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[Nexus 4 General] roughavoc:
People are getting 2hours and are at 47% battery life, that would be good on my SGS2 for all the battery, I am pleased with the results
[Nexus 4 General] dralways:
I would also like to know.
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
You charged at some point
[Nexus 4 General] lunzi88:
Wait a sec, I always thought you were suppose to condition the battery of a new phone by draining it of whatever charge it has when its fresh out of the box. Charge it back to full while its powered off and repeat for a couple of full-empty cycle to properly condition it?
[Nexus 4 General] ceejay83:
you don't have to condition these new lithium batteries
[Nexus 4 General] whittikins:
How are you getting it to 1% without the device shutting down? Mine shuts down at 3 or 4% every time.
[Nexus 4 General] keshava108:
Check this, got a message this morning drained battery all day, any suggestions?
[Nexus 4 General] Ameri-CAIN:
It sounds so funny to say it, but you have to keep playing with it! :-] Even when I got it down to one it shut down on me twice. But I was surprised it stayed on 1‰ for so long. I think it was the software calibrating. Meaning it thought the battery was going to run out sooner than it did.
[Nexus 4 General] bastic:
still have no idea how some of you get so much screen time...

I did manage to get 17h yesterday but only under 2h screen time..

now it clearly shows that there is something consuming battery...might be network...

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[Nexus 4 General] aceo07:
I'm at 6% now, and 14:45hr total, 3:45hr display on, 1:13hr phone call, 30 minutes music w/ earphones.

I could probably get to 17hrs if I didn't touch the phone much and let it idle for the next 2hrs on 6%.

Maybe you have more syncing than I do? I only have 2 email accounts, 1 gtalk. Chrome sync is off, location agps is off. No game playing.

edit: Actually, what are you doing when the display is on? I'm sure some tasks can take more power than others. There is probably going to be a difference in display on times between someone who is playing a big game vs someone just chatting..
[Nexus 4 General] bastic:
Double screen time...

Most of my stuff doesn't sync as I wanted to see how it affects battery...

So one email sync, chrome sync, location on but it switches on when needed only (maps etc) I even have switched Facebook updates check...

I think that's the network at work or rather lack of it... Have Friday off so will see how it goes, buy then I won't be using phone as much anyway...

Ive noticed yesterday that with no network, battery was draining slower then with it....strange...
[Nexus 4 General] Stretlow:
Are people using Google now or not. I think the drain is that
[Nexus 4 General] wsnnwa:
I ran it today for 18H 50m 27 secs. I began recharging at 10% left, I could say I would of hit atleast 19.5 hours before it died...or so. Moderate use today, texting, some web browsing, I used GPS for 30mins, about 30 mins of call, downloaded some app updates and stuff from Play Store. I have gmail linked and synced, along with Facebook, and Groupme(I think this is a battery hog at times). I unfortunately just got off work and forgot to take a screenshot I will do that next time. :) I didn't connect to any WiFi at all either today, but did have my GPS turned on at all time.

Quick question for you guys. Do you leave your GPS and WiFi on 24/7? Or do you turn them on when you need them/use them?

EDIT: I did try out Google Now today too and showed it to some people. Idk how that effects battery at this time. Does anyone have any Idea?
[Nexus 4 General] Jayrod1980:
Holy cow. I'm going to be really disappointed by this aspect of this phone when I finally get it. So used to the gsm galaxy nexus and my five hours on screen time.
[Nexus 4 General] akash3656:
You really get 5 hour screen time on your galaxy nexus? I only get 4hours at minimum brightness(no music). Normal day usage of 16h, 3h+ screen on time with about an hour of music (screen off).
[Nexus 4 General] Seemonsters:
Hey everyone:

Got my Nexus 4 today, charged it to full and got pretty awesome battery life.

I did 10 hours on 100% charge down to 4%, and my screen time was 4 hours 30 minutes. I don't see what else I could have done to suck up juice on this phone, aside from GPS'ing around and using Google Now, both of which I have turned off. For me and what I use my phone for, this phone's battery is definitely awesome. The people who are having their map app suck their battery dry need to turn off that anonymous location statistic crap that you have to uncheck when setting up the phone. That is clearly eating away at battery life pointlessly.

I find it kind of sickening that in a 10 hour period I was on my phone for 4 and half hours.... That's just no-life status lol, but I had the day off, so whatever!

