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[Nexus 5 General] :
Go to the thread in my signature. Read the first 4 posts really well. And if you still have troubles, post some screen shots.

Now 6 hours till dead is extremely possible if you used it for 4 of those 6 hours. Especially gaming. Or you have a very low signal on data.
[Nexus 5 General] michcss:
KJ and bblzd - thx for the responses :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
I know 3 to 200 hours isn't a very accurate guess... Lol.... But it's true. :)
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
Ill charge my phone use it like i normally do and then post screen shots for you guys.
[Nexus 5 General] jollees123:
Something wrong with my batterylife? :D

About 5h movies, 4h ebooks and 1,5h surfing, whatsapp, texting, facebook and a few calls. No Music, games or something else wich can drain the battery. Slimkat 7.0 with elementalx kernel, no UC,but some per-app modes, greenify and 50mv underwolting! Usually I get only 4-5 h SOT, but this was a special day! :D
[Nexus 5 General] :
Undervolting doesn't effect battery life.. Maybe a little due to keeping the phone a bit cooler.

But, I'm curious, were the movies streamed or on the device? I was shocked on my N7 that I could watch movies ON the device and far surpass my usual battery life. Especially with screen dim at night. Even streaming is pretty easy on the battery, since it buffers ahead... And once it's in the cache, it's the same as watching from the device.

Ebooks take extremely minor CPU load...

So kudos for sure, but as you hinted... Not usual usage. :)

Good job!
[Nexus 5 General] jollees123:
The movies were on my device and the device was in airplane mode for about 9 hours. The brightness was set to minimum the whole time. I was sick and all the time at home so I used only wifi. I set the maximum freguency to 800mhz for MX-player and ebook reader with per-app modes app. I think I did everything to extend the battery life! :D

Usually I newer get over 5h SOT!!!!
[Nexus 5 General] :
Cool! Not that you were sick... Lol the results I meant. ?
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I'm getting pretty nice results. I kind of think, maybe its just me, that the phones battery life actually gets better as you use it (maybe because you get more self conscious of what will drain and what will save battery). But at first I was getting 7-8% an hour, with similar usage today I'm getting 4-5% an hour.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Just another day. Did some gaming today and phone calls and Google maps. So pretty heavy day for me.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Something strage happened during last night... What do you think? Everything was off basically
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Reboot and try again tonight
[Nexus 5 General] hyrczyk1:
Just got new replacement Nexus 5 and battery is much better than it was on the original one. I am satisfied. Most of it is browsing chrome, you tube, and facebook.
[Nexus 5 General] hyrczyk1:
This is from normal daily use on LTE mostly .auto brightness, sync on, Viber ,Facebook, 2 email accounts.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
After reboot the problem seems to be fixed, thanks :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Now turn off google now, google location history, okay Google hot word, location services, and get greenify, you'll get way more battery than that
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Based on his 7.5 hours SoT with 2.5 hours of talk time shots, I'd bet he's already made those changes. Otherwise, some serious underclocking is going on.
[Nexus 5 General] marocampos:
Normal day using 2g, 4g and Wifi, weak 4g signal most of the time.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Theoretically "serious underclocking" would use more battery as it spends more time on things, but eh, depends on your usage and how much. Doesn't save that much anyways lol.
[Nexus 5 General] ronnienyc:
DAY 3 - better than the first two days...

DAY 3

My batter has been miserable until today.

Put the screen power at 75% (instead of the usual 100%) and so far I am at 75% after 4 hours of moderate use.

This is MUCH better than the past couple days.

Not sure if it is simply due solely to the the lower screen brightness setting, or if the battery is improving for some other reason...

