yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Guys, here's results after reflashing images on N4. I suspect same goes with N5. Give it a go. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2107163
[Nexus 5 General] tylerdurden83:
My Google services framework seems to consume and keep my device awake a lot, and I don't have Google now installed...

No point having all in the cloud either if I can't use it cause it'd otherwise rape my phone tho... What should I do? Disable almost all syncs? I don't even have that many!

Thanks all!
[Nexus 5 General] :
Wow, absolutely insane battery life. Been using my phone all day today, and it's nearly 1 AM. Only drained 20% of my battery. Phone is 100% stock.
[Nexus 5 General] Ankru:
I can also confirm a good battery life , sure depends on what you do , i think its not the same ,if do Hardcore gaming. By the way ,games are very impressive in this device.

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[Nexus 5 General] dimgl:
Haha this phone is incredible. With everything on, numerous calls, tons of text messaging and YouTube, I've had the phone on for an entire day, used three hours of screen time, still 38% left
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
Phone had terrible battery. Yesterday I got down to about 30% after less than 7 hours with less than an hour of screen time.

I flashed stock again last night and so far today it seems much better.

Haven't used it much so far today, but on 96% after two hours off charge. In previous days that would be closer to 80% with same use and same time.
[Nexus 5 General] KennyDumah:
It's really recommend for users with huge battery drain to reflash the factory image.

I had really bad battery life until I flashed the factory image.

Now my battery is amazing and performs very well.

5 hours SOT and better :)

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[Nexus 5 General] dimgl:
Same here. Getting the same results, about five hours or screen time. I had the same problem with insane battery drain and I just erased my phone, was a little more mindful of what I installed and all of my problems went away. I think a big part of it had to do with Facebook.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Battery life has improved greatly for me. Nothing special going on, just rooted and using Greenify. I'm coming from a Note 2 running an AOSP ROM that was only getting 4-5 hours SOT, so I'm quite happy with my N5.
[Nexus 5 General] bleuxeon:
- I use ART instead of Dalvik cache (dev option)

- auto-brightness ON

- NFC OFF

- Google now NOT configured

- Sync only : contacts,contacts details, Chrome, calendar, apps.

- I don't use LTE, only H and H+

- I did a factory reset since since I have unlocked the phone

- I am rooted and in SuperSU disabled notifications, granted permissions to automatic YES, disabled logging events.

That's all I can think about that may leads to better battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] splashattack:
Pretty nice on battery life. My Galaxy S3 on CM10.2 with 4200mah extended battery got only 1 hour more screen on time with similar usage.
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
I lost 50%with in 2 hours and like 20 minutes if screen time my second day. It says Google services was the bulk of the drain. 3rd day it was back to normal.
[Nexus 5 General] jonathan3579:
Good to see I'm not the only one having this issue. It's a very annoying change.
[Nexus 5 General] Guzanni:
I am very happy with my battery life. Much better than my rooted stock N4 with Greenify.

Google now off

Sync on

On WiFi most of the time

Using Facebook app
[Nexus 5 General] jericho7:
Im getting pretty good battery life, I had some issues with Google Services keeping the phone awake but that seems to have calmed down for now

Here are my stats,

Rooted, ART runtime, nothing disabled, WIFI at home with crappy network signal, 3G everywhere else
[Nexus 5 General] RankWinner:
105 4468635

How do people get such good screen on time? I do use my Nexus 5 quite a lot and I game a bit (well, not very intensive puzzle games anyway) and mine is... meh, it lasts long enough for me to use it throughout the day and get home to charge it but only just.

http://imgur.com/a/49ZAX

P.S. I with XDA supported imgur gallery's...
[Nexus 5 General] TypoCorrecto:
After Five Days of Moderate Usage...

On WiFi mostly...

http://i.imgur.com/uADlzvV

http://i.imgur.com/K8ynTuC

The LTE is definitely a battery guzzler I've found in other tests...
[Nexus 5 General] goatimus:
I'm on my second nexus 5 first one would run out of battery after 10 hours with 1 hour on screen time. I sent that one back and got a new one. Battery will now last over 24 hours with anything between 3-5 hours screen time depending on what I'm running. So I think there some dodgy handsets out there.
[Nexus 5 General] stone_phalanges:
In my limited experience the phone seems to last a bit better than usual without the screen on but worse than average with the screen on.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
I recommend everyone to flash Google factory images instead of just going with the initial image that was flashed from factory. I noticed when I first got my phone I could go into chrome bandwith options and there was a selection for reducing data usage by compressing. This selection is not available after flashing stock image found on the Google website. I know this is a option in the chrome beta app, but it came with the stock chrome when I first got my phone. Does anyone have any input?

Break

I find that disabling the Android manager within the device administrator under security settings reduces android system processes and location services battery usage. I also disable the printing services and the cell alerts. I can get 5.5 hours screen on time on Wi-Fi by doing this.
[Nexus 5 General] Boonyard:
I am getting insane battery life on cataclysmic ROM and franko kernel.

Been on 9 1/2 hours today so far with 37 minutes is screen on time and I'm at 82℅. Will report back if I ever manage to kill it!
[Nexus 5 General] ghettopops:
Turned off LTE
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
Amazed with new setup . Stock ROM and faux Kernel. I am on LTE whole day with 2 hours of talk and 2 hours of sot.. Even my G2 did not get such usage time...
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
not bad am getting about 4 hours SOT using 65%battery

Via my NeXus 5 on Tapatalk⁴
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
Nice standby time..

I will post my stats by end of the day.
[Nexus 5 General] kortenoeverdev:
Stand by time is great! but 3,5 hours of screentime is the most i can get..
[Nexus 5 General] 11to3:
Nice to get this battery life, better than the nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] StrizzMatik:
Getting an easy 6+ hours SOT with Cataclysm ROM + Franco's latest betas. To say that it's a million times better than stock is an understatement!
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
I've got an N5 and my girlfriend's got a G2. Both were unplugged at 8.30 this morning (13 hours ago) and these are the results.

N5: Currently 59%. An hour and twenty on screen, 3 minutes of calls. Downloaded a podcast and listened to it for 12 minutes. Normal messaging and emailing.

G2: Currently 74%. 38 minutes of screen time. 11 minutes of calls. A few minutes on Skype to a landline. Plus normal messaging and emailing. Downloaded an app as well.

Both on 4G and wifi at various times in day.

Not exactly scientific, but the N5 isn't faring that badly in comparison.

It's a big relief as pre-flashing factory image last night the battery life was horrible.
[Nexus 5 General] uofaboy:
Updated battery stats: Google Now off, brightness at 30%, turned off WiFi and mobile data for sleeping periods.
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
Thanks going to try this.
[Nexus 5 General] waveuk:
New results based on a normal weekday. Most of the day on mobile network.

From almost 7 hours TOS with WiFi to a bit more than 3 on mobile network.
[Nexus 5 General] Hakeem5:
View attachment 2386846

I get 30+ hours easy on my N5 with average use. I try to use it for everything to drain my battery down on the second night so I can charge it.

This is all on LTE, I have not used Wifi yet.
[Nexus 5 General] hrcoprco:
What image did you use tobreflash factory image?

Anybody?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] neugenusis:
So if you keep on going with that same trend by using up the battery...... by calculation that would mean:

N5: 100-59=41%....100/41=2.44......2.44 x 80(1h20m)= 195.2mins..... 195.2/60= 3.25 hrs SOT

G2: 100-74=26%....100/26=3.85......3.85x 38= 146.3mins..................... 146.3/60=2.44 hrs SOT

Either there's a big problem with her G2......... or somethings smells fishy.
[Nexus 5 General] KennyDumah:
Actually there is only one factory image for hammerhead (Nexus 5)...

https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/hammerhead-krt16m-factory-bd9c39de.tgz

Here :)

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[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
This my updated battery: regular usage, sync on, location on, Google now off lots of browsing, texting, Facebook, around 80% Lte 20 Wifi, 3g talk time using similar battery as screen(IMHO)

Stock rom+ faux kernel..great 8,5 hours of use... 95%battery( phone does not record battery usage under 5% ).on 99% was around 9h of usage( not recorded last 5%)

Simply great...

My Lg G2 had best usage with 7 h sot and 2h of talk time within 23 hours of use

Sorry for my English..
[Nexus 5 General] jeepdroid31:
I'm getting good battery life so far
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
Her G2 is just fine. She's probably got more stuff running like location than me. She'd have Skype signed in. She might have been places with worse signal. She was still on target for two days of battery with her current usage.

