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[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
They're different tests but I'll give you my opinion. First you'll notice how only Anandtech tested 3 separate versions of the S4, for T-Mobile, AT&T and GPE where as we are left wondering which model S4 (phonearena) or what network (gsmarena) the other sites are testing on. Anandtech uses an automatic web browsing test on WiFi and LTE with all phones normalized to 200 nits. Any AMOLED phone will have a disadvantage here because there is little pure black to be seen browsing the web.

For GSMarena it should be pointed out that they do not normalize brightness values, choosing to simply set each phone to 50%. I find this strange because they measure brightness levels at 100 and 50% so it should be clear to them that the phones are using much different values. By their own measurements the S4 at 50% is running 200nits while the Nexus 5 at 50% would be running at 300nits. That's 100 nits difference and enough to invalidate any battery comparison between the 2 devices IMO. Am I saying their test is useless? No, it is still a useful test and they do well to mix 3 different types of usage into 1 score but it is not accurate to compare 2 devices when one is displaying 33% more brightness than the other.

Phonearena gives us little detail about what their "custom web script" is actually doing but I'd say it gives an accurate representation of battery life due to the fact that it shows Nexus 5 at 5 hours of screen usage. With most people's settings and usage, 5 hours SoT is about the most they could hope for. Here the S4 and N5 are tied, but seeing as the Nexus 5 is doing so with 300 less mAh on the battery it could be said that the N5 is the more power efficient phone. We can assume that this test involved some video watching as movies with black bars are one area where AMOLED excels and will drain minimal battery compared to an IPS panel phone.

Another interesting thing to point out is the HTC One M8 also has a 2600mAh battery but absolutely destroys both these phones in battery life. Total battery size is not everything, the phone's efficiency makes a huge difference.
[Nexus 5 General] aniel300:
Here is my Nexus 5 running android 5.0. Now the wired thing is that some time i get an amazing battery life and sometimes not. I wish Google fix all those bugs on the coming ota update 5.0.1
[Nexus 5 General] Juzman:
What bugs? 5.0 was running fine on my N5. Running 5.0.1 now, and seems just as solid.
[Nexus 5 General] :
gsam. That screen shot says nothing useful. And always go from 100 near dead...then take shots. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] s0dhi:
I had a similar scenario this morning. After 4h of battery time and only 10min of SOT, the battery info showed 7 days remaining.

I think the system estimates the remaining based on what little info it has. In my case, I reboot every morning.
[Nexus 5 General] Mopar68Charger:
Not too bad. Stock 5.0 rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Latest battery usage. 5.0 stock unrooted ota from 4.4.

Google now off

Location off

Mobile data on allways on 4g

WiFi on allways

Also was playing family guy qust for stuff that drains a lot a battery 1% per 1 min of gameplay. Other usage: Reddit Tapatalk Chrome Some photos. About 40 min calls. Hangouts and watsapp and a few text messages.

No battery saver.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Adaptive Brightness and "turbo" charging.

Testing with Adaptive Brightness has shown me the increased battery drain from sensor polling is offset by the automatically reduced brightness levels. In other words, it cost me no extra battery to enable Adaptive Brightness at 40% versus manually adjusting to 40% and 10% before bed. Seems to function better than KK's Auto brightness too.

Also 30 mins on a 1.8A charger ($5 Blackberry Folding Blade) nets me +50% battery (from 10% to 60%) enough to get through a night on the town. Not bad for a phone with no official Quick Charge support, wouldn't you say?

Full Album here: http://imgur.com/a/QWADr

Google Now: On

Adaptive Brightness: On

Auto Syncs: On

Locations: Off

Hotword detection: Off

WiFi: 2.4Ghz

Data: 3G/H+

Usage that doesn't appear on the list: Netflix, Messenger, Gmail, Chrome, Widgets.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
[MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION] Now that I'm on Lollipop, I can say that it makes absolutely no difference to my battery life lol
[Nexus 5 General] :
Of course I can't test it... But maybe there's issue... Just it's something us guys keep off. Lol

As you said just a bit ago.... The first few posts here still apply, as always. So those that want tops in battery life just need to follow the advice... And likely they'll be getting the best battery life their usage will give them. ??

