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[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
As I said before all I do is whatsapp, Facebook and using some app like 9gag and Tapatalk.. Nothing intense.. Answer my question, did you flash the factory image for some reasons?
[Nexus 5 General] geebr200:
Not fully discharged yet and moderate use on LTE. On Franco kernel r13 and NFC turned off.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
NFC shouldn't affect battery life at all when not in use.. I read somewhere that it only uses 0.5% out of a complete charge
[Nexus 5 General] v4npro:
Here's mine.
[Nexus 5 General] p5f:
I've not flashed anything, I've not rooted, I'm on stock rom and haven't installed any mods or power saving apps.
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Here's mine so far. Seems like at this rate should reach 4h SOT if wake locks plays nice.

On WiFi throughout, NFC turned off, Google Now turned off. Had been using a

lot of camera and video

since unplugged.
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
So stock kernel performs better on battery than custom kernels like franco or linaro? I have tried every single kernel but wasn't able to reach 4 hours screen on time..
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I have personally yet to find a custom kernel that gave better battery life then stock kernels regardless of what people say. I have not seen any proof actually showing this excpet for people posting what great battery life on this or that kernel.

But as we know from this thread, so many people are running stock kernel in here and look and the difference in stats from 1 phone to the next. So sure, one person can post what great battery life they get and then the next post right under them can show a screenshot of how terrible their battery life is.

There is so much involved in getting good battery life and one of the most important factors are how well your device is sleeping. If your device is draining while it is not being used then of course when you actually use it there will not be much left of it to give you a good on-screen time. There is so many factors that play into a good sleeping device and that is what makes it so frustrating for many of us to trouble shoot.

Just a reboot this morning has given me some of the best standby times I have seen on my device within the last 2 weeks. Right before the reboot my device would not sleep for the first few hours of the morning. No way to even tell what it was that had been affecting it and I know my device won't stay like this. I am sure the wake locks will rear it's head again.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
word to the wise. Don't post animated gifs in your hangouts. MAJOR BATTERY DRAIN!
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
The first week i was using stock kernel and ROM, and was getting about 4-4:30 hours of SOT at the most with the light to moderate use. Now im running Cataclysm with Francos R13 and on days with light usage ive managed 7 hours of SOT.. Today I watched a 1:30 hour long video on youtube on LTE, have been playing music for abour 2:30 hours over Bluetooth, heavy whatsapp usage and sync on. Theres no way in hell i wouls the same results with stock rom and kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
I agree 100%....isn't this a major flaw of Android? We all love its true multitasking but this is what it results in. Why do we put up with this when you can get an iPhone which sleeps perfectly all of the time, loses almost nothing while not in use, and doesn't require any careful attention. I like Android as much as everyone here, but I'm stating an honest criticism. This is not how using a phone should be.
[Nexus 5 General] rascalz1504:
I have 44% battery left and SOT of 3hrs 37mins so far. Location is on and have mostly used the phone for whatsapp, facebook, instagram and chrome. Been on wifi all day though my signal is very weak and cuts out a few times.

However today google services is using 11% of my battery. Never seen it this high before. Anyone else having that problem?
[Nexus 5 General] uh60james:
If you really feel that way about Android in general maybe you should just move onto an iPhone. I see my iPhone using friends plugging there phones in just as much as my Android using friends though.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Yes, all the time. It is buggy and a hog lately.

I'm only stating a fact, it's not about feelings. As I said I like Android as much as everyone here. But it's a fact that on Android random stuff you're not even aware of can keep your device awake and drain its battery all the time, as many people here are witnessing. An iPhone will never do this. Watch an iPhone user or use one for a day, don't touch it for several hours it will still be at 100%, you don't have to stress about it every time you install a new app. This is simply fact. I want to see Android improve so it can be the best of both worlds.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
This is also why I always recommended an iPhone to a non-techy person or someone from an older generation. They don't want to deal with figuring out things like this nor would they even have a clue where to start. Heck, here we all are on XDA and we can't even figure out what, why and when things are giving us a wakelocks.

Just because iPhones aren't for a lot of us folks here does not mean that it is not the better choice for someone else.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
I'm an android lover but have to completely agree with you about battery life and standby time. Standby time on iOS devices is simply the best. And before I get called an Apple fanboy, I've never owned an iPhone my self( had an HTC HD2, S3 and now N5). But a lot of people in my family use iPhone and standby time is crazy.
[Nexus 5 General] uh60james:
Exactly.

Wasn't trying to be an ass to xdp but some people are just better off with iPhones and iPhones are better form them.
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
why no envelope tracking for 3G?
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Today after a reboot my phone is sipping battery like it is not even powered on. If the phone would act like this all the time it would be incredible.

I rebooted the phone at around 92% this morning after about an hour because Android OS was showing awake for the entire time. So with that drain and my reboot my phone has been on for about 12.5 hours total with an on screen time of 1 hour and I am still at 70%. If you do the math on that, it is pretty crazy stats. That would average out to 2 days and 4 hours on-screen time which I know would never happen because something would change those stats but non the less it does show how well the N5 is capable of sleeping if nothing else.

*Update with some screen shots. Remember, there was technically another hour I was unplugged which is when I rebooted the phone as you see the chart start below the 100 mark. From there you can see that the screen-on time is 1 hour and the phone's idle time is the remaining time unplugged. Android OS is barely awake when you go into it.

If the device can perform like this regular it would be pretty amazing. I also run the screen brightness as 25%.
[Nexus 5 General] TrinitYPL:
The second day I had it.

I'm averaging 14-17 hrs daily.

I used a charging cable that stops charging the phone when full.

Bought it at BestBuy almost a year ago. Don't rmr the name, but are led lit inside the cable.
[Nexus 5 General] J8yhawk:
I activated ART on mine and the difference is incredible. Everything else is stock. This is the first day after the change.
[Nexus 5 General] rascalz1504:
The battery has improved a lot the past two days. Got over 5hrs SOT yesterday and today with 5% left i have had 5hrs 42mins SOT. Been on wifi the whole day though.
[Nexus 5 General] egofreak:
Usage pattern:

Wifi on all day, left wifi zones a few times, used forced LTE all day. slammed the phone with speed tests 8-9 times over the day.

Location on(High accuracy)

screen at 8%( bright enough!)

Few phone calls

Hundred or so text messages.

Pulled emails all day.

Played ARC redux for 20 minutes

used group me and got tons of messages

30 minutes of high quality setting google play music on the way to work

STILL AMAZING BATT LIFE. easily could have pushed beyond 4 hours of SOT. I had 20% left before bed, and I was messing with this phone way more than normal use.

Tomorrow Im doing a no wifi day, same settings.
[Nexus 5 General] kornball:
Streamed a couple NHL hockey games last night over LTE in order to kill the battery. Did some browsing over both wifi and LTE as well. Loving the battery life so far! I have Google Now and a bunch of sync options turned off, and location mode is set to "Battery saving." I'm thrilled. :D
[Nexus 5 General] Rata305:
So far battery life has been great for me. Constant web browsing mostly reddit and Facebook and Google searches. Listening to music half the day last me from 10:30 am to about 12:30 am. I'm running high accuracy location and Google now always on. Was running dalvik and getting about the same battery life thought I'm running ART now. No WiFi use. Mostly LTE. Constant messaging few phone calls.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
To everyone experiencing ridiculous idle drain that's fixed after a reboot: I'm certain now this is a repeatable software or hardware problem with the Nexus 5 or KitKat. For the third or fourth time now, I just came back to my phone after letting it sit for about 3 hours and the battery dropped 20%. CPU Spy even reported deep sleep most of this time! When this happens, I can reboot the device and see normal, excellent idle drain again, like 0.5% per hour. So something is going on, and at least a few of us are seeing it.

