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[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
I'm pretty happy with lollipop. Running cata rom with code blue kernel. 15% I turned on battery saver, played Spotify with the screen off for a few hours with the screen off also.
[Nexus 5 General] luisaosan:
Mahdi 2.9 + ElementalX 1.13 with 125mV UV and powersave mode
[Nexus 5 General] jumper62:
Flash KitKat factory images and you should receive an ota update
[Nexus 5 General] raffstyle:
I dont reallly know what to do with my battery life, Im getting frustrated more everyday after installing Lollipop (OTA update)

Before with kitkat i can manage to go over 2 1/2 of SoT on a 17-20+hr of "on batter". now i cant even reach 2 hours of Sot. My battery drains fast a soon i pick it up frm the wireless charger. my battery is down to 97% after 20-25min after disconnection from the charger and no usage at all..

I dont know how big being on a weak signal area affect the battery. I already uninstall my HD widget due it looks like it drain my battery the most.

I also factory reset my phone after upgrading to lollipop. I also use location mode device only, brightness is set above where the Wifi signal bar located.

Please help me how to get those 4-5 SoT on a single charge. THANKS!S
[Nexus 5 General] oG Admire:
What's the proper way to undervolt?
[Nexus 5 General] xla987:
I'm having the exact same problem.

First I flashed the Lollipop factory image over my KitKat. Then I heard that some people think they have better battery results with an OTA update so I went back to stock KitKat (I flashed the KitKat factory image) and installed the official Lollipop OTA. It's pretty much the same than before. Nothing really changed.

Sometimes I get 2,5h SOT and sometimes it's 5h. It depends on how I'm using my phone. Sometimes I check Facebook very often, type messages etc and open Chrome a lot because I look up things on google. When I'm doing this then I usually only get like 2-2,5h SOT. When I watch videos on Youtube then I can get up to 6 hours SOT.

I guess opening the Chrome browser and Facebook apps all the time costs a lot of battery without having a high SOT time. So I think that's kinda normal? Not sure.

But what's bugging me is that my phone is losing 10-20% battery over night (~7 hours).

wifi is on "always off"(my signal is good without wifi), location off, NFC off, pretty much everything else is also off.

Gmail sync is on.
[Nexus 5 General] sbnaul:
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[Nexus 5 General] Blacknighter:
Stock kernel. I use greenify and ds battery saver pro.
[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
Dang man is the UV across the board or only for 300 mhz? That's an insane UV you got a really good N5 lol.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Do you have whatsapp or Facebook installed?
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Facebook + messenger + snapchat
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Oh right thanks, I've noticed WhatsApp hits the battery hard but doesn't appear anywhere in terms of wakelocks. Do you greenify Facebook and messenger?
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
I don't use greenify at all :)
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Okay, so things people seem to have in common (when it comes to great battery life) is:

- disable mobile data (or stick to Wi-Fi)

- not listen to songs on their phone

- make the brightness to the absolute minimum (and not use automatic brightness)

- disable sync

- disable location reporting (aided by disabling wifi location reporting)

- use 2G networks (?) And stay in an area with stellar signal

Now, if I went through to all of these extremes, I wouldn't use my phone as a smart phone. Not that I'm saying others don't, but for me, "real life usage" includes a mixture of everything (especially with data on and using data and having push alerts etc). To each their own, but NORMALLY, I can't exceed 3h SOT.

Am I sad? Not sure. Am I happy? Not sure. I would definitely love another battery, but I don't quite want to cripple my phone (location services being an obvious exception). For other apps that need taming, greenify and appops are used sparingly.

So how about we have some TYPICAL, REAL WORLD usage stats in here, for a change? :)
[Nexus 5 General] ercxar:
Stock Factory Image + Root + Code Blue r646 + UC to 1.2Ghz + UV -50 all stages
[Nexus 5 General] :
What app did you use to UC/UV?
[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
What do you consider "great"? I get 5.5 SOT roughly 16 standby with no battery saver mode on. I sync chrome, contacts, calendar, and inbox. I listen to Spotify roughly 2 hours a day going to and from work (not charging in the car) my brightness is set to adaptive 50%. I have WiFi on 24/7 connected to a network maybe half the day otherwise just scanning. The only things I do as battery saving is I use Cata rom and use smart radio to make mobile data be 2g while I'm on WiFi and keep LTE on when I'm not connected to a WiFi. I have 62 apps installed including facebook.

I'm just running Cata rom with codeblue kernel and a -25 UV across all frequencies. No greenify, no battery saver mode (besides the smart radio built into Cata)

So you can easily get good battery by using your phone normally.
[Nexus 5 General] luisaosan:
Actually it's 125 uv across the board, not just 300mhz (i don't know how but i could undervolt even more across the board (170) more than that and my phone started to random reboot)

:p
[Nexus 5 General] :
A lot of faith in UV to extend battery life in the past few pages.... ?

Sorry to say, but ask in any kernel thread.... UV will cool your device down if you have heat issues.... But it will maybe extend battery life by a small.... Very small amount.

Those that know how kernel settings work, better than I do.... Will never recommend UV to extend battery life.... The tiny gains aren't worth the potential instability.

But......... To each their own. ?
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Well - there's something on your setup that isn't on mine (when I tried the ROM). I'm on bone stock (rooted though) but just can't fathom this type of battery life :s

I do keep 3g on in idle (cause 2g sucks here). Would keeping LTE on in idle be better? There isn't a lot of LTE coverage here, and it keeps flipping between 3g and LTE every so often.

Also, my 3g and LTE speeds are pretty much the same.
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
4 hours 25 minutes SOT .. 50% battery remaining .. Battery saver always on from 100% ..

Will report back asa i hit 5 %
[Nexus 5 General] :
Here are my results after one week lollipop usage. As you can see my battery stats are awesome. Nearly 3h sot at 50%. I'm really impressed by the project Volta which causes this great battery life I guess.

With KitKat and Xposed (around 10 modules) I always got 2h SOT at 50%

I'm rooted, on stock Kernel and ROM. Always charge my battery 50+. No modification since Xposed isn't available for Art.

Cause of the weak signal at work I'm on WiFi nearly 100% and on airplane mode over the night.

Brightness is always on automatic and I'm a 3G user ( getting a 4G data plan up from tomorrow [emoji2])

My daily usage is FB, Tapatalk here and there, Poweramp & mixcloud partly, chrome browsing and some phonecalls.
[Nexus 5 General] h4rri3r:
How much battery should I expect from a Nexus 5 non rooted and rooted with something like Xtrasmooth and CodeBlue? No UV and all that stuff.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Battery life has nothing to do with root access nor the kernel.

It depends on your usage, your kernel settings and management of wakelocks.

Kernels come with their own default settings which are usually the builder's preference, and may not suit everybody, which gives the illusion of better or worse battery life "because of the kernel".

1. Pick a kernel with the features you like

2. Set up the kernel yourself rather than changing kernels because the default settings don't suit you

3. Manage wakelocks if you have any
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
100% to 25% battery saving mode (wanted to stretch to 5 , but things went

too much frustrating)

80% of the time on airplane mode

Mostly whatsapp , facebook , browsing , edjing

adaptive brightness (but i was indoor all the time so it was minimum )

Complete stock .

This is what you can get when you use your nexus 5 as a mid range tablet device ..
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
No you weren't! 90% of the time you had your WiFi on and that is NOT "airplane mode"! "Aeroplane Mode" means ALL radios off.
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Actually mobile radio off , wifi on ..

Wifi on on airplane mode .. Ohh [emoji13] [emoji13]
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Well I guessed that's what you meant but airplane mode it ain't ?
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Btw updated stats ..

Now all the way down to 2%
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
Impressive but not realistic for my kind of real world usage as a smartphone... I've found that one of my biggest helps in extending the battery life is to force the mobile radio into 3G/2G mode only since there is no chance of 4G anytime soon where I am... (totally stock, not rooted)
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Yes . i just wanted to know how far i can stretch on this kind of usage..

Generally when i use on 3G mode , outdoors , auto brightness .. I can get around 6 hours SOT and total 12 Hours out of single charge
[Nexus 5 General] CPNowell:
The most I've managed is about 5 hours SOT but as soon as the mobile signal gets a bit iffy it just sucks the hell out of the battery... ?
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
I keep mine on 3g all the time, because if it's on LTE I almost always only have 1 bar because it connects to towers that are farther away. 3g gives me full bars almost everywhere which I'm sure should help battery life and probably call quality if I get a call.
[Nexus 5 General] ichundu:
For me battery life highly depends on the brightness level and weather i have mobile data on or off. First when i installed 5.0 factory image i had not so good battery life but after some days it settled down to around 4 hours SOT. Now i've installed code blue kernel and dont know if it's placebo effect but have had great battery life on the first day. Especially on stock kernel battery seemed to drop steeply under 50%. With this kernel it feels different.

My usage & setup:

- Lollipop, stock rom, rooted, code blue kernel, under volt on all freqs by -65.

- greenified a couple of apps that like to run in background.

- wifi only, data off

- brightness 15-40 with adaptive brightness on.

- location off

- google now off.

-battery saver off

- usage pattern: browsing, tapatalk, YouTube, WhatsApp, a little bit of games and FB.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Normally most the vets here will tell you kernels don't affect battery life more than a minor amount. But there's a good chance here that at this point stock 5.0 kernel has bugs... And perhaps some custom ones squashed those.

So good to know! ?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Got two to share with you today both using the same settings.

Off:

Locations

Hotword detection

NFC and bluetooth

Adaptive brightness

Brightness 40%. Any data usage was 3G/H+ and Auto Syncs and Google Now remained enabled. Stock, no root with no Greenify or battery apps either.

Scenario 1 http://imgur.com/a/arp01

Most used: Reddit is Fun, Tapatalk, Netflix, Chrome, other (Messenger, Gmail, Play Store, Widgets, etc.) 100% WiFi.

Scenario 2 http://imgur.com/a/6W7jR

Most used: Netflix, Feedly, Reddit is Fun, Tapatalk, Spotify, Voice calls, other (Messenger, Chrome, Gmail, Play Store, Widgets, etc.) 90% WiFi.

So with this type of usage pattern and these settings I can expect to average 5 hours SoT over 1-2 days. All together similar to what I was seeing on KK but with less of an impact from Auto Syncs I find.
[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
UV won't make a night and day difference on battery life but it does help. You said that UV makes you're phone cooler, you do know what that is right? It's using less power to run at any frequency than it was before because of the UV. Heat is wasted energy being dissipated, that's why they keep making new chips smaller and smaller with the manufacturing process 800-805 chips are 28nm the 808-810 are going to be 20nm. By going smaller it creates less heat because the chip is more efficient at using all the power it's wanting and needs less power to do it.

UV can be a pain, if you go crazy with it and push it as hard as you can you will experience crashes and reboots. Just out a -75 across the board to try, if it crashes try -50 if it doesn't try -100. Get it to where its stable and leave it and your phone will run cooler and get a little extra battery. So like I said will UV give you an extra hour of batter? Probably not, but it definitely won't hurt anything and can only help (once you find the sweet spot on your phones cpu)
[Nexus 5 General] tcuwolf:
I'm on stock ROM with code blue kernel last night I had 35% battery fell asleep and phone was dead when I picked it up I checked my battery stats and every thing looked normal WiFi on all other features off no google now nothing on back to KitKat for me
[Nexus 5 General] Vansh22:
Best settings for code blue for my hammerhead?
[Nexus 5 General] Skittlepoop:
Battery LIfe

Have been using xTraSmooth 2.5.2 Odex http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/rom-xtraslim-1-0-stock-odex-optimized-t2924150 which has franco built in. I started the day at 9AM with 100% battery. Very light usage (2 hours SOT whille I'm writing this) and I am at 69% battery. Out of all the ROMs and kernels I have tried, this is the best battery life I have ever had. I have school tomorrow so I will have more usage, therefore able to test battery more. Hope this helps =] [IMG="Batter %"]https://s3.amazonaws.com/pushbullet-uploads/ujEfv2dQ4bc-Wcp8xfCDnOOEC6D4h1U1J6mYur684bsX/Screenshot_2014-11-30-20-33-35.png[/IMG] [IMG="battery %"]https://s3.amazonaws.com/pushbullet-uploads/ujEfv2dQ4bc-BNhrE6pnBrhaQgmAbLFWK9THPWoyCPCd/Screenshot_2014-11-30-20-33-19.png[/IMG]
[Nexus 5 General] deadpoolxs:
I have been using Pure White 5.0 for around 1 week now coupled with ElementalX 2.03 . Yesterday I was able to get 8.5 hrs SOT under normal usage. I am connected to Wifi for pretty much the whole day, and I've listed my setup as follows:

Trickster Mod Settings

- UV -50 across the board

- Max clockspeed adjusted to 1.95 Ghz (no lag)

- Multicore Power Saving set to 2

- Temperature throttle set to coolest setting using ElementalX Aroma installer

Usage & Setup:

- Preferred network type set to 3g and wifi on the whole time

- Display set to Auto (Adaptive brightness on)

- Location set to Device Only

- Google account sync set to off except for Contacts and Google Play books

- Google Fit off

- No Facebook & Google+ app installed (used Chrome for these)

- Heavy Whatsapp Usage the whole day

- Heavy browsing using Chrome

- Pretty much on Reddit News the whole day

- Moderate Play News Stand and occasional Youtube

- no Greenify installed

So that's basically it, pretty much turned my Nexus 5 into an E-reader/Browsing machine. My SOT seems to be great but I still feel there is room for improvement since my Nexus 5 still have more than the usual wakelocks due to Google Services. Will update again once I fix the wakelock issues.
[Nexus 5 General] pezkiln:
My battery has been horrendous to be honest. I'm severely missing KitKat right about now.
[Nexus 5 General] lalibm:
Battery life on lollipop

Running N5X Rom with latest code blue. Really satisfied ! :)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Doesn't really help without knowing what the phone was used for. After all, usage, settings and signal determine battery life first and foremost. More so than any custom ROM or kernel.

Welcome to the forums. BTW what brightness level did you set? You mentioned adaptive but you still need to choose a brightness level with adaptive. Over 7 hours SoT is usually in the 0-10% brightness range, I find. Google Now was on or off? Does your battery saver kick in at 15%?

Thanks for sharing!
[Nexus 5 General] deadpoolxs:
For the brightness level I set it to around 18-20%, it works for me both for indoor and outdoor conditions. Anything above it and the screen feels too bright. On the other end, anything lower than 10% feels a bit too dim for me even for indoor use.

My Google Now is set to off. I've tried previously setting it on and wakelock issues for location and google services made significant impacts on my battery drain. For the battery saver, I set it to kick in at 5% since I can't bear using the phone without the smooth transition animations. What I have noticed is that from the time that the battery saver kicked in at 5% to the time that I've took the screenshots at 2%, I was able to squeeze out an additional 40mins of SoT browsing Reddit News.
[Nexus 5 General] sandeep20064096:
Hi guys how much time it is taking to fully charge nexus 5 from 0%
[Nexus 5 General] lolzas:
1 hour - 1.5 hour with a good charger
[Nexus 5 General] surrealjam:
Around 2 hours for me, but of course it depends on charger's max output.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Its kernel related too

I use code blue and it increases charging speed in stock charger

1m it charges 1% sometimes less than 1 m

The kernel that I know that have it are : blue fk and faux
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Battery improved for me .

Four usage and settings the same ones of my last post

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Skittlepoop:
Got another report. This time made it to 45% with 4 hours 43 min SOT. I unplugged at 05:45 EST time. Havent plugged it in since. When i took the screenshot the phone had been unplugged for 17 hours 26 minutes.

I have google now disabled, and my broghtness is low, but to where i can easily read in the lit room(s). Most of the time was spent reading and some web browsing, with like 15 mins of google news stand. No streaming media at all.

Again i am using xtra smooth http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/rom-xtraslim-1-0-stock-odex-optimized-t2924150

I hope i provoded enough info, and i helped someone!
[Nexus 5 General] WFSFTW:
Guys I'm stock everything.

WiFi - on

Location - off

G now - off

Smart lock - off

Brightness - lowest

I seem to be getting Max 4 hours of SoT. Is this normal? I've seen people getting 5-7 hours :/ some feedback would be kindly appreciated :)
[Nexus 5 General] mojopower:
I lose only 3% over the night, but when I use my phone (medium usage) I get 2 - 2.5 hours od SOT.

Stock, location on battery saving, wifi on, 4g only when I am not on wifi-max 2 hours per day.
[Nexus 5 General] amir7777:
You guys can try flashing a custom kernel and customizing it. It really depends on how you use your battery and the tweaks you do it to your kernel. I'm running xtrasmooth stock ROM with Franco and I get over 6 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] George_gi:
Hi guys, i don't know if it is the right place to ask but, is there any user here that had experience of s4? And if so, do the batteries from s4 and n5 last the same or the s4 lasts longer?? I want desperately to buy n5 instead of s4 but the battery issue scares me
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
The battery difference is 300mAh lol
[Nexus 5 General] George_gi:
Yeah i know that, but i want to know if pratictically has any big difference. I mean if the s4 lasts only 30 min longer for example thats not a big deal
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
The battery life is the about the same 4h to battery warning in 18h of usage. However the S4 users can limit just the cpu to get more SoT mabye this will soon come to 5.0.

I wish de could tick in the power saveing menu:

Cpu battery saveing @ same mhz as reduced in lolipop - 729mhz

Animations

Background data - Orange bars only If this is on

As of now all features are on by default
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
N5 can last longer. These are with brightness normalized to 200 nits.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Probably because LCD vs AMOLED
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Correct. People assume OLED means low power use when in reality it requires more power than a traditional LCD to get to the same brightness levels. The only power savings comes from using pure black to disable pixels and the fact that OLED max brightness is usually limited to around 300 nits or less.

Also, Snapdragon 600 is slower and less efficient than 800.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Yeah, and the majority of apps use non-black or not even dark backgrounds.

The people that assume using an overlay to "reduce brightness" on an LCD will save battery though.. lol
[Nexus 5 General] Silvers91:
These are my results, any battery saving tips? Will rooting my phone and installing a custom ROM help improve battery life without performance decreasing? Thanks for your help guys.
[Nexus 5 General] wulsic:
I suggest to flash also a Custom kernel cause they're getting alot tweaked and improved if you compare it to the stock one. Install a custom rom+Custom kernel if necessary and enjoy flashing:good: A good custom kernel will probably give a more smoother experience and tweak some other small things and will probably also increase your batterytime a bit, I can't say to you how much but it definitely improves. My tips are to uninstall the apps you don't use, turn off unnecessary things like gps etc which you don't use. Try greenify maybe(I never used it but a lot of people are saying that it's good) Also scroll through some other threads for battery saving tips:good:
[Nexus 5 General] :
Rooting would be a benefit, and then try as much as you can from the first few posts in the battery help thread in my signature.

Really though, we can't help with app wakelocks without root and app wakelock screen shots. Also, it could be your usage. Your times are fairly average for many. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Arch9:
Sorry if this question is out of topic

Are the nexus 5 is still worth it? and does anybody else ever compare N5 battery with S4?

planning to switch from S4, and want to use N5 with stock android (without any custom rom or kernel)

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Someone just asked that same question. [emoji1]
[Nexus 5 General] WFSFTW:
I have pretty much the same battery life

It needs improvement

People get 5-7 hours, even 8 of SoT its crazy
[Nexus 5 General] George_gi:
How about this table? Take a look at the image i attached

Also here: http://www.gsmarena.com/battery-test.php3

And here: http://blog.gsmarena.com/nexus-5-grinds-through-our-battery-test-routine/

the s4 seems to last longer, which one of all these rankings is more accurate?
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Link to that test please?

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] George_gi:
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/benchmarks
[Nexus 5 General] Silvers91:
Hey guys I'm back.

So today, I tried uninstalling some apps and see if it'll help the battery life.. And I was surprised

After I uninstalled so many apps, it didn't do any change, it was still draining so much. Until I got to Facebook and Messenger.

Once I uninstalled these two life draining *****es, the battery draining got better, it wasn't draining as fast as before.. Therefore, today without these 2 apps installed on my phone, I got 4h30 hours of screen on time without counting the battery that was already drained before uninstalling these two apps (it was about 65% when I uninstalled them), which theorically can say that the Nexus 5 battery can last more than 5 hours with screen on time without these 2 apps.. and what I did is create a shortcut for Facebook on chrome and it's perfect.

Hope this helps (even though you guys might already know this)

Cheers.

PS: It was a heavy use (wifi on ALL the time, playing games, browsing, watching youtube videos, taking pictures).