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[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
When I first saw your FIRST screenshot, I thought "Wow... that sucks... It didn't last very long..." Then I scrolled down, and bam! 7 Hours of SOT! LOL! :)
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
Here are the latest. Today I didn't have much use of my phone. Battery life is much better. Here are the stats.

Sorry for spamming with so many screenshots. I wasn't sure which ones you'd want. So I just took a shot of all of them.

Is there anything that really stands out to you?

Thanks [emoji1]
[Nexus 6  General] CodeRR:
Hey guys, i got my N6 on Tuesday and i´m very disappointed by the battery life... I only have 44% left but only 1 h 5 min SOT. Is there something like a acclimatization time?

Thank you very much!

Manuel
[Nexus 6  General] Mr_S:
No that's not right. I'm on stock 5.1 unrooted and i got my nexus a week ago. I get about 4hrs screen on time which is OK in my eyes and i expect it to increase when i put a rom on.
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
Can anybody help me? My phone drained for over 20% last night. I'm on Chroma rom. I've checked my battery stats, but I don't know what causes the drain? Could you guys help me?
[Nexus 6  General] CodeRR:
I'm on Cm 12.1.... SOT: 1h 20min...
[Nexus 6  General] Mr_S:
That's poor! Id expect increase in sot with custom rom/kernel but we all use our phones different. Highest sot i see was 7hrs!
[Nexus 6  General] CodeRR:
I've ordered a replacment device at Amazon now. Hope it will have better battery! But thanks for your help!
[Nexus 6  General] Saad Ali:
I get 5 to 6 hours of screen on time.
[Nexus 6  General] pro4ever:
What rom u using? Kernel?
[Nexus 6  General] Pyvesb:
Hello!

I'm able to get up to two days of reasonable usage (SMS, a bit of browsing, updating apps, reading news, etc...). Quite satisfied with the battery life of my Nexus 6, even if it could indeed be better. ;)
[Nexus 6  General] pro4ever:
1st day with my new nexus 6 on aoisp got 1day 10 hrs 4hr 50 min screen on time :D
[Nexus 6  General] Brainfire2:
Me too.
[Nexus 6  General] teinwhite:
Please elaborate on your setup!

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] mademan420:
My best SOT so far!!!
[Nexus 6  General] ooofest:
I got that easily on stock 5.1 and 5.1.1 today has been a bit more thirsty, thus far.

Need a few more days to check this out, but I'm still not worried about going through a full day with reasonable amounts of background synching and browsing+texting+pictures+sharing apps time.

My Galaxy SIII couldn't touch this, for example :) . My spouse's Galaxy S5 is close to the Nexus 6 in terms of power consumption, but it seems to eat batteries and gets hotter during heavy use - we're on her third battery in less than a year.

