yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] :
There's one thing to try to narrow it down at this point. Location services..... The root of all evil.... Turn it right off for a day. If it's good then, maybe try one day on device only.

We'll see how those two tests go. If it makes no difference, we'll bark up another tree.

Do read posts 1 to 4 in the battery thread in my signature... Other things could be causing it... Google now? Google keep... Never used it, so don't know about it.

Try that first.

Location services causes a lot of problems, always has.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It comes down to Usage, Settings and Signal. So the settings you've set along with the apps you tend to use along with the signal type and strength that it's all running off. It's certainly possible with your conditions that you may never go higher then that, but I'm sure if I had your phone and I factory reset it and set it up in the same (stock, unrooted) way as mine the battery would also be 5+ hours SoT over 1-2 days.

Your phone was held awake by the mobile radio wake lock. That's why Google Services is showing nearly 5 hours of mobile radio usage which is much too high even if you had every Google Service enabled and terrible signal. Reboot fixes it, does it not?

You can also check your settings > apps > running chances are you would see one of your sync applications stuck there.
[Nexus 5 General] ElementalXY:
I'll be giving location a try and will keep you updated. I'm also in the process of disabling some sync services along with some factors. I'll keep you in touch when I go through the next charge cycle.

Could we guess that this is because of a weak signal being used?
[Nexus 5 General] :
If you have a weak signal, and especially if it bounces from lte and 3g a lot... Yeah, that is a killer too. Having apps syncing and location on battery saver will hurt the battery bad with a weak signal while on data.

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Click radio in gsam. See what it says... Though it's not always accurate.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I have my phone in airplane mode 24/7 (currently using another phone with SIM) and I omnly use a few apps, the general battery killers are off, and lowest brightness. I still get 1% drop every other minute. 45 minutes of Google Play Music? 3-4 percent drain.
[Nexus 5 General] pingu11:
Got 6 hrs SOT

Stock Rom 5.0

Kernel Code Blue r646

Undervolted to -100mV

Max frequency locked to 729mhz but to 1190mhz for games(mainly Darkness reborn) (cause I don't need much for listening to music, whatsapp, etc)
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Just wondering, did you use greenify or Titanium to freeze any apps? Or did you use the stock ROM + kernel for any amount of time and see your SOT?

Today I froze all my apps with Titanium Backup, pretty much every 3rd party app I ever had on my phone, and the battery still seems to be draining as it normally would. I just do not get it. Airplane mode, WiFi only, and lowest brightness, location off, remote lock and erase, off, greenify for other apps, I don't get it.

Ah well, I'll report back here tonight with screenshots. Granted, I do play Clash of Clans, but maybe for 10 minutes a day. Which I know drains battery but even before the game I still got the same. We'll see how much I have tonight.
[Nexus 5 General] pingu11:
Sorry I forgot to mention. I'm using greenify too and have location off
[Nexus 5 General] JeremyNT:
It's too early to say with certainty, but I think I'm seeing an improvement in my battery life after the 5.0.1 update. I was barely managing 2 hours of SoT on stock 5.0.0 (brightness minimum with adaptive brightness), but last night I was still at 50% after 2 hours of SoT. This is much closer to my KK battery life.

I'm going to avoid charging today to see how it shakes out. On KK I could go all day without charging, but on 5.0.0 I was lucky to go 9-10 hours unplugged.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Your frequency is 720mhz. What do you expect? Do that with 2.3 and it'd be worth mentioning.

If I undervlock so much, I'd get like 8 hours.

I get 5.5 hours on 1.7GHz.
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
5.0.1 Gives me better battery life, finally getting 3.5+ hrs SOT with 1.5 hours of COC and 1 hour of reading books, I don't know if it's placebo or anything but generally a good update. Hoping to give a detailed review after one week, this is just my initial feelings findings.
[Nexus 5 General] cesc777:
Nice to hear 3.5+ with "1.5 hrs COC"...you play it on 2g or 3g???..bit curious.:D
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
I have noticed that formating the cache partition on stock(my nexus 5 is pure stock) helps with the wakelocks and battery drain.
[Nexus 5 General] whitesnuf:
I have noticed this too today. Let's have a look how long it lasts.
[Nexus 5 General] baiju2012:
How do you format the cache partition?

Nexus V Lollipop
[Nexus 5 General] SurferLTU:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9MgvKEuzyik

Did cache wipe... Restarted phone and got 5.0.1 OTA update :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] Jwizzled:
Data/WiFi use? U are super UC so that explains a little.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Underclocking to 720? Lol May as well sell the N5 and get a 3 year old phone in that case. And have extra left to Christmas shop. ?
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
Wi-Fi, Phone is always on 2G but i won't connect to data services. Like I said I will be giving a detailed report after repeated usage.

Edit:Forgot to mention, Battery saver on all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Yeah me too after 2 h, I think it's unrelated though.
[Nexus 5 General] sarcokiller:
Any suggestions to stop radio signal always on?
[Nexus 5 General] cgendreau:
For some reason I found out that my Yahoo email account from Gmail would not stop syncing when it was set to auto-sync, no matter my frequency. Even if I set it to 1 hour it would always be syncing, thus draining battery like crazy.

I removed and re-added the Yahoo email account and it seems to have cleared up (so far).
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Try to close the Chrome tabs out if possible. Chrome just drains battery anyway. I switched to a very low overhead browser called Naked Browser which has a nice exit button.
[Nexus 5 General] ColdFire InOx:
I believe I may have a faulty battery, is there anyway I can confirm it for sure?
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
You could post some usage and config of the phone and compare to other users with the same setul. Some differences may still be there.
[Nexus 5 General] Silvers91:
Lollipop 5.0.1 battery results

These are my battery results for yesterday (heavy usage).. A day after updating to 5.0.1 via OTA.

Heavy usage: youtube, some gaming, facebook and messenger, some calls and text messages, browsing on chrome, taking pictures, listening to music for hours, about a half hour of reading.

Cellular was on all the time, I turned on wifi only when I wasn't near one.. Got the brightness at lowest settings.. Location Off all the time.

I got 4 hours SOT before it went down to 10%.. Didn't use battery saver at all.. Using only greenify and Battery doctor.

(See screenshots)
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Looks good. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
5.0.1 fixes some isuues.

1h 30m sot , 30 min calls

Mobile on WiFi on

Mostly SMS hangouts and WhatsApp

Some reddit chorme and Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] pulsar_swift:
Nice results.

Can you share your settings ?
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Stock 5.0.1, location and google now off, syncs on.
[Nexus 5 General] Silvers91:
Hi guys, I'm back again.. These are my results for today.. With heavy gaming, charged it at night before I went to sleep, played asphalt for about 30 minutes then I slept, when I woke up my phone was at 60%.. Checked my facebook, watched some youtube videos, and played asphalt again for like 45 minutes.. Before it went down to 6% as you can see in screenshots.. 3h15 SOT, I'm really reaaaaally surprised and satisfied.. This phone is getting better and better <3

Ps: I opened chrome and posted this and still it's at 3%.
[Nexus 5 General] Xlydven:
At this point I'm really frustrated with Android L because 5.0.1 didn't do jack ****. It's suppose to fix the bugs but my battery still last only an hour with wifi on and location off. Also, Camera crashes constantly even at times when I dont use it.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Hey guys, just had to RMA my nexus 5 and I've got a new one. Pvs is now a 3 when it was 0 before. However I restored my nandroid from my old phone and I already see a massive boost in battery life. Under the same rom and sd card data my phone is now reaching 4-5 hours SOT under the same usage as before when I struggled to get 3 hours with my old phone. Just goes to show no two phones are the same in terms of power consumption. End of day it just depends on how lucky you are with regards to if you have a good phone with decent battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
On a stock phone PVS does not matter. The stock voltages are the same.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Incorrect mate, they have different voltage tables: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47425927&postcount=193 as you go up the voltage tables the voltage for freqs particularly 2.3ghz become lower.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
We'll actually , as I mentioned the stock kernel uses the same voltages for every PVS, because flashing the same software on different devices will cause issues.

The PVS only diferances how much you can undervolt. As I read in the undervolting thread there is no much battery gain. How ever the CPU will throtlle less because undervolting will cause less heat disapation. Joules law as far as I remember. Less CPU throtteling will cause it to be able to run at higher freq and so you get more performance. However the higher freq will use more battery.

I undervolted with 175mV across the board and got less SoT while playing asphalt 8 from 100 to 0, about 3h compared to 3h 40m without undervolt. This was tested on franko kernel.

I actually got the best battery life on pure stock after coming from costum ROMs after several battery circles and gets better and better. I now get about 5h of phone usage SoT + call times regardless of stand by times.
[Nexus 5 General] pulsar_swift:
are you on stock kernel too when you say you are on pure stock ?
[Nexus 5 General] Snow24:
This is my wear.

I didn't used Fit yesterday, but there is 22 minutes of usage not mine. I used Facebook (about 20 minutes), WhatsApp (for reply to a messages), 2048 (about 15 minutes). Shuttle i don't remember, but almost 20-30 minutes. I have Android 5.0 factory images, all stock. Kernel is stock, firmware is stock, installed with factory images. I have no used the update OTA
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Yes everything is stock, even the bootloader is locked.
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
I barely get 3.5-4h SOT using wifi only..
[Nexus 5 General] lovendsuicide:
Using SimpleAOSP, everything stock and first charge since flashing the rom.

Location on, mobile data on all the time (3G mode). Normal usage, no games played, just Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tapatalk, some browsing and WhatsApp... Pretty satisfied with the results :)
[Nexus 5 General] ZaltysZ:
Stock 5.0.1. I am almost always on Wifi on workdays.
[Nexus 5 General] Jwizzled:
what is your signal like? The main culprits to battery drain are CPU keep awake apps and poor signal. Data/WiFi won't make a huge difference if you have a good signal all the time.

- Jwizzled via hammerhead
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Battery Doctor drained more battery than any other app you used on your phone, actually it used even more than the Android OS. Your phone will drain less battery with it gone. This is the case with 90% of battery apps, you can use Tasker or Llama to set up your own automation which will actually save you battery instead of draining it. The same goes for Snapdragon Battery Guru etc.

It would come down to a difference in Usage, Settings and Signal. PVS won't effect it, even undervolting won't noticeably increase battery life. Perhaps you just needed to clear the storage cache.
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
I get that battery life even with full signal..
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Google Now and Wi-Fi drain the battery most on my N5. It was down by 20% in 7 hrs overnight.

With Google now and Wi-Fi turned off including mobile data, battery drains by about 10% overnight.

Highly not acceptable. Google we are waiting for a fix.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Google Now itself does not use much battery unless you use location along with it.

And there is no "Wi-Fi drain" or "Wi-Fi bug".

Your issue is elsewhere. Read the battery help thread.
[Nexus 5 General] KodRoute:
Using Airplane mode on and some additional settings this is what I can get. By the way I'm not rooted. Everything stock.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Wakelocks mate, install gsam to find them. Shouldn't drain more than 5% over 10 hours with wifi off depending on signal strength.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
I installed GSam but don't understand the data. Example, phone was active for 3% which is 6min 30 sec. And Held Awake is also 3% but 5 hrs 4 min 41 sec.

Is the stats correct? Is my battery life OK?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Show us the battery chart with the wakes on it. Stock one will do.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Here they are...
[Nexus 5 General] matt_not_andrew:
Anyone else suffering from erratic battery stats where the phone can't seem to keep an accurate record of the battery level?

I'm on side loaded 5.0.1 OTA on my Nexus 5 and when my phone gets down to approx 35% it usually dies. On restart it will show 1 or 2% having lost about 30 to 35%. I'll recharge it switched on or off but it makes no change. Occasionally I'll find it restart at other battery levels and when it restarts it will have gained or lost a similar amount.

I've tried recalibrating the battery by fully depleting and then charging switched off etc to 100% but it's still erratic.

I'm one of the many who is experiencing rapid battery drain in all conditions since 5.0.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
See the first 4 posts in this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Eww. Your signal is crap apparently. Try switching to 2g or 3g if they have better signal. Ideally use edge and WiFi. That's what I do at work.

