Nexus 6P's battery is draining TOO FAST

[dty06]

I always think ppl who report bad battery life leave on Bluetooth and GPS all day. Both will kill batteries fast but high accuracy GPS is a real killer

I leave Bluetooth and GPS on all day. My GPS is set for high accuracy. My battery life has been fine. I routinely use 3-4 hours of screen time a day (mostly on the train to/from work) and never have less than 50% left at the end of the day.

 

[The Captain 105]

I just recently started to experience this... no new apps, no new habbits... my battery easily made it through half the day without a recharge before... this last couple months it's been dying in after two/three hours off a full charge. It'll just die when the battery gets down to around a 15% - 30% charge...

 

[seventy4burban]

My battery was terrible as well. It would die when battery saver should be coming on. I just replaced the battery and right now its at 11% and says an hour and 38 minutes remaining. Never would have had that before. Haven't fully charged it up yet so tomorrow will be a interesting test.

 

[wwwjr]

Replacing the battery worked like new for me. heavy daily use I'm getting 10 hours a day. With light use, many more hours, but I'm always a heavy user.

 

[rld082982]

Replacing the battery worked like new for me. heavy daily use I'm getting 10 hours a day. With light use, many more hours, but I'm always a heavy user.

How the heck do you replace the battery in the 6p?

 

[rld082982]

Nevermind, just looked it up. No way I'm attempting that lol

 

[wwwjr]

I found a local guy that has a phone repair business. It took him just over half an hour and about $75. Quick, easy, and painless.

 

[Cane Prevost]

Used acubattery to determine that mine was at about 70% health. Ordered a replacement battery from ebay for 15 bucks and replaced it myself. Wasn't too hard. Battery life much better now. Was thinking about replacing the phone but the 15 dollar battery has me feeling much better about it.

 

[gquiring]

How the heck do you replace the battery in the 6p?

I had to replace mine last week, my battery puffed so bad in the 6P it dislodged the screen. You need to watch some videos online to take it apart, it's not easy but can be done. The only special thing you need is a hair dryer to heat it up to release the glue. I made a video to explain my experience with replacing the battery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh8l4Ct7KJo

 

[Timross1970]

Here's what worked for me. Totally run down the battery on the 6p until it powers down. Plug in the phone and let the battery fully charge. Unplug the phone and power it on. I tried this a few weeks ago and haven't had an issue since.

 

[Byrese]

I found a local guy that has a phone repair business. It took him just over half an hour and about $75. Quick, easy, and painless.

$75? I got mine done for $20.

 

[PeterNil]

Towards the end my battery was dying at around 39 % left. I had installed AccuBattery to improve the battery management.

I called Huawei Support. The warranty expired in April 2017. Main advise was to do a factory reset! Which I did not.

Considered DYI and ended up buying a replacement battery at $99. - cheapest I found in my area. It took close to one hour. The shopped have a one year warranty, which should be fine till I get the next gen phone. Now it works well.

 

[LeoRex]

FYI... The battery is toast. As awesome a phone as the 6P was, Huawei screwed us by setting the charging voltage too high to squeeze some more mAh out of it. It is, in all intents and purposes, being overcharged every time you charge it fully.

 

[LLLUKE]

I am searching for answers as well. Nexus 6P drains in a couple of hours these last few weeks. I already cleared the cache in Dev mode, and in the settings.
Such a problem and I need answers. Thanks for all of the input so far.

 

[oprzandek]

After looking thru multiple forums regarding Nexus 6P battery issues we found that almost all of them matched our issue. Quick battery drain, random shutdown, power up battery now at 20%. We did all the recommended things to alleviate battery drain and found nothing wrong. We contacted Google and they were accommodating but stated their directive was to have me call the manufacturer HUAWEI. The reason they asked us to call was GOOGLE supports inability to get in contact with HUAWEI. I was given the number and was immediately connected. I spoke to the representative and I went thru the same series of fixes same issue. He then stated he has only received 1 or 2 complaints and they would fix it for 167.00 and the reason the price was high as they would replace the screen as well as it was connected to the battery. I told him there are literally 100's of complaints online in various forums and he then agreed with me and said yes we have many complaints contradicting his previous statement of 1 or 2 complaints.

 

[oprzandek]

My problem with the responses I have gotten so far from 2 extremely large companies shows only one thing no one wants to take ownership of an issue that everyone is aware of. Google should be more selective in the companies they do business with and attach their name too. So after spending several hours on the phone with both companies, I called a phone repair chain in Cleveland which has 400 locations in the US. I explained the issue and was told they WILL NOT WORK ON NEXUS PHONES WITH BATTERY ISSUES BECAUSE THE REPLACEMENT BATTERIES ARE DEFECTIVE AS WELL.....

 

[ncapp11]

Replaced my wife's in Columbus for under $50 if you have plans to be in the area . No issues so far.