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[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
Okay so i've been reading this thread ever since I did a factory reset after installing lollipop 5.0.1. Before doing that i didnt had the need to. I bought my N5 in November this year(2014) upgraded to kitkat 4.4.4 and everything was great, recieved 5.0 everything still great, recieved 5.0.1 and everything was the same nice battery life 3:30hours SOT(same as kk4.4.4). While browsing the XDA forums i read that it would be a good idea to do a factory reset after a major upgrade to android such as Lollipop to boost performance and etc. So i did that, i did a factory reset and ever since then i had awful battery life did 4 more factory resets to fix the problem and it still persists.... 2-2:30hours SOT MAX! Battery stats dont show anything weird...

Google now off(cant have it in my region,also ok google off)

Location off

Wifi on some of the time

Mobile data off all the time

Sync off

Adaptive brightness off

Brightness never set beyond 50%

I dont have a lot of apps and the ones i do have i dont use because my phone discharges very fast.

Also once i left the phone with 60% over night set my alarm for tommorrow and i was late for school because the phone shut down wouldnt turn on because battery was 0% DOING A FACTORY RESET AFTER UPGRADING WAS THE WORST THING IVE EVER DONE! ps everything stock no root.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Battery life help thread, not here. Read the first 4 posts, then post screenshots if you continue to have issues. Otherwise nobody can help you.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
[Nexus 5 General] aniel300:
This is insane :)
[Nexus 5 General] :
It won't last four days, unless you stick it in a drawer. Lol ?
[Nexus 5 General] aniel300:
Im just referring to the idle time ?
[Nexus 5 General] :
A good efficient idle time, for a glitch free running N5 should be about 0.5 percent per hour or so..... So the math would say 200 hours or so on standby. 8 days or so. With no usage obviously. ?

But yes, you're doing great! ?
[Nexus 5 General] Edge330:
Does anyone have problem with google play services and android system, both drain around ~ 5 - 7% battery.

On 5.0.0 I didnt notice this.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Yes. It's annoying.
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
Google Play Services is your own issue, read post 3 of the battery help thread.

Android System will always be there. You're using Android.
[Nexus 5 General] neecey18:
What's your rom and kernel mate ?
[Nexus 5 General] moropazzo96:
Full stock, 3h about display :)
[Nexus 5 General] semirr:
Everythings great! Completely stock.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Not bad. :p

(Google Now on, Auto Syncs on, Locations off)
[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Good enough ..

Complete stock .

Wifi only , taken 10-15 pics , mostly browsing and whatsapp , facebook and messenger .
[Nexus 5 General] sosferatu:
Locations allways on

Wifi always on

Bleutooth mostly on

Sync on

Google now off

No facebook

No greenify

Quite happy with it

Bleu kernel andere nx5rom
[Nexus 5 General] bongio94:
Hi guys. Just a quick question. I don't understand why on GSam when i look at wakelock show me 0% but i have 1h 31m. It's surely a noob question, i know..

Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] :
Just how it reports. It's not perfect, no. It doesn't accurately represent the real story.

If you're rooted, the important thing is getting gsam root companion and checking the times waking device and held awake time in the spring sucker screen. They will show you your app wakelocks. ?
[Nexus 5 General] nokiagye:
Same here for me the 5 have horrible battery. I but the lg fino 120$ phone and the batery is classes better 5 hours shot with the same usage (games, videos, net) and same apps.
[Nexus 5 General] choosetobelieve:
Battery life of Nexus 5 is bad.
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
The battery life issue mostly depends on high expectations.

Without any custom ROM or/and kernel 3-3,5h SOT with 1-1,5d idle time is reasonable for Nexus 5. This phone has 2300 mAh battery and 1080p screen. If you're expecting much more you'll buy a Nexus 6 (it's battery also not very good than Nexus 5 because of the secreen resolution and size by the way) or you'll get any mobile phone which has 3000 mAh and more with 1080p resolution. I used LG G2 before Nexus 5. I rooted it and closed many apps so I had literally more battery time. But that phone has a 3000 mAh battery with 1080p screen. It means %30 more battery life approx.

In the end Nexus 5 is an old fashioned but unrivalled phone. Nexus 6 is a phablet not a phone. Too big and bulky. Doesn't offer a smart"phone" experience for most of the users. Nearly all Android users has a tablet with 8" or 10". So a 6"ed phablet does not looks necessary. On the other hand Moto X 2014 also has 2300 mAh battery. Well, maybe new SD801 may have more battery friendly specifications but I don't think it's a big improvement for SD800. Other phones are also bigger than 5,5".

If you're looking for a battery champion flagship, go and buy a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. But it has it's own issues, especially screen cracks etc...

Nexus 5 is the best Android smart"phone" on the market now for those looking for a simplicity, speed, compactness, portability, stability and some similar specs.
[Nexus 5 General] tejbir:
I am getting 3 hrs screen on time....is it normal....????
[Nexus 5 General] kamajikaciya:
Depends what apps are you using. If you're using internet (chat, surfing, playing etc...) it looks normal. If u'r playing offline games with decent graphics (angry birds, flappy bird etc...) it may be short. If you're watching non full-hd movies it's short.

As you can see there's not an exact SOT time. It depends what u'r using.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
LG Fino total display pixels: 0.384 million

LG Nexus 5 total display pixels: 2.074 million

540% more pixels on the N5 (x5.4 more)

Slower phones need less battery to run. Each CPU core uses more power, each pixel needs more power, every gig of RAM needs more power, more radios and signal bands needs more power, etc. etc.

Does that make the Nexus 5 battery "horrible"? Not by any means.

Most people in this thread would disagree with you. For a 2300mAh battery it's actually one of the most efficient phones ever made. Just because a phone isn't 3000mAh doesn't make the battery bad. If you need help optimizing your battery usage check out the Battery Help Sticky Thread.
[Nexus 5 General] SuperiorTek:
My battery life is nuts, I never ever got battery this good. Two days of use and four hours of screen time with moderate use. Mostly using chrome and texting and 40 minutes of phone calls. Also playing games for ten minutes here and there, YouTube for almost a hour and Spotify for like 40 minutes. Using elemental x kernel and cataclysm ROM 12/24 stable. I think smart radio made the difference.
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
I'm with you. I left location on and obviously my battery is more dead. I turned on battery saver at 15%.
[Nexus 5 General] Nexxus2:
Hi last night i left my phone at about 75% battery ... this morning i found it dead (battery at 0) ... do you have any ideas about what just happened ?

Being a new user i cannot post the image of this problem ... and these captchas are killing me :(
[Nexus 5 General] lovendsuicide:
SimpleAOSP + Code Blue kernel

Stock settings

Wifi on most of the time

Network data on (3G mode)

Location on

Sync off

No games played, just social networks (facebook, twitter, instagram), tapatalk, whatsapp… I'm not a heavy user by any means :p
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
If you have to put the images somewhere else and post the link like hxxp...

Without some data it's hard to say.
[Nexus 5 General] Nexxus2:
Here is the image: hXXp://i.imgur.com/v0dxQjo.png
[Nexus 5 General] DOBBY0:
What browser?
[Nexus 5 General] pcphobic:
Good battery life with Purity ROM and Code Blue kernel

My Nexus 5 battery life improved for me on Code Blue kernel r777 when paired with Purity Lollipop (Android 5.0.2).

Yes, Purity is back but not on XDA.

- http://htcfanboys.com/download/DariosF/?action=list&folder=53254

- https://plus.google.com/u/0/communi...5/stream/bb904e42-62b5-4750-b802-5389fd4a8eea

Now I am getting back the battery life like what I used to get when I was on KitKat.

Uptime = 23hours 3 minutes

Screen On Time (SOT) = 4 hours 18 minutes

Mixed usage of Wifi & Mobile Connection with some Bluetooth usage too.
[Nexus 5 General] Faxx4840:
Happy !
[Nexus 5 General] DOBBY0:
Apps you use? No matter what I do I have to remove the things I love to get 4 hours :/
[Nexus 5 General] Gentaz:
Hi !

Here's my config :

One year old (Nov 2013) Nexus 5 with PAC-Rom (CM kitkat based), overclock @ 2,3 Ghz, no gapps, LTE enabled (revert to 2G in deep sleep), geolocation using local backend (opencellid db) when gps disabled with light to normal use : no social networking, car bluetooth & gps, home wifi, few minutes of charging sometimes (QI car holder).

3 days autonomy with 2 to 4 hours of screen usage is easily achieved :

The best I can manage is less than 1% avg drain per hour, thus having a 100h + battery life ? without compromising performances (41000 + @ Antutu) on this awesome device...
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Has anyone achieved just 1-2% battery drain overnight. Even if it means not installing any apps from playstore. With only those stock apps ?
[Nexus 5 General] pcphobic:
[MENTION=5332568]DOBBY0[/MENTION]

[MENTION=6192806]hh.bb.mm[/MENTION]

I have tried many Lollipop Custom ROMs as well as stock Lollipop and was initially disappointed with the battery life. It was less than when I was on Kitkat.

So imagined my surprised and happiness when I got back the kind of battery life that I was getting when I was on KitKat.

Below are some tips which may help you guys.

1. Use WiFi whenever you can because WiFi uses less battery power compared to Mobile Data Connection (3G/LTE)

Important: Remember to turn off WiFi when u are away from Wifi hotspot. Also remember to disable "Scanning Always Availble" in the Wifi - Advanced menu. This feature was turned on by default since KitKat and was the no.1 culprit for keeping the phone awake at all times even when the screen is turned off or u left it idle for hours. It prevented the phone from going into deep sleep.

2. When u are in a poor LTE coverage area, manually switch the Mobile Data Connection to 3G only mode. Reason being is that in poor coverage area, the phone will ramp up the radio power to try to get a better signal.

3. Install Wakelock Detector app to determine what apps are misbehaving in the background when your screen is turned off. Then decide if you want to uninstall those apps to save battery. For example, I have uninstall a few Instant messaging apps and also uninstall Facebook app. I use the mobile browser Facebook website instead.

Download link:- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector

4. The more email accounts you sync with, the more battery it uses.

5. Deselect the feature of any app that uses your location (except WAZE or Google Maps).

6. Try a combination of custom ROMs and custom Kernels. For me, I found the perfect combo which is Purity ROM + Code Blue Kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] Szuri21:
Stock Android Lollipop 5.0.1 + Root SU + TWRP.

Stock settings, no modification.

Sync on, Google Now on.

Three email accounts, FB, Chrome browser, 40 min. on the phone and 30 SMS.

I'm really satisfied with battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] vampire36:
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[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
Hmm. Hard to say from just that. You might post in the battery thread with the recommended GSAM pics and read posts 1-4 in the Q&A section. It's probably a weird wakelock.

Do you get bad drain during idle? Also you might try clearing cache.
[Nexus 5 General] Nexxus2:
I got this extreme drain only once... i hope i'll never get it again. I'm on the stock 5.0.1

PS: these capchas are impossible...
[Nexus 5 General] Blackbox421:
Pretty nice I think. Watching 1h+ videos on YouTube, playing games linke candy crush a little bit and using whatsapp.

I was also in school and in the city so I don't had the best network connection, otherwise I would get even more SOT I guess. Flightmode while sleeping.

Brightness constantly on 35-40%. Costum Kernel, Stock. :)
[Nexus 5 General] luckana:
Mine always drops only like 1% overnight. Why are you asking ?
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
How many hrs? Airplane ✈ mode?

Via my NeXus™ 7FHD on XDA Premium app
[Nexus 5 General] luckana:
Hours, idk it's always different. Minimum 8 hours. Airplane off. Data,wifi off. Normal.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
I'm always switching back and forth between using Google Now but greatly increased battery life seems to win out in the end. Even in its most minimum capacity of Search Results and Stories to Read it will increase the average power draw noticeably. With location based cards and other consistently updated cards (sports, stocks, weather) it could be the largest drain on your phone.

Google now off, Locations off, Hotword off

Auto Syncs on, Adaptive Brightness on and set to 40%

Stock 5.0.1

http://imgur.com/a/5VsRI

There are also shots from 45% on the same charge. I was taking voltage log measurements for the first half which are included at the bottom of this album and included for analysis in this thread here. Interestingly power draw during music playback appears as lower than that of a phone during deep sleep, according to software readings.
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
Just wondering, any particular reason why you use r777 instead r793?
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Because mine is dropping 10-12% overnight.

I reset the phone. Did not install any new apps. It's is still dropping at that rate.
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
My fifth impression on lollipop battery is:

- I managed to get 4h sot and dead battery within 10h. Better than in my previous attempts.

- I can't get idle battery lower than 1,5%/h (wifi/sync on/2G)

- I found code blue 793 to be "better" than elementalx on same Cataclysm rom. I don't know the difference between these two kernels. Both of them have too much batt consumption in idle. I believe the problem is not within kernel.

My next step would be messing around with disabling services (my wakelock are lower than on KK), playing with AppOps and maybe trying different modem.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
I have never got 4hrs SoT. It's always less than 2hrs. :(:(:(
[Nexus 5 General] Theshawty:
Same here. I average around 1.5h but get 2h at the very max.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Read the first 2 posts in the battery help thread for tips on getting good battery life.

If you still get such low screen time, it could be a poor signal on data, or what you're doing with those 2 hours you use it.

So then read post 4 and post the recommended screen shots there.

Read post 3 and if it applies to you, it will show you how to handle certain wakelocks.

[Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!

?
[Nexus 5 General] TigerCourage:
Ok so after I got the new refurbished rma device, here are my results with some tweaking.

Loads of web browsing with Chrome, a bit of Spotify, Facebook, some calls, YouTube and Crossy Road gaming, 2 emails synchronized.

As you can see I had bad signal at home.

I am super satisfied. I disabled all sort of touch vibration and touch sounds (on keyboard too) as well as unlock sounds.

I disabled Google Fit (main battery drain cullprit in Lollipop).

Google Now is ON with Google Now Launcher.

Location is set to device only

WiFi searching while not connected to network is OFF

Location Reporting is ON

Bluetooth connected all day with my Moto 360 and a bit with my car.

Adaptive brightness ON but lowered it down slightly.

Stock ROM 5.0.1 with ElementalX 2.05 and using his app to global undervolt -25 and his battery saving mode automatically applies when the battery is 15%. And to change the yellowish tint of the screen calibration.

120+ apps installed and not using Greenify at all.

I'm in love with the Nexus 5 again ????

I used to get only 2 hours SOT or less with the old Nexus 5 I had.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
OK. It's the Google services that is the culprit I guess. But to use the "Disable Service" app, I need to root my device as it prompts when I uncheck any service or is there a way to use it without rooting?
[Nexus 5 General] Elluel:
no
[Nexus 5 General] pcphobic:
[MENTION=2692781]dakore[/MENTION]

At the time of my testing and posting, the latest was Code Blue r777. No reason.

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[MENTION=6192806]hh.bb.mm[/MENTION]

Can share your battery history? Can use Wakelock Detector app to see what was waking up your phone alot?

Did u disable "scanning always available" in Wifi - Advanced settings? U need to disable it.

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[MENTION=2692781]dakore[/MENTION]

Another factor is the ROM. Through my own testing of many Lollipop ROMs, they all give diffferent battery results. Give Purity a try.

Purity is best paired with Code Blue kernel.

Purity rom can be downloaded from http://htcfanboys.com/download/DariosF/?action=list&folder=53254
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Here they are...

I have not rooted my phone. So can't use Wakelock Detector.

I have factory reset my phone 3 times in the last couple of weeks. No change in battery performance.

Today, location is off. All sync is off. Google now is off. "OK Google " is off. No social apps.

I charged a brief time that is the reason for the spike.
[Nexus 5 General] :
You have way too much wake time for only 7 hours total. Try wakelock detector for the pc. Apparently the pc version will read Non rooted wakelocks...

> Android Development and Hacking > Android Apps and Games > [APP][2.2+] [v.1.5+] Wakelock Detector- What keeps your phone awake when it sleeps?

And whatsapp is indeed a social app, and used 15 percent of your battery. ?
[Nexus 5 General] jazk:
cataclysm rom, December 24 stable. Code blue r777 with Google now disabled. 30% of the time using HSPA and the rest WiFi. Playing clash of clans, WhatsApp and used Google chrome mostly. Insane battery, if I kept using the phone I would have achieved 6 hours SOT minimum
[Nexus 5 General] MrObvious:
That's so weird the background battery usage of Google and some other apps. Does Hike need to stay open or is that legit? And you might make sure Whatsapp doesn't turn on your wifi in the settings. I don't know if that was resolved but I remember it did turn on your wifi when 5.0 first came out.
[Nexus 5 General] hh.bb.mm:
Where do I check that ? WhatsApp settings didn't have anything like that.
[Nexus 5 General] Dan1909:
Got a source for any of that? Just as it goes against what I've read previously in general literature.
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
Yeah he's wrong
[Nexus 5 General] aohus:
One of the reasons why I don't like battery threads

First few weeks of a new phone release is the honeymoon stage between the phone and phone owner. Once people start to use it with normal usage patterns it will be a lot better.

I see a lot of armchair analysis on this thread. This kinda reminds me of the 'task killer' days where people were adamant about it when in actuality it made battery worst on gingerbread and up.
[Nexus 5 General] Dirk:
Not sure what to make of that!

For my own results, i'm happy with battery life so far. It's better that i had on my S2 with Neatrom where i used to get home from work with 40% left, and the S2 with CM10.2 where it was always near empty! At the moment i'm getting home with 50% left.

I've been running ART since last night and it does seem to have made a slight improvement to battery life. I'm at 60% now and about to go home. (Speed wise i'd say ART has been beneficial for certain things, especially noticeable loading and using the xda app for example.)
[Nexus 5 General] TigerCourage:
First day with this phone. I LOVE IT. I just hope the battery improves over time. I was getting 5 hours on the S3 on screen time. 3G and Google Now enabled, auto brightness
[Nexus 5 General] TigerCourage:
Damn this xda app lol
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Mine today
[Nexus 5 General] tietherope:
I didn't use the screen all that much and the phone decided to stay awake non stop all of the sudden, but I'm impressed on my first charge. Much better than my Galaxy S4.
[Nexus 5 General] nadrojcote:
I've been getting decent results with the modifications I've done.

- faux kernel

- undervolt 50mv

- disable sync and google now

- Using ART runtime

- 3rd party auto brightness app
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
Hmmm, that doesn't look good. I am getting that much screen on time after about being 15 hours unplugged. That is with auto brightness on and nothing turned off. All my regular syncing is on like Gmail and my regular news and social apps usually sync every 2 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] t4t3r:
Getting a little over 3hrs screen time with everything on (Google now, location, etc) and 25% brightness, plus I am a HEAVY chrome user which seems to destroy the battery time of any phone I've had. Quite happy.
[Nexus 5 General] Z51:
only thing im not liking is the battery life on this device. I came from a note 3 which was AWESOME on battery life. its not too bad but it drained 30% overnight just on standby.

I am "training" the battery so we will see what happens down the road.
[Nexus 5 General] laur3n.newm4n:
You can't really compare a 2300mAh battery to the one in the Note 3, which has a much larger battery. Duh, the Note 3 will have better battery life - IT HAS A BIGGER BATTERY.

I had 60% battery left on my N5 yesterday at 12 hours after 2 hours of screen on time and half an hour of calls. I used navigation, email, Twitter, etc. like I normally would. I'd call that pretty impressive - I'm fully stock. If I had done the same thing on my Galaxy Nexus, it would have died after 5 or 6 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] droidleaf:
Looks like I've got a wakelock bug somewhere. Google Now, Google location services, etc, all on, sync on. This is the third full discharge cycle so far. Nexus 4 does much better with the same mobile network signal, so I don't think it's because of crappy mobile network signal strength. Hopefully software updates fix things for me.

15 hours battery total, 8 minutes screen on time.

Android OS 31%

Phone Idle 20%

Cell Standby 14%

Screen 5%
[Nexus 5 General] compchick813:
I was having the same thing 2 days ago - Android OS eating battery. I changed location services to battery saver and in the advanced wifi settings unchecked the box for "scanning always available". Since then the issue has gone away for me.
[Nexus 5 General] bloot:
I did it too. Here are my results. Most of the time on wi-fi, no google now and no gmail auto sync.
[Nexus 5 General] shakuyi:
I have teh same issue very strange trying to figure out what is causing Android OS to be so high can you tell me how is your Time Without a Signal? I am wondering if its causing an issue mine is at 50% but my cell standby is very low
[Nexus 5 General] muyoso:
Do you use a wireless charger? I dont think Google fixed that bug yet, because the one day I charged the phone with the wireless orb, it had Android OS or Android System around 35% at the end of the day, with 3 or more hours of screen on time. Won't know until I let the beta BBS app go through a full charge and discharge cycle and then test the wireless charger again, but I suspect that it was the wirelesschargerdetector wakelock causing the problem for me.
[Nexus 5 General] droidleaf:
I already charged the phone so I don't have the data anymore, but I'm pretty sure it's 0% Time Without a Signal.

My nexus 4, also on t-mobile, shows 0% Time Without a Signal, and it's been in my other pocket the whole time. Interestingly enough, the nexus 4 is currently at 21 hours, 37%. Android OS using 18% battery (Keep Awake 4h 24m), Screen using 8% battery (screen on 33 minutes). Apparently I don't use my phone very often :p

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Nope, stock charger that came with the Nexus 5.