Dissapointed by the battery life!

[Wen Shenk]

My work involves lots of running around andwaiting time, so I use my phone a lot. Mostly Ebook reading, Messaging, Hotspotting and Internet Surfing. Previously I had a 2 years old S4, its battery could only last until noon, sometimes I had to charge it twice a day to keep it up until evening. During my day to day work, occasionally I can find a place to charge my phone, mostly I can't. So battery life is very essential to me. I have had a very high expectation on my new Nexus 6, but I have to say I am very dissapointed.

I got my new phone about 1 week ago, and I've been very careful to keep my phone clean and the running tasks as few as possible and the screen as dark as possible. However, averagely, it can only last 6 hours, during which about 30 mins's messaging, 1 hour's hotspotting(I surf internet using my laptop), 1 hour's Ebook reading, and about 30 min's internet surfing on the phone, the other standby. I go out at 8:30 in the morning and the battery dies out at about 3pm. Now I couldn't remember how my S4 performed 2 years ago, but I don't think I had this kind of frustration towards the battery life. That is to say, if my memory serves, S4 bests Nexus 6 in this aspect. And, if it can only last 6 hours now, I can't imagine what it will become 2 years later...

I am probably biased because of my high expectation so I'd like to ask everyone's opinion about Nexus6's battery performance, and of course, tips of saving battery power.

 

[jdfry15]

I get 6 to 6.5 hours of on screen time. I'm on verizon 5.1. It's not near as good as the iPhone 6 plus but it's compatible to my note 4. It's about as good as it gets for Android minus a couple phones like the turbo so I'm happy with it.

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[Haalcyon]

You can get a Mophie battery pack to extend your battery life.


Welcome to the Dark. From the Note Edge.

 

[slave]

I get 6 to 6.5 hours of on screen time. I'm on verizon 5.1. It's not near as good as the iPhone 6 plus but it's compatible to my note 4. It's about as good as it gets for Android minus a couple phones like the turbo so I'm happy with it.

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WTF? How, I get 3-3.5 if I am LUCKY. I am on AT&T, strong signal.

 

[jdfry15]

WTF? How, I get 3-3.5 if I am LUCKY. I am on AT&T, strong signal.

Are you don't 5.1? I've only used 5.1 but have heard that it helped with battery. I use GPS and I don't turn anything off and have my screen set to auto brightness. I don't really have any tips since I'm not doing anything special but it's pretty consistent right at 6 hours for me.

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[slave]

I have 5.1, my battey is just as /meh as it was before 5.1.

 

[ysbg]

So battery life is very essential to me.

With my usage, the N6 battery life is enough to get me through the day. However if battery life was so essential, I probably wouldn't have chosen that phone, I would have most likely looked at a Z3 or Z3c.

 

[ray sital]

You're expecting to much, get a different phone. Buy an iPhone 6 plus.

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[doggy2965]

I have the n6 came from a G3 N6 battery is better but still not perfect. I love the quick charge feature which does make it easy to get this phone thru a full day my phone exchange gets heavy Internet use and at least an hour of phone time per day. I have brightness at auto set at 50 percent. Also I did turn off ambient display mostly because I'm either on phone or its in my pocket this did Increase battery life I would say 15 to 20 percent per day.

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[Gunny94]

Hmm.. First couple of people I see, talking their battery can't last thorough the entire day.

Can we have a look at Battery Stats guys? It just seems really weird, I work with a guy who is power user with his Nexus 6 and his battery lasts thorough the whole day without charging it.

Make sure you're not using some power hungry ROMS. (With background stuff going...)

 

[doggy2965]

Mine will get thru the work day no problem goes 8 hrs heavy use. But most of my days are 14-16 hours long and it just won't make it all the way thru with out a top off. Which only takes 15-30 with the quick charger

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[Optimus Nexus]

Bro, hot spotting is the issue. That is well known to slaughter a phones battery. Not just in a battery draining sense but actually physically messes up the battery. I highly recommend that you not hotspot on your phone - that should be the last resort.


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[mazr]

I am at 72% right now. That's with no streaming. I surf periodically throughout the day. I think battery life has been excellent.

 

[maxburn]

So if I typically go all day with my Z3 compact and have 40% or more left over would the N6 not get me through a day? I'm happy if I can go through a typical day and charge every night but don't make me find a charger in the afternoon.

 

[robert7107]

(Disclaimer).... Not trying to come across as a jerk!!!!

With that being said I am a little thrown here, what are you expecting in battery life from a smartphone of today??? Several days or over a day?
I have the Nexus 6 and have owned the note 3, lg g3 and galaxy s3 and at best I get a entire day (24hrs) on average it's more towards 18 hrs.... I unplug and 16 hrs or so I am under 25%.. I am running 5.1 I am stock and I leave Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi on 24/7 and set my brightness to 50% most of the time. My gmail account syncs daily as well as my other accounts... I surf web,read and send emails/texts a game here and there normal stuff.....

I believe the nexus 6 has excellent battery life.. Better than LG g3 but not quite as good as the note 3 but very close. I believe I got 20hrs on my note 3 an 15 hrs on my s3.......

I hope that someday they will catch up with technology regarding battery life but reality is the phones are getting more and more demanding of that poor little fellow and its just something we as phone users have to suck it up and deal ....

Peace....

 

[Spallboy]

These are my averages on stock 5.1
I'm not particularly careful with my battery, in fact most days I downright murder it with YouTube over WiFi and the such a lot of reading and so on.
All I've done is turn off ambient mode as it's got no use really and set auto brightness to around 30% which is bright enough for everyday use.

Squashed under a Nexus 6

 

[kolyan2k]

I want to get N6 but concerned about battery life, have OnePlus One now and ScreenOnTime is about 7-8 hours on this phone with heavy use and everything is ON (Wifi, Wifi scanning, GPS, Bluetooth, Google Now, auto brightness, etc). I had good results with Moto X (about 7 hours) and Nexus 5 too (about 6 hours)

 

[vicks88]

same here.. 3.5 hrs SOT

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[RobbyRob]

Well looks like every android device out right now is plagued by this battery issue. Guess I'll wait until I can get results similar to my 6+. I have been using the hell out of it all night and it's only at half.

 

[Morq]

I had acceptable yet medicore battery life on my nexus. Recently updated to android 5.1 LMY47E I believe (or was it LMY47I? not sure now..) and battery was more or less as bad but in addition WIFI stopped working on some networks, had exclamation mark over wifi more often than not. Anyway accidently downgraded to LMY47D (don't ask how someone does that by accident lol, just silly missread and one OK too much) and wifi started working out of the box, few minutes later 20+ app updates were downloaded and applies.
Now the point is, that either this android version (5.1, LMY47D) or something that got updated over wifi (think there were some google apps there included in the upgrades) fixed my battery life, because suddenly from 1, 1.5 day tops, I got this: