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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukxoomer:
I wish I was, I'm not using it, it's just sat keeping me warm. I've battled Android wakelocks before, it's a wearing and fruitless exercise in my experience! You shouldn't get excited to pick your phone up off the side to find it cold, knowing immediately you'll have some battery left!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
So hey rckless , you achieved 18 hours from full battery after all ? With everything on such as sync on Bluetooth on, GPS on ? Brightness auo n Google now off n location setting off ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NatTheCat:
I am doing a 100% to 0% ATM. With everything on including Bluetooth and GPS. More of a low to medium usage scenario as of yet. I'll update in stages.

Apparently I don't have privileges to post in this forum from my phone. :(

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/2hshzh4s09e4ppj/V6ZzUXB_Nr
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
Please do Nat , thank you for bringing that up
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NatTheCat:
I had 3 hours standby time with 98% battery left.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
do you mind to tell me how many percentage your battery left from morningfully charged till 10pm ? and is everything is on bluetoo on, sync on , gps on , brightness 100% , google now on , and location setting on too ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbeat:
Battery not great

Hello. I've had two of these running since yesterday, one from about 9.30am UK and the other from 4pm UK. It's now 20:38.

Yesterday, it felt I was getting good battery life considering the amount of use I was giving it. Today, I'm not so sure. I'm at 6% after 11.5 hours. Screen on is 1h 42m and is 29% of total usage. However, 'Phone' is 24%, with CPU total at 22m 47s and Keep awake at 6h 27m. My GF's phone is showing very similar numbers, and neither of us have actually used the Phone part of the phone today!

We are both on Three UK, and have a Three signal box, so have a great signal all day.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
Keep update my friend I want to know how is your battery doing for a couple days , do you still get 6% for 11 hours ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
Well today was my first Day,Start with 60% (no charching first using after unboxing)

Start at 11:30 and Charge now at 15% (21:30)

Install every app rootet device and 2 hours screen on (every thing stock)

On Monday i can test the Nexus 5 on a long school Day :) i am nervous hope it's better then the Galaxy Nexus with 2200 battery :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbeat:
I'll let you know. I'll keep an eye on both phones over the next few days.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
All the beat for you my friend keep update about the battery stats from morning if you can with your usage If you don't mind
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
I mean all the best
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
Thx Craig all the best n may the force b with you
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukxoomer:
Well mine is going back tomorrow, it's good to see others are getting great battery but mine just auto shutdown with virtually no use for the second day after just over 10 hours of stby. Despite what the screen on shows, literally never used, perhaps 3-5 texts and one less than 5 minute phone call. Absolutely woeful performance.

Worst battery I've ever had on a phone, so very disappointed, but life's too short to mess around chasing wakelocks and trying to figure out why mine only last's half a day with no use. The N4 wasn't perfect, but it never behaved like this regards battery useage.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crispi7:
WTF

Maybe you wanted to say the opposite, because your battery is good (10h with 100% WiFi and awake 80%). So it's your problem, not nexus.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbeat:
That's exactly what I'm seeing with our two phones. Does it show 'Phone' as the second highest drain? That's what's causing most of our 'awake' time, even though neither of us have used the actual phone part.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
Well 100% at 22:30 will upload a pic when i have to Charge it :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukxoomer:
Err, no that's exactly what I meant to say,

I have 100% mobile signal and the phone was basically unused for the second day. The battery wastage pattern is terrible, phone always warm and the battery depleted in 10 hrs with basically next to no use. If that meets 'your' definition of good battery, then it is most definitely my problem as this is the first phone I can ever remember owning that won't last until 8pm with no use. Thanks for clarifying that I should be pleased with 10 hrs of stby before shut down on a an N5 with 4.4.

That said, having placed the sim card back in my Nexus 4 I find that, amazingly, it is actually a Nexus 5 hardware and/or KitKat issue. Odd considering your advisement that it is my problem not Nexus... or in this case also not a Nexus 4 issue. Because it is most certainly a Nexus 5/Kitkat issue for me.

Just my findings, I didn't buy the phone at 9am on launch day just for the fun of returning it. It's just a disaster for me. I wish it wasn't because now I'm searching for next years handset - and I am 100% Google and Nexus, just can't live with a hot always flat handset.

This one does not work for me - I need more than 10hrs stby, if I'd used it for anything I'd be looking at what, 3 hrs before charge?

It's a handy pocket stove though with winter coming.

Useless!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukas_s:
When 4.0 first dropped the wakelocks it was causing were horrific. They got ironed out. I'm sure any KitKat issues will get ironed out as well, and likely pretty quickly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
I have the phone. I have taken lots of comparison pictures in my thread comparing it to the S4, G2 and N5.

I've owned those 3 plus HTC one over the last 2 months.

I agree day one battery life is usually an unfair measure BUT I've used mine all day today with I reckon about 4-5 hours screen on time, some GPS tracking and lots of photo taking this morning. After 16hrs on battery I'm sat at 27%.

Very happy over here with for day one.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukxoomer:
I would have been more than happy with your figures, I've not used mine today (day 2), less than 1 hr screen time, no gps and no photos or internet use and it powered down at just over 10 hrs.

My N4 in the exact same environment is sitting solid, just no where near as slick as my dead and charging N5. 4.4 was so much nicer, as was the phone, only mine didn't work. The phone that's on is better than the the phone that's flat and charging....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dandwhelan:
So far I've had 2 hours 20 mins on screen time with GPS on maps navigating me for 30ish mins. Think I'll check out betterbatterystats then if all else fails I've got an excuse for rooting my phone and installing greenify
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThePwnie:
its alright
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GGWC808:
I was wondering, since the nexus 5 is based on the LG g2 and they are virtually the same size, can you swap the nexus 5 battery with a g2 battery?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] filthygoat223996:
For those of you who got good battery life, did you charge the phone out of the box or did you discharge first?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
Post screenshots of screen on time plus total usage
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cartsp:
I noticed my N5 battery was doing ok, nothing spectacular, so I had a look at the battery stats and there it was awake 100% of the time. Google services were using more than the screen (which was used quite a bit). This led me to googling and I tried disabling google now, and rebooting. My phone has finally gone into sleep mode and not staying awake. Should make a big difference to the battery life.

If this works out I guess I will try enabling google now and playing with the settings but if none of that works I guess I will keep it disabled and wait for them to update it.

You can see in the image below what I mean hopefully
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catpunt:
Just remember to take into account the battery will take a few cycles to reach full capacity and when you first turn it in and log on it will consume juice syncing all your Google stuff and setting itself up. Who knows how long that takes, Android does it all behind the scenes
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enddo:
i saw a graph with this yesterday(in this forum). i want to say it was 2 hours and 30 minutes for 0% to 100%.

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i've read this is false. that this doesn't happen with lithium batteries and only happened with old nickel batteries.

old habits die hard
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
Whatya mean
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamel_tza:
For those of you having problems with Google Now depleting your battery and keeping your phone awake, have you ever used Google Now in the past? I ask because when G.N. is first used it tries to "create a user profile" if you will, by monitoring some of your user data and location data so that it can incorporate that into your G.N. experience.

If you would like to use G.N. but want it to be kinder on your battery, head into the settings of G.N. and turn off some of the cards you don't need. In my experience the navigation home (or whatever its called) card ate my battery alive, along with the traffic update card. Getting rid of those two cards helped a lot. I also turned off notifications, not sure if it helped but I didn't need it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crispi7:
Battery

Oh please, 100% WiFi and awake is NOT standby. If you think any other mobile could do it better you are wrong, the iphones with their incredible battery management do the same when full-time working. Your problem is the awake 100% that makes your phone 0% deep sleep and NO standby, also undervolt would be great but now awake is your main problem.

Some people say that is google services problem, maybe it is due to the all time waiting for "OK Google"... If you haven't send it already, try disabling that.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cartsp:
Update:

Disabling Google Now has made a dramatic difference! I think you will be able to see easily from the image below at what point I disabled it!

To the person above who asked if I had used Google Now before, yes I have on my N4 and N7. The images I link are from mid Saturday onwards as well, it had from mid Friday to do any syncing etc. As I was just at my house all day Saturday and not travelling there should not have been much in the way of location updates.

Whatever is going on with Google now is the culprit from what I can see and disabling it makes a massive difference. Now to find if there is some way of using Google Now without the constant wakelock.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
Just under 2 hours. See my other thread for a detailed graph.

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2507405

[Q] N5 vs G2 vs S4 showdown - suggestions wanted
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ukxoomer:
I fully understand the problem, I've had Android phones since there release. It's always been an Android problem. Wakelocks preventing the phone from sleeping. I have also wasted weeks trying to second guess what is causing them on my SGN, SG Note 1 & 2 and now on the N5. I haven't got the patience to start again with the N5 so it is being returned.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbeat:
Battery seems loads better today. 3h 44m @ 75%. Scrabble is 35% with 32m CPU total. Screen @ 35% 1h 36m on.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wideasleep1:
You've obviously never used battery guru nor greenify. Your loss. Cheers!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riprowan:
Thing is everyone complains about nexus 4 battery life but I get all day use (8am-11pm) with ~4 hr sot regularly as long as 4g signal is strong or on wifi. If signal is weak the phone eats battery.

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Let's be frank, you SHOULDN'T have to use add on apps to improve battery life. It's Androids fault for not doing a better job.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
The Day is not over! But not much Display usage but here are some results :) when i am I will test Franco #4 :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wideasleep1:
I'll pretend to be frank since I don't know who he is..

Frank would agree up to the point that Android works on these issues constantly and most have no battery 'issues' although we have all experienced them at one the or another, otherwise iOS and blackberry (rip) would be gaining market share. Secondly Frank would suggest it's often a poorly coded app which isn't Android's fault per se but requires the author to fix or owner to dump the app. Thankfully most devs AND Google fix issues and flood us with constant updates, so Frank sees no reason to bail on perfectly good hardware when the tools I mentioned can indeed zero in and identify and often fix the issue when they crop up. FWIW...Frank says KitKat and this phone are brand new..so adjust your expectations to include a few bugs to be fixed. The rest is just drama..including posing as Frank.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
The battery is really great in my opinion.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riprowan:
First off, it's apparent that you don't know Frank, because Frank would *definitely* say "if you can install an app to better manage battery and application behavior, that's an obvious area of improvement for the operating system."

However I completely agree that it's silly to treat Frank like an expert since he's really just another phone nerd named after a wiener.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wideasleep1:
I'll add that to his list of accomplishments!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
51% and still going strong. Loving this.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
Go to bed now

Really good
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] malek777:
Its seems average. Im a heavy user and this certainly wont last me all day, but its good to know.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
More stats. Will keep going until its flat completely.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
Anyone who moans about this battery is clearly holding it wrong.

Note that bataria still reckons I have 30 mins left at my current usage. Which is posting this and listening to spotify.

It's a great all round phone. For the money, I couldn't be happier.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
Battery life seems mediocre at best but idc that's why there are chargers around.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikenvape:
How are you guys saying these results are awesome???

My S3 averages the best of these scores. This thread is influencing me to consider selling the unit when it gets here tomorrow.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VanGool:
Battery life is really good, im really thinking about getting one!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexktz:
My wife's S4 is incredible, it can easily be at 80% when she goes to bed. But then she hardly uses it so is it any wonder?

I am a moderate user, I don't really play games (though that said it does CHEW battery when I do on any phone), and find the N5 battery to more than I require to get through an 18 hour period (which is my target from when I wake to when I go to bed).

Any more than that is wasted cost / weight. The N5 appears to have struck a great balance here.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
My results for today with Franco
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oediv:
Well just Chat alittle Bit Haha

20% Left good Day :)

Good night from Austria (cant wait for the "real" Nexus 5 kernels with tweaks and undervolted etc :))
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] setspeed:
I agree, these results look pretty poor tbh. I've still to properly test mine for myself (tomorrow) and see what the deal really is.

Having said that, my S3 only got good battery on Sammy ROMs, and they performed like crap. When I switched to a CM/AKOP/AOSP ROM, the performance of the phone would improve dramatically - except for battery life, which would go down the toilet. So I don't know if I'll prefer the N5 over my S3 or not - yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
unrooted and unfranco Nexus 5, need your input here

so for those who's not into with rooting and franco or franko follower, how is your battery doing from morning fully charged ? is your phone made it till 16h-18h on battery with 4h screen on time
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dinnydindin:
The battery isnt that bad on WIFI, but what about on data only?

I dont have access to wifi during my day however, with my experiences it takes a few days for android to settle in
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj_glos:
Mines all stock and the battery performance is garbage. I can't get 12 hours with 2 hours of screentime. Light use, just web browsing and a couple of videos. I want to like the phone, but its just not suitable for a day away from a charger and I'm not even a heavy user.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muyoso:
I have an Android System wakelock that has kept my phone on literally the entire day. If I had to guess its the Wireless Charging Detector wakelock, but since none of the regular apps work to delve into what is running, I have no clue. If so, then wow is that disappointing that they STILL haven't fixed that bug.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukas_s:
My battery life is not stellar right now, but I just received my phone last night. Hoping it will level out. If not, chargers are ubiquitous. I'm loving this phone too much to fret over battery life
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
All stock. Auto brightness. Love it!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthrofear:
First full day of use. Unplugged at around 730am. I work 8:30am-5:30pm. Moderate use during shift and lunch. Streaming music for about 15-30 mins. I'd say its pretty damn good if you ask me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
So far, I've needed to start charging around 3:00pm, at around 30% charge (I don't like letting my device go any lower before charging). That's starting significant usage at around 8:30am. Screen time has been pretty heavy as I've been playing with it, and I've noticed that auto-brightness is pretty aggressive (i.e., often too bright).

But I'm wondering if my biggest issue isn't that I'm inside and running on cellular data, with my N5 unable to decide if it's connected to EDGE, HSPA+, or LTE. The constant hunting and radio switching, I'm guessing, is having an impact. I'm guessing I'd be doing much better on wifi, or with a more consistent/stronger signal.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
Guys make sure to post both screen on time and the overall battery on time. If you post one or the other it is useless then.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] banboy:
sorry for the retard question but what is wakelocks and what it's look like ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zandeer:
I admit this was a pretty low use day. But so far I am satisfied
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J.Guido85:
I'm satisfied!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anthrofear:
Here is my both with the screen on time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ethantarheels123:
Sure looks like android os is consuming a lot of battery, even with your screen on time at 1hr+. I was getting the same android os drain, but couldn't figure out how to fix it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbowens:
Did my first major battery life test today. For reference sake, this is on a completely stock device, and I haven't disabled any syncing, including google now. Auto brightness was active the entire time. Additionally, aside from a few points throughout the day, it was done almost entirely on LTE (those few times were wifi). All in all, I'm very happy with what I'm seeing, particularly the screen on time. This was the second full day I've had the phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carver1:
For how I use my phone this is more than good enough.. If I didn't use kakao chat it would be a lot better because it keeps my phone awake at times.. Once the roms come flooding in this phone still get even better.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carver1:
Don't know why it says screen time is 41% lol but here is ost.. Like I said without kakao it would be much better.. This mostly connected to lte I'm home now and connected to Wi-Fi. 11 or more hours were lte
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cbowens:
Wakelock is basically a term describing when and app or process keeps your phone from entering deep sleep. Its most noticable as a significantly increased drain when you aren't using the phone; ie, when it would normally enter deep sleep to conserve power. There are several causes, such as badly programmed apps, but sometimes it can occur from something in the OS itself, usually cropping up with users who flash roms frequently. Best way to deal with it IMHO is to download wakelock detector from the play store and try to identify the culprit. If its an app, try disabling it and see if the wakelock issue goes away. If its the OS, you can try to google how to fix it, or you could just wipe and flash a new rom. You can view your phone's awake time in the default android battery menu by clicking on the battery graph, though the app I mentioned earlier can also tell you awake/deep sleep times.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pedxing:
Reading this thread I see one major trend.... No trend! Everyone is getting different results. And so that means two things. One, people have wildly different usage scenarios. But two, kit kat is brand new and most apps aren't optimized yet. This morning slacker radio started playing two songs at the same time. All that will be sorted in the next two weeks. So all the crazy wake locks will die down and also the initial abuse on the phone will also calm down.

My results have been fine. I started off with the first 25% being spent with 1 hour 45 minutes screen time with 45 minutes being waze and gps on while streaming music on my commute, screen on the whole time plus blue tooth. That blows away my n4.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eman3316@optonline.net:
^^^THIS^^^ x100

If you only post 1 picture it is like posting nothing at all. Screen on time and time unplugged both need to be seen. If you get 5 hours on screen time but you phone only lasted for those 5 hours that is not impressive. If you got 5 hours on screen time but your phone lasted for 15 hours, now that is impressive. Also, the picture will show if all the screen on time was in one shot or equal throughout the day.

So most of the post in here having told us anything. Here are my results on day 2. Not impressed with the results at all. All the stories about the the s800 being so battery efficient looks to be a crock. My device is draining like all my past devices and no different at this point.

I have everything on and using auto brightness (also important facts to add :good:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ethantarheels123:
Is anyone else noticing android OS consuming a huge portion of battery life? Approximately half of what screen consumes?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desmoloch:
My first day. Not Bad, but not as good as i'd hoped
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desmoloch:
Second Screenshot got lost....
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] einsteinchen:
So, this is the battery usage for my n5.

Ingress is showing a lot of usage, although I played only for 10 minutes. I guess I got a wakelock on the location function.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droidleaf:
I'm seeing a huge drain from Android OS with barely any screen usage. Might be weak wifi or cell signal.

18 hours on battery, screen on 19 minutes

22% Android OS

18% Phone idle

16% Wifi

12% Google play services

10% Cell Standby

9% Screen

Android OS CPU total 11m, Keep Awake 2h 50m.