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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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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

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? πŸ€”

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Prevent, or create? Lol. Nothing sells new phones like current ones melting.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Your not wrong! Mine was one of them....

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 14 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

My Samsung note 4 did that with every single replacement battery. Super annoying

[–] FailBetter@crust.piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 points 17 hours ago

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 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that the note that explodes?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] f1error@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] doogstar@lemmy.100010101.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here's mine from Accubattery, running Graphene on Pixel 8 Pro

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes! I'm suddenly needing mid-day charges.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Assuming you're on an 8 Pro, install AccuBattery and clock its capacity over a week.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm on the base model currently, so not sure how it would compare.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

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.

[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 points 1 day ago

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 points 1 day ago

Same, but I did notice I get less battery / a dying phone over the last couple of weeks.

[–] matengor@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't noticed yet, but I will install Accubattery as soon as possible.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Awesome. Let me know what your battery capacity looks like when you had a few charge sessions.

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

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 points 1 day ago

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

This is all time: