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[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
More than yesterday, I ended up with 6hrs 26min and like 40 seconds SOT lol then it shut down. Ok so my very first battery cycle I received 5hrs 1min SOT, the second cycle I got just barely over 6hrs SOT, and of course this last (third) cycle I got the above mentioned 6hrs 26min of SOT.

Now I'm curious as to how many full charge till depleted cycles I should do! Any suggestions? I've done 3 and I'm currently charging from completely dead right now.
[Nexus 6  General] TechBSwift:
Although I've experienced good battery life (6hrs SOT) and bad battery life (3.5hrs) with the Nexus 6. I think the most important thing to remember is we are running lollipop 5.0 and there's going to be some bugs including wakelocks.... It will get better
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I'd say charge however and whenever you'd like. Nice results :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
I think I will try at least this one more full cycle. Unless I get even more sot then I'll keep doing full cycles until I'm not getting any more sot and then charge whenever needed or convenient. I'm already happy with the battery life compared to my s4 which is older now so the battery doesn't hold up as well as it use to. I go back to work tomorrow and due to the nature of my job I don't take my devices out onto the floor with me so I leave it off in my locker and just use it on my breaks and/or when my work is done.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I don't have a battery issue but this is driving me insane cause I can't figure out how to stop it or what triggers it. A Google search hasn't helped much.
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
I'm not finding anything on your current problem either
[Nexus 6  General] intekmdma:
Happy camper

I'm averaging about 6 hours of SOT- spent about 2.5 hours playing Terra Battle- Overall very satisfied- I live near the top of the mountain and get really crappy service. I'm just glad I can go a day without having to worry about the phone dying.

edit: stock rom, rooted, unencrypted. I am using Greenify to stop all the unnecessary wakelock stuff that was draining the battery the first day.
[Nexus 6  General] dc82:
Wow, 6 hrs SOT is fantastic. I'm getting 4 on my T-Mobile version. One email account syncing.
[Nexus 6  General] intekmdma:
Have you checked to see if something is waking up your phone?

I currently have 4 e-mails syncing (3 gmail and 1 yahoo), box.com, dropbox.com and sync.Me

Try using Greenify? As someone mentioned earlier in the thread it helps out a bunch!
[Nexus 6  General] donnyp1:
With everything most of you guys leave on, I would get 1.5 hrs sot on my nexus 5. Got the 64gb 6 coming from T-Mobile this week. 4-5 he's will be Golden
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
Anybody else getting a camera wake lock for GcamSeriveImpl?
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57121997&postcount=371

Look back several pages for my issues with this too. I can't seem to get rid of it either. I've uninstalled youtube, google play music, greenified everything i can find but yeah keeps the speakers active all the time. If you look deeper associated processes are always *adspd & *mediaserver. adspd seems to be common "thing" (not talking about the wakelock) on moto devices.

Here's some screenshots i had in this post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57121997&postcount=371
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
By any chance: do you have downloaded ringtones from apps like Zedge which the phone has to read from data and not / system/media/notifications?? I'm gonna move mine to system to check if that could be the trigger
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
I do have one notification and ringtone.

However, Tonight

1) I reflashed (fastbooted) stock .img & rooted/decrypted & i believe gsam already showed adspd running before i installed zedge again.

2) I have now moved my files to system so we will see how that works. Thanks for the suggestion.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Looking forward to see what y'all find out pertaining to the wakelocks. Thanks for investigating
[Nexus 6  General] Nocturnal86:
I've had the same thing... Idk what it is but it seems to take a big chunk of battery at least from the looks of gsam.

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Does anyone else's phone always trigger location when the phone is unlocked? I'm sure that doesn't help batter and it happens every time...

I also seem to alway have "Google search" "Google Contacts" and "Google Dialer" in the recent location requests. Does anyone else have them always there? I don't see a reason why they should always be requesting location recently. Hope someone can shine some light on this!
[Nexus 6  General] AngioNicholai:
Turned off google now and definitely see an improvement.
[Nexus 6  General] MrDSL:
I'm pretty happy with battery life so far. I get around 5hrs OST and I mostly play castle clash all day doing my dungeons runs and quests.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
For those of you who are changing your kernel parameters... What do you think gets you the best battery life, Interactive or OnDemand Governor?

