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[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
I'm getting good battery life!

My battery life is comparable to most phones I've owned. I am completely stock and not rooted. I put it on a wireless charging pad at night and it charges until full and then my pad turns off. If I wait about two or three hours my charger will start to beep about every five minutes or so. I then have to take the phone off of it and set it to the side. But every morning when I start my day it is at either 100% or 99% depending on how many hours I stay in bed. I don't use hangouts or any other msg. dialer apps except the phones. It last me through the day with 30 to 40% left at night when I get ready for bed. I play a few games, brows facebook, surf the web and look for new apps in the play store, along with email and text messaging. I don't make many voice calls however and usually always have WiFi on. I don't suffer from screen burn in either and I've had it for over a month now so maybe I just got lucky. Mine is the TMO 64 version.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Try not using wifi and all lte data on all day… I bet u want have much battery at end of day

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[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
many people report better battery life connected to LTE than WiFi lol
[Nexus 6  General] HitNrun_:
Im very dissapointed with my nexus 6 battery life, its the second week i use it and the sot is 3 hours max. I play some games, surf at internet and the only high usage is my wifi, i have it on all the time but its not the main reasons of draining battery. I had 7 hours with the same use on my note 3. I dont know if its a hardware problem, im just dissapointed :crying:
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
Are you rooted? If not then root it and Flash Franco kernel, Greenify most of your apps and keep Location off.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Once you install greenify do you need to select apps to hibernate or just leave it alone ? Haven't used it in over a year...
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Need to select apps
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
OK this is what I have now... Should I do more or what?
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I greenify everything that could stay awake normally so it won't hurt to add more add to the list.
[Nexus 6  General] githyanki:
The only things I don't greenify are WhatsApp and Exchange services. Those are the only things that should be running when screen is off. I also have the donation package so I greenify several system apps too.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Well, it's not just hangouts that causes sensor_ind.

My phone would not sleep after I had played Real Racing. It was sensor_ind, probably triggered by the gyro.

Rebooted and it was good again.

Also Adaptive brightness doesn't cause sensor_ind, it causes the following kernel wakelock.

PowerManagerService.Display
[Nexus 6  General] boysetsfire:
I'm getting really good battery life after I turned off Google location reporting and history, even though I have location always on and set on high accuracy :) what features am I missing this way? Because to me everything seems to work exactly as before (Google Now included).

Previously I was getting a ton of wakelocks with a 7-8% overnight drain, last night I only lost 3%! This is with everything on, ambient display and adaptive brightness included. I only have turned off NFC (which I don't use) and Bluetooth (which I turn on manually only when I need it), so I can still use all location based apps and smart lock features ;) forgot to mention I am using franco.Kernel, but I was using it even before.

I also tried the App Opps and DisableService way, denying the keep awake permission to Google Play Services and disabling various location services, but results were not so good like disabling location reporting and history... Just a heads up!

EDIT: I also have NuPlayer turned off in developer settings, when it was on I was getting a massive drain from the adspd process (detected only by GSam) which is now almost completely gone... Again, I didn't notice any negative effect in doing so :)

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[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I greenify any system app that might run when I don't need it to. I greenified my google messenger app and I get texts just fine.

Here is my battery life so far today. I flashed the updated Franco kernel (r4) so that's why there is a reboot there. I might get 9 hours SOT today if I can stand using my phone that much in a day.

I'm running LS 1/3 build and Franco R4 w/ Vomer Tweaks. I use Gplay music and Bluetooth a lot in the mornings with adaptive brightness on.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I get that wake lock even with adaptive display turned off. The wake time for that one nearly matches my screen on time. Adaptive brightness does keep my sensor ind going when hangouts triggers it for whatever reason I don't know.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I've been using both ambient and adaptive display and haven't had the wakelock stay on for too long in days. Seems it's better with both on for me
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
This was today's usage

Google Play music and Bluetooth in the morning

Internet browsing on chrome and XDA most of the day

The reboot is from when I updated to the R4 Franco kernel earlier today.

LS 1/3 build

Franco Kernel R4

Vomer Tweaks Dual mode

Greenify everything that keeps my phone awake.

11.5hours SOT is well a lot I think I pushed my phone as far as it can go right now.