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[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
You mean in the other thread :P
[Nexus 5 General] Ronaldo Forenucci:
This battery is fine. Just set mine up from scratch, including TWRP backups, Titanium, installing and configuring 75+ apps, and GPS use, etc... took all day yesterday. Drained it to zero. No numbers or screen shots but on Auto Brightness and with all the CPU/GPS activity, IIRC it was in the 5 hour SOT range. Can't wait for a stable Franco Kernel to see an increase hopefully.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Full sync on, Google Now enabled, with Location services on highest accuracy. Half the day was on LTE/3G. Not too shabby I would say.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Do you use the charger out of the box or a higher ampage one?
[Nexus 5 General] Primokorn:
The charger out of the box and it was the first charge (100% stock too).
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Does a 2A charger speed it up... safely?

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[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
charge time for me from 0 to 100 is just under 2 hours. using stock cable and charger

---------- Post added at 10:02 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:01 AM ----------

i got over 9 hours of screen time on my N4 with wifi. check my post history for screen shots. stock everything
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
This phone has some of the best standby times I've ever seen.

I left the phone unplugged in LTE mode overnight and the battery barely budged. And this is with a fairly weak signal.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
Yes, standby time is very good.

I am predicting usage on this phone will average 2.5 to 3 hrs screen on time while on LTE and 4.5 to 5 hrs while Wifi. Standy time will differ greatly depending if you decided to spend all that available screen on time right away or you wait until very later on to do so.
[Nexus 5 General] notfaded1:
Geesh!!!

The price is right!

It's fast as h311!

I have everything turned on.

I put the phone on my wireless charger at the end of the day next to my bed...

And... after only one day of use I can already tell it's way better the my N4 and has charge left! How's that? :victory:
[Nexus 5 General] neugenusis:
Is it me, or does the your first graph show you gained a little bit of battery in the middle?
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
Yeah it does that. Seems to be a bug in the code. I can assure u I didn't plug it in
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
this is showing up on a few battery reports. this happened in one of mine, and it was right when i had locked the phone to go to sleep for the night.
[Nexus 5 General] dj_aj:
So what's this 'shell' that's sucking up my battery?

I've used android phones for the past 5 years and this has never shown up as the primary source of battery drain.

I love the phone but coming from an S4's insane battery life, I doubt I can use this in the long run.. so confused!
[Nexus 5 General] wngmv:
I was at 50% with close to 3hrs of screen on time. LTE the whole time. Did browsing and BBM.

So far battery is much better than N4.
[Nexus 5 General] dispatch:
I both love and hate battery threads on XDA.

In my few days experience with the N5 the battery life is about the same as the N4. Maybe SLIGHTLY better but not by much.

Still looking at around 3.5 hours of screen time with my normal usage (real world usage).

Not impressive but acceptable. Was certainly hoping for better.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
Hmm, looks like they removed the nexus 5 from the benchmarks.
[Nexus 5 General] alen1901:
Thats so not true.. When you buy a device, fully empty it so it turns off, then plug it in charger, turn on, and charge fully. That way all battery cells will get active and it will start to show correct battery status sooner. Also, all today batteries have a life cycle. One full discharge and then charge is one cycle. Its adviced to put phone on charge around 20,25% of battery left, and not to charge it fully, unplug it on 90,95% so it needs longer to make 1 cycle and it would prolong your battery. Sure, todays phones have hardware and software adjusted to not let the phone to fully charge but i still disconnect my phone when i see 95% if i can.

Poslano sa mog Nexus 4 koristeći Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
did anyone get a screens of these?
[Nexus 5 General] Turbotab:
You can still find one in Google's cache, just a nice taster for the review, which no doubt will be fantastic.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c.../Bench/SmartPhone13+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
in my short time with the phone, battery life seems completely standard

10-12 hours should be doable in most case, with screen time typically maxing out at 4 hours

as someone who tops of the battery quite often, i don't foresee any issues outside of a long road trip without a charger or something. for instance, tomorrow i'm going on a 6+ hour round trip in which i may kill the thing, but for 99% of my general use the battery life is satisfactory
[Nexus 5 General] Suicidal Chicken:
Here's my battery results. Running Lollipop with ElementalX - 4G active all day, light and email use but moderate hangouts / messaging. Heavy browsing, watching videos on YouTube; I've driven through London area where the reception changes from 4g to EDGE quite frequently.

