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[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Look, if you're saying that you can achieve those great battery stats then cool, I'm not calling you a liar or anything. BUT, like you've just said, this is about showing how the N4 performs in the battery department, lots of people are interested in this great phone and are wondering how it does in battery life. You were saying that I was misleading, not at all. I'm just pointing out the fact that there are some battery stats posts that you can't base your judgment upon if you're considering this phone. Some are making it look like it has the best battery life out there. That's what I call misleading cause it isn't. But then again, development is advancing and I hear great things about the Franco kernel. So I'm sure battery is improving/improved since I had my N4 (a month and half ago) with the ROMs and kernels but some people are exaggerating. Anandtech, gsmarena both made battery tests on the N4 and it under performs compared to similar phones with quad core processors and 2100 mah batteries. I had 2 nexus 4 so I'm not speaking out of my ass but based on what I've experienced, I just can't see somebody reaching 6h of screen time with regular use. Maybe my regular use is super heavy use for some, we all use our phone differently. One more thing, I also had the S3 and I think it gives you 15-20% more juice than the N4, i never reached 6 hours of screen time on it. Not saying its not possible, it is but again all phones can reach those stats depending on how light your using your phone. Just my 2 pennies.

Edit: just a question, do you think having 5 hours of screen time with 7 hours off charge is good battery life?
[Nexus 4 General] dinzkie:
My battery sucks so much. If you could check on the screenies below, you would see.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecb6siql7xxtduw/Screenshot_2013-01-18-14-25-36.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6yt72hk5zff9l6i/Screenshot_2013-01-18-14-28-09.png

Also, here's a screenshot of the battery at 2%

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wzqxpiekm64mhi2/Screenshot_2013-01-18-14-50-21.png

I mean, what the hell is going on? this battery is so terrible. =/
[Nexus 4 General] Bluewall:
If I understand correctly your picture (why not using stock android battery ?) I see you have unplugged it since almost 14 hours, you had the screen on for 2 hours 37 minutes. That's not thaaaat bad :)

Btw, you're using facebook + facebook messenger and that shouldn't help the phone to sleep
[Nexus 4 General] dinzkie:
Thanks for replying. Still bad, right? :P Will i ever get to see this battery improve over time? this is really terrible. I am worried because i had data turned off the whole time and even used a 2G network. My friend on the other hand used his phone extensively for an hour with mobile data on as well as use it more than i do overall because he wasn't conserving battery like me and he got these stats:

battery usage: 82% (08:58:27)

phone / 00:00:22 / 0.1%

screen / 04:07:07 / 37.5%

phone radio / 08:58:12 / 2.8%

wifi active / 08:57:49 / 3.6%

held awake / 01:06:39 / 0.0%

app usage: 55:5%
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Are you all stock? If not which ROM/kernel are you rocking?
[Nexus 4 General] dinzkie:
i'm all stock.

also, as soon as i get to drain this, i'll use the stock battery graph and all. i tried draining the battery until it got to 0 and turned off and charge it while it was off while sleeping. as soon as i woke up, i unplugged the charger and turned it on and it had 97% battery and still had that issue wherein it still was rapidly draining. i'm also wondering why it only reached 97%. i used up 10% of my battery just by using facebook and instagram for 20 minutes without playing any videos whatsoever and my screen was less than 25% and i was on wifi and on a 2g network with mobile data off.
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Root your phone and install Franco's kernel.I heard great things about it.
[Nexus 4 General] dinzkie:
thanks, i guess i'll likely be doing that. but before that, do you think this is a software issue or does this have something to do with the battery itself?
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
I wouldn't ask me lol! Nah kidding, I think its an android 4.2.1 issue. Once 4.2.2is rolled out I expect a noticeable difference in battery life. But for now you should root your phone and take matters into your own hands.
[Nexus 4 General] dinzkie:
thanks. i'll root this baby and install the franco kernel. i sincerely hope it's just software, though. =/
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
:rolleyes:

Starving for attention much? :thumbup:

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[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
Indeed my friend
[Nexus 4 General] barondebxl:
Damn, I have been made!
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Having a tcpu gel back case really helps to NOT feel warm nexus4. No case, u can really feel it when phone heats up

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[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Why does battery drop after waking from idle/sleep 8+ hours it was at 75 before then 73 a few minutes ago,now after browsing for 5min its at 66%???

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
Same question lol
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
I consider this to be pretty good, thoughts?
[Nexus 4 General] stuart0001:
Please read the op for details required to enable a reasonable assessment.
[Nexus 4 General] wilcoholic:
Post the screen time you moron
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Get off xda if you got a problem fool

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] deepsunzhine:
Wtf is ur problem???....gtfo
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
Somebody is cranky
[Nexus 4 General] wilcoholic:
Well I am sorry if I thought I was speaking for everyone here.

I mean I could put my phone in airplane mode, rack up 300+ hours and post a screenshot but it wouldn't mean anything at all
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Ouch man the moron part could have been refrained from.

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[Nexus 4 General] ctowne:
These people are so mature
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Alright troll how about you get off your windows 98 lab top throw it away do everybody a favor and forget about logging in xda again.. Better yet invest time in learning respect then log back in to apologize for your Dumbass post

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] jmudrick:
Franco r47. Best I've seen thus far. Spending way too much time on the forums it seems.
[Nexus 4 General] Tarun95:
Wanted to see how it would make a difference to battery if I switch off location reporting and gnow and here goes.
[Nexus 4 General] azrash:
Turning it off would definitely improve your battery life. If you want to find out what is draining those battery, give BetterBatteryStats a try. You can get the free xda version here, or support the dev by purchasing it from the play store. I have used it since my Desire Z, you'll be able to fine tune your setup better.

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[Nexus 4 General] Tarun95:
Yup I know about it. But then I don't use Google now much so that's why I disabled it. Didn't know it would make this much difference. Stock seems to be pretty nice on n4.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr.Mischief:
Turning off GPS usually increases battery life. I used to turn it off on my One S, but I leave it on on my Nexus 4.
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
How to check hw revision?

11 is better battery? Thx
[Nexus 4 General] Tarun95:
Switch off phone and boot into fast boot but holding the volume buttons and then power together.
[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
If I'm browsing all day and streaming audio I can get 4 hours on screen all day with mobile data. Just texting, a little browsing, and some forums stuff nets 5 hours. Most all the good kernels out right now have fixed the horrible standby time from wake locks that plagued the nexus 4. I think an update might get us some more time on screen, but for all but a few Android phones, 5 hours on screen time seems to be the standard now. iPhone gets better with time since many of the stock apps and even third party apps are integrated tightly with its push system and because the phone doesn't really multitask. I was amazed as battery life using my mother in laws phone but as soon as you fire up a game or anything intense it sucks battery like any android phone.

Sent from my 5th and final Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
+1

I just stopped responding to people in this thread that just hate on others. We are all just trying to help not show off. You did an amazing job posting a response that was not only to the point but explained what some don't seem to understand. BTW i don't use any WiFi ever Im sitting at home right now but don't have my WiFi on I only use my WiFi for my N7.

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[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
I stopped posting here altogether. Too many negatively thinking stubborn people not ready to listen to other people's experiences and opinions.
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
Flash franco kernel you will be amazed...
[Nexus 4 General] Nathtech:
I have done that now and its around the same tbh.
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
weird for me increased from 2 hrs screen time to 4,5...
[Nexus 4 General] Nathtech:
Well this is what I've got for today. Its almost constant use and I'm now on 37% battery.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Same results for me I have a rev10 and on stock I would get 2 to 2 1/2 hours screen on time. With Franco I get from 4 to 5.

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[Nexus 4 General] Tarun95:
Well I disagree with the last point where u said it sucks battery like android phones when u play a game. Myself and my cousin played eternity warriors for the same amount of time and in fact he played a little while longer on his 4s. He lost only 10% and I lost 20% :(
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Tips to increase battery life

1. Try franco kernels

2. 20% screen brightness

3. Disable all google vs

4. Underclock cpu

5. Other stuff lol
[Nexus 4 General] estallings15:
That was useful :thumbdown:
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
OMG I was thinking the same thing I just didn't write it Lol. Ahaaahaaa estalling your awesome :D

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[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
I normally get about 5 hours on screen with mobile data, all Google services on, location on (auto reporting off), sync on etc. Latest trinity kernel used with no tweaking or CPU manipulation. Probably would net more with Franco. Today however I used the browser more than normal and went running with Google music cloud streaming to my s-11 HD flex BT headphones and I had endomondo running the whole time as well and still got pretty great battery life.

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[Nexus 4 General] sotorious:
You guys getting more then 3 hour screen time. Is that with Google now disabled. Because I am lucky if I'm getting 2 and that's under moderate use.
[Nexus 4 General] MasterJam882:
AW: The great battery impression thread

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[Nexus 4 General] KillaHasi:
Got this today! All stock, rooted, WLan and NFC on, Google Now off and Bluetooth for about 2 hours.
[Nexus 4 General] 0ss0:
Only 11 hours with only 47 minutes on the screen!

This is my battery situation. I'm on stock and the phone isn't rooted. Every day I need to charge my phone two times!

Perhaps the problem are the widgets (Minimalistic text) and the launcher (Nova), or the wifi that seems always on (but I don't use it during the day: only early morning and late evening). I thought that wifi goes on only when it needed, but battery stats says other :rolleyes:
[Nexus 4 General] dirtyhamster73:
This was my battery life yesterday, which is what I've been getting for about a week (maybe a little less) since reflashing stock images.

KillRom and Franco r47. Hw version 11.

That's with 4 email accounts synced, 1 gmail account with everything except Google photos and sound play. (Or whatever it's called)Other two accounts have only gmail and contacts synced, Yahoo checking every 15 minutes. In location setting "access to my location" is on, in maps location settings, "enable location history" is on, "location reporting" set to "detect your location". No gps on. Brightness always down and I turn it up if needed, then back down when I don't.

This is 15 hours WiFi, 5 hours mobile data.
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
What rom are you using
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Killrom

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---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

Anybody struggling with battery I suggest u they this out I can confirm it works http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36905996

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[Nexus 4 General] KiNG OMaR:
8 hours screen on... I'm sure I could make it to 8.5 hours easily. Attached the chart as well to prove I wasn't topping off the battery. Ruinning Faux's 004m with intellidemand + ecomode
[Nexus 4 General] dirtyhamster73:
Impressive!!!
[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
Geez man... What are you doing on the phone while the screen is on? That's insane battery life. That's like RAZR maxx times right there!

Sent from my 5th and final Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] deepsunzhine:
He didnt do anything,its shown on the screenshot

SentFromMyF*****gAwsomeNEXUS4™
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Im not saying you are wrong about that guy but you are wrong that it shows on the screen pic. My tapatalk never shows on my battery stats and other apps the same for some reason.

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[Nexus 4 General] deepsunzhine:
Oh ok...didnt know that...ma bad:thumbup:

SentFromMyF*****gAwsomeNEXUS4™
[Nexus 4 General] UZ7:
It should show unless it was very light use, you can also scroll down to see other apps that may contributed to using battery.
[Nexus 4 General] AdamLange:
Hmm,

This is weird, i noticed that after full charge yesterday, the phone went down 77% of battery during night.. with no usage, blank screen ...

yesterday it was fine, lasted like 1+ day with normal usage, and now boom..

I will try to charge it back to 100%, do hard reset and see if this help

Any other ideas what may be wrong? (the only app that was running was cpu monitor widget, but i dont see anything special in battery stat regarding it, only Android OS (which may include the widget, but im not sure))

Adam
[Nexus 4 General] sucre213:
Anyone tried play 3d games ？

my phone dies after 2hours nfs
[Nexus 4 General] WibblyW:
I get a slight improvement if I switch it off ;)
[Nexus 4 General] AdamLange:
If you don't have anything smart to say, just stay shut. This is not a comedy forum.
[Nexus 4 General] kai_germany:
AW: The great battery impression thread

Latest rbj

Latest trinity kernel

Most time on WLAN

3g on train and when i'm not at home (1/3 oft the time)

Sync off, GPS off, screen 50% brightness

Usage: mostly web, whatsapp, facebook, angry birds ;)
[Nexus 4 General] xfactor2000:
AW: The great battery impression thread

Me too. 25 min playing, and lost 30%. With s3 its only 18%

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[Nexus 4 General] 0ss0:
As first step to find the problem that is below my battery drain, today I've disabled wi-fi as soon as I came out from home. Well the drain is still here. So I can see that wi-fi isn't the cause.

This evening I'll do an hard reset and I'll take only the stock widget and apps, with the only exception of whatsapp. So tomorrow I hope to take a big improvement in battery life. Then I'll install a new app every day. I'm sure that in this way I'll find the cause of my terrible battery drain.

However, I suspect that the cause should be one or more of these components:

- animated background Planet Pack (wonderful)

- minimalistic text widget (date, time, battery status, meteo)

- beautiful widget (meteo forecasts)

- HD widget (lockscreen meteo and toggles)

- Nova Launcher with HD icons.

I hope that the problem shouldn't be apps as FB, twitter and so on...
[Nexus 4 General] azrash:
You can use BetterBatteryStats (BBS) to analyze you battery consumption. Install it, leave it on idle for a few hours and check the stats. Many has used the app to make adjustments that'll help with the battery life. Good luck!

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[Nexus 4 General] CandyAndy:
oh my oh my..I can already from there see your problems. Try to take out the animated background.

Then definitely no need for beautiful widgets AND HD widgets. I think they both will try to update weather in the backgroud quite often.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
This isn't true I can link u to an example http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36954251

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[Nexus 4 General] KiNG OMaR:
Only Twitter and XDA browsing :)
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Thats amazing life though.

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[Nexus 4 General] razball:
What rev do you have?
[Nexus 4 General] 0ss0:
Terrible battery drain: 2nd day

These are the results of my terrible battery drain with the wi-fi disabled. Nothing has changed.

I enclose other diagnostic screenshots.

In detail: the deep sleep seems to work well, the app will take as much as 40% of the power used. Apart from the app and modules necessary as telephone, email and kernel, minimalistic text, maps and nova launcher seem to drain a lot of resources.

Tomorrow I will test the phone after a hard reset and see the differences.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Wow man that's bad I really hope a hard reset will help you. Do u have a rev10 or 11

Check this thread out http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36905996

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[Nexus 4 General] x.Orville.x:
How i now the revision of my phone ??
[Nexus 4 General] dirtyhamster73:
Fast boot. (Power and volume down)
[Nexus 4 General] 0ss0:
I hope too. Where can I see my rev number?

Can you see my last two screenshot in the second post? Here I can't see them...

---------- Post added at 07:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:30 PM ----------

Ok, I read the last post. So I'm on rev. 10.
[Nexus 4 General] AdamLange:
Ok guys, i noticed why my battery dropped from 100% to 27% during night ...

it was widget, which shows up current CPU temp and memory used. One simple widget prevented phone to sleep and drained 77% battery at night.

If you have battery issues, simply flash stock firmware, remove all apps, config phone as normally (without installing apps) and see if that helps, then one by one install apps that u need, and watch if battery drain occur.

The issues are mainly from badly written or not JB compatible applications/widgets that many of us are using.

Adam
[Nexus 4 General] UZ7:
Ah alright I think it only shows the top 10 :P

Edit: lol I take that back.. Tapa should be on the top 10 then :p
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Crazy right? :eek: Trust me messed with my head a lil bit like today it shows up but tomorrow it may not Lol Gotta love 4.2.1 :rolleyes:

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[Nexus 4 General] neurotic_:
still using Franco kernel r23, wifi always on, some time on 3g, sync on, Google now activated, auto brightness

I'm always near the 5 hour mark but this was the first time I went over.
[Nexus 4 General] Freshly_Snipes:
This is with only 2 and a half hours of screen on... Completely stock with no root.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Do u have a rev10? I know you were on the shipping thread in the early days?

Do u plan on rooting and have u tried reflashing the stock boot.IMG? It helps http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36905996

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[Nexus 4 General] Freshly_Snipes:
Idk which revision I am using. But why would I reflash the boot.img? Isn't my stat I posted kind of good?
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Depends on what u are looking for. If u are happy with you battery then that's all that matters. My battery would never last me over 15 hours but I'll eat up 4 1/2 to 5 hours screen on time within those 15 total hours. So screen on time is more what I go for because of my heavy use.

By reflashing the boot.img I gained about an hour and a half using the same settings. The reason I asked which revision is because this method tends to work better on rev10's but has worked on quite a few rev11's

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[Nexus 4 General] borsa1994:
R: The great battery impression thread

Hello guys! I have the problem of the android os battery drain.. You can see in the pictures. Can someone help me?

Thanks

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[Nexus 4 General] bustem:
AW: The great battery impression thread

My stats from today. Aokp build 2 (same drain with cm). 10 min GTA vc, 10 min subway surf and a bit whatsapp. I love this phone but WTF? My 2 year old Galaxy S had a way better battery. Im asking my self if I should regret the purchase of this devise:(
[Nexus 4 General] bustem:
AW: The great battery impression thread

Forgot: Most time I had 2G and a few hours flightmode
[Nexus 4 General] adidas007:
try re flashing the stock rom
[Nexus 4 General] bustem:
AW: The great battery impression thread

Thought about that. Ill report back when I find time for it. But before i had sometimes 4h screen on time and sometimes it just drains and drains.. and drains:banghead:
[Nexus 4 General] flo7002:
Media server has been killing my battery the last few days, and I don't know what the heck that is... any ideas?
[Nexus 4 General] thatguy97:
This is from my first full day of use, I'm pretty happy with it
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
I have a rev 10 and I thought there was no hope for even over 3 and a half hours then I saw someone say they had rev 10 and went on francos kernel and got like 5 hrs so I flashed it and its definitely better this is just for today so far but it gives you an idea
[Nexus 4 General] 0ss0:
I am on the third day of testing. I did hard reset, installed all the applications I normally use, but not out of stock widget, and not animated backgrounds.

Phone always connected and sync always enabled on gmail account, business account, facebook, google, twitter and WhatsApp. Location was always active and all the services of google now were active too.

I made a dozen of short calls, many messages on WhatsApp and numerous e-mails. I frequently read the news and I sent a few posts on the forums. More or less the same use that I already described. The only difference is that I made some tests with ANTUTU (all ended around a score of 17,500).

As you can see, the situation has improved considerably: from 9 hours to 12 hours on the battery with the use of the screen more or less identical.

Certainly it is not the best battery performance, but it is clearly better than before. I know that if I would disable latitude and google now I'll get a considerable improve on battery life. But I like these two services too much to give them up.

However i consider today as a first step. Tomorrow I will test the battery performance again.
[Nexus 4 General] sububack:
My Battery performance chart

1st set of pictures have no 3G enabled and 2nd set of picture has 3G enabled may be for around 2:30 hours.

Played quite a bit of games.
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
I'm happy to get over 3hours now with francos r51 but I went into twrp and it made my battery percent calculator say I had 2% left so I think I hold record for longest time spent below 2%
[Nexus 4 General] eternal2000:
how you achieved such a result?
[Nexus 4 General] alltheway3:
How do I check what revision my Nexus 4 is?
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Reboot into bootloader mode

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[Nexus 4 General] deepsunzhine:
Sent from my BRICKED NEXUS 4

MiNCO v6

Franco r52 nightly