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[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Has anyone come from HTC one. How does the battery compare ? Thank u all.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
I got an htc one.

I would say they are comparable in battery life with the nexus 5 a little bit better due to all the additional power saving features it has (lte envelope tracking, panel self refresh, dsp audio tunneling).

However, the n5 does have a bigger screen and a more powerful cpu/gpu so in the end they even out.

anandtech's n5 review shows that the n5 gets better battery life than the htc one using their battery tests.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7517/google-nexus-5-review/3
[Nexus 5 General] crkdslider:
This thing is WAY better then the One. I came from the HTC and never got close to this.
[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Thanks guys. Really appreciate all the comments. I find the HTC battery really bad but reviewers really never said just how bad as most were like wow a metal phone !!!! But they all slate the nexus 5 battery ? Biased I feel. Much better to get feedback by real people. Think I am sold. Been a while since I had a nexus.
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
don't ask me how in the hell but I just used it like normal today. I decided to just check and see. no trickery I am amazed
[Nexus 5 General] crkdslider:
Now that is impressive.
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
I couldn't imagine a 3,000 ma battery :highfive:
[Nexus 5 General] rodeo2:
This is just AWESOME for me

Routinely crossing 1d 5 hr mark (with 5 hrs screen time) for the last 6-7 cycles since I disabled my most beloved (sad) "OK Google".
[Nexus 5 General] ArtG818:
We need to know if you're on ART or Dalvik that's all :D
[Nexus 5 General] bhavin23:
My first usage cycle....pretty good :)

Google Now ON , but location is OFF

Auto Brightness
[Nexus 5 General] sNiPe78:
Any specific kernel ?
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Don't want to quote the huge picture, but to the person with the 8 hours of SOT. You wouldn't happen to be on 4.4.1 would you? Just a thought. Would be incredible if it gave everyone that kind of battery life.

EDIT: Also, what did you actually use the screen for? Strangely there's barely any apps that used up your battery besides google search which is still small at 10%.
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
mostly texting. via KIK and Badoo. and SKout. I didn't do the OTA as of yet.

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all stock
[Nexus 5 General] rans0m00:
This is more or less my standard day of usage if the phone is getting used (not sitting idle on my desk). As of now everything is running pretty much unaltered. Unlocked and root but stock. LTE, WIFI, and gps. Bluetooth was turned off. I am sure I could disable things or undervolt to get better battery life but I just wanted to post a standard should be stock battery expectation with moderately high usage. Running 4.4.

The screen shot was taken probably less than a minute after I put it on the charger in my car.... almost forgot to take the screen shot for my battery test of the day :P

Will do another at some point with 4.4.1 to see if there is any notable change in battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] jejemc:
hello my screen
[Nexus 5 General] Intake:
Here's my battery screens I still need some tweaks. I'm stock and unrooted. I have location reporting and history off, location mode on battery saving, brightness slightly higher than 0, and commute sharing off.

Does anyone know what causes the Android system and Android OS to drain so much?
[Nexus 5 General] iamhacked:
Finally some decent battery life... I'm fully stock.
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
In on my 3rd cycle since 4.4.1 update yesterday, I know I use it constantly.

I'm finding battery life to be quite bad and I don't know why. Phone sleeps fine, just in use on general browsing on the same brightness I'm getting noticeably less minutes per 10% of battery.. I should get 45 minutes when in the high percentages, but I'm barely scraping past 30?
[Nexus 5 General] heavyarms1912:
Mine. After.2nd full charge still juice left to go 2 hrs screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Seems like your phones aren't sleeping. U less you are gaming or have high brightness set, its hard to get less than 5 hours battery.
[Nexus 5 General] TheIgster:
Had a GS3 prior to the N5. On the GS3 running CM and all sorts of tweaks, with location off and not using much of anything. With the N5, stock, Google Now and location on and the battery life isn't even close. The N5 lasts all day long for me without issue. With the GS3, I would be looking for a usb cable to charge...with the N5, it just keeps going and going. Love the battery life on the N5. Amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] CPaladin:
Man the Screen On battery is really killing me. This morning I was browesering web for 20min and it's already 6% off. The screen takes 29% percent battery and I was on -40% brightness(that's right, MINUS 40 percent using Lux) I mean really? The screen is THAT power hungry?

