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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keydogg1:
When it's charging go to settings > battery and see what it says at the top next to the word charging.

If it says (AC) then it should be going up around 1% or so every minute, if it says (USB) then it will be anything from 1% every 3 or 4 minutes to every 15 minutes. If you're using the stock charger (plugged into wall socket) it should always say (AC), if it says (USB) then something is wrong.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
I'll keep an eye on it over the next 12-24 and see if I can isolate what's responsible. It's an odd one though, for sure.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stylus_XL:
Glad it's not just me experiencing this. I noticed yesterday that when I took my new Nexus 5 out of the box and plugged into my computer's USB port to charge it the phone's battery percentage was rising painfully slowly, and the percentage wouldn't budge at all when the screen was on.

I charged it to 100% over night using the supplied charger. Drove to work this morning with it plugged into the USB port on my car stereo, and unlike my Nexus 4 which would usually be on 100% by the time I get out of the car, the Nexus 5 was on 94%.

I've been at work for an one hour and 20 minutes now, and whilst my nexus 5 was sitting in my pocket doing seemingly nothing it has dropped from 94% to 80% battery. At this rate it will be on red before I leave work, and even sooner than that if I have to actually use it.

BetterBatteryStats doesn't work with Kit Kat yet so I'm unable to gain any further clues... Will be interested to hear what happens with your Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
I've been keeping my eye on it and it seems that Google Services is using the most battery, 24% at present, and my screen - which I would expect to be sapping it the most - is only at 9%.

That said, I charged it up to 100% last night and left it and it was at 91% by morning without being used at all. By lunchtime it was down to 73%, again, without any use save for half a dozen text messages sent.

It's not terribly impressive so far, it has to be said. I'm hoping it's just a painful breaking in process rather than an RMA issue, because Google offers shocking after sales service.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abaaaabbbb63:
You don't need to RMA. It's the software's fault. Maybe the fact that Google Now listens to you continuously when you're on your homescreen has something to do with it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ctbear:
Sounds like the phone is performing some sort of heavy background task? Maybe backing up your app settings?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterEff:
Mine also seems to be discharging very quickly and charging very slowly. It charged the same way on a few different chargers. My SIII can usually go from 10->80 in like 30 minutes...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
The always listening thing doesn't seem to be activated on mine (it's a UK model), but I've been surprised by the drain when it's on standby, without even being touched. I'm used to battery life being a bit iffy, as I've come to this from a Nexus 4, but I was expecting a little bit more so far.

I've tried factory resetting in the hope that it might iron-out any potential software issue, so I'll keep tabs on it today and see how it progresses. Fingers crossed, eh?!

Cheers for the continued input folks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
I thought I was the only experiencing this issue it takes awhile to charge and battery drains very quickly. Last night battery was down to 20% this morning woke up and found battery was completely dead, not impressed at all. My biggest concern here after using note 3 for the last month this is very worrying indeed.

Mine is also from the uk.

What are google like on returns and s&@t?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stylus_XL:
I think this is definitely a Play Services issue.

When I checked my phone late last night I noticed that Google had forwarded a Play Services update to the Play Store. I've been playing with my phone this morning and battery seems hugely improved. Watched YouTube videos for 45-50 minutes and the battery dropped from 100% to 91%, which would suggest a potential screen-on time of around 8 hours and 20 minutes in total. Not bad.

I've had my phone in my pocket for 30 minutes and the battery hasn't budged from 91%, which is again good news. Yesterday it was dropping 1% every 5 or 6 minutes.

It will be interesting to see how it holds up when I stream my Google Play Music library in the car on the way to work, or how it is when I get to my office where the signal is horrible. "Play Services" battery consumption was high on my device yesterday but"mobile standby" was just as bad. Will report back later.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] irononreverse:
Change your google now voice setting to US English and the hotword box should appear when you back out and go back in.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dextroz:
I have a slightly different issue. My Nexus 5 ONLY charges at USB mode with any other charger than the one supplied. I've tried 5 chargers including the car charger and BB PlayBook high-speed charger. I've also tries using the supplied USB cable with another charger but it's a slow-go.

Very disappointed. May have to RMA because my buddy's phone does not show this problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
[MENTION=994735]riz157[/MENTION]

In my experience Google Play customer services has been bloody awful. Got dicked around on a simple RMA request (the screen on my N4 went nuts spontaneously) and received no updates or anything. Every time I wrote to them I got told "We're waiting for a specialist to deal with this". It ended up going on for over a month before I said "Sod it" and just sent it to LG. Who, it has to be said, returned it as 'repaired' without even looking at it, leaving the problem still present. Had to just pay the extra out and get a door-to-door replacement from Google in the end, which I wanted to avoid.

In re the problem, have you had the Google Play Services update that [MENTION=4950520]Stylus_XL[/MENTION] mentioned? I haven't yet, I don't think. My battery is still draining too fast. I haven't touched the phone for hours, then picked it up and made one 2 minute phone call and it dropped 4%. Stylus, is yours still stable after the update or have you seen any other issues?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dungeon47:
My first battery cycle was weird. Took a few hours to reach full, behaved normal on the way down. Second charge from about 40% took about 90 minutes to reach full. It may just be the first cycle or two.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caribouxda:
Use original charger.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
I have been, mate. It's been all original accessories.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TritonB7:
When I have the USB plugged into my Nexus 5 using the AC and USB cable that came with my device (or any other charger/cable combination), My Nexus 5 status still says that it's not charging. Anyone run into this issue? I have about 8% battery life left and hasn't been able to charge since I received the phone. Tried my Nexus 4 wireless charger and still no luck. Anyone have any ideas?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
It's been a few hours now since I reset, and Google Services is still draining my battery above anything else. Screen is taking 12%, Google Services is currently taking 19%.

I haven't received any updates or anything either. =\
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrljt:
The problem is you have it plugged into a USB port that is too high in amps. Be sure you are using a plug below 2.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digweed4me:
Just use the oem charger. I was using the Galaxy Note 2 charger and same thing happened to me I tried nexus 5 charger and it went from 70 to 87 in 20mins
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stylus_XL:
Google Play Services was still draining my battery today but not as bad as yesterday. Battery was draining at around 3% an hour as opposed to the 10% an hour it was yesterday.

In your "location" settings under the settings menu which mode is your phone set to? Mine was set to "high accuracy" by default and Google Play Services was showing "high battery usage" as a result. Try changing the mode to "battery saving mode" (if you haven't already) and let us know if that makes any difference.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
[MENTION=273697]stylusxl[/MENTION] Thanks for the heads up, mate. I've just done that. I'll see how it holds now. [MENTION=367583]mrljt[/MENTION] & [MENTION=3087114]digweed4me[/MENTION] Thanks for the reply but it isn't the charger. I've eliminated that as a possible already.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
Dupe post.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MisterEff:
Mine did a lot better today over yesterday. Seems it could have been that first charge cycle.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] duckied:
Yea my battery life seem good just charging takes forever and that's with fastcharge on
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enddo:
I went to sleep with mine at 9% battery and woke up with it at 8% look at your battery stats, was wifi on all night or something else keeping it on

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start trouble shooting it. turn off google now and test, turn off locations and test

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more than 2 hours?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aftashock617:
Nexus 5 not turning on

Hi all, I am new to the forums and was wondering should I start a new thread for my issue or can we resume it here. I can't get my phone to come on. It seems to have an issue charging. I got it two days ago. The first night, I used a standard USB AC adapter for the Nexus 5 micro usb cable, and it did not charge. I woke up and it was at 4% battery life. I then open up the included LG charge and it worked to get me some battery life before I headed to work.

During the day, I was charging my phone via the USB port at work to get me to the 100%. I get home, to charge it again over night through my charger and this time I wake up my Nexus is cool to the touch and is not turning on. I plugged it into all the different chargers and it is not turning on. Please advise.

Any response is greatly appreciated.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Enddo:
i think you should RMA it
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
Well, it's been an interesting few days but after all my tinkering, resetting and experimenting, I'm still getting crap battery life out of my device. So I've decided to give it back to Google and buy myself a Galaxy S4 instead, like I promised to back in the summer! Thanks for all your input folks, I really appreciate it. =)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stylus_XL:
Damn, sorry to hear that! Good luck with the S4 anyway.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
That's pretty poor. This is my first nexus phone purchase from google play and can see its nowhere near the kind of service apple provide. I've requested a replacement and will be shipped shortly, I'm in sort of 2 minds wether to cancel and await Nokia lumia 1520 supposedly launching on the 25th in the uk.

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One of the worst mistakes ever!!! Don't do it man!!!!! Honestly you will regret it from the very first moment it lags and lags and lags.

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Try getting into boot loader screen. Press volume up down and power button until boot loader screen loads. Or hold power button until something happens.

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Battery drain and charging possible fix

1. Connect charger.

2. Get into boot loader mode. With device turned on press volume up down and power button at the sometime until you get into boot loader mode.

2. Press volume button to navigate to power off option.

3. Select option by pressing power button.

4. Disconnect phone from charger wait 10 seconds

6. Reconnect phone to charger

7. Press power button for 30 seconds

8. Wait for phone to turn back on and leave on charge for an hour.

Wait for an hour before use phone.

Let us know if this worked.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andariel636:
I had the same issued with the standard charger, try another cable.

I use the nexus 7 2012 charger and cable and is perfect. I use the n7 cable with the n5 charger and is good as well.

But when I use the jabra revo cable or a old micro USB cable, the percentage of the battery after 1h was 1%... :rolleyes:

With the other cable I can charge and play games... And the charger is hot as shuld be.

So try other cable.

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And I now try to use the jabra cable with the n7 charger... No battery rise. It seems that is charging.. But really not. Let me know.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] patriotaus:
I haven't noticed how long the phone takes to charge on the AC charger because I just leave it overnight.

BUT

When I am on the computer, I plug it into a USB port with my old HTC One X cable and it doesn't charge. Well it feels like it takes forever to charge. I just looked at the battery history and in the last 35 minutes of being on the charge it has gone up 5%. Oh well.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andariel636:
Depend of your PC, but non all USB port support high current. Normally they deliver around 500mah... And if you are use the phone the battery have not such current for charge. Try to use the wall charger or don't use it during charging. My macbook deliver more current but not enough for play and charge.

And I'm wrong before.. My charger n5 is 1,2a not 1,3! Sorry
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tone-Fu:
Yeah, their customer services aren't good but if you've just ordered a direct replacement you should be OK. You might have to wait for them to remove the 'hold' on your card so your funds are released though. It took them a month with my exchange, with me chasing them for the last two weeks!

In re the Galaxy, if it lags as bad as you say it'll be going back quicksmart! I managed to pick one up, brand new, for the same price as the Nexus 5 though, and with the obvious bonuses of removable battery, micro SD slot and better camera, I thought it was a good punt for the money. Had it been full price, £600, like it was at launch I wouldn't have bothered, like I didn't then. If I want to pay silly money for a device then I might as well buy Apple. =D
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robertlyon:
My battery is all messed up too. I just got my n5 twenty four hours ago, and can barely even get it to charge! It didn't charge on the same car charger that I've been using for my Nexus 4 for the last nine months. I use a stock cable and aftermarket car port base. I switched out to another aftermarket base, it started charging from zero prevent to seven percent and then kept dropping charge again. Hooking up the stock cable to two different Windows machine usb ports didn't charge either. I'm now back home and charging with the stock charger and so far it's charging, but if this thing doesn't charge in the car I might have to get a different phone. Even though the Nexus 4 battery was so-so, I got it to charge in all scenerios at least.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rum0s:
Not charging while Display on

Hi guys,

I have a charging problem too. My N5 doesn't charge when the display is turned on and it's connected to the AC Charger.

Moreover it takes forever to get a full charge on the AC Charger, when the display is turned off. It doesn't even get warm. I tried different chargers out there without success. As I rooted it before, I now reverted my phone back to stock. Maybe this could be the problem/solution?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
I read a lot of people automatically using alternate chargers for their phones. Pretty sure the manual says to only use the one provided with the phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoRRo89:
I have problems too with different cables and chargers. Using both the original charger and cable I have absolutely no problem, it charges fast and all, but everything else doesn't work. Original charger with the Amazon basics cable (love its length, the original one is damn short) is slow as hell, but no problems with other phones. Differ chargers (including my power bank with 1000 mah out) are incredibly slow, turning on the screen is enough to discharge the phone even if it's plugged in. Different chargers used with the original cable are something better than different cable and charger but not so good. I just can't explain it, all the combinations works great with every other device, I can't understand what the problem is.

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] refinition:
Been having the same problem as the rest, changing chargers doesn't change much..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digitaldriver:
Same issue here. N5 won't charge with my well-established USB car charger. Using the N4 charger, it stops charging around 30%.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philthy82:
Same problem here, specifically with in-car charging. I've got a cigarette lighter to USB socket that's served my Galaxy S3 4G fine, input:12-24VDC, output: 5VDC 2100mA. With the Nexus 5 plugged in it shows charging but on car trips the battery continues to drain. During trips I usually have GPS navigation and music playing from the phone via bluetooth. Curious if it's a wattage issue or the fact I'm not using the factory USB cable. Haven't had any problems with non-factory USB cables outside of the car.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
Mine usually stops at 28% on the stock charger... need to unplug it from the wall for a minute and try again... seems I've read about a few ppl having issues with the stock charger/cable
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babykings:
I had the same problem. I exhausted the battery before I charged it. After almost 3 hrs, the phone is from 0% to 17%.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mika4real:
I too have had issues with slow charging last two days, trying with original charger now, but I just noticed my charger makes a little noise when plugged in to the wall but the other end not in to a/the phone. Its silent when the phone is hooked up though

anyone else experienced this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babykings:
How was your experience with original charger? I was using Nexus 4 charger. it charged from 0% to 17% in 3 hours! Will switch back to the original one when i get home.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mika4real:
used original charger for the first time just now, didn't stop the time but my last post about an hour ago my N5 must have been under 50% and now its up to a 100% so it seems to work fine.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digitaldriver:
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The noise when no phone is connected is "normal" for LG chargers. My Nexus4 charger whispers like this, too.

But only to use the original charger is a somewhat awkward solution. Especially in the car this is serious problem. USB is a standard and chargers should be compatible. Maybe the phone has EMC problems. I noticed the original charger cable is very thick.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yomper:
Nexus 5 battery

Hey guys, can i just ask if anyone has this same problem as me?

When i use the original accessories to charge my nexus 5, it says charging (USB) in spite of me plugging it into the wall socket. Anybody knows why?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mika4real:
ok, today my original Nexus 5 charger quit working beeing in use for not even 2 complete charging cycles. I plugged it in to charge 15mins ago, and then I noticed screen turning on and thought of some kind of notification/message etc. but nothing came in, the I saw there was no charging symbol. So it was the screen turning on behaviour like it does unplugging. Tried different cable and sockets, no change. Using an 1A HTC Charger i have flying around now. :rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoRRo89:
Guys are you sure that the problems you're facing are linked to charger and not to cables? I'm facing big problems while using different cables, independently from the charger. I've also opened a thread on the accessories section to try to sort out which cables are working correctly and which ones are not. If you find out that the problem is the cable it would be nice if you could help in the other thread to create some sort of cables db...

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riktor:
I've had multiple cables always charge in USB mode with one charger and always in ac mode on another charger (all of which are ac mode on a nexus 4). I'll keep playing with cables and see if I can get the second charger working in ac mode.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoRRo89:
Weird... My n5 always shows ac independently from the charger or cable, but some cables just can't charge it, max 200ma with screen off in flight mode, with screen on it doesn't charge...

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riz157:
Finally had enough and I returned my nexus 5. Battery was very very poor, it got quite when making calls it was giving me earaches. As Michael s I liked the google experience 4.4 the issues were just too much for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] setspeed:
You're right in my case, it's the cable.Although I've been using the same charger (HTC 1A) and cable (cheapo Chinese) without problem for ages on my last two phones (HTC DZ, GS3), this combination just would not supply a current of more than 200 mA to my Nexus, except intermittently it might go up to 400 mA.

I decided to open up the packaging of my original LG charger and cable (which is a big deal for me, slight OCD in wanting to keep the accessories as perfect as possible!) and use that. Current went up to over 900 mA immediately.

Testing the different combinations of charger and cable, it appears that the chinese USB cable is at fault, and also there is nothing wrong with my old HTC charger either which can supply over 800 mA when used with the LG USB cable.

I now need to try and find a 2m long USB cable that I can plug into my work computer that will charge my phone properly...

EDIT: I used 'CurrentWidget: Battery Monitor' to do this testing
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackBoy88:
I'm only getting a decent mA reading from the stock LG USB charger and cable. Any different combination never gives a mA reading of 400.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradputt:
please share your results with us, i got the same problem.

while i'm using my S3 there's no problem with my 3rd party charger and cable. but this combination just doesn't work for my nexus 5.

i must use my N7 or N5 stock chargers so that it will charge faster.

one of the better cables that i tested is this, which gives could supply 1A to the phone. the others is only 400mA to 800mA.

samsung U2 cable

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U2-New-Orig...Phone_PDA_Cables_Adapters&hash=item27cc508e23
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlackBoy88:
I tried the following:

Cable............. Wall Piece..... mA(max)

Kindle ........... Stock LG ....... 400

LG Marquee ....... Stock LG ....... 400

Motorola ......... Stock LG ....... 400

Stock LG ......... LG Marquee ..... 400

Stock LG ......... Motorola ....... 400

Also, the max is mA on my battery pack is 400 as well which sucks because I brought the battery pack for the phone.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willgare:
My N5 is pitifully slow to recharge, can anyone suggest a USB Fastcharge hack?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazyalaa:
Hey guys,

I got an external battery for my N5 and it has two outputs: 2.4A max output and a 3A max output ports. Which one is the best for my Nexus? I don't want to ruin my battery