Phone battery test.

[Mirrorous]

I have used pokemon go to benchmark how good a phone battery is. The j1 luna had a battery life of 3 hours 20 minutes. the j3 luna pro had a 5 hour long battery, the j7 sky pro had a 5 hour long battery, the a32 had a 10 hour long battery, and the S23fe has an 8 hour 4o minute long battery. 

This is where i ask for aid, i would like to know how long the community's battery lasts in pokemon go, i want to upgrade my phone from the a32 to something better, without sacrificing battery efficiency. "all day battery" and "more energy efficient" parts fall on my deaf ears, and i want results not sales pitches. 

What model of phone do you have and how long does it last in pokemon go? 

[y0ur5h4d0w]

1 hour ago, Mirrorous said:

I have used pokemon go to benchmark how good a phone battery is. The j1 luna had a battery life of 3 hours 20 minutes. the j3 luna pro had a 5 hour long battery, the j7 sky pro had a 5 hour long battery, the a32 had a 10 hour long battery, and the S23fe has an 8 hour 4o minute long battery. 

This is where i ask for aid, i would like to know how long the community's battery lasts in pokemon go, i want to upgrade my phone from the a32 to something better, without sacrificing battery efficiency. "all day battery" and "more energy efficient" parts fall on my deaf ears, and i want results not sales pitches. 

What model of phone do you have and how long does it last in pokemon go? 

having an a32 probably the a56 series is the best choice, you can't base your phone battery duration on an app because you're comparing different screens size with different battery size and even different OS both versions and "flavours" not to mention you've talked about J series samsung phones and A series and S series phone which are 3 completely different tiers of "quality" phones being the J the worst and the S the best (components quality speaking)

 

if you want a great battery life i would avoid completely samsung, i have an S22 for work bought in 2024 and after 1 year of usage the battery lasts less then 1 full day, i own a redmagic 11 pro plus and the battery is amazing, but it's a 900$ phone. 

 

what's your budget? what are your actual needs? 

[dizmo]

Are you measuring the battery life with WiFi in a stable environment or with 4G/5G in the wild? The latter will vary drastically depending on signal strength, especially if you're asking people to do it in locations other than where you are. 

[StDragon]

43 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Are you measuring the battery life with WiFi in a stable environment or with 4G/5G in the wild? The latter will vary drastically depending on signal strength, especially if you're asking people to do it in locations other than where you are. 

So true. I've noticed while on 4G/5G with low bar, phones in general burn through more juice trying to scream back to the cell tower. It also gets much warmer.

 @Mirrorous Just a suggestion, but have you thought about using a battery-case? Seems far more appropriate to use one of those for long mobile gaming sessions.

An example below (caveat emptor)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175839172516?chn=ps&var=475245938804

[Mirrorous]

52 minutes ago, y0ur5h4d0w said:

having an a32 probably the a56 series is the best choice, you can't base your phone battery duration on an app because you're comparing different screens size with different battery size and even different OS both versions and "flavours" not to mention you've talked about J series samsung phones and A series and S series phone which are 3 completely different tiers of "quality" phones being the J the worst and the S the best (components quality speaking)

 

if you want a great battery life i would avoid completely samsung, i have an S22 for work bought in 2024 and after 1 year of usage the battery lasts less then 1 full day, i own a redmagic 11 pro plus and the battery is amazing, but it's a 900$ phone. 

 

what's your budget? what are your actual needs? 

The reason i use plokemon go is becuase it gives a consistent and high impact on battery drain, and uses as many of the comonents in the phone as it has access to. 

Just lowering the brightness on a phone can change how much battery gets used but when using a game like pokemon go.

The reason i use pokemon go is that it is real world results for a phone. 

Pokemon go uses the gps, which i need
Pokemon go uses the gyroscope, which i need
pokemon go uses the camera, which i need
pokemon go uses the accelerometer and magnetometer which i use. 
pokemon go runs all of these things at the same time and also uses Bluetooth. 

Having it run for 1 hour tells you a lot of information, real world information of how it will impact the battery life of the phone when the entire phone all in one go is being tested at the same time. 

This also tests how well the phone can handle gaming as it can result in the phone getting warmer or even self destructing. 

7 years ago pokemon go used to be used for testing phones, since then people only want to test non real world results. All the things that pokemon go tests in one go, can be extrapolated against every other app and feature of the phone. 

How well is the camera? "well the camera requires ai to function, so in pokemon go the camera is actually something from 10 years ago that is repackaged as a better camera" which owuld show up in pokemon go. ai uses a lot of power too. 

So when i am using pokemon go for a benchmark 10 years running, i have every good reason for it, becuase pokemon go cares deeply about the hardware on your phone, and if you are putting up 70$ numbers on a 1000 dollar phone, you are using junk ware. 

[Mirrorous]

44 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Are you measuring the battery life with WiFi in a stable environment or with 4G/5G in the wild? The latter will vary drastically depending on signal strength, especially if you're asking people to do it in locations other than where you are. 

I am testing in a stable enviroment, however in older tests, the wifi or internet enviroment never seemed to be a factor in any of the phones i have used. I was also able to determine how quickly the phone used data while playing pokemon go. i believe it has been many years but the amount was roughly 1gb of data a month. I would need to retest the data drain. 

 

[dizmo]

3 hours ago, Mirrorous said:

I am testing in a stable enviroment, however in older tests, the wifi or internet enviroment never seemed to be a factor in any of the phones i have used. I was also able to determine how quickly the phone used data while playing pokemon go. i believe it has been many years but the amount was roughly 1gb of data a month. I would need to retest the data drain. 

 

Right, but that's your data. Asking for community data completely skews your results and isn't usable. 

[Mirrorous]

13 hours ago, dizmo said:

Right, but that's your data. Asking for community data completely skews your results and isn't usable. 

True, i dont use data as a request per se, just have the phone open for an hour is the bare minimum benchmark for determining how fast the battery drains. 

For a more thorough test, having the game drain the battery to full while recording it to see if there are any points where the battery drains faster or slower can reveal flaws in the power delivery system of the phone. 

Also given the high impact the game has on phones, even modern ones, recording how hot they can get is also a valuable data point.  

However i am only looking for how long the battery lasts in modern phones and not other details like phone honess or battery stability. 

in the testing i have done in the past, battery drain was always consistent on the same device even when blutooth was running, or when i was walking around with the device and using it as pokemon go was intended for the test. 

some features such as sound would be disabled, as well as the vibration, and the brightness was also turned down to gain some additional time, but there is a point where brightness lowering doesn't change the result at all. in the a32 for example even when the screen is in touch protection, it still uses the same amount of battery then it does when the brightness is turned down all the way, though i didnt see how high the brightness could be before it cut into the time. 

For a battery endurance test we try to get the phone into the best possible condition to run pokemon go for as long as possible, this includes following videos that mention "how to make your phone last longer in pokemon go" that are still very applicable today despire being around for about 10ish years. 

[Mirrorous]

pokemon go is used as a benchmark just like any other benchmarking tool, it doesn't care about the hardware specifically, those are all different variables, what it does care about is performance and longevity. 

The amount of time that a phone can run a video is completely different from how long it can run a game. Different games can also have different impacts on phones. 

Pokémon go has been available across devices for around 10 years and us consistent in how it impacts them. I care about how energy hungry the hardware is because it means the battery is used up faster or slower then other devices. 

Bigger battery does not equal a longer battery life when the hardware in the phone is more power hungry. 

pokemon go can be played passively, connect a pokemon go plus plus, and the game will basicly run for an hour or so catching pokemon and spinning photo disks while you do other things like reading a book, or interacting with others, or even riding a bike/driving.

I have received information from other sources who have actually ran pokemon go on their newer phones and the results are horrible. 

one recorded a playtime of 3 hours on their normal s23. the s23fe only got 8 hours and 40 minutes. s25, the normal one got 5 hours. s25 ultra got 8 hours. s24 got 5 hours, google pixel 10 pro fold got 8 hours. 

these are supposed to be some of the "Best of the best" phones from the top brands. they are starting to make the meme "can it run crysis" turn into "how long can it run pokemon go" 

This is just phones, i havent even and dont plan to tackle tablets later.

Pokemon go does have real world impact on a phone, and yes there are ways to decrease battery drain using pokemon go, such as turning off the sound, turning off notifications, turning off the vibration, decreasing the brightness, ect. 

These are things people are already doing in the tests already. 3 hours no brightness on a flagship from 3 years ago. the last time i saw a pokemon go time that low was the j1 luna, a 20$ phone that ran android 4.0