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[Nexus 6  General] LordGrahf:
I've switched from this phone to an iPhone 6+ a few days ago and the difference in battery life is insane. I'm a pretty heavy user 70% internet browsing 30% Netflix/YouTube and I've measured the 6+ to give me 9.5 hrs sot when drained down to 4%. The nexus 6 on the other hand was all over the place for me, sometimes 3.5 sometimes 5.5 hrs sot.

However, you guys are doing a great job here in trying to figure out how to improve the battery life, you sure are more patient than I was. Honestly, I'd prefer to go back to the nexus if a workaround was found to improve the battery life, I hope you guys find it.
[Nexus 6  General] oak:
I find the battery to be excellent. 7 hours SOT easily.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Anyone have any suggestions for over aggressive google play services? I turned off location report I g and that worked for a bit, but it seems every time I check location, google play services is at high battery usage.
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
If you have a ROM with app ops TPU can make it so play services doesn't keep the phone awake. This solved the issue for me.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I'm running stock and have apps ops installed. I disabled keep awake for google play services but it seems to make minimal impact. I'm about to go the disable services route but I'm reluctant.
[Nexus 6  General] blair287:
I do not get it why some people have good battery life and some bad, some reviews say good battery life and some bad what can be so different about this phone for each one of you? Is it just people not realizing how much they actually use it or some just paranoid cause its a nexus and all previous nexus had low capacity batteries.

If this phone has same hardware as Note 4 just a slightly bigger screen how can the battery life be up to 50% better on the note 4 compared to the Nexus? What the hell is using all the power?
[Nexus 6  General] eliashadow:
0.3" bigger screen is not so slightly as you say and the other thing is that Note4 (like other non stock flagships) has a modified android kernel from the sources which helps battery life.

Also probably the new technology amoled screen that Note has is more battery friendly.
[Nexus 6  General] gogol:
Which Apps Ops app is working fine with Nexus 6? A good one. There are so many out there in the Play Store.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
no replies to this? I do see a considerable difference to battery life after using a normal charger vs. the turbo charger. can anyone confirm?
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
I charge with both alternately. I don't notice any difference
[Nexus 6  General] thederekjay:
Delete..
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Even with location turned off, Google services tries to call for it. Google search behaves and doesn't request it. I've done a uninstall updates and reinstall as well. Same behavior. Also does anyone get a lot of wlan_Rx_ wake locks? I have the always scan even if Wi-Fi is off disabled and it seems as if it's still active.
[Nexus 6  General] chrisram88:
These are my results straight out the box.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
I've been having huge problems with Google play services. It seems that on a location mode that can use mobile cell info like battery saving it goes into over drive but on WiFi it gets the location happily in the background.

Using my phone all day on WiFi I never see Google play services in my battery list but as soon as I go out and use mobile data it kicks off and goes to the top of my battery list.
[Nexus 6  General] fdan100:
I had big problems with Google Services running like crazy and making Location requests even though the Location was completely turned off. What I did was: “Google Settings” -> “Security” -> “Android Device Manager” and I turned off both “Remotely locate this device” and the “Allow remote lock and erase”. That resolved my Google Services issues.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I don't have android device manager installed and under device administrators the option to allow android device manager to erase or lock is unchecked. :(.
[Nexus 6  General] kingston73:
I just got home from a 7 hour road trip, with the gps (Google maps) on for nearly 5 hours. I started the day with 93% and now have 20% left, no charging in between! Way better than I was evr able to get with my nexus 5 or my s3 before that, I'm more than satisfied with this. I'm rooted with elementalx kernel and greenify, no other battery saver apps or anything. I have ambient display on but adaptive off, and the screen brightness is set at about 40%.
[Nexus 6  General] fdan100:
I’m not talking about the application “android device manager”. I’m talking about the system settings that are associated with it and that exist on your device without installing the ADM app.

Look on your application list for an application called “Google Settings” with a grey icon and a “g” in the middle. Open it and it should give a list of menu options. Tap “Security” and a new window will open with settings for Android Device Manager and the Verify Apps. The first setting is “Remotely locate this device” and you should uncheck it. If you have Location disabled already, it may say that it is Unavailable. Enable Location, disable Remotely locate this device and then disable the Location again.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Ah okay, i see it now. Remotely locate this device is on so I disabled that. Allow remote lock and erase was disabled. I'll try that and report back. Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Man this sensor_ind wakelock is back to haunt me.

Hangouts disabled

Lightflow disabled

Ambient display disabled

Adaptive brightness disabled

Greenfield all possible apps

Auto rotate disabled

Double tap to wake disabled

Rebooted phone

And it is back again. I now have got no clue as to what I should be doing to get rid of it.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
My phone ? dosen't deep sleep ??

Is it the miband app?

Kernel wake locks

I'm still getting ok Sot… 2hrs sot with 40% juice left?

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] benpottier:
My phone wasn't going into deep sleep either but after I recently flashed Franco's kernel its been doing great on standby ...
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Well phone has been off the charger for an hour and not a sign of Google services or anything but screen. Thanks but it is kind of scary at the same time.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
5.5 hours later, Google services at the bottom of the list! Thanks a bunch for the tip. Now to tackle that wlan_Rx wake on the Wi-Fi at work.
[Nexus 6  General] abes889:
This is the best setup I've encountered as of yet with my N6 since it arrived late November.

-ROM: Euphoria 1.0

-Kernel: Franco r2 w/Vomers quad core script tweaks

I have adaptive brightness on as well as ambient display. I use greenify for a lot of apps too. This battery cycle was primarily on WiFi most of the day, brightness around 50%, and was only on LTE a little when out running errands. I will report back when I have day of being off WiFi or at work all day. But I'm extremely satisfied with this setup.
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
Anyone get 5hrs Sot.. With all LTE on… on 50% Brightness?

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
take a look at this bullsh!t lol

went to sleep and decided to put airplane mode on for the first time actually, just to see what the drain would be over night. somehow not only did I have wake locks, but it stayed awake the entire time.

I haven't used any wake lock detectors yet so I don't know what caused it. no misbehaving apps running though except that a-hole Google services of course. all location off including remote.

sigh, I've been able to master screen ON time on my heavy usage days. with the right kernel set up I've gotten 7-8 hours.. but the screen OFF time is killing me
[Nexus 6  General] Kendaihou:
I'm not sure what I did differently. I have been having bad signal drain, especially overnight while I sleep. I lost about 20-30% every night. So what happened is that I ordered another Sim card from my carrier and changed. Also, I did what fdan100 recommended and now my giant goes into a deep sleep every night. I get on average 7 hrs of screen time on 30-40% brightness with adaptive brightness on and batter saving for location.

I'm happy now.
[Nexus 6  General] io53:
This is what I got today, mostly browsing reddit (app has black background) with like 10min gmaps naivgation and 3 photos taken. We have like 5 hours of sunlight here right now, it seems it helps with the screen on time quite a lot :)
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
ROM/kernel/gapps? lol
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
3+ hrs SOT with 70% battery left WoW! Nice results io53 :thumbup:
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Did pretty good 8hrs 35min off the charger. Definitely impressed for day two and the main day I set up all my accounts... Lots of heavy use games music etc

50% brightness, ambient display on

Franco kernel
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Not bad for only using 46% of my battery.

Running Franco kernel R2, LS 12/31 build
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
9hrs 40min off the charger, Franco kernel, lots of heavy usage.

Pretty impressed! 6hrs SOT, phone rocks!
[Nexus 6  General] iGamejump:
What other settings do you use? Ambient Display? Adaptive Brightness? Vomertweaks?
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
My sensor_ind has also gone down after I stopped using lightflow. Maybe the un-intended LED was causing issues??
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
Ambient display and adaptive brightness are both on. Everything else is pretty much stock... I do have a live wallpaper as well.
[Nexus 6  General] Jay01:
Hey mate - is this where you got the Franco kernel from:

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/orig-development/kernel-franco-kernel-r1-t2987173

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
This is the one. There is only one francokernel
[Nexus 6  General] Jay01:
thanks - so from what i gather, only way to get decent battery life from the Nexus 6 is to root and install Franco :)
[Nexus 6  General] io53:
Decrypted, the rest is stock.
[Nexus 6  General] ricey1986:
What really ticks me off with this phone is the inconsistency, one day I can go to bed with 54% battery after 3hrs SOT and another time I can be hitting 15% with the same SOT. I have location disabled along with Google Now, there are some days play services never shows and other (like today) where it is at the top of the list and nothing has changed on my phone in the last couple of days.

Now I know it also depends on what I do in the 3hrs SOT, but I am not a heavy user, I don't game, I Flash the odd Kernel and then it is Mainly Twitter, XDA and G+.

With the nexus 5, the battery was pretty poor but it was consistent, I knew what the phones limit was through the day.
[Nexus 6  General] __NBH__:
I am still trying to work out what the problem is with Google Play Services on my Nexus 6. On wifi I never see it appear in the battery chart and can easily get 6-8 hrs screen on time but as soon as I move to mobile data, things start to go downhill and Google Play Services uses large amounts of battery (as much as or more than the screen).

Today I disconnected my wifi for 20 minutes and it says Google Play Services has kept the device awake for 1m 41s but the mobile radio active time is 12m 55s. It is like on wifi it can get the data it needs quickly but on mobile data it is trying for long periods of time and draining the battery. Most of the time I am on 4G so it is not like there is a slow connection. Why would the mobile radio be active for nearly 13 minutes out of the 20 minutes it wasn't on wifi?

The problem is much more obvious when I go to work and I use mobile data all day, some days the screen isn't even top of the battery chart which I have never seen on any Android device I've owned considering I use about 3-4hrs screen on time every day. I figured that if something like this is using as much battery as the screen then there must be a problem somewhere.
[Nexus 6  General] Jay01:
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Hey mate - how is your Franco Settings on the Nexus 6?

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] tlf55:
I've just lost 5% over the night and i've done nothing ! I'm Fully stock, just rooted / un-encrypted.

Sync on.

Location off.

Adaptive Brightness on

Ambiant display off

When i looked in GSam app for 8h usage held awake was like 20 minutes, and in App sucker view % power used, Android System was 1st with 7% and Kernel (Android OS) was 2nd with 6%

I think there's something wrong, because no notification over the night and i lost 5% it's a bit much ..
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
My buddy who had the N5 and then got the N6 was the one who told me about it. He came over for NYE and we put it on here in a heartbeat, of course i was already rooted etc but we did it thru the app actually... Took literally less than 1 min. DL it from the app store and this is what it looks like after u have it on your phone.

I since sub's to his thread that Suku Patel referenced and been reading up.... Seems pretty legit.
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
I'm actually just stock whatever he has it set up for when u flash...

I forgot I've never turned off location on the phone either lol
[Nexus 6  General] cobyman7035:
damn all u franco lovers! i might have to switch from elementalX lol...i had franco kernel on my nexus5! elementalX on n6 had better SOT then my franco n5
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
Use Vomer Tweaks with Franco and you can get great battery life. I had 4.5hours SOT with 50% of my battery left.
[Nexus 6  General] H.Ahmadi:
Yesterday I flashed Franco's kernel.

I love how I could make the screen become cooler, it is no more warm or yellowish.

Right now Im on stock rom with this kernel.

However I notice that the battery drains very fast when the screen is on, but the standby drain is very much less than how it was on the stock kernel.

On the other hand with the lean kernel I was getting less drain when the screen was on and more drain when it was off.

I had a clean flash so part of the drain might be due to setting up all the apps. I will keep using the kernel for the next 3 days and see how it goes. I hope things will be better.

The phone has been off the charge for 8h 30m, SOT so far is 2h 52m and remaining battery is 30%. In battery settings it shows "screen" battery use as 21%! Everything else is below 6%. My screen brightness is maybe 10-20%, almost near the lowest setting. Adaptive brightness is off, ambient display is on.

No idea what to do so that drain would be less when screen is on. I have been using the phone for browsing using chrome and few apps like twitter, facebook etc.

In better battery stats under kernel wakelock I have powerManagerService.Wakelocks at 40% with 2h 34m and next is powerManagerService.Display at 33% with 2h 7m then there is wlan_rx_wake at 32% with 2h 1m.

