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[Nexus 6  General] tkso:
I haven't noticed any detrimental impact on performance. Kernel Auditor has worked well for me but you could always use a different app like kernel tweaker, etc.

Really digging the battery life on the Nexus 6 but I do think the weak cell signal at my house is contributing to some battery drain with screen on.. SOT seems closer to 6+hrs when traveling outdoors. Otherwise I'd get 5 hrs SOT at home.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
I struggle to get 3 hrs sot while at work... All because of the radio....
[Nexus 6  General] Locklear308:
Well, my Nexus 6 seems to...jump around a lot lol. Sometimes I rock 2 hours at 70% (Which is the golden standard IMHO), and sometimes I rock it at 50%. But then sometimes I get to 40% and I'm at 3.5 hours. It's odd. lol

I've been TRYING to keep her underclocked to 2200mhz, but she keeps flying back up to 2600. Which is strange. No auto sync, No GPS. Really that's it.
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
Yep. ^^^^ this times like 5 lol. Just depends on how heavily I use the phone.

I'm running stock with unlocked bootloader. I can usually get over 24 hours of total battery with around 5 hours of screen on time.
[Nexus 6  General] Sky88:
Does updating the radio helps to get better battery back

Im currently using android 6.0 jumped from 5.0

Without updating radio
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
Wrong end of the radio...

He's a 20 minute log of lte tower handoffs I experience.. This particular log didn't include capture data for when I drop to 3G, only lte... My phone is like this all day at work, from 8ish am to 5ish pm... (I've seen my phone switch between 3 lte towers on one elevator ride up 30 floors...)

This is the cause of my battery issues... The constant handoffs, it's a result of my job, I'm in and out of numerous office towers all day, rarely in one building for more than 20 minutes...
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
6 Am yesterday to 11 15 am today. 4 hours 20 min screen on time with 5 percent left.

Also included my Google fit stats. Was out all day so I really got to test the phone's limits.
[Nexus 6  General] golfinggino:
Love the battery life on this phone it is almost twice as good as my note 4
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
I'm making the switch to PureNexus later this week and will report on the battery life results there. This should be the last one of me on stock.
[Nexus 6  General] lambolighting:
The battery surely is better than on Lollipop but that's mostly when idle. What really kills my battery is the screen. I have it almost close to zero, ambient display and adaptive brightness both off. I get around 3 hours SoT. If i don't use it much it might even last almost 36-40 hours but with my slight usage i have to charge it every night.
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
im getting battery stats with cm12.1 nightlies.. wonder if nightlies already stopped coz its still at 10/31

btw, its paired with franco's last lollipop kernel..
[Nexus 6  General] wazza1991:
I was getting much better battery life in terms of screen on time on the Dev preview of 6.0 than the official version and I'm having video playback issues on the Facebook app
[Nexus 6  General] nemanja066:
Cataclysm, all stock.
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
Nice!!:good:

Can you give any additional information as to your setup, other than "all stock"? Like screen brightness, adaptive, ambient, location.....are you a FI user? Ive never ran cataclysm rom, so Im unaware of what is considered stock. I did do some reading and noticed the "smart radio" maybe that has something to do with it....I don't know, but those stats are crazy! Good for you!

Thank you
[Nexus 6  General] nemanja066:
Little more than half on brightness bar, adaptive ON, Ambien OFF, DT2W ON, Haptic vibration Stock (100%), Location OFF, Smart Radio OFF. I dont touch other things (settings)!

I flashed blue spark kernel to see how it is with him (performance, battery etc). I miss option vibration intensity in stock kernel.
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
Those are unbelievable stats..

what apps do you use? do you use facebook, whatsapp, adblock?

did you use anything else to get this kind of battery? 6+ hours SOT with 40 % remaining is great battery life. I tried many different ROMs, never got more than 5+ hours SOT.
[Nexus 6  General] Tyorik:
Pure Rom (not the newest version. I think 10/17/15), Franco Kernel r34 on power saving with his FKU app, doze setting editor using GeraldRudi profile

Probably could've gotten 8 hours SOT or more, because battery saver kicks in at 20%
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
power saving profile?? are u getting lags on it?
[Nexus 6  General] Tyorik:
Every once in awhile yeah, but nothing that's really distracting or a deal killer. I think it ramps the cpu up to 1500mhz when it's touched and stays there for 5 seconds afterward, otherwise it idles at 300mhz. So the time it takes to jump back up to 1500mhz is when you MIGHT see the lag. I'll take some microscopic lag once in awhile and 8+ hours of battery life over a super liquid smooth UI and 4ish hours.
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
well yeah.. that true...

