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[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
But again, 4.5hrs is respectable for the n6, only thing left is controlled underclocking and third party kernels.
[Nexus 6  General] Andrew149:
Right, is 5.1 a battery hog? And would it be better to go to 5.0.1?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Nexus are all battery hogs..
[Nexus 6  General] Andrew149:
Anyone notice better battery life being decrypted????
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Not to shabby.
[Nexus 6  General] organick87:
thought I'd share my studies with ya'll !!!

Been at it a little while with Amplify and BBS trying to get lower battery drain and these are my current settings that I've been altering and what not up until now. It never seemed that any notifications would come late or anything. SMS, social media and email all working as well as location-based services. However, I can't take credit for any of the initial hard work, you can find all that here. Celestial Fury did a great job outlining some of these things. I've been following this thread for some weeks now and it's been updated and changed a time or two. For me, no dev status or anything, this is a great guide to feel a little safer about toying with these wakelocks and such. Someone with more experience than me having success with limiting [many] of the same items as I was looking to from my own BBS results. I don't have a screenshot of it right now as I've been on my phone since waking up this morning, but I can achieve 98% deep sleep overnight (7-9 hours) pretty regularly with location on as well, and I believe I achieved 99% once. A-OKAY in my book! Also, I don't have any SoT stats for you as I usually don't let my phone get down to 0-1%, not even for the sake of my own little battery study. Hope this info can assist with everyone's journey to have the battery life OEMs should ship their devices with--until those crazy solar powered/charging screens come out lol! UNLIMITED CHARGE!!!

PS - Wakelock Detector seems to be the first thing that comes up when Googling any phrase with "wakelock" in it. My experience with this app is no good as it didn't showcase the info in the right way for me to grasp and it also follows that BBS seems to be the "official" tool for pretty much any battery related diagnoses when browsing forum posts.
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
And still 16% left stock 5.1 I have not rooted yet. I disabled 4g though because there is no need for it. Except that everything is running fine
[Nexus 6  General] PR0707YP3:
Guyss i witnessed a weird thing. At night when i slept i put my phone is airplane mode and turned on battery saver. Then i had around 55% battery and when i woke up at 9 o'clock there is just 8% battery left. The phone shows it was awake all the time but the screen was off. Android Os consumed the most battery at 23%. Around 4h15m. Yesterday also a similar thing happened. Btw i am on stock non rooted locked bootloader.
[Nexus 6  General] xtcdk:
Wakelock detector ??

Shamu/Hammerhead/Flounder Dkwhq
[Nexus 6  General] PR0707YP3:
I am not rooted.
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Nexus but no root? :(
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Why is he required to root his Nexus? Just because he's not using his phone the way you do doesn't mean it's wrong.
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Touchy touchy. No one said anything about being required to root a Nexus, it's just on the unusual side.
[Nexus 6  General] PR0707YP3:
Rooting was never my priority. I wanted to enjoy the phone stock as it is. I am quite familiar with rooting also so that is also not a problem. Btw i was planning to root and flash a custom rom anytime soon. [MENTION=5936947]Delboyd12[/MENTION] it is my choice whether i want to root it not it's my device and i paid for it so u can just keep mum. Don't talk **** if u can't tell any solution to the problem i faced. [MENTION=4860519]Tzfardaya[/MENTION] thanxx buddy for the support.
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Hahahahaha do you genuinely have issues or something? I was curious as to why you haven't rooted your phone, don't go crying to your mummy...
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
There are many of us.

I'm not rooted either, bought the Nexus for that reason exactly. No bloatware, No carrier crap, and I was told, all updates directly from google. To bad the last point is not the way it is. But the phone runs good, and I easily get a day out of it with out having to charge midstream. First phone I've had that I did not need to root just to get rid of **** I did not want on my device. Android Auto works good with my Pioneer NEX head unit and even without the WiFi calling update from T Mo I get fair reception throughout my house, which is a first for any phone I've had previously. But I'll be jumping ship soon, just have to make sure AA works on whatever device I might get next, and of course than I'll have to root.
[Nexus 6  General] Evo01:
I've been having the same issues. I flashed the 5.0.1 factory image and then got the ota for 5.1(LMY47E). Every thing was fine until I put my phone in airplane mode at work. When I turned the phone back on and turned off airplane mode this was the result.
[Nexus 6  General] organick87:
control wakelocks/alarms WITHOUT Xposed Framework??

Is it possible or are there any apps that allow control over wakelocks/alarms other than Amplify? Just flashed Chroma and apparently it doesn't play too well with Xposed so I am trying to rid of the need to use it and the only function I can't find a solution for is wakelocks/alarms.

I have BBS and I have Servicely (trying as of yesterday to see how it compares to Greenify).

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

I've searched Google, but right off the bat there are no results except for those promoting Amplify..
[Nexus 6  General] A2CKilla:
Since 5.1.1 I'm getting 2 days on average with moderate to heavy usage now...whatever Google did with this update they better not break it. Running on sprint and average SOT is usually between 1-3 hours
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Chroma from 27th may and hellscore b6 Zen, great combination.

Facebook, chrome, XDA and downloading about 1gb on WiFi to watch on iPlayer which was about 2.5 hours of the screen time.
[Nexus 6  General] alias3800:
For what it's worth, I'm having somewhat of the same situation as you. Also non-rooted Nexus 6 (because I like that, with this phone, I don't HAVE to mess around with it like a science experiment to get it to function properly), and android OS seems a bit high. Could it be because of the new Photos app? I'm wondering if it's temporary.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
can someone tell me how long does it usually takes to charge nexus 6 via turbo charge from 1-100%? mine used to take 90 odd minutes, but now its taking almost 2 hrs to fully charge? what could be the reason and any fix?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Make sure the USB cable is FULLY plugged in to the wall wart
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
it is fully plugged in, still taking almost 2 hrs to charge, it used to be charged in 1 hr and 15 mins tops
[Nexus 6  General] Andrew149:
Change cables
[Nexus 6  General] pifsworld:
I've found that when it gets to 80% take it off charge and then plug it back in straight away.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
Yeah I've tried many cables,all give the same time
[Nexus 6  General] alias3800:
Is something syncing? Maybe the photos app or something intensive that only syncs when charging?

My phone is new, on 5.1.1, and from what I've seen, turbo charging takes the supposed 1h30-ish minutes.
[Nexus 6  General] Thrillhouse847:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibcu17hxhor5owq/Screenshot_2015-06-02-18-44-55.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aud4tfo0u1cn3ma/Screenshot_2015-06-02-18-45-02.png?dl=0

Just over four hours screen on time over the course of about a-day-and-a-quarter. Not too shabby, I think.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] dray_jr:
my battery life so far is great i unplugged my phone yesterday around 7:30AM and it is still running at 35% today below are my screenshots
[Nexus 6  General] DrexelDragon:
Hey guys, can anyone who has possibly owned the Nexus 6 and the Galaxy S6 compare their battery lives for me? Thinking about switching back to the N6 since I'm unhappy with the S6 battery life
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
Ever since I've got the Tmobile wifi calling update, I've noticed that when Im using a work wifi and I go to airplane mode (just turning on Wifi) the cell signal turns red and continues to drain battery. This doesnt happen when Im at home, does anyone know why? I turn off the cell signal (since I dont get any) and just turn on the wifi to get the wifi calling. Any way to get the signal to truly turn off while at work so it doesnt drain my battery?
[Nexus 6  General] kEvinErd:
I've used s6 for 1 week before going back to my Nexus 6. For the exact same usage pattern, s6 yields 4-4.5 hrs screen time while Nexus 6 yields 3.5-4 hrs. Both phones completely stock.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
That's nice.
[Nexus 6  General] Firschi:
hi folks,

right after I updated my rooted N6 to 5.1.1 (LMY47Z) I experienced a decrease in terms of screen on time. With 5.1 the phone consumed about 1% battery while in airplane mode for about 7 hours. After the update the battery drops by at least 5% under the exact same circumstances.
[Nexus 6  General] barondebxl:
So you went back to the Nexus 6 despite having better battery life with the S6?
[Nexus 6  General] deanb1234:
I used the s6 for 14 days (I returned it at the last minute!!) before going back to the N6. I am a pretty heavy phone user with an average of 3-4 hours screen on time, multiple email accounts with push sync exchange/gmail, battery saving location settings, sms syncing to my pc, Android Wear Bluetooth connection, and my daughter playing games in the evening. With the S6 I was hitting 5% or dead before I left work for the day. and had to charge it on my way home and most of the evening. With the N6 I am usually around 15-35% when I go to bed.

My boss also tried the S6 and had atrocious battery life, but I had a friend get the S6 and his battery life was amazing, almost two days and he's a heavy user too. Not sure why his was so amazing, I mimicked his settings and was unable to come anywhere near his battery life, neither was my boss. I am curious if maybe Samsung is having troubles with battery manufacturing or something? :confused:

None the less I went back to the N6 without a second thought. Between the battery life and the horrid touchwiz :silly: the N6 was a no brainier.
[Nexus 6  General] alias3800:
Man... I've been searching for it but haven't found too much directly mentioning it on this thread.

My specific question is, using GSAM, what is "Phone Radio" averaging for you guys? Moreover, those of you who aren't on WIFI all day (9-5ers in the house?). Yesterday, mine was sky high, 40-50% of battery usage. I reset my APN settings to default and that seems to be helping. But it's still hovering between 15-20%. One thing to note is that the LTE signal is mediocre to weak in my building, and the phone refuses to drop to HSPA+.. I don't know if that's the culprit.

Two last things : First, yesterday my SOT was near 5hrs, but a lot of it was hours of Pandora streaming and using the phone on low brightness because I'm in an office setting (no ambient display or adaptive brightness.. And also this screen is bright af when indoors). Second, I had changed my APN "IPV" settings to get the Spotify app to function correctly; there seems to be some bug that keeps it in offline mode. But... If it's causing some battery drain, f that.

Thanks in advance
[Nexus 6  General] jfavellanedab:
For 12 hours using Google music, and plenty of screen use (@ airport) I think it is pretty good battery average. Stock 5.1.1
[Nexus 6  General] rrmzr1:
Better than usual
[Nexus 6  General] lafont28:
Best stats I've had to date. Loving this DU rom
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
Feels like my battery has been worse since updating to 5.1.1. Already tried factory reset several times
[Nexus 6  General] eric4173:
Running Chroma with Franco. Have never had better battery life
[Nexus 6  General] joeminati:
Quick question. So did anyone try out the lower resolution trick to see if they did indeed get better battery?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
You don't, the display uses more power that the GPU... GPU has to calculate fewer pixels, but you're still using the same number on the display, only multiple display pixels are being used for each GPU pixel... Unless you're actually resizing the screen as well (use 1/2 of the pixels, fill only 1/2 the screen...)

I've seen apps that apply a "screen door" effect to try to save power too... Turn off every second pixel... This would save power on out amoled screens, but the resulting image would be about half as bright, requiring you to turn the display brightness up to compensate... Costing power...
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
How much SOT do you get? I am on stock with Franco kernel and I am on 70% battery life with 1 hours SOT, does not feel to good tbh
[Nexus 6  General] JunBringer:
I feel like my battery life isn't great but I forget I haven't had it for a week and I'm constantly playing with it. I need to check screen on time tonight and see what I can pull off.
[Nexus 6  General] eric4173:
I get about 4.5 to 5.5 hours SOT, depending on what I'm running
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
I asked before and I'm asking again, my nexus 6 is taking almost 2 2.30 hrs to charge with turbo charger, it used to take normal 1 hr to charge before, I'm using original data cable and I've flashes different roms to see if it resolves the issue but nothing changed, what's the solution? Don't say change data cables cos I've already tried that
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Download the latest stock rom from the Google Nexus image site, use flash-all script to reflash your phone back to factory rom/settings,

If your issue is software, this should/will fix it..

If it's hardware, then you have other issues and the Google rom won't help.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
You don't think I already tried it, it didn't work, and how can it be hardware, it was charging well until a month
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Hardware can fail, that's why warranties exist.

Most people I've encountered when they say they've tried various roms to fix try multiple dirty flashed...

When you reinstalled Google Android, was it a pure flash-all script install, or a dirty flash? (I haven't watched you flash all the roms, so I have to check to see what you've done)
[Nexus 6  General] BSANDMAN24:
My battery stats as of late with juice still left at the moment of post.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
Yeah it was a clean install, not dirty flash
[Nexus 6  General] tjrocks91:
I don't believe your battery stats at all
[Nexus 6  General] BSANDMAN24:
Believe what you want.
[Nexus 6  General] uvbeenzaned:
What are you using for os and kernel and how many things have you cut off?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I've had similar stats, at home on wifi, everything enabled, Franco kernel, stock rom...

But I was using play books with dark theme for the most of the 10 hrs the screen was on.. Some minor Web browsing g/social media..
[Nexus 6  General] Vlad_Gabriel:
If u just reading stuff and do simple tasks u can easily get that sot
[Nexus 6  General] hecksagon:
Look at the screenshots closely. There are several things that do not match... The time, the battery remaining, the battery percentage used by screen, the font, the theme, and the nav bar. It's quite clear he's full of ****.
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Hahaha I just noticed it. He's full of **** those are two different pictures with different usage. You can tell with the 9hrs sot he really just kept his device on almost all day with that 79% screen and the other pic is just a normal usage lol.

---------- Post added at 02:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:28 PM ----------

If your going to lie for some credit and to look good at least be able to do a good job at it.
[Nexus 6  General] juliatan:
Was considering buying N6. But after reading this thread and seeing many screenshots no more. Shockingly bad or at best very mediocre battery life this device seems to have. Really getting sad here trying to find a decent (close to) stock device with not a too little battery (Nexus, Moto) or without too often spontanious breakingvfront and back glass (Sony).

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 6  General] fantasy2c:
I average 5-6 hours sot everyday and that is normally 9 hours on lte. It gets through the day perfectly fine and then some.. I greenify most things and all I do extra for battery life. I play clash of clans, geometry dash and spend a lot of time on chrome. People with sub 4 hour sot stats have a rogue app or something going on draining battery that they don't know about because even with hard-core usage I'll still see just under 5 hours of sot
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Sorry to say but I'm not sure your going to find the perfect phone. Honesty with most devices I think battery will be mediocre because of the new chips and the 2k resolution screen, so until they don't get the chip as it suppose to be so it can help with battery life most upcoming phone is going to be the same or worst.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Or you're blessed with good signal strength/quality... I'm in and out of concrete towers all day at work... I'll switch towers 7 times in a minute in some locations.. (my best is 4 different cell towers while riding an elevator from the 28th floor of an office tower to the 19 th floor...) and that destroys my battery life... The annoying thing is I'm always between 3 and 4 bars of lte signal when this swap mess happens...
[Nexus 6  General] fantasy2c:
That's crappy... Half my day is spent with iffy signal(1-2 bars) and work I'm normally good with 2-4 bars. I normally am 2 or 3 bars lte while using it which is just at work or if I'm out and about. Lte usage is terrible on my battery. Having 2-5 hours of mobile radio active bs on 4 apps normally doesn't help though either
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
I'm only on day two with my device. I'm hopeful that after a few days it'll get better. Because I'm really not using it and this is the life I'm getting.

So today I'm going to get it below 5% and then let it charge up to 100%

I didn't charge it last night just to see how much it would drain. It drained about 2% over 7 hours in airplane mode. So that makes me feel like the battery is OK. But today it's draining quite quickly. What do you think?
[Nexus 6  General] Flipz77:
I think most people here are just raping their devices... A relative of mine has got the n6 and on a full charge he easily gets TWO full days of medium usage with 5h total SOT. Completely stock. ON LTE.

Needless to say in one day you could get up to 7h SOT and beyond, but you're not that kind of a phone junkie, right?

I own a n4 and trust me, THAT is bad battery life. With a back glass as well! :D
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
Ok I was able to get the device down in a little over 9 hours. Here are the stats.

What do you think?
[Nexus 6  General] Mr_S:
Found gsam battery monitor a proper battery killer. I'm on stock unrooted 5.1.1. Anyone recommend a good battery monitoring app?
[Nexus 6  General] plusforce:
My Gsam Battery Monitor just uses about % 0.1 of the total battery consumption!

I am also on Stock unrooted ....

