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[Nexus 5 General] :
Holy crap this phone charges quick ??? Charged from 55 to 100 in an hour....while I was on it the whole time. LOL

Sorry....just an observation. Only on day 2.. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Charge rate between 900mAH~ to 1200mAH.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm using my nexus 7 charger too. Just blew me away cause I was on it the entire hour and noticed it was full suddenly. Crazy! LOL

What's fast charge do....1 too 100 when you plug it in and sit it down....done? ;)
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Thanks for the tip, I'll try that and will post back.

I did. Maybe I misspoke, but when I meant "GPS", I meant I turned off Location Services - that's everything - GPS, Wifi location service, and location reporting.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Nope, fast charge only affects USB charging mode, increases from 500mAH to 700mAH (or is it 900mAH?). :p
[Nexus 5 General] sony83:
Just got the N5. On my 3rd battery charge got the following results.

Moderate usage, gnow off, location off, WiFi on all the time with email sync, screen brightness set to 10% when indoors and on auto when out doors. ART not enabled.
[Nexus 5 General] :
39 percent still left. Gotta plug in for bed tho. Have to wait til the weekend to run it dry it looks like. :)

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Got 0.4 percent drain per hour in airplane mode for 6 of these hours last night. That's pretty awesome too!
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Based on the recommendation from others, I downloaded GSAM battery and it's "root" module to allow "Battery Stats" function in KitKat. Now I have a better picture of my battery life and it's...quite astonishing!

The stats:

- Unplugged for 8 hours and 38 minutes

- Screen time is 1 hour 17 minutes

- Remaining battery: 56%

However, "app usage" is 74% of the total unplugged time (!!) and mainly used by Google Services, Android OS and Android System.

Interestingly, the majority of time these 3 app use the battery is because of the ACCELEROMETER (see screenshots below). I don't know why Android need to use this a lot of time, especially that this is a hardware module and definitely use tons of battery. I am sure I don't have apps that use this all the time, like steps-tracking app or sleep-tracking app. I don't even play game during those 8 hours period!

What caused this?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Its one or more of these....location services, syncing, Google now, bad signal strength, router issues. Those are your best bets.

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Or apps you've installed using those things. Cause the app won't show the battery drain....it will hide in android os and that.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Agreed, but if you see from the screenshot, the majority of the time used is for "accelerometer". I.e. For Google Services, it was running 32 minutes but 28 minutes of that were used by the accelerometer.

That's why I am curious... why would Android need to measure how fast I move ALL the time?

PS: I am checking other apps running in the background one-by-one, like Pocket Informant, Pure Calendar but none of them indicate it uses the accelerometer...
[Nexus 5 General] :
I wouldn't worry about accelerometer ....at all. Look at this. LOL. And my battery life at the moment is amazing.

That's not effecting your battery. A lot of apps use it...my alarm app uses it too. If my battery were bad....I'd try to find out why mine is at 4 hours in this screen shot....but its not affecting my battery....so I'm not worried.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
OMG, you have GREAT battery life!

Could you let me know if:

1. You use Google Now?

2. Do you use the full Google Account service? I.e. Gmail push, calendar syncing, contact syncing, etc.

3. Do you have more than one Google Account in your device? (I have 3)

4. Do you use any apps that rely on GCM (Google Cloud Messaging)? These are apps that provide push notification, like weather checking, package tracking

I am just trying to hone in what cause the bad battery life I have. I do take into account that I have T-Mobile and certain area in Northern California have... well, crappy service...so the radio keep "looking".
[Nexus 5 General] :
First...weak signal is one thing....but if your phone loses signal repeatedly its so low...your battery will drop like a rock.

Google now, off. Gmail and contacts sync. No other Google stuff. Only one Google account. Cloud, nope.

:) I run lean and mean. Got about the best times you can get on my Moto x too. I am away from charging about 13 hours a day....I always tweak for battery life on all my phones.

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And yes...its still a smartphone. LOL. Just a little more manual interaction required than some people. I don't mind at all tho.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just a data point:

- I have "1d 16h 0m on battery" and I'm now at 8% battery level. This is 40h!

- screen on time is 3h 1m

- most of the time I'm using WiFi, maybe 7h I was on 3G/Hsdpa.

I'm using the stock ROM, not rooted. No resource hungry software. I have these settings:

GPS = High accuracy (really, this doesn't draw energy)

Location reporting ON

Location history ON

Brightness = Auto

If you have poor battery life the location related things are not to be blamed.
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
I've got 60% left and mine says 8h 53m on battery.

Screen 27%

Android-system 1%

Badoo 8%

Voicecalls 8%

I think it drains a bit too much when using the phone, my brightness is set to 10% and every major battery drain setting is turned off, WiFi is set to always on.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
I see you're using 3G/HSDPA, so that maybe a contributing factor. Do you use Google Now and NOT T-Mobile by any chance?

I did notice that my phone is drawing very little power at "sleep": last night I unplugged the phone, connected to WiFi and in 8 hours the battery only goes down 3%.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Hello getting very good battery life with my nexus 5. I always make it through the day, my average is 4 to 3.5 hrs of screen time. I use stock, rooted and boot loader unlocked. Google now on, location reporting off, location on battery saving, brightness at 30% don't want it anymore than that. Using Franco kernel r33. Here is my latest screen shot, 5 hrs of screen time!
[Nexus 5 General] ds78:
Hi,

I read about 50 pages ... To sum up ... at what ROM has the longest battery life?

REG.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Really it doesn't make a big difference, kernels, on the other hand, can make a difference depending on your usage, I wouldn't advise flashing a ROM for battery life, if you're trying to choose a ROM go for features but know that with Xposed framework your can have all the features on stock ROM without any battery drain.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
For those who remembers, I have dismal battery life and I think I may have figured it out the root cause but NOT the solution.

I have FOUR (4) Google Accounts on my N5:

- Account A:

Primary

account and have Gmail, Calendar, Contact, Music and Newsstand sync --> This is the account used for Google Now

- Account B:

Secondary

account and

ONLY

have Gmail and Calendar sync

- Account C and D:

Only

have Gmail sync

Location Reporting is ONLY for Account A and Location History is OFF for ALL accounts.

I rebooted the phone and left it overnight with Wifi ON, GPS ON, Location Reporting ON, brightness 0%. In 7.5 hours, the battery ONLY goes down 3%. Good news right?

But when I turn on the phone to

use it for 16 minutes, the battery goes down 5%

. I looked at GSAM and I see the following in Google Play Services:

*sync*/com.google.android.location.reporting/com.google/Google-account-name

*sync*/subscribedfeeds/com/google.com/Google-account-name

For these wakelock, the "Google-account-name" is ALL of my Google accounts (A, B, C and D) so there are 4 of each of this wakelock. However, I ONLY allow Account A for Location Reporting AND some sort of syncing (subscribedfeeds).

So my phone is doing some sort of syncing for ALL the 4 Google Accounts, regardless of what I actually allowed for syncing in each account. This definitely kills battery! I mean.. location reporting for FOUR separate account?!

I don't know why Google choose to do this, even though I explicitely selected what I want to sync. Example: Location Reporting is ONLY for Account A, etc. This is just a poor design on Google's part.
[Nexus 5 General] Sam3gX:
SlimKat and Franco.
[Nexus 5 General] VanDir:
In your experience with which kernel have you got the best battery life?
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm stock atm and get similar life as screens above.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Unless you have multiple Google accounts like my setup above..
[Nexus 5 General] ray3andrei:
Could u guys that are running stock and get 4+ hours screen on time, tell us what settings you're using (brightness, art, google now off on, etc etc) right now im at 26% with 3 hr screen time, auto brightness, runing ART and i have gnow on, ive been streaming music via bluetooth to my laptop though (for about 2 hrs), i managed to get 4 hrs screen on time yesterday, same settings, also i've had the phone for like 3 days :D, battery life got better each day
[Nexus 5 General] nebulah:
Nice!

Which Franco ?
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
I flash a kernel with alot of governors... I decide to use dancedance gov... Which you think is the best battery friendly gov? I'm thinking to run consertive governor for some testing...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Best battery saver is probably conservative. That's its purpose. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
I read it's way to battery friendly... Chops.. Lags... Stuff like that... Dancedance is a conservative gov with tweaks... Is there are any others?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just try it...it there's performance issues change it. ;)

I kinda doubt on any top phones out now that it would slow them down any. Games maybe.
[Nexus 5 General] Sam3gX:
R33
[Nexus 5 General] punk dagar:
My Nexus 5 Battery Results

This is what i got without using any battery saving app. I'm happy with my nexus 5's battery. :laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
There are lags but if you can get more sot... Its worth it.... I will test it tomorrow with full charge... But yeah even at max cpu speed it lags a bit...

Sorry friend but you clearly charged your phone...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Oh yeah...he did. I was gonna say kudos, he almost beat my 7 hours 44 minutes, which is screen shot back some pages. Lol
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Not sure if it counts when you charge the phone. :cowboy:

50% remaining, 4hrs SoT.

Wifi On, Gnow On, Locations Off, Sync when charging

No root, stock Dalvik. Brightness 20%.

Apps that don't even show: much Tapatalk, couple Hangouts texts.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Im sorry but this is a normal way of a phone drain.... With phone calls... Some gaming... Some all of thinks.... To have 4 hours your phone with the screen on just to take the screenshot sorry but it's fullish... And you waste your battery cycles for nothing....
[Nexus 5 General] :
I get over 5 hours consistently. Usually that's mostly tapatalk, internet, lots of texts....and yeah that's about it. I don't play games on my phone.

What's normal for you might not be normal for everyone. Insulting someone cause they are proud of their screen time and assuming what you do with your phone is the definition of normal is far more foolish if you ask me. ;)

Be respectful.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Im not....but this here is my sot...without at least changing nothing its at least stupid...we all can achive 4-5 SOT by letting our phone with screen on for 4-5 hours....the point is to use your phone...not to have it sit only for the +1...anyway...im here just to get an answer about consevative...and im off...!!! :)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
If you're implying that I left my screen on for long periods of time without use, that is not the case. My usage of apps are conservative on battery, Tapatalk doesn't even show up on my list despite using it heavily. Text messaging with Hangouts doesn't either. Dashclock and Current Widget are my only widgets. I generally avoid using much data because my H/3G network is inefficient.

Gaming is hardly a requirement but I can tell you most will drain the battery very quickly. Some can be exceptions such as Temple Run 2, repeating level games with minimal interaction or A.I.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yeah, sorry...when my screen is on its BEING USED. LOL

I'm running with most stuff off, greenified, a little debloating and I always get over 5 hours screen. Many others do too.

Implying we don't use our phones is ridiculous. MANY people get well over 4 hours screen time with THEIR normal use. Cause we don't play games means we aren't using our phone normally? Its a phone....texting, internet, forums and phone calls is normal phone use. Games aren't for everyone dude.

Please don't insult others cause you think if we don't use our phone exactly like you its not normal use.

If you play games and have all the bells and whistles running on your phone....no....you won't get 5 hours screen time more than likely. Maybe 3 hours.

That's just how it is. The less running, the more battery.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
You stuck with insulting..... I'm not insulting Noone... And of course I don't say games is for all users you have the option to play them but yeah.... If you clearly see his SS you can see that except from sot he doesn't have any other drain... A big of youtube only... Anyway... I don't really care as I said I'm here only for the governor.... You get insulted.... ;) take care...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Good luck finding help here now tho. ;)

Again, sorry you can't get the screen time some of us can. Probably have an issue there.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
Oh I'm getting great sot.... I'm just testing... ;)
[Nexus 5 General] :
"Great" is 5 plus. Any less is normal/average. LOL

Again tho....depends what people do. Games, mostly, will cut screen time big time.
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
My best battery life so far.

Mixed lte, 3g and wifi

Location services off

Toggle 2g set to drop to 3g when screen off and when on wifi.

Usage is browsing, tapatalk and reddit

Kernel is francos r33 and rom is carbon
[Nexus 5 General] zubsz:
battery drain

Huge battery decrease by more than half in 2 hours, 40% of it was caused by mm-qcamera-daemon. I flashed jinshu's camera mod. Is this the cause?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Here's Mine:

Faux Kernel:

> UC to 0.96GHz

> Conservative

> UV -87.5 mV across the board

> Intelliplug Hotplug Driver

> Eco Mode

> Shake Charmer

> Core 2 & 3 throttling at 65°C

Cataclysm:

> Smart Radio

> Not sure what else to mention, just cool.

Brightness:

> Mainly 20-25%

> Indoors, controlled by Lux

WiFi and Mobile Data:

> WiFi 95%

> Mobile Data 5%

Apps Used:

> Instagram 10 mins (MAJOR BATTERY HOG)

> Facebook 30 mins

> YouTube 30-45 mins (Impressed with low battery consumption)

> Tapatalk 1-2 hours

> BBM 30 mins

> Twitter 30 mins

> WhatsApp 10 mins

> Chrome 1-2 Hours

Disabled Apps:
[Nexus 5 General] bobprobert:
i am having major issues with the battery in my nexus 5. have been using it for about 2 months so the battery should be "broken in" by now. i go to work with it fully charged and keep it in my pocket the entire time. we are not allowed to use our phones while working so the only time i use it at all is for about 5 minutes total when i step out for a smoke break and check my notifications. 7 hours later i get off work and it's down to 20%. i would just turn the thing off completely while working except i have a baby at home and need it on to be able to get emergency calls. when i go in i turn sync off and gps off. it stays connected to lte while i'm there but there is literally a tower 1 block from work so i know it's not constantly looking for a signal. full signal and full lte bars. obviously something is wrong. i have installed the snapdragon battery guru that is supposed to help with battery life but obviously something is going whacky with my phone. i am rooted with stock kernal and firmware. i also have battry stats plus installed if there are any things i should be looking for as far as red flags please let me know. any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated.
[Nexus 5 General] ray3andrei:
can u send us a picture of your battery stats?, i think there's an app that's keeping the phone awake and uses the cpu, when it should be in deep sleep, had this problem with my g nexus too, I ended up doing a clean wipe.
[Nexus 5 General] bobprobert:
well i just got it off the charger this morning so i will post after work tonight
[Nexus 5 General] ekeixdurden:
I don't know how can u get 5-7 hours or more of screen, maximum for me 4 hours and praying... and I charge it every 24-48 hours

I'm with PA beta 6 FR kernel 33, UC 1.9, voltages -75 all and using Greenify, all the syncs off but Whatsapp or Telegram and using Dolphin all time with Wifi always on and airplane mode most of time on as well

How could I get at least more 1 hour of screen time guys??
[Nexus 5 General] :
If you're getting a day to 2 on a charge...that's awesome...and going that long I'd say 4 hours screen time is pretty good. Usually the guys getting 5 plus hours are 24 hours total or less.

I'd say you're doing good, considering you seem to be going much more than a day.
[Nexus 5 General] Hecke92:
Isnt the only important thing about the battery the fact whether it gets you through a whole day or not?

I dont really get these battery comparisons...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Many people like to strive for the greatest battery life they can get. Myself included.

Maybe its not a concern for you, that's fine.

If you don't get it or care, good for you. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Averaging about 7 hours SoT lately.

Gnow On, Locations Off, Sync when charging

No root, stock Dalvik. Brightness 20%, 10% before bed.

Apps that dropped off the list: Hangouts, Voice Calls

I'm including S Tools CPU usage as well.
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Latest results on mahdi ROM and linaro kernel. No uc or uv

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] DanielMod:
Here some usage of mine.

I'm on stock rom,stock kernal with gravitybox+softkeyz+optimized dalvik and bionic and some ui mods here and there.

Managed to get almost 3.5 hours os gameplay,screen on time while playing Gta San Andreas.

However sometime I see 30% drain in an hour for doing nothing without even turning the screen.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Obsession for SOT is a good word to describe this thread, coming from the constant comparison and that question of "Why am I not getting the same awesome stats as that?" filling the mind.

In other words, psychological issues are being produced.
[Nexus 5 General] :
This ^ is what people with bad battery life say. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
I guess you are one of the obsessives.

I do get 1 to 2 days of battery life with 4 hours SOT. That already is good enough.

