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[Nexus 5 General] om22:
Exactly. Or try some APN settings yourself. It's not googles problem!

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[Nexus 5 General] Avan Patel:
battery drain

anybody else have a bad battery drain? heavy one>=?:eek:
[Nexus 5 General] MrGriffdude:
Do I need to flash a new 4.4.3 boot loader. I already flashed the new radio.
[Nexus 5 General] ballmead:
Nope, the bootloader is the same.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] chefdementia:
Since the 4.4.3 OTA, my battery life was pretty bad. It got to the point where I could go to work, and get off 12 hours later just to have 20% left. I work in a kitchen, so my phone doesn't get used all that much. Google Play Services was the main drain (big surprise there, not really), so I installed Nova Launcher. My Battery life is back to where it used to be, 1% and hour pretty much.
[Nexus 5 General] wicked1683:
4.4.3 is battery hog. Google please fix this
[Nexus 5 General] kalealex:
Honestly I have found that 4.4.3 is amazing on battery. Could not get this kind of life before it. Here is yesterday, and I used it a lot, including GPS, using data and wifi on all the time
[Nexus 5 General] dark79:
Agreed. I'm seeing 50% less battery life in 4.4.3. 35% drop overnight in deep sleep.
[Nexus 5 General] huuhung1178:
After updated 4.4.3 doing factory reset and install software Battery Guru to control apps you will get more better.
[Nexus 5 General] om22:
Battery has improved almost 1h of screen on time compared to 4.4.2 in my case. It was definitely the kernel change and nothing else.

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[Nexus 5 General] Gatz:
Out of curiosity... have the ones who report a better battery life all done a factory reset???

Mine is on its knees and I haven't done it.

It's not due to poor network as I thought at the beginning, today I was somewhere else and phone died after 10h :rolleyes:
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
Refer to your battery app to know what's actually draining your battery.

Sent using Etch-a-Sketch
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
Not for me, and the battery life is slightly better.

However I'm not on LTE
[Nexus 5 General] Gatz:
No specific hint from there, it actually looks quite normal. one day it was "Cell Idle" ant the other "Android Services". Also Wakelock detector showed no specific tips...

Me neither. only 3G.

I even kept it in flight mode for hours today and no change, so it's NOT the radio
[Nexus 5 General] ritchea:
This seems the same as 4.4.2 for me:

But this is something I don't think I've ever seen:

I have lousy reception in our house. This was over night when signal loss has been reported as high as 95%. It could be (as I suspect) that 4.4.2 was reporting erroneously.

I had run the 4.4.3 modem for several days before flashing the system.img (so dirty flash) with same high % of time with no signal.

So far, no other issues have jumped at me. LED notifications are the same, Bluetooth with Ford Touch Sync appeared to be the same. LTE is fine although I don't get it in the house-never did.
[Nexus 5 General] arpitnathany:
Can anybody check what version of Google keyboard they have in settings>apps>all>Google keyboard mine is showing version two which I think is not correct I read somewhere that Google updated their keyboard to version 3 but I don't have any updates showing for it. I can't imagine Google would ship an old version of an app. Also cant find it in the play store
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
Version 3.

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[Nexus 5 General] arpitnathany:
Thanks

Did you by any chance get an update because it doesn't show for me in the updates
[Nexus 5 General] fxdil:
I did, on the date shown.

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[Nexus 5 General] KidWave:
It seems like people reporting better battery life are heavy users. E.g. phone on all day, Screen on, GPS, WiFi usage etc.

It seems like people reporting worse battery life are light users. Phone usually off, only use it to check notifications, light texting, etc.

As a light user and after 4 battery cycles, a cache clearing, a factory reset, and a factory image flash, I think I'm headed back to 4.4.2 and will skip 4.4.3.
[Nexus 5 General] jacknicholson:
Google Keyboard isn't officially available in every country (for whatever reason), which is why it won't show up with your other installed apps on the Play Store -- you're technically not supposed to have it. It is, however, still shipped with all Nexus devices, indiscriminate of region. Try visiting its Play Store link manually and see if you can force an update, or better yet, just sideload the APK.
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
Dropped 10 percent overnight. I used to get 3 percent drop over night. 4.4.3 got issues for sure.
[Nexus 5 General] Cirkustanz:
Grab an app called Helium.

I realized I had made system changes and frankly I forgot what they were so reverting them back wasn't too easy.

Even though I had to return my phone complete to stock (total wipe) and do it all over again (it is even easier now thanks to a more streamlined process!)

All I had to do was sign into my google account, download the apps from the play store (something like 60 of them, I just did this from my computer browser by hitting the install button)...

Once they were all loaded, I restored the helium apps backup, and literally EVERYTHING worked.

Helium does have an option of backing up the app data themselves, but well, that just takes up too much space obviously.

Grab the app...it saved me so much time. Once I was back to stock rooted 4.4.3 I had my phone set up again in less than 10 minutes.
[Nexus 5 General] kalealex:
fair enough, I am definitely a heavy user and can attest to certainly seeing a great improvement!
[Nexus 5 General] neo2306:
No issue for me !!
[Nexus 5 General] Dejan99:
I also have no issues with battery life. I think it is even better than it was on 4.4.2.

But I discovered one minor bug, follow this procedure:

- Open random app (let say Gmail) and exit to home screen with home button.

- Open Settings via notification bar and choose Sound (you can also choose another settings group).

- Then QUICKLY tap back button twice

- After Settings are closed there appears Gmail for half a second and closes itself.

Do you experience same bug?

How was your update installed? (OTA, factory image,...?)

Have you done factory reset?

I'm completely stock, update was installed via OTA, I haven't done any factory reset yet.
[Nexus 5 General] nsg86:
Same,i'm having the same issue, it is actually exist even at 4.4.2 ..

Update was installed via factory image.
[Nexus 5 General] Akr706:
Yeah, but in 4.4.3, it appears more frequently.
[Nexus 5 General] Dejan99:
Really? I haven't noticed that at 4.4.2.
[Nexus 5 General] nsg86:
Yup, saw it before update,

i think it is started once 4.4 , correct me if i'm wrong .
[Nexus 5 General] arpitnathany:
Thanks what I did was go to my apps all Google keyboard and then update. You are right Google keyboard is not available in my region, just updated the my mom's nexus 4 thus way. But it seems sad that Google would not push the update for it whether it was available in my region or not.
[Nexus 5 General] ritchea:
Light user here. Wi-Fi, texting some, hardly any calls. But, when I'm out and using cellular data (usually with good H+/LTE signal), I've never been able to go anywhere near 10 hours. As I posted earlier, seems the same for me. This morning, time without a signal showed 0 again.
[Nexus 5 General] Sviborg2241:
I guess battery drain on 4.4.3 may be linked with modem version. Flashed 4.4.3 modem (M8974A-2.0.50.1.13) yesterday and the phone started to leak in sleep mode because the signal became a bit worse. Flashed 4.4.1 modem (M8974A-1.0.25.0.23) and everything is just fine. Although it's carrier related thing since some users actually report better signal on M8974A-2.0.50.1.13

running slimkat 5.8 with elementalx kernel
[Nexus 5 General] :
After a week + on 4.4.3, I'm feeling like one of the lucky ones I guess. Absolutely zero issues. Handoffs between WiFi/data/call are flawless. Same, if not slightly better, battery life as 4.4.2. No dialer problems. I'm stock, not rooted, and 100% satisfied with 4.4.3 :)
[Nexus 5 General] sing1gnis:
Did you flash the new radio image?
[Nexus 5 General] kingston73:
So I'm reading all these posts saying that 4.4.3 has ruined battery life, asking google for help, and basically complaining but I'm not seeing much in actual usable, useful info. IMO it is pointless to complain if you can't give any usable info. What carrier are you on? What radio? What rom? How did you update? What is your drain per hour? What is causing the drain, in other words what are the top apps or services listed?

What I'm saying is there are so many variables that it's a little stupid to say "4.4.3 is causing me to have bad battery" and leave it at that. Maybe if everybody who I has problems gives some more info you might be able to narrow down the reasons.

For me, I'm on Tmo in the north east US with the new radio and a custom 4.4.3 rom( vanir) and haven't noticed much of any change in battery life. I average about 0.5% drain per hour and up to maybe 4% per hour when using it to play a game or watch netflix.
[Nexus 5 General] NaterTots:
Yeah, I'm another with no issues on 4.4.3

But I did do the full factory image through fastboot. My battery life is about the same as before. I lose 2-3% overnight. But I'm on TMo and I did find that gsm is better on idle battery life than Sprint's cdma was since I was on sprint when I bought the N5.

If people complaining about the update haven't flashed the full factory image then they probably should.

And then try a different radio if you're h haven't issues still. Then you know for sure what the problem is.
[Nexus 5 General] :
Yes, the complete OTA.
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
The previous-app-showing when using back button is a really annoying bug. It's a glitch, that's what it is, and i'm really surprised of the amateurism with which Google handles these software updates (still a lot of unfixed issues).
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
It seems people with good battery are on GSM. I guess the radio firmware got issues. Flashing back to a different version and will report back.
[Nexus 5 General] aiiee:
and you have to buy helium premium if you want to restore....... janky
[Nexus 5 General] Cirkustanz:
No you don't. You only have to buy premium if you want to restore from cloud storage.

If you take the 30 seconds to copy those files from the cloud storage (or from your computer if you just selected internal backup) to your phone using your computer....

You then just select restore from internal storage.

Is that so hard?
[Nexus 5 General] trsix:
battery

:good:

39 hours 4 minutes, Battery at 49%

screen 2 hours , 29 minutes

4 or 5 calls, some texts

some winamp and bluetooth

Using Vanir 4.4.3 aosp latest

Before this i ran Vanir with old gapps and google services was toasting my battery.

reflashed with latest banks gapps and great now.
[Nexus 5 General] :
What rom would be the closest to cataclysm rom? All these ROMs I'm trying have poor battery life. Cataclysm was the last where battery life was close to stock
[Nexus 5 General] :
I got a D821 and flash full image using fastboot at day 1, battery life is the same as 4.4.2 and I am on LTE, it switch between 3G/LTE/WIFI flawlessly, is that people having battery life or 3G/LTE/WIFI problem mostly with D820?
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
CDMA or GSM?
[Nexus 5 General] DummyPLUG:
D821 is GSM/LTE only
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
Seems like CDMA-WARE users got bad battery life with 4.3.3
[Nexus 5 General] :
I'm on Sprint (CDMA) and battery life is fine. Again, 100% stock.
[Nexus 5 General] casperhomme:
Stock ROM plus xposed-GB
[Nexus 5 General] Lewythefly:
I updated to 4.4.3 Purity ROM and flashed the new radio also. Ever since my data has been dropping in and out and causing battery drain.

For example previously on 4.4.2 i could have my phone on all day and see only between 1 to 3% time without signal. Yesterday my phone was on for 17hrs and the time without signal was 26%

I'm on the Optus network in Australia

Going to try flashing the previous radio to see if this helps
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
If the transition caused extra Google Play Services drains (as it did for myself) you can clear your storage cache which should fix it, but if you need more help real info is required. Battery life is very subjective and dependent on many things, weak signal alone can halve your battery life.

4.4.3 didn't really change much and shouldn't have a noticeable impact on battery, though there is a strong placebo effect surrounding it.
[Nexus 5 General] cas8180:
I am running the exact same setup I ran on 4.4.2 with the same exact usage patterns I do every day. And after letting my phone settle for a week on 4.4.3 I am happy to report for whatever reason I have actually gained about another 35 min of sot. I am 100% stock not rooted never have been.
[Nexus 5 General] Quickfire:
After a few days of observation I think the battery drain during sleep is pretty inconsistent. The culprit is almost surely Android System, but on some nights I get a 3% drop in 8 hours of idle time while other nights I get a 16% drop. Wakelocks are similar under both. What processes run under Android System?

I flashed 4.4.3 over 4.4.2, rooted but on stock ROM. Cleared cache and dalvik. D821.
[Nexus 5 General] Ga101698:
I've been on the OTA for roughly a week and, longest I've stayed stock on any phone...lol

So, stock rooted on 4.4.3. When I was on 4.4.2 LTE/3g/wifi and averaged 36 hours on a full charge. Now on 4.4.3, I'm struggling to get 18 hrs out of it. I did a full charge 6 hrs ago and I'm at 67%...

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] Lewythefly:
As I mentioned on the previous page, i have flashed the radio i was on previously from build KRT16M (4.4.2) and the data connection hasn't dropped yet

Must be something in the new radio that doesn't go well with my network, but will give it more time to see
[Nexus 5 General] wyrman:
Mine was getting bad. I had "hotword" on. Turned off and all is back to normal
[Nexus 5 General] ErecDeGraal:
I had the same problem. Run the play store link from my nexus and it showed the update option.

Thanks a lot for the link

I'm fully on stock and sideloaded the OTA. For me battery is fine. My only issue is with data connection. I'm loosing it quite often when there's a weak signal and afterwards, my phone is not able to recover it. i have to reboot the phone. Does anyone having a similar issue?
[Nexus 5 General] Gatz:
FYI, I tried wiping Cache and Dalvik AGAIN (after doing it right after flashing the OTA), and now the battery is doing better again.

