yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
So why mention the kernel? I wasn't asking about custom kernels having any effect, I was asking about UV.. If you test the phone both before applying UV, as after, with the only change being the UV... That's the answer to my question... Bringing up other variables simply clouds the results since you can't tell which changed variable had the effect.
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
Because frankly only some kernels can handle UV. For instance I could use stock cm and UV was junk.

I could use ktoonez or Franco and UV and it would benefit.

Hence why I spoke of it.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
And were the default voltages the same across the different kernels?
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
Yes
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Wait, you were using a Franco kernel on an lg-g2 phone? (that's the phone you mentioned for your sot example)
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
Franco was a example... Just like ktoonez
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Not for a g2...

Or are you just throwing random devices, kernels, and numbers out now?
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
No if you would follow what I was saying you'd understand that depending on what rom, kernel you use UV works and sometimes it doesn't. It also depends how you use your phone.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
You normally can't UV anything other than a custom kernel. Next cycle I'll remove the UV and see.
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
Actually custom kernel or aosp kernels
[Nexus 6  General] brosenz:
Help with Battery Life

Last night I left the phone idle all night (8 hours) with no app running and with interruptions disabled, the battery at start was 100% and during the night went down to 89%, I think it's too much 11%, so I decided to get some data, please could you review the images below and suggest what can I do to solve this, it seems to me Wifi is consuming a lot but I am not an expert.
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
where are the images?
[Nexus 6  General] brosenz:
Sorry, they are attached now
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
21% awake time is bad. What are you running, ROM and kernel? Wifi definitely is hurting you some, and google app pulls a little but I'd like to know the above before I made recommendations.
[Nexus 6  General] brosenz:
Thank you for your reply, I am running the latest Chroma ROM with FK r26, everything else is pretty much out of the first boot after installation, I have just configured the basic stuff, Wifi, etc. and installed the basic Apps, Gmail, Whatsapp, etc., please let me know if you need more information, thanks a lot
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Grab bbs or WLD and find out what's holding your phone awake... Before you can tweak for better battery, you need to fix your current leaks.
[Nexus 6  General] brosenz:
Thank you, I already did that, the print screens are 4 post above, the problem is that I do not know how to interpret the results
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Sooo... Why not ask in the WLD thread for help with interpretation?
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
My new baseline, going to remove UV once it charges back up.
[Nexus 6  General] rrmzr1:
Check it out stock franco 26 I think its pretty average use
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
That's freakin absurd... What ROM/kernel? I'd kill for that...
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
That's Lightrom, Franco r26. Not stock Franco settings. My % per hour has gone up 2+% points removing the -50 UV so well see how this plays out. Still seems decent.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
So were back. Pretty close to the same sot. Only difference that might have played a part in getting it this close was going dark themed on most of my stuff. Whether that really helps these screens or not I don't know. Time to UV again and check.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
I hate you

Too bad I can't get that on stock with franco
[Nexus 6  General] A2CKilla:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zsv66sAOsw
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
What are your kernel settings?
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Stock
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Completely stock M build 5.1 but rooted

On track for over 6 hr sot
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Your wakeloc time is excellent.
[Nexus 6  General] anotherfiz:
I am having trouble getting my wakelocks under control. Seems the main offender is google play service, but ive even disabled it in ap ops.

running chroma 4/10 with his kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] linus207:
Hi there. Newest franco and chroma. Sync for gmail (2 accounts) and few others gapps. Dt2w on.
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Your 7 hours screen on, what did it consist of?
[Nexus 6  General] androiduser2011:
7 hrs sot is awesome. I never get beyond 3 hrs sot. What settings, apps do you use.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
I can routinely pass 6hr sot on bone stock rooted
[Nexus 6  General] linus207:
Have in mind that my device is few days old and have like 30 apps/games installed from my previous phone. I am running untouched franco with chroma. I Have autobrightness turned on and changed color profile, dt2w in franco kernel app. Thats pretty much it.
[Nexus 6  General] Sammath:
Could have gotten more but I then I went to bed :p

Temasek 9.8 with hydra kernel uv -50.

Good enough for me :)
[Nexus 6  General] jkdrinkard:
Here's my contribution. This is pretty typical stats for me. Full stock, not rooted (yet).
[Nexus 6  General] luizffgarcia:
I see lots of people going over the mark of 6 hours screen on time, but almost none say what brightness settings they use.

I get about 4 hours SOT with Chroma + Franco but i use the brightness at about 85%.

Has anyone tried measuring SOT with a high brightness like this? I am curious if your average will be similar to mine...
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
I use low brightness. My eyes don't require much light and a bright screen is nauseating to me. I could never use a device other than outside at high brightness.
[Nexus 6  General] jkdrinkard:
I have the brightness at the max all the time. I hate a dim screen.
[Nexus 6  General] wietse1988:
I only set the brightness max when I'm outside. When I'm in the office or at home I dim it to around 30%. Especially at night, otherwise I get this effect:
[Nexus 6  General] luizffgarcia:
And how many hours SOT you get at max?
[Nexus 6  General] jkdrinkard:
I get 4-5 hours. 5 being the most so far.
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
I actually really like how dark the 6 gets. My m8 even at the lowest setting hurt my eyes at night.
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
Why is it that the Note 4 with almost the say specs get so much better battery life? Mine with no widgets, stock with just gmail syncing get 3-4 hours screen time. Only thing I do is surf the web on wifi.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
That's the truth! Its awesome!
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
I suppose it's because Samsung fully optimise their Kernel and firmware for their hardware. Google seem to take a 'Let the community do it' attitude.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
25% to get over 6 but its an average as I max out when I'm outside then go back when I'm inside
[Nexus 6  General] EAK128:
I don't know if it's nova launcher beta that I recently switched to or the new GPS or both, but I've seen a nice jump in battery savings. Used to get 4 to 4.5 hours of SoT, now getting 5.5 to 6.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
My average sot is 4-4.30 hrs
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Yay?
[Nexus 6  General] mashuto:
Just got the phone a few days ago and loving it so far, but my battery life is a bit weak.

Today, i am at 25% battery with only a out 2 hours of sot over about 13 hours. Of course I had a 2 hour cast socket multiplexer wakelock which I think was plex connected to the chromecast... So I guess that means it should have been 4+ hours sot?

Oh I should mention I am running the latest chroma and pretty much default settings there. I also have a couple email accounts syncing and have location history on.

I see everyone using GSam Battery monitor... Good app? I have better batter stats.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I prefer BBS myself... Battery life is very variable.. Depends on brightness, apps used, background processes, radios used, radio signal strength, signal quality, etc, etc... There's days that I stretch to get 2 hrs, then other days I get close to 10 hours sot... All depends on what I'm doing with my phone.
[Nexus 6  General] mashuto:
Yea, i know it can vary crazily, but with the screen on doing fairly normal activities, Web browsing, battery does seem to drain quicker than I am used to coming from my old phone. As for brightness, I leave default pretty much, 50% I think with adaptive brightness.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Well, keep tracking your wakelocks, try to tame them as much as possible. And see where things go from there...
[Nexus 6  General] mashuto:
Will do, just seems like the screen it's drains it pretty quickly too, might just be the norm. I'll keep an eye for a few days though and see.
[Nexus 6  General] Shari84:
After some changes i'm finally satisfied with battery life after being unhappy with google services battery drain.

Use about 10-15% brightness, no auto.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
If y'all have 3c go under one click then manage and do fix permissions, optimize apps, optimize data and trim partitions. Then hit OK let it run and restart after I feel the phone has gotten snappier which I'm hoping for better battery life as well after.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Nice results :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
Well done.
[Nexus 6  General] greenro89:
Care to share those changes? ?
[Nexus 6  General] MultiKoopa:
seconded
[Nexus 6  General] jayesh:
Damn. I bleed out 3x faster than that.
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
First discharge using vindicator latest stock settings on latest Benzo ROM. Lot's of texting, browsing on XDA, Facebook but not the app rather on Chrome beta, watch couple of YouTube's video, world star hip hop app for video also, some minimum gaming on boom beach, auto sync on, location off, ambient display off, brightness at around 30~40%. Really satisfied with this performance.
[Nexus 6  General] edved:
Yo dude, what kind of black magic are you using to achieve over 6 hours of screen time and more than 18 stand-by? Is this all attributable to using Benzo's latest amphetamines, er ROM?

Interested to know.
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Well at that time benzo latest was before the 5.1.1 aosp merge and for kernel it was vindicator 2.1 at the time with stock settings as I mentioned in my post with the usage and such.
[Nexus 6  General] Parvinder25:
I am having battery issues lately with my nexus 6. Probably after 5.1 flashing. I'm on stock no root.

Even when phone is kept idle during night with screen off and no physical activity, the phone stays awake, as seen in battery stats. I usually keep my Wi-Fi on always but earlier there used to be battery usage with intervals but now it is continuous if you see at the end when screen is off for 7 8 hours but phone is always awake. Any solutions or issues that are not known to me?
[Nexus 6  General] mwalt2:
It's probably an app not letting it sleep. I used a CobraTag as a trusted Bluetooth device at home and that app would not let the phone deep sleep. It did not show up in any battery testing/monitoring apps. I noticed that it went into deep sleep when Bluetooth was turned off, so I eventually figured out the app not letting the phone deep sleep.
[Nexus 6  General] Parvinder25:
Not sure though. I will keep track of any such app but as far as i know.. i haven't installed any new app lately.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Doesn't have to be a new app, an update to one can occasionally cause them to misbehave...
[Nexus 6  General] Parvinder25:
Very true.
[Nexus 6  General] jamieg71:
Custom aosp by me built with latest Zen kernel using SM 4.8 androideabi/ROM

SM 4.9 arm-eabi/kernel

Qualcomm llvm 3.6/bionic & art

Sleeps like a baby-

Edit- still going
[Nexus 6  General] Utini:
I am on latest weekly DirtyUnicorn 5.1 ROM and still amazed by its battery life compared to stock or Chroma.
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Well you could have amazed us with some screenshots just to see how amazing it is.
[Nexus 6  General] dansan382:
is it just me or is it a pain to read battery life on lollipop? im so use to kitkat where in the main graph it actually said, xH xM xS on battery... now with lollipop on the main graph you have to do math and ge the difference between the right most time and the left most time of the graph.

am i missing something here or is there a battery way to get the amount of time on battery like you could on KK?
[Nexus 6  General] Locklear308:
Nope, you got it. No more total standby time counter. F****** idiotic who ever removed that
[Nexus 6  General] dansan382:
great so now i have to do math.

thanks google.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Or use a tracker app like BBS, gsam, etc..
[Nexus 6  General] dansan382:
Yea im using GSam but just started using it. still would be nice if the stock battery setting showed the total amount of time.
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
I am running stock. Just factory reset my phone and cleared cache partition. Nothing on my phone but what came on it updated in the play store. Syncing my one gmail and gps on battery save. Screen set at 50%. Fully charged it and took it off around 4:45. I then just went to web sites for 3 hours straight. As you can see I am getting a little over 3 hours SOT. Also on another test the first 8% of battery got about 4 mins of web surfing, but once I hit around 90% I was only getting 1:30 secs of web surfing. This is a brand new Nexus 6 with 5.1 on T-mobile. This test was also tried on Wifi only and no sim card with the same results. Do you think I got a bad Nexus 6?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
No, for active Web surfing (new page every 30 seconds or so, 9gag, chive, similar pages, reddit, Chan, etc, etc) , that pretty standard for pure stock... Passive surfing (one page every dozen minutes or so, (news articles and sinilar) would probably get another hour sot..

Nudging the brightness down 5-10% would help too, without sacrificing much in actual readability.
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
Ok thanks. Most days I am lucky to get 2 hours 30 mins SOT and 7am-8pm standby. Does that sound about right for stock?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
So many variables involved.. For me on stock that's low, but only because of the apps and such I use.. For most of the day, my biggest drain is screen, not processing... (reading books/manuals/novels) with wifi and custom mods (build/local.prop, kernel, rom, I've gotten 10 hrs a couple times... Never on lte/mobile data as yet...