To get 7 hours of SOT when your phone clearly doesn't want it to? Really? :cyclops:
[Nexus 5 General] :
My Moto x and my N5 both have seen better battery times than any screens I've seen. (24 hours plus with up to 7 hour screen time on good days) I'm away from power, period, for 14 hour days sometime....so battery life is my absolute number one priority.

Sorry if its not yours, but don't come into a battery life thread putting others down, just cause its no big deal to you.

Go troll somewhere else. Kk? ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....

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http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81

Read number 2.3, since you obviously missed it.

Have a great night. :)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Trolling? Putting others down? Really, does that seems like my motive of that post?

I am afraid I am stating a fact, some do get obsessed over it.

For one, I do care about battery life if not I wouldn't be here. But if one have tried all sorts of options - kernels, UV, location off and what not and still gets nothing out of it, what does that say?
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
C'mon guys, let's get back to topic.

So continuing with my situation (4 Google accounts as described above), I find out that the only way to reduce the battery drain on both Google Play Services and Android OS is to Greenify the Maps application.

HOWEVER, if do this AND enable Google Now, the phone will sporadically reboot by itself. So it seems the Map application is the one causing the high battery drain, even when Location Reporting/History are off and it's integrated to the OS.

I am still monitoring the situation, but so far, the battery drain according to GSAM app is only 1.7% / hour.

Still figuring out what drain the battery when the screen is ON though... 15 minutes of screen time wasted about 3-4%.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisch91:
How did u get this transparent status and nav bar?
[Nexus 5 General] surrealjam:
I'm sure this thread doesn't need further comments but I wanted to say how pleasantly surprised I was after getting the Nexus 5. I am probably classified as a medium-light user but I have often gone two working days (from 8am day one to 11pm day two) with decent screen time of over 4 hours. After most reviews said battery life was OK or below par I'm very happy with this.

I have come from the HTC One X - a phone with a powerful quad core tegra 3 chip and a rather lame 1800mah battery. I suppose after getting used to that anything would seem good... seeing as the Nexus 5 is only 500mah higher I can only assume the newer Snapdragon 800 chips are super frugal.

Cannot believe I picked this thing up for £240 off contract - someone arrest me.
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
Three Hours Display on , 63 percent left. Wi-Fi all time on. More in a few days , testing at the moment a few settings.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Stock ROM and kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] tien113:
stock kennel is very bad choice.
[Nexus 5 General] cephaus:
My nexus 5 is pretty solid, im not too worried. Its pretty easy to find a compatible charger unlike the iphone 5 rofl
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
How so? And what do you use instead?
[Nexus 5 General] sony83:
First discharge after enabling ART :)
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
No :) I am Slim Member , I use Slim and stock kernel most time and Hells Kernel at the moment ( German Kernel , not here in Xda ) , my last screen is with Hells Kernel.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
[Nexus 5 General] tien113:
u can check my signature.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Are you on T-mobile? I heard disabling Fast Dormancy has no effect on T-Mobile.

I also couldn't find any instructions in HERE @ XDA on disabling Fast Dormancy and my /system/build.prop does NOT have the "ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule" entry.

Some website stated this:

1). Navigate to the /system folder on your Android device in Root File Explorer

2). There should be a file named build.prop

3). You need to hold the file choice with your finger and select edit with one of the text editors listed,

4). ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule=0, add this in your build.prop on it’s own line.
[Nexus 5 General] 1one:
Rooted with stock rom and kernel.

I think Battery life is good.

This is my secondry phone hence i cannot comment on battery usage in calls but it gets me through the day with a lot of Emails, social networking apps and games :)
[Nexus 5 General] spazzynexus:
Cataclysm rom + elemental X kernel. Decent use. About 50% was on wifi and the other 50% on good LTE
[Nexus 5 General] tien113:
Yes, I'm T-mobile. disable fast dormancy is a tip for saving battery on nexus 5 4.4.2. I read somewhere but I don't remember the site.

Also, flash the radio will improve the signal and battery life. I did it and it improved.
[Nexus 5 General] :
On slim with bricked kernel. Everything off. Only texting, tapatalk, and some browsing pretty much. ;)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] dsmpampis:
Latest Purity with Purity kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] rockykoston:
How much is your screen brightness?