yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Turns out WiFi locations is only a noticeable drain when using data, especially low signal data as compared here. Allowing the WiFi to remain enabled doesn't seem to remedy that either.

Stock and unrooted as usual. Battery Saver locations mode with GNow location based cards, 20% brightness and a bit of data usage. Llama controlled auto-syncs and WiFi toggle. More detailed shots can be found here.
[Nexus 5 General] flashallthetime:
Well I have to say that compared to the moto x the nexus battery sucks big time, don't even bother changing my mind. My moto x would have no problem reaching 6 hrs sot with 30% battery felt in the bank. This nexus device doesn't even come close. I'm running the pacman ROM on both and same apps, same useage.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
That's nice. Very simple, very easy. Sell the n5 and keep the Moto x
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
That's impressive man! :eek:

Mine results for today don't seems to keep up with yours ... Stock rom and kernel with root, auto sync every 40 minutes with tasker , very low manual brightness, all time wi fi with 7h of sleep and 45m of calls, Google now is on with location on battery saver.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Mostly on a mediocre 3g signal. Obviously on WiFi its much better....but not complaining.

I'm sure if I had a bunch of apps syncing and getting pushes on data....my time would be much worse. But I have like 3 I think. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] DARTHVAPOR:
My battery life sucks, please help.

Nexus 5 On 28's With Candy Paint
[Nexus 5 General] :
First....37 minutes of battery stats doesn't say much about the big picture. ;)

And you'd probably get use out of the battery help thread in my signature. Read the first 3 posts....then see how things go and post screens there. (Go from 100 to about 10 percent before taking screen shots) ?
[Nexus 5 General] flashallthetime:
Unfortunately that won't happen , I use my phone for business.
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
Image says it all :p

Stock unrooted 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 General] :
We all play with our phones more than "normal" folk, I'm sure.

How bout we all be friends? ;)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Your results are looking good too, more than enough to get through a day.

Thanks for sharing! :good:

Did you forget the Moto X has the same size battery, but about half the specs? Hint: custom ROMs aren't helping your battery life much, if at all.
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
my best sot in 3 weeks...
[Nexus 5 General] alexiuss:
Cyanogenmod

CyanogenMod@Nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Pretty great stats.

May I ask what theme that is? :)
[Nexus 5 General] alexiuss:
Here you go

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.screenlicious.slimui

CyanogenMod@Nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Which kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] alexiuss:
Stock CM kernel

CyanogenMod@Nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Also ART or dalvik? And you have UC / UV your CPU? Which values? Many thanks :)
[Nexus 5 General] alexiuss:
Dalvik, it's all stock CM no mods. No UC/UV... Interactive governor.

CyanogenMod@Nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Mh.. So its uc i guess, beacuse stock cm max freq is 1190..
[Nexus 5 General] :
UC and UV will yield little change in battery life on newer devices. ;)

Will cool the phone down a bit...maybe add a bit of lag....that's all. :)
[Nexus 5 General] alexiuss:
No it's not

CyanogenMod@Nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Oh cool, many thanks :)
[Nexus 5 General] Kitkattii:
Attached batterystats. Cyanogenmod Nightly 0724, stock CM kernel with stock settings. Mainly used Tapatalk, Whatsapp, Google Chrome, Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Greenify enabled, no hibernated system apps. I'm pretty satisfied, sitll 15% left. :highfive:

EDIT: Dalvik. LG G3 Bionic and OnePlus One dalvik.

Finland ;)
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Not even bad
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Very very low usage, full stock with root and art, auto sync every 40 minutes
[Nexus 5 General] Junebugapril:
I get about 3 hours out of a charge. I've turned off everything I could think of except Google Now. I keep the screen brightness as low as possible. I have the screen timeout on the lowest setting.

Boat Browser seems to be a battery hog. Since I only get 3 hours now, if I use Firefox and sync it, am I just asking for trouble?
[Nexus 5 General] :
3 hours screen time? Or total?

3 hours screen time can be completely normal depending on your setup and usage. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] Junebugapril:
Three hours total from when I turn the phone on, until the time the battery dies.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Then you need to get Gsam from play store. Charge to 100, and at around 10 or 15 percent left, take some screen shots and post then here.

Otherwise no one can accurately help you.