I plan to reset the device and unlock the bootloader and install Greenify and things. Then I'll see if this issue crops up again. If it does, I guess I'll try an RMA. If I was getting 4+ hours SOT like some of you here and constant, <1%/hr idle drain, I'd be plenty happy with the battery life of the device.
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[Nexus 5 General] jeremy.a:
Pretty happy with today's usage. Mostly Wikipedia, surfing, texting. On LTE all day.
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
My latest results

Battery is getting better and better every day it seems.
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
Everything on stock?
[Nexus 5 General] Kristi-Tech:
I cant even get 3 hours SOT :(
[Nexus 5 General] geebr200:
Not sure if this was a fluke but its the best I have seen and comparable to my note 2.
[Nexus 5 General] jeffreii:
With heavy usage, you can drain any phone pretty quickly and it all depends on what you're doing and for how long...for me the real test is usually how the battery holds up through a long day of work with low to moderate usage.

Stock rooted

GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, Location Services all on

Screen set to auto

With about 1 hour of screen on time through a busy day of work (~15 hours from wake up to bedtime) I am ending around 70% battery...which makes me quite happy.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Going to go out on a lim here and say I am pretty sure your battery drain is not due to a defective unit but rather the way the software is behaving.
[Nexus 5 General] Cst79:
Of course it does. Once the novelty of a new phone wears off and you begin to use your phone "normally" the battery life increases :) On my G2, I got like 36 hours of battery life the first time, now I can even get 48-60 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Take a look at this article saying Google Play Services was being a battery hog for many different Android users yesterday. They think something was up on Androids side causing the battery drain that many of us saw.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...lay-services-seems-to-be-a-battery-hog-today/
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
Yesterday Google Play Services drained 45% of my battery. I've never even seen Google Play Services in the top 3 or 4 services before so something is up.
[Nexus 5 General] cntrdctn:
This is my screen shot. Fairly low useage. Running cataclysm and Franco r13/14.
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
The problem with Google Play Services is that it is used by a lot of Google apps (and 3rd party apps). So, there may be an issue with another app that is causing this but it is hard to determine.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Going into Location Services and changing it to device only seems to really help with the device sleeping as well. All you GPS stuff will still work including Google Now and the business locator in the dialer app.

In the battery settings, the chart that shows the awake and screen-on time look to match line for line now since I changed this. Will see if it remains like this throughout the entire day.
[Nexus 5 General] AllorNothin:
Here is mine
[Nexus 5 General] Nexus Two:
Got 5hr 21min SOT yesterday with a good amount of usage. Very impressive i have ART enabled, and set my location services to Battery Saver. I have turned all animations off and put screen brightness to about 20%. I had a huge %ge taken from google play services though which is fixed now. phone was awake the whole time it showed.
[Nexus 5 General] PR_phandroid:
Great information here, looks like the N5 has decent battery life. I am due to upgrade (Sprint) in February and I'm strongly considering the N5 since I'm tired of Sense and don't like TouchWiz or any other stuff on top of Android, plus appreciate the fast updates straight from Google.

My current phone is the HTC EVO 4G LTE which almost lasts me through my workday, which is about 10 hours including commute using mass transit. I commute into Miami and Sprint signal is horrible in my work area so the phone drains like crazy and my 4G LTE will run out of battery at the start of my commute home around 5 PM. Since the EVO has a 2000 mAh and the N5 2300 plus it's more efficient I should be good right? Oh, I run the custom ROM Evilution on the EVO right now, and my use is average. Mostly emails, some phone calls, couple of 3 minutes YouTube videos and occasional web browsing plus apps like Facebook, LinkedIn, and bank apps. No hard core streaming or gaming.

Thanks.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Here is mine. Kinda happy with what Im getting but dont know why I cant ge more out of it. I have location off and data off(100%-30%) Mostly just surfing the net and listening to my music that is on the device. No streaming. 1 hr and 30 mins of bluetooth, and 35 mins of data. Not a heavy user just cant figure out why I cant get more out of it. Cant figure out most people with the same Rom and Kernel getting 5+ hours with barely anything turned off.

Rom: Cataclysm

Kernel: Franco r13 clocked @ 1574MHz/300MHz UV at -50 for all.

