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[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Okay so far so good. man i hope this is the fix for it. Was your video chat service blue when you unchecked it? when you re-check it, it turns white. what does the blue/white/red mean in the disable service app?

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i think neriamarillo figured out the hangouts issue. He used disable service app to uncheck the video chat service. It was highlighted blue before i unchecked it. Blue means it was actively being used. I'm wondering if unchecking it will cause you not to be able to do video chats. If i check it again it's white meaning it's not in use. I wonder if it will just go back to getting stuck again. I'll play with that later but for now I'm happy that that part is figured out.

as for that media wakelock? do you have your touch sounds turned on when you click on items? I always turned that off because I remember in the past that used to cause the mediaserver wakelock to kick in. I'd be surprised if that's the fix because that would mean they haven't fixed that issue in a loooong time.
[Nexus 6  General] k2buckley:
Hers today's. All LTE. I wonder why it shows Wi-Fi was awake the entire time, when it was off. I have always scanning turned off.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
nah, thats one of the first things i do is turn off vibrate/touch sounds/touchpad etc...

however, here is something i want you to look at. I don't understand what i am looking at, but at https://android.googlesource.com/device/moto/shamu/+/0f330d4e9e2edc9566e94eb3793164af7c7fb101%5E!/ i am seeing the reference to adspd & sensor for something but i don't know what i'm looking at.

i've seen references to it on Moto Devices such as Moto X, Moto 360, and Nexus 6 just googling around.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Very odd if you're positive it was off. I leave mine on all the time even though I'm not connected to it. Just out of habit and the places I travel to always have WiFi which phone has remembered. Is this your wife's/girls N6?
[Nexus 6  General] k2buckley:
No it's mine. Hers was supposed to say here's. Oops

And I'm definitely sure Wi-Fi was off
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
My bad lol I should have caught that...

I'll turn my WiFi off tomorrow and see if I get the same
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
Sent mine back today :'(
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
For the battery life I'm guessing after seeing your post ~10 pages back. That sux sorry you didn't have success with it
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
Unfortunately I think I'm getting some sort of battery drain issue as well.

Went to sleep with 100%, woke up with 93% only 5 hours later.

So far, I only have 1.5 hours SOT at half brightness and adaptive display turned on.

Battery level currently reads 49%

I am on Verizon.

Below are some screenshots, I noticed my cell standby time unusually high on the percentage of battery drain. I also looked into specific apps running at something called "sprintDM" or "sprintDMservices" has been running for 17 hours. Anyone know of any correlation between the two?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
7% over 5 hours is not too bad. Could certainly be better. So many variables here you'll have to trial and error troubleshoot it. idk what sprintdm is did you try Google it?

With all the different apps and syncing going on from all types of users it's hard to tell. Do you have 10 apps syncing every 15 minutes? Facebook? Location reporting on? Device manager and remote wipe/erase on? A lot of things I turn off that I don't need nor want running. That's just me though.
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Also check account sync, turn off things you don't want to sync.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
man all these graphs with poor cellular signal. Reminds me of the N5 days when people started posting their battery charts. Also is there a way to turn off the "Ok Google" always listening? Remember guys, the N6 has the extra processor in there that's always listening for your voice. It shouldn't have a huge impact but it could have a noticeable impact if you're coming from a phone that doesn't utilize something of that nature.
[Nexus 6  General] epphllps:
It's in Google settings I believe. Mine was off anyways and still have poor battery life. Didn't even have a great signal in the verizon store yesterday lol.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Yes it does located in google settings app> search&now> voice> ok google detection
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I don't have my phone yet but do the settings in the google search also pertain to the screen off "okay google" command or is it located elsewhere?
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
Yeah I know there's endless possibilities, but I now have 11% drain coming from cell standby, which has only been active for something like 6 seconds.

This leads me back to the sprintDM. After some googling, apparently its something sprint has been known to put on their phones as a background admin account to restrict certain features. Often this was for corporations who gave corporate devices to employees and wanted to restrict or monitor certain things.

So question, why is there sprint applications on my nexus 6??
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Yes all the settings to all ok Google detection actions are in one screen
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Good question maybe we'll find out the answer in the coming days. I have it running too. Stopped it and has not returned.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Thanks for the heads up. with all these poor cell signals, makes me wonder what radios moto put in there :(. My moto x consistently gets stronger signals than my N5. I hope I'm not going backwards going from moto x to n6 in terms of signal strength.
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
Let me know if it comes back

I got rid of Facebook, weather, and kindle books as they were always running. I don't suspect then to be the cause of the drain but its possible.

I'm going to let the battery fully drain, then fully charge and kill the sprintDM and see if that has an effect on my next battery life cycle.

Here's to hoping it does [emoji482]
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I think the radios are solid. I have an N5 too and the N6 hangs on to LTE without dropping to UMTS/HSPA like the N5 does at my home location (which is on the fringe of LTE, but has good HSPA coverage).
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Will do :good:
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Thanks for radio comparison. These battery charts are scaring the crap out of me hahaha.
[Nexus 6  General] Birdsfan:
I think the reception is very good, better than my OnePlus One. I also have that Sprint crap in my phone but I couldn't disable it. So far I think the battery is slightly worse than my OPO but I've only had it for one day....
[Nexus 6  General] ilostmypistons:
Reception is much better on my n6 than my n5. I was worried it would be the same but the n6 is doing great for me. I'm on Sprint
[Nexus 6  General] acheney1990:
So far for me anyway the battery does seem to be the only week spot and doesn't do me as long as I would have hoped. I feel like I got better battery with my OPO but this device sure feels nicer and the screen is beautiful.
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Thank you OP for posting this thread. I have had my N6 32gb White for 1 full day now. I took my phone off the charger at 2pm and its now 6:17pm and im at 60% with 1hr 6min screen on time. Coming from a N5, Oneplus, and Iphone 6 plus, this really does concern me. I have hardly use the device and I'm almost at 50% in 4 hours? Can someone clue me in as to how this is a step in the right direction? I absolutely love the Nexus line of phones but I just cant sit next to the charger all day or be concerned with having a dead battery in 8 hours with barely any use... I haven't seen battery this bad since my HTC Evo.

Carrier: AT&T

Wifi and LTE on

50% brightness with adaptive brightness on

Gmail and facebook sync

No location services(disabled)
[Nexus 6  General] Sacricide:
Hey guys, for all you folks upgrading from a N5

What did you usage patterns fair on the N5 respectively. And does your N6 hold out much longer?
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
Just let mine run completely dead, this will be the fist full charge cycle from completely drained. Managed 5hrs and 1 min of SOT
[Nexus 6  General] skielbasa:
Unlocked and rooted, but still encrypted; double tap to wake is enabled. Was connected to wifi 60-70% of the day. I haven't really done anything to improve battery life. Google fit is still set to track, bluetooth is on and connected to my moto360 and fitbit, !Google Now is on with hotword detection set to always on. Most of the SOT was spent playing Wind Runner, checking Facebook and browsing reddit and XDA; I also made a few short phone calls. Not amazing given the usage and battery size, but I'm quite pleased with it.
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
That's impressive considering you were playing games most of that time. What is your brightness setting?
[Nexus 6  General] skielbasa:
Gaming was only like 30 minutes or so. Brightness set to adaptive with the slider set to 50%.
[Nexus 6  General] daddioj:
yeah even if i did get 5:30 SOT to me thats not a success considering i have been spoiled with 7-9 hrs SOT with the one plus
[Nexus 6  General] bubblebuddyi:
Managed to get 4.5 SOT by 13-15% left. Not terrible, not great. That's with **** LTE reception, Bluetooth on (moto 360), and WiFi connected.
[Nexus 6  General] MF88:
Here's What i did to improve my Battery Life Significantly

2 days ago, i participated in this thread with screen shots about my battery life, the battery was drained even when the phone is locked with no Active WIFI

i have tried many solutions in this thread and others of my own, but it did not improve anything, Until i did the following

1- i downloaded the factory image

2- i installed the drivers of the nexus on my pc

3- entered the bootloader mode on the phone

4- i started wiping out each Partition and reflashing the software from A to Z

but even this will not solve it entirely

you'll have to wipe cache ( fastboot erase cache )

and then ( fastboot reboot-bootloader ) then enter recovery and do another factory reset

you will lose your data for sure but you'll maybe regain more " Screen on time and a deep sleep as well"

---------------------

Screen shots:

before going to bed

After i woke up

an Hour ago

CPU Spy

yes, it has finally gone to the deep sleep mode

another one with wakelock Detector

More info:

the phone is bootloader unlocked, Rooted, decrypted, with battery percentage moded icon, double tap to wake the phone active, ambient display enabled, no apps frozen, no services frozen, even the sh!ty google fit app is present

- if you still unaware of the process here's a detailed post | LiNk

- the phone goes well into deep sleep, but when i use it the battery burns very very fast, i Guess that's what software updates will fix overtime, in the meantime i'll disable whatever app i don't use

- [IMPORTANT] if you don't use (google location reporting, and google location history) please turn them off, they eat the battery on any phone not just the nexus 6

navigate to settings>location>Google location reporting

i hope i've proved myself useful to anyone..

i'll post updates to this thread if i find anything useful
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
You rock MF88 thanks for sharing :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] eprisencc:
The iPhone 6+ has much better battery life than my nexus 6. I'll disconnect both from the charger at the same time. About 20 minutes later the iPhone will still be at %100 while the nexus 6 will be down to about %94.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Please try to add value to the thread instead of posting "this device is better than this device". Do you have some Nexus 6 battery results to share? Or some tips to help save battery? Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
Personally I believe if you're goint to post battery stats you should have multiple shots of

1) Wakelocks (Cpu,Screen,Kernel, etc.)

2) App showing app usage detail

3) and stock settings/battery screenshots.

All of those together can hopefully help each other find why each other's batteries vary.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
That might be a little too much to comb through, but you're right, details like that could potentially add value and help others. Feel free to do so
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Man it's been good all day and now something kicked off that sensor_ind again and it won't stop. Video chat is still unchecked as well.
[Nexus 6  General] roan.util:
Poll of results

Would it be helpful to add a poll to the thread? It could be made up of time ranges of battery life. Or even usage levels with time of life.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
so far it has remained away with hangouts uninstalled but i unplugged it today and the entire time it was unplugged i had the adspd drain. Threw it on the charger at 67% and rebooted at FULL, and its been running for 18 minutes with adspd running the entire time at the top of app usage in GSAM.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Are you running the unencrypted image?
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
yes i am. It has stalked me on Euphoria Rom (AOSP) and i reflashed a clean on STOCK and it is still persisting.

There are a few postings of it on blogs and i found another one on a vbulletin, but no one seems to know where it is coming from. I read where one guy had a completely untouched nexus 6 and had gsam showing much like mine. so apparently it affects the encrypted image as well
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Good idea I thought about this when creating the thread but thought since battery life varies so much and comparo's with other individuals is so futile I thought maybe not. But I think it would provide a good summary of what is possible. Especially for those that like to skim over. Thanks for suggesting
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
A little more. I don't know if this will help identify the ADSPD issue or not but...

picture is a reference to it.

It seems like from the associated processes that it is the GOOD OL Mediaserver wakelock where any sounds or media apps and the service won't shut down. In my case the only sounds i have are from notifications. No touch sounds or anything else. Just Phone calls, emails, and text messages. I even uninstalled Google Play Music but to no avail. it is still there...
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
Question. When rebooting...and you are back on the lockscreen and you unlock.

Should You Open Recents Immediately do you see

a) nothing

b) every app you've ran since you flashed?
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
Did my first full cycle yesterday and got 5hrs 1min of screen on time. Here's where I'm at tonight
[Nexus 6  General] 2fastkuztoms:
This has been my best battery life so far.
[Nexus 6  General] clothednblack:
So far today

Posted from a Nexus 6 running Slim Rom
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
Halfway through today. Not gonna be able to kill it. On pace for about 5:45.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
hangouts/sensor_ind is driving me nuts. I'm on vacation for a week and don't want to deal with this. Google hangouts you're going on lock down for a week and a half.
[Nexus 6  General] markwebb:
So far today: I think this is decent with 6 hours battery time left.
[Nexus 6  General] d.cortez:
i'm pleased with the battery life of my device. i'm averaging about 4-6 hours of screen time over the course of a day; meaning the screen is on at most maybe 30 minutes at a time. if i'm reading/responding to lots of emails then SOT is closer to 4 hrs. i've been able to go 18hrs on 1 charge, ending the day with 17% battery remaining. today was an exceptional day as i was able to get 7 hrs screen time over 12 hours. most of that was watching college football with the Watch ESPN app... (Roll Tide!). also want to mention that the white space represents approx 8 minutes when the phone was off while i was testing my Qi wireless charger. i wanted to see if a powered off phone would turn on when placed on the wireless charger.
[Nexus 6  General] dmeadows013:
And still 31% left too! That's crazy. How'd you manage it?
[Nexus 6  General] d.cortez:
i didn't do anything special. minimal phone calls and lower number of emails (less than 100) might have contributed to the extended time.
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
i literally told the few friends i had on hangouts to cease hangouts messaging and go back to sms.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I use hangouts exclusively and I get 6+ hrs SOT every single charge since owning the phone 11 days ago (except the very 1st cycle). Are ya'll finding out info that maybe hangouts is the sole culprit of a constant wakelock?

I just unlocked, rooted, and decrypted and am thinking 8hrs SOT is doable. And yes I use my phone normally (my normal).
[Nexus 6  General] crashercarlton:
it is very possible it is something else, however if hangouts seems to be the one kicking up the wakelock, i'm no developer and i'm just going to get rid of it. I've tried different roms aosp/stock and it always comes back. Uninstall hangouts and it never shows up again.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
It's definitely hangouts that kicks it off. Have you tried going back to complete stock encrypted rom with just root? I'm gonna go hangout-less for a week or until i see an update from the play store. I'm a huge hangout user so this is going to be quite the pain.
[Nexus 6  General] jimbridgman:
So 8 hours SOT is completely doable.
[Nexus 6  General] tlf55:
I'm considering buying this device but i'm very affraid of battery life .. I have a N5 and not very pleased of the battery life, here i read that for some it's worse and for some it's the same or a bit better .. I don't know what to do ..
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I still have a N5. Battery life on the N6 is much better than my N5. For me. I get 2+ more hours of sot on average with the N6
[Nexus 6  General] AngioNicholai:
Battery sucks, 3 hours tops with heavy use. My HTC One m8 always gave me at least 8 hours of heavy use. (I do mean heavy use) so I turned off all auto sync, disabled some apps, display settings turned down and disable vibrate feedback, turned off Google now. Will return with results soon.

6th day owning device. Completely stock, no root, no mods.
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
Buy it, you'll love the device and if battery life is bad for you just pack the turbo charger with you.
[Nexus 6  General] k2buckley:
Personally, I've been getting great battery life (by my own standards). Averaging 5 hour SOT and 24hr per charge. Obviously some people are getting worse, and others are getting better. At this point, it's hard to say why it seems so sporadic. Not sure if it's caused by different settings and apps, or if there are issues with some devices.
[Nexus 6  General] kava1:
Hoping to break 8hrs..
[Nexus 6  General] freebee269:
i came from a note 4 where i got 5 hours SOT on average and that was good for how much i use my phone. i'm constantly streaming videos from different apps and in chrome so that uses a lot of SOT as well. on my nexus 6 i'm getting between 3 and 4 hours SOT before i need to charge it. i've had my nexus 6 for about 4 days now. that note 4 would last me through a day of use. my nexus 6 has to be charge some time during the day before i go to bed and put it on the charger over night. so the battery life is definitely lacking for me. other than that i absolutely like my nexus 6.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
There has got to be something wrong with the ones that are getting such bad battery life.