Now, if you unplug your phone and use it 3 hours straight....that could be normal...depending on what you're doing (like games) and your setup. ;)

Try this thread for help....and first read the first 3 posts.

>*Google Nexus 5*>*Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting*>*[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
I was thinking of making this a separate thread as a PSA regarding screen time but figured it's not really a new topic. Similar to someone earlier in this thread I wanted to test out screen time. While it is one of the highest things that tests battery life, it shouldn't be viewed as highly as it is. These screenshots are from the same charge. The first one is at the end of the day, and the second is from the beginning of the next day. Most of the screen time was used for reading using the kindle app. I also did some light texting, browsing, a few pictures, one video, and 10 mins of phone calls.

Just a note, I never get good screen on time when using regularly. On a normal day I end with about 30% battery if I wasn't using the phone too heavy and about 2 hours of SOT (usually less). Even though more exprienced users know this, this is more for the newer users that ask why their SOT is so low. It's not the phone, it's how you use it.

If I didn't get tired of reading, I probably could have continued and gotten 10+ hours of SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Reading is probably one of the easiest activities on the battery....especially if the screen is dim. 10 hours SoT doing that wouldn't surprise me. Aside from flipping a page....its almost like leaving the screen timeout on 30 minutes and waking it every half hour. :)

No data or WiFi being used, no images loading....no anything really. Its nice to know we can read for many hours, but as you said sort of....its no indication of real day to day use. ;)

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And I 1000 percent agree with the last parts of your post!!! ?

Its all about setup and usage. Comparing to each other is a highly inaccurate measure of how we're really doing with battery life.

But we do! ;)
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Yeah, I know it's really light on the phone. Well actually I have a screen shot where I was at 92% battery with over 1.5 hours of SOT. I thought it was funny. I guess we can technically get over 20 hours of SOT. But yeah, my point was trying to show people that we really shouldn't judge our battery by SOT. I was streaming the music the other day which drained the battery twice as fast as reading did even though the screen was off.
[Nexus 5 General] :
But its the closest measurement we can compare really. Even if usage plays a huge role.

Total time is dirt worthless.... Cause you can get 5 hours of screen time in 5 hours total and need to charge....or get 5 hours in a whole day. Lol
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
I suppose. While it is a hassle, I think it might be more useful if people listed their other activities along with SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Using WiFi all day, location on, and stock ROM and kernel. I don't have data.

Mostly use hangouts, Snapchat, Kik, YouTube, camera a lot, XDA, google plus, google now, chrome for reading stuff.
[Nexus 5 General] fradbari:
Good, what roms and kernel did you mount?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Pure stock
[Nexus 5 General] Royal King:
Well, probably my heightest till now!

Light usage, screen brightness: 20, Sync Off, GNow on, LOTS of Whatsapp, YouTube for like 10 mins, few games, full time 3G on.

Carbon + Elemental X (With double tap to wake on)
[Nexus 5 General] Saenchai:
Pure Stock 4.4.4

Screen-On Time 2 h 45 min

All activated (GPS, WIFI, Sync)

Screen-brightness: auto

Google+ Picture Sync: deactivated

Messanger-Push-Services: 4 Apps (Hangouts etc)

Email Account push: 2 accounts

Wifi-Settings: Always scan for networks; Always on (in standby)

Its not fully on 0%. Full results are a bit higher of course. Like 2 day 10 hours and Screen-on time of 3h.

>> Screenshot

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[Nexus 5 General] Junebugapril:
Having trouble posting, sorry this is so large. The reason I have that much battery left is that I charge it when it gets to 40% charge.

[IMG="battery"]http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294/mac_girl2062/Screenshot_2014-07-29-19-09-18_zps7c060d61.png[/IMG]
[Nexus 5 General] :
Posting screenshots where you charged during that time doesn't say much about your battery life. :)

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And it seems your battery life is terrible.

