it seems the FP6 is doing great in terms of battery life in some reviews e.g. chip.de and the runtime of over 53h on the EU energy label is quite amazing. However many people have complained that the screen refresh rate sometimes drops unexpectedly. This bug is currently being under consideration by Fairphone. My question is: could this bug have led to the great battery runtimes seen on the EU label or reviews??? If the screen drops down to 10Hz repeatedly during a test, this will for sure help with battery life… What is your opinion about this? Can we trust current results and will the runtimes appear significantly shorter once Fairphone fixes the low refreshr ate bug?
By the way, the above test (15h44 runtime with screen on??) mentions the test was carried out at 60Hz. If the resfresh rate is set to 60Hz, then the bug doesn’t apply I guess? Or does the frame rate also drops unexpectedly even if the refresh rate is fixed at 60Hz? Thanks for your insight!
I have not looked at the clock but the battery lasts SO much longer than my FP4.
I actovated the 80% charging limit and even with far too much TikTok scrolling it gets through a day easily.
The display is designed to save battery by dynamically reducing the refresh rate down to 10 hz when you’re not scrolling or watching videos, where in such cases you wouldn’t notice a slower screen, as it’s a VRR (variable refresh rate) display.
The bug where it reduces the refresh rate down to 10 hz when you doing stuff, so that it feels extremely laggy, is obviously planned to be fixed but also probably doesn’t account for the excellent battery life, because it only happens occasionally. So have no fear about the bug fix resulting in poor battery life.
Great! Thanks. No review that I know of has looked at battery life under e/OS. Would that only increase idle time or also screen on time? What difference can we expect between FPOS and e/OS?
