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[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
I'm planning to upgrade since mm is old now and I'm not that dependant on xposed.

But still scared what Nougat may do to the battery...
[Nexus 6P General] Prattham:
That's one reason i haven't updated as well

If you just wanna update then might flash a rom and kernel to maybe avoid that, i hope

Cheers ?
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Is there any such ROM & Kernel that helps avoid battery issues?
[Nexus 6P General] NishantM:
Nougat has nothing to do with early shutdown and battery issues. It is a faster than usual degradation of batteries. When I had pathetic battery life/early shutdown issues I downgraded to Marshmallow to check if Nougat is the problem. As expected, it was not. Marshmallow gave me the same problem. I got the battery replaced via Huawei ASC in Mumbai by paying around ₹1100 and the phone performs like new. No more pathetic battery life or early shutdown issues anymore and I am on the latest stable Nougat build.
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Currently Accubattery shows me 94 % battery health. And my phone is 11 months old. I'm thinking of biting the Nougat bullet now.

Any ROMs y'all suggest?
[Nexus 6P General] Sy1ar:
PureNexus = Stock with lot of customization
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Thanks, I was already running the MM version of PN, and was leaning for the N9 version for my tablet too.
[Nexus 6P General] rrohanjs:
how long did it take to replace it ?
[Nexus 6P General] NishantM:
I got the phone back on the 4th day. They did say you can take the phone and I will get a call when they receive replacement battery but I chose to leave the phone at the ASC as it was my backup phone.
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
Guys,

I am seeing the entire conversation on battery. In chennai, they are quoting 2k. But need your advice.

- I am having an average of 2-3h SOT

- When I use primarily for calls, connected to my bluetooth headset, I move from 100% to 20% or so in 12h

- When I went for vacation, few hours of photography and its almost drained

With the above, do you guys think its worth it to put on a battery? Though it doesnt cost too much, yet I am unsure if I will see a big improvement? Not sure if its Nougat issue? But I am frustrated that I am always worried about charge when I am out. I always carry a back up. I am waiting for iPhone 8 and need to pull through until then. Let me know your thoughts if new battery will solve my issue for next 6 months at least.

Thanks!
[Nexus 6P General] Prattham:
Or you can buy a battery pack or power bank
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
I have a power bank. But its always a hassle. Any day longer battery that gets through the day would be ideal. :) I want to know if new battery would give me battery back up like when nexus 6p was new.
[Nexus 6P General] hafiz.hasan:
After flashing 7.1.1 beta my phone detects and shows only jio sim ..other networks it detects but no signal..it shows as no service...tried all the stock images from google but no solution..can anybody help please..
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Here and reddit, almost all the people who have changed the batteries, said they are happy. So Its a risk worth taking!

BTW, whats your phone's battery health score in accubattery?
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
It says Battery Health is 87%. Estimated capacity of 3000 mAh vs Design capacity of 3450 mAh. This is based only 1 session though as I installed it today morning only.
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Use Accubattery for a week before deciding about your battery health
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Here's how I get roughly 4hrs on LTE...

1. Use Airtel in Delhi... The network is green all round..(touchwood)

2. Have rooted my phone... Stock setup... Uninstalled all the apps that I don't use... Including Google app... Google+ connectivity services and more... If you want a list of my apps.. will provide it ...

3. Use disable service.. to disable the useless wakelocks caused by my apps.. like Twitter WhatsApp and Yahoo mail...

4. I don't have a girlfriend... So minimal life... :laugh:

Do that and report back
[Nexus 6P General] The Frustrated Indian:
I finally gave up on my Nexus 6P getting the volte update. I waited too long. Since August. I moved my primary number to Jio in Feb. Waiting for the update. 4 days ago I ordered the Lava 4G connect M1. I received It today. To be honest, it's amazing. It runs on Android marshmallow. And we can sideload any android apk. The volte works great. It's worth every penny. I paid 3299₹ for that. It's totally worth.

I can already see how things are changing for the feature phone market. It's changing drastically. Jio has changed a lot of things in India. Thank you Jio.
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
How necessary and why so is the VOLTE for some people? I don't get it...
[Nexus 6P General] The Frustrated Indian:
It's just not about volte.

The plans that Jio offers is what matters. For 149₹ if you can get truly unlimited calls with roaming and 2 GB 4G, who wouldn't want that?
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
There would be a limit to this madness of pricing .... Jio can't run on fumes... They want to push out the competition...

As for the quality ... Good luck mate... My Dad is using my Jio sim now... Don't get no signals in Gandhi Nagar... And internet is close to ****... Even now...

With Airtel I get 10mbps daytime... Jio gives like 512kbps... Even **** ...
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
This.

Absolutely 3 months back was getting 41mb/s speed at work place. Now it is working like 2g. And no signal at home still.
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Tried the app but have no clue about what to disable. Suggestions pls!
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Well like I use a app called memo widget... It has the following services showing

Cappservice .. campaign tracking service and memo widget service...

Disabled the 1st 2... This helped in no more ads in status bar and the app no longer hogging ram..

Another example.. I use background wallpaper app... It has the same thing disabled.. campaign tracking and notification service..

For WhatsApp I disabled Google device service... For this official XDA app.. only 1 service shows up.. PushService... So the same gets disabled... The advantage.. in normal setup XDA would constantly use RAM and remain in memory even though I am not using it... With the service disabled.. it acts as a normal app...
[Nexus 6P General] Prattham:
Complete list of your wale blocks if possible?
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Here you go... Essentially everything that has a name of Analytics ... Campaign tracking and notification in apps name... Etc... Though leave notification if you want a notification from the app...
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
That app seems to be working like a charm. Blocked quite a few services within the official facebook app and now the app works so smooth and stutter free. Blocked several other services from different apps and I can feel the smoothness overall.

Not quite sure about its impact on battery, as just now I've charged fully.

Since the phone is way smooth than before, started digging around inside the app to block more services that I feel unnecessary. :laugh:

Though heard about such apps before, I thought they are just bluffs. Thanks for putting it out mate! :good:
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
No issues... And do keep note of the services you block... Some cause the app to crash.. you know what to do then... And battery life is a definite plus.. they don't hog memory or battery once the active service are blocked...

Good day...
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
If anyone is looking to upgrade to Pixel... Now might be a good time... Flipkart is giving an awesome exchange value for old phones... Nexus 5 is 10850rs and Nexus 6p is 15150rs... So essentially a 32gif Pixel XL is gonna set you back 38k and Pixel for 28k ... Good deal if you ask me..
[Nexus 6P General] rrohanjs:
i was considering it but then i know i can hold out a bit longer with this phone n wait for oneplus 5 which would be arnd 30 35k or the next pixel .. very tempting though
[Nexus 6P General] arunkr:
Hey guys, my Nexus 6p just died, stuck at Google logo, suddenly happened(not after an update), i know this is a known issue, if anyone has a solution pls lemme know
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Was it unlocked... Can you goto the bootloader screen... Can flash the factory image again...
[Nexus 6P General] arunkr:
Yes it was running custom ROM, tried everything, flashed stock image, locked bootloader, then trying with another stock image now.
[Nexus 6P General] varunrramani:
Anyone enrolled in Android O beta? How stable is it? Can be used for daily driver?
[Nexus 6P General] Aswin08:
Mostly bootloop of death. Even if its out of warranty try pressurizing huawei for RMA replacement. Few people succeeded in that.
[Nexus 6P General] arunkr:
Called Huawei customer service, they told me to bring it to service center..:(
[Nexus 6P General] lazytool:
Is Google assistant working? I am yet to get it on my 6p running 7.1.2
[Nexus 6P General] anuragb77:
bootloop...dead Nexus 6p

Hi All,

I am in bangalore, the bootloop issue has started, now I am not able to go past the google logo. Called up one of the bangalore service centre, they say out of warranty handset we do not entertain and give me an alternate number. I call up the alternate number the dude on the other end says that your handset has gone into bootloop due to hardware failure (logic board) due to software update. I am told that I need to pay Rs.24000/- to replace the logic board, which is amazing.

When I logged a complaint with the Huawei customer support i had to do multiple calls and finally sometime back i get a call from them that since you are a special customer we will give you the logic board at Rs. 15000 without taxes.

