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[Nexus 5 General] LRC1710:
I really need a phone that last thru the day, I know this phone won't have amazing battery life, but in every other aspect is the perfect phone for me, I already ordered my 32 gb model, and I also purchased a powerbank which is pocketable enough so i can carry with me when I know Im gonna be out for quite a while, I wish it had 3000 mah but man, the only phone that can beat the Nexus 5 is the LG G2 but ONLY if you install an AOSP ROM on it, but hey Im saving 250 bucks for getting the N5, and im also getting faster updates, so... yeah, not a deal breaker for me
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
what size power bank did you go with. i have a big 14,000mAh one, but have been thinking about getting one that's lighter and easier to carry
[Nexus 5 General] LRC1710:
this one http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Exte...TF8&qid=1383524933&sr=8-8&keywords=power+bank

fits in the pocket very easily even with tight jeans lmao
[Nexus 5 General] cutterjohn:
Wow! you can realistically and USEABLY surf the web on a phone?! Not to mention handling emails?!

I'd go nuts trying to do either with only a phone, as anything large/extensive(most of it) more or less requires SIGNIFICANTLY better input options than pecking a virt kb or swyping, esp. when swyping insists on replacing correct words with incorrect which then is another MAJOR PITA to go back and correct UNLESS you notice IMMEDIATELY.

As to talking. Well normally I'm by a landline or it's modern analogue(looks like a landline) and so use that.

GPS: chortle. GPS sends so many commercial vehicle the WRONG way down my dead end street that I don't even bother. Look at online maps for the general area, yes, rely on GPS for nav, no. GPS in vehicle while actually driving is just a useless distraction for me, as in may be inferred from sentence one I prefer to generally have a "feel" for the areas that I'm going to BEFOREHAND, or IOW enough so that I know that I've passed whatever locations I'm going to in the rare event that I don't find them right away anyways.

Send lotta text, use lotta data("4G" T-mo), talk few hours. Can get 2d useage between charges IF I have to although as a backup/just in case I try to remember to charge every night.

I just get the feeling that too many people try to use phones for things that they're just not good at, e.g. email. I cannot see any serious email exchanges being done purely by phones and the interfaces that they provide, kinda like this message, wouldn't happen with swyping or whatever or it would have a bunch of half-intelligible pseudo-abbreviations, and even then I really don't believe that it work in a meaningful fashion, even in a more relaxed venue like this. Doing business email from a phone with any complexity? You just want to make fatal mistakes don't you?
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
My S4 is giving me very good battery life, no way I'd downgrade in battery to the Nexus 5. Even though the N5 has better hardware of course. The screen difference can be argued either way which is better. I have become accustomed to the deep Plasma style blacks and vibrant colors with AMOLED.

Right now I get on average 5.5h to 6h On Screen time with my S4, with overall daily battery life in the 18 to 24 hour range. Just today I got 6h 40m On Screen time and 14 hours total battery, but that was on WiFi 90% of the day.

If the Nexus 5 gets the same battery life, then I will get one, after reading real XDA personal use. But I have a feeling it will be closer to Nexus 4 battery life, maybe a bit better in the 4h to 4.5h On Screen time range. But not the 6h On Screen time I am getting with the S4, but would love to be wrong here and hope the N5 does match that.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
thanks, i like it
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
Yup similar to nex4… sot times… with custom roms, kernels I'm sure ull get bettertimes

Via my Iconia™ A200 tablet using tapatalk²
[Nexus 5 General] mjskraju:
Where are you getting it for that price?, can you please provide me a link?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
480 'new' from ebay right now. maybe if you watch it for a while you could find one for 420. maybe not though, a lot of people were waiting on the N5 to see how it was before getting a G2, so maybe prices are going up. but i have heard that 420 price point thrown around a lot
[Nexus 5 General] mjskraju:
So, the prices should come down if that is the case, right?. Nexus 5 is already having super hit talk :good: hence all of those who are waiting should opt for Nexus
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
some people dont like the battery/camera/speaker/screen/color/buttons/benchmarks/their own reflection in the screen, so i think it would create an increase in demand in the G2. maybe not anything crazy, but at least a little.
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
The G2 is fantastic.
[Nexus 5 General] AmirDada21:
I've read KitKat 4.4 is meant to be really good for a lot of system optimizations and the battery life is one of them!
[Nexus 5 General] mjs2011:
Battery life on this phone is as good, if not better than my Galaxy S4 with the Zero Lemon 3000mah battery.
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
In actually quite pleased with battery life on the nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
I'm actually thinking of getting a nexus 5. currently I have an s4 rooted with slimbean. can't get 5+ hours SOT even with a custom kernel. although idle times are great. when I was using TW roms, I barely got passed 4 hours SOT.

however I think i'm over all that SOT stuff. I do some light browsing on my phone but thats about it. these days staring too long at a small screen really wrecks my eyes. as long as SOT is between 3-4 hours with good idle time, it should be enough for me
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
Hahahaha bull****. Post some screenshots;) if you get 5hr screen on time you are lucky. Now move on to s4 threads. Also keep in mind auto brightness levels on the n5 are set much higher than the s4 and even with a smaller battery the n5 is at par or even better. Imagine if auto brightness was set as low as the s4
[Nexus 5 General] [hfm]:
I get 5 hr on auto brightness, Google now enabled, all location services enabled. I also use Wi-Fi whenever I can, that helps.
[Nexus 5 General] ronii1123:
My iPhone 5s didn't last as long as my Nexus 5 is. I'm sort of happy I switched. I missed android so much!

The Battery is actually pretty nice, my old S4 would have hit 75 by now. The Nexus is around 87, but I just activated ART so we will see what the battery is after optimization.
[Nexus 5 General] the_v1s1onary:
I get about a full day with my usage and this includes:

Hammering out photos

Taking a couple 3 min videos

Wi-Fi On all day

Data not on

Using Google Now a couple times every hour

Various "work" apps like Google Drive, OpenOffice, and Keep

A few minutes of games (Temple Run and Superhexagon)

And most importantly NO CELLULAR SIGNAL THE ENTIRE DAY! Not on airplane mode either

In any case, this is great battery life for me and is definitely a step above my previous phone, the OG Evo 4G, so I am very content.
[Nexus 5 General] Z51:
What is art and how do I activate it?
[Nexus 5 General] vbcoderx:
Got my nexus 5 on the 8th, coming from a nexus 4. Nexus 4 battery would barely last all day. Nexus 5, has lasted 2 days of HEAVY usage with LTE! I stream pandora / google play all day, browse the web, etc. never had a phone with this great of battery life!
[Nexus 5 General] BmoreTHOR:
See I don't understand quotes like this. My Note 2 (3100 mAh) would last me all day and I'd throw it on the charger at night at around 30-35% left. My Nexus 5 lasts me about 6-8ish hours of my normal usage (emails, reddit, texting, music) before I have to charge it. Now I'm not complaining... I was expecting this but how can this guy claim 48 hours of "heavy" useage where I only manage 8ish?
[Nexus 5 General] vbcoderx:
How is your coverage? While home i'm on wifi. My router is very powerful and centrally located. While at work i'm on wifi, where I work is right beneath the access point. While out and about i'm on LTE, but I never drop below 4 bars of LTE. Out of the box, I charged my n5 to 100%, i forgot to hook it to the charger the night before, I did charge it last night though. Was around 30% last night when I started to charged it. Had an s3 before my n4, it had just as bad battery life as my n4.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
It depends on what heavy usage means.

The GRAM technology really works on the nexus 5, which means if u are viewing a lot of static non moving images, your battery is going to last a long time.

For example, i was reading an ebook this morning for an hour and 15 min and the battery only went down 5%.

The audio tunneling technology should also help save battery with music playing. I don't listen to music that much so I haven't really tested that out yet.
[Nexus 5 General] Manbot27:
Lies or severely gimping his phone (heavy underclock, disable Google now and location services,2g only, etc) even with this you're only going to get 2 days usage if you barely use your phone.

It's not like some people get magical batteries, the people who are claiming 2 days of battery life are not using the phone heavily.

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Unless I'm mistaken I'm pretty sure the Nexus 5 doesn't have Gram.
[Nexus 5 General] Alfablos:
How about downvolting and underclocking? Come on, do texting, calling, whatsapping, vibering, surfing and whatevering so usual need 2.3Ghz to work properly?? :D I guess not! Why do I have to make my Ferrari waste fuel accelerating to 100mph just 200mt before a red semaphore if I have so little of It?

