09-24-2020, 07:53 AM
The battery life is one of my greatest concerns for PinePhone. I use Mobian with Phosh. The idle time is about 12-18 hours. I also observed that auto screen brightness doesn't work very well. However the option to reduce the brightness when battery level is low seems to work well. I usually keep the brightness at 50% and it is sufficient for me.
The greatest energy consumers seem to be:
1. Reboot takes 2-3 % of battery charge
2. apt update & apt upgrade (and generally heavy download via WiFi)
Unfortunately, after each update I feel necessary to reboot.
Also I often open Settings to enable/disable WiFi and check Sound input and output (they are suddenly reset to headphone instead of internal speaker / microphone after reboot). The starting / closing an application also seems to drain some battery charge, so I ended up with having Setting always started (I don't know any way to keep it minimized in Phosh though).
Overall, I am happy with the fact Mobian pushes updates for PinePhone hardware support and Phosh almost every day.
The greatest energy consumers seem to be:
1. Reboot takes 2-3 % of battery charge
2. apt update & apt upgrade (and generally heavy download via WiFi)
Unfortunately, after each update I feel necessary to reboot.
Also I often open Settings to enable/disable WiFi and check Sound input and output (they are suddenly reset to headphone instead of internal speaker / microphone after reboot). The starting / closing an application also seems to drain some battery charge, so I ended up with having Setting always started (I don't know any way to keep it minimized in Phosh though).
Overall, I am happy with the fact Mobian pushes updates for PinePhone hardware support and Phosh almost every day.
