Sudden drop in battery performance

[cheesemachine]

Same thing is happening to me. It's definitely not screen use. I'm running 5.1.1 build LYZ28K

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[roboroz]

The same here,but i never use bluetooth

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[iPhoneTHS]

I had a similar issue coupled with excessive heat. After doing quite a bit of research and delving into forum postings. I uncovered a possible issue. Most, forum posters, contend that you shouldn't close or keep your open apps to a minimum. However, THIS was the underlying issue to my overheating, thus killing my battery. I keep them closed and my battery life rebounded. Maybe it's just me. But, it has worked so far.

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[geebee1932]

I had this issue as well with Google services running very high. I disabled Fit and it fixed the issue.

 

[tonyr6]

Fit is a useless app that is only good for battery drain even if you never use it. Since you can't uninstall it you can only disable this useless app.

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[SlvrTrd]

I have been seeing the same battery loss since the update to build# LMY48M and between my wife's nexus 6 and mine we have been able to try a few fixes. The best solution we have come up unfortunately is to turn off google now cards as soon as we did that battery life returned to normal. All location settings were left on high accuracy with location reporting and history still on. Google Now is constantly updating the info for the cards instead of its normal time interval or as needed. I noticed on the weather card that no matter how often you opened google now it always said weather was updated 1 minute ago. Normally the weather card will have some random update time of up to an hour ago.

 

[ljfong]

Same thing here. The last OTA security update certainly affected battery life. I am not inclined yet to do factory reset at this point.

 

[regression]

Same thing here. The last OTA security update certainly affected battery life. I am not inclined yet to do factory reset at this point.

Yeah, I am not going to do a factory reset just yet. I will just utilize the fast charging more than I used to ;-)

 

[almarsh78]

I have been seeing the same battery loss since the update to build# LMY48M and between my wife's nexus 6 and mine we have been able to try a few fixes. The best solution we have come up unfortunately is to turn off google now cards as soon as we did that battery life returned to normal. All location settings were left on high accuracy with location reporting and history still on. Google Now is constantly updating the info for the cards instead of its normal time interval or as needed. I noticed on the weather card that no matter how often you opened google now it always said weather was updated 1 minute ago. Normally the weather card will have some random update time of up to an hour ago.

This...

The same thing happened to me... Received latest update and right after the battery life became terrible. It would drain 10% in an hour being in my pocket with zero on screen time. I disabled Google now and it is back to normal. Hope they get a fix for this... I like Google now.

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[ljfong]

For what it's worth, the battery life of my N6 has now stabilized and seems to be good again. Apparently, the OS has finished doing whatever it was aggressively doing for the last few days after the last security update. My wild guess is that Google pushed out some kind of security sweep and clean in the last security update for any potential malware that might be lurking that could possibly come through injection via Stagefright exploit. This is good stuff IMO if that were the case, just really sucks in terms of battery. So if your N6 has tons and tons of apps, and other stuffs on it, the security scan will simply take much longer for you. It makes sense too if you do a factory reset, you'll be good again because you restart out on clean slate. Microsoft had done similar things in the past pushing antimalware scanning through regular Windows update.

 

[anon(9072051)]

My wild guess is that Google pushed out some kind of security sweep and clean in the last security update for any potential malware that might be lurking

My wild guess is that the battery weirdness is tied to that recent rollout of a Google Play Services update. Play Services has been a major player in several complaints about battery life in the past, and I can imagine that messin' with it in any way could send shockwaves through a phone's app community.

 

[deltasig]

A major drop in battery performance, on stand by for 4 hours and lost 45%battery without turning phone on, so not cool, fix asap Google!

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[anon(9072051)]

on stand by for 4 hours and lost 45%battery without turning phone on

I had a similar experience this morning. Phone was at 69% charge at midnight and fell to 27% charge by 8 AM just sitting on my desk doing nothing. Google Services and Android OS were the chief culprits according to the Battery stats. No notifications about app updates or anything.

Stranger still, the phone is currently at 87% charge, and it's telling me there are approximately 7 hours left on the battery!! One helluva change from a few days ago when it was claiming to have approx. 7 days left at 98% charge.

I sure do hope this is Google tinkering around prepping stuff for Marshmellow.

 

[jdsbmw]

As a 4 week owner of a Nexus 6 coming from an iPhone 6, I can say this. The battery life on the Nexus 6 is ATROCIOUS. With light use, my N6 eats up 8-12% per hour! Come up with all the excuses you want for such poor battery performance. One glaring fact remains. The battery life of the N6 is truly pathetic, especially compared to the iPhone 6. Is this the best that Google has to offer? I certainly hope not.

 

[regression]

As a 4 week owner of a Nexus 6 coming from an iPhone 6, I can say this. The battery life on the Nexus 6 is ATROCIOUS. With light use, my N6 eats up 8-12% per hour! Come up with all the excuses you want for such poor battery performance. One glaring fact remains. The battery life of the N6 is truly pathetic, especially compared to the iPhone 6. Is this the best that Google has to offer? I certainly hope not.

Since you are a new Nexus 6 owner, battery life wasn't always bad. Mine was really good since I bought it a few months ago. It was just in the last couple of weeks it has been really bad. I am assuming it is Google Play Services, since I didn't put any new apps on it or make any changes.

It is very disappointing and frustrating that battery life dropped so much. It seems like wakelocks and battery life are always an issues with most Android phones. You had an iPhone 6 or 6+? Were you able to get through one day of heavy usage on one charge?

 

[Mike-Mike]

I just disabled Google Fit, I never use it anyhow

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[anon(9072051)]

battery life wasn't always bad. Mine was really good since I bought it a few months ago. It was just in the last couple of weeks it has been really bad. I am assuming it is Google Play Services, since I didn't put any new apps on it or make any changes.

These weird battery drains may be short-lived phenomena. Battery life on my N6 seems to have stabilized over the last 48 hours. I started off this morning with approx 7 days left at 98% charge, and now, 16 hours later, I'm currently at 73% charge with approx 2 days left. [Yes, I rarely use more than an hour of screen on time on any given day.]

 

[regression]

These weird battery drains may be short-lived phenomena. Battery life on my N6 seems to have stabilized over the last 48 hours. I started off this morning with approx 7 days left at 98% charge, and now, 16 hours later, I'm currently at 73% charge with approx 2 days left. [Yes, I rarely use more than an hour of screen on time on any given day.]

I wish it were short lived for me, but it has been almost 2 weeks. At first it was Bluetooth keeping the phone awake, now it is Gmail or Chrome keeping the mobile radio active.

 

[anon(9072051)]

Gmail or Chrome keeping the mobile radio active.

I don't know about Chrome, but you can control Gmail by unchecking "Sync Gmail" in your Google account settings. Just refresh your inbox manually as you need to.

Actually, I guess you may be having a similar problem with Chrome if you're syncing your mobile browser with one or more other device browsers.

 

[regression]

I don't know about Chrome, but you can control Gmail by unchecking "Sync Gmail" in your Google account settings. Just refresh your inbox manually as you need to.

Actually, I guess you may be having a similar problem with Chrome if you're syncing your mobile browser with one or more other device browsers.

But, I shouldn't have to disable functions that Google provides just to get good battery life. It WAS getting great battery life. Google changed "something" and now it isn't.

I don't mean to rant at you personally, but I don't think solutions to battery problems is to disable what the phone is supposed to do (ie, sync Gmail).