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    Terrible Battery Life on Pixel 2

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      • ckrnkfrnchmnC Offline
        ckrnkfrnchmn
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        Re: Pixel 2 battery life

        Just installed UBT on my old Pixel 2. I too am getting terrible battery life...maybe half if not less than what I had with Android 11 installed 😞

        UT/Pixel 3a as my daily driver an' lovin' it

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          domubpkm
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          See https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6211/howto-alternate-way-of-saving-battery-when-using-4g-lte

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            ser
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            I apologize if this is considered necro-bumping.

            Just another data point: I just installed UT on a Pixel 2, which I originally decommissioned because the USB port had become unreliable; the battery was not new when I turned it off for the last time, but not terrible.

            I installed the baseline Android, including flashing the radio image (radio-walleye-blah-blah.img), before using the ubports-installer; the installation went without errors. However, after rebooting I apparently have no wifi device. NetworkManager doesn't see one, and neither does rfkill (although, it does see bluetooth devices hc_power and hci0). I wasn't really expecting much anyway, so I set the phone aside, screen off.

            I came back a couple of hours later to show my wife Linux on a cell phone (!!!), but the phone was off. Odd, I thought, but it informed me of an empty battery, so I plugged it in and started it up again.

            I'd attach a screenshot, except I haven't figured out how to get data onto or off of the phone yet, but I'll use my fantastic art skills to paint what the battery widget showed me:

            100% |         |
                 |         \
                 |         |
                 |         \
                 |          |
                 |          \
                 |           |
                 |            \
             0% |               |
                 |-----------------------------------------
            

            This is with no WiFi device visible to Ubuntu. Maybe it was on full power madly broadcasting out radiation, and the Linux kernel just couldn't see it; I don't know, but it is funny, mainly because I don't need this device to work. It'd just be nice.

            I suppose if I really cared, I'd start a new post asking how I get the wifi working; I probably will, eventually. OTOH, if there's something I missed that I need to do to get the kernel to see the wifi device, I'd be grateful to know. I should probably look at the dmesg logs and see if anything stands out.

            I'll repeat that I did successfully flash the radio image from the Android Walleye zip prior to the installation.

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            • S Offline
              ser
              last edited by

              Update

              The issue for me, at least, is bluebinder. It sits up at the top of top consuming 154% CPU.

              I have bluetooth turned off, not that turning it on does anything.

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