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I bought a Surface Pro 8 a month ago and since then it has had terrible battery life. I've updated it whenever a new update was available but it's still giving me major issues. I logged in at 7:50am this morning and by 9:24 it had gone from 90% battery (I'm also not sure why 10% drained overnight while in hibernation?) to 37%. For an hour of that time I was on a Teams video call but I'm still seeing significant battery drain during other types of usage so I don't think it's because of Teams but I'm not 100% sure. Other things to note that I don't believe should impact it that much are that I had it on 100% screen brightness during that time because I find the screen disappointing dark (darker than my previous few laptops) and I had the surface keyboard attached and some bluetooth headphones attached to listening in on the Teams meeting.
See the two screenshots below. Can anyone help because the laptop is clearly unusable if I can't use it for more than 2 hours on battery per day. I'm shocked at how bad my first Microsoft product is compared to the years of using Dell, Lenovo and HP with no issues.
I purchased the Surface Pro 8 before leaving Australia and have moved back to Ireland so may have an issue claiming on warranty if I need it fixed?
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I don't know how any real world application can get 16 hours of battery. Lol Not that I ever believed it anyways.
I have my screen brightness at 30%, Battery saver is ON, refresh rate is 120hz, 2 programs open in a split screen being used and my battery goes down about 15% an hour.
I'm curious to try reducing the refresh rate to 60hz and see how it improves.
Other than the battery I do love the Surface Pro 8.
i7, 256SD, 16gb Ram, LTE.
Hey Johnny, thanks for the reply but, surely, a brand spanking new Surface that I fired up yesterday has all the latest drivers? Unless a critical update that improves the battery life threefold has been released in the last 24 hours of course. How can something out the box need an uninstall/reinstall of the software?
It’s like a Day One Patch for a video game but, rather than just being a few bug fixes, it’s 75% of the story being added.
It is an international deception from Microsoft already, they charged at super premium price but giving deflect machine, and keep replacement of the deflecting one, rubbish
Ramin.rostami is not associated with Microsoft in any way.
I really didn't see the logic of below answer (is this from Microsoft or the KOL for Microsoft??),
i am not just Surface user, I have Dell and Lenovo, using the same intel CPU, they dont have auto-overclock issue, but why only surface has? It means something happened to Surface which they cannot fix the competability with Intel . Every key branded computer using Intel / AMD / etc as CPU, I just see you need to follow their standard but not blaming the others to elude from your fault??
| ramin.rostami has replied to the question Terrible Surface Pro 8 Battery life - Nearly 1% drained per minute that you are following in Microsoft Community. |
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| this issue solved...problem comes from INTEL CPU auto overclock please do 2 post above ,link |
