yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] snipes mcgee:
Oh wow. Thanks, but I do not need the whole school thinking I have emphysema with that oxygen tank-looking thing in my room...lol.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro Software Upgrading] jmallen:
I would double that!
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
What do you think??? :)

With not so good cell reception (as he said) and so many wake-locks, I think it's pretty good!

Here is the link:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexanderMaxham/posts/Q1KxyNrj8Wc
[Nexus 6  General] Dr Faustus:
Now lets see how the battery handles while playing Ingress!
[Nexus 6  General] frigidazzi:
I would be very happy with this if it is typical usage!
[Nexus 6  General] glitchhawk:
If I can actually get anywhere near this I will be very Happy.
[Nexus 6  General] _MetalHead_:
Not as good as I was hoping, but still reasonable. That's right around what I've been averaging with my Moto X.
[Nexus 6  General] chancy319:
Not good at all.
[Nexus 6  General] bradputt:
The wake locks are horrible!
[Nexus 6  General] pemz82:
I think that is looking decent, with 13% of the battery used being on 'Cell standby' it is clear that reception was not good during the day. On my nexus 5 when cell reception is good Cell standby barely registers on the list. Max of 5% usually. So would we be looking at 6.5 hours screen time if reception is good? Also no indication that battery saving has been used or not (doesn't look like it is, on the screenshots as the notification/nav bar are not orange). Or what screen brightness set.

Who knows. It is all guessing until more reviews are out.
[Nexus 6  General] blitos2:
Just what I was thinking :P

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Yes, same with me. On my Nexus 5 with quite good reception the "mobile standby" is less than 5%.

With that in mind, we will have more than this.

And see those wake-locks, horrible.

Probably some apps, services, or accounts need to be properly setup and configured.

More battery life from that.

And for more extreme, we can use darker theme :)

So, I am OK with this early report, it's a GOOD BASE!
[Nexus 6  General] gtalum:
It's a great start. I'm sure we'll have them up to 10 hours SOT with tweaks in no time. :D
[Nexus 6  General] Adipatus:
That is mush better then my Note 3... hope I can get this divce sone..
[Nexus 6  General] monkeypaws:
Battery thread = subjective . just leave that there
[Nexus 6  General] Luxferro:
I'm seeing similar wakelocks on my nexus 5 with the last preview. The one before it had much better battery life, at least for me. I think kitkit has better battery life than lpx19D. so much for improved battery savings in 5.0.
[Nexus 6  General] _MetalHead_:
Yeah me too. My N5 was charged fully yesterday morning and it just sat at my house untouched all day, and by the time I went to bed it was at 75%, which is pathetic. That's the last dev preview. On KK, it still would have been at 100%, or at worst 99%. I didn't investigate what was causing it, but that was bone stock without a single app installed. It shouldn't be like that. Hopefully the final version won't have that issue.
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
im not impressed. my G3 can easily handle 6 hours of screen time. But its tweaked to hell. Im curious to see the N6 with tweaks. also, does anyone know what screen brightness was set to?
[Nexus 6  General] journeyman73:
This.. Battery usage is going to vary greatly by different users that's why I personally could not care less about anyone's battery usage findings other than my own.
[Nexus 6  General] nexus6R3plicant:
Yes it will but it is also very nice to know about what to expect ... this should get just about the same battery life as the note 4 ...give or take 30 minutes
[Nexus 6  General] ilostmypistons:
I left mine (N5) at home yesterday and only lost 5% in approximately 10hrs on the same preview. Battery for me has either been great or horrible hinging on the signal
[Nexus 6  General] journeyman73:
I agree but some people take these findings to heart and if the battery doesn't live up to their expectations they have an aneurysm.
[Nexus 6  General] epphllps:
Should be solid battery life after further optimization of the OS and a little tweaking here and there. I will be happy with that. I wish my 6+ could show me screen on time bc this thing is a beast to drain fully just to calibrate the battery and it has a smaller battery. I can say nearly everything feels would feel like amazing battery life after having a 5s the last year. Miss my androids of the past and extended batteries haha.
[Nexus 6  General] nexus6R3plicant:
I can't wait to get some paranoid and miui on this phone ...
[Nexus 6  General] arcanexvi:
These numbers are actually not bad considering how bad the signal strength was throughout. The fact that they were on Wifi will help offset that somewhat but the phone was in a low signal area for the duration of the test it looks like.
[Nexus 6  General] bushgreen:
Can you check what file system it uses and run androbench to see storage performance.

