Yesterday I had my phone on airplane mode all day while at work. I don't have any verizon reception there leading to a dead battery by noon. Around 4PM i got a text message. Wondering if this may have somehow taken 8 hours to trickle from the radio through my phone I confirmed the time she sent the message. Around 4PM. Anyone have any explanations for this other than Google turning the radio on to spy on me at random times of the day?
I placed my Incredible in Airplane mode and sent text messages from both inside and outside the VZW network. None got through until I placed it back in regular mode. I also travel quite a bit and it has never gotten an email or SMS while I had it in airplane mode.
Perhaps, at the time you got the message, you had somehow activated the radio.
For everyone using the Xoom data plan and placing it in airplane mode, it may not shut it down. 3x over the past week I have been traveling on the train with my Xoom in Airplane mode and wifi on (was afraid of data usage). Well I was getting "Dings" for email. When i looked, it had full bar on the VZ network and was still in "ON" mode for airplane. Switching Airplane off and on rectified this issue.
Has anyone else experiened this? It is just something to be mindful of.
I returned my Xoom (VZ could not get me hooked up to my VZ) and am getting the wifi one next week.
Fortunate for me I haven't had this issue
Ii have my 3g off all the time,... only turn it on when needed
Since airplane mode is actually supposed to turn off wifi as well, I suspect turning wifi back on can sometimes trigger the radio to activate since you technically are no longer in airplane mode.
That said, if you are normally in a good wifi area I would recommend setting the wifi sleep policy to never if you can.
I'm gonna bet anything the bar you saw was actually WiFi and you'd just inadvertently associated with an open WiFi connection while on the train.
FWIW, I've never found my CDMA radio set unintentionally out of Airplane Mode (where my Xoom stays 95% of the time).
How long does your GPS take to lock on. Mine takes around 15 - 20 seconds. MAke sure to turn wifi location off so you can accurately measure the time.
Thanks.
RacecarBMW said:
How long does your GPS take to lock on. Mine takes around 15 - 20 seconds. MAke sure to turn wifi location off so you can accurately measure the time.
Thanks.
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My phone didn't get an accurate reading over 3G/GPS for the first few days of use. When it did work, my exact location would be off by about 1.5 miles. Magically, out of no where, it just started working and now finds my exact location in less than five seconds.
my GPS is awsome, takes only a few seconds to get a lock, even indoors
15 seconds is nothing.
My GPS took about 1 minute to lock on the other day which was disappointing considering the X10 would lock on pretty much instantly.
Although it might have been because it was overcast. I just tried it indoors and it locked on much quicker than the other day.
Mine won't lock on at all if I have wi-fi and mobile data off
Hi,
The Nexus 6P has been pretty good so far on battery. Nothing super insane, but enough to get me through a day.
Max I get is 3 hours SOT when I hit 0%...
Android OS is usually in the top 3, and in a 10 hour day, its getting 2 hours of Keep Awake time and about 30min Mobile Radio Active.
Google Play Services is also getting around 45min Mobile Radio Active as well.
Phone is bone stock, bootloader locked, unrooted. Running a handful of apps, even stopped using my Moto360 and disabled bluetooth when not in use to see if that was the culprit.
Any tips? (or apps that help me delve deeper into Android OS and why it keeps waking the thing up)
would also like to know about this, having very similar stats
Similar situation here - crazy battery drain and "Keep Awake" when I have a sim card in (TMo). 3 hours sitting on my desk - not using it - the phone gets warm/hot and Keep Awake shows 1H 16m under Android OS. When I put the same sim back into my Nexus 5 (using the adapter/converter) the N5 battery is perfectly fine.. normal.. no massive drain.
Any thoughts?
Turn off Wifi and give it a try. See if you still have the same battery drain.
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Similar situation here - crazy battery drain and "Keep Awake" when I have a sim card in (TMo). 3 hours sitting on my desk - not using it - the phone gets warm/hot and Keep Awake shows 1H 16m under Android OS. When I put the same sim back into my Nexus 5 (using the adapter/converter) the N5 battery is perfectly fine.. normal.. no massive drain.
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Go into location & uncheck all scanning functions
Thanks. I should have mentioned that I already had wifi and bt turned off, and had turned off scanning for both under Locations. I was trying to isolate this to cell signal as best I could by disabling wifi and bt things. I also tried turning off "Enhanced LTE" - and now I'm trying it with wifi calling on (again just to narrow down different possibilities).
I think a factory reset is in my near future - may as well start from completely scratch and see if I still get the same horrible battery drain.
Just reporting back. I did a factory reset - and INITIALLY I thought I was on to something. Battery life seemed better at first, but then I soon began dropping cell signal - which apparently sends the phone off searching for signal chewing up battery.
In my case it's never ending cycle - get signal, drop, search, get signal, drop search.
Yes, I'm in a fairly weak TMo LTE service area, but my Nexus 5 and my wife's Nexus 4 have never had these sort of massive drain issues.
Also, I was in a major metro area on Sat night and the signal kept dropping as well. I couldn't toggle it back on via airplane mode or the mobile data switch. I finally had to reboot to bring it back - and then it proceeded to drop again. Meanwhile, my wife's N4 had no issues.
I went to TMo on Sunday and swapped out the sim - no change. 6P went from fully charged to completely dead overnight (roughly 1AM to 9AM).
So, at this point I'm wondering if I just have a faulty 6P. I'll be calling Google today to see about an RMA exchange :/
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Just reporting back. I did a factory reset - and INITIALLY I thought I was on to something. Battery life seemed better at first, but then I soon began dropping cell signal - which apparently sends the phone off searching for signal chewing up battery.
In my case it's never ending cycle - get signal, drop, search, get signal, drop search.
Yes, I'm in a fairly weak TMo LTE service area, but my Nexus 5 and my wife's Nexus 4 have never had these sort of massive drain issues.
Also, I was in a major metro area on Sat night and the signal kept dropping as well. I couldn't toggle it back on via airplane mode or the mobile data switch. I finally had to reboot to bring it back - and then it proceeded to drop again. Meanwhile, my wife's N4 had no issues.
I went to TMo on Sunday and swapped out the sim - no change. 6P went from fully charged to completely dead overnight (roughly 1AM to 9AM).
So, at this point I'm wondering if I just have a faulty 6P. I'll be calling Google today to see about an RMA exchange :/
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Maybe try activating band 12?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/general/fastboot-activate-band-12-volte-t3239652
I found that my wifi network was causing doze to not work as good. I turned off wifi at night last night and got better results with just data.
My radio is accounting for 88% percent of my phones battery drain. I was down to 60 percent with about an hour of SoT. Not sure what's going on with my device either. I was about to factory reset but don't want to.
Bums me out when I see people getting 4+ hours. I want that action.
I had the mobile active bug also, very close to getting an iPhone.
I saw in another thread that apps like GasBuddy has been causing wake locks like you describe. The issue may be app related. Rooting and installing a battery monitor app should give you more insight as well as wiping and loading just your basic apps to find the culprit because something is definitely wrong.
I get 6 hr SOT without doing anything special and at night I lose 1%, sometimes none if I only sleep for 5hrs and that's with wifi on.
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Hey Guys,
My wife's 6p loses connection when signal gets weak, but then never connects to a tower when back in range. The only solution is a reboot or switching airplane mode on / off.
Anyone else seeing this?
My Nexus 6 stays connected and switches towers very well, but the 6p gets disconnected and never reconnects.
Jim
Turning off Wi-Fi Assistant helped me a bunch.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/09/09/wifi-assistant-non-project-fi-nexus-devices-rolling/
What carrier are you on? I have a 6P and my school is on a mountain so I don't have service near the back of my school but it always reconnects as soon as I go to the buildings closer to the main street. This happens several times a day, so if my phone had that problem I would have seen it by now.
Another possibility is that you have a faulty device. If it's still in warranty (and even if it isn't), you may be in better shape getting a replacement from Google.