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[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
Lol we should all just face it that the only flaw on this device is the battery and that its super horrible.

By turning off everything to save the battery you're pretty much turning off all the neat features. And there's no point in that.

Hopefully googles smart enough to add a good battery to the N6.

My battery on this is horrible. Like way too bad, my old and sh**y u8160s battery lasted longer then this.

They should understand that super CPUs like these are battery hungry.

Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;
[Nexus 5 General] :
Horrible? LOL. And no.....I don't use location services. I don't want it. I'm not missing it. So its no "sacrifice ". ;)

Note the averages at the bottom.

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[Nexus 5 General] simplyanin:
My Normal Useage on unrooted stock rom

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
You understand that the phone can be battery hungry. Why have processes you're not actually using waking the phone or maxing the CPU? If you keep locations on 100% of the time for instance, but are only actually use it for a few moments that's a lot of wasted idle drain.

I'd rather switch off what I'm not actively using, preferably automated by Llama or Tasker. That way I don't need to remember to toggle WiFi every time I'm using data for instance. You can also toggle Bluetooth, account syncing, brightness etc.

Lastly, its been shown the N5 can last longer on a charge than phones with competing battery sizes under the same conditions. Please take a look for yourself, comparing a 2.2 phone isn't very practical. http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
[Nexus 5 General] :
Agree totally!!! :)

I don't need apps accessing my location every time I open them....or on their own a lot of times. I turn location on to navigate ...rarely....then turn it off. I'm not important enough that I get emails that I need to be notified about the second they're sent to me. I don't need my screen brightness cranked anytime the phone thinks I do...I can control that myself.

I don't miss these options, but that's me. Some may really need/want them all on. Well guess what, your battery life won't compare to mine. And, its the same for any phone. The same rules apply.

Yes, I greenify. No, I hardly use my actual phone....a couple times a week maybe. LOL. Guess what tho...many do need to make calls a lot....and the actual phone is a battery destroyer. Go figure. ;)

Some people have issues too, and instead of painstakingly tracking them down....they give up and say the battery life sucks. LOL

Anyway, the N5 is CAPABLE of some of the best battery life out there....depending how you use it. What I do with mine and what someone else does can be totally different. So I get a day, with 6 hours screen time. No way everyone will get that, cause some want all those features running. And that's fine ....we all have different tastes.

I was amazed that I can almost get as good of a charge as my Moto x can. So, I'd say the N5 is, again....capable, of great battery life. :)

Sent from my N5 cell phone telephone....
[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
I have Location turned off, NFC turned off, haptic feedbad turned off, I under clock the device, and many more and still only get 8 hours off it. :(

It seems to be really weird though, because when just browsing the internet the device heats up so much and that it burns.

I've actually clocked my device to 2.3 and have been using it normal and have gotten 3 hours and 35 mins with 76% left. This is not as bad.

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[Nexus 5 General] :
Gsam screenshots would help see what's happening. ;)

Not a fan of under or overclocking personally. I find neither does any good.

And those screenshots, I you wanna do them, should be from 100 to near dead. For best info. And don't reboot during, gsam will reset. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
Oh haha its not from 100. I will test this tomorrow. But what's the best way to test your battery? Just leave the phone alone or use it.

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
If you're unhappy with the battery life, I'm sure we can find the root causes. It's always going to come down to an app or service. Some you be aware of being large drains and some not. Some you might be able to live without and some you need.

Sounds like you've taken a few steps in the right direction already. I don't have much info to work with but I know lots of browser usage can be a pretty heavy drain. Using Tapatalk to browse forums barely touches the battery in comparison.

Which browser do you use? I've switched back to Chrome mostly as Firefox is draining more, possibly due to containing all my synced info. I've heard Dolphin browser can be even more efficient than Chrome.
[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
I've cleaned my ROM so much. I removed Gmail, Google Plus, Chrome, Facebook, literally everything that can be installed from the Play Store. Well almost.

Currently I'm using the stock jelly bean browser which is only 2mb.

I've tried Next browser, Chrome, Firefox, UC Browser and Dolphin Broswer. All of which have different and unique features but lack response and lag quite often.

They all have the same battery drains. Well not all but they are close when you judge them accordingly.

I also keep my screens brightness at around 13% to 25%, my main setting on it is 15%.

Sent from this toast making Nexus 5, you wish your Nexus could make toast don't you? (;
[Nexus 5 General] :
Use it the same as every other day.....so hopefully your issue, if there is one, shows up.
[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
Thanks for the info. I don't usually play games only game I play is hungry shark evo, only about 10 mins or so. And then the rest would be browsing and txting.

I'll see how it goes

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[Nexus 5 General] :
0.4 per hour overnight. Wifi on. Airplane mode is actually about the same.

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[Nexus 5 General] mjr80:
My phone is unrooted, I always have location/GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi on. I'm quite pleased with this result!
[Nexus 5 General] lonz358:
PA, Franco 35...I can easily get over 5 hours screen on time with 20% left. Love this phone.
[Nexus 5 General] rabbo3:
With undervolt?
[Nexus 5 General] lonz358:
-50
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
And again :) UV has no effect on battery , absolutely zero, it only helps to keep your CPU cooler. Only UC can help safe a little bit juice.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] outofthisworld:
Had this phone for a month or so. Best battery yet.

4.4.2, Franco kernel 35 with tweaks, xposed with modules, greenify paid for with system apps hibernating, auto brightness anywhere between 15 and 25 controlled by lux (on wake), tasker turning off wifi when out of range, mobile data on,

normal use today and charged yesterday overnight from 25% (usually don't go under 20% before charging)

Google now off, hotword off, location reporting and history off, NFC off. WiFi scanning off, wifi optimisation on, gmail syncing 6 accounts with 1 account handling contacts and calendar. Some useless google apps frozen but not maps or newsstand or keep.
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Pretty happy with the SOT and battery life...

I'm on AICP+n3ohammer :)
[Nexus 5 General] simplyanin:
Nexus 5 unrooted running stock :)

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
This is my first and last post about this and I'm only doing it cause I can figure out why I'm feeling I have such a bad battery life... I'm not expecting 6h SOT cause I'm actually using my phone.... But not 2.3h SOT only... It drives me crazy.... Just take a look and tell me If I'm wrong...

Slim latest faux latest with eco mode on (dual core)

Σεντ φρομ μυ Νεχυς 5
[Nexus 5 General] zz_marcello:
Everybody with one lesson in IT know thats not true.

How else should heat develop in a CPU if not with more electric leackage.

Lower voltage = less leackage = less energy consumption.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation
[Nexus 5 General] hiback:
How do you achieve this kind of screen on time.

Any suggestions
[Nexus 5 General] exb0:
Can someone tell me if my battery life is bad, average or good? This is honestly the first device which I actually care about battery life lol.

Phone has WiFi on, brightness almost lowest, undervolted franco kernel, greenify a lot of user apps, GPS on high accurary and Sync is always on.
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
Whats your SOT??

It seems you have something eating your battery!
[Nexus 5 General] :
I've never seen system ui anywhere near the top of my list on any device. So that's an issue.

And location services high accuracy will eat way more battery than device only. (So, wifi off)

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And is your phone deep sleeping? Try CPU spy from play store if you don't know.

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[Nexus 5 General] exb0:
Yes I know high accuracy would drain, but that's one of the things I'd like to keep on. That's why I left it on.

Those were actually my battery life with my phone pretty much doing nothing but checking whatsapp and so on. Nothing more.

Here are my battery life after using google maps for about 3 hours straight with sync off, gps high accuracy and wifi off.

Is this still abnormal? :/

and yeah I've never seen systemui that high before too. Maybe I'll do a clean flash again.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You charged your phone during those screens......can't say what's good in that case. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] exb0:
wait.. doesn't the stats reset when i unplug it? D:

Edit : SON OF A GUN IT DOESNT. GRRRR. I'll report back in when I completely drain my battery tomorrow. Grrrrr
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
Only does when your phone reaches 100%
[Nexus 5 General] exb0:
DAMN I WAS SO CLOSE. 90% WHEN I UNPLUGGED IT. ARGHH

Ah well. Thanks! I'll report back soon :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
GSAM is an excellent app for monitoring battery use and troubleshooting. Its free in play store.

Keep in mind with it, it will reset after any reboot, or unplugging a charger. So if you use it, you have to not plug in during a discharge you are trying to monitor, and don't reboot. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] outofthisworld:
stats reset at >90, therefore 91 is good enough.

try restarting the phone anywhere between 91and 100, your stats will reset
[Nexus 5 General] arcticmedia:
First day with the nexus 5 4 hours sot hope the battery will improve with a few charge cycles :)

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[Nexus 5 General] :
4 hours can be very good, depending on your setup. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] greystealth:
Everything on and heavy push email usage with 2 exchange accounts.
[Nexus 5 General] ssnalagu:
Hi
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Choice of apps mainly, disabling unnecessary drains or wakes. Few things you can try here.
[Nexus 5 General] aceian:
Anyone using Trinity kernel... How's the battery life in that.?

Have been hearing a lot about trinity in terms of performance.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Performance is great because the 4 cores are always running, of course this will affect your battery life.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] FredC94:
Some sense here
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
It's not true , we have a guy in another forum who make before some time a lot of tests with test equipment ( he is device Engineer with more knowledge wiki ever will be ) on many different phones and on every phone the result was the same, UV gives NO Measurable savings, it only keeps the device minimal cooler, but everyone should believe what he wants.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
Man some days the phone doesn't drain much at all then the next it drains like mad! It's not at 42% with 18h 30m on battery and SoT 2h 20m. It's really unconsistent.
[Nexus 5 General] sfd0124:
Love this phone. Couldn't dream of this on my Gnex
[Nexus 5 General] wdwms:
I'm wondering if all the variances in battery life we are seeing could be a sign of a broader issue - a large batch of defective batteries?

opened this thread for thoughts/comments: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2686119
[Nexus 5 General] :
Nope. Its the variances in usage and settings. Guaranteed. ;)

I got 6 hours screen time plus on my Moto x....always. with no changes whatsoever, my wife gets 4 1/2. Why? 90 percent of my use way tapatalk. Mostly just text. 90 percent of her use is Facebook, mostly images....with text. Images take more power to load than text.

That primary difference in our usage patterns made a consistent hour and half screen time difference. Oh....and she makes a few calls, I barely ever had or made calls. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] GooglerKad:
6 hours talk time, 2 hours screen on time!

Rom: Cataclysm ROM,

Kernel: FAUX123_u12 Kernel

Faux Kernel enhancement app
[Nexus 5 General] :
People still talk that much....with voices? Nice! :)

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[Nexus 5 General] Raja094:
Running slimkat plus elemental .32 kernel
[Nexus 5 General] jakobrmc:
Just got my n5. First full charge not bad at all. Way better then my HTC one
[Nexus 5 General] :
On pace for 24 hours and over 7 hours screen time. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Nice results there as usual. :good:

I updated to the latest version of Star Command and ended up playing for something like 3 hours the other day. Plugged in at 10% showing 5 hours SoT.

Other usage was Tapatalk, Reddit Is Fun, Slacker Radio and some calls/texts.

Stock, unrooted, 10% brightness.
[Nexus 5 General] californiarailroader:
Personally, I am tired of having to jump through hoops to TRY and get decent battery life, I have all but given up on getting excellent battery life on my Nexus 5, and have gotten to the point of just accepting it's flaw. It's an excellent phone, but something, software, hardware or a combo of the two is giving many of us endless battery issues. We have come a long ways with Smartphones, but we need to get to where the batteries and software will take care of themselves, the user really shouldn't have to through all of this to get decent battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] wdwms:
Ok do tell... HOW?!