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[Nexus 6  General] RCx240:
Seeing as my nexus 4 only gets an hour and a half SOT, I'd be thrilled to get 6 hours from a nexus 6. Now if only Google would stop neglecting the rest of the world outside the US, I could actually get one.
[Nexus 6  General] antiochasylum:
Has has no one noticed that he had "Wifi always scanning" turned on for instance when the screen was off and phone sleeping, it still shows as being on.

Turn that off you'll gain even more. If I can get 6+ hours on my note. I promise the Nexus 6 will be a 6 hour device.
[Nexus 6  General] Chad_Petree:
Wow ! That's horrible ! And I thought no one could get less than the 2 hours - 2 hours and a half of screen time that I get with my nexus 5 :(
[Nexus 6  General] galaxys:
Not bad but who knows until XDA gets the N6 in their hands for real time testing...
[Nexus 6  General] neyenlives:
It's at least as good or better than my Note 3, so it good.
[Nexus 6  General] VTEChump:
Need to know the brightness setting he used for this to be meaningful.
[Nexus 6  General] RCx240:
Yeah it's pretty abysmal. And even that's with a steady signal and Wi-Fi connection for 95% of the day. I've tried tons of combinations of ROMs and kernels but nothing seems to improve it. I know I should probably just get a new battery for it but I'm much less comfortable tinkering with hardware and want the n6 safely in hand before I try experimenting with this thing.
[Nexus 6  General] maamdroid:
Yeah, that is how my N5 goes...I have two, both suck ass for battery. I am on sprint if that matters.

Just got my preorder in today for the n6, looking so forward to a solid battery!
[Nexus 6  General] stumpy352:
These results don't count one bit. There is no app usage in his battery stats. Sorry, but leaving your home screen on for 6 hrs doesn't count as real usage as far as I'm concerned.
[Nexus 6  General] @work:
If it helps, my droid turbo easily gets over 7 hours of screen on time with a total battery life of just over 12 hours till empty.

I expect the 6 to not be too far off.
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Really not that helpful as to the droid turbo has a 3900mah battery compare to the 3220mah the nexus that's a big difference and impressive especially on a 5.2 inch phone.
[Nexus 6  General] bblzd:
There is actually and it doesn't look good for the N6. Proper testing conditions such as this isn't easy to accomplish but ensures accurate results and an even playing field between devices.

Also there won't be any significant differences in drain between each device, its just how people set up and use their phones that causes the mass differences in run times.
[Nexus 6  General] litrekid:
seems to me the reviews r all over the place. some saying the screen is dim while others say it is great. some say the camera is not good others rave about how good it is and isnt far off the note4. most say the battery life is better then the g3 which is pretty good already so im happy with that. then again i have seen screen on times from 2 hours to 6. its too early to tell and these r pre production devices too. there may be hardware and production chages to the devices being shipped to consumers. not to mention software. anyone making a hard decision based on these reviews are silly.
[Nexus 6  General] Semantics:
Most reviews are showing around 3 and a half hours SoT. I expect that to be much more accurate than 6 hours.
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Based on that measurements, do you believe that Nexus 5 can do wifi browsing for almost 9 hours?

Do you believe that achievable on real world usage?
[Nexus 6  General] frigidazzi:
This is exactly what I was thinking too
[Nexus 6  General] alitech:
You just contradicted yourself before and after your info graphic.

