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[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Right now I have been unplugged for 8h 36m and have 71% battery left with screen on time of 1h 17m.
[Nexus 5 General] Rado_vr6:
Coming from the G2, I can definitely attest to the battery life being a little on the low side. Then again, I'm a power user and the reception on campus isn't the greatest. I generally can go from 0530-1700 or so before I feel the need to plug in. I'm usually at around 20% or so, but that's with me playing a couple games, sending emails and texts, listening to music on the commute to campus. I probably could leave it on airplane mode most of the day and I'd be set.
[Nexus 5 General] jj71787:
I have 8h 45m and 77% left with only 15m on screen time
[Nexus 5 General] Maneth:
Hi guys :) Could you tell me if BatteryGuru has any effect on the battery life ? :)
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
I also have high "Android OS" usage. For me its a wlan_rx_wake wakelock. Basically my router keeps waking up the phone or wont let my phone sleep because its spamming the phone with packets. The weird thing is that this isnt an issue on my Nexus 4 or Nexus 7, so its probably something the phone should be filtering out and ignoring. My phone doesn't get as much deep sleep as it should when this is occuring, which is whenever I am connected to my wifi network. What sucks for me is that I rely on VOIP through wifi when at home, so its not an option to just turn off wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] chennyboy2002:
I'm in the same boat as those who seem to be getting significantly worse battery life than what's being posted on this thread. I'm on my 4th battery cycle and I can barely get 12 hours with 2 hours of SOT (all on wifi). This is stock unrooted with gnow on and auto brightness. I'm coming from an N4 and this is definitely worse than what I was getting on my N4. I already tried reflashing the stock rom, which doesn't seem to have helped. Is it possible I have a bad battery? Or is it going to get better?
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Not at all mad at battery life on this phone.

Running Snapdragon Battery Guru (which, honestly, only makes a very small difference), letting Lux do its thing (I don't mess with it because I find the interface unintuitive), WiFi and LTE, location is on high accuracy. Have played some Clash of Clans, browsed Reddit and other various news sites, downloaded apps, and have listened to music.
[Nexus 5 General] nyyankees1237:
Try flashing the the hammerhead factory image again and make sure to wipe everything.
[Nexus 5 General] kdog350:
Is someone willing to do a battery test for me with how I would use this phone if I bought it?
[Nexus 5 General] bei01:
Now that is very interesting. I guess I never noticed that the high Android OS usage was really only happening at work, and its usage percentage tended to flatten out slightly at home. I'll have to monitor battery usage over this first weekend of having the phone at home for a solid two days. If my phone goes all weekend without the Android OS battery drain, i'll have a more clear picture.

Thank you very much for this clue.

I'm curious. How did you come across this? I never suspected WiFI, as according to the battery stats, it was not the culprit. Is there an app you used to detect the wlan_rx wakelock, or was it something you picked up in another thread?

Again, thank you!
[Nexus 5 General] jimv1983:
I'm at 70% with 5hr 15min but that is with 1hr 25min screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
I'm at 10h 30m unplugged, 1h 46m SOT, 59%
[Nexus 5 General] wildpig1234:
If you are not using it, turn it off. I routinely get 1 days + time with light/moderate usage by turning wifi, BT, GPS, mobile data all off unless i use the service. By doing so, even with my cell signal being only 2 bars most of the time, I can get long standby time. You can tell receive all your txt msg this way. If you have the need to sync your email, unless you have a lot of urgent email, no need to keep wifi or data on all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
Im using the beta Better Battery Stats app from its thread here on XDA.
[Nexus 5 General] overhyped√:
Now imagine toggling all of these settings every day...
[Nexus 5 General] pumah350:
My first cycle... Stock launcher, G Now on, NFC on, WiFi off, Sync on, Bluetooth on about 3 hrs streaming Pandora... 5 hrs screen on, 18 hrs...

There was about 6-7 hrs overnight in standby, but nevertheless still got 5 hrs screen on. The screen is pretty bright for me so I tend to keep it on the lower end mostly. I'm trying the 2nd cycle with Nova Prime to see what differences there may be.

I had the radio/mobile network 'on' the whole time, no Airplane mode at all, Wi-Fi search off. I also had Battery saving enabled in Location. But one item I had off was G+ Auto upload, I wanted to see how it did with that off.

My 2nd battery cycle I used Nova Prime and I got 14 hrs usage with just over 4 hrs screen on, and that was with 60 minutes of calls.
[Nexus 5 General] pisanty:
Seriously the new facebook app is a battery Vampire I can't tell if I am happy with this or not. It might scrape through a 12 hour shift.

That is with about 90 minutes of HW+ Mx Video viewing too....
[Nexus 5 General] Ketzal:
Solid battery life. Took a bunch of messing around to sort.

Flashed the stock operating system. That cured all wake locks.

Location/history reporting off.

WiFi scanning off.

Lux to handle Auto Brightness.

That's about it.

Very happy now.

Played lots of music, read new, was on WiFi maybe 75% of the day. Mist syncs on. No Facebook app, no major gaming.

Annoying all the crap I had to go through to get it working.

Try it all. Definitely worth it.
[Nexus 5 General] PunchTheLion:
Sorry, how does flashing improve battery? Is it placebo or do you know of any tests?

Hopefully I'm not sound patronizing there, I really mean it sincerely.
[Nexus 5 General] Guzanni:
My battery life just got better yesterday, compared to the last time I posted in this thread.

Still with Google Now off

Sync on

Location off

On WiFi most of the time (90%)
[Nexus 5 General] hotweiss:
I am quite impressed with the battery life. Compared to the Galaxy S4, the Nexus 5 is the battery king.
[Nexus 5 General] val580:
just enough juice to watch lord of the rings integral !
[Nexus 5 General] Nekyno:
That's about the same what I am getting today. 72% with 7h 21min on 3G, wifi on, location and google now off, 1h 11min screen on time. About 20 minutes of calls, chrome and reading mails, texts and notes.
[Nexus 5 General] MadFerIt2011:
Out of curiousity, are any of you using the Nexus 5 with an Exchange work mailbox? I noticed with my Nexus 4 (and now Nexus 5) that having work e-mail enabled and syncing (push) will result in the battery going to the ****ter. However, I never see "Exchange Services" listed as a battery hog, the battery just starts lasting less and less. I'm not sending/receiving e-mail constantly, less than my gmail account on average.

Hopefully some of you have experienced this and played around with ways to improve it. I haven't yet tried to adjust the sync from Push to intervals (5-10 min or etc). Anyone found a sweet spot?
[Nexus 5 General] RedWingsFan:
I use the app TouchDown. Connect using ActiveSync. I have it set to push my messages during peak times (6am-7pm, M-F). The rest of the time to just poll it every 15 minutes. I've been using it for years on multiple devices. Never once has TouchDown shown up on my battery stats.

They offer a 30 day trial of TouchDown so give it a shot. I see in my configuration while setting it up are choices for ActiveSync, Exchange '03, Exchange '07, and Auto Detect.
[Nexus 5 General] ejkeebler:
Usually on wifi and when i'm not I haven't been toggling it off. I get 1 hour of LTE/Bluetooth streaming which doesn't show up on screen on time, I leave location services set to high accuracy, i have stock everything and have facebook installed which I rarely use, I have two google accounts connected to it which only 1 syncs mail. I play Clash of Clans some (which is a huge battery drainer in my experience) and I routinely get 4 hours of screen on time which is more than enough for me.

I just installed lux, to see if there's any improvement, and can only imagine what a new kernel + tasker managing wifi/lte/bluetooth could do if I ever get the patience to set it all back up.

To be honest, I expected worse from the reviews. I expected 2.5 to maybe 3 hours if I was managing all my radios/display.
[Nexus 5 General] Spotja:
You sure you ran apps? Considering that phone idle and cell standby chew juice than any app you've ran?

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[Nexus 5 General] jj71787:
only problem in battery drop I have is in the morning it dropped to 96% probably because of being in the subway for 20 minutes and its searching for a signal.
[Nexus 5 General] Blitzed_Penguin:
My Nexus 5 is pulling over 100 ma in sleep.

My Nexus 5 was only lasting 8 hours with 2 hours of screen time so I installed a few apps to see what the big battery killers were. Using Battery Monitor Widget I noticed that my phone was pulling between 100 - 400 ma in sleep and it was very erratic jumping to different values in that range. Using Better Battery Stats I tried to isolate wake locks but it was not helpful.

I decided to start from scratch and factory reset my phone in order to change setting and install apps little by little to identify the problem settings and apps. After a factory reset I disabled Google now and location setting and set WiFi to not search for networks. I only installed SU, Terminal, and Battery Monitor Widget. BMW was reporting over 115 ma power draw on 3g and 105 in airplane mode.

Coming from the Galaxy Nexus that did not check battery current draw I checked the Nexus 4 forums and they report 10 - 20 ma as normal. Is anyone else monitoring their current draw? Is this normal for a Nexus 5?
[Nexus 5 General] chakra:
how are you getting gsam to work?
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Mainly have been using whatsapp, instagram, twitter, flipboard, xda app and about half an hour of voice calls.. Yesterday somehow I managed 4 hours of SOT with about 50% left.
[Nexus 5 General] Tonster1983:
So apparently my nexus 5 randomly restarted without me noticing and came back with even less battery life...by a lot...how nice.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
What would be the point of lying?

The screen-on time shows clearly how long the screen was on. Cell standby is high because I made no calls yesterday. Phone idle is high because I don't sit around playing with my phone for hours at a time. Here a little, there a little. I have a job and can't be on my phone all day long.
[Nexus 5 General] alexblackhorse:
Really good, 3000 mah?

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[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I don't think that means anything. Those usually show higher then most of the things I run all day as well.

Your cell standby should be higher then most things because if your phone is unplugged for 12-13 hours, you are obviously not running any apps for 13 hours and you phone would be on standby for the majority of that time.

So that it depends on what you run and how battery hungry it is. I use apps sometimes that never even show up on that screen.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Currently on 30% , 1 day 19 hours, screen 3 hours 40.
[Nexus 5 General] ihakim:
I was struggling to get 2 hrs SOT earlier. Downloaded the hammerhead image from Google's servers and flashed all components individually. I haven't gone through a full cycle yet, but so far wakelocks seem to be reduced and I went from ~70% deep sleep to about 96% on idle. Don't know if I'll hit 4.5 hrs SOT, but I am certain it will be better than what I was originally getting. I'll try a few cycles on stock before flashing the usual franco kernel.

I recommend re-flashing all stock images if you're having battery life issues before proceeding with anything else.
[Nexus 5 General] Weirdy346:
Using Greenify, stock ROM, Franco kernal, unlocked boot loader, rooted and various things turned of. Very impressed so far :)
[Nexus 5 General] Tonster1983:
Anybody else having issues with Google search after the update?? Already forced stopped it once today when I saw it was keeping my phone awake..now this aft its done it again!!! Anyone?? This is terrible!
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Why don't you clear data and cache for the app then restart it. See if that helps.
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
my results today

..:Enviado desde mi Nexus 5:..
[Nexus 5 General] Fwosh:
All I can manage
[Nexus 5 General] Fwosh:
And another. Pants.
[Nexus 5 General] Tonster1983:
Done.. Will see if that helps! If not, might have to go and try and uninstall the update and revert to stock Google search... Just wasn't sure if anyone else had come across this
[Nexus 5 General] jj71787:
Anyone else have a high cell standby. I am at 58% on 6h 58 minutes and 31% from cell standby screen is only at 17%
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
I wish it had 3000 mah battery but no, i was getting 4:30 SOT on stock kernel and now im using Faux 002, have to say that im impressed so far..
[Nexus 5 General] alexblackhorse:
God!!!! I need this ******

LOL

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[Nexus 5 General] dannygeesus:
Battery life

7 hours 30 minutes still at 25% 3 hours of screen on time display at low most of the day or a litle above it wifi running all day thorugh the google locations (battery saver mode) used to scroll though internet vine and news. 4G all day (low service)
[Nexus 5 General] Jam4l:
After about one week ...in my opinion amazing battery life:)
[Nexus 5 General] jimv1983:
How did you manage to get that kind of battery life? I was able to get 15 hours off charger with 4 hours screen on time. You must have had location off, Google Now off, lowest brightness, wifi the entire time, no calls and probably some type of mods(ROM? kernel?).
[Nexus 5 General] bunga bunga matze:
I have realy good battery life with stock rom. I usualy turn on wlan, and bluetooth only if I need it.

Location is always on, Brightness set to automatic, Google Now and 4G turned off, because I only get 3G in my neighbourhood (and Google Now is a plaything for me).

On the screenshot below you can see the most parts are standby (have no other at the moment),

but with my normal usage I get 2-2,5days before I have to charge again.

I think the key beside the screen on time, is a good and constant network coverage
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Considering standby is your biggest battery drain well your use is minimal at best. Basically this is a screenshot of a n5 at complete idle draing for days.

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] Jam4l:
Locations off and Google now is also off also i only use 2g instead of 3 or 4g. Brightness is auto and all other apps which i didnt use are disabled.

I am rooted but everything is stock atm. I Only usw greenify for facebook soundcloud and messenger;)
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
This are my results for the day.. 7 hours of SOT. Location Off. Bluetooth Off. Mobile Data and WiFi On. Sync On(Although I disable the services I don't use like playbooks, magazines, etc), about an hour of phone calls, some youtube, and lot of instant messaging on whatsapp, reading on flipboard and tapatalk. With my s3 with the same setup I would never get past 4 hours of SOT...
[Nexus 5 General] chennyboy2002:
I've tried that again yesterday (did it once and it didn't fix anything) and it doesn't seem to be helping at all today. For example, right now I'm at 44% battery life with 6 hours 42 min on battery and 1h 1min SOT (all on wifi). This is awful compared to my nexus 4. I don't think it's anything about apps since it's the same apps I used before and there are no wakelock issues, just screen taking up 24% of battery.

I'm thinking about RMAing but I checked the RMA thread and no one has reported any issues about weak battery, only broken batteries
[Nexus 5 General] jtwlbz:
My n5 is about same as my n4.
[Nexus 5 General] iletired:
On my first session of normal-not-awe-new-phone-gotta-always-look-at-it use, I pulled killer time:

1 day, 12 hours, 7 min, and 42 seconds.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Everything on using fauxs latest beta

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
I thought I was going to end up with horrible life yesterday but it was pretty good. The last 10-15 minutes was worth almost 1hr SOT! It just wouldn't die. I think the battery meter might need some calibration. The screen is a battery sucker too. Look at the decline as soon as the screen comes on. Even at 0 - 15% where I'm normally set at.
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Switched everything off for the night. Phone was 99.5% of time in deep deep for 9 hours and battery dropped 10%
[Nexus 5 General] d1pham:
All stock with all syncs on.
[Nexus 5 General] mihir85:
what was your screen on time?
[Nexus 5 General] trueCrusader:
Stock & running just juice defender (free) I got more than enough life to stay awake longer than I can & do anything I wish with no worries

In fact I usually get home with 50-60% battery remaining after a 12 hour shift
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
What's your screen time?
[Nexus 5 General] gd6noob:
Wow... 6hr SoT..

what kernel settings are you using??
[Nexus 5 General] moomingstarz:
Unrooted. I didn't let the phone drain but I do get good battery life. Moderate-heavy (mostly moderate) use.

I'm tempted to root and install faux kernel after seeing they great battery usage that people have.
[Nexus 5 General] Gorgenapper:
[MENTION=2319693]hicks12[/MENTION] The Nexus 5 only dropped 1% after 8hrs of standby time (during the night while you sleep)? Do you have Location Services > Use Wireless Networks turned on? My current phone (GS4A) drops 4 - 6% overnight, and I think most of it is due to that setting
[Nexus 5 General] Fille84:
He's just a cry baby
[Nexus 5 General] MattSkeet:
No im just trying to warn people that all the battery results given by users on xda are 90% gimmicky. Look at Hicks usage over 24hrs, he only managed to pull 2hrs 50min screen time, and look ad Enddo who claims 5hrs of screen time at 10h uptime. Yet endo states his usage was twitter, facebook etc, but his highest draining app is chrome and HD widgets. I have no agenda whatsoever.

Its not true, just because CPU is faster and it will end task quicker doesnt mean it will be more power efficient. Its like with car engines, faster you go more gas it will use and it doesnt matter how efficient that engine is
[Nexus 5 General] Vyse666:
Uh, you do realize those two results make sense and show consistent/equal findings, right?

Hicks managed less screen on time, because he has 14 hours more of uptime. That's 14 hours more of the phone's cellular radio looking for signal, apps updating in the background, syncing, etc. clearly, the nexus 5 idles well, thanks to the S800.

Endo went for more active usage, and managed 5 hrs of screen on. The display is the biggest battery drain, so of course, his overall uptime is far less.

If Hicks did what Endo did, and vice versa, the results would be the same.
[Nexus 5 General] Moose8106:
TECHNICALLY, not true. My 4.2L V8 Audi A8L has better mileage than my V6 Infiniti M37... at all speeds.

Also, me going 30-45 mph to a stop light (happening constantly in the suburbs) is much less efficient than me going up to 65 mph once and staying at that speed on the highway.

Your car theory is invalid. :D
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
Fwiw - car engines are most efficient the higher the rpm and higher the heat.

All most irrelevant when it comes to a cpu though, which uses more power the faster it goes and the hotter it gets. Actually, all this battery talk is nothing more than troll fodder. Try and find a device with these specs for this price - good luck. As long as it lasts a day it's just fine - what idiot doesn't charge the thing over night anyway.

Fact is - if ya don't like it - buy another device. There are plenty out there that last a few hours longer, you can pay the extra $300 for the extra couple hours it will last. I'll stick with the smart option, which should be here Tuesday, can't wait!
[Nexus 5 General] Gorgenapper:
I take almost any opportunity to recharge my phone, and I have a charger almost everywhere I go (home, work, car). Even if I visit friends or family, I can use the micro USB cable from my car charger and plug it into any USB port or any mobile device charger. A 2300mah battery isn't as big as the one on my current GS4A, but from the sounds of it I think the Nexus 5 will easily last me an entire day without plugging it in until 6 or 7 at night.
[Nexus 5 General] Phazmos:
My gnex will last the day, I'm sure the more efficient cpu, radio's, and screen will get me by for 2 days. But I'll still plug it in overnight and when I'm in the car (I've got a usb port in the car). I find plugging it in in the car keeps it from flying around when I'm cornering hard, and I do that a lot!
[Nexus 5 General] Dredyouall:
Just thought i'd post todays battery so far. That's with one hour 15mins screen time. So not a high rate of usage but it's certainly faring miles better than the old n4 at this point. Usage has been very light though.
[Nexus 5 General] zevral:
Why not just do some math? The Battery is 25% smaller than the one on the LG G2, but thanks to Stock Android and KitKat, the drain will be slightly lower.

So lets just say we get 80% of the Battery Life of the LG G2.

The LG G2 gets 7hrs and 34mins on 720p Video Playback with 200cd/m² Brightness.

That means, the Nexus 5 should/could get around 6hrs Playback.

That it more than 1hrs more than the Nexus 4, 40mins more than the HTC One and pretty much on-par with the Nokia Lumia 920.

I don't see the Problem, the Battery will do just fine.

(Sadly i can't post the link to the source of my data, just check out computerbase.de (german site))

computerbase.de/artikel/handys/2013/lg-g2-im-test/5/
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
If only it worked that way...

Different screen size and tech, different Android version and Linux kernel, different UI, different build and heat management, there is no such math brah, we'll have to test the Nexus 5 ourselves. :good:
[Nexus 5 General] adibeckett:
New member here,

I'm considering getting this phone but the battery life does worry me. I wonder if I could get away with 1 full charge every day with this phone. I can live with less than 50% brightness and on most days will be on wifi. There will be times where I'll watching almost 1 hour video (youtube and flash). I live in an area with good to great phone signal. I don't play games but do a lot of web browsing.

Is any of this doable?
[Nexus 5 General] hicks12:
How much web browsing in a day? and do you have any accounts that sync? I will do my best to give you a 'similar' use case tomorrow :), I will watch an hour of youtube videos with 50% brightness and whatever amount of web browsing you say, take in to account I dont use WiFi so it should be better than what I report back :).
[Nexus 5 General] adibeckett:
Thanks for the fast response!

Well I have 1 gmail account but I don't always open it on my phone and when I do I have to sync it. As for web browsing, I don't have a set time but I compare it to how people play games on their phones. So I guess 3 hours? Not 3 hours all at the same time but an hour there, 30 minutes here, etc.

Thanks for doing this test! I look forward to your results tomorrow!
[Nexus 5 General] hicks12:
Yeah I will let you know, I will try to do it tomorrow but never know with work if I can or cant :P.
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
Then the Nexus 5 would be the best fit for you.

I'm in the same boat as you. Not a gamer type on phones. Do mostly web browsing, email checking, RSS feeds, and some apps as well as uploading pictures and viewing youtube content.

What I'm impressed about is that the LTE radio doesn't drain battery if it's in an area with mediocre signal. That's a very good sign.