You'd be well served to go to the Battery help thread in my signature....please read first 4 posts....then if you still need help....post the recommended screenshots . ?
[Nexus 5 General] Junebugapril:
Will do. Thank you :)
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Doing a medium to heavy usage test today from 100 to 10 percent

Google now off

Location services off

WiFi on

A little bit of Bluetooth

Data off

Manual brightness control

Greenified apps

WiFi optimization off

Force GPU rendering

Stock ROM/kernel

So far 10% down: screenshots

I'll post screenshots once I'm done.
[Nexus 5 General] tauzins:
This is what I got stock rooted, davlik and bionic optimized and elemental x kernel,
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I'm still only at 45%
[Nexus 5 General] Saenchai:
Then it seems I can really be happy with my times. 2 day with 3h dot is the normal time with all sync activated (not bt though).

Only reaching a half day with 2h 30 dot would drive me insane...

Send from Nexus 7 & Tapatalk - Please excuse spelling errors
[Nexus 5 General] Luca.Brasi:
what's the name of this beautiful theme?
[Nexus 5 General] Christian_Troy:
This is mine to compare for you with what I consider normal usage for many during a non-work day, including mostly whatsapp, browsing, dropboxing, about 20min of youtube hd streaming, some snapshots, some contact managing, online newsfeeds checking etc. No gaming, no reading.

Settings for this are:

stock rom/kernel

nova launcher (only 2 widgets and 2 homescreens)

google now off

location on (only data/wifi)

data on (as you see, signal isn't great however)

wifi always on

some google sync on (the obv. suspects: app data, contacts, calendar, photos, keep, gmail etc.)

HD widgets weather sync

note that brightness is manually set to about 40-50%

What I've noted is during days that taking pictures (#1) and youtube videos eat most battery for me (plus probably gaming if you do that). Otherwise, with browsing and playing around 1% lasts about 3 minutes. Now with a normal 15h day and controlled usage I'd be able to get about 5 hrs of sot from 100 to 0. Don't like having it die though. With brightness at 10-20 and no youtube etc. sot of 6+ hours is so obv. easily possible. It's all about the usage, as has been said mutliple times. Coming from a Nexus 4 though, battery life with the Nexus 5 is about 30-40% better for me (and on the N4 I was rooted with franco kernel lol). I especially love standby where I only lose about 1% every 3 hours. So, I am very happy thus far.

Good luck.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
That's with a lit of sleep though. I'm talking about wake up and use the phone so if you cut off that very long standby area, you don't actually get 24 hours

After 2 hours of actual use I went from 45 to 37%.
[Nexus 5 General] Christian_Troy:
Absolutely, I never said anything else, this is just me more or less normally using the phone without forcing it, which is all most people really (should) care about.

What you're doing is different, I'm interested in seeing your results too. What do you mean by actual use though? You can't really have 2 hours of screen time (actually using it "normally to heavily") and only use 8% battery.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Here we go. Done with my test for today cause I actually need my phone now.

I used YouTube for about 20 minutes, Bluetooth for 29 minutes, antutu drained a lot of battery. I've been using social media a good bit today.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You must have everything on?

Not great. Average anyway maybe. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Still 30% left
[Nexus 5 General] :
Pretty good.... ?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Here's one with far less WiFi....
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
My average in gsam was higher than yours, it was 6 hours 2 minutes lol! Didn't restore it in Titanium Backup since I haven't needed it.. yet ;) I pretty much have everything covered :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
But you and I read the battery life help thread.... Obviously we'll have great battery life. Lol
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
I dont get how people are happy with 3-4 hours.. Why not 5-6? ;)

Radio signal isn't a problem for me since I mostly have WiFi (my school really needs to increase their security..it'll only stop the average high school student from accessing the network, I'm not average and I'm here on XDA :angel: ), and when I do use data I always have decent reception (3-4 bars) so that isn't a problem :p

Have you ever gotten 7 hours before? I was close once, 6 hours 52 min :(
[Nexus 5 General] :
7:44 on my X. Lol Same setup.

On the N5....

Gsam shows my best...
[Nexus 5 General] :
And some just want "everything on"...... 3 to 4 is their fate . ?
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I read the help thread. Helped me out quite well and I'm still not dead at 13 hours

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Still not dead after 13 hours. Been playing some music though so its bellow 9%
[Nexus 5 General] pandaman21:
Madhi ROM Latest Version with Linear kernel 2.6. Pretty normal usage for me but I didn't have very good signal so it could have been better :/ but most other ROMs couldn't even let me play kingdom rush for more than 1.5 hours haha.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Yeah with any games like assassins creed or 3d type that's the battery life I'd get.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I'll be doing test two today, I'll see if I can get more than 14 hours from this battery.

