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[Nexus 4 General] plasticarmyman:
Actually had more usage....at least 1.5 hours of Facebook...1.5 hours of Hulu+...a small amount of gaming...this was slightly lower than average

Axiom + Matr1x 9.5....auto brightness...mostly WiFi...and it was on while I was sleeping...it was a good day...hoping for the same tomorrow
[Nexus 4 General] p.pavljasevic:
What do you think of this. I am running all stock and everything is on except gps and bt.

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Pretty happy. Auto brightness, ALOT of browsing.
[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
What is the best combination for data on all the time. Right now using franco and aokp
[Nexus 4 General] Mr.Mischief:
Had anyone noticed a difference in battery life between the white and black Nexus?
[Nexus 4 General] nitrouzoxide:
I'm using CM10.1 RC5 with franco r155 kernel..

on wifi most of the time, except when i'm out of office or home, using 3G

my settings are :

- auto brightness on

- auto syncing some google stuff

- some social networking application such as : LINE, wechat, whatsapp messenger are all on

- reading novel using moon+ reader app

- greenifying some troubling apps..

and here's my result :
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Wow! Nice, what apps did you greenify?
[Nexus 4 General] nitrouzoxide:
Just some apps like facebook, twitter google maps, outlook (because i only use gmail for mail push)…i didnt use my phone for gaming, thats why my battery could last that long…

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] aeoveu:
The other day, I hadn't used my phone much and got this consumption.

Look at the battery drain percentage pet hour.

And we don't have 3g here... And edge means the radio is active for a longer period than 3g or WiFi (which I hadn't used either).

sent from my upgraded mini tractor.
[Nexus 4 General] madmike413:
Liquid smooth 2.5 and franco 143 linro tool chain same settings I posted earlier in this thread.
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
I managed to squeeze alot more out of my battery. Downloaded lux brightness and set at auto, greenify'd a few apps.

Wifi on the whole time, about 4 hours heavy browsing, 1hour downloading and trying apps/games from playstore. About an hour of this time was at night in complete darkness so brightness was extremely dim - but viewable. Put it on airplane mode whilst i slept, didnt even drop 1% lol.

CM latest stable + franco latest nightly
[Nexus 4 General] snak3ater:
Really Great SOT even after such a heavy use :good:
[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
Which browser do you use, Chrome is very hungry :D
[Nexus 4 General] The_Journeyman:
All stock. No root. No greenify, no juicedefender, nothing. always with 3g on, a couple of hour on wifi and one night in airplane mode. Also 2 hours of vocal calls.

So i think that the battery drain problem is in fact Chrome, because without using it it lasts a lot more. Hope that they can fix it via software update.
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
I use sleipnir browser :cool:
[Nexus 4 General] ufo900:
PA 14th June + franco r151

3google account

Facebook

twitter

Instagram

Whatsapp

All autosync, nothing greenified, auto brightness

-100 mV

I'm gonna try Franco r143 to see differences
[Nexus 4 General] Codrea:
do you mean cm RC 5? :D which franco kernel do you use bro? please more spesific :D
[Nexus 4 General] jimbohurt:
Hey bro, few questions if you dont mind. Can you greenify maps? I feel like that thing kills me. And what makes luxo better than just normal auto brightness. Thanks man
[Nexus 4 General] Dark_AJ9:
Hynnad V1 Carbon + AirKernel 9, UV -50

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[Nexus 4 General] saniyal:
Mine akop full data and everything on with Franco kernel r 156
[Nexus 4 General] gv231089:
Using liquid smooth 2.5 with faux 015m kernel.
[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
Stock+franco, UV by 150, UC at 1Ghz, no GPS, no sync, grenify, there is no apps which cause wakelock or drain the baterry. I was using data most of the time, low luminosity. I dont know what is wrong...

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[Nexus 4 General] Nplus1:
The first few days after I got my Nexus 4 I was very happy with its power efficiency during idle. I was getting 0% battery usage during the night (6-8h on idle), or at least that was what the graph kept showing me. Regardless of how accurate or inaccurate the power consumption graph is, I actually felt the phone had good a endurance, with percentages steadily dropping, proportional to usage.

Lately I'm struggling to reduce the wakelocks that make my phone lose 3-4% during the night (in the same conditions as before, when I had 0% drop in idle: GPS ON, network location ON, 3G ON, mobile data OFF, Sync OFF, NFC OFF).

First I noticed a lot of PhoneApp wakelocks, even with little or no phone calls. I managed to find the source: DashClock Contact Extension.

Then I had AlarmManager on top of my wakeclocks so I got rid of DashClock altogether (I figured it's because I set DashClock to show the next active alarm).

Then I had the famous Nlp wakelock that made the battery constantly decrease even in idle. Just unlocking it and checking the email in K-9 over Wi-Fi meant -2%.

I tried manually updating Play Store to 4.1.10 (I did not get the auto update for some reason) but no improvement in Nlp wakelocks. Then I manually updated Google Play Services to latest version (which again did not update automatically), force closed Maps, Google Services and rebooted - no result!

Finally I got tired of this bullsh*t and uninstalled the crappy Google Play Services with their crappier "optimized" network location services.

I'm currently running the default version of Google Play Services that came with the phone, instead of Google Play Services I get "NetworkLocationService", I have GPS ON, Network/Wi-Fi location ON, Location ON for Google Apps also, Wi-Fi ON and with all this, after 6-7h of ilde: 0% drain!

Of course, turning the screen on after 6-7 hours makes the battery drop 1-2% pretty fast, but to me this shows that the phone was actually sleeping long enough not to update the battery status.

The NetworkLocationService does give some wakelocks also, activating the Wi-Fi from time to time, but it's WAY better than Nlp.

Bottom line: you guys could get better sleep times just disabling widgets like DashClock and reverting to the default Google Play Services.

I'm strictly referring to STOCK Nexus 4 since I have not installed any custom ROM.
[Nexus 4 General] defffizz:
Just one question guys, my phone is always on full brightness and 3g data. I get about 2+ hours on screen time. Is this ok? I really don't like auto brightness and currently no wifi options.

N4, Paranoid Francoid
[Nexus 4 General] resynx:
For full brightness and always 3G, I would think that's not bad.
[Nexus 4 General] DrunkFuX666:
That's quite normal... Screen brightness is the biggest drain followed by data connectivity... If your on Full Brightness and 3G the Battery will surely drain fast...

Sent from my Nexus⁴
[Nexus 4 General] Tom540:
You make a good point, but I like dash clock and would rather use it and run down the extra couple of percent.

I mean, losing an extra 3-4% over 7 hours for a widget I really like is a trade off I'm willing to make - I've always preferred to enjoy my phone and have to constantly bump charge it than be worried all the time about minor wakelocks.
[Nexus 4 General] BrutalGreen:
yup I laughed
[Nexus 4 General] Nplus1:
I totally agree regarding DaskClock. The big problem is with the recent versions of Google Play Services which increase the wakelocks without bringing any noticeable improvement to the user.
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
Jellybeer 4.31
[Nexus 4 General] PJcastaldo:
If your getting phone idle in you battery consumption list then your barley using your device.. Just saying.

Anything over 3 hours of sot mixed up with 12 hours off the charger is good..
[Nexus 4 General] dclifford:
Hello,

I have just started trying to extend my battery life and have a question. I am on a t mobile s4 with a custom rom (wicked v4)and kernel (faux 3u). I did not see a battery thread in the s4 forums so hopefully this is an OK place to post it. In wakelock detector the program with the most instances is calendar storage. It has awoke my device 59 times by itself this weekend. I know you cannot use greenify on system apps but what could be causing my calendar to be that active? I barely have any events or reminders set up. Is there any way I can stop this or at least help to control it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
The donate greenify app allows you to hibernate system apps.
[Nexus 4 General] _Psyduck:
This is with basically everything (except for WiFi and Sync) turned off. I'm running CM 10.1 RC and Franco kernel. Mostly Reddit browsing, texting, and 4-5 application downloads.
[Nexus 4 General] Mr.Vain:
is it a big difference in battery usage if i use HSDPA or i limit it to GPRS ?
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Christ! Longest ive ever seen. What brightness you on? Do you greenify? Do you have facebook installed?
[Nexus 4 General] mfmtorres:
Long last, low usage

This is what I'm getting with low usage:

Franco R151. I don't know why, but if I switch to the R156 I don't get even 3h of screen.

Kaspersky, Skype, Wifi, HDSPA, Facebook, Whats App em Gmail always on. Location and google now disabled. No Greenify.
[Nexus 4 General] rest0ck:
Yes it is huge - I think the most noticable change is to set it to 2g only.
[Nexus 4 General] _Psyduck:
This is auto brightness. No facebook installed. I'm not sure exactly what greenify means, but I do remove apps from the tasker when I won't be needing them.

Other things I should mention are - Min CPU frequency is at 384 MHz, Max is 1350 MHz, using 'ondemand' governor, Max GPU frequency is at 400MHz. When the screen is off, the CPU is capped at 486 MHz... I/O Scheduler is set to NOOP.
[Nexus 4 General] Ace42:
LTE/HSDPA +. 1.62/162 Interactive -100mv, 600mhz GPU, faux 16tbm, .27 radio, Root box nightlies. Recently flashed the ROM, but 4hrs seems to be the bare min for me.
[Nexus 4 General] Gokh:
Stock ROM with franco 155, UC at 1ghz, UV by 150, all sync on, wifi, GPS, no battery optmizer app, first two with low luminosity, last one with max and 20 min of navigation using data.

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[Nexus 4 General] Mr.Vain:
is it right that if i use Wifi, the battery consumption is less than if i use 2g? Also in idle mode?
[Nexus 4 General] AsherChua:
This may not be applicable but is everyone's battery still good after months of the Nexus 4 being released? I'm actually considering the HTC one over the Galaxy S4 and similar to the Nexus 4, it has a non-removable battery. From some of the posts I've seen, everything seems great! Can anyone confirm this?
[Nexus 4 General] Qbsti:
I flashed Franco kernel milestone 2 yesterday, and I got mixed feelings. I got 3h sot, but with nearly 24h of standby time. Today results are definitely better, but not nearly as impressive as the 5 or 6h of sot I had on stock ROM after reflashing .img.

Running pa ROM with Franco milestone 2

swyped from my nexus 4
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Thats still awesome ^
[Nexus 4 General] ramkumar2000:
What to u mean exactly when u said "Stock ROM after reflashing .img".

i am currently on Carbon ROM+franco r156 and the battery is quite nice. it was a little better with r155. but i never got this much battery juice with stokc.

---------- Post added at 01:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:23 PM ----------

Seriously man thats awesome..longest battery use i have seen on N4..will try your settings to see if i can get that juice from ma battery.

By the way which franco version u are using..?
[Nexus 4 General] nextelbuddy:
what are you doing for 7 hours? do you really Read Reddit for 7 hours that keeps your screen on?

i'm just curious if you have 7 hours of on screen time but only really use reddit but looking at the reddit process which is only 6% what else are you doing to keep the screen on for 7 hours?
[Nexus 4 General] Nplus1:
As far as I see it, 6% is just the power consumption of the Reddit app itself (keeping the CPU awake, keeping an internet connection, etc), however having the screen on consumes a lot more - 57%. Supposing you just open Reddit and do nothing with it, but keep the display on, the Reddit app would show little to no power usage. That doesn't mean you're not looking at Reddit while the display is on.

Playing a high end game for example, would give the opposite result: the game process showing more power consumption than having the display turned on because keeping the CPU/GPU at high frequencies is a bigger hit on the battery than the display.
[Nexus 4 General] PJcastaldo:
So on AOKP with faux latest kernel .. Not really set for battery savings other than I'm using intellidemand.. But max freq is over 1900 MHz seeing just at 3 hours of sot. And that males me happy.. With the addition of greenify I've gotten sot to 3 1/3 hours sot with out sacrificing performance.. I just added juice defender to manage my data connections and such.. Hope to see even more sot..

I have everything on or being controlled automatically now.. Its pretty sweet.
[Nexus 4 General] AndroidKills:
As a heavy user, running PA w/ Franco's kernel (1188-384 conservative)

I feel that 10 percent is about an hour of use. So in 10 hours my phone would normally be dead or close to dead. I'm always checking my social activities like instagram/twitter/Facebook/etc and it drains my batteries like no tomorrow. I don't have time for games unless I'm next to a charger, so that's a bummer because I like playing games when I can.

Overall my impression of the batterylife is that it's just bearable.

Sent from my Nexus⁴
[Nexus 4 General] xxb4xx:
7 months of owning a Nexus 4, and I have to admit that it's a touch better than my Galaxy Nexus.

This is not a positive thing.

Battery life for me is dreadful, I take it off the charger at 7.00am,

*listen to music with the screen off to and from work (headphones) approx 50mins

*listen to music at work approx 2 hours (headphones)

*20-30 SMS's a day

*5 phone calls at 5 mins each on average

*approx 30 mins of reddit / web usage throughout the day

*Gmail is the only auto sync I have on.

I need to charge the phone by 6pm or it's screaming in pain
[Nexus 4 General] _Psyduck:
I am using 3.4.0 Milestone 2 of the Franco kernel, and I now have switched to the Stable (S) release of CM 10.1.0

You are correct. If I were to play a game like Subway Surfers (my fav) my maximum screen on time would be around 2-4 hours.
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Ive gone back to cyanogen last nightly, franco 156.

