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[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
Battery life is all subjective as we all use our phone differently. For me if hasn't been terrible.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I'd kill for 33% of that on screen time in just 30% usage, and I barely have any apps running in the background.
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
Come on gents.. some respect please. There's no need to flame and potty mouth each other. If you have an issue with a particular post, just report it and move on. Let the moderators decide what to do with it.

Flaming just spoils the atmosphere and it obviously doesn't end well.

-Sent from a Lollipop'd Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] SilkyJohnson:
Bottom-line: you will NEVER have the same battery life as someone else on here, so 75% of this thread's posts are worthless.

Start a separate battery life thread and I'll make sure to let you have your fun.
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
check my post from here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=56135448&postcount=319

it may, or may not happen to others, but the fact stays that there is always a chance :D

oh, and in case you do flash it, as many have stated, be prepared to charge more often than before
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
It was more of a one-time kind of thing which you faced, IMHO. Never had any drops from the last 2 days.. The signal strength is the same if not better..

-Sent from a Lollipop'd Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
After 12% usage it says 6% is Miscellaneous.
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
Signal strength is a very tricky thing, it differs from area to area, country to country... i've had signal drops on all versions with my nexus 5, even though i live in a zone where the signal is strong and LTE coverage in the whole city is great, but there are some "dead spots" where i constantly have signal drops. The Nexus 5 suffers from signal drops during LTE->3G handoffs. Trust me i've tested the hell out of it (and that's why, my next phone will most likely be a Motorola).

But all those drops could be solved with switching to airplane mode, or at worst a reboot. This today was a totally different thing, i could do nothing about it no matter what i tried, and it was in the worst possible moment.
[Nexus 5 General] loughary:
Anyone else having problems with "GPS signal lost" while using google maps navigation? It would lose signal for about 5 minutes then it would come back then lose GPS again
[Nexus 5 General] vin4yak:
I used google maps for about 15 mins and it didn't let me down. No idea about long runs though..

-Sent from a Lollipop'd Hammerhead!
[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
There are many aspects that will affect your battery. Whats you cell signal, location settings, bluetooth, sync internal, etc?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
What's killing my abttery is whatever "miscellaneous" is. Have used 19% battery, and misc. has used 10%...

But phone signal is hit or miss, more often hit than miss. I keep NFC, data, and bluetooth off. Keep wifi on. Sync interval, how do I even set that?
[Nexus 5 General] ohad123454:
how do i install the L version ?

i install it thorugh twrp recovery ?

by the way it can wipe all my data or its just an update like 4.4.3 , 4.4.4 etc ?

all i have to do is just to install the tgz file from the recovery ? and thats it ? i have the L version ?

by the way if i dont want the L version anymore all i have to do is just to install 4.4.4 ver ?

answer me quick pls [:
[Nexus 5 General] jumper62:
No. Only via fastboot
[Nexus 5 General] mike.r.olson:
1. Download Toolkit.

2. Download Image.

3. Open Toolkit and make sure drivers are installed.

4. Flash image using the "Restore to stock" option.

5. Profit.
[Nexus 5 General] Batfink33:
Twitter app is FC .
[Nexus 5 General] OrbitalDroid:
Please people, stop complaining about root not working etc... IT'S A NEW VERSION FFS ! Deal with it and wait !
[Nexus 5 General] Garner:
I went to get my popcorn after reading it
[Nexus 5 General] tanjiajun_34:
But a wipe of sdcard I don't think it is necessary for flashing a rom. I did wipe system, data, cache and dalvik cache.
[Nexus 5 General] davew41:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53702029&postcount=535
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
That's all they demoed it with. I dont know if it only works for that.
[Nexus 5 General] OrbitalDroid:
So I just tapped the "Android version" and it's the weirdest thing I've seen so far, red and blue rectangles/squares !
[Nexus 5 General] monkeypaws:
So we can't use flashify for this. Im setting up mynmac since my PC died but wanted to know if that was an option or just headache?
[Nexus 5 General] viperguy212:
Hows everyone liking it so far? I'm mixed as of right now. I flashed and I guess since its so early on a lot looks out of place. I think this is also due in part to the gapps not being updated. Quick settings is really nice though.
[Nexus 5 General] analyst28:
This worked perfectly for me but first boot took longer than I have ever seen. Also, this method will completely wipe your device. Is there a trick to clear all notifications or is this missing?
[Nexus 5 General] spg900ny:
No issues here. Did full install/wipe using adb, file-by-file. Everything seems to be working and stable, including camera. I didn't get automatic notification of logging in to a google account when setting up, I had to go through settings -> add account to sync up with Google, but otherwise I'll be using this as my DD for a while unless something pops up.
[Nexus 5 General] The-Droidster:
You really shouldn't install this. Its FOR THE DEVELOPERS.
[Nexus 5 General] nyyankees1237:
Search on Tapatalk sucks so sorry if this was mentioned already.

Has anyone seen any trace of the new 'Pallette' feature? The one that changes the color of the surrounding UI to match what's on the screen? Thanks in advance, can't flash atm.
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Your SD card may contain leftover data if not formatted. This leftover data may cause issues. In an update as big as this one, it is REALLY recommended you wipe everything. Unless its an actuall OTA from google because apparently they set those up to put everything back together the right way and these images don't. Just from what I have been reading. And a flashable zip isnt the best method of installing this.
[Nexus 5 General] Dr.Pepper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AiTFz9SLMA

fast review from me(will record again some days later)
[Nexus 5 General] n1njaG:
I think it's time you start posting some pictures :)
[Nexus 5 General] Batfink33:
No,most apps have the black borders at the top and bottom.
[Nexus 5 General] NinoDolce1:
Question. Will we get the final release via OTA? Or because of the preview there will be no OTA.
[Nexus 5 General] loughary:
Yea, it was a longer trip about 60 miles. It seemed to do it randomly then it would find signal for a few minutes then loose it again. Kind of weird, you'd think if it was a Android L thing it would just not find a signal at all.
[Nexus 5 General] Circaflex:
Its been reported that usage is from incompatible apps or apps restarting like I mentioned to you earlier which you blew off and said your apps aren't the problem you need to check for apps restarting and make sure there are no betas available for the app that support l not all play store apps are compatible just because they install
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I already replied and said I didn't have any apps listed as restarting. How in the world is that blowing you off? But thanks about the tip on incompatible apps. I'll uninstall all non-google apps and install them one-by-one so I can figure out what app is being douchey.
[Nexus 5 General] jarjar124:
KitKat.

Anyways, does anyone have issues with custom recovery on the latest build? For some reason every time I try to enter recovery from boot loader, it shows the dead android sign. I flashed twrp multiple times to make sure, but no luck.
[Nexus 5 General] dmeadows013:
Latest preview is rock stable for me. Battery is iffy, but its a preview, and it doesn't seem much worse than KitKat. System is incredibly smooth
[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
how many accounts do you have synced? Google, Facebook,twitter, etc? If its just google, then when you have sync on click on the account thats being synced and uncheck the ones you dont want to sync all the time.
[Nexus 5 General] MrKaon:
No one knows for sure, but it is unlikely to get ota for preview.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Yeah I've uninstalled everything but Google apps so I can test one-by-one what is causing the problem. So the only thing I have syncing is what's under my Google account (app data, chrome, gmail, people details)
[Nexus 5 General] MrKaon:
Let us know if you find something.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Will do. For reference, all I have showing up in my app drawer is calculator, camera, chrome, clocl, contacts, downloads, gallery, gmail, google (with google now turned on), google settings, hangouts, hangouts dialer, phone, play store, settings, google voice (only keep it now since I want voice calls to use my google voice #), and youtube.

I figure all of these apps have to be L optimized at this point other than probably voice.

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So with only those google apps installed

with wifi on

NFC, bluetooth, and data off

LOcation set to battery saving

No widgets on the home screen

i go to battery stats, I have 95% battery left, and it says I only have approx. 5 hrs left.

LOL what the hell?
[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
Screen brightness? Did you reset your battery stats?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I have auto/adaptive brightness turned off and have the brightness set to nearly all the way down. And how do I reset battery stats?
[Nexus 5 General] eep2378:
reboot phone and open battery screen, then tap the circular icon in the top right corner, to update battery stats, then see if it still says you have 5 hours left
[Nexus 5 General] AHomelessGuy:
were you able to make the trip? i was using maps for 10 minutes and saw no problems. But i am worried because i have to travel 70 miles this Friday, and i dont want to not make it lol
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Did that, says "battery usage data isn't available" and I don't have any remaining time estimates
[Nexus 5 General] dwang:
android L won't start reporting battery stats until the battery gets to less than 90% or so..
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Ah. I'm doing a factory reset too. Since I only had google apps installed, all my settings will get restored when I do the installation set up again, so I'm not losing anything at this point.

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Question: I've read before that for lcoation mode, device only actually saves more battery than battery saving? Is this true?
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
Any getting WiFi and cell drop outs?
[Nexus 5 General] sitoastor:
Can anyone explain a method to install a recovery and root?, I flashed, wiped, deleted the file indicated, flashed again and wiped and I can't make it work.

Thank you
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Nope. Maybe that's a carrier issue
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Wifi, no. Cell, sometimes, but it's not all that often. Cell dropouts are with the same frequency as on Kit Kat when I was getting 3-4+ hours of on screen time.
[Nexus 5 General] ZacksBuilds:
Okay, its not mine, my friend says hes getting dropouts since installing. Weird.
[Nexus 5 General] andredn8:
But peoples in here almost got their SOT on 4-5 hours, any idea?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Did a factory reset. Only app I installed from the play store was Gmail. Everything else the same as previously stated. Says approx. 4 hours left at 98% battery level, and that 2% drained in nine minutes and I wasn't even using the phone. Beginning to think I might just need to go back on Kit Kat as apparently Lollipop hates my phone.

EDIT: Just checked it again at 97%, now says 7 hours. Make up your mind Android! LOL
[Nexus 5 General] Zainiak:
Hopefully this gets fixed.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
YOu got 5 hours left at 33%. My phone says 7 hours left at 97% with the thing running about as bare bones as it can get. This L preview makes no sense.

In 20 minutes of near zero use my phone with the only non-system installed app being gmail and my phone drained 4%. That's no better than it was when I had the phone fully set up for regular use. But now it says 9 hours. It goes up two hours with every % that is drained. This reminds me of Windows time estimates on file transfers fluctuating higher and lower every second.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
That's what gets me. Apparently though, battery is terrible? I'm gonna use this tomorrow and I'll see how it goes.

Honestly, I feel like battery isn't going to be better in Lollipop. Call me ignorant, or stupid, but guys, this is a Dev preview of an OS releasing in like two weeks. If "Project Volta" isn't in the OS then that's a weird move on Google's part. This ROM seems almost fully complete. WHY would they not push their "project" in the Dev preview when its releasing very soon? Honestly though... I don't see battery life getting any better.

And as for that "miscellaneous" section? Unless its stated by Google somewhere, I doubt that's just apps. I had no apps on my 1st Dev preview (mutlirom) and I still had a LARGE drain in that area. On airplane mode and just WiFi. So, again, I don't see battery getting better. 3-3.5 hours SOT seems to just be the norm for a lot of people, like me, in the BEST environment possible. And for others with 5 hours? Something is good about your phone, because not many people are getting those hours. That miscellaneous is probably Android System and OS grouped together someway, because those two are 2nd and third in my battery on KK.

We will see how this does tomorrow, but I had worse battery life than on KK. And I don't see that being any different two weeks from now. Like I said, unless I'm missing something from this picture, why wouldn't this ROM be optimized for project Volta? And if its apps causing it, why am I having no problems on KK with ART? I realize they are different in a way, but come on.
[Nexus 5 General] setiawanjimmy:
I have no problem with battery life on this L dp. Got around 10-12 hours with around 5hrs sot in single charge day one using it. Idle time is good too, 6% lost overnight.

Maybe you guys with battery problem should read some stickies about battery troubleshoot. Been having the same battery life with kitkat on any roms and now this L for a year.
[Nexus 5 General] dcar87:
Because this developer preview is only for developers to use and test their apps. Why would Google want developers to have good battery on their phones? This is just for testing. Do you realize that maybe this preview is like 2 months old? What makes you believe that this is almost a final ROM? I think everybody should wait for the OTA to see the real Android Lollypop, talking about bugs in a developer release doesn't really make sense.
[Nexus 5 General] jc1988:
I clean flashed the preview friday evening and since that moment i have only one bug, everytime i plug my phone to charge my wallpaper is going back to the stock one? Anyone having this problem too?
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
The real question here is, why would Google NOT want their developers to have good battery life? I think i speak for everyone, especially devs, when I say battery life is important. The Nexus lineup is aimed at developers. That's just a lame excuse. What is any phone, tablet, phablet, smartwatch, without battery? What is a PS4 or an XBox One without a power supply? Nothing. It's nothing. Google should be worried about battery, even if this is a preview. It isn't two months old either lol it was built the 16th. Check settings.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
lol. I just factory reset mine. Didn't install any apps other than gmail. Kept wifi on, turned off data, turned off bluetooth, turned off NFC, put location on battery saving. My phone was set to about the best battery saving settings possible that I am aware of. My battery drained 4% in 20 minutes, and I used it for less than a minute.

You have any other ideas because I sure am not aware of any more?
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
It's funny, those people like me with "battery problems" is 90% of the Nexus 5 community id seems. 3-3.5 is just the norm.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
IT would be a tremendous day charge cycle for me if I got that on the L preview...
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I get that on KK. The L preview, the first at least, with no apps installed, I got I think 2.5.

I read what you posted last page before it was deleted, and I agree. This IS the near final build. If there is some magical battery dust gonna fix battery life as claimed, I wonder why Google didn't add it in this preview. Apparently they didn't anyway.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Shoot, I could get over 4 on KK. Would take an act of God to get over 2 on L preview...

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Shoot, I could get over 4 on KK. Would take an act of God to get over 2 on L preview...

And I just installed some more Google Apps. I'm back to getting a ton of miscellaneous battery drain. AT 12% battery drain, miscellaneous is at 6%. If it's truly apps not being optimized for L causing that, Google hasn't even optimized their apps for Lollipop yet.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
I get 2.5-3Hrs on L, almost exactly like kk. I think one time I got 4 hours when I tried really hard, the moons aligned, I found a lucky penny, and my priest blessed my phone.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I'm pretty sure the miscellaneous in this case was being caused by the play store. I downloaded a bunch of the Google apps and boom miscellaneous popped up when it hadn't before. Other than reading a couple short emails in Gmail I hadn't done anything else on my phone. Doesn't appear like there is going to be anything I can do to get around having a massive miscellaneous battery drain.

I really hope battery life gets miraculously better in the final L release. Being lucky to get 2 hours of screen time would be 100% unacceptable otherwise. If it's no better when the final L release comes out, I reckon I'll switch to the Moto G.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
??? that's how I felt too!

[MENTION=4284149]scottharris4[/MENTION] I know exactly how you feel. I don't get it, but I am having a load of doubts about battery increase in Lollipop.
[Nexus 5 General] colonels1020:
Battery life on Lollipop Preview had been much better than it was on the L Preview for me. Took a few charge cycles, but now it's pretty good.
[Nexus 5 General] Circaflex:
You need to just stop breathe and relax let it settle its syncing in the background and doing things give it a day or so
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I've been on the L preview since Friday. I did a factory reset to see if it would make any difference starting completely from scratch. It's not. The battery life is just bad and it's been bad for three days now.
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Just curious, how many apps do you and others install. I know ESPN fantasy football causes misc drain, Facebook is a big drain. But what else?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I've been fairly selective. At some point I have to draw the line and say I got a smart phone so I can do this and this, not so I can not do this and this.
[Nexus 5 General] 26.2man:
Lock Screen Notifications

Has anyone found a working app yet that will wake up your phone and put notifications on the lockscreen?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
AC Display
[Nexus 5 General] jsgraphicart:
Just want to drop in and say I love android. That is all
[Nexus 5 General] setiawanjimmy:
My set up is location off ( dont need it, i know my neighbourhood too well ), nfc off, sync off ( dont need real time push email, and i manually turm sync on at night ), google now off as i dont see the need of it, google ok also off as i dont need it, i can just press the icon then speak. Brightness auto, rotation off.

My apps are:

#squaredroid, adaway, bbm, goggle calendar, carbon twitter, chrome, gmail, imdb, instagram, keep, lcamera path, root browser, snapseed, supersu, titanium backup, whatsapp, xda.

And my norm battery is 4,5 - 5 hrs sot in 10-14hrs. Oh, and am always in 3G only. No wifi.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Pretty impressive. I hope I am one of the lucky ones like you and get that tomorrow.

Quick question: what was your battery life on 4.4.4? I'll post my batter soon, biggest contenders, screen, but Chrome is above that. I have 2:21 on my SOT and 2:41 on battery. I've been on most of the time as you can tell, all Wi-Fi with airplane mode on. Looks like I will get a little past 3 hours again, typical battery life.

I'm on 4.4.4 KitKat here too.
[Nexus 5 General] loughary:
No...I had to use the wife's iphone, which I had to hear throughout the trip how my Android couldn't get us there :)
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Same here. I especially love Lollipop, other than the battery life gripes
[Nexus 5 General] setiawanjimmy:
Battery life on kitkat was about the same for me. Max i can get is 5,5 sot. Do you play games? Well chrome is battery sucker as far as i know.. I always use xda app rather than chrome for browsing in xda..
[Nexus 5 General] donnyp1:
Thanks dude, that is some very good information.
[Nexus 5 General] toxicbubble:
Battery life

I think you guys having bad battery life should keep a couple things in mind. Firstly a lot of the improvements are likely in the APIs and won't be fully effective until all the apps update to take better advantage of those. And secondly, this is still a developer preview, likely has a lot of debugging overhead etc. and probably lacks the same optimization of the final release.

I had about the same battery life of the first dev preview as I had on 4.4. If you're suffering worse battery life on the preview, I'd say it's probably some crazy app that isn't behaving that well with the changes and doing something dumb. Again, I'm sure this will be improved in time, you should probably wait for the final release before you start getting too upset.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
I only game when on a charger, but that's interesting. I use my phone for Kik, snapchat, and Instagram mainly. 12 percent now, almost 3 hours SOT. I just do not get it. I agree, Chrome is a battery sucker. I gotta get the XDA app still.
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
Battery life as promised. I don't get it.

Hope I upload those correctly, first time doing it on my Nexus 5 haha
[Nexus 5 General] anactoraaron:
How many of the folks with sub-par battery life selected 'setup as new device' when setting up their phone? Perhaps wipe all/reflash and setup as a new phone without restoring settings/apps. Worth a shot. I had a bunch of various issues when I restored all my settings/apps during the initial setup. A fresh wipe fixed everything.
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
I did a factory reset today and set it up as a new device. I'm doing some of the things the guy several posts back said for all his settings when he got 4-5 hours of on-screen time. I think the only thing I did was turn off location and maybe Google Now. Can't remember on that one.
[Nexus 5 General] setiawanjimmy:
Hm.. Strange that.. How long have you had your phone? Maybe its the battery..
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
It looks like you had your screen on virtually the entire time. Three hours of on screen time seems kinda par for the course for many, so of course your phone battery wasn't going to last more than 3 hours.
[Nexus 5 General] Jimlarck:
Not to sound pretentious but, why are people complaining about battery life on a dev preview?
[Nexus 5 General] snappycg1996:
But people have 5+ SOT. I don't mean the overall battery life, just SOT lol

Not even 7 months I think. Everyone gets this kind of battery. Why would my battery be bad when the Nexus 4 still holds the same charge?
[Nexus 5 General] scottharris4:
Maybe the stars will align for us another day
[Nexus 5 General] venom_762:
I keep getting the accounts sync error. I wiped the device last but its back again. Any fixes?