No idea why or if this could help someone else, just try...

(this is what mostly scares people away from Android devices, so much knowledge is needed to make them simply "work", as opposed to iOS, at least in my own and my family's experience)
[Nexus 5 General] CitizenLee:
Tried two 4.4.3 ROMs (Purity & Slim) and getting contact sync issue on both. I've done the usual stuff like clearing cache, force closing dialler and People, tried different GAPPs etc but all with no joy.

Anyone in the same boat manage to get it working properly?
[Nexus 5 General] trollguy96:
Bug levels in 4.4.3 have been though the roof! Recently hot wired detection stopped working offline.

Battery life is awesome though!
[Nexus 5 General] Ga101698:
I had the same issue on stock rooted phone. I went into the account settings for google and unchecked all of the things that I didn't need and it syncs again. YMMV
[Nexus 5 General] Claghorn:
I'm back at work for the first time today with my 4.4.3 update, and the rotten signals we get inside the building have not made the battery drain nearly as fast as it used to do on 4.4.2, so it definitely seems like the battery life is better.
[Nexus 5 General] midgarsormr:
Same here. The lack of signal still persists however. Mine seems to do better if I turn LTE off. I also use the work wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] dipzb90:
Posted this in the Franco kernel thread earlier. Seems like something generic to 4.4.3. Might be of use to someone in here as well

Hi all,

I was one of the people who has been having below par battery life on 4.4.3. Like a few people have mentioned on here, I also think it is related to the radio.

I decided to play around with a few things and I seem to have come across a combination which for me is giving me better battery and faster speeds on 4g. My phone is also losing connection to network a lot less.

Here's what I did

1. Changed the TCP algorithm to cubic

2. Disabled fast dormancy. I did this by adding the following line to the build.prop

ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule=0

I was consistently getting around 2-3mbps more on speed tests. Usually I travel on the trains to and from work, so I lose signal quite a bit, with this I lost signal a lot less.

By the way I'm on the three network in London ....just sharing because it may help someone else :)
[Nexus 5 General] misbehave:
Here is what I did to my wife's Nexus5 after the 4.3.3 update to cure the battery problem:

-Uninstalled Amazon Kindle reader

-In Settings ->Accounts -> Google -> "your google account" -> I unchecked most of the sync items keeping only what I really need (App Data, Calendar, Contacts, Gmail), uncheck as many item as you can.

Now the battery usage is back to the level before the 4.3.3 update.

She doesn't use her phone for any gaming, video, music, never heavy texting.

She only have to charge her phone every other day instead of daily.

BTW, our Nexus5 is from Google play and we have T-Mobile as our carrier.
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
Thanks bro. It actually works. I disabled the SYNC for the things I don't need and now my nexus 5 loses 2% over night which is amazing. I did not realize how many syncs Google had enabled by default. I guess puzzle is solved.
[Nexus 5 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Have had 4.3.3 for about a week now. Massive battery drain when not using phone now (losing about 40% while sleeping for eight hours) and still the intermittent loss of network even when my phone shows me that I have full LTE bars.
[Nexus 5 General] skyracer53:
battery is draining much more after this update for me. overnight in about 6-7 hours i will lose at least 40%
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
Do you guys all leave WiFi, LTE, Bluetooth GPS etc on while sleeping?

I go to bed with it all off and apps greenified. I only lose a few percent overnight 8 hours or so.

If so I really don't see the point in spending so much time on here reading and posting about battery loss when it takes a couple seconds to turn the extras off for the night. Personally I don't want emails or anything at night. I leave the cell radio on in case of some emergency phone call from someone and that's it.

That's just my personal opinion. Not sure if anyone actually has a drain problem with WiFi etc all off overnight though?
[Nexus 5 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Other than BT, I keep all that stuff on at night. Wasn't problematic until 4.3.3 (would only lose 5-10% battery at night). I shouldn't have to adjust settings after an OS update to keep from losing half my battery while I'm sleeping.
[Nexus 5 General] dwasifar:
If you can all stand one more battery life post:

I use my phone for a night clock, using the Kaloer Clock app, which is set to start on charge.

A couple of nights ago I put the phone on the charging stand and the night clock started, then I took it off a little while later just to check something, and put it back. The night clock didn't start; it does that once in a while, so I started it manually.

Turns out I should have looked closer. The reason the clock didn't start was that the phone was mispositioned and wasn't charging. So my phone was screen-on, on battery, with wi-fi and sync on, for about 9 hours. It was only about half-charged at the beginning of it, and when I noticed it in the morning it was at about 20%.

I don't know how the rest of you would feel about that, but I think it's pretty good to be screen-on, sync-on all night and only use about 30% battery. My old HTC Rezound would have been dead in the morning under those drain conditions.

I'm on stock 4.4.3 except for Elemental X kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] deakelem:
how did you change it to cubic
[Nexus 5 General] dipzb90:
I used the FKU (Franco kernel updater) app
[Nexus 5 General] deakelem:
ok great thanks, im on elementalx now ill try that
[Nexus 5 General] misbehave:
Glad that work out for you too.

I am also able to fix the LED notifications problem on her Nexus5 by installing Light Flow, then setup your notification option within Light flow, THEN UNINSTALL IT.

Got the LED notifications functions back to normal after that.

I do not guarantee this method will work on every Nexus5 with the LED notifications problem but it doesn't hurt to give it a try on yours for anyone who have this problem.
[Nexus 5 General] KidWave:
Finally resolved my battery life issue ... these were my steps of troubleshooting

- Receive & Install OTA = Bad Battery Life

- Clear all caches = Battery Life improved

- Factory Reset (simple wipe through settings) = No improvement

- Flash Factory Image (full wipe through adb commands) = No improvement, but Android OS dropped from battery drain list

- Flash 4.4.2 radio (keep everything else the same) = Battery back to being awesome

This was a huge relief I didn't have to completely rollback to 4.4.2. My N5 is back to being the perfect phone.

If you are on T-Mobile in the San Francisco Bay Area and are experiencing battery life worse than 4.4.2, i can confirm that flashing the 4.4.2 radio might solve your issue.
[Nexus 5 General] 350Rocket:
I forgot one thing I do leave running at night which is alarm clock to wake me up in the morning. I doubt it draws anything.

My girlfriend when she still had her iPhone would clear all her open apps every night to save battery which is no less effort than me toggling off WiFi and data.

I did use to use relax and sleep at night as a noise maker and set it for an hour and a half. I think it used up maybe 10-15% overnight when I did that which isn't bad. Now I use the old HTC desire as our sleep noise machine.
[Nexus 5 General] ljwnow:
I dont really understand why people need other sound to sleep better... lol
[Nexus 5 General] bobby janow:
Because you never did it.
[Nexus 5 General] midgarsormr:
I sleep with music on.
[Nexus 5 General] dwasifar:
It depends on what you get used to. When I was a traveling consultant, I spent so many nights in hotel rooms with noisy a/c that I couldn't sleep at home - it was too quiet. I had to get a little fan and run it at night - not for the airflow, but for the noise.

Just to keep on topic, I'm getting a big improvement in battery life from the ElementalX kernel.
[Nexus 5 General] bobby janow:
Oh yeah, the Mrs would love that one.
[Nexus 5 General] midgarsormr:
Oddly enough she likes some sound too lol. You know you have a winner when your significant other finds your snoring soothing.
[Nexus 5 General] venkatkkesavan:
android 4.4.3

to root my Nexus 5 with the latest build 4.4.3 can I use the same tool set mentioned in the "Nexus 5 - How to Unlock Bootloader, Install Custom Recovery and Root"(http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/guide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905) ??
[Nexus 5 General] jordi_e:
Please suggest me compatible custom kernel for stock rom 4.4.3 which is support S2W/DT2W + battery friendly too because I think the battery draining so fast after the update
[Nexus 5 General] d3xt3r:
Hellscore is just perfect. You can use the hkm app along with it for many additional features including color profiles, sound management, and also touch controls.. N the battery life is pretty awesome too.
[Nexus 5 General] mhdsanto85:
Hellscore? could you please, provide a link?
[Nexus 5 General] d3xt3r:
https://www.android-port.de/threads/hells-core-b5.3752/
[Nexus 5 General] jordi_e:
Ah thanks it's great really appreciate it but the S2W/DT2W not included on that. Maybe you can suggest me another kernel which S2W/DT2W supported, I already googling about it but no results pardon me for bothering you man :)
[Nexus 5 General] d3xt3r:
http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/kernel-linaro-kernel-r54test2-3-4-92-4-t2527130 you could also use linaro. Based on Franco. It got gestures too