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[Nexus 5 General] albundy2010:
Some folks just don't get it.

Even if you didn't know all the technical stuff like the newer more power efficient process and the voltage display etc you should know still know better if you follow technology at all.

Just recently for example the ipad air came out. It has a much much faster SoC than the model it replaced and a much smaller battery. And yet it has the same battery life. It does this because it's more efficient.

Or Haswell. Or the entire industry as a whole that gets faster and faster silicon at lower TDP's that allow for those ultra slim notebooks to be built. To allow your desktop to not sound like a airplane anymore. To allow the surface pro 2 to get better battery...

And telling people that they are lying about battery stats because they don't use their phone in way that is satisfactory to you. SMH All those darned people that have Wi-Fi at home, then go work or school and connect to Wi-Fi again for most of the day. Or even have to airplane their phones at work because umm they actually have to do work and not fool around on their phones all day. Then they go home and get back on Wi-Fi.

Even where I used to live my cable company had free Wi-Fi hotspots that cover a massive area. But I would be using my phone phone wrong, or cheating my battery stats for xda..... Smh
[Nexus 5 General] Burrid:
I need to know if this phone can hold out at least as long as the nexus 4. It would be unpleasant to have worse battery life on a next generation phone. Can anyone clarify this please?
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
this is what Ive been saying all the time. People make up stuff just to be "the best". this is what internet does with people these days.

If google says they managed to pull up to 8hrs screen on time in airplane mode connected to wifi by opening a webpage every 40s than it is possible but it does not reflect real world usage. It only shows minimal usage. Who on earth uses their mobile phone in airplane mode? Its a friggin phone that makes calls etc. Real life performance is when you leave your house, have no wifi and you have to actually do something on that device.

Im having my N5 delivered today, I'll do some testing as well but I will not believe that this phone can achieve 5hrs SOT outdoors with moderate usage.

if you are worried about battery life than I would wait for at least few weeks. All the battery results I've seen (outside XDA) so far were way below 4hrs SOT and about 10-14hrs ON time
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
if you want it cheap/for free then use twilight for the red-shift at night and use velis auto brightness for adjusting the brightness :)
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
I got something similar yesterday. Phone reports it's deep sleeping in BBS but doesn't show a flat bar. just keeps dropping gradually. I'm turning off google now for today since my fiancee's phone gets nice flat bars when not in use. I want to see if i even get the same thing at all.
[Nexus 5 General] Wdustin1:
Anybody having any luck on what may be keeping Google services awake? Its been the 2nd biggest battery drain for 2 days now
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
Have you restarted your device? I've only had it come back twice on 2 devices. 2 other devices it hasn't come back yet.
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
Are we talking about the google services or the google play services? i cut off the google play services by deactivating every app i don't use and by switching off the location stuff. But the google services kept my phone in wakelock. After restarting and charging to 100% (= erasing the battery stats) even the google services didn't come up any more.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
The Google Play services was an issue on Googles side it seemed as mentioned on an article I posted back a page or so. It was effecting other devices and not just ours.

Anyway, my phone had been astounding this morning....

Unpluged for 3h 45m and battery is at 92% with 30 minutes on screen time. I will take this every day!
[Nexus 5 General] Hero_Guy:
So I've had mine since day 1 and for the last couple days, I've noticed a drop in battery life. I haven't done anything different and Google Play services doesn't even show up on my battery stats. BBS doesn't show anything out of the norm yet I've only been getting 20 minutes of screen time for every 10% when I usually get 35-40 minutes. Not sure what's going on.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
not me. 2hr 39 mins 13 SOT and down to 83% already google now off. Says my phone has been deep sleeped for 2h 14 mins yet battery keeps dropping. just not getting it.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
Went ahead and flashed the factory rom onto the phone. Got everyone back on there except 2 accounts, lightflow, and dynamic notifications and greenify. let's see if anything changes.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Hey, please post here when you see some results, I'm experiencing EXACTLY what you are. 3 hr 42 min off the charger, 13 min SOT, down to 83% as well. It went from 92 to 83 in the last two hours just sitting here doing nothing. If wiping doesn't work this is getting returned.
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
Something wrong with mine I get about 3 hours St but with only like 7 to 8 hours on LTE and maybe a tad better like 3.5 on WiFi. I suspect it's because i fb, fb messenger, group me instagram while most ppl are just using regular text and web browsing email. Auto brightness Google now on.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Just wondering guys with custom rom like Cataclysm with Franco Kernel did you guys start off with great battery life (5 hrs+) or did it take a couple of days to get there? Best I could do is 4 hrs 35 min, and that is with Wifi on and Data off. I am in my second day of both these Rom and kernel and getting the same battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
*sigh* in some facets it seems better. the battery graph doesn't show a lot of wakelocks but when you go to BBS my wlan_rx_wake is much much bigger now. It's already in the 40 min range when it usually is about 16-20 so that part has worsened and battery drain is still evident although not as bad as before since I don't have google now, lightflow, or dynamic installed. The thing is I've been troubleshooting the wlan_rx_wake issue for a while now with no success. I can't do anything to change settings at my work wireless there aren't many options on my verizon hotspot to change. It doesn't support Upnp and i've tried changing wireless channels as well.

It's so frustrating because my N4 and N7 v2 don't have this issue with the wlan_rx_wake on the same wireless network. My phone sleeps better when i'm off wireless. Such utter BS.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Can you post pictures of of you battery stats, like all of them. Not just one screen shot like a lot of people do. We need to see the whole picture. I am running everything on including Google Now. The other day Google Search was staying awake so I went into it and force closed it. Was good after that and didn't wakelock since on that one.

For brightness, I run it at around 25%. Auto is way to bright and we all know a bright screen will kill your battery faster then anything else when that baby is turned on.

In you battery stats, you need to look at Android OS, Google Play Services and Google Search. When you click on each one it will tell you how long it has been awake. For the day it should be in the minutes. When there are problems with it, they will show hours.
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
I think i've figured it out on my hotspot. IT'S CHROMECAST!!!

i ran shark root to get a log and in the log there was a repeated IP address with upnp in it. I used Fing to look up the IP on my hotspot and it was the chromecast. Why does this happen to my n5 and not the other devices. Is there any way to go into chromecast and disable anything?

I'll just have to leave the chromecast unplugged when i'm not using it :(
[Nexus 5 General] albsat:
Anyone that has lg g2, might make a comment on nexus battery? Is there a big difference ?
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Yes I have both. I get usually 3 hours more sot with my G2. Which is a lot since I get great battery with my n5.

>^·^< Sent From Meow LG G2
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
with r13 franco and cataclysm i was able to get about 6 hrs of SOT and almost 24 hrs up time (no gaming) but that was wifi on all the time and I didn't have sync on for a period of 7 hours (when i sleep). I believe the location settings was at device only too. with r14 and the same settings i got about 5 + hours of SOT but this was with about an hour of games

whenever i have location settings enabled, even if its only on battery saving settings, i notice it wakes up the phone a lot more and possibly drains more battery
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Yeah just don't understand why I can't get at least 5 hours. Only different between your and mine is sync is on only on Gmail. My other email is turned off. Data is off and I'm on only wifi with location turn off. All I'm doing is listening to music, texting and surfing. Brightness is set to 14%. Right now I'm at 76% with only 1 hour and 27 mins of SOT. Looks like another 4 hours of SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] lqaddict:
Google services kept the device awake until I rebooted it, and it didn't come back since :dunno:
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
Is the nfc a battery drainer? I don't use it so I might just switch it off..
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
If you are getting 1.5 hours on-screen time per 25% of battery, wouldn't that give you 6h on-screen time at the end of the day? Unless you do your math differently than me.
[Nexus 5 General] hurry54:
Could anyone tell me why Google Search keep awaking? It consumed 40% battery life during last night, that's awful.
[Nexus 5 General] rogem_kk:
Now, since flashing all shiny and new ROM and Kernel (bricked kernel and Cataclysm) I just home that my battery stays as it is. Works for me.

The extra charge on the graph is from being connected to my laptop BUT I will easily last 36 hours with my typical usage.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I had a problme with that the other day. Just go into it and force close it. Mine started to behave after that.
[Nexus 5 General] v4npro:
Does this seem normal? 35 mins of browsing, 10 minutes candy crush. Installed one app. Few minutes browsing xda. Reading flipboard news.
[Nexus 5 General] Rufufu:
Seems totally normal for me. I am always surprised and jealous of crazy battery life posted here and here for the 2 devices I have got.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Well right now I'm at 44 % and I'm at 3 hours of SOT I don't think I'm going to made it to 6 hours. I no issue with draining when in sleep. Ate up 3% in 7 hours. I actually drained the battery down to 0% yesterday and charged it back up to 100% before using it
[Nexus 5 General] krips2003:
Google search is the default launcher now on KitKat 4.4 until you are running a different launcher or ROM. The kind of usage I do, for that I get pretty good battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Blitzed_Penguin:
Your Opera broweser is eating a lot of battery power. If you are happy with, or can live with, the battery life then I say it is ok. I want 4 hours of screen time on auto brightness and 12 hour of total run time but I am not getting it from this phone. I am hoping that an update will fix my problem because my only options in Japan are this phone, S4, or HTC One.
[Nexus 5 General] jloh84:
Edit: quoted wrong post. Sorry
[Nexus 5 General] hurry54:
Yes it worked well the days before, but it should not awake the whole time when screen off.
[Nexus 5 General] jgr208:
I normally get 15 hours with 4 hours of screen time but last night after updating Google wallet and sportscenter here's what my phone has been like
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
My problem here is the inconsistency, there is no doubt a bug in either the modem firmware or KitKat. Sometimes it drains at an amazingly low rate, other times it will churn through several percent an hour. And no it's not an app, when this happens the phone is still deep sleeping and nothing big is showing up in battery stats. The drain during calls is also very bad. I feel like this phone has the potential to have fine battery life, but right now it's plagued by issues.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Google services. They've been mad and buggy lately.

I wonder... Is anyone about to flash from scratch? [MENTION=4901123]DowntownJeffBrown[/MENTION], as you have few phones you might wanna try? Complete wipe, start from scratch, don't sign in to Google, sideboard all the apks you use and don't use any Google services. Up for it? For Gmail you can always use third party email client.
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
It's bam_dmux_wakelock that's causing problems for me. Most of the time the phone is great in standby, but seems that sometimes going from wifi to network makes this wakelock kick in and battery drops rapidly. A reboot solves it and it doesn't always happen, but would love to be able to stop it.
[Nexus 5 General] Natakranta:
100% to 50% battery on manual lowest brightness and WiFi. Smart radio feature in Cataclysm ROM 11.21 Should take care of switching to 2G meanwhile. 2h25m SOT promises almost 5h SOT till battery is discharged. Unfortunately in the same scenario during the day afterwards the drain accelerated leaving me with only 3h SOT instead of predicted 5h. Battery stats were not showing phone being awaken apart of the time screen was on. Despite this Opera went to the top place exceeding screen itself (during day set to 25% brightness). The same is happening now, screens attached, Opera is exceeding screen in battery consumption. Strange to me because all the time, this 2h25m I'm not doing anything else than browsing xda on Opera. I thought screen should be the highest consumer of juice even if on lowest brightness only. What do you think?

3h SOT is intolerable for me. I'd expect at least 4h and I'd be satisfied with comfortably always reaching over 5h SOT. If it was possible for Nexus 4 it should be possible as well for Nexus 5. With both phones I have exactly the same pattern of usage.

On stock KitKat I couldn't reach over 4h SOT in first two weeks of testing stock. On custom ROMs I was getting between 3 and 4 hours. Nowhere near 5h SOT so many is reporting here. 6 or 7 hours? I don't even dare to dream about it.
[Nexus 5 General] reverepats:
And That's withLTE too or mostly on wifi for the day ? Man, im seeing a ton of good battery life all over this thread. Why are most of the tech sites talking about terrible battery life lol. That's the one thing that's been holding me back too.... Just may have to Rethink this one now!
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
I will do this on my n5 the only problem is I don't have my laptop at the moment Cause my mom is borrowing it. So no sideloading the apps. I will do this and not add any apps if this will help any but then I really can't do anything on the phone. I could do this and then set the Screen to never turn off and just let it run idle and see what happens. What do you think [MENTION=3038832]undercover[/MENTION]? Also would I need to be completely stock or just stock kernel or I can continue to run cataclysm and bricked kernel Just not sign in to Google?

>^·^< Sent From Meow LG G2
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Just don't sign in to google. Re apps, you don't need lappy. just dropbox them from another phone and dl on n5 ;)

Go to dropbox via browser, download db app (which you previously uploaded there) and once installed use it to dl other apps. Or just do titanium backup and upload the whole thing to db, making it easier. Just db, titanium and backup file for all the apps.

I'd try myself, but wife is using n4 atm.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Ok will do. Its gonna be tomorrow as I'm out and won't be home till early am :cool::beer::beer::beer:

>^·^< Sent From Meow LG G2
[Nexus 5 General] pinksoviet:
Here are my screenshots.

Oh, and since I forgot, my screen on time was 2 hours and 24 minutes as of taking those screenshots.

1. I have AutoSync turned off (Data usage > Settings)

2. I have Brightness reduced to ~35%

3. Location is set to Device only

4. Phone sleeps after 15 seconds of inactivity

5. I don't have any social network app besides Google+ and I have Kakao Talk for the only messaging app apart from the stock ones.

6. That gap after my mobile signal strength turns red is when I had it on airplane mode since I was in the basement of my workplace for a while.

Originally I was losing 30% in 2 hours of idling, and I realized that my phone never went into deep sleep (verified using CPU Spy). That's what prompted me to just go to town on turning off sync and removing a few apps (e.g. Facebook and its Messenger app)

EDIT: Also, NFC is off, if that matters. And this is on stock software.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayowend:
Good news is I can play Temple Run for 3 hours and watch YouTube for another 2.. what a waste of time lol :d

~5h SOT, running stock ART, 10% brightness, WiFi on, Google Now on, Bluetooth off, NFC off (doesn't make much of a difference really), Location: Battery Saving

I think it really depends on what you're doing, and any apps running in the background that might be wakelocking or constantly polling w/ wifi. Or maybe people really do have a defective battery.. chances are its the apps though. I had a couple of battery apps installed including BBS and in the first week they were draining quite a few percentages every hour.

Anyone having problems on stock Android 4.4 KitKat, try booting into safe mode (disables 3rd party apps) by holding holding power button down and long-pressing the 'Power Off' selection until the prompt appears. In safe mode if it's draining more than ~0.5% per hour screen off on standby there's likely an issue with your WiFi and/or signal strength or other variable affecting the phone, if not worst case scenario the battery itself.
[Nexus 5 General] Ketzal:
I tried the battery saving location mode today.

Well, what a difference. Standby was good, now it's incredible.

Didn't use phone much today, 20mins of music, 30mins reading news outside with dull screen brightness and bit of texting and calls.

20% dropped in the entire day.

Stunning.
[Nexus 5 General] Ketzal:
Screen shots to demonstrate.
[Nexus 5 General] sano614:
Here are my results. Coming from a gs3 running cm10, I'm completely blown away by this. I was only able to get 3 hours screen on time with cm if I was lucky.

Took phone off charger around 730am, went home and used the phone on WiFi for 2 hours or so before going to sleep. Woke up at 1030pm to go to work and used the phone for another 4 1/2 hours til I got to 1% on "4g".

Used Pandora for 3 hours via Bluetooth, played 2 hours of poker, and the rest of the time is all Facebook, reddit, xda and texting.

Running stock / rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] sano614:
It wouldn't attach both pics on mobile for some reason. Here's the other!
[Nexus 5 General] Angelakaro:
Hey guys, is it normal that my nexus 5 battery was completely empty when i tried to switch it on for the very first time? (this is my first day with my nexus 5 and , however, battery life seems good)
[Nexus 5 General] fkloznica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKscsPxKAI

Nexus 5 Top 10 Battery Saving Tips
[Nexus 5 General] hurricanefloyd41:
Had decent battery life (2 days) but the screen on time wasn't that great(2 hours). Mostly on Wifi with sync on for Facebook, G+, exchange email and Gmail and quite a bit of texts and snap chats. Stock with Art runtime location at high accuracy and screen brightness on the low end. I think I might root it to squeeze some more SoT with a different Kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] jloh84:
Not necessarily true. Lithium battery discharge isn't linear.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Went out all night, never had more than 3 bars, Aboout 50 minutes of GPS, 1:30 of music, about 10 short phone calls, lots of texting. After 3 weeks of buying the n5, have to say that for such a powerful device with such a small battery, battery life is good.
[Nexus 5 General] boringest:
is your google now on? best i've ever got was 3.5 hrs!
[Nexus 5 General] promiseofcake:
Not very much SOT but I would have gotten to 2 days. Nothing disabled.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
No, I have it off. Have you tried disabling location reporting?? that should help a bit
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
Bricked kernel, brightness at 0 (it gets too bright for me), sync on all the time, few phone calls, lots of web browsing and a fair amount of tapatalk and gaming.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
So anyone having wake problems with their device, here are the things that I did that seems to keep the device sleeping and matches my awake graph to my on screen graph. You can start with all 3 and then see if you want to add one back at a time.

In location settings, I disabled location history and location reporting. This does not disable Google Now or map navigation.

The third thing I did was use another launcher. I was randomly getting Google Search wakelocks and figured to try another launcher since GN I'd tied in with the launcher. I switched to Nova and the latest beta offers transparent top and bottom bars.

I suggest anyone having wake locks to give these a shoot and see if it helps.
[Nexus 5 General] sdotkdot:
I feel bad for anybody that is getting poor battery life out of this phone because this is easily the best I've had out of probably 20+ different Android devices over the years.

Stock. Rooted. All sync and location settings at default except I removed Google Magazines and Videos since I don't use them and turned off instant pic upload. Other than that, everything's running. I also use 5 apps with push notifications and 2 with periodic background sync. Lightflow is sooooo much better on battery than when I had a GNex. I haven't really played any games yet.

Screen brightness low when indoors, auto when outside. Wi-fi at home and work, LTE everywhere else. For real, this things a beast

Nexus 5 | 16 GB - Stock, Rooted | AT&T
[Nexus 5 General] FRLinux:
I get excellent battery life since I disabled Google now and restricted location to app use gps.

Using franco kernel on stock rom.

I reach up to 5h sot at times which is enough for me. Most important is battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
Guys, there is a way to set up Facebook to send you SMS instead of having the actual app handle it. This will help you save some battery and you don't have to wait on the application to sync in order to get your notifications.
[Nexus 5 General] thegr8anand:
Only used for few hours.

http://imgur.com/iADs15V

Screen on 1 hr 5 mins
[Nexus 5 General] t-tomer:
First discharging with really heavey use, so far so good
[Nexus 5 General] deziking:
I cleared data in Google play service wow what a change. Play service awake was staying on.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
It should be under all apps correct? I don't see delete data just cache
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
The battery is settling pretty good, I'm gonna run this down and see what kind of SOT I get.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Again
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
And once more
[Nexus 5 General] JonM1988:
Today... Some music, lots of whatsapp. Some phone calls. Lots of FB/twitter. Mostly WiFi!
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Lots of texting, whatsapp, twitter, instagram, flipboard, and Tapatalk. Running Cataclysm with franco's r14 kernel
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Wow. I have the same Rom and kernel and at 20% left I only got 4hrs 15 mins. Pretty much doing the same thing as you. Just wondering are you on a stock launcher or third party launcher? Also, is smartradio enable on your Cataclysm? I start off with great battery life 45mins using 10% (100%-90%) Then it just drops like crazy
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
admittedly used sparingly this weekend

(twilight color shift)
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
I use Nova. I also have smart radio enabled. Have you checked location reporting history? the first couple of days I couldn't get passed 4 hours of SOT and it turns out that Google services were draining my phone