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@MadHatter01

Don't compare your sot to others, compare it to your own... Make a change, see how it affects your battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
This is a normal day let me know what you think please.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Looks like you might have some wakelock issues... Grab an app like WLD or bbs to track and squish them... Turn the brightness down as low as possible for your usage...
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
There are only the apps that come on the phone. This was a clean phone with just the stock apps and syncing gmail. I never had this issue with 5.01. The only thing I use is chrome and gmail. There should be nothing on the phone to cause wakelock since its stock. I have not install a single app. Just updated the ones on the play store.

Is anyone else having worse battery with 5.1 and being stock?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Depending on what you've set up with the stock apps, they can hold wakelocks... ANY app can hold wakelocks, not just third party... Based on the images you linked, you are showing a fair bit of awake/screen off time...

I gained about 30 minutes sot from 5.0 to 5.1
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Its missing that previous xH xM xS on lollipop but i believe you can tell approx total time by tapping cell standby and that essentially is xH xM xS (of course if your cell radio was on that whole time)
[Nexus 6  General] jkdrinkard:
Thought I'd share this. I've had my N6 for about a month and this is the best device I've ever had. I'm very excited about the battery life. Not to mention the N6 is just freaking awesome!

Unlocked boot loader, rooted, stock ROM, stock kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] lexus91:
Clean rom + zen 17. I can't get through 4:30 h SOT mark. I wonder how people here get over 6+ h of sot...
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
A lot of it is the signal strength/quality/tower changes...

Darker themes use less power on amoled devices, adjust the brightness down.

Use bbs or WLD to track which apps are causing wakelock issues, uninstall or tame those apps, custom kernels to adjust the clock freq selection, replacing heavy drain apps with lighter weight equivalents.... I'd guess that Most of us getting 6+ aren't heavy gamers/video players with our phones...
[Nexus 6  General] MadHatter01:
I have been with Android since I left Apple back in the 3gs days. I have had 14 Android phones and tablets. T-Mobile is letting me try 2 phones. The Nexus 6 and iPhone 6 plus. The 6 plus has lasted all day with 58% left. At this point I would of had to charge my Nexus 6 at least once. I have always been the apple hater, but the Nexus 6 battery is so bad for me. All I do is web browsing. My nexus 6 with At&t was not this bad, but it had 5.01. I will watch the wake locks and post them if I find them. I really had to say this but I may stick with the 6 plus. I loose my Lg r watch but I had having 2 hours 30 Sot. It took me 6% battery on a full charge to the this. I am not joking it really took 6%.
[Nexus 6  General] casonswag:
Wow are u gonna release your rom? Thats good life right there!
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
If Facebook would stop eating my battery I could hit 7 hours idk what they did but the app eats my battery like it's Trix for kids...
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I got tired of the app so I just use a bookmark shortcut to get to the mobile page. I don't get notifications but with the updated chrome where you can get website notifications, hopefully soon I won't need the app anymore. If you use a different launcher you can just edit the bookmark shortcut to look like the facebook icon.
[Nexus 6  General] gr33nd3vil:
I actually use both lol. But I actually need the notifications which is what kills me. Ah well maybe there's a better app for Facebook
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I miss the notifications a bit but not having it keeps me off Facebook. Once Facebook starts supporting notifications through chrome I guess we won't need the app anymore.
[Nexus 6  General] TheRealKingSen:
The biggest battery hog for me seems to be chrome with the mobile active radio going for hours with little actual use of chrome. Is there a way to stop the mobile active radio going for hours on end?
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
Question for people getting 6+ hours SOT

Do you guys use whattsapp, hangout apps?
[Nexus 6  General] bill3508:
No. Hangouts runs too much, and whattsapp is equivalent to Facebook, both of which I have no use for. Minimal running services here only.
[Nexus 6  General] MrBrady:
Good lord, that screen time is unreal! I can only get about 3 hours.

Can you provide more details (or download links)?
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
tRIX aren't for kids.

Trix aren't for kids, they're for hookers.
[Nexus 6  General] edved:
I see these great OST's (7 hours plus) and you guys are really lucky and I think in the minority. I'd bet 10 percenter's! I'm lucky to see 3 hours before I'm plugging my phone for a full charge. A huge 3220mah and battery life on lollipop 5.1 sucks.

Fwiw, I'm running stock with Franco's Kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] lexus91:
What brightness settings do you use? Adaptive brightness on or off? I use zen kernel and regularly hitting 4:30 hrs of SOT daily.

I use whatsapp and line regularly. Also does heavy browsing using chrome and 9gag.

Does people who hits 7 hrs SOT do the same routine as i does?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
9gag (app) rapes your battery... I'd assume browsing the site via chrome isn't much better...
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
I use facebook (greenified) whats app by removing wake up, keep awake and auto start off in privacy guard. I uninstalled facebook now. but still have whatsapp, as i need it. So may be with whatsapp around 4 hours SOT is normal
[Nexus 6  General] lexus91:
Seems to be so. I use line and whatsapp frequently none are being greenified. 9gag is greenified and i browse them for about 1 h daily. And always get at least 4:30 h SOT
[Nexus 6  General] edved:
Adaptive brightness is off and I set brightness at 20 %.
[Nexus 6  General] aneyboy:
Just got home my nexus 6 battery lasts awhile. Longest I've been off charger was 18 hours
[Nexus 6  General] romdroid.:
How's possible for a phone with 3200mah to have such battery bad life? With my z2 I can get 6 hours of SOT
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
I think the people with more than 5 hrs of sot don't recharge above 90% for some time, like they charge on between when the battery drops to 46% and unplug the charger at 70,thus getting 8 9hrs sot, no matter which kernel you use I don't think you can get more than 5-5.30 sot with mini-med usage
[Nexus 6  General] lexus91:
5.69" QHD might be the culprit here. Although for me personally 4-5 h SOT is enough to last throughout the day on my normal usage. Besides the quick charge helps alot..
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
Totally false for me. Can easily get 6h SOT or more on WiFi on a 24h period. I keep the brightness low and adaptive brightness, ambient display and google now off. Currently running benzo ROM and franco kernel
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
That's crazy, the most I've ever, I mean ever, had was 4 hours :(
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
Franco kernel lets u block some major wakelocks, i think it helps a lot. But even when i was stock i got 7h30 SOT in a 16 hour período até onde time
[Nexus 6  General] Delboyd12:
Could you post a text document list of all the apps you have?
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
I have around 140 apps lol use servicely app from franco too, that can help and keep brightness on the low side
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
This is false bro and if that was the case you would see it in the battery graph. The battery graph will show when you started charging your phone and will also show exactly around what percentage your unplugging your device which is more of a cheating strategy but you could tell if that's going on within the graph.

Guys even though this has a big battery you have to remember this is a nexus. Even though this is my first nexus device I noticed that all nexus devices where always bad in battery on stock and this is why development with ROMs and kernels are so great which plays a huge key part on getting better battery.

If your still getting bad battery life with custom ROMs and kernels then it's just a user thing remember my same setup may or may not work for another person since majority of the time every user uses their phone different and some exaggerate with about 200~300 apps and don't even use half of it where some only install apps that they only need and know they will use.

There's a lot of different things that will play a huge role on everything and since this is a nexus device it's your job to root and find out the best combo ROM/kernel setup for yourself and if you thought just because this phone has a huge battery and you was expecting great battery just from stock then you had to much high expectation for a stock nexus to have great battery.
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
Right now, I am with benzon ROM and stock kernel (I tried fraco, hydra kernels also, but none of them changed my battery life much)

I keep the brightness low, adaptive brightness and ambient display off, google now off.

Greenify facebook, tweetcaster and other browsers.

I use Chrome without Greenify

I use privacy guard to wake up, and keep awake off for whatsapp, facebook, Google services. (I don't think this made much difference in terms of battery, but it reduces the wake locks)

Still I get around 3 to 4 hours of SOT.

yesterday I tried with fresh install of Benzo Rom and just installed Whatsapp. and completely on wifi still I lost 1% for every 2 minutes which is like 3 to 4 hours of SOT.

how to get 6+ SOT?