Just curious is all. I've stayed with Interactive myself and haven't changed much at all and I'm getting great battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Here's mine from yesterday I usually get 5-6hours SOT on average.

Bluetooth on half of the time, GPM streaming, casted some videos to my Nexus Player with VLC and screen sharing. Mostly WiFi, I had 2 reboots (installed updated kernel and flashed a apk) so I lost ~5% battery doing just that. I have my CPU over clocked to 2.9GHz and underclocked to 233MHz.

I get terrible signal where I live so that also has a effect on my battery life as shown below.
[Nexus 6  General] RamOdin:
Pretty light usage during travel and time with family. Not on WiFi much, gets stronger signal than G2 on AT&T with longer light usage battery.

Very happy with this device.
[Nexus 6  General] Timefusion:
Updated battery life post. This was the 3rd or 4th full cycle. Currently at 53 hours total time (had to power off after 5 hours in due to a textra issue)

With 10% left, SOT at 2hrs 50min (had at least another 30 to 40 min of use before clock was reset due to power off). Limited calls (45min). Many emails and texts ( 5 email accounts synching). Brightness 50% with auto adjust on, ran some Bluetooth too. Phone is stock on t-mobile. Will likely root soon.
[Nexus 6  General] Word_play:
After 5 cycles and getting almost 30hrs yesterday with about 3hrs 45min SOT, I decided to just push the SOT and see what I could get. Watched a bunch of Youtube, Netflix and browsed. I'm done cycling the battery like this and will now just use my phone as I am satisfied with the battery for my daily use. Phone is completely stock, not rooted and encrypted. (32gb Blue with Bell Mobility in Canada)

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[Nexus 6  General] parth18:
Battery life seems to be improved

It seems that Nexus 6 have more battery life but I doubt the potential of lollipop as it has adverse effect in Nexus 5. :(
[Nexus 6  General] XERO_Racer:
Thought Id post this for kicks, charged the phone till 3am, then took it off the charger, woke up around 7(the time of this screenshot) and saw this, saying 8 days left (lol) and only a 2% battery drain throughout the time i had slept, I'm guessing the battery drain is normal at best? Whats everyones typical idle battery drain?

Freshly flashed Pure Shamu 2.6 ROM/Rooted and Decrypted

Ambient Display/Adaptive Brightness on

Facebook installed/Refreshing interval is off

Received like 2 messages on hangouts

Location set to Battery saver

WiFi on
[Nexus 6  General] markwebb:
Interesting results with various phones. The moto x 2014 had average to terrible battery with Kit Kat but greatly improved with lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] TheSopranos16:
Is anyone noticing that phone calls are causing a lot of battery drain? I'm currently at 60% remaining and voice calls is on the top of my list with 8%, second is screen with 7%. The thing is, I only made 1h 3m of voice calls but I have 1h 8m of SOT. Shouldn't talk time be using much less power than SOT? Google claims talk time is up to 24 hours...
[Nexus 6  General] leet414:
This.

I use my smartphones heavily for phone calls on the weekdays for my job and unfortunately I've had to switch to my 6+ during work hours due to the massive power requirement of phone calls on the N6. I'm guessing that it's some sort of inefficiency with the driver as I don't have this issue with my Moto X (2014) Pure Edition running Lollipop. I'm sure it'll be fixed in a future update but for now, I can't use my N6 for work even though I really prefer to. :(
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I have a feeling the radio needs an update, "cell standby" seems high from what I've seen too
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I think people on T-Mobile are having a much better time with cell stand by battery usage
[Nexus 6  General] joshua.justice:
My battery life is being a lot better! The poor cellular signal is likely due to being on Wi-Fi all day.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Today System (adspd) has been completely tame even though I've used you tube, Apollo player and Sirius Xm app. I'm really starting to wonder if indeed it was the ringtones and notifications triggering the issue
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
n/a
[Nexus 6  General] JOHNGAETANO:
Today I had to take my 6 plus to work, as yesterday my N6 battery life was horrible. I pulled it off the charger at 7am yesterday at 100% and surfed at 45% brightness for 20 minutes and boom the battery was down to 89%. What the heck is chewing up my battery? I can to the exact same thing with my 6 plus and I have 99% left.

