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[Nexus 6  General] old_fart:
Your settings / location service : do you have : google reporting turned "on" and then is it on HI accuracy -or- LOW accuracy ( battery saving ) mode ?
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Location is on but set to use low accuracy. Google location reporting is off. I pretty much set up the phone the same as my previous one (Galaxy S4) in terms of Google settings. On my S4 I never even saw Google Services on the battery list, now it currently second, it says mobile radio active 1h 30m 10s, I think that is the part using so much battery.

That said I can still get 5.5-6hrs of screen on time but I know I can get more if I can fix this issue.
[Nexus 6  General] benpottier:
I'm set up about the same, same radio time, but I get about 4 hours sot max
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Seems like there is something else wrong then, have you got better battery stats? I'm currently on 42% with 3h 39 mins SOT.

The Google services seems to be related to mobile data, at home on wifi it doesn't do much which is why when I set up the phone at home it didn't appear on the list, then when I went out, it started to impact the battery.
[Nexus 6  General] benpottier:
I'm at 51% with 2 hours sot and that's about the best I've had
[Nexus 6  General] fleonard:
Same here, I don't really know how people can get so much time
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
new Hangouts update. whats's new says bugs fixes and stability release. HOpefully it relates to the sensor_ind issue.
[Nexus 6  General] oak:
I am at 2 hours 18 minutes sot with 70% battery remaining. I am on 5.0.1 with Lean Kernel 1.0 (default settings ). Brightness slightly less than 50% and adaptive. No location services or wifi. Ambient display on. I use Greenify.

My battery is improved with Lean Kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] chrisjcks:
My battery has been on over 15 hrs & it's still on 58%!

SOT: 1hr 30mins (Max brightness)

11hrs on data

4hrs on WiFi

I'm getting at least double the battery life compared to my Nexus 5. :)
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Tested the new hangouts with adaptive display on. Sensor_ind still kicks off and hangs. *sigh*
[Nexus 6  General] venturizhou:
Battery Life Update

Since my previous post was only from about 90% down to around 25% here is a more full time usage update.

Running Rastapop + Lean Kernel v1.0

PVS bin 4 with an undervolt of 25mV

Underclocked to 1958/233Mhz, Screen off max frequency is 883Mhz

Adaptive brightness is turned off and I usually stay around 10-15% brightness

No Battery Saver used and Ambient Display is off

Location is off majority of the time unless using Google Maps for navigation

Greenify + App Ops (disabled keep awake for Play Services)

App Data, Calendar, and Gmail are set to auto-sync

Majority of usage consists of (XDA, Reddit is Fun, Feedly, Google Music, Facebook Messenger, Talon, WeChat, Chrome, some Youtube (20mins per day around))
[Nexus 6  General] jaimeletelierhay:
Really enjoying the battery life on this device and the turbo charging is brilliant. After taking the screenshot my phone turned off, it was at 1%.
[Nexus 6  General] tx3kgtman:
5.0.1 all stock
[Nexus 6  General] chrisjcks:
17hrs+ and still 40% left!

Max brightness

Adaptive brightness enabled

Data 11hrs

WiFi 6hrs

I'm completely stock, would easily get 4+hrs SOT in a full 24hr day usage pattern.

Simply put - battery is amazing on this thing!

Going to bed now so it's going on the wireless charger. Lol

Can't believe I'm going to bed with 40%!!!

Nexus 5 would have needed charging 6hrs ago.
[Nexus 6  General] oak:
Hours since unplugged: 16

Screen on time: 6 hours, 30 minutes

Adaptive brightness: yes

Brightness: about 40%

Ambient display: on

Vibration: off

Location services: off

Battery saver: never

Reboots: none

OS: 5.0.1

Kernel: leankernel (all default settings)

Greenify: several user apps

My results are markedly better with leankernel. This is my first full day using it and I am very satisfied with battery/performance.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Sensor. Ind decided to pop up today, had ambient display off for 2 days and it's been fine, then today boom, it's back
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
How long did it act up? I get it sometimes but it doesn't really run that much time like it did before with adaptive brightness on.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
40 mins straight, restarted and it stopped, running catlog atm so when it acts up again I'll try and see what it's doing
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I have my adaptive and ambient display disabled but it comes back when my battery is towards the end of its life. It's weird but it's consistent.
[Nexus 6  General] 613BulletProof:
Running Euohoria 5.0.1 with Lean Kernel default settings. Just over 6 hours of screen time. Unplugged from charger at 7am, just plugged it in to charge just now almost midnight.

Brightness was at about 50%

Ambient display ON

WiFi on most of the day

Some tethering

Web browsing / Instagram/ texting

I'm pretty happy with this

What do you guys think ?
[Nexus 6  General] ryude:
LeanLP 0.8 ROM without gapps.

Using Lean Kernel 1.0 ondemand/noop. Minimum 300Mhz and maximum 2.7Ghz, undervolted -50 with a PVS of 9.

Brightness at 30% adaptive brightness enabled.

Syncing AOSP email to gmail and hotmail every 30 minutes, flow for reddit syncing every 30 minutes, and ambient display turned on.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Wow thats some battery life u got there while using 50% brightness

Btw how does one turn off ambient display.?
[Nexus 6  General] BRKotucs:
Settings / Display
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
This sensor.ind thing is really bugging me
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
So far after 37% I'm getting around 2hrs 23mins SOT… not bad. ? slot of heavy web browsing n youtube.. Max brightness 25% ambient off adaptive off
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
That block of awake was sensor. Ind... Started after hangouts.. Stayed active for 2 hours and 38mins.

I then left the house and checked again and it had stopped. How strange.

Coincidence the GPS checked and then it stopped?
[Nexus 6  General] WCM3:
Are those on verizon still getting similar battery performance? 6 hours plus sot?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
You still have adaptive display turned on?
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I do yes, I turned it back on yesterday because I had the sensor wakelock again
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
It's reduced if you turn off the adaptive display but comes up less frequently. Also I separated sms and hangouts chats just to reduce the amount of hangouts usage. It definitely sucks. I hope Google would acknowledge the issue so we know a fix is on the way.
[Nexus 6  General] Bassdj427:
This is not normal usage for me...purposefully trying to kill this thing with games, YouTube videos, watching a whole movie on Chromecast, lots of phone calls, and texting all day.

Verizon Wireless

70ish apps installed

Pure Shamu

LeanKernel

WiFi on a lot but a trip to town and to the Verizon store to ask about VoLTE (trying to get them to tell me when the VZW N6 will be released)

GPS on but not used

NFC on

Brightness at 50%

Phone is in beastmode: push email and photo sync with G+

Lots of FB usage

Some GP music here and there to show off the speakers to my mom with the note 4.

Moto 360 connected the entire time.

God this thing is so much better than my G3.

Can we just appreciate how constant that graph is????
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Im at 5hrs SOT with 75 percent usage so far

25%max brightness no syncs.. Heavy browsing and youtube

On elementalx kernel 5.01decrypted lolly underclock UVing I think helps

Battery life is pretty good.. Better then my franco kernel nex5

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] kava1:
Running slimlp with leankernel. Brightness all the way low, sync off
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Have allow wake disabled on Google play services with no odd side effects yet. It allowed my phone to sleep much better. I have everything enabled except adaptive display and ambient, but I am using dynamic notifications which is a moto display clone.
[Nexus 6  General] wasya152:
So I've been messing with trying out different things to figure out why i have had the low sot time compared to others. I usually only get 3.5 to 4 hours of sot during the coarse of a day. This includes work calls, emails, reading news, Flipboard, internet browsing, and video steaming. I did a test this weekend. I usually watch a lot of Netflix and youtube on my phone. Today, i used the phone regularly but did not do any video streaming. I got 5.5 sot. Screen shot below. I guess the steaming Is what was causing my poor performance compared to others. It was driving me crazy. I also did another test just in case to verify. Last night, i charged the phone to 95% and put Netflix on until the battery was at 5%. I managed to get 4:45 sot only. But this was basically Netflix only and not my usual daily routine.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Here's mine for today:

15.5 hours since unplugged

3h18mim SOT

1.04 hours on calls

47% battery left

Validus ROM

Lean kernel V1.0 (OCUC)
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Oops forgot the other pictures
[Nexus 6  General] wilson289:
As a brand new user to Android and rooting, I was one of those who struggled for weeks and weeks with ~3-4 hours SOT. After my third week or so, I finally mustered the courage to root and disable encryption on my brand spankin' new phone. Results were AWESOME.. Using Greenify + Disable Services, disabled Google Now + voice detection, and GSAM+Root. Averaging 4.5-6 hours SOT now and managed to get my idle drain down to ~1.5-2% per hour if I'm not constantly using my phone (on the weekends). A single charge this past weekend lasted me ~48 hours, close to hitting 4.5 SOT. Below is a screenshot from last week :). Extremely happy with my phone!

If I can do it as a noob, you can too!
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Great battery u got using 50% brighness.. Do? U have all syncsoff?

I use better battery stats app but it says no kernel wakelocks? Is somthing fudged? It shows alotof partial wakelocks but no kernel wakelocks… I'm confused

Via my NeXus™ 7FHD on XDA Premium app
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
what version of BBS are you using? use the XDA 2.0 version. That one works better with lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] nrjun:
just got my nexus 6! yesterday i got 3 hr 45 min sot with ambient on ,adaptive on and also "ok google" hotword detection even when the screen is off..i heard tat people are getting above 5hr sot without abt problem.what should i do to improve my sot? will disabling "Ok google" significantly increase my battery? also what about auto sync? does it drain much?..my standby time is decent tho
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
There is so many factors that affect the battery. You just can't turn off google hotword or auto sync and get 3hrs sot. I, as many out there, am getting 6+ sot with OK google, auto sync on, many have locations on, etc. You have to monitor your apps and wakelocks. Your signal also has a huge impact and so does screen brightness. Have fun!
[Nexus 6  General] nrjun:
thank you for replying.i am new here..how do i monitor them exactly? i have installed bbs right now. but i have no idea what means what
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
If you are rooted install Wakelock Detector and if you want Gsam but that one is more or less the same as BBS. Watch your battery drains carefully for a few days with Wakelock Detector and see what apps might be affecting you. You can also install App Ops to further control the permissions of each individual app and system apps.
[Nexus 6  General] Remoteconcern:
Are there any wakelock detector style apps for people without root? I'm getting hammered by wakelock. I used to always root my phones but didn't unlock the boot loader this time and don't want to wipe now....
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
Not really no. To read the wakelocks you need root. You could hook it up to a PC, copy all the folders you need and then unlock the boot loader. Then it will just be a matter of copying back the important folders. That's what I always do if I have to reflash my phone clean. Hope it helps.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Ot how to get flash browsing to work? Tried phony and firefox no go… flash fox same???

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] blakmazk:
My giant is not sleeping, below are the attached screenshots, any idea why is this happening?

Removed hangouts and install better battery stats... Lets see what is keeping it awake...
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Any update with lux? I don't being on manual brightness but I'd definitely prefer auto.
[Nexus 6  General] nextelbuddy:
I had the same problem with lux unfortunately so I'm back to manual brightness on all the way down for now.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
I'm using lux at 30%… don't see any wakelocks

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] olipheus:
I tried the standard charger for the first time yesterday. I have had a bad experience of strong chargers since my N4 got it's battery broken down over time by my 2,3A charger for my tablet.

Anyhow, I put my phone to charge at 15%, and after about an hour, hour and a half I went to check on the phone. The battery was already at 80%+ and it was really hot! I checked the battery temperature in Android and it said 43 degrees Celsius. I think thats way too high for a normal charging!

Anyone else experiencing high temperatures while charging? I've read on some RC forums that the battery never should go over 45 degrees celsius while charging or else it'll break it down.

Also, does anyone know how the fast charging is controlled by the phone? It would be awesome to be able to control when fast charging is needed or when it's okey to charge it slowly.

(sorry for my spelling, English is not my native language)
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Seems its the same thing thats plaguing a few of us .. which is " sensor_ind" i've noticed this on mine as well, but when it happens it seems that " wifi always scanning" seems to die
[Nexus 6  General] fleonard:
Same boat as you guys, if you find something keep me posted!

I've installed better battery stats but I'm getting this message in basically every tab "batteryInfo service could not be contacted"

Anyone know how to fix it?

Edit: I have both root and the app is installed as system app, looks like i getting the message just on partial wakelocks
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
you using the latest beta ? http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3046412&d=1417636722
[Nexus 6  General] fleonard:
No i bought it on the play store, sometimes it's working other times i get the error.
[Nexus 6  General] blakmazk:
Could it be that it is a hardware issue?

Since not all the users are facing it,

If yes I will replace the device within my 30 day replacement period.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Highly doubt it.
[Nexus 6  General] abnormalreply:
So, I woke up this morning and noticed a ~7hr block of awake time while I was sleeping. Check WLD and what do you know, it's our friend sensor_ind via Android System. Not pleased about msm_hsic_host either, but one problem at a time. I checked Battery Stats Plus, which shows Google Backup Transport hogging the sensor for about 8 hours. So I went ahead and Greenified Google Backup Transport and I'll see if that helps. This is even stranger because I don't have App Data set to backup. I think it might explain the msm_hsic_host wakelock as well if it's trying to connect to data services in order to initiate backup.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Interesting! Thanks for brining that app to my attention, looks good. Will try it out
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
do you use hangouts for sms or chat? for a couple of us that seems to be the trigger and adaptive display was the process the held it open. The google transport seems like an odd process to trigger a sensor but I hope your findings will lead us to a better understanding of why the sensor gets stuck open.

Maybe you guys could add your experiences to the following so Google hopefully can be made aware of this issue.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/nexus/86wFRD9Fid8/gIgX5kIOeLQJ
[Nexus 6  General] jackpollard:
In my quest for max battery life, I found 1 thing that helped me a bit. When I was checking BetterBatt, I noticed my wifi was always on. I attached a screenshot and if you see "wifi running" it shows 99%, thats after I researched why it was always on and how to stop it, before that it was always at 100%. I'm at work most of the day and have no available wifi, so i just turn it off until i get home, so I was wondering why it was always showing 100%.

I found this setting; WiFi settings-> Advanced-> "Scanning always available" was checked. When I unchecked it, bam, it already dropped from 100% to 99%. I hope this is not a dup, sorry if it is.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
Hmm, I do have the backup feature on. I'll look into this. Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] blakmazk:
For the record I removed hangouts and bam... This giant sleeps now...
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I just don't get how some people can use hangouts all the time and not get it
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
I honestly cannot pinpoint it to Hangouts since I use Hangouts everyday and I have some days where I don't even get a second of the Wakelock.
[Nexus 6  General] NICEGYPT:
I can not get more than 3 and half hours of sot. Tried everything I could think of, my phone shutdown last night 3 hours and 27 min sot. I checked my wife's note 4 which always on 100% brightness 3 hours sot plus she had 33% on her battery.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
The sensor_ind just came up for me and i checked disable services and under google play, backuptransportservice was blue. After the sensor_ind went away, backuptransportservice was no longer blue. You think it has anything to do with backing up our messages from hangouts to the server?
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Now that's interesting. I haven't had it since my reboot earlier today, just waiting for it to fire up so I can try and see what going on

Edit- just looked and it's been active for 7 mins! Let's see what's happening here
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Today was the first time in two days it kicked in while my screen was off. I hadn't used hangouts so went to check the transport service like the other person mentioned. I'll keep an eye on it some more.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I hate you with a passion sensor_ind, 2 hours and counting it's kept it awake
[Nexus 6  General] iRimas:
I got the phone on Monday and I was using very heavy today I was using for navigation also now after full change it showing me only 6 hrs left . is this normal?
[Nexus 6  General] xWasabi:
My best battery combination

Pretty good battery life with pure shamu and sensei kernel. I have been flashing roms, downloading roms, playing music at work, and making a lot of phone calls.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
sigh, I remember getting almost 9 hours ost for two days straight with the beta 7 lean kernel and the euphoria rom... haven't gotten past 6 since with very similar usage

I can't for the life of me figure out what changed lol. the worst part is that all I did was take off most features and options since I don't use any, and people responded oh well you took everything off clearly it's gonna be good, but I have them off now and I just can't get it. although 5-6 sot is very good, I just know it can be much higher #firstworldproblems at its finest

I haven't tried any wake stuff, and I'm starting to play with app opps to see if that stops some services from starting, but with 9 sot, deep sleep isn't the issue, it's how well it sips battery while the screen is on.

let the testing continue
[Nexus 6  General] XERO_Racer:
I second this

I use hangouts everyday and my day to day battery usage is still the same and I mean in a good way

Anyways back on topic, just flashed Sensei R23, just came from LeanKernel v1.0, didnt really have much luck with that kernel with stock rom, will see if Sensei is any better on my usages
[Nexus 6  General] born_fisherman:
Picked up AT&T N6 Saturday coming from the G2.. After reading the thread, I disabled adaptive brightness to see if it helped with battery life. I'm completely stock (still on Android 5.0) with only about 10 apps installed, and I lose about 10% every 30 minutes using the phone. Brightness is at the lowest setting. Call me crazy, but this seems terrible..see screenshot.

Should I wait for 5.0.1 OTA or flash it via ADB? I'm thinking of swapping this one out anyway since my vibration motor is more of a rattle than vibration. But I'm really hoping 5.0.1 produces much better results.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
10% for 30 mins would be around 5 hours screen on time ? seems decent depending on what you're doing . I've been pretty happy with mine, gets around 4-5 hours SOT daily with 16 hours off the charger.
[Nexus 6  General] born_fisherman:
You're right. When you break it down like that, it doesn't sound that bad. Comparing to the G2, I also saw similar results, so I was expecting greater battery life with 5.0.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Do you use it for SMS only or chats? Sensor_ind doesn't show up at all? Mine shows up but stops when I get out of the app. It's usually at the bottom of my kernel list now. I'd just like to be able to use adaptive display again.
[Nexus 6  General] jimbridgman:
I have got to say that the battery life with using some tools, is still great.

I still say this is the best battery life I have gotten since my HTC hero so many years ago. Even my Nexus 5 with greenify did not do this good. I have explained what I have done a few times in this thread, but somehow my battery life has gotten better as my usage has settled into a more normal daily use with this phone.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
My hangouts use is for daily chats and it is active almost all day long. But it doesn't seem to be related, in my case, to hangouts. However, yesterday I got the sensor_ind for a few hours but it was not related to hangouts use. Trying to pinpoint what could of brought it up but now I can't remember lol.
[Nexus 6  General] zidave:
After flashing 5.0.1 I noticed sensor_ind had been active way longer than it has before I flashed. Restored back to 5.0 and it has not come on a single time.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
I have the exact same issue. As soon as I updated via OTA and ADB, the Android OS started staying awake for 5 hours or so all day. I haven't installed any new apps and did a factory reset 2 times. Is there anything that can be done to fix it and stay on 5.0.1?

---------- Post added at 08:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

New to Nexus, how do you restore back to 5.0?
[Nexus 6  General] BRKotucs:
See here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2954008
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Noticed the same thing. Ironically what stopped it was installing Hangouts fresh from playstore.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I've noticed that 5.0.1 is netting me even better battery life since relocking and unrooting. I initially was getting 6+ hrs sot (mostly on WiFi) locked unrooted and encrypted. I then unlocked rooted and decrypted and ran for a week and noticed little difference other than slightly snappier performance and a small boost in battery life initially. That disappeared after 2 days and I was back to 6hrs sot. Now on 5.0.1 locked unrooted and encrypted for only 2 days but need to test further. I seem to be headed towards the 7hr sot mark so far. We'll see in the coming weeks
[Nexus 6  General] Jay01:
Hey mate - that is great, still waiting on my 5.0.1 update but good to hear that your getting that much SOT. 1 question though, how often do you use you phone on a day to day basis?

SOT will vary for different people with different uses, after coming from a Sony Z2 my Nexus 6 Battery life doesn't hold a torch against that.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
How did you do that ? uninstall hangouts i mean ? i only get an option to disable.

Gonna disable hangouts for a day and see what happens.
[Nexus 6  General] Baldilocks:
Root your phone and use Titanium Backup.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Ah ok that old trick, will have to give it a go if it comes back