Rom/Kernel combination? I'm going to get 1d 18h of battery life here, but only 3.5 hrs of scree time.. how did you manage that?
[Nexus 5 General] Henrock11:
Stock unrooted. I started noticing a couple of days ago that com.qualcomm.qcrilmsgtunnel was consistently running and believed it was a culprit for pretty bad battery life. I read that it had something to do with the dialer and thought maybe it has to do with the Google caller ID feature and disabled it.

I stopped the process from running and am now seeing pretty good battery life. Mind you I have 3 email accounts syncing and screen set to auto brightness. Here are some screenshots.
[Nexus 5 General] Elistheman:
Stock + Franco R34 - underclock to 729MHZ

undervolt 100mv- on all values

gpu clock 320mhz

brightness 20-80 depending on conditions

2g always on 3g only on screen on

Quite happy actually
[Nexus 5 General] :
Doesn't matter what rom or kernel, it's usually similar no matter the combo. But ATM its twisted kat and elementalx. Stock elementalx settings.

But I turn everything off. Location off. Auto brightness off. Only calendar and Gmail sync, nothing else. Greenify any app that I don't use multiple times a day. Google now off. I use brightness control app. Its cool....a small slider on my screen at all times. I keep the screen as dim as I can take.

Also....I don't do much on my phone other than use tapatalk and browser a bit. No navigation, no music, no games and no phone calls hardly. Phone is a battery killer. LOL

But that's my usage.....I use it a lot, but not for much more than internet.

;)

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[Nexus 5 General] wdwms:
Sounds like similar usage and settings as myself. I'm running stock rooted, but even just using chrome and checking email is a massive battery drain, even with the brightness waaay down
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm too busy at work to read back, but have you posted any gsam screenshots? From a long discharge.

Something may jump out if we see it.

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Just saw your post in other thread. I'll respond there....

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[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
I'm having an excellent battery life using Google stock kernel with a 1.5Ghz maximum frequency. (To cap the frequency I'm using FKU: Franco Kernel Updater, because I'm using the stock ROM and don't have an option to do that).

The performance is almost the same. I'm going to say "unaffected" for most of the cases.

For now...i passed 100 minutes of SoT (of Browsing..Tapatalk....Chat) and still remains 70% battery.

(On WiFi; ART; Bionic Patch).

For Gaming I'm using a higher cap with Per App Modes. But I didn't open a game yet (on this cycle).

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] mrcricket23:
I'm surprised I got this much out it, first time I tried Franco's kernel. And I gotta say best Kernel imo . This is though with light usage couple of phones calls, a little browsing here n there to check news, my twitter account, like 3 short YouTube videos, and a little bit of spotify. Nonetheless surprised.
[Nexus 5 General] wdwms:
What rom? Stock? what version of franco?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Absolutely any rom/kernel combo is capable of 24 hour battery life and 5 hours screen time. But it all depends on each persons usage and what they run for services.

If someone plays games say, and runs everything on....won't happen, ever. No matter the rom or kernel. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] datallboy:
Guessing this isn't normal. 60% Android OS? Any fixes?
[Nexus 5 General] iliasx8:
Stock kernel.

Στάλθηκε από το Nexus 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] tailsmp:
hey, is there an app or something to turn 3g only on screen on ? or you are just doing it by hand?
[Nexus 5 General] jakobrmc:
P.a 4.2 Franco 36
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
Gravity have the feature , it sets you network to 2g when screen is off and to 3g when you turn the screen on ( you can set it to 3g switch only after unlock )

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] kEvinErd:
Can the Gravity xposed module set data to 2G on screen off and 4G on screen on (instead of 3G)?
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Vanilla unicorn with nexxxt kernel 0.9. Never ever thought I could get this much screen time. Better stats then my note 2 when I had it.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
New Bricked , after 1.40 Hours screen time 84 percent battery left, let's see how it looks at the end of the day.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Elistheman:
Gravitybox xposed module.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Or intelli3G module

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ECrispy:
IMO the quest for battery life by turning everything off defeats the purpose of a smartphone. I didn't find much difference when turning off gps/bluetooth etc as those things only consume power when connected.

Thus now I keep everything on (as it should be), background sync enabled etc. And some days the phone will discharge based on heavy usage, which is why I carry around an external battery if needed.

Android needs a true battery saver mode like in the S5 (for emergency use) or adapt better to the usage patterns. There is still a lot of inefficiency in Android.
[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
Nobody knows if the S5 saver really works fine, Samsung always told much, the result is usually disappointing.

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
The problem is not the OS, it's the battery itself, instead of working on new CPUs and GPUs for mobiles companies should focus on batteries. I feel like apart from a few games half the processing power is enough. And imagine if the Nexus 5 had a bigger battery, you wouldn't need any battery saver app or custom kernel to have a decent battery life, you can still have without but it depends on your usage.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ECrispy:
While I agree that more R&D needs to go into batteries, there is a lot to be done in software. For a long time Android didn't even make use of multiple cores, even today it doesn't really handle them well, it doesn't do core throttling or balancing particularly well, core Android apps use the battery too much (like the current camera bug) etc. Look at the recent AppNap feature in OSX, something like that is exactly what's needed. ART gives us barely noticeable gains in battery life, when it should do so much more. Optimizations like Project Butter come so late to Android.

The hardware is plenty powerful enough
[Nexus 5 General] :
A valid opinion. ;)

But, I don't see my phone as any less of a smartphone with most things off, as I don't NEED location services and other things on. And if I do, its a quick toggle away, then off when I'm done.

The result. ....24 hours plus easily with over 6 hours screen time. And when I'm away from a place I'd be comfortable leaving my phone to charge for over 12 hours a day at work.....that's great battery life for me.

Anyway, everyone has different needs from their phone....and my number one need is excellent battery life. That's just me.....and everyone uses their phone differently. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
That's why I want to try Trinity Kernel, it has the four cores constantly on (well you can change the number) and the battery is still good since because the four cores are online they don't need to run high frequencies.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] wenyu1988:
First post!

This was on stock ROM, kernel, rooted with Greenify (free version). I usually charge my phone to max before unplugging when I go to bed (I know it's a little weird haha...)

Location settings - battery saving, Brightness set at 10% always. Mostly use my phone for Whatsapp, Internet browsing, occasional gaming, have Poweramp on when I drive to and fro work too (around 30-45 mins).

Coming from a Galaxy SII, am super delighted with my Nexus 5! :victory:

Just switched to ElementalX kernel and added Xposed with GravityBox. Been pretty much as smooth as stock so far and the battery life seems to be slightly better.
[Nexus 5 General] Krishanshu:
Approx. 1 day on moderate use.
[Nexus 5 General] mosesman86:
I just flashed Franco kernel r36 two days ago, and I'm getting easily double the battery life!

Right now I'm extrapolating to 40 hrs with 4 hrs screen on time. G now on, high accuracy location, sync on, Greenify, UV -50, UC to 1.4 GHz max. Very happy with performance and battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Oh yeah. Franco kernel and stock ROM. Everything is on except auto brightness. Playing gameboy emulator mostly.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Another
[Nexus 5 General] PJcastaldo:
Purity Rom. Faux Kernel. Pretty much keep everything on, like high accuracy location and all that. (I mean why make your smart phone dumb by turning everything off...)

This is from the other day.. usually I do about 4 hours of s.o.t. but dead by 12 hours.. but this was impressive so I shared.
[Nexus 5 General] :
But...the dumbphone can turn smart with one toggle click. ;)

I need my 24 hours and 6 hours screen time for my work.

But I agree....if I didn't, I'd have everything on too. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] Tylog:
What for a stock , odexed or deodexed ? purely out of interest :)

Tapatalk Team SlimRoms
[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
Im having the same issue, makes me wanna smash my phone check out my stats , were able to solve it? [emoji24]

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