thanks, I’ll give it a shot
The idle drain definitely can be low. My phone was charged to 80% 93 hours ago – that’s almost 4 days ago. And now it is at 43%, showing 4 days remaining.
Problem is nobody here seems to have a clue how to debug it when there’s higher than anticipated drain.
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Thats without AoD enabled?
And the App AccuBattery gives a good overview
I have several Google Stuff deactivated, I expect its better with Custom ROM
I can only agree. I am quite interested in buying a Fairphone 5 (FP virgin) but the battery capacity/drainage is making me think twice.
My ideal phone would keep alive at least 48 hrs idle without charge.
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Idle for 48h shouldn’t be a big challenge. I think my FP5 would be able to do this:
And this is with updating train information over and over again to see which challenges Deutsche Bahn wants to present to us next, listening to music, a bit of surfing…
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Can you share more detailed stats? For me this is impossible to achieve. I don’t game on my phone, no AoD (which is really disappointing) And I get around of 4-6 hours of screentime and then I am left with about 30% at the end of the day. When I don’t charge it overnight and have battery safer on from 35% onwards it wouldn’t last much longer on the next day. I wonder how you use your phone. The only thing I can imagine is that you give it short charge boosts, but keep it below 90% so that the battery stats don’t reset.
Mee too,
I have my FP5 since 3 days. I think with optimization it is possible.
Not AOD
Screen at 60hz
Mode battery economy
Seriously I am reassured of usage.
I noticed, that once I activated the Always on Display (AoD) the phone is not entering deep sleep anymore.
I did not use any AoD apps, but the stock Android “Always show Date and Info”.
With AccuBattery I get ~3,6%/h (Display off, wake), with 141 mA and 0m in Deep Sleep.
I suppose that’s one of the major issues for having such a high battery drian with Always on Display. Can anyone confirm this behavior?
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I’ve also noticed that on FP5 with AoD on.
Agreed.
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Hi y’all,
I got my fp5 and instantly noticed extended battery drain. I turned off “double tap to wake”, “5G” and “AOD” and its fine now. I already rulled out the first. I will eventually rule out either 5G or AOD we will see, but I think it was the AOD.
Just fyi…
The 5G is definitely not the big drain (unless, maybe, there’s a very bad but still existent 5G signal where you are).
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It has been repeatedly mentioned that -for the sake of battery life - it is better to charge it only till 80% and not leave it uncharged below the certain threshold, I guess 20%.
While I am trying to do this, sometimes the battery does not keep up the whole day. What would then be smarter - a. Recharging during the day, b. Charging till 90 or even 100 but not letting it go below 20%, c. Charging upto 80 percent but going down till even 5 percent?
Thanks for any suggestions
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A is the best choice, then C, then B.
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I dont let a battery dictate my life… I try to not charge over night to 100% (i.e. dont let the phone plugged for hours after its fully charged) and not let it go down to zero, else I dont care that much. I think battery and charging techniques are smarter nowadays and should handle charging in a way that I dont neee to care too much.
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CalyxOS introduced Charging Control in one of the last releases.
Not sure if they took it over from another ROM. 
Just enabled it. Apart from that, re-charging over the day.
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yes, I am using this setting in stock rom on FP5, that is in my opinion a great addition. But there is no option to set the limit - only 80% or none.
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I’d prefer a 90% limit, more chance I’d get to the evening with about 20% left. As it is, I just charge overnight to 100%.
Yeah in CalyxOS you can use the slider to adjust the limit to your needs.
Hi ! I have a FP5 for testing since a week, and my current FP4 with a brand new battery, so i made an extensive comparison between the two.
Here is the discharging tab on Accubattery, after charging to 100% and using it with a medium use (calling, chatting, social media, web, very few video streaming) until reaching 20%.
FP5 first and then FP4
AOD off, 60Hz, most of the settings by default (and standard color scheme).
At the launch, i was worried (though i have no plan on getting one) about the bad battery performance (according to reviews), but i have to say it’s not as bad as “expected”. Maybe the first software updates contained battery optimizations.
I think the FP5 is a little less efficient in all the situations (deep sleep, screen off, screen on) and quite less efficient in video streaming, in spite of an excellent coverage.
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