I'll repeat, there is no scientific way to measure battery performance because of all the reasons I mentioned above.
[Nexus 6  General] brizey:
So basically battery life will be fine since I will never spend a third of my day starting at a six inch screen.
[Nexus 6  General] roan.util:
I respect the folks at Anandtech a great deal. I read their site regularly. And I place more stock in their reviews than any other site. BUT, what you are showing is still a benchmark. No benchmark is the whole story. All they are measuring is how the devices compare to each other running one test. That is in no way indicative of actual battery performance. Is the Nexus 6 likely to have less battery life than we were expecting? Probably so. But is going to be worse than the Nexus 5? I highly doubt that.

The best way to look at any device like this before buying is read all the reviews. Average together their results with weights if need be depending on how much you trust each reviewer. Take the whole picture into account. Even then, that is no replacement for actually owning the device and using it for yourself.
[Nexus 6  General] alex989898:
Anandtech battery life test aren't really what we can call "scientific'.

They don't disclose their testing methodology. We only know that they use 200nits brightness for all phones and use a page that auto-refresh.

We don't know if they use the same network for all phones, if they use the same WiFi protocol or even the refresh's rate or the content of the page.

In fact, Phonearena, which also use 200nits brightness for their battery life tests, are as " scientific" as Anandtech (and their results aren't the same).

AMOLED phones have almost always perform poorly in Anandtech's browsering battery life tests (except recent Samsung's flagships but Displaymate shows us that recent AMOLED generations have in fact a far better consumption on whites). It's pretty clear that Anandtech use a mostly white (or pure white) page which automatically give an edge to LCD panels. Others sites seems to use a larger variety of content.

It seems clear now that Nexus 6 has not a stellar battery life but Anandtech's test aren't realistic.
[Nexus 6  General] lensgrabber:
The only way I can ever think of spending that much time staring at my screen is while in flight and watching movies. Even if that happens, that's what the turbo charger is for or that 20,000mah limefuel battery I just ordered. So what if it's not #1 in SOT. It's got enough juice for me. It's also easy just to sit it down on a Qi charger at home or at work for a trickle.
[Nexus 6  General] Bucky Barnes:
To be fair, material design has a lot more white in it. The Nexus 6 could do better if we turn on dark mode in every app, but most people with Nexuses are going to want the stock feel, which will be light colors. (And yes, I know MD has a dark mode. That mode is still pretty bright, and it seems to be used much less by devs).

I think an AMOLED panel was an odd choice. Not only is burn in a serious concern with the N6's on screen buttons, but LCD panels will just perform better with the design of Lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] bblzd:
I see a lot of people not liking the Anandtech results, firstly they do the most consistent testing out of any mobile battery test on the internet IMO. They are one of the few reviewers for instance who normalize for brightness level, as some have pointed out. This means they don't just set each phone to 50% and call it a day, they actually break out the measuring devices and ensure each phone is 200 nits.

What does that mean for OLED? That means it's pushing significantly closer to its maximum brightness level (258) than the Nexus 5 (436). Also this is a web browsing test and it happens to be using Android 5.0 so there is very little deep black to be seen during this test.

Everyone trying to poke holes in Anandtech's testing methodology you can calm down, they are still one if the best in the business. If you have any bones to pick with them try sending an email or twitter I'm sure they'll explain whatever you'd like to know.

This same thing can be seen with the 2k resolution Samsung Tab S 8.4 and 10.1 screens. Web browsing its battery life isn't stellar around 7 hours, but it can double that watching movies which have more black, potentially even black bars.

