Surface Pro 7 (i7, 16GB, 512GB) - Battery Life?

Anonymous
2019-11-04T13:14:39+00:00

I picked up a Surface Pro 7 on launch but I'm really struggling with the battery life, with light usage (a few office apps and a few tabs in Edge) I'm struggling to get more than 5 hours, even with Battery Saving mode on, brightness at around 20-25 and nothing running the back ground.

I've updated everything to it latest version, surely I should be seeing better battery life than this?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-25T13:46:03+00:00

    I agree with all concerning battery drain.  I got rid of my laptop and ipad to have one device and while I love so many features, the battery life becomes a hard stop.  I miss my ipad now.  I've had to buy an external battery to charge on the go and this just seems so unnecessary.  I only use the system for 365 type of administration work.  I rarely use anything like youtube or movie watching and never game ever...

    Please help MS.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-06T20:25:43+00:00

    Hi there, is there any news on how to fix the battery life issue? 

    On full power, video editing, I am at around 2.5h battery life - even if for this use case, highest performance is needed, it still is fairly poor. (i7, 16GB, 256GB)

    On battery-saver mode, just using a browser to surf the web I'm at around 5.5h - what's up Microsoft? 

    I tried several things from uninstalling non required programs to drivers and reinstalling updates. Can't really tell the difference to before. Any insights?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-06T21:45:29+00:00

    Unfortunately 5.5 hours on Power Saver and minimal cpu activity is 'normal' so there appears to be nothing you can do to improve that until Microsoft acknowledges the problem and provides a fix.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-10T08:23:17+00:00

    I have the i5 Surface Pro 7 and my battery is even worse. I can charge to 100%, unplug, and just do light internet browsing only with brightness at 50% and by the three hour mark I'm down to 20%. That's with Power Saver on the entire time.

    I have a Lenovo ThinkPad that's three and a half years old and I get almost double the battery life out of that. Very disappointing, especially considering the other issues I have had with the device.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-10T08:53:35+00:00

    Care to share the information on the other issues you are experiencing with the Surface Pro 7?

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