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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardollreis:
So, after a clean install, no root and a minimal of apps installed, the final result was 1 day and 8 hours of use, and 1 hour and 40 minutes of SOT. Not the best for the SOT.

The battery graphic it's separated in 5 different zones of activity.

1º: 96% - 92% (8h), Sleep mode, Zero app installed, Wifi connected to 802.11n, Location Off

2º: Daily use, Facebook Installed, Wifi connected to 802.11g, Location Off

3º: Daily use, Facebook, feedly, Kickbit, My Vodafone, Wifi On but not connected (street), Location On

4º: 32% - 17% (5h), Sleep mode, Facebook, feedly, Kickbit, My Vodafone, Wifi Connected to 802.11g, Location Off

5º: 17% -13% (2h), Sleep mode, Zero app installed, Wifi Connected to 802.11g, Location Off

I have in my house two wifi broadcasts of the same network, 802.11n/802.11g.

On the 1º stage, the android made a perfect sleep rate, and wasn't achieved on the other stages. In the end I started to think that the problem was with Facebook, so I uninstalled all the apps and made no difference.

The problem it's apparently with android and not the apps. I have great suspicion of wifi broadcast, but the battery was so low, which did not allow me to tested.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FunDionysus:
http://www.cnet.com/news/whats-killing-your-battery-androids-top-10-performance-sapping-apps/

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-enable-battery-saver-on-android-5-0-lollipop/

http://www.cnet.com/videos/enable-battery-saver-on-android-5-0-lollipop/
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I answered you in your same post in other thread. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
It's too soon to figure out any 5.0 common issues... Hopefully we can start figuring it out soon.

But I know this... Unless nearly everyone is having the same issue, it's not the system alone. It will services related likely and so different peoples setup will dictate if they have the issue or not.

So, comparing setups at this point would be the most constructive Troubleshooting. If it isn't just location causing it, it could be another setting or feature. Or combo. We need to narrow it down. Those with no issues whatsoever should compare setups with the people with issues. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Oh.... And this similar situation is popping up with M8 users... On 4.4.4. So it's more likely the newest updates of Google Apps or services causing it. Not Lollipop directly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxo60:
I have to disagree with that, because I had KitKat with all the new Google Apps updated to material design (except Maps) and I'm having terrible battery life compared with KitKat and less apps to see if any of those are draining.

I put my screenshots below, I don't see any weird thing. I installed Gsam at 70% battery more less, that's why SOT from Android and Gsam differ, but still I think is a good idea if something if wrong.

Hope someone can help, or maybe we will have to wait for the bug fix.

Thanks

:)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Well, of course you can disagree....but M8 folk, some, are having the same experience....and we don't have 5.0. ;)

And you have 2 hours of held awake time...which is not good at all for only 17 hours of stats. unless that's an hour and a half of music playing....we need the screens of times waking device and held awake time to see what is keeping you awake.

Otherwise its all guesses.

Not seeing anyone with an issue post those.....so the mystery will continue. :confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
And guys.....with 5.0 installed, and untouched.....setup will not be optimal.

Post 2 still applies. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxo60:
Probably is because I saw a movie in Netflix trough Chromecast, that's why the device was awake, but besides that, the drain is insane with normal usage. My SOT in KitKat was around 4 hours over a day, and I barely can reach 2:30 hours on SOT over the same time.

:crying:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Try "display Brightness" from the play store. Even or just a couple days. If many are seeing bad drain mostly when screen is on...perhaps Auto Brightness is a culprit? Keep it as low as you can stand a couple days.

Also, 5.0 is Encrypted by default? Or not on the N5? Cause that will be a big drainer.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
I'm gonna try running GSam today on Lollipop to see if I cab get better battery because it drops like a brick. I see kernel wakelocks but is the number of times awake also a wakelock? I want to see all wakelocks and not just kernel lol. I see Kik wakes my device up a lot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You need to be rooted and install Gsam root companion to see app wakelocks stats. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxo60:
I find a little dumb to change brightness when I always have used Auto Brightness in every phone I had and never faced this problems.

I found this post pretty interesting, that maybe can give us a clue of what is really going on:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56749038&postcount=37

:confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If the ideas in this thread are a little dumb to you, then you don't need to read or post here. Right? ??

Good luck!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] der_sascha:
Thanks for telling me this useful information.

But I don't want to change every time 2G and 3G by myself. And I must be online every time because my job.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Wow that's a lot of wakes there. Quick question, were you actually using WiFi the whole time or do you just have "WiFi always scanning" enabled?

