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[Nexus 5 General] Peanuts.:
Check your wakelocks. Guaranteed to be that. You should be able to hit the 20hr mark easy with 3hr+ screen on. Look back on the previous post screenshot. Here is mine as of now.

All I've done root, rom & kernel stock.
[Nexus 5 General] bbedward:
This is also the first full charge the phone has had :) I'll check it out and give it a couple more days.

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] tangosierra_:
From yesterday evening - quite alright, looking at ~4h when it's fully charged. 20% brightness, 3G on all the time, very intense usage (setting up, constant whatsapp and hangouts). I'm completely stock right now. Also that was right out of the box, battery had ~85%
[Nexus 5 General] DammitCubs:
So still have 39% but I don't understand why in every phone I have ever owned for android. (6 phones now). Android OS is always like 35% of my battery drain.

What gives?

I'm using Facebook, Instagram, twitter. But all frequency for refresh is disabled - its done manually.
[Nexus 5 General] kydkupa:
The battery is not as good as my old Moto X but I haven't let it chill yet. I've flashed a few roms and just now or it back to stock rom, but I'm running Franco kernel. Have everything syncing plus a dash clock widget that updates often. The small dip up was me transferring files to my phone. Overall I'm pleased. Sure it'll get better one I leave the phone alone.
[Nexus 5 General] kydkupa:
Wasn't able to attach all the pics. He's my SOT
[Nexus 5 General] Rhatfield25:
I haven't been too upset with my battery life at all
[Nexus 5 General] unknown1205:
i average around 12-15 hours and about 3.5 hours of screen time. im a pretty heavy user. looking at some of the screenshots that were posted getting 1 day + battery life or 5 hours of screen time, your usage is pretty light. with that said, im still pretty impressed with the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] ranadroid:
I'm really impressed with the battery life. Way better than my nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] moirainee:
5hr sceeen time with elementalx 0.3
[Nexus 5 General] ranadroid:
Here are screenshots
[Nexus 5 General] theesotericone:
Yep. That's why battery life is such a personal thing. I can leave it in a sock drawer with the screen set to never time out on minimum brightness in airplane mode and give you a great screen on time. lol That said though I'm very happy with the way the device uses it's battery FOR ME.
[Nexus 5 General] Razorblood:
WiFi on all day except 30min LTE, location battery savings, Google Now On, sync off, and brightness about 15% which is good for me. Really bright screen.

Amazing standby time. Love it.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
First proper discharge. Can't say I'm disappointed. Franco kernel with cataclysm. Mostly WiFi with about 1 hour of LTE/3g
[Nexus 5 General] saadi703:
Google Now turned on.

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I am using original charger that came with it.
[Nexus 5 General] ggreenwood334:
My work schedule is a little different. I do have in airplane mode most of the day. But play games, go outside for 4g a couple times a day. Stream music on way to work. ART enabled. Utter always running and tasker.
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
That's with two hours and ten minutes of screen time. An hour of audio. Two Gmail accounts syncing.

Good enough for me.
[Nexus 5 General] dimgl:
For those saying you get 5-hour SOT because you are light users: I can assure you that's not the case.

I watch YouTube, text heavily, use LTE and check/write emails all throughout the day.

That being said, there are a few things I have to point out that seem to be making a difference:

- I have absolutely 0 wakelocks. This means I've given up on installing apps that drain my battery, like Facebook.

- I'm on the ART runtime.

- I barely take pictures.

- My brightness is constantly at 45%, which is bright enough for both indoor and outdoor use. Auto seems to drain my battery quicker.

- I get less screen on time when I use my GPS sensors to navigate or to do highly intensive processing.

Regardless, battery life is super important to me and I have to say I am really impressed.
[Nexus 5 General] tonyt3rry:
First time back on nexus since the S and I love it battery isn't too bad compared to my S3

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Most other times I get 3.30-45 4hr is my best result yet
[Nexus 5 General] Itchiee:
I've been on LTE the past 16 hours, regular texting, a few calls, reading websites...
[Nexus 5 General] erapmicks:
Clearly says on ur Battery stats u on wifi and u just turned on ur LTE for screenshot and nice idle time lol
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I am finding that Android OS is keeping the device awake a lot and it is effecting the battery when the device should be at idle. The other day for the first time ANdroid OS was not keeping my device awake and it stayed above 95% for hours.

Now it just keeps dropping battery just sitting there more then it should. I will say the one day that it slept great was when I switched to ART but not sure if that had anything to do with it but I will say that was the only day that my phone sipped battery while sleeping.

I do not want to run ART because there are still compatibilty issues with some things but now I am curious if that has any relationship to how the device sleeps.

The below picture is being unplugged for 3 hours...
[Nexus 5 General] Itchiee:
No, this phone hasn't been on wifi since leaving the office yesterday at 4:30pm.
[Nexus 5 General] bobokun:
What impressed me the most was deep sleep. I left my phone off the charger overnight (8hours) only to find a 4% battery drop in one night! My Nexus 4 had an average of 10% from leaving it off the charger overnight
[Nexus 5 General] Embattle:
Yesterday and today my phones battery has been bad since the Android OS is often sitting at 49% of use until I power off my phone, in essence something is causing my phone to stay awake for far too much.
[Nexus 5 General] AndyCizzle:
Been pretty happy so far with my N5
[Nexus 5 General] ggreenwood334:
Is it possible my battery life is getting better? Had it for 9 days now...
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
Yes. It is possible that Google did something on the back end with google play services to not destroy our batteries...assuming that was an issue for you.
[Nexus 5 General] skinien:
My battery life for the first two days wasn't that good. The third day, I let it die and then charged it overnight. I'm not sure if that actually speed up the battery calibration but my battery life is now on par with what my Moto X was doing. I finished the day with about 45% left, all on LTE for 17 hours with 2 hours of screen time. I also love the camera (better than the Moto X, too).

I think the problem with Nexus devices is that a majority of people who get them are phone nerds (including myself). Phone nerds usually look for very specific things in a phone that ends up making them like it or drive them crazy (someone is complaining about the noise the buttons make :confused:). This phone is so awesome my wife got one and got rid of her iPhone 5.

Loving this phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Well, well.... Without the taxes of wild wakelocks or bad reception, the N5 is capeable of nice things.

I've also seen that the battery charges quite faster than i think any of my past smartphones (them being SGS, S2, and GNex).
[Nexus 5 General] schleppy:
This is moderate usage, wifi most of the day, and LTE off. I also spent an hour or two in a bad signal area. I'm pretty happy with that.
[Nexus 5 General] splashattack:
I f'n love my N5

edit- I also f'n hate Tapatalk right now
[Nexus 5 General] omrij:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/nexus-5-grinds-through-our-battery-test-routine/
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
Impressive battery stats. Google Now on or off? Any other tips you can share?
[Nexus 5 General] splashattack:
Google Now on but Hotword detection off, Location on Battery Saving, syncing only Gmail and Currents (really why the hell would you need contacts ALWAYS syncing? I only sync on a new install or after adding or editing a contact) and brightness was mostly around 15% which is more than good enough for indoor use. Of course the entire time I had good signal on LTE so that probably had a lot to do with it. Of that usage, 30 minutes was Youtube videos, 20 was light gaming, and the rest was browsing the web, Tapatalk, or Google Currents. Also forgot that I had ART enabled. I'm gonna do similar usage today on Dalvik to see if there's any significant difference.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Ouch.

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Let me tell you something guys. Google services are responsible for most of the drain whether stats are showing it or not. First and foremost location reporting and Google Now!, but also whenever nonregular Google services are running on my Nexus 4 in the background, they also drain. So I have Now! and reporting off and fairly limited amount of active apps, and I usually get 3% loss over the night on network. When something like Google's calendar, alarm or Keep is left cached (I guess they turn some sort of alert service on), I get wakelocks and 7-10% drainage over the same night's period. Something is messed up since 4.3 and I bet that same sort of Google hoopla kills the struggling posters' battery while other avoid those wakelocks. Crazy.
[Nexus 5 General] spicydicy:
Stock, no root. After 2 full charges.

Decent, hopefully gets better with time.
[Nexus 5 General] val580:
average day(s) with my new nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I uninstalled the News 360 app a few hours ago and it seems like my Android OS has stopped keeping my device awake. Wonder if it was just a coincidence or really was that app.

Will be able to see for sure on a fresh start tomorrow. I just looked at which apps have used the most data so far in the settings menu and that was at the top of the list so figured that might be a start.
[Nexus 5 General] hammadj:
I am gettng TERRIBLE battery life with my N5. Worse than my Gnex or N4. Stock everything, Location on battery saving with google now on, hotword detection on. I tried turning those off one day and got minimal gains. Whats wrong?
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
It's incredible how results differ from one user to an other. It's very strange.

Mediaserver drain is an issued that sometimes come back. I had it in both 4.1 4.2 and 4.3.

I did a lot of research and then suddenly in disappeared. It could be that you have a corrupted media file.

Inviato dal mio GT-I9300 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
Anandtech are the biggest liar site with 10hours web browsing and such horrible lies.

gsmarena is the most trusted one , take a look
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
Because the LG G2 has a battery twice the size of the Nexus 5 right? Oh wait, no it doesn't, so those numbers make absolutely no sense unless they are testing the devices using different screen brightnesses or you truly believe that LG has optimized their version of Android that much more than Google has with the Nexus 5.

Also, Anandtech hasn't published their review of the phone yet. Whatever numbers were posted for an hour in the bench suite are irrelevant until they actually get posted in a review and confirmed to be accurate.
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
My nexus 5: 4hours screen

Lg g2 : 8 hours screen

Nexus 5 is using an bad display with low contrast and heavy voltage,

Trust me the lg g2 have almost twice thw power
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
No, I don't think I am going to trust you.
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
today: about 12 hours under 3G and the rest of time with wifi.

with the other 10% i can get about 30 minutes on screen.

not bad :P

..:Enviado desde mi Nexus 5:..
[Nexus 5 General] Kawaisa:
You're pretending as if the Nexus 5 and the G2 are exactly the same, except for the larger battery, but they're not.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Fully stock, no games and no 3g but plenty of surfing and texting and a few calls. Any ideas as to why the battery appears to actually increase in charge a couple of times?
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Mistakes on the battery level readings that get corrected over time.
[Nexus 5 General] tamshiwen:
Quite an improvement over the nexus 4. 2 hours of screen on time and regular/semi heavy browsing would would leave me with an empty battery on the n4. Still have over half the battery, and not on wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] Tonster1983:
I've been getting some bad and weird battery results...only my second day of use, however on this second discharge, I've noticed at the end of the battery cycle, my battery percent went from 5% to 7% with screen off back down to 5%, back up to 7%... A little bit better life on second charge, turned of voice on and location halfway through the day. Sucks to have to disable all the cool new features of a phone,and run minimal everything just to survive a day .
[Nexus 5 General] gr3gg0:
lots of battery life compared to my SGII
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
pretty sick results.. i've never seen anything even close to that. i'm part of the ~2.5 SOT crew that posts in here lamenting about the weak battery.

do you use LTE exclusively or do you use Wifi too?
[Nexus 5 General] zoppp:
Don't know how some of you are pulling 4-5hrs out of your battery.

Entire day on LTE, 30%brightness, Location off, NFC on, hotword off, Google now enabled. Everything is bare stock, no root.
[Nexus 5 General] filthygoat223996:
Browsing. Calling. Texting and some light gaming over 2 days
[Nexus 5 General] bbedward:
Wow. Day 2 is definitely better than day 1 with the phone.

Yesterday I posted I think 8 hours @ 3 hrs screen on time until I got to about 8%.

Today at 12 hours w/ 2 hours screen on time and at 51%.

Good enough for me :D
[Nexus 5 General] splashattack:
For that time I was only on LTE except maybe the first 20 minutes. Guess I'm just one of the lucky ones. Of course I don't have multiple social networking accounts syncing so that helps a bit.
[Nexus 5 General] tamshiwen:
Just got home/end of day. Quite happy with the results. This is on lte the whole time, even though wifi shows its on(for google location sevices?). Mainly browsing internet and xda, with a little facebook and checking traffic with maps and wsdot.

- unlocked and rooted

- using lux for autobrightness

- greenify to hibenate pesky apps(facebook, messenger, amazon appstore, yahoo basketball)
[Nexus 5 General] NowhereOutThere:
Wow... I've been lucky to pull 3 hours of screen on time with about 12 hours overall before my N5 drops dead. Could it be that I have a bad battery? I've noticed that Google Services is pretty much near or at the top of the top battery consuming activities.
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Result from first discharge.mostly WiFi on, an hour of 3g/lte which didn't show up for some reason. Location services was disabled until then last 30%.
[Nexus 5 General] tamshiwen:
you can always go into location services in settings and see what apps are asking for your location. N5 seems pretty efficient now with how it handles location that I don't turn it off. Biggest culprit for me is the screen brightness. Autobrightness seems to always keep the screen above 50% or near max brightness. After tinkering with brightness levels, improved battery usage considerably. Use Lux now since i'm on stock android and it works very well. It allows you to set custom profiles to adjust the screen brightness to exactly what you want, so it's bright enough to see the screen but not too overly bright, draining more battery.
[Nexus 5 General] jdawg0024:
I'm pretty happy with these results.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] alangrig:
Second full charge. Full sync, GPS, WiFi, LTE.

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[Nexus 5 General] alangrig:
continue to previous screenshot. Quite impressive in comparison to Nexus 4
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Left my phone in airplane mode for the night and the battery dropped 10% in about 8 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] FrEsHaZzBuRu:
Mehhh

These are my results with moderate use on pure LTE, all location services on and stuff and 30 minutes of WiFi hotspot tether.

I guess these results aren't horrible. Going to test with WiFi on tomorrow.
[Nexus 5 General] nyt:
Using lux to keep the screen a bit dimmer has helped a lot with battery. The factory brigthness is just way too high.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Never noticed it on my nexus 4 nexus 7 or any other android device I have owned but thanks for the answer.
[Nexus 5 General] pisanty:
The "new" facebook messenger is raping my battery.

I am running ART btw
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
trust ME, anandtech does the most legit tests right now
[Nexus 5 General] Reamer09:
I think we have the most advanced battery known to man....this is just the charge it came with out of the box and I have slightly over 3.5 hours if SOT, so I stopped using it at 20% to see how good the standby battery lasted and it appears it gained some battery back.

I'd also like to mention that for those 3.5 hours, my phone never got hot, barely even warm!

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] edwinpang:
It would be great if people could tell us their brightness settings cause it makes a big difference... Agree?
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
All day LTE , google now off, location on, auto brightness on, sync on 2 email accounts, facebook sync
[Nexus 5 General] zoppp:
That's about the same battery life I am getting. I have about the same settings as you. No clue how some of you are getting 5-6 hours. On my normal use I am averaging 3 hours of screen on time since I got my nexus a week ago. How are some of you getting screen on times like that? Custom kernel? No LTE?
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Mostly by not doing anything at all just scrolling through menus to get a nice SoT time.
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
Custom kernel is the only way to get better battery life... On atock i could get max od 5 hours od usage. Now up to 9
[Nexus 5 General] Molitro:
Have you seen his 5+ hours of voice calls?
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
On auto brightness with wifi only. 4.5h screen on time, where 2h of it is gaming.
[Nexus 5 General] tangosierra_:
I have weird battery life ... With stock kernel I got 3h 55 OST with constant 3G and very heavy usage: (constant whatsapp, twitter, Facebook with location and Google now off)

Today I flashed faux and I only managed about 3h 20min OST with similar usage patterns, and about 7h on battery. Can't send the graph because the readings are off now since I've got it charged. Could just be my problem though, but many people here had been reporting better battery... Not gonna blame anyone though because this is just my second charge, was just a little surprised, but I m sure it'd get better
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
One thing that is irritating me is I've disabled all auto syncing for Google besides Gmail. I've set up a profile in Tasker to sync everything once per day at midnight while it's on the charger using Synker. Synker has an option to show you in the status what is syncing. Still every now and again I see things like People Details pop up as syncing when it shouldn't. I don't need this crap syncing all day. Once per day is good enough.

All in all....while we don't have a huge battery I'm pretty impressed that I'm getting similar battery life as my Evo LTE. Seeing as this phone smokes the LTE and the battery is not much larger.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
So after removing my News 360 widgets from my home screen, my phone is actually sleeping like it should and Android OS is not keeping the phone awake.

I am currently at 97% battery after 2.5 hours with just a few minutes of on screen time. My Android OS is showing only being awake for 3 minutes.

Yesterday after 2.5 hours my phone was down to about 90% or even less at this time with Android OS at the top of the list and showing awake for over 40 minutes by this time.

What I suggest for people haveing problems, maybe go into your settings menu and choose data usage. I just looked at my first one on the list and it showed a lot more data being used then any of my other apps so I just started with that one and it seems like that was the culprit. Hopefully it stays like this and it is just not a fluke that it is sleeping well and just sipping battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Boss_Cuco:
I just want to add that I've also flashed the stock image and the battery has improved A LOT.

I have the same apps installed as before and I can really tell the diference.

Thanks for the tip! :D
[Nexus 5 General] Dr Tone:
I have bad LTE service in our office building. Today I turned off LTE and also turned off Wifi when leaving home, and all of a sudden the Nexus is a battery life Rock Star!
[Nexus 5 General] afunyun:
I just underclocked mine to 1.5 GHz today, UV -25 mV, will post results after a full cycle.

My battery life has improved significantly after the first few days. At first I had it on the charger trying to keep it over 50% and feeling like it was the worst battery in the world, but I've let it cycle now and it's definitely gotten better. Interesting.
[Nexus 5 General] trajik78:
Since having the phone for about a week now, I can say I'm not terribly happy with the battery life of the phone. I feel the need to be by my charger more than I felt with my HTC One...even if they are fairly similar in battery life. Taking it off my charger at about 8AM and using it for emails, web browsing, and the occasional game of PvZ 2, I'll get home about 6PM with 10% left.

In my opinion if I could go out after work and get home after dinner and drinks with 10% left that's my sweet spot for battery life. Going through a full day using the phone as you wish and without thinking about it, then hooking it back up before bed.
[Nexus 5 General] Ankru:
Guys please try the app juice defender ultimate . Does a great job with automated sync Function. You can adjust nearly everything. It helps getting more of your juice.:)

And all adjusted to auto. Google now on, sync on auto wifi connect and mobile data steady on. I had phone times from 1day and 18 hours several times.

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] teoha:
with all day lte and so much synchronazation 3hr with screen on is amazing.. if you try without them you will reach 4-5hr SOT.. i heard about the Franko kernel which makes battery life better. (you can control the harware and how much drain the battery).. this kernel has good review so search about it :).. i;ll do the same when the phone gets to my hands..
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
So since I removed a certain widget from my home screen yesterday I am getting such better battery life today. This is on LTE all day so far, everything on like Gmail Sync, Google Now, GPS etc. I do not believe in turning anything off that should be on!

I have my screen brightness set to about a quarter of the bar. This seems to be more then bright enough for almost all situations and auto seems to keep the screen brighter then usually needed.
[Nexus 5 General] bei01:
So...I'm experiencing a weird battery drain issue. For some reason, "Android OS" is sucking up a ton of battery time. This is my phone pretty much sitting idle on my desk for six hours today. Anybody else experiencing this, or have any idea what in the heck "Android OS" is doing that it needs to continuously keep my phone awake?
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
This whole thread is about high Android OS. lol

What I did was went into the settings menu, then data usage. The first app had used a lot more data then anything else in the list. It did have a widget from the app on my home scree. I removed it and today my problem was solved. Android OS is not awake at all.

You might want to see what your apps look like and how much data they are using. It might let you know what app is acting rogue.
[Nexus 5 General] jj71787:
Are you using your phone a lot? I barely touched mine except to download a few apps, check a website and a few texts.

Mine is at 78% been unplugged since 7:30 am it's now 4 pm. only thing that is high in the battery is cell stand by is at 25%, next was chrome at 14%