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[Nexus 5 General] :
I work construction (sometimes very long days) and usually have no where I'd be comfortable leaving my phone to charge....either due to potential damage or theft....so I'm just one of those that needs to get the very most out of my battery.

But yeah....if I could charge anytime....I'd probably run with everything on too. The N5 does get very good battery life....those that say otherwise have issues and don't know it, or just don't bother troubleshooting the issue.

You seem to be getting great life for your usage for sure! ?

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I've thought about getting a battery case....and turning everything on....but they're just so damn big. Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
You don't even need root access. Google hot word detection off and switching off WiFi completely when using data are also easy to do. Simply turning off auto brightness or uninstalling lux can save you a bunch as well.

Other than the seemingly high chance for wake locks, the N5 battery efficiency is top notch. Only snapdragon 801 phones can be more efficient, at this time.
[Nexus 5 General] onlyviu:
Stock rom.
[Nexus 5 General] nui_e:
Am i doing fine? Is there anyway to extend my battery life?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Did you mean to post a screen shot???

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[Nexus 5 General] nui_e:
Im trying to but still dont know how. :o:o
[Nexus 5 General] :
That screen doesn't say much to know how you're doing.

For screens and for troubleshooting issues, I say get gsam from play store. Just the main screen says a lot in gsam, and there's a lot of other things to see. Great, user friendly app.

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[Nexus 5 General] nui_e:
sorry for multi post. i have no idea where to find edit button.:o:o
[Nexus 5 General] :
You're screen time is good .....but you should be able to get that screen time in a 24 hour span.....not just 9 hours +. Again, gsam may help show some issues. If you have any.

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[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Where does it tell you that?
[Nexus 5 General] MobileThrowAwayAcc:
Looks great to me.
[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
Is it normal that system drains battery so much? I don't know how to read all that graphs, that's why I'm asking you all to help me. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Your percentage for system, or android os is perfectly normal. If you have issues, its not from those. That's the gsam screens.

The wake lock detector screens are for over 7 days. Lol. It hasn't reset for days. So those stats are super over inflated.

Charge your phone to 100. Make sure wake lock detector is reset....and see what all those screens say after a full discharge again. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
So what can improve life of my nexus's battery? I don't know what I can do. Maybe factory reset will solve my problem?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Please see my added wake lock detector talk above. :)

And next screenshots, do the main gsam screen also.

Then we can see better what the issue may be.

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Oh...and the gsam screens are only for 40 minutes. That says nothing useful either.

Charge full. Make sure wake lock detector is reset....and run down to 10 percent or so. Then take screen shots. And no rebooting during this, or gsam will reset. Include main gsam screen too. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
Screenshots from today:
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
You have nearly an hours worth of wakelocks for 1 thing
[Nexus 5 General] :
First, are you listening to music? You have over 3 hours held awake time. Music can add to that, and just about everything else is bad. You've probably charged now....but next time you run the battery down, go into the app screen in gsam and click the drop down and look at time held awake AND times waking device. Also check kernel wake locks.

Second, do you have location services on? Sync? Google now on? Just for one charge cycle, turn it all off.... To see what happens. Then turn one thing back on a day....so if your battery life dives again, you know what service is causing it. Then find out why.

Go into android device manager, in the Google settings app....uncheck them both.

Also, click on radio on the main gsam screen. Are you low signal a lot? And hows the searching for signal time shown there?

If none of this helps.....then all that's really left is a bad app. That's harder to track down. But it could be an app you installed just before battery life started getting bad. Some people have looked hard at any app that hasn't been updated since kit kat came out. They've uninstalled these outdated apps and seen their battery life get good again.

Well, try all this....that's all I got. Lol. ;)

Good luck!!

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[Nexus 5 General] Imago4:
I found something in kernel wakelocks. Maybe that's the reason? :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Combined app wake locks is a tough one. And bam is data related. So I'm back to thinking you have a bad app. Probably syncing to much or accessing location to much.

It is probably a social media or communication app....or a locating app?

Again, turning off location and sync for a day would stop it probably and prove this theory.

You might need to uninstall apps one by one, the style of apps I mention above...and narrow it down.

Did you check time held awake and times waking device in gsam too? And wake lock detector....assuming its been reset and isn't showing 7 days any more??

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[Nexus 5 General] tawheed12:
My version of GSAM that I downloaded from the play store doesn't even have the "view time held awake" drop down in the app sucker section anymore.. do I need root for this?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yes, you need root. And either gsam root companion from the play store, or the xposed module that enables battery stats on kit kat. I use that , cause it enables any battery app to show all stats....not only gsam. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
I use android tuner pro I can use the drop down to see what processes run in each app and how long.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Downloading. Lol

Looks cool. :)

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Putting on the wife's moto x....to see why her battery life is nothing like mine was with it. Though, my money is on Facebook. Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=4036181]kj2112[/MENTION] I bought the pro version it is the tool I use for 99% of my device management.
[Nexus 5 General] :
If I find I use it....I'll definitely do the same. Gonna play with it later.

Thanks for the tip. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Slimkat + art + franco r 45 default settings +greenify

Over the night 1% was gone!

The best so far

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Donnie Sins:
With data connection on when wifi was turned off?

Send from the Matrix
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
No

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk

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50% and have this incredible sot

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Donnie Sins:
Awesome screen time. Maybe you could try to leave data connection or wifi on over night. For me it costs about 3% at the most, but at least you know you cán leave it on without draining your battery;) (for me that's important:p)

Send from the Matrix
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Yes I will try it :)

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] wiroly:
Stock ROM & Franco r44, default settings.

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[Nexus 5 General] natadecocolococo:
My screen's at 53-62%, Android System at 12%. Is that normal?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yup, fairly normal. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Any luck with android tuner.
[Nexus 5 General] ybshin5657:
Used my phone in LTE.

Good enough for surffing web :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yeah, haven't got into all the features...but poking around in it looks like its a great multi tool. Might buy it. ;).

It is the one developed by 3c? Just to double check. 9.99 is kinda steep. But if I find I use it a lot, I'll gladly pay.

Good find! ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Yeah only I paid 12 when it came out lol. Totally worth it, I monitor my battery, change CPU and gov settings, backups and restores, logcats, and all of the other fun root stuff with it. It really is an all in one and works 1000x better than titanium backup.
[Nexus 5 General] joannn:
battery life would be fine

Yes I agree that the buyers are instructed to charge the phone before the first use , but then we don' t do that . I think you charge before or after its the same . Nexus and pretty much most other smartphones now have much more technologically improved battery systems, so don't worry.:good:
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Purity ROM + kernel, all settings left default.

Brightness at 35%

Wifi and mobile data always on

All location services off

Haptic feedback off

x3 Gmail accounts syncing

Facebook sync 4hrs

Weather sync 4hrs

Most apps Greenified

Needless to say I have zero complaints about Nexus 5 battery life :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
Its a swiss army knife. Lol

I'll try the backup restore next time I flash something too.

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[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
Hi. How did you get 1d + with 6hrs of screen time? thanks
[Nexus 5 General] BATZ DA LOCC:
2x ain't too bad with greenify :D

N5 aka IPHONE KILLA
[Nexus 5 General] :
Screen kept dim as is comfortable, location off, sync off, Google now off, in Google settings app under android device manager....both options unchecked. Most user apps greenified, as well as maps.

No pocket modes, no active display, no tap to wake. No over/under clocking or volting. WiFi on at home. And I don't game.

That's about it. Some will say, its not a smartphone like that. Well, I wouldn't use most those options ever....and ones lime location services is one quick toggle to turn on when needed....and off when done. And I check gmail manually.

I just prefer battery life to convenience features. That's just me. To each their own I say.

Here's another one of my better days......that's only just over half my charge gone...

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[Nexus 5 General] TastyUpdate:
Wtf battery stats.. On Slimkat and Franco
[Nexus 5 General] :
You have a very weak signal. If you can't use WiFi, that kind of signal will drop your battery quickly.

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[Nexus 5 General] TastyUpdate:
***EDIT*** I restarted my phone and the screen usage shows up now, just a glitch.

That's true but the weirdest part is that the screen on time doesn't even show up in the usage statistics.
[Nexus 5 General] Ramone360:
SlimKat + Franco r46. No oc/uv. Just incredible
[Nexus 5 General] rootSU:
stock kernel with stock rom, used the phone just for occasional whatsapp and mails, 1 hr games (subway surfer, flappy bird), and wifi on for whole time, the least i used my phone since i got it.
[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
First of all, thank you for that quick reply as well as taking precious time to answer my question :good:

I can almost say, like yourself, i am not using my n5 as a smart phone should be. I just came from a black and white nokia phone. And im still using my n5 like that, calls, texts,..

My settings are nearly similar as yours with some minor differences... screen dim, location off, sync off (unless there are more syncs that i can turn off that im not aware of) google now off,.... haven't tried greenify yet, since i barely have any apps, Question, do i greenify most of what greenify suggests? With the exception of those apps greenify say's i should greenify at my best interest..

Never heard of pocket mode.. :), i do use active display (will try disabling this), no tap to wake, not on OC, but am on UV (elementalx 750) , wifi is often off, unless i update apps, I too don't game.

i'm on slimkat + elementalx + art... i do get very good idle percentage, about 0.2-0.3% per hour.. very happy.. this week ill try getting my max screen time with this device... thanks again. :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Screen time will depend on what you're doing. I mostly am on Tapatalk/XDA. Not many images. My wife got my X now, and her screen time averages about an hour and a half less than when I used it. Why? Facebook a lot, so many images, and it syncs. Also she uses the phone way more....calls I mean. I barely ever use my "phone". So her usage versus my usage made about an hour and a half screen time difference.

