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[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Hey jay01. I use my phone quite a lot. Of course no one can compare my use to theirs. Comparing battery life is futile imo. My usage is documented throughout this thread and is also included in the OP check it out :cool:
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I decided to gamble today. enabled Adaptive Display, started hangouts, and boom sensor_ind would not die. ugh. Back off you go. :(
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
I've disabled hangouts

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
So is it just adaptive or just hangouts or a combination of both you think?

(Fyi: My phone is fine, I use adaptive and hangouts like a beast, I don't monitor anything with apps or greeny them.)
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
for me, hangouts is the trigger that starts the sensor_ind. adaptive display is what keeps it awake. IF i keep adaptive display disabled, hangouts still starts the sensor_ind, but it stops after i get out of the app and start doing other things. It will cease and won't keep the phone awake. That behavior is consistent this past week and I've gotten great battery life keeping the adaptive display disabled while enjoying using hangouts. IF i keep adaptive display on and sign out of hangouts and not use it, sensor_ind is also not triggered and adaptive display continues to work and my phone is able to sleep. I know hangouts is not the only app that triggers sensor_ind, but it does seem adaptive display is the one that keeps the process open. That's my experience at least.

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Did you disable hangouts via titanium and then install via the playstore?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Wild
[Nexus 6  General] iRimas:
I am worried about my battery life. I bought the phone from Motorola direct and got it on Monday I didn't get not even 2 hours screen on time and today I just got the update. Don't no what to do I fully charged my phone at 6pm now its 34% .any solution . mine is fully stock and no root.
[Nexus 6  General] joshua.justice:
Not sure why my battery life isn't the greatest :/
[Nexus 6  General] jonathan3579:
I had 1% left. It actually died after that and just finished charging. I will give that Turbo Charger credit. I feel like this phone is perfect in every way for me except battery life. I've been waiting for a Nexus that comes this close. I guess I'm just disappointed..
[Nexus 6  General] trunks527:
I guess I don't have the issue with battery life everyone else is having? Sitting at 35% with 4 hour sot. No WiFi. Lte spotty at work because of steel roof. However it never drops Lte unlike my g2. Given on a day when I don't work I'll have better battery life. I imagine a software update can improve upon this too. Look at the moto 360.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Ahh. Yeah there's always compromises on every phone I buy. You'd think someone would get it right by now! Maybe one day :)
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Had a good chance to test out the 2nd charge cycle today as I was home most all day watching my boy who is under the weather. Pleased with the N6 battery to this point. Looking forward to trying out battery saver then diving into root/decrypting

T-Mobile stock - locked - no root - encrypted

56 apps

WiFi 90% LTE 10%

While on WiFi cellular on LTE ~80% and UMTS/HSPA+ ~20%

110dBm average

SOT 6hr 38min adaptive brightness on 50%

~16 hrs total time off charge

Sync all Google apps, GNow, 2 push email, weather every hour. Mostly web browsing, this forum, 30min talk time, videos, camera pics, finances

GPS on battery save

NO battery saver
[Nexus 6  General] Ballastatuz:
solid i can't wait for mine.
[Nexus 6  General] Smallsmx3:
Should I be concerned, I had Sprint DM running and I have a Tmo phone on To network
[Nexus 6  General] xPXGx:
Ah.....

This isn't good right. My phone was pretty warm before I fell asleep. I was streaming Twitch via Chromecast for an hour or two. I woke up and it was blazing hot. I powered it down, let itvrest for a few minutes and booted it back up now to make this post.

What's the deal? I've been home all day with WiFi on without any issues. I also had Google Now voice detection on with all three settings active too.
[Nexus 6  General] 413vzwh8r:
At about 38%, currently 2am. Unplugged at noon. 2:45 SOT so far. Used for music in the car earlier, played Madden for abit, watched youtube abit, and snapped a few pictures. Gmail and google stuff synced all the time. Plus adding some applications i forgot. So alittle more than my normal usage. Not dissapounted at all. My Nexus 4 with a rom and fanco kernel struggled to hit 3 hours SOT before dying.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I find it a little odd how cell standby is so high... It's around 2-5 % on my n5... Maybe a radio software issue?

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Interesting, quick question, do you have cell standby quite high it the list?
[Nexus 6  General] trunks527:
16% time without signal but it's only a 2% drain. The biggest one was Facebook haha.
[Nexus 6  General] robertopod1968:
I was pretty happy with mine for the first day.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I can't see your picture?
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Very nice results and agreed

Nope we all have it

Nothing stands out to me you were using your phone like a beast it sounds like. Getting very hot is not good though keep that to a minimum

Cell standby time used to be an issue way back on the Eris days (anyone remember?). Even though I have 30% time w/o signal I had a signal all that time albeit a very weak one. Its just the way it is reported imo. Do you have dropped data/calls/issues? If not I wouldn't worry over it at this point in time
[Nexus 6  General] aka757:
This is weird. Not sure why it shows no activity during that time, I was on the call. I got 5.5 hours SOT on my last charge, so this is disconcerting. Especially the Google play services and Google search %. Not sure why the mobile radio is awake for so long.
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
So my second charge cycle faired much better than the first. Only thing I changed was disabling location.

As of writing this, I have 3% left.

Took off charger 24 hours ago at 100%

Have 4:15 SOT, expecting 4:30

Did a lot of web browsing, and Tapatalk looking at forums.

I am on Verizon, not rooted.

Have kept WiFi and LTE enable the entire time, 95% in WIFI though

Only real concerning this is cell standby accounts for 18% of my battery drain. While I'm perfectly content with the battery life I'm getting, I think once a cell radio issue gets resolved it will be amazing.
[Nexus 6  General] kava1:
So Far..
[Nexus 6  General] Luxferro:
I'm, happy with my first day and charge:

All I did with it before I slept was a lot of browsing, tapatalk, G+. Active display is on, Ok-Google voice activation off, brightness pretty much at stock setting - between 30-40%. At that use rate I should end up somewhere between 6-8 hours of SOT.

edit: I ended up with 7 hours 18 minutes SOT before it powered down. That included a few reboots where I was manually updating google play services (picked wrong one first time).
[Nexus 6  General] uhguy:
Are most of you guys using apps like Greenify and GSam? Today is the first day I am going to try and see what kind of battery life I can get out of mine now that I have it set up. Unlocked, rooted, and unencrypted. Not using WiFi and on T-Mobile. Will report back with screen shots later today.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
I'm not using any battery saving apps of any sort just straight up stock all apps and services enabled
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Google drive should not be using that much battery, do you use it for your cloud data? Maybe try clearing the data and cache for the app or disabling it temporarily just to see if the battery settles to normal.
[Nexus 6  General] iRimas:
OK I'll try today only I used google drive but normally from the day I bought my battery is like this .
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
The screen is normally number one battery drainer unless you are only using your phone for a small amount each day then maybe mobile standby would be top. If something is using more power than a 6 inch 2k amoled screen then its clearly misbehaving.
[Nexus 6  General] blakmazk:
I removed hangouts long back, have adapted display turned off from day one... And my whale is awake for the past 11 hours I don't know why... Any tips? (I suspect dt2w)
[Nexus 6  General] vvveith:
Varies from day to day.

I've disabled hangouts and many of the play apps like newstand and books and such. Some days I can get about six hours screen on time and on others I can only get three to four. Display is at the top of the list. My weather is set to sync every couple hours. Today I tried to use the notification display thing, that really caused some drain so I turned it off. I close down all applications I'm not using and keep brightness set on forty percent. I wish the g mail and messenger apps supported white on black instead of black on white. I think that would save a little more battery life but don't know for sure. Hopefully the next update will bring a more stable power consumption to the phone but in the end I think it will be one of the bright developers here who comes up with a killer kernel to really utilize the power and make it more consistent from day to day.l
[Nexus 6  General] resynx:
Not doing too good over here. Android OS keeps my phone awake almost 24/7 :(
[Nexus 6  General] Link2811:
Hi everyone !

Is it normal to have ~2h45 SOT with 100% brightness not adaptative wi-fi only (no sim card) ?

I see lot of people talking about 4h30-5h00, but maybe they are at 25% ?
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
What's your usage like? How long off the charger?

So many variables to people's battery life it's insane.

Right now I'm on 3 hours SOT, but 26 hours off the charger! So for me that's fantastic
[Nexus 6  General] Link2811:
Actually, I'm at 1h50 SOT 39% battery left, 14Hrs off the charger

What is your brightness ? 100% like me ?
[Nexus 6  General] nrjun:
Is this normal? Considering i was gaming? Non rooted encrypted.plus any tips to increase sot? Also my sot was 3hrs 30min
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
No 50% adaptive, you mention you were on WiFi, how was your WiFi connection? I find that a weak WiFi signal can be a killer

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Gaming will always kill a phone battery,
[Nexus 6  General] Link2811:
My Wi-Fi signal strength is good, so, no problem with Wi-Fi !
[Nexus 6  General] waywardsojourner:
Well, everyone be on the lookout if you use the video camera. My battery dropped like crazy this morning and battery stats told me it was a Power Manager Service wakelock so I went to partial wakelocks and my camera was at the top of the list and it had been on for 40 minutes just killing my battery.
[Nexus 6  General] mpiekp:
:) happy with that for a first day
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Excellent results. Would be good if you gave brief summary of your usage during that time so others could possibly benefit from your info ;)
[Nexus 6  General] mpiekp:
Much social networking and messaging, around an hours gaming and many streamed comics :)

Adaptive and auto brightness are on, battery saver comes on at 15%, fully stock, still encrypted 5.0.1
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
Yep very happy with the battery life, 14hrs off charger, 3hrs 7 mins screen on and still at 54%. On 3G/4G at work, wifi at home, listening to music with poweramp (about an hour), tapatalk, whatsapp, youtube, facebook, pretty average day and it holds up well.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Thanks guys, much appreciated
[Nexus 6  General] gmermel:
Improved battery life with 5.01

MHave had the phon3 for 2 weeks. My battery life was reasonably gooid prior to the update. I was generally getting 4 SOT and 18 hours life. It seemed that SOT and phone call battery usage were roughly equivalent.

I updated Thursday. My phone has been off charger since 2AM Friday. I am now at 20% at 36 hours with 3:20 SOT, and 1:40 phone calls. That would equate to nearly 5 SOT and over 40 hours on a charge.

Has anyone seen improvement like this upon updating? Could it be my battery settling in, or maybe Project Volta improvements included in the update?

I'd load screenshots, but can't see how to "add from computer".........
[Nexus 6  General] rufflez2010:
How come everyone's signal is so good? I'm wondering if thats causing my battery issues on Verizon. Here is what my signal looks like all day.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
My signal looks like that if not worse. While I do believe it has an impact on our battery life, I don't think it is huge. I say this with today's tech in mind. 3 years ago it would be a bigger deal. imo
[Nexus 6  General] rufflez2010:
Yeah I'm downloading GSam right now to see. Most I've gotten was 3.5h SOT but I've gotten less today. Screenshot was less than 2 hours SOT
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Poor signal on a CDMA network is deadly for battery life. Idle drain on poor/good reception areas is much better on GSM , with T-Mobile having generally the best idle drain
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
It's funny. It is a real mixed bag with sot, but I expect that as this is true for all devices I've ever owned and all battery threads I've ever been a part of. It's just impossible to compare against one another. But one can compare with oneself.

Are you running custom software (biggie imo)? How long have you had the phone? I used to be on vzw, I always was disappointed with CDMA battery life, always! Do you have location reporting on and device manager remote wipe on? Do you have 10 apps constantly polling the internet for updates? A few things to look for.

I used to obsess over wake locks and disabling/freezing apps, but now I don't and I'm happy with what I get. All stock encrypted locked on 5 dot oh dot 1
[Nexus 6  General] rufflez2010:
I got the phone Monday. First impressions were positive. Great call quality, great internet speed. Battery life can't compare since first day downloaded all my apps.

Today I noticed the call quality is terrible. I side loaded the update (still locked boot loader). Unfortunately I didn't take a look at signal first couple of days until now since the call quality took a significant drop.

I'm still able to get through a day of use. I haven't even connected to WiFi at work. I was trying to put it through some rigorous testing of my own.

Location reporting on (always kept it on other devices as well)

Remote wipe is on as well.

I have 4 Gmail accounts connected. Only 1 is syncing anything but gmail.

Dont get me wrong. This device is a beast. The call quality issue is what concerned me mostly.

Thinking about doing a clean wipe and trying from scratch again.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Location reporting on is a battery killer imo. You might use it or want it on though, nothing wrong with that.

My call quality is stellar but I'm on T-Mobile so maybe a carrier difference.

I love going back to square one when I feel like I have any issues. I also love the nexus for the ease of doing this :thumbup:

I don't think you are bashing the phone at all. And you could if you wanted to this is the net!

One thing I noticed early on in my experience... Have you let the phone run down to 1% or so then charge to 100? I believe it helped me. A lot.
[Nexus 6  General] rufflez2010:
Yes. That helped a tad the next day. Its still new. Love the turbo charger... Makes me not really that concerned about having 20% when I get home and maybe needing to go out. 10-15 min and its up quite a bit.
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
Got a question for those with 6+hrs of SOT. When you guys use wifi, do you manually shut off the cellular data or just leave it on while wifi does the job?
[Nexus 6  General] mpiekp:
Never disabled cell signal
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Leave on
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
I've actually been getting better battery on data than WiFi
[Nexus 6  General] stas333:
It seems that way to me also
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Mine seems equal between the two. Although the battery dives faster when streaming video on LTE vs Wi-Fi
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Wen I only had wifi on with no simcard I got like 6.5hrs SOT… now with lte sim card + wifi mixed use.. I think I can only get 5hrs max SOT…

Currently 32%usage with 2hrs SOT only…

30% brightness… no syncs.. Most google apps disabled.. Location off.. Adaptive. Ambient off
[Nexus 6  General] GaSpartacus:
Currently on 5.0.1. Today i spent almost all day with data on and the celular radio active bug hit my battery pretty hard, so pissed
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
I Turned off Auto Sync as 1st day I noticed apps killing battery. Although I wont be notified straight away for email and that. I just enter the app and refresh whenever I need. Before my battery life was very poor as apps drained it. But since turning autosync off It seems to have improved significantly to where i can use it

Ideally I want to be able to set autosync on specific apps. It only has the option of "touch to sync now" when autosync is off. Should be able to set which ones I want to be active.
[Nexus 6  General] tcfiero:
I pulled mine off the charger at 6:00 a.m. yesterday. I am currently at 36%. I have been in a mix of wifi and data. At work we are in a building that is like a VZW black hole and we have a weak wifi.
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
Guys, yesterday I did some testing of sensor_ind. I started to play around with apps and services to see what would stop it. Had it running for around 2 hours 30 mins. What did stop it at the end was enabling both adaptive brightness and ambient display and then turning off adaptive brightness and leaving on ambient display. I've had ambient display on today all day and haven't had the wakelock today. Someone please try this when you are getting the wakelock constantly so we can keep narrowing down the problem and report it to Google to see if a fix could be made.
[Nexus 6  General] StrizzMatik:
Using NOMone Resolution Changer to try out battery/performance testing with 1080x1920 resolution and 420 DPI. Running stock 5.0.1 with Sensei r24, I'll report back shortly :)
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I concur with this. Toggling these two on and off stops the wake lock and the sensor .Ind. In my particular case I don't use ambient display but toggling both on and off stops it immediately.

*sighs* ... Life with a Nexus :cool:
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Doesn't seem to work for me, still running
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
That strategy worked but then the wake came back while I was sleeping so didn't even touch the phone.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Maybe we should do a poll. I'm glad there are those of you that are monitoring wakelocks obsessively. I don't and am thrilled with the battery life. It can only get better and in part, thanks to you guys!
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
OK so worked for one and didn't for another. Good. I'll keep on investigating then to get to the bottom of that. For now I think it might be closely related to the ambient display and that sensor since I never had that wakelock in my nexus 5 with the same usage I have here. I'll keep looking. But please everyone keep posting their experiences here with it to keep comparing.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Seems to be linked to adaptive brightness for me, I've turned that off and have ambient display on, hasn't shown up in hours and I'm still using hangouts
[Nexus 6  General] Harkadenn:
I upgraded from a Galaxy S3 to this phone. I can't really compare like most of you but like many of you I am very frustrated with the battery.

It drains way quick while in use, i get -10% in around 20mins of use.

I will post my battery status so you can help me and hopefully proof me wrong. I am still in time to change the device in any case. Oh and I am using an at&t nexus6.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Those stats look pretty good to
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
It's the cell standby that drains it. At work I am right next to a mast and get great signal and I'm pushing 7 hours screen on time. At home my signal is poor and cell standby drains much more of my battery so I get around 5-5.5 hrs screen on time. I think that over 5hrs with poor signal is pretty good.
[Nexus 6  General] bloodydamnhell:
I'm at about -106dBm on LTE most of the time and get around 48 hours of standby, but that's with Fit's activity detection and location reporting on. After undervolting 34mV across the board I get between 7 and 8 hours of screen on time at about 30% brightness (with auto brightness enabled). Before undervolting it was closer to 6.5 hours of SOT.

So far today I'm at 90% charge after being off the charger for an hour with about 40 minutes screen on, but that involved 2 reboots, which drain the battery pretty significantly, so this charge will probably only be good for a bit under 7 hours.

Overall, it's far better than I ever got out of my N5.
[Nexus 6  General] benpottier:
I noticed I get the sensor wakelock when I use double tap to wake. Anyone else notice this?
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
This seems to be the case. I've had adaptive brightness off and ambient display on 2 days now and no senso_ind around these parts. (for now lol)

I've been using double tap to wake since day 1 and it is not related to that wakelock. At least on my phone, haven't done enough research to see if it is device dependent. Try our previous tips to see if you still get it.

Ambient Display - ON

Adaptive Brightness - OFF

*Cycle then on-off first.
[Nexus 6  General] winfan:
Did you restart your phone after making the changes to Adaptive Brightness? I havent done a restart or a full recharge cycle yet. Does this need to be done for the wake lock to go away? I still have random wakelocks from the kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Here's my stats so far after 50% used

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] born_fisherman:
High usage by Google Play Services and OS after updating to 5.0.1
[Nexus 6  General] neriamarillo:
My wakelock went away without restarting but try to restart and try again and we'll see.
[Nexus 6  General] NexusHexus:
My battery usage today with moderately heavy use, Woke up around 12pm, used it for abit with adaptive brightness on and then popped out, came back and used it again with adaptive brightness off on about 30-40% brightness. Ambient display was always on.

I turned off autosync after the 1st day because things like facebook and emails were killing it. So with this during a normal day, is actually ok. I'm happy with it. That was SOT of 4hrs29mins. I guess I could get more time lowering brightness
[Nexus 6  General] StrizzMatik:
Battery life was NUTS today, arguably the best I've ever had yet. Originally tried to run the phone with 1080p resolution and 420dpi to test performance/battery, but it was too buggy. However, I'll be sticking with this combo for the foreseeable future, as you'll see...

SETTINGS/INFO:

- Stock 5.0.1 LRX22C

- Rooted, decrypted

- Greenify'd everything possible

- 142 apps

- 50% Adaptive brightness

- Battery Saver disabled

- Ambient Display OFF

- Location OFF, Location reporting & Google Now w/screen-off ON

- Sync all ON with Facebook, Pushbullet, GMail & Yahoo push email

- WiFi ON, Bluetooth & NFC OFF

- Constant use from 8AM-10PM with 2hrs. of YouTube videos, light texting, heavy browsing with Chrome, Tapatalk & Facebook all day, 1.5+ hrs. of GameBoid, 1hr Amazon Kindle

- 17h42m off charger with 7h15m of SOT (and 10% left to spare [emoji3] )

KERNEL SETTINGS:

- Sensei Kernel r24

- bin 6 CPU

- 2649mhz with min. set to 300mhz.

- SmartMax governor

- Intelliplug ON, mpdecision OFF

- I/O Scheduler set to sio w/read ahead @1536

- DT2W enabled

- NO undervolting
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Love it Strizz thanks for posting the detailed info :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] StrizzMatik:
No problem :)
[Nexus 6  General] Anouk69:
Nice one Strizz. Lol 7h SOT, that's phenomenal. ?
[Nexus 6  General] VideoExpertsGroup:
Dumb question - does the battery life depend on amount of apps?