Heavy browsing, gaming with playstation emulator, and few youtube videos, wifi whole time, autobrightness
[Nexus 4 General] Aashrey99:
Ok, this is a stupid question and everyone seems to have figured this one out.

What is one charge cycle? Now ideally one charge cycle would mean charging the phone from 0 to 100 once. But with the new batteries we have in phones, battery memory is not a problem so the old 0 to 100 charging doesn't make sense. So when people say 'battery life improves over charge cycles', what do they mean?
[Nexus 4 General] Tom540:
Pretty sure it means charging from less than 30% to about 100%
[Nexus 4 General] davidsteele1975:
It's a full charge cycle, so, 50% to 100% is half a charge cycle...
[Nexus 4 General] zakoo2:
hello everyone!

so i thought id share my experience with you.

i was in hamburg for two weeks (i live in budapest), and i noticed that my battery life went TERRIBLE! it couldnt even last half a day with the kind of usage i do back home. i had to charge my external battery every day, so that i can get home with like 20-30% remaining.

i checked, and i was on hpsa+ network in hamburg when i had an active network traffic, however when there was no traffic, it only fell back to hsdpa instead of umts which is the case in budapest. im no networking expert, and as far as i know dc-hspa/hsdpa/umts use the same frequencies, they are only different protocols, so for me that logically states that one doesnt drain the battery more than the other... but in my experience it does.

and also, network signal in hamburg was not even comparable to that in budapest. there i had average -100dBm signal strength with a lot of signal losses, whereas in budapest the average is -65/-70dBm stable.

when i came back to budapest my battery life was like a dream, i got home at the end of the day with 50% remaining without having it charged during the day.

so that might be one of the causes why people get such various battery life. anyone can confirm this?
[Nexus 4 General] Aashrey99:
I've started getting bad battery life, consistently, across all ROMs/Kernels. When I got my Nexus 4, I stayed on stock for almost 3 weeks. I was getting pretty decent battery life (20+ hours, 3+ SOT) and then i started flashing ROMs just to check which ones I liked and find my daily driver. I must have flashed about 5 ROMs, one per day. Now my battery life is terrible (barely 14 hours, 2+ SOT), even when I revert back to stock it's not as good as the original stats I was getting.

So, is this a case of the crack flashers battery syndrome or just plain dumb luck or is my battery bad? I have no idea. Any suggestions to remedy this would be greatly appreciated. I'm running CM 10.1 with Matr1x 10 (regardless of what my sig says, haven't updated it yet).

PS: I don't have any wakelock issues. I use greenify but only on Facebook, I use Google services so I don't greenify any Google stuff.
[Nexus 4 General] Tom540:
For the first few days after flashing a ROM or kernel, youre going to have battery life. Stick with one you like for a week or so to get a real feel for battery life, but your setup you just mentioned should have great battery life.

So yeah, just give it a week or two :D
[Nexus 4 General] JaviLoL:
Hangouts app is draining my battery and hogging the cpu. I use it heavily, but gtalk didn't drain nearly as much.

Anyone else?
[Nexus 4 General] Aashrey99:
Can anyone comment ion the battery life of the RasJelly and RasSaber ROMs? No one seems to be posting stats with these ROMs.
[Nexus 4 General] ickwonder:
I'm on the latest rasbean and on Franco's M3 at default settings..the phone is only a week old but this has been my setup since day one...I work at home so I'm always on WiFi...plus my signal is not the best...
[Nexus 4 General] Aashrey99:
Wow this is great considering you don't get good signal!
[Nexus 4 General] zakoo2:
yeah, not bad. although signal loss is not as bad on wifi as it is on mobile network.

what network are you on? 2g or 3g? do you have google now enabled?

and i dont see any apps that drain the battery much, what were you doing in those 4 hours of sot?
[Nexus 4 General] Sukhi:
I am on Sabermod RC 4-2. Franco M3 all stock settings with -50 UV. Auto Brightness, Auto Sync; Gmail and Hotmail with 2G data. 1 hour of music and 15 mins of calls.;)
[Nexus 4 General] ickwonder:
I'm on hspa ..Google now is disabled I'll turn it on today and see how it goes...once the battery was drained it reached 5.5 hours of sot..from what I remember I just text, made a few calls, xda, YouTube, email and I do have sync on if that materrs. Also the occasional bank app and instgram but nothing too demanding...but coming from Verizon's gnex this is amazing
[Nexus 4 General] TA123:
Has anyone used wifi connection managers such as Better Wifi On/Off or CleverConnectivity, which autonatically turn on/off connection? Any good in terms of saving battery?
[Nexus 4 General] CyberDonky:
Nexus 4

I'm on Stock ROM, Android 4.2.2, Franco Kernel with undervolt -50mV and I got 4.30+ hour screentime auto brightness.:laugh:
[Nexus 4 General] Xeryon77:
PA3.60 + franco kernel :)
[Nexus 4 General] daewond3r:
CM10.1 Nightly 7/5 + faux kernel m17b01

This is the best battery life/screen on/performance I've ever experienced!
[Nexus 4 General] kurtyyyyyy:
Whats the average screen on time for an iphone? Just curious!
[Nexus 4 General] Lamerlengo:
I got a couple of iPhone in the past and all i can say is that the battery is rubbish.

N4 battery is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than iphone's

10 minutes of Real Racing 3 was 15-18% loss :eek:
[Nexus 4 General] Codrea:
Guys I know average of screen on nexus 4 is 4-5 hours. They only use wifi eh? I am using data connection and only can get 3hours screen on. Cm 10.1 stable and franco m3. Any one can get 4 hours screen on time with data connection?
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Here's a screenshot of the only apps I use/have enabled. On the second page I just have the YouTube app.
[Nexus 4 General] benrees21:
Don't know why people are getting crap battery life. I got 4 hours and 23 minutes screen on time with 14% left. You should always charge your phone fully before you turn it on for the first time!!!
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
I thought the whole conditioning a battery thing was a myth. How many hours total did you get on that single charge?
[Nexus 4 General] :
It doesn't work like that with modern batteries now. Still good to do, but not necessary.

As for your usage, is this over 3G or Wi-Fi?

I would contribute but my phone is currently without a SIM, in airplane mode and connected to Wi-Fi.
[Nexus 4 General] raikesy:
On my first charge I had pretty good battery, that is with everything enabled (including Google Now). I expect it to only improve with subsequent cycles :) (Not to condition the battery, I think I read the OS gets a bit more efficient after a couple of cycles - might be wrong)
[Nexus 4 General] jaZzyjeff818:
Lucky! I've never had good enough luck to get 4+ hours of screen-on time from any phone as it came stock. How do you do it?? What do you sync/have enabled/disable? For example I read somewhere that disabling Google backup/restore and location services helps.
[Nexus 4 General] raikesy:
I disable nothing. Everything is turned on. For me that translates as All Google services\products turned on and auto-sync, HAXSync syncing once per day, Whatsapp syncing & Dropbox upload turned on for both Wifi & 3G. I set my brightness to Auto, Screen timeout to 2 mins.

So yea, I take 0 steps to try to improve battery. :D
[Nexus 4 General] benrees21:
Wi-Fi. If i had not put it on charge I probably would of got 4 hours 50-55 mins screen on time. I always charge my new phones fully before turning them on for the first time, just a habit of mine lol.
[Nexus 4 General] cyberkid2002:
battery was a big thing for me... having previously had the pretty dire (in battery terms) GNex I was hoping it would be an improvement.

Whilst not groundbreaking I have been pleasantly surprised so far! Currently on my second charge and so far today have:

68% Left

9h 0m 11s on Battery

Screen On: 1h 37m 30s (32% of battery use)

Wifi-on

Should be heading for around 4h30m-ish screen on time over 24hrs (if not a little more!)... pretty acceptable
[Nexus 4 General] marshalex:
Not impressed so far, after a charge i'm on the following:

45% left

8h 49m 19s on battery

screen on: 1h 22m 48s (16% battery use)

Wifi-on

Most of my battery use is the Android OS, that's not right surely?
[Nexus 4 General] jordanadams86:
Batter life seems ok. Mine was at around 70% charge at 10:30 this morning and it's now 16:39 at 45%. Ive been using it all day, sending texts, browsing chrome, facebook and twitter.. Haven't made any calls though, but constantly checking google now and being impressed.

Brightness is at auto. HSPA and WIFI have been on all day. So has haptic feedback and sound.

hope this helps a bit.
[Nexus 4 General] mrianhimself:
What is the best thing to do with the phone's battery after I do my first power-on?

Charge it to 100%? Let it run out to shutdown?
[Nexus 4 General] johnavengers:
Have to wait some days to have a good idea of the battery life, but for now i'm a little bit scared...
[Nexus 4 General] :
Yep mines worst than what my One X was which is well scary... My S3 though is great for battery life. I was hoping for the same as that but so far its terrible.
[Nexus 4 General] DammedKiller:
It's a bit weird that Android consumes the 20% of the battery life. It should do around 5%. Maybe a non optimization issue?

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