Battery
About how much battery does the game drain your phone per hour? And what mAh battery does your phone have?
Have screen dimmed all the way down, muted, battery saver. Still about 20 percent per hour.
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I had an lg v10 with a 3000mah battery. Pkmngo was so inefficient on that phone it was rediculous. Rarely could I out charge the battery drain on that phone and that was 3 months ago. I also got sick of it constantly ghost imaging and needing pixel exercising so a week ago I switched phones. My iPhone 7 is a wet dream for pkmngo. I lost about 10% battery per hour while streaming music and never touched my battery pack. While my lg v10 would have lost about 15% per hour while connected to my battery pack and only running go.
A buddy of mines android phone(older phone not sure which) would charge on a battery pack so it's not iOS vs android(I hate all the companies). It's purely app and phone efficiency and my old phone sucked. So if I were to recommend a phone based purely on experience for pkmngo it would be the iPhone 7 it's 1960mah and I hope others can provide different options outside of iOS with similar experiences.
Today I just bought a new phone, I had a nexus 5, almost 3 years old, I think it's battery was 2300mah, the battery drain was completely crazy, from 100% to 10% on less than 3 hours of playing, screen low bright, save battery mode but with vibration turned on and music too. I hope my new one is a lot better, it has 3400 mah, I will test it tomorrow.
LG V10 used the 808 chipset.
The Snapdragon 808 and 810 are infamous for being awful chipsets. Both had huge efficiency problems to the point where the 8-core 810 was frequently overheating as a result. 808 is a slightly cut-down version of 810, with two fewer big cores (4 low-power cores and 2 big cores vs 4 of each on 810). This reduced the overheating issues and made efficiency slightly better, but it was still awful. 808/810 (2014-2015) is the only generation where they actually regressed in efficiency compared to the previous generation. Snapdragon 800, 801 and 805 (2013-2014) were all more efficient despite being manufactured on a larger 28nm fabrication process (vs 20nm for 808/810).
Here's an image showing off the overheating (HTC M9 has 810): https://www.xda-developers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2000587739.jpeg
But I'm happy to report that Qualcomm fixed their shit with this generation; the Snapdragon 820/821 chipsets. Now that's a very good chipset.
I've got the 820 snapdragon, 3500 mah. It's the freaking screen that's killing the battery too. It's using an equal amount of power as pogo.
Still gets hot unexpectedly while running the app, not like my last phone (m7 lol, it would get so hot I would have to set it down). I understand this game is a battery hog but damn! It's sucking it down.
2330mAh, Snapdragon 800 (chipset matters a lot, also, model is Nexus 5 for those curious)
I can go about 3 hours when using minimum adaptive brightness. A bit less when it's bright outside, but I live in the north, so it's dark almost constantly. I don't use battery saver because that makes the game too laggy for me.
Getting a Oneplus 3T soon, so that should hopefully help a lot (3400mAh+super-fast charging, woop).
