6.0.1 battery drain?

[Halofury]

Been getting terrible battery... Ugh

Screen time is about, 1.30 hours, lasted only cause I put it on airplane mode about 2 hours at the movies

 

[mumfoau]

I knew about Facebook coming in to getting the 6P but since we have granular app permissions I figured I could still use it. Might all be in my head but I declare I'm getting much more screen on time between charges now that I'm using a Chrome bookmark and notifications for Facebook.

 

[hugo491]

Hi Everyone,

So I had the same issue as you all. I was really annoyed because on a full charge my battery would only last 10 hours. I could watch the percentage on the battery fall, it was crazy. After some tinkering, I am happy to report that I was able to fix it! I did the following:

1)Changed Kevo preferences to not allow for running in the background (I have a kevo lock on my door)
2) Uninstalled Clean Master (by Cheetah mobile) - GSam battery reported high usage
3) Disabled Ambient Display (Adaptive brightness is still on)
4) Reset cache partition from Recovery Bootloader screen

The change is crazy! Unfortunately, because I did not do them one by one, I don't know what change really fixed the battery and what was the root cause of the issues. If some of you have these apps/settings installed/set, it might be worth replicating my steps to see if it helps you.

PS: All of my settings are otherwise default and I have bluetooth, wifi, and location services on at all times. I also do have an Android Wear watch and this greatly improved battery life is even with my watch paired! I do have WhatsApp installed including Facebook and Facebook messenger.

Before and after (you can see the slopes)


A day after the changes: (Look at the estimated battery life!!!)

 

[barondebxl]

I have rooted mine and I'm using a ROM and a custom kernel, battery life is astonishing. If you're not rooted and you own a nexus you truly are lost.

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[Almeuit]

I have rooted mine and I'm using a ROM and a custom kernel, battery life is astonishing. If you're not rooted and you own a nexus you truly are lost.

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I would say that is a bit far ... I don't root simply because it isn't needed for what I want to do with my phone. Not everyone wants to root and that is okay .

 

[barondebxl]

I would say that is a bit far ... I don't root simply because it isn't needed for what I want to do with my phone. Not everyone wants to root and that is okay .

Obviously you have the freedom to do as you please with your device. But ppl don't understand the benefits, that's why they don't do it. When I say that my battery life has significantly increased since i rooted I'm not exaggerating. Same with performance. I'm certain that we can all use great battery life.

 

[Almeuit]

Obviously you have the freedom to do as you please with your device. But ppl don't understand the benefits, that's why they don't do it. When I say that my battery life had significantly increased since i rooted I'm not exaggerating. Same with performance. I'm certain that we can all use great battery life.

I get awesome battery life as is without being rooted. Do you have some screen caps to show us the big difference? Also I don't fall into that category. I have rooted many times before .. Just don't see the need to any more since Android has definitely evolved .

 

[barondebxl]

I get awesome battery life as is without being rooted. Do you have some screen caps to show us the big difference? Also I don't fall into that category. I have rooted many times before .. Just don't see the need to any more since Android has definitely evolved .

Well judging from this thread I can see ppl struggling with battery life. Absolutely. I will post a screen shot when the battery is close to dying or right before I plug it. As of now I'm at 39%, been unplugged since 7am and used LTE all day moderate to heavy with YouTube streaming and all.

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[Almeuit]

Well judging from this thread I can see ppl struggling with battery life. Absolutely. I will post a screen shot when the battery is close to dying or right before I plug it. As of now I'm at 39%, been unplugged since 7am and used LTE all day moderate to heavy with YouTube streaming and all.

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That ain't bad but nothing better than what I get and I am stock (no root).

As you can see below this was me charging the night before, letting it idle while I slept, and then using it at work with 100% brightness for almost 5 hours and streaming video (Xfinity/Comcast a.k.a HBO Movies) over LTE the whole time while at work (5.5+ GB that charge).

I have not tweaked the settings or anything. I have GPS on high accuracy and everything. The most I do is toggle the wifi radio off when I am not at home but that still doesn't cause much drain.

 

[Golfdriver97]

But ppl don't understand the benefits

It's also a double edge sword. Sure you can get better battery life and performance with root and just making some minor changes to the kernel. But if those changes are incorrect, they can be just as detrimental to the battery.

For everyone else in the thread, have you tried a reboot of the phone? It may be Play services (I don't doubt it), and it just may be 'stuck'.

 

[drake261]

I had the same issue on my nexus 6p. The fix is to go to Settings->location->scanning(upper right corner) and turn OFF wifi/bluetooth scanning. This should fix your issue. These settings are turned on for precise location settings only.

 

[maac311]

Found out how to fix this issue.

Go to the Settings, then select Battery.
Click on the top left hand corner, where the 3 dots are, and select Battery optimization.
Tap "Not optimized", and select All Apps.
You will see all the apps are now selected for Optimizing battery use.

This next step is the most important: hit your home button now.
Leave that setting page running in the background!
If you hit return, or go back, it will reset to not optmizing!

Now you will see your batter last, guaranteed.

The only catch is having to leave your settings page running in the background, on batter optimization.
If you need to use your settings page to do anything else, that is fine, but always go back and turn the Battery optimization back on and leave it on!

This has worked great for me, battery lasts a long time. With great use too.

Good luck.

 

[sliyk]

Hi guys,
I seem to be having a battery drain issue as well. My phone seems to be awake most of the time even if screen is off, is there a way I can post data here so that we can diagnose whats going on with it?

Thanks.

 

[Ondrej Rosypal]

Since I bought the phone I gradually went from 4:35 to 3:50 SOT and I have a feeling 6.0.1 has a lot to do with it.

 

[sliyk]

Since I bought the phone I gradually went from 4:35 to 3:50 SOT and I have a feeling 6.0.1 has a lot to do with it.

I think mine might be the same problem but I am not concerned with sot but more of the phone being awake so much

 

[sstephen17]

I've found that I'm getting ~10% better battery life with the May update vs April. On a normal day with the April update, I'd finish with ~15% battery life, waking up at 6:00 AM and plugging in at 10:00 PM. With the May update, I'm getting closer to 25%.

 

[dazkatmaka]

Ever since updating to 6.0.1 I feel as though my battery drain is substantially worse. Same routine. Same activity. Anyone else experiencing this?

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New apps: Google authenticator and Any.do.

It seems with every month update my battery gets worse. Google's got to fix the problem.

 

[effreyj]

I've been having battery drain issues as well since the May update. I seem to have fixed it now. I did the following: deleted my already backed up photos, cleared the apps cache, turned off and deleted location history, went into wifi settings and removed the saved networks that I don't connect to (i.e. random coffee shops that I was in once), went into BT settings and removed the saved BT devices that I don't connect to (i.e. headphones that broke that I no longer use). This seems to have helped, as since I did these things, my phone seems to be awake mostly only when my screen is on or I'm listening to audio.

 

[brutos08]

I've been having battery drain issues as well since the May update. I seem to have fixed it now. I did the following: deleted my already backed up photos, cleared the apps cache, turned off and deleted location history, went into wifi settings and removed the saved networks that I don't connect to (i.e. random coffee shops that I was in once), went into BT settings and removed the saved BT devices that I don't connect to (i.e. headphones that broke that I no longer use). This seems to have helped, as since I did these things, my phone seems to be awake mostly only when my screen is on or I'm listening to audio.

Great you have improved battery life. In reality i don't think we should go through all that to get decent battery life our phones i really don't. I do think the issue with battery life something Google really need to address in Android N and once of the core issues of this is badly coded apps because of the fragmented Android systems.

 

[effreyj]

Great you have improved battery life. In reality i don't think we should go through all that to get decent battery life our phones i really don't. I do think the issue with battery life something Google really need to address in Android N and once of the core issues of this is badly coded apps because of the fragmented Android systems.

I agree that you shouldn't need to turn off features that you use to get better battery, but if you notice, nothing I did reduced functionality.