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[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
You know, for 350 dollars, you have a more than decent phone and most of the people buy this phone because it's a Nexus and because they can do pretty anything with it like installing kernels and customs ROMs and/or have the latest version of android right away ! Instead of complaining you should be happy to have a extremly good phone in the right hands for only 350 or 400 dollars.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
do you have BBS installed? or maybe wakelock detector? im betting it's a wild app running loose
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Yes, and I know what is the app that drains the battery and it is Google Play Sevices with an average of 300 wakeups a day ! Yay ! (not cool)
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
that sucks :( i had that happen to mine until i disabled google now. it's lame that those wakeups seem random, but it's common enough that i can't trust to keep google now on all the time
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
Just Texting And Social Media. No Phone Calls. Stock No Root
[Nexus 5 General] hikarugo:
Well LG with their G2 is an expert at battery life as well.

Anyway, here is mine.
[Nexus 5 General] zukа:
Hey guys. I've tried multiple ROMs (Cyanogen, Cataclysm and Stock), multiple kernels (Faux, ElementalX and currently Franco R32).

I've got Greenify and most things are Greenified, I've got the latest play services, I've disabled location, I use Lux on 15% brightness for most conditions, I'm even on Wifi for most of my days. I have no idea where I'm going on, but almost every day my battery craps out after around 12-14 hours with almost always bang on 3 hours screen on time.

I've seen so many people reporting 4.5 as a low end of what to expect on a regular day, and I'd love that. I've posted my Better Battery Stats log below - if anyone could have a look and see what's causing my problem, or give any advice, that'd be so great. Thanks for reading.

Log: http://pastebin.com/FqCtnSft
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Well google now is always disabled, I cleared Play Services' data and cache and now it seems fixed. Oh well we'll see.
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Wow, guys look at this. Never happened before. Was using my phone normally with ~10-15% screen brightness. Usually I only got 4-5h SOT.

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[Nexus 5 General] :
I usually get 6 to 6 and a half hours screen on time with:

- Brightness 10-2

- Cataclysm ROM, Franco kernel

- UV -75mv

- UC Min: 300 Max: 730 (something like that?)

- Interactive governor (no support for ondemand for Franco kernel :( )

- Usually just surfing the web, playing emulators for 30 mins top, tapatalk, Facebook Twitter blah blah... just your average use, nothing extreme...

I'll post some pics when my battery gets to about 5% =)

Happy to answer any questions :)
[Nexus 5 General] deno1:
Pretty good 3 days for me. Alot of vaiting time and work time. Surfing on the web.

- Bloetooth on

- wifi automatic on off

- High accuracy location off

- Wifi location setting off

- GPS off

- LTE no onli E, 3g or H+

- Google Now off

- Rooted

- Rom: [ROM] [4.4.2] SlimKat (hammerhead) [beta 2.3]
[Nexus 5 General] Vollspacken:
Really happy with the battery drain. GNow off, Using Youtube, Whatsapp, Facebook, surfing in the internet and so on, normal using at home.

Nexus 5 is running on latest Slimkat and Franco.kernel with auto backlight and slight undervolted (-50).

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[Nexus 5 General] ash1684:
After a day of use, 6h screen on and 63% of battery left.

No root, 3g always on, wifi on if at home (about 4 - 5 hours), GPS off.

Got some pictures, some gaming, some navigation, whatsapp and calls.

In my house there are places where you have no signal, so i have high Cell-Standby drain. If my signal was good at home, i would have 30% more battery...

Preatty happy with that baby battery life !!!
[Nexus 5 General] Silentbob999:
Just for fun.. "old" screenshot

Faux Kernel 007m, Intelliplug/IntelliDemand

4hrs+ of screen on

Utilisation :

LTE and/or WIFI always ON (VOIP service always connected)

Location always ON (network & Gps)

around 1 hrs of no signal (subway)

close to 1 hour of pure gaming (asphalt2, revolt2, Vector, Dots :P.. )

even had an antitheft location update at regular interval

screenshot

I am not getting that good anymore because I use NFC unlock (xposed module) which keep scanning nfc regardless if screen is off.. Regardless.. I think I even had SmartStayEx, sweep2wake and doubleTap ON at the moment of those screenshot but cannot guaranty it

SnapDragon battery guru is for a lot in those result... it mostly manage how and when my app sync.. which for me its a most because I have a lot of app that sync ; gmail, G+, Dropbox, Outlook, Facebook, Messenger, LaPresse (big newspaper here that I set to sync when on wifi) and so on... and its loaded of other app and game I did not even play yet
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
You are getting 6hrs of SOT and still have 63% battery life ?
[Nexus 5 General] drigz08:
Some article claiming they had 8.99hrs SOT on wifi.

Real or fake?

http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
http://anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3

That battery test review on Anandtech shows 8.991hrs of WiFi web browsing, now its a fair assumption that web browsing includes the screen on. I find the numbers hard to believe so I emailed the author with a clarification and he confirms that it is with the screen on at 200nits for almost 9hrs.
[Nexus 5 General] ash1684:
my bad: it's not 6hr SOT, it's 3hr.

6 was the total activity time.
[Nexus 5 General] Puneet.Maan:
Mine..

Nexus 5 - My Beloved Beast
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Can you include the other usage?
[Nexus 5 General] Puneet.Maan:
Regular use of Facebook, XDA Developers premium 4.0.5, whatsapp, youtube and opera mini all on wifi, except 2G network, everything's off

Nexus 5 - My Beloved Beast
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
anandtech is incredibly trust worthy
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Screenshot on the main battery page if possible.

Saw your initial reply before you edited it, I think 14hrs SOT is not possible even with airplane mode.. whatsapp and actual web browsing is totally different.

Not sure if your new reply is sarcasm or not.
[Nexus 5 General] mateenf:
A full day on standby and these are the stats.. Impressed with the deep sleep :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] GialanG:
In deep sleep, my phone uses 1% per 4-5 hours (wifi and data off). Yours 19% in 26 hours. Not as good as you think :)
[Nexus 5 General] mateenf:
My screen on time is just 40.mins. I tried not touching my phone at all.. Still at 80%
[Nexus 5 General] hi2thec:
Stock, elemental kernel
[Nexus 5 General] :
According to gSam battery app, losing 5% every half an hour, using tapatalk, Facebook and email all at the same time... Pretty insane!! :D

(This is all with screen on constantly, not asleep at any time!)
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Tried a number of combinations of ROMS and kernelfor battery life recently. Only thing I've learnt is that the biggest battery drainers are brightness, H+/4G, and the camera regardless of ROM. Snapchatting all day will caused my battery to drain very quickly.

I'm currently running cm11 with chaos kernel uc to 1.2ghz and I get 3.5 hours onscreen on mobile data constantly running in a time period of 6 hours
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Does the phone feel any less snappy at only 1.2Ghz? I agree with you that brightness, data and the camera are the biggest drains. Next would probably be the GPU, even some fairly simple 2D games are draining the battery faster then I would imagine.
[Nexus 5 General] mateenf:
And my standby time is going 2 days!!! One hour screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I tried to get a screenshot last night but the battery settings stopped at 1hour 47mins and froze their... Any suggestions? Not major because I'm using gsam battery widget thing and that'll do
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Only a bit less snappy. The difference is actually quite small because there's so much free RAM I.e 800mb it's still very good at multitasking. I don't use it for games but rather just calls, text, whatsapp, Web browsing and snapchat. Also I uc my gpu to 320 and use conservative governor as I don't use anything gpu intensive.
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Sorry for the delayed response... No, I don't use Greenify or any other battery saving apps.

I use Faux kernel, and I use a modified version of an old Intellidemand/cfq/cubic setup of mine, from my Galaxy Nexus days. I'll post my kernel settings when I get a chance.

As for my screen brightness... I don't know the percentage exactly, but this sreenshot should help. :)

My general rule of thumb is that I won't disable anything that will limit the device's functionality (eg. Google Now, Google Search, GPS, etc). I also don't use wifi (especially not when battery testing) on general principle... I want to use the data in paying for, and not be beholden to occasionally high traffic, spotty wifi service.

Outside of that, I target wakelocks as soon as I get a device, and try to reduce/eliminate them. I also turn off useless features like Daydream.

Honestly though, I haven't had to do a ton of tweaking with this phone. The first few days I had it, I ran it completely stock (no root or anything), and had good battery life, but once I rooted and tinkered a bit, I've been getting the type of results I posted previously. :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] Panayiotis91:
My batter drains really fast from 100% until 90% ( for example only 1.5 h on battery and with 10 minutes on screen and WiFi off, no games just texting a little bit) then its stabilized. why is that? only me?

everything stock no root
[Nexus 5 General] 007xico:
The worst battery ever , i get 2 hours max sot , if i am lucky. Google now off, location off, brightness really low and most wi fi.

Got an nexus 5 because i wanted stock android and had enough of rooting, so that's not an option for me and shouldn't be mandatory to anyone.

Google wants to replace because they think is defective??? No Google is not, no wonder apple does so well.
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
It IS defective.. Don't blame Google for trying to fix a problem.. How comes users get 5+ sot and you don't? I get 3-4 hours with everything on..
[Nexus 5 General] 007xico:
Don't know, as i said I have everything off.

I will accept google replacement but don't belive that's the problem.
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
You will see it was that.. Let's hope you fix the problem cause this phone is a beast in performance and battery!
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
some people report better battery life after a fresh factory reset
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
These are my results from yesterday. Quite satisfied even though I'm coming from LG G2!

I'm running stock rom with Franco r32 kernel. Used airplane mode for a few hours while at work.

All in all quite satisfied... I also use Xposed with Gravitybox and a few other modules. Greenify is mostly used to hibernate Facebook. Google Now on but location reporting off. Otherwise high accuracy.

Could somebody tell me, if the amount of wake locks and the alarms caused by Google GMS and Search are normal go seem high??

Also today, as you can see in the last screenshot, Gmail sync created a massive wake lock. Any ideas why?
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
I think we miss one hour screen and 10 hrs of standby to have a great battery life! So sad. I hope it can improve in the next days.
[Nexus 5 General] SageWilliams:
Anyone having an the mediaserver battery issue?
[Nexus 5 General] KingBeike:
i lost about 30% in 2 hours on train, i think if you stay somewhere, without moving by car etc, we should get easily 5 Hours, even on LTE.

With Wifi 6+.... and with further improvements in custom Kernel, like franco hotplug etc. we can squeeze more out of it.. hope for ~5 h sot on LTE with 15h running time
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
Damn....No offense but thats pretty bad battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
I think pure android is a battery eater
[Nexus 5 General] cartsp:
Left house for work at 8 am, had phone on mix of wifi/3g all day (mostly wifi), back home at 7pm. Used screen for a total of 20 minutes today, so was about 5-10 minutes of texting and 10 minutes surfing. Syncing with facebook, google now (location reporting disabled), whatsapp and gmail. Just checked battery has 94% left! That's insane! I was using juice defender which reckons it has improved things by x 2.09.

Make of that what you will but im really liking it.
[Nexus 5 General] crazyalaa:
Will apps like Juice Defender or Battery doctor actually help the battery life or are they just a gimmick?
[Nexus 5 General] DroidIt!:
ok
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
Standby time looks very good. I guess the problem with the N5 (like the most of today's phone) is the screen on time.

---------- Post added at 08:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:51 PM ----------

I hope you are right, but I wouldn't bet on it at the moment!
[Nexus 5 General] KingBeike:
I think i will reach it. Had 4h 25 minutes sot with 1% left..should easy reach 5 hours ;)
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
None taken. But it's not bad? I mean 3h screen on time in total, Moves running in background (step counting app), 1h3m of navigation, total about 9h of use. These are some pretty intensive apps, one is juice sucker and another keeps phone awake. All while out and about moving, connecting to new masts constantly on 3g. It's jot brilliant, but definitely an improvement and noticeable at that over N4.

Edit. Looks like Moves is buggy atm and is using a fair bit of Gps and battery. Uninstalled, stats should improve. Using it as satnav tomorrow all day, so won't be any battery updates (will be plugged in constantly).
[Nexus 5 General] TonyHoyle:
These comparisons really only work when there are two from the same user. 'On the N4 I got X and on the N5 I get Y'. Between two users their usage is going to be so different you can't compare (we can't even come up with a solid definition of 'moderate' or 'average' use).

In my case I'm happy it's better than the N4, which was already good enough.
[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
Either you have faulty battery or something is wrong with your phone if you are getting onlu 4 hour screen on time on monster note 2..here i got 4 hour screen on time when 51% battery still to go. I have been doing 3g surfing when screen was on

Just wish if N5 had same battery..it would be perfect device for heavy users
[Nexus 5 General] sprkrt:
what's the point turning off all advanced features on an advanced phone?

(LTE, syncs, GNow, gps, location updates)

if using these features does not make it through the day, then the phone is not for your usage. So simple.
[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
Lol true what is the point of having smart phone with all the latest and greatest which you have to turn off or put phone in stand by mode so that it can last a day when you are away home. Those who posted screen shots hardly used their phones as their display consumptiom is less than 60/50 percent of battery and screen on time is minimum. Real test will be if you use two hours of surfing/3d gaming or watching youtube internet videos .
[Nexus 5 General] Warrimonk:
Ummm... to make the few advanced features you actually WANT run longer without the phone dying.

When I get my N5 I am disabling Google Now (useless battery drain for me), LTE (Doesn't cover my home), Location services , GPS (only when needed for travelling once in a blue moon), NFC, and Bluetooth

I just want something that can last a long time with web browsing , movie streaming, and messaging.
[Nexus 5 General] sprkrt:
no offense, but if you dont need/dont want to use those features, why buy a top end device?
[Nexus 5 General] adibeckett:
I'll probably do the same as you. I'll keep Google Now on (see how it goes and how I often I use it), LTE will be on (never tried it and well it's available in my area), turn off GPS (unless I travel), NFC off, Bluetooth off.

I'll probably keep brightness to around 50% or so. Hopefully with the addition of always being on wifi, this will help out the battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
i've been keeping an eye on this thread as my N5 arrives today.

It seems all the screenshots show wifi on all day. This thing should sip battery on WiFi while idling. Presumably, if I have wifi I should also have access to a wall outlet. So that isn't the best measure of how the battery performs (IMHO anyway) since I can top off my battery. I'm not worried about my phone dying at my desk. I am worried about my phone dying when I leave the office at 5:30 and don't come home until 2am because I went to the bars (for instance). In that example there is a mix of 3g/4g data and dead spots. Android has been notoriously bad when there is poor signals and I am sure that hasn't changed in 4.4. What I want to know is has anyone done any tests between the different radios? Where one radio was left on all day, next day test a different radio under similar conditions. Obviously YMMV between the carriers and signal but I still think it is a more useful real world test.

IE: Same daily routine/screen on time but...

day 1 All Wifi

day 2 All 4g LTE

day 3 All 3g HSPA
[Nexus 5 General] alpha beta gaga:
here's mine. from first full charge yesterday after unboxing

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
My Motorola Atrix gave me 8 hr battery life consistent. I heard the Moto G battery is very good as well.
[Nexus 5 General] Ubichinon:
4.4.2 - Brightness on 25%, location off, google now off, 3g only with sync on and playing a lot of clash of clans - i got 4hours 30minutes of screen time.

I cant say that this is bad, concidering im running stock (rooted with only gravitybox and adaway). If i undervolt, i guess i can get up to 5,5 hours+.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Alright, sorry about the screenshot, battery settings are extremely inaccurate for some reason (stuck on 30 mins SOT), so looking at my dash clock widget will have to do... In getting 5 hours screen on time with mostly 4G on, using emulators, forums and the web... Normally get 6 and a half when I have WiFi on indoors, 10% brightness, and same usage... Here are my specs:

- Franco Kernel & Cataclysm ROM

- Undervolted -75mv

- Underclocked Min: 300 Max: 900

- Brightness 10%

Happy to answer any questions :)
[Nexus 5 General] Tenggoy:
Hi, is this a normal battery drain? Over 3Hrs15mins with 2% drained in my battery?
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
What drain? You lost less than 1% an hour. That is nothing. If you'd had better signal probably had lost even less...
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
I even cosnider 3-4hrs still defective when a lot of people are getting 6-7hrs SOT even Anadtech is getting 9hrs lol!
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
if you put your brightness at 200nits like they do and disable everything else, then you'll get those same results. but you can't expect to get those results while using google now, hotword detection, location, auto brightness, nfc, cell radios(you'll need to use airplane mode to get that 9 hour wifi browsing screen on time)

i have my brightness set at 2% about 90% of the time and get amazing battery life
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Google's replacement will probably "fix" your issue, but I'd be willing to bet that you have a ton of wifi related wakelocks, which can be easily fixed without rooting. And just as a comparison, my girlfriend has the iPhone 5,and it gets far worse battery than my N5 does... The reason being that iPhones don't really have great LTE tech yet, whereas Android's technology is vastly improved.
[Nexus 5 General] Tenhi:
These are the best results I had so far. Using stock ROM with Franco's kernel (underclocked to 1.5), and brightness around 20%.

Everything else is turned on, all syncs...
[Nexus 5 General] dondavis007:
I need to find the magic key, my N5 (underclocked to 1.4+) gets about 55% off my LG G2 with exactly the same usage and apps.

"In the search for a full day" :)
[Nexus 5 General] Tenggoy:
Well i suspect a defective battery, getting a 3hrs SOT for my phone is a miracle.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hi,

Did you realize that it depends mainly of your use and settings?

Saying you suspect a defective battery because you have 3 hours screen on time at best is a non sense to me... and without providing any relevant information like battery stats, usage, setup (rom, kernel), settings, etc...?

Yes you could have a defective battery, but it's not with your statement that this should be a valid point (only this one)...

:)
[Nexus 5 General] radar155:
my nexus 5 with cm11 nightlies and franco kernel

wifi on

2g only (it's good for push notification)

screen auto (max 40%)

sync only with facebook (no gapps)

localization off (i hate it)

no downclock

2d19h with a normal use..
[Nexus 5 General] chding:
Just found out that hangout is draining the battery
[Nexus 5 General] tomciopaluch357:
So far I get best battery performance for latest Purity and their kernel and i love their colors will post some screens .
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
Hello I'm having bad battery drain on batterystats it it showing as *backup* that's using the battery and android system at one point was using more battery than my screen what is causing this does anyone know?

Thanks in advance
[Nexus 5 General] Vollspacken:
I usually get 5h SOT with an overall on-time of 30h, a few days ago i reached 6h SOT.

Using Franco.Kernel (only a bit undervolted) and newest Slimkat, auto brightness (feels usually really bright) and all syncs on, only Google Now is off.

But SOT of 9h? C'mon, i can't believe that.

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[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
That may be a rogue app, try to see with wakelock detector which app is causing this, this may also be Google Play Services or a system service in the background. I had heavy drain from Android System and it turned out it was Play Services, cleared the data now it's fixed. Anyway that is definitely an app that is causing this.
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
Thanks for the advice I will download wakelock detector and see how I go
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
Hi I downloaded wake lock detector and here are the results

For some reason *backup* is causing the battery drain
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Well that's weird, I'm not an Android expert in any way so I don't know what this backup process is exactly but I'm sure this is not normal behavior.

You might try to do a factory reset to see if it fixes it, but I can understand that I might not be an option for some people, but usually a factory reset fixes most of the problems of this kind. Before doing a factory reset, try to wipe dalvik/cache to see if it changes something.

I can't help further than that sorry man ^^

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
No worries thanks for the advice might have to try a factory reset
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hi,

Is Google backup disabled here (as in your other thread)?

I'm more used with Better Battery Stats..., just in case: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809.

:)
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
It was initially so I unchecked it didn't make a difference though
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
I'm not sure which post your responding to, but I agree, 9hrs SoT is preposterous. I can see someone pushing 7 1/2 hours, if they disable tons of stuff, but what's the point of that? Lol. I might be able to push 8hrs if I disable everything, and just leave the screen on, and don't use the phone at all, but I'm not going to do that just to prove a point. :)
[Nexus 5 General] OwainW:
It might have been mine. The only reason why I got 9 hours SOT was because I was home all day on the WiFi and reading books. This lets the processor rest in between screen animations if there's no input for a while, if I understand what someone posted somewhere in here. I didn't turn anything off apart from Google now, just used the phone for what I wanted on the day :)
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Sometimes also i get this problem! But a reboot will always fix it (at least for me)

Inviato dal mio fantastico Nexus 5 con Franco's kernel
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Constant H+ and 50% brightness murders battery.
[Nexus 5 General] A-FrenZy:
Is the 3G H+ makes battery difference result ? I always enable it.