How is your battery life on the Surface Pro 7?

Anonymous
2020-01-03T19:11:20+00:00

I upgraded to the Surface Pro 7 - 8gb, 256GB from the SP4 8gb, 256GB. My SP4 hardly got an hour of battery and would shut off on battery without warning, so I constantly had it plugged into the wall wherever I went.  I was hoping for much better on the SP7. Currently I am struggling to get a full 5 hours...closer to 4 hours. 

Yes, I know I use Chrome and Edge, a number of Office windows open, might watch some YouTube and Netflix. 

4 to 5 hours seems pathetically small.

Any other comments, suggestions or comparisons? (I know there's a need to 'bed in' a new battery in, I've had the laptop almost 2 weeks now, the battery should be 'bedding' in by now.

thanks in advance

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-04-19T05:43:57+00:00

    I am getting 7.5 to 8 hours of battery life.  Doesn't matter if I am just watching YouTube videos, or doing work using Microsoft Office apps.  Also, my Surface Pro 7 (i5, 8 ram, 128 ssd) was not new, it was an open-box excellent condition purchase from Best Buy.  Anyway, here are some of the things I did to increase my Surface Pro's battery life:

    1. Made sure all background apps are always turned off.
    2. Use Microsoft Edge Carney browser (Google Chrome is a big drain on the battery).
    3. Unless I am using it, I always have the Edge Carney browser closed. 
    4. I keep screen brightness at around 50%-60%.

    5. Battery saver mode is activated as soon as the battery's charge goes below 100%.

    6. Applied some of the tips from this webpage, "Ultimate Tips to Max Out Microsoft Surface Battery Life" (https://surfacetip.com/ultimate-tips-max-surface-pro-4-battery-life/)

    1. Instilled this update,  SurfacePro7_Win10_17763_20.020.2886.0.msi (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100419)
    2. Most importantly, uninstalled this update, SurfacePro7_Win10_18362_ 20.014.39957.0.msi, from my Surface Pro 7.  For whatever reason, removing this driver/firmware update increased my battery's life by around 2 hours. 

    Hope these things work as well for you as they did for me...

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-17T10:28:50+00:00

    I can't believe this! How could we win on a case like this. Unbelievable that giants step on people like that. So frustrating.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-17T10:24:53+00:00

    Me too!

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-17T00:42:43+00:00

    Pip.B

    Thank you for responding.  If your client decides to move forward with filing a class action suit I would be very much interested in joyning the complaint.  

    Thank you

    LouP50

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-04-17T00:14:35+00:00

    It may turn into a class action after all; We have a client looking into this.

    They purchased nearly 200 Surface Pro 7s, under the assumption (As advertised by Microsoft) they would last a full day under normal use conditions.

    Apparently not even one of those lasts the full 8-10 hours.

    Will be interesting to see what happens with this!

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