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[Nexus 5 General] Parithosh:
Calender gulps down 63% battery in stand by!

I decided to test the stand-by battery drain last night before going to bed. Charged the phone completely, turned off location, Google now, WiFi, data etc (in short, turned off everything that could keep the phone awake).

Slept at 2:25 with 97% battery

Now what's alarming is that, when I woke up at 9:20 and checked the phone, it showed an alarming drop to 88%!! I mean how can it drop to nearly 10% in close to 7 hours of standby with everything completely off?

When I tried to find the culprit, it turned out to be the calender app of all apps! It kept the phone awake all while! It's been only 8 days since I've started using the phone but I've never seen calender eating up even 1% of the battery and here it was, contributing 63% drain of the total 9% battery drop in standby!

Uploading a few screenshots for reference.

P.S. Sorry for the long post.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
[MENTION=5597654]Parithosh[/MENTION] wow I left everything on mine on and was downloading mc4 overnight after a full charge yesterday. I only slept about 6 hours and it went from 100 to 95. I thought that was really good. I can't believe the calendar took it to 88 lol
[Nexus 5 General] Zephyr101:
Wow I got really good battery with Cataclysm Dec12 + Franco r25, most of the time I was streaming anime on Animania and the rest I was gaming with the ppsspp emulator for PSP, texting and browsing the web lightly.
[Nexus 5 General] Parithosh:
Neither can I lol but its really strange. Do you have any idea what was wrong with the calendar?

And are you stock or rooted?
[Nexus 5 General] atabey:
Beat that!

Moderate Usage with playing Clash of Clans a plenty of time and messaging a lot.

Only in WiFi and always good signal.

Nexus 5, ROM OmniRom, Kernel Franco r24, UC to 1574Mhz and UV -75

oh and I use greenify donation version and hibernated almost everything, still get push through GCM, but Google Now is activated and in use
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Recent stats. Almost 4 hours screen time. Near 11hours on battery, gaming, listening to music, and a massive mms wake lock. Phone can't get any better.
[Nexus 5 General] ehcool:
-using Art

- medium use

-Franco

-20% brightness
[Nexus 5 General] OwainW:
So I've updated to franko.kernel r25 and I've managed to UV the kernel quite well, kept settings the same as before but with a global of -75mV and 300MHz at 600mV which seems stable and I haven't really noticed a difference in speed, UC to 1.7GHz. I found out what I think was causing the wakelock issue I had before, I think it was Google Now, I have disabled location reporting and it seems to have done the trick from what I can see in the screenshots. :)

I managed to get 9h45m of screen on time today :) but I wouldn't count it as a true SOT as you can see:

Today I've used my phone a lot, I started off with using chrome surfing the internet, watched 3 or 4 youtube videos (only about 5 mins each), used whatsapp, texts and calls, had about an hour on tapatalk then at about 20% battery I decided to read a magazine and finish off a book I was reading on it which probably helped me to get the screen on time I did today, I realise that this might not be a true test of the SOT because of this and using wifi for the majority of the time but I'm just using it the way I normally would.

As you can see what [MENTION=3534949]ejwu[/MENTION] said on page 134 works and I probably why I get the SOT I did due to the screen resting while reading, for comparison I usually average around 5.5 or 6 hours on a normal day.

PS. Sorry for the long post haha :D
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
WOWWWWWWWW...impressive. I looked at my 4-5hrs SOT as a success.
[Nexus 5 General] OwainW:
Haha, thanks :D

Yeah like I said I don't normally read books on it for that length of time so thats not the SOT time I normally get, just thought cause it was so good I had to post about it aha.

And I'd recommend franko's kernel if you haven't tried it, it really is good :)
[Nexus 5 General] johndrmr:
I get a full day with pretty heavy usage so I'm happy with that. Gaming however destroys battery life in short order but that is to be expected IMO. Certainly the battery life is nothing like my note 3 but if can get a full day I'm happy.
[Nexus 5 General] grumpygx:
I'm usually on WiFi or next to a charger but I get decent life to get me through the day regardless.
[Nexus 5 General] Seifer780:
I've been struggling to get even 3 hours of screen time, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
[Nexus 5 General] Rhatfield25:
So I'm going to go poop my pants now. Francos r25 kernel is truly magic. Just pure magic. I'm sure if I were to look at the code it would just say the word

"magic

/magic"
[Nexus 5 General] elnahir:
- Rooted

- Franco r25

- UC to 1.7, then 1.9, no idea what voltages to use for UV, so I'm not messing with that just yet

- Lux at 10/15% brightness

- Google Now / Location Reporting off

- Google+ disabled

- Pretty light use by my standards, meaning: about 35 mins calls, browsing for ~40mins/1hr, about 30mins of Google Play Music, 7 .mkv 20 minutes long 720p videos (some of them on Airplane mode).

Not that I'm not impressed, but I kinda expected more.
[Nexus 5 General] JamieFL:
2 days on, over 4 hours screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] JamieFL:
To see how

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2587691
[Nexus 5 General] tomciopaluch357:
Ok here is my setup with r28 Franco and U.C ROM ,and moto x patch , by far best performance i have seen on my N5 and i have try 10 different ROM's and kernel setups i love this setup.
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
can I flash a deoxeded rom on top of my odexed stock, wipe dalvik/cache and be OK? want motox patch
[Nexus 5 General] Madpiercing:
I have cataclysm and flashed moto-x patch, but i wanted to be odexed so i ran the odexer script. Patch seems to work fine on my now odexed cataclysm, but i installed it when it was deodexed.
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
Which ROM is U.C ROM?

thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
To all the users with Cataclysm ROM, do you really feel any noticeable difference in battery life compared to stock ?

I'm on stock 4.4.2 atm with Franco kernel, and most of the screenshots with great battery life are with Cataclysm so I'm hesitating (been hesitating for over a week) on flashing Cataclysm ...
[Nexus 5 General] Biosss:
I have my Nexus 5 with Cataclysm ROM from day 1 and the battery life is good... Stock kernel and display brightness between 10-17 indoor, 50 outdoor, sorry about my English I am from Argentina.

Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 mediante Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] samkent6:
I get 3 and a half hours sot with auto brightness (mostly outside anyway) WiFi on 3g on. And easily lasts me a good 16 hours on a single charge. Proof you don't need custom ROMs or kernels to get good battery life
[Nexus 5 General] Zephyr101:
Cataclysm Dec12 with Franco r28, auto Brightness, Lte adn Wifi all the time. UV -75 really good, considering I was gaming on Asphalt 8 for a while.
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Hmm my this is my battery life.

I didn't used my phone really much. I was only surfing in the Internet and I can see the battery dropping. As you can see I also watched some Videos in YT.

GPS and Google now are deactivated..

Are those battery drops normal?

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
How do you get 5hrs of screen time? I've barely broken 4hrs 20mins..
[Nexus 5 General] filthygoat223996:
This is my battery life, with omnirom and Franco, uc 1.3ghz and uv75 MV . heavy web browsing and watching movies over 2 days. Wish I wasn't such a battery freak though, checking battery every 2 min
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
What is that Moto-X patch?
[Nexus 5 General] Sensamic:
What does this dull color mean in mobile network signal?

Green is ok and this other color is bad?

Is my mobile network signal eating my battery? I only get two bars where I live.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
The yellow ish color is more mediocre signal, not necessarily bad. Basically like you said, 2 or so bars. I haven't found that the "yellow" has effected my battery life, at least noticeably. Its when you see "red" or poor signal that you'll notice your battery draining quicker.
[Nexus 5 General] already known:
Still stock...don't know why WiFi is solid blue...didn't have it on...still impressed
[Nexus 5 General] samkent6:
Pretty satisfied with my battery 3 hours screen on and still 35% left I reckon I could push 4 hours maybe, defiantly 3 and a half as I've done that before. WiFi on all the time when available, as was 3G. Twitter, Facebook instagram snapchat used constantly throughout the day I know it doesn't look like it from the battery results but I was using them a lot. No games whatsoever as I know that will kill it lol
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
Thanks for the responses with the cataclysm screenshots.

5h sot with asphalt 8 gaming is very good.

But the results differ so much ...

Some people claiming 6h sot with medium-heavy use ! (YouTube, games and chrome !)
[Nexus 5 General] OwainW:
If you go into Settings > WiFi > click the Menu button > Advanced > Uncheck scanning always available, it won't scan all the time and will get rid of the blue line, should give you some more battery life too :D
[Nexus 5 General] Milver:
Battery

every cell in phone is too weak :( max one day and must recharge
[Nexus 5 General] Cyberz22:
I wish there was a better battery to buy
[Nexus 5 General] Curiousn00b:
57% left, just connected to WiFi.
[Nexus 5 General] mendozaram:
Slimkat and Franco r28

Nexus 5

Slimkat 4.4.2

Franco Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] 95Z28:
Stock unrooted on LTE the whole time. About an hours worth of watching locally stored video, close to 2 hours worth of playing music in my car via the headphone jack, a lot of internet browsing, and light texting. Everything stays on except Bluetooth, I don't use Google now.
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
That's one of the best battery saving tips I've seen yet! Has a major effect with my usage patterns on my Nexus 5. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Madpiercing:
sorry maybe i used bad wording. They are optimized dalvik libraries relased originally for the moto-x

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2537299
[Nexus 5 General] UZ7:
Alright so this is just a light test on voltage tweaking. Mind you this is all done on WiFi so its not using the modem and apps used were social media and a few YouTube and games.

I'm usually out and about and use data a lot but today I was mostly home lol.

Stock 4.4.2

Faux123 kernel -75mv

Xposed/gravity box tweaks
[Nexus 5 General] honeybunchie:
Almost hit 6 hours SOT today

ART

Cataclysm rom

Faux kernel - recommended settings and some of my own tweaks

UV -50

In my experience, faux squeezes 2 hours more than Franco. Highly recommend faux for battery life. Plus there's also double tap to wake and sweep 2 wake.

Could only get 4 hours sot on Franco :(
[Nexus 5 General] already known:
Thank you...just saw that now...haha
[Nexus 5 General] nelsonator1982:
Beanstalk with no WiFi all lte......it says my phone is awake but it wasn't.....stock beanstalk kernal loving this rom......
[Nexus 5 General] remixkilla:
Any tips to to save battery?
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
NICE! :good:
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
trinity kernel +rastakat rom, overclocked to 2419mhz, wifi and nfc off, everything else is on, lte 100% of the time, heavy usage. 5 hours sot with 24% left, an easy 6 hour sot day, typical for this setup. apps are managed well, a well behaved phone..
[Nexus 5 General] nic025:
Mine. Stock rom and Franco kernel r25.
[Nexus 5 General] simms22:
but you barely used the phone.. when phone idle and cell standby show up in your stats with this high % usage, it means the phone wasnt used, but the screen was left on.
[Nexus 5 General] nic025:
I always do surfing not more into games. I dont idle the phone when the screen is on. I have quick cover so it auto sleep when i close it.
[Nexus 5 General] patnmn:
Best Screen On Time Ever

Purity with Elemantalx
[Nexus 5 General] 95Z28:
Looks like you spent a good bit of usage gaming, heavy games like GTA will always drain your battery faster. So you could definitely save battery by not playing games, but the whole point in these phones is to enjoy yourself. While I like getting good battery life, I wouldn't alter the way I use my phone just to improve battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] skyo12:
This works for me! To be able to get 4+ hours of SOT while having over 2 hours of voice calls is fantastic.

Cataclysm+ART+Franco r23

Display @ 15%

NFC On

Location Services @ Battery Savings mode
[Nexus 5 General] senator17x:
FIRST full charge on the phone.

Cataclysm + Franco R30 + FKU app (right out of the box)

25% screen brightness

ATT LTE/WIFI mix

No Dalvik mods

MC4 and Ashphalt 8 for a bit testing out graphics

I only expect it to get better. So happy with the decision on the N5.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
I was getting great battery life a week ago - could get through my 17 hour day with 30-40% with Franco. Now my battery tanks because it thinks it can't find a tower (30% no signal time in 5 hours) even though I was in an area with strong coverage and friends with other phones on AT&T don't have any problems. Between this, my signal problems, LTE hiccups, WiFi problems, and SMS issues I am seriously considering calling Google and talking to a manager for a refund even though I am a week out of my return policy. It started doing this right after my return policy time ran out. I hate to do that as I love this device, but I am tired of fighting with it to work properly and if I give it any more time for an official fix I may not be able to convince a manager to give me a refund.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Hmm. Mine started doing this around the same time. My battery has been horrible since. Doing nothing it drains around 8-9% per hour. (because of the low signal I'm assuming)

I'm at 60% no signal now. I didn't buy it from google so I cant even get a replacement (new one at least).

Maybe this is like the GPS issue where the contacts on the back panel aren't pushing against the motherboard enough.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
Holy cow that is a huge number.

Unless Google is manufacturing these devices with a huge defect like this on a high number, I think its a software issue - from what I have read 4.4.1 (which included a radio update) made things worse. The Google Support page on this here finally has some attention from Google asking for bug reports (my post is the last one as of the time of this post - the one with several screenshots). If it were a mass manufacturing defect I would think Google would be faster to pick it up. Pretty sure people have it narrowed down to a radio issue. A software update should be able to fix this.

Edit - Also people are reporting they are at the same place they were before with a replacement device. Don't think there is much we can do other than cross our fingers and hope for a fast update.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Nah, my Moto X once went with 90% no signal. That was a defective phone, but just wanted to say that. With a good radio (HTC one, N5 before the updates), I could easily get 3-4 bars (on a 5 bar scale). I have tmobile btw, but I usually get 3 bars of LTE or full bars of H+ on the 4 bar scale on the N5.

Hopefully a sw update fixes this or I'm going to have to do something that I don't want to do. (you can guess)
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
Do you know if there is a way to flash the 4.4 radio on 4.4.2? I am hoping to get into AT&T tonight and have them reset my location and give me a new SIM. Hoping beyond hope that will do the trick.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Yeah, I tried it from the Google factory images HERE and it still seemed bad.

What does resetting your location do? Never heard of it.

EDIT: Just figured something out. I have a neo hybrid case for this phone and when I took it off to clean just now, my signal jumped to 4 bars. I put it back on in the same position, 2 bars. Maybe something?

I know if the signal issue gets fixed that battery will be much better as well, so if it means that I don't use a case, I guess thats what's gonna happen.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
Bummer. Thanks for trying! Did you flash 4.4 or just the radio?

Have no idea, but it worked for someone on that Google thread and for similar problems with other devices around the internet. I am just going to have them reset all of my network settings while I am at it. And I may have them try a GS4 IME (using my original Nexus's IME). Just in case.

I have a Spigen Slim Armor and when watching the network values in the About Phone > Status the figures didn't move hardly at all. The entire time it bounced between -106dBm 33 asu and -114dBm 33asu.

Yes. The battery life should skyrocket back up to where it should be once Google sorts things out. I am hoping that is right around the corner. The quick 4.4.2 turnaround update makes me hopeful. Plus there are articles all over the internet from blogs and big sites backing user's complaints of bugs. Hopefully we hear something soon.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
I flashed just the radio. I guess it won't hurt to flash the entire thing.
[Nexus 5 General] jed394:
I'm having the same problem. I was getting great battery life with normal use a week ago, same as gidgiddonihah, ~17 hrs or so and that was with plenty of room to spare 20-30% full. The last few days though i've dropped to 12 hrs and having to charge as soon as i get home from work, 15%. There must be a software issue that has been pushed out b/c i'm on tmobile and have good service in my area. Could this be the same issue with google play services that we saw earlier in December? Right now its eating up ~15% of my battery which seems high compared to a few weeks ago.

PS. i'm running stock
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
If you are having the same problem at the same time I would think it would be safe to say there is something up. Wonder if Google could have pushed something out underneath the table or updated an app or something that has started to mess with other things. When did you update to 4.4.2?
[Nexus 5 General] jed394:
I updated several weeks ago and couldn't have been happier. I've really just noticed this Sunday/Monday of this week. I really think it must be google play services doing something abnormal, but i haven't been able to find anyone else having issues. My girlfriend has a Moto G running 4.4.2 and doesnt' seem to having battery life issues. It performes about the same as mine did before this issue. Google Play Services on her phone is ~4% battery.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
Just got off the phone with Google. He claimed he didn't know anything about this problem. He also let me know that everyone who purchased the device after a certain date late November you have until the 13th to send it back with a full refund. He assured me they wouldn't charge me for shipping either. I plan on restoring to factory, talking to AT&T, and then seeing what happens. Worst case scenario I fall back on my SII for a few months or get the Moto X.
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Yeah, I made a mistake not getting it from Google. My impatience screwed me over here.

BTW: They never say they know anything about any problems.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
Just curious. Are you running Franco? I was thinking back and my battery problems started within a day or two of updating.
[Nexus 5 General] dahool:
Stock, non-rooted, running juice defender and greenify..
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
I though greenify needed root?

Please press the thanks button if I help you.
[Nexus 5 General] dahool:
There's a beta ver. that allows to run greenify without root, it fails to freeze some apps thought..
[Nexus 5 General] aooga:
Nope. I had stock and just switched to elementalx yesterday.
[Nexus 5 General] shankark313:
yes

yes it does.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
I do that so i can get through half the day without the battery dying
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
Rooted my phone and using franco r26 kernel.

Battery life, no matter what settings I use, is almost always the same.

Tried with 3g off, with wifi off, low brightness, no google hotword, greenify, wakelock manager, no sync.

No matter what setting i use, I get around 2 hours screen time with around 14 hours total.

I use mostly for browsing, snapchat, facebook, news and a bit of candy crush.

Any rom recommendations for better battery life?

Im thinking of trying out cyannogenmod.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
The phone burns a lot of battery taking pictures... If you are taking pics as well as viewing them on snapchat. Also, are you on sprint? Do you have auto brightness on, how is your signal? Things like this make a difference. With stock on low brightness (on purpose, the phone is too bright on auto for me) and all mobile data and all sensors and location settings on I can achieve 6 hours SOT with everything stock.

On trinity kernel it is more and my phone sleeps better but the main factors are going to be how high you set brightness, signal, carrier's technology (sprint burns more than gsm carriers) etc.
[Nexus 5 General] dav94:
My phone is on Canadas Wind network. Im getting pretty good signal, almost 5 bars everywhere. My brightness is almost at the lowest, my location is on battery saving and data is on. I have tried with no data and location set to high and high brightness and my battery life is almost the same.
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
I flashed 4.4 and then upgraded to 4.4.2. The indicator is at 6% but me and several people at Androd Central think the number is faulty. I am more concerned about battery life and if I get signal when I want it I am fine. If I get another battery drain or signal problems I will just have a RMA filled out for me. I didn't get to AT&T today, but I plan on going after class this morning,
[Nexus 5 General] markdapimp:
So i charged my 2 phones @ night Galaxy s3- Backup

Alarm Nexus 5 - Primary Alarm, both phones were at 100% when the alarm rang on the morning i checked the percents here were the results

Galaxy s3- 65%

Nexus 5- 79%

Nexus 5 Signal strength -95 dbm (3 bars/4) HSPA (T-Mobile)

Galaxy s3 Signal strength -78 dbm (4/5 bars) LTE (Verizon)

as far as i can tell looking at the spec sheets the Nexus 5 has 300Mah more than the galaxy s3 and the spacing is pretty reasonable. looks like during deep sleep the CPU falls into a single core mode @ 100 - 300Mhz mode

the second core will wake up however when getting push notifications and or status updates from facebook etc.
[Nexus 5 General] kurtyyyyyy:
I've used my phone all day pretty much.

WiFi on all the time. Brightness set low.

Carbon ROM

2-3 hours of it was using unified remote on my TV
[Nexus 5 General] Mestibals:
Not too sure I can be extremely happy because I didn't play any games during this cycle nor did I watch many YouTube vids.

Otherwise, music for 2 hours, mostly chrome and xda and Fb, twitter and camera for 10 shots.
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
All these stock battery app screenshots disappoint me. Really no point in using them when Gsam battery monitor is a lot more informative & free.

AOSP 4.4.2 Rooted, ElementalX Kernel 0.22
[Nexus 5 General] 1234west:
Light To Moderate Use: Music, YouTube, Web Surfing And Some Candy Crush Saga :)
[Nexus 5 General] gidgiddonihah:
In the Mobile network signal bar red means no signal? There doesn't seem to be a consensus on what they mean and Google doesn't seem to be any help.
[Nexus 5 General] resynx:
Just got my dad a Nexus 5 two days ago and he's getting crazy good battery life..Much more than I've ever achieved :eek: No screenshots, but here's the results I saw:

1st Day

9% left

4 hours and 17 minutes SOT

3 hours and 36 minutes of talk time

mixture of data / wifi

15 hours uptime

17% of the time was without signal

almost 50% brightness

2nd Day

3 hours and 52 minutes SOT

4 hours and 39 minutes of talk time

half the time data / wifi was off and the other half wifi was on

12 hours uptime

auto brightness

And he's completely stock :silly: Can't believe the battery he is getting. I am lucky just to get 4 hours of SOT :rolleyes: