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[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
This is caused by google now
[Nexus 5 General] abhipati:
Completely stock
[Nexus 5 General] AbyssTrion:
Any Information on your Setup?

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[Nexus 5 General] abhipati:
Sure bro ..

No custom kernel or any battery saving apps . Auto brightness ..

Basically that's it . let me know if you want more info
[Nexus 5 General] Wergin:
battery

N5 Battery Result is Good Vs S3.

I have good use and full day use But Battery not Low..
[Nexus 5 General] SedyBenoitPeace:
Yes it is google now but is a bug that can be easily fixed with the Apps Opp, you need to find Google Search and change to off the "keep awake" option. It will be fixed and google now will not stop working!
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Hi guys,

After reading this thresad a bit I saw that everybody was getting around 3h of SOT, I decided to go with a stock kernel, Faux's, but the battery life was very poor, you'll see in the screenshots, 1h30min of SOT and 5h in total (I was at 11% battery when I took the screenshots). GPS was on, data off and brightness at the minimum (which is fine even in daylight IMO)

So guys, do any of you have an idea, or did it happen to you ? Another question, what app, of any, do you use to configure the kernel settings ? Do you leave them as default ?

I'm going to try out elementalx kernel tomorrow to see if it's better.
[Nexus 5 General] krazeecracker:
Android Os is eating your battery alive. Most likely you have a rogue app running in the background.
[Nexus 5 General] Mopar68Charger:
Pretty good.
[Nexus 5 General] Mopar68Charger:
Some reason it didn't add this to my post.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Thanks for the reply, do you know an app to monitor app running in the background ?

Also, I lost almost 40% overnight mostly because of the wifi, phone idle and cell standby. An other Google Play Services and Google Search are always eating between 10 to 25% of my battery, I disabled keep awake in AppOps but didn't change anything...
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
BBS will let you know which wakelock is doing that
[Nexus 5 General] aslanboy1905:
Everythint stock, whole day on Wifi, lots of whatsapp, instagram and twitter. These are my stats when im at home. When im outside for school etc i still get around 4-5 hours SOT with 4g most of the time on.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
"BBS" being what exactly?
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
BetterBatteryStats, you can find a free version here on the forum or a paid version which is just a donation you can do to the dev on the Play Store.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Are you using xposed?
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Usually that's a rogue wakelock and BBS will help you identify it. If it's the NLP Wakelock (which I doubt) turn off wifi and anything related to locations. Seriously think it's about GPS (if it's open)
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Yes, why ?
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
I thought so. Uninstall it and see how your battery drains.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Does Xposed drain really that much battery ? Because I was using it on my previous phone and I didn't notice any significant drain, but if you're right that might be my issue too which sucks because I can't live without Xposed...
[Nexus 5 General] nikosrs4:
Slimkat and elementalx

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] gbarayah:
From yesterday:

5 hrs SOT

Mix of WiFi and LTE (about 60% on WiFi)

Primarily used Reddit, Hangouts, Facebook and WordFeud

~45 minutes of calls over Bluetooth

~20 minutes of Navigation

This is the best I've experienced yet. Usually average about 3.5 - 4 hrs SOT. Occasionally get wakelock issues, but think I've ironed them out.

Stock Rom & Kernel with Optimized Qualcomm Libraries installed

Rooted running Xposed & Gravity Box
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
It does for me. I've used it on my Nexus 4 with no excess battery drain, but I get lots of drain on my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Then that's maybe my issue, I might do a factory reset and install AOSPA4+ while I'm at it.

After searching through the stats I think found my main issue though, it was Swiftkey keyboard which was running in the background 100% of the time, I just updated it. I was running a themed version of it and I'm back to the stock app now and I'm at 50% with 1h30 of SOT after 7h which definitely an improvement though not really good when I see people complaining about having "only" 3h of SOT ^^

