either Android fuckery or your battery is simply slowly running it's lifecycle.
- Yeah but a drop like that isn't nornal wear. And this battery is barely a 1.5 years old. A 5% dip in the span of a few weeks is either a defect or something else. If it's a software "adjustment," it should show up on other Pixel 8 Pro capacity estimates too. Given most are less than 1.5 year-old, most should have over 95% capacity left.
- Same, but I did notice I get less battery / a dying phone over the last couple of weeks.

On a Pixel 9 Pro. Battery is definitely draining quicker.

For what it's worth, that app can't access battery management stats at the system level. It just estimates based on factory specs and basic battery telemetry accessible to userspace apps like charge percent. The app power usage stats the OS provides is heavily flawed at the OS level, not all power consumption like modem behavior is captured accurately or at all.
So, tl;dr, just guesses and is of very limited usefulness. It does increase battery consumption slightly though, which... doesn't really help.

Interesting... This was right about the time that I started getting pop-up messages on my phone about pre-ordering the Pixel 10 Pro and getting $450 off. Coincidence? 🤔

Pixel 7 pro here, no change in battery life/drain.

I don't know if it's a coincidence but I did notice it on my Pixel 8 Pro! The interesting thing is that I'm running Graphene OS, not stock

I'm on an S22+, something weird was happening for a while with mine:

This is all time:

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