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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Reread post 2. Also post 4 for recommended screen shots from gsam. And hopefully from 100% to near dead, no reboots, then take screen shots. You're gsam shots are only for an hour and a half. That doesn't say much. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KodRoute:
Hey guys. I think something went wrong with my N5. I was just trying to make the battery life last longer turning off some sync and changing some settings and I ended up worse than before. Here are my battery stats. I also did a factory reset and now my N5 is slower :(. I can notice a certain lag when I go to the settings app. Turning on WiFi used to be instantaneous, now it takes about 1 or 2 seconds more. Thanks

PS: Basically what I've been doing on it lately is this: browsing (using Google Chrome), searching for apps in Play Store, watch some youtube videos, download & play for a little amount of time (about 10 to 20 minutes) and delete the games afterwards.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Where's your signal bars? If you have no signal, your battery will drop like a rock. And phone idle being so high is a classic sign of this.

Other than that, please see post 4 for Gsam info and recommended screen shots. You're shots say very little. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
And please, screen shots should be taken after going from 100%to near dead... Always. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KodRoute:
Agreed! Thank you! Btw does factory reset affect the phone's performance? I strongly believe it has become somehow laggy when running certain apps like I mentioned (Settings for example).

PS: I have no signal because I haven't introduced any SIM card yet.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
No, what it does is it erases /data, /cache and /dalvic cache. It doesn't touch the system partition and all system apps are left intact but it erases personal stuff like installed apps, settings (which return to default), sms's etc. It doesn't have an effect on performance unless you had an app/apps disabled in "settings - apps" that caused lag and became undisabled after the factory reset.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KodRoute:
Is it possible to do a factory reset to completely restore the phone the exact same way I received it? I mean to restore all the settings done down to it's factory settings. Thanks!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android alchemist:
Signal problem?

How much does being on roaming affect battery? Also the signal is unstable and keeps going off and coming back. I'm having quite a bit battery drain and if this doesn't answer that i'll post the screenshots of my usage.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
It can hurt. I'm not sure on roaming but I think the phone more aggressively tries to find native signal.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KodRoute:
Hello. Luckily, Google Services is no longer draining my battery. The problem now is phone idle and cellphone standby. I left the phone from 100% and this morning it was 93% with phone idle at 55% and cellphone standby at 37%. Is this normal? I haven't inserted any microSIM card yet. I also turned off scanning for wifi when available.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
Hi everyone

A few weeks ago I noticed that my battery life suddenly deteriorated, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. I usually have location disabled, and play games sparingly. I have my screen on a moderate setting, and only use navigation when the phone is connected to a power source. I'm roaming (with data) right now, but I get poor battery life at home, too. Very roughly 2 hours SoT, I would say. If I do play a game, I would expect well under an hour to drain the battery completely.

Anyway, I don't think that I have changed my settings to cause this problem, and I'd be really grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction. Some GSAM screenies are attached. I rooted specifically to get some extra data on this issue.

Many thanks in advance

Charlie
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] android alchemist:
Please attach some native battery stats screens. That'll help identify.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
Here you go! I think this is what you want. The big dip is a bit of Kingdom rush...

Cheers

Charlie
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
Forgot to mention- it seems to charge suspiciously quickly, as well. This is a screenshot after being connected to my laptop USB port for about an hour after the battery was completely flat:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Hmm Play Services. Did you disable the fitness service using the Disable Service app?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
No, I had not disabled the fitness app, but I have now! Will see if it makes a difference.

Thanks for the tip!

Charlie
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Not the app, the service. Download Disable Service, go into Google Play Services within that app and uncheck the fitness services. This helped plus disabling Inbox sync.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
Re: [Battery Life Help] Troubleshoot battery issues here!

Right! I have tried that as well. Thanks again, I will report back with results.

Charlie
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrad5446@aol.com:
Wakelock *net_scheduler*

I've been trying to track down the source of battery drain and device not sleeping at all. I really don't care for gsam, but I installed it for the purpose of troubleshooting here on this thread. Ok, here's my setup:

Slimkat 4.4.4 build 9

ElementalX Kernel 1.13

I use tasker to turn location on and needed and off when not

Also use tasker to turn wifi on and data off both at home and work

Google now is disabled

I have disabled all services suggested except those relating to location. Privacy Guard enabled for both Google play services and play services framework. Disabled the wakelocks in wakelock terminator, and revoked the wakelock permission from both in app settings.

