How many have returned/are thinking of returning?

[planoman]

I've been a gambler most of my life so I'll just keep gambling... For what I've saved over all these years not paying $5, 6, 10 per month in "Insurance" I've probably more than made up the $750 to shell out for a new device and still be ahead.....

Not that any of that would make it sting any less... but if I keep telling myself maybe I'll at least sleep semi better at night...

You are probably right. I have never purchased the carrier stuff but usually get square trade if over 700. I am the guy that my insurance guy told, "you are the first person I have seen that may be actually overinsured". Lol! My wife likes that lol!

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[Robbie317]

You are probably right. I have never purchased the carrier stuff but usually get square trade if over 700. I am the guy that my insurance guy told, "you are the first person I have seen that may be actually overinsured". Lol! My wife likes that lol!

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lol... Insurance is such an amazing thing.... The only thing we pay for and hope to never have to need or use...........

 

[dmlv]

I will say I'm thinking about it because of the battery. Only disappointment.
I don't think software updates really make much of an impact on battery life. Could be wrong...

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[QWIKSTRIKE]

I've been a gambler most of my life so I'll just keep gambling... For what I've saved over all these years not paying $5, 6, 10 per month in "Insurance" I've probably more than made up the $750 to shell out for a new device and still be ahead.....

Not that any of that would make it sting any less... but if I keep telling myself maybe I'll at least sleep semi better at night...

Once I got a good case I dropped insurance and could not be happier, a good case that is not bulky will protect, and survive drops that I have had with a case wrapped around the phone. I have a MOKO case which is sleek and not bulky with a belt clip, that is a copy or the same as the iBlason case. I ordered that since my iBlason was on back order, and it looked the same as the iBlason case. It seems to be the same case and my Nexus 5 iBlason case lets me drop it worry free. I also have a Supcase belt clip that looks like an Otter box knock off. It's fine it that appeals to you and will protect, but it is more bulier than the iBlason ,or MOKO case with belt clip!

Amazon.com: Google Nexus 6 Case - MoKo Holster Cover with Kickstand and Belt Clip Swivel [Heavy Duty] Rugged Protective Case for Nexus 6 by Motorola Lollipop Smart Phone 2014 release, BLACK: Cell Phones & Accessories
Google Nexus 6 Prime 2 Layer Holster Case by i-Blason
Google Nexus 6 Unicorn Beetle Pro Holster by SUPCASE

 

[QWIKSTRIKE]

I will say I'm thinking about it because of the battery. Only disappointment.
I don't think software updates really make much of an impact on battery life. Could be wrong...

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There is somethign that you all are doing to get poor battery life. This phone got better battery life than iPhone 6 and only 53 minutes less than the Note 4. Yet this has a bigger screen, and When I turned off automatic wifi search, cloud print, NFC, settings to 3g only since LTE burns data, and left my screen on full brightness I get 18hours a day, and I leave at 5:30 am for work get home at 7-7:30pm, and always have 40-50% battery life. By 11pm I still have 35-40% battery life. It really depends on how it is used, and you must be realistic. Don't think that you will surf the net, and play Netflix and go all day while talking and texting.

However I have used Google Maps 10-15 minutes, played music for over an hour on the device, talked for more than an hour straight, text pictures, and talked some more sporadicly, tested Netflix for 5 minutes before work in my office, and still get 14 hours a day easily, and by 11:00pm it still has 35-30% battery life left. Today I barely used it and got 14 hours, and I have 80% bvattery life left and it says I have a day and a half of batery life left......what more do you want.

I call BS to anyone that will set the phone to 3g, unless you ar surfing the web. Also if you set it to global or LTE and LTE signal is weak it searches for signal wasting battery life. Wifi automatic search waste battery life sine it will pick up signal and disconnect all day...this waste battery strength. Turn NFC off if it is on it drins battery signal. I leave my screen to full brightness all day, and I have no issues.


If you don't like the D@#N phone just say it rather than make foolish unrealsitic claims about poor battery life. Be realistic Wifi search, NFC, LTE constant search for signal will kill battery life period....now what!

 

[klau25]

There is somethign that you all are doing to get poor battery life. This phone got better battery life than iPhone 6 and only 53 minutes less than the Note 4. Yet this has a bigger screen, and When I turned off automatic wifi search, cloud print, NFC, settings to 3g only since LTE burns data, and left my screen on full brightness I get 18hours a day, and I leave at 5:30 am for work get home at 7-7:30pm, and always have 40-50% battery life. By 11pm I still have 35-40% battery life. It really depends on how it is used, and you must be realistic. Don't think that you will surf the net, and play Netflix and go all day while talking and texting.

