Battery performance of Nexus 6

[Sidj93]

I bought the 6 a couple of weeks back, and have been facing issues with the battery. It barely lasts 3 hours of normal use with internet and low screen brightness...Any suggestions or comments???

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[parfay]

Post battery stats would be a start mate. My nexus 6 loves being used heavily

 

[tizo g-yane]

3 hours is unbelievable, I think even when playing a heavy game that would be hard to achieve but let's see the battery stats first then we can talk.

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[jdsbmw]

You're by no means alone. Battery life on my 6 is ATROCIOUS. This device easily burns 8-10% per hour with light use! On November 2nd my iPhone 6S Plus arrives, so the nightmare of Google and the Nexus 6 are nearly over. BTW, where is my effin Marshmallow OTA update Google? This IS a Nexus device!!!

 

[LeoRex]

Something's up... On 5.1.1, I could get over 5 hours over the course of a 24 hour period... On M, that's pushed to 7 hours. And I'm not using any battery saving tricks like disabling location services, etc.

 

[Erik Johnson3]

Same here, yesterday 26 hrs with 5 1/2 hrs on screen time. M has made battery life great on my end. I am on WiFi and running everything full throttle.

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[Sidj93]

Well..the stats show that since yesterday nite..the battery has drained almost 70 percent..without any use at all...except for 15 minutes today mrnng

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[Mike-Mike]

My battery is significantly better with 6. Although I did wipe and flash. Did you do an OTA?

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[Sidj93]

Did some minor OTA's after I bought D phone...but still waiting for marshmallow...

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[DroidTron]

Every so often I have the same problem. Atrocious battery life without any major changes to how I use the phone. I think it's a mix of bugs in both apps and the OS that get triggered.

If you reboot your phone before going to bed, does it continue to drain so fast?
Have you disabled any if the apps showing battery usage? Like Facebook.

In my case the iHeartRadio app kept waking up the phone all night. Plus it would restart itself even after I disabled it. Ended up uninstalling the app. It fixed that particular issue, but I still get occasional fast battery drains that a reboot seems to fix.

I should add that when everything is working well I get a good 4-5 hours SOT with medium brightness and GPS use by waze.

I am still on Android 5.1.1.

 

[Sidj93]

Every so often I have the same problem. Atrocious battery life without any major changes to how I use the phone. I think it's a mix of bugs in both apps and the OS that get triggered.

If you reboot your phone before going to bed, does it continue to drain so fast?
Have you disabled any if the apps showing battery usage? Like Facebook.

In my case the iHeartRadio app kept waking up the phone all night. Plus it would restart itself even after I disabled it. Ended up uninstalling the app. It fixed that particular issue, but I still get occasional fast battery drains that a reboot seems to fix.

I should add that when everything is working well I get a good 4-5 hours SOT with medium brightness and GPS use by waze.

I am still on Android 5.1.1.

I'll try the reboot part...but none of the apps consume a lot of battery according to the stats...so don't knw what's wrong with my battery.....lets see if dat works

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[IAmSixNine]

You're by no means alone. Battery life on my 6 is ATROCIOUS. This device easily burns 8-10% per hour with light use! On November 2nd my iPhone 6S Plus arrives, so the nightmare of Google and the Nexus 6 are nearly over. BTW, where is my effin Marshmallow OTA update Google? This IS a Nexus device!!!

What steps, If any, have you taken to try to fix your "atrocious" battery life?

 

[OMGLadyGaga]

This isn't normal at all. 3 hours is unacceptable. I get like 6 hours screen on time and a full 24 hours, still on 5.1.1

Monitor your usage for the next few days/weeks it might settle as my batter was pretty bad at first as well but now is a champ. I don't have Facebook installed tho and just use the browser for it

 

[Bront]

I get 2 to 3 days on my Nexus 6. Sounds like a runaway app or maybe turn off things like NFC or BT.

 

[Sidj93]

Yeah..everything is off...bt, NFC, ambient display, daydream.....gonna monitor it again for a day...

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[Kungfubhuda]

Is the phone new, or did you buy it used? If it's new, it might be a warranty issue. I just bought a Nexus 6, and my battery life is been pretty good so far. Even with extremely heavy use I get more than a few hours. And well over a day on light use.

 

[c1971ace]

I just bought a used N6 with M and I must say after a few days my battery life has greatly improved. Between Sunday and yesterday I got 36 hours with about 6 hours screen time with light to moderate usage. I'm happy with that.

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[Sidj93]

It's a new one...its the second device since I had to get the one first one replaced because of another issue....I don't knw...it definitely doesn't last me an entire day even on standby...

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[Irish1842]

I've been having a lot of battery issues lately. I'm on 5.1.1. I've started following a Google thread about a possible "Mobile Radio Active" bug that keeps apps running in the background when not being used, which I think may be happening on my phone. For example I may only use Facebook or Chrome for a few minutes, but they'll at the top of the battery stats list with a long mobile radio active time. People have said the issue is still in Android 6.0.

 

[Michigan66]

I've been having a lot of battery issues lately. I'm on 5.1.1. I've started following a Google thread about a possible "Mobile Radio Active" bug that keeps apps running in the background when not being used, which I think may be happening on my phone. For example I may only use Facebook or Chrome for a few minutes, but they'll at the top of the battery stats list with a long mobile radio active time. People have said the issue is still in Android 6.0.

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Facebook is one of the worst battery apps ever made. Uninstalling that will have a huge impact.