Battery Life Concerns on Nexus 6

[coreyacole]

Just got my phone a few days ago. I know that my initial playing was draining the battery, but last two days, the battery life seems horrible. The phone constantly predicts that I'll get 8 hours or so.

With 39 min of screen time, I'm at 87% and it's predicting 7 more hours. I'm thinking that cell signal is the culprit, but even my note 3 wasn't this bad. I usually got almost a full day from it.

I'm hoping I didn't get a bad phone.

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[cozzy123]

What happened to the 20 dollar cut from T-Mobile bro, thought u had the inside tip!

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[coreyacole]

I never said I had an inside tip. I said I had a website glitch, which I subsequently edited and explained in that thread.

This thread is about why my Nexus battery life seems abysmal.

Help with that rather than shots at my already admittedly incorrect prediction would be appreciated.

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[radgatt]

I never said I had an inside tip. I said I had a website glitch, which I subsequently edited and explained in that thread.

This thread is about why my Nexus battery life seems abysmal.

Help with that rather than shots at my already admittedly incorrect prediction would be appreciated.

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Any chance that it could be an app in the background that's causing this? Definitely shouldn't be about to die so quickly.

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[VW Maverick]

Mine took about a week to settle in and no problems since then.

Mav.

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[QWIKSTRIKE]

I get a full day and some, but I have full brightness on, adaptive brightness off, NFC off, LTE off unless I surf the web, Cloud print off,, and auto wi-fi turned off as well.

 

[coreyacole]

Any chance that it could be an app in the background that's causing this? Definitely shouldn't be about to die so quickly.

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I've checked all my apps. According to the battery, the screen is the biggest drainer. My hope is that it's predicting time remains based on my first few days of heavy usage.

Just checked it and it's now saying 11 hours to empty. So maybe me just putting the phone down and focusing on the kids for Christmas is what I needed to do.

I also am getting T-Mobile to send me a cell spot to fix coverage at home.

Maybe I'll try to weed out some apps that I don't use and see what happens.

Good to know it settles after a week or so. Guess I was just used to the performance of my year old Note 3 and didn't think about me constantly picking up the new hotness.

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[NexusNick123]

I can't get mine too drain battery. The battery is amazing.

 

[Jeremy8000]

Facebook app can be a battery hog. Big time.

 

[anon(5506951)]

Facebook app can be a battery hog. Big time.

Funny that you mention that, cause I heard the same thing; exactly why I got rid of it. Besides, I think Facebook is a waste of time, anyway. What shocks me, though, is Facebook comes preinstalled on the Note 4, and you CAN'T get rid of it.

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[rich250]

Mine took about 2 weeks to settle in but battery life is great now

 

[vaughaag]

My battery is getting better but it still drains more than it should when on standby and in general when compared to my partners Moto X.

Xmas day my iPhone and Nexus were taken off charge at pretty much the same time, both received a few texts, notifications and I answered a call on the iPhone. The next day, at around 1200, the iPhone was at 89%, Nexus 63%.

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[planoman]

Battery life is fine for me. I have achieved 5 hours screen time. Keep it at 45% brightness and adaptive brightness off.

I am a moderate to light user.

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[anon(5506951)]

My battery is getting better but it still drains more than it should when on standby and in general when compared to my partners Moto X.

Xmas day my iPhone and Nexus were taken off charge at pretty much the same time, both received a few texts, notifications and I answered a call on the iPhone. The next day, at around 1200, the iPhone was at 89%, Nexus 63%.

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"It's an Android thing", so I've been told. Android always has things running in the background, as opposed to the iPhone, so that explains the drain. For example, my friend showed me her battery stats on the 6+, and at the time the battery was at 73%, with 4 hours of screen on time and 11 hours of standby. That's an awesome battery life. I guess it's a trade off. Blackberrys and iPhones may not have world-beating specs, but they are very efficient in terms of performance and longevity. I had a Blackberry Torch and loved the fact that I could go late into the next day on a single charge still having 40% of battery left. However, at the time, I hated the lack of app support. If I wasn't so used to Android's openness, and I could afford to be in Apple's ecosystem, I might have gone that route, but alas.

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[vaughaag]

Reading a few of the posts on here, I've turned ambient display off and battery drain is allot less. I've also changed from 4G to 3G as my local area has no LTE/4G.

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[pgg101]

It's a new phone so perhaps you are playing with it a lot more than normal, so it's predicting the battery life based on your heavy usage?

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[vaughaag]

2h38m screen time with 45% remaining, a little better today.

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[ODog2323]

Facebook app can be a battery hog. Big time.

Heh. Battery, CPU, data, storage...

I forget where I read it, but some place analyzed a bunch of the worst Android apps in those categories, and Facebook was at or nearly the top offender in all of them.

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[vaughaag]

I tend to use the same core apps each day and I cannot say that there has been any pattern in their battery usage and I don't remember Facebook ever being top or near top.

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[Jeremy8000]

Heh. Battery, CPU, data, storage...

I forget where I read it, but some place analyzed a bunch of the worst Android apps in those categories, and Facebook was at or nearly the top offender in all of them.

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