Another thing that I noticed is that the service "com.google.android.gms", which is Google Play Services (correct me if I'm wrong) does a lot of wake ups, 522 until right now, and it seems too much to be normal, are you experiencing the same thing ? (it seems like Google Play Services and Android System are constently trying to get my location even if GPS and location are desactivated...
[Nexus 5 General] LayZ85:
50% with 1.5 hr SOT??That's awesome...on stock kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
No I'm using Chaos kernel, I'm happy with it, IMO the best thing is the app that comes with it, really easy to use and every tweak is explained.
[Nexus 5 General] LayZ85:
I was slowly warming to Google Now but I now find that Google Search is responsible for majority of the wakelocks on my phone...I guess I'll ahve to move on..:crying:

I really have to decide on a custom kernel too...:p
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
I think if you disable data and GPS (but not location because Google Now will constantly ping for your location but won't be able to acquire it and it will drain battery)

For the question of the kernel just choose one and find a good settings app and you'll be able to do whatever you want with that.
[Nexus 5 General] k4r70ng:
What standby drain do you guys have? i lost 3% overnight(9h) with everything off (airplane mode), no wifi, no location.
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Ive been using xposed even before this drain happened and it only happened once even till now. Its not xposed.
[Nexus 5 General] fildaben:
Please do not spread mis information. xposed is not the source of the battery drain. install wake locks and check what apps are causing your battery drain issues.
[Nexus 5 General] already known:
Stock...rooted...LTE at work...and wifi at home...
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Haha really? I had xposed installed and had high drain. I uninstalled it and my drain went back to normal. For me, that was the source of my problem. I see other people that have no issues with xposed, which I say, Good for them! I suggested he uninstall xposed and see what happens. I bet he'll see a difference.

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Ok, well disregard my last post. For me, I saw drain just like you until I uninstalled xposed. Good luck with finding out what's going on.
[Nexus 5 General] abhipati:
All stock
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Thats one amazing battery life on your phone, Im really leaning to believe that a lot of those only getting 4hrs with moderate use has a dud battery including mine.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
I am sure many people with stock ROM or kernel who are getting all the great battery life would disprove that custom kernels actually help in battery.

In fact I am glad I am not the only one with such setup.

If you are using custom kernel, try using CurrentWidget and see if the drain rate is reduced when compared to stock.
[Nexus 5 General] RadarBeep:
I wish I had the battery twice ...
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
The battery is bad if you're a heavy user, the only time I need more than 2h of SOT is when I'm at home and I can charge it whenever I want so it really depends on your use.
[Nexus 5 General] InfectedSoap:
Stock with GravityBox and franco.kernel r32:
[Nexus 5 General] Visa Declined:
I don't consider myself a heavy user, but I work a 12hr shift, and my phone never makes it through the night without being on the charger for a small pick-me-up. Franko Kernel has helped immensely.
[Nexus 5 General] krazeecracker:
Anything else your using to achieve that sot? Be it greenify or another app/tweak?
[Nexus 5 General] InfectedSoap:
Nope just some franco.kernel magic. I basically get this kind of SOT every day.
[Nexus 5 General] wim69:
Same setup here. Franco kernel, stock ROM and Qualcomm battery guru.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
And do you use any app to tweak the kernel settings or is it default ?
[Nexus 5 General] dream21:
Rom Cataclysm Chaos Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] InfectedSoap:
Well underclocked the CPU with 75mV across the board and disabled fsync with franco.kernel updater but both of those things should have negligible effect on battery life.

Underclocking basically only effects the thermal throttling and disabling fsync only makes the IO faster.
[Nexus 5 General] StrizzMatik:
Running Cataclysm with Linaro Franco r32
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
Stock. No root. Google now off, location on battery saver, brightness at 20 percent. Can't complain.
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Guys, my Nexus drains really much over night, like 10-15%. Is there any way to minimize the drain? I can't use BBS, because I'm not rooted :(

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[Nexus 5 General] :
OK, got 6hrs 30mins SOT...

Cataclysm ROM w/ Bricked Hammerhead Kernel, Undervolted -100mv, ondemand governer, CPU Min: 249 Max: 900. Anymore details needed then just ask! :P
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
you only need root for BBS to detect alarms or something. but wakelock detector can help too
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Wow, undervolted -100mV ! Not having any issues ? I'm impressed !
[Nexus 5 General] :
Well this was taken on the day I was tinkering with voltages and that, I had it on -100mv, but it did tend to crash... I now have it on -75mv because all the crashes became annoying... Besides, I didn't really lose to much battery anyway :P
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Well, good for you, I even struggle to have 3h of SOT...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Wow, doesn't sound too good... U tried underclocking? That saves allot of battery I've heard
[Nexus 5 General] BrainChecker:
Hey, I got my Nexus 5 last wednesday and in general im very happy with this phone :good:

But battery-life isn't so good until now.

Today I used my phone relativly seldom, in general every 45min between the lessons :p

During the break I surfed for ca. 30min with Chrome...I think that was all.

Standby-usage isn't really good, but when the screen is on it's terrible. While I was trying out my new USB-OTG cable for around 5 minutes, I lost 4% battery.

I've made so screenshots for you, I hope that you will find something I didn't recognized :fingers-crossed:

info: stock 4.4.2, unlocked & rooted, only some mods with Xposed Framework.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
I under clocked at 1.9 today and undervolted -20mV, will try to undervolt at 1.2 and undervolt -50mV, the thing is do quite a lot of 3G (between 30min to an hour) and it drains a lot of battery, but today Google Play Services has been draining my battery and I don't know ^^
[Nexus 5 General] :
One thing I suggest is uninstalling Facebook and Facebook messenger and instead using a bookmark, since android doesn't have a dedicated Facebook app... From my experience Facebook app takes quite a bit of battery.:confused:

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It's quite a common problem with Google services, so I would suggest goggling it (ironic right?) and troubleshooting for yourself.. For the 3g, I suggest an app called intelli3g, I've heard some great stuff about that... I do get some drain when using 4G, and as far as I know you can't really fix it, that's just life :(
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Well I used Greenify and hibernated both apps so it is not a problem, the real problem seems to be Play Services, I looked and it does between 200 to 500 wakeups a day (approx. 16h)

I'll try that ^^, Intelli3G is not for me because I disable mobile data when I don't use it, and for 4G I'm in France and it is still pretty expensive and doesn't even cover every big city for now...
[Nexus 5 General] GialanG:
I'm impressed... by the UC, not the SoT... You should have bought a Lenovo P770 (3,500MAh) or Lenovo P780 (4,000MAh) instead of N5 :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
Tbh I've never heard of then phones, I'll research and get back to you on that! :D
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
Is anyone else experiencing an issue whereby you get heavy drain without any noticeable wakelocks/bad signal?

I've been experiencing over 5% per hour idle drain with 95% deep sleep and 3-4 bars of LTE signal.

The issue is strange as the drain will be .3% per hour under the same conditions but then after a few hours it will sudden start plummeting.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Done some research, and I defo prefer compromising battery life for an amazing display, exclusive android updates and just a generally sexy looking phone :D to me for the price of a nexus 5 it is the best phone on the market (would be note but the price is just :( :bad: ) besides I don't like the designs of the lenovo phones :(

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I noticed your awake vs screen on were pretty much identical... How'd u manage that?! I assume it's something to do with wakelocks...?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Wifi is killing my battery in deep sleep, any tips ?

:\ thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
Just disable it, or you might find an app that does that for you or just go in settings->wifi->advanced there might be something there.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Jonnyredcorn:
I had just ordered my nexus 5 and was worried about battery life as it has a much smaller battery and I will at most get 4 hours of screen time before I immediately have to charge it. This is easing my nerves a bit

Sent from my AT&T Galaxy S4 Running KangaKit powered by ktoonez's Kernel!
[Nexus 5 General] :
Ill try, any reason why it would keep killing my phone (the wifi) ?

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Same battery life as the S4 well better since stock android is easier on the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
An app may be using it, but I noticed to that Wi-Fi was quite battery consuming, I usually disable it when I don't use it so this doesn't affect me that much though I can see why it is a problem for you if you use Wi-Fi a lot.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] OMGBEES:
You really should not have to disable wifi to save battery life. Something is keeping the device awake. It may only happen while on wifi but the wifi itself is almost surely not the cause. I frequently leave old devices on airplane mode + wifi and they will sit for an entire week before needing to be charged. I recommend installing BetterBatteryStats and checking for wakelocks.

Edit: I should say that there have been cases of bad access points keeping devices awake but I stand by my statement that you shouldn't have to disable wifi on the device to save battery. Fix the root cause.
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Doesnt wakelock detector also needs root?

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[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
It needs root for some features (the most important ones though)

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[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i think it's the same as BBS, it's only needed for certain things. it's at least worth a shot to see if what it detects is what is keeping your device awake
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Ah okay I tried it. Sadly I can't see what is keeping my device awake because I don't got root.. :(

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[Nexus 5 General] Lamalord2:
Passes the day without problems
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
Figured I'd share for the sake of posterity. :p

T-Mobile LTE at all times

GPS on at all times

Rooted, stock w/ Faux kernel 008m

Frozen apps: GEL launcher, stock news app, stock email app, Google Earth, all non-English keyboards

Total uptime: 26 hours and 43 minutes

Screen on Time: ~ 4 hours

Level of happiness, when compared to my VZW Gnex: Priceless :p
[Nexus 5 General] krazeecracker:
Couple of questions for ya. Greenify or any other apps being used? Any custom kernel settings? And what was your screen brightness at?
[Nexus 5 General] neugenusis:
Here's mine. Average SoT = 4 to 4.3 hrs.

Description:

- Rom: KANGAKAT (4.4.2) - Kernel: Franco Kernel r32

- Greenified apps that would impact battery.

- Juice Defender disables data when screen off.

- +95% of SoT is web browsing (no video, no flash, non-aggressive surfing), other usage type is minimal impact to battery.

- Tmobile 3G prefered only (disabled LTE)

- No Wifi usage.

- brightness at ~ 10% fixed. Indoors only.

- No NFC, sync disable, no Bluetooth, "Ok Google" disabled, etc

Note: Highest app usage says Wakelock. It is actually Boat Browser. Don't know why it says that, but BBS detects no bad wakelocks.

Doesn't get even close to my G2 (with CM10.2) with same usage pattern, but is good improvement over my N4. This should last a day.
[Nexus 5 General] wietse1988:
On stock rom with stock kernel, rooted. Don't use any battery saving apps. Have Google now enabled and syncing on all the time. Was 50-50 on wifi-lte. Screen brightness on auto. Barely no battery drain overnight. I'm very happy with the results! With normal usage, I can easily make it through the day.
[Nexus 5 General] JohnLocke44:
Stock ROM (rooted) + Stock Kernel + Gravity Box

30% Screen Brightness

GPS High Accuracy

30% LTE / 10% HSPA+ / 60% WiFi

40min of Dead Trigger 2 with Ultra High graphics (Tegra 4 mod).

Google Now Off

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[Nexus 5 General] PLEEZEFRAGME:
Mahdi Rom

Franco r32

No OC, stock speeds and voltages
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
rom and kernel stock.

..:Enviado desde mi N5:..
[Nexus 5 General] patelhim101:
Everything stock. Using Lux and Snapdragon Battery Guru. Got 1 day and 3 hours with Nexus 5 battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Spacewide:
Is it okay to hibernate franco kernel updater with Greenify?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Get rid of the battery guru app and you will get even more battery. If you're just using it temporarily ignore this. :)
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
True. I used to use one of those and after uninstalling I feel like it's still the same it even better. They don't really help.

Sent from my white LG Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] nyyankees1237:
PA Beta 3 + Franco r32, second cycle.

Mixed WiFi and LTE (mostly WiFi).

Undervolted and UC'd slightly to 1.9ghz.

Not too bad! Would've gotten over 5 hrs if I wasn't using vine for an hour ?
[Nexus 5 General] patelhim101:
I want to but this battery guru kills background tasks after 15 min of inactivity. That may be helpful. But using it since only 1 week. Just trying. I use whatsapp all the day only.
[Nexus 5 General] Angelakaro:
Really impressed today, everything stock since the day i buyed my nexus 5 :laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] AbyssTrion:
Give us some Details my dear Friend!

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[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
not very intense use...

..:Enviado desde mi N5:..
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I find Youtube to be the most battery efficient when it comes to video streaming but this night it was an hour of Netflix and a bit over 2 hours of Twitch.tv high quality and the battery also did well. Just under an hour of music using the phone's speaker near max volume, plus basic usage browsing Play Store and a few texts.

Stock using Wifi, sync when charging only, location off while at home. Lux brightness + Llama automation. Not sure how the media server drain fits in with everything.
[Nexus 5 General] veracu:
typical weekday usage for me. rooted unlocked latest Franco kernel with motoX_4.4_qcoptimized.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
Wow only one hour and 11 minutes? Calls must use up lots of battery.

Sent from my white LG Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] veracu:
i talked for nearly two hours on speaker phone while driving. typical weekday usage. wifi was only on for the last few minutes. don't know...

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i wonder too that if some of these multi-hour screen on times come from simply turning the screen on really low dim and disabling the screen off feature because you rarely see a screen intensive app associated with so many hours of usage.
[Nexus 5 General] mateenf:
This is mine in half a day. Im very impressed. Stock and rooted...

Calls, whatsapp, bbm, videos...
[Nexus 5 General] Angelakaro:
What do you mean for "detail"? Anyway, I'll try to answer you: WI FI on all day, some light gaming (strata and kami), facebook, whatsapp, localisation setted to battery saving (so, GPS off), some music playback...anyway, i have to admit that i was at home all day so my battery wasn't wasted by poor 3g signal. Also, i connected my phone to my PC to transfer some images, but of course the battery charging was ridicoulous (≈ +2/3%)
[Nexus 5 General] AbyssTrion:
That was exactly what I meant, haha! Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
because if you can't get that kind of screen on time, then no one else is ever allowed to, right?

everyone uses their phone differently. just because you keep high accuracy gps on or lte on or wifi scanning on or google now with 24/7 wakelocks on, doesn't mean everyone else does too
[Nexus 5 General] Panayiotis91:
First day with my nexus 5! during the day i was downloading apps and customizing it, wifi always on except when i was out or sleeping!
[Nexus 5 General] veracu:
battery life doesn't need to be such a touchy thing. this "i can't, you can't" thing is highly presumptuous too. I'm just wondering why when a screen has been on for 4 to 10 hours that i rarely see a screen intensive app. that's all.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
but that's exactly what it is. i like how you call me presumptuous yet you're the one assuming that no one can use 'intensive apps' and get multi hour screen on time.

pot, meet kettle ;)

so what would you like to see, a game? a video? what is your accepted apps that qualify as 'intensive apps'
[Nexus 5 General] C3C076:
Everything stock, including kernel, no UV, no UC, dalvik, GravityBox

Usage: Google Now on, location reporting on (battery saving mode), lot of tapatalk, G+, gmail, some web browsing, hangouts, couple of calls, youtube, a lot of debugging of GravityBox with ADB over WiFi with many soft reboots performed (which is a cause of those glitches in the graph)

8% left.
[Nexus 5 General] veracu:
i haven't assumed anything. i used the words "i wonder," because i don't know. it means I'm thinking of an answer to something i noticed but don't understand. you're misquoting me. i have no standard for what is an acceptable screen intensive app but obviously something like a game or video player fits the definition.

also presumptuous has more to do with arrogance (a theme you've continued with this message) than it does with assumptions made. direct message if this is something you want to continue.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Not bad for 50%. Google Now on, location on highest accuracy, WiFi scanning always on, LTE on for about 8 of those hours. Just a lot of web browsing, forum reading. Nothing too extensive.

I'm using CM11 with the stock CM kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Oops, here's the other part
[Nexus 5 General] 007xico:
What a lot of crap this battery has been.

The best part is Google now off , location off , brightness really low , Bluetooth off and most of the time on wi fi. Not many apps installed and completely stock.
[Nexus 5 General] jacqueline_du93:
I know right ? The weird is that 2 days ago my battery lasted 30h with almost 3h of SOT and yesterday I lost 50% overnight whereas I usually loose 5 to 10%. I used to have the same battery life but try to install a custom kernel and tweak some things here and there, you'll see your battery life improve overall.
[Nexus 5 General] markdapimp:
Google need to make Motorola for nexus line as they are the experts in battery life. Moto x droid razr MAxx etc...

My iphone 5c which has a lower battery capacity with twice the screen brightness outperforms the nexus 5

Hopefully they will fix this in an update 4.4.3 perhaps?