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[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
Gotcha. Yeah I turn off location reporting but that's pretty much it for location. The Google Now traffic reports and some other location stuff are too valuable for me to turn off, plus the fact I want maps to work quickly when I need it. Hopefully Google can fix some of the battery drain from location but until then I just deal with it and fix other stuff where I can
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
do you have history and reporting turned off? I have history turned off but not reporting. I find history causes more wakelocks as it has to locate you on a more frequent basis so it can create your location history map on the google webpage. While it's cool to see where you were on a certain day and time and see your route, it definitely appears to be a battery drainer.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
For me it's the opposite. Leaving location history on does nothing to my battery. However, location reporting is a big battery drainer. Funny. Shows how different each individual scenario can be
[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
Nope, I leave history on because I need it specifically for traffic predictions for work. I turned off reporting and haven't had any noticeable issues with loss in functionality. Yesterday my SOT was somewhere between 5.5-6 hours so I'm not too worried about it
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
Has anyone found a fix for the excessive "mobile radio active" in certain apps? Gmail and Google search are always at the top of my battery list. I only have one email set up as a Google account and 3 others set up as IMAP with 1hr sync intervals. Google Now is on but "always listening " is off. I have a feeling the battery life would be fantastic if this issue went away. Oh yeah I'm on stock ROM rooted/decrypted with Franco kernel r4 if that makes a difference.
[Nexus 6  General] jeffwei8:
Same issue here still. Been dealing with this since I got the phone. Someone above suggester switching off NuPlayer. I'll try that today.
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
I saw that but wasn't sure how it could affect the radio time. Trying nonetheless and will report back as well.
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
Does vomer tweaks makes the phone laggy?
[Nexus 6  General] Remoteconcern:
I also have this problem. Completely destroys my battery. I just can't get good results.

My Nuplayer was already off when I checked.

What network are you guys on? I'm 3 in the UK.
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
I'm on O2 in the UK, below are battery screen shots, top on WiFi, bottom on mobile data, you can see what's going on and I'm using the phone the same. I've changed ROM and kernel but there isn't a difference, seems to happen to every combination.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I leave history off and I get traffic reports to work and home from google now just fine. I just don't get parking location. As for history, i'd imagine it would need more frequent polling of your location because it creates this map that I've attached. It's a detailed map that polls you every few minutes or so to create a detailed history of where you've been. Reporting in my mind lends to things like Google+ location sharing that doesn't poll as often and items like google now
[Nexus 6  General] Riktar:
Wow, here I though my 6hr and 20 mins sot was impressive. However I'm only Rooted and still running stock.
[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
Huh, interesting! I've always left it on because right in settings it says history is needed for that, I guess I could give it a shot. I've never seen parking location, how do you turn that on??
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
in google now swipe from the left and go to customize, everything else and there SHOULD be an option to keep track of where you parked but it only works if you keep location history on. Also I noticed immediately after updating google search form the playstore today that it kept draining battery until i opened it and it seems to kind of reset itself with terms and conditions but as soon as you say you're in, all your cards come back AND it re-enabled my location history which I disabled.
[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
Weird, guess I don't get that option unfortunately. Just updated to the new google search as well. :confused:
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
That's strange that it doesn't. Only reason I can think of is that you're in the office most of the day without leaving to go anywhere often therefore it knows you're in the same location therefore it doesn't poll you as much? *shrugs*
[Nexus 6  General] tysonwald:
I tried that yesterday and it has made no difference today. I have hangouts, gmail, and android os all above 1 hour "mobile radio active"

I'm thinking I might try the "don't keep activities" setting in developer options tomorrow. I Believe it will close apps once you leave them, hopefully stopping the mobile radio active on them.

I also installed the hangouts update and am still seeing mobile radio active going up.
[Nexus 6  General] Harkadenn:
Now with the new 5.0.1 update.