I, like a lot others, am getting very good battery life. 6hrs sot constantly with around 20-24 hrs uptime. This is having the wakelocks affecting it (usually around 5-6 hrs awake with sensor_Ind or some other wake lock).

I think it has to be some apps conflicting with lollipop for the ones with bad battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] Manjunath324:
from graph,u did charge again around 1pm. and with that u can achieve 12 hour sot.
[Nexus 6  General] jimbridgman:
Yeah, for just a few min. and gained a little added juice yesterday afternoon, and not a full charge.

And I did get 8 hours SOT, and 48hr between full charges. Lets see your 12 hour SOT screenshot! Have not seen anyone get even close to that, yet!
[Nexus 6  General] rlh445:
Here is mine. I went to sleep last night sometime around ten or so and did not put it on the charger. I woke up with it at 90%.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Looking solid. When your done with that cycle please share. Share plenty of info from the OP too.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Yeah I know 8 hrs is doable with a 2nd charge :sly: but I was talking about just 1 charge cycle aka from 100% to zero without any charging during. Looks like around 50% you charged back up to ~90% or so. Quick charge on this phone is nice ain't it!
[Nexus 6  General] jimbridgman:
8 hours is completely doable even without the 15 min. of extra charge I got yesterday.

Yep the quick charge ability on this phone is pretty bad ass, but it is perfectly doable to get more than 48 hours with it and still get 8 hours SOT is still totally doable. I have made more tweaks today, and I should be able to do exactly what I have stated above, tomorrow. Screenshots coming, of promised battery life tomorrow.

;)
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Looking forward :thumbup:

Be sure to share your tweaks too if you're able!
[Nexus 6  General] jimbridgman:
Yep of course, I think I have been pretty forthcoming with what I done so far to get to where I am at with my battery life. Today I have been tweaking things that keep my mail app from going to sleep, since that app (aqua mail), even state it prevents the phone from going to sleep. I had it setup with greenify to go to sleep, that prevented it from alerting me when new mail showed up... so I had to take it out of greenify. Now today I have gone in to disable service and tweaked a few things for this app in there and we shall see how it does over the next 24 hours. I will share tomorrow, if it does what I think it will.
[Nexus 6  General] jhax01:
I already have a work phone so the Nexus 6 is a pure consumption/personal device for me... I'm syncing 2 Google accounts, Facebook, Twitter, and two other email addresses that are forwarded to one of my Google accounts (because Inbox is AWESOME at categorizing). I have Google Now running, and Bluetooth/Wi-Fi on at all times. I normally have location services on but this time I didn't. Not sure why i didn't notice. I also have a Moto 360 connected at all times. I was traveling today so the N6 was in airplane mode with Wi-Fi/BT on for 2 hrs... I was on LTE for around 75% of the time that the N6 was not in airplane mode. I'm decrypted, rooted, stock and in the first few days, I went through a couple factory resets and re-flashes of the factory images. Total use time is somewhat short but with lots of screen time which was spent surfing, watching Netflix or locally stored content. I generally get between 4.5 to 6 hours of SOT with 12-18 hours total usage. I'm pretty satisfied. I think I would do better if I removed the Android Wear and Motorola Connect apps as I believe they keep the phone awake quite a bit, but the 360 is fairly handy if you ask me, especially with a phone this size. I have Hangouts installed, but I really only use that to call home when I'm overseas. For those that have horrible battery life, I think the most effective thing I did was flash the factory images and set up as a new device rather than restore from a backup. Yeah, it was a pain, but my battery improved quite a bit over my first day when I was running out of the box with restored accounts. Just my opinion. Sorry for the rambling, I just wanted to illustrate that you can actually use the N6 and still get fairly decent battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] cardusan:
I get between 24hrs to 28hrs (so far), screen on time is usually around 4hrs (once below that, 3 times above that time), I have everything turned on (except high accuracy for gps).
[Nexus 6  General] msd24200:
I'm going to get over 6hrs for the second time tonight