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[Nexus 5 General] floepie:
After reading 10s of pages here and seeing what everyone has tried to do to limit their battery consumption and that SOT varies so wildly I've come to the conclusion that some batteries ship from the factory better than others for some reason. There is no way with the amount of knowledge here shared so far and the attempt to prolong battery life even by some of the senior members here, that such wild differences could be accounted by usage. Some are just simply more fortunate than others.
[Nexus 5 General] dvdfan:
Stock, straight from factory. Results after few days. Mainly web browsing, bit of gaming, brightness set to auto, data always on (3G), location to battery saving, Google now disabled

So far I'm satisfied, I'm getting comparable results day by day. I didn't even needed to use power bank so far

tap tap tap from N5
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I strongly disagree. Each person who's getting high battery drain has a directly linked app, service, or wireless signal that is causing it. The batteries are all physically capable of 5-6 SoT on stock, or higher under the right circumstances but it's how each individual phone is being used.

The battery is the same, but each person and their usage pattern is not. Try disabling as much as much as you can still live with and see what happens.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
+1
[Nexus 5 General] stev99d:
1% ~ 2% per 5 minute battery drain on browsing (Wi-Fi)

less then 1% on idle.
[Nexus 5 General] WarRaven:
I agree with this and just want to add in auto brightness, it is too bright left to its own doings.

Just cause this has been a large drain for most whether they know it or not.

WR

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] vedy33:
Nexus 5 Battery

Hello everyone,

I recently purchased a Nexus 5 32 GB White from google and when I got the phone I turned it on without charging it beforehand. When I turned on the phone and logged into my google account, all the apps started downloading etc. I ended up turning down brightness, turning of location and google now. I even disabled some stupid apps such as: google +, google games, google movies, live wallpapers, google earth, google pinyin, google play magazine, hangouts, news and weather, wallet, hp print service plugin I shortly received a update for the phone which I proceeded to accept and let update. My main phone use is around texting, facebook, instagram, espn, low phone calls. The first few days my batter was really bad I would have to charge it at night while I slept and then again at work. I looked up on the forum if others had problems and ended up reading a good post that I should reset my phone due to the update that I had on the phone after receiving it from google. I bought directly from google and not T-mobile.

Here is what I did to improve my battery:

I wiped my phone after receiving it and getting all the updates and apps downloaded.

I went and disabled all the unwanted apps that came with the phone such as google +, google games, google movies, live wallpapers, google earth, google pinyin, google play magazine, hangouts, news and weather, wallet, hp print service plugin.

I turned my brightness down as I'm always in good lighting

I turned off location

I turned off google now

I went to the Wi-Fi options and check marked to 'Avoid poor connections' and to only keep Wi-Fi on during sleep when my phone is plugged in.

NFC is off

LTE is on

Vibrate is off when phone calls and texting and touch effects

Screen is set to turn off after 30 seconds of inactivity

Auto-rotate is not turned on

Pulse notification is on

I use handcent sms instead of google hangouts

I use the default launcher

I left my runtime with Dalvik instead of using ART

I attached some photos of my use and settings. Hope this helps someone out. Let me know if anyone wants to know about any of my other settings.

Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] gravityy:
this is mine. mainly used for social media(check it about every 30mins-1hour), light gaming, browsing, a little youtube, brightness about 15% i think, 90% on wi-fi.
[Nexus 5 General] keijikage:
I think this review states it best in the power drain section - the dynamic range in power consumption is very large...

http://www.notebookcheck.com/Test-Google-Nexus-5-Smartphone.105040.0.html

Nexus 5

Off / Standby	0.0 / 0.1 Watt

Idle	0.3 / 0.8 / 1.0 Watt

Load	4.3 / 8.4 Watt

min: , med: , max:

LG G2

Off / Standby	0.0 / 0.2 Watt

Idle	0.4 / 1.1 / 1.4 Watt

Load	3.8 / 4.8 Watt

min: , med: , max:

I found that mpdecision boosts cpu0 and cpu1 to 2265mhz with the stock governor (ondemand) every time you touch the screen-this is great if you're always doing interactive things, but 90% of the time, i'm browsing the web and fat-fingering the screen out of habit - causing the cpu to run at a higher clock speed than it needs to...for scrolling a line of text. I know there's the argument for race-to-idle, but mpdecision(?) basically locks the min frequency to 1267mhz and prevents that from happening.
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Good find! We have custom kernel also for this :D

Inviato dal mio fantastico Nexus 5 con Franco's kernel
[Nexus 5 General] The-Droidster:
ElementalX uses mpdecision by default. Probably that's the reason why I get poor SOT. Its max 4 hrs till the last drop. The drop is about 1% per 5-10 min of SOT. That's bad in my opinion. Standby is pretty solid though. I tried turning it off through a kernel tuner, but it seems not to make a difference, rather now when I select the stock ondemand governor, all the 4 cores stay active all the time and there's no idling at 300Mhz like it used to happen before.
[Nexus 5 General] xXghostXx313:
All lte and a little bit of WiFi. All I got to say is greenify really works. It literally increase my battery life.

Second one is all wifi and probably would get better but my phone had wakelocks for the whole time it was on -_-. Franco r32
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
If I'm reading that right that indicates no significant difference between kernels. I'm not surprised.
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
That's an interesting bit of information, and I think you're right. I would love to see the governor, scheduler, and tcp congestion settings, as well as voltages, clock speeds, etc. Each of those kernels have different options available, and different "out of the box" settings, which could effect the outcome of these tests. The glaringly obvious fact here, is that none of these are CAF (read CM) based.

Introducing CAF variables to this test would be interesting from a comparison point of view, and I think we'd see some more variance in the results. I'm slightly compelled to run a two or three day test myself, to see what I come up with. :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] pikachukaki:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2635438

i made this thread but noone care though...all kernels run with stock settings except faux which i change to use his hotplug rather than mpdecision that he dont support...i dont use caf kernels cause its only one proper caf kernel cm's and i wanna test this with stock which can't run caf based kernels..
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Still got 26% battery left,

but shows typical N5 battery usage; at least for me, on stock everything.
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
If I had better reception at home I have no doubt I'd get over 5 hours SOT

Everything on. Syncing 15 minutes, lte/wifi location battery saving.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Losing 1% every 5 minutes, running tapatalk and Google chrome... Any good? Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] Fata1lX:
I have a problem with the battery during sleep android OS eating battery. Android OS sends every half minute traffic. When i off mobile trafiic it's all fine 1% in 10h, when mobile traffic on each hour -1%.

all disabled.

Is this normal?

Sorry for my bad English.
[Nexus 5 General] przemo_li:
[Q]

Can anyone check for me how long N5 can go on on just playing music (headphones).

I like books (and wont read them on LCD, nor any derivative), but I will try to listen to some audiobooks.

So anyone know if it will cost me one-day-battery-life-without-charging-midday ?
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
I usually listen to music around 3h everyday and the drain is negligible so I don't think I will significantly drain your battery.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] frillerila:
Ya no doubt
[Nexus 5 General] przemo_li:
Strong 3G/LTE signal all the time. One could think that he work as sale person in one of carrier shops :D
[Nexus 5 General] CoronaDelux:
Is this with auto brightness turned off or on?

I recently turned off ab, and I noticed my sot increased substantially. I can now get about 4 hours when I'm out and not connected to wifi, and 5 on.
[Nexus 5 General] Tenhi:
I am really impressed with my results.

Here are the latest results:

Everything is turned on with brightness set to 20%. Stock ROM with Franco kernel underclocked to 1.7.

I was mainly browsing web, using tapatalk, few short phonecalls, few viber calls and lots of texting...

Most of the time I was on WiFi, but there was a short period of time where I was on very week or no network signal...
[Nexus 5 General] Damien11:
Installed like 70+ apps... losing 1% battery every 5-10min too. stock rom.
[Nexus 5 General] yjsjin:
Ok so ivr been testing with all sort of kernel/rom, i found out that the cause of major batt drain is from touching ur screen. As for franco kernel if u touch ur screen it will use 1574Mhz. Thats alot of cpu if u are constantly browsing web. If u noticed, u will use atleast 20%+ per hour when browsing (so about 4hr SOT) but if idle it will only use 1-3%.

What i did is i undervolted, and by using kernel tweaker my cpu will use 652mhz when touching screen. Now im comsuming less than 10% per hour when browsing web. Thats double the battery life. If idle, it uses less than 0.2-0.9% per 1-3hrs.

I Will try using it more n post the batt pic.

My settings are franco kernel stock rom undervolted with some cpu settings in kernel tweaker.

With kernel tweaker u can also set the vib sensitivity so i put it lower to save batt
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
I for one do not agree. Just play a game like GTA SA on high and watch your battery life go down the drain flat in 2-3 hours if lucky. And if you read static content like ebooks (and turn on flight mode) you may get beyond 5-6 hours screen on time. Even I was caught off guard with the battery drain from gaming.

Another is radio signal, bad signal constantly rapes the battery of a modern nexus 5 and a Nokia 3310. It's just that 2G signal usually covers a greater coverage than 3G/LTE (especially my country). Ever had a dumb phone showing lower than average battery when you're traveling by car constantly (all day) for an example?

It all depends on how one sets up their device (sync, crappy GApps and FB) and how do you use it. I've seen people who get 1 hour screen on time on a HTC one and also another person getting 5 hours. And those with wicked bad battery life once solved their derps (usually lousy apps) have awesome battery life.

Even brightness matters, if you're indoors, you're likely to use lower brightness than if you were outdoors. Remember, the huge screen drains a fair bit of battery at higher brightness levels.

All this is just by looking at battery life threads on a few different devices throughout xda.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Where did you find this option in the app, I can't find it...

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Franco is an AOSP kernel, and as such, does have mpdecision included. THAT feature (mpdecision) is straight from the stock N5 kernel, and yes, it ramps up CPU speed when the screen is touched, in order to help reduce lag, and make for a quicker experience. If you use Franco's app, or Trickster, you can disable mpdecision with any kernel that gives users that option.
[Nexus 5 General] Frankie73:
Srsly, how can ppl get 5-6h SOT?? Best I got until now was ~3 hours and that does not include any gaming (well, besides Quiz Clash, but that doesn't really count). I have almost everything turned off (Now, location, BT, most syncs). I tried both, automatic brightness on and off and I had the brighness set rather low. Signal is very good at home (where I use WiFi also) and at work, so radio shouldn't need much power also.

I really like my N5 so far, but battery life is a bit dissapointing for me.
[Nexus 5 General] floepie:
Yeah, well of course all of what you say is true. Yes, you can extend your own battery life by varying those parameters. That wasn't my point at all. There's just too much variance in what some are able to achieve between many very experienced and knowledgeable android users who diligently manage all the variables which you have mentioned to account for all batteries being created equal.

On another account, and very much unrelated, there appears to be, according to various reports here and even in reputable reviews, some appreciable daily variability under nearly same conditions and circumstances.
[Nexus 5 General] yjsjin:
go to cpu parameters -> governor tuning

for me i changed input boost freq to 300000 (300mhz) which means it will use 300mhz wen touching the screen

then changed hispeed freq to 652000 (652mhz) it will use 652mhz if the cpu load cannot handle 300. but still, no lag at all,

and the cpu uses 300~652 whenever i touch my screen to surf the web

so as for the result, when browsing web with wifi, it uses avg of 15%. LTE, uses avg of 20%. listening to music 5%

right now, battery is 59% left with 2hr of SOT. Batt usage time of 7hrs and 30mins
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
franco kernel doesn't use mpdecision
[Nexus 5 General] drdagreenphd:
I've typically been getting about 4.5-5h SOT and usually 20h of battery life with moderate usage. I stock, rooted with gravitybox tweaks. I have noticed that adjusting the Smart Radio setting in Gravity drastically increased my battery life. Here is my setup:

Screen brightness - 10-20%

Wallpaper - City Skyline, mostly black

Haptic - Disabled

Vibrate on Call/SMS receive - Enabled

Location Services - Enabled

GravityBox Smart Radio - Switch to 2g/3g 10s after screen goes off, LTE 10s after screen has been unlocked. While on wifi, 2g/3g always enabled, no need for LTE. (This has been the biggest battery saver)

This is my main setup. My biggest battery drain comes from playing Ingress. Uses screen, location, and vibrate.
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
Trust what you see in your phone, not what others here are saying.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Mines losing 1% every 5 minutes browsing the web and using tapatalk...Is this any good? Also at night I'm losing 10% battery... Slightly disappointing for me... I've tried fixing wakelocks but they won't go!! Any help please? Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] yjsjin:
u should undervolt it. if you lose 10% at night, and assume u sleep 10 hrs, its 1% per hr its not so bad. 1% every 5 min is 12%/hr, i lose also about that much so its pretty much the same
[Nexus 5 General] akash3656:
There usually is RMA for those. By the way if you call the reviews from the likes of Verge reputable, you should re-consider what is reputable.

And Nexus devices are known to be on the sucky spectrum of battery life. Learned this the hard way.
[Nexus 5 General] segelfreund:
Anyone an idea what is it?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Google Play Services wakelock

---------- Post added at 11:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:58 AM ----------

Franco has simply disabled it, but it is still present in the options, so it could have been turned on by accident.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm already Undervolted -75 across the board... Any other way I could improve it? Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] segelfreund:
That means? What can i do, to demernate? i delete cache etc.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] davolesh:
I managed to get 4+ hours of screen time and over 17 hours on battery. Currently running Dalvik because I have Exposed Framework installed. I have a plethora of modules installed. Brightness was set to about 20%.
[Nexus 5 General] EnIXmA:
I got 4 hours sot and 24 hours of standby time on my first charge cycle... Everything stock. Art, on LTE for 12 hours and location on battery saving

More than satisfied with the battery life
[Nexus 5 General] t0ad:
I'm more than pleased with my battery life, though I'm not exactly a heavy user. This is with stock rom/kernel, rooted, auto brightness, bluetooth off, all location stuff turned on, with a couple gmail accounts and my corporate exchange account pushing. Only things I've really done differently is flash my modem back to .15 since .23 sucked in my area.
[Nexus 5 General] raylam11:
cataclysm rom + chaos kernel

about 5 hour and 22% remain
[Nexus 5 General] hiback:
I lose 1% per 3 minutes.

Which browser are you using and between i use chrome and elemental x kernel with -75 uv.

Can U please share your kernel settings and kernel name and browser and brightness
[Nexus 5 General] DryEagle:
Franko kernel, stock settings except for minor UV (-50 to all, -75 or 100 on 300mhz, don't remember exact, haven't touched it in ages)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Chrome browser, Franco Kernel r33

UV -75 across the board,

300-625 frequency, 300-960 with certain apps like games ect... 24% brightness, WiFi: 70% 3G: 30% of the time :)
[Nexus 5 General] sarasws:
Location reporting off

Google now off

Location high accuracy

2G and LTE on/off

Facebook location off

Brightness manual

WiFi 'never' during sleep
[Nexus 5 General] maksud_ans:
best battery backup franco kernel
[Nexus 5 General] anchalcertain:
Perfect

Lasted full 1.5 days :)
[Nexus 5 General] elnahir:
I don't know, man. I'm happy with this battery life, though it can be better. That's with franco r32 + stock ROM + Greenify, btw.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
I am surprised no one mentioned on how they charge their phone. From 1% or from 50% etc?

And how long do you leave your phone remained powered when it's charged to 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
It kinda depends on what I'm doing during a given day. Usually, I like to do a full cycle (100% down to 1%) at least twice a week. I don't have any science or facts that justify doing this...it just makes me feel better, lol. Other than that, I go through my day, and put the phone on the charger when I go to sleep.