When you need to "step up the game" you can always restore default values (if not enhance with an overclock) so you are cleared to land on heavy CPU usage apps, which certainly are NOT a message app or the phone app.

I guess there's no reason to complain about the little amount of energy google and lg gave us: let's see how we can handle it at best :)

We shouldn't need to do this if the phone were perfect, but apparently It's not :P

And FYI: No, I don't own a Ferrari :P
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
you are mistaken it does have gram.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com...will_be_a_battery_miser_thanks_to_new/cd5ktqf
[Nexus 5 General] donwhall70:
The first 3-4 days my N5 was on the charger at around 2-3pm.. Now it's lasting me most of the day... Not sure what happened but it's a night and day difference.
[Nexus 5 General] Manbot27:
I can't find anything outside of two reddit posts that says it has Gram. If it did why wouldn't they advertise it or have it in an official announcement?
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
moto x has PSR and they didn't advertise it. Who knows.

Here's a dutch reviewer that also states it has gram and tests the battery with and without it.

http://tweakers.net/reviews/3298/3/...-accuduur-weinig-capaciteit-veel-snufjes.html

one test had a countdown timer on the screen that effectively disables psr, the other test didn't have a counter on the screen and that enables the psr feature. You can see that battery life has increased by over an hour.

Plus, the reeddit guy points to the actual source code. If you can't trust the source code what can u trust?
[Nexus 5 General] Revthejedi:
Are you guys making assumptions based upon the size of the battery or are you actually getting poor battery usage stats on a Nexus 5. I'm getting over 4 hours of SOT with very aggressive brightness settings in Lux and "device only" Location settings. I don't use my phone for gaming on an average day but other than that I consider myself with a heavy user with lots of chrome/play music streaming/social networking and all accounts syncing.
[Nexus 5 General] ranadylt:
I'll still get it, because it's a Nexus phone :p

I have my Nexus 7 (2012) for gaming. In fact now as I'm writing this, I can't for the life of me figure out what have I ever used my phone for other than casual text messages :rolleyes:

I don't even do calls that much in my line of work.

I guess I just like upgrading my phone every once in awhile :angel:
[Nexus 5 General] Emama:
I don't wanna tune all day just to make sure my phone can run for a day, so NO I will not buy a 2300mAh N5.

However if it has a 3000mAh battery I will definitely get one in the first day
[Nexus 5 General] RXG9:
If LG put in a removable back/battery then the 2300mAh wouldn't be an issue. I don't understand why only Samsung does removable back/batteries.
[Nexus 5 General] thephantom:
2300 or 3000 won't matter much for me. Got chargers where I need them when I need them. Still getting the phone
[Nexus 5 General] toanau:
No go for me. That is the main reason why I got rid of nexus 4. The N4 is no of the best phone that I owned. Just can't stand the battery life. I tried every ROM and kernel out there
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Nope, I'm always carrying an anker 13000mah external battery pack with me to charge my sensation on the go.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
You are talking about nightly, I'm targeting stable. First CM10.1 stable got out in Jun 2013, More than 6 month after Google release. The it took addizionale month to get to the current (perfect) last stage of development.

Don't get me wrong, I love CM, but it take time!

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I'd stay with 4.7 hd in exchange of big battery life (and storage options).

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Battery nerds simply hope to have a phone that will not die wile travelling and have to do important business staff.

If the 2300 will be good for a full day heavy usage (I'm not a gamer) thanks to Google optimisation, I'll be first to say I was wrong.
[Nexus 5 General] twolfekc:
All depends on price point. If it's the same as it was last year when the nexus 4 came out, then hell ya! If not I'll probably stick with my s4 or One or even get a note 3. Time will tell
[Nexus 5 General] -A-P-M-:
I will get N5 for sure. I have one charger at home and one at company, so even if I use phone a lot, I can put it for one hour on charger in company. I usually charge it every night.
[Nexus 5 General] spacemanvt:
I agree 100x
[Nexus 5 General] george241312:
Battery life for me on the Nexus 4 was insane I could last 2 days the first day it will drop down to 60 percent and second day it would drop to 10 percent in the end of the day I'll still have 5 percent battery left that's my experience of the Nexus 4 however in reference to the Nexus 5 I think Google is just trolling us what I think they're doing is just realising rumors to see how the public respond and take action to what they desire.
[Nexus 5 General] Vicpdx18:
It wont really stop me, cause Hey I already own a HTC One with the same capacity and get 1.5 days out of it so the N5 or HTC One Maxx is on my list for my next phone!
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
You obviously did not use your phone much despite what you might tell us. I am sure your did not get a special Nexus 4 that behaves different then everyone else's N4.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
I'll buy it, but won't be happy. On one hand you could say wait for battery stats, the SD800 is an efficient beast after all, on the other hand, when everything else is flagship, why not have flagship battery size, it's barely an extra cost or thickness, and we know how fast Nexus phones drain.

It can have the most miraculous power saving technology, and the 2300mAh battery still could've been 3000.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
One hour screen on per day?
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
I had the Nexus 4, but dropped it and shattered the glass back. No way I could that kind of battery life, unless on weekends with little On Screen time.

Anyways, I had the stable version of CM10.1 running on it, with a battery friendly kernel, I used Greenify to stop battery draining apps, and always left GPS off, and sync was off on everything. Point being I had settings to be the most battery friendly as possible.

I would get 4h On Screen time, but total battery usage of only 10h to 12h on a workday. The Nexus 4 would never last a full workday for me, never. Always in the red with 15% left by end of the workday, and not enough to keep going during the evening. Typical workday usage was 2 hours of phone calls per day, GPS / Navigation for an hour a day, send receive around 50 texts a day, surf the web for couple hours total per day, send receive several e-mails per day. And the Nexus 4 would be drained by 4:30pm.

Now the only phone that could handle that kind of heavy workday usage was the Note 2, I could hammer that beast all day long, and still have plenty of juice at bedtime 10:30pm. Some of my clients have the new Droid MAXX phone, and they use it as heavy as do, on it all day long, non stop with phone calls, e-mails, texts, web surfing, two guys with the MAXX said they go to bed and the phone still has like 40% battery left, and that's with extreme use from 6:00am to 5:00pm, and then using it still in the evening, but lighter, and with plenty of battery life up until 10:00pm. Both guys used to have the iPhone 5, and said that thing was always dead by afternoon with same usage.

So the only phones that can handle that, are phones with batteries of 3,000mAh or larger.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
Agreed. At the moment without new technologies, they only way is the brute force mAh method!
[Nexus 5 General] KingBeike:
I will buy it anyway, but on one hand i really want to have 3000 mAh, but on the other 16GB is enough for me and it would save me 100€... so if both have 2300 i will save 100, and put 1/4 of it into a mobile charger with 10000 mAh :good::laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] blackhand1001:
The snapdragon 800 beats the a7 in a ton of benchmarks if you don't cherrypick results where the a7 wins like the tech sites did. The snapdragon 800 also has a ton of improvements in power management over the 600.

Also the a7x can't be used in a phone. It uses way too much power just like the a5x, a6x. Its only meant for full size tablets and needs a gigantic battery. The ipad 3/4 has one of the biggest batteries in any tablet other than the surface pro.
[Nexus 5 General] Ascertion:
Battery size is the only thing keeping me from grabbing myself the Nexus 5. I'd rather get the G2 since it'll had 23% larger battery.
[Nexus 5 General] wideasleep1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2516646

Cheers!
[Nexus 5 General] Larxia:
I noticed on the first day I received my N5 I had about the same stats, but then I realized that in WiFi advanced settings it was set to "scanning always available". Turned it off and the next day I ran the phone all day (about 14 hours) and still had about 38 percent when I plugged it in. I'd say it was a day of moderate use, used Google play music, Google books, and a lot of browsing.

Made a huge difference, also turned off 'keep WiFi on during sleep'.
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
I get 5.5h to 6h On Screen time every day on my S4. Why would I lie and make that up ? I am honest on my other phones. My old Note 2 being the best battery king getting like 8h On Screen time, and the Nexus 4 being kind of crappy, only getting like3.5h to 4h On Screen time typically.

