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[Nexus 5 General] daern:
Mobile Standby

Here's an interesting one. Hooked up to an HSDPA femto cell (actually, an O2 UK BoostBox) for most of the day yesterday, and my phone emptied its battery *3 times over*. I estimated that a full charge was lasting around 4-5 hours with virtually no screen on time.

I rebooted a couple of times, but no change. In the end, I switched the radio from 4G to 3G only and this cured it immediately. The area that I was in certainly has no 4G coverage (in fact, without the boostbox there's no coverage at all) so the phone certainly wasn't picking up fringe 4G. One interesting point is that the BoostBox is 3G only - there's no 2G coverage provided from it, and very little in the general area anyway.

I'll do some more controlled testing to see if its related specifically to the femtocell, but just shoving it here in case anyone searches for this.

Keywords: LTE 4G boostbox femtocell O2 UK
[Nexus 5 General] cntrdctn:
This was my results from yesterday before I started charging. Was roughly 2.5 hrs of sot. Running cataclysm and r14 art.

I should add my setup:

1. Google Now On (voice recognition off)

2. Location set to device only.

3. Sync Off (I prefer to manually check my emails)

4. Some WiFi some LTE

5. Undervolt -75

6. Max CPU 1574

7. Bluetooth on for Pandora (car only)

My useage is usually social media, web browsing, Pandora.
[Nexus 5 General] Primokorn:
What's wrong?

Hi all

Today I really need help about my battery life. Over the past few days my battery has been draining very fast.

More details:

WiFi / Data / BT / GPS (eco mode) / Auto sync => Off

My problem should be related to a 3rd party app (at least) or a common system app because it's still here even after flashing 2 differents roms (Purity & PSX) and 3 differents kernels (Faux, Trinity & PSX).

When I boot my phone into safe mode I have no important battery drain.

Here are below screenshots from Battery menu and attached screenshots from BBS

Atm I exceeded my data plan so my 3G connexion is very slow and eats a lot of battery BUT the drain remains even when I don't use the phone. (including 3G Off)
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
after delete Xposed, my battery behavior is normal again.

..:Enviado desde mi Nexus 5:..
[Nexus 5 General] Primokorn:
It can be the reason of my battery drain too. I've just uninstalled all the modules and Xposed Framework even if Xposed Framework shouldn't use any battery consumption. (no wakelock too).
[Nexus 5 General] modstorm:
Best screen on time so far !

Running Rastakat + Faux 004 beta 4 at 2.26GHz﻿
[Nexus 5 General] tylerjames09:
After the 12 hr work day..getting better and better each day
[Nexus 5 General] bash156:
Use to get 4 hours screen on time for some strange reason I'm on 5 hours sot and still have 22% battery left copilot has been using GPS 2 hours didn't even know it was on running stock everything and using lux lite
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
I'm I the only one that got rid of this phone because the battery is just horrible?
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
You might be. I have no issues with battery.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Just post your screen on. That's all that counts. You should be able to get 5+ hours without any problem.
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
I don't know about that. I have no problems with the battery life, but I haven't seen over 4, and that's with no significant wake locks. 3-4 sends very possible for most. Over that seems to be for a select group that uses their phone in the perfect way and have amazing signal strength all the time
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
This is pretty typical
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
We'll have to agree to disagree. The few here showing these types of times seem to be the exception to the rule. The rule seems to be lower. Looking at your screens, that seems to be an extremely lightly used phone. I couldn't get 5 hours on strong Wi-Fi no matter what ROM/kernel I use, let alone on network.

I'm happy you can get those times with your usage. Some can, most can't. That being said, I'm completely happy with the 3-4 I can get, especially with how fast the N5 charges
[Nexus 5 General] cubskru:
For me battery life has varied quite a bit. With everything stock i got 2-2.5hrs of screen on time. With Franco kernel and greenify I got around 4hr of screen on time. With the b3o hammer kernel I'm getting around 5hr of screen on time (without greenify!)
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
How's the performance of hammer? I'm going to have to try that one. What ROM are you running it with?
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
This is on cataclysm and Franco kernel. No uv, no uc, no greenify. Location off but every thing else stock. It's repeatable.
[Nexus 5 General] 95Z28:
100% stock unrooted on LTE, with a few hours spent at my parents house in the country where service disappears completely for minutes at a time. I'm happy with battery life so far.

Of course when my G'Nex was new I regularly got 5+ hours screen time a charge, a year and a half later I rarely saw 3. So who knows how this phone will be doing a year from now.
[Nexus 5 General] riprowan:
You guys are all using some other Nexus 5 from me. I get ~12 hrs phone on, ~3 hrs sot. By comparison I got ~14 hrs / ~4 hrs on my Nexus 4.
[Nexus 5 General] Randy Edge:
Battery is getting good.. :)
[Nexus 5 General] rodeo2:
Mine is just horrible. Having to charge twice in the day time itself. Why do you think Android OS is consuming most battery (65%) compared to Screen (for me) while all others here I see screen consumes the most.

Mine is rooted but with stock everything.
[Nexus 5 General] lqaddict:
I used to get a horrible battery life (Google services and Android OS were the biggest offenders), and believe it or not rebooting the phone fixed it.
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
Your nexus isn't sleeping you need to find witch app is keeping your phone awake!
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
Brightness low on auto, mainly browsing on wifi. Stock Rom and kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
Dude, I want you to set up my phone!
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
Nothing extraordinary in setting up. I am using lux for auto brightness. A few apps that cause the phone to wake up are greenified. Wifi and GPS are set with Tasker to turn on and off only when i open apps that use them. Syncs are off, i only sync when i open an app that needs it.
[Nexus 5 General] yorici:
Google now turned off?
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
Yes.
[Nexus 5 General] alangrig:
Reflash stock image. Will solve issue.
[Nexus 5 General] falcons2:
The last few days Google now has just been draining my battery for no reason. I have location reporting off and hot word off. I tries greenifying it but it doesn't help. Any suggestions?
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
quick question, where can I get lux?? I found it on the market but on the description of says that the plug in for the nexus 5 is not available yet
[Nexus 5 General] jaysidhuk:
My nexus 5 battery stands for max of 22hrs

there will be a fix for battery in near future ? and camera as well its too slow to burst a shoot auto focus is bad too :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
you should try ProCapture.. is on sale for 1$ and it has burst mode and auto focus is a bit faster. It should make things better until Google decides to fix their useless camera app
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
The plugin isnt necessary, it offers a few features than i am not interested in. Have a look at plugins for other devices to see what they do.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
It works on the Nexus 5, the developer just hasn't implemented Nexus 5-specific code in the form of a plugin.

I've been using it since the beginning of November, and when it works properly it's great. When it doesn't work properly the developer is quick to fix it.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
What settings are you guys using? Should I just leave it on auto? Also, are you guys leaving the app on the notification drawer?
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
I'm just using Auto with Dynamic adjustment. I've had to 'train' it a couple of times, but that's easy enough to do if you just stick the widget somewhere on one of your homescreens.

I don't use the persistent notification. Persistent notifications drive me insane. I've never had Lux get killed as a result, but I'm pretty good about closing out apps with high RAM usage after I'm done using them. If you like to leave everything running in the background for multitasking purposes it is probably a good idea to maintain persistent notifications.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Thanks a lot, set it up just like you said. Plus set the sun rise/set from 6-6
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
I can get that if all I do is just read stuff from forums and respond to texts and chats but this is a powerful smartphone that can perform some powerful tasks but doesn't have the juice to back it up.

Not one person that has 5+ screen on time even has a game listed in their list of apps that have taken up any battery.

Nexus 5 is a great phone and has great battery for those that do light tasks but for intense users it's average.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
No doubt the battery is average even for "light" users. If you're running games you're using a lot more cpu and the screen is on. But if you're running games don't hope for good battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] crzycrkr:
That's all I was saying. 5 hours isn't topical or common for the majority of users because it seems the majority of users do more with their phone than just the very basic tasks.
[Nexus 5 General] leomd333:
How is everyone charging their batterys the first time? I mean, should i charge it before i use it like most phones tell you to do, or use it till it dies and leave it over night for a long charge? It seems that charging the first time incorrectly kills the battery life, and frankly that isnt good on a device with a non removeable battery :p
[Nexus 5 General] Bl@ck:
Anyone with real world 3G/LTE screenshots? 5hrs on wifi with cell turned off is not much, considering that the Nexus 4 gives the same result.

EDIT: nvm, found it http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47074495&postcount=36
[Nexus 5 General] nasimdejai:
For the first charge out of the box, should you charge the device on or off and should it be fully charged before use? Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] Emama:
Does not matter
[Nexus 5 General] Dan1909:
Emama is correct.

The days when the first charge procedure was important are long gone! Just start enjoying the phone, and charge it however you want.
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
this is true, we dont use nickel batteries in devices like this anymore
[Nexus 5 General] BoneXDA:
How is RAM management?

So they say Kit-Kat uses a lot less system resources. Couple of widgets and some threads running, some apps cached in the background, and my regular RAM usage on my 4.3 Nexus 4 is ~750MB is use, ~750MB cached.

Please share us some info and/or screenshots how RAM management compares to previous Linux kernel versions!
[Nexus 5 General] leomd333:
hhh right thanks man :good:
[Nexus 5 General] nasimdejai:
Cheers for the clarification

---------- Post added at 08:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:47 AM ----------

Cheers for the clarification
[Nexus 5 General] NatTheCat:
Final Result only took me to 15% with 1 Day 16 Hours. Screen on time 3hr 16mins. Needed a full battery for the day and couldn't risk it but atleast it's a general ballpark
[Nexus 5 General] hrcoprco:
Anybody knows how to show percentage in the top bar?

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] enlan:
Not possible on Vanilla Android. That must be the reason why other manufacturers use custom launchers with comfort functions:D
[Nexus 5 General] Mr.Mischief:
Vague, but positive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGsTtVGgD3k
[Nexus 5 General] prawnguevara:
Actually, lithium ion batteries do need specific charges, so much so that manufacturers have to put in a computer to control it so it doesn't overcharge. The thing with lithium is the heat. Heat damages the battery, so charging a full charge from 0 to 100 will create big heat, probably best to partial charge, and then do another charge to 100. Also charging while power is on is not recommended. Best not to fully discharge battery either.
[Nexus 5 General] leomd333:
is the n5 battery not a lithium polymer like the htc one?
[Nexus 5 General] Jeremy:
Is anyone able to comment on idle battery consumption when using lte vs 3g?
[Nexus 5 General] twolfekc:
Exact same it looks like to me
[Nexus 5 General] :
Let's all not forget how much better a custom kernel and other things are in regards to battery life. On my Galaxy S3 freezing unwanted apps on titanium backup, using an AOSP ROM, and flashing a battery efficient kernel nearly doubled my battery life when compared to the garbage Samsung stock ROM that has a bunch of apps that constantly access data and your CPU.

I've actually never used a Google phone with the stock Android experience but I am guessing by a few weeks time we should be getting some awesome kernels by some awesome, hardworking XDA devs. Then we can really talk battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] zerogun:
Not sure what other NOTE 2 users are getting, but I have a Note II, with 2 different OEM batteries to compare. And if I get close to 4 hours screen time then that's a REALLY good day.

Of course, the ONLY time I'm getting closet to 4 hours screen time is if I'm playing a game, or doing some MAJOR net surfing. If I can get 4 hours screen time on the Nexus 5, I would be really happy.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
That's pretty weird. I'm running Beanstalk on my Note II and I'm getting almost 7 hours screen-on time, and AOSP ROMs have never been very nice to Samsung phones
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
finally GSAM battery pro works

Via my N€×us 5 on XDA premium
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
One cycle with the most gaming http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47447880&postcount=701

And a couple more cycles with some gaming (more in the 1st one from what i can remember)
[Nexus 5 General] K0v4L:
This is what I'm getting after first full charge. Android system is big question mark for me here.
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
All of you guys with gripes about battery life when playing games do realize that the Nexus 5 is a phone, right? It's not a dedicated gaming device, and never claimed to be. Mobile gaming is something most people do in small chunks throughout the day. If you've got nothing better to do than sit around all day playing games on your N5, why not just buy a damn tablet?

If you have a job, or are out and about all day long, you shouldn't be trying to do intense gaming anyway. If you're a casual Android gamer who likes to play games while chilling at home, then put the phone on the charger when the battery gets low.

