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[Nexus 5 General] schlozi23:
Got the phone this morning, charged it and have been using it since. Installed Lux, because the Auto-Brightness was definitely too high for me. Was home for most of the time (thus using Wifi) and on the road for about 6 hours (mixed 2g/3g, no LTE here - but I didn't use the phone very actively while being out).

Nearly 3 hours of screen on time with 47% of battery left. Not too shabby!
[Nexus 5 General] bgaccord:
Not too bad
[Nexus 5 General] TyroneLT:
Wow! I'd like to know how this will look at the end of the day and how long you were on wi-fi compared to LTE.
[Nexus 5 General] blazeoc:
Not going to lie, not very good.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
I think chrome is the culprit... Right now chrome is eating more than the screen... Which is crazy
[Nexus 5 General] Sunielsoto:
At 54% left I'm really satisfied with my battery life, coming from a Droid RAZR barely getting 2 hours of screen on time. Of course mine isn't activated, but I was in school!

Edit: forgot to mention I'm rooted, have juicedefender, sync on, Google Now on, and GPS on battery saver
[Nexus 5 General] Tomatot-:
Not a bug, check advanced options in WiFi options :)
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
like i said, you can see screenshots and what i use my phone for in my post history. if you want you can check them. im not gonna lose any sleep over you not believing me or not lol. after 7-8 hours of idle from sleeping last night. the phone is at 7% now. i will post screenshots for the N5 right before it dies.

im hoping to see at least 10% more from the N5, that would represent the increase in battery size. any more after that 10% I will chalk up to android and processor optimizations

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i just attached the screenshots. it died right in the middle of a youtube video so I had to plug it in. that is why you see the sliver of green in the charging line all the way to the right. i literally plugged it in and took the screenshots immediately

again, anyone can believe me if they want. im not a troll, im not going to tell you that I ran google now and gps and games for 14 hours with the screen on

WiFi stays on the whole time the screen is on but i optimize the settings for battery life(like telling it to not constantly check for open networks or to monitor for poor wifi connections). other things like NFC, GPS, google now, all mobile radios(i keep airplane mode on), auto brightness off and i keep auto brightness down. on the N4 i could leave it at the first 'notch' but for the N5 I bring it up to the 3rd or 4th 'notch'.

apps being used are chrome, youtube, whatsapp, taking the occasional picture(i might take 20-50 per day) and recording a voice note or two.

I keep the phone on(and the screen on) while im at work. either whatsapp stays up or chrome stays up. with the 13 hours of screen time this last charge had, I would estimate that I actively used it for 10 of those hours. most of my usage is while im at work, so ill use it off and on while im working. collective idle time(with screen on) is probably around 3 of those hours.

like i said, im a very minimal user. I use the apps that I use and the settings set are for my personal usage. I battled with the 4 hour N4 screen time(with horrible 3 to 3 and a half hour charge times). and I couldn't take that. it was either fix battery usage or switch phones. I have to say I am very happy with how i've optimized the settings and I will probably start to slowly turn on services(google now, low power gps, etc) and see how each one impacts the stock 13 hour total
[Nexus 5 General] pmmusale:
I am happy with my results...one sudden drop is when I switched to ART from dalvik.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
My First Cycle, 1pm to next day 5pm, not bad. 5 hour+ of auido(2 hour with speaker) and 1 hour screen time(max brightness).
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
Really good today.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
Just found this on Reddit, it appears Google have broken GSam Battery monitor(my favorite), BetterBatteryStats & other battery monitor apps with 4.4's restriction on battery stats access.

Disappointing, hopefully this gets resolved in some way that don't include rooting.
[Nexus 5 General] compchick813:
I've been on wifi since my last post. Android OS usage seems high and I haven't had that on past phones. Anyone have an idea on what could be causing that?
[Nexus 5 General] MiDiANx360:
I am having trouble with high Android OS "awake time" too, to you have Daydream enabled while charging? Maybe you have the same problem:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47212139#post47212139
[Nexus 5 General] TheReverend210:
Anybody have any idea roughly how long it takes the fuel gauge to settle? Like I use my phone for 10 minutes, it blasts about 10% battery, turn the screen off and the power level creeps back up to where it was.

I know its the fuel gauge learning what voltage is what charge, but its becoming vexing checking Facebook and my battery draining quickly.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i dont think the N5 fuel gauge has that 'learning' thing

source
[Nexus 5 General] TheReverend210:
Hmmm interesting, well something untoward is certainly going on.

The large awake section at the start was me listening to music on my way from the car to work, whereupon it gained a good 3-4% of power back when I turned it off.
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
Your network signal explains a lot with your battery life
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
Do you have Android manager enabled?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i saw the same thing. all i did was turn off the device, you can see that there is no charge bar under the spike, yet it shows the battery life going up
[Nexus 5 General] capocorp:
Just got n5...here it is my screens after 3 charges ...in really satisfied....coming from a 3 years old single core android with cyano...that required 2 charges per day now i feel on another planet !
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I couldn't say for sure as I rarely use more than 20 mins of voice calls a day. However there are a couple posts which would indicate still allowing 4-5 hours SoT on a charge with 1-2 hours of voice calling. The official number is 17 hours of talk time but I can't imagine getting much higher than 10 in daily conditions.

SoT hours: 8.5

Total battery hours: 32

Remaining percentage: 4

Gnow on, Locations off, Llama automated WiFi and syncs, Dashclock + extensions

No root, stock Dalvik. Brightness 10%, screen time out 1 min.

CPU times are incomplete but I'm including anyways for the interesting comparison to last month.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yup....that sounds about right! :)

From what I've seen.....and I followed this thread before even getting an N5 (to compare to my Moto x, cause I was nervous switching and not having great battery life still)...is that 3 to 4 hours screen time, and about 12 to 16 hours total, is about the average with all the bells and whistles running. And with most of it off, 24 hoursish with 5 to 6 hours screen time is about average.

So guys, if your getting 3 to 4 hours screen time.....weigh what you have running before posting you have a problem. Cause if you're syncing, have location services on and using auto brightness.....then 3 to 4 hours screen time is normal. You will unlikely break 5 or 6 hours. And you probably wont get a day on a charge either. (There's always exceptions of course ) oh....if you're signal is so bad that you lose signal completely every so often.....your battery will take a beating, bad! Lol

Turn everything off, greenify, use a brightness slider and stay fairly dim....Ans then maybe you'll see those higher times. ;)

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] KerryWood34:
What is this rabbit battery you speak of? Link?
[Nexus 5 General] GR0S:
What do you think about this guys?
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
Thats an battery saver like green power in French. The app is on the Google store.

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] bigblue95z:
Been getting great battery life recently. 2 examples attached. Light use went pretty much 2 days with over 4 hour screen on and heavy use over a day with almost 5 hours of screen time! I'm running Purity 3/9 on ART. No kernel modifications.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Again, very jealous of these screen shots with amazing Cell Signal. I've seen enough posts between random shots from you, Simms22 and another person to basically give up on worrying about how I use my phone (except for obviously bad apps) and realizing unless my cell signal improves, I'll be in the 3-4hr SoT over 24 hours range always.
[Nexus 5 General] teiknarfy89:
Me too!!! I recently posted in the Q&A section about build prop tweaks the will boost cell signal and nothing best I got was change radios... I get 4h sot with everything on and like 12 -14 hours on battery.. But my cell signal sucks.. But I get awesome LTE speeds tho
[Nexus 5 General] Bronyr:
No nu Vi hi no by
[Nexus 5 General] :
With everything on....and a not great signal, you're getting perfectly normal battery life. Doesn't get much better, with everything on. ;)

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
I have about a month or so I can't find solution to my battery problem... Android system keeps draining at least 20% of battery with 1 and more hours of usage.... I try to see what's causing it through bbs and wakelock detector both show me a bit (40sec to 1minute) of alarm and contactivity... GLAM on the other hand and specially battery widget show me that surfaceflinger and system_process are working for 40minutes each... I ask some guys on slim thread they ask my local and tell me that alot of wakelocks happent with snapdragon guru... Maps (that i was using last day cause of pokemon hunt) and a market I have.... I disable the market notifications.... I remove snapdragon guru... And today I didn't use maps at all...

I have wifi always searching off, I have location to battery with history and report to off... I greenify all apps that I can... And while searching this thread I saw that find my phone cause wakelocks so I disable this too.... Android os keeps draining... (I can see that it used for some time after refreshing the battery history on settings) now I'm out of ideas... Today wipe my phone... I restore my backup with titanium but with no data... But still nothing..... Any thoughts?
[Nexus 5 General] :
You can't find a solution to you problem, because you don't have a problem. I think its just your usage. And that's just how it is. :)

But...if you want to see why....try this...

First....location services drains the least amount of battery on device only....not battery saver. And you probably have lots of apps accessing it A LOT. Messenger, Facebook, games and probably a bunch of other apps. All of that will boost "android os". As well as the syncing those apps are doing. More android os.

You're playing games it sounds like. Battery killer.

Navigating always is a huge battery drain.

So....try this. Reflash your phone. Don't install a single app the first day. And turn off location services, Google now, and in Google settings app....go into android device manager and unchecked the 2 items.

I'm betting your battery life will be great at this point. UNLESS your signal strength is very weak. That will wreck your battery life too. And the only known fix is to move. LOL

But, if battery life is good at this point. Turn on location services. Not history and reporting tho....turn them off again. Try device only. Yes, it wont work well indoors tho. You can try battery save again if you really want.

Leave it like that a day. See how battery is. If its good then day 3...install your 5 most wanted apps. If battery is bad again that day...you know its one of those 5 apps. So use the process of elimination til you know which one.

Day 4....install 5 more apps. And so on and so on.

Do this and you will see what is hurting your battery. And how much.

And next time...get gsam from playstore and use it for screen shots. ;)

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
I thought battery save location wasn't drain artery except when you making checking on fb or g+.... I put on device only and I will see now...

I have fb and messenger but those aren't causing by itself all those drain...except if android system is a placeholder for something else... But only system server and surfaceflinger draining...

I will see how it's going to be with location on device only and of not I will try what you said....
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
By using Current Widget I've confirmed rebooting your phone uses a considerable amount of battery. About 2-4% all together maybe more if you have many apps and services.

After booting my phone is consistently hammered at 1000-1200 mA readings for minutes. That's on top of the actual boot time where the CPU probably runs at full speed. Suggestion: reboot while charging.

Some good advice from kj there. If you're serious about trimming down it's a process, almost like over clocking. Small adjustments and constant monitoring.
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
I will try that.... Lets hope I will find what's causing it....
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
What I'm about to say is a bit UK centric but it tends to back up strongly what others have reported in this thread already.

We have just moved home from an area with reasonable indoor cell signal strength to an area where it is basically appalling no matter which provider is chosen for your mobile phone service.

On my Nexus 5, I immediately noticed the deterioration in battery life and apart from putting it into aeroplane mode to turn off the radio, there was no other way of improving it.

The eventual solution (for me) was to change providers to one which was able to provide a "sure signal" device which has been a revelation because not only does it provide good excellent signal strength from it's mini cell around the house but it has also had a massive effect on improving battery life since the radio is never having to struggle for reception during normal use around the house. My battery life is now way better even than it was at our old address and area...
[Nexus 5 General] :
I guarantee you will find your issue if you follow what I said.

The only problem is you may not like what you find. LOL. It may be caused by something you can't live without. In that case you'll have to live with what you have.

I posted this before recently ....but from what I have seen here.....14ish hours total and 3, maybe 4 hours screen time seems to be average for the everything on people. And 24ish hours total with 6 hoursish seems to be normal for the everything off people. (That's me and my average times)

Its all about preference and priorities. Everyone is different. That's why its extremely hard for anyone, on any phone, to be comparing battery times with others. ;)

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] sr33kar:
brilliant batterylife

what are the governer settings
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
The worst is if the phone loses signal completely (red on the graph). The phone needs to work overtime trying to reestablish the connection and uses a significant amount of battery in the process.

Just having weaker signal (yellow on the graph) does not seem to affect idle drain significantly. However heavy use of a medium signal (data, calls) will be less battery efficient.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Definitely this. ^^^^

Use wifi whenever possible if you have a weak signal.

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
But surely, even with wifi on, the radio is still trying to maintain a mobile link for normal calls and texts? In our case, the signal was non-existent until we went outside and walked up the lane a bit... (there's a rather large hill slap bang in the way of the direction of the nearest multi-provider cell tower... :crying: ) Meaning that it is in the "red" always; as someone else has also commented...

Now, using our indoor mini-cell (calls are routed over our broadband link - in and out), the signal strength is always a full 4 bars and with wifi on for the data stuff, the battery life is massively improved...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yup, phone still uses signal for calls and texts....but that battery drain is nothing compared to weak signal on data. Anything syncing is trying to connect through data and it can destroy your battery. So on wifi, those apps aren't using data and therefore no more massive battery drain.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Wow I am really impressed this time, my first 6 hours screen time .. lol. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Looks good. Any clock speed or voltage adjustments? From the background of the wakelocks it seems you used mostly Facebook and Steam. Fairly battery heavy apps from my experience.
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
The above was with mode set to 4G auto.

The below demonstrates how setting to 2G only vastly improves battery usage. All other settings and physical location same as before.

I strongly recommend getting xposed framework and gravity box which has a smart radio feature to put phone in 2G when on WiFi or mobile data off. Its doubled my battery life.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. By far the biggest battery vampire is crap signal, not screen or location etc. That is why there is so much variance in peoples battery life. Look at all the long tines posted, they'll be experiencing good signal.
[Nexus 5 General] Godra:
Hey guys, Galaxy Nexus user here. I have GN for year and a half now and Im looking for an upgrade. Im thinking between the N5 and LG G2 and Im having some concerns about battery life. Is there possibly anyone that used to have Galaxy Nexus and moved to N5 now, because GN battery life is really crappy nowadays and Im wondering if battery on N5 is any better (I mean do you regret for getting it or not, would you rather take G2 now etc.) Im really dont know which one should I take. LG G2s huge battery or Nexus 5 which is simply said - Nexus, nice and clean and getting updates fast.

Sorry for interupting, hope someone could help mE :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
The only kernel settings I've changed is the vibration intensity from default to 50.

CPU clock speed and voltages are all at default.

The second app in my wake lock list is Falcon Pro, with Facebook having >200 times of wakeups over that 1 day of battery running.

And indeed, I am really surprised with this result since Facebook has always caused a problem with device waking up all the time.

:good:

Also that 4% went back up to 5% when I turned the screen off, and it lasted for another 1hour with 15min of screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
Is it worth editing the kernel stuff for better battery life, really? I don't ever play games, just the normal smart phone stuff such as browser, calls, sms, news and stuff. I think I don't need superhigh clock speeds and stuff? Appreciate the help!
[Nexus 5 General] :
I never change kernel settings. And I get 24 hours total and around 6 hours screen time.

Of course I have almost all things off...I greenify....I keep screen as dim as is comfortable ...don't game...rarely make or get calls....and don't use social apps.

But that's me, my setup surely wont work for some people. ;)

Sent from my N5, Moto X, N7, Gtab3 or S2....
[Nexus 5 General] rockknee:
Have you guys noticed any difference on battery drain when using wifi vs mobile data? I see many people here with great battery life using WIFI almost all the time.. Are you like carrying wifi routers in your pockets? :D Just waiting my N5 to arrive via UPS and can't wait to get my hands on it. Battery life is something that bothers me a little but I believe it won't be atleast worse than on my old s3 mini. With that device it was impossible to get much over 3hrs SOT in about 14hrs usage from 100% to 0%.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Those are probably about the same times you'll get on the N5 if you like having "everything on". But with some tweaking and most things off , you can get double those times . :)

Sent from my N5, Moto X, N7, Gtab3 or S2…

---------- Post added at 01:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:04 PM ----------

And yes, wifi is usually easier on the battery than data. Usually.

Sent from my N5, Moto X, N7, Gtab3 or S2…
[Nexus 5 General] Krzysiek_CK:
Here are the screen shots of the battery life on my Nexus 5. I tried to reboot when half of the battery got drained in few hours but it did not change anything.
[Nexus 5 General] Felnarion:
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[Nexus 5 General] :
You need actual battery stats. ;)

Get gsam, or BBS if you prefer. And see what it says. You have a very bad app at work I'd guess. And since its showing up in android os, it will be something that syncs and/or uses location services.

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....

---------- Post added at 11:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:16 PM ----------

Personally I prefer gsam, along with wakelock detector.

I'm betting if you shut off location services, your battery will return to normal. But the bad app is still there.

If you're on data and have a very bad signal, or are losing service.....your battery will drop like a rock.

Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Here's my testing of PA Beta 3 20140402 + Stock Franco r39 without FKU installed.

Auto sync of contacts and gmail is enabled. Off GPS, off Google Now, 2g signal and around 15% brightness.

50minutes Google Play Music

Kindly advise optimization to improve this more.

I want to match with the battery usage of my brother's Z1 Compact. I cant beat 7hours SoT stock/unrooted standard usage. Wifi/text/call/facebook/browsing.
[Nexus 5 General] vlawrence0324:
I think we cannot beat the z1c in terms of battery since it's 720p with the same 2300mah. Try using greenify and wake lock detector to stop app from waking up the device unnecessarily. Also, on mine I have the location off but I am using Tasker to enable high accuracy /battery saving based on the app that is launching then the exit task will turn the location off again.
[Nexus 5 General] 7alvi:
Used it with sole purpose of finding out how much battery lasts

Stock rom with gravity box and couple of other modules and faux kernel with a different color profile.

Mpdecision on.

Interactive governor.

C3 sleep state enabled.

Fast charge enabled.

Intelliplug off.

Whole the WiFi was on, location service was also on. Sync was off. Brightness set to around 25%. It's crazy bright above 30.

While playing most wanted, WiFi and location service was off.

While I wasn't playing mw, I was constantly switching between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

In my opinion it did great. Just want to know if my network was more stable would have I got something better than this?
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
I also have Greenify. I also have BBT to check if there are wakelocks but there are no unnecessary wakelocks. Are there wakelocks that cannot be seen in BBT and can be seen using Wakelock Detector?
[Nexus 5 General] vlawrence0324:
I believe they're the same. I just use wld coz it is integrated with greenify.
[Nexus 5 General] Krzysiek_CK:
Sure, I just installed it. We will see what shows up. I only know that I did not have this problem on 4.4.

Location is in the "Battery Saving" mode. The only app that could kill the battery that quickly because of location usage is "Google Play Services".

I have very strong LTE signal. The lost service would show up under "Cell standby" and I don't see anything there.

Thank you for reply.
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
This is just my personal experience, but battery life with the latest PA was mediocre at best. Tried everything and obsessed over wakelocks. Battery life was meh on both the nexus 5 and the nexus 7. Finally said screw it and flashed SlimKat and my battery life is now phenomenal. The phone can sit in standby for hours and not lose a single percent. Perhaps this is the sole result of me clean flashing a ROM after wiping system and has nothing to do with PA PR SlimKat, but I know I am not the only one that has unusually high Android System usage with PA.