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[Nexus 5 General] :
You'd be surprised how many apps access location actually.

Also, battery saver is not the most battery friendly....device only is. I know it reads differently... But thats how it is.

Anyway. Turn it completely off for one charge cycle....just to see the difference. Trust me. If there's no difference, great...at least you know its not that. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] Krzysiek_CK:
Sure, I will give it a try.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] elnahir:
Stock ROM + kernel here, just reflashed yesterday and I'm seeing some massive wakelocks. I've disabled the following: Location, Searching for WiFi networks and just 30 mins ago - synchronization for all Google apps besides People and Keep.

Could someone give me an idea of what else might I be overlooking?
[Nexus 5 General] vlawrence0324:
You could improve it by installing custom kernel. Most custom kernel focuses on battery optimization. Also try disabling google+ if you are not using it or the auto upload function. This one is also doing the most wakelocks on my phone. If you can also install greenify to hibernate third party apps such as Facebook it would greatly increase battery
[Nexus 5 General] :
Its pretty clear there ......google plus is killing your battery. Why? I don't know...its on my immediate freeze list after flashing anything, so I've never used it.

Try clearing data/cache on google plus. Besides that, I'm not sure. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] fasolka:
I use Last PA + franco r39 and I notice if WiFi us in during your screen is off you stills lose a lot of battery. So the best way to save battery is turn off WiFi when you screen is off.
[Nexus 5 General] vlawrence0324:
How many percent is the usage? I went to bed last night with my Wifi on. I only lost 5% for 8hrs. Though the airplane mode is enabled since our location has a terrible but the Wifi is also on
[Nexus 5 General] elnahir:
Yup, Google+ is quite obvious - that's why I've disabled all Google-related notifications apart from People and Keep. I've had my first overheat experience just 4 hours after the phone was unplugged. I was on 3G, listening to Play Music and going through some Flow for Reddit. The camera app was in the background. I've left my phone in my pocket, not touching it, and 10 mins. later it burns. I have never thought it could burn up so much.

Anyway, I powered it down, waited for ~10 mins., flashed franco kernel r32 (old but stable) and now I've charged it up to 100%.

I was quite surprised that stock 4.4.2 with stock kernel after a fresh install would go through the battery so quickly: 9 hours off the charger, 1 hour 32 mins screen-on time, from 100% to 21%. The screenshots from my previous post are applicable here.
[Nexus 5 General] Krzysiek_CK:
I managed to disable Location Reporting only, and while Location is still running, it appears the bleeding stopped. I used Disable Service app, root required, and under System Apps I made changes to Google Play services. I simply disabled LocationReportingService and LocationHistoryInjectorService. Now looking at my Location I do not get Location Reporting at all.

Last night battery was at 51% and this morning it was at 50%, so far it looks promising. Also, the BetterBatteryStats shows Deep Sleep and 80.4% while before Awake was the one in charge.
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Here's another round of my light usage. PA Beta 3 + franco r39.

Right now, only kernel setup is that this has max freq of 1.7MHz CPU and max freq 320MHz GPU

Kindly help me improve this.
[Nexus 5 General] bazman70:
2 days battery with 12 hours screen time!

Fully stock, only 3 days old. Thought i'd not charge overnight and see how it went. Have not been using it as heavily as a shiny new phone should be - mixture of gmail, chrome and random other apps. Amazed to see 12 hours screen time. :)

Display was set to auto brightness the whole time, and was used in a mixture of light conditions.

Very happy so far
[Nexus 5 General] Zutx:
Cell Stand By

cell stand by takes alot of battery
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Say whaaaaaaa?

12 hours screen on, after 2 days with some battery left.

That's BULL****.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yeah, 2 days with 12 hours screen time ain't happening. Lol

3 or 4 screen hours.....tops.

He took the 24 percent of screen battery time.....24 percent of 48 hours is roughly 12. ?

