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[Nexus 5 General] toanau:
I am truly amaze by the battery life of the N5. I was having buyers remorse after selling my Google edition S4. I was worry that it has same battery life like the N4(the reason why sold it to get the GE S4). Can't wait to flash some stable ROM
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/com...will_be_a_battery_miser_thanks_to_new/cd5ktqf

Here's a dutch reviewer that also states it has gram and tests the battery with and without it.

http://tweakers.net/reviews/3298/3/g...l-snufjes.html

one test had a countdown timer on the screen that effectively disables psr, the other test didn't have a counter on the screen and that enables the psr feature. You can see that battery life has increased by over an hour.
[Nexus 5 General] greyhulk:
I had great battery life the first few days. Today, for some reason, battery started draining like mad (10% in 10 minutes while idle). I restarted the device and it's fine now, but this is the first Android device I have had that happen on in a long time. Ironically, the last device that did that to me was my Nexus 4. This, with the same apps and accounts as my other devices (Moto X, Note 3, LG G2).

I hope it's an isolated incident. Nothing is worse than not being able to depend on your battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
I keep WiFi,NFC,Bluetooth. All of it on all the time .
[Nexus 5 General] STi_Fanatic:
What's your screen on time? Did you disable Google Location reporting? What mode is your Location setting configured to use?
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
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a little over 7 hours screen time. Google reporting is on and location mode is set on "High Accuracy"
[Nexus 5 General] :
7 hours SOT with high accuracy?

How did you do that?!
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
I keep auto bright off and have my screen fairly low.
[Nexus 5 General] :
My screen is also fairly low with auto brightness off AND I'm undervolting a bit and I'm struggling hard to get to 4.5-5hrs with any reasonable usage.
[Nexus 5 General] pwnyu:
Here's mine
[Nexus 5 General] pseudoheld:
what happened at the end there? looks like it goes up a bit and then plateaus...

what are your guys going discharge % per hour.

atm i have about 2% with not much useage...seems a bit high imho. im not getting anywhere near the sot that you guys are getting.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You too? I don't get it. Most people I know on other forums are getting 4-5 hours SOT and that's what I'm getting but the people here are getting 7+ hrs. How is that?

I've turned off most of my location stuff and put it to battery saver, turned off LTE to use 3G and HSPA+, my brightess is low and auto is turned off, I'm using faux kernel with some minor undervolting... I dont get it.
[Nexus 5 General] Warrimonk:
What kernel are you using?
[Nexus 5 General] dacho:
This is mine. With high accuracy auto brightness and Wi-Fi off and on lte.
[Nexus 5 General] davwman:
Stock charger. It just charges fast. That is all.
[Nexus 5 General] pwnyu:
Stock kernel and rom.

i was reading a book on google play.
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
Well something that may have skewed that result, ive been at home the last 24 hours and can look out my back window and see the base of my closest cell tower, chances are the phone isnt being forced to use much power finding it. That may having nothing to do with it at all.

I did let the phone run dead to the point that it would not power on about 3 times after getting it before attaching it to a charger each time also.
[Nexus 5 General] filthygoat223996:
My Google search is going mad, Google now disabled and location off. Anyone have a solution?
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Try a different launcher maybe? Nova is pretty light on resources and barebone like the stock one.
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
Hey I was just looking at your picture and you said Wi-Fi off but if you look closely you can see that it's actually on. I think it's a bug and mine is the same can you confirm?
[Nexus 5 General] dacho:
Yes it seems to be a bug. Wi-Fi was definitely off.
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
Maybe some of the batteries they put in arent doing as well as others?
[Nexus 5 General] :
To the point of varying where some members struggle to get past 3 hours SOT to some getting 7.5 hrs and plenty of people in between?

I'm not saying it's not entirely impossible, but I think your idea may be a bit off the path.
[Nexus 5 General] pwnyu:
Its not a bug.. you need to go into WiFi advanced settings and untick "Scanning always available"
[Nexus 5 General] rexxcastle:
well that's what happens with faulty batteries... so how am i " bit off the path"

Ive seen many phones in the past where a batch of them had faulty batteries,
[Nexus 5 General] hutzdani:
Simply put the N5 Battery IS WORSE than the N4, but about 20%

My N4 on stock lasted about 14 hours with lunch time checking of emails and some light GPS usage and on CM with stuff disabled about 16 hours.

N5 just about lasts a day, with light usage ( 7th charge cycle ) Location services off for all apps and no BT ( only 3g / wifi on always and auto brightness )

Also 4.4 constantly sends bug reports, the software may well be the issue here, I have had a boy 28 bug reports sent since I received mine ( November 4th )
[Nexus 5 General] :
That would be a lot of phones to have faulty batteries; and a very moderate fault at that.

I don't mean any disrespect; you could very well be right, I just personally do not think that. That's all I'm saying.
[Nexus 5 General] elementaldragon:
You say the N5's battery is worse by about 20%... then say the N4 would last you about 16 hours max on a custom Rom, and the N5 lasts you about a day on stock? Am I missing something here?
[Nexus 5 General] Hakeem5:
My N5 gets over 24hours of battery life on average.

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I get an average of 1+ day with my N5 battery. I can go two work shifts without having to recharge. When i first got it, I got the google service framework drain real bad but I have fixed that without any issues. I have Google sync, wifi/cell tower location and LTE activated non-stop. This is the best battery life I have had on any device thus far and I've had 5-6 flagship android devices back to back since the G1.

If you wonder about some of my settings then let me know and i'll share them.
[Nexus 5 General] nourez:
So far for me the battery life is good enough. It's definitely a step down from my old Note 2 but it's not so bad that it doesn't last me the day. I wake up in the morning, go to school or work, come home, and have enough battery left to do some light browsing for a bit.

It's functional, but for heavy days with lots of calling and stuff I'd need a charger with me.
[Nexus 5 General] otooles:
I am thinking something must be wrong because my results for today are unacceptable.

What do you guys think?
[Nexus 5 General] ragnarok_:
Hey guys,

Check your wifi Advanced settings and make sure wifi isn't always on! I had the wifi killing my battery even though I thought everything was off!

Settings -> Wifi -> settings on bottom right -> Advanced -> Uncheck 'Scanning always available'
[Nexus 5 General] dacho:
I don't think it affects my battery. It just shows it as always on.
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
How did you fix the Google Services drain? I've done a factory reset and it still drains the majority of the battery on idle.
[Nexus 5 General] CoronaDelux:
I'm not entirely impressed with the battery life, however it's still a **** ton better than my old galaxy nexus.

Is this normal or could I be doing better?
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
For those of you who are having bad battery life but no obvious reasons why (wakelocks, Google software, etc). I would like you to turn your phone off tonight and leave it on charge all night while you are sleeping. Turn on upon waking and see if there is an improvement tomorrow.

If that doesn't work factory reset if you're willing to tomorrow night. Turn off and charge all night. I have a sneaking suspicion that it's not some batteries that are bad, but that some phones may not be reading percentages correctly.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
this is some kind of battery stat bug. i've seen it in my screenshots and maybe 15 to 20 percent of hte screenshots submitted here

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with stock charger and cable, mine charges a little faster than 1% per minute. until it gets to around 80% and then it slows down

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YOUR N5 might have a worse battery than YOUR N4, but my N5 showed about a 30% increase in battery life compared to my N4
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
Said nobody;)
[Nexus 5 General] Hakeem5:
First see if your drain is linked to a GPS bug. Go to Settings > Location > Turn OFF then restart your device and your google services drain should be minimal or non existent.

To make it better, I turned location off, charged my phone to 100% then powered the phone off and on. I tested it for a day and got 30+ hours battery life. The 2nd day i turned location on again (Battery saving mode), turned off Location reporting in google maps and the Google services drain never came back.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Been using my phone for the past 2 days from 9 AM to 1 AM without recharging. 3 hours of screen on time across 2 days and still 25% battery left. That is phenomenal.

Using stock ROM, stock Kernel, not rooted. Location settings off, Google Now off, Google sync on.

Absolutely love the battery life on this thing. In just going to start charging my phone every 2 days from now on instead of every day to prolong the battery capacity.

Forgot to mention, last night I slept for 8 hours and 30 min and my battery % went down by 3%. That's pretty nice!
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Do you have LTE on or off?
[Nexus 5 General] :
LTE is on
[Nexus 5 General] STi_Fanatic:
Well I give up. I must have a defective unit.
[Nexus 5 General] hutzdani:
I wish, today was horriffic less than 5 hours and the battery was dead !

3G only.

WIFI off totally not just in the half arsed mode.

GPS / Location settings off

From 8am when i unplugged till 1pm its got to 7% battery, looked into wake locks and stuff nothing there or suspicious on app usage ( considering I checked my mail and the time ), jumping to a custom kernel to see if that makes any difference.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
That shouldn't stop Google, should it? I am sure XDA devs can get 4.4 working on the GNEX so why can't Google? Just thought it seemed strange.
[Nexus 5 General] sewer56lol:
NOTICE:

Our phone automatically underclocks CPU once it reaches a certain temperature, this extends battery life.

You can test this if you root then go to a CPU Tool e.g ROM Toolbox and notice your frequency isn't set to Max.

Do this after for example two banchmarks in a row or a short stress test.
[Nexus 5 General] jackhuny:
Still the same 2300mah battery do not think it is going to be too big of improvement.
[Nexus 5 General] Alfonso87:
LG learned from the nexus 4, to not create a nexus too much similar to their top smartphone :p
[Nexus 5 General] Vyse666:
The same? Nexus 4 had a 2,100mah battery and a battery hog processor.
[Nexus 5 General] theoneofgod:
2100mah. Still, the screen is larger than the Nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] Alfonso87:
And the processor is bigger too.. :p
[Nexus 5 General] krispy1:
The nexus 5 has some new features that will help battery. For LTE it has envelope tracking which saves 20% battery when using LTE. For audio playback they now have audio tunneling to DSP which they claim is 50% better for audio playback.
[Nexus 5 General] HiddenSanctum:
Might be because it might require a bios update type thing?
[Nexus 5 General] s33squar3d:
It seems like the industry now isnt trying to find bigger batteries, necessarily, but instead they are opting for optimized hardware and software that can make a smaller battery last longer. With the Snapdragon 800 and the Haswell processors and hopefully even KitKat, a lot of the upgrades in hardware and software involve extending battery life. Granted there is always an increase in performance as well, but I really like the idea of focusing on aspects other than the battery to get more juice out of our devices. We'll see how Google has done in terms of real world results, but I'm sure it was definitely something they focused on
[Nexus 5 General] crawlgsx:
Edit: Nevermind.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
I found yesterday on google blog that galaxy nexus is not updated as it is beyond its 18 months life time
[Nexus 5 General] dacho:
I know the battery is not replaceable in Nexus 5 but could we replace it with LG G2 battery and obviously void the warranty. Does anyone know if battery size difference is substantial between the two?
[Nexus 5 General] mdandashly:
I have the HTC One GPe and it also has a 2300 mah battery. My battery can last 2 days with no charge, with 3 hours screen time and 2 horus on the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Vyse666:
That's like nothing. My N4 can do that, and it's not very good.
[Nexus 5 General] mdandashly:
Considering its a computer in the palm of my hand, i'd say its pretty good. Plus I charge the phone every night before bed, so as long as it gets me through a full day of use, I'm happy. I keep a 5000 mah flash rapid charger on hand just in case.
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
No that isn't true. It is not updated because TI went out of business and no longer supports the chipset in the device.
[Nexus 5 General] zephiK:
TI didnt go out of business, TI is just focusing on other parts other than Mobile Chipsets.
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
Sorry, their chipset division went out of business. Not the entire company. But thousands of employees that worked in that division are no longer there. Getting support would be impossible.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
ehhh so that I'm not telling lies

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085?hl=en-GB&ref_topic=3415518

Is Google releasing Android 4.4 as a system update for Galaxy Nexus?

No, Galaxy Nexus phones won’t be receiving the update for Android 4.4 (KitKat).

Why isn't Galaxy Nexus receiving the update to Android 4.4?

Galaxy Nexus, which first launched two years ago, falls outside of the 18-month update window when Google and others traditionally update devices.
[Nexus 5 General] mr mystery:
How are you checking wake locks? BetterBatteryStats doesn't work with 4.4, is there another apps compatible to use?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] everfeather:
I can mention for sure that I'm quite impressed with the standby battery life. My opinion might be a bit bias because I haven't really had a good phone before, but overnight ~6hrs I went from 9% to 8%
[Nexus 5 General] Gorgenapper:
I'm thinking of installing Franco's kernel when I get my phone, mainly for the color accuracy fixes he implemented.

Side question...how DO you install a kernel from scratch? From what I understand, I have to follow the steps in the guide "[GUIDE] Nexus 5 - How to Unlock Bootloader, Install Custom Recovery and Root" so that my phone has an unlocked bootloader, with a custom recovery like ClockworkMod, and rooted.

After that, I have to get the kernel in a .zip file onto my phone (remember the location where I put it), put my phone into Recovery Mode (Turn the phone off then boot into the bootloader. (volume down + power), select 'Recovery Mode'), then select the zip file and flash it?

Is that all? Sounds fairly straightforward...
[Nexus 5 General] joshyth:
The standby time is great, but once you start using the phone, the battery literally go down in an instance.

On my htc one, i usually got about 50% left at the end of the day (from 9am to 10pm).

I will be lucky if i got about 30% left on the nexus 5.

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that's pretty much all to it
[Nexus 5 General] Jeimygirl:
I am completely stock right now (except for nova) and I get 15+ hours of battery. That is listening to Pandora over Bluetooth either in my car or BT headphones for 1-2 hours, 3 emails sync every hour and being on it off and on all day. I am quite happy with my N5 battery right now. Way better than my S2 did stock.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] wildpig1234:
I do notice also the relatively low battery usage during standby. I think idle standby time is better than my samsung s4. unless i am actively using the service, my wifi, BT, GPS, mobile data are all off. I still can get txt msg this way. I dont have too much of a need for continously synced to email. If you are not using the service, there is no point letting it run in the background and waste battery imo.
[Nexus 5 General] ketonkss4:
I turned on ART today with the promise of better battery life and performance... yeah applications run faster... but wow the battery drain. From 23 hours with dalvik to this with art
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
screen brightness set to ~15%, location battery saving mode, google now enabled but disable the always-on-"ok google", 4 gmail account sync through 3G only, no wifi usage

Note: I am a heavy user when I do web browsing, which is >70% of my daily use. I'll open multiple tabs, scroll down quickly, open a lot of tabs at once

With that heavy use, I use 25-30%/hour with continuous screen on and web browsing.... so ~3 hours max screen-on time

If I force the kernel to be in powersave mode (locked to max 300mhz), then I use roughly 15-20%/hour screen on (with a lot of lag in browser)... so I can get 5-7 hours in this case....

(I assume those people who actually get 5-7 hours don't stress the CPU by doing simple tasks like reading books, texting, no multitasking or cpu-stressful tasks. gram won't help in my case if I'm constantly scrolling/switching tabs)

the idle battery life is really good... I can get 2-3 hours screen-on time(with heavy browser/cpu use) PLUS >24 hours device-on with sync
[Nexus 5 General] hunter99507:
Plants vs zombies 2 destroys the battery
[Nexus 5 General] :
I have had amazing battery on this device. I have had the screen on 2hrs and 10mins, and am only at 74%. I will upload a pic later when it gets really low. (:
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
These are my results from my white, 16gb, N5 that is running the stock ROM and kernel. Rooted and etc. Already using Greenify and Lux to help.

Location set to most accurate, hotword detection set to off.

I'm *not happy with the battery life so far.
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
3 hours SOT vs 7.5 hours SOT depends on how much you stress your CPU

Web browsing with normal kernel settings, I can get 3-5 hours SOT

If I set it to powersave mode (all cores max 300mhz), I can get 7 hours

therefore, those people getting 7.5hr don't stress out their CPU that much (eg spend 3 hours on messenger app... gram will help here, no cpu usage, ...)
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
if you're after good battery, then having location set to high accuracy is not going to help. i turned of all location settings and noticed battery life was improved
[Nexus 5 General] tkoreaper:
I just achieved 7 hours of SOT with 4% remaining and my CPU wasn't maxed at 300... Its set to 1.547ghz.

CPU Voltage -87.5 mV, Max Clock 1.574, Only 25 mins of WiFi, All 3G (No LTE), Mods: Lux Pro and Screen Dimmer Kernel Module.
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
yeah, but your 7hours SOT is probably achieved by low-CPU usage tasks, and rarely go above 500mhz or hit 1.547ghz.... check better battery stats on cpu stats

I can get 7 hours SOT browsing if i force the CPU to be at low state (300mhz). If I allow the normal governor to ramp up and down, then I CAN'T hit 7 hours SOT (only 3 hours)

^ hypothesis on why people (like me) get 3 hours SOT, other people get 7 hours SOT.... REASON: different usage patterns. I'm more demanding of my phone which uses more battery
[Nexus 5 General] tkoreaper:
Using the intellidemand governor it jumps from lowest to highest, rarely ever hitting the middle frequencies.
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
yeah, but you have to look at the full statistics to see how often this ramping up/down happens in your use case

when I browse, I open a lot of new tabs frequently, scroll up/down quickly... this means the governor either keeps my CPU usage at 100%, or ramps up/down frequently

if your use case is like opening facebook and slowly scroll, you'll only hit 100% infequently when you scroll, and save a lot of battery life

CPU idle, 15% brightness screen on-> Battery Monitor Widget says the phone is using ~200mAh... 2300mAh battery / 200mAh = 11.5 hours

If you use a lot of CPU (like when I browse on the phone), BMW says phone is using 500-900 mAh = 2-4 hours battery life

if you use some cpu but not a lot, maybe average 300mAh, 2300/300 = your 7 hours SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] tkoreaper:
I'll have to check it tomorrow as my BBS has already reset since I rebooted and updated it and my ROM.
[Nexus 5 General] vignesh1985:
First charge giving close to 4:45 on screen time.. Was concerned about battery being small. Has held up well.hope it stays there n improves!..
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
I am very happy with stock battery life after trying custom kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] MohJee:
Under clocking, under volting, turning off auto brightness, setting very low brightness... you guys are kidding right? I'd rather charge my phone every 3 hours or pay $700 and get a note 3 or LG g2 than pay $350 and go back 20 years in hardware technology.
[Nexus 5 General] :
6 hours screen on time... I'm impressed. (:
[Nexus 5 General] d1pham:
4.5 hour SOT. All stock, all syncs enabled, mostly WIFI. With Faux's latest kernel I could get 5-6 hours SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
My battery life has been awful, plummeting like a rock today, dropping 5% in an hour not using it at all, and at least 1% per minute while in use. Whether it was due to weak signal or a rogue app or whatever, I really don't care, I'm sick of dealing with this ****. I'm thinking of returning and getting a G2, or just going back to my GNex and seeing what comes out next year.
[Nexus 5 General] d1pham:
Damn, sorry bro. Have you tried flashing the stock image?
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Switched everything off for the night. Phone was 99.5% of time in deep deep for 9 hours and battery dropped 10%. Not happy
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
I haven't rooted or unlocked or anything. I have had good nights where I left it off the charger and it only dropped 2-3%. But it's completely hit or miss, and today was a bad day.

Saw the same thing today.

I've always been an advocate of unlocked phones and stock Android, and still am. The thing is, KitKat doesn't blow me away so much that it makes it worth dealing with this. That's why I'm considering the G2 and either dealing with LG's software or trying my luck with CM. It makes me mad putting my money towards any phone that's locked down though - that's the opposite of voting with your wallet. Not to mention the price is so much more, I could easily just save that money for another phone next year. So I'm kind of stuck at the moment.
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
Exact same thing happened to me today. 1% per minute. The weird thing though is that once I got to 40%, the drain slowed quite a bit. I'm at 8% now with 4h 13m SOT. The last 20% took a while to drop. I don't know if it's a bad meter calibration or just the fact that by this time I'm laying in bed at 0% brightness. The screen seems to be a huge battery hog.
[Nexus 5 General] gd6noob:
why does it say Im using Wifi when Im actually not??
[Nexus 5 General] p5f:
In the UK 3 sell the LG G2 for £400 on PAYG, I got mine unlocked for £6 in less than an hour online.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
A phone with the best processor that's great for gaming but the battery is so tiny you'll be recharging after an hour or two of actual gaming.

Yeah...
[Nexus 5 General] pandaman21:
Here's my battery after about a day of use. I just got the phone yesterday so not very accurate. I did normal things like texting surfing the web and played about an hour of tetris.
[Nexus 5 General] kcharng:
Relate to gaming, pvz2 plays fine on lower device, couldn't they just lower the cpu/flu to mid level a bit rather than max out, draining the battery and over heat the phone?