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[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Could you please point me to a thread teaching how to disable those services? Would very much appreciate it.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I'm not sure there is one. The settings for these services are scattered through the phone options. Web History is another, just go through your settings and you'll run into them and can experiment with turning them off and their impact.

I would suggest setting up a Llama or Tasker automation to only run auto syncs at certain times or situations, such as while charging or over WiFi networks only etc.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
5-6 hours SoT normal use. 2% loss over 24 hours with zero SoT (was busy for a while then was really tired).

Nothing special.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Okay, could you then just name the services that drain battery that you can think of off the top of your head?

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 5 General] vickyjusme:
Kernel name? Settings please.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Why do you guys try so hard. Stock works fine, I've gotten over 7 hours sot. It's how you use the device, your signal, and the apps you have that makes the difference
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
The two that have the biggest impact are account Auto Syncs (which can include everything from email to photo backup) and WiFi locations (both High Accuracy and Battery Saver modes). These also happen to be fairly useful services that people tend to use, which is why I suggest automating them to only run at specific times or situations. This way you don't lose the functionality completely and won't need to keep toggling them off and on manually.

There's also OK Google hotword detection and Web History results (found by holding down on your home screen and selecting Settings), as well as hardware settings you can toggle off such as NFC (under More...) and WiFi always scanning (Wifi > Advanced).
[Nexus 5 General] :
i absolutely agree with u. Root isn't an answer for everything android. Stock i feel is much better and root,kernel etc are overrated.

Sent From My Nexus 5 Stock 4.4.3 ART
[Nexus 5 General] :
I also agree...sorta.....Lol

I can get extremely similar battery times on any ROM, any kernel, or stock....you name it.

Battery life is MOSTLY determined by the phones setup and usage style. That's it. Signal strength too obviously.

Anyone combing the world for the best ROM/kernel combo for battery life is wasting their time....and has probably never put forth the effort to troubleshoot their issues or make the sacrifices of convenience features to achieve 'great' battery life. ?
[Nexus 5 General] jjhiza:
I agree with you for the most part, and I especially agree that the ROM you use doesn't matter at all in terms of battery life. However, proper kernel setup CAN have a drastic impact on battery.

Of course the overriding factors are signal strength and usage patterns, but certain kernels can enhance both performance and battery life.

Not to "stir the pot", but certain kernel devs do a better job than others, and the results are tangible.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Well, you can tweak a kernel as far as you want, and most agree it may add 5 percentish to your battery times. Also, some of that tweaking can lead to instability.

At the end if the day....I get 24 plus hours and around 6 hours screen time....mostly just browsing and Tapatalk. I've done the kernel tweaking.... May get a half hour screen time more, and a few hours total more.....certainly not worth the trouble to me anyway.

But I guarantee someone with crappy battery life on average, is probably gonna have mediocre battery times on any ROM or kernel....and tweaking the kernel will make no difference..... Cause they aren't setup for best battery life, and their usage is probably not battery friendly. Yet they keep flashing hoping for a magic pill. ;)

And let's be real.....please.....a "drastic" impact on battery life? No regulars in the kernel threads would ever even claim that. Minor improvement at best. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
The thing is, most people claim so, even in ROM threads lol.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] vickyjusme:
As far as my experience goes kernel does have impact on performance and battery. Some kernels drastically improve standby time.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Standby time is the same as it's just a CPU state. It depends purely on if you have your wakelocks managed.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Gotta agree with [MENTION=5666997]Lethargy[/MENTION] there is no magic pill or setup it's all on usage and users ability to manage what's in the background. I can get the same times on any ROM or kernel I chose a ROM that I like then tailor it for my usage.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
...and dare I add to those informed comments that there is another solution to battery life which carries much less angst with it and that is, buy one of the cases which add a higher capacity battery onto the back of the Nexus 5. I bought the i-Blason offering and it works superbly. I actually prefer the extra thickness that it adds to the phone as well as removing any worries about battery life when I'm out and about... :)
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Turns out auto sync was the main culprit of my battery drain. Fixed!
[Nexus 5 General] bmwjnky:
For some reason my phone switched itself back to Dalvik instead of ART. So yesterday I switched it back to ART and then did a restart on my phone to make sure it stayed on ART which it did and I got about 3 more hours of life out of my phone before getting the connect to charger message. Today will be the real test to see if it really made a difference going back to ART since week day life from my battery is worse due to poor cell reception at work. Since going back to ART the phone feels quicker and it opens and switches between apps better.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hey guys!!!

This thread was originally created as a "let's see the times your getting thread". Which is awesome! Its become a help thread as well.....but...its in General. People go to Q&A for help, usually.....and its 3000 posts long now.

I've created a new Battery Life Help thread in Q&A and I welcome all the regular battery gurus to join me there to help assist people with issues! I hope all you regulars here will join in. ;)

I think in Q&A it will be found easier by new and junior members.....and its stickied. Its not MY thread, its everyone's. And its new....so lots of formatting and layout still needs to happen. And post 2 will be general tips. I welcome any and all input to help it become an efficient and ready to understand tool for battery issues!!

Thanks in advance!

KJ
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
Cool beans. I'm going to troll that post soooooo hard. :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Lol. Have at it. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Data day

Signal was -100dBm or worse while using 3G, but no drops. 20% brightness and Google services mostly disabled, stock unrooted.
[Nexus 5 General] SAZE 94XO:
with Rastakat + francokernal my screen on is 6:20 hours
[Nexus 5 General] bmwjnky:
So switching to ART and setting location to battery saving mode I have gotten back just over 4 hours of battery life. My phone is all stock and the only background setting I've changed is location from high accuracy to battery saving.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Or in the case of Trinity, hotplug-free.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=52652711&postcount=7494
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Disabling auto syncs is probably the biggest boost to battery life that any single change can make. Also, Lux itself drains a small amount of battery over the course of a day, since you're setting the brightness manually anyways you could eliminate that service from running 24/7 on your phone.

Tasker or Llama are more light weight apps which can set brightness levels based on time of day or whichever parameter you choose. They can also automate auto syncs, which I like to turn on only when charging.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
I went from 3 hours tops to 5 hours! Thanks for the tip!
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
nice!

If you still want regular syncs you can use JuiceDefender to controll sync to schedules of every 15 minutes, 30 minutes etc, and keep data disabled otherwise. Then every 15 minutes it turns on data for a minute, runs a sync cycle, and shuts it back off. That should get you best of both worlds.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Juice defender, are you kidding me? Is nothing but a juice user
[Nexus 5 General] :
XDA isn't a candy store. Its a a development website. And the majority of ROMs on here are cooked by one person, who does his best and graciously shares with the community.

Its utterly disrespectful to badmouth them and compare them to the "teams" that have many people working on the big roms. And they graciously share with us too.

Also, as said...ROMs have very little to do with battery life. If I had the time, or cared, I'd run every ROM on XDA and get 5 to 6 hours screen time over 24 hours....easy. Zero kernel tweaks.

It really shows someone's lack of knowledge to say a few of the things I just read.....and I'll add this...

If the ROMs here aren't good enough for anyone.... build your own and keep it to yourself. Its not rocket science.

And ask 20 people what the best rom is for any purpose....you'll surely get 16 different answers. That is exactly why best ROM threads are not allowed. Its a waste of space and clutter in the forums.

Please show a little gratitude for what you are given for free....and remember.....WE would have nothing without the devs. So who is nothing without who??? Lol

(End rant)
[Nexus 5 General] Caelrie:
Did google patch something in location services this week? I've been having battery problems for a while now. Nothing as serious as some of you here, but my phone started staying awake a lot and using about 20-25% of the battery overnight. It was like that for a few weeks.

I was getting so frustrated with it I was just about to root it so I could look more in-depth at the problem, but now the problem is gone. It's back to only using 2-3% battery overnight like it used to be.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Unfortunately wake locks such as that are pretty common with Google's WiFi locations service. If you catch it happening again just give the phone a reboot.
[Nexus 5 General] Saqib Nazm:
Ohh wait! What is this thread about can someone remind me? I think it's on Nexus 5 Battery Results. So please keep your discussion relevant. Do not continue the discussion on ROM, Polls etc etc. If someone doesn't care anything about other devs just take a leap and move on, but don't post something that can hurt others, that's when all the off-topic starts..Next time offending users will be addressed via PM. Thread cleaned up, Thank you for understanding
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
The battery life is awesome ..

3 hours of constant gaming .. No heating at all ..

90% to 14%
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
LTE only, pa, stock kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] wreckone:
Battery life is good second week in on 4.4.3 CPU 300 -1728 , GPU 398. PA with Franco #54
[Nexus 5 General] atman8r:
This is what I'm working with right now, its about the best I've been able to get. Purity w/purity kernel, completely stock purity, location off and half WiFi half LTE.
[Nexus 5 General] daveve:
Very nice. What rom are you using?
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
stock rom stock kernel not even rooted
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
my latest battery life.

auto brightness, most of time under Wi-Fi, youtube, camera, calls, music, tapatalk, chrome, etc...

..: Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 :..
[Nexus 5 General] simplyanin:
Very happy with the battery life :thumbup::D

Stock 4.4.4 rom

ElementalX kernel

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
To the people getting 10+ hours with anything over 5 hours SOT, how many of you are turning things off or using things like greenify?
[Nexus 5 General] aramil:
Bluetooth off, xpossed/gravitybox, everything else stock/enabled.

No greenify etc.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
They never use 3G/4G and brightness is always 20% or lower
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Uhhh guys, glitch :L xD
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yeah, everything off for me. And anything that will wake my phone or chew battery is greenified. But, I get 5 to 6 hours SoT, and that could be in 10 hours, or 24. Just depends how quick I get to 5 or 6 hours. Standby drain is like 0.4 percent....so standby is almost irrelevant.

Guys getting 5 hours SoT in 9 hours seems totally normal and I bet they could get 5 hours in 20 hours....just gotta use the phone less. Lol

:)
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Very pleased :). 15 hours and got almost half the juice left! 5 and a half hours Google play music time 2hr 14min sot :p
[Nexus 5 General] Semantics:
I get about 2 and a half hours sot, but I keep everything on. I refuse to gimp phone features just to show fancy sot. I'm always near a charger and if not, bring my battery pack. I've come to expect crap batteries on nexus devices.
[Nexus 5 General] simonarturo:
+5 hours SOT, mainly by controlling brightness with Lux so it's never too dim nor too bright, GoogleNow on, location on (device only mode) and PerApp Modes in franco kernel (you don't need 3 or 4 cores when reading an email or chatting on whatsapp).I'm not gimping anything, just controlling the phone`s power consumption:)
[Nexus 5 General] 4n3ver:
Help!!!

:rolleyes: I left my phone to sleep and it died when I was wake up. Does the batttery usage seems right?

Stock 4.4.4 w/ xposed & FK
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Hmmmm doesn't look exactly right to me... The graph shouldn't be a steady slope going all the way to 0%.

Try adding some battery tweaks to your build.prop if you haven't done so, I have done this and it has made a hell of a difference in battery life.

Deeper Sleep/Better battery life

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1

pm.sleep_mode=1

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180

ro.mot.eri.losalert.delay=1000 *(could break tethering)

^^ tweaks used from this forum: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/build-prop-tweaks-t2781369 ^^

The build.prop is located in: /system

You will see it at the bottom, (if you didn't know this before) just copy and paste into the file and save it, easy as that.

Also, greenify could help, take a look on playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify

I also have onepowergaurd to help me with my battery: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onexuan.battery

Undervolted -50mV across the board, with 300MHz at 700mV. Max CPU at 1497MHz min 300MHz. Franco kernel r54.

Hope this helps! :)
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
I don't turn things off either and I'm consistently over 5.5 sot.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Could be you have the right mixture of settings, usage and apps installed.....cause you have about the best SoT I've seen for an "everything on" fellow! ;)

Most aren't so lucky it seems.
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
Lots of social media g+, taptalk, LinkedIn, and document stuff.
[Nexus 5 General] srinivas103:
Hi, I use both Nexus 4 and 5. I installed this apk http://goo.gl/8i78EA . After leaving the app on for sometimes, my Nexus 4 battery drains very fast and my Nexus 5 is only somewhat stable..is the problem with the app or my phone. Cause my friend with his Nexus 5 has no problem with the apk...
[Nexus 5 General] Cicadia3301:
I get about 6 hours screen time cataclysm rom and fuax123 kernal. With or without WiFi, when data is on I get about 4-5 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] sst:
After upgrading to 4.4.3 battery life was terrible, it would only last 5-6 hours. Main process taking all the juice was Google ply services. Done a factory reset and now its back to normal, about 20 hours of battery life with 3 hours of screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
You can also fix that by clearing your storage cache in settings > storage > cached data, and rebooting afterwards.
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
Not typical usage but just to show what I was able to get in standby overnight and minimal usage during a busy day at work.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You toggle data off when not being used I assume? Since its not on in your screens. Next to airplane mode....yeah, your standby would be excellent with no data or WiFi. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
Guess that was actually 2 nights and almost 2 days of light usage. Mostly just texting.
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
Another screenshot I forgot to prove I didn't charge it between at all.
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
I don't get important emails so I don't see the point in leaving that stuff on when I'm not using it. So yes I turned them off whenever I wasn't using them.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Smart! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] hikarugo:
Few minutes of watching porn and other vids. Mostly reading and browsing.

Stock L. Got 28% remaining w/ 5 hours of SoT already. It'll last even longer when battery saving mode (which turns the phone into a dumb phone) is activated at 15% battery level
[Nexus 5 General] sokinso:
So is the battery life on L so promising guys?

On another note when taking about sot bear on mind that even in two identical phones a 25% difference in brightness can give you a much more better battery life.So it's mostly brightness setting to me.
[Nexus 5 General] spectator123:
On 4.4.4 (stock/unrooted). Battery life not too bad[emoji4]
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
50% usage

Location services on

Google now on

All time on wifi

Brightness On Auto

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Your battery doctor is not actual doctor .lol .. It's killing the patient
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
that's a conclusion we shouldn't jump to. if you uninstalled everything you might have similar battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] spectator123:
Like it or not it's Battery Doctor that did the good work in saving battery life mostly. I frequently use it, btw.[emoji41]
[Nexus 5 General] TheCybertronian:
I guess ignorance truly is bliss. Smh
[Nexus 5 General] spectator123:
Why the rudeness if you think you know something about it? After all it's none of your business since my post was not directed at you. Grow up, man you cannot berate anyone just for the sake of it. Even if you're not ignorant of these things, you might find yourself totally ignorant in others and someone might smh at you.
[Nexus 5 General] hikarugo:
Yup it's promising. I find it to be more consistent. I set my brightness to be adaptive btw
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hey all, I have a problem.

Last night I took my phone off charge when it was 100%, played with it for about 45 minutes, and left it unplugged before I slept. When I woke up here are the results, can someone give me some tips? Cheers.

I did use Google+ for a while before I went to bed...

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/29/3yqy9ava.jpg[/IMG

GSam results...

[IMG]http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/29/a9yqu8e2.jpg

I understand Play Store was doing updates in the background, and BBM was collecting push notifications...

I don't quite understand the second wakelock, can you help me?

Thanks in advance :)
[Nexus 5 General] hol17:
Check your Google account sync options for Google+ and Google+ photo backup. It was probably stuck syncing in the background which caused the drain.

I also had issues with the newest version of Google+ in which it would turn the Google+ and photo backup syncing on by itself, even though I disabled it. I just uninstalled all the updates.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Cheers mate. I'll try and turn off sync, and only turn it on when needed, that might help, cheers.
[Nexus 5 General] ps000000:
I wonder why a child game like my favorite "Hay Day" is a real battery sucker.

Both of my Nexus 5 & Note10.1 2014 battery running out super fast when playing this game!!! :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Pretty much all games kill the battery quick. That one actually is pretty busy an graphics are very sharp. Not surprised. ;)

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Not to mention it communicates with net.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
While he might have been a bit rude, and should have given you a suggestion, I do agree. That 8% is fairly massive especially since that's almost 8% of the entire battery stats. I would recommend using greenify. It works now without root (although with a few less features) but it should do what battery doctor does and not hog battery. I've been using greenify for a couple of months and it has never shown up in my battery stats.

on topic: I clean installed 4.4.4 after testing out L so I will try to do a comparison with similar usage. It won't be perfect, but both will be from a clean install with a few apps running so hopefully I will be able to tell if there's a difference. I did already put xposed with gravity box and a few other modules, but I also installed greenify which I didn't use on L. Just to put that info out there. Anyway, for those interested about L battery life hopefully this can give you some insight.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hey all, I've got another problem.

I've tried all the things you guys have suggested but I'm still getting an unusual Wakelock:

What's is calendarintentservice and how can I stop it?!

Other wakelocks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rednw54eiu4gff4/AACwmctMmQ67vANCEufWF4NNa

Of anyone knows what these wakelocks are or have any solutions, please reply asap! Thanks in advance.

Side note: I had BBM force closed and greenified but it still kept popping back up... Can anybody tell me how to knock it out for good?! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] spectator123:
Thanks, mate!
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Just wanted to provide an update. With Wifi off, and on LTE only, I had 100-99% drain overnight for approx 7.5 hours (on L). I was very impressed. Last night on 4.4.4 the drain was almost 4% over 7 hours. This still isn't terrible drain, but im still curious why under very similar conditions it was different. about 50% of it was taken by phone idle and cell standby. Cell standby didn't show that the signal was lost, but I forgot to check the actual signal strength. Both radios gave me around 1-2 bats of LTE where the phone was but I still feel as though it might have been the radio resulting in the better standby time. This is all speculation of course. The phone seemed to sleep well, but BBS showed that it was awake for 10 min over the 7 hours. Again, this doesn't seem out of the normal but because I didn't have BBS on L, I can't compare. Anyway, I will use it today to see if there any differences. I normally stream a lot of music at work though so I probably won't be able to compare standby time, which is where I think the difference lies in the different versions.
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
Thats the top of your list @ 7m43s, in ~11hrs. Its not an issue. Probably from some sort sync or notification wakelock. I just don't think its a problem.
[Nexus 5 General] :
It's an issue to me when I lose 3% an hour, something must be causing it! :(
[Nexus 5 General] unsivil_audio:
I think its safe to say its not from that. Do you have GSAM or BBS? Also, what do your Wakeup Triggers look like in WLD.
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
you can tell by the "awake" graph of the battery that sync isn't waking the phone or drawing power.

The problem is his wifi is staying on all day not sleeping. That drains a lot of power. He needs to enable power saving mode in the wifi settings.

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a wake lock would be keeping the phone AWAKE, it's not staying awake.

how you can people be so dumb, look at the graph

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in the first pic we see the phone was only awake at the start of the discharge cycle

in the second pic we see it was only awake for 25 minutes
[Nexus 5 General] :
Hey mate, I have the WiFi battery saving mode on (WiFi Optimisation), but I have WiFi always on while the phone sleeps. Isn't this a necessary? Otherwise I won't get Emails or WhatsApps? Correct me if I'm wrong.

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The reason is that I played with the phone before I went to sleep, but I set a custom reference in Gsam just before I slept to get more accurate Gsam results.