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[Nexus 5 General] :
Im providing information for people who care with screen shots to back up my claim. Yes I was connected, why the hell would I lie to make a phone look good? Its a bloody phone not a family member. I got 4h 49 today screen time. Today was with 3G outside the house. It's charging now cause I'm over using it to kill the battery so extreme heavy use. On the 5S now which gets through a day no problem. The Nexus 5 will also without a problem in heavy use.
[Nexus 5 General] shr33kant:
I think you guys need to chill, the fact is that the N5 has good battery life. It's obviously not going to be better than something with a 3000mAh battery like the G2 but considering that it's only got a 2300mAh battery I think the phone is really well put together and the new OS is well optimised.

I've gotten through every day with no worry whatsoever about the battery lasting me all day since day 1.

I've attached some more screenshots again for today with a more balanced mix of WiFi and Mobile data, mostly used the phone to text, send IM's, browse xda, twitter, facebook, listen to music and some phone calls too (all through bluetooth). No games were played.
[Nexus 5 General] dinodude:
Well I never had a nexus 4 and he showed screen shots of what he was doing showed a game and chrome browser.

And seriously keep your temper.
[Nexus 5 General] davis9491:
Just got mine yesterday and gave my Nexus 4 to my wife who was ready to ditch her iPhone. I have heard mixed reviews on the battery. I am curious to see how it does for me.
[Nexus 5 General] tangosierra_:
Lol you don't need root for custom kernel. Just unlock and fastboot flash boot boot.img
[Nexus 5 General] AliLaPointe:
Yes, what kernel settings do you have going on?
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Fauxs latest beta kernel with his recommended kernel settings plus UV -50. Brightness at 30% and everything on with location mode on battery saving.

>^.^< Sent from meow nexus5
[Nexus 5 General] ASHISH10211:
nexus 5 battery confusion

i own iphone 4s but now planning on getting nexus 5 because of its premium type looks , screen , and all that but after reading about its poor battery life i am confused......:confused:.....can anyone please tell me that is there any scope of improving battery life in future with google updates or custom roms ?? HELPp
[Nexus 5 General] Jeimygirl:
Location off, WiFi off (except for one minute in the end), sync on every hour across 3 accounts, Bluetooth on for 2 hours streaming Pandora, nova prime launcher so no Google Now. I don't have my Llama active right now which I usually use to turn sync off at night. I'll report back after making some power saving changes.

Stock.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Meh... Some of these are poor. No offense to Faux but his kernel isn't doing you much in the battery dept. On this charge I'm at 25-30% brightness, all mobile data, location on high accuracy, everything synced, stock rooted, no custom kernel or anything.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
This is also with 2 hours play music and a 15 min hangouts video chat with my wife
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
battery is better than iPhone 4s so you needn't worry
[Nexus 5 General] val580:
actually it might be worse , except in call only usage

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/9

http://blog.gsmarena.com/nexus-5-grinds-through-our-battery-test-routine/#more-57424
[Nexus 5 General] ASHISH10211:
thanks.....only 4.5 hours of web browsing in nexus.....and only 6 hours of videoplayback.....and no morphie like battery cases are available even.....

.....its a dealbreaker....:(
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
Here I have Cataclysm ROM installed as well as Franco r12.

Still not impressed. My SOT is high but my overall hours of usage is half compared to others.
[Nexus 5 General] Tonster1983:
id be jumping for joy if i got 5h+ of SOT !!! im lucky to hit 3....thats amazing
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
again. it depends on your use case...

3 hours SOT + intensive CPU usage = someone else's 7 hour SOT and doing low-CPU tasks like texting

it is PHYSICALLY impossible - go check your battery current drain using terminal or Battery Monitor Widget

15% brightness + texting = battery current drain of 200-300mAh. 2300mAH battery / 300mAh = 7 hours

vs 15% brightness + high CPU usage of web browsing = battery current drain of 500-700 mAh. 2300mAh battery / 700mAh = 3 hours

I have resigned to the fact that I demand more (CPU) from my phone when I use it, than other people. other people should recognize this as well, and stop complaining about 3 hour SOT vs 7 hour SOT
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
Moves eats battery like no tomorrow.

Manage your settings and apps if you want good battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] joshyth:
Is anyone having this problem? The mobile signal just keep staying yellow, but it`s not really hurting the battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
Sorry if I'm missing something, but your OP says 8+ hours of SOT, but your images show 2 hours and some minutes?

I agree with everyone else that the average is about 4.54 hours if all features are on (Google Now+Hotword detection and Hogh Accuracy GPS).

I've got just over 6 hours SOT using Faux 001m running an 8 hour HD youtube video, but it's my understanding that leaving a youtube video streaming uses less battery than browsing, which would make sense given that I get 4.5-5 hours SOT with normal usage - email/browsing etc.
[Nexus 5 General] Schnedi:
today

..:Enviado desde mi Nexus 5:..
[Nexus 5 General] cyburke:
I disagree. My phone has gotten less than enjoyable battery even before Moves was installed. You can see it only hit 9℅ utilization, same as the Android OS.
[Nexus 5 General] r0cafella:
9℅ for one app is high for my liking but each to their own.

In my experience location services are a huge drain,
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
Faux is nothing but battery for me bro. Strange how some phones run better on certain kernels and some on other kernels.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
Haven't read the past 81 pages, so please don't judge me if this has already been said:

I'm coming from the Desire HD, which has a very tiny battery. The DHD was one of the flagships of its time while only having a 1230mAh battery and to me it felt like driving a monster truck while having a tank that can only hold one gallon of gas. That's the main reason why i stuffed an Evo 3D battery in there (1900mAh) to somehow get me through the day without my phone running out of juice before i could reach a charger.

That being said i'm not that happy with the battery life the nexus 5 has got. I honestly wonder why Google took the G2, cut off a quarter of its battery and thought that was a good idea.

A lot of my friends and even my brother and his girlfriend have HTC Ones. HTC gave them this really really nice battery saving options where the phone will go into a standby mode. That means that WiFi and mobile data will be shut down and only woken up every few minutes.

That got me thinking: Is it really necessary to constantly have a connection? Should be okay if the phone only connected every 5-10 minutes for 30-60 seconds. (Whatsapp for example only checks for messages every few minutes, so i wouldn't even notice.)

So i bought this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaverpro

There is also a free version available, which is fixed to a sleep time of 30 minutes (which is too high for me, so i bought the pro version to set it to 5 minutes. And no, i'm not getting any money out of this, just thought i'd share the solution to my frustration i had the last 3 years.

While all the data connections are shut down, you are still able to recieve calls and sms, but there is an option to go into flight mode if you want to really extend your battery life.

This is, of course, only a solution for lowering the nexus' consumption while it's idling.

I do have to say that the screen brightness is set too high for use indoors and while it's dark. So you might get a bit more battery time from using apps like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.velis.auto.brightness

(But don't forget to create a second profile with 100% brightness. The guys at subway are starting to hate me because my phone is always too dark for their scanner to scan the QR Code off the screen.)

And of course you can/should use some app like Llama ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kebab.Llama ) to control your wifi. It's not going to be much, but it doesn't hurt either. And it's nice to not always have to manually change between a loud profile while on the go and a silent profile while in the office. (Llama only uses the information of the cell towers you're connected to, so no battery draining usage of the google positioning stuff)
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
KangaKat V1.4 with included Stock kernel

Wanted to post my usage stats since doing a factory wipe and installing latest deodexed KangaKat v1.4 and charging fully last night.

It's been off the charger for over 12 hours (I didn't sleep as well as this phone!!), but been using it a lot in the last few hours. Phone is completely cool to the touch, actually a lot cooler than it was when I was using Faux's kernel, underclocked CPU&GPU, undervolted and all the thermal control stuff on. Not knocking Faux as I've used his kernels and apps exclusively for over a year since I got my N4 at launch. I'm sure I'll use his kernels again when he optimizes, but this stock kernel is the bomb. Not sure if KangaKat did any optimization on the stock kernel?

I've still got 31% battery left and at 4 hours 9 minutes SOT, so will likely get at least 5.5 hours if not just over 6 SOT with a total of about 18 hours on battery.

High accuracy location settings, Google Now hot words enabled, basically everything on that would be enabled out of the box from Google.

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/74g7ptgthy9glkg/xzsqNFm5bB

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/74g7ptgthy9glkg/xzsqNFm5bB

https://www.dropbox.com/sc/g4dbiocf5df0oz6/psVfjpZy0I
[Nexus 5 General] cobyman7035:
the battery is better than Nexus 4

I can get 6 hours on screen time

Via my N€×us 5 on XDA premium
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
from my experience (and other people's experiences), the nexus 5 already has very low battery usage during idle ( I have 4 gmail accounts with sync on through 3G data, no wifi).... drops <5% over 10 hours overnight
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
If you only have those 4 gmail accounts then of course you don't have a high battery drain. The phone sends out it's periodic heartbeat every 15 minutes to keep the push connection to the google servers alive and as long as you don't get any mails then that's it.

Add a few programs like whatsapp and facebook messenger and the phone is woken up a lot more and the 3G connection probably uses more power too.
[Nexus 5 General] paperWastage:
i had facebook messenger enabled along with google now and other stuff... didnt' see that much difference in idle

I'm comparing my experiences across different devices (similar apps installed/synced)... nexus 5 has the best idle time across them all
[Nexus 5 General] rmhumtex97:
Not to bad. This was with 40 mins of Netflix streaming on LTE and about 20-30 mins of heavy gaming. The rest was just twitter, texting, YouTube, web browsing etc. I was on LTE the whole time. Not to bad, much better than nexus 4 so far.
[Nexus 5 General] lpforte:
Sorry if this has been covered already, but is anyone else getting HORRIBLE wake lock? When I first got my nexus 5 the battery was fine, but over the past few days it has been atrocious. It's at the point where leaving the phone completely idle is enough to go from 75% to shut off over a 6 hour span. I have disabled every app imaginable and it still does it. I have reflashed the stock image several times and I always get the same issue. Between google play services and mediaserver, the phone wakes up like every 10 seconds and I can't figure it out.

I think it's related to a google play service update that the store keeps forcing on me, but it won't let me install some apps without the update.
[Nexus 5 General] Ashanmaril:
I didn't use my phone a ton today cause I was working most of the day, but it made me realize the Nexus 5 has really great standby time.
[Nexus 5 General] mr mystery:
I cant get more than 10 hours total or 2 hours screen on time. It's atrocious and I am really not happy with it. I may call Google and see if I can get a swap this can't be normal.
[Nexus 5 General] pumah350:
Stock N5

Getting pretty consistent results... I usually have 30-60 minutes of calls too...
[Nexus 5 General] Soldier 2.0:
I gave up guys. I am returning my Nexus 5 because of its terrible battery life, speaker, rattling buttons, bleeding screen, washed out colors, sharp buttons, uncomfortable grip, the list goes on. The Google representative I spoke to said many were being returned. Swappa is overflowing with Nexus 5s. Even Franco, the kernel developer, said he is not getting the N5. My favorite reviewers recommended not to get the phone. I had great expectations for this device. I wanted it to be a little more like the G2, but we got a nice little surprise. I am hoping the next Google phone is more successful than this. Have fun guys, and don't you date turn that screen on. :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] eman3316@optonline.net:
This has been about my average for the past couple of days...
[Nexus 5 General] gd6noob:
hammerhead-faux123-002b06.zip

Is this the one your using?

Im using hammerhead-faux123-002u.zip which was also same date as

hammerhead-faux123-002b06.zip

...
[Nexus 5 General] dweekie:
I'm getting -10 db difference in signal strength between nexus 5 and nexus 4, with the nexus 4 having better signal in my location. A lot of the screenshots seem to show yellow signal strength throughout. Its definitely hurting battery life, but the screen is still the most significant power hog.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBrightside:
Can someone please explain the heavy battery consumption oft Thema facebook app to me? I was barely using it.
[Nexus 5 General] trsix:
cya

Adios!
[Nexus 5 General] Ulver:
Uh, Franco has a Nexus 5. Have you not looked in the development section yet? He's already released r13. Anyway, sucks you have to return it. Maybe your battery is defective? I've been getting great battery results and couldn't be happier.

Peace out!
[Nexus 5 General] tkoreaper:
Faux Kernel Stable v2m, CPU Voltage -87.5 mV, Max Clock 1.574, Only 25 mins of WiFi, All 3G (No LTE), Mods: Lux Pro and Screen Dimmer Kernel Module.

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Faux Kernel Beta 003, CPU Voltage -87.5 mV, Max Clock 1.498, All 3G (No LTE), Mods: Lux Pro and Screen Dimmer Kernel Module.

Appears to be worse than the stable release, but YMMV
[Nexus 5 General] tvdang7:
No way.....4 hours on LTE......impressive.
[Nexus 5 General] MarcoHD:
Don't use my Nexus 5 much yesterday, but i find still really good battery stats.

What are you think about the stats mates?
[Nexus 5 General] antisoma:
otauwi ego

Very nice.

I'll get a little more than seven hours of screen time on my most recent charge. Cataclysm, Faux, -50mv, stock max clock.

Completely satisfied with that. I would like to know how to reduce google play services from sucking 10% of my battery. New to Android and just starting to figure these things out.
[Nexus 5 General] radeon962:
Majority of N5 's on Swappa are new in box and are users trying to make a buck due to limited availability.

Switched to ART last night to compare. Was getting 3.5 hours SOT previously so have to wait and see what ART may offer. Loving the N5 so far all stock.
[Nexus 5 General] tkoreaper:
Let us know how it works. I've been meaning to try it to see if it offers any more battery life, but last time I switched I was stuck at the loading screen for over half an hour so I don't think my ROM is compatible. MY next project is to take advantage of the Faux Clock's "Per app Control" feature and give each app it's own min/max CPU/GPU frequencies to see if I can squeeze out even more battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] Dlog:
maybe it's update interval is too fast? Also try disabling the location setting in the facebook app's options.

It doesn't show up on my battery overview, but it's still one of the top apps on my process statistic. (Can be found under Settings->Developer Options)

And i've got the interval set to 1 hour and the location option disabled.

I've checked it's background data usage and it's very high (2.4MB) compared to it's foreground data (382KB).

So maybe also limit that: http://www.pocketables.com/2013/08/...ackground-data-usage-for-individual-apps.html
[Nexus 5 General] dadat0:
Wifi turned on the whole time. First day use from 100%.
[Nexus 5 General] Funkym0nkey:
After reading horror stories, I am actually quite surprised and happy with the battery life on my nexus 5. This is just after 2 charging cycles. As this was weekend, the phone did not see usual heavy 1 day activity. But I did not charge it for 2 days. And with such long standby and still 4+ hours of screen use which was mainly in chrome and feedly and emails, I don't think it is bad at all. Still more than 10% left.

Phone is completely stock. Just rooted. 3 email accounts syncing. Twitter and Facebook syncing. Whatsapp and hangouts working in background. Very happy and relieved.
[Nexus 5 General] letakomahieu:
My phone is full charged last night, so I unplug the charger and went to bed. From 12:00am to 10am and my phone auto shutdown and has only 3% battery left !!!

Can anyone explain plz !!!
[Nexus 5 General] DoxMAZz:
Guys please help

i am confused about the battery life of nexus 5.

After reading all reviews about the battery life the average battery life is 4-5 hour onscreen.

So should i buy this device or galaxy s4 is better.
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
I've been going back and forth on the s4 vs n5 before my return window closes in a couple days. I have both. I get about the same life on both devices, roughly 3.5h - 4.5h SOT. I haven't tried with power saving mode on the s4 though. Right now I have 16% remaining on my N5 with 4h SOT. I have 3 Gmail accounts, 30 min sync Exchange work acct, multiple social networks syncing, and lots of Hangouts chat with my best friend. I'm very satisfied so far. And with how fast this charges, once I'm not in my battery testing routine, adding an extra 15-20% on my drive from work will be easy.

I'm running Battery Guru to try and discover other areas I can gain longevity from.
[Nexus 5 General] darky207:
Yesterday i tested the battery.

I am on stock Rom Wirth lenaro r11.

Gnow off, sync of mail facebook on. 2g network.

I have much time on facebook whatsapp surf the web, 10 SMS little call some YouTube Videos.

I dont play games or something.
[Nexus 5 General] threev:
I am down to 13% with 6 hours off the charger with only 2 hours 16 min of SOT. I have had GPS, Google Now, and location disabled as well as disabled LTE in favor of 3g (no wifi) and then running Juice Defender to not use data except for screen on time on top of it. Rooted using Faux v2 with stock ROM. It is totally unacceptable. I would be at 80% with my HTC One doing the same things. I found the problem though I think. The processor basically runs at full speed when the screen is on. When the screen is off the phone uses almost no battery. If you look at the processor consumption it is at 300 mhz or 2.26 Ghz only, nothing in between. This causes the phone to be uncomfortable to hold due to heat.

I am trying to figure out if it's a CPU defect, a battery defect, or if it's software. If it's just the software, I can live with a custom ROM, which I am about to try anyway. Out of the box though, this battery life is embarrassing. Thoughts?
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
Something is not right. Can you screenshot your battery meter with list of processes?
[Nexus 5 General] DoxMAZz:
Thank you

now i think i am going to buy nexus 5 asap

Thumbs up:thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Stock with brightness on auto
[Nexus 5 General] coolguy949:
Here's where I ended up. The last 30% always seems to last forever. In the last15% of battery, the result was one additional hour of SOT.

The result would have been even better if Google Play Services didn't go rogue and eat 10% battery initially.
[Nexus 5 General] ximaginex:
I'm still waiting for my Nexus 5 in the mail so I can't verify that this works but the app Greenify seems to work pretty well at prolonging battery life on most android phones. Most people say that they can get 10 hours on their Nexus 5 and then with Greenify they managed to pull 13-15 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] Yaz75:
Your results are similar to mine. I've been on for 8hrs 4 min and still have 70% battery. A few phone calls, some texting, even read a bit of a book for 20 minutes and have 1 hour screen on time. Totally stock and running Apex launcher. Most days at work I can listen to BT headphones for 8 hours and still have 60% left. No real issues witth this battery at al.
[Nexus 5 General] threev:
What kind of temps is everyone getting? I am over 50C CPU and over 35C battery all the time when the screen is on. It is the warmest phone I have ever had by far.
[Nexus 5 General] rmhumtex97:
I'm getting pretty consistent results. These results are with LTE on the whole time, some web browsing, twitter, YouTube, texting etc. Also I watched 43 mins of Netflix on LTE. Not to mention I listened to music for about 2 1/2 hours. 4 hours of SOT is pretty good. I'm using ART and once my battery goes below 60% it automatically turns off syncing. (I set it to do that). I'm happy
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
25-30% brightness, all mobile data, everything synced, GPS location on high accuracy, etc...rastakat and stock kernel, plus 3 hours of play music over Bluetooth on high quality over LTE. Significantly better than my n4 without throttling or UV/lower max freq.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Stupid app won't do multiple
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Last pic
[Nexus 5 General] mcsingh:
Very happy with the battery life, especially standby time. Rooted, stock everything using greenify to hibernate apps.
[Nexus 5 General] derberts:
What apps do you greenify?
[Nexus 5 General] mcsingh:
I pretty much greenify everything to be honest.
[Nexus 5 General] Jayrod1980:
Unnecessary IMO
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
+1

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2

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Oops u got a free thanks from me and it was your first thanks... Enjoy:p

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] DoxMAZz:
Can we replace battery of nexus 5.

i replaced battery of my previous device that is galaxy fit, it has 1350mAh battery but i replaced with 2400mAh battery and it runs with no issues.
[Nexus 5 General] Globespy:
I've found the opposite - runs way cooler than my N4.

Battery 30-31C, CPU 39-41

Kangakat v1.4 with stock kernel. It did run hotter pure stock out of the box from Google.

Phone ran a lot hotter with custom kernel, which was underclocked and undervolted.

Could be a rogue app causing the CPU to be constantly working?

If you are on custom ROM/kernel, put phone back to stock.

Or try KangaKat
[Nexus 5 General] ijeff:
It's pretty astonishing seeing how many people feel 4 hours of screen on time is a good thing.
[Nexus 5 General] DowntownJeffBrown:
No its 003b01

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
Some apps I greenify.

Best buy. If you don't it will continue to run in the background looking for your location

Words with friends. Already a battery hog but even worse if one of its background services gets stuck.

Scramble with friends. Runs in background even if not in use. No excuse for that.

Same with ESPN radio. No need for it to run while not in use.

I wish permission manager still worked because apps like Groupon, Facebook, Google offers, keep asking for location. With permission manager you could change that but in 4.4 that feature is gone.
[Nexus 5 General] luisvilla1993:
Running cataclysm rom with franco's r13 kernel. stock frequencies. about 2 hours of voice calls and the rest heavy texting and whatsapp.