I'm gettting this wakelock called *net_scheduler*. Not amount of googling has helped me nail down what this wakelock is. The only thing close I got is maybe the gcm network scheduler. But why is it keeping my device awake 99% of the time? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I can't find anything useful on net_scheduler either. That means it's an uncommon wakelock.

A few ideas... And yes... Factory reset is one of them. ?

It could be another app you've installed causing it... Even your Tasker profiles perhaps. Best thing to try is first, location off for a whole discharge. See if its still there.

The reason I say a factory reset, is you'll start fresh with no apps. Setup the way you like the phone and go a day. See if its OK. If so, I'd say restore Tasker and your profiles. If it's still OK.... Restore a handful of apps each day. If the wakelock returnes... It's obviously caused by an app you just installed. You can then narrow down which.

Also, obviously a different rom you could try, or even just different gapps package.

Again, with no useful info on the Web on this.... All we can do is try things.

Also, I'd imagine a reboot might stop it too. But who knows when it could come back.

That's all I got. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
I'd guess Google Play Services. Maybe instead of trying to mess with wakelocks, try Disable Service. The Fitness services in Google Play Services seem particularly guilty of draining battery. I also stopped syncing Google Inbox. For some reason it was draining battery.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrad5446@aol.com:
Didn't have to go as far as factory reset. That gave me an idea though. I already have Disable Service installed with all the services I want disabled. I fixed the issue by uninstalling all updates to the play services. No more wakelocks. Now I'm gonna update it and see if its the updated app combined with my settings or maybe I just needed to wipe cache and data for the app.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
It shouldn't matter what version you have if you have the right services disabled.

There is nothing that will magically make one version drain more or less than another. The only exception is if they added more services, but then you should just disable those after the update anyways if they drain.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Actually this isn't true because they do update it a lot of times to fix a battery leak or something.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
And yet there is always someone complaining about battery on every version. One will say one version drains and another doesn't, and someone else would say the opposite.

And there are people who have no such drain on any version at all after reading this thread.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Subrad5446@aol.com:
I actually understand what lethargy is saying. Yes, they do release updates to fix drains. But I think that drain only affects people with certain setups. Users are the cause of drain, not systems.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sosferatu:
Oké can you explain that while i'm on stock lollipop and stock kernel. I get 2 hours sot and with the n5x ROM and bleu kernel i can get 5 hours sot. With the same setup. and same apps
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charlietheexile:
I'm still having the same problems (please see my posts above).

Any more pointers?

Charlie
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Is it the kernel or ROM that helps?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
See below.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
I don't think that's what he was asking. I've seen a couple people seem to hint that custom Lollipop ROMs get better life out of the box. Does that seem to be an accurate statement or just a couple people report that? Normally I wouldn't compare stock to a custom ROM in terms of that because KitKat was pretty good but I'm wondering if there are some fixes in the custom ROMs that make a huge difference? I'm not getting bad battery life (~2 hours SOT with 50% left) on stock, but better is always welcomed. I finally tweaked it to my liking.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Maybe not the "best ROM or kernel" parts, but the ones relevant to battery are.

I build my own ROM. Nope.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TigerCourage:
I just called Google because I was fed up with the battery drain and they will happily replace my phone, they are gonna send me a new phone first and I'll have to send them mine back after I receive the new one. The battery is probably cooked, especially if we had the first revision of the phone (like me)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
I might just try this. I've had my battery since the beginning of the year and it has been good once I finally found all the draining things.

Honestly I think with 5.0.1 it is mostly not the OS but Google Play Services and rogue apps. I still have to watch background apps sometimes like my browser or YouTube.

I know that Android manages background apps well, but I still exit my browser (I use Naked Browser since it has less overhead and a physical button to close it) because if I leave it open on a site, my battery stats for the app show mobile radio active for an hour and my SOT is only 30 minutes for example. It sucks that I have to be proactive though.

Lethargy, have you tried each of the custom ROMS?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukasz050:
i have a big problem with my nexus 5

Last receives only 1 hour SoT !!

I installed the android 5.0.1 via "Nexus Root Toolkit" before that also had a problem with the battery

but now I am getting very poor results about 1-1,5 h SOT whatever I do, my screen is about 20% brightness

I think the fault of the battery charging process because recently, the phone automatically shutdown when I was 20% of the energy. when I tried to turn it on, he said that the battery is low. So I plugged the charger, and after about 10 minutes I turned on the phone, and it showed 90% battery

Is there any possibility to reset the battery or something ??
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Read post 4 very carefully. Also posts 1 to 3....but especially post 4.

Help us help you! ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epiphone:
Help increase my SOT!

Am currently on stock root 4.4.4, appreciate any experts and gurus can help advice on how to increase my current SOT.

[IMG="battery built in"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/batterybuiltin_zps1a9d3ed8.png[/IMG]

[IMG="percent power used"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/percentpower_zpseb499bca.png[/IMG]

[IMG="screen brightness"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/screenbrightness_zpsd0c024b5.png[/IMG]

[IMG="radio"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/phoneradio_zps621c2856.png[/IMG]

[IMG="num times waking"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/numtimeswakingdevice_zpse144fe20.png[/IMG]

[IMG="kernel wakelocks"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/kernelwakelocks_zpsb25e11eb.png[/IMG]

[IMG="gsam main"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/gsammain_zps1ac61e60.png[/IMG]

[IMG="play services"]http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww259/rerear/playservices_zps71c1c8af.png[/IMG]
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
Need help!! I don't know why my battery is so terrible :( I just want to know how to fix it and what I could do differently
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Those are perfect shots.... But try it after going from full battery to 10 percent left or so. It paints a much better picture. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
Okay thanks I'll post in a little while
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pEksi91:
What's wrong with the wakelocks ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
I looked at Gsam and now all of my data from today is deleted... By the time I hit 10% I'll be at 3 hours sot
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You have to go from 100 to 19 or 15 percent with no reboots... Or gsam resets. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
Crap didn't realize that :/ I guess I'll try it again tomorrow. But could you suggest things to disable to help my battery at all?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Lol You read post 2? And depending on issues you might have, post 3 is the next step.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
First use a lesser battery using browser. Naked browser, despite being minimal is a lot better.

Second, hack Google Play Services like I said above with Disable Service.

Third, disable some syncs you don't need syncing.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
I use Chrome and have no problems with it lol
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukasz050:
I found the cause of the battery drain after reading some post in another forum I saw that my cover is not aligned and sticks out a bit...

if you dropped the phone, there is a possibility that your

battery is Busted

I always used the rubber cap on the phone, so I did not see that something is wrong

I hope that this information will help someone, because I was looking for a month causes of rapid battery drain

if you have this problem now you only need to replace the battery

BUSTED BATTERY PHOTOS HERE
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
What about Cyanogenmods browser? I like that its materialized and its pretty minimal. Is there a way I could install it?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Got to be very careful with bloated batteries like that as they can explode. Glad you caught it in time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
This single screenshot tells it all, 35% of your battery drain is associated to Gravity Screen. Your battery would essentially become a 1500mAh battery because of this one app/feature if it continues draining in that way. However you also rebooted in that time and a chunk disappeared so that would mostly invalidate those results as that would not be a regular occurrence.

There actually was no revision for the Nexus 5. That was a false rumor started in December, only 1 month after the phone's launch which has been proven false since that time. Low SoT is not a sign of a physically defective battery, that would be things like the phone shutting down before reaching 0%, refusing to charge past a certain percentage, or the battery draining from 100-0 even with the screen off etc.

If you get 2-3 hours SoT then I can just about guarantee your battery is not physically defective, in fact that is perfectly normal screen time with most of the phone's features enabled. At most you might have abnormal some software drains at that point but most likely just bad signal. Doing a factory reset without restoring your apps would achieve the same as RMAing the device for a $10 replacement battery. Best of luck with your refurbished replacement though.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
Today's test.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ishdaddy:
DOB, it shows that your GPS was on for 4 hours and 23 minutes. Try disabling your location services and see how long your battery lasts. One of your apps may be pulling location data frequently. For me, it was the weather channel app.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
In addition to the GPS radio mentioned there is also 47% Time Without Signal, 40% of total battery used by the Mobile Radio. It would seen your signal is very weak and you're trying to use a mobile data connection on it which is draining most of your battery. Actually I'm impressed that you still managed 2 hours SoT under such conditions.

Anytime you lose signal completely your phone boosts radio power to max levels in an attempt to reestablish a connection. That seems to be what drained most of your battery that day.

If you know you're in an area with dropping signal the best thing you can do is disable the data connection or switch over to airplane mode which will disable data + voice.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DOBBY0:
Everything was SRT on low but I guess it auto set high accuracy. And since it did that that's probably why my data was trying to do what it did when I didn't have service. I'll see how it goes today but usually that stuff doesn't make a huge difference for me. Thanks for the replies from both of you!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ishdaddy:
Hey guys, I've been experiencing an Android System battery drain since I moved to lollipop. I'm on stock lollipop and rooted. I thought it was a poor signal so I tried it at another location. It's always an android system drain and it seems that android system and the kernel are keeping the phone awake. It happened when I upgraded to 5.0 so I factory reset upgrading to 5.0.1. I got around 4+ hours of screen on time at first, but only get about 2.5 to 3 now. For this test, location settings were off most of the time. I've eliminated GPS as the source of the battery drain. Wakelock detector also indicates the phone has been awake 3 hours outside screen on use. Would appreciated any advice. I've included android, gsam, and wakelock detector screenshots.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulsar_swift:
Nexus 5 5.0.1 - High Mobile Radio Active Time !!

Dear Darth.

Please find the screenshots for your analysis.

I am seeing very high mobile radio active time.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Winesnob:
Agree with this - watch your weather apps, especially if you are using one of their widgets. I've been using Chronus as a clock and weather widget, and after skiing out all other causes decided to uninstall and see what happened. Well, this was the problem. Location was constantly updating (since I change locations frequently) and causing the app to keep the phone awake. Reinstalled, and saw the battery drain resume. Uninstalled once more and my battery is back to normal (flat line graph with screen off on Wi-Fi, minimal drain on mobile data).
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 7sen:
this is the best for me why i can't reach 4 SOT ONLY WAHTSAPP SNAPCHAT CALLING AND I FREEZE 3 APPS ( FALCON and H LINK AND WEATHER APP )

CATALYSM ROM CODE BLUE KERNEL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING

AND NEVER USING POWER SAVER

:eek::eek::eek:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Because you're using social media apps and you have a lot of wakes. Nothing much you can do about it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
Hi

I have a HTC One M8 (originally Sense but now running Android 5.0 SkyDragon GPE). My battery life hadn't been much better on Sense before I flashed 5.0, but it's become SLIGHTLY worse ever since.

I've read multiple trusted reviews of how the M8 is great at not draining when idle and how it can last 2 days on light usage and lots of people on the M8 battery life thread boast 6-9 hour SoTs, I don't think I've ever got a above 5......and my battery drain is deeeefinitely not minimal when idle....

I have noticed that my phone is awake most of the time even when my screen is off. I have attached the required screenshots below, please help me out! ?

Thanks in advance and please ask for any extra information if needed!?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
You had 2243 wakes from Google Services. See post 3 of the thread
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Whoosh13:
Will do, thanks :) anything to do about the time held awake by the kernel?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x10man:
I believe I have a dead battery rather than a software issue, but here goes.

My problem is my phone doesn't seem to be able to tell how much the battery is charged. It charges from '0%' to '100%' in about 30 minutes, and often just completely cuts out after about 30 minutes SOT. The unusually fast charging also occurs if I charge with the device off, and one other thing I've noticed is the charge going up without the device even being plugged in. I'm not talking a couple of percent, I'm talking unplugging the charger at 15%, and having the battery steadily climb (at roughly the same rate as on the stock charger) to 60 or 70%, all whilst no power is being applied to the device. I can try and get any screenshots from GSAM if you guys think they'd help, currently my device doesn't actually want to boot, but if anyone could advise me as to whether I need a new battery (and if so, a reliable source of them in the UK), or anything I could try to get to help, or for you to help diagnose it. I am running SlimLP and Android 5.02, Franco Kernel R69. These issues still occur if I flash back to 4.4.4.

Thanks,

X10man
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrObvious:
Sounds like it. RMA time!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulsar_swift:
Guys,

Looks like my post is missed as it was at the bottom of thr previous page. Any help is high appreciated.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Same advice for all of you. ?

For a few days, to test the difference.... Do everything that's advised in post 2. Everything. Especially location off.

See how it is for a couple days. If it's better. Only change what you really want to... One change per day. If you get in trouble again it's obviously due to the setting you just changed that day.

And all of you have a handful of social apps all running... Facebook and messenger in particular. Those are really going to take a toll on your battery life. Greenifying all of them, yes messenger too, will help greatly. Though the time you spend using them will still take a small toll.

So, if you still aren't happy after doing everything suggested in post 2, then freeze the social apps for one full charge. All of them. See the difference then. ?

Not much you can do if you want these social apps and all the bells and whistles running.... You just aren't going to have great battery life. That's just how it is.

And as the knowledgeable [MENTION=5666997]Lethargy[/MENTION] suggested, high Google services stats should have you reading post 3 very carefully. ?

Good luck!