[Battery Life] Oneplus 13 experiences and experiment, factory reset!
After reading some many threads about good and bad battery life on the OP13, decided to take it for a spin and do a quick experiment.
Controlled environment:
- All the settings below plus the same apps and settings on both resets
- Used both resets for 3 full days
- Usage was 80% Wifi and 20% 5G
- Usage on all 6 days I tried to do it almost exactly to the T on both ocassions on each day, basically if I would do 1 hour of youtube video on day 1, after the reset I would do 1 hour of youtube on day 1, etc
- I posted a picture of my typical app usage just to get a sense of what I do, which is mostly youtube, reddit, chrome (I use some social media in here) ( I don't have any social media apps for this test) and a lot of background music, regular phone calls and messages.
Settings:
- Wifi, Data (USA 5G), Bluetooth (always on synced with GW7 watch) and location always on
- Smart 5G: on
- Connect and sharing
- Quick connect: off
- Print: off
- AOD seamless turned on with power saving mode setting on
- Using the "NEVER SETTLE" theme
- Home screen and lock screen:
- Recent tasks
- Manage apps: all off
- Recent tasks
- Display and Brightness
- Dark theme
- Brightness: Auto
- Screen color mode: Vivid
- Image sharpener and video color boost: off
- Auto screen off: 30 secs
- Resolution: Standard
- Screen Refresh: Auto
- Location services
- Wifi and Bluetooth scanning: off
- Location accuracy: on
- Find my device with remote lock enabled
- Trust agents: extend unlock off
- Recommended services all off except AI on
- Screenshot one is doing a reset and restoring from a full backup
- Screenshot two is doing a completely factory reset and not transferring/restoring anything during setup, after setup, I did the following:
- SMS and phone calls where backed up and restored with SMS Backup & Restore app
- Contacts synced with Google and can be restored without restoring from a backup (just login with your google account and make sure backups are enabled under contacts)
- Google photos is seprate from a a phone backup and auto backups. As long as you login to google it will resore all photos
Findings:
- I cannot explain why, but there was a huge differents in SOT and just general phone battery life and usage when starting from scratch during setup and restoring things manually as explained above. Screenshots talk for themeselves.
- I did noticed an increase in battery in both ocassions by updating google play services, I read this here:
- You will notice approx 3 hour of standby difference in between the first and second picture, the only reason I did not wait is it was pretty late for me and I just took the screenshot and went to sleep and not sure if it would have survived the night with 2% but I'm pretty sure it would have hit 1% and easily the 4 hours needed of standby but the SOT discrepancy would still have been as huge.
Conclusion:
- Factory resetting and starting from scratch got me 3 1/2 hours more of SOT and I just felt like I could leave the phone with the screen off without much drainage at all compared to the one with the factory reset and restroing from a full backup
Let me know what you guys think, definitely interesting findings in my tests