I wanted to know from our community is huawei doing any replacements in India for out of warranty handset or we have to make it a costly paper weight on the table. Any good points would be helpful
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Even in countries with strict consumer protection laws, google and huawei are spinning off customers between each other,

I'm assuming you bought the phone from flipkart which means you have to rely only on huawei even if the phone is under warranty period. I haven't heard any thing like warranty/out of warranty replacements happened here in india.

Sometimes back I saw a video in which guy was able to boot the phone from BLOD. Here is that video. May be this will help.
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Well once my phone reaches that stage... That's when I become a tinkerer ... Did the same with my Nexus 5... Will do the same with this guy as well.... But I always wait...

At this point I would suggest if you want to get the thing back for cheap... Search OLX and get a 2nd phone with broken screen.. of even a okayish one.. for cheap... And the replace as you like...
[Nexus 6P General] arunkr:
everyone having this **** phone, i suggest u to sell it off before it gets into bootloop.
[Nexus 6P General] willi9070:
Did anyone get google assistant working on Android O beta stock?
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
Guys,

Anyone tried Android O? Worth upgrading? Most importantly hows the battery life - any improvemnt?
[Nexus 6P General] lazytool:
I did! Clear cache of play services and choose the system language to India (USA) it'll do it
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Read news about oneplus 5 launching with 8gb ram as an exclusive of amazon.in ... Tempted to say the least... What phone are we looking forward as replacement...
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
Thinking the same actually. OP5 should be an awesome phone.

Btw, my nexus 6p with latest update has become slow. That buttery smooth feeling is gone. Stutter here and there. Is it for all?
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Just flashed the stock build 2days back... Running stock kernel as well... As Franco didn't release a kernel for June patch.... Don't see any lags.. though my battery life is hit by 30mins... That awesome dev as some magic in his kernel...
[Nexus 6P General] mrcet007:
My Nexus 6p screen and glass cracked. Official Huawei center in bangalore is charging

My Nexus 6p screen and glass cracked. Official Huawei center in bangalore is charging Rs 11,000 for 20 months old phone which is out of warranty.

Fellow Bangaloreans please share details of good shop in Bangalore (India) where I can get replace it with used but original OEM display.

I know that nexus 6P is very rated as difficult phone to repair and heard from friends that after screen replacement speaker/ camera didnt work.

So please share details of shops with skilled professional who can replace the screen for reasonable price. I am fine with used OEM screen.

Thanks
[Nexus 6P General] The Frustrated Indian:
Try SP road bro
[Nexus 6P General] rrohanjs:
finally getting decent battery life with pn and franco with google now and location off, i find it useless anyways, other single apps do a much better job

Getting through a day easily with 4hrs to 5.5hrs of sot depending upon the usage and amount of call time, finally getting MM days battery life
[Nexus 6P General] NishantM:
Ever since I got the battery of my Nexus 6P replaced back in February, it is working great. Although it is no longer my primary phone I am still able to get around 4 - 4.5 hours SOT with a lot of streaming to Chromecast via LocalCast, running on the latest 7.1.2 ROM. To all those who have battery life issues, get your battery replaced. It costs 1k and you'll be amazed.
[Nexus 6P General] lathiwala_99:
Hi Nishant, i am also contemplating to get my phone's battery replaced but I am skeptical whether the service center guys would screw up my phone or not. As you already know that to replace the battery on this phone the SC guys would have completely dismantle the phone, thus I am not sure whether they would screw up some other component of the phone. How was your experience with the SC guys?
[Nexus 6P General] NishantM:
My experience was overall good. They did initially told me that it is an OS issue and they will downgrade it to Marshmallow and it will be solved. But I insisted them to replace the battery. They agreed with a condition that they won't be responsible if it didn't fix the problem which I was fine with. The whole process took just 4 days. There are very minor scuffs on the metal part near the camera visor and the bottom area which I am fine with as this phone is very hard to open without leaving marks.
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Is it possible to add a higher capacity battery when the change is done?

