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[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Some people are claiming 5-6 hours SOT with the Nexus 6. Maybe you will get that? It's kind of funny honestly. I had an iphone 6 plus before the nexus and I was expecting decent battery life. I charged up the Nexus, put my SIM in, and off I went. I continued the normal tasks that I do on a daily basis, and after 6 hours my battery was at 45-48%. I was shocked! My iphone 6p would be easily at 80-85%. I couldn't believe it.

When you are used to a phone like the iphone 6p which you can browse the web for 14+hrs(per anandtech) vs a phone like the nexus 6 which is rated at just over 6 hours(per anandtech), it adds up to a real disappointment. My guess is, google will be flooded with returns. I know mine will be going back immediately.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I have mine set right around 50% brightness as well, have all Google Apps syncing and on Data with spotty service and these are the numbers in usually getting...
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
I ordered the nexus 6 online. If I open the box to test it out for a few days and then decide to return it, will T Mo charge a re-stocking fee? Anyone know?
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
what does "Screen dark" for 3hr 56min mean?
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
You should keep it!

This phone rocks despite what some say. I've never been happier with a phone. As for a restocking fee... No idea lol

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That's just how BBS gauges your screen brightness. It wasn't literally "dark" it was set to about 50% or so.

There's no question on a day where perhaps there is more sun or light and the screen brightness is up... My numbers would go down. The screen is huge and obviously it can suck some juice but usually I'm around 50-70% brightness I'd say..
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
i for one love the phone. but i am not in love with the battery life :(
[Nexus 6  General] mk92595:
Google search killing my battery
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
Also... I don't use Google Launcher or Google Now or Search or any of that Google nonsense.. Only Google stuff I use is Hangouts, Inbox, Calendar and on occasion Google + and I'm using Greenify.

Google can definitely suck down the battery. Also, I don't use Facebook, Twitter, or any of those apps.
[Nexus 6  General] ncraigtrn:
This was my usage last night before plugging in I went full bore on the device from about 5pm to 2am. Yes that's a short span but I logged over 7hrs screen on time. I am not sure how someone only gets 2.5-3hrs with this device even before is started modding it I was between 4-5. Crazy. I will say this though decrypt, root, greenify. And get 7+hours sot? And that's with 9 gmail accounts set to push. 0-2 bars of service and WiFi on whenever the screens on. Google now voice always listening. Everything set to full go. Only exception was brightness set to 50 with adaptive brightness on.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I forgot to mention my phone is also Decrypted. Not sure the difference it actually makes as I didn't really test it much Encrypted.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
I don't get of some of these posts comparing this phone and battery life to other phones (6+, etc). This is a 6" QHD screen. Most of us are using it at around 50% brightness with adaptive on. Also Lollipop is still very new and needs more optimizations. You can't compare to another phone that is not even similar to this one (6+). Still with all this I am constantly getting 6 hrs sot with google now, brightness at 50% with adaptive on, ambient display on, WiFi and LTE use, music, phone calls, 3 emails pushed, decrypted, rooted, no greenify. ? Oh and this is all on my 4th charge now so...
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
i wish that was the case for me. its not. i barely have anything installed. if i dont use it it drains. when i start to use it . it guzzles
[Nexus 6  General] ncraigtrn:
Try going down the rabbit hole. Unlock boot loader , flash no force encryption, root, greenify and see if it makes a difference for you
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
That there rocks well done!

Remember all, comparing battery life to another is futile as stated in the OP.

I come from the GS4, Nexus 4 and 5, now the Nexus 6. The Nexus 6 battery life, for me, is awesome!

