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[Nexus 5 General] dicecuber:
Lol the nexus 5 has great battery life... What :banghead:
[Nexus 5 General] reas0n:
With some customizations I have nearly the same battery as my G2 :D And what makes it possible? Great support from devs!
[Nexus 5 General] VOLTAGEROCK:
I need to know what those customizations are because I'm running CM11 with my GSAM and wake lock detector app and I cannot for the life of me fix my horrible battery life. I was at dinner last night for 2 hours in a signal strong area, I turned location off, put my phone aside for the entire dinner. Didn't touch it. It went from 50% to 20% during that time. The only thing that did happen is I received like 7 texts that I ignored and my led was blinking the whole time. That can't drain 30% in 2 hours can it?

I make it a point to not touch the phone at meals with family and enforce that with the kids. A little off topic. Sorry.

Sent from my wondrous Nexus numeral 5
[Nexus 5 General] mithab:
There's something REALLY wrong with your phone.
[Nexus 5 General] VOLTAGEROCK:
What do I do dag nabbit?

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[Nexus 5 General] evdrmr:
How old is your phone? It could be just incorrect readings due to failing old battery.

Check for zombies. It could be something that keeps your CPU at Max clock while the screen is off and doesn't let go idling.

Sorry for the off topic. The best thing I like in my N5 coming from N4 is the camera. Amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] reas0n:
latest CM11 snapshot (ART) + Chaos kernel, i actually changed some settings like underclock, undervolt etc. It's still stable and smooth :victory: And my phone has almost one year (i bought a used one), I think after changing the battery (warranty ftw) I'll get even better results.
[Nexus 5 General] AndreIrawan97:
Coming from Xperia ZL with custom rom. The SINGLE thing that i love is there's almost no lag on Nexus 5 compare to Xperia ZL.

N5 is the Beast :D
[Nexus 5 General] VOLTAGEROCK:
I got it in May!

Sent from my wondrous Nexus numeral 5

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In Dev options there's a choice at the bottom to change from dalvic to art, am I able to change that setting successfully??? Or did the developer just put that there for future builds. Art gives better battery life, right?

I know we're gonna hear it from the moderators soon due to this off topic stuff but I don't feel like reading 5000 posts on the battery thread. I guess I will.

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[Nexus 5 General] reas0n:
Yes, there is an option. If u use PA Gapps, u are safe to test ART.
[Nexus 5 General] VOLTAGEROCK:
How do I find out about pa and if I use it?

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[Nexus 5 General] reas0n:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942 and let's stop this Off Topic now, mods here are really consistent here as I see :silly:
[Nexus 5 General] VOLTAGEROCK:
Thanks man. Yeah. No more off topic. Thanks for your help...

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[Nexus 5 General] nomancoolboy:
Absolute fluidity ..

Even note 4 lags in general operations
[Nexus 5 General] heccubusxda:
Having owned every Nexus device since the Nexus S, I finally picked up the Nexus 5 two days ago.

The first two things that blew me away were the stunningly beautiful display and the speed/fluidity of the device - no lag, no how.

So glad I bought this device, just sorry I waited so long, and with 5.0 just around the corner I'm like a kid on Christmas Eve
[Nexus 5 General] jetbruceli:
The flappy bird clone in android lollipop. Easter egg
[Nexus 5 General] arnarhelgi:
i just like getting updates to android really quick
[Nexus 5 General] xXDanielHDXx:
i think the battery life is great too, coming from a galaxy s1 :D
[Nexus 5 General] Bwyan Benton:
Fluidity and no custom skins. Just pure android without the added extra junk that I don't use 99% of. And fast updates.
[Nexus 5 General] Xami:
The POWERFUL OIS CAMERA that beats 20.7 MP Z2
[Nexus 5 General] Araan45:
Came from my Xperia Ion. I just love the amount of custom ROMs and Kernels that are updated to the latest version than being stuck on a lock boot loader on my old Xperia .
[Nexus 5 General] Prattham:
coming from s4

i just love the development support ;)

if you know what i mean...

Cheers ?

sent from my lollipoped ? N5
[Nexus 5 General] bakerloory:
Coming from Xperia S, my Nexus 5 is way smoother and quicker in every task ;)
[Nexus 5 General] MojoCP:
I love the camera and screen. I know there are better phones out there for either of these purposes, and that the camera took a lot of flak initially, but I've taken some AMAZING pictures with this thing, one handed, while mountain biking (thanks OIS!), and people are stunned. It's also pretty damned durable.

Downside - coming from the HTC One S, I really was disappointed in the "who cares" level of quality of the in audio DAC chip (am I getting that right?) My music has never sounded so mediocre on any device I've played it through. This includes prior Samsung Galaxy S, HTC One S (though it had "beats" tweaking), countless ipods, and my ipad. No app or lame equalizer tweaking has ever been able to help.
[Nexus 5 General] Lape500:
Coming from huawei honor the best thing is obviously that nexus 5 works (honor booted itself every five minutes etc.)
[Nexus 5 General] gamer.11:
coming from the XMP, i just love the screen real estate.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Have you tried Viper4Android? It's pretty much a requirement if you want good audio quality.

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/discussion-viper4android-t2543796
[Nexus 5 General] NotFromMountainView:
That it keeps getting better.

A year in and the tech holds up extremely well while the software improvements make a solid difference on this phone. Over the handful of kitkat iterations audio has improved dramatically (from the faint whisper we had with original 4.4), the camera has become quite robust, and performance overall has improved. I'm not even taking advantage of the countless custom ROMS & kernels, I'm on pure stock. To top it off, even my battery performance has shot through the roof hitting a high mark this week of 6:20 SOT without turning off any services.

And I'm expecting even more goodness from Lollipop.
[Nexus 5 General] sirobelec:
The N5 was part of my learning curve about smartphones. xD

I started with the working brick named CAT B-15. 1 gHz dual core Mediatek, 512 MB RAM, 4.1.2 JB. The thing was damn slow, Chrome crashed when all other apps were closed and I tried to open a single site, battery life for a rugged phone - sub-par. But I give it that, it did for me what I wanted it to - survive in a metal working factory. :D

Next thing I got was an S4. I had barely entered the smartphone game and I didn't know how f***ed I am going to be, not noticing it's the AT&T variety of the phone. But still - it was ages ahead in terms of performance. For quite a bit of time I didn't even use my PC, watched TV series on the phone (5 inch full HD AMOLED panel - a beauty), also it was my communicator and so on. Not a bad camera, too.

Then I found XDA and I began to hate AT&T, even though I am not anywhere close to their territory (Eastern Europe), hated the locked bootloader and I couldn't tweak as much as I wanted.

Goddamn TouchWiz.

Sold the thing.

A friend of mine bought the N5, but there were a couple of weeks where he was extremely busy, so he borrowed it to me, and I tested it.

Didn't root it (he strictly forbade me), but I don't really think I need to. The phone is a black slab with nothing on the front but that pretty screen, power and volume buttons on the sides... and that's it.

During these two weeks I realized what I love about it - it just worked. Anything I wanted it to do, it did it. Even though I've seen and used other high-end models (I'm currently with a Nope 3 N9005, I got it for the huge 5.7 inch screen and the giga oomph it has under the hood and the huge battery, tried every possible ROM for it)...

Even after the Note 3, I think that the N5 is the best smartphone ever made. Not even sure why. :D

These are my two cents.
[Nexus 5 General] CaptainFlakes:
I have to say the 60fps smoothness of the overall system. Project butter or whatever they call it.

It was always a major gripe for me with android that it just wasn't smooth enough. I hated stuttering and since my first android phone, the nexus one, it was always present. Back in the day the custom rom guys and the custom launcher guys did a much better job at a smooth experience as google and it bugged me to no end. Why wouldn't google pay more attention to it? Why would they roll out software where the notification bar stuttered with like 2 fps? With the galaxy nexus it was much much better, but the nexus 5 is the phone that is finally there. And it is sooo much fun even to do everyday stuff with it.

Thats also the reason i rarely use my nexus 7 (2013) anymore. It just feels so sluggish compared to the nexus 5. You can't even use the google now launcher with that thing because the fps drop from 30 to 20 or something like that.

I will definately never buy a android device again that is not as smooth as the nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] humzaahmed155:
I came from the One X, my experiences with the Nexus 5s DAC are pretty much completely the opposite. The only gripe I'd have with this phones audio is the volume, FauxSound fixes that though. I bought this phone because the guys over at HeadFi said it had one of the best DACs around, certainly not the best, but very, very good overall.
[Nexus 5 General] seandorsman:
The amazing, lightningfast, bloatware-free software!
[Nexus 5 General] Mennooo:
How is the battery? Thinking about changing my G3...
[Nexus 5 General] NotFromMountainView:
Depends...

