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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mousefai0922:
Hey guys, wanted to share something i know.

I used to have a bad battery life, with only 1 hours of SOT (max 2 hours sot but very occassinaly). But then I noticed there was this slightly bulge on my phone cover, and then i went to replace the battery

After the replacement, the battery was superb. I am now on 3 hours of SOT and 25% left on the phone. It was my first uses after the replacement and i will let u guys know future update when i play around with the kernel (i stick with stock rom).

One thing i notice from a friend work in LG: the nexus 5's battery was a bit lower quality then other's smartphone since LG wanted to make the nexus 5 less compeititve compare to G2 at that time. So dont expect your battery last more then a year. If u used ur phone for a bit of time and notice the battery was suck, tried get a replacement first. Dont try to change your setting asap to get battery life because u cant if the battery was defective.

One more thing: if u have a rooted phone, check with ur phone battery was more then 30C. Because after the replacement, I nearly go more than 31C with full max usage at all. I think high temp showing the battery was near defected.

Let me know if u want to know more.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stazz83:
Mousefai0922, how much did you pay for a new battery?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mousefai0922:
I took it to repair shop for the replacement.

It was a brand new LG battery

around 20$
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stazz83:
Thanks! I've decided to give thw old one a shot with the unofficial CM 12.1 and see whether the battery consumption will improve.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mousefai0922:
I think is worth to pay 20$ since the nexus 5 is still a very nice and (fast speed) phones.

I have tested out all the G3, S6 and M9 flagships phone. Honestly, I think the speed is not so much faster than nexus 5, considering the price they are selling their phones.

I rather replaced the battery, and see the upcoming nexus smartphone and then do a change

meanwhile, i stick with nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
What causes uphill bumps on battery graph? (not charging). I know booting layers causes the blank space.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but we suggest everyone to avoid Battery Guru and similar "battery saver apps". Basically all it does to save battery is disable your WiFi, which it tries to automatically learn based on your usage. How does it know when you leave and enter your WiFi area? By using your CPU (and thus battery) to run its algorithms and try and figure it out.

By spending a few minutes using Llama (or Tasker, or ITTT, etc.) you can have this done without using complicated CPU algorithms. These use your own simple "If This, Then That" statements along with Cell towers to approximate your location of when you leave or arrive in WiFi areas without the negatives.

Battery Guru is an overly complicated version of this. It's actually more of an advertising platform for Qualcomm as they can post their video ads in the "extras" section.

Software can only estimate the battery level remaining, so when your usage changes between load and idle situations it can readjust according to the new estimation. Everyone will see this at times unless they have extremely high idle drain.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enea009:
ASUS Zenfone 5 T00J 4.4.2

Hi to everyone,

I have a problem with my battery phone. In 1 week my battery can last till 16 hours for 2-3 days. The other days i have to charge it for 2-3 time a day. I want to emphasize that i use my phone generally in the same way. No location on, reduced screen brightness. I use 3G most of the time and wireless.But the problem is the same with 2G too. When i checked with clean master, it show weatherservice that use till 70% of the battery. I have disable it, and forced stop. I have used disable service app and block it. But seems to be running after all ia have done. In the attach are the screenshots you ask. Thanks in advanced.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ErivShadow:
Maybe this summary will help some Nexus 5 lovers who experience massive battery drains after they used the phone for nearly 1 1/2 years.

Shortly after flashing SlimLP I experienced a massive battery drain. I played around with the usual stuff (factory reset, modems, settings, apps, downgrading to KitKat) but couldn't get rid of the problem.

My battery lasted for half a day with normal screen time, disabled WiFi and running 4G only. Sometimes the phone rebooted randomly even if the battery showed 60%. After the reboot the battery was nearly empty.

Normal charging was done in 20 - 25 minutes which is also a good indicator that your battery should be replaced soon.

To make it short: I bought a new battery on Amazon, replaced the old one and now it is running again like a charm. The battery replacement should take not more than 15 minutes for normal skilled people.

But be careful, at the moment Amazon (or at least Amazon.de) seems to have problems with batteries either directly sold by Amazon or through the Amazon Market Place (sorry the article is German only). Lucky me mine seems to be fine for now, lets wait a couple of months. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mousefai0922:
great job, and happy to hear u change ur battery

to me personally, i think the cost of buying a battery and diy is so much cost effective then buying a new phone considering this nexus 5 still run fast n smooth as butter.

I strongly recommended when people noticed the battery drain issue, try to replace the battery first. You should get a improvement at that time

If not, [MENTION=4036181]Darth[/MENTION] should be able to help u.

I wondered do lollipop 5 still have the battery drain issue?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I've been experiencing similar issues with kernel wakelocks on my M8. I'm on a CM based rom, and it doesn't happen on stock based roms. Most my services are off... I'm setup just like post 2 indicates, and still I get this. I find I'm having to reboot even a few times after charging to stop it.

I'm figuring it's a cm glitch and will be trying another kernel soon. Not sure it'll help, but I've tried everything else.

Again, I'm on an M8 so not sure that what works or doesn't for me, will apply to the N5.

It's 5.0.2 based also.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Anyone try servicely yet? Any opinions? Seems more in depth than greenify.

Haven't tried it yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enea009:
It is free only for 3 applications. Better greenify i think.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Well, I will try it soon... And I don't mind paying at all if it brings anything good to the table. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Traxex_:
"Toggle 2g" is not switching to 2g when connected to wlan, it only detects when I lose connection to wlan. Do you guys have any alternatives for the LTE/2g switch to stop battery drain caused by bad signal?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.softxperience.android.switchnetworktype
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Traxex_:
It just opens the settings and does nothing on its own?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
Sorry, thought that would work. You might try Condi, has a lot of options.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Traxex_:
Unfortunately you can just disable Data completely :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
There's a toggle for pro features in the app
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IKnowIRock!:
[5.1][STOCK] Terrible battery life!

Hello guys,

Just as my title says, I've been experiencing terrible battery life ever since i shifted to 5.1. I tried the OTA, flashing the factory image via fastboot...everything but no luck :(

I know the battery life in 5.1 is not so good but I think this behaviour is abnormal. I am on full stock and not much applications are there either. Only the basic set of apps such as Facebook, Instagram, whatsapp, viber...etc. And no games at all!

I've turned off everything including google now. Only adaptive brightness is enabled. Given below are the screenshots of the battery stats right now. You can clearly see only 7% are used by the screen! :confused:

And the bigger slopes are when i switch on data and use some internet app.

Any solutions??
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Primokorn:
Take a peek at the battery help thread: http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128

Try to disable the 'adaptive brightness' feature and all features which could have an impact on your sensors/screen. My battery life is actually better on 5.1 compared to 5.0.2.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougiefresh181:
thats funny lol. just surfing the web mildly over wifi and listening to music on low brightness, my battery died today in 2 hours. for some reason, it charges really fast though. 0-100% in under an hour. i dont get it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougiefresh181:
[Q] stock 5.1, ridiculous battery drain

im on stock rooted 5.1, build lmy47I, and my battery has been draining faster than anything ive ever sene. today, i took it off the charger at 100% and it died in two hours of just surfing xda over wifi and listening to local music. this has been the norm for a few days, but my phone doesnt appear to be wakelocked and it doesnt get hot, and it also charges very fast, 0-100% in under and hour on ac. its very strange and i just ordered a new battery, but i dont think that its hardware.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IKnowIRock!:
Will try that :) I get only 2 hours of SOT in lollipop where as I had better SOT in KitKat. Well switching off every feature makes this phone as dumb as me. Can't call it a smart phone anymore :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kluni_a:
Hello everyone!

We have the Nexus 5. After installing one of the updates euphoria (in early March), caught the problem - fast battery drain, and in sleep mode, and when the screen. Screen Maximum 2.5 hours during the night minus about 50%. Tried many firmware and drain (4.4.4, 5, 5.1) and customs (euphoria, cm), the nuclei. Sinned on the battery. Today Replace the batteries with high hopes for a miracle. But crap is going on.

Today took the script to clean tailings cores LG Nexus 5 - no effect.

It seems that somewhere left tails, because after a full wipe (including internal storage) during installation euphoria battery icon, the same as I set the settings back in March (circle).

Please help!!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A1ps:
Right, guys, just when I thought all was going OK, I've begun having massive battery drain these last few days. Kitkat 4.4.4 rooted with stock ROM. Running Gravity Box and XGels. I've not added any apps or modules prior to the battery drain.

These pictures are after having used the phone for a few seconds on SMS, WhatsApp and few seconds on a phone call. The battery had almost totally drained. As this happened for a few days, this morning I ensured after charging the phone I closed ALL apps. But for some reason Messenger still shows!

I am using Greenify and have put several apps I here. But I haven't put Facebook or Messenger in greenify.

What is causing the drain? Let me know if more information is needed.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bei60:
I dont know why I only get like 2 hours SOT.

Cata + franco
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Android seems to be attributing a large part of your drain to the mobile radio. So either weak signal data connection, or perhaps the mobile radio got stuck in a wakelock. Is this a regular occurrence?

I can see why people say Facebook and its Messenger are wasteful, not even used once and they've woken your phone considerably more than the messaging app you actually used.

Looks like most of your drain is being attributed to Google Services. Recent updates have left much to be desired with Google Play Services and their respective drains I find.

One thing you can try is clearing your Settings > Storage > Cached data and rebooting. However, I suspect it may just be typical drain from related services such as Locations, Hotword detection, Auto Syncs, etc.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bei60:
Location was off, not hotword, no autosyncs.

Clearing cache didn't work.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kluni_a:
it is not normal

12:04 - 51 minute of display

13:05 - 50 minute of display
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A1ps:
Thanks for your reply. I've gone in and tried to shutdown google play services. But they keep popping back up.

And how do I unstick mobile radio from wakelock issues?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
In that case you are probably suffering from the issue related to custom ROMs and one of the Play Services updates. Please see the following thread for more information:

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/general/script-google-play-services-battery-t3059585

Toggling Airplane mode on and off should resume normal radio operations, at least temporarily.

Please read the first 4 posts on Page 1.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bei60:
Same thing happened on Stock with Xposed. I seriously tried like 3 ROMs, and different kernels.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
That is a good idea! ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Mine is on LMT(pie)...shortcut to Google search. Can do it from any screen with one swipe.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] uishido:
hi there,

I'll upload some screens later but quick questions:

when I received my N5 5 months ago I had 2-3% drain during the night (7hours) with radio and wifi on.

now lately I get 5-6% drain even in airplane mode (!) with no wakelocks showing up in GSM. When I turn the radio on it's 10-12%.

anybody else here with issues like this? could it be the battery after only 5 months of usage?

edit: screenshots: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1BirL7SAczVWE5qTDZYYi1CTmc&usp=sharing
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealjam:
My battery life in standby has definitely taken a hit lately without any notable changes to my setup. Looking at your screens I wonder if it's a Google services issue. For me, the problem is not serious enough to lose any sleep over as I charge daily anyway.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rancur3p1c:
NSA tracking those users keeping the camera awake and watching. :angel: big brother is here to help :good::highfive:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swat4samp:
Same with me too. Just bought the device day before yesterday and observed today morning that there is 5-6% battery drain. I didn't activate google now, disabled sync, wifi and everything else. What could be the reason ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Google services. If you disabled them and they still show up on your battery list you can try: Settings> Storage >Cached data. Clear it and reboot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swat4samp:
I did clear cached data and rebooted. Still today morning, i observed 2% battery drain since last night nearly 9hrs (12-9). I am running stock without root and disabled everything, sync, wifi, even google now, and set brightness to lowest. What could be wrong :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
2% in 9 hours? That's awesome!!! :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swat4samp:
Lol, so its comparatively less? :D
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ybyb:
Hi,

I only manage to get about 14-15 hours max from my device.

My usage includes 1-2 hours of talk time and on/off messaging on whatsapp & bbm throughout the day.

My setup: Stock rom with xposed framework and elementalx kernel

Please advise
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Please see post number 3 for the suggested screen shots and Gsam info. Without those, all you will get is blind guesses. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GialanG:
An old story... I often suffer from Android OS drainage. Is there any way to completely eliminate the issue instead of phone restart every time?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you sync a lot, have location services on (especially on high accuracy and have history reporting on), have the options in Android Device Manager on and have Google Now on....Android OS will be much higher than with all or most of that off.

See Post 2 for tips. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GialanG:
I usually disable most of them, only set sync on and sometimes location on (battery saving), but the problem persists, especially after charging. I searched and tried all that I could, all failed...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
For one full charge, turn location, sync and Google now all completely off. Email app sync too if you use that.

Oh, and definitely OK Google hot word from any screen.

Try a full charge with that all off and see.

See post 3.....after that charge, some screen shots would help get you help. Otherwise we're just guessing here. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Ya it doesn't get much better than 2% over 9 hours of idle, which is probably closer to 1% taking into account false reporting. It's also normal to still see Play Services near the bottom of your list (about 2%) if you haven't done anything with the phone on that charge, but quickly gets bumped off the list with real usage.

If you check your Settings> Apps> Running you will see Play services are still running in memory even with most of their corresponding options disabled, they will just use minimal amounts of CPU time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] koszor:
Great info here a lot of knowledgeable XDA users here.

I came across two questions.. well really one.

Im testing myself if Device Only Vs. Battery Saving location mode is better for my usage.

If I am at work and I have a constant WiFi signal ( -105 dBm LTE if that matters ) and I toggle data off and keep WiFi on.. will that use less battery than keeping both on?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
With WiFi on, data automatically is off. No need to toggle it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warrimonk:
Email

What apps do you use for email sync.

I know PUSH is the most battery efficient, and I have 2 accounts that I want to sync.

One is a Gmail account. Another is a hotmail account. I was using an app called Sol Mail which had gmail set to PUSH and hotmail set to one check every 3 hours.

However the app was still draining a fair amount of battery. What email apps to people recommend? I have had issues with stock Gmail draining battery and prefer to keep both accounts in 1 app.

Using Android L BTW

EDIT: I gave the stock email another chance and it seems to be able to do PUSH for both my Hotmail and Gmail accounts. Will wait a few days and see how the drain is.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A1ps:
Thanks mate. I'll give it a try.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] treefrog321:
This just happened to me this morning too. I don't understand the gap in the battery use graph or the gap in the cellular signal. I didn't touch anything to do with the network mode during that time. Since I unplugged the phone from the charger this morning, or since that gap in the graph, the battery has been draining like crazy. I don't have any unusual apps running - there were no significant changes since yesterday when it was fine. As you can see, the screen time is very low. I have rebooted twice since I noticed the heat production and the drain rate, but it doesn't seem to change. I'm on stock 5.1 and rooted. I'm not able to install Gsam right now, but some relevant screenshots are attached.

Another note: during the second reboot, it started looping on the coloured ball animation. I let it go for about 10 or 15 minutes then forced another reboot by holding the power button. After that, the screen showed "Optimizing apps..." and then "Android is starting..."

View attachment 3279787 View attachment 3279788 View attachment 3279789 View attachment 3279790

It seems that Gmail was causing some problems, but I don't know why. Following my initial post, I eventually noticed that Gmail was using an increasing proportion of the battery since last charge. I uninstalled the app's updates and the battery usage leveled out. I still don't know what caused the boot issue and I don't really know what changed since the previous day - everything was fine then and Gmail hadn't updated that recently. If the problem returns I think I'll go back to 5.0.1.

Thanks for the thread.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Traxex_:
I'm getting many bluedroid_timer wakelocks when my car Radio (Pioneer x2500bt) is in the list of my available bluetooth devices.

When I remove the radio, it's almost down to zero, can't disable bluetooth completely due to my smartwatch.

Already tried to unchecked media transfer and Contact synchronisation in bluetooth settings, any further suggestion?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
OK. I apologize for not helping as much as in the past here.... Life and xda have me pretty busy. But one thing I am seeing here a lot... Screen shots that really don't help, or no screen shots.

Post 4 shows the shots that matter most. Primarily, gsam main screen, app screen, times waking device and held awake time. The stock battery graph is helpful too. (the one after you press the graph from the main screen)

Honestly, without those.... You just get guesses at your issue. Not that all issues will show in those screen shots, but many will.

I personally just don't tend to answer without those shots. Guessing at peoples issues isn't worth it to me. :)

Thanks guys! Especially those helping in the thread. :good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GbeTech:
Hello!

Thanks for taking the time to read and help.

My battery life has reduced considerably.

Here are my screens:

s15.photobucket.com/user/GbeTech/library/N5%20Battery

Thanks for any tips.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
The link doesn't work for me.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GbeTech:
Sorry, fixed the link.

s15.photobucket.com/user/GbeTech/library/N5%20Battery
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A1ps:
Today I only got 8 hours battery and that's with one 1 minute phone call. Checking BBC news for a couple of minutes. And that's it! Something definitely is killing the battery.

Is it safe to Greenify Google Play Services?

In the mean time I'm going to delete some Apps I think may be causing battery drain all of a sudden. It's going to be a trial and error method.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amir7777:
Hey dude, I personally wouldn't recommend using greenify because I've read it sucks more battery than it says it saves. I can get over 4½hours of sot without greenify. If I were you I'd try 2 things:

1) try disabling some services from google play services with the DisableService app from the play store. 2) recalibrating your battery. Drain till 0% and it turns off. Turn on and see if its actually at 0% (it will shut down immediately) if its not, drain till it does. Then plug it in (with the phone turned off) and wait till it gets to 100% and turn it on again. If it doesn't say its fully charged wait until its at 100% and disconnect. After that its recommended to drain it again until 0% so it keeps calibrated.

My personal experience, it increased my battery life after calibrating.

Good luck my friend
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
[MENTION=3618676]Amir777[/MENTION] FYI battery calibration does nothing. A myth debunked by Google engineers long ago. Your other suggestions were good though ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
My phone is nexus 6, can you check what's eating my battery.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcat007:
I'd check your android battery stats to see how much yellow and red you have on your phone signal. Low signal = bad battery. Otherwise doesn't look that bad.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
Thanks for prompt response.

Here is my android battery stats.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amir7777:
Idk man but it kinda increased after I did, maybe the other things I did were responsible for the increasing of my battery life. But good to know, won't recommend that again, thanks.