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[Nexus 5 General] naro:
Just wanted to report back on this:

I discharged the phone completely (until it turned off) and charged it without turning it on over night, for about 9-10h I guess. Since I've got a week off and was staying mostly at home today I can't report back any SOTs from one charge, but after about 12hours I have 20min SOT and I'm sitting at 77% battery. While many might argue that this is a bad SOT I feel combined with a day worth of idling that's not too bad - definitely not the drain I was experiencing before.

What might also be worth mentioning is that I still have 3% battery drain that are not accounted for in the battery used screen.

And if someone is interested in it:

WiFi - ON

Network Notification: OFF

Scanning always available: ON

Keep wifi on during sleep: NEVER

Cellular network - LTE

NFC - ON

Location - Battery Saving

Google Now - enabled

Google fit - disabled

Rooted

TWRP

Also disabled that google play cast services via "Disable Services"
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Thanks for reporting. Hope we can keep trial and error this battery thing to nail it. Mine is doing well today although the Google play services is eating up a little more battery than it did yesterday. I'm still on track to 4+ hrs SOT today.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I think browser makes a huge difference and the apps you use. I switched to Naked Browser and my battery is much better.

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Currently I'm at 36% 2 hours SOT but I sync Exchange and the first 30% was because my work has crappy signal even with 2g.
[Nexus 5 General] mrnixon:
Is thus right? Battery at 22%, but the usage in the battery chart only adds up to 32%. How do I find out where the missing power is?
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
You are not understanding how this works. 22% is battery remaining. 32% has no meaning. You are not supposed to add those values. Adding them should equal to 100% but android doesn't report each and every battery use source. That individual % is how much battery consumed by each category, like if screen says 19%, it means display has taken 19% of power out of total power consumed till that moment.
[Nexus 5 General] Xlydven:
This new chart is really weird because for me it mostly shows Screen and Android Systems and despite using play music for a long time it rarely shows up. However the battery drains quickly. For instance, currently my battery is at 35% with a screen time of 3% (39m 51s) ...In the battery usage log I got only Screen, Android System, Wi-fi and Android OS, with almost everything at 1% except screen that is at a 3%.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Think of all the things your phone did that isn't showing up as even 1%, they all add up.

I'm a big fan of how the battery displays its values in 5.0. Before it broke up all the currently used battery into a potential total of 100%. This displayed as low as 2% values but easily lost data on apps over the course of a day.

Now it just lists anything that has used 1% or greater of the battery's maximum capacity, making it easier to spot drains before they get out of hand and also much easier to compare app battery usage.
[Nexus 5 General] mrnixon:
I'd like to know what those little things are, because my phone is draining really quickly and I'd like to try and figure out why. Battery life since installing lollipop had been way worse.
[Nexus 5 General] dgmorland:
On KitKat I was lucky to get through a long day on the stock kernel before running out of battery with my apps and usage. After installing Franco kernel on Kitkat it gave me around 40-50% longer battery life. With the same apps and usage pattern on Lollipop and with stock kernel I am getting about the same battery life that I had with Franco kernel on Kitkat. Battery life seems to have improved significantly from KitKat to Lollipop in my experience.
[Nexus 5 General] daniele.s:
First days with Lollipop upgrade, no factory reset, battery life seems better overall except with games... It literally eats battery when playing games, I mean more than KK did.
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
It seems the only problem is for peapole who flashed update via ADB
[Nexus 5 General] styladj:
I flashed my Nexus 4 (rooted) and my Nexus 7 (non-rooted) via ADB, too. But they're running well with Lollipop. No battery problems at all.

On my Nexus 5 (rooted) I think I'll have to do a factory reset to make things working as usual (although battery life is now a bit better than during the last days, but Tasker, for example, is not working as expected)
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
How did you figure this out?
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
I didn't hear people to say that have crappy battery life who got normal Ota
[Nexus 5 General] nullzwo11:
If you're having battery issues, wipe your cache via recovery menu. It helped for me! Takes about 10-15 minutes, so don't panic (as I did).
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
I flashed via ADB and I am enjoying great battery life. Clean install via ADB will give you best possible and optimized experience than any other method, provided you don't install previous app backups as it is, on top of lollipop via titanium backup etc.

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Yes, clearing cache will help until maximum apps are optimized for Lollipop, because non optimized apps will continue to build cache ignoring how the new runtime of lollipop makes use of it.
[Nexus 5 General] foosion:
With KK I was getting about 0.5% to 0.7% per hour discharge on standby with location set to high accuracy. With Lollipop, high accuracy causes discharge of about 1.5% to 2.5% per hour.

We have two N5s. One adb and one ota. No difference so far.
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
Another issue i have whit the signalldrop.

This morning i had 48% whitout signal :(

P.S. if i wipe cache it will not wipe app-data?
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
No. It won't.
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
Done whit wipe.

Wenn it be the same i am going back to 4.4.4 and waiting a normal OTA
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
New personal record on Lollipop :laugh:

Battery saver after 15%.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
What was your usage? Just keeping the screen on and doing nothing all the time? :P
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
LOL

No! +/- 80 sms, 15min 2g call, lots of browsing with chrome, tapatalk, whatsapp and spotify.

And, as you can see, the phone sleeps very well, with no background tasks keeping phone awake.

Have to mention that i'm using code_blue kernel with some tweaks:

-blue_active governor

-UV -75mV 300/422Mhz and -50mV to all other cpu frequencies. Runs fine without reboots.

-UC, max freq. set to 1267Mhz and min freq. set to 300Mhz. Runs flawless. If i need a specific app or game to run at full power i just need to create a profile in FKU.
[Nexus 5 General] Elpatii:
Do you use an application to block this last in sleep mode? Like Greenify or something else?
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
Yes. I use greenify to block google+ and maps. I don't use google+ and read somewhere that maps keeps doing some tasks in background. I need to confirm. To be honest, i've never run lollipop with maps unblocked, because i wanted to be sure. I'll try with maps unblocked someday.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
Google+ doesn't appear on the list of all apps on Greenify, not to me at least. I'd like to Greenify it, but it is nowhere to be seen!

Also, I suffer from major battery drain... the phone is nearly ALWAYS awake, as shown in the battery monitor page...
[Nexus 5 General] Xlydven:
There's definitely something wrong with the battery details, at least on my devise. I just spent almost an hour playing music on my N5 with screen turned on for about 95% of the time I used it. But, Google Play Music takes only 1% with CPU total of 3m 22sec. :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
you are so full of BS

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-2l3DQse0GqSURqZXM2aHVOQkk/edit?usp=sharing

Nexus 4 connected to wifi (1m away from router), I can see my networks mast from the window so reception and strength is perfect, running 720p video on about 40-50% brightness.

Did not touch the screen throughout (remember JB uses project butter which ramps up CPU = causes higher drain).

There is no way you can get 7hrs of screen time on nexus 4, with normal usage patterns (wifi and 3g plus general touch events etc).

Unless you are in airplay mode, minimal brightness, no connection to internet.

Anyone that will say they get over 4.5 hrs screen time on nexus 4 are liars and dont use the phone like everyone else.

Nexus 5 is probably going to be the same as N4, about 3.5 to 4hrs screen on time with normal usage on 3g
[Nexus 5 General] Fille84:
Well theres many liars out there then dude. With Nexus 4 you can get 4.5hrs screen on time easily, EASILY.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
Anyone can fabricate their usage pattern just to be better than person above. Its world wide web after all and anyone can do what they want.

Nexus 4 will get you through the day but not with 7 hrs screen time, maybe 4.5 hrs in rare occasions (it did happened to me once or twice), but average is not more that 4hrs.

If you have a video proof then I will believe
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
You realize that with a custom kernel the Nexus 4 will get much more than 4.5 hours of on screen time on a single charge right? Try reading the Nexus 4 forums. Many people have done it and got these results. They are not all liars.
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
to be honest I will not trust XDA ppl when it comes to battery, had galaxy nexus (few replacements), nexus 4 (few replacements) and on all battery was ****e, never managed to get over 3.5 hrs screen on time.

Ohh and BTW

Battery test of N5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX2ljBkikJE#t=105
[Nexus 5 General] Fille84:
Do you think its cool to have long battery life or what..? :laugh: I mean im not 12 so I dont lie about silly things like battery life....
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
its not cool to have long battery life but about what people do on internet to be "better"

i.e

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9PYIwPSaj4 this advert is very accurate.

Why do you think there are only people that have either super extreme battery life or very poor like 1-1.5 hrs

I would actually encourage you to find someone with nexus 4 and just ask them to show you their battery stats you will see then
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
pretty much this.

G2 can go to 8 hours sot, but nexus 4 with webbrowsing constantly 4:30 is max with undervolt!
[Nexus 5 General] proxuser:
this is my result for first charge. i still get 4 hours screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] phositadc:
Hmm not promising...

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
Its going to be same or worse than nexus 4.

I did say that first thing when 2300mah battery was announced.

battery bigger by 15% yet screen resolution is 40% bigger, screen is 5 % bigger, CPU is much faster (doesn't matter how efficient it is, the faster you can go the more fuel you going to burn) numbers dont add up
[Nexus 5 General] proxuser:
i had 2 nexus 4 before, and nexus 5 has definitely better battery life. now I'm on 2. charge 83% battery with 1 hour screen on time. but it needs time to test battery correctly. im just happy now with it and I'm sure with custom roms we get little better battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] bassie90:
Do you have google now enabled?
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Sorry mate just get a force close. Not working on 4.4 or let me know if its something easily fixable .
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
18 hours now with about 7.5 overnight https://www.dropbox.com/sc/nh7xtduzj6aw7cp/KUXJ-pd8t4
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Thanks hicks that's very informative and I'm looking to be getting them scores myself.
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
C'mon, it takes 2 weeks for battery to reach full performance.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
i get 10+ hours of non-stop screen time on my N4 with airplane mode, 10% brightness, and wifi on

usage is probably 60% whatsapp 25% music and 15% chrome/youtube. i bring brightness up to 25% when watching videos
[Nexus 5 General] hicks12:
10% brightness and Airplane mode.... Not sure if I am impressed but could you share a screenshot with the details please :).

That probably explains why I could never got a good screen time with the N4 as I use mobile networks for my mobile and higher brightness, never airplane mode >.<
[Nexus 5 General] vkamicht:
Aside from the fact that you're using Wi-fi, can you post some of your settings? I'm talking things like location settings, google now (guessing it's turned off), any disabled apps, any apps restricted from using background data, etc. I'm very interested in maximizing idle battery life and my phone lost 4% overnight, with a couple of notches in the Awake bar. Not sure what's waking it up but I'd like to stop it. The only differences in the usage list was my Google Play services was at 7% and Android OS at 7%
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Charging time is still slow though (3 hours). How come the Note 3 charges 3200mAh half an hour faster than the N5 charges the 2300mAh, both having the same Qualcomm SoC?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/785
[Nexus 5 General] Dirk:
I don't know why it's slow, but it does reflect what people have been reporting about the charge time. Cellular talk time isn't the best, but not the worst either. Is the iphone that bad..?

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/513
[Nexus 5 General] phositadc:
GPS is set to battery saver. Google now is disabled. Location reporting is disabled.

Everything else is pretty much stock though. I only have 1 email account syncing, and I don't keep hundreds of apps installed like some folks on this board.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Looks like my average battery life over the last few days is about 3 1/2 hours of on screen time over a 15 hour day. This is with auto brightness on and no features turned off. about 10 hours on LTE and the rest on wifi. I do not use Bluetooth.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Battery life is awesome. No auto brightness and all WiFi use was location based not data... On mobile 100% of the time. I freaking love this phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Would only let me attach one picture from mobile
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
Thats why i never trust this. My nexus 4 should last 6:24 hours on wifi?

I tried today on 25% brightness wifi surfing on my nexus 4 with franco and -125mah volt.

Screen time 3:53, everything off expect wifi

Never trust anandtech

Nexus 5 cant beat lg g2 on wifi
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
Never trust anandtech? How dare you!
[Nexus 5 General] hamad138:
If u trust themd go believe in 10 hours webbrowsing , i will sit on my couch and will :laugh::good:
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
Blah blah blah
[Nexus 5 General] Fille84:
Anandtech....., it doesnt take 2.6hrs to charge the G2! It chargers under 2hrs for me... Ive always thought the results from anandtech to be totaly wrong.
[Nexus 5 General] lee boze:
I've been noticing this on new smartphones for a while, that they take longer to charge. My original HTC desire would charge in about an hour, my HTC One X takes about 2hrs. Will the next generation of phones take 3 hours? For me, it's time for manufacturers to stop shaving millimetres of the width of the phone and start improving battery life AND charge time.
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
If you can't trust anandtech then who can you trust?

They have the most thorough, complete, and objective tests in the industry IMO.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
Their 11.43 hour Nexus 7 video playback at 200nits time I easily replicated, not sure about the internet broswing tests though as it may be difficult to replicate the exact setup.

Limitation is the Charger, not the SOC. N5 ships with a 1.2A charger, Note 3 comes with a 2A charger.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
20% brightness with 20hrs on battery on mobile data with over 5 hours sot and 20% battery left is fine to me.
[Nexus 5 General] Primokorn:
From 15 to 100% I needed about 1h30 and not 3h :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] Fille84:
Yeah that's what i say. Anandtech is full of ****..
[Nexus 5 General] Tony_YYZ:
On my first full charge(after fully depleting the battery) I got a hair under 24 hours with 3 hours on screen time. This is while my device is with me at work for 8 hours and I have TERRIBLE coverage so it has to fight hard to maintain signal. This is with all radios turned on and WiFi only used while at home and auto-brightness.

I'll be monitoring it this weekend when I'll be home with better coverage.
[Nexus 5 General] Dirk:
Anybody who knows the tech media world will agree with that too. The fact that these results are showing up on their Bench page is a good sign. It means they're hard at work on the review. I'm looking forward to what Brian Klug has to say about it. For anyone interested in his early thoughts, they've covered the N5 a bit on Mobile Show # 2, HERE.
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
It is the normal behavior, unless you buy greenify donation version. Greenify free version can only block user apps. Maps and g+, and many other apps, are system apps, pre-installed in system. You have to use a tool like tatanium to turn those system apps into user apps. Then they will appear on greenify. You need root.
[Nexus 5 General] Elpatii:
Yes it's a huge problem... You can use Better Battery Stats, or GSam Battery maybe?

Yes, I confirm that.
[Nexus 5 General] trawel:
I've got a question. There's new position in battery stats and I don't know what does that mean and I am not sure if that does not cause some drains

As you can see, there is messenger app which has cpu less than 2 minutes and the last stat which translates to something like "transmitter in phone active" and there is almost 20 minutes. What does that stat mean? Can it cause battery drains or does it not affect battery at all?
[Nexus 5 General] Elpatii:
I don't know... But maybe, use Better Battery Stats.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
That's how long your mobile radio was kept active by the app. CPU time being only 2 minutes doesn't indicate that the app was only used for 2 minutes though.

My first Android 5.0 full charge after the OTA, I did not reboot the phone or clear the storage cache. I enabled full Auto Syncs (except Chrome, I use FF on my desktop) as I expect the largest battery gains to be in this department and Llama now only controlling my WiFi and sound profiles. Google Now and Locations remained off and the mobile mobile signal was 3G/H+. Brightness was 40%, except a 45min VLC period of 100%, and 45min of Netflix at 10%. Consistently had 10+ cards in my multitasking menu. Stock, no root.

Things that do no appear: email/gmail, app updates, and a small amount of Google messenger, newstands and keep.

Explanation of drains: Cell standby would be roughly 12 hours of mobile signal, Android System is partly due to a lot of time spent in the settings and 2 widgets (Feedly, Dashclock), rest is pretty clear.
[Nexus 5 General] Elpatii:
Great stats... :)
[Nexus 5 General] kingofnice:
Airplane Mode and Franco Kernel power saver. Watched movies and read books at medium brightness.
[Nexus 5 General] swiftden:
Not on Wifi, all 3G. Dunno if this is acceptable, with 35mins of Clash of Clan.

Also, my batt stats seem to have a bug. Even with wifi turned off, it still indicates that it's ON.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
What to me seems like the biggest drain is the radio. It's the only thing unaccounted for on the battery stats page.
[Nexus 5 General] SYRE123:
At least on KitKat that happens when you're location service is on and you're alowing your phone to search for location on wifi. Go into you're wifi settings and you should be able to turn something like "setting always search on" off. Hope that's some help for you.
[Nexus 5 General] swiftden:
Thanks for the help. But I have this turned off from the start. It still stays on in Batt Stats. I wonder what's wrong.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
I got this today. What do you think?

Gnow off, location history and device manager off, location on low battery, 35 min of navigation with location device only , automatic brightness when driving for the sun, 1.5 hours of music with Spotify , then some twitter chrome and WhatsApp. I think is quite heavy use, should I expect more or it is normal ?

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] BTT8:
So I turned off wifi when I went to sleep. Woke up with 97 left on the tank. If I leave wifi on, I'll wake up with 80 left...

This is on stock everything. Wifi bug?
[Nexus 5 General] Klahsy:
Nah. WiFi is just a huge battery drainer since it has to constantly send/receive a signal from your router.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Same problem here! Wi-Fi off, Wi-Fi background searching off but it still drains battery. The only fix I'v come around is to reboot the phone...
[Nexus 5 General] swiftden:
Rebooted the phone, still there! Tsk! Although I'm pretty sure it's not draining my Batt. It's just there, or maybe I'm wrong.
[Nexus 5 General] maxpayn02:
Im getting 5-6 hours SOT in each cycle

Wifi always on sleep: 100 wake up: 98

Auto brightness on

Location off

For me its an improvement from kitkat
[Nexus 5 General] fresyk:
I dont know guys how u get 5 hours Soc with 1 charge... i barely get 2;2,30 with no games ..even with lolipop its the same
[Nexus 5 General] foosion:
My battery is draining faster overnight with 5.0 than it did with 4.4.4. I haven't changed routers, just Android versions.
[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
android is killing my battery :( location mostly off, auto sync off, auto brightness off, screen most of the time on very low brightness.

dont know what else to do.
[Nexus 5 General] :
WiFi does not cause drain issues.... Unless there's a problem. It's usually far better to leave WiFi on versus data. I get 0.4 percent drain per hour on standby with WiFi always on.

That's about 4 percent lost in 8 hours.

But.... There could be a Lollipop issue it seems. For some anyway.

Location services should definitely be off or on device only on Lollipop... That's for sure.

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There's nothing bad about your Android Os drain.

You do have wakelocks. Need root to check those in gsam... With gsam root companion installed.

Also your WiFi is going nuts. You have WiFi sleep when screen is off enabled? That usually hurts battery life... Not helps. ?
[Nexus 5 General] maxpayn02:
Wifi on

Location off

Auto brightness on

Chrome, facebook ,calls mostly
[Nexus 5 General] frigidazzi:
Where are you guys getting auto brightness? I miss that. If you are referring to adaptive brightness it is not the same thing. I hate it . Constantly adjusting brightness manually even with adaptive brightness. Otherwise battery life for me has been about the same. Of course on kitkat with wake lock detector it was better, but as far as comparing stock kitkat and lollipop it's about same to me.
[Nexus 5 General] DeadSOL:
Terrible battery life. Over the last few days, I've barely had 1.5 hours of screen-on time. That's with minimal usage (sending messages, attending less than 10 minutes of phone calls, no games, etc.).

And can someone tell me why my WiFi is always shown as in-use in my battery stats when I've turned it off? WiFi scanning always available is also off!

And the battery stats also show my phone as awake when the screen is off. -_-
[Nexus 5 General] kEvinErd:
Same here. I'm getting 2-3hrs screen time only on KitKat and on Lollipop both stock.

This is with LTE turned on most of the time instead of WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
Using Foxhound rom with code blue kernel. Also used Spotify for about 2 hours with the screen off so it could easily hit 5 hours SOT with the 10% battery left. No battery saver WiFi on lte on.