Nexus 6p battery life question
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Down to the serial number? If it varies that much by individual unit, Huawei has pretty bad QC.
Or were you just making that up?
Why would the notifications matter? If you disable notifications, the apps are still doing their thing behind the scenes.
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As lots of posters have said already, battery life really depends on individual usage, strength of signal, and the apps installed. But that doesn't mean it's subjective, just really hard to separate out the confounding variables. One thing that can be more useful is to compare it to past phones - is it doing better or worse than devices with a similar battery and screen size? I know my 6P (which is only about 7 weeks old) gets better battery life than any of my previous phones, and it has exactly the same apps on it that my Nexus 6 did not even 6 months ago.
So in that sense I'd say it has excellent battery life. For me that's usually somewhere between 2-4.5 hours of SoT (depending on my free time!) and 20-45% battery left at the end of the day. But my Project Fi coverage is excellent, and I'm on WiFi much of the day. I have Bluetooth turned off since I don't use it, but I don't manage any other settings.
So to troubleshoot - first is your phone behaving appropriately relative to the phone you owned most recently (not a perfect match, but presumably your apps and usage patterns between the two are more similar than they are to any of ours'). If not there might be an issue. Next, you say you are losing a lot of battery overnight - if you are losing more than 4-5% battery life overnight there is definitely something amiss. Check to see what apps are creeping up in usage overnight, or what features are waking the device. That will be your best place to start to see if there's a misbehaving app, or a simple setting that is conflicting with Doze.
Good luck!
So in that sense I'd say it has excellent battery life. For me that's usually somewhere between 2-4.5 hours of SoT (depending on my free time!) and 20-45% battery left at the end of the day. But my Project Fi coverage is excellent, and I'm on WiFi much of the day. I have Bluetooth turned off since I don't use it, but I don't manage any other settings.
So to troubleshoot - first is your phone behaving appropriately relative to the phone you owned most recently (not a perfect match, but presumably your apps and usage patterns between the two are more similar than they are to any of ours'). If not there might be an issue. Next, you say you are losing a lot of battery overnight - if you are losing more than 4-5% battery life overnight there is definitely something amiss. Check to see what apps are creeping up in usage overnight, or what features are waking the device. That will be your best place to start to see if there's a misbehaving app, or a simple setting that is conflicting with Doze.
Good luck!
Even i have same issue. Nexus 6P battery life is not as great as people say it is. initially i was thinking my piece was the only one with issue, so return and got a new one from google store. Even this one has the same issue.
I am not fan boy of apple. after using Iphone 6 plus for a 1 year and half ..i switched to android..everything about this phone is good except the battery life. 30 min of skype call or 45 min google maps is enough to destroy the battery percentage to below 50% from full charge. but i like the way it charge quickly, its no match to long standing battery life.
People saying that Nexus 6P has great battery life are just android fan boys. its not true. I have checked multiple units.
I am not fan boy of apple. after using Iphone 6 plus for a 1 year and half ..i switched to android..everything about this phone is good except the battery life. 30 min of skype call or 45 min google maps is enough to destroy the battery percentage to below 50% from full charge. but i like the way it charge quickly, its no match to long standing battery life.
People saying that Nexus 6P has great battery life are just android fan boys. its not true. I have checked multiple units.
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Don't make the mistake and assume everyone else's experiences match your own.
I have a 6P and I get great performance out of the battery (without disabling services or any battery life tricks).... 5 to 6 hours of active use over 36+ hours between charges if I waited that long between stints on the charger. I can get well over 7 hours out of a charge if I needed to. But just as I get excellent battery usage, I don't assume everyone else will too. I use GPS nav apps (Maps or Waze, for RT traffic alerts) on my commute, also 45 minutes, to and from work and it never gets anywhere close to 50% ... its usually in the low teens or around 10%, each way.
Battery usage is volatile... everyone uses theirs differently, with different apps, different services, in different network conditions. Just because you have a hard go at it doesn't mean every one does. I know people who get horrible life out of Note 5s, iPhone 6S Plus, you name it, there will be someone here that has really good battery life and someone with really bad.
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In fairness, I captured the usage in my ride home today. So no made up numbers or crazy boasts.
Waze was running in the foreground (so GPS active the entire time), screen on, with PocketCast streaming to my car's Bluetooth the entire time.
40 minutes, 14% drain, 20.8%/h total drain.
Some things to note, since T-Mobile rolled out band 12, I have a good, clean signal the whole way home... I had dead spots prior to the rollout. And the 6P, out at least my 6P has great reception. Radio signal quality is a huge factor.
Waze was running in the foreground (so GPS active the entire time), screen on, with PocketCast streaming to my car's Bluetooth the entire time.
40 minutes, 14% drain, 20.8%/h total drain.
Some things to note, since T-Mobile rolled out band 12, I have a good, clean signal the whole way home... I had dead spots prior to the rollout. And the 6P, out at least my 6P has great reception. Radio signal quality is a huge factor.
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Just to chime in these stats below are pretty good. This is a day of heavy use at work using LTE.
I'll respond back this weekend with a normal days usage (not media watching) to post my stats. The phone can get very good battery but as stated there are a ton of factors from cell signal, apps, and background processes. When troubleshooting ensure to take a look at everything -- even using WakeLock Detector may be a good idea to ensure one process isn't causing your phone to stay awake the whole time.
I'll respond back this weekend with a normal days usage (not media watching) to post my stats. The phone can get very good battery but as stated there are a ton of factors from cell signal, apps, and background processes. When troubleshooting ensure to take a look at everything -- even using WakeLock Detector may be a good idea to ensure one process isn't causing your phone to stay awake the whole time.
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Thank you for the details.. i am on T Moblie network and live in Boston area. Signals are good most of the time. I will install Battery doctor and check what exactly is causing me this issue.
Just got my 6p 3 days ago. Sold my S6 while it's resale was at a high and had a G4 for a day which immediately had the boot loop freeze. so far, very unimpressed with the 6p battery life. averaging about 2.5 hours of SOT and 9 to 10 hours of life. No better than the S6 which I really liked other than battery. I really am not fond of the huge size of the 6p but I thought I would be trading great battery for size.
Not sure I'll keep it...
Not sure I'll keep it...
Not normal try a factory reset or get it replaced under warranty.
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mogelijk
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Another useful screen comes up if you press on the graph, it will give a screen that shows how much the phone is Awake. Taking a screen shot now:
Granted, it is a weekend and my phone hasn't been used a lot, though I did use Waze for a trip last night, but you'll notice it came off the charger Friday afternoon. WiFi has been on constantly, as well as Bluetooth, though, other than while using Waze, not a lot of screen on time. The big thing to look at, though, is the Awake bar -- it sounds like your phone is likely always Awake (a near solid bar), as opposed to mine which is rarely on.
The phone staying Awake is nearly always caused by a misbehaving app. For me it was GasBuddy; others have reported Facebook (which is an issue for Android and iOS) and WeatherBug. In the case of GasBuddy and WeatherBug, it seems to be that they were not properly updated for Marshmallow (meaning it was originally only the Nexus phones that were having issues). I know GasBuddy appears to now be fixed (since their Jan. 21 update), at least for me.
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Yes, that's not how it should be. Try factory resetting the unit, and then reevaluate.
Posted via my Nokia 8210 from the inside of a Kitten.
You not only have to reset the phone, you also need to not install any applications at first. then install your most vital apps one at a time and give it a break in period plus an evaluation period. if you have 20 apps, take the next 20 days to do this one app/day at a time. If you have a hundred apps, you already know why your battery drains this fast. I have two 6P. One has 3+ days of battery life, one lasts about a day. Guess which one lasts 3 days?
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Having lots of apps does not make the battery drain faster. I have 26 full rows of apps in my app drawer (104 apps) and I posted my battery life, from this past weekend, a few posts ago.
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