yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Flashed stock factory images of 4.4.3 and I am loving it! At first I played around on the phone and updated some apps. Then woke up in the morning and checked email and YouTube. Then rest of day I played music on Spotify and played subway surfers for while. And some more videos here and there and I must say my phone feels so much faster and smoother from 4.4.2. And the battery is back how it used be when I first got the phone and used Franco kernel. Tasks that used to take two percent of my battery don't take anything anymore. I'm on stock, just flashed twrp recovery and got root. Using stock kernel with location mostly off, auto brightness is off, sync is on. WiFi always on. I am also getting more bars of LTE than before. Not really getting any problems like others are getting. My LED is working fine. All and all a great update for me! Only thing is my call quality seems to a worse.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm waiting for lots of feedback (and ROMs) to upgrade to 4.4.3.

Don't want to risk my stellar battery life. Lol
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Been on over a day and don't see any difference one way or the other. But it's only been a day and a few more will be more telling
[Nexus 5 General] :
I think for guys like me...with most things off....it won't change. Maybe with everything on it will improve.

Seems that way from what I've been reading.
[Nexus 5 General] ToZoX:
I get approximately 50 min of SOT, using only the facebook messenger and chrome.. mm-qcamera-daemon bugs the hell out of me, it's so f****** annoying...

last night it went from 70 to 0 in 9 hours..
[Nexus 5 General] :
Reboot after using camera. Never had that bug myself. But that should stop it for now. Apparently 4.4.3 addresses that. I think. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] ToZoX:
Very time consuming.. Like rebooting your pc every time after closing a window.. I hope so, my n5 should receive it in the next 24 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
Stellar? Once you're on 4.4.3 its more than stellar :)

Make sure you update to the latest radios too.

Sorry for not being able to show you proof with screenshots, but take my word, its much better for battery life :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
You've seen my previous screenshots? ?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Not bad...with 52 minutes of navigating.

Of course for me...toggled location on. And off when done.

?
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
Nope. But there exists a thing called nandroid, so if 4.4.3 is really bad for your battery life, feel free to revert.

I gained an extra hour or two screen on time with 4.4.3.

EDIT: Just saw your most recent screenshot, I think you could eek out more on 4.4.3
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
I haven't seen as large of gains on ".3" but we will see over the next few weeks if I can swing over 4.5 hours SOT and 24 hours total with all sync on gps off and screen at 20 percent.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
I get that SOT on stock since I got the phone. No biggie.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
Okay guys i have stock 4.4.3 and franco kernal what battery time i should be getting?

My usage:

Wifi

Litle to zero talk time (i use nokia for that)

Clash of the clans

3g

Browsing

I got 14 hours yesterday but i have seen users getting day or more.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
No one can give you a good answer. Battery life is very dependent on usage, apps and signal quality. I consistently get a day and 5+ sot. But I'm Wi-Fi almost all the time,I don't play games, and I don't have any social media apps.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It could be drained in a few hours of gaming, or it could last weeks on standby. How much you use it will determine how long it lasts including all the services and apps that you allow to run on the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Adonisd:
Stock, rooted, 4.4.3!
[Nexus 5 General] Adonisd:
Getting better at battery management!
[Nexus 5 General] raymckenz:
Stock KitKat 4.4.3 rooted running ElementalX-N5-0.43 kernel....this is awesome
[Nexus 5 General] Mindspin_311:
So Ive noticed that I keep getting these random battery drains, but checking Gsam, BBS, Wakelock detector, etc... that there is no real standout rogue process or app.

I am still on 4.4.2. Usually a reboot fixes the problem. Should I update to 4.4.3 and go from there?
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
stock 4.3.3 ,franco kernel and vomerTweak.

Used to get 9ish hours on same usage.
[Nexus 5 General] MamaSaidWhat?:
Nearly half a day of being powered on, over 6 hours on screen time and I still have 15% battery left. Amazing. I shall try my hardest to explain all my settings so that maybe at least somebody else can benefit from any settings used.

I'm still running 4.4.2 (I shall be updating to 4.4.3 tonight) on Mahdi ROM, with Code_Blue kernel (max CPU set to 1497 / min set to 300 / intelliactive governor / max GPU set to 389 / undervolted all frequencies by - 50MV.)

I have Greenify installed, with Donation package and Xposed installed for the boost features and I Greenify many apps that eat away at battery life.

I have auto brightness enabled at all times, and I have my various accounts synced up at all times. I use wifi the vast majority of the time, and I have location based wifi turned off, as well as any location settings elsewhere in the system turned off. I also don't use Google Now.

Hopefully this helps at least one other person out!
[Nexus 5 General] xxxmarienxxx:
Stock 4.4.3 (root & xposed) with franco r53 running vomer settings. Finally got some really good battery life on my Nexus 5. It was alright before, but this is good enough for me :) Just take it off the charger in the morning and i don't have to worry about it all day :)

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Could have been more than 19h/5h if I wouldn't have watched YouTube :P, but still this is with 30min YouTube and 20min mild gaming and lots of social media (most of all twitter with Fenix twitter app), so I'm happy :D
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
If i update franco to r53 will i need to tweak kernel settinfs again? Or old settings will work?
[Nexus 5 General] Koolieman20:
I could live with this!

Rom: Mahdi-Rom 2.6_060514_4.4.3

Kernel: Code_Blue_167r

Of course this is tweaked with Mahdi's built in kernel tweaker in addition with code blue--the combination CANNOT GET ANY BETTER!

I love these guys! Thanks for all what you do and keep up the great exceptional work! :good:
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Stock 4.4.3
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
[MENTION=1998600]Koolieman20[/MENTION] I could do that too if I never touched my phone lol.
[Nexus 5 General] sinkot:
No, if you checked "Load setting on boot" icon near settings
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
not using paid version...i have init.d toggler.
[Nexus 5 General] Aadilnz:
Wish I could get this on stock! What kernel are you using and any custom settings?
[Nexus 5 General] NexusS4gFreak:
SOT 4:35 Before I got to 8 percent and plugged up. Coming from my gs3, htc one x, and all other phones my batt life is outstanding

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And this is on stock 4.4.3 with elementalx latest. Sync on, gps on, LTE on, all the usual battery hogs
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
I'm getting terrible battery life for some reason. I have rooted 4.4.3 stock ROM with Xposed and ElementalX which I flashed last night. Went to bed at 11pm woke up at 7am battery went from 90% to 70%! The only thing that was scheduled during that time was Avast mobile back up (which in itself shouldn't take more than 5 mins) and I had set a few alarms in between.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Without more info from gsam or betterybatterystats no one can trek you what's going on. But the 20%- drain over that time with what you had going on is not unreasonable
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
I would take a screenshot but I've got it to full charge before leaving for work this morning. Shall use it without charge for the rest of the day and post it up tonight.

I still find 20% drain to be quite remarkably high given it was 8 hours with the screen off while connected to wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] Vivek_Neel:
SOKP 4.4.2
[Nexus 5 General] Jishnu Sur™:
i am getting amazing sot. have a look. Franco R49.. UV -75mv.
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
What are your kernel settings to have such SOT ? Thanks mate.

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5 en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Kidy973:
Here mine with 4.4.3 Stock root greenify, sync on, brightness set to 0-10%. Phone was charged power off.

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[Nexus 5 General] ElliotZ:
Hi guys. I'm considering buying Nexus 5. I have read throughout the internet for this phone that it's battery is pretty bad. I intend to use my Nexus mainly for 3G internet browsing & chatting, music, phone call, messages and maybe some low graphics game like 2048.

My average daily routine is like that:

30 mins of phonecalls

2-3 hours 3G internet

1.5-2 hours of music (not streaming music)

0.5 hour of gaming

Do I have to consider a phone with better battery like LG G2 or should I grab a N5?
[Nexus 5 General] amiraDKcrysis:
I'm using purity rom with latest Uber kernel...

android 4.4.3

min freq 96 max freq 1000 ondemand
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
Not sure about how good/bad mine is compared to others, but I personally find it unsatisfactory. Anyone have any advice?
[Nexus 5 General] Albieri[SPAM]:
You changed something or just installed the ROM + Kernel?

