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[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
On your 3g data how is the signal? When I had at&t I was getting horrible signal at home and will average about 3 hrs of SOT, now with tmobile my signal is great. Doing the same tasks (surfing, texting) I am getting average about 5-6 hours. I actually hit over 7 hours of SOT the other day. When you have a phone that has weak signal it will always be trying to search for that signal which will eat into your battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
I get 5 bars most of the time but in the morning to work, im in the subway for about 1 hour. The rest of the day my signal is fine. It might have to do with the horrible wifi i have at work but even when i turn off wifi and use data instead, the battery is still bad.
[Nexus 5 General] UncleMike:
I got 15 hours off charger & 3:18 sot. Some people seem to think tells in this range are good, but I think it's pretty crappy.

I also did a test of 24 hours in safe mode with Wi-Fi off and the phone untouched:

Yes, Wi-Fi was off -turned off before restarting in safe mode.
[Nexus 5 General] FoRealz:
I'm not sure if these are good or bad.

I'm not sure if these are good or bad.

I'm coming from an iPhone 4 on Verizon where I would get consistently 7-8 hours usage 2 days of Standby.

4.4.2

Stock Rom/Not rooted.

Lowest brightness

Google Now off

Location Off

Lots of syncing turned off
[Nexus 5 General] PhillyCheez:
I'm getting 22-25 hours with about 4-6 hours of screen time on average. If all I'm doing is reading a book I can get waaaaay more hours and an easy 10+ hours of screen on time.

Location accuracy is high. Google Now turned on. Screen is usually low and not an auto.

Stock kernel, kangakat 4.4.2 ROM. Gravity box installed.

Only Gmail, calendars and contacts syncing.

I'm actually pretty happy with the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] mkwhater:
i think there is something wrong...

anyone got an idea of what it is?

these are apparently the only things running btw using franco kernel r23
[Nexus 5 General] joshyth:
install betterbatterystats, it will give you a better picture of what's causing the drain.

looking at it though, it look like google play services is up alot.
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Managed to get this yesterday. Stock 4.4.2 with gravity box and faux kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] dehsA:
I'm seeing 4+ hours of screen on time for people who are on Wi-Fi throughout the day.

I'm guessing my 3 hours mainly on 3G is considered normal?
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
U should get more SOT, have location on? Sync on? Use less brightness! I use only like 10‰... Get 6hrs SOT WiFi

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on Tapatalk⁴ Pro
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
how do you even manage to see the screen at 10% brightness?!
[Nexus 5 General] dehsA:
Well, my SOT is pretty much on par with what I was getting with my Note II.

Although today I'm currently at 49% with 1 hr 54 minutes of SOT so far. Should have no problem getting 3+ hrs.

Location is in battery saving mode but location reporting and history are both off.

Sync is on.

Brightness is at 20%.

What SOT do you get when you're not on Wi-Fi?
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Im using like 5% brightness with wifi only and all sync off. By 6 hours of unpluging from charger, i have like 50% battery left with only like 1 hour screen time. My screen time almost never reaches 3 hours from a full charge. Anyone else getting horrible battery life like me?
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
When you say you are using 5%, 10% brightness.....is that a guesstimate using the slide bar in the native android settings or are you using an app?
[Nexus 5 General] bkeaver:
I personally cannot use WiFi. If its turned on my battery drain is substantial and yes I have continuously scan unchecked and keep WiFi on while sleep set as never as well. If I have WiFi off my battery life is great!
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Both wifi and 3g kill my battery really fast. Im going to try rooting my phone and using the faux kernel and stuff.
[Nexus 5 General] haagar:
My Dads stock Nexus 5 GPS and WIFI on all the time, auto brightness. 2 Days 14 Hours and still at 39% with just shy of 3 hours screen on. Obviously he doesn't use it a ton, but this is way better than I was expecting for him.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Where's your dad? Is he shy
[Nexus 5 General] Kristi-Tech:
Me too :(
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
You guys don't know what your doing. Stay away from games and you should get 5+ hours sot no problem
[Nexus 5 General] Kristi-Tech:
No games here, using Greenify too and still I was never able to reach 4hour SOT...

Also sync off. 3G and WiFi mixed usage but most of the time on 3G. All I use it for is Facebook Messenger and Chrome browsing.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Turn the"ok Google" off, use anything but English, US and only use location when you need it
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Ok google is off, location is never on, only wifi on, no 3g, all sync is off, brightness is at 5%. Using stock android and stock launcher with about 100 apps. I kill all my apps whenever im not using them. By the end of the day, i barely get 2 hours of screen time and about 14 hours on battery
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
That's probably because you left the "always scanning" option turned on. You can find it under Settings - Wifi - menu - advanced. You have to uncheck the corresponding checkbox ;)

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[Nexus 5 General] Seadra:
I use wifi all day and no 3G ever. I get around 3hrs SoT. Though my brightness is 90% of the time is 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
..:Enviado desde mi N5:..
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
Your dad's results are very similar to my fiancee's. She stock everything except google now turned off. HIgh accuracy, auto brightness, stock everything, not even rooted. She could easily push 4+ hrs of SOT but with her usage she can easily get through 48 hours w/o charging.

My ass on the other hand with all my tweaking powers can't get back to the house after work w/o working about my phone dying on me. I'm can get just a little over 3 hrs SOT if I push it all the way down to 4% battery and thats with only 10 hours off the charger.

Funny how these things work right?
[Nexus 5 General] morphvale:
Wanted to see how the phone would react to light usage. 3G and WiFi were on/off intermittently. So was auto sync. Ok google was off, and location set to battery saving, and auto brightness. Half of the time, phone was using franco's kernel r21, and the other half r23. Running 4.4.2, flash using factory images, TWRP and rooted. UV -50, using Tricksters Mod. Quite happy with the result.
[Nexus 5 General] Kristi-Tech:
Google Now doesn't work were I live and I have disabled the always listening "Ok Google" feature. I think it might be a defective battery + maybe low signal quality (but I see 5bars all the time)...don't know. I have been thinking of buying a new battery or sell the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] watermelonjuice:
Interesting results
[Nexus 5 General] bocacra:
Man, i had a sgs2 and easily got 4h of screen with a good rom ?. I hope we can see such a good rom for this phone!

Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 mediante Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] iOSecure:
Yeah, even with some moderate 2D game I usually get 4hrs screen on
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
Wow I feel sorry for all u WiFi users with crappy SOTs...

Definitely need Franco kernel , UV ing and under clock to say 1.7ghz,, 10‰ brightness , try lux app, turn off all Google crap, disable chrome, disable all syncs, location off....naysayers might argue why cripple a beast phone

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on Tapatalk⁴ Pro
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Factory Reset and not using ART fixed my Wi-Fi issues so far after 3 days. Still full Google Now, sync, location and excellent battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Kid_droid:
Maybe I leave in a not sunny area 24/7 but why do people need more than 40 percent brightness on the nexus 5. This thing ridiculous bright even on low at times. I'm always on 10-20 percent brightness. Always getting 5 hours plus SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] samkent6:
We must be realistic here, if you are seeing more than 7 hours sot then you are not using 3g all the time or wifi, i see most are using edge. and for the average user, I depend on my 3g connection for work. Before on my s3 I was seeing 3 hours sot before I was down to 10% and thats with 3g on all the time, gps on, wifi on, you name it, it was on, all I had off was all the unnecessary bs google apps disabled since they cause crazy wakelocks. turning all these things off and then saying you have amazing battery life hardly suprises me.

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Not to mention I only just manage to reach 9 hours sot on my galaxy tab 2 which im posting from now. And thats with everything disabled as well..
[Nexus 5 General] lolzas:
yea I realy think poeple should cut the crap cuz it doesnt matter how much SOT you get with wifi cuz lets face it most of the time we are mobile thus using 3g data which takes alot more battery.. so lets see you sot with 3g guys.. cuz i get about 4-5 hours tops with EVERYTHING off and franco r23
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Good LTE is about as efficient as good Wi-Fi. 3G is weak for sure.
[Nexus 5 General] Sn00ky:
Brightness 10%, location off, google now off, all sync on, franco r24. browsing, messaging, facebooking, xda, watching youtube. Dedicated to the ones who claim that Nexus 5 has bad battery life.. At 50% Total time on battery: 6h 30mins
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
How are you guys getting that much?

Im getting like 14 hours and like 2 hours of screen time.

All my syncs are off, no location, brightness is super low.

Wifi only, google now hotkey off.

Using stock turning almost everything off, and my screen time max is like 2 hours.

I just rooted my device hoping to find a good room with better battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] riggs170:
Here is my latest

Cataclysm ROM December 12

Franco r23

WiFi always enabled and LTE

Google now enabled

Location set to battery saving

I can easily get 5 hours plus screen on time, but I appreciate not having to charge this thing every day. Hope things get better for the rest of you having problems.
[Nexus 5 General] jpchopper:
That's really odd. What shows as eating most of your battery?

Are you on 4.4.2, and if so did you take the OTA or did you flash from Google Web site?

I had issues after OTA, ended up flashing stock recovery and wiping. Installed TWRP and root again and I'm good.

Still haven't seen 3 days but leaving everything on it still lasts all day and then some. I'm on ART right now, not sure maybe it's even better on dalvik honestly my grasp on the difference isn't great.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
I sideloaded 4.4.2 but even before that my battery was really bad. Screen time and android os was most of my battery even though i had really low sscreen time and brightness. I installed TWRP and rooted today. I heard some good stories about the battery life of some roms and I wanted to try them. Hopefully theyre good.
[Nexus 5 General] Nejz:
stock 4.4.2

franco kernel
[Nexus 5 General] adityameena26:
I got my nexus 5 2 days ago..playing with it since then..no dead pixel..nothing..but havimg issues with battery life..with on screentime of 2hrs..its showing 20% left and on battery time is 14hrs now..wifi off..gps battery saving mode..screen minimum brightness..is it only me or everyone having such type of bad battery result on nexus 5?

I am totally stock..no root..!!
[Nexus 5 General] Elfsiren:
Got my Nexus 5 on Monday. No issues at all so far. My battery life is just fine and I'm a heavy user. Today's rundown:

Granted I used more Wifi than 3G today. Will run an all day Wifi test soon hopefully and see for sure. However, I used 3G predominantly yesterday and battery life was fine.

Also, apart from having brightness at about midpoint and using auto brightness, I have everything on.
[Nexus 5 General] KillaHurtz:
I don't get why people are saying this is the brightest panel ever. On the stock ROM the max brightness isn't close to half on a T989. I have had all Sammy flagships from the gs2 on. Had a one x and DNA and those displays are much brighter then all the sammys.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Ex-Nexus 4 users, doing the same daily routine, how does the Nexus 5 battery fare compared to it's predecessor?
[Nexus 5 General] Fatelord:
Wow these numbers are terrible compared to Xperia Z1 or even HTC one ..

Hoped Updates fixed battery life a bit, but looks like it's not happening ..
[Nexus 5 General] Gavi_M:
Very happy after sorting out all my wakelock problems, the N5 battery is pretty good, its just wakelocks and software things that bring it down.

Rom- Cataclysm 12th December release

Kernel- Franco r24 with cpu downvolted to 2.26GHz @ 1000mv

Wifi on, NFC off, Bluetooth off, Location on battery saving, Location reporting off (fixed a major google services wakelock)

Tested by watching loads of vines, browsing reddit for ages,messaging friends and watching youtube videos with 15% brightness.

If attachments won't work, I managed a SOT of 6 hours 39 mins and 45s with the phone dying in a total of 13 hours
[Nexus 5 General] vesu:
Here is mine, stock. I think its very good.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Wow, ya it looks like your getting some good deep sleep
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
I am so puzzled by all these reports of poor battery life on the nexus 5? Ok, maybe I'm not the most serious of users on here but frankly, I have been playing with mine constantly since I got it a week ago and I don't call these bad figures...

...for ANY smartphone, never mind one with one of the fastest quad core CPUs available at the moment...
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
Wow... just wow...

People are ridiculous. Reading this thread to check out the Nexus 5 battery life and I see people using their phones at 5-10% brightness level, 3G off, GPS off, sync off, greenify, no gaming, etc.

Why do you even bother to buy a phone if you're not gonna use it properly? Seriously.

If everything is turned off then buy a dumb phone for calls only.
[Nexus 5 General] jpchopper:
I don't have exact numbers for you, as I managed to break my n4 screen just as the first 4.4 ports were coming out, but to me the N5 lasts quite a bit longer.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
This is after watching one and a half episodes of walking dead with MX player.
[Nexus 5 General] Su_Tweetz:
Got my Nexus 5 two days back. Did the proper full cycle only today.

