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[@gboy888]

Go to Settings>Network & internet> Internet>Network preferences>turn off options for 'Turn on Wi-Fi automatically' and 'Notify for public networks'. 👍✌️🤙

[@achanonymous]

Something worth mentioning for long term battery health is Adaptive Charging, where it will trickle charge the battery overnight, rather than fast charging it, and then sitting on the charger at 100% for the rest of the night (which as we know is terrible for most phone batteries).

[@TCKingMusic]

Just ordered the 6a for the wife. No one talks about this but the Pixel 6 series has the best Android social media experience. Using the native Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok apps etc. is about 95% better than any other android phone out. This alone makes it worth it for social media peeps. Best Buy Open Box $394, plus $50 best buy gift card back, also had $80 of rewards certs. No tax in Oregon state. $264 couldn't beat it.

[@TechOdyssey]

That’s a great deal!

[@CarolinaMagro]

Right now i have 75% of battery and it says I only have 9h left of usage. In this video you have around the same % of battery and it says 22h left...any idea of whats going on? It has 1 month since purchase, should I activate warranty?

[@joeldiaz141]

Bro ur almost at 100k! That's what's up!

[@TechOdyssey]

Getting close!

[@SinSniper1]

Nice job as always

[@ervingingerich]

I don't have that option for preferred network type on my Pixel 6a on visible with e-SIM phone bought from visible . Is this a bug

[@imPriyanshu8017]

Play service is draining battery 😑 it is running all the time, sucking battery, can't even restrict it's usage from the app settings

[@Bread_coward]

do you happen to know which one has the better battery life? the pixel 6a or the pixel 6? assuming that they are both set to 60 hz

[@gmailuser699]

6a

[@jjgrijalvare]

Has anyone had any luck getting this phone to work with cricket wireless? They said the phone isn't compatible yesterday when I went in to activate it.

[@TechOdyssey]

It should work just fine as long as you have an unlocked model or probably ATT model

[@jjgrijalvare]

@@TechOdyssey it is unlocked. They told me that the device is showing up as a 3g phone and that it needs to be hd voice compatible. When I swapped the sim from the 4a they immediately deactivated my line and I had to go in and get a new sim.

[@jjgrijalvare]

@@TechOdyssey do you think it has do with the phone only being on the April patch?

[@TechOdyssey]

@@jjgrijalvare you’re in the USA?

[@jjgrijalvare]

@@TechOdyssey yes I'm in California

[@Montman2009]

Talking about 5G toggle on and off.here in the UK my network provider BT has greyed out this feature. So I'm unable to revert to 4G as 5G is spotty where I live so what's the point in using it when 4G coverage works fine. Thanks for the video really useful.

[@mrsmokingskittles148]

Hey dude this is what I done to disable 5G I'm from the UK aswell

[@mrsmokingskittles148]

Type this in the dialer keypad * # * # 4 6 3 6 # * # * (Remove the spaces, I had to do this otherwise KZbin thinks I'm a bot) This will open a Testing menu, tap phone information, and go down to Set preferred Network Type, Select GSM/WCDMA/LTE(PRL) Exit out and reboot.

[@PriyanshuRaj6]

New voice to text in gboard isn't working on pixel 6a even after enabling assistant voice typing.. what to do?

[@anteros3584]

This issue is there for multiple people, is the August update perhaps yet available on your device? If so download that and check wether it works then.. if not I guess it's just hoping they'll fix it in the upcomming update..

[@PriyanshuRaj6]

@@anteros3584 nope still on april update.. it's working on your device??

[@anteros3584]

@@PriyanshuRaj6 Mine sadly hasn't arrived yet, my brother pre-ordered tho and on his it worked from the beginning I'm pretty sure. Heard some other youtuber say it was fixed with the most recent update, but since my brother isn't able to download that one yet I'm not sure how that youtuber knew🤷🏼‍♂️

[@PriyanshuRaj6]

@@anteros3584 yeah it's frustrating cause features should be worked for every new pixel device.. i got mine pixel 6a last day but some features are still missing

[@scotty666tt]

Question is would it be worth spending 450 for this phone when you already got the Pixel 6.

[@ChrisXif1]

Only if you want a smaller version of the 6 - There are no other advantages of the 6a over the 6 other than size (and lower price). In every other way, the 6 is the better phone.