So far I'm stoked.
[Nexus 4 General] ceejay83:
Yes it's possible with the 2000mah extended battery
[Nexus 4 General] Galactic2:
Quick Question. Does NFC drain battery? I keep it disabled cuz... i have yet to find a real world use for it.
[Nexus 4 General] willybarca:
With setcpu changed governor to interactive scheduler to noop , min freq 384 max freq1242 , insane juice gain. You will not believe it. With WiFi on and mild use I loose %2 every 6 to 7 min, I can't wait for some tuned kernel with more options
[Nexus 4 General] Simer03:
I can easily surpass 4 hours screen on time! I've never done that on my gnex! I'm very impressed!

Sent from my Google Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] marshalex:
It would seem that the media server application is what is rinsing a chunk of my battery. On the way to work this morning using WinAmp over bluetooth the media server used a third of the 8% battery used on the way in. Surely that can't be right? Are there any fixes for this media server issue? Always seems to run when I've got music playing
[Nexus 4 General] alpha beta gaga:
how are you doing that? i can only disable. or is this another root thang?
[Nexus 4 General] bronko15344:
Yep. With root you can remove these apps
[Nexus 4 General] manlisten:
Something is definitely up with "Android OS"

Here is usage from a full charge over a 4+ hour idle period.
[Nexus 4 General] sarkster:
I thought I would try a video playback test this morning to see how much screentime I could expect when watching a film. I ripped a DVD using handbrake (LOTR: Two Towers, for the record) using the Android High preset - it clocked in at 1:42:11 in length (only disc1). I started playback this morning at roughly 9:22am with 74% battery, with Wifi, 3G, GPS on, all google apps on sync, facebook sync on, screen on auto. The film ended at about 11:04 and I have 52% battery so a loss of 22% which hints at a potential 6:30 hours of screen on on movie playback. I find this acceptible tbh.

Also worth an honorable mention, I went to bed last night with 91% battery with everything off (forced 2g) woke up 7 hours later and battery was reporting 90%
[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
Same for me, 4-5h with wifi, 2-3h with data

Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 4 avec Tapatalk
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Heavy browsing day

half wifi half mobile data
[Nexus 4 General] KtMack23:
Anything I can do to this widget besides removing it?
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
try to use greenify
[Nexus 4 General] Tom540:
Yeah greenify and if there is any refresh rate turn that down to say every couple of hours, or if you restored it from Titanium Backup or something similar try uninstalling it and reinstalling it?
[Nexus 4 General] captain67:
I'm getting 5-6 hours screen-on time on wifi and about 3-4 data. Really impressed so far, my SGS2 even with an upgraded battery didn't last this long.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Lucenzo7:
Whole day, moderate usage. Connected to Wi-Fi 8+ hours, few short calls, web and Facebook, and a bit of gaming and benchmarking.

Running the latest CM with their stock kernel and Greenify.

CPU frequencies 1.0 - 1.5 GHz, ondemand governor.
[Nexus 4 General] edwardeutsch:
Linaro CM 10.1 + STS kernel, stock settings. Only WiFi but with bad signal most of time.

A lot of facebook, tapatalk, quizcross and whatsapp. Auto brightness.

Sorry i've lost the screenshot with total time. 19 hours.
[Nexus 4 General] gv231089:
Cm 10.1
[Nexus 4 General] _django_:
Can you link me STS kernel?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] loniu86:
sourceforge. net/projects/stskernelmako/files/latest/download
[Nexus 4 General] andrewk2x:
Awesome only cm10.1 or any custom kernel with it?

Στάλθηκε από το Nexus 4 μου
[Nexus 4 General] C4SCA:
Totally stock.

Mediaserver:

-one episode of TopGear (watched using BsPlayer and miracast feature to link to my SmartTV)

-the rest is while listening to music (google play music app)
[Nexus 4 General] gv231089:
Cm kernel. Just missing color calibration in it
[Nexus 4 General] loniu86:
I've tested STS kernel and it's pretty slow to me (but battery life is amazing). Go back to franco..
[Nexus 4 General] gv231089:
franco kernel is slow for me and it also dont have 812 Mhz frequency. CM 10.1 stock kernel is fast and good battery with no UC and UV
[Nexus 4 General] azrash:
give m+ kernel, motley's kernel continued a try. Link in my signature. It is definitely smooth and battery life is good as well, I don't see any lag when compared to stock.

Another nice Kernel is another one by intersect raven, less customisation options than m+ but smooth as well. These two thread doesn't have a lot of comments, because well, they just work. I am using the default settings for both

But of course, if you don't need the extra tweaks like colour calibration etc, the stock default kernel in stock ROM and CM is the best.