Any idea what are these for? And is it normal to have these percentages?
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
thought you guys would find this interesting. went to sleep, decided to turn off WiFi and data, not airplane mode.... 0% battery drain, and no wake locks

woke up, turned on WiFi and went back to sleep. multiple wake ups. if it was a sensor related to ambient, wouldn't it happen with or without data?
[Nexus 6  General] Stolly08:
So your saying if you want to leave your phone off the charger while you sleep you can turn off data and wifi and not loose any battery hardly at all.... And if say like me your on call for a job you'll be good still?

I just charged my phone while watching The Judge and took it off the charge and maybe looked at my phone 3 times just to check notifications and to my surprise it was still at 100% 53min later... It just dropped to 99% literally right after I picked it up. I don't think I'm experiencing the same issues so of y'all are having but I'm trying to be of help.
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
Do you have multiple devices attached to that WiFi ? This causes more drain.

Ever since Android 4.3, Google play services has a tendency to constantly poll location if you don't have it on high accuracy ( for some effing unknown reason). Try turning location on.
[Nexus 6  General] warrenis1234:
just a chromecast actually. is that serious though? why would another device connected to my WiFi cause my phone battery to drain?

also, I've heard that about location, but what if I turn it on, but turn off location reporting?

that's certainly a thought, but I'm more interested in why I can't replicate it while leaving the data connection on. others need to test, it may have just been my kernel ROM combination, because last week in a different ROM I tried using airplane mode and it never went to sleep. stayed awake the entire time. look back a few pages for that post. long story short, I have no clue what the hell is happening, but I'm enjoying getting closer to the answer lol
[Nexus 6  General] laureanop:
For me it has been an issue since 4.3. Luckily I got a hold of an excellent Apple router that I only use for phones. Location reporting will drain and cause wake locks on Wi-Fi and on LTE.
[Nexus 6  General] jeffwei8:
I am seeing the same problem as you. I'm surprised more people have not brought this issue up about the Mobile Radio Active Time. I assume most people getting the 5-6+ hours of screen time are mostly on WiFi for most of the day.

If I'm on LTE/3g, it's a whole different story. The Keep Awake times for Google Play Services, Hangouts, WhatsApp, Gmail, etc. are all quite normal and acceptable. But what isn't acceptable is the Mobile Radio Active Time. I get on average 1.5-2 hours of active time a day (8 hours work day with NO WiFi and GOOD LTE coverage) for the above apps in this situation. And it's not because I'm using them either. The phone is just sitting and idling in my pocket with a few messages being sent here and there every couple hours on Hangouts and Whatsapp.

I believe there is some kind of bug with the Nexus 6 and its mobile radio or something in Lollipop with the Nexus 6. The mobile radio does not seem to shut off properly while on data and just seems to keep running and doing something which is leading to huge battery drain.

My screen's battery usage is often the 5 or 6th thing on my battery list despite using it for 20-30 minutes while on LTE while WhatsApp, Hangouts, Google Play Services, Google Search are all above it. Hell I just checked, and WhatsApp and Hangouts are both at around Keep Awake: 1 min 8 seconds, CPU Total: 50s while Mobile Radio Active is a whopping 50 minutes and 55 minutes respectively.

