{"id":623108,"date":"2026-09-21T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623108\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:40:12","slug":"the-pixel-11s-battery-drain-has-been-traced-to-a-sneaky-wifi-firmware-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623108\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pixel 11&#8217;s battery drain has been traced to a sneaky WiFi firmware bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the Pixel 11 is having some serious battery drain issues, as owners are already reporting problems with how well Google&#8217;s latest smartphones handle their battery capacity. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, it seems like some curious Reddit users have helped to pin down what might be the root of the problem. And oddly, it might be down to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/pixel-11-wifi-battery-drain-router-issue-3713311\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the WiFi firmware you use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-traced-my-pixel-10-battery-drain-to-a-hidden-tracking-toggle-that-ignores-airplane-mode\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img width=\"440\" height=\"248\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two Google Pixel smartphones with a battery warning symbol\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/two-google-pixel-smartphones-with-a-battery-warning-symbol.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/two-google-pixel-smartphones-with-a-battery-warning-symbol.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Related<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/i-traced-my-pixel-10-battery-drain-to-a-hidden-tracking-toggle-that-ignores-airplane-mode\/\" title=\"I traced my Pixel 10 battery drain to a hidden tracking toggle that ignores airplane mode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tI traced my Pixel 10 battery drain to a hidden tracking toggle that ignores airplane mode<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Now I don&#8217;t need to charge it before going to bed<\/p>\n<p>                        Yet more Pixel battery drain problems<\/p>\n<p>            Google&#8217;s batteries really do take a beating<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Pixel 11 Pro XL showing the Extreme Charging quick settings toggle as Unavailable while it charges rapidly at 17V\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/google-pixel-11-pro-xl-charging-power-and-extreme-battery-charging-off.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/google-pixel-11-pro-xl-charging-power-and-extreme-battery-charging-off.jpg\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pixel owners really can&#8217;t get a break. The     <\/p>\n<p> were never really solved, and now there&#8217;s also a problem with the Pixel 11 as well? That&#8217;s Reddit user&#8217;s Albamen13&#8217;s theory anyway.        <\/p>\n<p>According to Albaman13, their Pixel 11 was losing a staggering 2.5-3% of charge per hour when on standby. For context, it&#8217;s more common for battery to drop by around 1% per hour on standby \u2014 for instance, if it&#8217;s on your night table while you sleep. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GooglePixel\/comments\/1wl95ng\/pixel_11_pro_xl_idle_drain_traced_to_wifi_6_135\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Posting a comprehensive breakdown<\/a> of their, Albaman13 quickly discovered a likely culprit: the phone&#8217;s WiFi chip. Supposedly it was waking the phone 135 times a minute, stopping the phone&#8217;s sleep mode from engaging. This lack of ability to fall into sleep mode caused the much higher battery drain. <\/p>\n<p>It initially seemed WiFi 6 was specifically to blame, as a test on WiFi 5 lead to a much lower battery drain, and the Redditor happily left it at that. Only for other users to dispute their findings, and specifically point out their WiFi 6 routers weren&#8217;t causing this issue. <\/p>\n<p>Extra digging later, and it emerged that it wasn&#8217;t the wireless standard at fault, but appeared to be the firmware running on the router. Specifically, any WiFi 6 router using Tenda firmware seems to cause the problem. <\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"928\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Pixel 11 Pro Canyon vs 10 Pro Moonstone seen from the back on a desk\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/google-pixel-11-pro-canyon-vs-10-pro-moonstone-back-camera-hilight-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/google-pixel-11-pro-canyon-vs-10-pro-moonstone-back-camera-hilight-2.jpg\" class=\"img-brightness-opt-out\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an incredible view of how the troubleshooting process can grow from one small problem, and slowly reveal the true culprit. According to the post, routers from Tenda Mesh3X, TP-Link Omada, and Fritz!Box are suspected to caused the battery drain, whereas certain Huawei and Asus routers are clean. <\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s worth pointing out that this may not be the full truth either. Not only has this saga had its fair share of twists and turns, but it&#8217;s also an extremely small sample size. <\/p>\n<p>But all is not lost. It&#8217;s very likely this story will make its way back to Google, who may, hopefully, be able to diagnose the problem and fix it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also entirely possible this is linked to the notorious Pixel 10 battery drain bug. After all, no-one said there had to only be one cause for the Pixel 10&#8217;s problem. This may explain why so many were adamant the problem still existed     <\/p>\n<p>.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It seems the Pixel 11 is having some serious battery drain issues, as owners are already reporting problems&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-623108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}