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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dan37tz:
Sad to hear about the crappy speaker quality. One of the main reason I returned my G2, looks like the Nexus 5 might be using the same speaker setup.

It was literally the worst sounding (tinny, low volume) speaker I've ever heard on a smartphone. My Note 3 is equally tinny, but at least it's loud. =)

Oh well...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lockeskidney:
iphone 5s does the same thing. I think nokia or HTC are the only ones who actually care about sound
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hicks12:
It is louder than the n4 at least . I'm in England and I got it through car phone warehouse it was quicker and cheaper to get via cpw they even shipped it via DPD next day :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hpsauce37:
Collected mine from cpw store at 9.30 this morning :)

Only thing I'm not liking at the moment is the poor speaker and the sharp edges to the volume buttons.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dferg:
sound levels seem very low to me off the loudspeaker, especially for movies that i have downloaded and put on it
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MMontanez347:
Your phone has a yellow tint on the screen? thats the ONE PROBLEM i pray my phone dosent have. How bad is it? =/
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irhut:
I am disappointed with speaker sound quality also. However sound quality using headphones is very good.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xspyda:
Not liking that the speaker is poor. Really hoped they would have learned from the N4 as that and the poor camera were the reasons I passed.

Seems the only thing they have learned is that placing the speaker on the rear is a bad move. No thought seems to have gone into the quality of the sound produced.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casonswag:
Wish it had surround sound like my n7.2 but oh well
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xspyda:
Just something as good as the N95 / 5800 (hard to beat) and even the iPhone which also has only one speaker would be sufficient. I can understand the need to keep costs down but surely the speaker components can't be that dear.

A crappy speaker spoils the user experience for me as I rarely use headphones.
[Nexus 5 General] jasonlu1992:
Hi guys, if you use nexus 4, I think you will be probably disappointed by the battery life of nexus 4. Things seems to changed this year.

Here's what Google says about nexus 5's battery life

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It seems pretty good compare with nexus 4, based on the way how Google test the device and the result.

I can't wait to receive my new nexus 5 :laugh:

How you guys think? Are you satisfy with the battery life?

update:

according http://www.android.com/versions/kit-kat-4-4/ said, the nexus 5 maudio playback can up to 60 hrs, witch is really incredible!!!
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
did you notice by any chance that battery test has been don on airplane/no sim with wifi on?

Any cellural reception has significant impact on battery life therefore it is most likley goi9ng to be the same or worse due to size of the screen vs battery capacity
[Nexus 5 General] jasonlu1992:
Yes I do notice, but for the LTE internet browsing 7 hrs are pretty awesome, and they are using the default settings with wifi on :)
[Nexus 5 General] jasonlu1992:
audio playback

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[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Damn.... After going from bad to worse in my last devices (from SGS, to SGS2, to Gnex), it looks like I'm finally gonna be satisfied with the battery life of my phone.
[Nexus 5 General] jasonlu1992:
The same here. the specs even look better than iphone, lol
[Nexus 5 General] drew_grant:
I think it might have something to do with the optimized OS. The phone can run the OS with a minimum of 512mb of the RAM. I was pretty disappointed with the Nexus 4 battery life but it was better than the Galaxy Nexus for sure.
[Nexus 5 General] Whyzor:
Anyone know if the Nexus 5 also has G-RAM that's in the LG G2? supposedly helps improve battery life of display by about 20% if it's displaying static pages.
[Nexus 5 General] Astrofrigo:
Hey guys, just joining the discussion for the upcoming news about the battery from all of you.

Personally, I am going to wait for a while until the typical problems of a "newborn phone" get solved.... IF THERE IS FOUND ANY, which I hope not. :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5 General] Soundchasr:
I hope the battery life isn't too bad. I decided to skip getting the LG G2 and instead ordered the N5.
[Nexus 5 General] Cheater912:
How do you think the battery life compares to the GS4?
[Nexus 5 General] Alfonso87:
Let's hope

Battery life shouldn't be that bad at all i suppose. From years now we are used to charge our phones one per day at least...this won't change for the n5. That said, i think this is a big failure of modern smartphones. Lg is tring to make a change, and it's a point to his favour i think.
[Nexus 5 General] jamel_tza:
Failure of a smartphone? What makes you say that? The software that is debuting with the phone is a huge push forward in mobile communications, that's at least a little win.
[Nexus 5 General] elementaldragon:
The thing that will probably greatly help the N5's battery life is that it's the Snapdragon 800... which has the same "bonus core" that the G2, Moto X, and other devices have that allows very little battery usage while the phone is asleep, while still being able to do stuff like play music.
[Nexus 5 General] Dan1909:
You've misread him.

He was saying that the battery life is a failing of all current smartphones. Not that the N5 is a failure of a phone :)
[Nexus 5 General] jamel_tza:
whoops! My derp there. In that case yea, I'll agree. Google should have but in a bigger battery, but alas I think they're really trying to stick with the philosophy of it being a developer's phone and less of a general consumer's phone.

That said the battery thing is the only thing stopping me from placing my order this very second...
[Nexus 5 General] Alfonso87:
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I mean a failure of a generation of phones. Before the advent of smartphones the recharge of a phone came, how much a week? Three times? Even twice on some phones. That said, we had a great progression on software and hardware, with a clear loss in term of duration per single charge.

The advancement in hardware and software were not matched by the advancement in battery tecnology.

Someone said that you can build the best car at all, but you will need good wheels to make it run faster..Or in our case, to make it "run" xD
[Nexus 5 General] Fatmouse:
Got to admit, I'm a little dissapointed they didn't throw a USB 3.0 port on this beast for multi-charge bonuses :/
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Amazing Google designed 4.4 to run on devices with as low as 512mb of Ram but they are not updating the Galaxy Nexus to 4.4.
[Nexus 5 General] GuestK0086:
It's not because of the RAM, it's because of the processor. The manufacturer stopped supporting it.
[Nexus 5 General] cynosure4sure:
Holy Cow....that is a amazing......would you mind listing your usage pattern i.e wifi,3G/lte, auto brigtness etc .........also have you used any optimizations or apps like greenify??

thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i think this is how it really needs to be done. turn everything off and get base screen on times and then start turning things on one at a time for time comparisons. this route will make it very easy to find out if it's google now, GPS, music, wake locks, or even just the screen/battery
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
As soon as I get mine I'm running straight to the CF auto root, rooting and installing Greenify and the Xposed module to Greenify some system apps. As always I'm sure battery will be more than adequate after that.
[Nexus 5 General] itpromike:
I'm not gonna lie, the N4 was one of my worst battery life experiences I"ve ever had with a phone. I tried every possible kernel and ROM combination possible and still could NEVER make it through a whole work day without charging in the middle (around 1PM'ish). It was just bloody annoying... I'm really really hoping the N5 is leagues better.
[Nexus 5 General] qpqpqp:
Totally agree with you.
[Nexus 5 General] itpromike:
Really how it should be done is that we buy a device for $400+ and we shouldn't have to worry about it all. We should be able to make it through the end of the day with heavy use without having to babysit our devices. I don't pay $400+ for a product and then have to figure out what went wrong during the entire time of ownership. It's the manufacturers job to do all that type of testing before I shell out money for it... :(
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
maybe you set your price bar too low then. you say you dont want to worry about it, that sounds like a luxury. 350 dollars for a smart phone with one of the fastest mobile processors in the consumer market at the moment is bargain bin prices. keep paying 650+ for your G2, Note 3, and iPhone and then you'll be given that luxury you want. just know that if you do, you're not allowed to complain about bloatware or lack of OS customizations, because it was your choice to put so much emphasis on that luxury
[Nexus 5 General] Dredyouall:
Depends what you define as 'heavy use', I can't imagine this phone not lasting me the day, it could easily last me two if i needed it to (by turning it off overnight of course, although i'm at 28 hours now with 30% left and no battery saving measures enabled so hmmm).
[Nexus 5 General] resynx:
If I can pull off at least 4 hours SOT w/ 30 min. of voice calls I'll be satisfied :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] itpromike:
So the tool you purchase lasting through the duration you use to work with it is a luxury... Got it. Maybe $400+ is a chump change to you, but where I come from where I work 14hours a day to provide for my family and also to afford tools to complete such work and keep in touch with said family it's not. If I spend that kind of money I expect it to operate at least to the manufacturers claims, but I'm sure that's a luxury too. Paying for a product means it should be free of bloat, ads, and perform well. Customization is a luxury my friend, not serving the purpose they were intended for in the first place; ya know like communications and media. With your logic, buying a car and expecting it to take you to and from work is a luxury, however custom wheels and rims is really what you pay for and should get for your money. Eh think what you will though, it's all about choice. I chose to buy a N5 even when the N4 performed so poorly so we'll see the results of my decision in a couple days.
[Nexus 5 General] chadmd23:
Maybe you could work less if you didn't need TWO phones. Also I've never seen a phone (especially iphones, and way back to my DynaTAC) live up to the battery life listed by the manufacturer.

So maybe stop complaining and let people who know a thing or two explain how to maximize battery life on the new phone, I don't think anyone has any sympathy for you.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Your comparison is not at all apt.

It's akin to buying the cheapest pickup truck at a car lot, despite knowing that it doesn't get very good gas mileage based on a number of obvious factors, and then *****ing about it. It's pretty asinine, dude.

We all want stellar battery life. We all want to go back to the early 2000s when a single charge would power a phone for a week or more. Fortunately enough for everybody, we have choice, and anecdotal experiences to go off of, when we purchase a new piece of technology. It's well known that, in the Android realm, if you want stellar battery life, you've got pretty slim options to go off of, and those options cost twice what the N5 does off of contract.

Car chargers and extra home chargers to leave at the office are a dime a dozen nowadays. You likely have several extra micro-USB chargers laying around right now. At the price point Google is selling the N5 at, and based on the battery stats being reported here and on Reddit, you really can't complain at all about the battery life of this phone.
[Nexus 5 General] itpromike:
1.) Actually you're comparison isn't apt at all mate. Cheapest car on the lot would be a $49 POS android device from Walmart. If that's what we were discussing then yes I would agree; but that's now what we're discussing. We're discussing a flagship device. Look on the N5 page and read the literature therein and you tell me it's not being marketed to consumers as a flagship device...

2.) I never complained about battery life of the N5, merely stated my hope for better battery then it's predecessor.

3.) I also merely stated how things should be. I understand the state of the way things are; I just stated what should be if you spend hard earned money for a product. So if you're saying that a flagship product shouldn't offer decent battery life then you have the right to think that; we'll just agree to disagree.

If what I've been reading pans out in my experience with the device then you're right there won't be any reason to complain. I'll just have to wait until I get it.
[Nexus 5 General] showstopper03:
Everyone please stay on topic. No one cares about what arguments you want to be apart of. We just want battery life impressions.
[Nexus 5 General] JonM1988:
From my first full charge. Didn't see this thread before!
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
Was that usage mostly on Wi-Fi or LTE?
[Nexus 5 General] malek777:
We need battery results of lte users
[Nexus 5 General] JonM1988:
Do not have LTE here in Ireland. Was mostly WiFi with some usage on 3G.
[Nexus 5 General] GldRush98:
I'm encouraged to see the 5.5 hours of screen on time. I saw another report that said 2 hours... I was going to be pretty annoyed if it was only 2 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] JonM1988:
2 hours of SOT would be unusable for me. Need 5 hours SOT minimum
[Nexus 5 General] alex00725:
ha ha, i rarely got 5 hours SOT with my note 2 :P it was pretty bad. if nexus 5 manages just 4 hours SOT for me then i'll be more than happy
[Nexus 5 General] JonM1988:
You should be a very happy guy then :) will report pack after my current charge dies :):)
[Nexus 5 General] casonswag:
That's what i wanna see also
[Nexus 5 General] kamranhaghighi:
thats soo awesome:) everybody were complaining about battery when battery leaked!!!!
[Nexus 5 General] eksasol:
I get the best battery life with the Nexus 4 using stock. People are too bend up on kernels. In fact the phone stay coolest with stock too.
[Nexus 5 General] LimitsX:
hate say it, I too had the worst experience with Nexus 4.

Battery life ON stock rom, was horrible. On my regular commute, my N4 died twice and i could not make important calls. That being said, I used many different custom roms/kernels combos, plus stock rom and custom kernel. Still, battery sucked. On top of that, the speaker and mic was messed up, no one can hear me. And google was gonna charge me $40 just for "repair" and could take 3-5 weeks. Got S4, and wow. First samsung phone ever, and i was very impressed.

On stock battery for S4, I can last 1 day on HSPA+ and 2 days with WIFI/HSPA+ .

I want to switch to N5, but gonna wait and see how all of this plays out. Thanks everyone for their input regarding N5 battery life :)!

S4 is a great, esp now that I am using custom rom and no more bloatware :D.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
I made a few kernel tweaks, nothing Dev like just governor changes and aggressive hotplugging. Here was my idle drain last night.

I'm continuing my test all day and will report back more later

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Kid_droid:
I have following this thread. I would say I have easily getting 5 hours SOT. This with locations off but using maps he and there. Playing using and phone calls.
[Nexus 5 General] cHarOn99:
Nice battery results for the n5

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/514

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/786

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/516
[Nexus 5 General] Jam4l:
For me battery life is now really amazing after three or four charge cycles:)
[Nexus 5 General] dj_aj:
Could anyone shed some light on my battery drain issue?

It's a 'shell' process that has managed to bring down my battery to 50% in 4 hours!

Here's my post on another thread with screenshots!

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47257309&postcount=413

Thanks..
[Nexus 5 General] n19htmare:
Battery life isn't terrible. Got about 21 hours w/ 4 hours screen time.

On the plus side, phone charges pretty fast.
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
dang, that's pretty good

the quick charging is super convenient. makes keeping it topped off all that much easier
[Nexus 5 General] alhadee12:
Got mine today, but haven't had the opportunity to get a full charge. But I noticed it's kind of slow to charge.
[Nexus 5 General] shakuyi:
install better battery stats and see whats causing it from there
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
If you use heavy games, you'll see the 2 hours (well maybe not so little), if you don't make the phone go all hot on full cpu/gpu, you'll see the 5-6 easily.

Pretty simple, and all usage dependant as always.

Play some plants vs zombies and the battery will fly away. Other than that, I reached 1 hour before the 80% mark yesterday, counting around 15 mins of plants vs zombies.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Rattles:
no can do since Better battery stats doesn't work in KitKat yet.
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Delete
[Nexus 5 General] shakuyi:
updated 2 days ago sir! check the thread on xda
[Nexus 5 General] sgdeux:
My stats after my first charge. 2-3hours of youtube and the rest is customising/downloading/surfing.
[Nexus 5 General] dj_aj:
okay...will do..thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

note - betterbatterystats is still in beta for kitkat, so I don't know how accurate/useful the data will be.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Conservative governor. Aggressive hotplugging. Lux. Love it

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] garrisj:
Wow I've been able to push near 5 but that is impressive
[Nexus 5 General] N-Forced:
Loving battery life so far
[Nexus 5 General] jamesindc:
I'm hearing battery life has been horrible on this thing.
[Nexus 5 General] theesotericone:
I'm seeing the opposite. Never believe everything you read and a pictures worth a thousand words. lol
[Nexus 5 General] N-Forced:
Don't know how other people use their phone but I have no complaints
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
It's not lasting a week on a charge and some think that's not good enough. I'm coming from a gnex and think this is great. I had 8 hrs sot and 13 hrs up time. Again, I think that's great, and matched Google's published times. If I had a job and wasn't on this thing all day, I'd get 2 days on a charge. It will take a couple 3 full charging cycles to get the most out of the battery though.
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
I can't complain and I'm coming from the G2 that has phenomenal battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] comcor:
No screenshots here but my battery life has been on par with my n4. I did notice today lots of keep awake from Android OS (about 6.5 hrs out of 14) and currently at 50%. Only thing different today was I charged it with a Qi charger. However if it was the wireless charging issue that was reported with the n4 I'd expect the Android OS keep awake to be closer to time off charger. Other than that the phone sat mostly unused with WiFi on and excellent signal. I rebooted it and the battery usage leveled out. Looking forward to BBS to be released out of beta.
[Nexus 5 General] desairs:
I am sure it has to do with settings AND Network. from what I have read, GSM will get better battery life than CDMA. Not sure how true that is.

