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[Nexus 6  General] spartanm99:
Sometimes I'm using it all in one day and sometimes it is spread over two or three days, but regardless of that I can only managed about 3.5 hours of on-screen time. The maximum time we got was 3.9 hours.

I just think that the software is not properly optimized for the hardware being used in the Nexus 6; Project Volta really doesn't seem to add anything to this phone either (with a 3220mh battery inside, the on-screen time should be a bit better regardless of the screen size or resolution - it is still an AMOLED which does count for something).

I've had a look at the battery charts on both devices, both show the screen as the main offender - there are no rouge apps draining battery. The second most battery-draining process/app is the 'CellStandby', according to our battery charts.

It just seems that despite the huge battery the Nexus 6 still cannot overcome bad battery life. If the Nexus 6 couldn't fix it, I doubt its replacement will either. Google does not properly tweak the software on their phones to be optimized for the hardware they choose to use - Samsung, HTC etc. do optimize their software for hardware which is why they can get better battery life (and camera performance, but that is another story). The Galaxy S6 has a smaller battery than the Galaxy S5 and is running Lollipop TW - they must really know how to optimize the software for the hardware in order to put a smaller battery inside, when everyone is putting larger ones. Google need to take note.

For the record: In the last 24hours I managed 3.1 hours of on screen time before the phone died and my partner managed 3.1 hours on hers before it got to 10%. She is using ambient display, I'm using max brightness.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Hey, I used Greenify on Clash of Clans today, and it seems a lot better! 11 hours of use so far, about a 1.5 hours ost, and that includes a 40 minute run. I have taken video ( my daughter's birthday today), played some coc, surfed the web, Facebook on chrome, etc. Here are my battery stats. Oh, and adaptive brightness turned off, set to about 30%.

What do you guys think? Anything else I can optimize?

It's better, but not perfect.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
It must be poor signal. I also have mostly Orange/Yellow signal in the Battery Stats for 90% of the time, and switching to 3G/2G does NOT fix this.

Would replacing the phone even work if the areas I spend the most time in have poor reception?
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I must have the same problem. Um... Motorola is supposed to be renowned for their radios, so signal strength should be great. If there is signal to be had. Maybe get one of those signal booster things... I heard somewhere that t mobile have those out cuz there was bad press about them not having good signal strength. If you have t mobile.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Do you listen to a lot of audio with the screen turned off? Also make sure you go into google settings security and turn off the remote wipe and locate feature. You're getting a lot of wakelocks while your screen is off. I see the chunk where you probably did your 40 minute run but your phone is awake a lot when you have the screen off. What's pocket cast? does it wake to sync audio sessions to your device? Is there anyway to make it sync only when charging or on wifi?
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Pocket casts is an excellent podcast app. I only listened to it today during my run. That was around 3pm. Hm...

Where are the remote wipe settings?

I thought also that I used Greenify to hibernate the pocket casts app...

Anything else that could be causing my wake lock? How do I find out?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Do you have something connected via bluetooth all day?

Go to app drawer, Google settings, security.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Moto 360
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Oh man. Is this normal for wearables to cause the phone to stay awake all the time? I don't know because I don't have a smart watch. The closest thing I have is my power pack micro. If I leave location on for it, it keeps my phone awake constantly won't let my phone go into deep sleep.

I suggest leaving the watch disconnected for a few days and see if your battery life improves.
[Nexus 6  General] Gage_Hero:
I use a sony smartwatch 2 with mine..... I disconnect bluetooth at night through tasker ..... it generally take minimal battery. Sounds like you have something else going on.... location settings maybe? I know they don't do well with the battery life..... apps maybe... twitter, facebook app? they seem to drain alot too.... I just facebook through the browser..... or greenify facebook at least. also found some of the weather widgets suck the life out of the battery if you use any of those....created a weather widget with zooper.... doesn't seem to take much at all.
[Nexus 6  General] Jess813:
Very tempted to buy this phone but out of 10 reviews that I've seen and read, they all day horrible battery life. Heck even my note 4 doesn't get closer to the battery life of my Oneplus One. Still though so tempting.....
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
It might be a different beast with the moto. Funkpod are you using Motorola connect to stay connected to your 360 and have the location feature enabled for it? Smart watch 2 doesn't have location feature where your phone can locate your watch does it? I'm just trying to figure out why he's got so many wake locks when his screen is off.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Well, it's like this. I have grown so accustomed to having my moto360 on and with me, that I don't want to not use it! ;) I love getting notifications on my wrist, and being able to interact with them. It's so incredibly handy. I don't have to take my phone out of my pocket for every little thing, etc.

Question, will disconnecting it at night help, cuz it is charging, then?

Put it this way. Despite mixed battery reviews, this has been the best phone I've ever had. It's fast, screen is great, speakers are great, and it's super super super easy to root and further customize. It's not a bad phone at all. Also, I read that charging the battery when it's above 50% is better than letting it drain and charging it when it's empty, so it's super easy to charge with Turbo charging, and easy to do with Qi chargers.

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Yes, I'm using moto connect... Besides uninstalling it, how do I figure out of it's connected or not? Mine has the location feature, but i don't see where I can turn it off. Does the App Wake Lock detector do something different that Better Battery Stats?

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I also am using Bubble Cloud Launcher. It has a great watch app, and it syncs your phone battery life. Maybe that's it?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I'd start with turning off features one by one and monitoring it and seeing if the wakelocks are reduced. YOu do see what I'm talking about right? Your battery chart shows your phone is constantly awake when your screen isn't even on.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Yes.. I do see what you mean now. Those tiny little lines that show up when screen is not on. Those tiny instances mean big battery reduction by the end of the day. Thanks for all your help! I thought BBS would have been more helpful. Like, it would log specific apps that were the cause of the problems.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
BBS did help somewhat. It showed me that you have bluetooth device connected for an extended period of time and is causing a wakelock that is not letting your phone sleep. Some of the wakelocks might get clumped together with the powermanager service wakelock as well and it's hard to identify. Since you're rooted, i'd say install FKU updater and install the franco kernel and disable the wakelock for msm_hsic_host as well.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Hello, I have Franco kernel now, but with fku free. Should I buy the full version? Can i disable without the full? Would using the conservative governor help, or does that make things too slow? I also have wake lock detector going on, too, now.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
If you have the free version I believe you'd have to edit a file setting in order to get that wakelock disabled. The paid version adds more features such as toggles and even options to change color profiles for your screen amongst other things. I think it's totally worth it but then again I had google play credit to burn.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks, I'll check it out!
[Nexus 6  General] tjohnsonjr:
My own AOSP built Odexed ROM with:

Location set to High Accuracy

Bluetooth streaming music

Connected my Moto 360 all day

Ambient mode off and brightness set to 30%

Normal usage.
[Nexus 6  General] INGfusion:
Hi , did smart security > trusted placed drain battery ? because my phone have 37% before I went to sleep , after 7 hours i wake up my phone already drain to 0% can any one help ?
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Not sure... I know that my battery drain during sleep is usually minimal, though.
[Nexus 6  General] Gage_Hero:
You have something else draining your battery. I use trusted devices and from 9 PM to 7 am loose between 4 and 6 %
[Nexus 6  General] INGfusion:
guys please help me on this calendar storage has a huge battery drain
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
Can you explain a bit more, are you rooted?
[Nexus 6  General] INGfusion:
stock rom 5.0.1

unlocked and rooted

with 3 gmail account

main account with all sync

2 & 3 gmail account with only gmail sync turned on

location on

i do have WLD installed , on wakeup triggers i can see that calendar storage hits 2471 times . 6hours of my sleeping and the battery gone down from 100% to 60%
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
try first to delete data and cache so that Calendar should be reset down. If you have a calendar widget in one of your home screen remove it or remove calendar and readd it once again, hope it helps
[Nexus 6  General] mimsiroll:
I can even make it to 7 hrs

Normal gaming wifi on all day and facebook and browsing, all good for me.
[Nexus 6  General] shard111:
Just so everyone knows, the new version of Google Play Services (7) is keeping phones from deep sleep. I checked myself, and it's kept my phone awake for over 16 hours now. No fix is available yet.
[Nexus 6  General] New Rising:
I've been getting great battery life with lean kernel and chroma rom.
[Nexus 6  General] ak47nerd:
Using Chroma + Franco Kernel + Rooted + Xposed Modules with optimisations made.

Ambient Mode: Off

Brightness: Auto-Brightness off, set at 20 percent

Using WiFi and 3G/H+ only

Never played a game (I have a PS4 for that :p )
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Any of you on chroma ROM experience the MMS problems?
[Nexus 6  General] ak47nerd:
I haven't had any problems with MMS except in the beginning. I switched my APN, and it worked again. I'm on T-Mobile.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks. That was the one thing that I hate when flashing Roms. It was such a pain with the MMS not working. Hope that all I would need to do would be to fix this for Verizon too.

Question, what is up with my wake locks here and the awake time? Camera?
[Nexus 6  General] pifsworld:
Since turning of ambient light and cloud print and turning of 4g data when at home as I'm on my WiFi anyway I've got good battery life,couldn't believe how much on time the phone uses looking for a 4g network its ridiculous.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Strongly agree. In in a fringe LTE area at home so I use 3g all the time. Even when I leave home. Tmo hspa is plenty fast enough for my uses. And if I need LTE that's an easy switch
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
I see that on my phone as the leading battery drainer when not using the phone all day.

My phone falsely turns on google now a lot too.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I had this issue, I fixed it

For some reason that update disabled the updater (the Wakelock keeping my device awake) for me

Had to download "disable service" and actually re-enable it, now it's fine for 3 days so far
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
Wow this worked perfectly thank you :)

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[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Did you notice proximityinjector service was disabled as well? Wonder what that is.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I did yea, didn't touch that one though

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No problem

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[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I enabled it just to see what it does. Only thing I noticed was that it added proximity location option right under Google location history in the location settings. I wonder if it's a new feature that's coming.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I got a Google camera wakelock?
[Nexus 6  General] resynx:
Oh wow, thank you so much for this info! Phone is finally not being kept awake 24/7 now :victory:
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
Also happened to me several times... It seems to be more frequent if you open the camera and close it after few seconds. I "fixed" it by greenifing the app :)

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[Nexus 6  General] crford:
Did you find anything out about this wakelock? I'm seeing it too and can't find anything about it...
[Nexus 6  General] paddycr:
Nope, sorry. FWIW I only had the problem with this wakelock when I was on rooted stock. I have tried a bunch of ROMs and have not seen it. I using Chroma now - looking in bbs the smb135x_wake is way down at the bottom: 7 counts and 0% in 7+ hours since being unplugged.

Overall, my battery life is pretty similar as to what I used to get with my Note 3 now BUT I cannot keep the mobile wifi hotspot on all the time like I used to. That really kills my battery.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks for the input! I tried Greenifying the app, but it won't let me because it's a system app?

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Hey, I'm interested in Chroma, I hear it's super stable and the battery is better than stock.

Would that be your words as well?

I used to get random resets using stock unrooted, and now i don't get those random resets anymore with stock, rooted, franco! I do occasionally get a random reboot when using the Camera app, but rarely. I'm using HDR+ at the same time, too.

I figure if Chroma or Pure Shamu are anywhere near as "stable" as stock is, I'll be happy!
[Nexus 6  General] A2CKilla:
Don't understand why people are saying battery life isn't amazing or they need to turn of 20 different things, looks fine to me and I haven't done anything outside of root and changing the dpi
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
I could greenify it because I'm on a custom ROM (Chroma) and Google Camera is installed as a user app. By the way, if you're on stock you should still be able to greenify it but I'll need root and possibly Xposed (sorry can't remember which of the two permits to hibernate system apps).

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[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
That's right, I remember seeing the option to use Xposed, but I was concerned about stability and whether or not it would jeopardize that on my phone or not. How you liking Chroma? You can see from my previous post that I'm thinking of Chroma or Pure Shamu for stability and battery life. Not as interested in features.
[Nexus 6  General] paddycr:
Been using Chroma for about a month and have been very happy with it. It is as stable as stock, although I only used stock for about a week :p Was using Slim before that for a while which was equally as good. Used Pure a bit too but the thread on this forum was a bit of a soap opera (at least around Christmas), which was a bit of a turn off lol. Any of the AOSP-based ROMs have worked well for me. The CM-based ROMs (e.g., Validus, Liquid Smooth) were stable for me too although they all had an issue with the bluetooth (unidentified, not widely reported) that made playback on my car all messed up. Been a while since I tried any of those though...
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
I absolutely love Chroma :) lots of useful features and stable as hell, no bugs at all... Also I'm getting pretty good battery life with it, between 4-5 hours of SOT on a 1 day cycle with almost everything enabled (ambient display, LED for notifications, OK google everywhere, location...) but battery depends more on your settings and apps than the ROM I think.

Also Xposed has been pretty stable for me, but it's also true that I'm using only few and not too intrusive modules (mostly Amplify and XGELS).

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[Nexus 6  General] DebianDog:
I am not sure what people want or are comparing to. I think 4 hours of SOT is fantastic for a screen this size and the performance you get.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I agree. Me personally, I'm only getting 2 hours of OST. I'd love to get 4 hours, even 3.
[Nexus 6  General] DebianDog:
Wow that is super sad I am NOT doing anything special I don't think. I run greenify and make sure all the apps that need to be hibernating are. Just pulled my phone off the charger an hour or so ago and the screen has been on the whole time , still have 83% battery. The only thing I can think of is I sit in a dark room and have the brightness turned way down via Lux.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] bwheelies:
Lately Google Play Services has been the leading battery drainer for my phone. I kept getting notification of 2 Google Now Cards and it was only the weather showing up plus one below that said 'more'.

I turned off the Now cards and Google Play Services is no longer on my battery usage list and I am back to the good battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] anexas:
Has anyone been facing battery drain due to Google Dialler? Have been facing a huge battery drain for the last 2-3 days due to this and I'm unable to find any specific information or post related to the Nexus 6.
[Nexus 6  General] jt415105:
Anyone know why Google Play services is 37%? Unlocked, unencrypted, Xposed, Gravitybox, Amplify, Better Battery Saver, Greenify, and Wakelock detector.
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
I think its system update in Google Play services that it's keeping your phone awake.
[Nexus 6  General] avatar_ro:
check this link:

http://xdaforums.com/oneplus-one/general/guide-google-play-services-battery-t2832525
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
A little too soon to tell but so far.

Better signal - GREEN GREEN GREEN

no Sensor_ind wakelock!!!

Android OS is FINALLY below Android System in the battery list.

I'm already at 50mins SOT and I just hit 90%. I"m usually at 25-30mins SOT by now. This is with same exact setup. I didn't wipe the phone or start from scratch.
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
How do I download "disable service"? Where do I get that from?
[Nexus 6  General] DebianDog:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wq.disableservice

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Thats whats up
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Anybody with 5.1 notice battery improvements? Is there a 5.1 .zip that I can use to flash in twrp yet?
[Nexus 6  General] Luxferro:
Android 5.1 is to 5.0, as Windows 7 was to Vista :p

Definitely for performance, and battery life seems a lot better too (but I haven't done any tests).
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I notice some improvements. Franco says there should be clear improvements because of the changes made but also it appears that signal strength from the new radio is better so you should notice battery improvements off that as well. cell standby is low on the list now. Its still early to tell how much better until i can do a few run throughs
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
Did you do a factory reset?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
no i just adb sideloaded the OTA update.
[Nexus 6  General] encephalon9986:
I'm on stock 5.1 and have 29 mins of sot at the lowest brightness at 89% and it says I only have 4 hours left....this is the worst battery I've ever had on my nexus.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I'm having a similar experience unfortunately, that being said I'm giving it some time to settle as I've been messing with it quite heavily today
[Nexus 6  General] encephalon9986:
At least I'm not the only one. I have a concert tomorrow night (10 Years) and I'm relying on my battery to last the entire night with no issues.
[Nexus 6  General] rajones19:
Hate to disappoint you, but that battery will never last 10 years. :D

Sorry - but somebody was going to say it. Might as well be me.
[Nexus 6  General] encephalon9986:
Lol true that
[Nexus 6  General] DebianDog:
To be safe force Battery Saver mode. I turn it on if I am not going to be near a charger even if I am near full.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
HOW?

I turned Location settings to Battery Saving, I switched to 3G and have better signal than with LTE in the buildings I'm in, and

my battery life is worse than ever!!
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I've also gone into App Ops and disabled any app using Location that didn't need it (it was over 10 apps)

and whereas before, I could get about 3 hours of screen-on time, I can't even get that much.

How is my battery just getting worse every day? :\
[Nexus 6  General] MHB1638:
Maybe the battery on 5.1 will improve after it settles and a few cycles???
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I'm still on 5.0.1. It's like my battery life is just getting worse at an exponential rate. :\

gonna wait a bit, heard there are some issues with SuperSU 2.46 and 5.1
[Nexus 6  General] Nikos_s3:
I flashed yesterday the incremental update zip from 5.0.1 to 5.1. Suddenly, I saw the google app at the top of battery stats. From yesterday 23:00 till this morning at 6:00, battery went from 100 to 85 and the google app was constantly keeping the phone awake (at 13:00 today, it was still top of the list with 14% and 9+ hours awake, while battery reached 30% with almost no use)!!!

I flashed the zips from the 5.1 image again (not userdata, so as not to erase everything) and I wait a few hours to check the result...
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Different scenario for my. 5.01 Google Search app was 2nd in list after the google play services update. I believe that was mostly because Location HIstory is now required if you want location sharing in G+. =(. After i flashed 5.1 google search app is tamed now. So far I'm satisfied enough I may not flash Franco's new kernel when it comes out. Bah who am I kidding :P
[Nexus 6  General] jakebites:
I've had nothing but great battery life on my N6, I get a full day out of a charge each time. I am running leankernel however.
[Nexus 6  General] Nikos_s3:
Well, I think I found the culprit...and that is Weather & Clock Widget Android and its widget ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devexpert.weather )...last days the app is not working properly, does not update and the widget tries to update all the time..as a result it comes to some kind of conflict with the google app (which is the app that controls the whole screen setup) and massive battery drain occurs. I deleted the widget and now things seem fine...Google app dropped already in the stats and it does not keep the phone awake...:)
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I guess if the 5.1 OTA doesn't help, I'll factory reset.

otherwise, RMA time :(
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I think 5.1 is better on my battery.

I don't think I have ever gotten 3 hours ost on my phone. This was with WiFi and playing clash of clans periodically today.( I played more on the morning, had to upgrade my Tesla Tower before I got raided! [emoji1] )

At 50%, I was at 2 hours ost. I have never had that before.

Anyone else like 5.1?
[Nexus 6  General] henhida:
anyone know where i can buy (online) new battery replacement ?

thanks
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I don't know, but that's my question, when we're a year from now and the phone's battery is starting to die, which probably is normal, what do we do about our degrading batteries?

How do we, if possible, do we get them replaced?
[Nexus 6  General] EmperorX:
My battery life has been wrecked since I sideloaded 5.1 on Thurs. It used to be incredible but now Android OS and system use the majority of my battery (even more than a screen on time of 2-3 hours, or more). Wtf!?