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[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
That looks about right if you were playing SIMS and surfing facebook during that nosedive drop. Games eat up battery on this phone.
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
Ah, sarcasm

That was sarcasm, the frickin post takes up almost a whole page. They should be included as attachments rather than embedded in post.
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
I removed Facebook and installed Facebook lite no more drain
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
That's just a Web view wrapper, rather use the mobile Web
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
M.Facebook.com is better however I could still upload videos and pics a lot better
[Nexus 6  General] istrikerx:
The facebook app is always a big battery drain, even in iOS. Far too many background processes.

The only way to keep the full app and not get a battery hit is to force close it every time you use it, or use greenify to kill it automatically.

Just use the website. It's far quicker, plus you can keep "most recent" on your news feed all the time, instead of scrolling tabs and then down to find the "most recent" page on the app.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Plus scrolling in FB Lite is laggy. I do like the fact I can check messages from FB lite w/o installing messenger BUT it was way too laggy to keep using it.

I greenify it and I use disable services to remove location and the mqqt something something service so the FB app will stop coming back up.
[Nexus 6  General] GregNexus:
Standby Time

How long does your Nexus 6 last in Standby ? (Wifi oder Data turned on)
[Nexus 6  General] GregNexus:
The Phone left the charger at 94%, pretty decent Standby time... It was sleeping like a baby.

Love my N6.

Stock rooted + Franco Kernel

?
[Nexus 6  General] ThomasElwood:
Battery life

Hi im new her and to the site, I have a nexus 6 and i always get between 4 hours 40 mins and 4 hours and 55 mins screen on time over a whole day, I was wondering for advice to improve that, ill post screenshots in a few days and more detailed diagnostics ( sort of ).. thanks..
[Nexus 6  General] samdroid24:
Root your device first, and try to decrypt your device, turn off ambient display and turn off adaptive brightness, install Franco kernel, and see how it goes with the Stock ROM ± Franco kernel. Also, use the greenify app after these steps, to kill the apps that you don't want running in the background. Also, uninstall unnecessary Google apps that you don't need. This helped me increase battery life.

Sent from my Whale.
[Nexus 6  General] DanSeb:
I feel silly now, I was just panicking on my first day, after a couple of days I can happily confirm my Nexus 6 has the best battery life of any Android phone I've ever used, today full wifi for 8hrs, 4g the rest of the time, videos, reading, location on, GoogleNow on, it lasted 14hrs and it ended on 27%, never happened with my Nexus 5 (or HTCs I had), or my previous phones.

Thanks :)
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Funny thing is at least for me my n6 lasts longer on LTE/hspa than WiFi.
[Nexus 6  General] siddhesh.raikar:
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[Nexus 6  General] Unrivalled:
Mine is on a second charge. Android OS seems to be using a bit chunk of battery. Is that normal? Will flashing a custom rom solve this problem? I'm on the stock and ambient display is also off.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I've owned 5 different phones on T-Mobile with decent service in my area and they've ALL done better on the network battery-wise than on Wi-Fi ( specially idling).
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Sorry for the late reply to all who answered me but ya I have greenify and it shuts fb down... I know it deff does BC whenever I open SimCity or Clash of Clans I get 20 notifications lol so they pull that fb info as well... So not only do I kill the battery by playing the game but its loading fb in the background...

Also is there anyway to clear ram on the phone itself without a secondary app? I used to use one on my M8 that worked good but would rather stay with the phone stuff if it has one...

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] samdroid24:
I don't think that's built into Lollipop, unlike Samsung's Task Manager or HTC's. Your best bet is to download a third party application.

Sent from my Whale.
[Nexus 6  General] Ulver:
I couldn't deal with the poor battery on the Nexus 6. The size was growing on me, and I really like the look of stock 5.0. Unfortunately, the sensor_id wakelock was kicking my ass. I shouldn't have to turn on/off features to "fix" things. Having an unread hangouts message kept my phone awake, really?! So I'm back on my Z3. I do enjoy 7-8 hours SOT over 1.5 days. I'll just have to deal with the lack of development and Sony's UI. I'll keep checking in, maybe this so called 5.1 will fix a lot of issues.

Sent from my Z3
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Why are you wanting to clear the phones ram? Android isn't like your pc with regards to ram...
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Sensor_ind is a huge pain in the ass i agree, i'm surprised there isn't more of a widespread issue with it actually.

Funnily enough i haven't had it in weeks, all i did was turn both ambient brightness and adaptive display on. if i turn one off i get the wakelock, very odd
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
I agree with both of you. Like Ulver said I was about to pull the plug on nexus 6 because of this sensor_ind problem. I posted some pages back and I nearly got flamed. My opinion is that such an expensive phone should deal with problems like this fast. If they wanted me to by their beta tester they should have been selling the phone for 300-400 bucks.

I also find it very strange that there's no more talk about such a huge problem. If like italia said I turn adaptive brightness on and ambient display on I get more battery drain from that. Plus I don't like ambient display so why the hell should I have to use it?
[Nexus 6  General] waywardsojourner:
Got my best battery life to date yesterday. Over 5 hours SoT. LiquidSmooth ROM, franco kernel, vomer tweaks
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I think there is, it's just that they don't know it. Installing BBS from google play store doesn't pick it up. People wouldn't know they have to install the beta version in order to know they are having sensor_ind issue. With that said the issue hasn't reared it's ugly head for me in a long time. the wakelock is there but it stops and phone sleeps when it's supposed to. Mine is still related to hangouts as sensor_ind kicks in while using it but as long as it sleeps when I'm not using it, I'm fine.

I either have to have both adaptive display and ambient display on or both off AND i've minimized my hangouts usage by separating texts and hangout messages to different apps.

My biggest issue at the moment is wlan_rx_awake and trying to minimize that. I've used the moto x so long that I forgot I had the same issue with the Nexus 5 which also uses a broadcom wifi chipset. I'm content with the battery life on the phone. Just a little more and I'd be happy. I make it from beginning of day to bedtime but I do have to watch my usage a bit. I think the thing that has helped the most is the games that I like to play don't work well on the Nexus 6 so that has allowed me to make it through the day.

okay I talk to much

TL/DR Battery life is good, it can and SHOULD get better with next update. *crosses fingers*
[Nexus 6  General] th3g0d:
Do you have "scanning always available" enabled in advanced WiFi settings? If so, try turning it off. I used to have a lot WiFi related wakelocks even when WiFi was disabled, and it was this settings that caused it. I know this has been mentioned in this thread already, but in case you have missed it.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Yeah that's disabled. I just have a noisy network at home but even still this shouldn't be an issue since i have other android devices on the network that don't experience this wakelock. Like Franco said in his thread, it's the broad com Wi-Fi card in the nexus 6.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Have you ever monitored yours? I was at 65% this morning till I downloaded my old phone cleaner...

Cleaned and went to 23%

You'd be surprised all this garbage it cleans...

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
You're thinking like a pc, more apps open the slower it runs... Android works differently... . The "garbage" as you call it, is apps that you've used recently that are held/stored in ram so you can switch back quickly without the repeated battery hit on using cpu cycles to load the app from disk again.. Over time, Android learns which apps you use repeatedly/frequently and which ones you don't... Drops the rarely used apps from ram in favor of the frequently used ones in low memoryz situations...
[Nexus 6  General] PunishedSnake:
Opinion noted

---------- Post added at 09:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:53 AM ----------

My old htc one m8 had better idle time on wifi than cell data.

But I wonder why you experienced that. Perhaps router?

my wndr3700 would keep my old m8 awake the whole time on 5ghz band but not on 2.4ghz. with the n6 it occurs on both
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
It's just that idle on T-Mobile when there's good reception is ridiculously good. I'm talking 0.2-0.4 per hour with everything synching
[Nexus 6  General] jcru53:
Finally hit 5hr SOT yesterday with 15% to spare. My big improvement is using minimal gapps so that more gapps can be hibernated. Love this phone!
[Nexus 6  General] waywardsojourner:
Anyone find better battery life with having Google now off? Android wear wants me to have it on but I think I get better life with it off
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
After days of fiddling and researching and changing kernels I was able to get great battery life with all hardware enabled.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
What rom/kernel mix did you end with?
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
I ended up with Pure shamu and elementalX 0.23 default settings. GPS, Bluetooth, 4G, WiFi always on.
[Nexus 6  General] waywardsojourner:
This is great battery life?
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
With everything always enabled, 28 hours on with 4 hours SOT is not great battery life?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
You beat my time on battery and sot, so I'd say yes..
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
I'm curious to hear from the guy that commented before how long his battery lasts.
[Nexus 6  General] waywardsojourner:
My apologies. I missed the 28 hours on time. Thought I saw 19.
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
By today's standards that's average at best..
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Maybe.. But what's your battery life at?
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
Well for me it's more than enough...
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
Well my almost 1 year phone has definitely superior battery life than this phone which got released recently and that is sad, technology is supposed to go forward.. Battery life is more important than having a few extra pixles which, is hardly noticeable anyways, I wish all phone companies would understand that.
[Nexus 6  General] slekkas:
In case you forgot to read the title this is a nexus 6 battery life thread. We compare nexus 6 battery. Your one year old phone definitely doesn't have a 6 inch screen or a snapdragon 805 CPU. Having a beast like this lasts 28 hours with 4 hours SOT plus phone calls and WIFI, BLUETOOTH, 4G, GPS and all Google services on is called great battery life. With my note 3 never got this battery life while using all its features... Of course my old Nokia would last 4 days. But this phone is like using a laptop.

Ps. In the screenshot you sent you haven't made one phone call your SOT is 2 hours and Bluetooth is off and your WiFi was on for just 10 hours. No comparison.
[Nexus 6  General] erapmicks:
LOL nice app usage. Seems like u just leave the screen on and do ANYTHING with it
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Using Franco kernel r10 and vomer dynamic setting I got 42 hours off charger with just over 5 hours screen on time. Very impressed with those results, I wasn't on WiFi all the time, that's just the bug with the lollipop graph. I use greenify and location on battery saving, google now off. I know vomer under clocks but I didn't feel any difference in speed.
[Nexus 6  General] mr_clean5953:
Does your 1 year old phone have a power hungry 2K display or have lollipop installed? Your comparing a apple to an orange.....just saying
[Nexus 6  General] ScumDroid:
Stock ROM. Lean Kernel with default settings. About half the time is LTE the other half is WiFi. No bluetooth or NFC, Google now off, no undervolting or underclocking or silly scripts. I am getting about 5 to 5.5 hours screen time with a days use (phone gets charged every night after work). Usage is split evenly i guess between emails, messaging, browsing, Twitter, games, and phone calls. If a phone gets me through a days work without having to charge im happy. I read some clown on OPO forums claiming he gets 12 hours screen on time with heavy use on his Oneplus, and people are believing him, which kind of annoyed me, as he is misleading people into thinking he has some magical battery.
[Nexus 6  General] Acreo Aeneas:
Personally, I've aimed for 5+ hours and been hitting that goal and sometimes 5.5 to 6 hours even if I'm a bit more OCD about killing unused apps.

I've used my N6 as my daily driver since I got it about two weeks now. I've had stock for the first 4 days, rooted stock for another 7 days, and Chroma ROM for the last 3 days. Overall, I've experimented in order to achieve my battery life goal. Settings wise: no adaptive brightness, no ambient display, ~5%-10% screen brightness, no LED notifications (Chroma), and location high accuracy (needed for Google Maps). Of all the apps I have installed, Facebook and Fit drains my battery due to them constantly waking my device. Facebook's app notifications are turned off which lets my phone go into deep sleep. Fit is disabled and replaced with stock app (stock, stock rooted). Fit isn't even installed on Chroma ROM currently since I used slim Gapps. Fit's activity tracking is the main culprit. Battery lasts maybe 5 hours with minimal usage (and SoT) because it's constantly location aware. I also turn off notifications for my games as well to help prevent wakes (since freemium games love to spam you with notifications).
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
Yeah do the math, multiply that x2 and you will have 4 days of battery life with 4h SOT and over 30% battery left.

Also FYI the phone consumes more battery when its on 3G/4G than when its on WiFi, duh.

This could be possible on the nexus 6 if moto went for a 1080p screen instead. [emoji17]

Isn't lollipop supposed to be more power efficient that KitKat? And yeah that's my point, 2k screen = average battery life at best. Its not worth the trade off, don't you agree?
[Nexus 6  General] gmelchert:
To each his own. Personally with quick charge I don't mind having enough pixels to drain a 3200 mah battery quickly. The screen is beautiful.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Agreed, but the quick charge isn't always available though... I need to find a USB cla that outputs 12V 1.2A...
[Nexus 6  General] gmelchert:
its not a bug, you just finger blast your way through setup and don't read everything :silly:
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Well, since I've seen the wifi bar on my battery list, with both the wifi and "always scanning" off... I think there may be a bug...
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
Glad it works out for you.

One thing Im wondering though, I heard quick charge shortens the battery's lifespan much faster since it produces more heat. Is that true? I have been using a 850mA charger that came with Chromecast to charge my phone since then.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
It can reduce the number of charge cycles, sure, but modern lithium batteries are generally good for 1000-5000 charge cycles. So even a 20% reduction is still. 800-4000 charges.. So you're still looking at at least 2 years of daily charges... :P
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
Just found a very useful page about lithium batteries

https://www.rm.com/Support/TechnicalArticle.asp?cref=TEC2584306

I guess I'm gonna keep using my low voltage charger and avoid discharging the phone too often ?
[Nexus 6  General] RogerPodacter:
Lollipop has a memory leak after the phone runs for appr 60 hours of uptime or more. That's why you're seeing a drop that other phones don't have. There's an enormous thread for both n5 and n6 about this issue on 5.0.
[Nexus 6  General] FuPete:
I have some knowledge about Li-Ion battery, and the manufacturers will always say you dont have to expect any harm from fast-charge.

Well, the battery of my Nexus 4 was really bad in the last few months before I gave it to my brother. I bought it used and I dont know how the previous owner has charged and discharged the phone.

Anyway, lower current is always better for the battery. I got the N6 since ~35days, and I used the turbocharger only once. If I have enough time, I just plug the phone into my PC (500mA), or I use a older wall charger (~1A).

If you want to know more about it, I recommend visiting this site:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/ultra_fast_chargers

and:

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table

http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Those are good links. Just remember that the "C" value varies from battery to battery.. For the n6 battery, 1C = approx 3.2A.. (1 hr discharge output for a 3220 may battery)... What I'm a little fuzzy on, is the internal set up of the phones charge circuits, as the rapid charger it comes with outputs a max of 12V at 1. 2A (which should step down through the other two charge levels available in the charger as it passed 70% charge. But even with that, I change my phone most often with a 5V 700mA charger (overnight), with a 5V 1.8A cla charger for at work top ups. ..

Another thing, is with the table shoeing the discharge times for batteries charged at 1, 2, and 3C rates.. That variance is from the charge saturation... A slower charge provides better saturation than a fast charge.
[Nexus 6  General] Jiyeon90:
Thank you for the links, taking good care of the battery is a big priority for me.
[Nexus 6  General] Maynard100:
These are useful info. Thanks.
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Anyone else getting better battery life with Greenify auto hibernation disabled? It seems in lollipop that the service running to kill the apps uses more power than the apps being allowed to run in the background?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
It might depend on which app you are hibernate. Some apps will wake themselves even if you've greenified it which I'm guessing causes greenify to have to continually hibernate it. For example Facebook. Greenify will hibernate it but after awhile facebook will launch in the background again and then Greenify would have to go back and hibernate it again. I had to use disable services to disable the 3 MQTT services in facebook to keep it from launching in the background again. While I was in there i disabled a few others but the MQTT did the trick to keep it hibernated. Some of the other ones like google music and other system apps don't stay hibernated and keep waking so my guess is you'd have to do the same with disable services or freeze it altogether with Titanium Backup if you don't use them at all.
[Nexus 6  General] davanw:
Is this why my battery drain overnight is far greater than my battery drain actually using the phone with screen on?
[Nexus 6  General] Peylix:
My batt life has been amazing. Rooted, Decrypted, Franco.

Had 4 SOT w/ 6 hours left at 5am this morning when these snaps were taken. Phone had been unplugged since 7pm Monday night.

Didn't see how much longer it would go so plugged it in after these snaps as I was going to bed. But damn. I'm impressed.

(I have not disabled any services like some knuckleheads around here either *snicker*)
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Who u callin nuckleheads¿? USE dual vomer tweaks and Diasable more apps and ul get twice SOT

Via my NeXus™ 7FHD on XDA Premium app
[Nexus 6  General] puma1:
What option or app gives you the percent on the battery icon as in the screenshots you put up?
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
It's either custom roms or MCR mod pack.
[Nexus 6  General] Gage_Hero:
Something to try

So I have been playing around with tasker and synker and found something that seems to hold some promise for better battery life. First thing I do is a force sync on my gmail account every 30 minutes from 7 am to 4:30 pm using synker in tasker. Trick here is I only allow calendar, gmail and the 2 play services to sync. after 4:30 until 9:45 I run the same task but at 1 hour intervals. Then I run all 16 syncs once at 9:45 to 9:50 which brings everything else back up to date. The result is actually pretty astonishing... It's been off charger since about 8:45 pm yesterday and it is now 12:20 pm still have 85% battery left (uptime 17 hours). Now on screen time is only at 36 minutes so far but I played music for a little over 1 hour... so far I am pretty happy with this set up.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Interesting rig out, I've really only used tasker to verify my config on boot, and automate radios on and off (wifi/nfc/bluetooth) depending on location and need... And to force hibernate a few apps that misbehave.
[Nexus 6  General] Gage_Hero:
I find tasker a handy tool..... I silence the phone from 7:10 am to 4:30 Pm for the office Monday to Friday, after 4:30 volumes go back up, I max out the volume after 4:30 if my wife texts or phones (ringtone), Turn all volumes down after 10pm along with Bluetooth off for the smartwatch... Turn on gentle alarm at 6:10 am so it doesn't have to run all night or I forget to actually turn it on lol. I even back up my sms once a week with sms backup / restore (don't get a lot of sms or I would do it nightly) There seems to be some pretty good plugins for it.... even more creative ones if your rooted... I haven't gone there yet.... maybe after 5.1.
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
HeY guys, sorry for bringing this topic back all over again but has anyone found a solution to the Sensor_Ind wakelock? I have adaptive brightness on and ambient display off. It seems to start after I make or received a phone call. The phone was sleeping fine for the first 6 hours without receiving a call but once it did, my battery started draining. I check with wakelock detector and I was able to confirm that it was the sensor wakelock. Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] wrongway213:
No need to apologize, wakelock is persistent for me too and I've tried all combinations except I believe ambient and adaptive both on maybe? It's a huge problem for me, biggest issue I have on my phone by a long shot. It's a problem for a lot of users still as far as I know... please oh please someone correct me.
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
Thanks wronway, I am going to give your suggestion of both on a try. If it weren't for LK and Chroma ROM, my battery depletion would have been substantial. As of now Sensor_Ind has been running on and off for 3 hours and 21 min. I have disable hangouts and Google+ and its not helping at all.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
For me ambient and adaptive need to be both on or both off. The wake lock will still be detected but should be only when using hangouts. It shouldn't keep the phone awake. At least that's my scenario.
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
Thank you so much Biggie, but if you have both on have you seen a drop in battery. I guess it's a double edge sword, lol.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
If I have both off I get better battery life but have to micro manage my brightness depending on my environment. I'd rather have both on so I don't have to manage my brightness constantly. Hopefully all of this gets fixed in 5.1.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I removed the bulk of my sensors_ind wakelock by turning both adaptive and ambient display on...
[Nexus 6  General] Damon13:
Thanks Tzfardaya, I will turn them both on. I read that FK with vomer tweak and Chroma is a winner while keeping my device lag free and nimble. Here in the cancer center my reception is just horrible, every little thing helps.