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[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
You are 30 year old and you feel you belong to old generation

No it has nothing to do with age but what you do with your phones and for how long. Some people keep their phone in pocket while some keep plyaing with them regularly. I use more because i get plenty of free time at work and i keep doing something and there is so much you can do with phones these days
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
I guess... I have to root.

Can I still get OTA updates after rooting?
[Nexus 5 General] Creative9170:
100% -> 1% with BoostPop ROM 2.2 and Code blue kernel r793 stock cpu and gpu.

Screen on time 5h 27m 52s

Great!!! :D
[Nexus 5 General] fresyk:
what kernle control u have?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Just knowing your screen time and ROM or kernel tells us nothing. Battery is determined more by usage, settings and signal than those factors.

I can get 10+ hours SoT reading ebooks, or I can get less than 2 playing online games using a weak data connection. All on stock.
[Nexus 5 General] cpvm:
What do you think?
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Here is another finding.

Charged 100%. Switched to safe mode. Turned off Google Now, Location before sleeping.

Wi-Fi was on.

Overnight, battery dropped to 80%.

Here are the screenshots.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Does not tell anybody anything, need to know what's causing wakelocks.
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
I recently stopped chasing the rabbit hole of battery life.

I decided that using every feature possible is more important to me than chasing the elusive 6+hour SOT. I have EVERYTHING turned on. Ambient Display, Adaptive Brightness, all syncs, Google Fit with step tracking, Google Now on all screens including lockscreen, location cards, Facebook and other social apps, some games with push notifications., etc. No Greenify or Smart Radio or anything like that. Mediocre signal but am almost always on wifi.

I'm still getting about 4 hours mixed usage between bluetooth music playback and SOT a day. Pretty good for a launch day device if ya ask me.
[Nexus 5 General] Thepho3nix:
These are my battery stats.

- Brightness set to manual: 50%

- LTE most of time, and WiFi a bit (home).

- Social Media & apps : Facebook, WhatsApp, telegram, youtube, Deezer online, Tapatalk and camera.

24hrs of use.

6:30 of SOT.

My combo: Latest simple AOSP ROM and codebluekernel. ?

P.D:

You shall look a tiny peek up in general use, that's because copying some files from PC, 3mins top.
[Nexus 5 General] dannejanne:
Flyme OS is very battery efficient. About 24 hour uptime on this charge.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
I support this view. I am tired of trying all possible combination of settings to get "good" battery life.

I will live with it now. And wait till Google improves it in 5.1
[Nexus 5 General] bfsr83:
Extremely happy with the battery life.

N5 + Cataclysm + Elementalx (default setts) + Greenify
[Nexus 5 General] jamel_tza:
I'm going to be honest with you and speak the unspeakable...

google won't fix it

I've been an android user for years now and so far the only fix for battery life we have ever gotten was a bigger battery. Google is great with adding features, amazing ones. When it comes to battery life though, i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for an update to increase general stamina.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
This thought did come to my mind. If Google wants us to use our smartphone more and collect all possible information about us, they ought to give us a good OS for battery. Not this average performance.

I want to use smartphone for what it is and not worry about battery until I reach home.

I regret switching to android from iOS.
[Nexus 5 General] morfei1:
My battery life with PA 4.6 BETA6 + elementalX кернел.
[Nexus 5 General] 7sen:
Cataclysm | Elemental X

[emoji18] the best results I got for first time. Same usage same app. All social and have bad signal 2g I am on middle of desert ( job site ) [emoji19] [emoji41] [emoji8]
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
Updated result with greenify + app ops + modified google play services settings + Location off.

Note: this involved mixed 3G + WiFi usage. I'm quite happy with this result. This could be even better with WiFi only

Pure stock ROM + Kernel and I am patiently waiting for the memory leak fix.
[Nexus 5 General] DOBBY0:
Modified play services? Could you specify what you mean when you did that and with app ops please?
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
Ok for modifications I used the following apps:

1. Disable Service

2. System Tuner

3. App Ops

For disable Service, I disabled Google Analytics (and the intent service since it keeps getting analytics back up everytime) along with all the fitness services with some of the location wakelock services (like Nlplocationreceiver). If you want a list I can put it if needed

For System Tuner, I simply disabled Gservies_changed in order to prevent analytics from opening completely and killing it off

For App Ops, the main problem in android is the apps keeping the phone awake, so I disabled Keep awake on google play services along with location since I don't use it as frequently. When I do use it battery saving or device only works just fine and app ops doesn't affect it in the process. For other apps I just simply disabled keep awake for most of them.

I am yet to try it with full wifi but I will keep you updated when I do. Lollipop is not the problem it's mostly with the insane memory leak that gives me about 585MB of RAM left during use.
[Nexus 5 General] NexusSova:
Stock | Franco Kernel

Batterie Life for about 2 days with just using it for a few hours for Internet, whatsapp, Ingress or hangouts.

If I use my N5 intense I will drain the battery within a few hours with SOT of about 4h.

With the stock kernel I only had about 2h SOT
[Nexus 5 General] googchrome:
Thanks for the information. Could you please provide the list services you disabled? I tried disabling few services and everytime I did some change I keep getting google services disabled error. Appreciate you help! :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Posts 1 to 4 here will help you,

[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!

And you can't "disable" Play services without many issues.
[Nexus 5 General] Vekhez:
Airplane mode on for ~25% of today
[Nexus 5 General] silvertrain78:
Could you elaborate on your settings, rom, kernel, etc

Impressive stats, but I had the impression that this thread's purpose was a little more substantial

Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] dioxide95:
•I have a stock ROM (4.4.4), rooted and Xposed installed with quite a few modules.

•I have also tuned the CPU with the conservative governor and max 1.5 GHz.

•Using Amplify to block wakelocks and alarms.

•Brightness is about 15%.

With airplane mode turned on, and battery at 100%, it shows a predicted life of 10 hours. Is this okay?

I get a SOT of about 2 hours 30 mins.
[Nexus 5 General] Vekhez:
Haha sorry was on the run, and just quickly posted it because I was rather impressed.

I am on the 20th Jan CM12, with the ElementalX kernel, brightness set to ~30%, unvolted -25, and underclocked to 1.7GHz on each core, colours set to cool with USB fast charge enabled. On the phone itself, I have bluetooth on probably 90% of the time, and Wi-Fi for 50-60% of the day, my phone goes between 2-3 bars, but generally never over or under that. Using 3G not LTE as my carrier doesn't yet do LTE.. Location services are on, Wireless Display is ENABLED (been a big battery drain to me having it enabled before, but seems to be fine now :confused: ). All in all I am rather happy with my settings. I don't get too much lag throughout my phone, the most probably being when swipe from my homescreen to the Google Now Page.

Probably a bit more elaborate than you were asking for but there you go :highfive:
[Nexus 5 General] wngmv:
I just got back to the US from China (where Google Service is conveniently disabled). My battery performance dropped at least 100%. I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I used to be able to get through a day without having to charge my phone back in China, but now I can hardly get through 3 hours, on either Wifi or LTE, and not using any battery intensive app. Nothing out of the ordinary on battery stats, but then I haven't rooted my phone so I can't really tell what's causing the wakelocks. I was wondering if for most people Lollipop is a horrible version when it comes to battery?

Guess I'd have to root my phone and get on a customized kernel again....
[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
Running cm12(01.25) nightly with code blue kernel(tested some kernels and this one is the most battery conserving, not having any performance issues) wifi on all the time, browsing internet(google chrome), facebook, instagram, snapchat. I have app ops(built-in from cyanogenmod in privacy tab in settings) for play services and some other apps. Never had this good battery life while on stock(i bought the phone in november and immediately updated to lollipop so i cant say i had any experience with kitkat). Also disabled some services with disable service app(only google play services). Also i uninstalled thr gsam battery monitor yesterday so i cant give you screenshots from that :(

Edit: it looks like i was charging the phone but i wasnt, the procent jumped from 37 to 40 while i turned off the screen for 10 mins.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Nice battery. I have CyanogenMod + CodeBlue kernel and to me my battery is awesome too.

I loved CyanogenMod + Code Blue, is a great combination.
[Nexus 5 General] silvertrain78:
Thanks for the additional context. What is your usage like? My understanding is that that is really important. How long have you had the phone? Do you have location/Google Now enabled? Any App Ops mods? What do you mean by Wireless Display?
[Nexus 5 General] Vekhez:
Had the phone since January 2014, now I'm ditching it but yeah. Google Now enabled, location on device only. And usage I guess I mentioned above..no app ops mods. Wireless display, like miracast. Displaying your screen onto a Miracast compatible device.
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
Little update:

1. I managed to get 4h SoT in 24h on battery with 50min of Ingress. I would call that a really good result when compare with Kitkat I used before.

2. Idle consumption is still close to 1,5%/h

3. Using Cataclysm + code blue 841

I didn't mess around with disabling services. All I did is max cpu 1,7GHz nad -50 uv
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I have a question. What exactly does everyone modify/turn off with app ops that is providing such amazing battery? I know it's Google services but I seen 2 of these and I don't know what to enable and disable. I installed App Ops before and I edited something and my phone got insanely laggy and hot and battery dropped a bunch so I uninstalled it. Maybe someone could point me in the direction of what to disable?

And are you guys running official CM12? Or one of the unofficial cherry CM12 ROMS?

Thanks!

EDIT: Also is anyone noticing a drain with the new Google app? When I updated it now appears in GSAM, usually first 5. I didn't notice a dramatic battery drop though, just that it shows up now?

Maybe my N5 just has a bad battery, but 2-2.5 hours of SOT is horrible imo. I got much better on KitKat then on KK before Lollipop came out the battery on that went downhill terribly.

EDIT2: I can't upload screenshots now, but the big drainers are Android Kernel and Android OS. Complete stock, and I've tried Cataclysm and Elemental and nothing... I'm on Airplane mode 24/7 as well, ONLY using WiFi. GSAM doesn't show any major app battery drainer besides OS and Kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
I disable location for all apps that use location(i dont use location at all) i disable keep awake, wake up, auto start for apps that i dont want to do that(i dont disable that for fb messenger, viber etc), also check what app is allowed to do what thing and if you dont want them doing that disable it.
[Nexus 5 General] YoYoDawg:
Stock rom and kernel at the moment ...

I'm thinking about rooting and flashing custom kernel
[Nexus 5 General] fuarkgl3:
im 100% sure you will get 6h SoT with franco kernel + vomer tweaks... (elementalX also gave me good results but nothing like franco for me)
[Nexus 5 General] Gentaz:
Already posted similar times using PAC Rom and elementalx kernel (oc, uv and no compromise on perfs : around 41000 on Antutu) with light to moderate usage.

I got rid of google apps, market, and framework (still using maps/nav and voice search with no pb) to achieve such autonomy : 3-4 days with 3-4 hours screen usage, occasional wifi (4G if faster...), 30 min voice call, 3g/4g lte always on, gsm geoloc with local db backend always on as well...

This allow very light battery usage when in sleep (that's why I could achieve 3 days) but drainage stays huge when the phone is used: see resources used between the time I start to write my post and now (from 12% to 5 just using data and a few screenshots...) :
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
That's not true. We can't guarantee 6 hour SoT simply based off a custom kernel, especially when it's not possible to name even one app which was used in that time. Battery life is determined by Usage, Settings and Signal and not your kernel. I can get over 7 hours SoT on stock kernel with the right apps, settings and signal type.

I have more results to share. Stock ROM, stock kernel. Full 2.3Ghz clock speed and no battery saver mode.

Adaptive brightness at 40%.
[Nexus 5 General] fuarkgl3:
You are very right, indeed. But that was not the message I wanted to convey.

In fact what i wanted to say is: Using a custom kernel with the right settings (UV and UC mainly) you will most likely get better battery life than stock with the same conditions (same usage of apps and services)

I think you understood my post in a wrong way. There is no disscusion about battery life with the exact same conditions. You will get more juice if you use a custom kernel that allow you to change the settings

Of course you can get 6h+ SoT with stock. but doing the same in your phone with a custom kernel(and appropiate settings) you would get 7-8h SoT...

So if you are getting 4H SoT with stock kernel, you will most likely get 5-6h with any custom kernel+right settings. thats what i wanted to say!
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I disagree. Other than underclocking there isn't that much battery to be saved with custom kernels. You can choose a frugal CPU governor as well, but like underclocking they are sacrificing performance to obtain longer battery.

To save battery sacrifices need to be made. That goes for stock or custom kernels. Either you're sacrificing features, performance, etc. It's not free battery just from flashing a custom kernel as you make it sound, and if someone were to ever waste their time doing a proper battery test that would be made clear. That has yet to ever happen though.

I'd say at most 15-20mins more screen time from a custom kernel without sacrificing any CPU performance.
[Nexus 5 General] silvertrain78:
Can you be more specific about your sacrifices? How do you get 7h SOT w/stock? You mention using the right apps -- which ones do you endorse, which ones do you avoid? Stuff like that.. Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
To get 7 hours SoT I would disable background services, set the brightness low and use light weight applications. In this way I was able to pull off 8.5 hours SoT back on stock Kit Kat and there was still room for improvement there though I've not tried since.

Usage, Settings and Signal determine battery life. So sacrificing features would be adjusting settings such as Locations, Google Now, Hotword detection etc. Google Services in general can be quite draining, specifically on a mobile data connection.

Some apps use a lot more battery than others to accomplish the same things. For instance I avoid using Google Now's weather cards (wakes the phone to update more than I need) and instead use a Dashclock widget which only updates when I turn the screen on since it's a waste of battery to update when the phone is sleeping and I'm not needing that information.

Another example would be news readers. I've tried a few news reader apps but none use as much battery as Google Newstands. I like the app a lot but there is no question it uses about twice as much battery than something like Feedly or Flipbook to accomplish the same task.

By far the most frugal screen usage is reading static text with minimal touch input. 10+ hours of screen time is possible reading eBooks with low brightness. Reading forum posts on Tapatalk is the same and barely registers as a drain on my phone, I've seen 10% usage for 1 hour of forums + music playback which would be about 10 hours of screen time including continual music playback if I could continue on that way.

Watching local videos is also pretty frugal, 7+ hours of local video playback is certainly possible based on the file quality and brightness used. Streaming them not as much but still I'd predict 5-6 hours of video streaming again depending on quality and brightness.

And all of that rides on the connection you're using. A weak signal data connection will greatly increase drain across the entire device while WiFi will generally use less for all tasks.
[Nexus 5 General] Silvers91:
Very satisfied. I could've got a better result if I didn't use Antutu for like 3 times. Plus I played games for about an hour (nova 3, clash of clans, pitfall, worms 3..)

Using Euphoria OS 1.0 / Stock kernel.

Governor: conservative.
[Nexus 5 General] silvertrain78:
[MENTION=5530350]bblzd[/MENTION] Thanks for the breakdown. Didn't know that about Play Newsstand.

I'm happy if I get at least 5h SOT over a 2-day period (although 7 would be nice).

Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] ozzmanj1:
Out of curiosity what part of China did you go? My wife us from Guangxi province and last time I was there we went for 6 months, had a blast. She is from a small town about 2 hours outside of Nanning, Guigang.
[Nexus 5 General] wngmv:
I went to my hometown of Qingdao, Shandong, which is pretty much exactly the opposite of Guangxi province. I've never in my life even get close to that part partof China, but I heard it's very very beautiful.

The region where I am from, mainly the eastern part of China (huabei/huadong) has very different rituals and customs to southern China. Give us a visit if you can!
[Nexus 5 General] ozzmanj1:
My wife will be taking the kids ( we have a 5 and 3 year old) back for 3 weeks in May. Sadly I cannot take the time off from work but I know she will be stopping in Beijing for a few days and traveling around that area with her two sisters coming from Guigang to tag along. Okay, sorry to thread hike ya'll, thank you wngmv.
[Nexus 5 General] wngmv:
That's unfortunate for you! Even with all the pollution going on in Beijing it's a still city very much worth seeing. May should be lovely there. But alas, next time maybe. Also no need to apologizing, glad you had fun there.
[Nexus 5 General] antrobi3:
Stock with Franco:good:
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Gs battery monitor shows my screen off more than screen on.

I am on stock ROM with android 5.0

Does any one have this issue?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm guessing you have terrible wakelocks.

But, your screen shot is from 2 hours off the charger. That's doesn't say much. Try checking after you go from 100 to about 10 or 15 percent left.

And see about your held awake time. ?
[Nexus 5 General] fxckit:
can someone give me a list of google play services to disable on disableservice?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Try post 3 in the battery help thread linked in my signature. ?
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Hello Darth,

See my results.

Im worried my battery is wrecked for some reason.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Jwizzled:
Hard to tell without actual usage... Also it's spelt #rekt
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I've never seen this good before. Holy crap! Running Optipop and latest Code Blue kernel. The only thing I can think of different is enabling adaptive brightness. I'm undervolted 25mV and running the on demand kernel.

What I'm using: latest Chrome (they fixed something!), XDA, Gmail Exchange synchronization, 2g and WiFi at work due to bad signal, and just regular use.
[Nexus 5 General] ssnalagu:
Here is my battery stats.. :)

[IMG="Nexus 5 battery stats"]http://i58.tinypic.com/15etrgk.png[/IMG]
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Darth,

Here is my result.

Did you see at midnight time, my screen was off but the device was On the whole time and how it drained the battery?

How to check which app made the wake??

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
See the battery help thread in my signature. Posts 1 to 4 are very useful.

You need to check your held awake time and times waking device in gsam, from the play store. But you need to be rooted and install gsam root companion as well.

It's all in the battery life help thread sticky in general. ?

Google now could be a culprit, and hike... Whatever that is.
[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
I am very pleased with the battery life! BTW CM12 nightly with code blue, app ops and some google play services disabled.
[Nexus 5 General] kesavan2000:
Hey these are my stats running stock 5.0.1 stock kernel but rooted with greenify and Du battery saver. It doesn't seem that good in terms of SOT since others on stock are getting longer times, help please!
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Uninstall DU battery saver as battery saver apps usually cause more drains than they save. If you want to automate your phone to save battery try using Tasker (paid) or Llama (free) as they are light weight and perform simple if then statements of your choosing.

Also check out the Battery Help Thread for more info.
[Nexus 5 General] kesavan2000:
Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] exhibit1234:
Running stock 4.4.4 + rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
Your signal is very bad! Maybe thats what causes the draining. If you're not using mobile internet try setting the preferred network type to 3G or 2G , and when you want to use the mobile data just switch back to LTE.
[Nexus 5 General] LiamAtkins90:
This is my time from yesterday on a 50% cycle.

I will do another cycle today and make in depth screenshots.
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
Cm12 under clocked to 1.5gh brightness 30% no WiFi Google all off
[Nexus 5 General] :
help me :(

do i need to replace my battery with a new one? i cant even reach 4 hrs sot. only wifi is turned on and all others are off. no vibrations. elementalx + cataclysm. lowest brightness. uc'ed 1.5ghz for cpu and 389mhz for gpu.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Under clocking isn't going to help you much. If you have battery issues, no one can help without appropriate screen shots.

See post 4 in the battery life help thread in my signature. (the stickied thread at top of N5 Q&A section)

Posts 1 to 3 have lots of help, and post 4 lists helpful screen shots to post. You can post them there... Or here if you prefer.

Without those people can only give you guesses as answers. ?
[Nexus 5 General] :
here are the ss. pls answer back. :(
[Nexus 5 General] :
You have a few wakelocks, but without seeing screen shots of those, who knows what they are.

Otherwise, depending on your setup... And with some gaming, your times don't seem out of line.

Need gsam screens. With gsam root companion installed so you can post times waking device and held awake time. And do you have Google now on? Location on? Running a few social apps? These will all lower your battery times. ?
[Nexus 5 General] :
all of those are turned off except Wifi. I will post screenshots later. I had wakelock in kernel and android system. :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] michelD:
I didn't read this tread completely, but personally I fund 2 big culprits:

- Exchange Services app, that I simply deactivated

- the Google Play service (6.5.xx) app that I simply replaced by a newer version (6.6.03-1681564-438)(http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-google-play-services-t2795911) without deactivating any service.

And now, with ElementalX 2.05 (screen off max freq=300Mhz) my consumption during standby is reduced to around 0,5%/h with Lollipop 5.0.2 LordClockan AICP ROM and everything ON (data, WiFi,...) except NFC and Bluetooth.

I hope this will help.
[Nexus 5 General] :
i posted on your thread in your signature :highfive: