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[Nexus 5 General] :
You really need gsam or bbs to see what's going on. The stock battery stat screens don't say anything useful.

But its probably a rogue app going nuts with location services or sync.

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[Nexus 5 General] lennshow66:
I kept having this problem, for me turning Wi-FI totally off solved it, not ideal but better than the crazy battery drain.

Hope this helps
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Is your phone really any smarter by having things turned on that aren't actively being used? Wouldn't the smart thing be to dynamically enable or disable everything so it's there to be used but only when it was needed, with as little input from the user as possible, and drain the least amount of battery? With that in mind the first thing I did was find an automation program (Tasker, Llama) and set to work making that a reality.

Stock unrooted. 10% brightness with 1min screen timeout.

No music streaming this time, mostly Tapatalk, Reddit is Fun, calls, texts, email and 45min of Netflix.

Llama to automate. Dashclock with 3 extensions, Gnow on, Locations off.

SoT hours: 8

Total battery hours: 30

Remaining percentage: 4

74% remaining

43% remaining

04% remaining
[Nexus 5 General] IVIanuu:
Nice can u share your tasker tasks?

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Mainly used to enable WiFi dynamically based on cell tower locations, and disable WiFi whenever data kicks in. The app is very light weight and most conditions don't seem to use any battery or wake the phone so I'm always trying to come up with new ways to use it. Brightness, volume levels for night and headphones, account syncs, etc.

Llama can't toggle locations services so I still need to do that manually. Tasker can however and there are many threads with automation ideas to help get you started. This XDA article has a few useful links and tips.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Just using the pure stock rom the phone came with.
[Nexus 5 General] mebbez:
This was just a normal days usage, using firefox (but apparently didn't register very high on battery usage) and messaging. I don't currently have any power management apps running.

Using slimkat 3 and Linaro kernel r36
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
For some reason Firefox instantly jump to the top of my battery list when I use it. I figured it must be all the synced information from my desktop as it's always been my main browser. Since switching back to Chrome on my phone, that now drains considerably less which was the opposite case back in November. Do you have lots of stuff synced with your Firefox? Great battery life there, BTW.

Stock unrooted. 10% brightness with 1min screen timeout.

Llama to automate. Dashclock with 3 extensions, Gnow on, Locations off.

SoT hours: 7

Total battery hours: 28

Remaining percentage: 12
[Nexus 5 General] chefdementia:
The pictures say it all, pretty much stock phone.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That's pretty good....even tho the screen was barely on.

Good standby tho. ;)

Edit: on second look....your battery has a couple steep declines when your screen was off. You actually seem to maybe have an issue there.

Edit 2: I'd be curious to see what gsam shows for you. Wakelocks? I see you have GPS on, Bluetooth....etc....so maybe that's normal. I normally get 0.4 percent per hour drop on standby, with wifi on anyway. I'm curious what yours is. :)

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0.4 is about 10 days....with zero use. Not that I could ever test that. LOL. Need my phone. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
For some reason... When I am using my phone heavily and then stop for a while, my battery stats go up without a charge... It also happens when I use GPS all day and then turn it off. Weird.

Anyway. This is running slimkat weekly 3.8 with stock slim kernel and greenify to hibernate. Best battery results I've ever had... Its no 6 hour SOT, but that was really 2 full days of use with no charging.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Battery temperature changes from weather or usage can make the graph go up and down a bit. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
My best result to date:

2 days 2 hours of battery w/ 5h 16min SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
I Dowloaded better battery stats but I don't know where I should look, also is the app always running on the background even if I reboot the phone?

This is how it looks right now

Down to 60% in less than 3 hours with 32 minutes of screen time wtf :/

Nope, I actually I have this issue normally when I'm on lte /3g

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[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm big enough to admit BBS is kinda foreign to me. LOL

Always used Gsam ....its far more user friendly. ;)

Nothing seems odd on that screenshot tho.

Wakelocks, apps or kernel are probably your issue.

Or very bad reception. If the phone loses signal completely a lot....the battery will get destroyed while it searches for a signal.

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15.2 percent per hour drain time is insane tho. Normally that would be gaming to be that bad. Or navigating. :)

If you try Gsam, I'd be more help. Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
I didn't know gsam was free [emoji28][emoji22] ,i'm gonna give it a try, see? I'm not crazy my battery melts [emoji20]

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[Nexus 5 General] ali8383:
Mahdi rom 23/3 , no kernel change
[Nexus 5 General] -Johannes-:
Slimkat and Bricked kernel :)

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I don't think the weather has anything to do with that. It's a software algorithm estimating the remaining percentage which changes based on usage only.

It can't tell when you will stop using your phone heavily (games, GPS) so it assumes you will continue on with your current usage forever. That is until you do stop and it realizes it wont be losing 5% in the next 10minutes, recalculates and like magic you have +5%.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I guarantee you weather (temperature) has something to do with it. LOL

Gsam says battery temp when you pull down status bar, one day when I was working outside and it was freezing.....I went to check my phone....but it was powered off. I didn't know why and rebooted it, and when I did.....battery had dropped about 15 percent (I think....a good amount anyway).....I pulled the status bar down to go into gsam and see what was up....and the temperature of the battery was at minus 7 Celsius. So well below freezing. I put my phone inside right away.

A bit after I went inside....gsam now said battery temp was plus 23 Celsius. Also, my 15 percent or whatever it was of battery was back. First time this ever happened to me. Checked battery graph (not the gsam one, it reset with the power down....but the stock battery graph) and it showed a fast drop, then a big spike back up, right to where the drop started.

;)

Stick it in your freezer for a good long while and see. Tho....the freezer may not be cold enough really. It was about minus 20 Celsius when this happened to me. I think it got so cold it shut down to protect the phone. I'm guessing, cause I know I didn't power it off.

I was stupid for having my phone on me in that cold.

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I've not experienced that myself using the phone in sub zero temperatures. According to the safety manual, safe operating temperatures are between -20 C and 50 C though I'd be more worried about condensation than anything else. Theoretically, batteries and electronics in general run more efficiently when cold versus hot.
[Nexus 5 General] :
It may have got that low and shut down. No ill affects after it warmed up tho.

But just saying.....temperature can change the battery levels up and down. Like my drill at work. Lithium batteries. If I leave it in my trunk....it appears dead or near dead when I go to use it....minutes later in the warmth.....its good again. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] roydondsa:
4 and half screen on time for first 20 percent

I got 4 and half hour screen on time for first 20 percent
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
where is the rest of screenshots?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just leaving screen on and not touching it of course. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] wietse1988:
Just recharge, and don't show that screenshot
[Nexus 5 General] chiefroberts:
Pretty decent battery life. Had the phone about a week now. Completely stock. I have pretty much everything on; 2 email accounts / social networks refreshing, Google Now, location etc. Bluetooth only on when needed. About half WiFi, half LTE. Mainly browsing, WhatsApp, Spotify, Facebook, texting. Roughly 17-18 hours battery, 4 hours SOT. Happy enough with that to be honest!
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
Got the point....
[Nexus 5 General] :
Talon and yelp are destroying your battery definitely. I'd rethink their usefulness.

And android os is out of control. Could be a rogue app that's accessing location services or syncing like crazy. Obviously, probably yelp and/or talon.

Easy to determine. Freeze those two apps for a complete charge cycle....or uninstall. And turn location services off....right off. See how a day like that goes. Then go from there.

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Here's today with 50 percent left. So those stats could all potentially be doubled. ;)

Graviton rom with elementalx kernel.

Tho really...i find any rom the same. Its all phone setup....roms and kernels play a minor role. IMHO. ;)

Yes, stuff I don't use is frozen...

location is off, and only Gmail and contacts sync. Screen kept fairly dim too.

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[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
I don't know what to think anymore, if you look at the screenshots I made from gsam you can see that both yelp and talon are just using 0,2% of the battery, but the stock battery "app" says otherwise but doesn't show a high usage of android os like gsam does.

Usually I don't use yelp that much I was just looking for places to eat today Haha .

I think it sucks that neither stock android or gsam will tell you if its indeed the GPS and location services which are sucking the battery
[Nexus 5 General] :
It is. Gsam is lumping their usage into android os because they are using something system related....more than likely location services.

One way to control them is to greenify them.

But for me, I just toggle location services when I need it, and again when I don't.

Those apps could be poorly written too. If you hardly used yelp, it has no business consuming that much battery. LOL

Try my suggestions in previous post for one full charge....and see how it is. Just to see. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
I will , thank you! :) your android os usage is 7% haha , I'm gonna start by deactivating the GPS altogether , but it sucks because I use Google maps walking directions quite oft , it must the GPS causing all the battery drain because I've had awful battery life in all my last three phones , even though I didn't use yelp and talon back then, my phones were not known for good battery life either hahaah: galaxy nexus and nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] w1ltzu:
N5 Battery

I'm interested in the Nexus 5, and my main concern about it is the battery life. How long screen/idle times do people actually get? What is the best way to boost its life? Im worried, because if the battery truly sucks, it's going to be a deal breaker for me.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just read thru this thread. No need to ask...the thread is full of stories and screenshots.

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I just toggle location on when I need it. And off after.

I seriously don't get the need for it on 24/7.....but to each their own. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Strange how this seems such a foreign concept to people. I understand wanting locations services for various reasons, but it really doesn't need to be idleing 24/7 and causing these types of drains as often.

One reason you might want to have locations on 100% of the time is in case you lose your phone and want to locate it. I won't say stolen because a thief can turn off the phone or locations services themselves. For that scenario, I would suggest setting a Tasker automation. It could enable Locations services when you leave set areas and upon launching of a specific app. Coupled with a task to disable it when not in those situations you could save yourself a good deal of battery over the course of a day.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I get when people say "I want all my stuff on".......but.....don't expect to get the battery times some others do. From what I've seen....with "everything on", you can probably expect 16 hoursish and around 3 hours screen time. Those times seem to be roughly the norm for everything on.

Everything off, you can double both those. Should anyway.

Oh, but its not a smartphone with everything off. Sure it is, for my needs anyway. To each their own and all that. If I need to navigate, or find the nearest restaurant ....I toggle location on (takes about 3 seconds), then I toggle it off after. Still seems pretty smart to me. ;)

But again....I always say....to each their own.

But please guys, don't expect huge battery times with all the bells and whistles running. :)

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And in the very small chance my phone gets stolen....I'll buy a new one. Really, how many people have successfully reclaimed a stolen phone. You're more likely to get a beating if you confront the thieves ...or they simply turn the phone off and you never find it. Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] moseso:
Calkulin's "stock" rom -- Xposed with XBlast tools for a few tweaks... I don't fiddle with it day-in and day-out...

I got no complaints
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Something is up with your system UI drain, I think. Never seen it that high before.
[Nexus 5 General] ali2012:
I have never ever for some reason made it past 3 1/2 hours with screen on. Don't know if my battery is defected or what.
[Nexus 5 General] moseso:
That's just a weird thing my phone does. It's bogus reporting. Here are a couple of detail shots. If 6m 52s of com.android.systemui is really more battery drain than 3h 4m 10s of screen on time, then I'm a monkey's uncle. I just ignore it. I just got 2-1/2 days on my battery, with no charging. Nothing is taking an undue bite out of my battery life. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] ArtieQ:
5 hours on battery..

4h music via headphones (50% volume or so)

12m voice calls

13m sot

77% battery left, I find that pretty horrid. I've never had a phone that drains this much when listening to music.
[Nexus 5 General] shaqshaq:
I'm experiencing this too! Google Play Music really drains my battery so bad. It's never been connected to any of my gmail account but its draining my battery real fast. I'm just playing music through headphones as well. Hmmmm
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
What percentage does it show GPM and media server at in relation to the 77% remaining?

With 3.5 hours of listening and 28% remaining I see 7% drain, and media server under 4% (not showing up).
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
Just to demonstrate how bad mobile signal destroys battery life in this phone.

WiFi and mobile data were both off.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That's happened to me when I work in certain places. LOL

As soon as realize my signal is so weak, and losing signal.....I put it in airplane mode. No choice. Its that or a dead battery by lunch. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] californiarailroader:
For me anyway, Android System and Android Kernel are consistently the number 1 and 2 battery drainers on my N5.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just read back a bit here. Its apps using sync and location services primarily. The more you have....the higher android os goes. ;)

Man, location services can be a real battery pain to so many. IMHO. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] californiarailroader:
Someday we'll get a phone, battery and os that can manage themselves without any intervention from us, like Ron Popeil says on the commericals for his rotisserie "Set it and forget it!" :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLq27iOW0R0

For now though, I've kinda given up trying to make the battery life better, I just turn on what I want and need and charge when possible.
[Nexus 5 General] jaronstrypsteen:
I think this is pretty good. I never had such a good battery life on my phone. It has 4h 40min screen on time but for some reason it doesnt post the screenshot
[Nexus 5 General] nimue:
Moderate usage last me a day
[Nexus 5 General] Groteski:
Bump
[Nexus 5 General] JonasVFC:
does anyone uninstall LUX and saw an increase in battery life?

best regards
[Nexus 5 General] :
Not quite sure what you're bumping? Lol

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[Nexus 5 General] Groteski:
Well just had to add some text when posting the shots so it's the first thing that came to my mind that's all :p
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It's a service that runs 24/7, uses your sensors and maxes your brightness periodically with the same misreadings as auto brightness. It saved me battery by uninstalling it.

It's not designed to save you battery but it can work better than the stock auto brightness if that is what you desire.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I use this now for manual brightness. Works great! I just keep the screen as low as is comfortable. ;)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness

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[Nexus 5 General] Semantics:
I get outstanding standby time, if my phone is lightly used, I can get 2 days out of a charge. When I'm using the phone a lot, I can't get 3 hours of screen on time. Most of the time I'm a light user, so I guess I can't complain, but I always need my power brick with me just in case I get the urge to use it heavily. Coming from a G2, I'm not used to less than 6 hours of SoT, but I cope. :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
You can get 6 hours screen time consistently ....depending what you do on your phone and how you set it up.

I know I do. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] Semantics:
Do tell, haha! :laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Note the average times at bottom.

Reading through this thread is the best way to figure this out.

Basically.....location services off, toggle when needed, or use app ops to disable location access on everything you don't absolutely want accessing it. The more things that use location and sync, the more battery burnt.

Keep screen as dim as is comfortable.

Obviously I'm not gaming or making calls much.

Greenify anything I don't use multiple times a day.

Google now off.

Android device manager (in Google settings app), both unchecked.

Anyway, everybody is different and want or don't want certain things running. Its all preference really. But just saying these battery times are easily obtainable if you run lean and mean. The more you wanna keep on, the less battery you'll get.

Me, I need good battery life....otherwise I'd probably use more services too. But really, it takes a second to toggle location on when needed and off when done.

But that's just me. ;)

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I'm not the only one.....many throughout this thread get similar battery life. Some get half that. But they have everything on and want to keep it that way. So it is what it is then. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] _TryHard_:
PA Beta-3, Franco kernel. Min freq: 300, max freq: 960. Undervolted by 100ma on everything except 300Mhz which is down by 125ma. Few other setting in govener changed. Couldnt be bothered posting can screenshot if anyone wants them though.

17.5hr idle - screenshot won't upload.
[Nexus 5 General] erisboxx:
That's crazy but at 960, how's performance?
[Nexus 5 General] :
You know that screen doesn't reset when you charge.....not until fully charged or close to it. :)

Just pointing that out. That's why most post that main screen.

Tho one of gsam shows a lot more detail.

Nice job tho. ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] _TryHard_:
Haha. Yeah - it wasn't charged. I'll attach the screenshot here. I'll get gasm for next time.
[Nexus 5 General] JonasVFC:
i'm using 'on wake only' mode...is that the same that you were using?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Yea that's what I used, also set the update frequency to slow. Even using the sub zero filter drains extra battery because that uses CPU cycles. The new beta plugin fixes that but requires root.

It's also going to read all dimly lit rooms as 0 lux. Unfortunate side effects of the light sensor readouts on the phone (not Lux's fault).
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
I'm happy with this autonomy :) ! I'm on CandyKat Rom with a stockkernel. I use rabbit battery and greenify.
[Nexus 5 General] Datsun.510:
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[Nexus 5 General] axlastro:
Hey guys, with 4.4.3. have you noticed any improved in the celluar calls power consumption on the N5

I'm considering both the N5 and G2 and was almost sold on the N5 (their price is the same where I live, the N5 is even a bit more expensive)

Then I read this review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3

I think it's the most accurate and unbiased review I have read in a while and the results were looking pretty good when I read about the quite bad call performance - it's pretty much the same as on the iphone 5 and I'm having a hard time with it's battery life right now.

I previously had a galaxy S3 LTE and it was so-so, but overall lasted me through the day most of the time. How would you comapre it to the N5?

Really battery life is the only thing that makes me think twice - I really like the N5 more than the G2 in terms of design.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
4.4.3 ??

We still waiting for that.. The last version 4.4.2

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] axlastro:
Oops. Sorry. I misread some news about that.
[Nexus 5 General] insanezz:
It's / was april fools, dont believe most of the tech news today :p

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[Nexus 5 General] mightydroid:
Lol
[Nexus 5 General] enwsiths:
My N5 battery performance is...poor. Propably i am gonna switch it with a lg g2. G2's battery is ''infinite'' in comparison with N5.
[Nexus 5 General] :
With no attempt at troubleshooting ....yes battery life can be poor and will stay poor. Most, if not all battery issues can be solved. And sacrificing a few conveniences can really stretch the battery.

Just saying. :)

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[Nexus 5 General] PJcastaldo:
What is poor?
[Nexus 5 General] :
^^ this

Sometimes people see others posts huge battery times, but like me, they run very lean and mean....with most things off and disabled. "Good" battery times are varied, depending on ones setup and usage.

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[Nexus 5 General] PJcastaldo:
Exactly. Ill never see more than 4 hours of S.O.T. because I don't turn off anything and I don't use very conservative settings either.. I assume the only reason i ever see more than 12 hours total is due to fauxs kernel and greenify..
[Nexus 5 General] axlastro:
Hey guys, I'm browsing through this huge thread but All I see is people using their phone not as a phone, but as a tablet. Does anyone use it as a phone (1-2 hours of talk time) and how does it hold up?