I went for a bike ride this morning, with my fully-charged phone. I had it in my pocket, playing music through my headphones. The modem is switched off at the hardware level. Wifi was off, bluetooth was off, the screen itself was off, and the phone was doing nothing but playing mp3s. When I got home, 45 minutes later, my battery was down to 47%.
I bought a second battery, and I will charge that when it's out of the phone. even so, if the battery goes dead in less than 2 hours, that's not even enough time for the other one to charge on the wall. I could start carrying around 3 or 4 batteries, but that seems a bit ridiculous.
I'm guessing that the phone itself just consumes a lot of power, and that no update to Mobian is really going to fix this problem. If I'm wrong about that, let me know. But if the PinePhone is always going to have this issue, it seems my options are:
I will also point out that I set 'power saver' mode in the power settings. However, when I start gnome-control-center from CLI, over ssh, I get this warning:
```
(gnome-control-center:2870): power-cc-panel-WARNING **: 12:36:26.027: Could not set active profile: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Not Authorized: net.hadess.PowerProfiles.switch-profile
```
Which makes me think power saver mode isn't actually working. Some people here are saying they're getting 24 hour battery life on their PinePhone now, but I ran a dist-upgrade to the newest version, and it's still at least as bad as ever. It seems like it might even be worse now.
I bought a second battery, and I will charge that when it's out of the phone. even so, if the battery goes dead in less than 2 hours, that's not even enough time for the other one to charge on the wall. I could start carrying around 3 or 4 batteries, but that seems a bit ridiculous.
I'm guessing that the phone itself just consumes a lot of power, and that no update to Mobian is really going to fix this problem. If I'm wrong about that, let me know. But if the PinePhone is always going to have this issue, it seems my options are:
- To find a ridiculously high-capacity battery that will fit in my phone;
- To find some kind of low-profile charger that I can attach to the phone, artificially extending the battery life. I currently have a charger about the size of the phone, but three times as deep, which I can keep in my pocket. It's a little clunky, though.
- Upgrade to a PinePhone Pro, if that device has a better battery life;
- Figure out some software hacks/tweaks to improve battery life.
I will also point out that I set 'power saver' mode in the power settings. However, when I start gnome-control-center from CLI, over ssh, I get this warning:
```
(gnome-control-center:2870): power-cc-panel-WARNING **: 12:36:26.027: Could not set active profile: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Not Authorized: net.hadess.PowerProfiles.switch-profile
```
Which makes me think power saver mode isn't actually working. Some people here are saying they're getting 24 hour battery life on their PinePhone now, but I ran a dist-upgrade to the newest version, and it's still at least as bad as ever. It seems like it might even be worse now.