Hence no screen shot of the screen time.

I think he's confused. Or if it was 12 hours....the phone sat there with the screen on, doing nothing. Lol Still...why no screen shot.

Shinanigans. ?

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Next time click on screen...it will tell you the hours . screen percentage is battery use, not percentage of total hours. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I'm assuming you were streaming music with GPM, otherwise that usage would be fairly high for local playback.

The high cell standby even though you were on WiFi might indicate you were losing signal at points or have consistently low signal.
[Nexus 5 General] bazman70:
Not 12 hours

Yep, I did do that and now realise how stupid I was :silly:

Sorry, have charged the phone now so don't know how much actual screen time there was

Anyway......Still impressed with battery life compared to old One X. Google maps navigation in car doesn't heat up phone and kill the battery any more - web browsing faster so screen stays on less :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
It happens. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
So that means GPM really consumes a lot of battery?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Not in my experience playing local 320k .mp3 files with it. He must've been streaming high quality files to get that drain.
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
Idk what it is, but Google Play Music uses SIGNIFICANTLY more battery than Pocketcasts when both are playing similar local files. Ive noticed this for a while, and while I haven't done any testing, it sure seems to me to be using more. I can play an hour of audio in Pocket casts and the battery percent has barely dropped at all.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
Guys, can you tell me how is this battery backup looking at screenshots??

In between, I just transferred the data to pc for 3 minutes
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
Very good. The biggest thing you have in your favour is excellent mobile signal. Expect your times to halve if you go to an area with poor coverage.
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
Nice results i think. What do u use as rom & kernel ? Specific configuration ?
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
Thanks ;)

I am on 3G always :)

I felt that it's a poor battery life.. Only around 5hrs of screen time..

On OP I saw, author got around 6hrs of screen time..

Don't know about his usage..

Thanks ;)

ROM : CM

Kernel : Elemental X

Usually I keep changing ROM every 10th day.. :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
I had to re-read this a few times....you are disappointed with 5 hours screen time?? Lol ?

I always get over 6...but basically, everything is off. And greenified. Screen adjusted manually and kept as dim as comfortable. Don't game. Don't use facebook or anything that loads a lot of pictures. Mostly I text, surf a bit, a lot of tapatalk....not a whole lot else.

5 hours is for better than the average I would say.

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[Nexus 5 General] himesh_reddy2:
i was using franco kernel r36 and xjparadroid

As shown in the pic, the bettery life was awesome

didnt use 3g,

only wifi or 2g...

and played quizup a lot more than whats its showing there....
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
Same thing is with me mate :)

I just do the same things

Can you post your 6hrs backup screenshot ? so that i can compare if you don't mind :)
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
The Nexus 5 is alright. I used a 3.5k mAh battery on the GNex. I get about 70-85% of the battery life the GNex got with its huge battery at home full WiFi. But I run the Nexus 5 at a higher brightness than my GNex.

On low signal areas, the Nexus 5 can last longer my GNex 3.5k mAh battery. In short, the Nexus 5 will have no problems regarding battery life if you can survive with the horrible battery life of the GNex.

The 3.5k mAh extended battery almost doubled my battery life compared to the stock miserable 1750 mAh battery the GNex comes with.

I didn't get the G2 for the same reason as you. And there's plenty of kernels on nexus devices to choose from :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Note the average times at the bottom. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
Awesome talk time bro..
[Nexus 5 General] :
If you mean "phone".....I get or make about 1 call a week. Lol All texts and Voxer.

Great battery saving tip. Don't talk on the phone. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
I like to use my mouth to socialize, don't know about you :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Voxer does voice. Other than that, nope. Texts are fine.

To each their own....right? ?

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[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
They are indeed nice..

What do you have on your nexus?

