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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cookies:3:
lol, didnt edit fast enough:

Also, having the data connection on while not downloading/uploading anything (assuming background apps arent doing anything as well) hurts my battery?

So it uses the data connection? I dont mind turning it off the problem is that i dont want my cards to be deleted, is there a way to just save the cards?

But at the moment I think I can deal without it, its not that useful anyway when I can setup just 2 locations and cant choose anything in the sport teams aside national football teams.

Edit:

Turning airplane mode on will disable location services right?

And it will disable the data connection, so I can just put airplane mode on when I dont use the phone, also there will be no annoying wake screens or syncs, am I right?

And one last question, having location services on actively drains battery because its always being used right?

So considering I dont use facebook and that sound cloud doesnt really pops up a lot and its a very small amount of traffic anyway, having the data connection on wont drain as much battery as the location services right?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
My n5 has been losing battery abnormally fast, even with sync turned off, and I'm not entirely sure what would be causing it.

I've been using better battery stats, as well wakelock detector and determined it to be bam_dmux_wakelock.

Tried a few instructions such as systematically removing apps that might be causing it, which leaves me with all my non-google apps removed, and it still happening.

It only appears to be happening when disconnected from wifi.

I have Omnirom 4.4.4, and had installed PA Gapps 4.4.x. Sync has been turned off, and I used Titanium Backup to remove most of the gapps I don't use (Play Books, Movies, Keep).

Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Post 2 tips added. :)

I didn't spell check or format well. Just wanted to get it up there. On Tapatalk. Will sit down in coming days on my PC and Format and streamline and spell check....Lol.... And make it all much nicer to look at and follow.

All suggestions and criticism welcome. Again.....formatting will come. But the content I mean. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aadilnz:
Alright, would greatly appreciate any tips to improve idle times. Using greenify and Fb is greenfield but it doesn't hibernate all the time for some reason as visible from the screenshots. Sorry about the cf lumen screenshot issue. Thank you for all your hard work!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
You should add in that post that if you purchase the donate package for Greenify and you have Xposed, you can use GCM push for Greenified apps which allows you to get notifications for apps that support it (you can see that cloud with "GCM" in the menu where you select what apps to Greenify, for some reason you can't see it on the list of already Greenified apps) even if you have them Greenified. I Greenified Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Tumblr and Tapatalk and never missed a notification lol

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] damiearaki:
Battery is better with the latest update!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unsivil_audio:
I've been less than successful hitting >4hrs SOT lately, still troubleshooting. Today I'm trying sync off. I'm also back on an OC kernel due to I've just determined it really has little effect on my battery life.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talz13:
Poor standby battery life

I haven't felt the need to root my Nexus 5 yet, so I can't supply all of the info requested, but I wanted to try to get some help with some particularly bad battery drain yesterday at home.

I took the phone off the charger in the morning, but ended up using my tablet all day instead. I came back to the bedroom to grab my phone before we went to dinner (about 11 hours later, hadn't turned the screen on for more than 20 minutes), and it was down to 60%!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Yeah I just cherry-picked it lol.

What happened to #StayParanoid?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
It got Raped by AndroidL [emoji38]

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] swat4samp:
I guess sandman got paranoid using PA :p lol. Wat???? You cheery picked wakelock blocker? This stuff is kinda new to me :/
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Yes he built his ROM from source and then cherypicked aka selected the specific features he wanted and cooked it into his ROM :)

[MENTION=5666997]Lethargy[/MENTION] I think I am going to build my own ROM. Mainly STOCK but cherry pick some features like Theme Chooser and Wakelock Blocker.

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Cool, goodluck lol.

My logcats are so useful right now..

E/PowerHAL( 908): touch_boost: failed to send: No such file or directory
E/PowerHAL( 908): touch_boost: failed to send: No such file or directory
E/PowerHAL( 908): touch_boost: failed to send: No such file or directory
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E/PowerHAL( 908): touch_boost: failed to send: No such file or directory
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Lol yes those logs tell you everything haha XD. I think you better keep your luck instead of giving it to me. I think you need it haha

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ccnky:
What do you think about this? I think it could be better.

Apps are already greenified and I use NlpUnbounce Xposed module. Any suggestions?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I see no issue. You probably had another hour of screen time left.

Enjoy your device.... Nothing to see here! ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racingmatt1:
Does anyone have a remedy for gsam stats randomly resetting
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
It's not random.... gsam resets any time you plug in your device, Even for a minute on the charger or computer. It resets if you reboot. And it resets if you press the custom reference point button.

I've never seen it reset without one of the above happening. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racingmatt1:
Well it did that to me without any of the scenarios above
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Got me then. Never heard of this happening. It's definitely something on your end, as no one has ever reported such a thing.

Did you Greenify it?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racingmatt1:
Nope, dont even have greenify installed this is the first time this ever happened
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Try clearing the cache, data too maybe... Tho your average times will be reset.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
[MENTION=4036181]KJ[/MENTION] You use an auto brightness app like LUX right? Can I have your settings?

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I have in the past.... But I use this now.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=rubberbigpepper.DisplayBrightness
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Ew, using an app for auto brightness?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamots:
Have you seen this kj? What are your thoughts? I'm skeptical...

http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...gn=Feed:+xda-developers/ShsH+(xda-developers)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Only useful if you get 0-1 bars signal when you have data on. If your signal is decent it'll be more annoying then useful, and won't save you any battery.

I'd say pointless, since you can just toggle it yourself manually, whenever you WANT it to. Its only like 2 taps.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
I just noticed I have that built in my ROM. Just flashed it last night and didn't notice :D

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Personally I think using an "overlay" to "reduce brightness" is extremely silly when you can just change the brightness values themselves. Hell you can just edit arrays.XML in framework-res.apk (if on ART) or use Xposed to do it if your ROM doesn't support changing it on the fly.

I don't even think the "overlay auto brightness" makes a difference on a screen that isn't AMOLED. It doesn't change the screen brightness. It just overlays varying-transparency black over everything. Sure, it looks darker. But is the backlight giving out less light/using less power? No, the Nexus 5 doesn't use an AMOLED display.

If you set Android actual-brightness to 10%, then use an overlay to make it "darker", the screen is still at 10%, right? Just "looks darker".
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
OK so just stick with the options in the ROM then. I am using a very lean ROM. I'm taking 100 MB system partition though I do have the about settings page built in. So I'm using that at the moment.

I'm trying to really crack down on battery as I've been dealing with sub par battery for to long. Don't have any wakelocks but my Android System/Android OS/Kernel battery usage has been to high lately :/

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
I don't think "size" of system affects battery at all lol..

And System/OS/Kernel.. you need to stop worrying about it too much.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
1. I know just bragging [emoji6]

2. But but but.......

Edit: you had a grammatical error [emoji12]

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Can't fix a nonexistent "problem". :p And I get a bit lazy when typing on a phone.

Also, apps like Lux are targeted mainly at people who have devices with AMOLED displays, i.e. Samsung devices, i.e. the majority of people/sheep. They can save some battery for them, which is why they're "popular". For the Nexus 5/other devices using non-AMOLED, it's useless for "saving battery", for the reasons I stated previously. The only real use of an overlay on non-AMOLED is to help readability in extremely dark environments (LCD tends to be brighter then AMOLED).
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
The app I linked is not auto brightness. It's a handy manual slider that's just always on top of the screen, for simple adjustment. And seems to not take any real juice itself.

I find using anything else where I need to click any thing to get to it is a pain when I step into the sun and can't see anything. I know where the slider is exactly and don't need to see to find it. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Yeah I know, but he asked about Lux :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crysword:
Mahdi battery drain

Hello, i have a problem with mahdi rom, is very beautifukl but on my phone there's too much battery drain from the system.

It happend after the install of mahdi, before with the stockeverything was ok. Just after recognized this problem I installed cpu control and trickester mod.

I post some screenshots can you please help me? Thank you all :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
[MENTION=6032488]crysword[/MENTION] Either post a BBS log or give us the # Times waking device Page in GSAM

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I see no issue. Your awake time is low, and you got an hour and a half screen time in 32 percent of battery life. That's 4 1/2 to 5 hours screen time you are on pace for.

Your usage and setup details would be helpful to know. But if you are running Google now and location services and playing any games, or using a lot of social apps.... And your screen brightness settings matter.... It seems like you are getting decent battery life.

Guys .... Chasing 6 hours screen time is pointless. If you've done most the things in the beginning of this thread, you are already getting the most out of your battery life for your usage style.

Stop worrying and start enjoying your device. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpaulien:
Awesome! I"m going to check this out. I was just checking out a "close to stock" rom (HTC Sense) and was missing a few features of AOSP roms I've gotten used to. this is one of them. thanks for pointing me in the direction of this app. I'll see if it's what I'm looking for.

I'm giving the new ROM a few days, to see if it grows on me. It's actually quite battery friendly, and I'm just seeing if I can live with it, or if I just can't live without my AOSP.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dwang:
One thing to consider is the actual condition of your battery.

I have a nexus 5 that was purchased last October. In the beginning, I was getting 5+ hours SOT on wifi, but almost a year later, I could only manage around 4 hours SOT on wifi.

These batteries do degrade over time.

Luckily, google has a very good warranty policy, and they sent me a refurbished (looks brand new) n5 and now I'm getting 5+ hours SOT again.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Shouldn't be much (any?) noticeable dregredation after 10 months.At least I seem to be getting the same battery life as I did in November under similar conditions.

I usually charge every other night and leave it plugged in over night, and my battery has full died on occasion.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilia15951:
2.4 hours of screen time on cellular network its good?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Depends on signal and overall time. The biggest drain is signal

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealjam:
I'm actually noticing a distinct improvement in standby battery life with "Location Reporting" switched "On for this device".

Perhaps this is because there is an application attempting to use it and by it being off that's actually causing the drain. Not too sure but those who have tried everything, perhaps switching this on is worth a go...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Uh, no lol.

Maybe for other things, but not location :o
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealjam:
Hmmm. It was the only setting I'd changed and the idle drain immediately halved... coincidence perhaps but after a few days I'll know as my idle drain has been 3 or 4% an hour for a good few months.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Most likely coincidence. If you have location turned off, it'll report as off to any apps that look for it, they're not going to keep looking. :p
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jugalk1111:
my phones draining too quickly. Screen on time only 2 hours and 10 minuts.

please check images i have uploaded

http://imgur.com/a/hrOem

i used phone for calls. no browsing, no video/audio playback, i am on stock not rooted yet. i flashed my phone but still same results.

pls help me. do i need to replace my battery.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealjam:
OK - thanks for your help. I know of a couple of other people with Nexus 5 and a similar inexplicable battery drain as myself. I'll get them to test and see if the results are similar.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Your battery is fine. It's just your usage. Phone calls use a bit of battery since its a constant stream of data back and forth.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Lethargy is right. You have good battery time for your usage.

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jugalk1111:
I have very very weak wifi signal at my home. i get only 1 bar signal . at my office i get 50% of signal.

today i cleared cached data in setting-storage. i am getting better battery results. here is the screenshot which after 60% battery usage. i used whatsapp, 20-30 mins browsing, watched 25 mins video, 5min audio playback. wifi was almost on (was very weak signal). 11 mins of phone calls. manual brightness set to20%

SOT 2 hours 2 mins

http://imgur.com/Q50acv2

Tomorrow i will update full usage details with screenshots.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Yeah, trying to use data/WiFi on a very weak signal will destroy your battery life. Nothing you can do about that except disable data/WiFi. You'll still get calls and texts, but that's it.

At least keep them off until you need them, then off again when you don't. That'll help a little... But the time spent using them will drop the gas gauge quickly.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
cr@p - problem returned with a vengeance.... For the past couple of days, I'm running into the same issue - battery drains down to 75-80% with no active usage (data/wifi disabled too), and no wakelocks to speak of... just cell standby and phone idle (and Android system after that) sucking up battery life like there is no tomorrow...

Short of flashing to stock again, is there any other suggestion?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Try disabling Fast Dormancy only if your carrier doesn't support it?

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jj14:
Umm... what? (sorry, I don't understand) :confused: How do I do that?

I'm with T-mo (US) now - didn't have this issue till I switched over from Sprint to T-mo a few weeks ago. Not sure if it is a coincidence
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
OK nvm. I'm on TMO as well. They have Fast Dormancy support. Disregard

#AndroidL
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esrom02:
[MENTION=5666997]Lethargy[/MENTION], regarding post #3,

Is your setting http://imgur.com/a/K12Lr guaranteed that GCM Pushes will work?

TIA!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
Yes GCM push will work.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Yeah. As long as you don't disable anything with GCM, push, or gtalk in its name, you should be fine. Also, there's a few GCM test apps on the Play Store.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpaulien:
And just out of curiosity, if I do decide to turn on location services for a minute or 2 will it work since I see you disabled all the location and nlp services. I assume that "device only" will because that just uses the GPS but will network based location work with these disabled?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
If you use location, then don't disable the location services. It disables it COMPLETELY. Your GPS/whatever setting will be able to find your location, but nothing will be able to use it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bpaulien:
Thanks for confirming. I figured that was the case. I mostly keep location services off and never see those wakelocks and when I do need location, it's usually just for a minute or so.

So I'll leave those on, but will take a look at the rest and see what happens.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jugalk1111:
Hello guys,

today i newly installed SlimKat ROM. also installed Gsam with root support app and Greenify xposed app. to watch at battery consumption.

guys do u recommend me any better app than than this?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esrom02:
Since I am using Avast Anti-Theft, should I re-enable the location services? All services with location, geo and nlp in it? For the locator to properly work?

TIA!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
If you need/want the app, you don't have a choice then really. But it does sound like the sort of app that is going to put a bit of a dent in your battery life.

Try a full charge or two without it, and location off. Then a couple charges with it all on. That'll give your an idea how much, if any life it takes. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esrom02:
Never experienced big impact on my battery. I've been using the app since last year with my old phones and now with my new phone. No problem at all.. Thanks for the tip though :) I'll try that and see if I can extract more battery without it because after receiving my phone and rooting it, that's the first application I'm installing so I have no idea how my battery would do without it.

:highfive:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
Gcm_lib

My phone is not sleeping due to the wake lock gcm_lib (Google services)

Any idea how to fix this.

TIA
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I know what it is, but not why. It's to do with Google Cloud Messaging. Do you use the Cloud?

I would freeze anything to do with cloud in titanium backup. If you use the cloud, then perhaps you can try converting it to a user app with TB and then Greenify it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
I dont use any cloud.. which app should I freeze in TB?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
That I'm not sure of..... Hopefully someone can chime in.

I'm currently on a loaner phone, S3..no root. Very much missing my M8...that the screen lifted on. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd1639:
Should have kept the n5 , traitor lol
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
No way! Lol

Since this is a battery thread.... Even bad battery life on an M8 is impressive. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esrom02:
Hi so I have a wakelock here that I never encountered before. Please see screenshot below.

My phone is Xiaomi Redmi1S.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Need a full discharge, then screen shots to really see anything. Try again from 100 to about 10 or so percent left and we'll see what it says. ?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esrom02:
Got it, will do! :highfive:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] racingmatt1:
[MENTION=4036181]KJ[/MENTION] will my battery still drain rapidly if I have location on battery saving but keep 3g,wifi, and GPS turned off or vise versa?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I'm no location guru, cause I rarely use it... But wouldn't at least one of those need to be on, no matter the setting?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phill360:
Ok. Just wondering if people could give me some advice on phones battery usage.

Google now is off

Auto Sync is off

Location services is off
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
Games, YouTube and Social apps, I'd say it's just because of your usage.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
SystemUpdateService

Today I am getting a new wakelock. SystemUpdateServices is not allowing my phone to sleep. I charged it to 90% yesterday evening.. Everythign fine after, battery was fine. I used alot before I went to bed, but over night, i lost morethan 20%, when i checked, SystemUpdateService started inbetween, and its keeping my phone awake. So I restarted my device, still this wakelock is present.

In disable service app, i disabled this service.

Can you suggest, why it started inbetween?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bblzd:
Agreed. Also looks like it was mostly on a data connection as well. So for online gaming, HD youtube, and social all on a data signal this is pretty typical.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
See my reply in other thread. Also please try not to cross post. Thanks :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atrix4nag:
Sorry about that, i will try to post in a single thread from now onwards.. :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phill360:
Thanks for the reply lethargy. I just have a question about the facebook and messenger wakes, what is causing it and how do I turn it off?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wh1t3Rose:
It's the apps themselves. They are poorly coded. You could turning off notifications and syncing but I would just find alternative apps.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olegplanets:
Since I rooted and installed a custom ROM for my gf, she keeps complaining of the battery. I tried different kernels but it didn't seem to help.

I guess the best way to fix the issue is to go back to stock rom. I wanted to try one last thing before doing that so here are the screenshots
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elluel:
2 and a half hours screen and 48% left, that's normal isn't it?