Hi All,
So I am looking at switching from, to be honest a beloved OP8P to a Pixel 5, why you may ask? here are the reasons.
I’ve really struggled with battery life on this thing, I have done all sorts, ADB, Clear Cache, reinstall android, disable 5G, disabled bluetooth printer services etc etc.
Now I am a heavy user, I use 2 sims, I use teams and outlook a lot, spotify heavily, youtube vanced a lot at home (On wifi).
But I still find my self charging twice a day, example my phone at 12AM this morning was 100% charged, I left it at the side of my bed obviously doing nothing, I was sleeping, woke up and it had used 14% battery overnight, like wtf.
So I used its dash charger to get it back up to 100 before driving to work.
I get in the car, im listening to music only, via spotify, the drive is around 45 mins, 6% has vanished.
I want to say around 4PM today I get ready to leave home and I have about 43% charge, I had a Teams call that was around 10 mins, but rest was spotify over bluetooth headset, nothing I would call taxing.
I get in the car charge it up while driving back I get home its about 75% ish.
Its now half 10 in the UK, OK i’ve used it for youtube, whatsapp, telegram, thats it really, I am back at 49%, Checking my hours active its been 13 hours, my SOT is 3 1/2 hours… after 3 separate charging times!.
I’ve asked on reddit but all you get is the white knights protecting OP, so you cant really get a good answer there, I asked on the OP forums they say its normal but OP them self say its not.
Please tell me I’m loosing my marbles and there is something wrong here, be it software or hardware.
I love OP, for f sake I bought their bag, call me a fan boy, people at work do ha! but seriously I feel after this sour experience and Samsung in UK only sell Exynos for their note series, maybe I should just go straight Google, get excellent software support, good battery life and features first, take the hit with the OP and move on.
What should I do guys? I have the Pixel 5 on order but of course I can always cancel/return the device, I do love my OP8P and it will be hard to get rid, but if its not fit for purpose I don’t see anything else really.
HELP!!!