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[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
it is if you get eyestrain from staring at a small screen too long (which i get occasionally)
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
Why? It is a good thing. When you say this, what are you referring to?
[Nexus 5 General] jbdan:
I'm really digging this phone a lot. And its battery life is superb for me and my uses. 3 push email accounts, gnow location reporting off, gps on battery saving today, almost all WiFi today as well. No "greenifying" nothing, stock rom stock kernel

NX5
[Nexus 5 General] Funkym0nkey:
This is finally when I plugged the phone to charger. As I said before, 3 emails, Facebook syncing. Whatsapp and hangouts running and online. Google now setup. Location services on. Nothing disabled. Stock rooted ROM.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Guys, please help me out. Today was a very normal day for me, some WiFi, some LTE, browsing, only 30 minutes of calls. Nothing strange installed that should be running down the battery. Google Now, locating history/reporting enabled. Look at pics...simply awful. I'm about to return this phone! Help keep me with the N5.
[Nexus 5 General] nrvate:
Facebork likes to leave GPS on, for whatever reason... Next time it eats battery tap on it and you can see the amount of time is kept the device awake, used GPS, etc. I'd bet the GPS time will be really high. Seems like an application bug to me.

I use the "Power Toggles" power control widget, which on rooted devices provides one-click GPS control, among many other toggles the stock 5-item power control doesn't offer.

IMHO I think the Nexus 5 has great battery life, but I also am very good about keeping my display at the minimum brightness level required and only enabling the radios I need. I also refuse to use power-hungry apps, and I'm not shy about airplane mode if I'm not going to need the radios for a while. Since the idle power consumption is so low, it works out just fine. It also charges silly-fast, so plugging it into a 2-amp charger for even 30 minutes has a big impact.

One thing to look at, for those with bad battery life problems, is the percent of time spent in deep sleep. Grab CPU Spy from the market, open it and reset the timers, go back to the home screen and hit the power button to kill the display. Let it sit untouched for 30 minutes and come back, open CPU Spy, and check the percent of time in the "Deep Sleep" state. I'm seeing about 85-90%. If you are seeing significantly lower you likely have an application that is doing something on a regular basis and preventing you from staying mostly in sleep, draining your battery.

I also find the network signal strength is important, especially on LTE. I noticed less battery usage when I switched to a carrier with better coverage.

Also, for those who use the phone a lot in dark-ish conditions, the stock brightness controls don't go all the way down -- Above mentioned "Power Toggles" app allows you to define brightness levels (or simply to use a slider), so you can go notably dimmer, which of course uses less battery.. and is less torch-like in low-light conditions :)
[Nexus 5 General] Shudder123:
google now/location - turn it off. if you absolutely need it then this is the trade off

My latest stats
[Nexus 5 General] Spotja:
That's real good. Any other mods?
[Nexus 5 General] Dr Tone:
As mentioned before turn off Location Reporting and History but also change the Location Services to Battery Saving mode.

Also review all the things that are syncing under you various accounts, turn off anything you don't really need synced.
[Nexus 5 General] Anubis007:
anyone coming from the iPhone 5 can compare the battery life of the two? i am really tired of IOS and the small display of the iPhone but the one thing i don't want to give up is the great battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
This whole thread is about battery life. If you have an iPhone just compare what you have to what is here?

I personally have no idea why anyone would want to use a device with such a small screen by choice. I can understand when 4" was considered large but so was 19" TV's at one point. Now I cannot imagine using a 19" TV in my famiy room or even my bedroom for that matter.

Question is what do you need out of your phone? How long is your screen on in a day or how long do you require? I get 3 1/2 - 4 hours of on screen time a day unplugging at 8:00am and then plugging back in 11:30pm. I can deal with that. Can I use more? Of course I can, who wouldn't want more battery life. Would I sacrifice a smaller screen and crappy OS to get better battery life, no way!
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Thanks, it seems some people are getting good results though even with these enabled. And if this was really the problem, wouldn't it be detectable on the battery screen somehow? Via Google Play Services usage, or some other app with extremely high GPS time.
[Nexus 5 General] Anubis007:
It gets quiet tiring using such a small screen, and IOS 7.. man i don't know where to start. I'll tell you this though, it's a phone that works great (at least on IOS 6). I like Android, but i hate what those manufacturers are doing to it. So it seems like i am stuck with what Google offers with the Nexus line and the Moto X. I don't care much about the camera or speakers, but battery life is one of the most important things i look for in a phone. So the Nexus 5 for me has got the whole package until i start reading about battery life from trusted reviewers like MKBHD and SamJPullen.

I don't know how to measure SOT on my iPhone 5, i am aware that usage in the settings measures the amount of time the phone is awake. I think 4-5 sot with 12 hours would be great. I don't play many games and i am mostly reading or texting.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Using my nexus 5 since Nov 4th. This past Saturday had to use my sister's iPhone 4S, man the thing looks like a toy! It's soooo freaking small, I have no idea how apple user could do anything on such a small screen
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I think 4 hours over a 12 hour time frame is doable on an N5. I am actually impressed with the battery now that my device is sleeping well. For people reporting bad battery life there is something going on when their device is off that is draining their battery. Once that gets cleared up and the device is sleeping properly it actually handles battery pretty well.

Of course there are always things that can be turned off to improve the battery more but I do not like doing that so I leave everything on and 3 1/2 - 4 hours on screen time is good enough for me.

I have read that the Moto X has really good battery but I have not seen the stats for that phone to compare.

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Yeah, it is so much cooler to not be one of the cool kids. lol

Although I must say I am really happy for iPhones and it's popularity. Imagine if Android was the device that made everyone think they were cool or if it was the device you had to own. We would then have the need to search for something else to use.

I kind of enjoy the generation of our grandparents not using the same device as me. lol
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Now with Franco kernal I'm getting crazy deep sleep. My phone is eating up 1% in 7 hours of sleep. Franco kernal & greenify FTW! My ipad drains more battery life then my phone.
[Nexus 5 General] Anubis007:
I think part of the reason some people are getting bad SOT is the screen brightness. It's 298 nits at 50% compared to the second best which is the HTC One at 205 nits (edit: according to GSMarena), but i am not sure. I think i will make the jump. Thanks for answering my questions.
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
This is how my battery is looking after a pretty hectic morning. Tons of conference calls, answering emails, and cruising xda of course. Not sure how I am feeling about this yet but I guess I'll know once it his 1%

Edit: I'm running pure stock
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Second
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
Third
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Here is a good description of the issue I'm facing. I just reset CPU Spy, disabled location everything, and turned the screen off. 15 min later, it reports >90% in deep sleep, yet my battery has dropped 2% already! So if it really was in deep sleep most of that time, how could it have dropped that much? This is what is leading me to think something is defective.

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How are you using Greenfiy with the N5? Doesn't that require Xposed which doesn't work on 4.4 yet? And what sort of changes are in Franco kernel?
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
I just rooted the phone and went to get the app and it working. As far as Franco I am setting my clocks speed at 1500MHz/300MHz with -50 for UV for all speed. On stock I was eating about 1% per hour and its down to 1% for every 7 hours. Also with the kernal my headphone sounds much better then stock and the color are richer (deeper) then stock.
[Nexus 5 General] radeon962:
With ART enabled and no other changes picked up 30-40 minutes SOT. All the apps I use work fine. I don't notice faster response times as the N5 is quick, period using either.

Have to see how things go running ART for the next few days.
[Nexus 5 General] tangosierra_:
Under clocked to 1.8 GHz. Franco r11, cataclysm ROM.

Mainly note taking and whatsapp. 3G on all the time, switched to 2G when on WiFi.

2.5 hours of music

1 hour of YouTube

Love the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
I decided to run a little test and turn everything on.. Sync, Bluetooth, Data, GPS(high accuracy). Im using cataclysm rom with francos kernel. no uv or uc. have to say im impressed
[Nexus 5 General] Dejan99:
Here are my results.

Sync on, Google now on, WiFi off only at night, location services set to battery saving mode, about 30min of chrome CPU time, about 15min of game play CPU time and other stuff. I think it is pretty good for 2300mah battery, especially for my first charge!
[Nexus 5 General] boringest:
I think I've solved my battery problem. It's the Mail app which links to my Exchange account. After removing it, I get about 1 hour extra SOT!
[Nexus 5 General] the803:
I've only managed to get good battery life for like two or three days and now it's gone bad again. I plugged my phone out middle of the night, woke up 3 hours later and I was 80%.

WiFi was on and connected. The network is steady where I sleep. I always have auto sync off due to bad battery. Brightness fully dim.

Does it look like I might have a faulty battery?

These are my screenshots on the way back from work.

I'm on stock.
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
You're saying the stock email app was causing issues? What did you replace it with?
[Nexus 5 General] boringest:
Yes, the stock email app. It was set to push. Currently, I'm not using anything. Just checking via the webmail for now. I'm going to let it go and see if the SOT will stay stable, then I'll look for another mail app. Otherwise, might just forward everything to gmail in future.
[Nexus 5 General] ÜBER™:
I averaged 28-30 mins of screen time per 10%. Which is better then my average of 17-20mins on my Nexus 4 per 10%. This was all active usage, I didn't just leave it on a screen for that 30mins. Mostly Browsing G+ and Tapatalk, some Temple Run 2 and YouTube. All WiFi, however I have a ton of Google services that sync (gmail, Google +, Chrome, Play Music etc). I'd expect 1.5 hours less on mobile data.

Using Faux 002m with tweaked setting and a meager -50mV undervolt.

I'm happy with it.
[Nexus 5 General] chrisch91:
I'm satisfied! But about 60% is "android os" a normal worth?
[Nexus 5 General] Greg Tolan:
hmmm. I think I'll set it to sync "never" so I can do it manually. Useless work emails are probably causing some random wakes.
[Nexus 5 General] bei01:
I don't know if I could consider it normal...technically, but it happens. I am experiencing the same issue. (my posts are about 18 pages back). My particular issue is I am experiencing a wlan_rx_wake kernel wake-lock when connected to my WIFI at work, which prevents the phone from going into deep sleep. My battery drains about 10% every 2-3 hours connected to WIFI at work, with "Android OS" eating up 55-60% of the battery.

At home connected to my WIFI , I do not experience the same wake-lock, and I was getting around 15 hours with 10% battery drain, "Android OS" eating up about 6% of the battery.

You can check for sure what wake-locks you are experiencing by installing the Better Battery Stats beta here on xda.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
I'm in the same spot as you. Yet the phone is deep sleeping and I don't see any major culprits in the battery usage screen. It was great for the first few days.
[Nexus 5 General] the803:
I don't know whether to just do a RMA? I mean it's ridiculous really, my battery. Before I get to work I'm on 70% with like 30 minute SOT.
[Nexus 5 General] jtwlbz:
I am very surprised that stock rom's got amazing battery time comparing to custom rom + franco kernel running same apps.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Yep, same here. Try turning it off and back on, sometimes that helps if something has gotten stuck running it down. But I'm also considering an RMA, I know they will tell me to do a reset and things, but this is ridiculous for a brand new phone. If you attempt it, let me know what they say.
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Had a crazy drain happen this afternoon, went from forty% to 5% in space of thirty minutes, in my pocket, while I went shopping.
[Nexus 5 General] the803:
Will let you know. Probably get in touch with them tomorrow or day after.
[Nexus 5 General] Haano:
Changed runtime to ART and have had amazing battery. No charging in between, not many apps installed on device, stock rom, stock kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] theliquid:
I had this too. There is something wrong in Android itself. A restart sorted it for me... While this the N5 got warm. It was under heavy load without any reason...
[Nexus 5 General] egofreak:
Im getting some crazy drain, but I think thats because this is day one with a sim card in and I havent figured out whats up with my radio(t-mobile). my raido flips around like mad. Never the less, here are my screens. I thing the Battery is pretty good given whats been happening.

EDIT: My fault. didn't force LTE in cataclysm tweaks while using the smart radio.
[Nexus 5 General] lpforte:
My wifi is keeping the device on constantly and I cant figure it out. Literally keep awake for wifi is at like %90 of the uptime of the phone. Battery goes from full to dead in about 8 hours without ever being touched. This is after multiple reflashes and factory resets with no extra apps installed. Cant figure this **** out. turning off wifi and leaving mobile data on fixes the issue, and I have tried every combination of advanced wifi setting with no success.
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
I see that some of you guys are using betterbatterystats. I just purchased this app and its not working on my nexus 5. I keep getting this error.

"Batteryinfo service could not be contracted" I am on Cataclysm rom and Franco kernel. Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] Jayowend:
I think the Play Store edition hasn't been updated for 4.4 yet.

Try the XDA edition:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
It's very dependent on what you have installed. My fiance has high accuracy turned on but Google now disabled and doesn't have a lot of apps installed that request location services so her phone lasts her all day and when I say all day I mean from 6am until bedtime at 10pm with a little under 50 percent leftover. Granted by that time she's just a little over 2 hours screentime but I can see her going over 4 easily.

As for me I struggle to get to 9am to 9pm with everything turned on and tons of apps installed. I'm having to use better battery stats and greenify to knock out culprits and it's been an ongoing battle to say the least.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Yeah I'm starting to think Greenify is a necessity just to keep apps from running down your battery without you realizing it out of nowhere.

I had really bad idle drain as well that a restart also fixed. Can't believe Android still has problems like this.
[Nexus 5 General] longnt06658:
I'm completely stock now (stock ROM, stock Kernel). This phone has average battery life, about 4 hours SOT, but outstanding idle. I went to sleep with WiFi turn on and when I wake up 7 hours later, just 1% drop.

I have lot of messaging app (Facebook chat, Viber, Whatapps, Hangouts), two Google acoount full sync, location set to battery saving, Google Now off (in my country, Google Now is not that helpful).

The weird thing I noticed is that there's no significant different in battery life between WiFi and 3G. There are two possibilities:

1. Mobile Data on Qualcomm chip is so good.

2. Wifi on this phone is suck.

I hope that it's the [2] because there will be room for improvement from Google or community.

One more thing, anybody feel the phone get really hot (especially near the camera) even when you perform very simple task in WiFi like web-surfing with Chrome. It seems like the phone run at higher speed than it should be.
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
Hi everyone.. I read about flashing factory image to get 4h screen on time.. Is it true? Does it really work? If I flash this image will it format also my "sdcard" with all my music in it?
[Nexus 5 General] boringest:
Yeah, that's a good idea. Here are my snapshots. Previously averaging 2.5hrs SOT. Now almost 4 hrs. Played 10000000 in the morning & evening commute, then a bit more before going to sleep.
[Nexus 5 General] Whelan189:
definitly reccomend people to underclock, having apps like facebook,whatsapp which are the apps i use most run at 2.2ghz is a waste ive got mine at 1.2ghz and dont see any slowdown with this apps, you can set profiles so when games/more intesive apps open it will automatically run at max, safes lot of battery:)
[Nexus 5 General] rogem_kk:
I had phenomenal battery life UNTIL I installed some stupid sound pressure meter widget. After that I get 30% of what I had. Even after uninstalling and clearing caches my phone still consumes 5-7% of battery per hour - no matter if it is sitting there or if I use it. Phone Idle and Media Server are now on top of the list. This is not normal.

My only conclusion is that it is the apps/widgets that really screw tings up. I can't blame the phone. Too much ****ty stuff out there regardless of the ratings.
[Nexus 5 General] MohJee:
It's because of envelope tracking, data uses little power while phone is idle. The same thing with note 3 which has it as well.
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Did you try to reset your router? I've had this happen to me before on 4.2/3. A router reset always fixed it.
[Nexus 5 General] gogol:
I am very pleased with my N5 battery life.

The idle drainage is just 1% per hour.

Wifi ON and GPS ON (device only), auto-brightness.

I could play ingress for about 3 hours non-stop, from 100% battery to 10%. Including TomTom for about 30 minutes.

Using Franco Kernel R13, stock ROM.
[Nexus 5 General] TickLe MY eLMo:
So I finally got around to really giving the phone a complete battery discharge and these are my results:

I got about a day and a half with 5% remaining. Wifi on the entire time, bluetooth off, gps on, with brightness at to auto.

Next you can see I got almost 4 hours of screen time, probably could have gotten it with the last 5%.

Around half the time I was on my Wifi network, the other half was on LTE most of the time, rarely 3G(sprint cdma). I spent a large amount of time sending snapchats, looking at instagram, using my yahoo fantasy football app some, and a bit of web browsing. I would say half my data usage was on Wifi, maybe a bit less though. I never turned off sync, 3 email accounts on push, phone never got hot either. Oh i texted a little bit as well, no phone calls today though.

So far, I'm impressed with the battery life even though I'm not a heavy user, for moderate use this thing lasts forever for me which is fantastic. All of these battery problems I heard of are baseless for my particular use, I think most of you guys should be more than fine. I only see it being better in the future with updates anyway.
[Nexus 5 General] undercover:
Guys, don't forget that LTE uses envelope tracking. So LTE in theory should provide noticeably better battery than 3g. Not taking WiFi into account.
[Nexus 5 General] p5f:
I find the battery life similar to the LG G2 (taking into account the G2 battery has 25% more capacity)
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Yes it was software problem, phone was warm, standby battery usage went up to 59%. Had to restart. Had a feeling Google+ hanging was the problem.

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Google services currently taking 49 percent. After 16 hours mostly idle.

More strange Android things. Seems totally random usages at the moment.
[Nexus 5 General] lpforte:
This happens ANY time the wifi is on, regardless of where I am or if I'm actually using it. It has nothing to do with the router as it happens even when I'm not connected to a network.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
I don't. I get 7.5 to 8 hours sot on my G2. On my n5 I get 6 to 6.5 hours of sot.

>^.^< Sent From Meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] carlese:
I don't know what kind of sorcery is in your phone guys.. Max I can get is 3 hours sot, light use with all my notifications on and push mail on 4 accounts.. Facebook, whatsapp and some derping around.. Did you guys flash the factory image or did something in particular?
[Nexus 5 General] embhorn:
This. I am seeing this problem on both my N7 2013 and my N5.
[Nexus 5 General] p5f:
I'm getting around 4h15min - 4h30min, that's with wifi on, gps off, the ok google function disabled, maybe an hour of video and I rarely play games, (with my G2 it was around 6h). SOT can vary a lot depending what you're doing, playing graphically intense games or streaming video on 3g will kill your battery much faster .

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BTW I'm not rooted
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
Yep, yesterday I used nav, checked the phone later that night and Google Play Services had been keeping the phone awake ever since. What crap, must be a bug or just general Google poor coding. Can I greenfiy Google Play Services and still have things like Google Now and nav work?
[Nexus 5 General] Sydius08:
Some of you guys have been getting great battery life. Yesterday for me it was horrible. It drained quickly even in standby. I had like 10 hours and 30 minutes on battery, and around 1hr screen time. I was at 1%. The strange thing is that a couple days ago I never had this problem. I streamed music all day and did other things and it lasted longer. Plus it didn't drain crazy in standby time like it does now. I think Google pushed out something... I'm not sure.
[Nexus 5 General] xdp:
I had the same thing....rebooted the phone and it fixed the idle drain problem. SOT is still not great, but idle is back to normal at least. Something is definitely up and I'm starting to think Greenify is a necessity.
[Nexus 5 General] Sydius08:
I just rebooted my phone. Hopefully that awful standby time will finally stop haha. I've noticed that auto brightness is a bit harsh, like it gets REALLY bright even in low light, or places where that much brightness isn't needed. That could be the reason for bad SoT

Greenify. I love that app. Works wonders. I haven't rooted yet though. Only because I hear Google was supposed to push out an update on Nov 13 that'll fix some things, but still haven't seen it yet. Kinda getting impatient, I really want to root already!
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
I have noticed that a reboot can definitely fix wakelocks. My phone was terrible this morning and now after rebooting it is perfectly sleeping. Very frustrating stuff. A well slept N5 equals great battery life so the N5 is very capable of making it through the day.

As for auto brightness, I think just shutting that off and keeping the screen at about 1/4 brightness is good enough for most instances you would use the phone.