Also, how can we be sure that they use a new battery and not a used one?
[Nexus 6P General] NishantM:
I wouldn't put anything other than original battery in any of my phones no matter what capacity they advertise.

You can use Accubattery to check the battery health after getting the new battery installed (takes a few cycles to get a more approximate %). My old battery showed 79% health and after installing new battery it showed 99%.
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
Mine's at 91% with accubattery, and the phone just went out of warranty. Currently I have no issues with the battery *touchwood*
[Nexus 6P General] shubhamsoni:
Does anyone know where can I buy the original battery and replace it myself?
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
eBay.... And they sell tools as well... Though I would highly recommend buying the camera visor as well.... There is a 95% chance that u will break it...
[Nexus 6P General] rockyrocker:
Any recommendations for fast charger type c for Nexus 6p? Need it urgently.
[Nexus 6P General] emanoj.i9103:
Choetech.
[Nexus 6P General] prafmetal:
Try this one from Anker. Works as advertised.

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B01CJ90J6O/ref=cm_sw_r_wa_apa_i_BgYAzbDQF3BQW
[Nexus 6P General] hunt:
Check this original charger.

Get the EU charger/cable, whatever you want. :)
[Nexus 6P General] Haris000:
anyone with the microphone issue???
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Edit the following in build.prop:

persisit.audio.fluence.voicecall=true to false
[Nexus 6P General] kkapoorr:
What microphone issue?
[Nexus 6P General] Haris000:
Without doing this!!!

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Dont u hv poor call quality with the nexus 6p?
[Nexus 6P General] coolsid8:
Yeah i too am suffering from the microphone issue. I literally need to put it in front of my mouth most of the times. It is damn annoying.
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
All I am suffering is the itch to buy a new phone ... As for my neXus 6P it finally got caught with the random reload once the battery reaches 17% or less... Has happened twice now in the past 2 months.... Don't intend on replacing the battery now though.... Will pass it to my mom who has her eyes set to get this phone...

A question though has anyone else also noticed the continuous drop on battery SOT every 6 months... It's now down to 3hr 20mins...
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Mine too got the battery suicide habit since the past couple of months. And it happened some 4 or 5 times randomly, when the battery level reached 20% or below.

I've also decided to wait it out and buy a new phone rather than changing the battery, coz there is no guarantee that the new battery is gonna be anymore better than it currently is, and secondly I don't trust huawei guys opening up this fragile, incredibly complicated phone for battery replacement.

The new SD835 phones offer tremendous battery life, so it'll be pixel 2 or OP5.

I didn't face such drops so far. Consistently getting 20-26hrs of backup with ~3.30hrs of SOT and an hour worth of calls. Always on 3G/4G.

I'm using leandroid to switch off wifi, bt, gps and set data connection to 2g when the phone screen is off. This combined with naptime gives exceptional idle drain, less than 1% drop over 8hrs of idling. [Refer Screen shots]
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
No other way. You can mod the buld.prop, put in in a flashable zip and flash it thru recovery, if you don't want to root your phone.
[Nexus 6P General] Haris000:
Yeah,need a fix without root but its not possible :/
[Nexus 6P General] PratikP:
I'm too facing the mircophone issue. It is so bad that i literally have to cover my face and the phone in a huddle.

My battery is holding pretty good but the SOT has definitely reduced after the subsequent upgrades. AccuBattery shows the health to be pretty good.

Why don't you guys have a word with Google - directly. It seems they are doing an RMA - some of them got a Pixel XL:

1. https://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/google-stepped-battery-shut-off-issue-t3616659

2. https://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/general/nexus-6p-google-replaced-pixel-xl-t3660808

Google Support: <support.google.com/nexus/contactflow?hl=en>
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
U forget that we live in india.... The customer is a piece of **** over here.... Had it be like America... We could have sued even the **** coming out of them.... But nah....

All I know is my money is hanging b/w lg v30 and iphone 8... Will go for any1 of them based on totally illogical buying decision
[Nexus 6P General] PratikP:
I totally second you on this man!

But i think Google India shouldn't be bad either - had it been Huawei I wouldn't even had bothered to post. I'm still optimistic about google though.

