Nexus 6p battery

[dandan1129]

I noticed that with my T-Mobile Sim card I get around 4.5 hours of screen on time. When I use my project fi Sim card I get 2.5 to 3. Does anyone else have this issue ?

 

[Eclipse2K]

I noticed that with my T-Mobile Sim card I get around 4.5 hours of screen on time. When I use my project fi Sim card I get 2.5 to 3. Does anyone else have this issue ?

Is Project Fi connecting to Sprint? Just curious if maybe the network difference/signal strength is an issue.

 

[dandan1129]

My network usage is usually T-Mobile. Rarely doesn't is go to sprint

 

[nahaluk]

I just want to add that I am having the same issue. I am experiencing 5% battery drop per hour on standby, sometimes even more.

Same here, doze off isn't working at all.......

 

[Eclipse2K]

Same here, doze off isn't working at all.......

I feel like this is true in my case too.

 

[Soundtallica]

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I have been wanting a 6P since it came out. I went from a Nexus 4 to a Note 4 to an iPhone 6s Plus. I hated touch wiz and the fact that I had to wait for over a year to get Lollipop on my Note 4 when Google was just releasing Marshmallow. So due to a super discount from work I got a crazy deal on the 6s plus. The Battery is amazing!! And it's the only thing keeping me from switching. On my Note 4 I would get about 5 hours screen time on average. With the 6s Plus I'm getting between 8 and 10 hours of usage/ screen on time!!! It's sick!! The attached pic was taken just now. I disconnected from charge this morning at about 5:30am and it's almost 11:30pm and I have 9% remaining. And this isn't with the power saver feature turned on either. I really miss the android OS and feature set and really like the 6P but don't want to sacrifice great battery time. Thoughts??

For the last time, usage time on iOS is not the same as screen on time! Usage time also takes into account any time your phone is active but the screen is off, such as when you're playing music. You are absolutely not getting 8 hours of SOT on you 6s plus.

Posted via my Nexus 6P on VerLIEzon Wireless but without their shackles.

 

[justmikey]

For the last time, usage time on iOS is not the same as screen on time! Usage time also takes into account any time your phone is active but the screen is off, such as when you're playing music. You are absolutely not getting 8 hours of SOT on you 6s plus.

Posted via my Nexus 6P on VerLIEzon Wireless but without their shackles.

Thank you. I just find it strange that I can sit with the 6s+ for 2 hours with the screen on, wifi on, location services on, and Bluetooth while streaming a show on Hulu and the battery will hardly show a hit and when I check battery info it shows exactly 2 hours. And when my phone is sitting in my pocket unused with all those services on for 2-3 hours I don't lose any battery life but the standby time does show those 2-3 hours.

Just amazed at how I never had to worry about charging my phone while I had the 6s+ it just ran and ran and ran.

I did sell it and now have the Nexus 5x as I wanted a smaller phone. It's a great phone so far. I'm still adjusting to the battery life and I'm OK with charging the phone at least once a day. So far even with my heavy usage I've been able to at least make it home from work before needing to plug it in so not to bad.

Thanks again for the input.

 

[Soundtallica]

Thank you. I just find it strange that I can sit with the 6s+ for 2 hours with the screen on, wifi on, location services on, and Bluetooth while streaming a show on Hulu and the battery will hardly show a hit and when I check battery info it shows exactly 2 hours. And when my phone is sitting in my pocket unused with all those services on for 2-3 hours I don't lose any battery life but the standby time does show those 2-3 hours.

Just amazed at how I never had to worry about charging my phone while I had the 6s+ it just ran and ran and ran.

I did sell it and now have the Nexus 5x as I wanted a smaller phone. It's a great phone so far. I'm still adjusting to the battery life and I'm OK with charging the phone at least once a day. So far even with my heavy usage I've been able to at least make it home from work before needing to plug it in so not to bad.

Thanks again for the input.

You're welcome. Apologies if my tone seemed harsh, but I was getting sick of iPhone users bragging about getting astronomical SOT figures when they really aren't. I will give you that iPhones, especially the plus models, get good battery life. iOS is truly amazing at drawing the best power efficiency out of the smaller batteries the iPhones come with.

GSam shows active time like the iPhone (I assume they measure the same thing), and my active figures for my 6P are similar to your former iPhone figures.

 

[justmikey]

You're welcome. Apologies if my tone seemed harsh, but I was getting sick of iPhone users bragging about getting astronomical SOT figures when they really aren't. I will give you that iPhones, especially the plus models, get good battery life. iOS is truly amazing at drawing the best power efficiency out of the smaller batteries the iPhones come with.

GSam shows active time like the iPhone (I assume they measure the same thing), and my active figures for my 6P are similar to your former iPhone figures.

Thanks again. I really wanted the 6P but after using the 6s+ for 3 months I was ready for a smaller phone and the Nexus 5x is great so far.

 

[GuitarG20]

I've found battery life has improved leaps and bounds over my n5. I can get through a full day (6a-10p) without having to charge, including about 3-4 hours of listening to podcasts, probably 30min to an hour of casual gaming (think madden mobile), constant texting and hangouts, and checking rss feeds fairly often. With my N5, I would be pulling out my charger around 2 or 3, and now I usually have 20-30% battery left at the end of the day.

 

[dandan1129]

So no one else gets much less battery life with project fi vs T-Mobile only Sim? It's very significant of a difference between the two but I can't figure out why

 

[Yatezy]

For the last time, usage time on iOS is not the same as screen on time! Usage time also takes into account any time your phone is active but the screen is off, such as when you're playing music. You are absolutely not getting 8 hours of SOT on you 6s plus.

Posted via my Nexus 6P on VerLIEzon Wireless but without their shackles.

I was going to mention this. If you add up the screen time of each app in that screen shot it only adds up to 2.5 hours SOT, which is pretty standard. Not bad, not spectacular.

 

[RitchieJoe]

I swear since the March security update my battery life has lessened noticeably...

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what I have found is the majority of my battery drain is attributed to "Media Server" wakelock since the march update. Since march my device just hemorrhages battery drain.

 

[terellw]

I see....whatever it is it's hard to accept

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[soma4society]

what I have found is the majority of my battery drain is attributed to "Media Server" wakelock since the march update. Since march my device just hemorrhages battery drain.

It really seems like a mixed bag. Over at XDA there was a thread with many, many people singing the March update's praises...here at AC, not so much. I'm on the January patch and have decided not to budge til Android N drops. The phone works great and my battery gets me between 5 and 6 hours of SOT per charge. If it ain't broke don't fix it.....

Posted via my Nexus 6P on Verizon (or any d**n network I choose)

 

[neo905]

I had the same issue, what I did is I went to Google play services in the app settings and reset to factory app, then when it updated and I used it the next day, it was fine.also, I found rogue apps to be kik, Instagram, and facebook/, so greenify those apps if you have them

This guy is on to something. I did exactly this except I cleared the cache first and installed Google Play services 9.0.78 from APK and I just charged my battery this morning and it was at 6hrs 13 minutes SOT and at 88%. I could have gotten to 7 hours. I was getting ok battery life before at 5 hours SOT if I drained it to 98%.

The only other suggestion I would make is switching from LTE to 3G/4G if reception is an issue because a poor reception is a huge battery drainer.