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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EvanVanVan:
Good point, it must be wiping the cache that causes the "optimization"? Wiping the dalvik is what causes the the long boot animation but that's always been that way... But as you said I wonder if it's necessary any more
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Telperion:
Anybody else get really bad battery life on the 4.4.2 nightlies? Android OS and the screen seem to really eat up battery life, even on low brightness and without much going on. Stock kernel.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk.gregor:
anything missing? Like photosphere? Or anything that would be on the nexus 5 out of the box?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
I'm on 4.4.1, Dec 9 nightly, my battery life has been better than it ever has. I'm getting two days out of my phone now. Getting ready to try the 1-1-14 build now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Telperion:
Earlier CM11 builds had great battery life for me too, but it totally tanked sometime mid December

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Can you upload that build? My battery life is so bad I'd gladly go back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] darklavalizard:
Any major problems you notice with the 12/9 nightly? If not, my friend might give it a spin on his.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Do you know of a free service I can use to upload the file to? I maybe going right back to it if the battery life tanks.

I didn't have any problems at all with the 12/9 build, not even the 3G / 4G problems. It's been great.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Telperion:
DropBox, Box, MediaFire, any of those should take a big file and let you share a link.

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/83999-battery-life-on-cm11/page__p__430859#entry430859

Looks like I'm not the only one to notice it. In my 1 hour lunch between eating, texting, browsing, emailing, I dropped from 86% to 34%. In the time it's taken to open my phone, log onto this thread and edit my reply, I've lost an additional 5% down to 29%. That's much worse than earlier builds.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Here is my copy of CM11 Dec9 for the Toro, this one should be unmodified, the only thing that is changed, is it has a hosts file for ad blocking. It is using this hosts file. If you want the ads to work remove everything after 127.0.0.1 localhost part.

These files were not created by me, I am not a devloper, I am not responsible for anything they may do.

CM11 Dec 9 Toro.zip

These just for convenience:

CM11 Gapps Dec 8.zip

This flash apk has been modified to work with KitKat. Works well on all my Nexus devices. I don't remember who deserves credit for this one, I downloaded it somewhere.

Modified Flash.apk
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jon9314:
I'm on the latest nightly is there any trick to get the 4G working
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
How did you flash? I just got done updating to Jan 1 build, and my 4G is working. I've been noticing weird problems in KitKat builds with dirty flashing. I've been formatting /system every time right now, and it seems to eliminate any issues.

I will be watching my battery life closely though and see what I get.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jon9314:
I actually dirty flashed yesterday and had phone FC's that made phone unusable then I clean flashed and phone still was FC-ing. So when I got home I went to factory clean using fast boot then clean flashed back to cm. No FC's but no 4G. I selected 4G in mobile settings.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Telperion:
On the 1209 build again now, thanks for the link. I restored back to my backup from the 1207 build then flashed the 1209 on top of it. Let's see how this one runs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Let me know how it goes. I remove a bunch of misc junk from the ROMs before flashing them. As well as disable a several things after to help with battery life, so perhaps that is part of the battery life.

I wish CM11 would release a bare-bones OS, minus all the bloat.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Can someone describe what good battery life is for this phone? As far as I've had, it's always been crap. The max I've gotten is probably around 11 hours with minimal usage, and I might have charged it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Typically I'm happy with 12 hours generally, with what I would deem regular / average use. Lately on the 4.4 builds with minimal usage I've been getting 36 hours roughly. If I use my phone a lot I'd say its closer to 8 hours. Depends a lot on what you are doing with it and how much stuff you have running, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Jesus! I've got a horrible battery! The battery isn't extended. The best I've had is 11 to 15, little to no usage. My screen is listed as using 50% of the battery, though its on time is barely 30-75 mins. On a side note, I'm debating between an HTC One and Moto X. The One has an unlockable bootloader, the X doesn't unless I pay full price for a Developer edition.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Mine isn't extended either. However even though they claim the newer batteries don't have "memory", I still try and run my almost completely down every now and then. I also have noticed a big difference depending on the charger I use. The factory charger is 1.5 amps, which is pretty fast, so I try and avoid using it. If I slow charge the battery at 0.5-0.7 amp it lasts much longer.

