My Pro 7 is making the sad-trombone “almost dead” sound quite a lot in the past few weeks, and the first time I heard it, I didn’t know what it was. Because, although I’ve had the phone for 18 months, I’d never heard that sound before.
This article doesn’t have much authoritative information, it’s mostly recapping Reddit posts, I guess. But: Is anyone else here having the same issue?
…numerous reports point to an undiagnosed issue causing batteries in Pixel phones, including the new Pixel 10 series, to drain much faster than they did previously.
…one user claims it may be because of a GPS-related bug preventing the CPU from entering into a “suspended” state — also known as Doze specifically in Android’s context — when not being used. The user points out, “the Exynos baseband/GNSS module is caught in a persistent polling loop, causing a hardware interrupt storm even when the device is completely isolated in Airplane Mode with all radios manually toggled off.” This, in turn, keeps the CPU up and running, resulting in the drain.


I haven’t noticed a thing on my Pixel 9 Pro running GrapheneOS.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Checking in with my GrapheneOS Pixel 9. 🫡
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9 Pro XL on GrapheneOS, close enough!
I’ve noticed mine running a little warm, and possibly reduced battery life. But I can’t back that up with before/after data.
Mine runs a little warm too, but I have hotspot on 100% of the time, as I use it as my wifi source. Battery life is still very good.
Well, today I forgot my phone in the car when I went into work, and when I came out at the end of the day, it was down to 60%. It’s definitely got the bug.
Edit: I checked the battery history and the Netbird VPN app was the highest user, so maybe not the bug. I changed its background usage from unrestricted to optimized and we’ll see what happens.
How does it work with Graphene? Are updates rolled out quickly after Google’s release?
Usually within 24 hours or so. Security updates, on the other hand, are released months before they are on regular Google Pixel releases as GrapheneOS doesn’t adhere to the embargo period that other manufacturers agree to.
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-preview-releases
Nothing from my end running 7 Pro GrapheneOS.
My 7 pro with Graphene is running well too.