ROM & Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] :
Twisted Kat and elementalx....but really.... Its the same no matter the rom or kernel. Its just my very lean setup. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] androidkid311:
I got them both. I can tell you the nexus battery is really bad compared to the G2 but its just about manageable. I mean when you actually use them both.... The difference is amazing. Performance wise I can tell yo that the N5 blows the G2 and I prefer the N5 camera. Its faster and takes good pics. If battery is your big concern. G2 is your best bet however I can bet you LG won't be updating the G2 to 4.4.3. The KitKat update was depressing itself. I'm also coming from a galaxy nexus. The 4.4.3 update for the n5 should help battery a bit but G2 battery is simply beast.
[Nexus 5 General] Godra:
Just as I thought, it's N5 software vs. G2 battery. I'm going on a trip in few days and I'll buy one of these after I return. Hope I will decide which one :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
I didn't have anything to do today so I thought about making the most of the battery and see how far it goes! :D

No gaming, was on whatsapp, tapatalk(xda) the whole time and few hours of music...

ROM: AICP

Kernel: ElementalX

Under-clock: 1.5ghz

Under-volt: -75 (I know it doesn't affect battery much)

Brightness: 0% since I was indoors all the time.

Google Now, Location tuned off.

Was on wifi most of the time and around an hour of 3g...

I know these are some ridiculous figures but believe me, it's possible! Even smallest of things matter like using Black whatsapp/xda theme.

That being said, I don't use my phone like this daily and I get only about 4 hours of SOT on an average... Today was an exception and I know this test might be useless as I will never use this device like I did today but just wanted to see how far I can take it! :D
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
No worries, it's your phone to use as you like. Brightness at 0-10% helps a lot for extended viewing periods and the 1.5Ghz max speed should save battery at all times. You could go even further with auto syncs off and a couple other tweaks.

I'm surprised your daily average is only 4 hours actually, that must be mostly data usage with a decent amount of gaming.

Black backgrounds don't save battery though. Unlike OLED panels, the pixels are always on and using the same power regardless of the color being displayed.
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Yeah, I forgot to mention about syncing.. I have it turned off as well :)

Yes, you are right about my usage.. I'm on 3g the whole time when I'm not at home and I do fair bit of HD gaming in my free time... I'm more than happy with 4-4.30 hours of SOT tbh as it easily gets me through the day(15-18 hours).

-Flowed from an IceCold Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] Abyv:
Advices please

Hi Guys..Just about to buy N5...can someone please tell me about the overall performance please? Is N5 one of the best devices? Is the battery very poor?

Thank you all

Phil
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just flip through this thread for battery reports.

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[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
Overall performance in terms of smoothness and stuff: top notch

Camera: Good enough

Screen: Awesome

Speakers: Good with a mod found here on the forums

Battery: Good enough with a good ROM and kernel
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
It's all about latest updates v/s more hardware features (non nexus series & GPE)

It's a great device to go for..

Around 4hr 50mins is the battery backup in terms of screen on time

Minimal usage can give you a day backup..

Performance is smooth.. No complaints..

There are news for 4.4.3 update which gonna fix many of the bugs in nexus 5..

It's a lightweight and quite delicate device..

You need to spend some money for its protection if gonna keep it like your baby :D

Battery life is not that bad!

If you want better battery than you can go for samsung galaxy note 3, Sony xperia z2, LG G2..

I hope you got some idea :)
[Nexus 5 General] comscier:
enjoying my "Google Experience"

Full stock... including settings... (GPS on, Google Now on, Location reporting on, etc)

2 hours screen time... 12 hours later... 20% battery life.

in contrast with CM11... 2-3 hours screen on time... 12 hours later... 70% battery life... Minimal battery usage settings.
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
I think I don't so better result yet but I think I can improve my kernel to have better sot time. Don't what to change in Thrikster mod. If somebody have an idea I will try ;).
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Franco users, previous versions that you had your best battery life?
[Nexus 5 General] docfuz:
I'm using fk38 and always leave WiFi on with screen off while sleeping. I don't do games, I simply use the phone for email, chats, phone calls and web browsing, calendars and file transfers.