Nothing fishy going on at all. I said it wasn't exactly scientific. If I get home at nine in the evening with 60% battery left most days, I'll be pretty happy. I've had a Razr Maxx for the last 18 months, so the battery is obviously not as good as that, but, after the disaster of the first few days, I now think it's looking more than promising.
[Nexus 5 General] daveybear:
Chea
[Nexus 5 General] caribouxda:
A perfect example of mediocre users who would use their device at min brightness just to show off battery results lmao yeah body have fun!
[Nexus 5 General] hrcoprco:
So what is the difference between original stock image and this one?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] KennyDumah:
No one?

But if you have a wakelock which don't wanna leave, u should start from scratch and should flash the factory image.

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[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
There is no difference. Flashing the full image should correct any possible problem caused by the update from the out of the box fw to the current one.

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[Nexus 5 General] freddie589:
This is really bugging me, some people seem to be drawing 3+ hours of sot but yesterday I only managed 2hrs sot with around 9hours phone on, until the phone turned off from low battery. I've tried doing a factory reset and that didn't help, starting to think there is a problem with my device, but highly doubt Google with give me an RMA for it...
[Nexus 5 General] keroma:
LTE battary life

Anybody using LTE instead of WIFI?

I am just wondering if i only use LTE for daily normal use, is it possible to last a day or from morning to night?
[Nexus 5 General] htowngator:
You guys seriously expected Droid Maxx level of battery? Come on.

If it gets me through a 7am-6pm work day without having to charge then I'm happy.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
it doesn't work like this with lithium batteries. only nickel batteries from 10+ years ago
[Nexus 5 General] :
Not sure what you lot are doing but I've got over 5h screen time twice now. Auto brightness everything on other than BT. Don't play games on android, use the 5S for that.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47038624
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Yes they do, it takes several charges to peak performance.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
post 1

post 2

there's 4 screenshots between the two posts, i think the biggest factor is the screen brightness. if you think it's too dark, give it a day or two and your eyes can adjust to the lower setting. this of course works better for inside use rather than outside
[Nexus 5 General] chrisjcks:
Most people are reporting a noticeably better battery life over the N4

so much for people worrying about the 2300mah announcement, how will it power a larger screen, a snapdragon 800, LTE bla bla bla. lol :)

I'm fine with the N4 battery so I should be extremely happy with the N5's.

Role on tomorrow (I've never wanted a day off work to end so quickly! lol)
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
you're talking about it 'building up a memory'

and you can read more about it here

http://njabattery.com/What_is_Lithium_Polymer_.html

it just doesn't work like that with this type of technology. for bonus points you can read about the specific battery gauge used in the N5

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2509859
[Nexus 5 General] hicks12:
Yeah if you can live with that brightness then its great but unfortunately for me outside it needs to go to 100% on the N4 haha. Thats mental screen time and I appreciate you posting details :), I must point out though that you say its 10% and yet the screen still is the greatest power draw (by far), do you have any background services going? Like Google Now, locations or Gmail syncing? Apart from Whats app that you mentioned.

Its good that you get nice times for your own usage but as always we all use phones differently and I would never get there on the N4 but the N5 seems very likely. I know you use WiFi so if you ever tried living off mobile connection you would see that time drop by miles, wish I could get WiFi everywhere haha.
[Nexus 5 General] dinodude:
[MENTION=935713]hamad[/MENTION]

I'm not lying semeon kornusky (sorry if I spelled it wrong) he shows the battery life including the onscreen time and he gets 6-7 hours of onscreen time

This battery life is achieved by under clocking and optimizing
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
Chris,

The battery life is noticeably better than the N4 from my experiences over these last couple of days

Your going to love this phone in my humble opinion it's the best phone money can buy, even if it was priced at Iphone price i'd still buy without hesitating.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisjcks:
I never doubted that for a second. :)

It's a good excuse for me to leave work just a few hours earlier tomorrow.

I stream ALOT - so I'm intrigued to see how all these lower power features work out.

People will still try to discredit the fastest & smoothest phone out there though. (& cheapest)

To the Nexus haters....

They gave us a good camera.