Edit...

Remembered a top gear episode, Jeremy Clarkson: "Lexus was so focused on making the perfect car, they forgot that an ordinary person may need cup holders or an iPod connector..."

Let's rephrase that: "google was so focuses on making the perfect phone they completely forgot that an ordinary person may need 6 hours of screen on time..."
[Nexus 5 General] :
I have nothing against all the features and frills on a phone.... I just prefer toggling them when I need them.. . And getting that 6 hours of screen time. :)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Average people don't actively use their phones for 6 hours in a day I don't think. Maybe if it's their only device or if like some of us here, they just really like using their phone over other available devices.

My record that I've posted here was 8.5 hours SoT, but that was taking it to the extreme with 5% brightness, almost everything off and only using specialized reader apps such as Tapatalk, Reddit is Fun, and with no calls and minimal SMS.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Extremes, easier of course lol. I mean with regular usage, not everything off :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] Christian_Troy:
it's easy to get 6 hours with 10% brightness and pretty much everything else on, but that's no fun.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That's it eh? ?

Screen shots... . Or it never happened. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Christian_Troy:
I'm happy with 50% brightness and 4.5 hours or 5 with no standby (screenshots 2 pages back). No time to waste on experiments here!

Edit: It's annoying to wait for 2 minutes to edit because I'm a nub (I get it). It's annoying to everyone. Very.
[Nexus 5 General] riki075:
Mahdi Rom + ElementalX
[Nexus 5 General] IWRH:
Wohoo wrong thread i just see it now sorry :3 :cyclops:
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Pretty much in a normal day I can get 15 hours of usage with about 3.5-4 hours of SoT. Only problem is camera drains a ton of battery and I like using the camera a lot...any way to like fix that?
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Nope, camera does use a lot of voltage. Only thing you can do is not use HDR+
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Very impressed with My battery results for today :).

*EDIT* Forgot to screenshot SOT. Got to 6hours 15minutes.

Current Device: LG Google

Nexus 5

ROM: Graviton V3.4
[Nexus 5 General] hammad99:
I get around one day on single charge with almost 3.5 hours of screen on
[Nexus 5 General] pandaman21:
Running Rastaboost 1.3 with linear kernel. Mostly used baconreader and cm browser to browse the interwebs and played some games for about 20 minutes.
[Nexus 5 General] DrErect:
[/ATTACH]

On slim kat rom I was initially going to flash code blue but the stock slim kernel seemed smooth so I left it untouched. Now wakelocks, those pesky wakelocks are really annoying me. Do you guys have wakelocks? If so what you do to stop them?
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
I think 7% awake time in 12 hours is nothing.

33 mins is really common awake time with Google services if you're using lots of Google apps.

I think your stats are satisfactory.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
That's fine unless you're willing to turn off location and Google now. Only way that can reduce them wakelocks
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
3rd link in my signature, web view if you're on Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] DrErect:
Very informative links, thank you :cheers:
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
Here are my results, they are consistent as well. Cikleners opticharged purity with code blue r217 beta. Absolutely awesome!
[Nexus 5 General] skinner12:
Here is my test.

With rastakat and trinity..
[Nexus 5 General] ThomasVanhoutte:
My bars are blue, not white? (Stock 4.4.4)
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Custom ROM or Theme, duh
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
What was your screen time mostly used for?
[Nexus 5 General] skinner12:
Light usage, no games.. Reading, using tapatalk, Whatzapp..
[Nexus 5 General] IWRH:
Dats is satisfaction for meh even with dat wakelocks ( which i fixed from source after 60 percent . my modem!).

Sync off. Location off. Only Wi-Fi. Nearly all of the Google Apps greenified. Nearly everthing greenified xD Stock Rom+ Franco #58 No games 5-10 minutes casting to tv. And rest is WhatsApp + A lil bit browsing.
[Nexus 5 General] jfavellanedab:
I had to erase everything after 8 months of using my N5. Too many installed app 's therefore the battery was behaving odd. I take the advantages of not installing as much of 40% of not using app. Now my results are amazing as you can see. In the picture. Many app keep working in the background eating your battery. I am analyzing which are those app battery eaters.
[Nexus 5 General] jfavellanedab:
Here is the picture
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Here's today, in pretty satisfied that I pretty much didn't charge at all till I went to bed.