With Google Play Services you'll have to tweak it a bit. The quickest thing I can find is just download Disable Service and find the two subservices within Google Play Services and uncheck them. That is what I did and for some reason I don't get Google Play Service drain and I can leave location on.

Also disable your syncs except for contacts, calendar, and a couple other things. That seems to help a lot too.
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
I think you have wifi issue with your modem. I tried everything to solve this issue. One day my modem has been bricked. I changed it. And wifi wakelocks gone forever. Than I tried to check this at my office. Same result. ı have bad wifi connection in my office and I have idle wifi wakelocks. Check it.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I usually always hit 3hours SOT and it's dead. I feel bad for these with worse battery than that, but battery is attrocious. I will never believe these 6hours+ of SOT. Everyone I know, on KK and L, has gotten around 3 hours SOT. It's only a 2300mah battery. Not capable of 6hours+. I do not understand how anyone gets this.

What I DO know though is I can drain my battery to 20%, charge it some, then drain it more and make it show 8hours SOT if I wanted.

My battery is actually draining on the charger, or it never ever goes up when it's being used. Cataclysm + ElementalX abd I tried stock and Cyanogenmod 11 and 12.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm sure you've been here,

[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!

But if you follow the majority of the advice there, you will get the maximum battery life for your usage. Yes, everyone uses their devices different. Me, my screen shots and average times are in post 4 in that thread, and many get the same and more. Yes, i mostly only use Tapatalk, browser and text in an average day. So my usage is extremely battery friendly. 3 hours can be totally average for you depending on what you do with your phone.

And for everything in post 2 on that thread that you don't follow.... Your battery will drain a little quicker.

But please don't dismiss those who get twice what you do for SOT... It's entirely possible... Depending on your setup and usage.... And signal quality.... And if you have unnecessary wakelocks or not.

Anyone who needs location on, has multiple social apps not greenified and plays some games... Will likely never pass 4 hours SOT at best. ?

?

Oh... And I got those averages on any rom or kernel. Should add that point. ?
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Been using 5mins of facebook upto right now after unplugging. Now I have 98%. Off GoogleNow/Location. UV -50 1.9GHz max freq using ElemX.

I really can't see whyyyyyyyyy. Still haven't found the answer!!

Sent from my Nexus 5 D820
[Nexus 5 General] :
Posting screens from 7 minutes of use is pointless. ?

Run it down to about 10 percent left and then take some screens. ?
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Maybe I just don't like it when the battery logo changes at 95% [emoji12]. I'll post the result when it hits 20%.

Sent from my Nexus 5 D820
[Nexus 5 General] luvmynexus:
Hey guys, today, i got on 3 and half hours SOT with 33% remaining, which i think is pretty solid. I was using the phone quite hard. Over 2 hours of gaming (1h32min Subway Surfers, 39min Age of War), listening to music (headphones), taking some photos in the city. I unplugged my phone of the charger at 8 o'clock AM and at 3PM, i was on 33%... Still a good result, I think. Display on 15% constantly. Franco kernel, XtraSmooth rom, UV.

Wifi and data off.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
I disabled Inbox sync... Battery lasts a bit longer.
[Nexus 5 General] Isus <3:
Does greenifiy really help? When I greenifiy Facebook, and turn off phone I still get notifications from it, I gave it root access.. What's wrong :c
[Nexus 5 General] Jwizzled:
are u running exposed?

- Jwizzled via hammerhead
[Nexus 5 General] fresyk:
yep its useful.. its closing the app by itself.. and if u have shortcut just press once and all apps are closing :)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Custom ROM and kernel will do very little for battery life as I think you have come to realize. I can even get 3+ hours of pure gaming on this phone, so yes you can certainly get more than 3 hours of screen time doing non-gaming stuff. No one here is cheating by charging the phone as can be clearly seen on any detailed graph screenshots.

There is a general sentiment from people that they are "stuck with what they got". Yes you have a 2300mAh total pool size to work with, but what you do with that 2300mAh is completely up to you. Consider the apps you use, the ones you allow to run in the background (Usage), as well as the functionality you've chosen for your phone (Settings) and signal type and strength (Signal). All these things come into play to determine battery life.

If your battery is draining on the charger then you have another issue that you should look into, possibly extremely high background drain. Which apps do you see in your Settings > Apps > Running tab? You can use this to determine which apps you have are always running in the background and draining your battery 24/7.
[Nexus 5 General] fourteentwentyfour:
Battery drain and weird reset

I'm suffering from the same 5.0 lollipop battery drain that seems to be affecting others here but I'm also experiencing another weird problem.

My phone will almost daily switch off mid use. When I restart my battery life will have dropped to almost 0. Today it was at 70% and upon restarting after it turned off it registered as being at 15%. I left it is battery saver mode and turned on Aeroplane mode to see what would happen and it slowly went back up to about 57% over about an hour and a bit without me charging it at all. Clearly the software is reading the battery wrong at times for some reason because other times this has happened I've noticed that if I charge it straight away after the restart and sudden loss of battery life, it charges back up to 100% far too fast to be normal.

With regards to the normal shortened battery life and the above, I've attached some GSam screen grabs and battery life grabs. Any ideas? For the record, I got 5.0 OTA update as normal, deleted the cache and did a hard reset to try to cure the shortened battery life but it made no difference. Since side loading the OTA 5.0.1 update I haven't done a hard reset, just deleted the cache. Should I do a hard reset to try to cure this? Normally I would have by now but so many people seem to be having problems with battery life issues with this update that I thought I'd ask first. Is the problem an app waking the phone? All my apps are up to date as of yesterday.

BTW, I put the phone in aeroplane mode just after the restart. I have all my location services turned off normally unless I need Satnav for work and have also disabled the voice activation on the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] moropazzo96:
the battery is not very good for me, later i post my screen :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Hmm. I'd RMA your phone as it may be a bad battery. I'd try flashing KitKat to see honestly. Barring that, why is Google Play Newsstand at the top of the battery usage list? Are you using that? If not I'd disable the app.
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
Does anyone know why I gain a few battery percentages overnight? by about 3-4% more than what I have when i go to sleep. Has anyone else experienced this? Or is it because of my erratic battery charge/phone usage cycle?
[Nexus 5 General] matt_not_andrew:
I use Google play news stand as my main news feed but only for 5 minutes at a time 8 or so times a day. On the logs attached, of only used my phone with the so for the first 30% of the day then it restarted and lost power. Did it again today but this is the screen grab before it slowly increased over a few hours back up to 70% which is about where it would have been from my usage. Really annoying that it restarts randomly, sometimes using the camera, others using any other app Inc this XDA app.
[Nexus 5 General] luvmynexus:
So yesterday, i got this.

I think, it's really nice.

Mid usage. 45mins of gaming.

Seems like my kernel got used on my setup already. Wifi on. Facebook messenger on.

Most of the time browsing XDA, checking Facebook, chatting on messenger.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
RMAing your phone and receiving a refurbished device for a $10 replacement battery should be a last resort. This fellow is getting 3 hours SoT despite a mediocre signal data connection, GPS firing off and the reboot glitch. Rebooting the phone and having the battery levels reset is a fairly common software issue that can happen to anyone.

The estimation that is your battery level changed. This most commonly seen when the phone is allowed to idle after a period of usage, for instance using the phone before bed.
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
Any particular reason for that? more technical or is it just one of those sh*t happens things?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
When you're using the phone heavily the estimation drops quickly but when you use the phone lightly or not at all, it drops very little. When you switch from using the phone heavily to not using the phone at all for a period of time, the battery realizes its earlier estimation (accounting for heavy usage) was too steep and attempts to compensate.

Basically the battery level is based off the current power being drawn. The best example of this is the "remaining battery time" stat changing as your usage changes. If you start gaming it will estimate only a few hours remaining, where as if you leave your phone idle afterwards it might then estimate multiple days remaining.
[Nexus 5 General] UnD:
Screen was ON for 1hr30min

Any advice on how to improve by battery life? It's getting painful with thr latest Lollipop update.

Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] jyuuken:
May i ask what is powermanagement service dslplay?

Sent from Nexus 5 running Cataclysm L
[Nexus 5 General] premislausg:
My result today. I think it's good.