Looking for answers as I want this N6 to be my daily driver.

John
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
I had some issues with the XDA app. Here is my comparison. I changed a view on something in gsam and i look closer to yours however my audio on still drives me crazy that it is staying active the entire time.
[Nexus 6  General] Nocturnal86:
What did you do different? I always seem to have this even after reboots. Seems like it's on since I boot up the phone.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
He moved Ringtones last night to system. For example Zedge will put it all on the "SD Card" instead of system/media. Maybe successful for him? not for me but worth a try if you have anything like that.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
Here is some information on ADSPD. this is from a rockbox manual for an MP3 Player but will hopefully shed some light or ideas.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
and idk i'm three seconds from throwing this phone into the drink over this issue. Just like now Flash a new rom and immediately its up and going at the top of my app usage with a clean sd card and all. it shouldn't be happening and it makes me wonder why its only a select few of us.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Very interesting. I don't use Zedge but I'm guessing you did more than that to get your results. Thanks for sharing
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I just hope is not one of those bugs that happens randomly which Google promises to take care of in the next update but actually never does ( example camera daemon in nexus 5).

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I am very happy with the phone; quite frankly I was expecting more issues. But it blows to see so many users with poor battery life and factory defects. It shouldn't be this way in a $650 phone.
[Nexus 6  General] nextelbuddy:
I can confirm that Sensor_Ind wakelock is related to Hangouts. i could not figure this wakelock out until I read this thread. I changed my SMS to messenger and signed out of hangouts and instantly my wakelock went down and my CPUSPY showed deep sleep where as before it was stuck at 300mhz even after a reboot.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
The funny part about this is that I use hangouts all day long and yesterday I did not get the wakelock. So there has to be something else mixed with hangouts.
[Nexus 6  General] mrizvi66:
battery life

edit: i'm on ATT and live in NJ, work in NYC

battery saver at 10%

took it off the charger at 615am.

first day using the nexus at work...i work in an area that is as close to a faraday cage as possible so I get ass reception...not bad tho.

2 hours of tethering

30 mins of gaming

wifi on all day (otherwise i have ass reception)

lots of text and instant messaging from various apps.

if i had better coverage i'd probably get an hour more screen time.

the gap in the graph is me at the gym. my gym is underground so no reception.

put it on the charger at 930ish

first time i've gotten thru a full day at work with a phone that hasn't been on a charger at any point in the day in years. was getting worried i wouldn't make it all the way home when i was tethering on the train home but only used 4% in a hour. :good:
[Nexus 6  General] ultravorx:
Im going through the same issues. My wifes 6 plus can be used all day and at night its around 70%.

Ive hit 70% on my N6 within 6 hours!

I also have hangouts disabled! Dont know what the issue is, but considering im running close to my 14 day return period, i may consider the note 4 and get the zero lemon 10000mah battery for it.

Frank
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Question for T-Mobile users: do you guys notice a battery/ signal difference using Global network settings as opposed to LTE only???
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I didn't know I could switch it back to global once I chose LTE. The option isn't there. It said global when I first bought it and then again when I unlocked but I changed to LTE.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
You're correct. Only fresh install brings it back. I didn't stay long enough on global to make a battery/signal quality assessment so I was wondering about others.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Ahh okay. Good question anyways.
[Nexus 6  General] maamdroid:
I've read a user saying 50 mins to get a full charge using turbo charger.

Mine says about 1:15 mins. Also, once it gets to about 95% it claims 6 more minutes, but actually takes like an additional 20. So I'm at almost 1:35 mins to get a full charge.
[Nexus 6  General] qwerty12601:
Be advised, us with the moto x pure edition took a hit in battery life when lollipop came around. We were getting the same bugs that plagued the nexus 6.

I received an update this weekend on my moto x 2014 pure, and am seeing 7+ HOURS SOT now. Id venture to say a similar update should come to the nexus 6 as well. I bet 8+ hour SOT will be achievable when everything is ironed out.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Hopefully this helps

https://plus.google.com/102191003291214603343/posts/dEd6g9oJkZ1
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Well look who came back after two days!!!!!

Now I know it was definitely Play Music / music fx who triggered it cause I unfroze it to listen to music. ( I had frozen it with Titanium two days ago)
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
1) mine is still running with (audio on) nonstop in correlation with time unplugged lol

2) Those apps you froze don't exist on Euphoria Rom AOSP. so I can't try it

3)Maybe 5.0.1 fix?? *crosses fingers with no enthusiasm...
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
Finally hit 4hrs SOT

All I had to do...

Fresh install

Disable encryption, location, cloud print, 10 pre-installed apps

NFC off

Brightness set around 35

Screen timeout 15 seconds

Adaptive off

Auto backup pics disabled

Bluetooth off

Moto 360 not connected

Google now off

8 minutes of voice calls

Installed only SwiftKey, instagram, gsam, nest and my bank app.

Ugh. Not thrilled but at least I finally topped my usual 3.5hrs
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Ugh!!! At least mine stopped again immediately after I froze google play music
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Good to see you're getting better SOT. Of course if you feel like you're having to cripple your phone at the cost of eeking out more SOT that's not good. Do you use device manager by chance?
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
i've froze DSP Manager and i forgot about Apollo so i'll freeze apollo and see if that helps. Waiting for 5.0.1 to drop so i can flash.
[Nexus 6  General] Mr Ian B:
First week I was barely making it for the entire day and Sunday I decided to let fully go dead battery to 0. Recharged phone and now getting over 1 day of battery life like I was getting on my Note 3.

Ian B
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I did this on my 2nd charge and think it helped me too. I also did it on my N5 after lollipop update and it did help quite a bit
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
Yeah I'd call that pretty crippled. But after seeing some of the crazy sot screenshots around here I wanted to be push it. I'm dreaming of 7hr sot

No device manager. I think it disables itself when you turn off location.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Device manager = app drawer> google settings> security> remotely locate this device & Allow remote lock and erase? I turn those off as I've found one or the other ( or maybe both idk which) to be a huge battery drain. But I don't need or want them, you might. Turning location reporting off does not affect this setting. I leave location history ON as it has never been a battery drain for me.
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
Weird. With my GPS off it appears to be disabled automatically.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
That stinks you had to do all that to achieve good battery / sot results.

FWIW I have the following and still get crazy good battery life and 6+ hours sot almost everyday...

Hangouts

Google +

Inbox ( and gmail now that I look )

NFC off

BlueTooth on most of the time ( drive for a living)

Accounts all backing up.

Some Maps / Location during the day

30 minutes roughly of calls

Strictly data very little Wi-Fi during the week.

Brightness at about 45-50% with Adaptive On

Nova Launcher

No Google Now or Google listener

Greenify

Latest Rastapop ROM

ElementalX Kernel mostly all stock settings.

Not sure if this will help you or anyone else here but just figured I'd share. I'm actually quite happy with this phone and it's battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
That's pretty crazy. It's what my dreams are made of. I might start checking out some roms tomorrow.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Ahh okay when you said you turn location off you mean GPS my bad. I keep GPS on battery save unless navigating. I thought you were talking about location reporting and location history settings

This is my average battery life and what I get every day since owning the phone (though I have yet to have a day with NO wifi). Stock ROM, locked, no root and still encrypted (until 3 days ago :P)
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
That's insane man. And before I went into crazy battery saving mode our stats were very similar, even signal. Well except for the SOT at least.

Those numbers have me wanting to flash back to stock. But then I'd have to deal with the atrocious ads on this site without root/ad away.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
This has always been the thing that bugs me the most... Some getting like 3 hours sot and others doubling that without a problem.

I use Better Battery stats , Wakelock Detector and stock battery stats to put together a complete picture of what's killing the battery during the day and then I attack those issues either by just Greenifying apps, using App Oops or getting rid of the app altogether.

I have Double Tap to lock set to Hibernate apps and lock screen in Nova gesture settings. I watch my CPUs ( custom kernels ) to make sure they aren't locking at a high speed unnecessarily. I watch what Alarms are being fired a lot in Better Battery stats and make adjustments if possible to app sync settings etc.. Basically I just fiddle around a lot to see what I can do lol

Gets to be an addiction all in its own.
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
I've tried BBS and I'm actually running wakelock detector now. Greenify never seems to find any apps that I should sleep manually. I guess my problem is, being so light on apps, nothing ever jumps out at me.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Definitely an addiction! I use one monitoring app, cpuspy. No freezing apps or greenifing. All stock (although atm I'm unlocked, rooted, decryted, stock rom, stock kernel) I let her rip use my phone like normal. That's been best for me and it's worked out okay so far.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I understand.

Have you enabled Greenify System App under Experimental Settings and then Select Show All when you're in the App Analyzer?

If you want to.. Leave your phone charged up but unplugged over night, idle, and first thing in the morning grab a Dump File from Better Battery Stats and I can look.

Worth a try. I've done it all pretty much. I've disabled services, hibernated everything possible and when I had Xposed used a module that limited Wakelocks and Alarms so I'm used to this game with battery and what drains it...

A big one I'm against is Google Launcher with Location Reporting, Google Now and OK Google running all the time.

You could probably get another hour+ sot just ditching that setup.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Great tip I always turn off loction reporting and all ok google hotword detection stuff
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I tried the whole Google Experience deal once and had all that stuff running just to check it out... Don't get me wrong some of that stuff is very very cool and helpful too throughout your day, but it hammered my battery.

So back to Nova I went! Just depends on what works for ya.
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
I have the Ok Google voice detect off. I also have the GPS completely turned off.

I will do what you said and post the log in the am. I really appreciate the help.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
OK. If you could..

Charge it up. Turn off Wi-Fi if possible and leave data on. Maybe reboot the phone for good measure then just let it sit over night unplugged and we'll check out what's draining your battery in the morning. You know how to grab the dump file?

The Share icon > Text Dumpfile and it'll save to the root of your SDCard.
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
Sounds like a plan. I'll post the log in the morning. Thank you again for your help. Hopefully we can pinpoint something.
[Nexus 6  General] hasbrobot:
Why is this so high? It's more than the display.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
Well since being on Sprint and seeing how their service isn't the best.. Let's be honest.. I've also noticed that being higher than what I've been used to on Verizon.

Could be Sprint, could be modem, or Lollipop not 100% really what the culprit truly is. I'm new to both Nexus and Sprint so.. Trying to figure things out myself.
[Nexus 6  General] hasbrobot:
Seems like a very big drain. I'm T-Mobile also. I have nothing syncing, It's a shame
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
It's a reporting issue IMO. It says 1%. That's not very much. Just because it is first in your list doesn't mean that cell stand by is draining your battery really bad. It means that out of all the things draining your battery during that period that your low cell signal accounted for 1% of your battery drain (not 1% as in from 100% to 99%). My cell standby drain is always high in my list yet the percentage is always very low, like yours. I'm located in a fringe area and my signal at home is usually around 110dBm. Yet I still get 6+hours SOT in a 18-24hr charge. Use your phone for a whole charge cycle then see where cell standby sits in your stats. I'm on tmo too
[Nexus 6  General] FMMFL:
Here we go. It was late last night and I forgot to turn off wifi. The first log is from 100% on wifi after reboot.

The second log is after I woke up and realized. Wifi is off for 2 hours.

Third log is normal morning usage.

Let me know what you think.