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[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
well, i barely have apps on my device, only few basic ones. WiFi is going "crazy" because i have WiFi at my house but when i go out i don't have and then i come back its on again. no surprise here.

i will turn off Google now and see how's the battery life because right now i cant use the phone without charging it twice a day.

for me and the majority of people here, battery life is worse or the same as kitkat, only minority of people who mostly tweak their phone or very strict on their setting get good battery life, but we didn't buy the phone to constantly tweak or turn on/off things manually, that's the thing about having a smartphone, get these things automatically.
[Nexus 5 General] Mindfield21:
I have instaled lollipop using the clean instalation method but I am facing a strange behaviour from google play services. It is constantly first on my battery chart. Even when I have 3-4 hours of screen on time at the end of the day, Google Play Services will be first and screen second or even third. Is there a way to make that stop? I am using google now and I have location reporting on.
[Nexus 5 General] graspme:
battery drain after lollypop

hi i am using nexus 5 since december last yeat.

yesterday morning i updated to lollypop and all the hell break loose. Now the battery reaches 10% with occasional browsing.

Location:on

wifi/data:on

tasker:running
[Nexus 5 General] dcar87:
Yes, you have to install the latest version of google play services. The one you have drains like crazy. At the end of the day you should have at most a 3% drain of that particular process.
[Nexus 5 General] SmXtrem:
Same stuff google play service just drains battery like hell
[Nexus 5 General] Mindfield21:
Thanx for the responce.

How do you know which version I have?

I dont see anything in the screenshots.

Where can i find the latest version?
[Nexus 5 General] baiju2012:
Goto Settings --> Apps --> Google Play Store. It is listed at the top.

Nexus V Lollipop
[Nexus 5 General] dcar87:
It should be google play services instead...the latest version is 6.5.85
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
There are multiple versions of Google Play Services here:

http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google.../google-play-services-6-5-87-1599771-438-apk/

Which one is for Nexus 5? The description says that nexus with lollipop runs a version with 738 in the end. There's no newer version of Google Play services with 738 in the end of version number than 6.1.
[Nexus 5 General] dcar87:
I installed 438 and everything is running fine.
[Nexus 5 General] foosion:
The linked page includes "You'll see something like -XYY where X is 0 for pre-Lollipop and both 4 and 7 for Lollipop+, and YY is a specific variant id. -738 means you need the APK that has -738, etc."

According to this, the last three numbers should start with 4 or 7 for Lollipop and end in 38 for N5, so either 438 or 738 should work. Seems fine on my N5
[Nexus 5 General] aerozolic:
Ah yes. My bad. Will try the latest one.
[Nexus 5 General] KoRoZIV:
I have 6.1.88, i get 5 hours sot in 36 hour from the last charge, 17% remainig. Oh, and I forgot to put location on battery saving. I get 2% Google play services use. I flashed the official L image using wugfresh nrt, not rooted, not using battery saving mode. Mostly used for browsing and chatting, no music or videos.

I wonder when I'll get the play services update, it's been about a week since 6.5.85 hit the web...
[Nexus 5 General] PVL_93_RU:
How did you get the black theme?
[Nexus 5 General] jumper62:
He's on a custom rom
[Nexus 5 General] snorfu:
So could anybody tell me why the facebook APP went rogue? This is really bad...
[Nexus 5 General] foosion:
FB has a reputation as a battery hog. For example, look at the first few posts in http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128
[Nexus 5 General] Edge330:
I deleted with app root delete google fit, google keep and maybe few more google apps and dont have anymore google play services drain.
[Nexus 5 General] WFSFTW:
I'm getting around 2 and half hours to 3 hours of SOT.

Stock everything

Wifi on

location off

it seems to be a bit worse for me compared to kitkat? Any suggestions guys? I only use it for whatsapp and browsing tbh nothing more. Occasionally music when I work out.
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
same here...
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
After messing around with franco kernel, performance profiles for apps is the key to battery life. I'll post some screen shots soon. After my next charge cycle.
[Nexus 5 General] pnut22r:
I had terrible battery. 6hrs on with 2hr of SOT. Much worse than my other N5. I sent it into LG and they're sending it back after fixing "a faulty vibrator that was causing battery drain". This is strange because I never used the vibrator. Maybe it had a short that was constantly drawing power. They claimed it fixed and coming back. We'll see.

My other N5 usually gets 16hrs with 4hr SOT on Android L
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
:eek: i never saw anything over 3h, even with location/gnow/devicemanager off, screen 10% manual, wi fi only, good signal.

let me know if the new unit turns out better...
[Nexus 5 General] droid_for_life:
Xtrasmooth

Uber sabermod 17th release

I'm loving it
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
As some of you may know battery life is mostly determined by the phones usage, including the settings you've selected as well as the signal type and conditions.

With that in mind, it doesn't really tell anyone what your battery life was if you just post 1 or 2 screens regarding idle time and screen time. What's actually most important is to know HOW the phone was used to obtain such battery life, only then does it matter for how long.

I respectfully request those who are interested in sharing battery life to include a basic break down of usage, or at the very least include the 2 screenshots which would show the app list from your battery settings. This will give people a basic idea of the apps that were used and what drains to expect with those apps.

Otherwise you're keeping the most important info to yourself and there's not much point even posting them at all.
[Nexus 5 General] droid_for_life:
You are right

Signal and usage matters but a good rom, kernel and optimized setting give your daily rom boost
[Nexus 5 General] sosferatu:
My cullpritt was google now. Did a clean install with google now activated. My Sot was barely 2 hrs. Even if i shut google now off. (Think ones google now is activated you cant shut it off) So i startend over. Did again a clean install did not touch google now. Screen shots are above. Notice mobile radio active. Its about 10 minuten orso. With google now activated it was about 1.10 hours.

Wifi always on

Google now off

LTE coverage is barely a signal

Automated brightness on

All sync on

Location on

Mostly browsing

Did not call much today. But 1 hr calling is the same as 1 hr SOT.

Did setup xbmc.

About 50 apps.

No greenify or something.

In app ops all apps, except the telephone standard apps. Location off and stay awake off.

Code bleu kernel

ROM n5x
[Nexus 5 General] Clienterror:
I'm using foxhound rom, it has a nice black theme.
[Nexus 5 General] pookipsy:
Im glad to report battery has improved back to kk time after i turned off google now.
[Nexus 5 General] akidsix:
Nexus 5 using N5X rom v5.5 featuring Hellscore kernel global uv -50

Setting :

- sync on

- nfc off

- bluetooth off

- location off

- advance wifi setting ( scan always available off )

- google now on

- hotword detection off

- battery saver auto on @ 15%﻿
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
I wonder why sometimes when the phone is overcharged, the battery seem to last longer than usual when unplugged exactly at full charged notice. That means 100% "Charged" is not literally Full, right?

I think that's what they called "trickle charging" but why is it not included in the real 100%?
[Nexus 5 General] isulover:
Those battery stats seem perfectly fine for a phone with a 2300 mAh

battery.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
7 hours SoT yet Google Play Services drained more than your screen? I've never seen anything like that, any idea why? Apparently you may have been able to double that screen time if Play Services were eliminated. May I ask what brightness level you were using?

Auto Syncs + Google now gives me about 3% Play Services drain in the worst case scenario (low signal data).

I believe it's part of the calibration process. When you first see 100% it's actually around 96-98% and will take a good 20-30mins to (very) slowly charge the rest depending on the calibration needed. The 5.0 Battery Settings page continues to say "Charging" during this time and only shows "Charged" afterwards.
[Nexus 5 General] snorfu:
Guys look at this, i don't know why the hell chrome drained in the last time so much!
[Nexus 5 General] :
I had that to along with Google Services hogging my battery :(
[Nexus 5 General] s0dhi:
I'm not sure what to make of the day to day differences in battery... definitely interesting that Google Play Services is having some impact...

Yesterday Google Services was kicking the battery's ass. Today for some reason no Google Services, and the battery is rocking.
[Nexus 5 General] dcar87:
It seems that google services only kicks in once mobile data is switched on since with WiFi only it behaves itself.
[Nexus 5 General] s0dhi:
That might be true. But I have been on mobile data and WiFi in both situations, though the screen shots may make it appear as if that wasn't the case. I do spend a lot more time in WiFi than mobile data. Also, to note today I have location services off, which may play into things.
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
Interesting. I always have "Android OS" on top.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You posted 14 minutes Worth of stats. ?

That doesn't say much useful. Try going from 100 to about 10 percent left. And no reboots, or gsam will reset. ?
[Nexus 5 General] akidsix:
I don't now... Before i go to sleep,google play service not like that,but after I wake up...google play service is killed like that

Look on wakelock.

I am use lowest screen brightness.
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Does that mean I should not unplug even though it shows charged, then wait for 20minutes?
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I wouldn't worry about it. Unless you think that extra couple percent is going to be useful it would make sense to stop charging a bit early.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
Funny thing I backtracked from the factory images with wipe to 4.4 installed all my apps then installed the 5.0 ota. Now it seems that I get about 40 min sot extra. 4h from about 3h sot. Is this possible or is it just random. I have tested this for 2 days.
[Nexus 5 General] slikr:
How do you guys get 5-6hrs SOT while can barely get 3hrs+ only on lollipop?
[Nexus 5 General] frigidazzi:
This is what I want to know as well. I tried Franco elemental x, ect kernel and still get 3 to 4 hours at best just browsing. I have brightness 20 to 30 typically and on Wi-Fi normally. No Google now or location reporting... not sure what else they're doing for this.
[Nexus 5 General] swiftden:
As long as you're on wifi, 5-6 hours SOT is possible. I can get 3.5 hours heavy use with just 3G data. Almost everyone here posts SOTs using on Wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] Pezmet:
I solved all the battery issues by getting a wireless charger at work and one at home.
[Nexus 5 General] ercxar:
A little experience I gained after using Android phones after few years.

I would always root my phone in first few hours and flash custom kernel/rom from the first day.

But on my Nexus 5, when lollipop released I flash stock image without root. And I found out stock will give you best battery if you are an average user. If you play games or use apps that use higher resources than usual apps your batter will emptied sooner. Just give it a try, if you are a heavy user just root and flash custom kernel to underclock your phone. You will gain +40% battery.

I use my phone on daily basis with average use and I will always get +4 hours of SoT. Being on 3g all day will reduce it nearly to 3 or 3 and half an hour! But if I rarely use my phone I will get nearly 6 hours of SoT.

So in my experience stock is the best. Just flash a custom kernel and underclock. You are free of bugs and also having less features if you don't care about it much!

Sometimes I don't have the courage to figure out the problem or wakelocks.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
I've been telling this to people for ages. For best battery life in a diverse use - stay stock. If you are using something in particular heavier than anything else, it might be worth tweaking a custom kernel to your needs.
[Nexus 5 General] frigidazzi:
To the people that have poor battery life like myself. If you're using smart lock try disabling it and see how you do. I think the location and face unlock was hitting me hard. Now I'm getting back to kit kat battery life what I was getting before.

Unfortunately the pebble lock app I used for screen unlock doesn't work anymore. I liked that it did it off of Wi-Fi network...
[Nexus 5 General] Leogrina:
Today i got nice battery life, finally.

All stock

G now off

OK google off

Smart lock off

Location off

Device manager off

Screen manual 20%

Wi Fi 90%

40 min of running (GPS)

1 hour Spotify

Frequent use of WhatsApp , some random chrome Facebook Twitter

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
Cataclysm rom (stock kernel)

A bit of wakelocks
[Nexus 5 General] SteelyDeely:
I read a few pages of this thread every week just to see what others are saying about lollipop. I've had an issue since kit Kat that I hoped was fixed in lollipop but found out last night it's not. I usually charge my phone while I sleep, but last night I made sure I was at 100% when I unplugged my phone and laid down. WiFi on, always scanning turned off, location on battery saving. I woke up 7 hours later and my battery graph showed my phone has been awake the entire time. This only happens when unplugging from the charger. If I take it off the charger and reboot, let sit over night, it's fine. Has anybody else seen this?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Need kernel wakelocks, times waking device and help awake time (the last 2 in the app screen using the dropdown) from Gsam.... And we can easily see what's keeping your phone awake. Or you can just look.

Need root though to see app wakelocks. See post 4 in the battery thread in my signature for details on the screen shots. ?
[Nexus 5 General] CPaladin:
Updated to L 2 days ago and got bad battery. Turns out Kernel(android os) keeps the phone awake pretty much all the time. Stock system but rooted via CF auto root. Is the modified kernel of CF auto root causing the wakelock problem?
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
My best battery stats ever on lollipop.

N5x 5.5 ROM with cold blue 646 kernel.

All google apps syncing

Exchange syncing every hour

Twitter syncing every four hours

Location reporting and history off

Battery saver on at 15%
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Awesome... How did u manage to get this result. My phone battery lasts just about 7 hours.

By the way, I factory reset my phone after OTA update.

Waiting for ur reply. Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 5 General] Kidy973:
Lollipop, sync on, Gnow and location Off. Stock only rooted

5 SOT with bad signal and 1 hour of music. Mostly texting and browsing. Brightness on auto (it's better in L than in KK).

Always scanning off and "keep WiFi on during sleep" only when plugged in (less consumption in LTE when i restrict background data for some apps)
[Nexus 5 General] PhilThinks:
Averaging 3 hours of Screen Time On

Spent this morning browsing the web via Chrome for hours, with the screen on continuously.

- Nexus 5 from early November 2013

- Stock Android Lollipop 5.0

- Screen Brightness at 1% for ~2 hours, then around 15% onward

- Adaptive Brightness Off

- Cellular/Data/WiFi On

- Location/Bluetooth/NFC Off

- Google Now Off

- Smart Lock Off

- Didn't use Battery Saver at 15%

- Not using any other battery utilities (Greenify, etc.)

- Received no push notifications this morning (not aware of how much was synched though)

I'm consistently landing just over 3 hours of screen time on for the past several months, even on KitKat. I can make it through the day if I'm not using my phone much, but ultimately it's around 3 hours of screen time, when I'm on the go with more mixed usage (Maps, GPS, music streaming, etc.). I'm basically glued to my external battery pack if I know I'm going to be out for the whole day without an outlet to plug into. Finally installing Gsam to get more detailed battery stats going forward.

I feel like I'm getting below-average battery life, based on other's screenshots.

Any thoughts here? Is this normal?
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
Your battery is probably degraded.

I had a n5 that was purchased in Oct 2013 and only recently I was getting about 3 hours sot.

Right before my warranty ran out I called google and got a replacement. With the refurbished n5 I'm consistently getting 5+ hours sot.

If you are out of warranty, you can buy a genuine lg battery here.

http://www.etradesupply.com/lg-nexus-5-battery.html
[Nexus 5 General] ercxar:
I wouldn't consider this as a degraded battery!

According to your screenshots and having bad signal reception. My guess is your network provider has 3G coverage at the areas you go. But with bad coverage! I'm constantly getting +4 hours of SoT with mostly on 2G networks but if I switch to 3G I would barely reach 4hours!

And I got my phone in May 2014

Just change your preferred network type to 2G and see if that changes anything. After doing this and getting same screen time, then consider replacing your battery. I hope it's not the case.
[Nexus 5 General] burdo:
I just got the update to google play services 6.5.87 / 438

Its draining my battery extremely fast. GPS is being turned on everytime I unlock my phone. (even showing the location icon at the top right)

Any suggestions?

PS: No smart lock options enabled.
[Nexus 5 General] Sonarav:
I was having that same issue this morning. It is related to the Smart Lock. Even if you have smart lock off, the fix is to go to Security

At the bottom under Advanced

Trust Agents

Disable Smart Lock there.

It took care of the problem for me. Not sure if Google considers this a bug or not. Some people (myself) would like to use Smart Lock for maybe NFC or Bluetooth and not Google's new option of Places (which I couldn't get to work), but are forced to still have the Location checked upon each unlock.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisnewton:
How easy is it to change battery?
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Easy enough not to need advanced technical skills. Pop the cover (easy peasy, check ifixit), disconnect battery, do some prying and DO NOT PIERCE battery. It's stuck to the frame.
[Nexus 5 General] :
It's not your battery.

You used the phone solid for the entire time. That doesn't give a clear picture of your battery life.

Try screen shots from a normal day. More than a few hours... And maybe something will pop out in the stats.

And get gsam. Stock battery screen shots say nothing very useful. ?
[Nexus 5 General] athrun1000:
Bad battery live for my N5 5.0 :(

My battery life is quite satisfactory for the past week. I can usually get a 3hrs SOT for daily usage which is very happy for me...

However, android OS is draining my battery a lot since yesterday.

The average drain in last week are around 1~2%/hr

but now it goes to around 7~8%/hr (I seldom turn on the screen btw)

80%+ are app usage and 60% are coming from android OS according to GSAM.

I don't know what to do after disabling Google fit, location reporting, restricting the background data of most of the app I am using

Would anyone can do me a favor to give me some suggestions?:crying: Sorry for my bad English

The data of GSAM are as follow:

GSam Labs - Battery Monitor - Export Data

Kernel (Android OS)

27 Nov 2014 13:37:58

Usage Details

CPU Usage:57m 28s

App UID:0

Wakelock Detail

Included Packages

Included Processes

init

kthreadd

ksoftirqd/0

kworker/u:0H

migration/0

rcuc/0

rcuc/1

migration/1

ksoftirqd/1

rcuc/2

migration/2

ksoftirqd/2

rcuc/3

migration/3

ksoftirqd/3

kworker/3:0H

kworker/u:1H

sync_supers

bdi-default

vmalloc

kswapd0

fsnotify_mark

file-storage

irq/362-s3350

cfinteractive

irq/170-msm_sdc

ngd_rx_thread1

ngd_notify_sl1

irq/361-MAX1704

mmcqd/1

mmcqd/1rpmb

wl_event_handle

dhd_watchdog_th

dhd_dpc

dhd_rxf

dhd_sysioc

ueventd

jbd2/mmcblk0p25

jbd2/mmcblk0p28

jbd2/mmcblk0p27

jbd2/mmcblk0p16

healthd

lmkd

vold

netd

main

kauditd

daemonsu

msm_slim_qmi_cl

irq/288-wcd9xxx

mdss_fb0

kworker/u:2H

kworker/0:1H

kworker/1:2H

kworker/3:0

kworker/3:1

kworker/2:0H

kworker/1:0H

kworker/2:0

kworker/3:2H

flush-179:0

kworker/2:1H

tmp-mksh

kworker/2:2

sugote-mksh

kworker/0:1

kworker/u:1

kworker/0:0

kworker/u:3

kworker/0:2

kworker/1:2

debuggerd

kworker/1:1

kworker/0:3

kworker/u:0

flush-0:18

kworker/1:0

kworker/u:2
[Nexus 5 General] burdo:
It worked. Thank you so much.

I dont use it or plan to use it so back to normal. Thanks again
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Code_Blue r670 + terminus ROM

Powersave mod activated at 5%<br />

All time WiFi <br />

Playing FM for 4h<br />

how about this one ? ;)<br />

Thanks<br/>
[Nexus 5 General] a5pe4:
http://pastebin.com/AnHV5HFP any advice for the drain? Didn't use it for about 3 hours and it drained about 30%
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Weird your ril (phone) had so many wakelocks. What was your signal like?
[Nexus 5 General] naro:
A few infos besides kernel and rom would be great to further investigate! Like this for example (with your values ofc):
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Only WiFi... And 1/2 h of auto brightness... The rest all off
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
That's crazy man!!
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
Someone should run a battery test of normal usage but with battery saver mode on all day!
[Nexus 5 General] AVClubhouse:
Wow.... Lollipop gives me 4 his of battery time on WiFi. This is pathetic.
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
SOT?
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
How much UV?
[Nexus 5 General] mkont:
Is code blue r670 a tested version? I cannot find it in the lists for downloading.
[Nexus 5 General] scleone1987:
4h16m SOT with 38% left, mostly using Whatsapp, Messenger and Chrome on wi-fi (not starting from perfect 100%). Android Lollipop Stock LRX21O w/Code_blue kernel r646 by [MENTION=3873953]eng.stk[/MENTION]. UV -60 mV on all freq (965mV @2,3GHz) using Greenify auto-hibernation mode for all apps (also many built-in system ones) except Whatsapp and Messenger.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
-50mv for all

-75mv for 300 mhz

Yes it's a closed beta test
[Nexus 5 General] mrnixon:
I can't get more than 2 or 2.5 hours of SOT per day.

For me, Lollipop is absolutely stellar at standby - I lose perhaps 3-5% while I'm sleeping for the night - the big power drains come while I'm using the phone. It doesn't matter what I'm doing - browsing, maps, twitter, Facebook, if I'm using the phone it drains almost 1% per minute. It's driving me nuts seeing people with 5 hours SOT. I can't even get half that.

I've had my battery changed, and I see no difference at all.
[Nexus 5 General] GianniDPC:
I'm having the exact same problem, And I also don't know how to solve it, Kitkat used less battery juice..
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Get rid of the FB apps. It sucks battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Chad_Petree:
What I find interesting is that everyone says the Facebook apps suck battery like crazy but on gsam or the Google battery manager Facebook appa are never on the the first places of the apps who suck battery the most

Gesendet von meinem Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I know. It's true that it doesn't show up but it really does suck battery. I swear my battery life is 25-50% better.
[Nexus 5 General] jumper62:
Try installing the OTA while on stock KitKat rather than flashing factory images. My battery life improve but quite some bit
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
I got 4 hrs of SoT and still got like 16% battery.. Battery saver mode turned on at 15%.

OTA lollipop update increased my battery life I must say.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Mindspin_311:
I flashed the factory images as well and only muster about 2hrs SOT. Which OTA files did you use?