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[Nexus 5 General] Kidy973:
My 3rd cycle but the first one with a sim card.

On 2g/3g or wifi. Auto sync on, location on eco, Gnow off, Batteryguru in learning mode, music for 2h, around 250 SMS/MMS (10-15 MMS). 30 min of videos. 30-45 min of browsing. 20 pictures. I made 5h30 SoT.

Pretty good to my mind, better than my Xperia Sola

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[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Second cycle using aux kernel and vanilla unicorn ROM. Mostly wifi and a 7 hr wakelock.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Ramone360:
First cycle. Just got phone yesterday. I'm pretty happy with battery life
[Nexus 5 General] ekeixdurden:
Link to the rom and kernel please! I'd to try that combo, nice results btw, any uc or uv?
[Nexus 5 General] Ramone360:
Droidkang v19 no uc/oc
[Nexus 5 General] Alcoholic:
I am getting amazing battery life (4hours screen time). 15-18 hours off charge.

The only things i've changed are:

Greenify to hibernate facebook + other apps

Brightness at low

All the usual tricks - no "ok google" listening, no vibrations, etc.

I am very happy with battery life. I was scared because all the reviews said it was bad. I am unable to kill the battery with a full day of use.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I think my phone is broke. Battery gets better each day. LOL

This is half way thru work day number 2.

I'll post another when I'm about drained.

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Your cell reception seems to be the culprit.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Huh? No culprits on my phone. LOL

On a record breaking charge right now. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
If I flash the radio, will this interfere with OS upgrade from Google?

Example: I have to restore to stock ROM and radio in order to upgrade Android OS., which means my data is wiped out.
[Nexus 5 General] okmijnlp:
Experimental X, everything stock, S2W/S2S on 75% of the time.

PA beta 4.1

Sync on (3 Google accounts & 1 email)

Brightness 10%

About 40 minutes of Tango (huge battery drain)

Location, Gnow both off

3g on always (apart from when wifi was on)

About an hour of streaming music from YouTube.

So happy. My old gs2 couldn't hit 2 hours with this usage, even with sync/everything off & lowest brightness.
[Nexus 5 General] tien113:
I think the radio doesn't affect anything, but custom ROM does.

radio is not custom. it got from KitKat 4.4, more stable and stronger signal.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
That's interesting. So it's a stock radio from 4.4.

I have 4.4.2, stock and the radio is...well,I have battery issue now.
[Nexus 5 General] tien113:
what ur battery issue ?

if u dont have wifi issue, u dont need to use radio of kitkat 4.4.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
This is pretty standard for my usage. LTE on for about 9 hours. WiFi scanning always on, full sync on, location on highest accuracy, location reporting on, Google Now on. I have no complaints about battery life on this phone.

BTW, I'm using Omni with Uber kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I posted several pages back (you can search my username) that I have horrendous battery life. 12 hours with 3 hours screen on time and I am down to 20%

I tried turning off location services, reduced screen brightness, used greenify for most apps (including Google Play Services), disable background syncing for most apps and disabling services using Autostart. No go.

I don't use Facebook or even weather apps. No Google Now either. I DO have 4 Google accounts.

So I am trying to other possibility...radio included.
[Nexus 5 General] nyyankees1237:
Franco kernel r34 UC to 2ghz and UV + Cataclysm ROM

All WiFi. Low brightness. YouTube, Pulse, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Chrome, etc. (heavy use)

Today was a good day.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
I had about the same battery result today, I wasn't too happy. However, even though its a lot less than what most people claim here that isn't terrible battery imo. Normally in a day I use about 1 hour 30 min of OST and about 16 hours up time and usually have about 30-40% left.
[Nexus 5 General] :
So here is my final at 1 percent. Battery life is definitely capable of being much better than a lot of the things I've read. Thought I'd miss my Moto x battery life.....but nope, I don't. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] vmartinez39:
I just want to post my experience with battery usage........

Its terrible..... Like 5 hours if I'm lucky terrible.....

Then I did an experiment

Disable Wireless scanning

set low screen display

disable email syncs

Truth is this phone became awesome when I disable email syncs. Made it manual. Right there I was getting over 13 hours of moderate use per day. But I need syncs so I changed it to sync every hour. But its still terrible.

Oh and I stopped flashing and using all these custom ROMs. Main reason is really got tired of constantly wiping my phone when a new version of PA, CM, or whatever came out. I've been flashing since 2011 but for my main driver I just want stable and constant. I use Stock. Was rooted, but lost it with 4.4.2 OTA update.

Phone is great but in my case, if I enabled email syncs, it just killed the battery. Made me wanna smash this phone because it would barely last 4 hours on minimal use.
[Nexus 5 General] lferrin:
Not bad. I was using the heck out of it. Latest Beanstalk build + experimental x kernal.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
That's interesting.

TBH, I am just puzzled how can people with stock ROM can get really good battery life. I thought it has something to do with the apps that I installed OR how I use the device, but after reading through pages and pages of this thread, I don't think this was the reason. I mean, I disabled most of the services and don't install any crazy apps. As a matter of fact, for EACH app that I install, the first thing I do is:

1). Check Autostart and disable it from starting at various time. I.e. After Startup, Connectivity change, etc.

2). Check AppsOps and disable unnecessary service, like "Keep Awake" or "Location" IF I don't need it.

Yet, my battery life is horrendous. :( The ONLY thing I can think off is because I use multiple Google Accounts, although only ONE of the account have full sync (Calendar, Contact, etc.) while the rest only does Gmail.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
I guess our problems are gonna be over soon; Cross your fingers.

Read this
[Nexus 5 General] wietse1988:
They will only fix the drain caused by the camera. If you have that problem, they will fix it. If you have other draining problems, they will still excist.
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
This ^

If you don't see " mm-qcamera-daemon" in the battery graph , then this fix wont help your battery life ...
[Nexus 5 General] wietse1988:
That's what I said this
[Nexus 5 General] italia0101:
Hence why is said " This ^ "
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
I think I'm starting to see an improvement in battery life. 18 hours on battery, 30% charge left and 3 hours of SoT. Cataclysm+Franco r34.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
franco r34 is quite amazing
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Yeah I really don't know either. I don't do anything excessive either. I have my pebble that barely uses battery life and I stream music for about 40 min a day on my commute. That's about it. It's whatever though haha. I bought a credit card sized external battery that ive been carrying around in my wallet that I can use just in case.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Hmm...This is interesting:

If the phone is on standby and I don't use it, the battery drain is very low. 3% over 7 hours.

When the screen is turned on and I don't do ANYTHING, it's about 10% decrease per MINUTE.

Something is started AND using tons of CPU in the background when the screen is ON. I couldn't pinpoint this though. What tools can I use to find this out?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Get gsam. And root companion if you're rooted.

It should show you. Hopefully.

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] saamsony:
Hi,

I am currently using Nexus 5 32 gb, i bought the set before a month. everything was going good. But know all of a sudden i am experiencing low life battery. My battery is getting drained within 3 hrs on-use, even in stand by mode the baattery level is going down very fast. Can you please give me a remedy for this. Is there any app that can improve my battery status.

one thing i have to mention about this forum, you ppl are doing a great job. thanks one n all.
[Nexus 5 General] :
See my post above yours.

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I have that, but I couldn't tell what apps or process is running when the screen is ON.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Can you run battery from 100 to like 10 or so and screenshot main gsam page? App page too. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
better battery stats app
[Nexus 5 General] saamsony:
thank you kj, but i hav not rooted my phone, i am afraid my warranty may get void if i root the phone
[Nexus 5 General] :
Gsam is still far more detailed than the stock battery usage screen.

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Will do.

Yup, got that too. Again, I couldn't tell what's running when the screen is ON other than..well.. Google Play Services, Android OS and Android System. Also, I think BBS can be a bit misleading - often times I see Google Play Services only use 20 minutes of CPU time over a course of a few hours. Not bad right? Well, Google Play Services WOKE UP the phone hundreds of time.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Download OS Monitor and check which process is using the CPU.
[Nexus 5 General] MaRc0z:
I got this with minimum brightness and just using low resource using apps (Whatsapp, Draw Me Something 2, Chrome..)

And have Screen time out set to 5 mins,

So I didn't lock the phone and it stood at 300Mhz

Also using ElementalX on stock settings with Perfect 2.2 Colors and vibration set to 50 :p
[Nexus 5 General] saamsony:
i have downloaded n installed gsam, does it works fine with an unrooted phone.