Has anyone noticed any difference?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Very possible
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Yes… if u use powersave mode it will.. Especially with nova prime launcher scrolling screens with heavy icon packs

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[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
I think this mobile radio active problem is something to do with a wifi and lollipop bug.

I charged my phone to 100% overnight, got to work and it was at 98% so I turned off the wifi as I don't use it at work. All of a sudden my phone had a random reboot so I let it boot, charged it back up to 100% and started using it again.

Because the phone rebooted with wifi off, wifi no longer reported as being on in my battery graph. On other days even with wifi turned off the phone would report wifi on all the time.

My phone was running fine and no apps seemed to be draining the battery because of mobile radio active times.

However, you can see on my battery chart attached that despite wifi remaining off, there is a small line in the battery chart where it turned itself back on. After that point, I got Google Services and Gmail having mobile radio active times.

I don't think this is an app ops problem as yesterday I had Google Play Store mobile radio active time of 1hr 12 minutes but when I looked in app ops there was nothing bad that the app was doing, the keep awake and wake up were over 24 hours ago.

So my suggestion for people having this issue is to reboot after turning wifi off and make sure wifi is not reporting as on in the battery chart, that seems to help the problem but not solve it completely.
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm giving it a try now. This is definitely a problem. I noticed today when I got into work that my phone had been off Wi-Fi for an hour and for me it's gmail and chrome beta that had mobile radio active for 20 min each. Hopefully we can get some sort of update soon to address this as it's kind of annoying to have to restart every time you jump between Wi-Fi and mobile networks.

UPDATE: Didn't really help for me. Play store still using Mobile way to much. 49 min of the 3 hours on radio. I guess the wait continues.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Ya that's the issue... Restart your phone after you turn WiFi off and the reporting goes away on the chart... Not sure if this will improve battery life tho? That would be awesome if we found a fix for more battery life lol
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
It did remove it from showing for me but didn't fix the battery issue with the mobile radio for me. I agree that a fix would be great. My battery life on Wi-Fi is outstanding and while on mobile is still pretty good but would be nice to have the most possible on radio which is when I use my phone most often.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Ya lol

Maps slaughtered me today! I'm not happy about it ... That nasty downturn early on....
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
It doesn't fix the issue but it limits it. There is some sort of bug with the WiFi turning on, causing some mobile awake times then shutting off again. The little WiFi blips on my battery chart seem to move about, disappear and reappear so I can only assume this is happening several times an hour and the active times are adding up.

At least when Wi-Fi shows as off it tries to shut the mobile active down, if it reports as on then the active time just keeps going.

I'm currently on 74% battery with 2h 9mins screen on time all on mobile data which is the best I've ever got off WiFi.
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
Even with that you're still looking at around 5.5 hours of SOT based off your percentages which I'm sure some people would kill for. I have a feeling the battery life on this phone will be phenomenal once Google irons our the kinks in lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
Can't reach 6hr sot or 5.5 :( sad
[Nexus 6  General] anthonyg45157:
Subjective for a couple of reasons.

The lag in my device is very minimal. I rarely think "wow that was laggy or took awhile to execute. " My device is decrypted so that might help as well. I'm also running the quad script and a custom ROM. Try it out see. I've had nothing but AMAZING results with it. Phone is MUCH more efficient.
[Nexus 6  General] XERO_Racer:
going to ditch the stock rom here for a bit and run LS and see if theres a battery difference with the "dark" theme and whatever tweaks they have with Franco Kernel

also going to use Vomer's Quad instead of Dual and see if i can achieve some good results just like the other user here who posted results from an LS rom, its not guaranteed because everyones usage is different but never know

