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[Nexus 4 General] Remcotjuuh:
No music played and it's on 15% right now. I'll try those touch sounds.

Sent from my beloved Nexus 4

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Well, after disabling touch sounds mediaserver already dropped from 15% to 9%! I can't say it's related for sure, but I'll keep you updated

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[Nexus 4 General] Nuu~:
Try to disable vibrations while typing and touching too. Maybe it helps.
[Nexus 4 General] Capt.PP:
Turn off or set everything you don't need, touch sound, lowest brightest, multiple home pages, google now, ect. as of right now it's our only option until Google address the problems in the next major update, hopefully.
[Nexus 4 General] Remcotjuuh:
After listening to an hour of music stuff looks like this. Even though mediaserver bit again, I'm not unhappy about the battery performance. Also a .m4a ringtone popped up on the SD card, which were said to be driving the mediaserver crazy if corrupted, so I'll move that file to my pc some later and report back.

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[Nexus 4 General] MDi24:
After using the phone for about a week, the battery life does seem to get better. I use it quite heavily throughout the day, mainly using whatsapp, twitter, chrome and news services. I've noticed that 1 hour screen time of my general usage seems to equate to around 20/25% of my battery. An average day off seems me end up with around 9/10h battery and 2/3h screen time.

I don't think you can brag about the battery lasting over a day when you have less than 1 hour screen time.
[Nexus 4 General] jhericurls:
There is fast dormancy feature on the N4. If there is, its not producing any wakelocks, which means fast dormancy is a non-issue.
[Nexus 4 General] heynomi4u:
I love the battery on this. Mind you I migrated from a Desire HD and I had to charge that thing 3 times a day. It sucked. On my Nexus 4, I take it off charge at 8am and it's still at 25 percent by 2am when I go to bed. I usually play around 1.5 hours, browse for an hour, listen to music for an hour, text throughout the day as per need, talk on the phone for maybe 30 to 45 minutes.

My only tip for most users is that whenever it's possible after installing an app, disable sync if you don't need it. Personally, other than Gmail, I manually sync everything.

Anyway, here's a screenshot.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Screen on time?

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[Nexus 4 General] benrees21:
Oh no a stalker!! :what:

A Nexus b!tch called Ben (Work that one out :P) AOSPA!!!
[Nexus 4 General] canuckerr:
I love this phone to death.. But, the battery is just driving me nuts.

I go to school around 9am and around 5-6pm my phone is on it's last legs.

wifi on, google sync on, brightness set to the most min. setting, 3G network and sometimes switch to 2G, though I think my on screen time was around 3-4 hours. So that may be a plus?

Sigh. I even ordered a 20,000mah portable battery off eBay. I really hope this is fixed soon.

Anyway, I'll post a screen shot of my stats tmrw as I charged my phone right away when I got home
[Nexus 4 General] Ibsonic:
I'm everyone's stalker.. You're just too active replying in each thread :D

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[Nexus 4 General] zerocool79346:
Media server is related to playing music. It's not a battery drain if you're playing music, it's natural.
[Nexus 4 General] MDi24:
If the screen time is around 4 hours and you get 8/9 hours out of it, I'd say its pretty good. That's generally what I get and it seems to be the best the phone can do on the stock kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] mpttrung:
What rom are you using now ???

Mediasever drain my battery alot @@. Try to flashed and wiped another Rom but still happen :((. Any idea ??
[Nexus 4 General] Nuu~:
Over 22 hours on battery

5:30h screen on time

2 hours listening to music

Screen brightness was set to ~30% most of the time

Pretty satisfied with it
[Nexus 4 General] Remcotjuuh:
Sorry friend, but if even without listening to music mediaserver eats up to 15%, you're not right. This is a problem seen on many devices; it's an Android bug.

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[Nexus 4 General] Evil_munki:
For those getting screen time over 4 hours, are you setting brightness to 'minimum' or is it 'automatic'?
[Nexus 4 General] Nuu~:
I never use auto settings.

I adjust it according manually according to the environment.

Mostly it sits somewhere around 30%.

You can see my battery stats a few posts above.
[Nexus 4 General] Remcotjuuh:
I've got minimum and get around 4,5 hours

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[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
Set auto brightness, leave it on mobile data, keep everything on auto sync, flash Franco r28 kernel and you should easily net 4-5hours on screen. Short of Google fixing 4.2 that's the best you are going to get without crippling your phone. Might as well have an iPhone if you are going to turn everything off in the name of battery life.

Sent from my often RMA'd Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] shotta35:
You are in school at 9am yet have time to use the phone for 4hrs of that time? WTF are you doing then, playing Angry Birds all day or what? :confused:

If you are using the phone that intensively (9-5 is 8 hrs and you are actively using it for 4hrs of that) then I doubt any phone will be good enough for you. Put the phone down for a bit and actually work!

LOL
[Nexus 4 General] jhericurls:
You spend half your day in school looking at your phone? 4 hours screen time on 3g is considered good. Average battery usage is 10% for 30 mins on mobile data.
[Nexus 4 General] TopazUser1:
What rom/kernel combo are you running?
[Nexus 4 General] amin199835:
I'm getting similar battery life. Are you (still) on stock?
[Nexus 4 General] nikeman513:
Roughly 4 hours screen time, just about 50%. Franco kernel stock ROM!
[Nexus 4 General] Nuu~:
Vanilla CyanogenMod nightly and the kernel that came with it.

No undervolting, or underclocking. 384-1512mhz and ondemand for scaling.
[Nexus 4 General] heynomi4u:
My screen on-time was roughly between 3-4 hours. Can't remember exactly today. Will update again!

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I am on stock.
[Nexus 4 General] Bluewall:
Hello guys !

I'm using Franco atm, i've tried many many kernels but no way, nothing is as smooth as stock kernel. They are all fast but nothing can beat stock. Obviously because of mpdecision bumping the min freq to 1Ghz everytime you touch the screen, obviously.

I'm going to be really busy this coming week (not much time to flash anything) and I wanted to be sure, do you guys have a great battery with stock kernel (I mean stock or CM (since it's almost the same) ? I don't need 8 hours screen on, but how is your battery with stock / CM ?
[Nexus 4 General] golfinggino:
I am going to miss reading this thread I really liked my nexus 4 but sold it on wednesday as it was just too small I was getting great battery life ended up getting a galaxy note 2 which is insane battery 8 hours screen on time but it too is too small as well going back to my galaxy tab 7.7 I worked out some issues with it and getting 8 hours screen on time again with it so all is good

Good luck to all in getting great battery life
[Nexus 4 General] lordblah:
Loving my Nexus 4 so far! Due to lack of stock in NZ ended up taking the display model. It had only been on display for 4 days so that was sweet. Battery life so far is about 26 hours with 3.5 hours on screen time on my normal usage with the franco kernal so I am pretty stoked with that. When I start back at work will be when I start using it more so will report back then. So far very very pleased! :D
[Nexus 4 General] maniacaus:
Very happy with CM Nightly and Franco R28
[Nexus 4 General] Capt.PP:
I was expecting you to say your galaxy tab 7.7 is too small as well and ready to tell you to get nexus 10 which is not very small. :p
[Nexus 4 General] andyondroid:
Not seeing many LTE stats in this thread, so i want to chime in.

Received phone Friday. This is my typical usage on its 2nd full charge.

-LTE only

-Wifi OFF

-GPS ON

-Auto Brightness ON

-Google Now ON (though mostly broken with no network location since LTE is on)

-Google sync ON for gmail, contacts, calendar, etc

-100+ apps installed

-No exchange email

-Stock ROM and kernel

This is me regularly checking xda, G+, and facebook throughout the day, along with some web browsing. 10 minutes worth of phone calls. Around 100 google talk messages, and a few emails.

No videos or games in this test.

Pretty satisfied with battery so far. With my previous HTC One XL i'd get no more than 3 hours of screen time on LTE with similar usage, so i call this an improvement.

I fully expect battery life to get only better as the battery is worn in over the next couple weeks, not to mention with custom kernels.
[Nexus 4 General] kyokeun1234:
With 4g all day? That's really impressive! Wish I could get something like that lol
[Nexus 4 General] andyondroid:
Yes, LTE on all day. I'm pretty happy with it so far, especially since its only the 2nd charge.
[Nexus 4 General] usama990:
Been using my n4 for a couple of weeks almost. Battery life seemed ok for the most part but now im noticing something weird. Phone calls seem to be eating up more battery than it should. As you can see in the screenshot calls have taken up a total of about 14% battery life in only 1 hr, Which amounts to only around 7 hrs of talk time on full charge. Is this normal?? Also note im on a 2g network.
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Yay. My yesterday's stats. RBJ rom and Harsh kernel. WiFi 99% of the time.

Sent from my fridge. Make:LG Model:N4
[Nexus 4 General] Starlith:
This is me on stock and I have excellent battery, woke up at 8am took it off the charger and now it's 11pm.

I consider myself a heavy user and I leave my data and WiFi on all day. Oh and battery still has juice left.

I might try cm10.1 but I don't feel the need to
[Nexus 4 General] kyokeun1234:
Never had that great battery life on my stock nexus. Had to root it and install trinity or Franco to get a decent battery life (compared to others)
[Nexus 4 General] azrash:
Sorry for a slight OT , but you guys can install better battery stats and fine tune your battery life. It'll help you find the culprit, it might be an app misbehaving, or some settings.

Sent from my Desire Z
[Nexus 4 General] Starlith:
The only thing I done in stock to keep it that way was disable Google Search which also disabled Google Now. Since then I average between 4-6 hours of on screen time and brightness levels are on auto.

At the moment I don't see the need to change but I am tempted to get cm10.1 on this device sooner or later.
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
I didn't have great battery life on my stock Nexus S, but installing a Gingerbread Oxygen ROM helped an awful lot. Then a number of early ICS ROMs too... I bought the N4 expecting the same thing but hoping to last more than three hours before hacking it. So far, so good (it's been nine days).

However, my Nexus 7 had great battery life right out of the box; the update to 4.2.x has hurt battery life and performance, but I'm sure it'll come back when Google release the next update.

I'm finding that with a few compromises to how I've used my handset, the N4's battery has gone from "frightful" to "not great but it'll do." I guess it's about my expectations too: quad core, 4.7" screen, DC-HSDPA+; I don't expect the world. Sure. I don't like making compromises, but then everybody has to at some time or another. Seems that manually toggling AutoSync is all I need to do on the N4.
[Nexus 4 General] Starlith:
Just to show another picture of me on stock. I have just cracked 6 hours on screen time though I didn't play any games today.
[Nexus 4 General] usama990:
any help guys?? :(
[Nexus 4 General] Evil_munki:
How much battery time overall in relation to that 6 hours of screen time?
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
Quoted talk time figures are always idea and battery usage is neither linear nor anything other than an educated guess...
[Nexus 4 General] Evil_munki:
My battery has died, and after 26 hours I've had 3 hours of screen time.

I've optimized the wakelocks so the idle battery drain is as good as I can get without sacrificing Google Now etc (around 0.5-0.7% per hour)

My screen brightness is on automatic, Franco r28 kernel, stock rom, GPS off, Wi-Fi mostly on, no video games/movies played, Google Now on.

Is this normal? People have posted great battery life of 4 hours plus with similar set-ups it seems.
[Nexus 4 General] calanizzle:
Same with me..

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At the end your mobile signal was having trouble tho, any huge wakelock thru BBS?
[Nexus 4 General] stardusk:
I'm able to get about 3 hours of screen time.

Brightness automatic, wifi and data on, gps on, listening to quite a lot of music.

I'm happy, it is way better than my old nexus s has ever been.
[Nexus 4 General] calanizzle:
Same here, but automatically with LUX app :good:
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
It was my first day off today since picking up my Nexus 4 and it gave me the chance to watch a few things.

A few things have struck me from this thread (I've not read all of it, but a lot!). One is the lack of consistency even ignoring the 3G versus WiFi. My own N4 has been inconsistent; some periods of time, it idles and uses very little battery but at other times, there's quite the drop.

