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[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
5s should be worse than the N5.

Try the G2 that is the best for battery life.

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I'd pay even 100 for G2 like battery life.

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[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
No reflection of real use i guess but i took my N5 off charge nearly 11 hours ago and its only used 4% of the battery although all its done is update 2 apps off play and nothing else.
[Nexus 5 General] vittogn:
I'm 37 and easily get 4+ hours in my working days usage.

I use it both for work and personal stuff. I no longer use my desktop at home unless I have to do video or photo editing. I no longer watch TV for news (mainly because of my 4 y. o. daughter) and all my news reading comes from my smartphone.

I'm not a gamer, but that activity should be taken into account.

We should sum phone + TV + home desktop + console gaming to have fair comparisons.

To me it's not age, it's more what device do u use for doing certain activities.

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[Nexus 5 General] TurkzZ:
the standby and call time battery consumption seems pretty good, its just with the screen on, the battery drains extremely quickly.

TBH while the screen is 1080p and 5", the battery still seems to be draining too fast while its on. Could the google services which activate when the screen is on be the culprit?

From what iv seen, the users posting good usage times don't seem to have google play services on their battery usage screen.

What brightness setting do you guys use, at the moment im at around 70%. Also is there an app to closely monitor exactly which apps use up more battery.

Finally has anybody used the Quallcomm battery saver app?
[Nexus 5 General] phositadc:
Overnight idle drain on this thing is awesome! Looking at 0.1% per hour or so.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Dirk:
Anandtech Bench results

Battery test results for web browsing on WiFi, 2G/3G, 4G/LTE:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/514

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/786

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/SmartPhone13/516

Looks pretty decent to me! :good:
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
Now that's a surprise... especially beating out the G2 on WiFi. I'd like to see some video rundown too just to see how the screen itself fares (of course the G2 has the low energy LCD solution which is great).
[Nexus 5 General] c_brown93:
First charge on Lollipop Final Dev Preview. Not bad at all. ?
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Did you use 3G/LTE at any time?
[Nexus 5 General] c_brown93:
Yes I did. I would say it was about 60% WiFi 40% LTE.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Check out my amazing result when I installed this "volume power" app that let's you use your volume button to wake the device up instead of power button.

Eating up my 63% battery. **sigh**

Now i can't even uninstall it.

screen on=6% this screenshot was at the time of night.

Help. See screenshots.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
Titanium Backup can likely uninstall it.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
I have a stock ROM. Darth

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
Are you rooted? Doesn't matter what rom you are, just need root for titanium backup.

If you are not rooted... You may need to now. Unless you can get rid of it another way.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
I'm not rooted.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] :
Then I'm not sure what you can do if uninstall and disable are both greyed out.

This is a reason why people root BTW... So we fully control our devices. ?
[Nexus 5 General] NotFromMountainView:
Have you checked for an uninstall option in the app's settings? I've never tried this app, but, for example, Gravity Screen can only be unstalled from within the app itself via a pretty straightforward Uninstall button. Iirc, it's necessary because of Android restrictions on how apps can interact with the lockscreen.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Is this normal drain?? Dx Android System and OS always eat a chunk of my battery. :(
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Actually, you need to check your device administrators (settings . security) and disable it from there FIRST.

Now, proceed with normal uninstall.

When the uninstall button is disabled, it means its been set as a device administrator. Try uninstalling it from the play store, and it'll tell you something similar.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
It's all Greek to me:)
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
slimkat build 8.10 everything greenified and franco kernel 63 ! I was on semi bad 3g all day and my batterylife never was better than 3 or 4 hours SOT but common -.- anything I can do? (I literally only used my phone with those apps: poweramp, viper4android, whatsapp, tapatalk and chrome....)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Nothing you can do about poor signal battery drop. Well, almost.

You can toggle data on/off only when you're using it. You'll still get calls and texts. Still going to see bad loss while using it though.

You can limit what apps ping your data all day... Social apps especially.

Or you can find WiFi.

That's about it.
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
damn :( Even though I already knew it its a bummer everytime i hear it again-.- thanks to my portable QI power bank i can make it through the day. :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
They are bulky, but if this is a common issue, I'd look into one of those battery cases. Bulky, but can help.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I disagree with Darth's analysis. The graph shows predominantly green and bright yellow signal, and is corroborated by Phone Idle and Cell Standby not being very high on the list of drains, as they would be if the phone was struggling with a low signal connection.

It appears 40-50% of the battery loss came from 1 hour long (or so) period of time, which was 1 of 2 awake periods with no screen usage. I'm assuming they are from music listening, which would hint at V4A potentially being a large cause of the drain. If that wasn't from music listening however, then it would be a wake lock of some sort that drained half the battery in about an hours time.

You also rebooted then, was it because you noticed the wake lock and tried to fix it? The wake stops afterwards but another 10% of the battery disappeared during the reboot.

My conclusion would be this was probably a rare incident of excessive drain brought along by a wake lock, or perhaps V4A music listening.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You could definitely have it. ?

I ignored the chart and went with his mention of poor signal.

Turning location services off completely will no doubt as well. If not cause of poor signal... But it could likely be a factor in what you've said.

If it's not off already.

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I need gsam screens to be most helpful. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Edo 91:
I've loose 15% of charge in about 1h12m with 26m of SOT doing nothing particular... the battery is dying? :(
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
That equates to about 3.5 hours SoT which is what you should expect without any battery saving techniques. The battery is working as intended.
[Nexus 5 General] Edo 91:
On wi-fi, no gaming, only little whatsapp, i find it pretty ****ty...by the way, the nexus reaches the full charge, i put it away from charger and in 10 minutes of stand-by sucks 1% is this normal too?
[Nexus 5 General] :
You need this then,

[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!

Read the first 4 posts, then if you still have issues, post the recommended screen shots. Especially time held awake and times waking device.

Without screen shots... All anyone can do is take wild guesses at what issues you may or may not have.

?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
With Locations, Google Now and Auto Syncs enabled you shouldn't expect more then that. These constantly wake your phone which greatly increases stand by drain.

As for dropping 1% within 10 minutes, that is also normal. Even when I disable services and increase my battery life to the maximum possible level that often happens. Also, if you unplug the phone soon after reaching 100% it can drop 2-3% within 10 minutes because it doesn't completely finish charging for about 30 minutes after first showing 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] Laggalot:
Wow thanks for your analysis! Location settings are always off and I had no wakelogs ... In the morning i was listening to music for around an hour or 2 with the screen off and afterwards i still had around 90 percent! whole day I just used the phone for checking the time and watching 2 tiny videos. then when driving home I was listening to music again for around 2 hours whilest tapatalking and surfing the web ;) thats all I really did. (I was on Dalvik this day because of Kingdom rush frontiers but I just cant dalvik anymore so I am back on ART again) the reboot was because my cpu was being kept on 1400 quad which made my phone lag strangely enough....
[Nexus 5 General] GuitarGuy96:
I'm just gonna leave this here..

Ugh so much drain :P I've tried many L preview ROMs, the LPX13D build has the misc drain..., LPV79 had such an amazing battery life I was so sure L was gonna blow everyone's minds away with the release.. But oh well, I should've known.. Was just a dev prev, and the fact that barely any apps were running on it in the first place.. :P

Anyway, has there been any news on when the official will release for everyone? November 12th? Misc drain 123% no more, hopefully after that, oui? :P

If anyone's curious, DPI's at 368 and RobotoLight is the font running here.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I wonder if that the clock speed being stuck and lagging was a symptom of the wake lock. So just to confirm, as far as you know there wasn't usage around that time that would've drained 40-50% of your battery with the screen off?

Makes me think maybe switching between ART and Dalvik was the cause.
[Nexus 5 General] ricardollreis:
Hi

I bought the Nexus 5 last week, stock 4.4.4

Tasker for turn wifi off when the screen it's off
[Nexus 5 General] fresyk:
so u have 5 h30 in a single full charge? i dont believe that.. normal its 2-3 hours,u cant have 5-6
[Nexus 5 General] :
Lol

Look at post 4 in the battery thread in my signature. ?

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2 to 3 is well below average. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
No underclocking/core disabling crap involved, I run with all 4 cores on all the time.

Could've made it to 7 hours SOT but was too lazy to use up the remaining 13%, I went to sleep instead.

[MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION]
[Nexus 5 General] fresyk:
i fking have max 2h30 screen on ..

how u guys call this

Full charge and in 30 minute,with 0 seconds Screen on .. 97 battery
[Nexus 5 General] :
Go to the battery help thread in my signature and read first 4 posts. If you still would like help... Post the recommended screen shots there. ?
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
Gotta say... So far the l image is not giving me such a good battery life... How about you guys?
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Sadly to report... I'm having pretty terrible battery life on the new Lollipop. I usually have 92 percent after the morning before classes start. Today, I had 88 percent. It's draining pretty rapidly, and I'm on my charger now hoping it was a bad charge.

Also, I don't know what's going on but Greenify is not working. I installed the latest from Google Play, and I have root, but it always fails to hibernate apps.
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
Meh... Google has still a lot to do. Also the device stopped responding when i downloaded with faster speeds. Same problem on the preview

For greenify use the beta build.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Yeah, they do apparently. When I was watching YT and updating apps, YT kept freezing pretty bad. And the battery... I really hope it stabilizes because I had better battery on the preview, but I only had a few apps installed granted.

I just cannot believe the battery. What happened to Volta? Also apparently the Nexus 9 has more UI sounds than our version of Lollipop/updated ones.

It's unfortunate... I really hope something "clicks" and we get better battery. When I tried installing a custom recovery via Flashify it said I had no recovery partition. Did you install your recovery with fastboot?
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
Jp via fastboot. I used twrp gonna try cwm later i prefer it. Apparently project Volta was a joke... Might change my mind if i actually get the same battery life as on KitKat

But its still the first charge. I give them that even thought it's worse
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Sadly i don't think this is very good... Clean install , i wiped everything
[Nexus 5 General] yokken:
I'm getting really poor battery life with the factory Lollipop image. I listened to a cached song (1hr mix) through Play Music on the way to work today and the phone got warm while playing it. It dropped 15% in about 30 minutes. It's been off charger for about 3 hours now and I'm at 52%. Unfortunately BetterBatteryStats doesn't point to any clear offender and the Android battery stats don't have any clear offender either. It's just dying rapidly. I have almost every non-essential app Greenified as well. This happened on the first dev preview as well. GSAM says I'm draining at 15%/hr right now... I'm not even gonna make it through the workday. At least on KitKat I could get home with 40% left. I think I'll have to factory reset tonight and if it happens tomorrow, I might just flash my KitKat backup until either Google pushes an update or a ROM comes out with a decent custom kernel.

Sidenote: I checked the Franco Kernel Updater app to see what the stock kernel governor was set at, and it was set to 1.2GHz min, 1.5GHz max. Strange. I changed it to 300MHz min, 1.7GHz max, and switched from the ondemand governor to interactive. I don't think it'll make anything better, but it's worth noting.
[Nexus 5 General] jumper62:
I'm getting poor battery life as well. Hopefully its temporary. I did a lot of time downloading my apps with play store in background using data.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
I did a reboot and the permanent active state is gone... Let's see how it goes...
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
OK one final Kit Kat for comparison to my future L results.

Stock unrooted. 40% brightness, Locations Off, Auto Syncs controlled by Llama, two work days on weak 3G signal using mostly Hangouts, Feedly, and 2 hours of video.