I don't think it is a battery killer.
[Nexus 6  General] Roobwz:
Is it just me or what? Your screen was 28% on the first pic and 79% on the 2nd, am i wrong?
[Nexus 6  General] rlukas79:
on ATT 5.1.1, I'm getting more stand by cellular drain than i was getting on 5.1. Nothings changed app or sync wise that what I had on 5.1. I went from .3% an hour to 1% an hour.
[Nexus 6  General] Mr_S:
I'll install it again and give it a reboot[emoji106]

What rom you on?

I'll update soon!

Looks like it just never installed properly. Works fine now[emoji1]
[Nexus 6  General] plusforce:
My phone is not rooted, I am using official stock rom. 5.1.1 and T.Mobile.
[Nexus 6  General] rlukas79:
i may be rolling back to the 5.1 stock rom. Ever since going to 5.1.1 my battery life is worse. Ive wiped the cache, using the same apps, disabled the same apps and went from .3% an hour on stand by to over 1% an hour on stand by. Nothing really wake locking the device, just terrible cellular radio drain
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
decent but if you lower the screen brightness you'll get more juice
[Nexus 6  General] thisisme08:
...

I know that I am just a newb who "doesn't know any better" but damn if there isn't a whole lot of complaining going on about nothing.

I've only had my phone for 3 weeks or so and have frankly been impressed with the package as a whole including the battery life. I came from a Droid Razr HD Maxx that served me faithfully for 2.5 years but was starting to show it's age.

In purchasing the N6 I was simply looking to ditch the piss poor continued support of devices and took the chance on the N6 despite some of the comments amongst the various reviews.

In short; this isn't a phone that will last for days upon end (what will nowadays) but if your used to the amount of time an XL battery such as a Maxx device does then you will have more than enough to get you through your day.
[Nexus 6  General] Mr_S:
Agreed. I'm coming from a nexus 4 and that was bad battery life!
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
Maybe someone could enlighten me with some wakelocks that I have. I have been playing around and I have disabled some services because battery life was pretty poor for me on the nexus 6. So I'm rooted and I have tried both lean kernel and Franco kernel in in attempt to get some better battery life. So right now I'm sitting on lean kernel. These are the wakelocks I'm getting.

I know it's not terrible. But it's not good either. I'll get 4 hours of SOT under these conditions. Today is Sunday and I have been home all day so I've been on Wi-Fi all day. And I'll I've done is messaging and some light browsing.

I have my note 4 on the table next to me and it's estimating 5 days of standby. Am I missing something? My device runs warm, which I'm told is normal for the nexus, and battery life isn't the best...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time!!!
[Nexus 6  General] gee2012:
What`s you`re setup? Like how many appsinstalled, syncing, widgets in use, usage of the phone, signal strength and so on. These pics don`t say much, use BetterBatteryStatts or GSam to determine power usage per app.
[Nexus 6  General] zkyevolved:
I purchased better battery stats, I'll reinstall it now. It didn't really give me too many details seeing as I'm a newb. I'll run another day with it and see.

My signal strength is very good. Wifi is also very good. Apps are minimal, as I have flashed this device multiple times and while I'm trying to get a feel for it, I'm only installing the absolute basics: whatsapp, wunderlist, line messenger. Then just today I installed Hearthstone to play on the move, and that's about it. I have Tapatalk and touchpal. Sync (BTSync) to backup the pictures I take to my server (only turned on when needed, so it's not an issue). A few others are amazon, instagram.

As I'm rooted now I have Super User, BusyBox and some CPU temp apps as well as the Franco Kernel Updater app.
[Nexus 6  General] gee2012:
Aah oke, just use the phone as usual for a few days and post some BBS screenshots here so we have something to evaluate :)
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
I have the same, systemui and Google app on top and I get around 4 hours SOT so I guess it's normal?

If you lower the brightness I am use you'll get more but currently I am having my screen brightness on 30%

BTW I am also on Franco kernel
[Nexus 6  General] d08speed3:
Is "Alarms" in better battery stats app something to be very concerned about? I've always only been concerned about the "partial wakeups." In looking at "Alarms" today I've noticed that Facebook App is using 44%! I used the app "Disable Services" and unchecked the services that were shown in 44% drain. Anyone have good experience with this? Charging the phone to 100% right now and going to use it as usual to see if that 44% would be way less from disabling some of the apps services.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Xstrasmooth M, 480 DPI build. Elemental kernel, -60 MV, fiops 1536.