I've usually just used my handset; kept AutoSync on, didn't bother closing (swiping away) applications, just turned on and off my radios as needed. On my HTC One V, when idle, this handset has fantastic battery life - beautiful flat battery plot for the most part. Not so the N4. And the One V has way less RAM and processor than the N4.

I wonder if a significant amount of drain is caused by applications still running? Seemed too simple to be true, but after swiping away my last used applications... much improved idle battery drain. And AutoSync manually set off (might not need this...).

Or am I just feeding another OCD habit of mine?! ;)
[Nexus 4 General] Starlith:
If you look on my other pics and compare the time on the clock it would add an extra hour so around 16 hours. I didn't do much talking during the day but I did call using Viber just under an hour.
[Nexus 4 General] gsaez:
i'm using kernel franco which makes my battery last almost double longer, up to 5-6 hours of screen use
[Nexus 4 General] stuart0001:
I think stating it doubles life is exaggerating somewhat. Do you have comparable stats to demonstrate this ?

I've flipped between both and there isn't much difference to me.
[Nexus 4 General] kyokeun1234:
Maybe a rogue app then? For me, Franco or Trinity (currently) isn't improving my battery life by 2x but improves it quite a bit:D
[Nexus 4 General] drpepe:
16 hours with 4h 45 mins screen time.

Stock, rooted, only Gmail syncing, nfc on, location access off.

Tbf I'm pretty happy with this performance. Much better than my previous android (desire z), but still nowhere near my old blackberry curve with its 3 day battery life ... We can dream, eh?
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
My nokia 5110 lasted me a week. Even when playing snake!

Sent from my fridge. Make:LG Model:N4
[Nexus 4 General] drpepe:
:rolleyes:
[Nexus 4 General] stuart0001:
Was your data connection WiFi or mobile? I'm guessing the former.
[Nexus 4 General] drpepe:
Of that 16 hours, my whole work day was on 3g (~8-9 hours). The rest wifi.

Battery life is significantly improved by switching off sync for all accounts bar Gmail.
[Nexus 4 General] MattSkeet:
What's then point of having a smartphone than ?
[Nexus 4 General] Androyed:
I agree. I enable everything, and if I get through the day with that and like 3 hours screen time, I'm happy.

I do use Tasker for automatic 3g/wifi switching. And I disable gps for apps that shouldnt be using it anyway, like Facebook. You just gotta be smart with switching, then I see no reason to turn everything off. Things like Google Now are actually very helpful.
[Nexus 4 General] drpepe:
:rolleyes:

Simple really - I only need 'leisure', social and location apps to sync when I am actually using them.

I have access to all the bells & whistles that a smartphone offers, but I'm quite happy to not get notifications for Facebook and the like until I actually open the app.

Obviously email is different, hence activating sync for email apps.
[Nexus 4 General] kboya:
Minco ROM w Franco kernel

Everything on and sync, gnow off.

I'm very, very happy with that!
[Nexus 4 General] zivan56:
When I use my N4 daily, it always ends up having 70% left when I get home from work. I either walk for 2x40 mins listening to music or drive 2x10 mins using it as a dashcam.

Gmail, gtalk, fb, etc is all running in the background and getting alerts.

My Galaxy Note with a hacked AWS radio would be down to 10-20% with the same usage. So awesome battery life for me...
[Nexus 4 General] zsn1p3:
how di du get such a battery need some adivice , i am stock , not rooted
[Nexus 4 General] Remcotjuuh:
He litterately stated what ROM and kernel he is using to get it and please, try to post in proper English.

Sent from my beloved Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
When you're home do you turn on the oven, all lights, every shower, every sink, every TV, open every fridge, eat all your food? :p
[Nexus 4 General] tmcpnet:
getting almost the same output as yours, its the best combo out there :good:
[Nexus 4 General] Ysalamiri:
Ok, something is clearly eating my battery.

7u30m with hardly any usage and I'm at 55% with Android OS using 24%, Screen 16% and then all the other apps.

Just recharged to 100% again, did nothing for 2h32m and I'm at 92% with Android OS on top of the list with 32%

Wifi is off, GPS is off, Mobile internet is on but I have a stable connection (HSDPA), sync is off for almost every app and the ones that do have sync only sync like once every hour.