Full album here.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I'll try that later. I want CWM too, even though TWRP was made for Nexus devices, I just prefer CWM's simplicity. I guess you were right and judging by the few posts I have seen, the battery is terrible. WTH Google... :( Currently at about 58 percent with about an hour and 10 mins SOT. :( what's the battery drainer here???
[Nexus 5 General] Lerinsol:
I actually came online to see if other people have noticed this as well. I'm getting worse battery life than what I had on KitKat and I have Greenify on and Google Now off kind of setup. I lost about 50% in less than 5 hours with 1 hour SOT. Quite alarming.
[Nexus 5 General] Hybrid Core:
Battery life is great for me on Lollipop! [emoji2]
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Lollipop won't magically double your battery life, people. If you have wakelock issues its going to be the exact same on Lollipop.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
I think it needs some time to do some kind of calibration or analysis... My battery is going a little better after the first full cycle.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
Wakelocks are due to stupid non optimized apps for Lollipop. Since clean install of lollipop, I am running only tapatalk, feedly, whatsapp and Piktures apps from play store. Everything else is stock Google with location services, Google now on on. I have no wakelocks and I am about to get 5+hr SOT. This is much bettet than Kitkat.

Stop blaming Google for poor battery life. Reason lies somewhere else.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Many..... Many apps will take time to be updated, since 5.0 isn't widespread yet.

If they ever do.

Then there's the Art problem. ?
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
From 93% to 4% discharge cycle, I got SOT of 5hr 19 mins. That's phenomenal! My usages havr been medium like whatsapp, tapatalk, facebook, chrome app usages and YouTube for around 20 mins. Indoor usages with manual brightness at approx 30%. All data on wifi.

On Kitkat, with similar uses and current condition of battery (1year old and used extensively, like 3 full cycles per 2 days), I would have got 3 and half hour max SOT. Project volta is proving to be worthy for me. I am sure abnormal drain and wakelocks people facing are because of unoptimized apps for lollipop.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
No such thing as optimizing them for Lollipop. If they wakelock then they wakelock. If they sync then they sync.

Lollipop honestly doesn't affect my battery life at all.
[Nexus 5 General] yokken:
I took some screenshot of my progress throughout the day... First 2 pictures are a little less than 3 hours off charger, with me using it relatively lightly. Drained 15% of my battery from 100 to 85 in 30 minutes from listening to a cached mix on Play Music. Last 3 are from right before it died. I had it in battery saver mode for about the last 45 minutes. Quite sad... It's funny, the battery was better when I had terrible signal compared to when I had good signal... it's pretty bad on the Nexus 5 at my office, but the lollipop radio and my phone just do not mix. Same thing happened on the dev preview but with less severity.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
You clearly don't understand software engineering. I am computer engineer myself with extensive knowledge of Java and other object oriented programming. I will only laugh at your statement. Can't even argue.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Oh, please tell me more.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
I will simplify it. Operating system has major task of job scheduling. It decides when to pass invoke call to various modules of application layer. Everything about when app is invoked, how many resources are allocated to it, when to do preemption is decided by operating system. So many things have been changed in Lollipop. Thousands of commits and few hundred or maybe thousand new APIs. Apps are not even prepared for new APIs, forget about underlying changes. I can't elaborate further. Just google some terms I used and you will understand better. I will only say that optimization is really really important process in software lifecycle and even a single line of change in code can broke it.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I really hope things do get better. I used to get 3-3.5 SOT on KitKat but the last week I had it I had horrible battery. And I didn't change anything. Lollipop wasn't "bad" but the same as KK maybe some better. I got a little over 2 hours SOT today. Sorry, I forgot screenshots, I got home, put it on to charge and crashed.

I just expected more with Lollipop. Granted, I have a load of apps that are old and haven't been updated in probably forever. But I hope it gets better. My phone also heats up too, on the preview with stock and a few user apps I never noticed that. I'm actually sad more people didn't post battery screenshots today, but generally it seems to be bad like mine.

How exactly does gsam and those apps even work? I tried them on KK, but they didn't tell me anything really... How can I find wakelocks and fix them?
[Nexus 5 General] laxor:
Then how do you explain this?