The only time I charge while the phone is in use, is when I'm tethering, and the battery is below 20%. I cooked numerous Galaxy Nexus batteries, by charging the phone the entire time I was tethered, so I'm a little more careful now, since I can't swap out batteries.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
That might do more harm than good. It used to be necessary to condition batteries in such a way but that is no longer the case.
[Nexus 5 General] przemo_li:
1d 2h and still at 14% + 3h SOT with stock settings (minus faster screen blackout) on mild usage (read few pages from book, viewed some YT films, listened to music some more, 1h of web browsing).

Not bad :)
[Nexus 5 General] sirpellinor:
Li-po batteries can be charged a certain number of cycles. If you charge from let's say 75% to 100% 4 times a week you "consume" one cycle . if you charge it from 1% to 100 every day you lose a cycle every day. Moreover modern batteries like these have circuits that turn off the wall plug at 100% (probably near it) so I believe keeping it plugged over 100 is pointless

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] sarasws:
Wow. With the above settings it is consistent. Not rooted as of now.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Yes I understand how a Li-po battery works but in any case my experience tells me that there's a difference when you immediately unplug your phone once it hits 100% and letting the power remain on for a period of time when fully charged to 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
thats kinda great isnt it? :)

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] FunDionysus:
Does the N5 manage a trickle charge when it is almost fully charged? What is the long term impact of trickle charging the N5? I guess will find out.

After the SIM chip, activation card, screen case and protector are delivered next up is a battery pack for the Red. Wondering how might driving a USB stick (va StickMount) impact the battery? But over the long term I should get a USB OTG cable/storage or maybe try a USB hub with my portable USB 1TB hard drive. I assume it would need to be a powered hub. Need to investigate battery impact from rconnecting anything to the USB port.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I've noticed this as well. Shows that the battery percentage is mostly just an estimation.

Unplugging the phone when it first hits 100% it will quickly drop to 98% with the screen off and then stay that way for hours. However charging over night this won't happen.
[Nexus 5 General] roydondsa:
77 minutes from 100 to 90 %

guys guys I confirmed that if u charge nexus 5 after 100% then u get better battery life I am dead sure recently I charged my nexus 5 half and hour after 100& and guys believe or not I got 77 minutes on first 10% everything was off everything I was only using WiFi browsing and all no gaming no videos stock android franko kernel 32 guys. and previously when I used to immediately disconnect after 100% max I used to get was 45% for first 10% guys try for uraelf if u guys think I am fooling
[Nexus 5 General] DeadSOL:
Such battery life. Much amazing. Very screen on. Wow.
[Nexus 5 General] P_A:
Cataclysm & franco.kernel r32

Sync and Location activated (Battery Saving option)
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
Unfortunately, in my experience, USB OTG is a massive battery drain even when it is idle. I'm using a microusb microsd card reader and I can see the battery percentage going down wile doing nothing.

If you need to trigger a media scan (e.g. to use Play Music) it's even worse.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I noticed this as well...

I made a thread about it and managed to get some good answers from it.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2640251

Hope this helps! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] HUNTERANGEL121:
This is what I'm getting.... Haven't been able to test LTE yet though...
[Nexus 5 General] solarspeed:
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Plugged off and forgot to turn off Wi-Fi at around 6 AM. 12h work shift, very light usage with no background battery hogs like Skype, just usual texting, email, news and stuff like that. Got home, some games, news again (gReader), Pocket, Reddit Flow. Everything on HSPA+ with WiFi on, high precision GPS a very few times, no location reporting and no Google Now (it is useless where I live).

Stock 4.4.2, rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Pure stock. Starting to level out nicely
[Nexus 5 General] Charlus97:
Pure stock too. Wifi always ON, NFC & GPS too.
[Nexus 5 General] Hofferick:
I was worried that nexus 5 wouldn't give me enough battery but it's really doing well for me.
[Nexus 5 General] jakestash:
What ROM and kernel are you using?
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
Great??????

Great???????????

25 minutes screen on time with 4 hours total and your down 10% and you call that great?????

All I see is bad battery for 85% of people posting here.

Such bad battery life... Only 3:30 hours screen on time with 1 day total.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
no need to be a ****
[Nexus 5 General] jakestash:
Want to explain your math? I'm curious as to how you got 3:30 for total SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] ssro:
I think it good