However I have used Google Maps 10-15 minutes, played music for over an hour on the device, talked for more than an hour straight, text pictures, and talked some more sporadicly, tested Netflix for 5 minutes before work in my office, and still get 14 hours a day easily, and by 11:00pm it still has 35-30% battery life left. Today I barely used it and got 14 hours, and I have 80% bvattery life left and it says I have a day and a half of batery life left......what more do you want.

I call BS to anyone that will set the phone to 3g, unless you ar surfing the web. Also if you set it to global or LTE and LTE signal is weak it searches for signal wasting battery life. Wifi automatic search waste battery life sine it will pick up signal and disconnect all day...this waste battery strength. Turn NFC off if it is on it drins battery signal. I leave my screen to full brightness all day, and I have no issues.


If you don't like the D@#N phone just say it rather than make foolish unrealsitic claims about poor battery life. Be realistic Wifi search, NFC, LTE constant search for signal will kill battery life period....now what!

well. all those function are for you to use if you turn them off, of course it has great battery. if I leave my phone on airplane mode it can probably last 2 days. you have to compare apple to Apple. under the same circumstances, the nexus 6 has less battery. my oneplus one right now has all the function on and still last all day battery with over 6 hours screen on time. you keep saying you get great battery, I'm curious to see what your screen on time is. you never mentioned that. like it or not, the biggest battery drain on the nexus 6 is that qhd screen.

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[QWIKSTRIKE]

well. all those function are for you to use if you turn them off, of course it has great battery. if I leave my phone on airplane mode it can probably last 2 days. you have to compare apple to Apple. under the same circumstances, the nexus 6 has less battery. my oneplus one right now has all the function on and still last all day battery with over 6 hours screen on time. you keep saying you get great battery, I'm curious to see what your screen on time is. you never mentioned that. like it or not, the biggest battery drain on the nexus 6 is that qhd screen.

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You just said what I mentioned earlier...realisticly the Nexus 6 has a bigger screen than any device minus the Mega...your one plus has half the real estate and you then say compare apples to aples in the same sentence. You must not have been good in science....to compare dissimilar objects, and then say lets compare apples to apples when you have apples, and oranges and expect the same results is absurd. With a screen this big, and so many pixels the Phone arena test is a realistic reliable basis for a battery test that you can't take lightly! It best he iPhone 6, and was 53 minutes lesss than the Note 4 in a REALISTIC test hat is pretty credible in every way. Having features turned on that keeps searching ofr other features will burn battery life in a phone with a screen this large....simple logic!

Aslo saying turn your phone to air plane mode to get 2 of battery life days is foolish when I would get 2 days today by barely using the phone for calls, and occasional web search is quite foolsih....LTE kills battery life when you have poor signal on any phone, and when your phone searches autoamtically for wifi the same is happening. Let's try to keep things realistic and not make foolish comparisons like turning a phone to airplane mode.

 

[klau25]

You just said what I mentioned earlier...realisticly the Nexus 6 has a bigger screen than any device minus the Mega...your one plus has half the real estate and you then say compare apples to aples in the same sentence. You must not have been good in science....to compare dissimilar objects, and then say lets compare appls to apples when you have apples, and oranges is absurd. With a screen this big, and so many pixels the Phone arena test is a realistic reliable basis for a battery test that you can't take lightly! It best he iPhone 6, and was 53 minutes lesss than the Note 4 in a REALISTIC test hat is pretty credible in every way.

Aslo saying turn your phone to air plane mode is quite foolsih....LTE kills battery life when you have poor signal on any phone, and when your phone searches autoamtically for wifi the same is happening. Let's try to keep things realistic and not make foolish comparisons like turning a phone to airplane mode.

I'm not here to argue, so this is all I'm going to say. realistically from my own experience I used a Nexus 6 and a oneplus one. having the same functions that I care about turned on with both phones. oneplus one lasted all day, Nexus 6 didn't. hence the thread title, I did return the nexus 6 cause I did not want to carry a phone that big that didn't have good battery life for my use. it's realistic to keep all those functions you turned off on and still have all day battery, just not with a Nexus 6. ok. that's all I'm going to say. again I'm not here to argue, just pointing out my own experience and why I returned the nexus 6 and using a oneplus one now.