Greenify most of my apps (about 40)

Launcher: Nova Beta
[Nexus 5 General] mrhaddan:
Pretty good on stock kernel, especially versus the nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
The n5 battery life sways from content to frustrating. I basically have the same setup as my N4 and I can pull an extra hour of screen time from my N4 vs my n5. (4hrs vs 3hrs) I've even gone a step further with the N5 and used greenify. It started out promising as I said, okay it gets same battery life as my N4. I can live with that but slowly it's worsened.

What makes it worse is that my girl is happy with her phone because she can go from morning to bed time with her N5 and I'm the one that set it up for her. I just give her that look that says I hate you! hahaha
[Nexus 5 General] jamezz23:
Just got mine today, just wondering what you all run your brightness at? Mines at full and I know that eats more battery but do any out you guys tone down the brightness for battery life?
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
Many here, myself included, use Lux to control brightness. Adds some battery life and I'm happy with how it adjusts
[Nexus 5 General] lpforte:
14 hours from 100-25%. 1 hour of screen time. Completely stock, no apps downloaded apps running in the background. This is so ridiculous. How the hell is customer service trying to tell me that my phone is not defective.
[Nexus 5 General] jamezz23:
Okay cool, thanks! I'll give that a shot!
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
screenshots?
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
I'm in a similar boat as you....everyday when I get home my phone is dropping like 5%/hr just sitting there doing nothing. However it doesn't do this all day. There is a definite hardware or software bug triggering this...I can't tell if it happens after I make a call, or use GPS, or what. I'm going to factory reset and see if it helps, if not will try a warranty return. Are you still fighting CS to get a replacement? What's weird is it's still deep sleeping during this drop, so it's almost like the bug is below the OS battery reporting layer.
[Nexus 5 General] alex00725:
hey guys i have searched for this problem at many places but there is something about battery life with kitkat itself. whenever im connected to wifi or data on my n5 it sends a lot of data to and fro even with the background sync off. for the last two days Android os used up 17mb of total 22 mb data used and i have no idea why. And overnight i noticed that playstore services use a lot of data. i can say that its a kitkat issue because even my nexus 7 2013 has been suffering from a battery drain ever since kitkat update. on jellybean 4.3 the battery would drain only 1% overnight giving excellent standby time whereas right now it drains down about 10%. is it only me facing the problem ? it seems like a pretty big issue to me. kitkat draining more battery and using a lot more data than jellybean did
[Nexus 5 General] :
My last try ...

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Because it probably isn't? What is eating your battery, Android OS, Google Play Services, Google Search?

When something software is staying awake on your device it wouldn't be a defective device. A lot of people are having problems with Google stuff staying awake.

Like someone mentioned, some screens shots would help.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
I feel like this is a stupid question, but was your Google Now on? I noticed that Google Services only consumed 3% of your battery while most of the other screen shots it consumed around 10%. Sometimes it even consumes upto 20% which is pretty bad.
[Nexus 5 General] shr33kant:
Sorry I forgot to mention google now was on, all syncs were on (apart from facebook), and location settings were on "Battery Saving" or "Use Wi-Fi and mobile networks to estimate location" which was good enough to me for location based cards from google now.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
1 day 2 hrs, over 5 hours screen time.

11% left.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Nice.
[Nexus 5 General] Rajaasim1980:
It seem screen on time of N5 is between 4 to 5 hour..maximum 5 hour screen on time

So if you guys do surfing/facebook/youtube/gaming or something which make screen awake then after 2 or two and half hour your battery will come down to 50%. I guess battery of N5 is still good for light to moderate users whom screen/display consumption is less than 50 percent but battery is not good for heavy users who dont surf web occasionally and their screen or dislay use 80 percent of battery
[Nexus 5 General] Shan89:
Lol your theory is super wrong , especially about HTC one , by reviews HTC one goes up to 11hrs of video playback and almost 13 if set on brightness equal to note 2.

Anyway I hope nexus will come close to what I'm getting on the HTC one if not ..I guess I'll skip it.
[Nexus 5 General] zevral:
The HTC One Playback-Time is no theory, look at the link i added at the bottom of my post. They ran 720p Video at 200cd/m² Brightness for all of those devices. Maybe HTC improved it via updates, but this is how it was, when the phone was released.