Mostly hangouts, and internet browsing. Took a photo sphere and a few HDR+ and lens blur pictures and a panorama. Google plus and Instagram. Read a book for about an hour in the morning. No games today. WiFi on. No data or texting (sucks for me I guess). A phone call or two. Just, my average day. Gmail. And some amazon/eBay.
[Nexus 5 General] innovat0r:
I am on same rom and kernel. I get screen on time of 3-4 hrs max. May i know how you got 7 hrs of SOT? I've a normal usage but mostly connected to wifi at office or home. Rarely play games, even if i dont do gaming on my device it wont go beyong ~4hrs of SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] skinner12:
Today I'm with 30 hours of uptime with 3 hours of screen on. It's not much but it means that when I don't use n5 it doesn't eat battery.

I have gnow off, location reporting off (worst apps for battery life and I don't need them) but GPS on for other apps (like meteo).

I used it with tapatalk, Whatzapp, Chrome, g+, Twitter etc.. All apps light and no games.

I undervolt a little trinity, I block synch for service that I don't need (like game's Google synch) and I use greenify for apps that I use rarely.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
[MENTION=4204300]skinner12[/MENTION] try getting 8 hours :p jk
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Considering he had 18% remaining, I'd say he was on point for 8 in his last shots. Though I'm assuming he was doing some low brightness reading for the first 3 or 4 hours as the angle on the graph is extremely shallow.

That's because the ROM and kernel used don't really matter. How you use the phone with basic settings such as locations services and auto syncs is what really matters with battery life.

That is how some of us are able to get 7 or even 8+ hours SoT on stock unrooted. It's just settings, usage, and signal strength.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Yep, most likely. I posted a few pages back. I was on point for 20 hours at one point when I was just using the kindle app.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Yea ebook reading will really extend your screen usage. What some might find surprising is how other apps such as Tapatalk for forums or optimized Reddit apps (re:no banner ads) can also work in the same way, despite the constant opening of new links and images. All my 7-8 hours SoT charges are from mostly reading forums and reddit usage.

I know others have shown the same for Manga reading apps as well.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Yeah noticed this too. Mostly I read a lot. And message a lot. Not much YouTube or any video related activity.

Camera drains battery like a Mo-Fo though!
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Anyone here ever got 6h SOT on H+? If anyone can get that, they are the ultimate battery savers
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
As a couple of us mentioned, just read an ebook or something and you can easily get 6 hours on any network.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Sorry I meant, actually using the phone as in FB, Twitter, forums, texts, WhatsApp, music, etc. Most I've ever had is 5hrs SOT under H+ all the way
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Hence the term "heavy usage". Screen on time is inversely related to CPU usage.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Sorry, I don't use most of those apps. We'd like to see your results though.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Yeah exactly, low usage requires less cpu time so you get more battery life.

I'm always by a charger mate, just never by wifi haha
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
One tip I read somewhere for better battery life.

"If you can charge it here and now, then charge it."
[Nexus 5 General] P4R:
I have 5h of screen using CM11 or CM11S with ElementalX
[Nexus 5 General] twolfekc:
Road trip.. Bluetooth usage as well as some interesting cell patterns lol.. Completely stock android l
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I'm very much looking forward to Android L's focus on battery improvements. Did you turn WiFi on to assist with locations?
[Nexus 5 General] michcss:
Hi, This thread is huge ;) I am looking for some specific battery stats of Nexus 5. How long can it work on battery with very low usage (no wifi, screen off)? And how long can it work with wifi on but screen off. Maybe sombody have such stats?:)
[Nexus 5 General] :
Test it and see? Most use their phone normally....

Also, usage patterns and what you do on it play a huge role.

Any way, average standby is maybe half a percent per hour. Now math.... Um .... That's about 200 hours... No use. Then the wild card, "use" plays into it. So about 3 hours to 200. ?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
As seen here:

For independent testing see here, no standby numbers though. I guess no one has 200-300 hours of spare time to test that.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
Battey of this phone is pathetic!

Only lasts 6 hours i am sick of charging!