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?
On Pixel 8 Pro, have you noticed a dip in battery capacity since July?
31 Comments
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 27 pts · 362d
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.
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 362d
Prevent, or create? Lol. Nothing sells new phones like current ones melting.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 4 pts · 362d
Your not wrong! Mine was one of them....
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 361d
I would never buy a Google branded phone just honestly I know there’s ease of use and supposedly some of them are the most compatible with custom ROMs but really… they’re Google. They are not not evil.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 361d
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.
doogstar@lemmy.100010101.xyz · 16 pts · 362d
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 362d
No dip.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social · 14 pts · 362d
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
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 362d
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.
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social · 4 pts · 361d
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)
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 362d
My Samsung note 4 did that with every single replacement battery. Super annoying
FailBetter@crust.piefed.social · 3 pts · 362d
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
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 361d
Replaceable batteries solve pretty much all the battery issues where they blow up, it's caused by minimising the battery clearances so there's no healthy breathing/expansion room
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 362d
Isn't that the note that explodes?
ryannathans@aussie.zone · -2 pts · 362d
No that's the 6 iirc
ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 362d
It was the 7th one
AndrewZabar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 362d
Correct.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 9 pts · 362d
Yes! I'm suddenly needing mid-day charges.
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 362d
Assuming you're on an 8 Pro, install AccuBattery and clock its capacity over a week.
The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world · 4 pts · 362d
I'm on the base model currently, so not sure how it would compare.
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 362d
It's no more than 1.5 year-old. If you see its capacity at 90-92, then something's wrong. If it's over 95% it might be normal.
matengor@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 362d
I haven't noticed yet, but I will install Accubattery as soon as possible.
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 362d
Awesome. Let me know what your battery capacity looks like when you had a few charge sessions.
RedPandaRaider@feddit.org · 8 pts · 362d
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.
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 362d
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.
DaGeek247@fedia.io · 3 pts · 362d
Same, but I did notice I get less battery / a dying phone over the last couple of weeks.
chilburn06@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 362d
On a Pixel 9 Pro. Battery is definitely draining quicker.
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 361d
f1error@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Pixel 7 pro here, no change in battery life/drain.
cobysev@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
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? 🤔
ominouslemon@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 362d
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
Meruten@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 362d
I'm on an S22+, something weird was happening for a while with mine:
This is all time:
lightrush@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 350d