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Nexus X and Nexus P ( 2015 ) Smartphones

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Personally the biggest problem with the phone is using lower binned screens that are inefficient and an unneeded 1440p screen instead of 1080p. Battery life would be much improved. I ordered mine to keep till the next chipsets come out only because my lg g2 touch input started to fail. I hate upgrading.
 
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Blaze4G

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rezenclowd3 said:
Personally the biggest problem with the phone is using lower binned screens that are inefficient and an unneeded 1440p screen instead of 1080p. Battery life would be much improved. I ordered mine to keep till the next chipsets come out only because my lg g2 touch input started to fail. I hate upgrading.
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Honestly 1440p is required for me as I intend to do a bit of VR. I can understand why someone would prefer 1080p though.
 
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AppleRobert

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rezenclowd3 said:
Either way, looking forward to a better 5x or 6p. I doubt I will like the 6p size, but currently I need the speaker volume for 4-6 months.
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What steered me towards the 5x is I already have a large rather heavy Nexus 6, the price, the display resolution and I rather have IPS LCD.
 
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I am leaning towards returning the 5x but I got a good price and still have the Nexus 6.

I can return it and wait out the 6p for a lower price instead of pulling the trigger now, I would not miss the 5x that much considering what else I have. :)
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6P is good to get now imo. So I have family in town. Showed them my Nexus 6P. They loved the low light performance. My cousin, an app developer, loved it so much that he will get one for his fiancé because she needs a new phone. He wants one too but his company will not approve a new phone purchase without a need for it, whereas his Nexus 5 runs everything that company needs for their apps.
 
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32GB and 64GB versions are available at Best Buy for $449 and $499. Movers coupons works on them, and if you have a Discover Card and Apple Pay, you can get up to 20% off by purchasing it in store.
 
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Jaw3000

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I've been testing my 6P for a few days now, and the battery life is really bad. I'm just wondering if this is normal or if there is a problem. I'm getting about 3-3.5hrs screen-on-time, mainly using Chrome Beta for browsing, Gmail, GReader, and Hangouts. No games or videos. I'm on wifi, connected to cellular with a great signal, NFC and bluetooth are off. On auto-brightness, with the toggle around 45% (which I also find very dim). I'm using all stock - no custom roms, launchers, lock screens, or anything else. The battery seems to drain about a percent every 3min or so using Chrome. Device gets pretty hot too.

I've seen many mixed reviews and reports on the battery - ranging from "one of the best on the market" with reports of 6.5hrs screen-on-time all the way to what I'm experiencing - poor battery around 3-4hrs. I know battery depends on usage, but I really can not understand why there is such disparity here.

A PCMag article today (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2496920,00.asp) indicated others were also experiencing poor battery performance, at least since the 6.0.1 update. It also says:

> "It's a fairly staggering downturn for the Editors' Choice-winning Nexus 6P, which clocked 9 hours, 59 minutes during PCMag's battery rundown test (screen brightness to max and stream fullscreen video over LTE)."

With the battery life I've been getting, I don't see anyway possible this phone could hit 10 hours with streaming video over LTE and max brightness. Either there are different batches of these phones with differences, or there's a software bug, or these tests are completely inaccurate lies. Regardless, it was supposedly accurate reviews like this that made purchase the phone in the first place. Any ideas?
 
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Blaze4G

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Jaw3000 said:
I've been testing my 6P for a few days now, and the battery life is really bad. I'm just wondering if this is normal or if there is a problem. I'm getting about 3-3.5hrs screen-on-time, mainly using Chrome Beta for browsing, Gmail, GReader, and Hangouts. No games or videos. I'm on wifi, connected to cellular with a great signal, NFC and bluetooth are off. On auto-brightness, with the toggle around 45% (which I also find very dim). I'm using all stock - no custom roms, launchers, lock screens, or anything else. The battery seems to drain about a percent every 3min or so using Chrome. Device gets pretty hot too.

I've seen many mixed reviews and reports on the battery - ranging from "one of the best on the market" with reports of 6.5hrs screen-on-time all the way to what I'm experiencing - poor battery around 3-4hrs. I know battery depends on usage, but I really can not understand why there is such disparity here.

A PCMag article today (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2496920,00.asp) indicated others were also experiencing poor battery performance, at least since the 6.0.1 update. It also says:

> "It's a fairly staggering downturn for the Editors' Choice-winning Nexus 6P, which clocked 9 hours, 59 minutes during PCMag's battery rundown test (screen brightness to max and stream fullscreen video over LTE)."

With the battery life I've been getting, I don't see anyway possible this phone could hit 10 hours with streaming video over LTE and max brightness. Either there are different batches of these phones with differences, or there's a software bug, or these tests are completely inaccurate lies. Regardless, it was supposedly accurate reviews like this that made purchase the phone in the first place. Any ideas?
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Take a screenshot of your battery stats. Both of the apps and the full graph. This way we can see what may be causing it.
 
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Jaw3000

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Blaze4G said:
Take a screenshot of your battery stats. Both of the apps and the full graph. This way we can see what may be causing it.
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The battery has been like this for the few days I've been using the Nexus. Earlier in the day, prior to the phone reaching 10% and charging it, I snapped these. Not sure if they would be of help. I had it unplugged and sitting to check whether Doze was working. It was. Doze is the real thing! Only 2% drained in over eight hours. As soon as I started using it though, mainly with Chrome, Greader, and Gmail, and watch it drop quickly - going from 98% to 69% in just 1:11min of use. At this discharge rate, I'd get about 3-3.5 hours of use (which is about exactly what I was about to get when I plugged it in). My over three year old iPhone 5 with the original depleted battery does way better than this. Again, everything is stock and I don't have a tremendous number of apps installed yet. The screen was on auto and set around 40% which I found to be quite dim in normal lighting (About 60% makes the screen easier to see and more pleasant to use, but then the battery would drain even faster).
 

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Jaw3000 said:
The battery has been like this for the few days I've been using the Nexus. Earlier in the day, prior to the phone reaching 10% and charging it, I snapped these. Not sure if they would be of help. I had it unplugged and sitting to check whether Doze was working. It was. Doze is the real thing! Only 2% drained in over eight hours. As soon as I started using it though, mainly with Chrome, Greader, and Gmail, and watch it drop quickly - going from 98% to 69% in just 1:11min of use. At this discharge rate, I'd get about 3-3.5 hours of use (which is about exactly what I was about to get when I plugged it in). My over three year old iPhone 5 with the original depleted battery does way better than this. Again, everything is stock and I don't have a tremendous number of apps installed yet. The screen was on auto and set around 40% which I found to be quite dim in normal lighting (About 60% makes the screen easier to see and more pleasant to use, but then the battery would drain even faster).
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Hmm that is weird. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. I know some persons on reddit has complained that 6.0.1 has caused battery drain issues (something to do with LTE).

For reference, I get about 1 hour browsing web for every 15%. My brightness is usually at %20 though (eyes are really sensitive to light...my whole windscreen is tinted on my car). Don't think you should be using 30% with only 1 hr SOT give or take.
 
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Hmm that is weird. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. I know some persons on reddit has complained that 6.0.1 has caused battery drain issues (something to do with LTE).

For reference, I get about 1 hour browsing web for every 15%. My brightness is usually at %20 though (eyes are really sensitive to light...my whole windscreen is tinted on my car). Don't think you should be using 30% with only 1 hr SOT give or take.
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That's really interesting. So do you get around 6.5hrs screen-on time then with 30% brightness? My Samsung S6 Edge+ get quite a bit more than the Nexus, yet the Nexus has the larger battery. I wonder if I have a defective phone/battery. I never tried 6.0 to know what it would have been like. I'm likely to return it if it doesn't get better than this. I wonder if a reset or reinstall would help. On Android, can you just do a full reset and then restore from a backup or do you have to reflash a ROM?
 
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Jaw3000 said:
That's really interesting. So do you get around 6.5hrs screen-on time then with 30% brightness? My Samsung S6 Edge+ get quite a bit more than the Nexus, yet the Nexus has the larger battery. I wonder if I have a defective phone/battery. I never tried 6.0 to know what it would have been like. I'm likely to return it if it doesn't get better than this. I wonder if a reset or reinstall would help. On Android, can you just do a full reset and then restore from a backup or do you have to reflash a ROM?
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I get about 5-6 hours depending on if I am on wifi or LTE. My brightness is usually 20% indoors, 70% outdoors. I am however most of the time indoors.

I would do the factory reset, if that does not fix it then RMA. The back up on android as far as I know is you sync your phone with your gmail account then you're able to download all apps automatically once you reset. However you would have to login to each app again. I may be wrong but that is how I know it works.

Do you have facebook or facebook messenger installed?
 
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I leave mine on auto brightness like all my phones, and average around 4 hours SOT. Occasionally a little more, occasionally a little less.

Everybody's usage is different but I'm happy enough with battery on mine.

@Jaw3000

Regarding the drop. I would actually simply remove chrome.dev and greader apps for a day and use alternatives such as standard Chrome and see if the drop off disappears. The fact those apps are as high in usage as your SOT indicates there the ones that likely caused the drop. Perhaps aggressively doing something in the background during the downwards spike.
 
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MRU said:
Regarding the drop. I would actually simply remove chrome.dev and greader apps for a day and use alternatives such as standard Chrome and see if the drop off disappears. The fact those apps are as high in usage as your SOT indicates there the ones that likely caused the drop. Perhaps aggressively doing something in the background during the downwards spike.
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Out of these I'd suspect chrome.dev the most. I use gReader and the standard Chrome and the battery life is good enough for me.
 
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