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[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
2nd full battery cycle w Android L.

19:50 hours on battery. 5 hours SOT.

Idle times are pretty good.

Misc is taking up quite a bit of battery life. Not sure where its coming from since none of the wake lock detector apps are working correctly w Android L.

Not quite as good as a custom kitkat kernel/rom, but better than stock kitkat.
[Nexus 5 General] Goaf:
Android Lollipop preview LPX13D 5,5hours on Wifi and 100% brightness
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Facebook heavy, chrome, heavy XDA, WiFi, turned off locations as I'm at home all day.
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
Hell's kernel..
[Nexus 5 General] :
Not sure what screen shots from such a short time are supposed to mean.... But you might want to see what all those wakelocks are. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
Forgot to add on screen.. Ermm.. its sleeping good.
[Nexus 5 General] :
See your graph there when you get to 10 percent left.... Looks pretty bad right now. Lots of little wakes. Use gsam. I think you'll see a fairly large number on held awake time when your battery gets low.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Is this how wakes should look?
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
What 10%? I don't get you.. This is the current mine.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Compare it to mine the post before. Wake/awake bars
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
Yours was 58% = 8 hrs left. Mine was 77% = 23 hrs left.

Add: I didn't full charge.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Check my screen on time. My wake is a mirror of my awake. The awake and screen on are identical.
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
Yup.. It's showing if you're at 70+ batt, you can only last for 10 hrs.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You aren't understanding. No one is talking about any numbers or percentages.

See the graph on his screen shot. His "awake" bar matches his "screen bar.... Which is what you want.

Your awake bar has a whole bunch of little lines, where the screen bar has a space.

That means something is keeping g your phone from deep sleeping, which almost always means your losing battery life where you shouldn't.

Get Gsam from play store. The main screen has an actual time for "held awake" time. You want that awake time as low as possible. (though music playing adds to that total unfortunately)

Get it now?

This is gsam...
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
For what do i need Gsam?
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
To see why your phone is not deep sleeping
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
No offence but.. i think u don't really underst d new L graph. Do get a 2nd member's opinion.
[Nexus 5 General] :
LOL OK. Good luck. ?

You're phone has wakelocks. That is what all the little lines on your awake bar mean. Where he has nearly none that don't match the screen bar.

Get gsam, and gsam root companion and go to apps and look at held awake time and times waking device. You'll see something very high after 12 hours of uptime.

Or don't. It's your phone. ?
[Nexus 5 General] Lim Wee Huat:
No probs. Enjoy the L..
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
No, your missing the point. The top is your graph. You have many bars that don't line up on awake and screen on. That means your phone isn't sleeping properly=using more battery. The next one is my graph. Awake and screen on are the same. The bottom is my screen on time of over 5 hours. I, unlike yourself, do understand the FULL use of the battery graph as it shows in my screen on time. I am trying to help you, maybe YOU should get a 2nd opinion.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'd let it go. ??
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Can't say I didn't try. Broke it down pretty good I might add, even with pictures in order!
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
My day
[Nexus 5 General] and313:
The first 10%. Cant say its worse then kitkat but sure is not better with the elementalx kernel. Which is a good thing
[Nexus 5 General] KerryWood34:
You could just go into the quick settings and press on your LTE signal icon and it will bring up the data usage window and you can disable data from there easily.
[Nexus 5 General] shri_chanakya:
My battery with omnirom and uber
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Goit my N5 with the Lollipop preview installed and battery life is significantly worse than it was on 4.4.4 KitKat. THe only difference was that on KitKat I had complete Greenify support. I have the same apps installed, have auto/adaptive brightness turned on. Location settings the same. Same apps installed, same apps syncing. Literally everything is the same, other than Greenify. On KitKat, I could get over 4 hours of screen time. I have yet to break 2.5 hours on Lollipop. Anyone have any suggestions? This significant decrease in screen on time is fairly crippling, anyone have any suggestions? I keep seeing people syaing they are getting much better battery life on Lollipop and that is just nowhere close to the case for me.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Flash Code_Blue ;)
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
I was feeling the same but now its much better. The standby times especially. :D

Just give it a few charge cycles. It should all he fine :)
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I've been using it for a whole freaking week now charging it every night when I go to bed.

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Is that a kernel? If so, I just don't want to deal with rooting my phone on Lollipop until a better method is developed.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
The best kernel ;)
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Im at 58% on b11 after flashing last night for first time. I have 2.5 he's screen on already. I think it takes a day or two to settle. Locations kills the battery. The other day without locations and WiFi only, I got 6 hrs 15 min on time fastbooted image with hells kernel. Haven't used code blue as its not compatible with b11. If you have some apps that aren't 5.0 ready installed, they may work, but they may kill battery also. Remember, this is only a preview, not final release.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
So I get pretty cool battery on L but then there's one bug.

Everytime switch on WiFi and then off, it won't turn off.

I switched it off at night, but according go the screenshot, it wasn't. But fine, it lost only 1% overnight.

Then again, I switched it off an hour back, and now when I came home, I say I lost 1% battery. Which is awful.

So any idea of the possible bug?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Went ahead and decided to get it. It's no better so far. Screen on time of 14 minutes and it drained 6%...
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
1st - kernel needs to settle down..2 cycles of charging discharging minimum...

2nd- it could be your setup
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Setup meaning?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yeah, that doesn't mean anything of use.

What's your setup? What services are running? How's your signal? What apps have you installed? Do you have a dozen social apps installed? (yes, they run 24/7 if you haven't greenfield them) What did you do for those 14 minutes? Etc. Etc.

See post 4 in the battery thread in my signature... For screen shot samples from Gsam(and gsam root companion installed).

Then go from here 100 to about 10 percent left and check all those sections of gsam for possible culprits.
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Your apps your configuration of system etc etc
[Nexus 5 General] :
Also everyone... Some said battery was bad on every version of Android.... And some said it was great on every version of Android. It's not the OS.

Battery life has always been determined by setup, usage, signal and whether or not you have an outstanding issue.

Also, there's a battery life sticky in Q&A. It has suggestions and people who help with issues there.

This is a look at my battery life thread. Use whichever thread you like.... But trust me... There's more help waiting in the other one. ?

(no, not bashing on this thread... I've posted shots in it many times... But it is what it is.) ?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Gsam screwed up for me once I installed the root companion, as can be seen in the screen shot. Everything works fine when I don't have the root app installed though.

http://i.imgur.com/mwgyHUY.png

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That I know. But with the exact same setup I had on KitKat, other than being able to use Greenify fully with xposed, this is the exact same setup I had on KitKat, and I am getting at minimum 90 minutes less screen on time. Only other thing that has changed is I'm on L now instead of KitKat.

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Thought I would uninstall the GSAM root app as a system app and then uninstall GSAM root and GSAM monitor from my phone and reinstall. Still isn't working right with the root companion installed.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
And not all apps are L compatible yet, I don't think its the ROM. I'm using my same setup also and getting an hour more. But I use very few play store apps, mostly google apps.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I even tried for a day with nothing but the system apps installed with gmail being the ONLY app I installed from the play store. I still got worse battery life than I did on KitKat with a whole lot of crap installed, syncing, and running in the background. It's bad enough that if it doesn't get better with the final version of Lollipop that I'm going to go get a Moto G. The idle battery life is great, but then what good is the phone to me if I never use it?
[Nexus 5 General] :
L is an unfinished preview... As said above, not everything is compatible... And hunting down battery issues is kind of a waste. Wait for official release.

Or ask in the L Q&A thread about it.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Anyone else having problems with the Gsam root companion not working right in Android L?
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
Guys. The Wi-Fi problem?

Am I the only one?
[Nexus 5 General] jirez62:
I use android l ( last preview) and also last Uber kernel .every thing work great for me. Before that i used elegance,code blue and hell core..but when i use Uber i get something new in my battery result...I think google help us to chose suitable kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
When i first time flashed latest preview .. I got 4 hrs SOT ..

gone back to kk and now back to lollipop and currently i am at 53% with 3 hours 40 min SOT (exactly same usage )
[Nexus 5 General] Yakandu:
So, as I understood, lastest L preview's battery is bad... or did I miss something?
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yes, apparently gsam root companion, which allows us to see the only real important battery info, does not work with L yet.

So common and usually easy to fix wakelock issues become near impossible to solve. ?
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Not for me
[Nexus 5 General] Yakandu:
Did you tried battery monitor widget? (its the name, not just a widget)

or better battery stats?

OD: I ask this because im having strange battery stats, and I dont know if its because of any bug or wakelocks or what XD
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
If your battery graph has awake and screen on that are the same, there are no wakes. See photo.
[Nexus 5 General] Yakandu:
Something is waking up my phone -.- .. I'll find you and I'll kill you!
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Anyone know a battery app compatible with Lollipop that will tell you the wakelocks given GSAM root companion not working?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
There aren't any at this point in time.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Mostly true... Except severe kernel wakelocks can be bad. And they aren't part of the graph or awake bar.

But you don't need root companion to see those. Go figure. Lol

Unless root companion makes the kernel wakelock section more detailed. Not sure.

Anyway, kernel wakelocks aren't usually the issue. ?

But can be.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Trawling through 370+ pages to see how Lollipop is with the battery is a right pain in the arse, a lollipop battery thread would be much better.
[Nexus 5 General] Yakandu:
Well, no wakeloks but i was having some batt drain... I figired out that the governor was joking on me so I installed FKU, touched some aspects and now the battery is good.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Lots of L screen shots on this thread already. And soon it will all be L screen shots. ?

Also, L isn't official yet. Don't judge it by the preview.

Apps need time to get updated as well. Some might cause battery issue until they are.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Yeah that's very true but this thread is tediously long, its a bit like walking in to HMV wanting a ZZTop CD and being forced to start at ABBA.

Its a major release, i just think it deserves a stand alone thread.
[Nexus 5 General] :
And when it's too long... A third? ?

Seriously... Another thread would be closed. Doesn't take long to flip back a few pages starting at the last page. After L has been out a bit... Every post almost will be L screen shots. ?

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We have 2 dedicated threads already. This one for sharing results.... And the other for Troubleshooting. ?
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Clearly my opinion on this is worthless, however it seems obvious to me with each incremental OS release a more relevant thread is created rather than adding to (now) irrelevant and out of date information.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
This was my second/third charge cycle.

I turn off WiFi when I don't need it, but it's always on.

PS scan for wifi always option is off.

Anyone else with this bug?

Latest L preview.
[Nexus 5 General] mithab:
Yeah, I also have this bug. But if I connect to a wifi network and and then turn it off, it doesn't show up anymore.
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
But WiFi just won't turn off for me.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm not sure what you are saying? There's one battery results thread. It has covered a few Android versions since it was created. And the only real information it contains is individuals own times... Based on their usage and setup.

This is not what anyone would call "relevant" information to begin with. As we all have different usage and setups. It's pretty much like a share your N5 pics thread. It's mostly for fun. There's no guides or files to flash.... So how can it become outdated? As I said... After L is out... Most the screens will become L screens.

We've never needed a new thread for other Android versions... So why now?

Again... This is just a thread to share times... Not a "technical" thread.

No one can stop you from making a new one... Just don't be surprised when it's closed.

Cheers! ?
[Nexus 5 General] gado45:
Sorry for the ignorance but where Do I find code blue ? Im getting only about 2 and half hour of screen time on my average use using latest L preview ..
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
If you're taking about the kernel go to the development forum. But a kernel isn't going to make an appreciable difference
[Nexus 5 General] marf28101995:
Google it its a kernel
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
One year on.

Probably my last results before Android 5.0

Completely stock 4.4.4, no root. 20% brightness, Google Now on, Locations off, rest controlled by Llama.

Full album here.

24h earlier in the charge at 76%.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
It all boils down to your usage. The key thing to great SOT is sync and location off, lowest brightness and turn off mobile data whenever you don't use it. Wifi usually drains minimal battery. Best advice I can give you :)
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Yes, since "upgrading" to L I have been keeping location off. Keeping sync off kinda defeats a large reason for having a smartphone for me. I keep brightness low. Don't even have a data plan so I keep that off. I have actually been doing more to reduce battery drain on L than I did on KitKat, and sadly it's still worse.
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Sync is the biggest battery drainer as it interrupts the phone from deep sleep to get updates. I think you should just check for wakelocks as that is usually the culprit
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
How do I check for wakelocks? GSAM root companion is what I used on KitKat but that doesn't work on Lollipop
[Nexus 5 General] topgeardave:
Better battery stats supports android l, I prefer bbs over gsam because it tells me everything I need to know.
[Nexus 5 General] Goaf:
Sooo, this just happened. I went to bed with over 90% of battery and when I wake up my phone is dead empty. This is kinda scary, when you look at the pic
[Nexus 5 General] dkv2222:
I also noticed this weird gap in my graph.

But my phone was on when I woke up.

And notice the WiFi Bar. It's been running the whole time.

Dev preview is a Lil screwed up still
[Nexus 5 General] a5pe4:
Any ideas on how to get rid of these wakelocks? The phone has been awake an hour longer than the screen has been on according to BBS. I see a lot of alarms from Google services. Do you guys have similar issues?
[Nexus 5 General] a5pe4:
Here's a couple more images I had to edit to make fit.
[Nexus 5 General] tangosierra_:
Just above 4 hours SOT.

14 hours from 8.30am to 10.30pm

Brightness varied from 0% to 60% depending where I was. Usually around 25%.

WhatsApp, browser browsing, about 25minutes of gaming.

Google Now on, location off, sync was on for the morning. WiFi off. 3G data at all times. Power saving turned on at 5%

ElementalX 2.00, L preview latest build.
[Nexus 5 General] doctor_droid:
Managed 4hrs 35mins sot over 23hrs on edge on lpx13d ... Sorry forgot to take a ss...
[Nexus 5 General] thakrew317:
My latest usage on cyanhacker :)
[Nexus 5 General] theContortionist:
Batdrain

I barely got 2h SoT and 8h from 100% to ~10% with LPX13D on Nexus 5. root+FKU. Miscellaneous was insane, of course.

3G was mostly off. I didn't even touched wi-fi and location was off too. Sync was on though.

I also had Greenified most of the apps, including some system apps.

On the 3rd or 4th battery cycle I gave up.

Already flashed 4.4.4 so I can't do ss.

Had pretty bad cellular signal as far as I can remember.

Anyone tried to flash the 4.4.4 radio to the LPX13D?

Some guys on reddit said it had fixed to poor battery drain.

EDIT: got 4h20m SoT with kk yesterday. Played candy crush like crazy and listened to music for ~1.5-2h. Also facebook and snapchat a bit. Same usage as with the lollipop preview.
[Nexus 5 General] showstopper03:
should try using gsam battery monitor and wakelock detector to see what is causing your battery drain.
[Nexus 5 General] peeweew:
Just a question, how much mV do you get at full charge? And how much mV should it be before unplugging the charger?

TIA!!
[Nexus 5 General] lysm bre:
Been getting 4 hours of OST with ElementalX on stock 4.4.4 with Xposed, Greenify, and Autorun Manager to control wakelocks. Not bad considering that I have terrible coverage with T-mobile despite being in Silicon Valley..
[Nexus 5 General] NotFromMountainView:
I sure hope I'm gonna see massive improvement with that Lollipop/Volta goodness.
[Nexus 5 General] NotFromMountainView:
Update: Something is seriously weird here. (In a very good way.)

Above I posted my surprising 6:20 SOT with a jokey reference to expecting more from Lollipop. Okay, battery life is rather like a sweet, I will always want more... Now, after a quick recharge (to full) I just got 2:05 with 75% remaining. As you can see from the GSAM screen, my average total has been about 3:25 so this is... incredible?

As for secret battery-saving recipe; I have none. I have everything on including always listening, high accuracy location reporting, etc., and I'm running pure, unrooted stock. Normally I'd play this out a lot longer, but it's 5 AM & I'm heading to bed believing that (maybe somehow) I might eke out better than 7 hours SOT. Maybe that's just a really sweet dream. :D

FWIW, I was mostly browsing Chrome, listening to Stitcher, & refreshing battery stats during this time. No heavy gaming, but pretty similar to my normal usage that had been netting half this performance.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Hello,

I am using nexus 5 for couple of days now. Recently I am getting this running process "mm-qcamera-daemon" which is eating 31% of my battery life. (Check my screenshots attached) which is even greater than screen % of about 16% only.

The battery drains real quick. Even though I reboot the phone,it doesn't work.

I also keep getting error message of "cannot connect to camera".

I'm on stock ROM.

Romush,

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] J.Diogo:
Clear the camera app data and reboot.

Let me know if it worked then.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Hi J.Diogo,

I had updated the camera app to latest one.now I uninstalled it . clear the app data as you recommended. But when I reboot its still there showing 31% eating my battery life.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] frigidazzi:
You have to recharge the phone for battery app data to reset so see if that fixed the camera bug.
[Nexus 5 General] eAsyy:
How dafuq can u get more than 5h of sot?

:o

N5
[Nexus 5 General] PunishedSnake:
Lillipop?
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
PunishedSnake,

What are you talking about ?? I'm on stock ROM only.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Very carefully. :p

JK it's easy. Just use WiFi, turn off Locations and set the brightness around 20%, then use apps that don't drain a lot of battery. Simple!

If you want 6-7 SoT hours you can take it a step further, disable Auto Syncs or alternatively, use an automation app to sync at certain times of day only.

If you play any games, or use a data signal (especially a low signal one) then you will probably only get 3-4.
[Nexus 5 General] romusht:
Haha no.

Brightness is auto.. Location is on. Wifi on all the time. Though 3g at times depending on my wifi working or not. Auto sync is off though..

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] cynosure4sure:
All day on 3G...auto brightness... auto sync
[Nexus 5 General] kojaraty:
This is my 4th day and its improving

Google now on

GPS : battery saving

I am using Qualcomm battery saver app.
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
This phone imo is not for the types of people that 'play' with their phones all day. I use it whenever I need to extract information or make phone calls.

Maybe it's a generational thing. I'm 30 and do only a few texts per day, web browsing and a photo or two. It seems like the younger generation are on their phones much more than the older crowd.
[Nexus 5 General] lazydesi:
Completely agree with you
[Nexus 5 General] DammitCubs:
My issue with the N5 was that the G2 had 700mah more battery.

Well this fixed that...

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/mophie-...tery/5974994.p?id=1218710477739&skuId=5974994

LOL
[Nexus 5 General] Deekayy:
$40 for 1000mAh?? Wow... doesn't say if it's even a 2amp charge too. I'd rather spend $40 on a Qi wireless charge with 4000mah battery built in.
[Nexus 5 General] skyracer53:
I'm seeing improvement from my old Nexus 4, which is good enough for me
[Nexus 5 General] ga!nusha:
Is this normal ? All the time, everytime.

While connected to the wall charger if i use youtube the battery continues to drain...
[Nexus 5 General] fireproofrev:
I changed my System Language to english to check how exactly it is called in english.

I mean this option:

"Settings > Location > Google Location Reporting"

When deactivating this, play services will become very energy saving even with Google Now activated.

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this is caused by the settintg I mentioned in the post above. ("Settings > Location > Google Location Reporting")
[Nexus 5 General] Jc003125:
Very good! Around same result here.
[Nexus 5 General] ga!nusha:
I did as you suggested and now it's at about 90%... i think i'm gonna have to flash the OS... Hope it's not a hardware problem...

I have also activated airplane mode and it didn't change anything.
[Nexus 5 General] ceo.mtcl:
Battery life is getting better day by day. This is my regular 8 hour work day, a lot of talking on phone and a couple of hours of screen on time.
[Nexus 5 General] bkeaver:
Stock kernel/ROM?
[Nexus 5 General] TobiS87:
I totally agree with you but don't know if it's a generation thing...! For me the battery easily lasts through my whole day. I barely get to 2h screen time in my usage patterns.

Don't know how people manage to have their phone in their hands for 4+ hours...! ;)