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[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
I thought I'd give a small tip to people gaming and achieving low battery life.

Yesterday with 15h of up time (a normal day) I managed to get 4h23mins of SOT with 2hours of gaming on Fifa 14 and Asphalt 8.

I was shocked and loved it because it lasted a whole day without any concerns on the battery.

I'm on Franco r30, and UC your GPU is a huge help. Normally it's clocked at 450mhz, and I UC to 200mhz for FIFA 14 with no lag at all, and I UC to 320mhz for asphalt with no problems.

Under clocking the CPU didn't help much battery wise and made it laggy.

So I'd say to give it a try to uc your GPU.
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
Here's mine. Stock ROM, Faux kernel (no UC, UV only), with mixed usage: about an hour of music, half an hour gaming, some web browsing, about 50 IM and a 15mins call. BT off, WiFi only when needed, tweaked auto brightness. GNow and location history ON.

That's a noticeable improvement compared to the 4hrs SOT I could get with the stock kernel.

P.S: There hasn't been any charge, but the phone was 14% charged (and the alert popup appeared), then the charge level rose to 15%, and then went back to 14%, I don't know why :confused:

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[Nexus 5 General] ZhenMing:
I run my phone until the last 1% and I got 5 hours+ of SOT over 17 hours+ on battery. WiFi and Data are alternately turn on during the SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Why are you so surprised?

The original "raison d'etre" for forums that the likes of xda developers provided for was actually because stock phones were usually some kind of compromise and could be induced to run better by messing with ROMs etc.

I would argue that the Nexus 5 is so good "out of the box" that even a seasoned XDAer should give their new purchase a chance first in normal use before even unlocking the boot loader, much less trying another (possibly buggy) different ROM...

Compared to all other phones I've had thus far, the Nexus 5 blows all the others out of the water for battery life in normal use... (given it's excellent performance)

I'd actually go further and say (possibly controversially) that the Nexus 5 almost makes these forums redundant!! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] samkent6:
I usually have mixed battery results over the course of a week. Sometimes im seeing 4 hours sot at 10% charge left and other days its as short as 3 hours left at 10%. I understand that new apps etc might be using extra battery but im not complaining about that. I'm just saying my battery results are mixed.
[Nexus 5 General] resynx:
I'm surprised because I've never gotten battery life like him before. I'm surprised because by looking at many of these other battery posts / polls, he is getting really good battery life. Also, because the first day of use is usually the worst as battery life levels out in a few days.

As far is calling xda redundant, that's your opinion, but I strongly disagree. All of these devs here greatly increase the user experience of the N5 for myself and many others. I really find it hard to believe that you think the Nexus 5 makes this forum redundant.. but to each his own:good:
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
True and that means for a short period anyway, the battery life usually gets better not worse...

Well, I did mean that comment to be a flippant one and added a winking smiley to make sure! Just to set the record straight, I would never seriously detract from the amazing resource that these forums have been to me (never mind anyone else) over the last 10, going on 11 now, years. I may not have actually said much by way of posts over that period but I am one serious lurker for sure! :D They are an absolute mine of information that would make tech life seriously challenging if they didn't exist! :highfive:
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Ive been using my N5 since it was released and tried almost everything. Now using cyanogenmod 11 and still have never gotten over 3 hours sot. Thinking about sending back to Google for replacement.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Try draining your battery to empty and charge your phone while off, I am sure that would make a difference.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Hmmm, interesting. Actually never did that yet. Thanks, Ill try it.
[Nexus 5 General] cherrymanoj:
We know you can't wait for a battery rundown of the Nexus 5, and we made one as soon as we had a chance, with pretty foretold results.
[Nexus 5 General] resynx:
That's what I meant when I said the first day is the worst. That the battery is going to get better in a few days of use. So that's why it was surprising to me he got such good usage the first day :silly:

Of course! Everyone's needs are different, good thing we have so much choice with Android :D:good:
[Nexus 5 General] guccis:
I got my Nexus on Monday and all was well before 4.4.2 update. Once I updated, the battery drained ~70% within a day without using it much. Yesterday I switched off Google Now, Location reporting, and I had 82% by the end of the day. Try this out, it can't get worse ))))
[Nexus 5 General] adeelraj:
We can replace battery with the g2 3000mah battery

..♥♥ Sent From My A850K♥♥..
[Nexus 5 General] enlan:
In times of 3000 mAh batteries the Nexus 5 simply sucks, period!

It's simply not a flagship if you have to worry to get over the day. Further the battery maybe will last over the day now. BUT, if I'll buy a phone nowadays with the non removable batteries the only thing that matters is: Will it last over the day in 18-24 month.

With my phones losing around 1/3 of the capacity over 18-24 month I know the N5 will not manage it!

And seriously all updates don't matter if your battery is dead after tea time. I'll buy a G2. The N5 is just a huge disappointment. Not only the battery is bad, I mean 4.4 supports natively IR and the N5 doesn't have it?
[Nexus 5 General] potato8989:
Unplugged 11hrs 24mins ago.

Had my nexus 7 tethered to it via Bluetooth for 45mins on the way to and from work. Played with it for half an hour during my lunch break - installed a few apps.

Screen on and off about 30-50 times during the day. Lots of text messages and hangouts (text).

No phone calls.

SIM is 3G only.

31% remaining.

Verdict so far: Acceptable
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
has anyone tested battery life for a day with google now disabled? i can care less about google now.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
This. Since avoiding Goggle services like the plague (no Now!, alternatives for Alarm, Hangouts, Keep etc.), the Nexus 4 does quite well, 4-5hrs of SoT depending on type of usage, which is acceptable. If the little extra capacity and more efficient SoC & screen can give me one extra hour, I'll be happy, despite of course being far away from a G2/Note3 battery life. Hell, they did something great with the Nexus 7, despite the bright FHD screen, strange that the N4 didn't step forward big time.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i wish this was true. . .but no, no we can't
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
But it's not a flagship. I'm pretty sure its just a top end developers phone. Yes LG may have used that excuse to Google as LG dont want to be making better cheaper phones for another company. I can see the point but yes its kinda unfair. If google wanted to make a flagship phone they would go down the sammy route.
[Nexus 5 General] DammitCubs:
What's funny is that everyone in the world was defending the nexus 5 and it's 2300 mAH battery. It should get about same performance to an HTC one. It won't get Note 3 or G2. Also people have to realize this is the 3rd year in a row, google doesn't not optimize its battery. This isn't the iPhone bullcrap going on here where people want to believe. It's a developer phone, that means no SD, and minimal battery specs that are considered reasonable. They aren't trying to create a super phone because this phone is for developers more so than consumers. If google wanted to make a super phone, they could.

I think from this point forward. Please use science and not black magic. 4 hours Screen on time should be about decent with 3 hours being your average. This should be your normal -stock based on theoretical data on NOTE 3 and G2 batteries with same processor. The UI does not drain as much. This was proven with Google edition version of HTC one and S4 compared to their skinned counterparts.
[Nexus 5 General] ericdabbs:
Please someone post battery results with moderate to heavy use with video because that is a more likely scenario on how to stress test the battery. Battery results from video can represent time spent playing games or watching netflix/youtube. Saying the phone lasts 20 hours on just listening music on local storage with some light internet browsing and some voice calls using BT LE is not a good representation of what people use their smartphones nowadays and how the Nexus 5 battery will behave. All other results that do not have this type of representation should be ignored.
[Nexus 5 General] pseudoheld:
why should they be ignored? i dont go around filming stuff the whole day or playing games all the time.

imho all accounts of battery useage are interesting and non should be ignored. just because they don't fit into your "normal" "phone" useage doesn't mean others don't find them interesting...
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Google now and location history disabled. Not bad if you ask me. All on 3g. Navigation on for just over an hour. Taking into consideration how much juice it sucks, I'm not impressed, but fairly happy and it's definitely a noticeable improvement over N4.
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
Battery is impressive gives, I have location and gnow enabled as well
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
I agree with you on all but the fact that this is a flagship and 5$ (700mah battery!!) far from being the best smartphone ever.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
6hr screen (1st pic) -

And today, 21% left, 1 day 3 hours so far, and over 5 hrs battery so far (2nd and 3rd)
[Nexus 5 General] blinkin:
Google now with location based services disabled?
[Nexus 5 General] twolfekc:
Not bad at all.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
Can we get to this battery life in your opinion (me sgs3 with 3,000mAh on CM10.2)?
[Nexus 5 General] coffeehandle:
Why are people going on about how bad it is after seeing this :what:

This is about or more I get from my sgs4 on mdob
[Nexus 5 General] KingBeike:
Amazing improvement over my nexus 4. All day LTE, short times with wifi. Was 2h in the train Wirth LTE on and writing whats APp, looking into xda and browse the web..this kills The battery...it switches from no network, to LTE, To hspa+ to edge Every minute while going by train ( yeah i know this is normal :D) faux kernel, max freq. 1,9 GHz, MP decision on, uved by 75mv. Auto brightness. Google now off, sync on, location off. Wrote a hundrets of whats APP , xda, chrome, took some pics, a few minutes spotify... I am impressed

EDIT: i think the auto brightness is crap.. once it gets very bright, i wont go to a really dark state, when the light is low again!
[Nexus 5 General] DammitCubs:
Here are my first time battery runs -- granted this is during first device turn on.

I was installing all my 50 apps.

Google now was on

Google was syncing

I spent about one hour on hangouts IMing my friend

Web browsing

Sending texts - verifying google voice.

I basically never put it down.
[Nexus 5 General] russlowe73:
I read that with lithium ion batteries that this is no longer needed to train the battery.

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I agree, shutting off Google now, and location are the best ways to gain battery life. I get on average 14-15 hours with 4+ hours screen on. All my google apps are on full sync along with my other email accounts.
[Nexus 5 General] Sc0rp10:
You can keep google now and just turn off location reporting.
[Nexus 5 General] Lawlbringer:
Yesterday, running CM11 M2 with Franco Kernel R32:

22 hours 18 min on battery

6 hours 10 min screen-on

2% battery left

On wifi the entire time while watching A LOT of YouTube and listening to music while web surfing.
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
I kinda feel like everyone not getting 6hrs SOT has a bad battery.. I only get 4hrs.. usually around the 4hrs 15mins mark but I do play a LOT of PvZ2 and Clash of Clans.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Playing drains a lot of battery. When I play i cant get 4h, if i only browser, call and sms, its more than 5h.

So i will buy moga pro power to play.
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
Try Franco kernel, and UC your GPU and CPU , its then a whole new phone.

There was a conversation in the Franco kernel thread and the performance don't drop, and you get unbelievable battery.

i.e : I got 5h sot with 1h of FIFA 14+riptide 2.

I know its hard to believe, but once you'll try it you'll be surprised.
[Nexus 5 General] DDM123:
4% drain over 10 hours idle last night. Hot dang. System Monitor estimates 8 days of idle time, but that ain't gonna happen.

Compared to my old CDMA Galaxy Nexus, the battery on this thing is great. That piece of junk would drain > 25% during my 30 min commute on the subway (granted, I never get signal down there). If I forgot to charge that thing overnight, I was screwed.

This is with Franco Kernel #32, Cyanogen 11.0-20140110, this battery life "hack" using AppOps http://rootzwiki.com/topic/110066-increased-battery-life-hack/ , LTE, BT, and Location off, and Facebook Greenified. but everything else on and over 250 apps installed.
[Nexus 5 General] ern88:
Depends on my use. I use Battery Doctor and I find it helps prolong the battery. I can get 18 hours to day and a half.
[Nexus 5 General] 1234west:
I don't understand how some of y'all are getting 5-6+ hours of SOT. I barely get 2-2.5 hours SOT. Can anyone help me out? I'm on CM11 With Franco Kernel r32.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Turn location services off unless you really need it. Change you language to something other than us English, it'll turn off the "ok Google" thing. Those will make the major difference
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
No need to change language just turn off hot key word recognition or something like that. I can't remember the r exact name

Edit. Heres a pic

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[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
I just use English Canadian, eh
[Nexus 5 General] :
Already use Franco Kernel but without UC. Im thinking about buying the APP but I dont know if its good for me, i need to see which options there is.

And always without gps, nfc off, with only 2G without data.
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
You won't get anything better if you don't uc.

I mean, NFC off doesn't change anything, gps off doesn't help at all since you don't use GPS in games and most of the time, and 2g data helps in normal use.

But you have to look at what causes the battery to drain during gaming. And NFC, GPS and data doesn't affect gaming so those won't help you.

What helps you on the other hand is UC GPU (from 450mhz to 200mhz) and that will help a bloody lot. UC CPU helps also quite a bit.

But again, these two are your only option to help battery, especially in gaming.

Go and read the Franco kernel thread from page 1204 onwards and you'll see.

Again, what you quotes (GPS, NFC etc...) is like saying "turning of vibration will help me get 1h more in gaming.

It won't. And nor will GPS or NFC ...
[Nexus 5 General] :
Sorry if I wrote wrong, I told things that i turned off to increase battery for general use, of course for gaming is useless. thanks for your help, i will try UC my GPU and CPU.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
Actually turning off these things does help because now they're not using the battery like location services always running for different things. Turning it off will help. Of course it doesn't affect the gaming but it should improve general battery life including while playing games

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[Nexus 5 General] :
Any Good...?

Hey guys, got a Nexus 5 with these settings (below), I get about 4hrs 30mins screen on time... Is that any good and what could I do to improve it?

> Brightness 30% Mostly using Lux

> Cataclysm ROM

> Franco Kernel

> Pimp my ROM

> Underclocked -75 MV global

> Go Launcher (If that makes a difference??)

Cheers guys :)
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
Thats pretty good for 30 percent screen brightness. While indoors change it to 10 and you'll see a big improvement. Also go launcher used to sick the battery dry but I haven't used it in a while it looks like it's alright with you though.

Also turn off NFC, set location to battery saving or turn off, and shut off hot key detection in gel since you aren't using it if you stool have it installed.

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[Nexus 5 General] 1234west:
Thanks!! Any Other Tips You Have In Mind? :D
[Nexus 5 General] AbyssTrion:
My Stats. Config is completly Stock, lot of YouTube, WhatsApp, Gaming (Asphalt 8 and Jesabel) and Tapatalk or Browsing.

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[Nexus 5 General] ixl4:
Should I give it another go?

Hey guys just wanted to share my experience. I come from high end phones. First hoc evolution 4g to note 2 to gs4 to note 3 and right after the N3 i got the nexus 5 at launch. I was honestly freaked out by how terrible the battery life was. I kept it on for about and hour and a half and was down to about 70% after screen time and tinkering. I promptly sold it for a LG G2. Worst phone I ever owned.

Went back to N3 but again never use the s-pen and the physical is a bit uncomfortable day to day. I ordered a wireless mat for the nexus5 but never used it because I sold it before the mat arrived.

I am wanting to sell my N3 and give the nexus 5 another go, along with the wireless mat I can keep at work. Do you think that with a custom kernel and a custom rom I can get better battery life then pure stock?

I am very dissatisfied with the lack of dev support for the N3 due mostly to the exynos being tough to crack.

Give me another reason to give the n5 another go.

:laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] AbyssTrion:
What is your Exception from its Battery?

I am very happy with the Battery Life!

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[Nexus 5 General] ixl4:
Hi sorry didn't understand your Q. I absolutely loved the Nexus5 except the battery. I'm really wanting to give it another shot and just keep a wireless pad at work, custom rom and kernel it. I got very spoiled with the Notes battery life but honestly with my current use of the note most days I go through a full 12 hour work day and still have about 40% left at the end of the day sometimes more.

I guess what I'm looking for is a little convincing to do what I want to do anyway :p
[Nexus 5 General] nic025:
This what i've got yesterday :)
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Tried this and fully charged phone from 0. Used a day and barely reached 2 hours sot. Any other suggestions?
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Whats the best value to UC at with minimal performance loss?
[Nexus 5 General] ixl4:
Also curious. BTW I went and got the n5 tonight. Love how this thing feels in the hand
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Hmm that seems like an issue. Any apps waking your device? And do you use Instagram by any chance?
[Nexus 5 General] wenyi189:
this is mine. Franco kernel r31, stock rom, auto brightness, wifi on for the whole time.

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[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
With no performance loss :

Under clock GPU to 320mhz

Under clock CPU to 1.5ghz.

With very very minimal performance loss but unbelievable battery :

Under clock GPU to 200mhz

Under clock CPU to 1.2 GHz using per app mode in Franco kernel.

Try both setups and I use the second and love it. No lag (extremely rare) and I could game for 1-2 hours and still get 4h sot ...
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Thats pretty good I think. Heavy use in the second part, with playing games and watching Videos.

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[Nexus 5 General] :
Thanks for the tips, today I've had the brightness 20% (because I still want to see the nexus 5's amazing screen clearer) whilst playing a DraStic (Ds emu) all day non stop, as well as downloading files for about half an hour at the same time and I've been able to squeze 4 hours screen on time before it reached about 10% out of it, which I thinks pretty good, but I'd rather get more experienced users opinions on it...

I already had location services off as well as NFC, but what is hot key detection and how do I turn that off? That ks for your help, and I'll attach some screenshots :)
[Nexus 5 General] PM_Petrol:
Google Play Services bug, havent updated it to the new version yet.

~2.5h screentime, auto brightness.

Most of the time WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
I tried a whole day right after factory reseting my phone and my sot is about 2 hours so idk if any apps or stuff have to do with my bad battery.
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
Using Cataclyzm 4.4.2 faux 7m kernel. Auto brightness indoors
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hey guys,

Just wanted an opinion on kernels battery...

Ive tried using Franco and I'm currently using Bricked, Francos battery was great, lasting around 4 - 4 and a half hours screen on time playing DS emulators nonstop! But ive decided to try out Bricked to see how that goes, but so far so good.

So what do you guys recommend?

Bear in mind that I don't mind that there is no voltage control on Bricked (as far as I know), because I use other apps for that.

Thanks!

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That's quite amazing dude!! Mind sharing some details? Settings? Voltages?
[Nexus 5 General] haw_spider:
My settings

Governor.. Intellidemand 1.5 GHz (smooth)

Undervolt -75v

At 300. 625 uVolts

Dim screen mode. Autobrightness(indooors!!!)

Wifi most of the time for data. Connected to LTE radio

Mostly texting using Viber, FB messanger, browsing and You Tube
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
CM11 + Franco r32

LTE for about 7 hours. WiFi shows on due to wifi always scanning is on. Google Now on. Location on highest accuracy and location reporting on. Not too shabby...
[Nexus 5 General] PM_Petrol:
Nice man, and you still had 44% left.
[Nexus 5 General] yoshi-7:
PSX 3.0.9. + franco r32 (max freq 1574MHz, -25mV overall [MENTION=1981876]fku[/MENTION]).

WLAN on, 2g only, 8 mail-accs with imap-push/idle [MENTION=880724]K-9[/MENTION], display brightness auto

I'm statisfied!
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Left my phone charged at 100% before going to bed and I wake up to this...

I havent been playing any games on the last 2 charge cycles and I still barely get 4hrs 30mins of SOT, Starting to think my battery is a dud :/
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
maybe it is bad battery
[Nexus 5 General] cgonzalez82:
That's not really that bad, it depends what you've been doing on it.... What apps are installed? Stock OS?
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
whats the best battery life i can get without making big sacrifices..... i will do undervolting.... but i dont reall want to underclock..... for brightness i use lux ;) i use the phone mainly for web browsing , whatsapp, listening to music and tapatalk

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[Nexus 5 General] P.Mobile:
light use... cataclysm rom... franco r32 kernel
[Nexus 5 General] cgonzalez82:
Here's how mine is doing, is a 312k build and has only been charged three times so far since I got it, so should increase so time goes on, as is got better since day one already.
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
Coming from a S3, I'm really impressed how good is the battery while the cell is sleeping. I'm losing about 4% overnight. (with wifi on)
[Nexus 5 General] cgonzalez82:
With location off, email sync to never, wifi on all night and Google+ off mine drains 1% overnight. It's on 99% ready to go each morning.
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
It's nice for sure ;)

Location off too but I have an exchange account sync

Not that bad.
[Nexus 5 General] Brockg:
Stock unrooted. Google search is constantly consuming 13-15 of my battery (one as high as 32). Location services are turned off.

I saw another thread on this but not much help was in it.

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[Nexus 5 General] patkylie:
Almost 2 months use, very satsify the battery result. I came from note2.

Mostly H+, LTE only when downloading files. But I admitted that LTE drain battery quick fast !

Using purity rom 4.4.2, franco kernel

enough for normal use for whole day.