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[Nexus 5 General] ethanle:
A bit weird.

After updating to lollipop, battery performances is really bad. 100% to 40% in about 4 hours.. quite sad.. don't know why.. and the app named "Android system" takes the largest part, 14% compared to Screen's 4% when I checked the battery usage provided by the stock rom. This seems weird because screen should be on the top of list rather than Android system just as shown by other users above.. The only modification I made is CF Auto root...

I notice that there are "!"s on my signal and WiFi iconeven I can connect to Internet. Is that possible that my phone keep trying to connect to Google servers too frequently because I live in mainland of China where Google server are blocked by government?
[Nexus 5 General] gsmyth:
Just got my N5 a couple of weeks back, unlocked and flashed liquid ROM (no real battery tweaks, WiFi on most of the time). The battery life isn't quite as good compared to my previous M8, but then I don't think any other phone is.

However still managing 5hr screen on time, right to the wire.

In two minds whether to update to 5.0
[Nexus 5 General] bracketologist:
This has been my experience. I flashed the factory image without wiping the data and it is rooted. Battery life on standby is better than Kitkat, but not quite as good when the phone is being used (although I think it's improved after a couple of days of usage). I was tempted to reset the phone to see if that made a difference, but seeing as how everyone has been getting similar results even after doing that, I'll hold off on that for now.

FYI...I'm not using Greenify currently because, for me at least, it seems to cause a slight battery drain. Since I'm getting better standby battery life anyway, there's no need for me to install it for now.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You have a tonne of app wakelocks. You need Gsam and Gsam root companion to see what it is.

Need root obviously. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
I had bad battery life after upgrading to lollipop without wiping my data... So I did a clean installation, installed my apps, and the battery is now better than on kitkat

81% left, 1hour10 min screen time (on wifi)

---------- Post added at 07:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:18 PM ----------

Greenify just put an updated version to support android 5.

The old version didn't work well on lollipop and could cause a battery drain. Now it should be fixed
[Nexus 5 General] Theliels:
rooted?? I always make a full wipe before a big update, the only modification was CF-AutoRoot.

My last stats: 27hours from last charge, 6% remain, 3h Screen on, wifi on.

is not very very bad, but with kk my battery was a much better.

Something happen when phone is awake. Not strange apps on battery stats... maybe another process... i want investigate this and make another full wipe and test some days without root.
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
Rooted and greenify

I didn't test the battery with the radio yet, only on wifi. Anyway, I don't expect to have a good battery life without wifi ?
[Nexus 5 General] colema19:
Well, I came into see if anyone else was having battery issues after going to 5.0. I guess that one's answered. Here's my usage now, I am mostly screen off, and this was idle most of this period so this is pretty disconcertingly bad if it stays this way:
[Nexus 5 General] dijonemon:
colema19 - that is almost exactly the same graph as mine.
[Nexus 5 General] :
If you don't use the phone, android os has no competition, so yes it'll read high.... From all those neat options and features running.

Use the phone normally for a few days... See how it is then.

Visit the battery thread in my signature and give post 2 a good read.

Seems the N5 on 5.0 is where the Moto X was on 4.2.2. Android os reads higher and higher the more things you turn on. ?

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Maybe the X was on 4.4.2 then... I forget, cause I had most things off (that's what toggles are for) and never had high OS stats.
[Nexus 5 General] yokken:
The weird thing for my battery drain is that there was no overwhelming majority of usage. Everything was below 10% usage. I ended up uninstalling almost every app that I don't need day to day, and battery life was definitely better today. I still think the Play Music app keeps the phone awake, like the hardware DSP isn't working and letting the CPU sleep. I'm contemplating flashing my old KitKat modem and seeing if the battery improves... but that won't fix Play Music if there is an issue there.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Root, install gsam and Gsam root companion and see what your app wakelocks are. Done . ?
[Nexus 5 General] _INSPIREed:
Battery for me on L was good. Not the highest I've had but My first charge cycle I got 4 hours screen on time on about 14 hours use. I'll post screens of my second discharge and see if I'll hit 5 hours SOT .
[Nexus 5 General] anshmiester78900:
Guys even after disabling the location I'm getting the location wakelock . any suggestions
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
Yee same crappy battery after installing ota (all stock no unlocked bootloader)

I think google just stopped the ota process becouse battery drain.
[Nexus 5 General] BTT8:
Went to sleep with 100, woke up with 80 left. That's no good on 5.0. On kk, it would be at 96 in the morning consistently
[Nexus 5 General] Vivek_Neel:
Another cycle.

Pretty good result.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Those wakelocks are not your issue. They are only 2 minutes of awake time.

Make sure location is off, Google now too and the options in Android device manager of are unchecked.

If you've rooted, get gsam and Gsam root companion and check it. Times waking device and held awake time are the ones to watch... In app sucker section.

If you're not rooted... Near impossible to track down, as you can't see app wakelocks.

?
[Nexus 5 General] joshyth:
Second cycle, and it's still wrose than when I was on kitkat.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Disabled location and google now , well this is really great i think

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] cawith:
How did you get WLD to work on Lollipop?

On my phone it just says it needs root access even though it is permitted root...
[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
things that can help *battery life:

- re calibrate battery by drain it and charge to full while phone closed.

- turn off auto sync

- use location only when needed

- disable adaptive brightness

- use wifi when possible

- maybe close apps from recent tabs and dont use cleaner app(only maybe didnt check the difference now)

*all stock with smooth experience.
[Nexus 5 General] anshmiester78900:
Mate you need to download the app called Selinux mode changer . after that open the app and set it to permissive .

Hope it helps .
[Nexus 5 General] adityameena26:
configuration please?:confused:
[Nexus 5 General] 91franz:
I have a lot of wakeclocks on mobile data and nothing on wifi.. What could be the origin?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Anything. Read the last few pages and post screen shots of app wakelocks as suggested to others.

Cause we can guess for days and not figure it out with seeing the wakelocks posted here. ?
[Nexus 5 General] aeoveu:
Oh gosh thank you! Thank you thank you thank you!

I was wondering what was wrong with the rooting method.
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
I take the battery complaints back... More or less the same as kk
[Nexus 5 General] pulsar_swift:
can you please share you settings for the below ?

Location =

Wifi Scanning even when Wifi Off

Location Reporting

Location History

Screen brightness setting

Sync

Google now
[Nexus 5 General] anshmiester78900:
No problem mate. Happy to help.
[Nexus 5 General] crucialcolin:
Probably didn't need to see this thread but you guys got me wishing I remembered to check my battery life in KK for comparison :D There have been times where its been really bad then others i felt it was decent. Is there sort of an average life with a stock nexus on lollipop? As long as i fall in that range I'd be happy.
[Nexus 5 General] JaymzTA:
Pretty good battery life for me on Lollipop so far. No complaints here.

Rooted/Unlocked

Stock ROM

Stock Kernel
[Nexus 5 General] Vivek_Neel:
Chrome. Tapatalk. What's app ?
[Nexus 5 General] shan.3500:
So I slept with 80% battery and woke up with 70% after about 8 hrs of sleep.

Can anyone tell me what these wakelocks mean and what can I do to improve my battery ?
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
No google now or hotword detection... No location no wifi scanning no nfc... Auto brightness always on and elementalx kernel installed... Sync on always and no location reporting.. Thats it
[Nexus 5 General] Flukzr:
I might be paranoid but is it possible that Google is using an algorithm or getting the stats somehow that might be increasing SoT on paper and thus the battery stats altogether, without any real gain? I mean ever since switching to Lollipop I had a feeling that battery life is worse than on KK while using the phone.

I remember checking the SoT when I had ~2h and then went out with some friends. I didn't really use the phone much until I got back, and put it on my night stand (near the 23:30 mark) where I occasionally would do some random web browsing before going to bed.

So the phone had ~20% battery left. Woke up to ~15% which I thought was pretty good and then checked the SoT. While it may be entirely possible that I had a SoT of ~4h30m before I went to bed I'm curious if someone noticed anything discrepancies between what the battery stats are reporting and what you think is

I'll monitor this more closely the next few days to see if there really is an increase in SoT without the screen being necessarily on.
[Nexus 5 General] lasha117:
i had better battery result on 4.4.4 with franco kernel and stock rom.

now on full charge i only get 3 hours and 10-15 min (with battery saver included)

i have stock 5.0 and franco kernel

also can you tell me best battery saver app that works on 5.0
[Nexus 5 General] teddyxfire:
Yup, I've noticed this as well, but thought that it was just me going crazy over all this Lollipop battery madness.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
I left it idle with WiFi on during the night but ... Why did it lose so much battery?

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] a43sv:
I just want to share my nexus battery result

lollipop stock, elementalx 2.03

mostly on wifi, google now off, location off

some social media app, g+, light browsing + gaming
[Nexus 5 General] dijonemon:
Battery life on Lollipop is really killing me.

1hr 20mins SoT:
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Well i have nice sot 3h after 20h removed from charger. And 25% battery left. However I am missing 25%reported battery use. My drain for 6h on WiFi without battery saveing is great 1% tested while sleeping. I think the battery reporting has a issue.

LE: my drain while acctualy useing the phone is higher then on kk. Droped like 3% while writing this message. I think I should blame the unoptimesed apps.
[Nexus 5 General] XeLLaR*:
feelsgoodman.jpg

Stock Android 5.0 with Stock Kernel

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] #sharath:
I'm not a heavy user, so results might vary. Wifi was on for 60% of the time,with email sync enabled, location disabled. Display was on 20%,not in auto mode.﻿ A little time on feedly, chrome, whatsapp. Music playback for 2 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] kingofmb:
After using whole day with 50% wifi on, never charge between that.
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
Well I'm probably late to report. But getting 45 minutes of SoT per 10% consistently. Played clash of clans and multitasked between YouTube and messaging and still got 40 minutes on 10%.

I've also noticed the first 10% gives me 55 minutes sot and then it gets less and less towards the end of the day....

Location services off (I noticed they drain way too much battery I think its a bug) and sync managed by tasked. Nothing else other than 15% brightness
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Same as mine overall battery is great, however the reported usage is bad.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Do you use edge/2g or 4g for the mobile connection ? I get about 30m sot for 100 to 90 and about 35 for 90 to 80 then it decreases more and more as you stated. I notices that the battery tends to "recharge" itself for 1 to 3 % depending on usage, after putting the device to sleep. I have noticed this for both my n5 and n7. I am reaching my 4h.30min mark on my n5 after 24 hours of usage and for the past 3h my phone goes from 4/5% to 7% I was just useing it for testing and WhatsApp and some searches in this past 3h.

Somethimg is really fishy about battery reporting and the overall begavior. The funny thing is that with light usage and only in bursts of useing my devices I was able to get without battery saveimg 4.30 to 5h sot for my n5 and 9 to 10h for my n7 wifi in a 24h discharge cycle. I only hope that 5.1 fixes the battery reporting because francly I think we can not expect more out of stock lolipop.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Normal battery stuff:

The battery graph is an estimate. That hasn't changed with 5.0. This means that your battery line can occasional go up when the phone goes into an low power state after being in a load state before.

Also batteries don't always drain linearly. 100-90% isn't supposed to be the exact same as 90-80% and so forth.

Not to say that there might not be some issues with battery reporting in 5.0 but so far I'm just seeing a lot of people freaking out for little reason.
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
I'm the same. Phone is great in standby, but once I'm using it the battery just plummets.
[Nexus 5 General] IVS IVRIS:
My battery got better.. I let it drain fully.. Charge fully and wiped cache in recovery. Using Franco kernel..
[Nexus 5 General] russian392:
On light usage, or usage without internet I managed 6.5 hours screen on time. I use WiFi the entire time with cell signal for calling. I know data eats battery like crazy.

Location services is my current battery drain. And project Volta is pretty bad at managing sync...with sync on its one massive wake lock and I loose 10% in like 15-20 minutes.

Also the battery usage screen is missing a ton...if you add it all up I'd have 65% at the end of the day so something is eating battery and not shoeing up on the settings.

Yeah. Battery with lollipop is better but hard to understand
[Nexus 5 General] procitysam:
Fluctuating use levels throughout the day.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using the N5X LRX21T ROM
[Nexus 5 General] Theliels:
Much better now.

location, wifi and Google Now ON

stock rooted

50 hours in this moment without any charge

4h 20min screen ON (some low profile gaming, fb, whats, g+... normal use)

10% battery remain in this moment
[Nexus 5 General] racingmatt1:
How?
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
20 min SOT on Gsam

26 min SOT stock battery stats

Location and other feedback services closed

No root

No talking

1,5h bluetooth (still active)

11h without charging (wifi is active all the time)

%88 battery remain

For this SOT is %12 battery drain is a little bit much or not?
[Nexus 5 General] Godaemon:
I Have this weird Android OS drain in battery Stats about 25 %

Any Ideas ? Im stock Rom+Franco Kernel . Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
by me Google Play service eats much battery
[Nexus 5 General] Theliels:
nothing special. Not greenify or any other app. The only one Google service disabled was OK Google Everywhere, that I believe is a very battery hungry, and some fb services disables with "Service Disables"
[Nexus 5 General] surrealjam:
Why did they remove the useful "Time on battery" from the top of the stats screen?!....

Anyway, regarding the battery itself, I wouldn't notice a lot of difference between this and KitKat - perhaps idle drain is a little better. I suppose at the end of the day we've still got a 2300mah battery which is probably a few hundred mah short of where it should be.
[Nexus 5 General] styladj:
Same here.

Uninstalled Greenify and gave Deep Sleep Battery Saver a try now (the deprecated Juicedefender and DU Battery Saver didn't work either). I hope it will improve battery life of my Nexus 5. It seems like it is doing his job until yet.
[Nexus 5 General] BTT8:
Went to bed with 100, woke up 7 hrs later with 48. Stock, not rooted. Location, Google now, and wifi on. This can't be life.
[Nexus 5 General] Rufufu:
I have the same settings (location on high accuracy, GNow on, OK google everywhere, and 50% GSM signal, but with wifi on), and after a 8 h sleep, battery as decrease from 100% to 94%.

It could be a rogue app on your end.

I also had a massive drain from chrome one time, an opened tab was preventing the device from going to deep sleep.
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
I am constantly getting 4+ hr of SOT ever since I upgraded to Lollipop. Sometimes it goes beyond 5hrs. Its consistently better than what I used to get on KitKat.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Is there a way to measure the exact mah of the battery without opening the device up ?
[Nexus 5 General] stbxxl:
That's about my experience as well with a stock, not rooted N5. Pretty bad :(
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Rufufu,

I got the almost same result as yours.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
My dell laptop reports how much battery capacity is remained to that of original designed capacity. There's app named nova battery life for android which records this same stat. However, it doesn't work on Nexus 5, atleast when I tried it. You can give it a try and report back.
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
Lollipop final+code_blue kernel+root

2h15m calls and +/- 70 sms (2g network), lots of browsing, spotify and ~6h10m SOT in ~27h without charging.

Location = On

Wifi Scanning even when Wifi: Off

Location Reporting: Off

Location History: Off

Screen brightness setting: Auto

Sync: On (1 account)

Google now: Off
[Nexus 5 General] DSF:
How the..? I barely can get about 4h of SOT, mostly browsing via Chrome, or facebook.

Have you used the power saver option all the time?
[Nexus 5 General] kimroskas:
Nop. Battery saver is configured to kick in automatically at 15% battery.

I think that good 2g coverage and screen auto brightness helps a lot. And ofcourse, code_blue kernel with some tweaks.

Code_blue tweaks, using FKU:

-blue_active governor

-UV -75mV 300/422Mhz and -50mV to all other cpu frequencies. Runs fine without reboots.

-UC, max freq. set to 1267Mhz and min freq. set to 300Mhz. Runs flawless. If i need a specific app or game to run at full power i just need to create a profile in FKU.

You may think thats insane to have a phone like nexus 5 and do tweaks like those i've mentioned... i don't need full power all the time. I prefer better battery and have full power when i need it.

It's time consuming or complex to the average user to do these tweaks? I agree. But think positively, you just need to do it one time!
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Anyone having unexpectedly short battery life after coming from 4.4.4 please try this. Drain your battery to 1%. Power off. Charge overnight while off (or for those who need alarm clock do during day). Profit. I'm back to my 4+hr SOT 20+hr days like I was on 4.4.4
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
I'll try that, though I'm not hopeful and not sure why it would work.

I've been thinking about replacing the battery, but it would be good to know if this is a software rather than a hardware problem. My battery life has got steadily worse over the last few months, but with Lollipop, though great in standby, my battery drops alarmingly if the phone is actually doing anything.
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Worth a shot
[Nexus 5 General] tim440:
Yep. If it works, I'll let you know.

Thanks for the suggestion.
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Its really worked out well for me good luck. Btw I drained mine to 0% but it might not matter. I did charge it (qi) overnight and while powered off
[Nexus 5 General] styladj:
Will try that, too.
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
For reference. 64% left 2 hrs sot all wifi today.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Kernel is killing everything in the battery for me. Airplane ALL DAY and WiFi throughout, only 2.5 hours SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Adding final attachment for GSam. I would love to fix this awful battery... I use my phone for an alarm but I'm gonna try that power off thing overnight and see if it helps.
[Nexus 5 General] newb3e:
battery life is pathetic on Andorid L.it was better on DP 1.Any suggestions guys ?
[Nexus 5 General] styladj:
In my case it looks like that trick didn't help.

I powered on the phone ~ 2 hours ago with a fully charged battery. And now it is drained to 74% (no 3g/4g used, just Wifi a bit at home and work).

Can anyone recommend a battery saving app (except DS Battery Saver or Tasker - I've tried them already), which is working on Lollipop and is able to do periodic checks (like the old Juicedefender)?
[Nexus 5 General] h4rdXc0r3:
I feel satisfied just running stock unrooted lollipop. I feel its better compared to stock unrooted kit kat. :D
[Nexus 5 General] droid@xda:
Turning off cloud print, opting out of interest based ads (Google Settings -> Ads) also help in reducing wakelocks and increasing battery backup. Turning off NFC, location reporting are major things to do for battery saving. You can certainly save power if you don't require all these features.
[Nexus 5 General] slikr:
What is wrong? Im getting poor battery life. Can anyone analyze whats draining my battery?
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Clear like water... You've bad signal reception... (Its just the main problem)
[Nexus 5 General] slikr:
How can i fix it?
[Nexus 5 General] s0dhi:
I've managed to finally get the battery life to an acceptable level. On the first run after flashing, I let the battery drain until the phone shutdown. I found that the last 5% percent of the phone lasted quite a while, often dropping to 4%, and then being back at 5% when I turned it back on. I let the phone fully charge overnight and installed Greenify in the morning, auto-hibernating pretty much all of the apps (I don't care much for notifications on social media apps). Here are the results from yesterday, first full day (with all tricks implemented):
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
When you aren't using your data connection change it to 2G you will have better quality settings ->more->cellular networks->preferred network type->2G
[Nexus 5 General] Edo 91:
Google Now Everywhere is eating the battery on lollipop, pretty useless...
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
I ended up getting 2hr 45min SOT with 50% batt left over a 13hr span 90% WiFi 10% on cell network. 40 min talk time.

Very pleased as its a bit better than what I was getting with 4.4.4. Before I drained my battery to 0 then charged it while powered off I was averaging 3hr sot with 5% batt left.

I have 55 apps, and don't use anything or any type of app that is supposed to save battery. Sorry i don't believe in them. GNow on, location on, google hotword detection off, 3 email acct push sync, weather app sync every hour, and google acct syncs everything every box checked.

The only conclusions that I can draw is that the draining to 0 and charging to 100 helped me OR the apps I use are updated to work with 5.0 and don't affect my batt life in a negative way.
[Nexus 5 General] stbxxl:
So I tried exactly this yesterday and this morning when I checked the battery drain overnight it was back to a normal (for me) 5% in 7.5 hours. Before that I got anywhere between 35 and 50%. I made no other changes. Who would have thought that calibrating the battery after the update to Lollipop can be necessary.

Many thanks for the tip!
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
It's not, most likely it just needed some time and/or a reboot. No calibration is done when your phone reaches a low battery level, it's actually done every time you charge to 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] styladj:
I disabled some services. At the moment things seem to work as usual.
[Nexus 5 General] stbxxl:
Yeah perhaps. It's just a weird coincidence that the massive overnight battery drain started to occur the same day I updated to Lollipop. I had done several reboots but they didn't make any difference.