yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Sensation] huzefaonline:
These are two totally different roms your talking about. ViperS 3.1.2 is a sense based rom whereas 4.3.1 is aosp rom. Sense is an interface made my htc which is added to the stock rom made my google. Aosp roms are roms without the interface of sense(htc) or touchwiz(samsung) just like a rom release by google.

The ram depends on the maker of the rom. Depends how much he wants to keep free for users.

Both are good for daily use. Only depends on what you want.
[HTC Sensation] Abdulla_91:
Thank you guys now this become clear to me ! I appreciate your help :)
[HTC Sensation] wifogg81:
my questein can i take oneS

ViperOne S 3.2.1 and yous this on a HTC Sensation venom 5.2.1

the ting is i can try , but i Relly Relly like 5.2.1 and the thing i have done with it.

but Android 4.2.2 is for more to do

Thx
[HTC Sensation] asefjamil:
I am using the rom viper sense 5. that's also good. despite the fact that any viper rom drains battery more than other roms. :mad:
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Post your screenshots with a description of the test you used. ​

I'm doing a low to medium usage test with Bluetooth, Location Access on High accuracy, WIFI, HSPA,Auto Brightness and google now. From 100% down to 0%. Then doing a Full charge time with phone turned on.

Will be posting screenshots via dropbox below with a few hours in between.

Battery usage screenshots. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/zwr2s240knxqove/_FZDWDZWmT

4hr 6mins screenshots of time on. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/zzvlu7oplnax7qf/IeDdDl9Nb_

8hr in with screen on time. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/ww0uwt5fo8tbuk9/mw_LPAcrB3

19hr screenshot with 7.5hr overnight standbyhttps://www.dropbox.com/sc/t64536q9a0l0axd/RWJ6_Oq4gJ

In addition I've used a2dp audio stream for an hour or so. I'll do a full screenshot of all the on times later.

Still very low usage scenario. Battery looking good. @22hrs 40% with updated screenshots above.

Final Result

only took me to 15% with 1 Day 16 Hours. Screen on time 3hr 16mins. Needed a full battery for the day and couldn't risk it but atleast it's a general ballpark. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/oaj33ji9kssx5rt/BFiLIz-Jef

40 Hours is still pretty good for light usage. During a busy working day i would be happy with 9 hours max usage.
[Nexus 5 General] gredberd:
I know this is off topic but I havn't ben able to confirm this anyway: Does the nexus 5 have a LED notification light?
[Nexus 5 General] MasterGGM:
Can you also please post the screen on times. Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] chowster:
Yes it does have a notification light. Its in the same place as the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4. Here is a video of it in action;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRF6jZX2b7Q&feature=c4-overview&list=UUgd4ILPETW7nG1tSttVdSmQ
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Screen on time is in the screenshot.
[Nexus 5 General] MasterGGM:
Not to be rude, but no its not. I meant the actual time the screen has been on not the % of it. When you click on screen you'll see what I mean.
[Nexus 5 General] shr33kant:
Here's a link to mine from the other battery thread;

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47056316&postcount=130
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Sorry i understand now. Yes i'll upload them as well.
[Nexus 5 General] yuan_1202:
Looks like it's not that great...
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Were you expecting Galaxy Note or LG G2 battery life from a phone with a 2300 mAh battery?

Those battery stats seem perfectly fine for a phone with a 2300 mAh battery.
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
It looks ok with almost 2h of BT streaming calls + 2h of music. Other results in thread seem more "realistic" (if you don't use BT). Let's wait for more feedback. If it could make 4-4.30h screen on for me, that means with custom kernel and UC it could easily hit 5h or more. *thinking out loud* :)
[Nexus 5 General] shr33kant:
Here's my reply from the previous thread...

Well you say it's disappointing but I disagree;

If you look at the screenshots you will see how much battery has been taken by the voice calls compared to screen on time;

30% of the total battery use was from the 3hr47m for screen on time but...

A whopping 26% for only 1hr28m of voice call time! If we use that ratio and just double it (assuming all network strength was the same) you'd likely lose 52% of your battery in just under 3 hours...(this is just an estimation based on my results btw).

I honestly don't understand the hard-on people get for screen on time when voice calls seem to drain the battery much much harder... doesn't anyone use their device as a phone anymore?

Also if you take into consideration how bad my signal was the battery life I had today was all the more impressive.

A Random Afterthought:

IF that 26% that were used on Voice calls were used for screen on time...although realistically it'd probably be something like 17-20% with the rest on random android processes and processor usage; the screen on time could easily be above 5 hours possibly pushing 6 with bad signal and no wifi O_O...
[Nexus 5 General] dinodude:
Well nexus 4 with Trinity kernel gets 6-7 hours so with nexus 5 I expect around 8 hours on a custom kernel and stock should get around 5 hours which is pretty darn good.
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
He is liar dont believe him
[Nexus 5 General] MasterGGM:
Nope. Who uses a smartphone for phone calls? :p
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Haha I only really use it for work tbh. Most of the its just texting or what's app.
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Updated the screenshots above for the 8hr mark. Not many phone calls been made and phone has been idle quite a while.
[Nexus 5 General] Cronis:
Think I had like 32 mins of actual phone calls on my phone bill last month lol. So yea, a lot of people dont use their phones for calls all that much.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
The Default battery app doesn't give enough information imo, Could you install GSam Battery Monitor? It is free & very informative.
[Nexus 5 General] fcng:
Perfectly acceptable

shr33kant,

The battery performance results you have are perfectly acceptable for a typical phone user that uses the phone for calls, web surfing, google services, movies etc. I only get 2 to 2hr. 15mins on my N4 with typical phone usage as you. So the N5 is basically getting better battery performance then the N4. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] kojaraty:
According to today's usage, I can say it has the same battery life as my Nexus 4. I hope that Google will update the software so that we can get better battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr.Mischief:
Had mine for half a day now. Battery life is definitely better than on the Nexus 4. I'll try to post stats tomorrow.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] duckied:
Battery seem on par with the n4 but then I'm over clocking it at 2.5ghz so I can say battery life mean much to me.
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
*Ignore the WiFi chart as that is wrong. I wasn't on WiFi the entire time. I didn't use WiFi much actually.

1st charge results running everything stock, not rooted.

Had LTE 70% of the time, WiFi 30% of the time, and did forced 3G (HSPA+) at the very end to check out speeds.

Did not game, but browsed web, installed bunch of apps, read and composed email, did a lot of streaming Google Music, about 10 minutes of Youtube, and did a good amount of Navigation and usage of Maps in general, as well as a small amount of camera usage.

The location where I reside has weak LTE signal, and had weak signal whenever I was at home (manually kept LTE on for most of the time in the house).

Google Now disabled, High Mode GPS accuracy, and Google+ disabled.

I am happy with the results. Do I wish for better battery life? sure, but 4 hours screen on time for a first charge is damn impressive to me, especially with the weak signal that I get throughout the day.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
I don't understand why people are so impressed with battery time when phone is all day connected to WiFi. This is not a real life performance. Go outdoors where you don't have WiFi, use camera, call people etc. I think Engadget did a SOT of 7hrs while on WiFi (nexus 4 managed over 6 on the same test). So technically speaking its a piss poor battery life as overall battery life on n4 wasn't that good wither
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
Read what I wrote...

its a bug in the reporting system

I barely had WiFi on. Less than 30% of the time...
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
100% agree with you.
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
I didn't use WiFi much. For the third time its a bug on googles part that its showing WiFi all the time.

I. Was. Barely. On. WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] Mr.Mischief:
Nope nope nope.

Engadget tested it with wifi on but not connected, and it lasted 2 hours longer than the the Nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
OK do the test again and show full graph and stats

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People still forget that even so touching the screen ramps up the CPU every time therefore normal usage will significantly decrease the battery .

I did the same test on my nexus 4 and it lasted 6hrs https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-2l3DQse0GqSURqZXM2aHVOQkk/edit?usp=docslist_api

Will do the same test over the weekend on my nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
Are there any decent battery monitor apps available that work on the N5. Gsam keeps FCing
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
I will on the second charge (if it doesn't bug). Anyhow, many other users are reporting the bug of WiFi showing as 'always on' when it's not. It's a common issue.

I'm pretty happy with the battery results. 4 hours screen on time with LTE on mostly all day is net positive for me. It was mixed usage with a lot of web browsing.

I'm going to let the custom kernels mature a bit and eventually jump into that, undervolt and underclock as well and see what battery gains I get.

Loving the Nexus 5, and I'm so glad I got the white version.
[Nexus 5 General] torana355:
There is a setting in the advanced menu in the wifi section call "always listening" turn it off and it will fix that issue.

I have a different issue, im getting very high battery drain from "google play services" Anyone else getting this?
[Nexus 5 General] 9mmpistol:
I am quite happy so far! Coming from a GS2

Yesterday i worked a late shift but i was still up at 7. Battery lasted me all morning playing with it and all through my shift. 3g all day with the Skype app running and logged in.

Still hit 4 1/2 hours screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] kamranhaghighi:
my n4 have a full day of gaming without hspa+ easily whit hspa+ its only enough for just going out somewhere for short time :!! i always carry a charger in my pocket:)might buy a battery btw
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
I think this is due to Google using WiFi triangulation for location.

If you disable scanning always available in WiFi settings this should resolve the issue

TLDR if scanning always available Is enabled WiFi will always be on.
[Nexus 5 General] ronii1123:
Hey guys, haven't heard any word on this yet, but how fast does it charge?
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Might be too early to tell, but I like it so far. Sync, Google Now, and location all on.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
I saw mine charge a tiny bit faster than 1% per minute, up until it gets to 80ish percent. then it starts to go slow(the lithium poly trickle charge).

I believe mine charged, from completely dead to 100%, at incredibly close to the 2 hour mark
[Nexus 5 General] Vertron:
Here's my battery life screenshots.
[Nexus 5 General] droid_for_life:
My N5

With

Mahdi 2.5 Rom

Uber Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] EnIXmA:
Pa ROM beta 6(KVT49L build..stock kernel.

Bluetooth connected to my pebble watch and plantronics head phones.

location set to battery savings... Google now turned on.

Watched like 6-7 YouTube clips, made 5 phone calls... Some web browsing.. Twitter, whatsapp, hangouts etc..

Most apps greenified and controlled By app ops. Art on.. Auto sync on

Could have easily crossed 8 hours sot with 18℅ juice still remaining.
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
How!!!?!?!?!?
[Nexus 5 General] EnIXmA:
I was getting average battery life of 3.5 hours sot last week... These are the things I did to get this sort of battery:-

-change ROM

-uninstall touch control and any other apps that were causing wake locks

Reduce brightness from 25% to 5%

This was also on wi fi
[Nexus 5 General] JohnLocke44:
Stock ROM

ElementalX Kernel

25% Brightness

Google Now OFF

GPS High Accuracy

75% WiFi / 25% LTE

-50mV UV

Stock clocks, No L2/bus boost.

Sync ON

Enviado do meu Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Unrooted using Wifi

16% remaining

Sync while charging

Locations off

Google Now on
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
How!?
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
decent i guess?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Pretty average for me and I could've extended it by not streaming music or disabling current widget which added to Android System along with other widgets like dashclock with extensions.

It's rare to get less than 5 hours SoT on a charge. To do so I would need to use data instead of WiFi or play demanding games.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Current battery life,

Seems like my bad 4G reception is the cause:

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[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
Bow before.me!

Device: Nexus 5 16GB

ROM: PABETA 5 w/ Franco r33 ARTified
[Nexus 5 General] yarosig:
On a side note, use a charger only. Not the factory USB cable. I use the blackberry tablet charger, and charge from zero to 100% in 1 hr 10 minutes. Also when it says charged it trickle charges at a slow rate. Measured his android tuner.
[Nexus 5 General] Shanda1:
Anybody using LTE instead of WIFI?

I am just wondering if i only use LTE for daily normal use, is it possible to last a day or from morning to night? :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
It's possible, but it depends on your usage.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] JohnLocke44:
Wowww

What is your settings?

Enviado do meu Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
PABETA6 Franco stock settings UC to 1.9ghz. I've been just using it as normal furthest I've gotten 0_0

Device: Nexus 5 16GB

ROM: PABETA 5 w/ Franco r33 ARTified
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Root is not required for long battery life BTW. GNow on, locations off, sync when charging. I think Bacon's banner ad drained most of my battery here too.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Best battery life so far for me, Stock! Almost 4hrs SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Idle drain: roughly 2% over 9 hours. Not rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] kanyewest:
what rom and kernel u running?

N5 Magic
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Stock unrooted. Check my SoT post just above it.
[Nexus 5 General] fw1987:
This is my battery drain on nexus5 + faux010m GPU clock 200Mhz.

is good!!?
[Nexus 5 General] outofthisworld:
Brightness at 2%, using Lux

Franco 33, UV -50mv

Stock ROM, Dalvik, Xposed

Charged from 35% to 100%

Greenify many frequently used apps

Owned phone for 3 weeks

AppOps turned off access to some features (unsure if this is working yet)
[Nexus 5 General] kopower:
Running Cataclysm with Franco kernel and never on WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Wow, that's pretty good considering your mobile signals looks really bad! Having a bad signal causes your phone to be working harder to find a good signal, thus draining the battery. I think it could be much better! :)

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I don't get how people can keep their brightness at like 5% !! I Have mime at 25% and I can easily reach 5 and a half+ hours screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] Frankie73:
Looks like the battery gets better after some time. In the beginning I couldn't get more then 2.5-3 hours SOT, now I'm off the charger for more then 20 hours with almost 3 hours OST and still have 41% left :)
[Nexus 5 General] kopower:
I was a bit surprised at how bad the signal was myself. There were a few times I was inside a building with little to no signal, but for the majority of the battery cycle, I was on LTE with atleast 3 bars.
[Nexus 5 General] EnIXmA:
pa ROM, stock kernel..

Auto brightness, LTE turned on on for the whole day.. Phone connected to pebble watch on Bluetooth... Location on GPS for 6-8 hours, battery savings for the rest... Lots of browsing...

Went to a different city, so used Google navigation a lot for directions.. Left home at 8 and was back by 11,.. Easily survived the day with 20% juice still left..

In love the battery on the n5, my HTC one would have died in 6 hours with the way I used my phone today.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
48% remaining.

No root, mixed usage.

Locations off, Gnow On.
[Nexus 5 General] Tenhi:
Some great standby time here. It lasted for 4 days and 13 hours (with 9% of battery left) with 2 hours of sot. Everything was on. I was using it during this period mostly to check mails and some other notifications, and there were few short calls...
[Nexus 5 General] ej8989:
ROM: SlimKat 3.0 Stable

Kernel: Default Slim Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] baalaajee1990:
Hi,

I felt likewise once I started using it.But with time i am observing that the battery is draining out very fast without even connecting to Internet(Wifi/3G).
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
1st charge cycle stock ROM stock kernel rooted. Almost whole day at home WiFi. 1 hour ish on 3G outdoors. With about 20 minutes Bluetooth audio while driving. 20 minutes of GTA SA. 22 minutes of phone calls. Constant low brightness (near minimum but not minimum) but still plenty bright for me. Location reporting off, location battery saving, Google now on. Auto Sync on settings: App data, Calendar, Chrome, Keep, People details. Used lots of Opera browser, WhatsApp, Tapatalk.

Final screen on time was 5hr 5m at 1% battery. Personally I'm super pleased as my GNex with a 3.5k mAh can only get 0.5 - 1 hour more screen on time with this same usage.

Edit: The radio on this phone is superb. It gets 5-9 db more signal than my GNex. The GNex always showed a lot more yellow patches in the battery stats.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Just checking, for those with >5 hours SOT, what is your average battery and CPU temperature?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I only monitor battery temps and it idles just above room temperature as expected. With internet usage or anything more it will consistently rise up to around 32C within 20/30mins. With continual usage it will keep rising to 38C where I assume more aggressive thermal throttling takes place and it will hover around 40C.

Throw gaming in the mix and this process is accelerated.

Once left alone it can take over 10 minutes for there to register a temperature drop on the battery, possibly due to my hybrid case.

This is using Current Widget for on demand updates.
[Nexus 5 General] Aenima462:
Almost exactly 7 hours of sot before phone shut down. Was on WiFi 50% half of the time and about 5-10% screen brightness.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
That is cucking frazy :eek:

I literally don't believe my eyes. :S

What ROM/kernel are u running?

I'm so totally getting the n5 B|
[Nexus 5 General] Aenima462:
I didn't understand how people were getting even 5+ hrs sot when I was using stock rock and kernel. Could only get about 4.5 hrs.

I'm using cataclysm with the latest Franco kernel. I've disabled most Google services and sync as they were causing very excessive wakelocks. Google+ was consistently using 20% battery. I also have the screen turned down from stock auto brightness levels as the screen really only needs to be above 15% in daylight outside
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
With no root the N5, under "perfect" conditions can achieve:

8.9 hours SoT web browsing over WiFi

6.9 hours SoT web browsing over LTE

6.4 hours SoT web browsing over 3G/2G

13.7 hours Talk Time

Best in it's class, I might add.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
You're saying that it'll last longer on lte than 3g/2g?

I thought as the number increases (4g>3g>2g) battery decreases.

Am I wrong?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
if the phone can download a website faster(with 4G) then it keeps the module powered for less amount of time. this varies though with signal strength and what you're browsing/downloading

it's the 'race to idle' theory
[Nexus 5 General] Madpiercing:
My nexus last more than 2 days with 4/4.5 hoours sot with little use and around 20 h and 6h sot using a lot of social, mailing, texting, whatsapp, stumble upon, 500px, issuu, flipboard etc etc. I have everything turned on besides google now that i don't use.

Flash cataclysm, franco kernel, underclock for UI usage and set per app options if you're a gamer, and you're set, 6 h sot are easily achievable by everyone.

Nexus 5 battery is more than adequate for me and certainly on par with every other smarphone i owned, if not better
[Nexus 5 General] r0cky0790:
Delete double post..
[Nexus 5 General] r0cky0790:
Delete....
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
What is tap2wake?
[Nexus 5 General] r0cky0790:
You tap your screen twice to wake it up...

As people have stated before, if your phone is struggling to receive a good signal this would affect your battery greatly. With my crappy service I can pull four hours easy. Just imagine if I had really great service. I would be able to almost if not double that 4 hours with no problem.

"Cataclysm + ElementalX [Tap2Wake Enabled] + Dalvik/Bionic Patches + Exposed + Gravity Box & Candy shop Mods + DPI 440 + Apex Launcher w/ Morena Icons + Jishnu's Camera Mod/LG G2 Camera Port + Latest GPU Drivers + -75 UV Across The Board + 4 OC Cores @ 2.226 GHz + TWRP" My Nexus Is The ?,┌П┐[◣_◢]┌П┐!
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Won't that use more battery?
[Nexus 5 General] r0cky0790:
Yeah it does but it has a option to disable it by using the power instead. It automatically enables once a notification is received and or when you let the screen sleep taping 2 wake enables it also.

"Cataclysm + ElementalX [Tap2Wake Enabled] + Dalvik/Bionic Patches + Exposed + Gravity Box & Candy shop Mods + DPI 440 + Apex Launcher w/ Morena Icons + Jishnu's Camera Mod/LG G2 Camera Port + Latest GPU Drivers + -75 UV Across The Board + 4 OC Cores @ 2.226 GHz + TWRP" My Nexus Is The ?,┌П┐[◣_◢]┌П┐!
[Nexus 5 General] r0cky0790:
Sorry [MENTION=1662773]mods[/MENTION] for the screwed up posts. Here is another screenie of battery stats. 4 hours screen on time with crappy data. Pic above shows proof of my crappy data.

"Cataclysm + ElementalX [Tap2Wake Enabled] + Dalvik/Bionic Patches + Exposed + Gravity Box & Candy shop Mods + DPI 440 + Apex Launcher w/ Morena Icons + Jishnu's Camera Mod/LG G2 Camera Port + Latest GPU Drivers + -75 UV Across The Board + 4 OC Cores @ 2.226 GHz + TWRP" My Nexus Is The ?,┌П┐[◣_◢]┌П┐!
[Nexus 5 General] :
I was a bit worried giving my wife my moto x with its average of 28 hours total and 5 1/2 to 7 1/2 hour screen time....and getting an N5 so I could play with it more.....but this is my first full day so far. Its a shame I have to charge so I'm full in the morning. I think I could almost match my moto x average here. ;)

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That's stock 4.4.2. Rooted, debloated a bit. Location services off, auto brightness and greenified. :)

I'm impressed.
[Nexus 5 General] lanwarrior:
Damn.. everyone is having awesome battery life!

Mine is only:

- 11 hours 30 minutes with 20% left

- 3 hours screen time

- Android OS and System don't take much of battery life (see screenshot below)

This is STOCK ROM, rooted. I don't run any crazy apps that run on the background, other than the normal apps like:

- Weather app that checks every 4 hours

- 3 GMail accounts

- GPS OFF all the time

I guess out of the box, Nexus 5 have OK battery life. I am not one who like to install ROM, Kernel, CPU tweaks, etc to get battery life as I want the experience out of the box.

Google must have some background processing that made the battery life worse than iPhone. PS: not trolling here, but I carry iPhone too as part of my work and test show after approx. 11 hours and 30 minutes, I still have 45% battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Gsam has far more detail and the screen shots say more when showing others.

From your screens from the stock battery screen....nothing seems unusual.
[Nexus 5 General] Sc0rp10:
Turn location reporting off. It did wonders to my battery usage.