My usage pattern:

After charging it to 100% I had to go out for like 5 hrs. During that time data was off. But I played ~30 mins of games.

Then I was back home and I kept data on, on LTE till the end. During that time I installed many apps. Played more games. Took photographs to check the camera. Did lots of Tweeting and browsing. And went to sleep.

Overnight LTE was on, and woke up and came to office. Had to do some voice calls (~1 hr). Did some more browsing, texting and a hangout. And in the end managed to burn out the battery.

Battery guru was on. I have set the settings to turn off data and sync if there's no activity for more than 15 mins. And the sync goes completely off when the battery goes down below 20%. Brightness was set to Auto. And once the battery goes below 20% battery guru reduces the brightness as well.

Google Now is turned off in my location; but "OK Google" works. However all location settings are turned on.

Coming from a Galaxy Nexus, I'm quite happy with the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Awesome battery life. Better than any other phone I've had.

I had location on high accuracy and everything stock.

Sync on for two accounts and Google now on.
[Nexus 5 General] jRi0T68:
Seriously impressed with the battery on this phone. I can pull 6 hrs SOT under heavy use, with about 15 hrs up time. Then there's today, when I hardly used it...

Excreted from my Nexus 5

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[Nexus 5 General] Dragn4rce:
What I did yesterday.

Texted (Alot)

Called (4 calls • 2-6 minutes)

Browse the web (a lot)

Camera (took 6(2HDR+) pics and 2 vides)

Watched 10-20 minutes of YouTube on WiFi.

Browsed on XDA(Tapa), Google+[screw fb], Google Newsstand and some others like gmail.

Went to sleep at 4% and enabled airplane mode and woke up at 6% idling for 6 hours AT LEAST(excellent idling device compared to my Gnex)

There's my story of that battery life. :)

Stock ROM, STOCK KERNEL(Diag mode added), rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] markdapimp:
whats everyone speeds of charging the phone mine seems slow...
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
my results today

..:Enviado desde mi N5:..
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
Battery Voltage

Hi everyone, this is my first post on xda even though I have been on this forum for over 2 years. I never posted before because I would normally manage to find answers to my questions with a bit of research. But on the other hand, I feel like I could be able to answer some questions on some other threads as well. Anyway, back to the purpose of this thread.

I'm one of those people that cannot reach more than 4h15 mins of SOT. Yesterday on airplane mode for 24 hours, i got 4h30 mins of SOT.

Normally in London, with 3G on, i never get more than 4h SOT.

I noticed that on CPU-Z, when my battery is full, its voltage is 4300mv. When the battery is dead, it's roughly 3550mv.

So here I am asking a favour to the xda comunity, would it be possible for the regular thread viewers to install CPU-Z to report back there battery voltages at 100% and at 5% please ?

I was curious to know the battery voltage of the people that get 5hours+ SOT, would it be below mine or not. Same applies to the people that stuggle with their battery, it could potentially tell them if their battery is dying on them too early (at around 4000mv).

Anyway, thanks a lot !

PS: I know SOT isn't THE way to rate a battery performance, but it can be a good indicator of comparison.
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
Post screenshots of your battery usage,its seems that something its eating your battery!
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
This. KitKat on my Nex4 solved most of the 4.3 Google wakelocks (and come on Google, you of all ppl. are having rogue services?), but turning location reporting off solved one more, now I'm getting 0,6%ish standby drainage per hour (Now!, synching, data off, WiFi, GPS on but rarely used in sleep).

Since I have higher than Google-average auto-brightness, I get around 3hrs of SoT on the N4 irregardless of one-day or two-day charging, so if the Nexus 5 can improve my pattern say by 25%, I'm getting the 5, cause otherwise the N4 is still darn good.
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
I'll post the usage when I reach low battery. But regarding something eating my battery, its similar to those who don't have problems. My device sleeps well, no "Google play services" or "Android system" issues yet.

But I'll post back later.

