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[Nexus 5 General] darthmalus:
I was thinking about getting the N5 because I hate my galaxy s 4 because of the locked boot loader. So does cyanogen mod help with the battery life on the N5 ? Could I expect the battery life to be any where near my S4
[Nexus 5 General] bkob024:
I'm loving my battery life. I've had mine unplugged all day it only just hit 15%. I'm running CM 11 M2 release with Franco.kernel over clocked to 2.88Ghz. I did a lot of tweaking with my settings to get this result.
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
As far as I know, H+ is only switched to while there's data being transferred on the 3G network. For example, if I'm on 3G and load a webpage, it switches to H+, and when it has finished loading switches back to 3G.

So something keeps on sending or receiving data, maybe an app go Google services...

[MENTION=597946]darthmalus[/MENTION]

You don't need CM to get a good battery life. I'm running stock rooted with stock recovery but Faux 008m kernel with standard settings. I have Google Now on, GPS high accuracy, Xposed Gravitybox.

My phone has been running for a little over 24 hours now with 4h 20m screen time, 35 min calls, 15 min gaming, a lot of browsing, feedly and Facebook, and I still have 29% battery left! I'll post screenshots when it's completely empty.
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
thats just unfair.... i can not get 4 an hours on data with zerolemon 3000....

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 7 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
Can't comment on battery life on custom rome, as I haven't tried any, but it's probably an app or setting that is eating your battery.

BTW, I forgot to say that I use Gravitybox to lower the auto screen brightness a bit, as I find the standard settings too bright especially when not outdoor..
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
I use the following apps in the background which uses mobile data: whatsapp, tweetcaster, tapatalk, bbm, snapchat, email, k9 mail, instagram. I am quite a heavy data user lol. I have to uc to 1.2ghz in order to get 4hrs min screen on on data due to wifi at work being choked off with 99% of websites being blocked.
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
Probably email and K9 using most battery, if they are set up with exchange. Why do you use both clients?
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Stock is a bit of hit and miss with work servers. K9 has always worked without a hitch. I think it's something to do with work servers which I can't do anything about
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
First of all, I've attached the screenshots I promised...

You didn't have any problems setting up an exchange account on 4.4.2? Every time I try, I get a message that the server couldn't be contacted. The IT guy doesn't have a clue why, but it works on his Samsung running 4.3.

A bit more off topic; I just read about this new mail client/app a few days ago but I can't find the article anymore. It looks more modern than stock and has the same swipe functionality as the Gmail app... Know what app I'm talking about?
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Sorry mate, haven't heard of any email apps recently. I've always used K9 since android 2.1 eclair on my HTC Desire as a backup email app because it always works. What you could do is log into your exchange email on a pc and get the pop or imap details and fill it in manually on your phone.
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
I'll try that, thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] kit717:
rooted with batteryguru and greenify
[Nexus 5 General] johnannis:
OK I also do it but isn't harmful for our battery to drain it until 1% (I mean very very low) ?

Isn't the optimal charging cycles 40-80% (or somewhere there) ?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It's not something to worry about and is designed to be used as needed. Even when you hit 0% the battery retains a charge just don't leave it in that state for a prolonged period of time. You do not need to full drain the battery for any sort of conditioning either.
[Nexus 5 General] memnoc:
Test condition:

ROM: KOT49H stock

ART enabled (I see a better overall performance, in battery life as well)

Kernel: Franco r33 beta Jan 25 version

Kernel settings: all by default (governor, etc..)

40% of the time under data mobile connection (except during the night)

60% time under wifi connection (exceot during the night)

Facebook geo tagging: off

Messenger geo tagging: off

Google search: low battery usage (settings/account/Google search)

Google Play service: low battery usage (settings/account/Google Play services)

Email (Gmail) syncing, by default

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
it is. you should prevent your battery from doing a 'full discharge' as much as possible

personally, i try not to let mine get under 50%. it happens, but i try not to
[Nexus 5 General] memnoc:
Another myth: battery should be charged/discharged according to the temperature it reaches.. In a perfect temperature environment the battery can be fully discharged.. Lithium only fears high or low temperatures, it's the only thing that really can affect the duration of the cells.. Keeping the battery around 50% is perfectly useless, as well as not charging it till 100%... What you want to explain maybe is that at a very low or very high discharging/charging the value in temperature is typically high, so that is dangerous, but it takes years to affect few cells.. Conclusion, discharge till 15%, charge till 100% and if you can wait for another hour after it reaches 100% it is something that did periodically helps to find a better battery life..also charging the phone when it's turned off offers a better quality of battery life and durability

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
believe what you want

here is my source - http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
[Nexus 5 General] memnoc:
Interesting, I'll read ASAP

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] ichundu:
I was concerned about the battery while i was waiting for my nexus reading bad reviews about it but have done a few tests and i'm satisfied with the battery so far.

My settings are:

- everything stock, not rooted

- Google now off as it is not available in my country

- location off (i turn it on when i need it)

Here are my results, my usage was light: Facebook, messenger, whatsapp, little youtube, chrome and reading stuff. Brightness was all the way down which is fine for in the dark.
[Nexus 5 General] ichundu:
This is my other test. This time the usage was normal, a lot of texting, a few phone calls, half an hour of gaming, chrome, brightness was 10-20%. The idle drain is great. It looses like 1% during the night
[Nexus 5 General] maksud_ans:
my nexus 5 battery results
[Nexus 5 General] kleverfarias:
I'm fully charged now... But with everything on, WIFI, 3G, and GPS on demand, but almost never using for games... Just whatsapp, instagram..

The battery lasts never more than one day..

Enviado de meu Nexus 5 usando o Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] jyuuken:
This is with H+ on all the time. Viber tapatalk and facebook always on. Just want to get feedback if this looks normal. Brightness at 10% and underclocked to 1.9ghz

Edit:

I also have viper4android and doubletap to wake enabled
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Nothing to write home about. You should be able to get another hour of screen on
[Nexus 5 General] Omya:
:fingers-crossed: :D
[Nexus 5 General] jyuuken:
Will all due respect. But u have a powerful device but decide not to use it and just keep it idle. Woudnt u consider the battery stats does not reflect real day to day usage since u barely use the phone?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I see people making this assumption a lot and make similar misguided comments. When the phone is on for 2 days all idle processes will be higher up on the list.

In this case you can also clearly see low signal in the one shot which will increase battery usage, even with the screen off.

Lastly he barely got 2 hours SoT so his phone is draining abnormally fast in any case.
[Nexus 5 General] mbd4524:
voice calls

So I have been reading this thread for a while and was never able to understand how people were getting what seemed to be amazing battery life. 18 + hours with SOT of 5 - 6 hours etc...My typical day I have been getting around 2.5 hours max. But then I realized, I use my phone for voice calls at least 2 hours a day as well, and that seems to drain battery even more than screen. Can I assume my battery life is on par with what people here are getting?
[Nexus 5 General] invisible69:
Yep, I get a battery life along those lines, since my phone is always connected to Wifi when at home, and to 3G when I'm not (which is practically all day long). I use facebook messenger on it along with Chrome to view news and other stuff all day long.

I get just over 3 hours of SOT and around 12 hours of life with normal usage - I can only get around 18 hours of life if I don't use the phone much, i.e. with SOT of less than 1.5 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
I got through a whole day yesterday without charging. I went on a day trip to San Francisco which is about 2 hours away from where I live. I streamed music for the majority of the trip there and back took pictures and a video. Read some news. Checked the forums here. And after almost 10 hours, I still had 27%. I'm on stock running Franco kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] A-FrenZy:
Heavy gaming
[Nexus 5 General] abhipati:
Everything stock .. No battery saving app .. Mostly WiFi (sync on)
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
I see you have an excellent mobile signal. I'm convinced that the quality of this is the biggest contributor to battery life.

I have awful signal at home and get barely 3 HR of sot. At work its a lot better (but not perfect) and I get around 5 sot.
[Nexus 5 General] Ober/Hydra:
I keep mobile and wifi off until I need them and I get a week out of this thing. My signal is usually one or two bars in the house with this phone. iPhone used to be about three bars when I was using that.
[Nexus 5 General] JerryBels:
If any of you use Ingress, have you noticed it's a bettery killer ? 20 minutes of it takes 25% of my battery ! :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Since Ingress is constantly pulling GPS location, it's no surprise that it eats up battery. Honestly, I don't think there's anything we can do to change that.
[Nexus 5 General] :
ROMs barely (if at all) affect battery life, it's the kernel u want to look into... I've got Franco kernel and I get 6 and a half hours SOT. Obviously the battery life won't be as good as S4, but you could easily get it through a day with moderate usage stock.

---------- Post added at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:26 PM ----------

2 Things...

1) Turn on high accuracy in location settings. Although it says that apps are using high battery, they are not... Not an android geek, but just Google it, because there is plenty of evidence

2) You mind letting me in on how you got the Franco Kernel BETA? (r33 I believe?) I've Googled it but nothing came up...

Cheeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrssssss :D
[Nexus 5 General] darthmalus:
I was going to get an atrix HD and do the eb40 battery mod to it I know its a down grade from the s4 but my wife wants my phone and doesn't care about locked bootloaders and custom Roms so it will serve her well
[Nexus 5 General] abhipati:
Stock .sync on .. Mostly on mobile network (only1hour of WiFi)
[Nexus 5 General] Calkulin:
I just managed this, next I'll be testing to see what I can do within a 24hr charge
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Running Calkulin aosp ROM. Franco kernel xposed gravity box

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
How do you guys get 5+ hours of SoT please do tell.
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
It's really just about usage patterns. Personally, I use my phone for Web browsing, Tapatalk, podcasts, tethering, and a little streaming. As a result, my phone is awake, but I'm looking at a lot of static pages (no fancy transitions or effects, and that doesn't use a lot of battery. Also, using good, effective kernel tweaking can help a lot.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Stock rooted, stock kernel, nova & closed

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[Nexus 5 General] sryche:
slimkat 2.6 rc1 experimental, hells-Core-b1-t6
[Nexus 5 General] d13guit0:
Impressive
[Nexus 5 General] elnahir:
Stock ROM, franco r32, Greenify

This is the best I've got so far with 1-2 hrs of local audio (podcasts + Google Play Music), around 2 hrs of video (YouTube + streaming via ES File Explorer), mixed WiFi/3G usage (no LTE in Bulgaria just yet), +1 hour on the phone. I feel I can squeeze a little bit more SoT out of this beast, but I just can't take my hands off of it.
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
To those with poor battery life apart for the obvious disabling location services etc manage your syncs.

Google back up especially can't keep your phone awake.

Also as some posters have pointed out it appears weak signal causes a lot of drain so investigate using a smart radio feature from Gravity box or cataclysm.

Also toggle 2g is a god send, I have disabled lte whilst on WiFi which has helped.

(I know the phone isn't connected to the mobile network when on LTE but where I am the signal is a lot weaker which caused a lot of drain.

Before you do any of the above I recommend everyone installs better battery stats and make sure wake locks aren't causing your drain issues
[Nexus 5 General] md1008:
Battery usage obviously depends on usage and signal but damn I wish it had a bigger battery
[Nexus 5 General] yjsjin:
anyone havn prob of batt draining 10-20%?

im using stock rom franco kernel n undervolted but its draining real quick. idle is only 3-5%
[Nexus 5 General] Cloonix:
I really can't complain about my battery. My Nexus 5 is less than one month old and i charge it once every three days (average).

Edit: 3,5h screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Completely agree. Even though I'm getting great battery life, I can't help but wonder why the N5 doesn't have at least a 2500-2600mAh battery. I don't think it would add much bulk at all, and it would all but guarantee a full day's worth of usage for anyone, regardless of usage patterns.
[Nexus 5 General] jacoballen22:
4hr screen time. Am I doing something wrong? 1hr talk time. Face unlock.
[Nexus 5 General] yjsjin:
i thnk u hav similar rrsult as mine
[Nexus 5 General] remixkilla:
Mine for the day
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I think a lot of it is how you use it, signal as mentioned, making sure you don't have any apps causing battery leaks, etc. Recently I found Google Search taking up like 30% of my battery and my phone was dead by 7 PM which was very unusual. I Googled it and found you need to disable always scanning for WiFi signals and it seemed to help.

I may try Greenify as well. I also disabled FB auto updating, notifications, and location. Also for some reason any Tapatalk apps love to sync in the background.

Also I used Xposed and a couple things there to disable a couple intents and startups (FB) as well as Disable Service to disable a couple things. I don't like to disable services completely but you can kill a couple off like tracking type ones.

As far as signal, if you use GSM, downgrading to edge will help a lot.
[Nexus 5 General] DDM123:
I was experimenting with changing 2g/3g/LTE modes and letting it idle overnight. The worst thing I did was set it to 2g. 3g and LTE performed much better. I realize this is somewhat dependent upon cell reception, (I get -111dB at home) but that's what I experienced.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Yeah your phone won't stop searching for a signal especially if you're in a low reception area. I always have full bar reception but I struggle with LTE so most of the time I'm on 2g and the battery's great.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
nope, everyone's usage is different. 4 hours screen on time is average. you'll need to focus on battery optimizations if you want more. like kernels, disabling services, etc
[Nexus 5 General] ckbogner:
Sadly no screenshots, but I had my N5 for a week now (NO root yet), and I get around 40-50 hours of battery, with normal use which means wifi on all the time, email sync, a couple of calls, bluetooth on for about 2-2.5 hours in my car - and 5-5.5 hours screen on .. So I'm very pleased with this phone on all aspects (coming from a rooted Optimus 2X) :good:
[Nexus 5 General] remixkilla:
40-50 hours? How!
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
a guy just posted a screenshot of him getting 4 days of idle time. so 40-50 hours of deep sleep seems reasonable.
[Nexus 5 General] ckbogner:
Don't know how - just use it like any other phone, and I get more than +1½ day every time .. :)
[Nexus 5 General] floepie:
I don't see where you can adjust those two Google service for low battery usage. Or do you mean Google Location service?

---------- Post added at 03:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:58 PM ----------

One of the first things I noticed when moving to Europe was this switching to H+ only when there is active data communication. When I was in the US, my android devices always just remained on H+. Maybe it's a more common configuration here to squeeze more users onto existing towers?

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I see so much data and info in your GSAM Android system screenshot that I don't see on my device. Do you have the Pro version? I see no data on that page, only info pertaining to a listing of the included packages.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Hello friends,

I'm running a completely stock Nexus 5. My average screen on time is about 2-2 1/2 hours from a full charge to the end of the day with about 5-10% battery remaining. I'm usually 50% LTE and 50% WiFi. Auto brightness, location set to battery saver.

In other words, my battery life sucks. I just today disable Google Location History and Reporting thinking that this may be my battery drain issue, how much battery will having disabled that save me?
[Nexus 5 General] scorpion79in:
Here are my stats after first

charge as I just got my phone on Monday
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Any of you guys noticed Google Play Services draining your battery today?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
Probably right about the switching between 3G and H+....

In regards to GSAM, you need this enabled in Xposed framework to be able to see all the battery stats that Google has hidden in KitKat. http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.gsamlabs.xposed.mods.enablebatterystatspermission

Btw., I just found the solution to endless (well not really but still) stand by time. At first I tried just to disable Google Now but the Nlp wake locks still came up.

But then I disabled location totally and thereafter enabled it again - BUT without agreeing to Google collecting anonymous location data from me. Since then I haven't seen those wake locks and the phone sleeps like a fat dog. Lost 1% over 6 hours last night with sync on 4G. Maps still works as it should. Locating takes a little longer but not much as it still uses A-GPS, just not Googles network locator via wifi. Before it took 1 second or so, and now it takes 10 seconds - so no big deal.