[@TechOdyssey]

No. The regular 6 is better. Why would you want to downgrade?

[@achanonymous]

Size is really the only plus. I found the 6 too big, and was happy accepting the compromises for the smaller size of the 6a. I find the 6a is still a little larger than I'd like - iPhone Mini is the perfect size IMO, but then I'd have to switch to iOS, and I'd rather not - but pretty much every current day Android smaller than the 6a is just awful in nearly every other way.

[@maxsilbert]

@@achanonymous If you have the money, I've heard great things about the Zenfone 9 which has a smaller screen

[@airecomprimido100]

Whats the best way to charge your phone? I mean go from 100% to 0%? or more like 80% to 80%? And its bad to leave it all night?

[@JustAFatGuyInTX]

Pixel phones have a feature called Adaptive Charging; which charges the phone to 80% at the regular speed, then will slowly charge to 100% slowly until your next alarm.

[@airecomprimido100]

@@JustAFatGuyInTX For real?! Its a default setting? or i need to sett it up?

[@JustAFatGuyInTX]

@@airecomprimido100 I think it's on by default, but in Settings it's under Battery then Adaptive Settings.

[@dalej973]

New subscriber here .... Great video .. I was wondering since I am a new user for the Google Pixel 6A ..... Can't wait for your newest video to come out and see what else I am missing on my new phone ... Again ... Nice job on making this video

[@TechOdyssey]

Thanks a lot. I appreciate it.

[@jun-junbaccay]

👍👍👍

[@sohammandal5723]

Didn't expect the battery on this thing would be this bad.

[@TechOdyssey]

I didn't say it was bad. But I make these videos for almost every phone.

[@za-jm8wf]

I'm happy with my 6a. Essentially got it for 108 with trade n and free pixel buds a.

[@ArthurZakaryan23]

Thanks Adam for the tips. Most longtime Android users who are self proclaimed phone nerds should be aware of these methods for tracking and minimizing battery usage. The last few versions of Android, particularly now with 12 and 13 have done a good job of making managing app usage much easier to do. Adam with the auto brightness, at least on my Pixel 6, I have only had a few instances where I had to manually adjust the slider cause it was either too bright or bright low, majority of the time it has done well to lighting conditions to make its own adjustments.

[@thetechboyorg]

Let's go team Android

[@mrsmokingskittles148]

Team android for life baby

[@randymcgiveron3268]

I noticed you're on T-Mobile. I found sometimes I get faster speed on LTE then 5G. When you have it set for 5G it'll hang on to a weak signal . Even when there's a strong lte signal . I wish somehow you can make the phone search for the strongest signal instead of the fastest one in theory.

[@1234fazermann]

I just switched from a 4 year old S9 to 6a and the battery backup is way more than enough for me.

[@hiteshsuthar1097]

Manully select network by disabling auto select network, also disable auto select date and time. This may help standby time. I prefer using data saver instead of battery saver which restict backgroud apps quite well.

[@fredharris74]

You've done a great job covering issues that pixel 6A users have had so far, but I haven't seen or heard anything about the unavailability of the fingerprint scanner to open particular apps like a banking app or a GrubHub app. It's probably just as annoying if not more so, then the battery issue, etc. I've been checking for that update since yesterday every few hours and it's not come up yet. ☹️

[@maxsilbert]

I haven't had that issue but maybe android 13 will fix it?

[@ccroy2001]

I set my display to 2 minutes timeout for years. going to try 1 minute with the attention feature turned on. Thanks. BTW I just got my 6a so it used a lot of battery setting up and of course I am constantly messing with it (New phone syndrome) Today though things are getting back to normal and battery life is looking much better.

[@AERNIGH]

How's the experience a month later?

[@ccroy2001]

@@AERNIGH it's fine. I came from a Pixel 4a. So software wise it's the same. I mostly like having 5g and that the 6a is surprisingly not much bigger than the 4a. If you want to try a Pixel it's a great option.

[@AERNIGH]

@@ccroy2001 That's really good, especially considering the complaints that I've read about regarding its battery life while having 5G enabled.

[@danny9639]

Bought the pixel 6a regret it already, The battery is absolutely Shocking, the phone overheats to much, Charging is way to slow especially for 2022! Also the phone throttles way to much! I had the moto Edge 20 lite before I purchased this and I can't believe the Edge Lite 20 absolutely monster's this in just about everything! You shouldn't have to turn literally everything off just so your battery lasts longer than 5 hours this phone sucks and isn't worth the £400... When £200 devices like the moto Edge 20 lite have all day battery life, have Turbo quick charge, doesn't overheat or throttle!! Can't see me keeping this device for long

[@superiortoall22]

Great video as always, super informative. On the subject of battery, how great is the battery usage learning on the Z Fold 3 and does it get any better? I understand that powering two screens at times is a lot but this is a shock after swapping my Sim from my 13 Pro Max and using this as my daily driver lol

[@MarcoBeSomething]

I appreciate the tips, I’ll be coming back to this video tomorrow when I get my phone.

[@TechOdyssey]

Nice. You're welcome!

[@thetechboyorg]

Great I would like to see it. Oh I thought ou were making a video sorry.

[@MarcoBeSomething]

@@thetechboyorg I already picked out cases for the phone and buds, I just got those today so I’ll probably unbox everything together when the phone comes in tomorrow. I’d like to do a 12 mini vs 6A video but I’ll probably do a regular 12 vs 6A instead since I’m currently testing out a base 12 with BeastCam to see how well it’ll do as my main KZbin camera. A bonus thing I want to mention is they’re the same size, and with the 12 likely taking the 11’s place in the upcoming lineup I think it’ll be an interesting comparison.

[@thetechboyorg]

@@MarcoBeSomething Alright

[@BatayaRulZ]

Number one tip...lower the refresh rate to 30Hz. ,😁

[@TechValor]

lol, you're silly.

[@TechOdyssey]

Nah. 24hz.

[@arjunshankar9435]

It's my first week of pixel 6a approximate 5th day and I am not getting full day battery life...I charge my phone at 25% and discharge at 85%...

[@TechOdyssey]

That’s not very helpful to determine what your battery life is. How much screen on time are you using it for during that time?

[@thetechboyorg]

@Tech Odyssey do you use the 6a as a daily driver right now?

[@nanquam]

I just got my 6a and the battery life is horrendous (like 3.5h SoT). Now I am testing these settings: 1. dark theme 2. disabled "Device Health Service" 3. disabled "Data Usage" for most apps but few 4. restrictive battery for most but the most useful 5. no Always on Display 6. scheduled Night Mode and Night Light 7. adaptive battery and charging ON For now (it is literally the first charge with these settings), it seams to have worked: around 3h45 SoT but almost 50% battery left! Otherwise, I'll consider return.

[@AyushKumar-en5lx]

How's it working now?

[@jacekw517]

@@AyushKumar-en5lx There's a lot of improvement in terms of battery life. Usually I get around 6h SoT with more that 2.5 days of standby. If I pushed it harder, I would get 7~8h SoT with standby reduced to c.a 24h. I'm wondering what can be done about random reboots though. These aren't often and always happen when the phone is locked, but it is a bit worrying.

[@superwarmodegamingandreactions]

Thank you for the s21 ultra battery life video did a factory reset all better now 😀 👍 👏 🙌

[@TechOdyssey]

Great. Glad to hear it

[@JWUniverse]

Is there a way to disable Raise to Wake on the 6A that I never liked that feature.

[@guillaumerioux8466]

There no reason that this phone shouldn't be more tank in battery , suppose to be better than average phone because it has a small 6.1" screen at 60htz same brothers pixel processor but clearly it should have a much better battery life... 4410mAh... probably bad processor optimization

[@arjunvenugopal4763]

Bro got 22 hours estimated timing on 75% charge whereas mine shows around 14 hours when fully charged. And, discharges around 5-6 hours😢.

[@24bics]

Gotta love those "Like" and "Subscribe" balloons giving off old comic book vibes. 👍

[@TechOdyssey]

Thanks!

[@electro-pirate994]

Mine seems to have just gonw crazy bad thes elast few days went form perfectly fine to absolutely terrible, il need to run somw tests but its probably the battery

[@theorgazoid4918]

It's a total pain in the ass having to constantly adjust brightness manually

[@casualplays5356]

Mine charged to 80% but then shut down and showed 1%. Not sure what is wrong but it won't go beyond 12% and I can't update it either because the system requires 70% battery to update. Any ideas?

[@mjmmorales]

Ty 4 all your tips and tricks.🤜💯But is there any way I can have my Pixel 6A stop charging at 85%?My Samsung device has an option to do that. Basically I don't want to download an extra battery optimizer app. I found that my phone's seems to work better if I don't charge them all the way to 100%. Thanks much and God bless

[@pirnazarov007]

I'm from Russia, I watch your videos with a translator, Yandex voice acting. Since there are few such content being released in Russia now, you have to watch foreign content.

[@MF_OXF]

If only internet was cut off alltogether for Russia

[@pirnazarov007]

@@MF_OXF The Internet in Russia cannot be turned off. Because of these sanctions restrictions, they release little content.

[@JPower123]

@@MF_OXF how is that supposed to help anyone?

[@gatesbuster]

The pixel 6a is the worst google phone and my last. I still have my pixel 4a which had the reputation for a short battery life. I found the battery way better on my old 4a. I can barely get 12 hours on my 6a and I barely use my phone. I believe the issue is the google chip. As apple Google decided to install their own tensor chip in this generation of phone and they are obviously inefficient vs qualcom that they were using in the past. Google is JUNK

[@kbronx64]

Awesome. Just got a 6a and been having issues with battery drain. Incorporated alot of your suggestions - fingers crossed!

[@nachiket6286]

Did it help? Has the battery life improved?

[@gmailuser699]

​@@nachiket6286 no

[@simonharrison7582]

I love this phone I have the 6 pro too but much prefer the size of the 6a for every day use

[@mattthompson486]

Thanks for the tips. There’s only a few areas where the phone falls a little short but battery has really been a big one for me. Keen to see how the tips/tricks work out.

[@gagandeepsinghbedi1404]

Hi, is warm tone display a normal behaviour in pixel 6a? Pls suggest

[@rituparnasarkar2389]

I have the same qstn

[@rodrigofernety]

👐

[@Goz250]

If you're reading this review and considering getting a Pixel 6a please don't. Great phone but the poor battery life will mess everything up. Sometimes the battery drains while the phone is plugged to charge. I've used lots of Androids but this has been the worst as far as battery life is concerned.

[@noemtzangel]

I understand that the first weeks of use the phone has terrible battery performance since the processor is learning your "usage patterns" after those weeks the battery performance increases considerably

[@ethoimeitei5245]

Very better overheating, better 😡😡😡😡I, hat Google phone

[@hollissellman3369]

Thank you! Def leaving 5G behind for a while as my phone is overheating more lately. I live in the DFW area, so should be fine using LTE!

[@jamesrobertson504]

Just set up my new Pixel 6a after you posted this vid. Followed your tips. Battery life was fine. But that fingerprint sensor is driving me bonkers. Repeatedly getting locked out and needing to use my PIN code to get it unlocked. My old Pixel 3a's fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone was so reliable. Feels like I downgraded my Pixel experience for this reason alone (albeit the processor is much faster). Also got an Android 12 update this morning. After rebooting got pop ups saying certain apps like Adaptive Internet were no longer working. Don't even know what this is.

[@jeremiahokakwu5013]

Trying updating to the latest version, my fingerprint was giving me a tough time when I set up my pixel a couple of days ago. But after all the updates, It works just fine. Hope it helps.

[@jamesrobertson504]

@@jeremiahokakwu5013 Updated to Android 13 and still have the same problem with my right thumb, the left one works fine now (except I'm right handed, so it's a little awkward). Will try doing the right one over in setup and see if that helps.

[@jeremiahokakwu5013]

@@jamesrobertson504 yeah I understand, In my case I kind of have to place my thumb at an angle in order for it to properly identify it whenever unlocking. I'm already used to it now so it's not really a big deal anymore

[@venkatasubramanianl]

Really useful information! Thanks man!🙏🏻 - From India

[@himabimdimwim]

Preferred network type is not available on Fi 😞

[@leolight5369]

In the beginning the battery life used to be so bad, especially when using the camera that I regretted buying the pixel 6a. However last month's android 13 update improved the battery life tremendously. I also switched off "always on display", which helped. Probably the best value android phone.

[@AZ-ur2ks]

still worth?

[@gmailuser699]

​@@AZ-ur2ks nope

[@Angel_Peg]

For 299 yes

[@Angel_Peg]

​@@AZ-ur2ksyes

[@diangonzalez9224]

i followed all the steps and i hope this will help me with my phone thank you very much. what did not convince me was to change was the last thing.

[@rgt4848]

thanks

[@theautotechnerd]

Way off subject, but what are your thoughts about pixel pass?

[@harryphillips3457]

I honestly never believed a phone could be as bad as the 6a battery is crap and lasts 8 hours on average so means I have to charge it at least twice a day. Fingerprint sensor has never worked since Android 13. Also phone calls don't work if I have 5g enabled. How can Google support recommend a fix by disabling a main feature of the phone 5g. I will never buy a Pixel product again ever.

[@V1Salvo]

For me the Pixel 6a has been amazing! Idk why you're having all these issues. And btw, I usually get 8 -10 hours on-screen time off a full charge with moderate usage. Is that not good enough for you? Surely that will last the whole day - I mean I usually only have 4-5 hours daily screen time so my Pixel often even lasts two whole days.

[@prateekgilani6023]

Does this have inbuit dual apps?

[@krishlight7872]

Thank you, well explained.

[@anthonygriffin7893]

I've had my Pixel 6a for a week. I'm finding that the phone gets hot. I've tried a couple of things to reduce the heat but nothing has really helped. I'm considering getting a replacement device. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[@ZyklonFX]

I tried to hold my battery between 30 and 70% and it worked well. after a month the battery get drained a bit faster. im not sure if im using my phone more often but i notice the faster drain. anyone knows if its normal?

[@nandanbains1543]

Yes me too

[@gmailuser699]

Return it

[@ChadH2023]

My charging has been weird. The 1st night it didn't reach 100% after 6 hours. The charging status was going between charging and not charging. The charger is good, never had an issue charging my pixel 5. Adaptive charging is off. A few people had the same issue commenting on my reddit post.

[@mrsmokingskittles148]

That's not right

[@ChadH2023]

@@mrsmokingskittles148 ?

[@Hud1849]

I love this wallpaper. Is just for pixel 6a?

[@thetechboyorg]

You can probably get it on any phone.

[@saravanakumarsaravanakumar8692]

Hai brother, I got pixel 6a now... Which charger is best

[@TechOdyssey]

BEST Pixel 6a Phone Charger! amzn.to/3b2qzmL (affiliate)

[@debarunpal]

Thanks for the tips🤘Although 60 Hz rocks

[@joeldiaz141]

That's the first time I think anyone has ever said 60 hertz rocks so I'm just gonna go ahead and subscribe to ur channel.

[@debarunpal]

@@joeldiaz141 ha ha ha thanks Joel. I gave 60 a thumbs up because it saves battery. Much needed in India as I like to travel daily without a charger or power bank. Even more I am not that crazy about 90 and 120 Hz displays. And sorry I don't have a channel as of now but if I do in the near future I will definitely reach out to you. TIA.

[@achanonymous]

Honestly now, I don't notice it being "only" a 60hz display unless it's right next to a 120hz display. 4 days in, and I'm just used to it.

[@KEire1916]

Under - "colour & motion" you can disable animations that will also save battery while opening and closing apps constantly and other things like keyboard and things Edit: well I'm on Android 13 beta 4.1 so it might be different on Android 12 actually

[@achanonymous]

For those not on Android 13, you can turn off animations through Developer Options 😉

[@adriennejones2148]

Thanks for all the great tips. I'm excited to see if these tips extends my battery life

[@927yogi1]

after android 13 battery drains like crazyyy

[@TechOdyssey]

You have to give it several days to optimize and settle in, just like when you got the phone.

[@rddubbwright6283]

In 2022 we shouldn't have to do all that we should have great battery life on all devices

[@TechOdyssey]

Nobody said you had to. It's just a way to optimize and get better battery if you want. I make these videos for almost every phone.

[@BaldricksTurnip1]

Pixel 6a battery is a joke,so is Bluetooth so is WiFi don't buy one it's crap 😠😠😠Wish I'd stuck with Motorola phone.