The HTC One does not have great battery life.. And i dont see a reason, why the Nexus 5 battery life should be worse. Both have a 2300mAh battery, the Nexus has the more efficient S800 and less bloatware.

Now it pretty much comes down to how much HTC and Google have optimized their Kernels.
[Nexus 5 General] smurfqq:
Does anyone have stats on battery in standby (such as overnight)? Wifi or LTE or 3G?

I would assume for most people the standby battery drain is the most important stat rather than screen on time... for the average use case people aren't on their phones more often than the phone sits in their pockets during the day.

Straight battery usage (video, talk, etc) don't differ that much with an iPhone having a 14xx mah battery, but standby is what ends up making the difference at least for me. Both my iPhone 5 and Nexus 4 use battery while in standby, but my iPhone will go down almost nothing in standby. Especially when an iOS device is on wifi instead of cellular, like overnight, my iPad and iPhone will lose only 1-2%.

My old Nexus 7 did what every Android device I owned did -- it just kept using some small amount of battery but my iPad I could leave for a weekend, come back and it'd still be at almost the same % while the Nexus 7 would be dead. It seemed like Google did something to fix this with the Nexus 7 2013. Standby on the Nexus 7 2013 for me was excellent for some reason, losing only ~1-2% over 8 hours when not in use. Exact same apps/push/sync/etc settings.

Just wondering if anyone has those standby stats because for me it's the difference between forgetting to charge my phone overnight and being screwed the next day or going to do something after work instead of going home and having no battery. It's my primary deciding factor even though I'd prefer Android over iOS.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Depends of course largely on whether 3g is on and how good signal is.
[Nexus 5 General] mjs2011:
DS Battery Saver can solve those problems.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Ok cool, thanks. Hopefully the battery saving option always keeps the google service usage that low. I feel like normally Google Now eats more battery than it should.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
look kid, at least gets your 'facts' straight. i dont use twitter, i dont use facebook, i dont use hd widgets and i never claimed to

i have no agenda, and never claimed to turn everything on. in my posts i say i've been looking to cut back on battery usage as much as possible and that means I will turn off everything, GPS, NFC, etc. Hell, I would revert back to 802.11 G wireless if it saves me enough battery life.

99% of my phone usage is while im working(which can be over 12 hours a day). that means im not playing games and staring at my phone and using it every waking second of my life. I do however like to keep my phone on so that i can pick it up and instantly use it when i see i have a message or spark an idea and need to look something up

even with my 'minimal' but 'extended' usage, I would only see 4 hours of screen on time before I started turning services off. that coupled with 3 hours of charge time is what make me search for fixes or replacement phones.

again, no agenda, but if it weren't for my fixes(for my personal usage), i would have ditched the N4(and probably android) months ago
[Nexus 5 General] 7TimesCursed:
"8 hour screen on time" link in OP is misleading
[Nexus 5 General] bozzykid:
That is a terrible comparison. The Snapdragon 800 has been shown to be more power efficient than the Snapdragon 600 even though it has a higher clock speed. I do question whether you know what efficient means.
[Nexus 5 General] soulrebel1:
[YOUTUBE]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FX2ljBkikJE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/YOUTUBE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX2ljBkikJE

Mine is arriving on tomorrow. I'm gonna use it for a week. If the battery life sucks after a week i'm selling it and getting a G2.
[Nexus 5 General] peachpuff:
These battery life threads are about as useful as the best rom threads, everyone uses the phone differently, has different settings and whatnot, so how can one possibly make a comparison to someone elses battery usage? I can lower the brightness and have the phone turned on idling on my home screen and post that i got 12 hours of on screen time and people will be amazed...
[Nexus 5 General] Kipp34:
Seems like most tests are done with a mixture of 3g/wifi. Does anyone have comments regarding the battery life when only LTE is used?

Basically deciding if I keep my Note 3 or save some money and move to a Nexus 5. Also, any comments on the camera quality?