The standby time is good really, would easily made a day or even two with light usage. But if you like to play some big ass game like I do you're out of luck
[Nexus 5 General] Sc0rp10:
Are you using Google now and location services? For me the biggest battery hog is the nlp wakelock which I believe is mostly generated by Google now.
[Nexus 5 General] xtremev1:
So after some tweeking and getting to 4.4.1 here are my results

Stock rooted, auto brightness

I use tasker to regulate my auto syncing. Every hour on top of the hour auto sync turns on for 5 minutes to catch up on emails, new contacts, etc etc.

WiFi was not on for a while. Every time it was it was to stream some podcasts during some downtime at work.

Bluetooth streaming anytime I was in the car via Google music

Greenify Google search, I honestly don't know if its doing anything, I think it does.

I also don't run the stock launcher. I use nova launcher
[Nexus 5 General] awesomenexus:
Can't complain!

This is after the second full charge. Almost all the time on WiFi (except for around 1.5 hours during commute to/from work), 2 Gmail accounts syncing contacts/calendar/gmail, google now, location settings to battery saving mode, and on HSPA+ instead of 4G LTE (I think LTE is just overstated -- for mobile phones, HSPA+ is much more than sufficient, see screenshot attached).
[Nexus 5 General] aikelo:
I'll found out that I'm getting 2 hours more on screen time when on WiFi.

At work I'll get about 3h ost with heavy use on mobile network. At home on wifi I'll get 5h ost.

Both scenarios about 14h of total time unplugged
[Nexus 5 General] jejemc:
Hello to you personally I want more than 5 days with a bit of wifi, call 3g

the main one being off the 3g connection when you do not use it very well saves the batery.

I am under the stock rom custom kernel gravitattion

screen to view previous page. : Bien:
[Nexus 5 General] fugn:
Is this stock 4.4.1? That's impressive if so.

My battery performance has increased on WiFi dramatically. I will test it on lte network but so far I'm happy with the update.
[Nexus 5 General] aikelo:
Yes, its stock 4.4.1
[Nexus 5 General] daddioj:
google now is turned on but GPS is turned off.
[Nexus 5 General] adey64:
wow all stock?
[Nexus 5 General] SamBG:
Yeah completely stock...only the second day of me havin the phone..but todays story is a bit different with total battery runnin for 7+hours with 4+hour of SOT(mid to heavy usage)
[Nexus 5 General] adwinp:
stop bull****ting - this would mean that you spent 1 whole day out of 5 actually speaking on the phone.

Did you hexedit batterystats.bin?
[Nexus 5 General] Datsun.510:
Running Hellkat Rom with Chaos kernel 2.1. Getting 30.5 Hours run time with 5.5 hours of screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
My 4 day battery result, I rarely make phone calls but do check/send text & emails often, I also listen to a lot of audio books & podcasts (2-3 hours a day) but that's N5's strong point with DSP tunneling.
[Nexus 5 General] :
4.4.1 seems to give a lil battery life here lost 8% overnight
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Can't complain at all: 5+ hours SOT, 3 hours of Bluetooth music, auto brightness, sync on, Location set to high accuracy. mostly on whatsapp, tapatalk, instagram and flipboard
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
I'm seeing great battery life as long as when I finish charging I reboot. Otherwise I have a ridiculous amount of awake time.

I'm unrooted completely stock, about 1 gig of apps installed. No Facebook, Twitter, instagram, etc.

Email every 30 minutes, wifi on, blue tooth on, screen at 20 percent, Google now off, gps on battery saver.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Anyone seem to find better idle time on LTE than Wi-Fi? < 1%/hr vs 2-3%/hr is roughly what seems to be happening to be. Almost the opposite the Nexus 4 had for me.
[Nexus 5 General] Aerowinder:
BBS log, there seems to be a problem.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
I've also noticed that but I think there might be something wrong with my wifi drivers.... on my laptop my speeds are great yet i can't watch a fk***n youtube video without it buffering like 10 times
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Can't find anything useful.
[Nexus 5 General] jejemc:
Hello Unfortunately I have re connect my phone last night to update the custom rom so no I is not the full stats but want very well miniumun three days;)

Then for: aditya. User 8% in one night that I and many lost between 1 to 2% in one night from 8 to 9:00 configuration see my signature. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] boringest:
Did some tests:

On Stock 4.4: Out & about on normal working day i.e. Tube ride for 1 hr in the morning & another hr back home in the evening, using Google Play Newsstand & listening to music via Music Unlimited with some web browser use during lunch time. Everything switched on. SOT: about 2.5 - 3 hrs.

Tried with google now off, location sharing off, location battery saving. SOT: 3-3.5hrs

Stock rooted from here: Flashed factory image. Same as above.

This weekend, put on airplane mode. Left it sleeping overnight on battery. Wake up, and loop youtube videos. Wifi-on. SOT: 5 hrs

After that, charged it up and tried again with airplane mode, loop video stored on memory, wifi off for most parts, then wifi at the end for some IMs and playing 1000000. SOT: > 6.5 hrs

Still nowhere close as some guys with wifi & 3g/4g on + 5hrs SOT!
[Nexus 5 General] setspeed:
Yes, I'm seeing great battery results since dumping Google Now - this hardware has decent battery life, but Google Now and it's location-logging just hammers the battery. I don't miss Google Now that much, personally. When Google fix it then I'll go back, but I refuse to keep shoddy software on my phone.
[Nexus 5 General] godofwall:
Hi evryone,

I got my N5 since last monday and I noticed something strange on my battery life, Android OS process is draining my battery,

I saw many screen capture of N5 battery consumption but no one seems to get this issue,

I also have N7 2012 and this process is only taking 2%

any suggestion ? or idea ?
[Nexus 5 General] stuart0001:
Try a reboot
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
I had this problem too. I even went ahead and rooted the device to install BetterBatteryStats and Greninfy... Ended up I did nothing and the issue went away... So I'm going to lean on a Google Service (not Google Play Services, but like GCM and such) was messed up causing excessive Wakelocks. Everything seems great today and last night, hit ~18hrs and 4hr SoT, mostly WiFI.
[Nexus 5 General] godofwall:
[MENTION=229151]Stuart[/MENTION] : also done, rebooted it everyday, no changes

[MENTION=4785594]whitedragonz83[/MENTION] : so nothing to do ? just wait and it will disappear ?

I willl try to reduce sync apps, and disable completely data and wifi, maybe it will fix the issue !
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
On WiFi View attachment 2441790View attachment 2441796
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
If no specific app is showing up on the Battery Status window and the Location window appears to just have normal 'low power' location monitoring, I'd wait another night and see what happens after a full charge. My 2 cents.
[Nexus 5 General] godofwall:
that's what I'm doing as the phone is still new, so I have installed/removed several apps, so maybe it can affect battery performance, I also uninstalled an application (Moves) that drained 38% of the battery, but that was another case...

I hope it will be fixed :/
[Nexus 5 General] cubskru:
I'm running the catalysym ROM with data turned off (for the most part), no uv, no oc, smartmax governor, load stats CPU quiet, location reporting turned off, touch/lock screen sounds turned off, location in battery saving mode, and auto brightness. Performance not any worse than stock for sure.
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
First day with Cataclysm and Franco19. Google now on, high accuracy GPS, multiple accounts syncing, Facebook, etc. Did spend the whole day on Wi-Fi. Couldn't get over four hours SOT before the updates. Went dead just under 5 hours SOT
[Nexus 5 General] meangreenie:
not bad.. 5% brighness, mostly just browsing forums

sorry about the massive pictures, imgur app seems to have deleted the option for smaller pics and the upload on this site is still not working
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Happened again last night to me and I noticed my Cell Signal was crap. Now at work on LTE, my signal is excellent and my battery deep sleeps again. Seems some weird issue with the radio in-conjunction with the WiFi. I might consider reflashing the old modem(radio) as people have reported weaker signals with the new modem.

Anyone else notice this or maybe done this as well? I don't believe it would be one of the WiFi patches Franco's Kernel had them applied for weeks without people having Deep Sleep issues (that I'm aware off at least).
[Nexus 5 General] Badd_blood:
I got just over 5 hours screen on time
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Another user basically confirmed WiFi breaking sleep for them.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48302483&postcount=6637

/ponder what is wrong
[Nexus 5 General] yuan_1202:
Those who get "amazing" battery life. Stop testing it with wifi on all the time. Whats the point?

If i m home using the bloody wifi i think i wont be using a phone but a tablet. And i get 8-9hr screen time easy.

Ur phonr is all about mobility, accessing Internet anywhere. So if you want to test it properly, test it with mobile data, then lets see how good your n5 battery is.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
I agree, but not everyone can afford a tablet and a smartphone.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Agree with you both.

Since the Nexus 5 is a phone, and this is a battery life results thread for said phone, you would think reporting battery results for, you know, a phone as a phone is meant to be used would be what people are posting. Most have. The others are just engaged in a **** measuring contest to see who can get the longest battery life by turning their devices into wifi-only, low brightness, everything-useful-turned-off devices. That's not real world experience, and it's not helpful to anybody who might be thinking about purchasing the Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] chiefroberts:
Typical day of use for me: off charger around 7am. Leave the house around an hour later so off WiFi onto mobile. Mobile data all day - mainly calls, texts, spotify, social networking, two email accounts pushing, Google now, GPS, brightness 50%. Back home and onto WiFi by around 6pm. I usually reach for the charger around 10:30 - 11pm. Perfectly acceptable to me if I can easily get through a full day. I had the iPhone 5 and HTC One before this and the N5 battery is better than both in my opinion. I'm not trying to go for days and I'm not trying to limit my usage in any way to try get crazy stats. Just standard average use! Hope this helps prospective buyers!
[Nexus 5 General] cpam:
This is me..... And I am giving up.....
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Spent most of the day on the road.. Auto brightness(lux), franco t20, Cataclysm rom, Stock settings. Usage has been light to moderate, mostly on whatsapp, flipboard and tapatalk, couple youtube videos and 15 min of voice calls.. with my old gs3, i was lucky to get 3:30 hours of SOT while on mobile data.. so far im at 5 SOT with 20% left. After the camera fixes, I have to say that I'm really pleased with my n5
[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Good to see someone co.ing from HTC 1. I currently have the one and looking at changing. BUt the 2 things stopping me were Battery life as have been reading its worst !! Surely not. .... And camera. Mine has the purple haze issue but apart from that there are some positives with the camera. Do you prefer the Nexus and why if I may ask ?
[Nexus 5 General] chiefroberts:
I think the battery is better personally. It was OK on the One but not great. The one thing I was nervous about on the Nexus 5 was the camera. Now again its not great but I haven't got the 4.4.1 update yet which is said to greatly improve the camera. Its passable for now but the HTC One probably trumps it currently!

Other than that I'm really enjoying stock Android over Sense. Really happy with the phone so far!

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Sorry I meant to reply to your comment. See above!
[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Thanks for comments. Generally I take phone of charge at 0500. Watch film for 1 hour then music 20 mins. YouTube bow and again through day and also calls / texts. Usual email account x 2 grabbing mail. Leave work and listen to another 20mins of music then around another 1 hour of a film on train get home at 4pm and have 14% left on battery. That's with everything off and power saving on ! Pretty rubbish I think so if nexus can beat that then bonus ;)
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
This phone gets great battery life. I'm one of those always on mobile vice WiFi but you have to understand that a load of people have garbage carriers like at&t that don't offer unlimited data. For those people, being on WiFi at home and work is a necessity.

All the talk about the n5 having poor battery life because of the battery size has proven to be wrong in my experience. 4.4.2 with the lg battery and s800 has yielded the best battery life of any phone I've owned. I get great standby and everything else. My only concession is turning off auto brightness. Everything else is synced, with high accuracy data on, google now, all mobile data, etc. Thats 48% left by the way.
[Nexus 5 General] vcfvct:
5h

most of time get 5 hours screen time.

Much better than the previous Nexus 4.

Is it because of Nexus 5 or Kitkat?
[Nexus 5 General] tmus123:
Turns out to be LTE draining...

wanted to sign up and share my battery experience.

I had TERRIBLE overnight battery drain...it would drain like 70% from full charge overnight.

i'm On Cataclysm and Franco R19.

I did have a suspicious it was the radio that was draining but reluctant to accept it(no idea why)...until last night I turned off Data just to see.

used 1% over 8 hours!

I've got Smart Radio on now, and will check overnight drain with that on.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Both! S800... Bigger battery, 4.4.2
[Nexus 5 General] ipmanwck:
Very helpful . Thak you.
[Nexus 5 General] Kristi-Tech:
Mine sucks :(

Stock 4.4.2

Never reached more than 4 hours SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] teiknarfy89:
I'm never on WiFi I'm always on LTE and get 5 hours sot and can still make it threw a day.. Today on all stock 4.4.2 I got 4 hours sot on 13 hour battery I dig it
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Holy **** 4hours ...

Gesendet von meinem GT-S5830 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] rodeo2:
Better with 4.4.2

Anyone else improved with 4.4.2 update? I am getting atleast 40 minutes more SOT than before..More than 6 hrs SOT is just fantastic..

Fully stock, except for root (Ok Google off)
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
i got 0.3% per hour drain over night. can't comment about SOT as I've been playing a few games but I've got 15.30 hours up time with 2 h 50 SOT at 27% remaining
[Nexus 5 General] Jinson7:
When I first had my Nexus it wasn't lasting 10 hours with less than 1 hours SOT. Since the update I have around 70% left after 10 hours. I think I may have read there was a bug with syncing exchange that could have been the cause.

I'm really impressed with the battery life - I don't have WIFI so always on 3G. I had navigation on yesterday for 2 hours plus 54 minutes of calls and SOT just under 2 hours. At the end of the night I was left with 17%. On my HTC One X it would have died several hours ago.
[Nexus 5 General] kEvinErd:
Do you have everything turned off to achieve that screen on time when you're on LTE throughout?

By everything, I mean stuff like Google Now, Location Services, Auto Sync and stuff..?

Did you also root and install custom roms or kernels?

I'm just trying to get a more accurate picture here.
[Nexus 5 General] whitedragonz83:
Is anybody noticing that with 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 that they're Nexus 5 is not going into deep sleep while on wifi? I thought this was fixed but it occurred last night where my device stayed awake last night and lost significant battery percentage. I have checked better battery stats and all it shows that I could understand was my wifi is being used and data is going in and out.

Edit:

Searching on Google, maybe the Nexus 5 just doesn't like my router. I did not have it long enough prior to the patches to be sure it was a patch vs hardware concern. There are some settings in my router I can adjust, which I will try tonight. It is believed that if the router can not see the phone properly and cause the phone to enter a constant wakelock with the WiFi. Or something like this... I'll report back for those that are interested.

Sidenote... no I do not plan to turn off Google Now services, location stuff, etc, etc... They do cause drain, but this is not the same thing as a little more 0.5-1%/hr drain. This is more like 3%/hr.
[Nexus 5 General] teiknarfy89:
The first post with my 5hour sot was on cataclysm ROM with faux kernal that was on 4.4.. Sorry for no screen shots from yesterdays results.. Every thing is still stock.. Stock ROM and kernal with Google now on("ok Google off ").. location set to battery saver everything is sycd 2 gmail accounts, chrome, Google music, twitter etc.. Maybe 10 min of phone call.. Some youtube and some games but as far as using my phone I'm a moderate to heavy user.. I am rooted tho but no mods just stock