That's why all of us comparing is truly not a very fair comparison. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
I will give it a try this week, updated you on the results. Hopefully this experiment won't only benefit me but as well us everyone else who's interested. Thanks. Enjoy your weekend. :angel:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Your idle standby time is excellent.... So I don't think you have much going wrong. Screen time is how its used, so that may not change much. Good luck!! ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] rushilkr:
Stock ROM with Elemental X kernel . Happy with the battery life..
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
8h 30m screen on time is nice :)

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
[Nexus 5 General] BATZ DA LOCC:
Dang this elementX kernel is beast

N5⅝ to DA 6 aka IPHONE KILLA
[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
wow... gonna try this!!... are you uv to 750?

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:good:
[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
here are my readings as of yesterday... i did get 3 hours and still got 50% batt left. so im guessing i can get up to 6hours ... aldoh i don't drain my batter below 15%.. i was mostly reading a book..

(i plugged my n5 to the pc to transfers the photos)
[Nexus 5 General] darkghost568:
I was on Elemental X and only got ~4hrs screen time. Any tricks?
[Nexus 5 General] :
If you're using location services and stuff, or playing games... Or using a lot of Facebook type stuff....4 hours is pretty normal.

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I'd say you're doing as good as anyone now!! ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] Toepack24:
Got 6 hours.... wifi off doh... :D
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
3G usage.

Just an average 3G day with some gaming.

Stock and unrooted. 20% brightness, Gnow on.

SoT hours: 5.5

Total hours: 16

Remaining: 8%
[Nexus 5 General] hikarugo:
I wonder does anyone who gets 5 hour + SOT actually keep the vibration on touch on and keyboard vibration on?
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=2738685]hikarugo[/MENTION] yes I do I leave everything on.
[Nexus 5 General] peikojose:
Slimkat experimental buid. Franco r46. No undervolt, max speed set to 1036 but load threshold set to 20, autobrightness dimmed a little.

First 4sot were using reading a book.
[Nexus 5 General] MitsG7:
What is this mm-qcamera-daemon that draining that much the battery???

Στάλθηκε από το Nexus 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
It's a known kitkat bug and it will be supposedly fixed in the next update!

If you are using apps like skype, Instagram which have inbuilt camera then I would suggest you not use them much.. This bug appears randomly. Temporary solution is reboot!

- Sent from an IceCold Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
While I'm still not getting great battery life, I had a nice surprise in the gym this morning.

I use an app called FitNotes to track all of my lifts, and while in the gym I set the screen sleep time to 30 minutes, that way I don't have to keep unlocking my phone to input data. On my Note 2, an hour and a half gym session with FitNotes open and the screen on constantly would drain 20% of my battery no matter what. This is with me only interacting with the device every 3 or so minutes to input 2 numbers: weight and number of reps.

My Nexus 5? A mere 3% of the battery on auto brightness. That's pretty awesome.
[Nexus 5 General] [hfm]:
In not going to bother posting screenshots, but it seems I'm doing around 5-6 hrs screen on time. A smidgen better then I was doing with my N4. Syncing 3 gmail accounts, all location services on.. Etc..
[Nexus 5 General] aimetti:
you guys must have some super phones or something. At this rate im lucky to get 3 hours screen time w/ my normal usage compared to like 4/5 with my htc one.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Nice. I have hopes that mine will improve. I got about 2 hours 45 minutes SoT yesterday, and that was with Greenify running.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
Results on 100% wifi

Settings:

* Google now enabled

* Location reporting disabled

* twitter syncing every hour

* Microsoft exchange email syncing every hour

* beautiful widgets syncing every hour

* Lux auto brightness app

* ART VM instead of the dalvik VM

Usage:

Browsing, tapatalk, twitter, YouTube, flipboard, email, bleacher report, texting, im

Not sure why there are spikes in the battery indicator but at no time did I plug the phone into a charger.

Battery on idle is quite good.
[Nexus 5 General] qpop:
Hi guys,

Anyone have any idea why my Google Play Services is taking up so much battery? Is it likely to be Google Now/location services?
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
More results. Haven't plugged it since yesterday*!
[Nexus 5 General] jakTomas:
i love ur result :P
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
Can't complain. But mostly been on WiFi. But WiFi on the gn with sprint network still killed my battery. Now I got to test with data only
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
It helped that you were on wifi all day and used the screen mostly all up front then let your device just sit on wifi for the rest of the time. Oh, and we can see you didn't plug in thanks to your posting all your info. Little spikes like that are normal. It has happened on all my past devices as well.