Let's help one another here with tips on what we do to achieve good longevity. I'd like people to just post their usage and ss's.
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
i get what your saying. but why should i have too? i shouldnt have to do this to get good battery life
[Nexus 6  General] ncraigtrn:
I don't disagree with you. But if your only gripe with the phone is battery life. Then maybe its worth fixing that and having your cake and eating it too. I was very upset after my first cycle. So I thought well I'll give all these tweaks a shot so if it doesn't work out I'll return the device. Well it more than worked for me. Everyone has to make decisions for what's acceptable and what's not. If modifying your phone isn't there's nothing wrong with that.
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Mine guzzles it too... it goes down so fast is pathetic. I blink, I lose 10%. No joke.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
It just shows the signal strength, strong/weak/middling, not that you've had signal issues... Green is best signal for battery, red drains most battery...
[Nexus 6  General] neyenlives:
I haven't had any signal issues though. I have red and orange bars in the histogram but the device has worked flawlessly in regard to signal.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Because you have had signal... The histogram shows how hard the phone has had to work for that signal, not that you have necessarily had problems due to low/no signal...
[Nexus 6  General] neyenlives:
I see what you're saying now. Glad this device has the juice to pull in a good signal. I was completely over Samsung crappy radios owned them exclusively since the Droid Charge
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I really just don't understand why some people are barely getting 3 hours of screen on time, and some are easily getting 5 or even 6 hours... :(
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Different apps installed, different radio signal strength/quality/noise (high bars doesn't always mean good radio signal, just a strong one, can still be very noisy/busy and require processing power/battery to filter through) different sync settings for various apps, poorly designed apps installed, certain games that ramp the cpu far higher than they actually need to. . Same with wifi and BT radio (not that we are given signal strength indicators for bt)

I've seen games that if left on their own will but 1% per minute of game play... But using apps like francos "per app modes" can be underclock to 50% of the max cpu freq and still run as smooth as before, and need 2-5 minutes to drain 1% (depending on what, if any, other controls are set in)
[Nexus 6  General] Kendaihou:
Funny thing is according to my battery graph thing I'm getting better signal (yellow & green) on 5.1 but worse battery life I can't hit 4 hours S0T. On 5.0.1 I had horrible signal (mostly red) but way better battery life on 5.0.1. I would always be over 6 hours SOT.

My phone is the same, I didn't install anything different and the same settings. I'm on stock, unrooted and locked bootloader and with all the problems people are having right now with the rooting I'm not going to risk it.

So basically I'm screwed now.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Flash the old radio back.
[Nexus 6  General] Kendaihou:
I'm not confident in flashing anything right now.

Hopefully the update 5.1.1 or something will drop soon but I'm not going to hold my breath.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Have you unlocked the bootloader? (fastboot oem unlock)
[Nexus 6  General] Kendaihou:
Nope. Still locked as I said in my previous post. I'm just basic stock and I want to keep it like that for this phone.

I'll probably root and stuff down the line but not any time soon.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Fair enough, even if I'm not planning to root right away I usually unlock the bootloader as soon as I unbox a Nexus... Rather than have to wipe it later unlocking it.
[Nexus 6  General] Kendaihou:
Yep you are right. That's what I should've done but too late now hahaha
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
It's never too late if you care enough.
[Nexus 6  General] MVPete1:
New Nexus 6 user here, got one from Verizon Wednesday night. The battery life has been good for me. It seems like I get about 3 hours SOT over a 24 hour period. Just wondering if that's pretty standard or not. I'm coming from a 2013 Moto X which definitely did not have as good of battery life. I had a Galaxy Nexus before that and well, no need to talk about that phone's battery!
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
There really is no standard... I usually get 4-6 hrs sot over a 8-12 hr period, depending on if I'm at work that day or not..
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
It's definitely not standard. People have been getting 5-6 hours of screen on time with the Nexus 6. Nobody understands what causes numbers like 3 hours. :(
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
3 hours SOT over 24 hours isn't bad in my book ... most people i see get 5-6 hours SOT usually do it in 12-15 hours
[Nexus 6  General] Chad_Petree:
My theory is that the people who get 5-6 hours of onscreen time have deactivated ambient display , use around 30% of brightness and probably have google now and or have the GPS off ...

The absolute best I have gotten is 4 hours of onscreen time
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I have ambient still on, brightness around 50%, Google now is always listening, gps is on when needed (tasker profiles to toggle) I've averaged 5.5 hrs sot all week..