Right now my phone has been of the charger for almost 25h with 1h30min talking, 2h30min screen on, mixed wifi/4G/3G -- AND I STILL HAVE 40% left!
[Nexus 5 General] :
So you're screen is on but the phone isn't awake?! How'd that work?!!
[Nexus 5 General] nesx87:
My battery acted weird yesterday and today. Thought it was an app or something.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Hmm, so basically it's the anonymous Google location collections that are bad on this phone? Weird.
[Nexus 5 General] carljoe:
No way near satisfied with the results i experience my Nexus 5. Just as the review on The Verge mentions, it is very inconsistent, but mostly just bad.

I have tried some days where i got a maximum of 3 hrs of SOT, but usually its only around 2hrs SOT.

I have even turned off LTE and Google Now, and the maximum brightness I use is 20-30%. I even made a task in Tasker which turns off mobile data when the display is turned off.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Get rid of spotify it's killing you
[Nexus 5 General] carljoe:
I guess, but still only 24 minutes of offline listening should kill the battery ? Wasn't the Nexus 5 borned with some technology which greatly improved the amount of hours you could listen to music?
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
It's not the music, it's the app that's causing the battery drain
[Nexus 5 General] carljoe:
Ahh ok, only thought it represented the streaming. Maybe I should try looking into what makes the app so battery draining. Thanks :)

edit: Only thing I could imagine was draining battery was all the push notifications and the "Show what you are listening to on Facebook".
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
let wifi turn off while the screen is off(wifi advanced settings) and make sure 'always scanning' is turned off too
[Nexus 5 General] carljoe:
I will try!

Do you experience that the Franco Kernel greatly improve the batterylife or is it only a marginal improvement? On my Nexus 4 I felt no difference.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Damn. You seriously need to look into wakelocks. That's pretty bad :/ I get 6 hours SOT average, and my battery is pretty consistent... Might be your charge patterns? Remember not to let your battery fully discharge, optimal charge time is when your battery is at 40-80%, but that's highly unrealistic for daily use to me... Anyway, I'm baffling, set me some details and get back to me :)
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i think franco kernel helps in different areas.

i think it helps to boost battery life during 'deep sleep' mode by a lot. so basically, every time you lock your device it should go into a low power mode. i dont think stock kernel handles this very well

i think it helps to boost battery life during gaming by a little. you can use perapp modes to restrict cpu speed as well as gpu speed. while this doesn't save that much battery, it will keep heat generation lower

if you're used to getting 2-3 hours of screen on time, franco kernel probably won't increase it 5-6. but it might increase it by 30-60 minutes. in the end, it really depends on your usage. your apps. your wakelocks. your active/disabled services. your screen brightness(auto brightness is the devil). don't let android run loose, take control of your device and learn where your battery is being spent(better battery stats app is amazing)
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
Exactly.. At least for me that is the case. For now I'm enjoying not seeing those damn wake locks :D
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Well I turned everything on for a day (high location accuracy, sync, and all that) and this is what I got.

I have ~25% remaining and I have 4hrs of screen on time and ~2days, 6hours on battery. I did accidentally charge it just for a little and it charged by 10%. Just subtract 10% from the remaining percent I have.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Hmm I tried it and have been using my phone practically nonstop the last hour or two and went down from 60% to 41% so not bad. I may look at wakelocks but as long as I don't get heavy drain I'm happy.
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
How did you do this? No UC? No UV?

Can we know what was the complete result of this upto low battery.
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
Here are the promised screenshots. As you can see there's no sign of any NLP wake locks :highfive:
[Nexus 5 General] DDM123:
1% drain here after 10 hours. Most things were disabled, but I don't need Google Now while I sleep.

Things I used:

-3G

-BatteryGuru (so Gmail et. al still worked)

-Wifi/BT/NFC/Location off

-Google+, Facebook, Google Search, Wallet all Greenified

-Paranoid Android beta 4, Franco Kernel 32

-Mild undervolting (-25 on all, -100 on 300mhz)
[Nexus 5 General] pixelsquish:
What do you use to under volt? And are you on the stock kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] :
[/COLOR]6 - 6 and a half hours SOT with this..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2601318

You're welcome! :D
[Nexus 5 General] Cloonix:
Must be a bug. Didn't think about it yet.