Alternatively, if I'm on WiFi, my screen time is easiest the largest drain and all apps fall into place properly (Google Play Services is still relatively high but that is because of Google Now). I'm not sure what the problem is with the mobile radio, but this never happened with my N5 on lollipop.
[Nexus 6  General] TonikJDK:
For Google Play Services I installed App Opps, needs root, and then take away location permission from Google Play Services. Did that to my G3. There is something with Google Play Services and location while on Wi-Fi.
[Nexus 6  General] bblzd:
Mobile Radio wake lock can happen on the N5 as well. It seems to be a Lollipop issue.
[Nexus 6  General] suku_patel_22:
Guess we need to wait for an update. Either 5.0.3 or 5.1
[Nexus 6  General] anuragvivek93:
Unlocked, Rooted, flashed custom recovery and disabled encryption. NRT Toolkit ftw!! Now which ROM and kernel to flash to maximize performance and battery?? Atleast 5hr SOT.
[Nexus 6  General] italia0101:
Lol, if only it were that easy
[Nexus 6  General] enthalpyyan:
Anyone find wake lock issue with msm_serial_hs_rx and m_serial_his_dma? They never sleep when LTE is on.
[Nexus 6  General] trunks527:
Same here. No need. Maybe back on my Galaxy nexus lol
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Had one of those.... Omg what a nightmare. I loved it though it was my first Nexus. Poorest amoled display in history haha
[Nexus 6  General] alhadee12:
I'm at 2:10 SOT with 41% battery life left. I am using the adaptive brightness setting. I'm going to at least let the battery get down to 5% before charging to condition the battery.
[Nexus 6  General] ryude:
2nd day of use, full charge. I have not received my sim card yet so airplane mode is on.
[Nexus 6  General] GoogleAndroid:
Those who came from the G3, how is battery life in comparison? I have never gotten over 3 hours of SOT on my G3. I got 3-4.5 on the S5 and Note 3.
[Nexus 6  General] aka757:
Is anyone having battery drain issues with Google play services? It's the top item in my list almost all the time. I flashed the Google play services apk from apkmirror to get the trusted places thing in security settings. Not sure if it's the apk or play services itself.
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
I would usually struggle to get 2-3 hrs SOT with my g3, and on my longest days when I was 17 hours off charge my g3 would often die before I was done my day.

So far the n6 is blowing it away. I had 24 hours off charger yesterday and 4.5 SOT. So far today I have 1:45 SOT and used the GPS a good bit and am only down to 60%.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Definitely higher than normal (imo) play services usage. How much drain attributed to that idk yet. Keeping an eye on it
[Nexus 6  General] Illrigger:
The low power state of this phone is pretty damned amazing. When my N6 is on my Tylt on my nightstand, once it's charged the Tylt basically never turns back on all night - I have never caught the light on in the middle of the night when I flip over. The G3 it replaced would turn off and on every 5-10 minutes all night long. This is a testament to the 805's idle power usage - pretty cool stuff.
[Nexus 6  General] GoogleAndroid:
Thanks, that's good to hear. The G3 is a great phone, but the battery life isn't that good.
[Nexus 6  General] dleonard1122:
Yeah I did love everything about my g3 except the battery. Couldn't deal with it for the next year or 2 so I decided the n6 was worth the cost.
[Nexus 6  General] Sentrix27:
My battery is draining much faster on wifi than it is on cell data.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Haven't had this issue on previous devices.
[Nexus 6  General] irishrally:
You're missing out if you're not using greenify. Why not have more battery if you can.
[Nexus 6  General] digthemlows:
Pretty heavy user, 12 h 8 mins unplugged and at 41% says 9h 8m till drained...... beats my HTC OneM7 for sure....... I cannot say how much I love this phone!!
[Nexus 6  General] Pilz:
No battery saver 40% auto brightness, GPS ,Bluetooth on all day with GPM streaming and my Moto Keylink not bad at all. I could probably get another hour SOT if I used it more tonight but is been a long day and I don't feel like trying.
[Nexus 6  General] uhguy:
So I'm not sure what is causing Chrome to be the top consumer of batter life right now. I've got 2 hours screen on time with ambient brightness set around 30%. Battery life is pretty good, but if Chrome wasn't using so much it would be better.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Great results actually with all you had on. And I agree you could have tweaked out another hour sot for 5hrs. One thing I've noticed with the N6 is the last ~10% last REALLY long
[Nexus 6  General] eprisencc:
My iPhone 6+ leaves my Nexus 6 in the dust. The only good thing is that the nexus charges fast.
[Nexus 6  General] chancy319:
T-Mobile. Stock (not rooted), 52 apps installed, adaptive brightness on.

I deliver goods so I use GPS a lot so my usage might not be the typical user.

Attached is a screenshot of my battery stats. I thinks it's pretty good. Coming from a Nexus 5 do it looks heavenly to me.

GPS was on almost all day. Lots of screen on time. I got almost 8 hours.
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
8hrs wow very nice