franco's kernel is good.... but the lag sometimes on my oneplus one kills it if using powersaving profile..
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
Getting better! I wish I had better signal!! 50% brightness, adaptive on, ambient off, location off, froze google now

Mostly XDA app, some texting, browsing with aosp browser, and gmail

Thanks!
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
froze google now means, you froze google app from titanium backup right? the app with new google log?
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
Yes, I froze it through ROM toolbox pro's app manager.....the one with the G logo to the left of kernel auditor
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
I can use titanium backup app also for froze right? it shouldn't be any different.
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
Im sure you can, Ive never used titanium backup before, so Im not sure what you can do with that app, but if there is an option to freeze an app in there, then yes, it should work the same way:good:
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
What does your running services look like in developer options?
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
these are my running services.

Currently my SOT is 57 minutes in about 14 hours
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
I don't use gsam or whatsapp, but they are constantly running and using a lot of resources. Gsam you can delete once you get battery a little more under control. Try to use as Mich dark background in the apps you use most if possible

Good luck
[Nexus 6  General] caloyzki:
I just got my N6. The other day. My SOT before it died 6hours and ++ for got the mins. But that is awesome.

Question is how many hours does the N6 get really fully charged? I charge my phone OFF. But wen the battery is not moving anymore when i turned it ON. Battery is not 100 pecent. Its 95,96 or 97 and its about 1 hour and 30mins charging. So how many hours is the ideal purely 100 charged? Tia
[Nexus 6  General] wrongway213:
It varies SO much from user to user depending on use pattern, signal, WiFi, settings, kernel, ROM - I have personally gotten 10 hours with sync and location and all that jazz on on my best day and I've seen users struggle to hit 3hours SOT with things disabled.. there is definitely nothing close to a definitive answer to this question.

Edit: Clearly misread what this was asking, saw the SOT at the beginning and got off course. Thanks [MENTION=5503387]erk1725[/MENTION] for actually answering the question that was asked, need more coffee to get my reading comprehension up to par I guess :p
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
I don't charge with the phone turned off, so I cant help there, but with it on, it usually takes about an hour from around 20% to full

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Ha....been at work since 730, averaging about a cup an hour :) You're awesome!

Thanks
[Nexus 6  General] coolkingler1:
I assume it can hit 5 hours SOT. :P Mostly wifi off when idle. Complete stock btw, not rooted.
[Nexus 6  General] nikeman513:
How!? I'm mostly stock, rooted, NFC off, Location on battery saving, ambient turned off, auto brightness turned off, and I'm getting like 3 hours on latest stock update with QC optimizations... I don't get it! I'm even under clocked, I have a PVS Bin 13 CPU, under terminal it's a 9, so a very good CPU for under blocking, and my battery life is atrocious! What can I do? Is Franco up to date and can it be used on stock?
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
Post some screenshots of your battery screen and the details screen. My bet is something is keeping your phone awake and/or making your CPU work harder than it has to, or you have a really crappy signal and your phone is working it's ass off to find an LTE connection. I have no problems getting 18+ hours off the charger with 6+ hours of SOT out of my Nexus 6.

Not as good as my Note 3, but still pretty damn good if you ask me.
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
New Mra58r battery life. Complete stock, no root. Unlocked bootloader.

Pretty awesome.
[Nexus 6  General] gounikiba:
awesome!
[Nexus 6  General] Kroniq:
Stock android 6.0 MRA58K, stock everything

Am I the only one experiencing horrible signal on verizon? I get good speeds and LTE, it just seems to have ****ty reception
[Nexus 6  General] SilkyJohnson:
It's not "stock" if you're running a custom ROM.
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
He means stock everything on cataclysm. As in he's made no changes to the rom. Hence the stock. :p
[Nexus 6  General] nikeman513:
I think you're right about the waking up with Google play services. I installed the fix that's in the general thread. My drain last night was only 2% in 9 hours! I installed Franco over stock, and things seem to be a lot better. Not 6hrs SOT, but probably 4.5
[Nexus 6  General] caloyzki:
who gets the best benefit, charging the N6 OFF or charging the N6 ON? does it make any difference?
[Nexus 6  General] nikeman513:
I don't think it makes a difference. It'll charge a bit quicker turned off.
[Nexus 6  General] nikeman513:
So turns out play services is a HUGE factor in drainage. I was having issues getting 3hrs SOT. I flashed the packet and disabled using the FixGSExtendedv4 in the general threads. Here is today... Easily 5.5-6 hr SOT now! Stock + Franco Kernel + FixGSExtendedv4
[Nexus 6  General] wazza1991:
Will I get OTA updates if I flash a custom kernel?
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
It's better for long term battery health to charge with the phone off... (this is true for all lithium based batteries

Depends on the OTA, sometimes yes, sometimes no. But it's not hard to reflash the stock boot.img file for OTA. (and system.img)
[Nexus 6  General] j4rp0:
Your nexus sleeps as a baby! I'm having some trouble with deep sleep, loosing up to 25% battery while i'm in bed... how did you do that!?
[Nexus 6  General] Kroniq:
I use greenify is all. I put to sleep Normal apps and system apps that I don't use on a regular basis, such as cloud print etc... I set a shortcut to hibernate + sleep and do it before I go to bed or while I'm at work.
[Nexus 6  General] mulhiny:
Full 24 hours off charger, nearly 5 hours screen time. AOSiP ROM, stock kernel,nauto brightness, normal stuff syncing (gmail, Facebook, etc).
[Nexus 6  General] mulhiny:
Couldn't add second pic, so here goes...
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
seems im tempted to flash marshmallow now.. been staying with cm12.1 coz im loving its performance so far on my nexus 6...
[Nexus 6  General] golfinggino:
I recently picked up a galaxy S6 as I miss having a phone to connect to my gear s - even though the S6 is small it is a great phone the screen is fantastic. I wasn't impressed with the battery life though approx. 4 hours sot and with my nexus 6 I get that same sot with about 40% battery remaining connected to my moto 360. That and the larger screen is making me sell the S6 in less then a week lol although I prefer the gear s a lot more then the moto 360
[Nexus 6  General] Tenhi:
Wow, I am so impressed with battery life on this thing. Before I went for it, I was reading some reviews that battery life is not that good.

My Nexus 5 lasted barely 10 hours with 2-2:30 SOT. Nexus 6 for me is on the whole new level. At the moment phone is on battery 28 hours with 4:40 SOT and 42% battery left (full stock Marshmallow, latest build). It used only 2% of battery overnight.
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
I know what you mean! The battery on the N6 is a beast! When it wants to be! Haha....some days are a lot better than others! Ha
[Nexus 6  General] caloyzki:
wow i get 8-9 hrs SOT!
[Nexus 6  General] Tenhi:
For me it was quite consistent for now, but we'll see. It is just couple of days old, and it is amazing from day one...

http://imgur.com/a/Ox7NH
[Nexus 6  General] noxaro:
[MENTION=1627640]pathtologos[/MENTION]

please post your battery usage on LTE after a full discharge, SOT, with a medium description of your usage pattern...
[Nexus 6  General] Jesseownzzz:
Yea even unopened devices have to pay restocking fees.
[Nexus 6  General] loggainsd:
Also noticed this. Screenshots attached. and also the notification for android wear says "Connected, running sync loop".
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Sure. But it'll probably be tomorrow since I probably won't put it on the charger till tonight when I go to sleep.
[Nexus 6  General] Luxferro:
Here's my current stats. I haven't been playing with the phone much, but it's been going for 2 days on one charge, 2 hours SOT, and been using Google Music when in my car the past 2 days. Seems pretty reasonable to me. I can probably squeeze 2 more hours SOT if I used it right now until it died, but I'm just going to see how things go naturally for the last ~30%. You'll notice 2 spots where I have zero cell signal - that was airplane mode w/ just wifi... but that doesn't seem to save any extra power if you look at the curve.

Also, this is with Google Now on, all location services on, the Fit app collecting data, 30-40% adaptive brightness (pretty much stock setting), active display on, and "Ok Google" voice activation off.
[Nexus 6  General] old_fart:
I am using Wakelock Detector ( WLD ) and it sez : 1) calendar, 2) gmail, 3) google+, 4) fit, 5) youtube, 6) news & weather 7) drive . . . .

are waking things up under the curtain and so vampiring the batt.

? ? ? but i'm not going INTO any of those damn things ! ! ! . wtf.
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
Those with those horrid cell signals, I changed my mobile network from global to LTE and my signal bar is green now instead of that yellow orange color. I wonder if that might make any difference.

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[Nexus 6  General] paddycr:
I'm not getting great battery life here. I am using the same apps as I was on my Note 3 and I am at less than 10% at the end of the day. I would be about 40% on the Note 3. Looking at the kernel wakelocks on bbs, 30% of my power is being drained by something called 'smb135x_wake'. Any ideas? Anyone else see this?

My Nexus 6 is rooted, decrypted and I am not doing anything too fancy like playing games.
[Nexus 6  General] Timefusion:
Update: 2nd full cycle MUCH better life

First off...On Tmobile, stock build, brightness at 50% with adaptive on.

Took phone off full charge at 830pm Monday night. Some minimal usage Monday night. Full day of business use today including 1hr 45min of calls (50min of which was on bluetooth), 2hrs 10 minutes of SOT, 30% of total time on LTE, dozens of emails and texts, some you tube and decent amount of facebook, and a bunch of time downloading ring tones

Still at 37%. This is more like what I expected and is consistent with what I got on my Note 3. Feeling much better.

What else can I do to extend? Greenify? Any other recommendations? Thanks

TF
[Nexus 6  General] xXghostXx313:
Anyone know what is dozeservice in wakelock detector? I'm guessing ambient display
[Nexus 6  General] jbdan:
Interesting. I changed mine 1st thing when I bought the phone so idk how this would affect anything but thanks for pointing it out
[Nexus 6  General] sprintuser513:
Thank you very much for getting back with me. I will be ditching the OnePlus in favor of the nexus 6. I took it off of the charger at 740am and here it is 2am and I'm still at 54%. Im overall happy I think. I also think battery enhancements will come. I've researched a little and it seems the note 4 gets roughly 4-5 hours screen on time and I squeezed 4hr 40min out of the nexus. Have you noticed any other issues?
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Can't say I have. Right now this is how I'm looking at this: it doesn't have THE BEST battery life I've ever seen BUT it also isn't awful. Considering how beautiful the device is, and how the devs will be flocking to build for this device, I'm staying put. I love the nexus 6 overall. I love how it feels in the hand, love the screen, gaming on it is awesome (last night I was playing FF9 using FPSE and OH MY GOD, it was beautiful--the app gets rid of the nav bar... Awesome) and the battery life is pretty good. I'm definitely sticking around.

BTW, some guy a few pages back asked me to charge it up full, use it like I would typically till full drain, then post stats. Ill be posting that later today, along with a description of my usage pattern. As for my usage pattern, let's just say, I ABUSE my devices: almost constant SOT, gaming intensely, on Tapatalk often, syncing emails (2 accounts) all day long. I keep me screen brightness between 50 and 60%, etc. Oh, I DO keep my GPS on device only mode, unless I'm gonna use an app that requires high accuracy (which isn't often for me). I'll post back later, once my battery is drained.
[Nexus 6  General] InsaneJester17:
where do you guys see global as an option? I remember seeing it when I first got the phone, but can't find it now. Thanks.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
It's under Settings-->More-->Cellular Networks and you'll see this :
[Nexus 6  General] InsaneJester17:
Hmm nope. I got mine from tmobile if it matters.
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
I got mine from t mobile too. I have the menu he's talking about. U sure you're looking in the right place?

You don't buy a Mustang for the gas mileage.
[Nexus 6  General] InsaneJester17:
See the image I posted. Looks like the same spot.
[Nexus 6  General] Mistertac:
I read somewhere on here that it possibly depends on what SIM Card your using.. If you're both on T-Mobile SIMs as well then I'm not too sure.
[Nexus 6  General] pathtologos:
Wow...weird.

You don't buy a Mustang for the gas mileage.
[Nexus 6  General] erk1725:
Your cell standby is lower than mine, so I would imagine your network strength/signal is stronger and more consistent than mine. Im at 6% cell standy with 33% left.....my signal is decent at my house, so my SOT only looks good if I'm at home, like the weekend:thumbup:

N6 is a great device!
[Nexus 6  General] Tenhi:
Yep, it's probably because of that. I was mostly at home these days with good wifi/cell signal. I will be happy with 4h SOT when outside without wifi, but I guess I will see how that goes this next week. Either way, it's amazing and I love it :victory:

P.S. Can you please edit your post and remove my images...did not realize how big they are before posting :) :good:
[Nexus 6  General] yellowman82:
Screenshots or it didn't happen lol
[Nexus 6  General] caloyzki:
Lol. I didnt get a chance to screenshot. I really like this phone.
[Nexus 6  General] biglilsteve:
My assumption is that most people on here reporting these ludicrous SOTs >5 hours are more than likely on WiFi for the bulk of the day.

I can't really get above 5 hours on a regular work day where I am off wifi for more than 50% of my day.
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
I get 5.5-6 hours of SOT every day on LTE 100% of the time. If you have a good or excellent signal LTE isn't that hard on the battery. My usage includes texting, lots of web browsing, and watching a few Simpsons episodes that I have stored locally on my device.

I don't see how people can get less than 5 hours of SOT on this device, unless they do a lot of gaming, have an awful signal, or use sketchy apps that keep the device awake.
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
From what I've been observing the minimum should be around 5 hours screen on time. 1 hour for every 20 percent is usually how my usage goes. Of course I'm not always using it constantly but the very least should be 4 or 5 hours screen on time
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
im getting there. cm 12.1 nightlies with hydra kernel
[Nexus 6  General] TriguyRN:
I'm getting like 2.5 hours of SOT on my new N6. I do some hefty web browsing on mine daily and don't get a great Verizon signal out here but, still I guess I suppose I should be getting more... I'm going to go through my day tomorrow and report my findings, might have to go hunting for wakelocks.
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
go ahead. just try it first. then show us ur battery stats and/or you may try to use bbs and post ur screenshots here so we can throw in some opinions and we will also help u out as much as possible. i just also got my n6 just few weeks ago.. not yet a month and im enjoying it
[Nexus 6  General] wazza1991:
I wasn't getting good battery life on the latest build MRA58R..tried Franco kernel but didn't see any difference.. So I decided to do a clean flash of 5.1 LMY47I...set it up installed all apps then went through all the OTA updates and now I'm on MRA58N and the battery life is awesome once again. Got 5 hours of screen on time with 45% battery left.
[Nexus 6  General] Tzfardaya:
That's about what I get at work, it's possible that if your signal is that bad (weak or noisy) there's not much you can do (except try a different carrier)
[Nexus 6  General] atrix4nag:
Stock chroma

Almost 2 and half days with 3 and half hours SOT.

I don't know why wifi is taking major part of battery. I switched of scanning in location settings also. I will see in the next cycle to see how the wifi will behave.
[Nexus 6  General] NOSTALGIA:
let me share again. this is the total battery stats from the one i posted above earlier
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
WiFi Drain

Any one know how to fix the WiFi drain? I'm using completely stock non rooted latest MRA58N, and I'm getting close to 4 and a half of sot, WiFi scanning is off from location, and WiFi during sleep is off, still getting this much WiFi drain? Any fix? Or any rom you can refer me to with a good battery time?
[Nexus 6  General] Face_Plant:
Are you connected to a 2.4GHz or a 5GHz network? I read somewhere that there's a bug in Android where 5GHz causes excessive battery drain.
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
I read that too and I connected to 2.4ghz but it didn't affect the drain
[Nexus 6  General] aiiee:
I got one of those Wifi managers, WiFi Automatic, and I've got twice the battery life you do, and on Wifi for the last 24 hours. Also on M, but rooted.
[Nexus 6  General] bigsnack:
What kernel settings are generally accepted to increase battery life?
[Nexus 6  General] yurikoles:
Battery defects is supposed to be reported here?

I have N6 from early parties and it's battery had shown it's defect now. Symptoms: random reboots and/or swelling of back case.
[Nexus 6  General] Digiclash:
Superb Battery Life

Even i have read somewhere that its battery life is just awesome..
[Nexus 6  General] Yasharkhan:
Get it replaced, there's no solution for that, your battery is faulty
[Nexus 6  General] MysticKing32:
Drove for 6 and a half hours today and the nexus lasted like a champ. GPS and music streaming the entire time. Still got enough to last the rest of the day.

My galaxy s5 would've have died mid way lol. Loving this thing.

Stock MRA58R
[Nexus 6  General] SymbioticGenius:
Do you have high accuracy location turned on? That and battery saver destroy battery due to WiFi. I also notice that you had WiFi on in both screenshots, what happens when you turn it off?

Sent from my Nexus 6P
[Nexus 6  General] illcat2000:
Screen brightness down location off on WiFi mostly when I'm not cricket wireless