They gave us 1080p

They gave us the fastest chipset

They gave us 32gb

They gave us LTE

Now it will be poor loud speaker, no 64gb option, no SD Card (sigh!), no removeable battery (sigh!) and no 3000mah battery.

Funny how more than half of those complaints will be from Samsung users.

Jealous much?

LOL
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
Yes and a part from google now you have hardly done anything on the phone how does that reflect normal usage ??

todays batteries have best performence at first charge after that it only goes down

Again no sim card in therefore nothing to eat up battery, you could good as well use a tablet as your daily driver

as above , no network connected no drain. I can get 1 month standby on any phone if everything is switched off.

Some people just dont understand how phones work and what they are for. Those 7hrs screen on times can only be achieved if a phone is used as a tablet. No 3g, no phone calls, no or minimal gaming, 99% web browsing or reading a book.

Go outside where you dont have wifi, use the phone for calls, web browsing or photos and then report, results like that are total BS with no actual genuine evidence.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Same as always, texts, browsing, no calls this time, Facebook, Twitter and xda. Mix of 3G and Wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisjcks:
That's not true - at least not in my own testing - my N4 certainly gets better battery after a few days after any full wipe or ROM change.

There always seems to be a settling in period for me.

I'm sure the N5 will be no different in this case.

I understand what your saying - these batteries DO degrade with every discharge - but Android in general seems to use less after a few days.
[Nexus 5 General] Zainiak:
I should be getting mine in a couple days now. I was wondering, is that 60 hour music playback time achievable? It seems a little high to me
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
at 5hrs screen time and so many hours of usage you telling me that HD widgets ate up more than facebook or twitter or taptalk ??? this is why I dont believe people who say they manage to get so much SOT. Ohh what happened to your network? doesnt look like you are connected at all.
[Nexus 5 General] bodooo:
With airplane mode turned on yes
[Nexus 5 General] Zainiak:
Sweet! thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Vyse666:
Based on your posts, you clearly have an agenda, and want to believe the battery is bad. There are plenty of real world impressions that show it's actually good, but good luck to you and your cause.
[Nexus 5 General] saadi703:
These are my results after 2 charge cycles. I was using the phone heavily so the overall time is short but screen time is great and that's totally stock without rooting, without custom kernel and without UV or UC.

I used the phone on WIFI entire time and indoors only at auto brightness. The last shot is just before the battery was going to die.
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
Flash the factory image. That's what's worked for me. I did a reset before that and it didn't make a difference.
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Flashed to factory. Location services off, Google Now off, most syncs are turned off, "OK Google" turned off. Using wifi. Currently 71% at 6h 30min with 35min SOT. Looks kind of bad tbh for that low SOT time.
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
I'm on 88% after 4 hours 40, with quarter an hour of screen time. 20 minutes of podcast listening and 5 minutes of calls and Google Now on but location off and two email accounts syncing, so yeah, yours isn't so good. Maybe see if it improves over next few days. How is your signal? It's strong where I am.
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
I turned LTE off now because the signal was 1-2 bars with LTE and max with 3G. I'm not sure if low signal with wifi on eats battery too or not.
[Nexus 5 General] faultytowersdude:
My battery life seems to have increased since flashing factory image.
[Nexus 5 General] kortenoeverdev:
Wow impressive, do you have google now turned on or off?
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
For those sharing stats with greater than 5 hours screen on time. What is the output of the charger you're using?

I use my nexus 7 charger and I cannot go beyond 5.5 hours on Wi-Fi.
[Nexus 5 General] StrizzMatik:
And I'm at 61% still, running 11/10 Cataclysm ROM and Franco beta 8. Freaking incredible.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Try charging to full via USB overnight. Please report back.

Sent from CCCP with love...
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
I will try that if I get a chance. I never plug in my phone to my PC. As a matter of fact, I barely use my PC.

---------- Post added at 09:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:36 AM ----------

Do you think a lower power charger will truly charge the battery? Remember the battery percentage display is an estimate by the operating system. Maybe a charger that's not the OEM will throw off the battery state?
[Nexus 5 General] aliwho:
I got 3 hours of screen on time yesterday, with 16 hours off the charger. I probably could have hit 4+ hrs screen on time if I hadn't played some games.

Most of it on wifi. Everything syncing, gnow enabled, location services enabled. Stock, rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] NIPSEN:
NIPSEN results

Wifi off, Google Now off, Google location off

3 days easy ^^
[Nexus 5 General] teoha:
rooted?
[Nexus 5 General] NIPSEN:
No
[Nexus 5 General] waveuk:
Or some one that is writing in the darkness.
[Nexus 5 General] TypoCorrecto:
After 24 hours of moderate use on each LTE and WiFi, Google Now and Location On, Auto-Brightness, Stock, Not Rooted...
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Google now and location (for google) turned off

I love the almost complete lack of wakelocks.

I've been always on wifi and 2G though.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
For some reason android os has completely dominated my battery today
[Nexus 5 General] Deggy:
7 hours of SOT:

https://plus.google.com/108188270108252448424/posts/cmFogzRS2bG
[Nexus 5 General] goatimus:
Regular usage for me about an hour talk time lots of web browsing on WiFi. Never turn WiFi off. Lots of xda reading (keeping my eye on the new roms) I think the battery is pretty good my gnex was shocking in comparison.

Hmm only put one picture on. Other picture showed it being on for 1 day 12 hours ish
[Nexus 5 General] Hurizen:
Here is my duration with normal use:

Phone calls, whatsapp, facebook, played some game while on toilet ( :p ), some pictures (and these screenshots) some internet, some youtube (trailers from the new Movie section in play store). Data+Wifi always on, geoloc off when at home.

I must say I'm satisfied... :good:
[Nexus 5 General] goatimus:
Here's the other pic
[Nexus 5 General] matthewr87:
I don't know how you guys do it. Here are my results.
[Nexus 5 General] falcons2:
I'm thinking about upgrading to the n5 from my s3. My main concern is battery. If I use my phone mostly for music, a little email, and just stuff like twitter and shopping on amazon would the n5 have good enough battery for me? A lot of the music is with Bluetooth btw
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
you should be fine.. i upgraded from the s3 and to tell you the truth, i get about 4:30-5:00 hours of sot and 16-17 hours of usage.. thats not bad at all. and this is without any custom kernels or custom roms.
[Nexus 5 General] splashattack:
I switched from an S3 and battery is much better on N5. For me and my usage, I get about 40-50% more battery life I get on my S3.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
For some reason app is not letting me post multiple pictures...
[Nexus 5 General] ix3u:
I've read a bunch of the post but not all. Some I've seen have recommended ways to get better battery life... OP should update with tips or tricks so everyone doesn't have to read through everything :D... That being said. I get about 15 hours with ~3 hours sot. I feel like that is decent, but I was coming from an n2 with an extended battery so I'm used to 10 hours of sot and 2 days with our recharging
[Nexus 5 General] Nnyan:
Very light use, will test with heavy load.View attachment 2388797
[Nexus 5 General] Nnyan:
Missed one
[Nexus 5 General] enaybee:
Very light use.

Half hour worth of voice calls. Some news reading etc.

Location services OFF. Weather widgets on "Manual" updating. WIFI on 100%.

Battery life seems pretty decent to me.

I am running stock odexed rom with stock kernel (rooted).
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
And to show that I read XDA:P
[Nexus 5 General] xxgg:
I have tested on my Nexus 5 to see how long it can loop playback a 1080p mkv video.

I have set my N5 to max brightness, BT, High Accuracy location, Wifi, but no SimCard and volume down in my basement.

After 1h36m of playback, battery was at 74%.

So roughly 6.2 hours or so in total is possible?

I now reduced brightness to about 60% or so, GPS off, BT off, and all other setting the same and total estimate would have been around 8.2 hours or so.
[Nexus 5 General] crazyalaa:
I got over 5 hours of screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] StrizzMatik:
EXTREMELY happy with my N5's battery life. Cataclysm ROM with Franco Kernel beta 8
[Nexus 5 General] dimgl:
Completely stock, today's battery life. FIVE HOURS of screen time! I'm so happy with this phone. And my screen brightness is pretty high.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Getting around 5 hours SOT has been the norm for me for the past few days. Everything stock, syncs on, Google Now on, location on highest accuracy. So much better than my N4.
[Nexus 5 General] bbedward:
About 8.5 hours with 2.5 hours screen on time.

Not very impressed, but it's about the same as my HTC One, which doesn't impress me either. I'll probably undervolt it a little bit soon.