Nowadays I average 3.5 - 4.5 hrs SOT in a 15-hour day, have comfortably passed 5 hrs several times, and hit 6:20 (once!) with 7% to spare. I'm on pure stock, have all services turned on (hotword detect / bluetooth / precise location / etc,) and I usually listen to a few hours of podcasts on Stitcher or Tunein during the screen off hours. But I'm not a gamer so nothing really pushing the cpu. It also charges very quickly if you grab the (cheap!) Blackberry folding blade charger you can get a rate of about 2%/minute. Stock charger takes about 80 - 90 minutes to charge if I remember correctly.

And there's the promise that Lollipop might make things better still...
[Nexus 5 General] Laurentius26:
It's a very light phone, it's very thin, it's powerfull, good designed and has a awesome camera which shoots quality pictures under every circumstance day or night.

Coming from HTC and last device Nokia, this device absolutely rocks.

Probably Motorola rocks to as it's a nice manufacturer but I'm not in a rush to buy a new phone, I'm very satisfied with the Nexus 5.

For now I'm settled and looking forward to Lollipop, aldo all my apps should be compatible otherwise I won't change Kitkat. :D

I own this device for half a year. :)
[Nexus 5 General] decemberlast2013:
Nexus is always fine until a new galaxy comes out.
[Nexus 5 General] jdk2:
Yep. It's out now and it'll be a year before we see another. For now, I'm very happy with this one.
[Nexus 5 General] F123D:
Sold my Note 3 for this phone.

1a. No carrier/manufacturer bloatware out of the box.

1b. Wireless charging.
[Nexus 5 General] P.Mobile:
development!!:good:
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
Coming from my s3, the thing I love the most is the fluidity

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[Nexus 5 General] Blue1k:
Awesome phone. Screen is very nice once calibrated with gamma app and elemental kernel. Everything is fast and fluid. Modded camera is superb and great for taking pictures of my daughter. My Lumia 1020 was terrible for indoor shots, whereas the Nexus camera is blazing fast with no white balance issues.

That and scoring it sealed on craigslist for $350 with receipt was even nicer :)
[Nexus 5 General] midgarsormr:
Same here! Just got it December 26th. Plan is much cheaper for unlimited.
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
Coming from a Galaxy Note 2, I love the performance the N5 provides but it also has lots of pitfalls.
[Nexus 5 General] ConorCX:
Coming from Xperia S.

I like the freedom of having an unlockable boot loader, vanilla android and less bloatware.

Only disadvantages of having the nexus 5 is the battery life and the camera quality.

Overall, very happy with my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
best SINGLE feature for me = Camera

second best = battery life, can't remember the last time i got <5h of screen on time (24h+ uptime)
[Nexus 5 General] rayoubi:
Battery sucks, I get the normal 8 hours. I miss my note 2.
[Nexus 5 General] Beauenheim:
Coming from a Sprint Galaxy Nexus (used a Nokia Lumia 521 temporarily until I made the funds). The single best thing to me is no carrier fragmentation. No verizon specific roms or forums.

Just the beautiful universal nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] biggiestuff:
Coming from n4. Screen and camera and 32gb phone doesn't turn into fireball when navigating and Bluetooth music streaming with screen on and eventually stops charging because it's too hot. Phew that was a mouthful
[Nexus 5 General] Soulfly3:
not at ALL the case for me.

47% left after 15hrs on, 3.5hrs on screen time, wifi and LTE

stock
[Nexus 5 General] _jordan_:
This device is insanely fast. The CPU and GPU put most 2013 flagship's, like the s4 and HTC One to shame.
[Nexus 5 General] mvelasquez87:
Best is the fact you can unlock the bootloader. AT&Ts firmware blocked this feature.
[Nexus 5 General] Kobayashi_SRK:
Coming from a flip phone, the single greatest thing about this N5 is that I can browse the Internet with it!
[Nexus 5 General] P.Mobile:
never had a note b4 but i get better battery life with my N5 then i did with my gs4 or htc one.. my N5 sleeps like no other
[Nexus 5 General] yyz71:
Don't you just miss that amoled screen:rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 General] drive7:
Overall, it'd be the sleek design, front and back, which I consider to be the very best on the market. But that's pretty much tied for first place with the stock implementation of Kitkat; so uncluttered and smooth. Oh god yes.
[Nexus 5 General] realtalker:
Galaxy S4

Coming from the S4, either on-screen buttons or fluidity.
[Nexus 5 General] corythug:
Coming from and s3 (i747 & i9300) I love that I haven't even rooted it yet and am so content with that fact. Rooted day 3 on i747 and day 1 with i9300. Happy n5 owner unroofed since launch .
[Nexus 5 General] Enddo:
this right here. talk about a beast of a SoC and incredibly optimized for low power
[Nexus 5 General] Kobayashi_SRK:
Srsly tho, the openness of the phone is probably the thing I appreciate the most. If there's anything you don't like, you can change it because there's so many willing developers that create a million different roms, mods, etc. to tweak anything to your heart's content.
[Nexus 5 General] decemberlast2013:
You mean miss fake ****
[Nexus 5 General] yyz71:
Hahaha:good:
[Nexus 5 General] Mopar68Charger:
Coming from an atrix HD running cm11 nightlys, I'd just like to say I love not having to download ROM updates everyday. Its like a breath of fresh air.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
The fact that I can pretty much take it to any provider other than Verizon.
[Nexus 5 General] beaver2233:
The speaker haha - nah, the software.
[Nexus 5 General] Eionai:
Coming from the S3, it's just nice having the vanilla Google experience and a standard navigation bar.
[Nexus 5 General] 1stx2:
I don't know if I could pick just just 1 thing, the whole phone is amazing. I guess if I had to, it would be the openness, you can flash whatever you want till your heart desires, don't have to worry about updates locking your BL and being a nexus. (Coming from vzw gnote 2)

Sent from my AMAZING nexus 5 that dicecuber/trolls like to hate on.
[Nexus 5 General] ickoicko:
Coming from I9300, the charging time and the vanilla kitkat. The fact that we are experiencing vanilla kitkat with all its problems is something we can show off to the future generations! (or not) lol

EDIT: Hated the s3 and its exynos chip and the charging time. Never touching another Exynos chipped Samsung.
[Nexus 5 General] OptimusVDarwin:
KitKat, lightning fast, battery life!

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[Nexus 5 General] sinkster:
After years of trying to speed up phones using custom ROMs, kernels, dodgy tweaks and risky overclocking it's amazing to have a phone that worked so well out the box.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
Preach!
[Nexus 5 General] pgptheoriginal:
I love too many things about this phone: coming from a Desire HD I appreciated the N5's RGB notification LED, light weight, battery life (thanks to Faux kernel :D ) quieter vibration motor, usable camera (especially in low light conditions) and many other thing I can't remember at the moment.

But probably the best thing of this phone is its awesome screen, with its color calibration, super sensitive touchscreen and really oleophobic coating.

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[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
The best thing I love of my Nexus 5, as other users coming from Galaxy Nexus, is the battery life.

(second and third things: touchscreen sensibility, smoothness)
[Nexus 5 General] JMillion:
performance is bar none especially right out the box.
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
Coming from an HTC Evo LTE running AOSP ROM's I love the fact that bluetooth music is no longer skipping at data drops/switches and cell phone tower changes. The last couple months on that phone the kernel was updated and caused this issue that was never fixed. Was an absolute PITA streaming music to bluetooth in the car driving around. Clicks and pops all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] echotmx:
Extended Battery Fail

...I love this phone, everything except the fact that you cannot buy an extended battery (or even easily access your battery). I came from the S3 and I had a battery on there that lasted 6 days instead of 1.5 days. Boy do I miss that!

In order to mitigate this problem, and just make things optimal, I've modded in the following ways:

-Unlocked/Rooted phone with CWM recovery.

-Installed SlimKat beta 2 with gapps ( I like this ROM the best because of its amazing developers who are always updating).

http://www.slimroms.net/index.php/downloads/dlsearch/viewcategory/979-hammerhead

-Experimental X kernel ( has some nice enhancements, like reducing min screen brightness and undervolting, both which save battery).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2519607

-N5 Volume boost (so you can max out sound into headphones, particularly useful for car aux in so you're stereo has less sound distortion).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2532788

So far so good. Let's just hope the phone is 'perfect' so we never have to remove the battery to reset it... oh wait... Thanks LG, this phone was ALMOST amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
You can buy a battery case with extended battery. Also if you need to reset just hold the power button for 30 seconds. It's the same effect as removing the battery.
[Nexus 5 General] dpaschall:
No you can't. Show me where there is an extended battery for this phone. I would love to buy one. You can't officially remove the battery so how on earth could you replace it with a bigger one?!?! If I'm wrong please direct me to where I can purchase this...

You cannot reset the phone in the event of a kernel panic or other software bug. Because the OS has to be able to say "reboot" which it cannot do if its frozen. Uncommon but more common when you mod your phone.

These aren't common complaints I'll give you that. But it is annoying since there is little reason they forced us never to open the back of our phones.
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
Key words I said are "battery case" that has a built in battery. Sorry for not being clearer on that. I meant the cases you can buy that has an external battery that attaches to the phone. It does add some bulk but it'll get the job done. And the reboot works even when frozen or even when the phone isn't fully on or has no ROM. I've done it on my nexus 10 to get out of a frozen recovery. I think that maybe its a hardware trigger that might disconnect the battery and reconnect real quick but I'm not sure just a guess. But it's always worked for me anyways.
[Nexus 5 General] dpaschall:
Ah I see. I did look for those as well and couldn't find it. Perhaps this phone is still to new for them to have made a case with a battery that connects via USB.

As for the 30sec pwr trick ... You're probably right. I'll have to try it if I run into problems but so far despite my very beta mods I've had absolutely no problems. Thankfully. Awesome phone. I just have a pet peave with companies locking us out of something we own and that includes gluing the back case... All because they suck at antenna design and throw a bunch of things on top of the battery. I can't be too harsh tho... Antenna design is a B.

Thanks for your replies :)
[Nexus 5 General] vaibhav.ravi:
I had a Nokia 5233, solid device!!! Won't miss it at all because of this beauty, and the biggest feature for me is the capacitive touchscreen :P
[Nexus 5 General] abdel12345:
Here you go. A battery case by iblason and there a couple others too.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00H4PCVQ0
[Nexus 5 General] mysticfrog:
I'm right with you.. I'm just kinda sick of Samsung devices at the moment.. This device is just so user friendly. . I've had it for 3 days and I love it.
[Nexus 5 General] DiamondBond:
Another thing I really like is how sexy my nexus feels software wise, this may sound EXTREMELY weird, but running CM on it feels like I have a complete device and etc... ;)
[Nexus 5 General] _jordan_:
Yeah too true. I had the gnex, and that measly 1700mah battery was terrible.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
I just got to say its about damn time we got a love thread where people are actually giving positive feedback and showing love instead of all the damn gripes.
[Nexus 5 General] malibu_23:
Battery life! And heat! Coming from the gnex! it's so much improved!
[Nexus 5 General] gprash:
I have been using a HD2 for the last 3.5 yrs. Compared to that, everything's improved leaps and bounds. But the screen tops them all in my opinion. Brilliant display.

Taking nothing away from the HD2 though. Still going strong! :)
[Nexus 5 General] daLareid:
Coming from Samsung Galaxy S aka Captivate, pretty much everything but mostly performance.
[Nexus 5 General] ern88:
Coming from a HTC One V. I love everything about my Nexus 5 :D
[Nexus 5 General] pham818:
its in the options to turn that off, lol.

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tried it out for a week, battery sucks, went back to note 3. otherwise everything is good.
[Nexus 5 General] mohammed510:
Coming from Note 3,

perfect size for me, decent battery life, great screen, much faster than TW.

And the most important thing is that i don't have to deal with Samsung Knox anymore.
[Nexus 5 General] jbstutes:
the single best thing about my nexsus 5

coming from att s4 is being able to root,unlock & install any thing I want,its mine not at&ts.:laugh:
[Nexus 5 General] wim69:
After 3 years with an HTC Legend, speed is the first thing that comes to mind.

And Nexus screen is as big as my whole Legend...
[Nexus 5 General] Chris123NT:
Coming from a Developer Galaxy S4, I love the vanilla experience, no bloatware, and not feeling like i'm being ripped off in terms of internal storage capacity. I also love how easy it is to unlock/root and google will still support you in most cases if there's a hardware issue, which is a lot more than I can say about samsung. Oh, and **** knox :).

Only downside I can see is the radio is a bit weird but I suspect that will be fixed in an update, the signal indicator fluctuates pretty wildly on AT&T but I haven't had any dropped call issues yet so I'm thinking it's a software issue. Oh and the 0/99 LTE issue but that's fixed on CM :)