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[Nexus 5 General] adulel08:
U guys need to put what your brightness settings are. If it's auto say so because I think a lot of you guys are looking at dark screens all day with 5-7 hour SOT lol here's mine

Auto, everything on, some Wi-Fi mostly LTE, ART

13 hrs in, light aosp browsing n hangouts

Im getting better battery than my n4 which solidifies my upgrade!!

I can only post 1 attachment pic?
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
You are telling others what to put down in their post and then give us a quarter of the story yourself. Oh the irony.
[Nexus 5 General] torana355:
Here is my battery stats for today after 7+ charging cycles.

Auto Brightness, Bad 4G reception, everything on except for Google now.

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[Nexus 5 General] FRLinux:
I had a big battery drain issue with the location settings. It was set to "high precision" when i got my device, the device kept on getting awoken all the time. Set it next day to "battery saving", still massive wakelocks. Last night I set it to "GPS only" and this has completely stopped the wake locks.

I believe this is a feature of 4.4 and Google will fix this in the next update.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
you mean AnandTech that shows the N5 beating out the G2 with over 10 hours of wifi browsing screen time? i agree, that is going to be a great review
[Nexus 5 General] G1_enthusiast:
Well...ok I own a phone to go out of the house and do things and stay in touch with people, not to sit at home and surf the web on my phone. I have unlimited data, I rarely use wifi.

I don't know if you dream of that battery test or not but I cannot find any review on anadtech regarding nexus 5 battery test.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
it was leaked yesterday by anand, said 'think of it as a teaser' on twitter when he took it down from the website. you'll see it in their full review

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1q6fjk/anandtechs_n5_benchmarks/

there's the text copied from cache
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
My battery life has been disappointing to say the least. Worse than my Gnex. Most of it is due to high drain on idle by Google Services Framework. Over 30%. Is there any way to fix this in Kitkat?
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
Coming from a gnex, I'm used to shutting down anything that I don't use. KitKat has a lot of background stuff going on that I don't use, so away it goes. Fortunately, I don't like a really bright screen, so I keep as dim as possible. This day, it was raining and spitting snow, temp was about 30F, so I was inside all day with screen at about 2% brightness. Testing again today with some sunshine, so I'm expecting less time. We'll see how it went tonight.
[Nexus 5 General] coldbeverage:
What is ART? I know that's a noob Q, but I can't figure it out. THanks.
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
Is anyone else seeing Google Play Services draining 20-30% of the battery on idle? I charge it at night to 100% and then when I wake up 8 hours later the phone is down to 93% and Google Play Services is the main user of battery. On my N7 that is not the case. Is this a new thing with 4.4?
[Nexus 5 General] grudas:
K, tried to kill it today.. and finally did it! bOOM.. this is above my normal usage of - 2.5-3hrs/screenon/day but I just wanted to see where it dies..

~1hr youtube

~30mins on vine

~30mins music

+ camera

+ app testing etc

and the rest is browsing and standby with wifi on all day

this is on faux kernel

quite happy with it
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
i wish the kit kat location setting allowed you to set accuracy mode by app (high accuracy vs. battery saving)

(so i could set a lot of them to battery saving mode, while allowing maps to use the GPS)

as of right now, it seems like an all-or-nothing situation. essentially, i'd like the ability to restrict certain apps from accessing the gps, but i don't wnat to turn the feature off for all others
[Nexus 5 General] coldbeverage:
What did you kill?
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
people that are getting 6+ hours of battery life are literally disabling everything on their phone.

google now off

nfc disabled

battery saver mode for GPS

AIRPLANE mode ENABLED (rofl)

LTE/HSPA+ radio disabled

Brightness at minimum

They are using the phone the moment they take it off the charger to the moment it dies, no standby time at all.

Draining to 1% and then finally taking a screenshot

WiFi enabled though. but that's about it. the only thing enabled. (would not be surprised if some of these 10+ hour battery folks disabled WiFi and all they did was flick the homescreen or just keep the display on until it drains)

Sorry folks, but if folks are getting into Airplane mode and disabling literally everything, it kinda defeats the purpose of even having a phone.

TLDR; stop doing tests that don't mimic the real world.
[Nexus 5 General] desairs:
Use tasker with secure settings to turn location settings on and off based on the app you open. I haven't rooted yet but that's what I plan on doing when I root later today!
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Lol, some of you guys in here are so cute "I cannot achieve this so it's impossible" Same people that swear half the gym is on steroids.

I have Google now on

Location based reporting off

GPS off until I need it, didn't use it yesterday

LTE on with a sprinkle of H+

Ran Speedtest at least ten times I'm comparing T-Mobile to Verizon

I purposely used my Nexus the same way I normally would, lot of reading got some apps, emails for work, but I used my GS3 a bit also.

I actually took my phone off the charger a few hours before I went to sleep to test idle drain. (Lot of that going on with MotoX I wanted to compare).I fell asleep and woke up at 97% so obviously wasn't using it the moment I unplug it.

You can even see that I don't use Wi-Fi. Unlimited data FTW.

Never used airplane.

At this point it's moot but I want everyone who is considering this phone to know that 6+ hours is easily achievable and if you tune for it like I did you can almost hit 8 like I did. I still wish it had a replaceable battery like my GS3 so I could ZeroLemon it and it would be perfect. I'm sure someone will make a battery case soon enough.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
I meant 6+ hours of screen on time with everything enabled. LTE all day, GPS on, Google Now enabled, NFC enabled, auto brightness, and cellular enabled.

that's, a huge part of the phone, location based reporting...
[Nexus 5 General] Manbot27:
Which is annoying to people who don't have the phone yet and are getting biased reviews. Of course the phone is going to have great battery life if you turn off all the services. Turn off all the services on the G2 and the Note 3 and be amazed. I don't understand the fanboyism that goes on with Nexus devices. The phone is great but it has average(maybe a tiny bit subpar) battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
Indeed it is,

We just need Google to get their finger out and stop polling location so often even when the phone isn't in motion to save us some battery.

Location services are far too much of a battery hog hence why so many people have them disabled.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Why would anyone leave GPS and NFC on when they aren't using them. Turn it on when you need it and off when you don't. GPS connects fast on this phone anyway. Location based reporting isn't a big deal to me and I'm certain I'm not the only one. I don't need Google knowing where I am all the time or telling me there's great pizza around the corner from the house I've lived in for 17 years, or that the parkway sucks during rush hour.

The only thing that you mentioned which I didn't do was keep GPS and NFC on all day and I'm sure it won't cut off 2 hours off the times I've posted.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
So far I'm not very impressed. With screen at half brightness, GPS on, and NFC off I'm at 65% battery with 1 hr 24 mins screen time and 3 hr 30 mins overall uptime. Its actually worse than my 2 year old GNex and significantly worse than my GF's N4.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
It really depends on your usage pattern.

If you read a lot of ebooks, I have no doubt you'll be able to achieve 7+ SOT with the nexus 5 given that it has the panel self refresh feature that conserves battery if you are looking at static images.

I don't think anybody is saying you'll be able to achieve 6+ SOT with full brightness, LTE in a low signal area, GPS enabled, etc etc.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Yeah, just to be clear full brightness on this phone is nuts. It's like a flashlight. Auto works well enough and lux works much better.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
i agree.

I also have a htc one and the nexus 5 at 50% brightness is BRIGHTER than the htc one at 100% brightness!
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
well, i have to say that i love my Nexus 5 but battery life is horrible so far... from 96 to 63 percent in 2:30 hours with 1:40 of screentime.... going to give it a week and if doesnt imrpove im sadly going to have to return it
[Nexus 5 General] ottoman2:
I think battery life life is ok, maybe with custom kernels we can get better.
[Nexus 5 General] trebills:
battery life is horrible

Battery Life on this thing is absolutely horrible. Of course I am coming from the Razr HD Maxx on Verizon and I imagine most Android devices batteries would not perform to what I am used to. With that being said, What do you guys/girls recommend for increasing battery life.

Obviously lowering the screen dim timeout, auto brightness, turning off certain things like NFC, Bluetooth etc when not using them.

But I am wondering if anyone knows of any app that helps with this. I have heard about Greenify but not really sure if that helps and I remember an app I used a while back called Juice Defender which at the time seemed to work well.

Anyway, any advice is welcomed , I really like this device and would like to get as much out of the battery as possible.
[Nexus 5 General] whatsitsnamenow:
Real world test. 2 hours talk time. Then screen off, Lte Hotspot the whole time. Lol:D
[Nexus 5 General] frasl:
I used Snapdragon Battery Guru on my HTC One and liked it. Installed on my Nexus but haven't had time to evaluate a normal day yet. Developed by part of Qualcomm so figure they know what they are doing with the CPU at least

Wont let me post a link but easy to find in Play store
[Nexus 5 General] nick34609:
Mine isn't half bad. Better than my n4 for sure. Everything on. Screen on auto brightness. Location set to battery saving.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
My battery life is amazing compared to the same setup running in my n4. I am still going off my first full cycle but I am at 17hrs stand by with 3hrs and 10 min ost so far and still got 27% left of battery. I am very impressed
[Nexus 5 General] TurkzZ:
12 hours 12 mins, 39% left - 3 hours 6 mins of on screen time.

Switching to auto, turning off the ok google function and going battery saving on the gps has made the world of diff
[Nexus 5 General] ZenithHammerhead:
If any of you are feeling risky and want Superman-like battery life on your N5, go check out Franco's kernel on the original android dev stream.

Leaving my device in almost completely standby with just a few texts being sent every hour got me to a projected 60 hours of battery life...
[Nexus 5 General] tpcrackpipe:
I need to figure out what app is causing my phone to wake up so often. battery life has been great so far though. way better than my s3
[Nexus 5 General] mr mystery:
7 hours, 2 hours screen on time and I'm at 18%. Battery life is garbage for me. I won't be keeping it.
[Nexus 5 General] lowtje:
Stock. Fb, whatsapp, Twitter, instagram, hangouts and 3 mail accounts with all sync on. Google now enabled. Auto brightness was on and when I was not on wifi I used 4G :)
[Nexus 5 General] emerica243:
What lux settings do you use?
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Auto. When you run it the first time has a configurer that runs. Afterwards you can adjust and link

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Jordanh8:
Here's mine for today. This is with a Pebble connected all day, about an hour of bluetooth music streaming, & about 4 hours off of WiFi. Auto brightness & only change I've made was to location settings & set that on battery saver.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/61tjq5mn8f5c3pf/2013-11-10 00.55.42.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/84lv7qvzxgtb39g/2013-11-10 00.55.47.png
[Nexus 5 General] pert_S:
Mine today.

Could be better it seems.
[Nexus 5 General] maamdroid:
I've had my phone plugged into my laptop for the past 8 hours and my phone wont charge about 83%...

When I am using it it either stays constant or drops while plugged into USB. Is this expected when plugged into USB and using the phone?
[Nexus 5 General] TurkzZ:
got to the end of the day with 19% left .

16 hours on, 4 hours 10 mins screen time. Not rooted, auto brightness makes the biggest diff for sure. On standby it loses nothing at all.

Twitter FB etc etc etc all sync
[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Is the nexus 5 battery life better than HTC one ? I think the HTC ones battery is pretty poo.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
In my testing I would say they are about the same.

However, the nexus 5 does have more power saving features than the htc one (panel self refresh, envelope tracking, audio tunneling) so depending on your usage, you may get better battery life w the nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] faultytowersdude:
Took the advice of doing a full factory reset. As I didn't do it after update. Now I'm seeing better results all stock.
[Nexus 5 General] nick34609:
Overnight drain on faux beta.
[Nexus 5 General] jamel_tza:
What kernel are you running and what are your settings?

Google now enabled?

Okay Google enabled?

Screen brightness?

Location settings?
[Nexus 5 General] uofaboy:
Here are my results after a couple of charges. Brightness at 30%, GPS set to battery saving, Google Now turned off.
[Nexus 5 General] uofaboy:
Darn the volume display. I got about 1 day and 6hrs.
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidInsanity:
Governor set to conservative!
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidInsanity:
Second picture
[Nexus 5 General] cpam:
I'm struggling to get more than 2.5h screen time..

Thinking of returning it.
[Nexus 5 General] fix-this!:
i wouldn't say the battery life is bad per say. noticeably worse than my note 2 but not horrid by any means. i still fail to see why google and lg didn't at lease slap a 2700mah minimum in this thing.
[Nexus 5 General] osugsxr:
battery life seems to be getting better for me, first couple of days wasn't that great but its holding up better
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
Google Services is draining upwards of 30% of my battery. I have all the location options turned on but I still don't think it should be that high. On my other devices it is not that bad. Any ideas?
[Nexus 5 General] randpost:
That's a good setup, but not everyone has the same needs.

I for one have 7 email accounts I need frequently synced. Google +, twitter, Facebook all need regular sync. I actively manage my location settings. This is a huge drain.

The biggest thing fore was screen brightness. 0% stock brightness is about 50% to bright. Lux or similar brightness control us needed for - brightness
[Nexus 5 General] Mr. Sprinkles:
I don't know why they didn't make the phone slightly thicker and throw a 3000 in there. It would have made the camera lens flush with the back too. Would have been so perfect, damn you google...
[Nexus 5 General] benzben228:
My battery seems OK; on par with nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] Mwas.:
Can't complain about battery. Stock rooted with 3 gmail accounts, Facebook Twitter and linked in. Location off and Wi-Fi on full time
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
Can someone do me a favor and tell me how much battery your Google Services is draining when your phone is idle and with gps and location reporting on. Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
here's mine... very intense use.
[Nexus 5 General] freddie589:
Ok I don't understand this, my Nexus 4 had awful battery life compared to everyone else who posted their stats, I got daily around 12hrs on time and 1hr30 screen time, this is normal usage with around an hour of Spotify which auto brightness etc, by the end of the day the phone was flat completely.

The Nexus 5 I thought would of been a big step up, and seeing others report 4hr+ screen time I was really looking forward to it, but after configuring the phone to my apps etc, my battery seems to be worse than the N4. Today I got 11h on battery, 33mins gmapps keep awake (satnav) and 1h41 screen time, with 12% battery left.

I would expect a lot better battery life as I seem to have to charge the N5 up to around 50% to achieve 2h screen time with normal usage.

How is this so bad and others have so good battery life! I'm thinking of wiping the phone to stock and running it with only basic apps to see if the battery life is better, could be one of my apps having a wakelock?
[Nexus 5 General] Ketzal:
Solutions for bad battery life

It's simple, something is wrong with your Nexus 5. Anyone having issues with battery life needs to immediately try one of three options.

1. Factory Reset, do this immediately. It has helped quite a few.

2. If this fails to help, re-flash the factory software from Google. There's info in the stickies on how to do this.

3. If none of this helps get you to approx 3-5 hours screen time with normalish usage, send your phone in for replacement.

Exact same thing happened with Nexus 4. Wonky base install from factory on some, units, wonky updates. Factory reset helped many, re flash fixed the rest.

Hope it helps
[Nexus 5 General] funky_snowman:
I typically get through a full day with my n4. I carry a battery charger in case I don't make it for some reason or end up using it a lot more than usual and killing it. If the n5 is as good, or even a little but better, I'll be happy. I think back to phones like the evo 4g and the like, and consider n4 users pretty lucky, especially for the price.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
I find that Netflix is a major battery killer even if you don't launch it. It tends to run in the background and keep the device awake and chew up battery.
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
i'm willing to try these steps simply because i keep seeing so many others posting up this amazing battery results and mine are like the other guy - couple hours max and boom - done.
[Nexus 5 General] freddie589:
Helps a lot actually, I just did a Factory reset on it, so I hope that fixes it, if not back to Google for a replacement it goes!

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] bouyark:
Factory reset

I can confirm the first one helped me. I was getting terrible battery life out of the box with the immediate from Google.

Yesterday, I did the factory reset and I am now on 3 hours on screen battery life with mix usage and 41% battery remaining. I am now very happy with my battery life versus thinking of returning the device a few days ago.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Ketzal brings a good point about the factory reset. I didn't realize this because it did it automatically when I unlocked my bootloader.

My Initial Setup is as follows.

1. Unbox

2. Charged to full with phone off

3. Turned on. Phone said it needed to update. I was like WTF, checked on here, saw it was normal, accepted update.

4. During initial setup I turned everything google related off, I didn't even sign in cause I knew I had to reset after unlocking bootloader.

Kept location related stuff off also. I dont use most of it, and only have GPS on when necessary. (P.S Battery Saver sucks, Device only has much less idle drain).

5. Afterwards I immediately unlocked my bootloader (factory resets)

6. Repeat 4&5

7. Rooted

8. Installed CWM

9. Unlocked Developer Options

10. Activated ART (Didn't even know what it was at the time LOL, so I googled it), seemed like a good idea, some apps don't work, but I expected that with 4.4 anyway.

11. Started installing apps and doing some tweaks, CPU, LUX, Governor.

Have No issue with the battery life, I am confused\disappointed that they didn't go with the 3k in the G2. I have a Galaxy S3 with a 7k Mah Battery getting 50+ Hours and 10-1 Screen time, SO believe me battery life was my biggest concern next to storage space. So far I believe this phone can and will last most people all day, but I wanted to share my setup to help those that aren't getting what some of us are. I also intend to get a wireless charger, probably the tylt, which seems like for us readers\writers will make battery a non issue, we'll see.

With that said, who here hasn't unlocked and rooted yet, and are you getting bad battery life? I think the two might be related.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just wanted to say I have had a great experience with the battery life on this phone after I disabled Google Now, Location, and a bunch of stock apps.

Been using my phone for 7 hours today with 30 minutes of screen on time, battery is currently at 90%.

Been connected to LTE the entire time.
[Nexus 5 General] rayoubi:
Now I realize how awesome my note 2 was. I miss having a good battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] the803:
So I disabled Google Now and I have seen a much better battery life. I am now getting over 4 hours of screen time compared to just over 2 hours. It's great. But today I was on WiFi most of the day so it'll be interesting to see how it's like when I'm back out.
[Nexus 5 General] moldovanos:
Same exact settings and use as my N4. N5 is better just by extra 200mah battery capacity. Dont see anything above that. I do have Liquidsmooth rom and Matrix kernel on N4 though
[Nexus 5 General] elementaldragon:
Really don't see how people are complaining about battery life. I'm at 10 hours 17 minutes on battery, with 2 hours 14 minutes of screen on time, with about half an hour using Navigation, 20 minutes of Candy Crush, and some web browsing and texting. Still at 30% battery. How is that "Bad" for a 2,300 mAh battery?
[Nexus 5 General] maamdroid:
What charger you speaking of...??
[Nexus 5 General] gr3gg0:
Battery seems just fine for my medium/light usage.
[Nexus 5 General] pedxing:
Good advice. I reset immediately as well.

I have veils auto brightness on to dim it a bit for very dark situations (it's blinding otherwise).

Turned off location history but left location reporting on. The rest of Google now is on. Gmail and exchange on push sync. Put location mode into battery saving option. I have a tasker profile to turn on GPS when maps is open or if in car mode.

I turned off a few Google syncs that I don't use. I have my own photo sync set up for once a day for example to my private cloud. Also disabled app backups and sync. On ART right now as well.

Other than that it's a phone. Got five and a half hours sot today.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
I completely agree with you.

My theory is that they did only because LG did not accept it.

Manufacturing cost increase would have been max 5 $!

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[Nexus 5 General] PunchTheLion:
How much difference would a 3000 vs a 2300 be anyway in terms of OST?
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
where did you hear this?

can anyone confirm if this is true?
[Nexus 5 General] Blocoholi:
Factory Reset deletes my data right? Can I use titanium backup?

Sorry, used to be a rom freak but my nexus 4 did settle me down with the stock rom.
[Nexus 5 General] pedxing:
I think it's not correct. The g2 has the gram feature which led many to hope that the n5 would have it as well. However that looks to not be the case. However many have confirmed that the n5 has the Qualcomm LTE radio enveloping tech which reduces radio power needs by 20% and heat by 30%.
[Nexus 5 General] davwman:
Noticed the n5 charges exceptionally fast. Anyone else?
[Nexus 5 General] tehdef:
If you're using the stock charger, it shouldn't. Phones should charge slow. I would go for an under 1.5 amp charger if I were you. Anything over 2 can cut down the life of your batt.
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
Yep, it charges fully in 2 hours with the stock charger. With a 2300mAH battery that means it must be taking 1150mA. On my N4 it peaked at about 850mA.
[Nexus 5 General] nick34609:
WiFi on, but not connected.