Why did my Nexus 6 lose 30+ charge overnight?

EpicManifesto

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Nexus 6 lost 30%+ Charge overnight

So last night when I went to bed my phone was at 98%, the screen was on the lowest brightness and all my apps where closed. I went to bed at 11:00pm and woke up to find my phone at 64% at 5:53am this morning. I think it is a result of an app using the wifi or maybe the 5Ghz channel on my network drains the battery more.

The only things I know that where different about last night where the new battery indicator app I tried and that I was using the 5Ghz channel on my router. I have switched back to my old battery app and the 2.4 Ghz channel on my wifi. It seemed to fix the issue since then it has only lost like 1-2% battery.

My question, is this a common issue for androids? Should I be worried that my battery is bad? My app tells me the battery is healthy and is in a good temp range. I have left my phone on overnight with location and wifi on before and it drained like 4% in 8 hours. So I am assuming it was the different wifi channel and the new app that was running down the battery. Please let me know what you think. Thanks
 

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Re: Nexus 6 lost 30%+ Charge overnight

It'd be helpful to install an app like GSam Battery Monitor so that you can see a better battery usage breakdown than what Lollipop gives you.

I've found that certain live wallpapers can cause drain overnight, so see what happens if you use a static wallpaper instead.