So the culprit of lower battery life will be the 2K resolution Oled panels which are not using Samsung's latest panel tech (based on pixel arrangement and brightness), something similar to the Note 3's but blown up and sharing qualities with the Moto X 2014. As always you will be able to save battery by using as much deep black as possible. You can see whole the review here.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8687/the-nexus-6-review
[Nexus 6  General] alitech:
It's all subjective from what I see. They set their own standards for testing battery life. It's never going to be an exact science agree to that at least bblzd

Their test have no bearing to real world usage and can't even be taken as an indication of battery performance. If they install a mix of apps and have background process always running and ad hoc usage patterns throughout the day, average it all up, I'd much prefer those sorts of results.
[Nexus 6  General] blitzboy227:
Well said...

Sent from my Android One
[Nexus 6  General] rockky:
AnandTech isn't claiming exact science....too many variables.

But this IS an indication that battery life on the Nexus 6 will be fair at best.

Good their sending the turbo charger!
[Nexus 6  General] bblzd:
You're right that it's not indicative of day to day usage, but then it isn't supposed to be. It's just the most fair and accurate way to compare devices between each other without random software interferences. The only way you could expect to match such numbers is by doing as they do, which is to disable all functions which may impede an accurate test of battery (those which would turn on at random intervals).

With all settings enabled, as it is out of the box, the N5 can hope to achieve about 3 hours SoT average over a 15 hour period despite Anand's number of nearly 9 hours of browsing time. The question is, will N6 be lower than that?
[Nexus 6  General] alitech:
I choose to completely disregard anandtech and any other website out their that do similar tests. It's all about how YOU use your phone. I can make the best battery deplete in 2 hours if I really wanted to.
[Nexus 6  General] bblzd:
That's your prerogative but there isn't a more fair and accurate way to compare devices that I know of. Again, it's not supposed to mimic your daily usage, it's simply setting each phone to the same possible standard. Battery life comparisons can be extrapolated from such data, but they can't from people saying "I got this many hours SoT!" and trying to compare those numbers for instance.

So when the options are people's subjective opinion about battery life, or a scientific method designed to compare battery life between devices, you know which one I will use when I'm trying to compare between devices. I couldn't care less about what battery life someone else gets because that isn't my usage either, and I can't expect anyone to have the exact same usage as myself. Only when the devices are normalized and battery life is tested in this fashion can I make an informed decision by comparing to a device I am familiar with.

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Google's official numbers say so, and my own (stock, unrooted) tests show it's certainly possible as well.

Of course it depends what you consider "real world usage". It's simply a fact of using the same settings as they did in the test which amounts to disabling functionality and having a strong signal, but not using any root level adjustments. So they are achievable but most people don't value battery life to that degree and will probably not setup their phone to work in such a way.
[Nexus 6  General] alex989898:
In my opinion, Phonearena is more fair because they use standardised 200nits brightness and use various kind of content and activities. (That doesn't mean their test are good).

No, you can't because the display's power consumption curve is not linear with brightness.

So the power consumption at 200nits will mean nothing about the consumption at 300nits (except it will consume more).
[Nexus 6  General] pedxing:
Anandtech's battery life test is scientific but not useful. If you did their style test with cars you would load each car with weights until it weighed exactly 4000 pounds and then drive it in circles on a track at 38 miles per hour until it ran out of gas. Then you'd measure how many laps or time elapsed. So that allows you to compare one or more cars for fuel consumption in a repeatable way. But it tells you nearly nothing because no one drives that way. If one car got 1000 laps and another only 50, then that might tell you something. But that won't happen with cars, let alone smart phones.
[Nexus 6  General] rockky:
I disagree. They've been useful to me. . I put more weight in multiple comparative tests like this than any subjective review. They are valuable in comparative referencing with the other devices..

And....the subsequent reporting of battery life of these devices is very consistent with the rankings in this review.

From this article I'm now expecting the Nexus 6 will have fair (at BEST) battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Another factor that the note 4 beats out the nexus is that the nexus has the low powered contextual processor that's always listening for you on by default. The note has it off by default.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I'm still shocked the Verge said the battery life was good,
[Nexus 6  General] Ketzal:
Just read the reviews. There's nearly 30 from all manner of websites etc. Nearly every single review, bar maybe three said battery life is pretty solid. During day to day use the phone got nearly all reviewers through a full day. Most claimed 30% or so left in the evening. Certainly sounds like an improvement to what the majority said about the Nexus 5. With such a high majority claiming useful battery life, I'm not remotely worried. It seems some people don't understand math. The much larger battery DOES give vastly improved standby and call time. So even if the screen draws the same power in relation to the battery of the N5, the Nexus 6 has to last longer. It's math. Every second you aren't using it, it is lasting longer than the N5. Combined with the battery usage improvements of Lollipop, the N6 will be a useful improvement over the N5. The massive improvement in standby and phone use alone would be enough of an improvement for most. If you want more gaming time...well I can't help you. Maybe, just maybe...you should do something else with your time. In my humble opinion, playing hours of games on a tiny phone screen (less tiny now) is about the worse use of time known to man. To think you only get one life and anybody would CHOOSE to waste it playing Candy Crush boggles my mind.
[Nexus 6  General] msal:
Your post is invalid. Candy Crush is AMAZING!

(Just kidding!)
[Nexus 6  General] Dr Faustus:
I do not play such a terrible game on my devices.

I play Ingress, instead. :cool:

That said I am hoping since most of the game is in black screen it will not suck up as much battery life on the display.
[Nexus 6  General] a1exus:
wow, 6 hours is sure impressive!

I'm using 2013 Moto X and my batter time is not same as when I just got my phone, I get about 5 hours of active use and about 2 hours of screen time and cannot wait to put my hands on nexus 6))
[Nexus 6  General] Ketzal:
Have a quick look at this video. (I am in no way affiliated to it)

Nexus 6 Review!: http://youtu.be/0GpXqH4EdS8

Usual non scientific video, but he mentions his screen on time averaged 4.5 to 5.5 hours over two weeks of use.

That's sounding very positive to me. It's also a LOT more useful than some dimwit telling us how many percent they have left at the end of the day.

I get the feeling that's with ambient display and location both on, so with a few tweaks, 5.5 to 6.5 hours SOT is definitely looking possible.

That's a fairly significant increase over the 4 hours I get on the Nexus 5.

I'm sold.

Just waiting for stock now!!!
[Nexus 6  General] fahadsul3man:
lulz , try doing something on the phone as well , instead of just turning the display on from time to time to increase the screen on time , believe me i can do the same on nexus 5 and nexus 4 and score more than that fail attempt to glorify the weak battery life.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogaar:
Whenever I flip the phone to landscape to watch a video on youtube or play a game my HTC Desire 816 running CM11 goes full screen bright green, locks up and then reboots in most cases. Anyway else having this issue? or know of a way to fix this? it isn't only on video's. games that flip the image to horizontal seem to do it as well.
[Desire 816 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajeshmanu:
I think its a bug in cm11...im havng this problem
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] roy.carter.7:
What are your favorite features?

(Mod Edit: Change title)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Boss428man:
You should just name this forum, "What are your favorite features?"

I have a Developer Edition and I'd say that the phones unlocked is my favorite feature. Of the note 4 in general there are just to many to list probraly that it is so feature rich!!!
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] sprintuser1977:
I've owned all 4 notes and the deciding factor has always been the s-pen. If the new nexus had one I'd be on that, but for me I use the pen all the time
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] guthrien:
The screen. Has a lot of distinguishing features, but I think that's the best so far. Definitely a sum of it's parts best in class. Without root, a bit harder to champion.

At work where people are very envious of it, is the pen and clipping features for sure.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] garwynn:
Changed title to better reflect topic.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 4 General] Hilfey:
The s pen and an SD card slot and I'd have gone for the Nexus too.

Favorite feature? Tough for me to say since it all works so well. I'll go with the fact that I finally have a smart/feature phone that actually does well as a phone (signal, audio, battery).