Disabling and removing as much as possible helps a bunch too.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
My battery discharges if I use it while charging. My battery is just horrid.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
What kind of charger are you using? That doesn't sound right. If I use the slower chargers, 0.7 or less, my battery doesn't really charge if I'm playing a game or something like that. However if I use the factory charger (1.5a) it will still charge. It does slow down the charge, but it still charges.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
I've tried an LG, Motorola, and generic charger. Even on USB 3.0 I think it discharges.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
The fine print on the charger should list the output. It should be somewhere between 0.5 - 2.0 amps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Telperion:
Good is about 12 hours of moderate usage, 6-8 of heavy usage. On the 1/1/14 build, I was getting 3-5 hours heavy usage, hence why I'm back on the 12/9 build.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
I'm on the 1/1 build now, we'll see how my battery is tomorow. If it's bad, I guess I'll go back to the 12/9 build. I'll let you know.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
I'm on 1/3, I'm at work, currently at 76%, with 4hrs, 5 mins on battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pez910:
I don't really use my GNex as a daily driver anymore since I got the Note 3, but I've never had fantastic results with the battery either. I think once upon a time I got 18 hours with around 1-2 hours of screen usage. Couldn't tell you which ROM/Kernel I was using, though. Maybe once 4.4 kernels start being released, we will see a better improvement. Going to put 1/3 Nightly on in a moment.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
7 hours of usage, 1.5 hrs screen on, at 33%... Yeah, bad battery. Of anyone has a spare extended battery they want to give away, I'll love you forever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
On the 1-1 build, my usage has been a little light today, but still used the GPS a little, some WiFi and 4G web surfing, and several texts. Seems a little less than what I was getting on the 12-9 version. However, still seems very acceptable so far. Looks like I'd get a full 24 hours with what I've been doing so far.

Perhaps something that I am removing is making the difference.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Jesus! I've got 9hrs, 6% left with 2hrs screen time. Will the extended battery let my trident case still fit?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk.gregor:
Question on the gapps, the torrent file is what I downloaded. Will that flash in recovery like any other .zip file?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] pez910:
I have 3 of the OEM extended batteries and battery life isn't too much better on them. I mean, you'll get around 30-120 extra minutes of juice, so that may be worth it to you. I got two extra ones from Sprint when they had that deal on them for like $5 or $10 a pop. I thought it had resurfaced within the past couple months. Not familiar with the case you mentioned, but if it's similar to an OtterBox, it fits with a small separation at the bottom of the case. Works fine with TPU cases, though (Diztronic and Androidified).

I gave my SIM adapters away so I can't really test battery life, but using it as a random WiFi device has netted better battery as of 4.4 (coming from 4.3).

Like I mentioned earlier, as Kernels release for 4.4, you'll probably see better battery life and generally, better performance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
My battery life is poor conjugated to other user's, and I've detected no Wakelocks. I bought the phone used though, the battery might just be bad. The case is similar to an otter box, so I don't think it'll be a problem, I just hate to pay $30 for a new battery.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk.gregor:
Anyone know how to flash the torrent files for the gapps? I'm a little confused..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Off topic, but since we were talking about it: Where's a good link to an extended Battery for the verizon model. Everything on amazon says that they got a sprint backing, or some didn't have one that fit... I'd prefer one that fits my phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drzoo2:
A torrent file is just a pointer to the actual file to be downloaded with a bit-torrent application.

As a Linux user, I use Transmission as my client. Perhaps someone on the Windows side can recommend a good client......
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] td1320:
Status 7 error

Can anyone help me get past the status 7 error? It has to do with the asserts. I tried searching the error and found an option to edit the rom to get past the error but it didn't work. Cant use the phone until I get this corrected. Thanks in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lost Dog:
I can confirm bad battery life in the recent few releases. Right now I'm at 8% after four hours with 25 minutes of screen on time. Ouch.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justen7723:
Its either a bad download or you need to update your recovery.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] .SoFLy.:
uTorrent or Deluge will do fine for PC :)

Actually, I love Deluge as a cross-platform solution so I can have everything connected on every machine I'm on.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] calvinistmac:
You don't actually flash the torrent file. You need to use the torrent file on your PC along with a bitorrent client to download the actual file.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk.gregor:
Why not put the .zip file up? What changed?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jlvlawrence:
The real question is why download a gapps torrent in the first place? There are so many places to get them as zip files.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drzoo2:
They are the same zip file after the torrent download. Popular files are much, much faster to download. No BS trying to get files from a hosting location. Distributed.....making for availability and not having to deal with a slow mirror. And did I mention no hosting site BS?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] OhioYJ:
Do you use exchange services, or the email program? That's the only time I've had that kind of battery life.

I'm on the 1-1 relase right now, and have 78% left after 10.5 hours on battery, so even better than the screen shot I posted yesterday (not heavy usage, but it's been a couple phone calls, messaging and some wifi surfing (little 4g)).

Do you disable anything unnecessary to you? Do you use the hotword detection in Google? NFC? Live wall papers? CM accounts, etc?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
January 5th nightly is up. It seems like they go up every night at 7 or 8 EST.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] td1320:
Yep it was the recovery!! Good to go now. Thanks!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Cyanogenmod implemented a 'knock off' feature, like the G2 has. You simply double tap the status bar to sleep. I like it. If Cyanogenmod added something like active notifications,IR blaster support, or even multi window, I'm sure they'd attract quite a crowd.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lost Dog:
It was strange... 24 minutes of screen on time (auto dimming) was the top battery consumer and under that was the AndroidOS. I use exchange but that did not even register on the battery drain. No live wallpapers or NFC. I ended up restoring a backup from a few days earlier and now everything is fine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
Just a note, battery life seems to be vastly improved in the 1/5 nightly! I now am at 44% after 10 hours, 11 mins, screen on time of 23mins.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Native89:
That seems to be my experience as well. Best battery life I've gotten in a while.

I should say that the 1/5 nightly is my first experience with CM and so far it has not skipped a beat.

The amount of customization is awesome to me as I've mostly run "light" roms up till now.

Kind of wondering why I didn't go CM earlier.

Did have a data problem, but that was easily fixed by toggling data off and on again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Speeddymon:
Has anyone had camera problems with nightlies after 1/3 or so? CM forums seem to indicate it's common and recommend running 12/29 nightly, which just so happens to have JUST cycled out before I could get to it. :( google cache link 404's too so its gone unless someone else up's it elsewhere. Anyone wanna throw me a bone and upload the zip somewhere? This 10.2 "stable" is the worst release I've ever run.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drzoo2:
I'm still running 12-29 as it has been great. I've put the file in my Dropbox folder......here .....

I'll leave it up for a week or so or until you post you got it. I don't have the original CM md5 but here is one I created from the file which was verified after my initial download.....

md5: e323c48c996b709294937a4d971505e3

cm-11-20131229-NIGHTLY-toro.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] snowcraig:
Anyone know how to make the Google Experience launcher auto rotate?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] justen7723:
Xposed and the app settings module will do it. You actually have to change Google search though, not the launcher.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Speeddymon:
Got it, thank you very much.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SynbiosVyse:
10.2 stable was garbage for the toro. I've been running the CM11 nightly since they came out and the 12/29 is the best so far. I'm staying on this until CM11 RC.

Could one of you guys re-host it somewhere? I usually delete my .zips but didn't realize how valuable the 12/29 nightly was.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drzoo2:
I restored the file in my Dropbox folder.

link

md5: e323c48c996b709294937a4d971505e3

cm-11-20131229-NIGHTLY-toro.zip
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abaddon37:
Did you try the M2 Snapshot? This one has been pretty good for me, not flawless though. What are your thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SynbiosVyse:
Thank you! I got it. Just in case I flash new nightlies I might want to rollback to 12/29.

I haven't flashed the M2 yet because apparently data connectivity issues from handoffs (like what presented from CM 10.2) are present in approximately 1/1 and beyond including the M2.

I'm going to flash the 1/7 nightly now and check out the situation.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abaddon37:
I haven't noticed any handoff issues with M2. I even went on a roadtrip and did not notice anything. I recall using 10.2, and the handoff with that version was horrendous. Let me know what your experiences are!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] drzoo2:
No problem, I'll keep it up a while if anyone else would like to grab it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] snowcraig:
So apparently the LTE toggle issue is not fixed? I tried it and can't get my LTE back. I can get 3g, but not 4g. Can anyone help?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] NCguy:
can anyone tell me why changes to the default battery pulse and light colors don't stick? Is it a known issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rubber soul:
i can confirm handoff issues with the 1/3 build just like the 10.2 release. didn't try any builds after that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Big ZD:
Using the installer OTA version of M2, I have many data issues, including losing data all together. For me, these issues were not present in 10.2.

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Loved this darn thing on 10.2, and yes...it's broken on M2.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
You should be able to change the network mode in the "secret" phone menu - in the phone dialer input *#*#4636#*#*, select phone information, then (as non intuitive add this seems) select GSM/CDMA auto (PRL). see if that fixes it.

Full disclosure, that had worked for me a few times but I also had an incident with the 4g toggle three weeks ago and the only way I was able to fix it was with a clean ROM flash.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Merman1983:
Really liking CM11 M2 so far and I've even stuck with the "Now Launcher" - things are smooth and snappy and continue to be so.

My only complaint is the volume. I wish CM would integrate volume boost in their kernel, but I understand they want to keep things simple. Is there an accepted or overall approved/recommended volume boosting method? Usually run leankernel which had volume boosting/HQ Audio. Is there a 4.4. kernel out now that someone would recommend with these features. Does anyone use Nexus Louder - some seem to think it's not compatible with CM11? Thanks in advance - sorry for the mundane question, but I've done tons of searching and I can't get a definitive answer and I need one that is CM-specific as I'm not switching ROMS just for volume boosting (yet).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
I've been using the updated audio files from this: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48473771&postcount=2991. They work well without the nexus louder bloat.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thelumberjack:
been using 1/5 for the past few days and have gotten nothing but fantastic battery life and great mobile connectivity.

the only problem I've experienced is the wifi occasionally being spotty, but I believe it's more of an issue with my router rather than the ROM.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SynbiosVyse:
Just flashed the 2014-01-07 nightly last night. When I woke up it was in 3G when normally it should be in 4G. A quick toggle and it was back to 4G. For the rest of the day it has been properly naturally switching between 3G and 4G depending on where I am and data has been working in both.

Seems to be a pretty good build other than the fluke last night. I'll keep it on a bit longer to see what happens.

One thing I did notice is that the LTE toggle on/off in the quick menu doesn't do anything. I think that bug has been around for a while though, I just never used it. The toggling from the regular settings menu works fine.

I had to go into the secret menu once during one of the earlier nightlies to set it but haven't touched it since.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rubber soul:
have you had problems with previous cm11 and cm 10.2 builds loosing data connection?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SynbiosVyse:
CM 10.2 was an absolute disaster. It would lose data all the time with natural handoffs, toggled handoffs, airplane mode, it didn't matter.

CM 11 nightlies have been perfect for me except toward the beginning, I toggled it once from LTE to 3G and then couldn't select LTE again. It was a graphical interface bug, not radio related. I went into the secret menu and changed it back to CDMA/GSM and it was able to get LTE again. Since then, there have been no problems other than what I mentioned about going to 3G that first night with 1/07.

I had the 12/29 nightly for over a full week and had zero problems. I've had the 1/07 nightly since it was released and other than losing LTE and it going to 3G once the first night, and after toggling back in the menu, it has been fine since then.

Overall, I've had very little issues with CM 11 and A LOT of issues with 10.2.

I'm running the latest 4.2.2 radios (FK) on a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (Toro).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] abaddon37:
What about battery life for 1/07?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] SynbiosVyse:
To be honest, I don't really know and don't specifically test it. It always seems about the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ce_lloyd:
11-20140113-NIGHTLY-toro.zip Play Store Issue?

Just installed 11-20140113-NIGHTLY-toro.zip and it seems to work real well but I have no Play Store connection on either wifi or 4G? Anyone else experience this or have a work around?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jrk190:
I noticed that there are two 13 nightlies...Odd.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] klobkelosh:
Actually, historically it has happened quite often that there are two of the same file name. Used to cause quite the problem with cyandelta.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Enzymaticracer:
I have tried installing the most recent one (2014-01-13 14:33:10) twice now and the installation has failed for me.

I made the md5 files so that TWRP had something to check the file against, and it matched. Not sure what the problem is. Just restoring my Nandroid for now.

Coming from CM10.2 Stable

TWRP 2.6.3.0

Performed a factory reset before attempting installation of the new nightly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kmcrane:
You need a newer version of twrp. 2.6.3.2 i think.. Go to their site download the img file and used flashify from play store to flash it. Then full wipe... then try your 4.4 zip.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tgeery:
That is sure my experience with 10.2!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Enzymaticracer:
That's what I figured, was just too tired last night to deal with it.

I'm now rocking CM11.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] kmcrane:
CM11 IMO is Way way better than 10.2!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Merman1983:
I'm guessing you did not flash the gapps package. Check the 1st post for a link (just make sure you get the right package)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jsgraphicart:
I think Cyanogenmod (and other developers) needs to make the Nexus 5 keyboard sounds standard in their ROM. The old sounds are just ugly. I change them myself but still...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jsgraphicart:
That happened to me too after installing it through the cm update settings. I had to flash gapps again to fix it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] .SoFLy.:
Flashed 01/14 last night and saw great battery performance increases from last time. Battery lasted about 12 hours on this build vs 8 on previous I had flashed (1/11) :)

Cheers on the great nightlies, IMO they have been very stable and consistent.

UPDATE: I'm having one issue which is that the "sign into facebook" button on a few apps isn't working. Any ideas on this one anyone? (this may not be specific to this ROM I know)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] demlv:
Is fstrim included and enabled automatically in CM11? If so, is there any way to know for sure that it is running in the background periodically, as intended?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ca.reaper:
Just loaded the 1/20 nightly. Phone got real hot when idling. Going to flash back to 1/18. Bug? Previous builds did not have this effect on my phone.

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Forgot to say. Completely stock. No custom kernel. Alarm icon appears then disappears every once in a while too

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Back on 1/18 nightly and it is better. No more heat issues.

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Watching the processor speed on the 1/20 build_ I saw it spending a lot of time in the 1200 slot when just idling. Now back on 1/18 and processor is hanging around 350 and 700 at idle.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] i8qbert:
Do we know if the data handoff issues is fixed? I know a few have stated that it is better, but any confirmation?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Royal2000H:
Just clean flashed the 1/18 nightly and also the Gapps from here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps

The only launcher I have is Launcher3. How do I get the KitKat launcher that I swipe left for Google Now?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EvanVanVan:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2529594

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Titanium Backup gives me a message that it works more reliably with SuperSU. And I'm having problems (it's hanging) converting BBS to a system app. How can I switch to SuperSU? Will installing from the play store and/or flashing the downloaded binary cause conflicts of any kind or is it safe to do that?