[Nexus 6P General] Gytole:
No. 1 - This WILL start a war, not because I want one, but because 90% of sheeple don't believe my 15+ phones of proven testing.

No. 2 - I am trying to HELP SOLVE your problem, so arguing about not doing this and still having drain is your fault. I am not saying this is your problem to a 'T'' but more than likely is.

No. 3 - I am not responsible for your Nexus 6P (or other phones) becoming a tomato from you doing something wrong. This is very simple and I have NEVER had a problem, but what you do to your phone is your responsibility, I did not hold you against your will through the bits of the internet.

Little backstory...I AM the Tech Guru for my family, and we have a large one that surrounds us within an hour, so we have a lot of get togethers.

Most of my family who has gotten to know me in the past 7 years has understood that iPhones are not welcome and usually end up switching to Android just because if they need help I usually have the answer. Anything from Windows to the wiring in peoples cars, I have worked on. Computers are a big thing with my family and their friends and I just want to share something I have noticed over the years that basically happens 100% of the time with their Phones.

People on XDA will think I am a little overzealous when it comes to flashing my phone. But when I do, I back up only the bare essentials, mainly pictures in my case to a PC. I then make sure my PC is ready for a clean download and run ccleaner and trim the computer (I run SSD's) and download my rom and gapps of choice. I use Pure Nexus and Dirty Unicorns mainly with a strong learn towards PN.

I then transfer the two zips to a FRESHLY formatted USB drive (I use a 8GB Silicon Power USB 3.0, they have their own format utility and a lifetime warranty so format away!) and OTG cable (I use the Ravpower cable Benson Approved). I then boot into TWRP's Latest recovery which is 3.0.1-0 at the time of this writing and do the following. in pressing sequence.

Wipe - Format Data - yes blue check - back - advanced wipe - Check Dalvik/system/Data/internal/Cache - swipe to wipe - home

*Sometimes I will resize and repair system, data, and cache just for giggles, then rewipe everything for extra added measure*

My device is fully wiped, everything's gone and ready to flash. I then connect my 8gb Flash drive to the OTG cable then into the nexus and hit my rom zip to flash and flash it, then my gapps zip I want and flash it. then I hit home, reboot, and POWER OFF. I always give the phone a good 2-3 minutes to cool down from flashing and just give the phone a break. And yes, I flash my rom and gapps seperately, I do not add zips. I find it fun to flash so why not take extra steps!

This is the SAME way I flash phones on the following phone, ahem...Nexus 6P, two Nexus 6, four (yes four) Lg G3 Verizon, Moto G, two Nexus 7 2012, Galaxy S3, Tmobile S6 Edge, two Droid Trubo's, two Moto X Pure's, Droid Razr maxx HD ...you get the point, more than 15 actually... and if you think I am bluffing I will try to take a picture if I can get everyone to boot into twrp and lay them in a row. We're an android fri

One thing I have noticed after flashing allll of these phones is the ONLY time anyones has a battery drain issue is when the phone has not been completely wiped OR, and yes I said OR...they are using a Micro SD card from another phone. I'm not saying I haven't seen them. My girlfriends G3 was working great with her SD card UNTIL she decided that she didnt want to have about 200 pictures on there anymore. She didnt reboot her phone for about 2 days and then she bring it up to me saying her phone died quickly that day, I asked her what has she done recently that she never does, new appssss....different charggeeerrrsss...you know anything. she thought for a second ( I flash her phone so I know she didn't flash anything wrong), she then tells me she deleted some pictures and a few videos the other day, I then asked her if she deleted them from the SD or internal, and she said SD. I was like cool, turned off her phone, removed her SD, threw it into my PC, copied her files over, opened up SD Formatter, formatted her card, then slapped it back into her phone and connected her phone to the pc and copied the pictures she wanted back, which was like a WHOPPING 6. no joke, shes very low maintenance it's the best.

But ever since then no media scanning/server/ whatever you want to call it since.

Call me crazy, but I am very observant.

So you probably didn't read all this, I didn't expect you too, I made it long and annoying because this problem has drawn out over the years for FAR too long and has become FAR too annoying.

Most will argue, YOU WANT ME TO WIPE MY PICTURES AND ALL MY APPS OFF MY DEVICE? WHY WOULD I DO THAT JUST TO FLASH A ROM?!?! THAT'S ANARCHY! EVERYONE GRAB YOUR TORCHES AND PITCH FORKS!!!

Like I said...I back stuff up to a COMPUTER first, and if you don't want to? Then don't! But don't ask why your scanner is eating battery when this is here telling you of all the phones I work on THAT battery drain doesn't exist unless they didn't follower a scenario.

Etc - On a side note, to safe guard your phone from flashing woes I recommend the following. BACKING up your EFS partition before you do ANY flashing and back it up to a SAFE location, External Hard Drive, that USB you only use to keep your Ex Wife's picture's on, wherever. I have seen people lose their IMEI but I have never done it personally, but after the horror shows, I make people safeguard their precious phone code. One can do this EASILY by the following!

Boot into TWRP, press back up, then uncheck everything on this list until EFS, check that one and swipe to backup. That's it.

If you lose you IMEI, and don't have a EFS backup, you are screwed. Asking XDA for a backup of the EFS partition is against the rules and you will not find help from the community and will need to send your phone in for repairs.

Etc 2 - If you are not one to regularly clean and Defrag your HDD(Mac/Linux not included), I highly recommend so. Sometimes roms aren't bad downloads, but bad file's allocated to a broken disk file structure, after I have upgraded to SSD's a few years back, I always cleaned and defragged my disk before a rom download and I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS FOR YOUR PHONES SAFETY but I don't check MD5 sums. I turst my clean drives to do their job and for the past few years I have had great success.

If you are interested in upgrading to a SSD which I highly recommend, this can be done very easily and cheap nowadays! PNY sells a very fast and so far reliable SSD on amazon for $40 for a 120gb and 60 for a 240gb! Very fast I/O and 550MBPs read and 520MBPs write!

Be sure to blow up this thread and tell me why I am wrong, or why you refuse to wipe internal. Your stubborn mistake is easily fixed.

Thanks friends and for those of you this helps let me know!:victory: and as always, HAPPY FLASHING!