[Nexus 6  General] ilikemoneygreen:
Hi Everyone, I dont have a Nexus 6 yet...waiting on Verizon to do its thing but I cant really stop thinking about the potential battery savings that this thing can do. I'm seeing a couple battery threads where people have posted the screens of ok battery life. 6 to 7 hours is the general feeling I get. Since I don't have one yet I would love if a couple of you could appease me in trying this and test.

Anyhow what I'm thinking is two fold, one that huge resolution, and two that insane clock speed.

While both of those are bad ass stats, I think for an everyday carry phone most of the time you wont need them that high.

As many of you know but Ill write it down anyway the resolution of this thing is a massive 1440 x 2560. That is 3,686,400 pixels!

In my humble opinion, when your doing stuff all day and just want battery instead of crystal clearness then I think it might be a worth while trade off to bump it down.

If some of you could try this and post back to this thread it would be awesome. Maybe this will help some of you heavy users out their! Watch it be worthless. :silly:

NEED ROOT FOR BOTH THINGS.

Install a resolution changing app like THIS one (i havent really investigated which one is the best) (Also if you want to do it the legit way then I think you can do it through build.prop editor... id imagine that ends up with better results however the app seems simpler)

The device is 16:9.

Try these resolutions and go low as you think looks usable. At least try the top 2. The other ones I'm just playing with the math because they aren't so standard as the first two.

1080×1920 HD (2,073,600 pixels) 370 DPI

720x1280 720p (921,600 pixels) 246 DPI

900x1600 (1440000 pixels) 308 DPI

765x1360 (1040400 pixels) 262 DPI

Also For DPI Bigger number means bigger image, you might want to play with it for comfort. Please tell your dpi. If your playing a little with it then HERE is a dpi counter (Know that the diagonal measurement of the Nexus 6 is 5.96 inches)

If 720x1280 looks decent then id be happy. While I do not know how much this will help battery as I cant test it myself (I currently have a gnex which is 720 so I can only go down to something thats near sd which sd to 720 is not exactly a huge jump) in my mind something small like a phone or even a phablet will at least look decent at 720p...its only 5.96inches. Although i guess you are getting away from the screens native res which can make images look blurrier.

Why do I think this will help? Because that gpu is pushing 3,686,400 pixels... imagine it only pushing the 921,600 pixels. 1/4th of the UHD. Certainly a boost in gpu performance. Not that games need such a boost because android games aren't exactly pushing the limits...however battery has to improve a little. Thats such a huge drop. If Some of you could please experiment with this for battery improvements it would be awesome.

By the way that app I linked for some reason it wants you to put in stuff backwards. So dont check that mark until you input the values or it will apply as your trying to input the numbers. Also the nav bars might not align so use the fix nav bar option in the menu on the top right if need be. Also make sure you hit that stupid popup that shows up on the top right. the app will start and youll have to wait for that darn overlay to show so you can hit the button. I must warn you guys to not try this unless you know how to restore a nandroid... i played with it on my gnex and put the res of the original moto droid. I had to laugh at the sight but while playing I also messed up aspect ratio so then had to restore from nandroid. Just know that you can mess up stuff if you play :good:

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Ok next is that beefy CPU.

While this is an obvious battery saver that all phones can do the high clock has me wanting to see this now instead of waiting til I get one. Maybe it under clocks well! This is a Quad core cpu that's clocked at 2.7 GHz. Most apps don't need anything near this... And with that quad core you'll already be able to multitask pretty well.

I think this is going to go really good or really bad, as not all cpus really under clock or overclock the same. I have no clue how well the 805 under clocks. I'm sure some are going to look at this and give a rant about that so I'm just going to say that. The above is basically preaching to choir I guess. What i think is desired from this however is to get the most energy efficient clock out of the cpu as you can while still being as stable as you can. Not much more to say other then could some of you please post your stable under clocks. Hopefully with a good kernel we can get that to a better battery state. Personally I think 1000mhz is plenty enough on my dual core Gnex for everyday stuff such as email and browser. I wonder how stable that is on a quad core that's designed to run at 2.7. (I guess when I write it like that its bound to do bad)

Im curious what the under clock and the resolution change will do to the battery. Maybe we can get an extra hour or two. That would be amazing right? If the resolution thing doesn't work out ill be disappointed. :crying:

Post up results please or just speculate wildly or even come in here like a boss and tell me how it is which I suspect a dev might do.