Flowed from my Nexus⁴ using Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Nexus 4 General] anupampb:
Fully stock, no battery saver app, no rooting.............

Phone was in auto brightness & no haptic feedback.............

No 3G, only used WiFi for browsing. Most of the time when screen was on, I was browsing internet(FB, WhatsApp, Google Currents)
[Nexus 4 General] Johmama:
I'm having some pretty bad battery life, guys. Check it out.

I think I know the culprit though. I'm using GrooveIP so I can have unlimited minutes (VoIP). I think it's because that app basically has to ping Google's servers constantly to check if a phone call is coming in to my Voice account. That must be draining the battery like no other. I'm not gunna run it today and see if it's better, but would that single app really drain THAT much battery? I think it's part of the problem, and not the whole thing. Running Franco kernel and PA 3.6.

I have Google Now running, I use Wifi only when at home (by that time, I have very low battery), and I stream Pandora basically all day (I've seen Mediaserver show up in battery stats as draining quite a bit of battery. Apparently Mediaserver is used to serve media to you, local and streamed). I know I can turn off Google Now and Location services, but again, do they drain THAT much battery? If I turned off Google services, stopped using GrooveIP, and stopped streaming Pandora all day, would I go from my abysmal stats to 5hr SoT? I'm not too confident. I think there's another issue somewhere.
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
Using MBQ's uxylon 09 nightly and anarkia faux hybrid kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] leiros:
First day = lots of installing ,themeing, downloading and stuff. it was on around 10-30% britghtness, no haptic.

ParanoidAndroid + franco, uc around 1067mhz and uv at screen-off.

Not sure how much downloading + playing music drains at this phone, but its definatly better than the s3 where it would crash at around 3h30m-4h at minimum brightness.

Looking forward to tweaking it even more.
[Nexus 4 General] Tom540:
What's that theme please? :D
[Nexus 4 General] CoolApps:
Battery life is better with WiFi on then on mobile data.
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
After a long time with bad battery i decide to come back to stock rom and flash franco 162 with -125 oc...this is the results:

30 min voice call
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
If you get an avg of 30min sot with each 10% battery drop, then it's great.. your battery seems good btw

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Richieboy67:
Your battery seems good to me coinciding you are music all day. What do you expect? 13 hours seems really good under the conditions you are taking about.
[Nexus 4 General] Johmama:
I dunno, expected a little more than that I guess. It seems like the screen being on would drain more battery than Mediaserver running. I'm not saying that it does, but it just seems that way, and that's where my concerns stemmed from.

I do want to report that after not running GrooveIP yesterday, I had ~70% remaining battery by the end of the day. I kept everything else as normal as possible. With that, I am pleased with my battery. I will stop using VoIP as my main source of voice at the end of this month's plan. It's half as expensive, but the battery drain, along with the other issues I had with it, makes it not feasible for everyday use. Oh well.
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Anyone here using Latest PA rom with Stock Kernel?

Care to share the battery Stats :confused:
[Nexus 4 General] aanonymoushuman:
Not pretty impressed with the battery after about 5 months of usage this is what I get

The battery just dies at 70%....
[Nexus 4 General] Qbsti:
Latest pa ROM...

I have no idea what happened (Sot was at 3h)

swyped from my nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] Karlo666:
Your phone reboots itself?Kernel,ROM,UV,Freq?
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Well just look at your Android OS usage..Your Device did not sleep at all this whole time.Always running at min Freq.

No wonder why your Battery died so soon.Some App is messing around with your Phone..
[Nexus 4 General] Dark Fear:
sorry for off topic.. which theme do you use?

i like light themes like yours
[Nexus 4 General] KtMack23:
Getting terrible stand bye using trinity + cm10.1 stable. How can I fix this? I had good 3g signal most of this time.
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
Your phone isnt sleeping,you need to find the app thats causing this,i recommend greenify to find and to hibernate the program that is causing!
[Nexus 4 General] KtMack23:
Already using it with a ton of apps hibernating. How would I fix the ones that won't sleep?
[Nexus 4 General] Marcb:
The applicatio that most consumes battery is Google Now... once you disable it and all the Locale options, you'll get a lot more battery...
[Nexus 4 General] lokoz89:
What do you think happened here? Never had this happen I just flashed illusion 2.1 and this happened. I had radio .24 on this ROM as I had never tried it and wanted to see how it performed. I thought it was due to the .24 radio so I switched it to .27 and it think it helped? It drained to about 35% so I charged it a bit
[Nexus 4 General] KtMack23:
But that's a flagship feature of the phone. IPhone users aren't disabling siri for better battery life. I'd just like to get through a full day with a decent amount of battery left without having to constantly tinker and tweak settings. Is that too much too ask? :mad:
[Nexus 4 General] gv231089:
From 95% to 12%. Facebook greenify.

Liquid smooth with Franco r163. Clocked at 1188mhz, hot plug threshold 100%. Now I will try per app settings.
[Nexus 4 General] wietse1988:
If you don't use google now, make sure location services is disabled. And voor G+ I would disable notifications. For the social media apps I disable all notifications, I'll update them manually. And if you hibernate battery guru, I don't think it can do his job. Just uninstall battery guru if you use greenify.
[Nexus 4 General] SurlyDuff:
I'm pretty happy with it overall. It's about a 20-25% improvement over my previous Galaxy Nexus, which was a 20-25% improvement over my Galaxy S i9000. I get usually between 3-4 hours of screen time in 15-16 hours, but I also frequently use location services like Latitude and now Google+, play music/podcasts on there for an hour or so of public transit (obviously not necessarily counting towards screen time), and play a game or two for a bit. So, all things considered, it's pretty good.
[Nexus 4 General] C4SCA:
Stock (for OTA purpose, 4.3 is coming hopefully) on wifi, auto brightness

Normal usage: music, youtube, mails, bit of gaming (rope escape),browsing chrome, some sms and 10min of phone call

typed from my NeXuS 4 beasting Matr1x kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] leiros:
wait what, I think I should reflash!
[Nexus 4 General] C4SCA:
Flashing stock via fastboot doing the format steps and flashing the image with "fastboot -w update (drag and drop .img file)" will do a perfect install of the OS = zero bugs

And only restoring apps data from games (using helium, uses adb to restote and backup, no need of root just a PC to enable it). Will keep your trasition to stock clean

I think stock only has one problem: heat wich can be solved with some undervolt and changing governors. IMO using a quad core phone in powersaving mode (dual core) is just non sense.

typed from my NeXuS 4 beasting Matr1x kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] jordonwii:
I consistently get about 14+ hours on rooted stock with LTE and generally very good signal, auto brightness, Google Now enabled, and generally pretty moderate use (FB Messaging, texting, etc.). Screen on time is only about 2 hours. It works, but I wish it were better since I got this two weeks ago and the battery's non removable... Is this pretty average?
[Nexus 4 General] favaroooo:
I bought a Nexus 4 yesterday and the battery was full, i've downloaded 600mb of data on Wi-fi and play 15 minutes with Iron Man 3 and those are the results
[Nexus 4 General] Akoolive:
Sent from my Nexus⁴ using unlimited HSPA+/lte
[Nexus 4 General] failly:
Is this normal guys?
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
Yeah that's pretty close to what I get...
[Nexus 4 General] fcb-1899:
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[Nexus 4 General] fcb-1899:
I'm pretty happy with my current set up, latest PA and matrix 10... This is what I get on average, 95% WiFi , using fb, whatsapp, instagram, chrome, Google plus and snapchat
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Well for non gamers, dual core @ 1ghz is still fast... Want 6hrs sot

Via my Iconia a200 using tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 4 General] C4SCA:
But 5h of sot on dual core and 5h of sot on quad core isnt comparable. On quad u do more things on that time...

typed from my NeXuS 4 beasting Matr1x kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] adichandra:
really happy with my battery life. cm 10.1.2 stable with matr1x 10.

trickster mod settings:

all undervolted 2 steps from default.

max cpu at 1ghz

vibration 30%.

i dont game on my phone, just 80% whatsapp and browsing, socmeds for the 20%.

the device is as fast as with max cpu at default but ill say it one more time, i dont do game on my phone.

nb. i use gapps banks minimal. so only playstore available when installed. then i dowloaded gmail, youtube and google keep. thats all i need. no google now, no google currents, etc.
[Nexus 4 General] hp13:
This is the best battery performance on my N4.

Used whatsapp, pocket, browsing, tapatalk and SMS and few calls.
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
Lte only .33 radio.
[Nexus 4 General] zevim2005:
why 3 hours just screen on on the end?
[Nexus 4 General] hp13:
I was reading pocket
[Nexus 4 General] AhmedFaiz:
Best SOT 5hr + consistently with matr1x kernel.

Can't wait for 4.3 on PA Rom with this kernel.

