Pixel 2: WiFi battery drain measures

[MrT10001]

Just seen this, I will give it a try and feedback. I have had it on "Aeroplane Mode" and that dramatically improved battery life. Drained from 78% to 52% over three days on standby.

[flohack]

Interesting thing is that the 2XL stays more efficient even with the same config under same conditions in the same WLAN. No idea

[MrT10001]

@flohack Could be the battery, Pixel 2 has a 2700mAh battery compared to the XL's 3520mAh battery, which may mean a slightly different power set up (hardware wise) which the 2XL is more efficient at.

[Keneda]

@Flohack @MrT10001 maybe also an antenna location difference, that leads to better usage on the XL ? (remember apple that tried to teach people how to handle their bad designed antenna location iphone).

[MrT10001]

@keneda Yes there are quite a few possibilities. I was always under the impression that software had a say using power management as well, but here we have two different but similar devices suffering the same issue.

[flohack]

Unfortunately my change did not bring any improvement for my test device I am burning over 10%/hr battery still!

[rocket2nfinity]

@flohack Nor my P2XL

[acidlake]

Been testing on my pixel 2xl, since 4 days, on day 1 without simcard and using just wifi the phone drain very fast, even at idle, the next day i charged to full, and it's been 2 days since the phone has been siting on idle on airplane mode and battery still 96% since 2 days, hope the wifi issue can get solved, thanks for this great port, everything seems working pretty well.

[flohack]

@acidlake I know its either network or wifi. I tried to commit a change for less wakeup in WiFi, could you try devel channel to see if that makes a difference? Thanks!

[Linus67]

Sorry for bringing up a 4-year-old post.
I tested three Pixel 3a devices (RC 1.3). I noticed exactly the same battery drain issues described here.

Have any solutions been found for this yet?