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[Nexus 6  General] dcemtp1:
What were you doing? Just browsing web or like videos and snap chats? Lol because I get maybe 5 he's sot with just browsing the web, XDA and tumblr but when you comes to Netflix, YouTube and Snapchat maybe 41/2 on a good day.
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
WiFi from home, web browsing, YouTube, brightness on auto at about 30% on the scale.

Almost forgot, an hour of google music streaming.
[Nexus 6  General] DebianDog:
I think if you guys would put the phone down for two seconds you get all the time in the world. Running stock kernel stock BUILD just rooted with apps hibernated under Greenify.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Jealousy!!!!!
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
What is with these people and their full screen screen shots? They have to take up an entire page with their bullcrap?
[Nexus 6  General] GregNexus:
Stock rooted with the 1.13.3 lean kernel (this was a test kernel - for me with the best battery life/ performance. Just with stock settings from the kernel! Nothing has been changed like vomer settings etc, the GHz or just 2 cores online ..

I was gaming and snapchatting pretty much from 60% to 42% snapchat drained the battery quite fast (10% in 10 mins maybe). So without this i think the 11h SOT were possible..

& i have to say,normally i achieve a little bit over 6H SOT.
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
On airplane mode lol
[Nexus 6  General] indigo888:
Hey,stock lovers,look at this!;):p
[Nexus 6  General] pifsworld:
My battery life is really good since knocking off cloud print and having networks on 3g for some reason when I had it on lte4g preferred it was always looking for a signal and that drained my battery and its not hard to switch to g when I'm out in the city ,at home I'm on WiFi anyways..
[Nexus 6  General] Utini:
I get about 4-5 hours SOT during a 16-18 hour day. Then I still have ~10-15% battery left (this will enable batter saving mode + some Tasker stuff to save battery). So for me I can easily get through a heavy day of usage which includes browsing, mail, music, telegrams, phone calls, etc
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
How? Rooted? Franco kernel?
[Nexus 6  General] Utini:
Yup, check my signature :)
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Ah, it doesn't show up on the Tapatalk app. You like chroma ROM? Stable? I briefly saw it on the web view. Any other changes you do? I am stock with Franco, but i don't think I have seen much of a battery difference. I never got to 3 hours ost before hitting ten percent.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
I get that with stock....
[Nexus 6  General] Utini:
Sounds good :)
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
Me too. Actually, never been below 5 hours SOT on a charge.

Allowing battery saving location helps too.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I'll try battery saving location. Does that affect Google now or Run tracking apps? Google maps, etc.

I don't know how you guys are doing this battery, hopefully I can figure it out.

What launcher do you use? Any widgets? Facebook installed, etc?

Thanks for any advice.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I am seeing this on my Nexus 6, as well.

Rooted, but otherwise unmodified stock 5.0.1.
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
You can set location accuracy per app. I use endomondo on high accuracy. Most other things on low.

I don't do social media or have that many apps.
[Nexus 6  General] bigant262:
When you guys say stock rooted, do you mean a rom that is pretty much like stock, like cleanrom, or actual stock?
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
100% stock unrooted
[Nexus 6  General] spartanm99:
100% stock unrooted Nexus 6 32gb models. I have one and my girlfriend has one.

Screen on time is (from 100% charge) 2.5 to 3.5 hours of taking some pictures and surfing Instagram/facebook/google. We've had both phones for 2 months and the battery life has remained the same since day 1. After a maximum 3.5 hours on screen time, the phone dies. Dead. No battery. Terrible.

Brightness is on ambient display on hers, full on mine. WiFi is on 70% of the time and LTE is on 5-10% of the time. Bluetooth is off, NFC is on.

Probably the worst battery life phone I've had with screen on time - I got the same screen on time with my Galaxy Nexus and I got 4.5 hours with my Nexus 5 (which was better).

I have an iPhone 6+ on hand and I get routinely 7-11 hours of screen on time with that (full brightness on, WiFi on 80% of the time and when it is off I switch on LTE; bluetooth and NFC on too). Just for reference.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Guess it would be 100% stock with unlocked bootloader and supersu flashed.
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Do you both have similar apps installed? It sounds like something is definitely funny with the phone on ambient display, after 3.5hrs screen on time you should have around 40% battery left if you are using it all in one day without long standby times.

I can't really comment for the phone on full brightness, I've never run my phone like that, 3.5hrs might be the best you can get at max. brightness.

To solve the problem you need to look at the battery chart and better battery stats etc to understand what is draining so much battery.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Part of my battery drain might be my location, my school that I teach at has thick walls that make it difficult for signal to penetrate. However, the poster above said that his iPhone 6+ gets a lot better battery life, aiming they're on the same carrier. I just don't understand how this 4+ ost is possible.

Oh, i do play clash of clans. Does that suck more power than surfing Facebook, etc?
[Nexus 6  General] supercluver:
How do you set accuracy per app?
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Playing games drains much more power, you can tell by the heat of your device. If I play a game the device gets much warmer than general Facebook, XDA etc because it's using higher frequencies which need more power. I would say I get roughly half the normal SOT playing games i.e. 1 hour of gaming would drain my battery to from 100% to 70% instead of about 85% for general stuff.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks for the input. Also, I have a moto 360. Do any of you see a drain that's higher by using a smart watch?
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
Actual stock Rom. Flashed 5.0.1 image from Google's nexus factory image page.

No modified kernel, no custom recovery, nothing but unlocked bootloader and SuperSU.

I also get about 3 hours of screen on time, but I don't have adaptive brightness on, I have about 33% brightness on. And I'm not playing any games.
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
I just checked and it is all running off of that master setting under the google settings > location settings. Have to manually switch to high accuracy or device only to get GPS.
[Nexus 6  General] pifsworld:
I don't use screen adaptive have screen brightness on lowest setting and its fine when at home,also I have locations set to all battery save I've turned of cloud print I've put preferred network to 3g as when at home its always looking for LTE 4g,its not great and this 5.1 has got to sort these basic issues out
[Nexus 6  General] Red.Man:
My 3-week-old Nexus 6 (T-Mobile) just lasts about 2.5 to 3 hours of SOT without any heavy task. I even uninstalled Facebook, disabled Ambient Display, disabled wifi scanning always available... but battery life if still bad :(
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
Very happy with this.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
How in the world did you do that??
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
WiFi, auto brightness at 30%, 1 hour phone call, maybe 20 texts, disabled all of the stuff I don't use. I don't do social networking. Stock ROM, rooted/unlocked with hotspot hack. Location set to battery saving. Hot word detection from any screen. That is it. I also use my Droid Maxx charger to charge it because the turbo charged gets a little hot under the collar.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Can we see pics of your reception? That must be the other variable. Cuz I have the same set up, sans the hotspot, and I am getting half that.

Wait, stock rom, so that means not stock, but a rom you loaded that is like stock?
[Nexus 6  General] HoustonZ33:
Middle Finger in the air to everyone getting anything over 4 hrs of OST......now if you'll excuse me I have to go take some notes.

I get 3hrs, 4hrs if I'm lucky - If I knew the battery was still going to suck I woulda kept my Nexus 5.

Thinking long and hard on an S6 Edge....Sammy never let me down in the battery dept at least.
[Nexus 6  General] celeriL:
I'm in the same boat as you. SOT barely make it to 3 hours. I've noticed that we have a sharp drop in battery during screen use. Those who have 4+ hours, if you see their battery graph they have a nice incline.
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Anyone with bad battery, please post your set up, battery screen shots, better battery stats, anything we can use for info to try and help solve the problem.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
sure thing

This is all over a period of 2 hours after charging the phone to 99%

47 minutes of screen on time

lost 25% battery

absurd
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
In the first screen shot is this since unplugged? The smb135 wake lock is normally from the charger so it looks like the stats include charging time. The blue sleep one doesn't look good either, what are you using that needs Bluetooth?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I'm still on old one. Good point will watch for it and compare
[Nexus 6  General] aka757:
Older version seems to be slightly better than the side loaded updated one. Still getting mobile radio active though.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I posted ss with 6+ hrs SOT a while back I feel it is great that's more than I need. Might get 7 from today's charge. Is the M8 qhd?
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
I am barely getting 2.5hrs SOT with minimal apps running/installed. How are you getting 6 hours with normal use? Brightness set to 0?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I posted everything I'm doing on my phone with all app # and usage pattern check it out. In the OP as well. Brightness set to 50% adaptive ON ambient OFF. Also, if you decide to read through the thread, there are several other users in the 6+ sot range
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Only difference I see is ambient was on for me. I will set it to OFF and see if that has any affect on battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] Andre08:
I get OK battery life about a days charge. I lose next to nothing overnight, that's without the power saver on.
[Nexus 6  General] mayad79:
I am simply amazed with both the battery life and super charging. Coming from years of HTCs, I believe I picked a winner of a device. Perfect for the restless soul.
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
I've read every single post on this thread and it seems like there's quite a bit of disparity between users' experiences. I've been a long time android lover and for me, nexus has always been where it's at. This year I broke down and picked up an iPhone 6 plus (I know, I know-sacrilege) because I was curious and the device looked sweet. I've got it jailbroken and so I can tweak / mod to a pretty good degree. I like to keep my brightness at about 70% and doing so on the 6+, with HEAVY usage, gets me like 5 to 6 hours SOT. When I say heavy I mean checking email, constantly watching Netflix, playing intensive games (Nova 3, KOTOR, Bioshock, MC3, etc). Reading over this thread makes me a little concerned. I'm getting me nexus 6 today via UPS (from T Mo) and I'm gonna have to make a decision: keep the iPhone 6 plus and return the nexus 6, or keep the nexus 6 and sell the iPhone (I already have a buyer who's gonna give me almost $800 for it). I guess I'm hoping somebody here could provide some insight on my situation. Maybe someone who's had both?