I have Google Now turned OFF.
[Nexus 5 General] Waltsch:
Do all of you have google now disabled? I don't see google play services nearly as high than I do on my Nexus. Pffff should I reset my phone?
[Nexus 5 General] ghettopops:
Full day 2 now. First 22 hrs off charger and 3hrs48min SoT. Second 21hrs46min off charger with 4hrs 8 mins SoT both I let drop to 16%. This is better than my N4. The standy by is awesome, I probably drop 3-5% while I sleep. My Screen on Time is mainly surfing. I have wifi on and LTE but have very bad reception both at work and home, 2bars most time.
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
8 hrs on battery, 4.5 hrs screen on, 40% left on battery. All Wi-Fi, a few calls, some light gaming, mostly surfing in opera, 5 mail accounts syncing every 15 min. Coming from a gnex, this is great.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I don't have Google Now or any apps disabled. I swipe to close Google Now in recents menu when I am done, and I am using Apex Launcher instead of the Google Launcher. Getting 4-1/2 hrs screen on time. Not sure why it is so high for others.
[Nexus 5 General] Peanuts.:
Quite happy with battery life. Majority of the time I'm on 4G. With poor signal at work. Able to get through a day easily.

During deep sleep I would lose 1% or 0. Betterbatterystats shows 0.1%/hr during sleep. Which is amazing.

Internet browsing, YouTube, music are my main usages. Please see the screen shots below. I also had about 2hrs of media playing.

I can probably squeeze out another hour of screen on with the remaining battery 20%
[Nexus 5 General] fireproofrev:
I noticed that not Google Now causes the wake locks. It is the Google Search services you can activate below the gps. After deactivating this but still have google now on, the most wakelocks are gone. There are just a few points while screen off time. Tomorrow I will make a screenshot (today it is totally messed up because I made some kernel and mod tests and went in some bootloops)
[Nexus 5 General] Peanuts.:
Just adding more screenshots. I wasn't able to attach them to my first post
[Nexus 5 General] fireproofrev:
as you can see google search and play services have verrryy low consumption since i deactivated google search services. Google now is still on
[Nexus 5 General] Blocoholi:
What am I doing wrong? Did put in flightmode at my workplace due bad reception. Using LEX to manage auto brightness. Using only 3G.

Or is it just that I commute around 4 hours a day?
[Nexus 5 General] dannstarr:
Really happy with mine... much better than I thought it would be
[Nexus 5 General] bkeaver:
So how are you getting those results. And I'd be interested to see if you get those consistently.
[Nexus 5 General] compchick813:
Day 3 has been better for me:

Almost 9 hours on battery so far, currently at 40%

All but the last few minutes was on LTE but as you can see my signal at work is not so great - 1 (sometimes 2) bar of LTE

Google Now on

Location services in battery saver mode

Background sync on

NFC on

Mostly facebook, tapatalk, flipboard and chrome usage today

I was able to get rid of Android OS being the top battery hog by setting location services to battery saver and disabling the wifi scanning always available option.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Hmmm, [MENTION=4901123]DowntownJeffBrown[/MENTION], think this is worth the try for people with bad battery life? Saw report on g+ that factory reset improved battery life http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2107163
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
I say yes. It can't hurt...

I'm currently getting 5 to 5.5 hours sot which I find really good. Maybe make a thread about what we did on the n4 and get some people with bad battery life to try it out.

>^.^< Sent from meow MotoX
[Nexus 5 General] jonathan3579:
No no, it's all good. The last thing I want to do is get in an e-argument over nothing. I totally see your point on it though. In my experience, having NFC has never made any sort of difference on my battery life. (That goes for any phone.)
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
Google's estimates seem good
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
Your signal is killing your battery
[Nexus 5 General] [hfm]:
Just use Wi-Fi everywhere you can. When you are on Wi-Fi the mobile data is disabled automatically.

Oh.. And turn off Wi-Fi if you know you won't be using it for a long time, searching for networks will use battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Zorachus:
If the N5 can match my S4 battery life, I'll upgrade to the new Nexus.

On my S4 I get 6h On Screen time easily, and overall with heavy use get 18h to 20h total battery life on eirjday hammering the phone non stop.

On light weekend use, my S4 goes 30+ hours no problem.

I laugh at these pictures showing like 3.5h to 4h On Screen time, and people saying that's good. To me, that sucks, and is useless as an all day smartphone you use at work.

For a heavy user, we need 6h On Screen time and the Note phones can go 8h On Screen Time, but those are too large for my tastes.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
In practice I don't think you would get worse battery life by under clocking. Heavy processing tasks are few and far between so it would be the overall lower clock speeds across 24hour+ periods versus the fractions of seconds in extra processing time needed.

If done right you have potential to gain a lot of battery life from situations such as gaming (less FPS = longer battery), video watching (CPU ramps up higher than needed), from the CPU not clocking as high every time you touch the screen, and reducing the impact of wakelocks.

Disabling a core or 2 would probably have a bigger impact, though both of these options have potential to reduce perceived performance.

That being said many of us have not touched our CPU speeds and get great battery life, but I know you can see huge gains in gaming time for instance with lower clock speeds.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Meh, theres not much need for underclocking or overclocking for just general usage. If you have wakelock issues it won't matter either way as your battery will end up drained anyways.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Honestly gaming is the only reason I would consider it. There are some (rare, I've only tested one called Swordigo) games that peg the max CPU speed at 1.2ghz and I will actually double or tripple the gaming time versus a much less graphically intensive game which pegs the CPU at the full 2.3Ghz. That's not even taking into consideration GPU clock speeds.

Basically games peg your CPU at max just so it can quickly heat up and thermal throttle back down again. You could obtain much more desirable results if the clock speeds are only as high as is needed for say, 30 FPS. This would result in consistent frame rates, a cooler phone and longer battery.

Of course this would be a moot point if developers coded better CPU management into their software, but it's much simpler to max the CPU then it is to test how much clock speed is actually needed.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Personally the nexus should just have a nvidia chip with a stealth core.
[Nexus 5 General] nokiagye:
7 hours shot? Amazing I get 3 Max

Without games only simple stuff
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Also...you can run stock...with greenify only and have location services and Google now and stuff on and still get 15 hours of battery life with 5 hours sot with heavy usage. Greenify is probably all you need
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I can do that without Greenify though. I guess I just don't have any seriously offending apps that like to run by themselves. The few apps I use that can run in the background have options to disable that feature so they can actually close, such as Steam.

I did notice Slacker Radio tries to keep a 10MB process running at all times but I can simply force stop it and it's gone until the next launch. Leaving it running doesn't seem to have a noticeable drain but I just don't like it there for no reason.

I've considered using Greenify but I doubt it could make my battery any better without root access and would just be an extra service running.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
Having some very good battery life the pass couple of days. Been gaming and using Facebook and etc. Google now is off and location services is off. Got over five hours of screen time. Using Franco kernel r58 and latest version of PA.
[Nexus 5 General] Masteryates:
Its funny, I think I'm having the same issue since about this time last week. Tried to reboot and its made little difference.

Used to get into a third day but now I can only get into a second. Battery seems to really suffer when in use but the battery stats are not revealing any distinct culprit.

Is there any way on Google play to view your update history? Wish I could go back 2 weeks.
[Nexus 5 General] Akoolive:
Cyanogen mod/elementalx kernel
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I have a ton of apps. About 4 pages worth.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I have about 5 pages on the app drawer. None of them are offending apps I would feel the need to Greenify except Slacker Radio's strange 10MB process that I mentioned.

Otherwise Llama and Dashclock Widget are the only 3rd party apps that run in the background and I require their services.

Guess what I'm trying to say is Greenify can have its uses but only if you have offending apps that attempt to run without your request. Otherwise it becomes exactly what you're trying to avoid: an unnecessary service running in the background.
[Nexus 5 General] jaypr9:
Been following this thread to see what you guys have been getting. This is with nothing off except location.

Average use. Web / music / little nav.

Im guessing this is about average with everything on?
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
What's wrong with maps. I used maps today for driving but I didn't use it all day.

Edit:

Gsam says it only used 0.9% of battery, which isn't what android says...so who is right?
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
No UC / UV, played clash of clans for 15 minutes total FB 23 minutes, always whatsapp, where you see WiFi is off, there is 3g+data, location off

dalvik, fb and clash dont work with art

Edit

Cant upload imgs :/ anyway 4h 44m so

10h 30m uptime, 65% WiFi 35% 3g data

[/COLOR]Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Free mobile app
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Are you sure locations was disabled? Because your GPS was used quite a bit.
[Nexus 5 General] jaypr9:
Actually i turned it for just a few to check out some traffic on waze. I dont think it was on for more than a 1/2 hr.

The blue represents it turned on correct?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Yea and there wouldn't even be an area for "GPS on" if it wasn't used. Your Google search seems a bit high, do you use the search extensively? I have Google Now on with Locations enabled, and I make maybe 5 searches a day and I've yet to see Search that high on the list.

It might be attempting to use your location services and gets stuck searching for it.
[Nexus 5 General] :
That's solid. I get around the same results, and I'm happy with it.
[Nexus 5 General] jaypr9:
Yes i do have google now and use it quite a bit. I could see it constantly trying to access location. I happy with battery though. No point in having a phone that can do a bunch of features just to turn everything off.

Btw i am using elementals kernel running stock.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I wasn't going to suggest turning anything off, just pointing out that Search seems unusually high based off my experience. Maybe try leaving your locations enabled on battery saver mode for a day and compare as the results might actually be better if my theory of Search getting hung up waiting for locations is true.

Battery saver works well enough on WiFi and won't drain much but it will when you switch to data.
[Nexus 5 General] jaypr9:
Thanks I'll give it a try and compare.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Do you have to be rooted for greenfly to work?
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Greenify works on non rooted devices too.

But not all features work fully.

Like automatic hibernation doesnt, you have to keep pressing the hibernate button.

Try it yourself tho :D
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Thanks that's great.. Just downloading it now... Would it it stop my whatsapp messages from coming through if it's in hibernation?
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
WhatsApp? I really don't know. I guess it will.

But I never greenified WhatsApp. It uses like 0 battery.

Greenify apps that suck battery, like Facebook, messenger, BBM etc IMO.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Ahh I see so you can pick the apps you want to hibernate.. That's great
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Happy to help :)
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Guys, the new Google Search update - if I enable Google Now, will my battery go back in a frenzy and start draining like hell (even with location reporting turned off, but location history enabled), or has the drain been fixed for y'all lately?

Also, slightly OT, but with the new Play Services, has anyone seen that in Settings > your Google account, they've removed the Google+ settings option from there? See screenshot. Also, I have G+ installed.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Ok download it, selected apps to hibernate, then when I go to hibernate now I have to then click on force stop on every app. Is there a way round this or is it because I'm not rooted?

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Ahh done it.. Wohoo lol

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Last question I promise as I know this is not a greenfly thread. What does the little blue icon next to some apps mean?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
It means that app uses Google Cloud Messaging to push notifications. If you have the Donation Package for Greenify and you have Xposed, you can enable a feature so you'll still get notifications from that app.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
Even if I am not rooted?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
You need Xposed Framework for the donation features so no.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Greenify is a bit confusing.

But the app itself is amazing and intuitive.

Any icon you don't understand, if you click on it, it tells you the meaning.

And no, donation features won't help unless you're rooted.
[Nexus 5 General] snorfu:
Is this a normal amount of wakelocks?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Doesn't seem too bad....but your very weak signal on data will destroy your battery I'm afraid.

Only way to deal with that is get on WiFi, or toggle data off, and in when you need it, then off again.

You'll still get calls and texts with data off. But that's it.
[Nexus 5 General] Failyx:
Happy with it

+ 2h hearing music :)
[Nexus 5 General] deDante:
this is my battery result :

49% Battery

is that normal ??? thats light usage for my daily use (just BBM, Path, etc...)...
[Nexus 5 General] crisjogos:
PA 4.5 beta + Franco v60
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Best battery life.. Ever!!
[Nexus 5 General] akelino01:
Nice battery stats! what rom/kernel you recommend? :)
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
After trying almost every rom/kernel combo im using purity with codeblue280.. Best performance & battery for me (ART)

Now as you can see im on +4h SOT and still have 34%.. Can easyly get 5.30h sot. Im heaving using it also.. Gaming.. Always whatsapp, facebook, downloads, photo editing.. So ya, awesome, never had a battery life like this

Cya ;)
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Projected 5 hours SoT over 24+ hour period, with GNow on and possibly locations as well? I'd say that's above average for Kit Kat users but I couldn't say for sure for Android L users, probably also for L.
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Android L lpv79 complete stock

Constant use , all time wifi with 1 hour of video streaming at 50% brightness .

And the rest of the time brightness minimum with fb,whatsapp,instagram,youtube,tapatalk,
[Nexus 5 General] sr33kar:
Any tweaks or underclocking,undervolting???
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
just flashed the frandom zip enabler from codeblue thread.. No UV, no uc
[Nexus 5 General] sr33kar:
will frandom increase battery life ??
[Nexus 5 General] sr33kar:
Best Rom and kernel for battery life

MOD EDIT

Best ROM/Kernel threads are not allowed on XDA, and hence, so are posts about it.

The reason is explained in the post below. Find a ROM and Kernel combination that suits you and your usage best by trying them out, everyone is different.

Thanks

gregbradley
[Nexus 5 General] :
Roms and kernels make a minor difference at best. It's setup and usage that matters.

Use whatever rom and kernel you wish.

There is no best. It's all taste and preferences.

Whoever tells you otherwise........ Is simply misinformed. ?

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And check out the battery thread in my signature.... The first 4 posts have all you need to get great battery life. ?
[Nexus 5 General] DJxSpeedy:
all stock 4.4.4 vanilla
[Nexus 5 General] psycho693:
That's impressive! I could never dream of that. Not on stock anyways.
[Nexus 5 General] DJxSpeedy:
i only disabled some apps.. its rooted.. and i use only wifi (i have no data plan) and no location services (disabled)
[Nexus 5 General] yoncy:
Anyone succeded to get more than 4 of screen on time on slimkat? On Wi-Fi. Almost everything greenified. Around 150 apps installed, google now + location on battery saving. Just want to know if it's possible otherwise i have to test stock+xposed+gravity in the same condition. Kernel is latest elementalx with wake gestures.
[Nexus 5 General] marjune23:
https://plus.google.com/118052398531707842208/posts/QgUojHwYCJ1
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Kernel?:)
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Stock
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
I get 4.5 hours SoT on stock. That's probably my absolute max.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Just in case anyone didn't get the memo: stock ROM and kernel are great for battery life. Other then playing with CPU settings there isn't much more custom ones can do for you, battery wise.

http://imgur.com/a/wvE06
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
Full brightness all day! :)

Current Device: LG Google

Nexus 5

ROM: Graviton V3.5 <3

Build: 4.4.4

Tweaks: Bionic & Dalvik Optimised Volume Boost Mod

Kernel: Franco Kernel R58

PROJ£CT MOD BOOST NITRO X.3
[Nexus 5 General] :
You'll more than double your total time with same screen screen time on a dim screen setting tho. ?
[Nexus 5 General] LDH2K10:
My Max screen on time is like 5 hours :P. And double time?! I wish! 9 hours would be amazing but I'd never get that far xD

Current Device: LG Google

Nexus 5

ROM: Graviton V3.5 <3

Build: 4.4.4

Tweaks: Bionic & Dalvik Optimised Volume Boost Mod

Kernel: Franco Kernel R58

PROJ£CT MOD BOOST NITRO X.3
[Nexus 5 General] fishboun:
My Max screen on time is like 4 hours :)
[Nexus 5 General] D33KK:
My battery sucks so bad I just ordered a new one which will arrive on Monday
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
If I'm streaming netflix or playing a game I usually get a little bit better than that but I always keep my brightness at about 10%.
[Nexus 5 General] grgana:
Hy i recently get my N5 & didn't rooted it yet, i get about 4h& few minutes of sot. trough approximately two days..

Im keeping it davik runtime..what would you suggest for stock N5 art or dalvik for battery and in general???

THNX!

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] proyatzu:
Art all the way
[Nexus 5 General] LMH1998:
Hi guys.

I've been testing quite a lot of roms because my battery life is pretty bad.

Even if I'm on stock rom, I get around 2 hours and 30 minutes of onscreentime and a standby of 14 hours.

On custom roms, my battery life is even worse. I saw someone here with Purity Rom with the Code Blue kernel that got amazing battery stats so I tried the same thing and this is what I got. (look at the screenshots).

I don't do much on my phone. I just check Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter from time to time but I actually don't use the phone that much. Most of the time I'm on Wifi but I did use some 4G.

Is it normal that's so bad or is it time for me to replace the battery?

I would also appreciate some tips and experience from you guys.

Thanks!

BTv