Those play service wakes are seriously out of hand though. I'm assuming it's just WiFi locations and Auto Syncs going nuts though.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Yesterday when I captured those screens I was connected to LTE all day. So yes, WiFi always scanning was on. Believe me, I've tried WiFi on/off, scanning on/off and it doesn't matter. When I'm not at my house my wakes are very frequent. When I'm at home my phone sleeps like an infant child. It's bizarre.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Well that does explain part of the problem. [MENTION=4036181]KJ[/MENTION] figured the low signal wouldn't have much of an impact since you were on WiFi, when in reality you were using LTE the whole time and the WiFi chip was just on for scanning purposes.

So lower signal with Auto Syncs and WiFi Locations going nuts is my best guess.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Best thing really....is to start fresh on the ROM or stick of your choice. Turn every thing off like laid out in post 2.

Should be fine then...hopefully. Then, each day....turn one service/option on that you want. One a day. Early. If its any of those....you'll know the culprit when your wakes start again.

If all is still well, then install only about 5 apps a day. Continue that til problem returns. Then you know its one if the apps you installed that day.

Its really the only way to track down a mysterious drain.

Yeah....install Tapatalk first day. Lol. Its never caused an issue I know of for battery...or XDA app.

It may be a Google app tho. You'll be able to narrow it down if battery is bad before installing any apps. ;)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
I'll be playing around with "L" for a while so it won't be a good time to test, but I will when/if I come back to 4.4.4.

Last night I uninstalled every 3rd party app I had with location permissions (pretty much all of them).

I was only at work a few hours today because I left to watch the I/O keynote. :)

Here's the screenshot I just captured. Its pretty obvious when I'm at work. BTW, I was connected to WiFi at work today.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
[MENTION=474680]ElDaddy[/MENTION] use the disable service app. go into system apps, google play services, and uncheck GoogleLocationServices. about a month or so ago, this started on my phone out of nowhere, and that fixed it. since then it stopped, so i reenabled it again.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
That seems a tad better but probably just the difference between WiFi and LTE, it's hard to tell without comparing SoT times though.

Wanted to mention that Google's Play Services are the main cause of your wakes. On your LTE data day it kept your phone awake for more than 1 of the 8 hours it was up, which seems very high.

Since updating, have you cleared your storage cache by any chance? Or a factory reset? I ask this because with my setup, Google Play Services will drain 2% or less of my battery on any given day (doesn't show up on my list usually). However after doing the 4.4.3 update I noticed it had jumped up to about 5% and was consistently on my list for 2 days in a row.

Since clearing my Settings > Storage > cached files and rebooting that has stopped. For those who use more GP services I could imagine this having a more dire effect.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] El Daddy:
Thanks guys. I now have some good ideas to start with. I appreciate the help! :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
BTW, I'm rooted, custom ROM, xposed.... Many system changes......but I can take the ota right? ;)

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
ok - WTH was going on with my phone last night? It was fully charged when I went to bed last night - took it off the charger after it reached 100%, turned WiFi/Data off, and woke up this morning to a 14% charge. (no, I did not make a 4.5 hour call in the middle of the night - dang it!)

http://imgur.com/a/2hz7i

Edit: On 4.4.4, Stock ROM/kernel, rooted, with TWRP, XPosed with GravityBox/XPrivacy
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
What android version are you on
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
Oops - sorry about that omission

On 4.4.4, Stock ROM/kernel, rooted, with TWRP, XPosed with GravityBox/XPrivacy

(added to my earlier post too)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Try clearing the data on your dialer/rebooting.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
I did that, and the problem seems to have gone away - but I have no idea what caused the dialer to go crazy after the recharge/reboot last night... I was about to call for an exorcism - in case there was an unknown entity making calls on my phone at night :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
I'm not sure, it's happened to a few people. Does it happen multiples times or was it a one-off?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
This was the first time it happened
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
I wouldn't be too worried if it was just once, if it happens repetitively then I'd be worried. :silly:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ch3micalGnetics:
My battery went from 3% to 5% without plugging the charger. Any idea of this behavior? Thanks

Enviado desde mi Nexus 5 mediante Tapatalk
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
And if you're going to ask for help, then criticize peoples advice who try to help.... You'll end finding little help on XDA.

Just a tip. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Galaxo60:
I see where your comments are going and I'm sorry if it sounded disrespectful or offensive to you in first place.

This is a battery life help thread, and I'm having battery life problems with my phone, and yes, I tried to look for help here, with the screenshots and all the information needed as the first posts say, because I already read many posts from people, not only in this thread, but also in the one I posted to you.

In resume, your answer for me sounded like "if you want more battery, just change the way you use it...", and I think that is not a proper answer, would be better to say "I don't know" or maybe "probably there is some unknown bug around there", but why do I have to change the way I use my phone with the same apps, settings and overall the same configuration?. Is like saying "leave your phone in a table 2 days and you will get a great battery life".

Again, I didn't mean to be rude, and again, I didn't criticized you, on the contrary, I'm glad that you took time to write and check my screenshots, and yes, maybe for me was easier to blame Lollipop for the battery drain because my knowledge is limited, I don't have all the answers and the only thing I change from one day to another was the OS, only that.

Hope you can understand my point, and thanks for your time and effort in this thread.

:good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I understand what you're saying! ?

I said, try it for a couple days. Meaning... Let's track down the cause of this drain, since it seems to be a screen on issue..... Perhaps there's an issue with auto brightness. So keeping the screen as dim as is comfortable for a couple days would let us see the difference. (manually)

I can tell you... On my M8, auto brightness versus manual and kept dimmer is a difference of an hour and a half... Easy, of screen on time. Maybe more, depending on the brightness of where I am that day.

Just a thought. Not saying never use auto brightness again... Just see if maybe it's bugged. You know? ??
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smartboy0668:
Stock loli

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I believe you're looking for this thread,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2509132

?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leogrina:
I followed every step of this guide and I get really nice improvements... Anyway, tonight I decided to let it there with with wi fi on and it lost like 20% ... Is it normal ?

Total sot is 3:20

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardollreis:
I found out, that if the nexus is connected to one of my two wifi broadcast, I lose 15% of battery in one night. In the other broadcast, the nexus go to sleep and I lose 4 or 5%.

God 802.11n - Technicolor TG582n

Bad 802.11g - 2825 MediaFlex
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leogrina:
Probably n technology is more energy efficient then g... Really strange.

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegas217:
Castsocketmultiplexer

I seemed to have found a big wake lock ....castsocket multiplexer was killing my battery. Downloaded disable service and killed all the cast services from Google play services and that has fixed alot of my wakes.... Will report back soon.

EDIT..... That has solved my battery issue. I will post pictures when I get home.

I have stopped these wakelocks in their tracks.

https://plus.google.com/103626848758959259055/posts/5m98d3RJz6g
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davey1412:
Just done the same, hopefully this solves the issue for now. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Geo2160:
I disabled google now and everything seems to be fine now, for the most part. It's not the first time I encounter battery issues due to it. On the bright side though, google now is almost useless in my country and stand-by times are now pretty amazing.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vegas217:
A few hours later the wakelocks are still gone but now miscellaneous has come back to haunt. Grrrr.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bob94:
I was having massive battery drain since last 2 weeks so I disabled camera and gallery but then tweetcaster was causing problems and I though Lollipop will fix everthing so I uninstalled most things. but the OTA was taking forever so I manually flashed it last night and after a night of full charging I am seeing this. :confused:

HELP ME PLEASE!!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vs0587:
Hi,

in the android settings, my battery stats data is unvailable.... I can see he percentage and the graph only! Why? :confused:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VC-:
Lollipop

Just flash Android 5.0 factory image and your battery life improves a lot.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
No. Lollipop will not magically increase your battery life as much as you think.

If you have wakelock issues it's going to be the exact same.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
Kernel seems to be a major drainer here. 2.5 hours SOT. What's the drainer here? Anyone?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
Adding last screenshot since XDA mobil only allows to upload 4. Again kernel seems to be major here. This is all airplane mode. What is causing this awful battery?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Tips I've found (still testing)

*Use the Disable Service app for Google Play Services (kudos go to others who discovered)

*Switch browsers (Naked Browser so far works good and I noticed a high drain from Chrome and Javelin, but my battery was going from 75-56% in like the last hour and has stayed at 56% probably for the last 20-30 minutes guessing)

*Set WiFi to 2.4 GHz only (seems to be more stable)

*Don't install Facebook, disable or remove Google+, disable Twitter sync (doesn't seem to drain battery)

*At work switch to edge 2g and use WiFi

*Keep always scanning off for WiFi

I've heard some background apps will sync or change WiFi settings like Viber so if you use Viber change WiFi settings. I don't so I do not have that problem.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Caddish:
I'm getting abysmal battery on nexus 5 lollipop

I barely used the phone today and got 1h SOT

Installed from image, Rooted with cf autoroot

On preview release with similar setup I had much better result (no proof)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Starting to look like there's a massive WiFi issue. Hopefully more comes to light soon.

All I can say at this point... Is do every single thing in post 2. See if I makes any difference. If it does, maybe we can narrow it down.

A lot of talk of Google now causing issue. Make sure it's off... For now.

A factory reset wouldn't hurt either.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
And see this post by [MENTION=5697318]Mr hOaX[/MENTION]

Maybe it can help too! ?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56779106&postcount=228
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briand.mooreg:
I did many of the tips posted and I'm OK with my battery, I think about the same as KK.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snappycg1996:
What exactly could be causing the kernel drain (in my case at least and others I see)? I'm wondering if a custom kernel would help, even though I wanted to stay completely stock...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ironia.:
for best battery is better that The Wifi is OFF (and so use the 2g connection) or ON during sleep ???

tnx
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerrysnaps:
Going to add my observation that Google Now seems to trigger the drain on standby. Initially on others' suggestions, tried to install Nova Launcher to replace Google Now Launcher. On restart it did seem to improve standby, but once I opened up Google Now, battery started to drain again.

Battery also seems to drain while using Chrome browser.

Going back to Google Now Launcher but with Google Now itself still off, standby still looked ok. The difference in my usage is significant, 12 hours without drain 6 hours with drain, I actually find Now useful but will be keeping it off til the next Play Services update.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foosion:
Google is rolling out an update to play services. Latest version is dated Nov 17 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.gms&hl=en

I'm not having that problem with Google Now.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andreipaval:
Hello guys, I think I have a big problem with my Nexus 5 battery. About a month ago I started battery issues (phone was bought new 11 months ago), it would just drain too much within normal use, but since I had the L Preview I thought it was just a software problem, you know the "Miscellaneous battery drain bug". But now that official Lollipop was release I see that it doesn't make any difference what I have installed, I tried all: 4.4.4, LPV79, 5.0, the battery drain is even worse. The phone loses too much charge even on standby, and when I'm using it the battery percentage just drops almost every second.

Sometimes it shuts down by itself at 60% and when I power it back up it shows 10%. Or sometimes if I power it down at 80%, when I power it back up it's 20%. It can't be physically possible for the charge to go up and down like this is a few seconds.

So, after I took a look at the phone's back, it did seem a little swollen, especially when I press gently on it's back from the top to the bottom, it feels that next to the camera is slimmer and then it gets a millimeter thicker. (Could you try this with your phone and tell me how it feels?) So I opened the back an took a look at the battery, but it doesn't really look swollen, it's still flat, definitely not round or bumpy.

But is the battery supposed to be a little thinner at the top?, or is it supposed to have the exact thickness on it's entire surface, I can't figure out from pictures on the internet.

I have tried calibrating it by a full charge -> full discharge -> full charge scenario. I have even tried wiping data and cache from the stock recovery, but no improvement.

What could have damaged the battery? I usually charge it with the LG WCP-300 wireless charger and occasionally with the stock charger.

When I was on vacation I also charged it from the LG 10400 mah universal external battery (BP410BB.AER).

So now I'm thinking of buying a new battery from eBay and replacing it, what do you guys think? Will this fix my phone problems?

It seems it worked for some guy on this reddit thread which had similar symptoms with mine.

Thank you very much for any advice guys.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polimante:
Today when I woke up, I activated all conections, and the battery was on 99% (i think its normal, cause the system still running while on standby along the night). Ok, but I Shut down my phone trying to desactive airplane mode (with lollipop we dont have the shortcut on power button hahaha I forgot it). Ok, when my phone returned on, the battery level was 96%!

Is it normal? Im using Lollipop. I get scared about it, because my old phone got the same issue, and the battery was died. Please help :(
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Is that Juice Defender in the top left corner of your status bar? Get rid of it. Don't use any battery saving apps. Trust me. I used to be a big big fan of JD bell in the day. But I came to realize that battery savers hurt more then they help. They constantly wake your phone out of deep sleep to "check on things". Besides JD hasn't been updated since Gingerbread days. Jan 2012!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] porman:
What about Greenify?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] briand.mooreg:
Nope, it's Lookout but thanks for the tip.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariusstoica:
battery problem

I'm facing this problem on DU rom, any ideea? Any fix?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marclooman9:
My battery drains realy fast from 100 to 80 % .No matter which ROM
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leogrina:
I find that standby time when battery saving is on is really fantastic. It limits greatly data in background... In 6 hours on wi fi I lost ~1%. If they can implement the same mechanism when screen is off during normal mode, I think the os could be really optimised during non usage time so all the juice could go entirely on active usage of the phone.

sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
There's no reason not to have WiFi active all the time (unless you have an issue ) .... To me, all that turning it off and on when the screen is off is likely wasting far more juice than leaving it on.

I do on every device I've ever owned.... And my battery times have always been far above the averages on each device. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
K.... A message to all. Without the recommended screen shots from post 4....or most anyway.... And without app wakelock screens.... You will only get guesses from people. If you've noticed, the main helpers in this thread usually don't have much to say when those screens aren't posted.

And it's cause we don't like to guess. Also the opening post says to post screens. And not stock battery usage screens... They are near useless. ?

Just a reminder. ?