Using stock 5.1, with Franco kernel (default settings)
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
Completely stock?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Only system mod is Franco kernel, default settings.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
ok well that's kind of a big thing, don't you think? :P

I'm rooted, but otherwise completely unmodified. Having trouble even getting 3 hours of screen on time some days.
[Nexus 6  General] golfinggino:
I get 1.5 hours sot with 80% battery remaining I have the ambiant on google now on location on battery savings, I don't have the screen very high I would say about 25% which is bright enough for me

Currently running chroma ROM undervolted by 72mv

Battery life is similar to my stock unrooted note 4
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Completely modified, or completely stock.

If completely modified, I'd suggest flashing latest Google image, running a couple days bone-stock, see what it gets for battery life. Then add your mods back one at a time, testing how they affect battery...

Also.. What is the timespan that you get your 3 hrs of sot on? I'm usually getting my sometime over 7-8 hours.. (yes, my phone is almost always on, and being used for something, usually reading news or a book... Or checking something online...
[Nexus 6  General] EAK128:
In rooted and completely stock and I get 4.5 to 5 hours of SoT out of 30 to 36 hours of usage. Mostly Wi-Fi usage though. Gotta test only 4g usage and see how that goes.
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
whoops, I meant UNmodified.

It really doesn't make much difference. If going over a 24-hour period, I can't actually get 3 hours of screen on time.

10 hours or so, then I can maybe get 3 hours.

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oh god, this is all mostly with wifi. If I ever actually need to use LTE? I get about 2 hours.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Hmm, try nudging your brightness down slightly... I find 40-45% is still enough to read easily in the sunlight..

Also, what radios (if any) have you turned off? What colours are predominant on your signal histogram (battery page) wifi or mobile predominantly?
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
Whenever indoors, I'm using about 30% brightness. Only if really bright sunlight makes it difficult to read will I turn it any higher.

If I'm on Wifi, I have it set to prefer 3G. Otherwise, LTE.

So these times I'm getting are mostly on wifi at 30% brightness with LTE turned off.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Have you really noticed any difference in battery by changing the preferred to 3g when on wifi? I mean have you actually tested it? Or do you do it because that's what you've always done?
[Nexus 6  General] Chad_Petree:
That's not a tiny bit different, that changes the power consumption dramatically! ...
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
It helps a bit. And with 3 hours or less being the standard for me, every little bit helps.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Interesting...

have you looked at this thread

Have you used a wakelock detector to see of anything is using the phone when it shouldn't be?
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
I did. In this thread, actually. Couldn't get any hard answers. :\
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Did you try in the thread specific to the app you were using?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Adaptive display - set at halfway point.

Ambient off - dynamic notifications to replace

Location on

Google now active

Okay Google detection on

Bluetooth always on

Wi-Fi always on

Stock rooted with Franco r21.

Apps mostly used for the day

Tapatalk

Text

Hangouts

Tune in radio

Google play music

Chrome

Google plus

Facebook

This day I didn't play any games.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Please, when adding that many pictures, use hide tags...
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
I don't know why it is inconsistent, but my battery has been great today. I am at 25% with 2 hours 43 minutes screen on time. That is with me playing some clash of clans a lot today. I don't have that Google Play services hang up.
[Nexus 6  General] erapmicks:
That's not great
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Depends on how long it's been off the charger...
[Nexus 6  General] darkfangex5:
What browser are you using? Google chrome and browsing around fast murders my battery vs using email app, texting, and other nom data intensive apps. If i use google chrome for 1 hr thats 25% SOT. But peoples browsing patterns are different and im constantly loading, reading and closing a page.

Tldr: fast, constant web browsing = 4.5SOT at MOST I Challenge anyone with chrome to use it allot, ex. reddit constantly opening and closing stuff. And post google chrome usage with SOT. Alternatively my wife gets 6hours sot she uses imstagram allot (just browsing) with fb messanger. She gets good battery because shes not constantly loading stuff like chrome and rendering.

P.s. Tested both phones with pcmark battery test. Both got 47 sot per 10%. Down to thr seconds.

P.p.s. If anyone knows a better browser that uses less battery then chrome let me know.
[Nexus 6  General] Chad_Petree:
Is this normal ? 39% of app usage,, android system , kernel together make up for 18% , that sounds quite high to me

I want my phone to be able to reach 6 hours of screen time with 24 hours of usage lol :crying:
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
...so just to try it out, I disabled Ambient Display.

...and Android and system services used such a ridiculous amount of battery today that I went from 100% to 28% battery in about 10 hours with less than 1 hour of screen on time.

It's like, every single time I disable a major feature, the battery life gets worse. Is my phone just defective?
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Sounds like the thing that the sensor_Ind wake lock would do, what ROM and kernel are you using?
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
took it off the charger 2 hours ago. from 100% to 92%. didn't even TOUCH the phone.

I rooted the phone, but otherwise everything's completely stock. stock kernel, stock 5.0.1

looking at Better Battery stats, there are 2 culprits: smb135x_wake and wlan_rx_wake. Sensor_ind is a tiny part of this, as well. What are these 3 things?
[Nexus 6  General] Vahndroid84:
I think my battery needed some days to settle with the 5.1

now i'm getting same results as before. Phone continues to be awake by something i don't know, and wlan rx wake wakelock is always higher than it should be. But whatever it is...it seems to not drain so much to worry about.

Yesterday i had almost 4 hours of SOT, with 50% battery left after 13 hours from last charge (Always in WIFI). I think i could have easily reached 6 hours of SOT in 15/18 hours from last charge. The only thing i've done was to follow some advices from the google products forum, like turning off my phone when charging...
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
oh good, the clock completely glitched out and went to some random date and time when I rebooted the phone that can't possibly match any time zone in the world

THAT'S not worrying
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
Has anyone else been getting a massive drain from System (adspd)? I didn't even play music in that timeframe... And audio is reported as being active for more than 8 hours

I remember before 5.1 the problem was NuPlayer, but I thought that was solved?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 6 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Go to 5.1. It fixes the sensor_ind and for me help reduced the wlan_Rx.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Been off the charger since 8am, I think. So like 12 to 14 hours?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
14hrs on battery, 3 hrs sot, games played... Seems good numbers to me...

I get 4-5 hrs sot, over 10 hrs on battery, no games so.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Ok, left it alone mostly today, just used it about 7 min during the 7 hours of school today.

Today has been worse. I know a lot can be signal, but the other day I went through work and only drained 20% in 7 hours. That was soon after upgrading to 5.1.

Today I'm at 63%...

Any ideas? Thank you for any help, guys.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
First off, please, if you're posting that many images, tuck them inside a hide tag...

Secondly, it looks like you were on the school wifi, right? Probably a noisy network, meaning there's the cause of your wlan_rx wakelock, that looks like it was a big drain. You also had two processes tying the phone up for a while, (and since you posted bbs screenshots instead of the bbs log, I can't easily swap back and forth between my post here and the log to check thir names, system and gapps iirc) they probably had a bit of drain themselves... My advice, post the bbs log in the bbs thread here on xda and ask their advice on taming everything too..
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks for the reply. Can I do a hide tag from within the Tapatalk app?

And which log to use from BBS? Text, json, logcat, or dmesg?

My school Wi-Fi, does it matter that I was the only one on my particular WiFi network? My classroom has its own. And I don't know what might have changed from the day i got great battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I manually add the hide tag whenever I use it [ HIDE ] text/links/images to be hidden [ /HIDE ] (remove the spaces in the brackets of course)

Text is easiest for us to read...

It doesn't matter if you're the only one on that particular network, I'm assuming that all the school networks in the area are using the same (or similar) channels, so your phone is picking up bleedover from the others, having to wake up and check them) and other devices in the area firing off dhcp requests, etc, etc...
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Thanks!

any idea why it would be good one day and not another?

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B44...mh4dW9xODNVYlpLVkhWS3VN/edit?usp=docslist_api

Test
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Got 14hrs with 5hr sot.
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Not fair! ;). Any gaming or stuff?
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Nah no gaming other than an missile command clone.

Other than that just surfing youtube chromecast.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
So, are you willing to completely wipe your phone for some testing? If so, hit me on hangouts (I'm not hiding, so you should be able to find me there)
[Nexus 6  General] funkpod:
Sure. Let me see what I need to save. What will testing entail?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Usually if I'm having trouble issues tracking down battery drain (and bbs isn't helping, it does happen) I back up my data, make a list of my mods and apps, do a full wipe/stock flash and try the phone out naked for a day or two, to set a baseline for battery longevity. Then slowly re add my apps and mods and keep testing... Make a note which system mods improve the battery life, and which make it worse.
[Nexus 6  General] golfinggino:
battery life is great for me I have 3.5 hours of sot time today total use 14.5 hours and still have 50% battery remaining, here is what I am running

rom terminus

kernel elemental

undervolted by 72mv

underclocked to 2.2 ghz

the phone is still very smooth with great battery life and as I have mentioned before it is equal to my stock unrooted galaxy note 4

not sure why a lot of you are getting poor battery life with this phone ?
[Nexus 6  General] Red.Man:
Guys, check this post https://plus.google.com/+PhuongVh7/posts/MPHybDTDQGx and check if that happened to you or not :D
[Nexus 6  General] qqhorus:
Last charge I got 6 hours of SoT on 22 hours. Maybe I have a freak of nature?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Or better signal than most of us.. That makes a huge difference.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Before I plugged in for the night. Stock
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
what in the absolute hell... 38 minutes of screen on time to get from 100% battery to 50% battery in 20 hours

is this a joke? Is Android screwing with me?

what exactly is "com.google.android.gms"? Because it is waking the phone up 13.1 times PER MINUTE. 17,179 times total since boot.
[Nexus 6  General] ExjeetzZ:
Very interesting results

I have been having battery usage problems with every rom except stock or Stephen's AOSP ROM (http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/development/rom-newandroid-l-5-1-v1-0-0-t3051215)

Chroma eats around 2% per 10 minutes standby (3 hours 2 minutes SOT)

Stephen and stock eats around 2% per 5 - 6 hours standby. (5 hours 19 minutes SOT) Stand by time is 4 days by the way :)

How can there be this big of a difference? Other than the ROM everything else is the same.

I full wiped and did the proper flash procedure but same results.

Not only does Chroma tops at eating battery, So does the others like Rastapop (4 hours 20 minutes SOT), Clean rom ( 3 hours 20 minutes SOT), Terminus ( 3 hours 40 minutes) I haven't tested any other ROM mostly because i'm tired of flashing and reloading apps through Play store and setting it up the same for fair results.

Franco R21 was used on all of these Roms, The attachment below is for Stephen's AOSP ROM (What ever it's called, Sorry :/)

I was using Facebook messenger with my Girlfriend (voice calling and messaging) and watching youtube videos throughout the tests :)
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
Could someone with GSam check a thing for me? ? I have the process "adspd" reporting audio being active the same exact time the device was on (see screenshots, 57m 27s), is it the same for you guys? Because I noticed this just yesterday and I feel like my battery is draining faster than usual, don't know if it's just placebo or if something's wrong on my end though... Thanks in advance!!

Inviato dal mio Nexus 6 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 6  General] Robert7107:
I am getting roughly 20 -26 hrs.... Usually put it on charger around 9% that's when my warning notification alerts me... I have 4 widgets (google calendar, Flipboard,AccuWeather, clock). Brightness at 50% blue tooth ,GPS on....
[Nexus 6  General] Simer03:
My goal usually with most every nexus is 10% battery loss every 30 minutes of screen time... But battery surveillance is a curse, it'll make you go crazy!
[Nexus 6  General] pik1:
The battery life and drain seems so random. One day its good, or lets say ok, the next day its bad, and that without changing anything, being in the same environment, doing basically the same stuff... :eek:
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
I experience the same thing. It annoys me, I've checked allot of settings, but can't find annything that is misbehaving. Maybe I'm going to do a factory reset to see if it helps.
[Nexus 6  General] Chad_Petree:
Something I don't understand is why does gsam tells you that the kept awake time is shorter than the onscreen usage ? It doesn't make sense :/