This is the best results I've had from my N5 since I've owned it.

What I haven't included and is not showing - is that my N5 was taken off charge on the 7th at 23:00 until today the 8th, at 23:00 - so more or less 24hrs off battery.
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
Hey I'm on 5.0.1 is the normal to have 21% battery use on mis..
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Tap on it. Read what Miscellaneous actually is.
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
It does not say nothing important I will post screen shot
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Very interesting. I left my phone into airplane mode for the night but the graph shows that in the middle of the night WiFi is turned on for about half an hour. How's that possible?

Losing 10% during the night in airplane mode is kind of too much.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
There it is
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Yes. Now read it.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
How come you have miscellious in 5.0.1 ? I don't get it on my N7 2013 or my N5
[Nexus 5 General] bijixda:
Try disabling application like Google + and Facebook, or use Greenify.. I can get screen on time 4 hours more
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
I don't use Facebook and all the ROMs that are 5.0 I get that bug
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
I am making now a new test whit 3G prefered.

It seems battery is jet bether.

So I thin google hase som serious issue whit the Radio on 4G

for exemple on Fallback from 4G -> H i have no problem

But when it goes from H to 4G i remain whiteout signal few minutes
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I'm starting to wonder if it's LTE vs. H. I notice when the screen is on, the battery plummets especially when using a web browser (I've tried several). Standby I don't lose anything hardly.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
So these were my latest stats on SlimLP 0.7.

Great ROM. No UC/UV. All stock. ~200 apps.

First time I touched 5 hours on lollipop. And one of the few times ever on my n5. Really impressed.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
As far as I noticed battery takes a hit from chrome on both H and 4G
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Yup. I'm seeing the same rate of drain. Boo.
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
on 4G i saw to many signal drops on standby.

I had no problem on Kitkat.

On kitkat whit 4G on i had battery life 1 day and half 2 days.

On LP i have under 24 hour and big consumation in standby to.

But now swiched to 3g I have mor than 2 days
[Nexus 5 General] arctia:
My battery life is fine as long as I keep GPS off. As soon as I launch the Maps app, battery will start to drain faster, and continues to drain faster even after I turn GPS off. Only restart fixes the issue.

There is gotta be a wake lock somewhere. I know someone must have found the solution to this by now, but the search function does not make it easy...
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Yes this happened today to me as well, just used the Google Maps to check the trafic info and all went south so fast with the battey life
[Nexus 5 General] amir7777:
Try Waze, I don't have battery drain when using GPS and Waze.
[Nexus 5 General] Xlydven:
my battery drains really fast since the final built but I had no issues with the preview built
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I figured it out finally. Signal strength on LTE is closer to -100 but H is closer to -80 dBm. I got almost 3 hours SOT @ 39% (I did turn on battery saver though part of the way through) and I noticed my drain went down way faster from 60-50% on LTE vs. 50%-40% H. Had I been on H the whole time I think that would have helped even more. Signal strength makes a huge difference and I don't think it is the difference between H and LTE but that AT&T pumps out stronger H at my house.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
With a good signal LTE should be slightly more battery efficient than H+. Signal level will make the biggest difference though.
[Nexus 5 General] pcphobic:
Good battery life on Android 5.0.1

Below is the result of my overnight battery drain test for N5X release 7.0 (Android 5.0.1)

My setup

ROM: N5X rel.7.0 (Android 5.0.1)

Kernel : Code Blue r718

Mobile Data : Enabled

Wifi : Disabled

Gps : Ebabled

Bluetooth & NFC : Disabled

Data Sync : Enabled

Result

After 8 hours of idle, it only drained 4%.