EDIT: I also noticed that it was at 300mhz most of the time which seems odd, because I wasn't using the battery saver mode. I guess I wasn't doing anything which would cause it to need more processing power?
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
I use Google+ auto upload of images. Just wondering, if it will still. Upload images if I greenify it and remove keep awake permission.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I stopped using the app because it would drain my battery. I don't use any social media apps I just access them via chrome.
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
I've heard vomer tweaks makes the phone laggy?? For sure can't sacrifice performance for battery...
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I haven't had any lag, then again I don't play games on my phone. I do everything else on there without any issues. Its not as snappy as when I run LK 1.5 at 2.9ghz with ondemand but its still fast enough to not have any noticeable frame drops for me. would try it and see how you like it. I usually get 6-6.5 hours SOT, but today I wanted to see how far I could push the SOT so I tried to make it last as long as I could with normal use (I was at home most of the day as opposed to in school because we are on our winter break currently) YMMV with each ROM and kernel, I am happy with this set up, but it really depends on the day and what I need because sometimes I run the OC build of LK instead without any power saving tweaks.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
did you greenify system apps? and what about location
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Yes I have the donation package and I greenified some of the system apps (I'll check which ones once my phone finishes rebooting) Location was off all day. I use the "dark themed" XDA app as well if that makes a difference. All of my apps that can be blacked out are/were to stretch the battery life. I changed a few of the back because I didn't like the dark theme on them.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Wow. I think I'm gonna go with franco and vomer tweaks lol.. Didn't really want to ditch elementalx but 9hrs sot is too good

Which vomer tweaks did u use exactly. Thx

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[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Wow 11+ hrs SOT very impressive, nice work and thanks for sharing
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Its achievable but I don't think I would get that if I were our hoping between WiFi and LTE all day. Most of the day I was at home which probably helped the SOT. It should also be noted that I used adaptive brightness set at 0.

I was able to get the same SOT +- with my Nexus 9, I just didn't think it would be possible with the 6 because of the smaller battery yet large screen.

I mentioned this before: I usually get 6-6.5 hours SOT with normal usage but today I tried to maximize the SOT by using everything in pure black or blacked out on top of the other changes. I wouldn't normally use my phone like this but I was curious to see how much SOT I could get.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Thanks for clarifying further. That's pretty much what I thought from the content in your OP. It's still very impressive because you "used" your phone. It's great to hear about all the potential capabilities of the N6
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I just wanted to make sure that people didn't misunderstand the usage. The potential is there, now we just need a way to make it even better.

I have gotten close to that SOT before (earlier this week) but I couldn't stare at my screen after a while so I took a break from trying to get it to last that long until today. It hurts your eyes after a while but hey at least we know it's possible to do.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Haha yeah I agree after 5-6 hrs staring at mine I've had enough.

Btw those android and tech savvy folks know that your usage for that marathon run aren't the norm. For the others, its appreciable that you explained the circumstance. :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
I am wondering if I set the mobile network preference to 3G instead of 4G will do any good or bad.

Reason because my phone subscription doesn't have 4G feature, only 3G.

I thought if I set to 4G it will "query" the network or something that might cause wakelock.

If you know about this, let me know :)
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
what other blacked out apps did u use, or i guess where did u get them from?
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Team black out apps, search for it on the forum they have everything from google now, play store, you tube, key boards etc... I use the messenger, app store, play music, key board google now, and inbox

Edit: TBO (team black out apps) is where you will find them
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Anyone is using Better Battery Stats app?

Which version do you use?

I found from the XDA version 2.0.0.0: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809&page=2723

While from the Play Store is version 1.16.0.0 (purchased).
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Try it. Only way to find out. Then let us know if it changed anything. I would think since you don't have LTE available for your plan it would be fine to change
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
I use the one in XDA, 2.0 RC5, the Lollipop compatible version is being very tested right now. It will push out once Sven feels it's ready.
[Nexus 6  General] trilogee:
Anyone else having problems with wakelock? My n6 is awake 24/7.

High accuracy location, google now, adaptive brightness, ambient display on.

On average I'm getting about 3 hrs screen on and 24 hours battery life.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Turn off location..
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Which wakelock?
[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
I've read a lot of tips in this thread, thanks to everybody who has contributed! I hadn't seen this particular tweak so thought I would mention it. If you live in a house (or office building) with poor reception on LTE, it can cause your battery to drain as the radio scans and flip flops between CDMA/EvDo/LTE, even if you are on WiFi. To stop this from happening automatically (If you are on a Wifi Network) you can use Tasker and an app called Toggle Network Type 5.0.

-In Toggle Network turn on Allow External Access, this will give you the ability to use a plugin for the app in Tasker.

-In Tasker, create a profile for WiFi (State-Net-Wifi Connected - then add your wifi name). Then create the Task for the profile with Toggle Network (Plugin-Toggle Network Type).

-In the Toggle Network Type Plugin, exclusively use the strongest band in your office or home area (CDMA=1x, EvDo=3g, LTE=LTE).

-For me, I live in a brick building and get great 1x signal but very poor LTE and no 3G. So in this Task I use CDMA only in Toggle Network Type.

-Once this is complete, exit the task and long press the task under the profile and select Add Exit Task.

-Create a new task for the Toggle Network plugin again and select whatever your normal setup would be, for most this is probably something like LTE, CDMA, and EvDo to allow scanning on all bands outside your wifi network.

Hope that helps some people out!!
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
wlan_rx wakelock has been out of control for me. I hated to have to do this but it seems it's helped quite a bit. At home I leave all the devices on one SSID at 2.4ghz and only my Nexus 6 sits on 5ghz on a different SSID. I figured i'd lose chromecast capability since but oddly enough I can still chromecast. I verified I wasn't on the 2.4ghz SSID and guest mode is not enabled on the chromecasts.

I did the same thing at work. now my wlan_rx wakelock percentages have dropped from 12-20% to 4-6% of the kernel wakelock. Phone sleeps better and every little bit of juice helps :).
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Great tip :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Haha that's awesome. (But I'm so glad I don't care about wakelocks and wake lock apps...I used to though!)
[Nexus 6  General] BRKotucs:
I'm with you on that. I fell like I'm not enjoying my phone if I worry about wakelock, greenefying apps etc. The only thing I've done is deny "Keep Awake" to Google Services in App Ops and that's about it. I get around 24 hours of battery life with 6 hours of sot. Pretty happy with it.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Nice I'll look into that. I've done the location reporting tweak and device manager DM tweaks, something I've done on every android device I've owned since DM came out. I'm also not a gamer I know that helps. 55 apps installed. No freezing apps. Did use CPU spy 1st week I had phone to check for deep sleep. I get exactly what you get on average every day. Content with it too.
[Nexus 6  General] noneabove:
Sorry what tweaks exactly?

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Huh.. I never thought about denying wake to play services, what are the consequences of that?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Under the app in your app drawer labeled Google settings. I turn off location reporting. I keep location history on it had never affected me negatively I feel. I also turn device manager off. Both settings. Forget what they're called but they are in that Google settings app. Edit: "remotely locate this device" and "allow remote lock and erase" under the header "Security"
[Nexus 6  General] noneabove:
Ahh okay, turning off location reporting though would stop google now from being as effective right? it wouldn't know where you are?
[Nexus 6  General] BRKotucs:
There are no consequences... Everything works just fine.
[Nexus 6  General] noneabove:
Interesting.. I would have thought this would mess up gcm or location reporting or other
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
The only thing I noticed in Gnow when you have reporting off is it is not as fast or accurate looking up what's around you when you're at a location away from home and want to find some good food or a motel. It still uses triangulation so it does turn up results. This is a situation that I'm very rarely in though.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
who has LTE data on all day..what is your SOT for the day assuming brightness at 50%max? im thinking it will be under 4hours for sure
[Nexus 6  General] treIII:
Is app ops available on stock rom

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[Nexus 6  General] noneabove:
With root yes, just need to install an app from the play store, I'm using this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.apppermission&hl=en
[Nexus 6  General] treIII:
Thank you. Do you feel like this improves battery life?

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[Nexus 6  General] treIII:
Do you turn everything off or just the wake at the bottom of things that could be turned off in app ops? And thanks

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[Nexus 6  General] noneabove:
Nah I just turn of location for a bunch of apps and like everything for facebook, a couple other things here and there
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Interesting, for me, I set to use 2.4 ghz to reduce that wakelock.

I read somewhere that we need to disable IPv6 in the kernel because certain wifi router IPv6 broadcast will wake the device.

But, yeah, I don't root my phone.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
The other day I had a 12hr trip at work... I run trains and I go through areas with very ****ty service in the woods and I'm constantly changing towers so I work the **** out of my phone in that aspect. I made it the whole day and went to the gym and listened to music during an hour workout and was down to like 7% and the phone randomly restarted when I went to message someone on hangouts... So I plugged it in when I restarted it so I didn't get an accurate screenshot but I had over 4hrs with 27% earlier that day.... I'll put up the two pics showing 27% and the one I got down to the restart at 7-9%.

Pretty sure it was well over 5hrs SOT that day with no WiFi.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
BTW does anyone know why the phone shows WiFi to have been on all the time for me? It shows its on now and I have it off....
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
It does the same thing for me. If I turn it on once and then shut out of the phone will say it's been on all day.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I've tried that but I still have too many other devices on the network that use that frequency. Better to hermit myself on my own ssid
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
I only let my phone and my computer on my 5gHz connection... **** errybody else lolzzz
[Nexus 6  General] H.Ahmadi:
Yes mine too. whether I turn the wifi off manually or just move away it always shows as on in battery stats. even in GSAM it shows fully on all the time.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
I wonder if chainfires WiFi off app would work. Do you have allow WiFi scanning while WiFi is off turned on?
[Nexus 6  General] H.Ahmadi:
No WiFi scanning is off here. What about you?
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Same, I turned WiFi off using Pry-Fi and now it's reflecting in my battery stats.
[Nexus 6  General] otisman:
Remix and yank555 beast unreal numbers much alohas
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
Did you underclock?
[Nexus 6  General] xciton:
I noticed wifi was on in the battery stats, yet I had wifi turned off. I had to disable enhancing location with wifi turned on. I disabled it and rebooted. Now battery stats correctly shows the status of the wifi. Battery life is improved muchly......
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
" Disable enhancing location" ?
[Nexus 6  General] xciton:
Under the main WiFi settings, press the hamburger button at the top-right, select Advanced. Make sure "Scanning always available" is de-selected.

This brought down the battery usage and also properly reflected the WiFi being off on the battery stats page.

YMMV
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Ahh yes I always do this since the option was added years ago thanks. I'd never heard it called enhanced location. Thanks !
[Nexus 6  General] A2CKilla:
Going on day 2 now
[Nexus 6  General] tysonwald:
Have we come to a conclusion on Mobile Radio Active? I've read a few people have it but we never seem to figure it out and it doesn't seem like everyone has it. Is there a way to use app ops to even turn that off somehow or has anyone figured anything out with it. It kills my battery for hours a day on multiple apps
[Nexus 6  General] otisman:
Yes I do uc to 1900 and phone is still snappy and smooth I also use disable service form play store it does what appops can't so Google location stop but maps works great and GPS winwin also use WiFi better bats from palystore also helps with WiFi running reckless lol much alohas Rob
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Which services do you disable?
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
it really seems this simple for me. when it sleeps during screen off, battery lasts for a ridiculous amount of time. it seems completely random still with sensor_Ind. regardless of what is done with hangouts or either screen settings, or with all location related settings off, it still shows up. a few posts back I took off WiFi and data and there was 0% drain an hour later, no wake lock, no sensor_ind... in contrast when it IS on, constant drain

edit: also disabled services with app opps, makes no difference
[Nexus 6  General] otisman:
Disable service completely stops location period where appops still has a little running in the back ground! I here what you are saying what kernel are you using and ROM

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I disable fuse location in system for Google play services and that takes care of all Google apps that run that in the back ground I have zero wakelocks kernel and partial both empty screens!
[Nexus 6  General] supercluver:
Have you tried going into Developer Settings and unchecking the "Use NuPlayer" box? I would see my mobile radio active for several hours for apps I barely used, and since unchecking that box I don't see nearly the same level of activity. Maybe 10-20 minutes for 15 hours off the charger.
[Nexus 6  General] tysonwald:
Trying it now. I'll see how the rest of the day goes
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
And your google maps and google now work fine even with that disabled? :) I'd like to know since i use those quite a bit.

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] otisman:
Yes they do works Great!
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
I've tried disabling nu player and turning off fused location using disable service but nothing seems to make a difference, I still get google play services mobile radio active at the top or near the top of my battery list when on mobile data.

Location is set to battery saving, location reporting off. My phone has been off the charger for 2.5 hours, on mobile data for 1hr 20 mins and google play services mobile radio active is 15 minutes.

This also happens with Facebook, chrome and gmail on mobile data but never on WiFi. I'm beginning to think its either a bug in the app, a bug in lollipop or a problem with the modem on some networks.
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
What's the side effect on disabling NuPlayer?

If it is disabled, is it going to bounce back to Awesome Player? Or else?
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Yes its supposed to use Awesomeplayer instead.
[Nexus 6  General] H.Ahmadi:
already have this off and the WiFi still always showing as on
[Nexus 6  General] celeriL:
What's weird for me is if you keep Wi-fi on during sleep to "Only when plugged in" and leave your wifi ON. It will show your wifi off when your screen is OFF reflected on your battery stats.
[Nexus 6  General] gambit07:
Edit: Nvm

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Not sure what he was referring too, but stopping location completely will not allow maps to work. Disabling the NLP Location service or network location service will not allow maps to work either, those are two that almost always show as running for me in play services.
[Nexus 6  General] H.Ahmadi:
Oh that is really strange. I think google should fix this bug
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
he was referring to the fused location. From what i read fused location api is for apps to request the most recent location that google services has collected. I'm guessing by disabling that, apps can't request for the latest location that google has collected which means that possibly google apps like maps and now can't pick up your location. He says it works so I dunno. I greenify most of my apps so hopefully that reduces the amount of times that google play services is polled for location. When you greenify you have to greenify apps that don't even show up in your list of running apps. IE: games like spider-man, pvz2 or apps like imdb, playmemories mobile. They don't show up in running apps but they are there running in the background. one way of telling is by going to the app and seeing if "force stop" is selectable. it may not be in the list but it's running. Greenify that.