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[QWIKSTRIKE]

I'm not here to argue, so this is all I'm going to say. realistically from my own experience I used a Nexus 6 and a oneplus one. having the same functions that I care about turned on with both phones. oneplus one lasted all day, Nexus 6 didn't. hence the thread title, I did return the nexus 6 cause I did not want to carry a phone that big that didn't have good battery life for my use. it's realistic to keep all those functions you turned off on and still have all day battery, just not with a Nexus 6. ok. that's all I'm going to say. again I'm not here to argue, just pointing out my own experience and why I returned the nexus 6 and using a oneplus one now.

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More than a fair point, and is totally understandable, but agian they are dissimilar objects thats it in a nutshell, and it won't be an argument when things are put into proper perspective. Any rate good luck with your next purchase because I feel thaht this is more a software issue thana hard ware issue out side of the screen size in retrospec to the features being turned off. I was by no means trying to minimize your experience, but I feel that many people including yourself give the phone a bum wrap when comparing it to other phones with subjective test of battery life are missed, and Phone Arena puts a phone through stress test that gives a more realsitic scientific basis of battery life. Yes usage and other things come into play when indiviuals use a device but, but many fail to make scientific realistic test to compare two similar, or dissimilar devices and yet say that two dissimilar device are similar. Again, turning those features off may indicate that there is proabaly software management differences in both devices that outside of screen size may be affecting battery performance.

 

[Robbie317]

Once I got a good case I dropped insurance and could not be happier

I've never been a big fan of cases to start with.... These companies go above and beyond to design these phones to look and feel great in the hand but as they get bigger and more expensive I've had to at least put something on it to just avoid the little bumps and rubs... I really want to minimize the amount of bulk I add to the phone.. Specially as big as this sucker is.... I can say the Nexus 6 is the most solid feeling device I've ever owned or used...

There are a lot of nice looking cases out there.... I think I've already spent $100+ on the 5 different cases I bought to test and swap out.... I've mostly gone with very minimal bulk TPU like cases... two have a hard outer ring "Shell" that I don't think will do much of anything on a good solid direct hit drop....

These all look like solid heavy duty "Can take an impact" cases..... I work in an office at a desk so minimal is usually okay for me... If I was back traveling like I use to I'd probably at least consider one of these... I like the Unicorn Beetle the most...

 

[xenomorph]

FYI....anyone who got their preorders in on 11/5, if you want the extended holiday return window (ie...1/9/2015), call google and inquire. I did, they had my return window ending on the 9th of December. They granted me the extended window since my order was so close to the 11/10.

I can confirm this. I ordered on 11/05 so when I called they didn't want to budge at first but after some back and forth conversation they agreed to extend the return period, and send a confirmation email. I got my phone on 11/20 so instead of 14 days I have 50 days to return, not that I plan to do it at all since the device is amazing in every way after rooting and disabling encryption

 

[LeoRex]

What do you suggest? I would love a suggestion. As I'd love nothing more than to keep my N6.

Well... What kind of stuff have you looked at? The stock battery stats are OK, but they rarely tell the whole story. I started obsessing with battery life the first week I owned my first smartphone and got annoyed that the amazing smartphone technology would struggle to get through a day where my old 'dumb' phone would go a good week. I typically use the trio of Better Battery Stats, GSAM Battery Monitor and Wakelock Detector. Now, all three give better stats if you are rooted, but if not, they still give a bit more detail.

First thing you need to figure out is how what is draining your battery at such a high rate. 15 minutes or so of looking at news and browsing shouldn't kill 10% of your battery. Get some of those battery tools, load them up and go through a full cycle. Before you pop it back on the charger, go check them out and look at what consumed the most power. Typically, that will be your screen, but your numbers point to a drain of like 40% an hour. That's insanely high and leads me to believe that either you have some really nasty bug that's slamming your CPU or your battery is completely messed up and can't hold a decent charge.

 

[nickacs]

Had mine for 1 day and that was all I needed to post that sucker on Fleabay and make a nice $150 profit. Win win baby!
Camera, poor battery life and just no real reason to have it since I already had Moto X 2014. Same exact phone, just bigger. Have fun everyone

 

[lildj0809]

I've had mine for 4 days now. Definitely not returning. Camera is slow with flash and HDR, but I'm hopeful that can be resolved. The battery is more than sufficient for my personal usage. And everything else is just incredibly impressive.

 

[SteveISU]

Is that two week window from when they shipped the device? Mine was shipped on the 26th and won't come in till Wednesday (Dec 3) due to Thanksgiving weekend. Wouldn't be fair to count that first week as part of my window since I still don't have it.

Pretty sure it's from when the device was delivered.

 

[bgapfire]

Well... What kind of stuff have you looked at? The stock battery stats are OK, but they rarely tell the whole story. I started obsessing with battery life the first week I owned my first smartphone and got annoyed that the amazing smartphone technology would struggle to get through a day where my old 'dumb' phone would go a good week. I typically use the trio of Better Battery Stats, GSAM Battery Monitor and Wakelock Detector. Now, all three give better stats if you are rooted, but if not, they still give a bit more detail.

First thing you need to figure out is how what is draining your battery at such a high rate. 15 minutes or so of looking at news and browsing shouldn't kill 10% of your battery. Get some of those battery tools, load them up and go through a full cycle. Before you pop it back on the charger, go check them out and look at what consumed the most power. Typically, that will be your screen, but your numbers point to a drain of like 40% an hour. That's insanely high and leads me to believe that either you have some really nasty bug that's slamming your CPU or your battery is completely messed up and can't hold a decent charge.

Are you really comparing your 'dumb' phone to a smart phone? I hate to see the battery comparisons of devices that function in completely different manners. Your dumb phone does not have the capabilities of a smartphone.

Other than that, solid advice. I haven't had any battery issues with the 6.

 

[qnet]

This is a tough one for me. I'm not going to return mine but I've been thinking about selling it. I get a lot of phones and they all have issues. The thing I love about the Nexus 6 is the software (Android 5.0). it just runs so smooth. I also really like the look and feel of the phone.

I just got a Note 4 and they have really improved a few things, but it still has some things I don't like. The advantage with the Note 4 is the battery life, screen, S-pen, and some of the software features. The fingerprint scanner works much better also.

Having said all that, the Note 4 still has it's lags and jitters. The At&t software is really annoying, it has a locked bootloader, and you cannot root it. You have to buy a extra back cover to get wireless charging, making the phone thicker and only a few cases will fit after that.

I went off on a tangent again and I will get back on the subject.

I may sell the Nexus 6, only to get it later (preferably the white one). It just the timing of the situation and honestly as I'm typing this I still haven't made up my mind. If I sell it now, who knows when the white model will be available.

If the Nexus 9 LTE model was available the decision would be much easier. I actually use my tablet more than my phones for internet stuff, so having a Nexus 9 with LTE would satisfy my need for a Nexus device. I returned my Nexus 9 WiFi.

 

[LeoRex]

Are you really comparing your 'dumb' phone to a smart phone? I hate to see the battery comparisons of devices that function in completely different manners. Your dumb phone does not have the capabilities of a smartphone.

'Course not... I mentioned that only in the sense that transitioning from a phone that could hum along for over a week on a charge to one that stuggled to get through a day... regardless of the capabilities... took a bit of adjusting. But It was when I had my first run-away drain... where something on the bloody phone went on some power-hungry rampage and killed my battery in what seemed like a matter of minutes that I began to obsess with such things. I never did determine what caused it on my first phone and it actually bugs the crap out of me, even today, that I never figured it out. I'm like 90% certain it was that useless Verizon Backup Assistant though.

 

[jairusz]

This is my favorite phone I bought this year besting my OnePlus One and Note 4.

 

[QWIKSTRIKE]

I've never been a big fan of cases to start with.... These companies go above and beyond to design these phones to look and feel great in the hand but as they get bigger and more expensive I've had to at least put something on it to just avoid the little bumps and rubs... I really want to minimize the amount of bulk I add to the phone.. Specially as big as this sucker is.... I can say the Nexus 6 is the most solid feeling device I've ever owned or used...

There are a lot of nice looking cases out there.... I think I've already spent $100+ on the 5 different cases I bought to test and swap out.... I've mostly gone with very minimal bulk TPU like cases... two have a hard outer ring "Shell" that I don't think will do much of anything on a good solid direct hit drop....

These all look like solid heavy duty "Can take an impact" cases..... I work in an office at a desk so minimal is usually okay for me... If I was back traveling like I use to I'd probably at least consider one of these... I like the Unicorn Beetle the most...

I have the unicorn Bettle, and I can tell you that it is bulky. The iBlason Prime Dual layer, and The Moko case are minimalist case's and come with a belt clip for extra added protection. This is definitely a well beuilt case nonetheless.