Thinking of upgrading to a 7, probably Pro when Black Friday deals hit. My 6Pro battery life sucks shit, I’ve replaced the battery with an OEM one and not much better. I use my phone throughout the day, but most of it is streaming with the screen off. Always needs to be charged. Normal amounts of random app use and browsing.
I think you should check whether you have any nasty apps running in the background, because losing 34% in 4 hours while not in use is definitely not normal. You should also upgrade to Android 14 if you haven’t done so already as it optimizes battery usage.
I can get at least a whole day with my 7a with reasonable use (emails, Lemmy with Voyager, web browsing with Firefox, 4G internet). I also played Wipeout Pure on PPSSPP (PSP emulator) for 30 minutes and consumed only 2% of battery. Even right now I have 62% charge left and it’s estimated that based on current usage it should still last for 17 hours.
Also, using Firefox (+ the uBlock extension) instead of Chrome should make a difference since uBlock blocks many ads and trackers from loading when you’re browsing and that should save some battery.
Yep, I check the background apps fairly regularly ('cause I’m paranoid about this battery). I’m on 14 already, strangely, I did notice a difference for the first couple of days - but back to draining quickly after that. I use Firefox as my default browser too (with ublock, yes) - I don’t browse on my phone a lot.
I took my phone off charge (100%) at 17:30 last night, used WhatsApp to text some friends off and on (like, 10-20 messages total) for the next 3-4 hours and it was at 50% by 22:00, I was not using my phone, I was watching TV. It went into DnD at 22:00, and then when I got up at 07:00 it was at 25%.
So that’s 75% with very light usage, with DnD for ~9 hours, in just over 12 hours.
Battery usage is very subjective, so what one might consider “light usage” might not be for someone else, but most of the comments in this thread seem to suggest that your battery experience is really the outlier here. It might be worth it to ask to send it back to Google to get a replacement (or have them replace the battery) as chances are there’s definitely something wrong with your battery.