I got to know that "mm-qcamera-daemon" is using 75% of my battery. is it a camera app, why is this application running even though my camera is in off mode.

how to stop this, does this effects the system if i force stop this application.

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
That's a known bug with the Nexus 5 and Note 3, Google is working on a fix right now, a reboot usually fixes the problem until you open your camera app again.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
OK, so I rebooted the phone, turned it on and left it running without using it to see what’s eating up the battery when the screen is on.

Settings are (to simulate my real-world use):

- Wi-Fi ON and set to “Always” in Advanced Settings

- GPS ON

- Location Reporting/History OFF

- Brightness 25%

PS: I can only do 30 minutes because that’s the maximum display timeout I can do.

Within that 30 minutes, the battery goes down 2% (from 100% to 98%) and majority of the drain is caused by:

- Google Search

- Kernel (Android OS)

- System (mediaserver)

- System (com.android.systemui)

- Android Systems

Here’s the GSAM Battery:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Enjoy your phone, you don't have an issue. LOL. You lost 2 percent with screen on for half an hour. Nothing at all wrong with that. ;)

And your gsam averages at the bottom of the main screen look pretty decent.

I don't see a problem.

Anyway....look again and screen shot again if you still think you have an issue. But not until your at like 10 percent or very low anyway.

Use the phone like you normally do and don't reboot. That will reset gsam stats.

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
I may be a complete newbie, but how and where did you set your email to manually sync?

I'm very sure you had the same issue I am currently having, and I can't figure it out.

If I turn my email accounts to not sync, when I open the email app, it simply says sync is turned off.

I only want it to check my Gmail and MSN accounts when I open my email app.

Any help is appreciated.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I think he is using the Mail app instead of the Gmail app.
[Nexus 5 General] andgtr08:
My results

Android: 4.4 KK Stock Rom

Kernel: Trinity Kernel

Clock: @1574 (With Default clock (@2265, i get around 4h10 of screen time)
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
I figured that, but I am having a hard time finding those options, even in the mail app.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I removed the Mail app, but if my memory serves me right, it's in the Mail app setting, not Android settings.
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
I ended up just setting it to never, and pulling down to update.
[Nexus 5 General] mateenf:
Stock rooted and I'm getting very nice results.
[Nexus 5 General] varunthapliyal999:
Mahdi Rom + ElementalX kernel
[Nexus 5 General] saamsony:
thank you,

can you tell me the the must-use apps for nexus 5, I am not a mob geek so.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
You want to ask this in the Nexus 5 Application sub forum, and really it depends on your phone usage, for example I don't play games much so I have a game for a week or two then delete it, I use my phone for news, Tapatalk, texts and phonecalls, but again it depends on your usage.

Anyway, I'll stop there this discussion doesn't belong in the battery thread ^^

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] saamsony:
ok ill continue this discussion in the thread you have mentioned
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
Hi there,

Is it useful to make a "calibration" of the battery after a few month ? Is there an app to do it ? Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Stock unrooted. Llama automation, brightness around 15%. One hour of HD Youtube, some voice calls and Hangouts texts included.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Awesome. Super jealous of that mobile signal.
[Nexus 5 General] _TryHard_:
Stock ROM running Franko kernel. Under clocked to 960MHZ(max freq) and undervolted by 125mV
[Nexus 5 General] GR0S:
Really? My phone crashes on 75
[Nexus 5 General] anndrius:
can someone recommend a good app for undervolt/underclock?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
on the 1st of every month i do a full discharge to 0% in order to do this
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
The battery calibrated after every full charge from self, no need for such things. All this calibration apps are Bull****

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
[Nexus 5 General] kman79:
Just wanted to share my first day's battery life experience

100% - 6% - 15 hours 1 Minute

Total Screen on Time - 3 Hours 43 Minutes

Mostly web browsing using Chrome/Dolphin HD and a little over 1 hour's worth of Spotify.

Realistically, that is about a typical day's use for me, probably slightly more use considering I was playing with it more than I normally do. I could have plugged it in to charge during my 12 hour shift, but I wanted to see how long the battery would last.

Overall, I'm satisfied with the battery life...of course I would have loved for it to be longer, but it definitely lasts throughout my normal day.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
Here are my results.

Settings:

* 50% WiFi

* 50% LTE/3g

* Google now enabled

* Location reporting disabled

* twitter syncing every hour

* Microsoft exchange email syncing every hour

* beautiful widgets syncing every hour

* Using Lux auto brightness app

* Using the ART VM instead of the dalvik VM

Usage:

Browsing, tapatalk, twitter, YouTube, flipboard, email, bleacher report, texting, im

I also have a htc one and the battery results are comparable. Maybe a little bit less with the n5.

So far the battery life is what I expected given the 2300mah size battery.
[Nexus 5 General] bryanchanzw:
My battery stats shows that android OS is using 30+% of battery while my screen uses 20+%. I'm have wifi on currently. Is this normal?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
fair warning, very minimalistic user here

11 hours of screen time so far with 19% of the battery left. ill post screenshots and detail my usage tomorrow when i wake up. i was getting 10 hours of screen time on my N4 with my personal usage(screenshots in previous posts)
[Nexus 5 General] Dan1909:
I'm going to call BS on this one!?

10 hours of screen on time on a N4!? And 13+ hours screen on time on the N5? That's two or three times higher than anything else anybody has reported yet...
[Nexus 5 General] cartsp:
No sounds like you have a wakelock, does your phone show as awake 100% of the time in the battery stats? I had to disable location reporting and google now to remove the wakelock. Interestingly I reenabled Google Now again and it doesnt keep the phone awake anymore. Some weird bug I guess!

A pity really, as I hate having to keep an eye out for wakelocks and it would be nice of the OS to force whatever background programs to sleep after a certain amount of time of the screen being off.
[Nexus 5 General] Felnarion:
Yeah he's a liar. That, or it's the lowest brightness, in airplane mode, with 0 standby, while connected to a charger. I just don't see it.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Stress test today.

Navigation while streaming Google music, obviously on 3g only. My N4 would have been dead in 1.5h.

---------- Post added at 05:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:31 PM ----------

Crap, forgot screenies...
[Nexus 5 General] Guzanni:
This is mine. Everything is on. Google Now, syncing, location. Using apps like Facebook and Instagram (with notifications on). I was on WiFi all day long. This is much better than what I had with my Nexus 4, which was rooted stock and apps like FB were greenified. My N5 is out of the box stock.
[Nexus 5 General] fireproofrev:
here my results of the second day of usage. For me this is a very good result. I am happy with the battery (coming from a gnex) so far.

It was kinda heavy usage, downloaded also some big games from playstore but 90% wifi connection. Google NOW is activated
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
Not entirely true. So much of battery life is determined by signal. I have a Note 2 and would get 5-6 hours sot stock. Sometimes 7. With carbon I get 3-4. All depends where you are and how your signal is
[Nexus 5 General] bryanchanzw:
How do I see my phone is awake 100%? The stats I can see are 12hr 2mins on battery, clicking into android OS, it shows "keep awake 6hr 35mins".

But I'm going to disable location reporting and google now to see if it works!
[Nexus 5 General] chakra:
Mine is MUCH better today. Uninstalled a few apps and it seems on par or better than the htc one. It's no G2 though.
[Nexus 5 General] Cleanskinned:
How does the battery life of this phone compare to the Galaxy Nexus?
[Nexus 5 General] jutley:
Not even iPad can just manage to achieve that lol
[Nexus 5 General] compchick813:
Day 2 for me:

9 1/2 hours on battery so far, currently 55%

9 1/2 hours on LTE

Screen on time 1 hr 3 m (less than normal - too busy at work today) at 15% brightness

1 1/2 hr navigation with screen off

1 1/2 hr bluetooth streaming Google Music over LTE

Google Now on

Location services in "high accuracy" mode

Background sync on

NFC on

By now my gnex would be at 20% so I'm not complaining
[Nexus 5 General] 338lm:
First full day of use. More tinkering than normal because its still new and exciting.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Yup. AOSP/AOKP ROMs have never really played nice with Samsung phones. I went from getting ~8 hours screen on time on stock, to 3-4 on Beanstalk. The same has been true for all the Samsung phones I've owned. Anything other than stock chews through the battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
My typical work day. Mostly LTE with some Wi-Fi at end. Auto brightness enabled. Sync and location services on battery saving mode. NFC off and Google wallet disabled. Android device manager disabled. Printing services off.

I played tapped out many times during the day. Some xda reading. No phone calls, couple of im.
[Nexus 5 General] Deekayy:
This is my kind of usage and set up. I hope it stands true. Waiting for my n5 to come and test it out!
[Nexus 5 General] jollees123:
Stock rom and stock kernel with xposed and gravitybox. Pretty normal use, I playd about 2h music and I did some downloads. I like the batterylife on my n5 and it's better than on my galaxy s4.
[Nexus 5 General] juggaknot77:
Pretty freaking good if you ask me..
[Nexus 5 General] sarasws:
My latest results after ART and using Dolphin browser instead of Chrome.
[Nexus 5 General] sony83:
Does chrome eat more battery compared to dolphin??
[Nexus 5 General] sarasws:
Looks like in my case.
[Nexus 5 General] spacemanvt:
do you guys find battery life better than the nexus 4?
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
Yes

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] kuttor:
So far

So good. Battery life for me is on par with my 5s.
[Nexus 5 General] e speelman:
My battery stats
[Nexus 5 General] e speelman:
Stock ROM and rooted
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
How come others reach 6-7hours SoT?

Can mine reach too?

My average is around 3:45 SoT

Usage: Watching series/movies(Mx Player wifi off) • facebook • dolphin • Apollo Music Player(wifi off/screen off)

Setup: CM11 + ElemX 32(1.5Ghz Max, UV 750, then stock setting) + greenify + 2g preferred + Auto Brightness + Off google now + bionic optimization

Am I lacking something?
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Videos drain a good amount of battery especially if the phone has to decode an HD one.

Music basically keeps your device awake while you listen to it which, if done for a long period of time, drains a lot of battery too.

So I'd say with your usage it's a good battery life.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] kuttor:
Yup yup. Both are noted.
[Nexus 5 General] 33bca:
Carbon Rom & UBER Kernel (last nightly, stock settings)

Most time used Whatsapp, Instagram & Google Chrome, also heared 2 hours music over Bluetooth with Poweramp :fingers-crossed:

Sorry for my Englisch :D
[Nexus 5 General] Mr.Jay:
Stock, unroot, dalvick

Nexus 5 || Android 4.4.2 ||
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
How much does yours drain when standby? Mine is almost not even 1% per hour.
[Nexus 5 General] TechMennis:
I'm running Paranoid Android Beta2 and I used my phone fairly heavily with Google and texting. Here is a one normal day result :)

I'm positive many more hours would have come out but It was uneeded :D
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Auto brightness would be the biggest offender. It uses more brightness than needed and is prone to erroneous sensor readings.

Don't worry about music playback, but local HD videos are a huge drain. Video streaming works much better, i find. YouTube, twitch.TV and Netflix in that order for battery efficiency.
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Thanks for the replies people. Noted some advices. Also, I'll try to lessen my usage then. See if there will be improvement.
[Nexus 5 General] aceian:
stock + rooted
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Hard to tell since there's always a notification of some sort coming in. I've found 2% after about 10 hours of mostly idle.

Trying something new for those who want more details. Too many shots to upload so I will just post Imgur links.

Usual stuff: stock, unrooted. Llama automation with brightness 15/5/1% throughout the day, sync when charging.

This is all from the same charge.

Final shots with 5% remaining. 7 hours SoT after 30 hours.

79%, 49%, 24% intervals leading up to above shots.

Note the disappearance of YouTube (HD, 45min), and lack of Slacker (HQ, 30mins) or Hangouts (25+ texts) registering besides the keyboard.
[Nexus 5 General] Lothiek:
CM11 M4 + ElementalX 0.32 :

Full 4G, some movies and a lot a reading (moon reader) + many sms :
[Nexus 5 General] mrelie007:
my batt last about 12 hours with sensonic rom
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
This doesn't mean anything, this doesn't add anything to the thread also.

If you want to share your battery stats please do so but do it with details.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] arctia:
Images are red due to twilight app. I'm really jealous of some of your mobile signal strength.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr.Jay:
? do you use your phone??

Nexus 5 || Android 4.4.2 || Stock
[Nexus 5 General] arctia:
Haha, was working overtime that week. Only things I did was eat, sleep, work, and text. Glad that was over.