I was just wondering if others had similar battery cutoff voltages.
[Nexus 5 General] Elfsiren:
Went through a cycle. Stock, data Sync and location services on. Google Now is activated. I spent half the time on Wifi and half on 3G. Still pretty satisfied. I didn't let the battery drain more because I was playing Doctor Who: Legacy :P

I'm coming from a Samsung Galaxy Premier which didn't have a bad battery, but I'm more satisfied with my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] dehsA:
Has anyone ever encountered Screen not showing up on the Battery screen? I've had this happened numerous times after rebooting. This morning it took two reboots for Screen to appear.
[Nexus 5 General] MrPhilo:
I get around the same battery life or just a tad more, but it's worth the performance jump and screen size etc
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
Same or better, used franco on both, UVing, n5 doesn't get know where is hot as that Nexus 4

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on XDA premium app
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Does 0.3" really make a difference? Screen size and resolution is not as big a thing for me to hand out some $200 or so, nor spec sheet, the N4 is fast enough on ART. Camera performance, thermal throttling that affects N4 gaming and battery life should show the generational jump for me.
[Nexus 5 General] OwainW:
7h SOT :)

First post :)

Here's what I've just got, having:

WiFi on most of the time, screen on auto brightness, using lots of Whatsapp, Tapatalk, two calls, a few texts, a few youtube videos and reading books and magazines.

I'm running Cataclysm Dec 12th and Franko kernel r24 using ART, I've underclocked it to 2.0GHz and undervolted 300MHz to 625mV everything seems just as fast but I get better battery life :D

Coming from a Galaxy Nexus where I struggled to get more than 2h30m SOT I think this phone is great :)

I just need to find whats causing it to wake while the screen is off and fix that.
[Nexus 5 General] MrPhilo:
For me yes :) and for battery life, you probably could get more if I downclocked it to 1.5Ghz like the Nexus 4, I mean at 2.26Ghz, it runs at 950mV and voltage should be a lot lower on 1.5Ghz.
[Nexus 5 General] slv96:
Wow, I can't get more than 4.30 screen on time! :-\

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[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
I'm in a similar boat. What's your usage like and your settings ?
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
First post with screenshots.

My reference might be useless because I was on airplane mode all long (since I got no service abroad.)

But WiFi on when I used my phone.

40 minutes of Counter strike gaming.

Loads of fb messenger.

A lot of xda reading. (2hours +)

And YouTube...

I think its reasonable, but sadly I still had to plug my phone before going to bed. So almost lasted a whole day.

Stock 4.4.2

Franco r24, UC to 1.7ghz, brightness 20-40%, location history off. Google now off.

All rest is on.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Not sure that'd make a significant difference, the SD800 downclocks for you most of the time anyway - it's the screen, radios and GPU while heavy gaming that's eating or batteries...
[Nexus 5 General] MrPhilo:
It ramps up to 2.26Ghz quite a bit using stock everything, unless you change it a bit with faux kernel, I can get 5 hour on screen time with wifi and 4 hour with 3g, downclocking it should improve battery life quite a bit imo, especially gaming, you don't need 2.3ghz for games these days.

Yeah I know they are important factors too but the SoC is important as well.
[Nexus 5 General] TheArc:
Real unhappy with the battery drain, its consistent and takes up so much power so easily. If its on 100% in 30 mins or so of gaming it takes it to 60. :/ But the overall specs and design makes me want to put this as an excuse. But it would have been nice if LG decided to add in a slightly larger battery. Or Google should have added a power saving mod.
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
I manually sync

15% is plenty bright indoors outdoors up to 100%

I leave LTE on all day minimal drain like 1%/hr max

sync off because like to manually check

don't use greenify

5.5hrs usually

not sure how I'm not using my phone mainly for browsing
[Nexus 5 General] DschinN0R:
got this yesterday.
[Nexus 5 General] OptimusVDarwin:
You just got the phone; give it a couple more days. It'll get better with time ☺
[Nexus 5 General] gasgallo:
Really impressive

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[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
Turn brightness to 10% ' yull get 5.5hrs SOT

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on XDA premium app

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Wow amazing 7hrs SOT! I gotta try cactaclysm ROM one day

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[Nexus 5 General] c_brown93:
First cycle.

Running Catacylsm + franco kernel.

Texting, some calls, Youtube videos, internet browsing, some gaming that I uninstalled, etc.
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
You mentioned gaming, which games were they and for how long roughly ?

Because games like CSS, Asphalt or Fifa kill the battery....
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Very little use so far, I disabled a ton of stuff I don't use and I'm really seeing the results of it. 25 min of calls and a bunch of texting. I'm gonna put it thru its paces tomorrow.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
2nd