I'm getting around 25, 30 hours battery life with 2.5 hours of screen time per day. I do moderately undervolt and keep the Max CPU freq at 1.3ghz.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
Yeah..

I had flashed r32,r33,r34

And now r44

These builds I found stable and good enough(4 to 5hrs screen on time) with respect to battery life :)

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These stats are very good..

4hrs 50mins is the average screen on time we get irrespective of the total battery backup..

If you want to change kernel, you can flash elemental x or Franco whichever kernel is compatible with your current ROM :)
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
R44 with stock settings? Is it safe now? I'm currently using r34 from r40 since there are issues from the latest nightlies.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr hOaX:
I am using that build on purity ROM..

No issues from past two days..

Everything is smooth :)
[Nexus 5 General] IceCatraz:
I came to this thread so that I could figure out if this was normal:

I'm running stock, with xposed installed and Gravity Box, but nothing else, apart from DS Battery Saver, though I had it disabled. I usually get about 4:45 to - 5 hours of SOT, but I tried doing my daily walk (about 2 hours) with my data on and wifi disabled so I could see how much data was used, and this happened. I'm not trying to brag or anything, I'm just a little concerned because I read on reddit that anything more than 5:30 was pretty much unbelievable.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Its not impossible.... But, you charged in the middle. Your times there aren't right. Lol

Those screens don't reset until you charge to a certain point. ?

Get gsam for more in depth and accurate info.

You can get over 6 hours consistently, but you pretty much need everything off and some other tweaking. See my average times at the bottom of my screen shot. Running very lean and mean though. ?

This is gsam.....

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[Nexus 5 General] IceCatraz:
Oh, alright. I'll try running that next time. I did charge for a little bit before, though I thought the battery tracker would reset. I didn't realize it only reset once it fully charged (or whatever that point is.)

Thanks for the heads up.
[Nexus 5 General] pagratios:
I think that tracker reset if you charge your phone above 90%
[Nexus 5 General] rockknee:
Third charge running cm

I just can't understand people who say n5 has bad battery life.. Atleast it is only software to blame! I can get easily through two days with moderate usage (not much gaming tho). Data on, sync on, everything else off most of the time and no greenifying. Pretty happy with these results. I have noticed that stanby drain is very minimal, I love it. I know it's far from 6hrs SOT but I also use 3G, makes a big difference. Signal strength wasn't that good either due to the location of my job.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You would probably get 6 hours screen time in 24 hours....you went almost 2 days. So you're doing great. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] :
Faux Kernel

Cataclysm ROM

UC - 0.96GHz

Extreme Usage

Brightness 20%

WiFi 100%

Yeh that's pretty much it.

Normally get 6hrs Estimate SOT on any other regular day.
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
First full day with pa stock kernel and WiFi. Average use for me so I'd say it's pretty good.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
And who says the battery is crap? Great sot

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Missed you on the rocket broski anyway you know how hard I am on my devices I'll push it further lol.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
I know. We all learned a lot in that forum. All good stuff

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727
[Nexus 5 General] :
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, son, I've never had my screen's consumption exceed 45%.

Teach me, Master.
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Nothing special I adjust my brightness accordingly and spend stupid amounts of time on XDA and g+.
[Nexus 5 General] xxx_star_droid:
I would recommend the free app on the play store called juice defender and set it to the middle battery saving setting. Saved my old evo's battery.
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=5414855]xxx_star_droid[/MENTION] apps like that generally interfere with androids native management. I have never run battery saver apps and never will. Often they create their own wakelocks
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
+1. Juice defender does more harm than good. I haven't found a battery saving app that anyone needs

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
I'd say greenify qualifies, if you use it correctly that is. There are a lot of apps that just don't need to be running services in the background but are too useful to uninstall from the device. Things like banking apps. Greenify is supremely useful in these scenarios.
[Nexus 5 General] frazbox:
Fully stock.... On my first charge! Got the phone on Thursday last week and let the battery drain or the box before I did a full charge! In really impressed!
[Nexus 5 General] :
I paid for juice defender. And way back, when I barely used my phone during the day, I'd say it did help. IF set up properly. IF. Lol

But for a medium to heavy user....with all the work juice defender, and apps like it, need to do to turn data on and off so often.....yeah....its hurting far more than it helps. As said in quote above....see your times waking device stats.... Juice defender will top the list by FAR.

But, a very light user may benefit from apps like it. Only light users.

That's my experience with it anyway. I haven't used it in about 2 years and any device I've owned has gotten the very tops in battery life....including my current devices. I don't see many battery times that beat mine. Juice defender would certainly knock time off my battery, not add to it. ?

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Greenify is in another category. It doesn't manage data....it just hibernates apps. And some apps will harm your battery if they're allowed to run constantly. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] vanessaem:
Honestly, when I unchecked most of the Google apps in my account and prevented them from syncing, my battery life improved dramatically. Sometimes you don't have to do anything drastic or download a special app to fix battery drain issues.
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Pa stock kernel LTE only I get similar screen on I just didn't bother with sleeping at all so I'd say fairly similar between WiFi and LTE.
[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
I don't know how you all attain such good results. My Nexus 5 keeps on battery for something about 2 hours of screen on. For me that's really not acceptable result. I'm not using my device really hard, so I don't understand why the battery runs out so fast...
[Nexus 5 General] joyj112:
Check your wakelock. You should be able to get more out of your N5
[Nexus 5 General] rushilkr:
Previous cycle.. Loving this setup..
[Nexus 5 General] :
Get gsam from the play store. It can help find the issue. The stock battery usage screen says very little to help find a problem.

I'm also guessing you have all the bells and whistles running...and that's gonna cost some juice as well.

But try gsam....look through it thoroughly for unusual drain. Or post screens of it here. ?

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
I have all of my stuff running, sync and all.
[Nexus 5 General] :
And in over 24 hours total, you'd be doing exceptionally well to see 5 hours screen time. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=4036181]kj2112[/MENTION] look at both of my previous posts
[Nexus 5 General] Donnie Sins:
Just wanted to show my results. Everything is stock, not rooted, Google Now turned off, wifi or 4G on, GPS switched to 'device only', sync on for calender, contacts and Gmail.

I will try another cycle with 3G, because the signal seems to be better and that could possibly effect the results.

Send from the Matrix
[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
To delete.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
That's worrying that phones lose about a third of their charge over 24 months... Is that with charging it every day?
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
No that's with noobs who don't know what they are doing. My skyrockets capacity is still 1850mah and my og evo 4g is still 1500. Take care of your things and magically they work.

The evo BTW is still using the original OEM battery and goes 10+ days on a single charge. I delete the ril lib to kill mobile signal.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
How can you check the capacity of a battery? When you say take care do you mean don't let it run down to zero etc?
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
The phone can tell you it's estimated condition. Which is usually pretty close.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yes, you're getting great screen time.

I'm curious though how you'd do in over a 24 hour period, with "everything on".

I haven't seen many people get over 5 hours screen time with everything on. Most get 3 to 4 usually, and wonder why some of us get over 6....again, in over a full days use...not in 8 hours. And usually the 6 hours plus screen time is with most things off. Getting 6 plus hours in an 8 hour charge is really only a test of screen time. Getting 24 hours plus with 6 hours screen is difficult with everything running. Not impossible I guess, but hard. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=4036181]kj2112[/MENTION] I use my phone too much to attempt a 24 hour run.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Fair enough! ?

You may be a candidate for one of those battery pack cases for sure. But they're so huge!! Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=4036181]kj2112[/MENTION] no need I'm more than happy with the current result and over time I'm confident I'll improve.