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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b3dlam:
Hey guys.

I am trying to use the microphone to text instead of typing everything out but my microphone button isn't working. Anyone know a fix or having the same issue?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blackhemi4x4:
Go to settings > language & input > check "Google voice typing". Problem solved.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b3dlam:
genius

Thank you very much sir!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
Has anyone else noticed a decrease in battery life since the 4.4.2 patch?

At first it seemed comparable to 4.3 battery life: 6-7 hours of screen time with Chrome:The Battery Hog. It also didn't discharge AT ALL when idle. Maybe 1% overmight or so. That is with most programs set to sync hourly and wifi off when screen is off.

However, I've let it fully discharge one time from 100% to 0% battery. It turned off and i immediately put it on the charger. I cant remember if it was since then or a few charging cycles later (100%-15% ), but now it uses a lot when idling: around 5% per hour or so. Screen on time is also terrible. See screenshots for details.

Can you guys share your thoughts on this matter?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
More than likely it is your Google Play Services that are killing your device. This issue has been occurring ever since 4.4.x
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
Is that fixable or do i have to wait for a new update?

Also, I remember that the battery drain started when i connected to a friends phone to tether via his phone over wifi. Does that have to do anything with it?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] datallboy:
I cleared data on Google play services, and put my location settings to battery saving. The GPS on all the time drains the battery. With moderate use, I'll last about 10 hours.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
You could use an application called Disable Service but it requires root access.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] NovaSlim:
My video playback battery life have dropped significantly since I updated to from 4.3 to Kitkat

details can be found here

The following are using MX Player Pro, H/W+ Hardware acceleration, 720p videos( in 16:10 aspect ratio to fill the full screen). I seen no visible change between 4.4/4.4.1/4.4.2 AOSP in battery life.

Android 4.3(AOSP), Full brightness(15/15 or 583 nits), 6 hour 6 min for 86% or 14.1% per hour

Android 4.4(AOSP), Full brightness(15/15 or 583 nits), 5 hour 15 min for 86% or 16.4% per hour

Android 4.4.2 (DJLKang 4.4.2+ElementalX 2.5), Full brightness(15/15 or 583 nits), 5 hour 30 min for 86% or 15.6% per hour

Android 4.3, 2/3 brightness (10/15 or 389 nits), 8 hour 5 min for 86% or 10.6% per hour

Android 4.4.2, 2/3 brightness (10/15 or 389 nits), 7 hour 20 min for 86% or 11.7% per hour

Android 4.3, 1/3 brightness (5/15 or 194 nits),10 hour 41 min for 86% or 8.06% per hour

Android 4.4.2, 1/3 brightness (5/15 or 194 nits),10 hour 13 min for 86% or 8.4% per hour
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Opethsgh747:
I usually get 5 1/2 hours of on screen time max. Pretty annoying.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
That's pretty normal if you are maxing your brightness all the way.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] VaderSKN:
This is the battery time I got while using it for two days. Not bad in my opinion.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Opethsgh747:
I keep my brightness almost all the way down. And I have location services, and always listening turned off.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
Okay so ive had another cycle. Now, it drained 10% overnight. The screen on time seems okay but ive switched to art with this cycle, and ive seen people get 10+ hours with that.

Im going to try to delete google play services data as you suggested, but it doesnt use as much battery, as you can see in the screenshot.

Android system and Media server seem to use the most energy, though at the time of the screenshot, 80% of my screen on time was whilst using chrome. Also, theres this process called com.android.chrome:sandboxed_process4. What is that? I have googled it, but to no avail. Ive seem multiple imstances, ranging from 0 to 4, in my battery usage list.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
Interesting. You're still receiving abnormal drain with your brightness down?

Here's some information on the sandboxed process.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Opethsgh747:
I've kept my brightness nearly all the way down ever since I've owned this tablet. Anything above halfway gives me a headache.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
Are you rooted on your device? You could use an application called Greenify and manage your processes.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
Thank you for the information, but im no IT specialist. Could you decode the page for me and tell me in short what it does?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
These are screenshots with the tablet idling. Ive let it rest for 8 hours straight, and havent opened any apps.

Seems like it drains 5% per 8 hours. Previously, it drained 0-1% overnight (also 8 hours). Seems like there is the problem.

Wifi seems to drain a lot too, even though i have the "Keep wifi on during sleep" setting set to never.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Opethsgh747:
Yes, I am. Thanks. I will give it a try.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] mertzi:
Or install app ops since you're rooted and disable keep awake for all android stuff, especially Google play services and Android system . For some reason Googles devs thinks drainage is less important than whatever they do but fortunately we can adjust their mistakes to our benefit. I get 3 days 10+h SOT. When the Google devs push out an update for something outside of play store "android OS" usually keeps awake until a reboot is made but luckily it doesn't happen too often.

And also, use a superior browser. I recommend Next or Dolphin.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] codemonkey98:
At my age (15) I do not have much experience in developing/understanding how operating systems work but I'll try to explain it in a way that is understandable:

Android and pretty much any modern operating system has a way of "sandboxing" applications or programs. Basically picture a sandbox with sand in it. The sand cannot escape the sandbox because it is around that box. (This is where we actually get the term 'sandbox')

When Google was designing Android, they basically made an implementation into the system that reduces the frequency and impact of application security issues. With that being said, this was made so you can use the default file systems and such without harming the system itself. If you were modifying the system, you could potentially open your device to a exploit. The sandbox features come into play so it can isolate your application from other applications. If it wasn't like this, any application could execute code to steal data/code from other applications. You can still do this with exploits in the kernel and such, but it isn't as easy as it seems.

You may have heard of the software on Windows called Sandboxie which is designed to to prevent "permanent changes" changes to your system, files, etc. It basically separates the system from the application itself. It is commonly used to test to see if software that you have is infected. In short, this is similar to what Android has.

--

The site I linked you in my other post basically explains how Android creates these processes in a more technical manner. But that link was specifically for Google Chrome, but it can be pretty much used in any other application if needed.

​

Let me know how it goes.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] LinearEquation:
I would suggest greenify and put everything but the system to sleep and see if that does it for you. If you unlock the bootloader, install TWRP, root and install a custom ROM on your tablet you can use a custom kernel and adjust (in layman's terms) the power your tablet consumes and when. You can remove some of the system apps you may not use and cut back on ROM usage too. Google adds all kinds of apps to the system that will function just fine as user apps.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] golfinggino:
i am getting very good battery life with the latest cleanrom and elemental kernel ( 10 hours screen on time ) this is with location services on

anyone with poor battery results may want to try this combination
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] IgniteVFX:
can't even get 3 hours SOT

Hey everyone... I bought a nexus 7 just over a month ago, and went from getting a good 6-7 hours SOT, to now being lucky to get 2 1/2 hours SOT (low brightness) and TERRIBLE idle drai(n 10% every 1-2 hours.) It isn't currently rooted. Is my device faulty or should I just root it and greenify and all that. Please let me know :) thank you
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] saneofficial:
Dude i had exactly the same problem, try this, first UNINSTALL SKYPE! (there's a bug with android kitkat) then drain your battery to the point where your tablet turned off, then as it is turned off charge it fully and then power it on. That worked for me and some other guys.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] coolsilver:
Skype helped a lot but turning off location settings and wifi only 10 % drop over 5 hours idle. Better but still very high percentage for Android os useage
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gmaugham:
Actually, it's been 1.6, which I consider acceptable with light usage.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 2013 met Tapatalk.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] IgniteVFX:
thanks

Okay. I've uninstalled Skype. Hopefully this helps, thanks for the reply. I'll let you know how it goes
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] coolsilver:
FYI I have the LTE deb with LTE on. And on 13 hours a 27% drop. Looking closer to normal but why should I have to handicap my device when it was amazing when I got it
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gmaugham:
I agree. I refuse to start turning off all sorts of features. I can live without Skype on my tablet and am glad I'm back to normal with everything else turned on.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shaevy:
I also habe Bad battery drain lately. I am in stock 4.4.2 with root.

Skype is already deinstalled. Sadly it doesnt Seen to fix the drain.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] coolsilver:
Near 23 hours 50% but definitely some reporting issue or bug still keeping device awake. Though main graph shows it isn't very often.

Still annoyed I had to turn defaults off for this.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gmaugham:
It doesn't look bad to me. You've got over a day of running with still 30% of battery left.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 2013 met Tapatalk.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shaevy:
One day idle(with almost no screen on time) is very bad for a tablet.

I used to get few day of battery life with mild screen on time(2-3hours). Just look at the first post here.

Any suggestions?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] just lou:
Agreed. Mine drains 2-3% only if I leave it idle overnight.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] cphkelvin:
i think the battery issue is from google service again. When I m still using on 4.3, the phone drops probably 1-2% overnight with idle

Now when i turn off wifi, uninstall skype, it drains me 40% of the battery for half day, should have to report to google of the problem......
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] FANdroid:
Battery life is fine on my N7 running 4.4.2 :good:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] player911:
I agree. I don't use my N7 much these days except for a few gaming sessions or using it to watch movies on my TV using AllCast streaming. My kid has been using it lately for Angry Birds but it seems it is lasting only a few hours. Doesn't seem right. I haven't checked the actual number but it feels like I'm having to charge it 3-4 times a day where before I'd charge it once or none.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] icrazy:
From what I read it seems like this problems is more related to apps than to hardware. I am getting over 6 days with 5-6 hours screen on time on usual use , web browsing , news and blog reading + email.

Only game I play is heroes of order and chaos, online dota like game , in this game I go from 100% to 15% battery in 3 hours of play.

I am on stock 4.4.2 not rooted and always keep tablet in airplane mode when not using it..
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] coolsilver:
Well Skype was half of it. Google play services still has a massive wake lock issue. Reddit has a solution using xposed and wake lock terminator. Turned settings back on and 9.5 hours at 68%. less than I hoped but location setting sure do affect battery life a lot
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] k3lcior:
Try SlimKat with Slim Gapps, did wonders for me.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] pwndave:
My battery life is pretty good. I use mine multiple hours per day. I usually go for a couple days before charging.

I only get close to single digit battery life if I'm having for many hours straight.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shaevy:
My battery life is now back to normal.(26h with 1 hour screen on and still 76% ;) )

I cant tell what I've changed. I only remember deleting skype a few days ago, maybe thats the reason its better now. But I honestly cant say.

I'll reinstall skype now to see if batterylife nosedives again.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] C5Longhorn:
It very well may be Skype. There is another active thread where users have been having battery drain issues believed to be caused by Skype.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2660470

Rick
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shaevy:
This is what happened. Coincidence?

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] C5Longhorn:
I'm charging my 7 now and then am going to delete Skype. I hope that solves my issue as well.

Rick
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] shaevy:
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/8...exus-7-tablet-review-android-4-3-will-fix.htm

Seams to be the same problem as on the Nexus5.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Jimbode:
Snapdragon Battery Guru has saved me deleting Skype from my Nexus 5. It's not compatible with the Nexus 7 so Skype has gone and my battery level has improved.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
I love my battery life on this mofo. Running cleanrom. It's sleeps like a baby!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] AzN MusiQ:
My screen is at least 6 hours on. Is that an normal worth? Google says that the screen time is around 9 hours. My Nexus 7 is running Stock 4.4.2 with Elemental and Xposed.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
I think that's very good. How many hours off charge?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jalchemyst:
On my recent cycles, I am getting around 8-9 hours SOT over 3-4 days. Only lose 1-2% overnight. Running omnirom and elemental x. And ART. Pretty happy with it compared to my dalvik days.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] coolsilver:
9 hrs 2% drop on deb with airplane mode on. Stock, wakelock terminator xposed module on play services filtering location anyway. Just wow
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
Yeahhhhhhhhhh Buddy
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] AzN MusiQ:
Around 30-40 hours. Just thought that these worths are bad, because the battery time of the iPad of my friend is divine, and much better then mine.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] kingston73:
How and why would you compare the nexus and an ipad?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
Yeah the iPad has better battery life for sure, but the difference isn't significant especially when you use Cleanrom which offers fantastic battery life.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Luca.Brasi:
Which kernel are you using? And do you use apps like greenify, es task etc.?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
Never used greenify. I'm just using Cleanrom the way it is. Its lovely!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] brenty108:
I have no problem with Skype drain. I used for that whole 59mins. Bittorrent did most of the damage.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] C5Longhorn:
Deleting the Skype app helped solve my issues, FWIW.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] anasmunir:
Hello everyone,

I have noticed that my tablet's wifi is continuously on even after turning off the screen..

There's a constant blue bar of wifi in battery stats.

I have set the option of "Keep wifi on during sleep" to 'Never' in wifi settings. But still it's not turning off. :what:

I have uninstalled Skype completely and have noticed a significant improvement in my battery life. But it's still draining abnormally for unknown reason..

I bought this brand new tablet few days ago, it's completely stock and un-rooted.

My first experience with this tablet was great, but. I think after updating it to Kitkat 4.2.2, the battery life has gone worse.. :confused:

Can anyone help me on this issue?

Thanks in advance.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] insanezz:
Have you turned off : scanning always available in the wifi settings?

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Nexus 7 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] anasmunir:
You mean "Notify me when an open network is available" option in settings?

It's on.. Should I turn it off ?? :what:

By the way this option is also enabled on my HTC One X, and I haven't encountered any issue there. :confused:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] insanezz:
what i marked you should turn off. that keeps wifi on even after you turn wifi completly off
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] just lou:
New version of Skype out today. It's supposed to fix battery issues.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DroidLife/~3/9YOShq3qPxc/
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] anasmunir:
Thanks for the reply mate.

That option is already disabled.

These are my wifi settings:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] insanezz:
Hm.. You could try to turn of network notification.. Not sure if it saves some battery tough.. Or else a factory reset could help..

Verstuurd vanaf mijn XT1032 met Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] brenty108:
Skype updated its app today with battery saving in mind.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jfriend33:
My battery is awesome. Screen sensitivity sucks
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] mbamberg:
Great battery life in my application!

Just thought I'd share my recent battery "test".

I flew from Las Vegas to Portland Oregon, 7.5 hours, with my tablet on the whole time, including a 1 hour layover in Reno, landed with 50% power.

The set up was, screen on (auto), WiFi and BT off, GPS on, was running an aviation app called AviationMaps. I run CleanRom 2.6.5 with ElementalX kernel.

I'm really happy with the battery performance, don't think I could go for 15 hours of flying in a day!!

Mike
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] namhuy:
Don't add a bunch of app at the same time, wireless off when screen off, don't install battery saver app. You will be fine

Nam Huy Linux http://namhuy.net
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gr8twhite:
Heres sitting on the desk idle after a full charge. Skype installed, battery doctor and lots of stuff turned off in app ops x 4.4:

I'm running kit Kat 4.4.2
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gr8twhite:
Idle most of the day and some light usage:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] gr8twhite:
No complaints about battery standby life here:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] namhuy:
One night charge, I can use my n7 about a day or two just web stuff

Nam Huy Linux http://namhuy.net
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] IXChicharitoXI:
My battery life is poor as well
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] vinumsv:
Not the best battery life but I am more than happy with it
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] NotoriousBM95:
Hai! Same here. :(
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arak-Nafein:
My battery life is fine.

I'm coming up on 4 days & still have 32% battery life left. Seems better than the previous 4.3 I had.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] dichton:
4.4.2 battery is not as good as 4.3. But it's still acceptable. I get 7h of browsing and video streaming :good:
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jfriend33:
I get two days of heavy use. Or about 4 days between charges from light browsing and game play.

Using greenify donate helped a little too.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] vparres:
I don't see any change with my N7 battery life on 4.4.2 personally ... :D
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Nekromantik:
I get terrible battery life.

Have to charge every 2 days from light use. I use it for watching 1 hour of video a day and 1 hour of browsing web.

Sadly I got batch from launch so digitizer issue too.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jfriend33:
You should try flashing one of the fixes! Ts11 saved my life! My tablet is reborn!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] flisek94:
What the hell does "Ts11" mean ?
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Yuccaman:
Its one of the Touchscreen drivers found in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2428133
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] manfio:
My Nexus 7 goes to charge everyday... Screen on with 6hours...hard use...

Enviado do meu Nexus 5 através de Tapatalk
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] brenty108:
McAfee sure sucks battery life
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] adomol:
I'd get rid of that McAfee and use Lookout instead.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Dmma:
Or better stop using an anti virus app on ur phone.

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[Nexus 7 (2013) General] ShernDog:
Why in the world would you need an antivirus app lmfao xD
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] lmacmil:
My battery life is currently 6 days and a few minutes and has 28% charge left. Idle time accounted for 36%, screen is 16%, Android services and OS 21%. All others uses are 5% or less. It is used mostly for reading and web surfing.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] sokinso:
Nice battery stats can you add your configuration?

Rom kernel use..
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] barondebxl:
Been running cleanrom since I bought the tablets about a couple of months ago. Never looked back. Using the kernel that comes with the ROM. No weird things like greenify or anything, just regular setup.
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] brenty108:
That's some battery life!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] brenty108:
Five hours idle with WiFi off and down 1%
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] trungnghia:
That's true????
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] Arthedes:
It's for people watching the naughty sitez and doing their banking on the same phone haha
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] wantabe:
I had stopped keeping track of my battery life and maybe a month ago decided to track it for a while and see where it was at. My N7 gets used pretty hard a lot of the time. Gaming, watching video files, couple dozen youtube subscriptions, 400+ rss feeds on weekdays, Kindle app. Running stock 4.4.2 with ElementalX kernel with a slight overclock on the cpu (1620MHz) and gpu (450MHz). Really just boils down to configuration and apps used. Generally see 1% battery drain during 9-15 hrs of idle time. Screen on time usually is around 9 hrs, with a low of 7 and a high of 13.

:p
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jfriend33:
You should try using greenify if you already aren't. I'm running fully stock firmware and get about the same screen on time and idle. I bet you'd get even crazier better results if you did!
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] wantabe:
Thanks, I've been using Greenify for a long time now, for system and user apps. I suspect if I disabled the app I wouldn't see a big difference in battery life, I think battery life would drop but not by a huge amount and I'm talking about my setup. It helps but I think it's just a small part of everything that needs to be done to get to where we can see some really good battery life numbers. There really are a lot of things that can help. For instance, I have next to zero apps that have ads sucking up bandwidth, sync frequency set at reasonable limits, wifi settings, location (gps) settings, display brightness. I don't use facebook, google+ or twitter and those apps have the potential to kill a battery depending on sync frequencies. And I don't use google now. Running stock 4.4.2 with Xposed Framework that has 7 modules installed, GravityBox being one, overclocked custom kernel and still get the battery life that I do. I certainly can't complain! :D
[Nexus 7 (2013) General] jfriend33:
Love xposed framework. I wish there was a module that would prevent Google location consent.

Also I wish the ad blocking module unbeloved hosts worked with chrome and gReader.

What ad blocking do you use?

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