Thanks everyone!!
[Nexus 6  General] treIII:
Not qhd but only has 2600 mah battery. But it doesn't make sense for the note 4 to get the phenomenal battery life that it is and the n6 not. There's definitely something buggy with the n6 . These posts about n6 battery life are so very different regardless of user.

Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Xparent Blue Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 6  General] NextNexus:
Interesting you said this. Coming from an HTC One M8, the battery on my N6 us significantly worse. What HTC device are you coming from?
[Nexus 6  General] Evo_Shift:
I have gotten between 4 and 5 hours screen on time which is drastically better than the Nexus 5 it replaced.
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Unfortunately you will be sadly disappointed in the nexus 6. I too had an iPhone 6 plus and like you, it took some heavy usage to kill the battery... With my new nexus 6, the battery tanks... I mean TANKS when doing tasks like writing this post or watching YouTube. For instance, I took my nexus off the charger 10 min ago and my battery is at 93%... I'm almost in the 80s where my iPhone 6 plus would be at 99 or even 100 still. I was really pulling for a solid nexus device too.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I've also been getting around 5+ hours SOT and one day had almost 6.

I think this will only get better though with future ROM releases and Kernels. I'm totally fine with what the N6 is giving me. Could it be better?! Probably.. But I'm not terribly concerned myself.

These numbers we talk about so much have so much to do with how a person has their phone set up so.. Can't get to bent out of shape over them.
[Nexus 6  General] NextNexus:
Same situation here. The battery life is acceptable when the screen if off but as soon as you start actually USING the phone the battery life is almost pathetic.
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Exactly. Once I really start putting stress on the phone (emails, text, browsing Web, etc) this thing gulps battery. It reminds me of my HTC evo from 5 years ago. I REALLY wanted to love this phone but I can have my battery sitting at 40% at 2pm when I have 8-9 more hours before I can get home to charge.. And no I'm not carrying an external battery.. I shouldn't have to with this device
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Reading a few posts i've seen people get 4-5 or even 6 hours screen on, no offence but to me that's hardly " pathetic" . of course thats usage dependent
[Nexus 6  General] NextNexus:
I put very little stock in other people's screen on time when I'm lucky to get more than 3 hrs with heavy usage.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Well let's hope some devs release kernel mods to optimize battery life in the future. As it stands I average more than my G3. I get 5-6 hours SOT depending on what I am doing.
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
I just took mine off the charger.. 50% brightness. I'm at 90% with 4minutes SOT... 4minutes!
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
What is your google settings> location settings set to?
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
The Galaxy 6 no longer has a removable battery, SD card, and the battery is smaller than the one on the S5 lol

There has to be something in your setup that can be changed to help you. I always get from 6-7 hours SOT and I've gotten 8 few times as well.

I don't do Facebook, Twitter, OK Google or any of that. I'm currently running Bliss with Vindicator Kernel, check it out, perfect combo in my opinion.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
No, this is since unplugged. There's no way that smb135 wake lock is from a charger. At least, the phone was NOT connected to a charger during this time period. and I need Bluetooth if I'm driving. But, again, this is just over the course of 2 hours. And most of the time, I don't have bluetooth on. I turn it on only while I'm driving. About 15 minutes of this 2 hour period was using bluetooth.
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
Today I had dolphin browser messing up and phone was warm and battery draining. Removed it and things are normal again. Runaway apps!
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
High accuracy. Is that a problem?

It's saying everything in the "Recent location requests" has low battery use...
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
That blows through the battery.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
OK, thanks for the assist. Here's my setup.

Franco kernel, stock settings, oem stock rom, moto 360, high accuracy on, cuz I use it for GPS apps, adaptive brightness, set to about 30%, ambient display on. The phone was in my pocket most of the day until about 3pm. 30%+ drain.

I never have gotten 3+ hours of ost.

Any input is greatly appreciated!
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
I disagree, I always have it set to high accuracy, and never have any battery drain. I just make sure that apps who don't need GPS, have GPS searching disabled in there app settings. And whenever I need a app which needs GPS, it automatically enables without me having to do anything. So just make sure you have your apps setup right. You can check your partial wakelocks to maybe see what have caused the drain. And also try a reboot, most of the times when I have some unusual drain, a reboot fixes it.
[Nexus 6  General] Gage_Hero:
Couple of things that are interesting, looks like you are running wifi most of the time which means you must be in the same area for most of the day, which means you probably don't need gps running during that time. Your cell signal seems to be weak most of the time so you might want to switch it to 3g and see if that makes a difference (green is good, anything else isn't). Also doesn't appear you have greenify running so that would likely help also. Other than Bluetooth I tend to not run things unless I need them at the time, if you are a heavy wifi user but don't need it when the screen is off, you can look into running tasker or llama to turn off the wifi when your not using the phone....
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
Are you rooted? Try greenify, and greenify clash of clans. I greenify it to and it saves me a lot of battery. I disabled ambient display, it's a nice feature, but with ambient display disabled I get one hour more of sot. But your biggest drainer is clash of clans, it's a big battery drainer.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks. The problem is, my school is like a brick cellular draining prison. Also, I have WiFi on, but there are different networks, so it appears that sometimes I am trying to comedy to a network when I should be on the other one. But, reception is bad, too, otherwise I would do data only. How do I switch to 3g?

Yes, rooted. I will try Greenify. Does using an app like that use more power than it saves? How is it different than a task killer?
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
When I have mine set to high accuracy it is the second largest battery hog behind screen. Sometimes first on the list of I have not been power using.

I disagree with you.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
If location is high on your list either you are constantly traveling or you have apps that poll your location frequently. Features like location history constantly poll your location as well as features like remote wipe and lock. Add in 3rd party apps that may also be polling your location and yeah most likely your location will be high on your battery list. You should look into disabling a few features or controlling an app location request by either hibernating it with greenify or removing location permissions from the app with apps ops. I have location enabled all the time with only location reporting enabled. Remote wipe and lock is off. I easily make it from 8am to 11pm with 4-5 hours of SOT with GPS barely showing up in the battery stats.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I have rebooted multiple times ,the battery drain has remained.

How do you disable individual apps' GPS permissions?

---------- Post added at 10:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:53 PM ----------

Also, how do you switch the Nexus 6 to 3G instead of LTE?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
If you have root install app ops and for each app you can disable location.
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
Greenify does barely use any battery. You should realy try it. I like clash of clans allot ;) But it likes to use allot of battery. With greenify it disables (Hybernate) it on the background. So it doesn't cause any drain when not using te phone. When you play the game it still uses the same battery, theres not much you can do about that.

Then as explaned, you have a app or apps which causes the location provider to enable all the time. By setting location to battery saver you do not fight the cause of the drain, but the result of bad calibrated apps. It is a way to go, but in my opinion it should be the way to go. It is like driving a car, and you want to go 80kmh, in my setup, I press the gas pedal to the right place, to get at the right speed. In your setup you have the gas pedal at max only you restrict the fuel supply, so at the end you wil also go 80kmh. Your way works and is a solution, but it is a dirty one. But it is your choice.
[Nexus 6  General] Red.Man:
After disable all things can drain my battery like ambient display, wifi scanning always, location, Ok Google (now from Google apps only), uninstall Facebook... the battery life still sucks, about 3 hours or less of SOT only.

So I think the problem here might be the quality of the battery. Will do a video test soon to see how long it lasts till death!
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
How high do you set your brightness level? I have it around 30% without adaptive brightness. I've you have it set a lot higher, the screens consumes allot more battery. But there are a lot of things that influence the battery life. If I do some browsing and whatsapp and stuff like that, I can make it up to 6 hours sot, but when I start gaming, the usage is much higher, so I will end up with around 4 hours sot. There are a lot of things you could try to save battery, you just need to find out whats best for you.
[Nexus 6  General] Red.Man:
My brightness level is about 30% with adaptive brightness enabled (sometimes without adaptive brightness but result not much different). I don't do heavy tasks on my phone, most of the time I just use it to surf Facebook (via Opera), other website via Chrome, open some normal apps and almost don't play game. Display always is on top of Battery stats.

How is your battery life when you just bought it? My device is 3-week-old only, hope its battery life keep getting better time by time :(
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
At the beginnen my battery life was a little bit less than it is now. But the reason behind that was that I was checking how much things like ambient display would use when enabled and disabled. I'm on cyanogenmod 12 with the kernel it comes with. And I'm very happy with the battery life en performance. Maybe you could try a different rom to see if it has positive effect on battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
Maybe a factory reset? Try to get a warranty replacement? That is abysmal performance.