How can I best check what's causing this? (Going to bed now to see what's it going to do in the next 6:30 hours)
[Nexus 4 General] Evil_munki:
Download and install BetterBatteryStats, it sounds like something is consuming a lot of battery when your screen is off:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
I was disappointed with the battery life first 2 days, phone was draining nearly 10% an hour just sleeping in my pocket! Instead of complaining I got down to business and decided to analyze what was causing it. Noticed maps was using the most battery, so I Googled it found this

"Report from this device ", if checked will eat your battery alive. I turned it off and ever since battery has been nothing short of epic! I usually get about 16 hours before I am down to 35%, that's when I usually plug it in
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
You plug it in at 35% wtf?

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
What's wrong with that?
[Nexus 4 General] dirtyhamster73:
It's actually bad for your battery to let it get below 25%. I try to charge mine around 25- 30%.
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Li-po battery should be always charged between something like 40-80 percent not more or less (lower value could be different, I can't remember).

I will do just that when I'll be able to get 6h screen on in between them percentages. Up until then every bloody percent is precious.

Sent from my fridge. Make:LG Model:N4
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
I can't find the right way to charge lithium ions, everyone says something different, but you know what? Plug it in constantly and you'll wear out your charge port. So personally I don't care screw it. It'll been crap in a year regardless, li-ions age so I say just charge I when it's convenient.
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
Agree
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Yes thank You :thumbup:

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[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Is it just my battery that alwakys gets hit on 4g?

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[Nexus 4 General] gagdude:
Not just you, everyone
[Nexus 4 General] zerocool79346:
No real right way or wrong way to charge an Li-ion battery that will make a difference of more than a few minutes over the long run. Not worth the time or effort to police it.
[Nexus 4 General] noma_pride:
Call me old fashioned, but doesn't anyone actually use this to make phone calls? ;)

Any feedback from mobile business users would certainly be appreciated.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Yes and just about everything else my N4 is my big crack rock and I like to smoke it all day long.

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[Nexus 4 General] Younggun123:
Anyone else having issues with the battery charging switching to USB even though it's plugged into the wall? It used to fully charge in about 2 hours, but for some reason it now switches periodically during the charge cycle. Ticking me off as sometimes it will just stop charging all together and begin drain even though its plugged into the wall.
[Nexus 4 General] deepsunzhine:
This is mine

Enviado desde mi Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
I guess thinness n glass makes n4 feeel so hot wen in use

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[Nexus 4 General] saksoy:
I use my N4 to makes calls, text and check football scores and its been four days since i charged it last.
[Nexus 4 General] Ysalamiri:
What sorcery is this?
[Nexus 4 General] lordblah:
Well I assume that doesn't take up a lot of his day. Currently my phone should get three days out of its charge if I only use it lightly if at all.
[Nexus 4 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
He's bloody Hairy Potta!

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Pics or it didn't happen:thumbup:

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[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Here's my realistic battery use after 9 hours of sleep went to bed at 10pm woke up 730am

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] noma_pride:
I just got the shipment notification from Google (Dec 14 order), so I too will be freebasing in good time.

I realize a lot of people do make calls, but I've rarely seen batter life graphics on this thread that lists "phone calls" as one of the primary uses of the battery life. For most days that is the #1 batter life drainer with my Cappy (which has been getting ridiculous battery life using the Collective gingerbread ROM, Legend...you've served me well old Cappy, but now the gallows are waiting).
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
That's showing such a beautiful flat battery meter when idling. *dreams*
[Nexus 4 General] Gaheris:
Almost 4 days without charging. 2.5 hours of screen time so only moderate use. But still very happy.
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Bull****

"Vanilla android >jail broken iOS>90" TV's"
[Nexus 4 General] hicks12:
What was your usage? Do you have any email accounts syncing?
[Nexus 4 General] Cor-master:
Another tip guys use wifi when you can. It always takes more power to use a mobile data connection than wifi.
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
True, but at the moment I'm not noticing much of a difference between having my internet connection on or off (either the modem or WiFi) when idle. There's a constant drain no matter. Even so, I still see a day so I'm tolerating it for the time being.

It will improve. :cyclops: