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[Nexus 5 General] drive7:
Ehr meh gehrd, I love this damn phone. I've been using the i9505 Galaxy S4 up until now, and though while it's great I fancied a change. I picked up the Nexus 5 at Christmas thinking it would just be a fun toy—but nooo, this thing has taken over as my daily device.

The only peeve I have is the non-replaceable battery, but I have to stress that I am getting massively better battery performance out of the N5 than I was from my S4. The power draw is just so much smaller. My S4 was consistently sucking 460mA, regardless of firmware or rom, or user activity. My N5 usually idles way lower than that, and has far fewer wakelocks (probably because Samsung crams the S4 with a thousand bits of garbage—and that was with 'lite' custom roms).

It doesn't have the bells and whistles of the S4, but that's exactly why I like it. It's clean, no-nonsense, and just gets everything done with the minimum fuss.
[Nexus 5 General] marleyfan61:
But the issue is that ringtone and notification are locked together, not separate. You can't turn down the notification level still have the ringer on high. Can't understand why they would do this. Fix in a future update maybe?

Anyway, my pet peeve is the inconsistent battery life. Great some days, not so great others. And my usage is pretty much the same from day to day.
[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
Biggest Android KitKat piece of ****:

- Chromium WebView

Biggest Nexus 5 piece of ****:

- Speaker, vibrator motor, display viewing angles, camera auto-focus (sorry, can't choose one of these)
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidKills:
My biggest pet peeve?

The fact that dust/lint gets stuck every now and on the edges of the screen.
[Nexus 5 General] bricky23:
That's all you got? Come on you can do better. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] sabre31:
Agreed I am in the same boat that is my biggest issue. Its killer when you have small kids. I feel like going back to my htc one which has super fast shutter and good pics.
[Nexus 5 General] AndroidKills:
:p I love everything else! I just hate seeing a spec of lint stuck on the edges :crying:
[Nexus 5 General] Lucke:
only two things for me...

1. horrible camera software. when the phone is held steady (and with non moving targets), the hardware is capable of absolutely beautiful pictures... too bad life doesn't always hold still.

2. the USB connector is upside down compared to most (if not all) other phones... this just means that i have to re-purchase accessories (proclip car dock is hardwired and i will have to rip apart the dash to run a new cable).

other than those two things, i've been more that pleased with the phone. the vibration is super strong, the speaker is loud (after flashing a mod in the other section) even though it distorts music (i'd rather listen to music in my headphones than on any phone speaker anyways), the viewing angle doesn't bother me since my phone is always infront of me...
[Nexus 5 General] kidgenius:
My biggest pet peeve....inability to get notifications while on a call. Moto Droid could do it. Galaxy Nexus couldn't. This phone can't. It's such a simple thing that I'd like the ability to enable. I've been on phone calls for an hour and don't even realize a text has come in because there is no audible notification.
[Nexus 5 General] PolishPrince:
My gripe is that you cannot get rid of all recent apps with ease like jellybean. You have to swipe away each app individually.
[Nexus 5 General] wind784:
Speaker I hates u
[Nexus 5 General] 95BlackGA:
Speaker. Has 2 separate speaker openings, only plays through one. Volume is fine for me.
[Nexus 5 General] Cirkustanz:
Call me crazy, but I'm kinda missing having an AMOLED screen.
[Nexus 5 General] CatThief:
The other one is the microphone.
[Nexus 5 General] 95BlackGA:
That makes more sense. I vaguely recall reading that in one of the reviews I read before settling with the N5.
[Nexus 5 General] iamhacked:
Hmm? It's always been this way, maybe it was a custom Rom feature.
[Nexus 5 General] daern:
I'm happy with the battery....when it doesn't go beserk and empty itself in a few hours. When it's working normally (which is most of the time, TBF) battery life is adequate.

And, regarding your comment about it's relevancy, battery life is probably the single most important thing on a phone. If the battery goes flat by lunchtime, who cares if the screen has a good viewing angle, or the autofocus is super responsive...the phone is dead.
[Nexus 5 General] Caelrie:
The speaker. It's just not loud enough and it distorts.
[Nexus 5 General] :
I don't think you could ever swipe away all recent apps, that's a custom ROM thing AFAIK.

And my gripe is the headphone jack on the top of the phone. Having it on the bottom makes more sense IMO
[Nexus 5 General] alhadee12:
Speaker volume too low.
[Nexus 5 General] neoneras:
Speaker volume is a bit low, if I stay up late, sometimes I don't here alarm clock. I'm lucky n5 is not my only alarm clock.

Battery management is quite good compared to it's size (I had padfone before, battery life was a lot worse). I think playing with Tasker or any other solution that can adjust cpu speeds per app will get me 50% more time on battery
[Nexus 5 General] lukas_s:
Just the camera software. The camera hardware is clearly capable of taking some awesome photos, but the software is holding it back so much.
[Nexus 5 General] geemacd:
Camera, no competition for this question. Performance of it ruined some video I took at a gig
[Nexus 5 General] barondebxl:
Fact.
[Nexus 5 General] bradputt:
for me its the speaker... and yeah the camera software
[Nexus 5 General] paddylaz:
As lame as it sounds,

For me it's that the bottom bezel is an extra large chin jutting out (like the lg 2). Sounds pathetic but I find it an eyesore, especially as if you combine that with the onsreen buttons, the actual visible screen real estate looks way off-centre when for instance browsing the web. I wish they could have made it the same size as the top bezel (e.g. nexus 4, iPhone galaxy s4) because it looks weird.
[Nexus 5 General] HughesNet:
You can adjust the shutter speed manually.
[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
Yes!! This... i cry every time I look at the bottom edge of my screen...

That was not possible also with stock Jelly Bean :eek:

+1

I loved symmetric display-edges design like Nexus 4, iPhone, Motorola Atrix...
[Nexus 5 General] hotleadsingerguy:
The vibration is *extremely* weak. It sits on my desk next to me all day, and I can't feel it vibrate. Considering I don't want to annoy others in the office, I keep it on vibrate pretty much all the time, so I have to look over for the notification late all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] xReaper7x:
Currently for me it has to be the speaker, its a little low for my taste. I do use headphones all the time but it would still be nice to know I have a good speaker. Have not tried any mods yet but I will defiantly try one out tonight.
[Nexus 5 General] StopHammertime:
Hands down the fact the camera is a pain to focus on anything somewhat close, even if it's like 1 foot away, it seems to be impossible to focus on the subject.
[Nexus 5 General] stevemw:
There are two speaker-like grills; one is actually a microphone.
[Nexus 5 General] ExodusC:
The camera software is probably what bothers me the most. Slow compared to my Galaxy Nexus, and likes to focus/unfocus constantly. When it does focus it takes great photos though.

If I could list a peeve about the official bumper case, it's that the headphone jack opening is too small for my ATH-M50s, which don't even have a super-large plug or anything.

Am I the only one that doesn't use vibration at all on my phone? I turn it off for everything except keystrokes. I exclusively use the notification light when my phone is on silent (which is almost always unless I am expecting phone calls).

The notification light is so unintrusive, but very easy to notice if I'm doing something else. I haven't used vibration for notifications since I had an iPhone 3G way back.
[Nexus 5 General] lesonal:
It collects a lot of dust. The camera app is too slow .
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
Only annoyance is the fact that I'm too impatient to wait for a new device so I paid the $100 up charge given from Google to T-Mobile to pass along to is. So paying 450 for a 16 GB device... Which isn't the phones fault.

Overall I came from the s4 to n5 and I love it. I'm excited to get fast updates. I'm excited for the development that is on its way. And just happy to own a nexus.

The device itself is everything I thought it would be from the reviews. It takes good enough pics (yeah the shutter is slow but different apps can correct that), I have no light bleed or yellow tint to the screen. Idk. I love it
[Nexus 5 General] danaconda1:
My biggest pet peeve is the notification light not being consistent. Sometimes it lights up, sometimes it doesn't. I've downloaded the free version of Light Flow but that has the exact opposite problem - occasionally it doesn't stop blinking even after I've checked whatever caused the notification! Grrrr!
[Nexus 5 General] TCWadey:
The fact that Google got rid of the blue icons in KitKat, however seem to have left the "No Recent Apps" text when clearing all apps, blue! Not a big thing but still :P
[Nexus 5 General] peron:
The friggin volume buttons opposite the power, I always end up pressing them when turning on the phone...

Apple would have not done this mistake (I always wanted to say this)
[Nexus 5 General] ljesh:
One thing only?

The camera.
[Nexus 5 General] mistahseller:
According to your signature you do not even own a nexus 5?
[Nexus 5 General] FShiwani:
Power Button doesn't respond sometimes.
[Nexus 5 General] lolcopter:
I didn't like the protruding camera lense, but the phone is 10x better with an official case. I can lay it on flat surfaces on the front or back without issue and the phone feels much more secure and protected

and this is coming from someone who typically eschews cases
[Nexus 5 General] mistahseller:
If your speaker volume is too low flash this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2532788 takes 3 seconds and it works.
[Nexus 5 General] dashrendar:
Having two speakers on a phone is a waste. You need at least 2-3 feet separation to get true stereo effect for your ears.

Bio: I was born and I haven't died yet.
[Nexus 5 General] rans0m00:
Battery life. Haven't carried a charger in years and the car charger was for road trips. Neither are optional anymore.
[Nexus 5 General] g2uzer:
Accidentally Thanked you. :eek:

But it sounds like you should buy a different phone . there's plenty of options out there not sure why you still have a Nexus 5

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One is a speaker , the other one is a microphone.....
[Nexus 5 General] MxZeal:
My biggest pet peeve right here...

im not much of busy guy so the weak vibration doesn't really effect me (first phone so not sure how others are)

after getting some tweaks and mods my sound quality is fine... but yeah it does heat up when doing something like reading twitter
[Nexus 5 General] TheIgster:
You're crazy. This screen kills my GS3 screen. It's not even close.

Try Light Manager. Completely free and works great so far for me.
[Nexus 5 General] jd1639:
All the n5 users looking for something wrong with it
[Nexus 5 General] bricky23:
I swear, if this thing doesn't start wiping my ass, I'm going to hit it with a baseball bat. ;) :p
[Nexus 5 General] _jordan_:
Honestly? The camera, and the devices size.

Other than that the LTE, screen and soc are all awesome. Good build quality too.
[Nexus 5 General] marleyfan61:
I don't get it. You're complaining about the device's size? Didn't you know the size before you bought it?
[Nexus 5 General] rabaker07:
Funny thing is, the keystrokes is the only aspect of the vibration motor I don't like. It sucks, it seems to be super light until you start typing very quickly, then it gets all muddled and goes haywire.

And about most of these comments, they're all things that are easily solved with mods (speaker volume, vibration strength (heard of franco kernel, anyone?), even the camera has been modded to improve performance and quality around the board. And Google is releasing 4.4.1 soon that will resolve all of these and more (the dreaded Outlook leak that plagues the battery life of company email users like me).

I really thought the Moto X was going to win me over and I was so on-the-fence but when I went back to the VZ store to compare the two, I was just way more impressed with the Nexus 5 (battery life aside). I love this thing and I think in the long run, the mods and community ROMs are going to make this thing even more amazing.

So for me (#2), is battery, and to be honest it's actually completely acceptable. I just always yearn for MORE BATTERY! And I have seen mixed results day over day which is odd, and may be repaired by Google in the next patch or so. Otherwise, I can lower CPU, lower Voltage, Greenify, TiBu (ART please!), and XPosed (ART please!) until the battery lasts more than all day. So far... and knock on wood, the phone has never actually died on me. On Galaxy Nexus it was a twice daily event that prompted me to replace the batteries throughout each outing.

And if I spend more than 5 hours screen on, shoot me and tell me to live in the real world with the live people and not face to the phone. k thanks
[Nexus 5 General] _jordan_:
Sure did. But its a nexus.

How can you say no to a nexus?

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Nexus 5 General] rabaker07:
Excellent point. HTC One, however, is a different experience, but probably just because of surface area alone.
[Nexus 5 General] parkson:
So I take it the speakers and camera sucks
[Nexus 5 General] rabaker07:
Nah, just the factory config on the speakers and camera. The speaker is fine and the camera is SICK. OIS what?!

And just wait for the magnetic lens attachments. Prepare to be blown away.
[Nexus 5 General] dicecuber:
I hate the signal. Alway drops

Sent from this crappy Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] StarTrekCommunicator:
Camera software. I'm looking forward to an update. The upside down USB jack is annoying. Otherwise, I like the phone a lot.
[Nexus 5 General] Cirkustanz:
The visual quality is great...I would agree.

However, if you are a person that likes to use daydream for the clock mode, and you're not looking directly at the phone, it looks really bad. I get it, you don't need a completely visible clock...but with an amoled screen, you have one. :P I also have a charging stand at my desk at work and I frequently end up using the phone to watch movies, etc...I usually have an hour or two of downtime spread out across the day.

The screen is just not as pleasant to use in these scenarios. And it's not just for when the phone is not in my hand...many mobile games for example, when you have to tilt the screen sideways to play the game since it uses the motion sensor...the visual quality just isn't very good.

I never bought into the viewing angle debates in the lcd/plasma television era. Seriously, when the screen is as large as televisions are nowadays, the viewing angle in REAL USE, seriously doesn't matter at all.

However, when it's a 5 inch screen, it really does. Say what you will about the argument of "Dude, it's a phone, not a television" but seriously, most people in this thread have multiple hours of screen on time per day...if you dismiss someone's dissatisfaction with what is clearly the most important thing in a phone, keep in mind that your bias is...just as relevant as theirs.

But hey, for about 2 years I told myself, "never again am I buying a new phone that has some kind of downgrade from my previous phone." This started because I realized that not having a notification LED was REALLY annoying me. I had one in the Nexus One, and when I replaced that phone (screen problems, and as you may recall late in that phone's life they switched to giving people LCD's instead of AMOLEDS) for a model that didn't have a notification LED, and I ended up really missing it. Technically I did that with this phone (I gave up having a removable memory card) but since I switched to using a music headset that has a storage card built in, this hasn't really effected me.

The screen however...I have to wonder if in many ways I would have been happier with another model. I'm a huge fan of the phone for many reasons...and it's a STEAL especially at the price point, but it's going to take a lot to convince me in the future to buy another phone with an LCD.

REALLY hoping the next Nexus doesn't.

Two Nexus models have been sent to space...yo.
[Nexus 5 General] _jordan_:
Lol.

Thats one fine nexus 5

Sent from my Xiaomi MI2S
[Nexus 5 General] Badd_blood:
I don't really have any complaints so far and I'm picky with things. Everything you guys said I haven't had a problem.

Vibration - powerful and loud just like my iPhone 5

Speaker - not great quality but it was loud I had to turn it to the lowest volume for Youtube

Screen - viewing angles are great with the IPS display

The only hardware that is seriously lacking is the camera.
[Nexus 5 General] ShadowDragon:
Polarization of the screen, means no landscape mode with my sunglasses on, so Navigation has to be done portrait style
[Nexus 5 General] switchy85:
Wow, really? I'll have to test when mine arrives, but I don't remember having this problem since I stopped using dumb phones way back when.
[Nexus 5 General] ShadowDragon:
If your sunglasses are polarized as well, then yes.
[Nexus 5 General] ExodusC:
Seriously?

What network are you on?

My Nexus 5 is virtually always attached to T-Mobile's LTE with strong signal and good speeds. The few times I've dropped off while driving, it immediately attached to the HSPA+ network. When I came back into an LTE area, the reattach to LTE was near instantaneous.

I never, ever had that kind of experience with Verizon. It took all of my several Verizon devices what felt like forever to do hand-off, including devices like the Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, and a few Motorola phones.
[Nexus 5 General] chopper the dog:
Would you just rma your f'ing phone already and stop making comments across multiple threads. We get it... Your signal sucks... you don't like the device... something is obviously wrong with your carrier or device. Mine and 99.9% of other peoples devices are perfectly fine.

good day.
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
I'm on tmo and I noticed sometimes the call quality (not signal but audio quality thru headset and speakerphone) is kind of poor. When I'm waiting for someone to pick up, the ring buzz or tone or whatever u wanna call it fades out at the end of the buzz and when they answer it sounds like they are on speakerphone or muffling the microphone. Sorry don't know how else to explain it
[Nexus 5 General] dicecuber:
Lol? I'm pretty sure this is happening on over 10% of these devices and it's not carrier based. Do a google search if you don't believe me. Oh wait don't. Since you're a know it all

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[Nexus 5 General] androidrockz:
I have a new pet peeve but this may be a glitch on Hangouts.

Text messages are sending twice and I don't know why. There are NO other messaging apps on the device. I don't want to switch. Hangouts is too beautiful.
[Nexus 5 General] abrcrmdl23:
The speaker is awful, my Lumia 521 that was $99 has an incredibly loud and clear speaker. Very sad the nexus does not and the placement on the left side is terrible. My finger covers it when I hold it naturally. The over heating is a problem too but I can mitigate that. Other that that I do enjoy the phone.
[Nexus 5 General] grinmaul:
The screen might as well be made from tissue paper, had my nexus 5 for 2 weeks, case is on its way, dropped the phone about a foot on the screen, shattered, and i used my upgrade to get it, and rogers has no interest in helping out, they want 330 + 150 dollars to upgrade again. should have gotten a note 3. i know it was my own damn fault and why should rogers give a crap, but i have been a cell phone customer with them for over 20 years, and the last 15 years it has been with 3 phones on the account, that should count for something.

The amount of times i dropped my note 2 and orig note i didn't keep track of, but t was a lot:)
[Nexus 5 General] rikudo:
The screen is Gorilla Glass 3, which is supposed to be 3x more damage and scratch resistant than the Gorilla Glass 2 used on the Note 2. That said I already have a scratch on my Nexus 5 while my Note 2 didn't have any after a year of use. Maybe we got a bad batch?
[Nexus 5 General] antifocus:
Same here, my Nexus 5 had been naked for just three days and I found a scratch already when I tried to put on screen protector.....

My Nexus 4 also scratched quite badly after just 2 month....It must be quite windy here in Kansas...
[Nexus 5 General] kirdroid:
Ergonomic feel... Moto X with its curved shaped back feels nice to hold for long duration. Nexus 5 feels boxy in the hand.
[Nexus 5 General] poplectic:
I work in an old building a hospital built in the 40s. Very difficult to get a signal when inside. With my HTC One there were certain places I could go, certain rooms where I could get a signal. With my nexus 5 I basically have to go outside to get a signal.
[Nexus 5 General] gotzaDroid:
Honestly, I miss the rounded glass of the N4. On the N5 you can feel the glass is slightly recessed and it almost feels it gets in the way. That's it though.
[Nexus 5 General] dicecuber:
Off topic, but do you see any weird things happening in that old building? Paranormal?

Sent from **Nexus 5 sucks**
[Nexus 5 General] Nathanation:
I miss the curved front glass of the Nexus 4, if they had put that on the N5 it would be perfect to me...
[Nexus 5 General] Schumi 01:
Love the phone, but one big problem for me, is the Email app, i have tried pop3 setings which keeps me in a constant sync loop with the Recycle/Sent folders, no way of stopping it, then i tried imap, i dont have the above problems but i dont get any notifications at all.

I have tried some 3rd party email apps and i just cannot get on with them, but apart from that racking little phone.
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
Those of you that still use top tier phones without cases and screen protectors, I guess I just don't understand. Sorry to hear about your scratches and shatters but you kind of ask for it if you ask me
[Nexus 5 General] spielnicht:
Folks' reluctance to put a screen protector is due to two things, a) lack of oleophobic coating, which means finger smudge orgy, or b) a case that keeps screwing with the edges of the screen protector.
[Nexus 5 General] americasteam:
There are those of us that can't understand why people buy a top tier phone only to put a nappy case on the back and a cheap piece of plastic on the screen.
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
Well probably so they don't shatter and break. Nappy? That doesn't even make sense. The cheap piece of plastic is unnoticeable... Until it gets scratched up then u replace it. That way, your screen will last longer. I've seen shattered iPhones, galaxy s3s, galaxy s4s, galaxy notes, nexus 4s... Why would anyone think this phone is any more durable? That's just being naive and isn't a good idea
[Nexus 5 General] americasteam:
True. Both sides have their pros and cons. ;)
[Nexus 5 General] maxpower7:
This is my 12th Android phone. I've never, ever used a case or a screen protector. I don't like the bulk that cases add and I don't like the feel of screen protectors. I've never cracked a screen or had anything more than very minor scuffs on the body of the phone. It's really not that difficult to take care of a phone without safeguarding every square inch of it.
[Nexus 5 General] DigitalUnderground:
That's just cuz ur not a clutz. I, on the other hand, am not as gifted lol
[Nexus 5 General] poplectic:
Abnormal perhaps. On a drunken night out with fellow staff members but nothing paranormal no.
[Nexus 5 General] TiltedAz:
My biggest pet peeve is seeing another silly question in the general forum. Winning! :cyclops:
[Nexus 5 General] Texan1836:
The speaker ! Jesus Christ it's so terrible man I hate it.