I am glad that Android 5.0.1 battery life has improved over Android 5.0
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
Hey guys here is my battery stats over the past couple days. Its my normal usage.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Woah. 6 hours. Stock ROM? Kernel? Setup?
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
Code blue r718 stick settings and just normal use with GPS off and WiFi on 2.4ghz
[Nexus 5 General] pkmoazzam:
Hi, guys.

not much usages but i use:

Root Stocked 4.4.4 with Code Blue r450

ART Enabled.

Wifi= off

LTE= has a full signal.

GPS = off

Disabled some apps like google+, google music, etc..

All Syncs = off, i am doing manually syncs whenever i open apps.

facebook and message on browser

text through google messenger

surfing internet

play some games for a short time like deer hunting, clash of clans
[Nexus 5 General] luckana:
The question that's always been in my mind is why would people boast with their SOT's in this thread when they don't use their phone for anything but to check what's the time lol :D I use it as a real god damn smartphone and charge it twice a day sometimes
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
I've gotten almost 7 hours of screen on time over almost 2 days with only Tapatalk, Twitter and Hangouts usage.

Maybe its just that you can only get the same times if you only check the time and nothing else? Jk :P
[Nexus 5 General] luckana:
Yes, but i can bet my a*s that some people just leave their phone with screen on and make the screen timeout for 1 hour and just touch the screen from time to time or enter some app here and there just to achieve this SOT ... The reality is that the apps you've mentioned are not so battery consuming i guess.. sry for the OT btw
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
One page back you will see my stats and I know myself that I actually used the phone. My screen off timeout is 2 mins. Everyone is different though. I got over 5 hours sot from 2 different cycles. Now I'm not saying your wrong it just some people are actually using there phone with the sot they get. Next time I will take screenshots of the app usage as well to show you.
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
Here are my heavyish usage stats for today!
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
That's awesome.

What setup?
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I've tried all sorts of kernels and ROM's and have barely came past 3.5 hours SOT. I guess you are just one of the lucky Nexus 5 owners and you have a good battery, because apparently me and everyone else who owns this phone are getting maybe 3 hours. I use airplane all day, ONLY Wi-Fi and sync is off, GPS, off, everything.
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
The only main difference I could think if is in running stock 5.0 factory image rooted with code blue r718
[Nexus 5 General] arkantos91:
Hi!

I'm using stock Android 5 on my Nexus 5.

I've been wondering: in order to improve battery health, at what percentage it is recommended to charge the battery?

Generally I charge the battery when it reaches 20%. Do you think it's better to wait until it reaches 15% (when the notification "connect the charger" appears) or 20% is just fine?

Thanks!
[Nexus 5 General] cpvm:
Today
[Nexus 5 General] Corvo007:
CyanogenMod
[Nexus 5 General] pulsar_swift:
Can you please share more details ?

Location= ON/OFF ?

Screen Brightness = ?

I am pretty sure that code blue kernel has anything to do with google play services.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
OK how did you pull that off?! Battery saver the whole time?
[Nexus 5 General] Corvo007:
Hell no.

Wi-Fi only, battery saver automatically after 15%, and the most important, the ROM is very battery friendly
[Nexus 5 General] Jwizzled:
No wonder. No mobile data and good radio signal will get you good sot.
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
GPS off

Adaptive brightness

Stock kernel settings

WiFi on when at hom

Mobile on
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
CM12 is really that good on battery?
[Nexus 5 General] Corvo007:
As you can see
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I've tried 3 different kernels and 2 different ROM setups. Granted, I never tried CM12, but ROM and kernel has little to no impact on battery life at all. Everyone claims it does, when it don't. Many have pointed this out.

It depends on your usage. And 8 hours of SOT? That's ridiculous. I've tried literally everything. Even a clean flash with 0 user apps installed and just used the Gapps and I couldn't manage above 3-3.5 hours of SOT. With airplane mode on ALL day, only WiFi, sync off, adaptive brightness off, everything pretty much off.

When I see posts with 5 hours I'm mindblown, but 8? That's the most I've ever seen out of a N5, N4, N6, or many other smartphones. All I got to say is, if that is real SOT, then you have a golden battery in your phone. Even 5 hours is a LOT, and after trying basically everything, I think I can speak for most of the community when I say 3 hours is all this phone can generally do.

I'd love to mail some people my Nexus 5 and them use it how they do normally.
[Nexus 5 General] Corvo007:
The ROM definitely has impact on battery life. I am very happy with 6 hours sot and I usually have 6.30-7 sot on average ROM, on other roms around 5, but on this CM the battery life is amazing. You can simply feel and see that battery drains differently on different roms. Also my phone is pretty new, 4 months, maybe that have impact too.
[Nexus 5 General] WFSFTW:
This is the most I've gotten out of it

WiFi on

Mobile off

Gps off

Sync on

G+ G-now off

Fully stock
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It's mostly placebo. 8.5 hours SoT is even possible on stock (4.4.4, unrooted), as always it comes down to Usage, Settings and Signal and in particular brightness will play a large role in 5+ hours SoT. For instance I can assume your brightness was in the 1-20% range to get 8 hours SoT, most likely 5% or lower. You also would need most background services disabled, and none of this has to do with CM.

RootSU explains why there is no best custom ROM or kernel for battery life:
[Nexus 5 General] :
An example.... Turn screen brightness right down. Use a reader app, and you can likely read for 10 hours before killing an N5 battery.

This is assuming everything said above.... No signal issues, setup for maximum battery life and you have no wakelocks or other battery drain issues.

Try it... If you can read that long and not go blind. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Corvo007:
I don't think it's placebo because the results are real, you can feel and see them. And I use my phone always in the same way, definitely there's a difference between roms.

Yes you're right, I have the brightness on 20% adaptive mostly, on direct sunlight outdoor 80% adaptive, but that's not much time. I have sync always enabled, and my cellular signal is excellent.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
The cellular strength may make the biggest difference. I wonder if others can reproduce CM12 boosting battery life. I don't wanna flash a new ROM just because of one report.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Like I said, I wish I could mail my phone to some of you guys to factory reset and use as your own daily driver for a week and post SOTs every day. As above, kernel and ROM really doesn't affect battery, but that still doesn't make sense as to why I and so many others only get maybe 3 hours. I use Kik, Instagram and Google Play Music a lot. GSam shows nothing out of the ordinary except a 98% combined app wakes, but nothing exactly showed, and even with no user apps installed, battery didn't improve. I've had my N5 for maybe 8 months now, so I don't think it's worn out or anything, since it was like this the day I unboxed it. Many others get this SOT but others get this amazing SOT and it just blows my everlasting mind on so many levels.

I wish I could understand it.
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
Mine is much worse when I play words with friends game a lot, even though it gets greenified when I'm not using it.
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
Can someone seriously explain this to me? I really can't believe that google play services is taking this much out of the battery... Yes I did enable "some" features like keeping location to battery saving and using Google Keep but this is too much.

PS: Yes I know 4G is enabled but honestly speaking shouldn't Google Play services take much less consumption than this?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Your issue is the 3 hours of held awake time. Only being rooted, and using gsam root companion will let you see your app wakelocks.
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
Would you like me to post all the wakelocks here? The problem here is that I'm pure stock rooted along with having Greenify. I find it very strange to be honest.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Gsam can show you the times waking device and held awake time. Something is up.
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
So far from what I'm seeing the following are wake locks based on Android OS and Google Play Store (which have the longest wake lock times and frequencies). Yes Google Search is there but this one is easily solvable. Google Play is what really messes things up.

PS: I'm on 5.0.1 and I factory reset twice so far with no proper solution to that problem. Could it be an issue with an app I'm using?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
The results are real, they're just not an accurate comparison. Even using Adaptive Brightness will throw everything off because maybe one time it's a sunny day, where as another time you use the phone more in a dark room etc. etc. x1000.

There are too many variables in day to day usage, but actual testing with the exact same settings, signal and usage will show little to no improvement.

Using Adaptive Brightness at 20% tells me the phone may have been at 1% brightness most of the time, as it will only use 20% during moderate lit conditions. Nothing wrong with that, but it's worth mentioning as brightness plays a large role during long periods of screen usage. More so than any custom ROM.