Tumbs up [MENTION=2677519]mathkid95[/MENTION]

Nexus 4

Rom - Paranoid Android 3.68(official build)

Kernel - *matr1x* v10.0
[Nexus 4 General] Nil253259:
Every night in a span of 6-7 hours my phone battery loses 6-7% of juice..I know it is not normal..But it is not expected as I do not stay on wifi or mobile data at night...I use greenify..what else should I do ideally? close all recent apps? any app to detect what is going on during that time?

I am on PA latest with AK-Faux hybrid kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] illhangon:
With a little gaming, music, and lots of wifi browsing.
[Nexus 4 General] micks_address:
im on stock rom - 4.2.2 usually take the phone off charge in morning, listen to music on way to work and browse the web.. send some messages etc.. and its usually down to 85% by the time i get to work an hour later.. i wish they could make battery life better as its the only downside with the phone for me!
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
1% per Hour battery Drop is normal..Nothing to worry about..
[Nexus 4 General] hp13:
Dude that's normal. Stop being paranoid :cool:
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Should have Quoted Nil253259 :D
[Nexus 4 General] californicated:
Got my N4 a few days ago and I'm loving it! One thing I noticed: The battery graph shows the screen being on for longer periods of time although it was turned off. Is there are explanation for that?

Using Stock rom + franco kernel. Maybe it's related to Touch Control?
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Anyone have an opinion on franco compared to matrix?
[Nexus 4 General] clockworkstop:
Matr1x is very stable and fast for me, battery could be better, but is very good! franco... well, let's just say I haven't to much of a good time with franco kernel
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Is here anyone using semaphore kernel?care to share your battery stats
[Nexus 4 General] RohanM:
Android 4.3 improvements detailed in video including big battery boost

Read Here
[Nexus 4 General] nerve_wrecker:
I actually find it not too bad but then again i'm not a heavy user.

Tried it out under heavy usage over the weekend and it did drop quite a bit but in all fairness I started with approx 60% life.

Charged it up till 100% Sunday and left it idle yesterday. Sent a few text messages, browsed the internet via wifi for approximately 5 minutes and had over 60% still.

Today I have been texting quite a bit and currently stand at 21%. It vibrates everytime I hit a button so that sucks the juice.

No other apps, stock wallpaper (bubbles) and one home screen in use.

I use the battery widget by JH Jeong though.

Will post a screenshot when I get home from work if I can find the time.
[Nexus 4 General] hp13:
really excited. you think they will post the image on their site? or in few weeks?
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
Damn that battery life is what I'm looking forward to
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
When is 4.3 out

Via my NeXus⁴ using Tapatalk² app
[Nexus 4 General] Rohit02:
Most probably tommorow at the Google event but it will come to your device in next week depends..:)
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
4-6 hours to 25hrs of usage...
[Nexus 4 General] Cjshino:
Wow some of you guys are very lucky with battery life. I tested out Matr1x for awhile and the most i got was 4 hours of screen time with 14+ battery with medium usage and I guess its not that bad but some of you have crazy results. I also have wifi turned on, no mobile data, screen brightness at 15% and No Syncs with any app, also greenify some apps.

Im currently testing Franco Kernel and I can feel the same results but the performance is not as good as matr1x so i may go back to that if franco doesnt improve...or may try Faux or Trinity..
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Got 4.3 on mine battery is so much better will post a pick when my nexus dies
[Nexus 4 General] razball:
4.3 is unbelievable on battery life I took my phone off charge at 90% and its at 78% with 53 mins sot
[Nexus 4 General] nithin1992:
Someone whose on 4.3 post screenshots of battery life pls. Hopefully its actually improved as specified by Google
[Nexus 4 General] Sukhi:
Yet it is...i was able to achieve close to 5hrs SOT with the stock kernel on the leaked 4.3. The official release should be even better
[Nexus 4 General] BoneXDA:
So quick drainage might not be S4 Pro related after all? Really, really, really hoping for solid battery life on the new Nexus 7, also sporting the S4 Pro.
[Nexus 4 General] Sukhi:
I have been testing them all and here is my order of preference wrt to battery juice.

1. Joker

2. Matrix

3. STS

4. Trinity

5. Franco (used to be no 1 until r134)

6. Faux

The results may vary from individual to individual and you may choose whatever fits you the best.

Stick with the stock settings on the Matrix kernel or try wheatly gov with SIO scheduler. You can easily achieve 5hrs SoT (1day 10hrs usage)with all day sync(gmail, hotmail, contacts), 2g mobile data, wifi, auto brightness, facebook, browsing. As a matter of fact, i OV +25v on the matrix stock frequencies and i just dont use greenify at all.