Off topic but does anyone know if KIK, or Instagram or any famous social media apps are updated and optimized for lollipop?
[Nexus 6  General] BRKotucs:
I'd suggest you to try Pure Shamu + the GApps suggested by OP and stock kernel. I'm greeting great results with that ROM.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
im running dual mode vomer and yes it lags with my nova prime launcher + flex icon pack when i scroll the screens/app drawers...trade back is i don't have to charge to my phone for 3 days! easily get 7hrs SOT for my usage (light user profile)
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I got brave and enabled adaptive display again and didn't have any runaway sensor ind. Please stay this way
[Nexus 6  General] anthonyg45157:
Must be the dual core script. I have minmal lag with nova and moonshine icon pack. However im averaging about 6 hours screen on time. Amazing how much customization this phone already has! :good:
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Lol, my sensor ind kicks in even with auto rotate.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Haven't had that problem for weeks since enabling both adaptive display and ambient display, if I turn off ambient display it'll kick back in though
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
Yep same thing happens here. I have ambient display on, turn it off and boom sensor_ind
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
so that means either have both off or both on. hope those rumors of 5.1 coming soon are true. That would turn a very good device into a great device.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
If it fixes all the issues with sensor_ind :)
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
I'll take this! Almost an hour of the battery killer game! Still at 11% currently...

Had to turn it off twice at work so two restarts...

I'm pretty sure if I didn't play Clash of Clans and Sim City Buildit I would see 6hrs SOT.
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
This is just getting ridiculous! Any other suggestions how to stop gmail from being a battery hog?
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
No, for me it is ambient display On and adaptive brightness off. Any other combination and it pops up.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Sensor_ind is such a troll. I think that much we can agree on hahaha.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
What and where is this sensor Ind? I don't even see it....
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Phone was awake for 1.5hrs due to sensor_ind. Could. Have managed even more.!!

My best so far
[Nexus 6  General] idksomuch:
I managed to get 7:37 just now. I would've posted some SS but my phone died when GSAM said it was at 2%. I did take a snapshot of when it was at 50% with 4 hours SOT. My settings were rooted, decrypted, stock ROM, Franco Kernel with -50 undervolt, brightness was between 20-50%, and greenify. My usage was about 45 mins of youtube, hours upon hours of reddit (I was chillin' at home today...), an hour and a half of music, and some very light web browsing. WiFi was on for 50% of the time and I had 4 "bars" of LTE whenever wifi was off. Overall, I'm really freaking impressed with the battery life, especially since I only got it 3 days ago. I used to get around 4 hours with my rooted Nexus 5 and the best battery life i've had was on an HTC One M8 which I got 8 hours on. The Nexus 6 was a close second, followed by the LG G3 and AT&T Moto X tied, followed by Nexus 5, and last place is iPhone 5. I did use the dark theme on Reddit is Fun so I guess that also helped with my long battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] Remoteconcern:
Did anyone just get a hangouts update? I wonder if they've addressed the wakelock. What confuses me is that surely a lot of Google staff use this phone, and being technically minded, I'm sure they've noticed the wakelock problems. Why hasn't anyone fixed it?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I got the hangouts update this past Wednesday. It fixed the vibrate issues. Idk about wake lock. Google is working on the update I believe we will see something by month end
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
Using vomer tweaks? Which rom and kernel?
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Stock ROM and stock Franco, no vomer tweaks.
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
How u getting so much :( 5hr for me max.. Tried Franco and lean
[Nexus 6  General] maamdroid:
I probably average 4 hours SOT. I've tried all the tricks and apart from not using the usual apps that are a part of every phone, I stay around 4....better than the 2 or less I would get on my nexus 5.

Edit: not probably, I do average that.

Edit 2: I average 4 hours, not 3. Sorry!
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
Please remember that just because someone else got 5+ hours you're gonna get the same with the same settings. It doesn't work like that. I usually get 6+ sot average but I went for a few days to New York City and I had horrible battery life which was directly linked to the bad signal and heavy use of the camera. Just keep that in mind.
[Nexus 6  General] TheEmpyre:
Gmail has been absolutely killing my battery as of late. Has anyone found anything about fixing this? Cleared my cache and reduced the sync frequency but it's taking more battery than my seen
[Nexus 6  General] maamdroid:
Yeah I get that. Also I don't know what I was saying there. I average 4 hours. I'll edit my above post. :(

Sorry. I am happy with the battery on this phone but it sounded like I wasn't.. Almost every time I'm at 50% ish I check and I'm at about 2 hours...

Right now I'm at 48% with 2 hours and 3 mins sot. 3 hour sot means I did something battery Hoggish.
[Nexus 6  General] ZeusIII:
Check Settings > Accounts > Google to make sure you aren't getting any sync errors on any of your Google accounts. My gmail was using a lot of battery too and I just uninstalled all updates in settings and then re-downloaded them from the play store and that seems to have mostly fixed it for me. YMMV but also check back in the last couple pages about turning off NuPlayer and such. They didn't help me but some have stated it helps them.
[Nexus 6  General] TheEmpyre:
Thanks for this, after I made the post I did exactly that and it seems to be slowing down. Had a lot of sync errors.
[Nexus 6  General] jhnsn283:
Has anyone had any battery issues like this? Has been turning off randomly like my battery is completely dead. I can't even turn it back on because it shows an empty battery icon. I have to plug it in the charger and then it does the 80% it actually has. Has even died in safe mode so no third party app issue. I'm really thinking it had something to do with my wireless charger which I use every night. Had this phone for 2 weeks and no problems until today. Any ideas?
[Nexus 6  General] gagz007:
Battery life on stock without root :)
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
5hrs sot but only 7hrs real life time… try to get 5hrs over a 24hr period… I bet u wont get 5… maybe 4

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[Nexus 6  General] altimax98:
Uhhhh wow that's a crazy history.. I'd try a factory reset and see what happens.
[Nexus 6  General] jhnsn283:
Yes I ended up doing a factory reset last night and still having the same issue. Gets to about 85% and dies. Left it on the turbo charger last night to see if that works.
[Nexus 6  General] aewig:
SOT isn't everything. Plenty of things run in the background or with the screen off that you want running and will still drain battery. Most immediate example? Streaming music or a phone call.

Some people have legitimate battery issues - others think they do because one guy said he got 9 hours SOT with location on, OK google on, and sync on. He's the exception, not the rule, and there may be plenty of things done that were conveniently left out (such as oh look I disabled Keep Awake and Location from every app through App Ops and undervolted 100mv while lowering my min cpu speed).

TLDR; keep perspective on battery life. this isn't apples to apples and SOT may not be an accurate metric.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
this is supposed to be the point of this thread though. helping fix drain issues and giving tips on how to have as much life as possible.
[Nexus 6  General] aewig:
Absolutely, but someone shouldn't feel that because they only get 5 hours SOT with LK or franco that there is something wrong with their battery life. Plenty of things can drain battery that don't involve SOT but so many posts are just talking about SOT as how they measure their battery performance.
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
Indeed from person to person it cannot be used as any kind of measurable. It can be interesting though. There are too many variables like you mention, probably cell reception being the biggest. One persons SoT can be unobtainable to many, but its still interesting to see...it just shouldn't be used as any kind of benchmark or goal except to yourself :)

I'm going to share mine shortly.

---------- Post added at 09:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------

Well here we go as mentioned...

What I turned off (as I always do):

- WiFi notifications

- WiFi always scanning

- NFC

- Location Reporting

- Adaptive Brightness

Also turned off:

- OK Google voice detection

Tweaks:

- 50mV undervolt

- governor tweaks (higher load to ramp up)

Other:

- WiFi connected all day

- location mode battery saver

- mostly web browse, Tapatalk, Facebook, couple of short videos.

- Brightness at minimum

- also been playing with min brightness. N6 is 17-255, briefly been playing setting below min to "5"
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Thanks for sharing SU, nice post
[Nexus 6  General] cpiso:
Thanks root, looks like I might turn some stuff off
[Nexus 6  General] CmTiger:
can you change better on Nexus 6 or it built in?
[Nexus 6  General] mugendon:
So I am also having issues with the N6 not going to deep sleep. It does not always happen, but sometimes (like this night) it just won't go into deep sleep (doesn't matter if ambient display or adaptive brightness is on or off). It is always the Android-OS which keeps it active (according to the stock battery stats).

I have already found in this thread that the adspd wakelock can be killed by turning of nuPlayer (what I did just before posting this), but since the keep awake ~10 hours is listed for Android-OS and not for adspd, I don't think this will fix my problem in the future.

Therefore here is a list of stats (wakelock detector, gsam, stock battery stats), which may show another issue, that is keeping my device awake:

Btw. I rely on Hangouts so I would prefer to not turn it off.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
I agree completely, and we should refocus their comments on what you can see on this screenshot. great numbers as a result of no wakelocks. every time the screen was off the phone stayed asleep. so far this seems to be the only specific thing that causes the drastic results in this forum

as a person who has achieved nearly 9 hours of screen on posted in this thread, I see that doing all the same steps, eliminating all the variables, the wakelocks seem so random
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
I'm wondering if there may be some sort of Lollipop bug here.

Are people using apps like BBS to check for wakelocks / wakeups?
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
yeah you'll see people repeating the same thing about sensor_ind, and every time something finds a solution, it kicks in again. it's possible it was improved with latest updates, we'll see
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
Interesting, thanks

It's probably worth noting for me that I'm not on the Stock ROM or kernel. I've only used my phone for 1 full day, and not under everyday conditions ( I was at home) so I haven't seen this myself yet.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
probably hangouts or a 'rogue app' preventing deep sleep...force stop apps before going to bed

i like to u use that app called shut apps
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
I dont even see this sensor_ind .... Can anyone tell me where it would be... This is what I have in BBS

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Looks like you're not using the 2.0+ versio of BBS. download that version from the BBS xda thread. the one in the play store won't pick up the stats under kernel wakelock in lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] mugendon:
Hangouts might fit to Android-OS as "keep-awaker", but another third party app wouldn't make Android-OS keeping the phone awake or does it?
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Ahhh can you link that thread... I can't seem to find it...

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Alright this look more like what I should be getting...

Sent from my Nexus 6

---------- Post added at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:16 PM ----------

There he is!!!! Sensor_ind

What is the power manager service display?

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] hutzdani:
I'd say its no better than the N5.

I have Wi-Fi / BT / LTE enabled all day and use it mainly for email / phone / music o. Headphones I have a G watch paired all day and I get massivly different results.

I'm off the charger at around 7.30am, some days its dead by 6pm some days its still going till 2 or 3am the following day.

I don't really use much YouTube or anything just a little browsing in XDA here and there 30mins Max a day until I get back to my PC.

But yeah it usually lasts my work day but not much more on an average useage day

From 8am till around 3pm I'm below 60%
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Here's some good stats for a heavy use day....

SimCity was played a lot today! Way more than normal as was clash of clans.... Watched about 30min of YouTube... Was pretty much on it the whole time lol

930a-540p

Updated Greenify and realized you have to give it permission again so it didn't do much all day....

Also did 3 Antutu tests as well...

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] danarama:
my stats are not as goof today given my normal usage. Working in an ex-yorkshire cotton mill with 2 foot thick stone walls will do that to a phone.

That said, still blowing my nexus 5 out of the water.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Ya that'll do it! This thing annihilates my M8 lol its at least 3 maybe 4 times longer battery life.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Here are some new wake locks I've never seen before. I'm still going to make it to the bed tonight but not fully satisfied.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
this is the stuff that kills me. I disable NFC every time I install a new ROM since I never use it, but why did it keep my phone "awake" 9 minutes ago?
[Nexus 6  General] Jonathan-H:
You get 21 - 28 hours screen on time with your Nexus 6? I knew it had decent battery life but that's excellent ! :p Only get 7-8 hours with my M8 and 6-7 with my Note 4.