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[Nexus 4 General] Ro0tMan:
I think that should be the thing , you see the same thing happend with Nexus1 .. giving problems all the time ( cuz of kernal ) .. after few optimizations , everything start going very smooth and very nice.

With CM10 the drain battery is slower , si somewhere in the code is the problem. :good:

Ofc , dont think that if u turn wifi , GPS , widgets etc etc OFF this will be a solution...it can solve you for the moment , but you still need the proper update .

Same with the screen colors , with the calibration of the temperature on the device , with the frozzing moments etc.

Cya
[Nexus 4 General] AssassinFuze:
Sorry I didn't respond for a few days. I lost all my ringtones (stock ringtones and notification tones, etc) and cached music. All my pictures were still intact, I don't have any music saved on my phone so I can't speak to that. However, I would have been ok to lose all that stuff since you can put it back on later. My battery life is pretty good now.

Did this end up working for you??
[Nexus 4 General] Zmydust:
This is the type of battery life I am getting, can anyone help? Less than 3 hours of screen time , 9-10 total hours, very very moderate use. Stock 4.2.1 with minimal apps installed.
[Nexus 4 General] jvbferrer:
Mine is the same...
[Nexus 4 General] AssassinFuze:
I've seen a couple different reasons to why battery life is so bad. Mine was bad because the Media Server was essentially keeping my phone awake. To verify this, I used GSam Battery Monitor and saw the *wakelock* was running constantly. So I cleared my Media Storage and it's been great since... to do this you go to Settings > Apps > All > Media Storage > Clear Data

All of my pictures were fine, my cached music from Play Music was deleted and had to be re-downloaded, and all of the ringtones and notification tones that came on the phone were gone. I downloaded Zedge to replace the tones, I'm not sure about stored music, but you can download that back on later.

I hope this helps!!
[Nexus 4 General] -juanito-:
ROM - ParanoidAndroid 2.99 betaSEVEN

Kernel - *Matr1x* v2.0
[Nexus 4 General] Zmydust:
What is going on here
[Nexus 4 General] GuyverV:
It's just my general impression of the battery life over the course of two weeks. Not meant to be scientific in the least
[Nexus 4 General] Serious_Beans:
Using Francos latest r11 with stock ROM

A lot better than stock.
[Nexus 4 General] GuyverV:
I'm really trying to hold off on rooting for now. I used matr1x kernel for a while before I had this phone. Maybe i'll try that or Franco
[Nexus 4 General] nighthawk626:
simply put, battery is god aweful. if you dont touch the phone, battery is perfect but the moment the screen is on and you start using it for something such as internet, it becomes unbearably hot, both front and back hot as hell, batter skips 10-20% in matter of minutes. last time i had this type of aweful experience with a battery was htc sensation. and its so messed up that the battery isnt even removeable because i wouldve been looking for an extended battery
[Nexus 4 General] dwang:
I actually think screen on time is pretty good. On wifi, I can get 40 minutes of screen on time per 10% of battery.
[Nexus 4 General] Soundchasr:
Battery is poor for me. At 2:00pm with minimal use, I was at 40% and that's with using a battery saver program. My S2 could go well into the evening.
[Nexus 4 General] inseconds99:
The phone seems to have good standby but as soon as I start using it when to just internet surf it losses battery like crazy. Just took it off a 3 hour full charge and in 30 second of looking at the xda app it lost 1% battery. Screen is almost at the lowest brightness. I'm pissed. Nothing else running, fresh restart.
[Nexus 4 General] Maxermus:
So I have had my phone for about 3 weeks now and after getting used to my phone I have to say I am very happy with it... I was worried at the start but as the shine has worn off and my need to be on this thing as much as possible my battery is now lasting for the things I need it to do.

I live and work in area's with WiFi but recently spent the weekend out of town and phone charge state never had me worried and I took photo's and spent a bit of time surfing as well.

Some peoples expectations are quite high for this device which I suppose accounts for all the disappointment. I am a happy customer and loving my Nexus ::D
[Nexus 4 General] jarjar124:
What's the average charge time for you guys? Do you leave it overnight? I'm just curious
[Nexus 4 General] Younggun123:
My charge is about 2 1/2 x 3 hours ( from 0). But most days I just leave it over night.
[Nexus 4 General] Maxermus:
I leave mine on overnight if its less than 50% as I know that will at least last me through the day till get home and can charge it then.

Only every charged mine from the wall adapter for what its worth and usually its how I charge all my phones... don't think I ever did my Motorola from USB ever.
[Nexus 4 General] h.nocturna:
What time did you start your day? If you started at 6:00am, that's not terrible though it could be better. I would try uninstalling the battery saver app. Applications like Juice Defender sometimes use more battery because the power needed to reconnect to a tower is significantly higher than maintaining the connection. Especially if you turn the screen on for 1s just to check the whether or something and need to unlock the screen. My GSII (Hercules) used to be good from about 5:00am - 7:00pm, but I can do 5:00am - 11:00pm on the N4 with the same usage. Also, I would download a battery monitor application to make sure the phone is going to deep sleep, if not, that will kill your battery.
[Nexus 4 General] cellem:
I get around 3 or 3,5hours on nexus4 and I used to see 5-6 hours on s3,same usage mostly on wifi and both in auto brightness setting.. I love this phone but battery needs to get some attention from Google :)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] radii:
Battery Life Help

Hi Guys,

If I charge my Nexus 4 to 100% (with the device off), and leave the device off for 12 hrs and then turn it on, the battery level is coming at 70%, i.e. a 30% drop in battery with no usage. Is my battery faulty- please can you advise? Any suggestions- is this normal or should I get the handset replaced? I'm really disappointed with this nexus 4.
[Nexus 4 General] h.nocturna:
Charge it with the phone on and see if it's in USB* mode or AC mode (settings > battery). If it's in USB mode, that's likely your problem. It has to do with the AC adapter being faulty and stopping the charge half-way through. Reseating the adapter should resolve the problem, but if it persists, I would get a replacement.

*Sometimes it will start in AC mode and then flip to USB mode sometime down the line, so keep checking every hour or so.
[Nexus 4 General] J1zzo:
Dunno what some people do but battery life is amazing and standby times too

All stock out of the box!

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] nighthawk626:
well i just got the second nexus 4 in the mail so ill see how that **** goes
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Better battery stats, msm.otg @66% and pm892eoc 7.7% in kernel wakelock

I think using avast security and lots of 3d launchers are draining my battety

74%battery left after 12.5hrs used. ..not too good...25% brightness
[Nexus 4 General] SUPERNUMBER:
I can easily get 9 hrs of light usage. Not bad, imo.
[Nexus 4 General] ratm183:
Here are my stats. This is with everything on, GPS,WiFi, bluetooth,nfc location services, latitude. 10 hours on data, the rest on WiFi. I'm on the CM 10.1 build from 12/9
[Nexus 4 General] [chris b]:
I can get through the day on battery so I'm happy with that but I have a bug with apps accessing GPS even though I have GPS satellites unchecked in Location Access settings.

The first few times it was after using maps but this morning I woke up to find Lookout Security had been accessing my GPS while I was asleep and had drained 5% of the battery.

The only way to stop these apps locking onto the GPS is to reboot the phone.

Anybody else have this problem?
[Nexus 4 General] ArtG818:
With 30 min gaming , constant texting , browsing, facebook ,instagram email etc stuff like that not really impressed but whatevers:) tho my sgs3 does better job w/o juice defender .
[Nexus 4 General] ArRaY92:
I still cant understand how anybody can beat 3h screen time... I can get to about 3:20h with wifi and phone in flight mode, but that is the highest I ever reached..
[Nexus 4 General] radii:
Thanks for your reply it is charging in AC mode. I'll try and get a replacement
[Nexus 4 General] qwahchees:
I average out at 3 hrs to 4 hrs generally. Trying faux's kernel but updated to see if I can hit 4 regularly.
[Nexus 4 General] jaju123:
Wait for key lime pie and project roadrunner. Should be epic battery improvements then!
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
I can pull off about 4 hours with Wi-Fi, Franco's, everything syncing.

That was a hoax, project roadrunner was never announced...
[Nexus 4 General] jaju123:
Neither was android key lime pie (yet)!
[Nexus 4 General] late8:
I agree !

I agree! - So much so Im seriously thinking of replacing the phone with a S3 or HTC. :mad:

You have to disable EVERYTHING just to get decent battery. WTF is the point of that ? ? ? ?

Nexus 4 is not as good as it was all made out.
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
I'm also contemplating the same. But I think it's probably safe to say that we need to give it one or 2 more OTA updates to see if there is anything they can do about the terrible battery life. If by then it doesn't seem like things are going to improve (or match the Galaxy Nexus with 2000mAH batter), then I think I will look elsewhere.
[Nexus 4 General] zookalicious:
50% battery life so far with over three hours of screen time and eleven hours since I unplugged.

Stock everything, screen brightness set to auto and mostly texting, calling, Skype, reddit, Web browsing, and forum browsing (All on WiFi)

All I did was disable location polling in maps, and disable Google currents / magazines / movies. No other modifications.

I'll update at the end of the day. Trying to see if I can hit six hours of screen on. It's really hard to kill this thing!

Will post screens in a second. Xda app isn't letting me. (as an aside, anyone else notice that the xda app is absolute ****?)
[Nexus 4 General] droidd3v:
11 hours and 28minutes on Battery. Now @ 25%.

Display on for 1h, 34 min

wtf is media server? it's eaten 10% of the battery and I've not played a single song through Play Music. (did play a minute or 2 or Youtube though)

AND; Completely off topic:

which is the app you guys use to take screenies? I'm on stock without root.
[Nexus 4 General] eep2378:
You don't need an app or root to take screenies. Just hold down volume down + power button at the same time :)
[Nexus 4 General] robstunner:
My biggest drain is from launcher. 23% in gsam
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
How u upload pic from xda app? Is it possible
[Nexus 4 General] ntt1409:
This is so good bro!!! My best SOT is 3h. with Location, GPS on, sync Facebook, yahoo, dropbox, skype, email are on, 2 google accounts with the same setting: disable magazine, movies, currents, photos, drive, sound search. The mystery "Media Server" drains my battery like crazy although i dont turn on music or camera app. no idea what happened with mediaserver :confused::confused::confused:
[Nexus 4 General] undercover:
You cannot upload pic via app if you editing post, only on initial posting.
[Nexus 4 General] ssnr:
My battery was pretty bad -ish or okay. Then I flashed to the Matr1x kernel and the battery life pretty great. Played some games ,video record, text and listen to music. Easily last the whole day and it also reduced the amount of heat my phone gets while doing smiple task like browsing the web.
[Nexus 4 General] versd:
has anyone under clocked to 1ghz? notice any improvements?

things seem just as snappy at 1ghz
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
Does juice defender ultimate work on nexus4?
[Nexus 4 General] js2021:
This is with 3:22min screen time
[Nexus 4 General] lafrad:
Screen time of 2 hours and a bunch more time to go. The flat spot is a confused reading from an hour outside at -3C

Not quite as good as my gsm galaxy nexus with extended battery, but more than enough if I'm not I full brightness.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] TopazUser1:
This is the only reason why I want to root and rom. But i dont want to worry about bugs so im holding off. It's kind of ridiculous that the OS is not optimized for battery. My girls iphone5 has a hell of a battery. I took it to work one morning listening to music on an auxiliary cable in the car, after about an 1-2 hours of driving that thing still had 100%. I got home that night and it still had %40 left. WTF google. ios is **** tho.:p
[Nexus 4 General] JumplnTheFire:
This is after moderate WhatsApp usage/an hour long movie on YouTube/a bit of web browsing and Facebook/a half hour of Soundcloud running in the background.

Brightness is set to auto and is varying from around 1/4 to 1/2.

Using francos kernel.

All I can say is that I'm not very thrilled with the battery life :(
[Nexus 4 General] c1umsyb3ar:
I'm getting the same problem with my media server... I tried clearing everything but it's still killing me lol
[Nexus 4 General] twolfekc:
Love the battery life when on WiFi. Hate it when its running off of the mobile network!!
[Nexus 4 General] Ensifolk:
My battery life sucks, when i start touching this beast my battery starts to drop and drop....im on 20 mins of screen on and 11 % are already gone....no google now and location services are all off....anyone can suggest anything ? Is it possible that the phone is faulty ?
[Nexus 4 General] :
Mine's great, completely stock.

Sync On, Autobrightness on

4hrs screen on time

40 hrs stand by

:)
[Nexus 4 General] Ensifolk:
How can i achieve ur record ? My main concern is that do i have a faulty device.
[Nexus 4 General] jaju123:
WiFi battery is epic... Mobile data battery sucks so bad....
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Ten minutes off charger, three minutes on screen time.. And already down to 97%.. Not acceptable!
[Nexus 4 General] Barguast:
Just to add my own brief comment, my phone has been off charge for about 11 hours now, with a day of moderate use. I'm currently on 18%. Not outstanding performance, but it's enough for me for usual day-to-day use. I have a feeling the battery stats may be inaccurate at this point too, so it'll be interesting to see if my, and others, battery drainage reduces over time.
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
I've read that a lot of the times batteries actually stop charging at 96% for their health in the long run, the 97 to 100% is cosmetic. That's why you will see a quick drop like that, I would wait until you really run down the battery before you make a decision.
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Ahh I was planning not to mod this phone but I might end up having to for battery life.. But we'll see. Maybe it's just Android 4.2 cuz even the battery life on my Nexus 7 has gone down since I updated. Hopefully they optimize Android again.
[Nexus 4 General] tpboi:
The battery on my nexus 7 is great with Franco kernel. Guess I will have to do the samething when it's out.
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Does rooting, unlocking bootloader, and flashing a different kernel mean I'm gonna have to do a manual update every time a new version of android comes out? Or will I receive it like normal through Google OTA?
[Nexus 4 General] TonyHoyle:
The first two don't affect it (as long as you keep the stock recovery). The third would probably break the OTA, but the day a new version comes out there's pretty much always a thread with a flashable version anyway (and since OTAs can take weeks to arrive, you get to upgrade quicker :p).
[Nexus 4 General] Stadsport:
It was normal auto-brightness the whole time for me. Don't assume.
[Nexus 4 General] jameslfc5:
Not impressed with the battery so far :(
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
I never understood how some people can have such amazing battery life compared to me even though we have the same exact phone -___-
[Nexus 4 General] MyronJ906:
I only let mine go down to about 7% and I just plugged it in. I predict I would have had about 4 hours screen time just texting, browsing Reddit, downloading/setting up a few apps, took a few pictures and I took a single brief call.

I did have a single random reboot, but you know what? 4 hours on stock kernel with autobrightness. Not the best but...I'll take it :D

Obviously the screen time will be lower if there is more idle time. On the flip side there will be more overall time with less screen time.
[Nexus 4 General] marshalex:
WiFi has been on all day. Live in a poor signal area so don't really get any signal at all which usually hammers the battery. Down to 25% now after being in the pub with no WiFi connection and poor signal. 2h 50 screen time
[Nexus 4 General] Nickel Dime Bay:
First charge from full to about 4% on par with my other phones. Should get better after this.
[Nexus 4 General] astalavista_thes:
It's easy. You are not using the phone the way they do.
[Nexus 4 General] timskyline86:
Playing a game for a few minutes. Texting. 30min worth of phone call. And surfing the web on HSDPA. About 7 speed test and messing with Google maps

Past 6hrs with battery monitor
[Nexus 4 General] theguitarman94:
Oh dear that's not good. It's bound to be a software bug. I'm sure it will be fixed in the next update/new kernel. No way a 2100mah battery should be getting less than a day with moderate to light use.
[Nexus 4 General] vinnyutd6899:
15 mins of calls

50 texts sent and received

web browsing.

facebook and twitter apps.

6% battery left
[Nexus 4 General] Capt.PP:
I'm disappointed N4 can't make it through 24 hours on moderate usage. No one have shown test results on battery life from 100% - 4% straight after playing games. Make sure you have Google's Now, Wifi, GPS, Sync, and Location lock all turn off before you do the tests or atleast stated what you had turned on.

Have you try turning off all the stuffs I mentioned above before testing your battery life? After you tried out this method but still have Android System over 9%, than I would advice you to return your phone to get your N4 replace.
[Nexus 4 General] mgorman:
Still going strong
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
What's location lock? I turn off WiFi and GPS when idk not using it. I have auto sync on for things like gmail, contacts, calendar, play music, chrome. I never enabled Google Now.
[Nexus 4 General] nyijedi:
If you want to sum it up quickly, this.
[Nexus 4 General] z3nith66:
How about only using 2G, is there a significant improvement over 3G?
[Nexus 4 General] jmejiaa:
How are charging times for people? Mine is super slow even though my phone says it's on ac and not usb like others
[Nexus 4 General] MaxCarnage:
I've been very happy with my charging time; it's been a huge improvement over my last phone.
[Nexus 4 General] shotta35:
Got about 1day 8hrs yesterday. Can't get screenshots but i'd say it's "moderate" usage in that i had 3hrs+ on Display and 2hrs on Voice Calls. Barely used WIFI which is LESS power hungry than HSPA+. At this point the 14% warning came up.

Got my phone on December 6th so basically a week now with it. Battery seems to be getting better :D

Right now i'm at 1d 2hr 1m 10s on battery with 3hr 13m 50s on display and voice calls only being 28mins 3s. So i'll expect this to last till the end of the day as i'm at 31% now.

(i'll try posting screenshots later once i'm back to my phone :p)

Google Now is ON also, just went into Maps and turned OFF all the location stuff and it's fine :)
[Nexus 4 General] Ensifolk:
Guys plz I need major help. I cant bypass 1:30 hrs of on screen time. My battery drains like crazy seriously. Google now and location services are off. Had the same apps running on previous phones with no such drain....what could be it ? What can i do ?
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
I'm guessing there will be, but that will just suck, as I'm used to always having my galaxy nexus on 3G.
[Nexus 4 General] m0h1t:
Get BBS and LBE securicty

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1422479

Use BBS to figure out the battery hog and use LBE Sec disable app auto-start

I recommend LBE Sec because it has lot of other good uses too

I'm getting about 3.5 hours of screen time
[Nexus 4 General] z3nith66:
I used to switch to 2G on my S3, when not actively using it. You still get notifications and chat works perfectly. And I'd only enable 3G when I needed some browsing or whatever.

So it could be a good way to save battery.
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
I see your point perfectly, it just sucks to have to do so many things to squeeze screen on time out of this phone. With my galaxy nexus, it was just use it, put it down, use it, put it down. No worries, everything on auto (except wifi I'd keep off until I got home). With this phone I'm switching brightness to almost minimum, turning off location stuff, turning off bluetooth, switching from 3G to edge. I didn't realize how nice it was to have a phone that didn't require that until now.
[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
This phone definitely outlasts any Galaxy nexus
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
Sorry my friend, but my galaxy nexus on 4.1.2 certainly lasted longer than this phone does. I did have the 2000 mah battery though, but that's still 100 MAH less than this phone.
[Nexus 4 General] twolfekc:
Yeah there is. I'm using edge when I don't need fast internet. Then when I need it I'll just pull down my notification drawer and switch it back to 4g!!
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
How do I post a picture from xda app? Thx

:eek::eek::p:p:cool::D:(:D:p
[Nexus 4 General] Spunky_Monkey:
See the little camera icon on the bottom of my screen shot? That's what you're looking for.
[Nexus 4 General] cobyman7035:
no i don't see that camera icon, i don't have ANY icons , i have the xda premium version

i had to do my picture manually linked

i did a screenshot,sent myself an email and did the img tag link on my desktop computer

is that good battery?
[Nexus 4 General] ksc6000:
It's decent for this phone. But you're on wifi, so it's nothing special.
[Nexus 4 General] Scoutamis:
My screen has been on for 14 minutes and my battery dropped 20%. Thats surprisingly terrible

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[Nexus 4 General] Dragooon123:
Must be something wrong on one or the another, mine gnex definitely had much crappier battery life than my N4. How much are you getting on both?