---------- Post added 9th November 2013 at 12:03 AM ---------- Previous post was 8th November 2013 at 11:11 PM ----------

What is BBS?
[Nexus 5 General] onthecouchagain:
Does leaving "Scanning Always Available" under WiFi advance settings adversely affect the battery life? Also, I know this is weird to ask, but does turning it off aversely affect the battery life somehow?

I'm noticing most people leave it on...
[Nexus 5 General] bgaccord:
Guy getting 5hrs screen time. Any tips ? I get 3hr and a half of screen time.would love 1 more hr.
[Nexus 5 General] CyberScopes:
Will the n5 have better battery life than my xperia play? Most of the time it lasts me a day. I dont know if the nexus 5 can beat it or be as good as it.

Sent from my SXP [R800i]
[Nexus 5 General] PunchTheLion:
Amazing, what settings for Lux if I may ask?
[Nexus 5 General] ChaosMaster108:
Anyone switched over the the ART runtime instead of Dalvik? Apparently better Battery Life and faster App load times.
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
Even note 3 or lg g2 does not get such screen on time on lte. Seems like you tried too hard to leave screen on all time do nothing min brightness. Do not be that guy;)
[Nexus 5 General] G1_enthusiast:
there's is no amount of tweak or customization that can beat out an extra 700ma, that being said, we just have to wait for one of the major reviewers to bench the battery.

here's one of them

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Golden-middle-our-Nexus-5-battery-life-test-is-here_id49127

putting on my flame suit for the fan boys.
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
Go check all my posts on XDA today. You can see how much nothing I did. Lux is a brightness mod, but it auto adjusts the brightness. You can even see how bright my screen was in the shot lol. Here's some from my galaxy S3 with Zero lemon battery CM 10.2, ktoonsez kernel and my own tweaks, no lux though. When it comes to battery life I know what I'm doing. It seems as though you don't believe people can do things they provide proof of. Do not be that guy ;)

As far as lux settings I just auto set it up and adjusted links all day while reading. I had CM on my previous phones which had it's own adjustment. I'm using lux in case I decide not to rom.

Oh yeah, I'm using ART as well. I forgot about that.
[Nexus 5 General] Manbot27:
They won't listen, it's the same with the Nexus 4. People will argue with you to death about how they're getting great battery life to justify their purchase. The Nexus 4 and 5 have a lot of great things going for them, battery life simply isn't one and there's nothing wrong with that.

It's just silly when people say it's one of the best battery life experiences they've had on a smartphone when there are far better options. Be fair and unbiased, let people know it's a beast of a phone in terms of performance but battery life is just average compared to other phones.
[Nexus 5 General] Nbsss:
Care to share the hotplugging settings?
[Nexus 5 General] SymbioticGenius:
I'm posting from my Galaxy S3 cause my Nexus is dead right now lol. I don't remember the settings exactly but the app I use is trickster mod. It's pretty self explanatory once you open. I used it to change governor to conservative turn down vibrator strength and whatever the hotplugging option is called I set to two. Basically that combo turns it to one core and keeps it down to 300mhz until needed at which point the cores turn on and the power ramps until task is finished. No lag whatsoever and not just claimed, but proven battery life. I've run this combo on many phones and loved the results always. I always tune my phones for battery life cause I use them to read a lot at work. My screen is always on. Next thing I need is a kernel that supports underclocking and undervolting. I want to see how close I can get this to 10hrs OST
[Nexus 5 General] kilometers4:
Better battery stats. Its an app that detects wakelocks that are keeping your device awake and not letting it go into deep sleep.

Here's a link to the thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15869868
[Nexus 5 General] Waltsch:
Is anyone using batteryguru? Is it useful?
[Nexus 5 General] MasterGGM:
So far running under my second cycle. Very satisfied.
[Nexus 5 General] MoosDiagramm:
Shouldn't make a difference. It is only used when an app actually asks for a location. If anything, it should actually improve battery life if you use a lot of location-based apps, since it gives an approximate location and makes looking for a GPS fix easier