I use Greenify to stop all background running apps. I also use DroidWall to disconnect most apps from using WiFi and phone network. I have nothing Sync'd. I keep Brightness fixed at 50% all the time. GPS always off. Bluetooth always off.

Just saying after reading most of the popular tech sites review of the Nexus 5, every one of them commented that the battery life on the N5 is not that good, but also not terrible either, just average at best. But compared to other current Snapdragon 800 phones, like the LG G2, Sony Honami, Note 3, the N5 falls far behind those, obviously due to the smaller battery of course, and the tech sites ask why Google gimped us on that 2,300mAh battery ?

Thing is, I LOVE the Nexus phones. I have owned all four of the Nexus phones, except the new N5. I want the N5, but won't fool myself either, if the battery life is just mediocre, I can't use it. I need a phone that can go 6h On Screen time constantly every day, and from what I see, just don't think the N5 can quite do that confidently, it seems just a tad better than the Nexus 4 battery life,from I what I read.
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
This is my rooted S4 running on the stock 4.2.2 OS.

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[Nexus 5 General] ronii1123:
Its an alternative to Dalvik. Go to developer settings and its under "select runtime" your phone will then reboot, but that will take about 5-10 minutes so be prepared. Its supposed to make things rub faster and possibly improve battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Gillion:
Not a really balanced presentation since the S4 sips power when on wifi especially an N type.

Try getting that quality of battery life from just cellular data.
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
That was a workday screen shot, no WiFi during work. Out of those 18 hours, I would say about 12 hours on the 4G network, and 6h on WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] benzso63:
Battery life just amazing! I was worry at first, but it just one great phone. Battery life even better then my previous S4.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
G2 has 30% larger battery and uses it more efficiently than Nexus 5 but then it also sells for twice as much and otherwise mostly identical.
[Nexus 5 General] crucialcolin:
Yeah I'm actually impressed myself. I was worried about it too at first with the 2,300mAh specs but it seems to be pretty good. It blows my old phone out of the water which I'm ashamed to say was an old Blackberry :D

Also love the built in wireless charging :)
[Nexus 5 General] Robert Hodgson:
No Issues with battery life I am impressed at how well it does, I have a car charger just incase but have not needed to use it yet. battery life allways seems short when you get any new phone due to the fact that we allways play with a new phone more then if we have had it for several months as well as the battery needs a few charge discharge cycles to optimize the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] androidkid311:
Why I'm getting the g2. 4G will murder the nexus 5 battery.
[Nexus 5 General] MisterEff:
No it won't. I am on LTE all the time and I make it like 16hours before needing a charge. I have about 2 hours screen on time with that. I think this battery does well.
[Nexus 5 General] MohJee:
But the g2 will be able to last that same period except with 6+ hours screen on time.

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Simple. He's lying.
[Nexus 5 General] lalec:
Lithium Ion batteries are not supposed to need a few charge-discharge cycles; that is one advantage of using them compared to older technologies.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
That's actually a myth that refuses to die for some reason. There's no need to "optimize," "condition," or "calibrate" a li-ion battery. They're at their best right out of the box and actually stay better with frequent charging.

I was really worried about battery life the first day I had this phone, because it was pretty awful. What I found was that turning screen brightness down to about 1/3 actually doubled my battery life. It's still brighter than the screen on my GS4 at that setting, so I'm good to go.
[Nexus 5 General] andrewlima:
Doesn't affect me.. I'll be buying it soon, and am sure I'll be content. My GS4 is 2,600 mAh and it's great.
[Nexus 5 General] Robert Hodgson:
OK that's good to know that you do not have to do the charge discharge cycle anymore
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
why did you unearth an old thread that was started (and finished!!) while nobody had the phone?
[Nexus 5 General] Pudgey San:
I have noticed it coming from a Note 2 but that battery is 3100 mAh. It gets me mostly through the day so I'm happy.. It charges supa fast as well.
[Nexus 5 General] cephaus:
It was a concern, but i had faith in the devs to optimize the **** out of the device.....and? they delivered, and some. Running Cataclysm with Faux beta Kernel, the other night after 8 hours and 1 hour SOT, i was left with 80%. pretty damn good imo.