I don't understand how the phone not offering decent gaming battery life is even worthy of discussion. Want a gaming device? Buy one. The battery on this phone is more than enough to get a normal user (read: somebody with a job) through the day with no issues at all.
[Nexus 5 General] urmothersluvr:
LTE on all day, all sync on, forgot what brightness level, hour or more of YouTube, calls and text. Turn Google now off and GPS off. I love this phone
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Last night and today
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Wow, these are incredible. Are you guys using a different kernel or something? My best charge has been during these two days. I'm currently at 1 day 5 hours 29 min. Battery is at 30% and nearly 3 hours of OST. I don't think I played any games though, just mostly browsing, texting, flipboard. My screen brightness is also down almost all the way. How are you guys getting such great battery life?

EDIT: Also, I have been on mostly WiFI
[Nexus 5 General] trsix:
kids

Kids will be kids
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Cataclysm and franko kernel. No other mods. Screen is on auto. Location off and "ok Google" off. They both kill your battery. Could probably get better if I wanted to turn down display and uc and uv. But I want to leave as close to stock and not degrade the performance.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Oh gotcha, thanks! So would you say turning off location contributes more than the kernels? And do you mean that google now is off?
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Location off makes a bigger difference than the kernel. I changed my language to English, UK to turnoff the ok Google.
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
Oh ok, so your google now is on then just without location?
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
I don't use Google now, I froze Google+
[Nexus 5 General] xstokerx:
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/stoker421/Screenshot_2013-12-01-19-52-03.png

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/stoker421/Screenshot_2013-12-01-19-52-19.png

ok so this is my first full charge and decharge on nitrous os with elemental x kernel running on wifi all day bringness about 20-30 and was on auto for a wile.

ive turned off all location based stuff, google now, froze google plus, Chrome, gmail (just use stock email app)

-25 uv to all steps an 725mv ant 300mhz and underclock first core to 14xx and the second and third core at 17xx and the fourth core at 19xx

Im sure ill be able to get my 3-3.5 hours screen time on mobile networks with this that I need to make it though a work day ive only had the phone for 2 day so test test test tell im blue in the face going to be a long time before I settle in on the settings I want
[Nexus 5 General] honeybunchie:
Is android system supposed to take 13% of my battery?
[Nexus 5 General] rodeo2:
The 'ANDROID OS' is killing me. Rebooting doesn't fix. Seemingly no junk apps that may cause this. I'm puzzled.
[Nexus 5 General] Xharos:
Can I ask which apps you have greenified?
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
Mostly games, gps apps and tapatalk.
[Nexus 5 General] bleets:
Shrug, pretty awful battery
[Nexus 5 General] GialanG:
Haha, WTH did you do with your phone? Bring it home and sleep with it?
[Nexus 5 General] bleets:
Nah, just normal usage...

I did have wifi on for a few days but got annoyed with email syncing when i was at home (it didnt have much effect on battery life having it on compared to my galaxy nexus...turned wifi on on the gnex and it barely lasted a day :|)

And then just used it for calls/sms and when when i was out

Shrug

It's about 2 and a half hour screen on time though so not heavy usage
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Can someone post some battery results with playing some games/watching videos? Would be cool to see this.

Gesendet von meinem GT-S5830 mit Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] giannis_ch:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48032154&postcount=1184
[Nexus 5 General] PsychDrummer:
The best battery life I've ever gotten on my S3 when I had the 7,000 mah battery was half of that....
[Nexus 5 General] XxNitr0xX:
3 Hours screen on time..
[Nexus 5 General] james1196:
Hey, tried to search. Anyone getting significant battery drains from 'media server'? Mine is matching screen. Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] letmedanz:
Anyone have any idea what AudioMix is?

Turning out to be ruining things with all those wake locks...
[Nexus 5 General] dazz87:
Audio mix is touch sound and keyboard sound
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
nice font what is it?
[Nexus 5 General] james1196:
I'm guessing Xperia.
[Nexus 5 General] Gigabitex2:
Stock and unlocked. A lot of the screen time was spent reading the threads here on how to unlock chromecast (c'mon Google)
[Nexus 5 General] Gigabitex2:
Second pic didn't work.
[Nexus 5 General] letmedanz:
It's the Sony Sketch font.

Get it from Chromium's font thread :)

Here- http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2513985
[Nexus 5 General] Andypandiiee:
How the heck did you get 6SOT with 1 day 20 hours? What's your secret?
[Nexus 5 General] rinderkappajoe:
Normal, not too heavy usage

I'm happy with the battery live :)
[Nexus 5 General] Gigabitex2:
No secrets, I even have location enabled (high accuracy) WiFi on always and Google sync set for all but photo uploads. N5= Beast!
[Nexus 5 General] zevim2005:
whats the point you charged at least 3 times...
[Nexus 5 General] ArtG818:
Whats your runtime Art Or dalvik?
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
Pretty decent results for me in the first run after I rooted and Installed Gsam battery montior. Screen brightness at 100%, a lot of audio playback but limited LTE time(prevelent wifi in my area) & screen time, on Dalvik runtime. Charged back to 100% in less than 2 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
This sucks, you have less than an hour of screen on
[Nexus 5 General] NovaSlim:
I just don't use the screen that often on a day to day basis, mostly just short web broswing/search sessions & checking email. On the other hand I run my screen at max brightness which is significantly brighter than auto-brightness.

My apologies for not seeing the " If you don't have 6+ hour of screen on time don't post anything" sign. Could you make it bigger and more obvious?
[Nexus 5 General] Gigabitex2:
Running dalvik, switched to art on my n7/13 but haven't played enough to report any difference.
[Nexus 5 General] ghettopops:
Bammm.

I have to agree with this. To me I unplug in work parking lot, get 3-4 half hr breaks(over 8 hrs) drive home(Yeah I Netflix on ride home) go to bed, wake up run errands and cone hone and surf for a hour. Normally 17-19 hours and if I don't have to charge that whole time I honestly don't care what SOT I have.(normally 3-4 hrs and battery down to 20%. Charge for hour or so and repeat. I'm happy
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
Do you ever put your phone down? About 5/6 of your discharge time your screen was on
[Nexus 5 General] obsanity:
Put my phone down? What you you mean?

I'm not sure I know what that means :)
[Nexus 5 General] rancur3p1c:
thanks! I tried that and neuropol. Yours good :)
[Nexus 5 General] limzm:
Just curious: those with more than 5 hours of screen time, what is your average CPU temperature and battery temperature?
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
Lmao
[Nexus 5 General] Natherul:
My findings with my sparse usage.
[Nexus 5 General] adeelraj:
Maybe faulty batteries some units have
[Nexus 5 General] RacingManiac:
I use Wifi at work and at home and mostly pretty light usage, I think total screen time is just shy of 4 hours.

This is basically 2 work days without charging. Pretty happy with that since GNex I had struggle with this even with the extended batt.
[Nexus 5 General] moeyk:
This is my first charge cycle and honestly it seems quite promising. I have brightness set to 30-40, GPS set on battery saving mode, "Ok Google" Hotword disabled and was on WiFi 80% of the time. I am also running Franco kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
Today's battery. Who says it sucks
[Nexus 5 General] teiknarfy89:
HOW!!!??? I get and average of 15 hours with 5 hours of screen time no less then 4 hours and 45 min
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
That's good man. 5 hours is great
[Nexus 5 General] Infinite7154:
In Rochester, NY using Straight Talk AT&T Sim card. Wi-Fi is on all day. I use the phone for a couple of games, using Google Music for my commute, Facebook, and a couple of phone calls to my girlfriend.
[Nexus 5 General] teiknarfy89:
I know but if I can get 7 hours why not go for it.. Love the battery life no complaints here
[Nexus 5 General] dehsA:
Google Now on. Location services off. Battery saving location. Auto brightness off (level set to ~20%). Hotword off. Greenified a few apps (none of which are system apps).

I'm usually on 3G throughout the day. At home, I'm on Wi-Fi but I don't usually use my phone that much at home except for the occasional on-the-toilet use.

Even on my Note II, it was difficult for me to get over 3 hours of screen on time so I would say the battery isn't so bad on the Nexus 5.

Blows my mind how you guys can get 4-5 hours easily.
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
not heavy use.

..:Enviado desde mi Nexus 5:..
[Nexus 5 General] Badd_blood:
My initial charge seemed like it lasted forever. I was trying to kill the battery and couldn't before I went to sleep. Started at about 70% and used it heavily for 3-4 hours, downloading apps and initial setup. That's pretty impressive imo considering the power and screen size.
[Nexus 5 General] ljesh:
I don't know about you guys but I am very happy with my battery performance.
[Nexus 5 General] yorici:
This was my first day, so stock rom (unrooted)

Wifi partly on, gps off, gnow off, brightness 10%. I had it in airplane mode when I was a sleep.

Very happy with my battery life:D