Almost no wakelocks and drain in standby, but as soon as the phone is being used, battery drains like crazy. The only apps I used during that huge drop at the end were Chrome and Tapatalk (wifi, lowest light settings, Stock, rooted).
[Nexus 5 General] Vivek_Neel:
Project Volta really doing a fantastic job.

Got 3hr sot at 64% itself.

And even I was using chrome browser .

Screenshot shows 2hr 24 min but it should have been 3hr 1min. as I rebooted that got messsed up. See the graph.

Latest official factory images for nexus5.

If you are getting a poor battery life then the mistake is on your side.

See the set up.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
I am deriving conclusion from what I am observing. You can continue to blame google if do think its better than start looking into problem yourself, maybe once again and evaluating what you can do to resolve. I will suggest to put location to battery saving, turning of location reporting, TRUE wifi off etc.
[Nexus 5 General] laxor:
I've done all that. With the same settings and apps, battery life on Lollipop is cut in half for me without any significant wakelocks. The only modifcation I made was using CF Autoroot. Maybe that's the cause?
[Nexus 5 General] Theliels:
I can confirm laxor words.

Battery life is great on standby, much better than KK, but much worse when phone is on. I haven't detect any "aggressive" app in background or any clear explication about this.

Im using CF-Autoroot too... we can try without it
[Nexus 5 General] sebasgl1:
well, it could be that the battery calculations are not adapted to your device, so is giving bad battery news, in my n5 with 5.0, i get like 3-4 extra hours
[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
Pretty solid, stock non rooted clean install.

Tonight I'll drain all the battery and charge it off. Calibrate and see if changed.
[Nexus 5 General] sammoz:
battery life with kit kat,

wondering if android l can get same battery life..
[Nexus 5 General] banny7000:
I got about 2hrs 45mins sot with just over 50% left on my last charge. Battery is maybe the same as KitKat maybe slightly better.I use elementalx kernel also.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
Another day with android Lollipop and another day of good battery backup. Extensive web browsing via Chrome, 24mins of voice calls, 15 mins of gameplay (Dr. Driving), hour of Tapatalk uses, hour on whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook, few emails etc. Brightness set to around 30% for most of the time except 80% for around 10 min of outdoor use. Phone was off for around 4 hours and graph cut off shows that although doesn't affect stats.

With similar uses and on KitKat, I would have got around 3.15 hr of SOT as my battery is now messed up after year of heavy use.
[Nexus 5 General] NOTilyass:
That project volta thing doesn't seem to work
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
For me, its working like miracle.
[Nexus 5 General] conquereddroiduser:
Anyone else have the battery stats go wonky for a bit? Mine reset after about 45mina of sot this morning and were unavailable for about an hour. It said "battery stats unavailable at this time" and had nothing under the usage percentages.

Eventually it started working again, the graph remained intact but all the battery use percentages started at 0 again. My sot is currently off by about 45mins at this moment.. Very strange
[Nexus 5 General] :
Use Gsam. The stock battery stats are not useful for anything anyway. Especially if you have an issue. ?
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
I charged to full 100% , but my stats shows from 90% . strange behavior
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
I used the battery saver mode today (after hitting 15%), and I'm very impressed. !!

I'm wondering, how much screentime you can get if you run with the battery savermode all the day from 100 to 0% ?? :)
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
Yes. Its very aggressive. Turns off animations, background data etc. I am sure GPU and CPU usages too are forcefully scaled down during battery saver mode.
[Nexus 5 General] Nemo0815:
For me battery lasts much shorter as with kitkat.

Strange thing is as soon as I am on wifi everything is good, so maybe it is the radio?
[Nexus 5 General] showstopper03:
Dude you are having MASSIVE wakelock and not very good signal. I would suggest changing over to hspa+ only and see if you get a stronger signal and install apps such as wakelock detector to find out what apps are crushing your battery. I would be willing to bet money if you did a wipe and only had google apps and even location services on you would be worlds better than what you're getting now.
[Nexus 5 General] Nemo0815:
Here is mine. As you can see on wifi it is much better. So the radio really has some problems