V30 is a killa but will come with a very heavy price tag. Let's see!
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
64490 is what I have heard... Should be announced around Sept 21 and available as Amazon exclusive with those awesome b&o play headsets as well.... Those babies are worth 15k in any case... So I have my amex ready incase the iPhone 8 drops dead...
[Nexus 6P General] PratikP:
Yea, should be around that range. It'll cost way lower in a couple of months though. In terms EU it'll cost around 68k.

I'm curious about this year's iPhone 8 - no physical or virtual home key - only gestures.. let's see how Apple implements it..
[Nexus 6P General] hunt:
+2

My phone is frequently getting stuck at some random point. It requires a restart again and again.

Battery dies when it reaches 15%. I really don't know what piece of s**t does Huawei sold to us. Had many HTC Phones in past, never ever faced such weird battery issue. Google fooled us, and we bought in the brand name of "Nexus"

SOT and Battery life significantly dropped after every security updates. I used to get 4-4.5 hours of SOT. Now ranging between 2-2.5 hours!

What's there in OREO update for Nexus Users: NOTHING at all. :(

I completely lost the trust in Google due to Nexus issues. If Google can default in terms of support, then any company can go wrong except direct competitor i.e. Apple. "Go with iPhone 8."
[Nexus 6P General] Prattham:
I have my money saved for iPhone 8 or pixel xl 2
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
There is a reason this phone is called Huawei Nexus 6P rather than Google Nexus 6P.

Relationship between google and huawei fallout incredibly and the impact is knowingly or unknowingly put in to the customers. Now, I feel like I should've waited a little more rather than bought the phone on its release. With the experience form N4 and N5 I blindly trusted google. Though I haven't lost all the love on google, I'll be extremely cautious on their products hereafter.

And, if I'm gonna buy a google phone, It's gonna be thru play store only.

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This just popped up today on Reddit!! :p:D
[Nexus 6P General] Haris000:
You are rooted right???
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Yep!!
[Nexus 6P General] IIEtCII:
Guys did any of you receive Oreo via OTA?
[Nexus 6P General] rohit25:
Lol ... U forget we got a neXus... Flash it... Though I am back to nougat... Didn't like it...

P.S. does anyone know how to clear cache in Oreo... Like in nougat goto storage and Bam... Couldn't figure in Oreo for the same
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
Tried Oreo, Liked it a lot. But back to Nougat coz apktool isn't working yet and I was not ale to mod the system apk's for a bit of customization.
[Nexus 6P General] Lijop:
Has anyone replaced their battery in kerala? Any idea where can i do it in kerala? i see a regenersis in kerala. Should i go there or Huawei Customer Service Center ?
[Nexus 6P General] inimaitimepass:
In US, google started replacing 6P's with Pixel XL's for "battery - early shutdown" issue.

What do we get in India? Well, google stopped selling phones thru play store and is redirecting to online stores to buy pixels. I don't know since when it happened.

A phone from google is every android enthusiast's dream and when it comes to support for the same google just cutting our throat mercilessly. I'n leaning more and more towards getting an iPhone, I've 9 authorized sellers near by my place for Apple products and none for google products. I don't care about the marketing strategy and ****, all I want is a peace mind of owning a product. After watching jerryrigeverything crushed the 6P like a papad, I started babying my phone like crazy, I've got so paranoid about it's build quality that even after nearly two years of owning it, I'm still not confident about handling the phone with ease. I'm not even allowing my son to touch the phone.

Though this may be an one of incident with google choosing a wrong partner in huawei, the fact that google isn't doing anything in terms of hardware support is ridiculous. Even the pixel's aren't available from the play store and we have to live at the mercy of online sellers and pathetic authorized service centers.

At the moment I'm torn between Android vs iOS stuff. I thought of buying the pixel 2 from play store only, but I'm damn sure pixel 2 will be available with online sellers and will be available at play store months later and will be taken down from play store in a jiffy. The 6P is not gonna holding up that long till the pixel 2 - play store availability.

I've already started to read about what do I'll miss in case If I switch to iOS, Call recording is one f\great future I';; really miss which helps immensely with "unreasonable" clients.

Anybody moved from Nexus to iPhone, please chip in.