Picture tells me that you haven't really used your phone much. If you do not show on screen time it is really pointless to show anything at all. We want to see usage not how well your phone sleeps.
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
Oooookay. So I didn't use it much. Takes a while for a kernel to settle *****es!
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I don't get it. You still are not showing us anything.
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
This better hahaha
[Nexus 5 General] hrcoprco:
my battery on nexus 5 is crap too. on my Samsung S3 LTE I could have easy 6 hours screen time
[Nexus 5 General] .jond:
Single biggest trick to 10x your battery life. Make a widget to throttle your 'Mobile Data' on and off.

Keep it off, and only turn on when you need it.

Phone calls and SMS will still work. MASSIVE battery savings.

Same logic as to why battery is so much better when on WIFI. Because your 3G/4G radio is off...
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Yeah, shows it's average like everyone else.

I really figured that Google put a small battery in because they knew that the Snapdragon s800 would be better on battery as well as Kit-Kat but that just proves to be BS. It is just like every other version and CPU.

Also remember, the N4 battery was smaller so with a little larger battery and what is suppose to be a more battery efficient setup in the N5, doesn't really look like we got what they say it's capable of.
[Nexus 5 General] marcusva79:
You never know bud. I'm about to root it and see what's up. I'm liking the n5 just need to get these speakers louder.
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
1st charge rundown, Lots of idle time. I noticed Google play services was keeping the device awake yesterday for a bit. I left it home as I didn't have a SIM installed, so it idled from the night before until pretty much 6PM last night. I'm thinking Google is doing some stuff on the back end with Google Play Services? Hopefully they sort that out soon. When I got home I played with a lot. In all it had 1.5 hours of screen on time and a fair amount of battery left considering it was off a charge for 23 hours. It should still be better. Wifi, GPS, Google now on. Unfortunately my number port didn't go through yet so I couldn't test LTE/3g battery performance. I'm thinking Google will sort their backend issues with play services, send an update that improves battery and camera performance by the end of the month.
[Nexus 5 General] chirantan.f:
I am not happy with nexus 5 battery life..like at all, still this is the 3rd day with N5 so i going to give it a week or 2 more...

1st screenshot, i kept the phone overnight without even touching it for 12 hours and i lost 45% battery

and 2nd screenshot is in the morning, cell stand by is eating more battery than screen today...

anybody else having these issues?
[Nexus 5 General] GialanG:
Your phone doesn't sleep at all IMO. Check what keeps it from deep sleep
[Nexus 5 General] Naiks20:
Is it a deal breaker in terms of battery? I'd want my phone to easily last the day time of moderate-heavy use. Lots of screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] djpharoah:
Stock rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just flip through this thread and see what times people are getting....and how they're getting the better times. ;)

It sometimes takes some effort and sacrifice of certain "niceties" to get the greater times.

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[Nexus 5 General] pancham7:
Which ROM and Kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
PA Beta4 + r47 franco stock settings.

7% after 7hours sleep time.

I wonder how others do 1% instead of 7%.

What's killing my battery?

Im using greenify too. Abd dalvik
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It seems you listened to music in that time and used the screen for 5 mins as well. If you want to compare idle drain it would need to be mostly untouched. Idle drain would come down to what services you have running or updating in the background, including any xposed modules.
[Nexus 5 General] Kippui:
Depends if you get a good signal for most of the use. I got like 4 hr SoT from 70% batt life yesterday easily. When I went to school today I was down to like 50% battery life with just 1 hour SoT. To be honest though people who get those insane SoT times probably have a strong signal where they use their phone the most likely so take that into account.
[Nexus 5 General] Naiks20:
Wow, I didn't consider that! I'm in London so signal can be iffy at times. The reason I'm so concerned is for 2 years I've been using the HTC one s which is infamous for bad battery. I was looking at the xperia z2 as an alternative but I can't possibly pass up the beauty of stock android and the nexus 5 ;)
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
Any one getting horrible Instagram battery drain? After noticing the drain I always have to force close the app. Seems to only happen on mobile data never WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] TomaLLoS:
That's mine battery status I even made same test with galaxy s5

Under you can see results with normal use of phone
[Nexus 5 General] IVS IVRIS:
Does the battery get any better over time? Just got my Nexus for a few days but I barely get 10+ hours of it with just some Facebook.. Not even gaming..
[Nexus 5 General] surrealjam:
I used to have a HTC One S - I didn't find the battery life too bad on that in all honesty and I would say the Nexus 5 is only slightly better. Of course, it does depend on what you're doing but I would say Nexus 5 will give 10-20% better battery times across most usage.
[Nexus 5 General] bliizzz:
Completely stock.

Brightness 10% sync off wifi+data mixed
[Nexus 5 General] darkghost568:
Use greenify.
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
I do it doesn't do anything for that app