On FP5 CalyxOS, I don’t have a slider to control percent of charge.
But my charge lasts much longer than with CalyxOS than with standard FP5 OS
CalyxOS has greatly increased the battery life on my FP5.
Standard android spends a lot of battery life spying on users
Is this anecdotal evidence? Because I’d love to see a battery life race between the fairphone OS, Calyx, and Lineage. I’ve been keeping my eye on Lineage lately. Can you link some comparisons please?
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I’m using /e/OS with my FP4. First, I have to say that I don’t use the phone very much.
I charge my FP every 2 days from about 15-20% to 80%.
Every new upgrade of the OS, I take a screenshot from 100% to almost zero. This is the latest screenshot I took (v. 1.21).
Pretty average day today. The early morning drain is video playback. The rest of the day is the occasional idle glancing. End of the day slope is social media and chatting. I’m satisfied with this.
For me, CalyxOS battery performance is anecdotal.
But lots of people have same anecdote.
3 posts were split to a new topic: Android 15 improved battery life
For me battery live improved quite a bit after I turned off the “Touch to wake” and “Lift to wake” options. I suspect these were turning on the phone more times than needed (in my pocket maybe?).
I can now do with 40% of charge on a day.
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Same here. Sad that these features take so much battery, I’ve turned them off and charge every night from 40-50% to full. Before I would struggle to get through the day.
That actually worked for me as well. Thanks for the tip! Since tap to doesn’t really work anyway, turning it off is a no brainer.
I have deactivated 5G under network type and the energy consumption has dropped significantly.
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Battery on FP5 rapidly drains while idling. i barely used the device. And it says its around 15 percent charge by the time i use the thing. What gives. I started off with a full charge lately and its dead in a few hours. I come to look at battery management and its even weird that doesn’t look very good. This device hasn’t kept a charge lately. I have been having to plug in more times lately. Normally just loses a 20% charge. How weird.
The phone isn’t even a year old yet.
Fairphone build number
FP5.TT4H.A.162.20240609
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I bought an FP5 from Coolblue on August 8th. One battery charge lasts just 22 hours. Even my old FP3+ still lasted more than 24 hours after four years.
I complained to Coolblue about the battery, but they simply replied:
“this is not a defect. The Fairphone battery lasts on average exactly as long as you describe. You can easily google that and confirm it yourself”.
Is Coolblue trying to avoid the warranty here or is it true that a FP5 battery charge only lasts 22 hours and that this is OK?
Important is the screen on time during that time and overall more information. Moving you post to an existing topic about battery life.
As @yvmuell mentioned already: This strongly depends on your use case. My FP5 can easily go more than a day with one charge to 80% if I don’t do much with it. In general many reviews stated that the FP5 is not the most battery-efficient phone unfortunately, so your comparison to the FP3 may be correct. When charging it to 100%, a day would be possible for me under most circumstances - but I typically don’t watch videos, don’t endlessly scroll (a)social media and so on.
What does Battery usage show?
Go to the app Settings, Battery…
i don’t make any statistic or exact metering, but from my usage and from occasional observation, almost one year after my first post in this thread 
- i don’t use “Battery Protect” to stop charging in 80%, then i charge to 95-100%
- to charger connect randomly with battery at 10-50%
- most of the time i have enabled “Battery Saver” (with his limitation i’m totaly ok)
(so LCD is in 60Hz) - most of the time i have enabled “Night Light”
- always enabled: 4G/5G, VoLTE/VoWifi/VoNR, Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC
- always enabled: Tap to wake, Pick up to wake
- newer use Always On Display
My usage is primary:
- Web browsing (mainly OH Web Browser, partially Vivaldi)
- Email (Spark)
- Texting (SMS, Signal, Skype (don’t use WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram))
- RSS reader (gReader)
- Play internet radio or MP3 from storage (PowerAmp - over BT earbuds or BT Speakers)
- YAPS(excelent PowerAmp full-configurable skin)
- Camera (stock app) - mainly photo, sometime video
- Photos (Aves = excelent image/video viewer/taggger
(btw: support FP5 burst photo grouping) - Home Assistant (but disabled background usage and using on phone sensors)
Sometime usage:
- Youtube (NewPipe)
- and many specific programs
Added/Installed/Replaced system apps:
- Launcher = “Nova Launcher” + “Sesame” + “Retro Clock”(widget)
- Gestures/Navigation = “Fluid Navigation Gestures”
- “Quick Cursor” (for cursor and circle-shortcut’s)
- “Button Mapper” (for On/Off Flashlight and AutoBacklight)
- Battery info/statistic = “Accu Battery”
- “Battery Widget Reborn” via “Locksceen Widgets” (for big bat circle on lockscren)
- Firewall = AWFall+
- Root = Magisk
- Keyboard = primary using stock GBoard but for specific “Unexpected Keyboard”
And finally my battery usage…
- 1.5 - 2 days usage (~100/95% to 20/10% battery)
- with SoT 5-7h and PowerAmp (& BT with screen off) 0-5h
My previous phone “Motorola Moto G Pro” and pre-previous “Nokia 7 Plus” with similar usage
be with 3-4 days, so FP5 is sure lower, anyway i’m with this ok and simultaneously hope
in future with better after more optimalisation and maybe fixing oled-black-still-light problem
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OK, thanks. Thanks to the sadly missing signalling led I am forced to switch the phone often on, and so the most used application is Quickstep (18%).
I already discoverd this setting and made this experience, may be it is useful to others.
At first there was a mismatch between the percentage shown on the screen top and the history of the battery settings app: the screen top showed 100% while the app showed 50%
Then by chance I ran down the battery to 15% (screen top). I loaded the battery to 100% (screen top) and noticed that the settings app showed now 75%. Aha!
Full of hope I ran down the battery to 5% and only then I loaded it again to 100% (both screen top). Now also the app showed 100% as maximum load.
After this adjusting the battery lasts for 26 - 28 h!!!
Why this adjusting is needed, I don’t know, I would expect that this works out of the box.
Btw. I load the battery to 100% because there is no more a green led signaling that the battery is loaded and I don’t switch on the phone every 5 minutes to see how the load is going…
In the app Settings, Battery you can set the max charging level to 80%.
I use the app AccyBattery to get a sound signal to stop charging.
You can choose yourself at which percentage you want a signal.
If you don’t respond to the signal then the charging go on till you stop the charging or 100% is reached.