- wader
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
MUCH better than my Note 4
[Nexus 6  General] tu3218:
Regret the switch at all? Debating swapping my note 4 out for a nexus 6. My note 4s battery has been suffering as well.
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
I don't miss my Note 4 at all. Buy a Nexus 6 ASAP.
[Nexus 6  General] mademan420:
+1 Made the switch myself about a month ago:p
[Nexus 6  General] tu3218:
Just afraid to miss out on the camera quality and screen. But damn am I tempted. Tired of running outdated, slow software!
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
Note 4 was super buggy. I've had the g4 for a little under a week and it's a great phone, too. I'm going to return my nexus 6 due to the battery life and overheating... Too buggy. Even rooted it for that reason. Still can't get half of what I am getting in the G4
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
The Nexus 6 camera is fine. Low light pictures can't compare to the Note 4, but in daylight I'd say they're comparable. I think the screen looks just as good.
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
Should I post Better Battery Stats screenshots on here for interpretation help or do you recommend a different thread?
[Nexus 6  General] BladeRunner:
This thread http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128 is pretty much THE battery life help thread. It's in the Nexus 5 forum but help is for all devices.
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
Thanks a lot.
[Nexus 6  General] mgbotoe:
I am seeing so many Ex note 4 users in here...this is crazy...making my debate to switch less debatable ugh
[Nexus 6  General] tdetroit:
Had the Note 3 and then the Note Edge (basically the Note 4 with the curved side), returned the Edge to get the Nexus. The battery life on the Note was abysmal.
[Nexus 6  General] hackdrag0n:
I'm also a note 4 refugee. I don't miss the lag, bloat and slow updates at all. Never used the camera all that much so don't miss that either. Note 4 has a better screen but honestly the nexus screen is still very good, you won't be disappointed.
[Nexus 6  General] MarceloSiciliano:
I think this is the best SOT my nexus can have.
[Nexus 6  General] mgbotoe:
Cut down Google service you will do much better.
[Nexus 6  General] MarceloSiciliano:
How can I do that?
[Nexus 6  General] BACARDILIMON:
dude great times. i get the same fools saying same to me in note 4 forums and oh well. i still going as they charging. whatever ur set up is great work on finding the happy middle ground
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
Come join us. You won't regret it. I knew from the moment I powered on my Note 4 that I wouldn't be able to love it as much as my Galaxy Nexus. I only lasted 6 months with that phone and I usually keep a phone for at least 2-3 years if I like it. I plan to keep my Sexus (I call it that because it's so damn sexy) until it kicks the bucket.
[Nexus 6  General] mgbotoe:
Sexes! Haha I'm getting it tomorrow :) price dropped so woooo
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
They dropped the price again?! Or are you talking about the $150 off deal that's been going on for a while?
[Nexus 6  General] mgbotoe:
Haha the 150
[Nexus 6  General] tykalx:
you dont know how good it is to hear this, im on tmo note 4, love it. but i hate touchwiz, always wanted a nexus phone, people been scaring me with the battery life but i work where i can charge anytime, and i have an external battery charger at all times. then i hear about the camera but im more of IG and FB guy anyways.

im hoping friday i can jump on the nexus.
[Nexus 6  General] bhint15:
Not looking for advice but I'm lucky to make 3.5 hours of SOT with a full charge. Running on WiFi or strong lte and already knocked Google services out. Location on device only and screen brightness at minimum with adaptive turned off. Running lightrom with underclocked cpu.
[Nexus 6  General] prdog1:
Under clock works against you. Rom probably working against you also. SOT depends on what you are doing. If playing games and streaming full time you are doing good. :cool:
[Nexus 6  General] hackdrag0n:
With the latest updates, battery life on the nexus is actually pretty good. It still lags behind the Note 4 but the gap isn't big (note easily got me through the day as does the nexus) and in a couple of months when we have android m, I think the nexus will end up being on top in this regard. Standby drain is incredibly low on M and the Note 4 probably won't get M until Q1 or Q2 2016 if Samsung's history is anything to go by.
[Nexus 6  General] JSNxESCT:
Stock Android M Preview 2.
[Nexus 6  General] gharris040604:
Yea lollipop ruined our note 4s, the Nexus is a beast with 5.1 updates.
[Nexus 6  General] brockkk:
Ran my battery all the way down tonight. Stayed on 1% for a whole other hour of sot. On m2.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Mine stayed on 3.5 hours at 1% on day 1. On day 2, it stayed for around 50 minutes.

Today it is the 3rd day. How much mA does it usually draw once it's 100%? Mine was drawing 1600 an hour back and now it's down to 146mA
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Okay do here it goes. The phone isn't charging till 100% when it shows 100%.

My phone showed 100% at 8:55 PM, but continued to charge at 1600mA for some time. Battery monitor widget showed charging the status as charging. After some time in dropped to around 400mA and then to 50mA

Finally at 10:50 PM, after 2 hours, battery monitor widget showed that it was not drawing any more power and the status was reported as full.

Clearly the phone wasn't charging to its full capacity at all and trickle charge is working as it should.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Several comments to that...

*NEVER* trickle charge a lithium based battery, they can't handle it and are not designed for it... This will damage them.. Although, unless you messing around with making your own charge circuits, you can't "trickle" charge your phone anyways... The phone won't let you...

Secondly, most (all) phones/devices track the charge of a lithium battery by the voltage level of the battery... Problem with that is, that the voltage peaks at approx 4.2/4.3V before the battery is fully charged, it will continue to charge past this (this is known as the saturation charge) increasing the available mAh in the charge.

