06-29-2023, 03:49 PM
(06-29-2023, 02:50 PM)slondr Wrote: Hi, my PinePhone on average gets about 1 hour battery life with the keyboard add-on - before I had the keyboard it was about 20 minutes of battery life on average. This is pretty low, but I thought it was expected due to common reports of users talking about low battery life. However I recently read on social media some people saying they're getting closer to 1 day out of the base hardware!
What tips are there to increase battery life? Is there software I can install which will help?
If it makes a difference I use sxmo on arch.
That sound super strange.
Do you have Pinephone or Pinephone Pro?
As a battery life pro tip with PP/PPP number 1,2,3,4 and 5 things are to suspend as often, as fast and as much as possible.
Both PP and PPP will drain battery quite quickly when the phone is not suspended.
How ever your story sounds like that your phone battery almost empty because with PP you should survive like 1-8 hours without suspend depending how you use it. And with PPP maybe 45 minutes - 6 hours without suspend.
With fully suspended PP/PPP you can get like 24-56 hours depending from your modem settings.