How many hours was on the screen?
[Nexus 5 General] vickyjusme:
That may be because you got poor signal. That will drain your battery certainly.
[Nexus 5 General] diamonddawg21:
battery results

I have noticed my battery drain has improved since the update to 4.4.3, when I leave my house in the morning and by the time I pull into work I am down to 80% or less, this morning it was down to 97%.
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
Don't think so. Yes I get poor signal in the office, but I switched to 2G and used my iPad to tether WiFi to my phone so I should have no excuse for my phone using more power to maintain a signal.

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It's certainly better than trying to maintain a data connection in a low signal situation but as long as it's still trying to maintain a voice connection it will drain more battery. Only airplane mode could stop that completely.
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
If you had looked at my screenshots, you'd understand that maintaining radio signal is the least of my worries when it comes to battery drain.

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[Nexus 5 General] neo2306:
Drain prblm after ota update to 4.4.3
[Nexus 5 General] rockknee:
How much did you have Screen On Time? You should try gsam battery monitor and see if some specific wakelock rules your battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Any kernel or ROM. Lol. And no kernel settings changed.

Its the setup and usage. Kernels and ROMs have a minor effect on battery....as long as your usage and setup are similar from ROM to ROM.

Most features are off. Brightness as low as I can.... Manually set. Don't game. Hardly use "phone". Greenified and debloat what I don't use. That's about it. Decent radio signal and some WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I was just referring to the statement I responded to, about how you don't think low signal would affect your battery life because you're tethering WiFi and only using 2G.
[Nexus 5 General] svengalis:
yeah i have noticed longer battery life as well since the update to 4.4.3
[Nexus 5 General] Masteryates:
Wow, thats amazing! :eek:

I think my phone could only get about half that SOT in a 24 hour window.

Stock 4.4.3 (OTA)
[Nexus 5 General] hepi_hape:
How can you get this/// ??

what you use Govenor and cpu clock
[Nexus 5 General] magik300:
slimkat and elementalX all stable
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
for the life of me i dont know why i can not get more than 2.5 hours screen time on lte with this phone. i used to be able to get 3-3.5 hours. I thought there was something wrong with the phone so i rma'ed it but the new unit is the same. My phone usage is the same as it always has been. I check GSam battery monitor but really it doesnt tell me anything.
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
Are you rooted? GSAM tells alot if you are.
[Nexus 5 General] :
This^^^^^

Please! Lol. Stock battery screenshots say little to help solve issues. I sound like a broken record. ;)

Also need gsam root companion....install it after gsam. That let's you see the wakelocks. ?
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
Why can I haz no good battery
[Nexus 5 General] ikdedinges:
My battery results with 4.4.3 stock rooted with xposed and gravitybox installed. Quite good i think :)
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Uhmmm guys... A lil help please? XD :/ WHAT'S GOING ONNNN :L
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
Looks like you rebooted where you lost ~30%, perhaps SOD? Either that or your phone froze.
[Nexus 5 General] qhinton:
All I know is I just switched to ATT from Tmo and I get at least 3 more hours of battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Sounds right. Better signal = better battery by far. It's a huge issue and so many Nexus 5 people are on T-Mobile (most likely), so their battery "sucks." Simms22 has T-Mobile, but lives in NYC with the best signal I've seen from T-Mobile. He can get outstanding battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] :
you have about the worst issue you can have.....very weak signal. that's gonna kill your battery. all you can do is use WiFi if possible, airplane mode if you have too....or just turn off data. You'll still gets calls and texts....but no data for apps.

Also, and it could be signal related....tho I doubt it, you have very bad awake time. Try Gsam and also gsam root companion and see what's keeping your phone awake.

good luck! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Thanks for the advice :D will give it a go and see what's what :)
[Nexus 5 General] garychencool:
Is it just me or does LTE use the same amount of battery than WiFI?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
WiFi + gaming

WiFi day: 20% brightness. Mostly Reddit and Tapatalk, 2 hours of music, 40mins of 3D gaming, 30mins of web browsing, 5mins of voice calls and some SMS.

Completely stock. Also, screens from the 51% period on the same charge.

7 hours SoT over 28 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Nice! Beat my normal usage record for SoT by 19 minutes! ;)

my Moto X record for my usage pattern with phone setup similar to my N5 was 7:44.
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
What's your setup?

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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Stock and unrooted with most stuff turned off. Llama automation and Dashclock extensions are the only 3rd party services that run 24/7 and few wakes occur.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
So strangest thing happened to Mr yesterday. Not really sure what could have cause this and I am not complaining. But my usage patterns are extremely consistent. And I use my phone almost exactly the same everyday averaging about 12.3 hours of stand by time with about 3.3 hours of sot. But yesterday I got over 12 hours of stand by time with over 4 hours of sot and this has never happened before. My travel routine is the same my usage is the same its just baffling.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
I am on 4.4.3, rooted, franco.kernel #53, undervolt -50mV, several greenified apps, and I still can't get over 3 hours SOT while using social networks (such as instagram, facebook, snapchat etc) and chrome. What the hell is wrong?
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
You're trying too hard and using too many social networking apps. Undervolting isn't really going to help
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
But am I doing anything wrong? Besides perhaps using social networks too much.

Even given all of this, 3 hours seems a bit low, doesn't it?
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
I'm on 4.4.3 unrooted.

I have all those apps installed + a few more. and I get 4.5 - 5 hours SOT consistently.

Gnow and location are off too. and I have around 2 hours of music per usage.

so I get like 20 hours with 4,5 sot.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
So where is my drain coming from? :/
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Um. how's your network? can you show some screenshots maybe?
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
What do you want me to show screenshots of?

Gsam places my network signal at the 2nd highest level most 90% of the time - 3.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
how many bars of network do you get? that's a huge factor.

and also using the camera too much drains the battery A LOT. Trust me. so maybe its too much Snapchat.
[Nexus 5 General] :
All those social apps combined with location services on would drain the battery good.

Try with location services completely off. May not be as convenient, but otherwise you may be stuck with the battery life you have now.

If location services is off....please share some gsam screen shots, cause there may be totally different issues. ?
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
I don't really send a lot of snaps, I lurk receive a lot... I get 3/4 bars of the network always!

Location services are completely off as far as I can tell. I would post some GSam ss but my language is portuguese... you might not understand it.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
3 hours SoT is perfectly average for having most Google services enabled, and none of the steps you've taken so far have a significant effect on battery life. Custom kernels and undervolting won't make a huge difference, greenify would only help if you've greenified the specific applications that are causing unnecessary wakes such as most social network services.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'll understand it. ;)

You went into settings, location...its definitely off?

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My Moto x got 6 to 7 hours SoT for me....gave it to my wife....she gets 4 at best. The ONLY difference with the phone....she uses Facebook a lot. Nothing else changed on it. Well, she games a little too.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
I have google now off, what other services could be draining the battery that I'm not aware of?

Yes. Location completely disabled.

Here goes nothing!
[Nexus 5 General] :
Good start....but go from 100 to like 10 percent. An hours worth of stats doesn't say much.

Don't worry about android o/s screens.

Get gsam root companion as well....then take times waking device and time held awake screens too. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Well apparently Gsam isn't working as it should! I've been on battery for 12 hours now... And yes, I already had it installed and also the root companion.
[Nexus 5 General] raichur0xx0rz:
Yes, poor signal reception causes strain on the battery. That's the same situation with me as well, especially since the Nexus 5 has a slightly weaker radio compared to my previous device.
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
i wouldnt want NFC turned on regardless. Security Issue If you ask me. that i turn on when needed
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i promise, i wont lose any sleep over you not believing me :cool:
[Nexus 5 General] Dan1909:
I'm sure you won't, I wasn't expecting you to.

I just wanted to make sure you knew that nobody would believe what you posted. It was a good effort though!
[Nexus 5 General] jonathan3579:
I'm done. People can turn whatever features they want off. Carry on.
[Nexus 5 General] MoosDiagramm:
Have you tried the new VM?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...-in-secret-for-over-2-years-debuts-in-kitkat/

This has serious potential to save some battery for background apps (more efficient code that requires less CPU time, CPU can go idle sooner).
[Nexus 5 General] laxor:
Wifi wakelocks

Ok, so the new beta of BBS works under KitKat: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 (Thanks btw for the fast fix!).

Does anyone with poor battery life also have a lot of wlan_rx_wake wakelocks? This morning this wakelock kept my phone awake for 30 min in 2 hours. After a factory reset it is now at 5-6 min per hour. Better, but still not good. This is very frustrating, because the problem came out of nowhere: On the first day of use I only lost about 2% overnight and was very impressed with the performance of the battery. And now it's suddenly that bad. I just don't get it (it's not app related: wakelocks also occured after factory reset before installing any apps).
[Nexus 5 General] Serious_Beans:
This is the first nexus I've had with solid battery life. I haven't downloaded many apps but I'm at 13hrs total time, 2hrs and 19min sot and 48%. I'd say that's pretty impressive..I did disable data and am only using WiFi at home but outside on LTE isn't so bad. I really only get bad battery life in bad signal areas.
[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
After reading the battery life statistics here. I decided to not go for N5. Screen on time between 2.30 to 4.30 hour is not acceptable for me and its not gonna change unless you put your mobile in airplane mode. These days latest smartphones should come with at least 3000mAh battery to give decent 7 hour screen on time after heavy usage
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
but. . .but. . .my whole life is now ruined, just devastated :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
I'm not sure why anybody would go to the trouble of faking battery results.

Enddo's stats look real enough to me. His results are probably not typical, but I don't think they are fake.
[Nexus 5 General] SageWilliams:
Have anyone had the issue where mediaserver is eating up the majority percentage of the battery?
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
Maybe this phone isn't for your demographic. I would say for most people on this planet, the N5 gives sufficient battery life through the day.

People forget that most people on this board are power users.
[Nexus 5 General] namartlu:
I think there is a lot of rooms for improvement with custom kernel. Looking at the battery charts reported by Battery Monitor widget from N4 with Franco kernel and N5 stock, my N5 stock battery usage has a much steeper slope.
[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
4 hour screen on time on average is not sufficient or it may be enough for those who play with their phones ocassionally.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
This is the funniest sh.t I have seen.
[Nexus 5 General] genaro12543:
Dude you're crazy smart phones need to last between 12-15 hours to get through the day. If during that time you're on your phone for more than 4 freakin hours you need a hobby
[Nexus 5 General] MohJee:
For most people, their phone is the major source for reading, chatting with other people and media consumption. 4 hours SOT per day is nothing nowadays.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Reboots reset it. You can't reboot when your building stats to look through.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
my phone takes forever to charge more than 6 hours.it used to charge a lot quicker before.whats the problem.can someone suggest a solution.
[Nexus 5 General] gautampw:
Anyone here prefers partial charges instead of full charges to increase longevity of battery? How useful is that?
[Nexus 5 General] Dawnut:
I just woke up and used the f*** out of it all at once. A lot of browsing, an hour of talking and SOT little over than 3 hours.Screen was almost always at 50% brightness.

I am running Carbon rom 13.06.2014 Nightly and Franko Kernel 53 as well as Xposed framework and Greenify (wich never really had the chance to kick in since I used the phone non-stop).

CPU: min 300 max 1500

Voltage: -50 across the board

I am starting to think that the only way to reach 5 hours of screen on time is to look at the homescreen with Wifi turned off haha.Anyways, ask if you need info.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Understood. I'll post later with more screenshots of updated statistics.

The battery heats a lot when I'm using apps such as Facebook or Instagram. It goes from 26ºC to 36ºC. I can feel the heat on the back of the phone. Is this normal?

Even only using tapatalk to type in this answer, it goes from 26 to 30.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Yeup. Phones heat up when used, and with no active cooling system the casing of the phone itself becomes the only way for heat to escape. Being an extremely thin phone with high powered specs you can expect it to feel warm even with moderate use, specifically around the top of the phone near the camera.

There are lots of other Play Services that run by default such as Photo backup, auto syncs, hot word detection, WiFi locations etc.