So nothing in your post is out of the ordinary for the technology in play.
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
The first set of GSam (7/16 - orange status bar) is on Hells kernel B8 Mako, the second set (separated by the two battery screen pictures) is from 7/17 (green status bar) and is running Zen 21 with ZenDecision. In both cases on 7/1 release of Chroma, UC to 1728, governor conservative, bfs i/o sched., screen brightness mostly quite low. Got around 3/3.5 hours of SOT both days. I need 5+ SOT. Idk how people are getting it. I've had close to it before, but not lately. Forgot to mention that I also use greenify and a few xposed modules. Help please? Let me know if you need more details. Thanks.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Um... What's the problem?
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
I need 5+ SOT. Idk how people are getting it. I've had close to it before, but not lately.
[Nexus 6  General] Dachfenster:
Why do you use lightflow if you're on chroma?

Also, you can avoid the msm_hsic_host-kernel-wakelock with certain kernels. I'm able to do it with despair, don't know about the ones you use.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
App selection and usage has a large impact. Underclocking doesn't always reduce battery usage, and in many cases can increase drain depending on what apps are used and their cpu power requirements. Whenever possible, use dark/black themes in your apps (amoled screens only, which our n6 has) , and turn your backlight down as much as possible.

Signal quality has a large impact on battery life, and is entirely beyond your control. (quality = signal to noise ratio, and network congestion... Unfortunately, both of those don't have indicators on the phone...just signal strength.) if I recall correctly, even which lte band is in use can have an effect on battery life.

Check what apps you have syncing In the background.. Even things like a fitbit and smart watch can have a noticeable effect on battery life if they sync with the phone frequently. Turn off unnecessary radios... If you never use NFC or bluetooth, turn them off, if you're not using wifi, turn it off... Yes, idle power drain on these radios have improved recently, but they still have idle drains... And you're looking for every additional percentage point you can get to reduce drain...
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
I'm using Pitch Black layers, I recently switched from the 95 to the 98 radio and now get better signal strength, NFC is always off, Bluetooth is on because I have an android wear device connected a lot of the time. Do you think I should get rid of the underclock?

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I wanted to make my notification lights blink, which I don't think I can do without light flow. It hasn't really been working though.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Stronger signal isn't always a cleaner signal.. But nothing you can do about signal quality without moving. :P

I would remove the system underclock, and look at underclocking specific apps.. (fku allows per app setting, not sure if per app modes works properly on L and higher, tasker will allow per app config, etc)

There are apps out there that work normally when underclock ed to 1ghz, no drop in perceptible performance, but will drive the phones cpu to max.. These are the apps that should be under clocked..

Apps that need more processing power actually drain more battery when underclocked because they need to run longer to work. (more time spent at the max high freq, draining power, than if they were allowed to use a higher freq and finish quicker... It's a trade off and a balance point that can take a while to find..)

I have gotten over 10 hrs screen on time before, but only in a very specific scenario...

At home on wifi, using play books (underclocked) with the dark theme, lowish (approx 25%) backlight..

I know I'll never get near that on my standard usage.. 5 hours is a big stretch for my usage.. 3.5-4 hours is normal for me. I could tweak that a little more, but I doubt I'll get 4.5 consistently no matter what I do.

(this is why I keep a charger and portable battery block in my truck for work.)
[Nexus 6  General] Dachfenster:
Just wanted you to be aware of that the alarms by lightflow are pretty aggressive. Your stats prove that.
[Nexus 6  General] YevOmega:
K. Thanks. I saw.
[Nexus 6  General] tu3218:
Yeah it did big time. Battery life is horrible ever since. That's why I'm looking to trade on Craigslist.
[Nexus 6  General] bond32:
Used the wife's upgrade for a nexus 6 on Verizon. Had the note 4 since release. Its a great Phone but nothing like the nexus. She's happy, I'm happy.

For those of you wanting one just go to Costco. Its free on Verizon with new agreement. So with a $350 termination fee, its cheaper to get it that way and cancel the line. Plus it comes with a free case, car mount and charger, and Motorola Bluetooth headphones
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Except verizon isn't available here... So no special offers with it..
[Nexus 6  General] bond32:
Where are you located? The deal is online too. Even if you don't have Verizon service you're still getting a nexus 6 and its unlocked, provided you pay the etf.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Canada...
[Nexus 6  General] azz72:
Tesla Rom

T-Mobile

Full brightness

Everything on (GPS, bluetooth, WiFi ect....
[Nexus 6  General] graydiggy:
This
[Nexus 6  General] untouchablez:
What kernel & rom are you using?
[Nexus 6  General] graydiggy:
Chroma with his modified Hells Kernel. I also have some kernel tweaks of my own.
[Nexus 6  General] d08speed3:
Well sharing is caring lol!
[Nexus 6  General] graydiggy:
Too much to list. But I use Kernel Auditor. My biggest tweak is keeping 2 cores off until they are needed by the system. I keep the CPU load Threshold at 75%.the rest is just minor stuff that would likely be slightly different for you as each phone is always slightly different.

A friend of mine with the exact same setup as far as ROM and kernel goes cannot use the same settings as me without some stupid issues like looping at boot every once in awhile, or having wake issues.

It's trial and error to get the perfect setup.
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
No info there.

You could of left your phone setting all day without any use, where's the values like screen on time, etc.?
[Nexus 6  General] golfgtiedition30:
Rom::Broken

Kernel::HellsCore
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
I've seen so many post like these and I really don't understand what is the hype about? Yea 3 days which is just an estimate of phone just sitting there doing nothing lol I don't get what's the big deal when the real values are how many hours could you get of a single charge with how many screen on time.
[Nexus 6  General] graydiggy:
This really means nothing. That's just a general estimate of how long it might last with no use at all.
[Nexus 6  General] konfidential:
LOL...yep battery life is overrated...that's why I posted that... I'll remove it though...don't want to piss anyone off
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
For all of you just saying your disappointed with the battery life and your either not getting the N6 or your getting rid of it...

Why don't you guys use tools like Better Battery Stats and Wakelock Detector???

I'd think that since you're on XDA that you like to tinker around with your phones to some extent, not to mention you've bought a Nexus.

I do understand the argument that this phone should just have great battery life out of the box. But we know that sometimes that's just not true.

At the very least try running your phones with very minimal apps for a couple days and I bet you'll see it's not the phone, but it's the apps you have downloaded.

For example in another thread a user was complaining of terrible battery life, and I kept asking for a BBS dump file to help and guess what... This user had Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and some other Google Apps running non stop basically keeping his phone awake all day long.

Some apps need to be tamed, that's all I'm saying. I think that if I can get great battery life with the Google Apps and other various apps I use, that you should too!

Plus it's fun I think trying to track down things that suck down battery, it turns into an addiction for me almost.

Here's the Better Battery Stats thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

Try using that app and providing a dump file in there as well, there are many extremely smart people in that thread that will look at your dump file, free of charge of course, and give you suggestions!
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I do wonder why " cell standby " is quite high on the Nexus 6 , half the time its on around 1-2% on my Nexus 5 which is either right near the bottom of the list or not on it at all..

EDIT - Check this out : http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2mz5aa/lollipop_battery_drain_is_caused_by_mobile_radio/
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
This post is one I promised to Sprintuser513 and jbdan on page 22:

A tiny bit of history: So, I've been an android user for years (as you can see in my profile) and I've owned the Samsung Galaxy nexus, the Nexus 4, the Nexus 5, and now the Nexus 6. Aside from those devices, I have sporadically used some iOS devices. Most recently I was using an iPhone 6 Plus, which in my opinion, had a steller battery life. By the way, to the guy that posted about people complaining about battery life, and how it's THE APPS you download that make the difference, while I respect your opinion, I must say that I had all the same apps installed on the iPhone 6 Plus and the battery was still VERY hard to kill. Now, every morning, I have a long commute to work (about 45 to 50 minutes) and most of it is spent on the bus. When using the iPhone 6 Plus I would watch Netflix during the whole bus ride (I stay on LTE the whole way). When I finally get to work, my battery is usually around the mid 80's%. Today, being my first full day with the Nexus 6, I did the same thing, only this time, about 2/3 of the way down on the bus, I stopped Netflix and played a little Exiles (Crescent Moon's new RPG--graphic intensive, 3-D, Nova-like game), and then I played one of those Kemco RPG's. I am VERY HAPPY to report that when I got to work, my batter on the Nexus 6 was at 83%. Now, on the iPhone 6 plus I'd keep my brightness between 60% and 70%. On the Nexus 6 I lowered it a little--between 50% and 60%. I also removed Facebook and Twitter apps, and instead just place shortcuts to the websites of each on my launcher (as someone a few pages back suggested). I don't know how much changing the brightness and removing those two apps helped in keeping the battery drain a little more controlled, but overall I am happy with the results I got this morning. I think it's pretty safe to say that if I had played a couple of graphic intensive games on the iPhone 6 plus (like I did this morning), I would've probably gotten the exact same reading as I did with the Nexus 6 (83%). I am typing this on my work computer at the moment and I can't upload my battery stats screenshot through this computer. I'm going to jump on my Nexus now and try to edit this same post to add the screenshot. If I'm unable to do so, I will add another post with the screenshots. Hope this helps. I am feeling better about the battery life at this point, especially when you consider that the charger fills this thing up soooo blazingly fast, it's AWESOME.

Oh, by the way, I turned off the auto-brightness and the ambient display setting. Pics will be forthcoming. Let me know what you all think!!

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By the way, I had suggested a few pages back that maybe there's a pattern between battery life and carrier. I for one am on t mobile and as stated above, my battery life is pretty dam good.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Looking pretty damn good to me, i also noticed " cell standby" isn't on your battery list right now... now of course you've been using it so there hasn't been any standby time, but could you keep an eye on it throughout the day and see if it pops up on the list ?
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Sure. Will monitor.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Thank you pathtologos for following up with great results to boot!
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Just placed my Nexus 6 on my Nexus 4 wireless charger. Works like a charm. Sweet.:cool:
[Nexus 6  General] androidballer:
Good comparison. I am getting my n6 today, please post ur comparison. I'm concerned as well, given the price I paid to get it from Motorola, don't want to make any sacrifices. Thinking of switching to iPhone 6 or 6+.
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
I already did the comparison. It's a few posts above this one. Check it out. Good news for me, and you--I hope.
[Nexus 6  General] androidballer:
Awesome, thanks. Still feel like u had to do a little more compromises with settings on the n6. But overall I hope I have the same experience.
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Yeah but to me, considering the other "awesomeness" of this phone, the benefits outweigh the costs for me right now.
[Nexus 6  General] saywhat4118:
Battery life is good here. I don't game but calls, lots of texts, company email, google accounting sync, Google now enabled with location history, LTE most of the time, GPS on high accuracy. Device fully encrypted. Just thought I post here to help whoever is unsure about battery life. Looks good to me. It should only get better with software updates. Runs smooth as well with no lags.
[Nexus 6  General] InsaneJester17:
Anyone know why everything uses so much data? My phone has been on battery for about 6 and half hours, and google search has had the radio active for almost an hour, android OS 27 minutes, Play services 40 minutes, Android system 16 minutes... does this seem high? Haven't really used the phone much other than some texting and some reddit and I'm down to 57% with 1H 34m of screen on time. Can't see anything big draining it.
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
i am actually sending the phone back. everything else about the phone is perfect. but for the money i cant deal with battery. will it get better over time? maybe but i dont think by much
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
Going to give this a run for its money. Greenify and some app sync changes.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
It's so odd how some people are getting similar results to you, but then others are getting 5-6 hours SOT. Must be something going on
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
and i hardly have anything installed. no facebook non of that nonsense. not using it drains pretty quick. when using it. god does this thing drink. this is with factory reset. reflash and everyting

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also i read an article from erica the technology nerd. she already has sreen burn in. subpar panels eating all the power if you want my opinion
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Yea I saw her post, but tbh she's literally the only one I've seen mention it, seems odd that no one else has seen it.

Question, in your battery stats is "cell mobile" high on the list?
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
yeah it always is. i never had this problem with ANY cell phone i ever had. plus if you think about it . when you lower the brightness to a certain point. it turns purple. thats the screen telling you i WANT power.