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[Nexus 5 General] jbl0ggs:
I've ordered the following battery from Amazon seller Shine-Ebuy. Delivery is estimated around June 11, so it looks like it ships from China. I'll provide and update once I get it and have it installed.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NCJMQXK

It would be very helpful if anyone who buys from Amazon to mention the third party seller name.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Well i think that's that question answered.
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
If someone made a custom battery out of the LG G2, I wouldn't mind of buying it...
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
You have to modify your Nexus 5 to fit the battery.
[Nexus 5 General] AndrasLOHF:
I installed mine from this seller Tuesday. The product was delivered in 10 days from purchasing. Change out was easy enough. Production date was January 2015. Battery was exactly the same as the one I changed it with with the exception that on the back of the battery the original said Sony and the replacement said Samsung. Both are OEM's so I'm not sure that matters. Anyway since changing it I'm finally not needing to charge before bedtime for the first time since forever. At least 6 months or longer.:good:
[Nexus 5 General] netinetinet:
new battery

I bought this - it's original

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/121579813510?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Lg logo and born on date is march '15

obviously need a few charge cycles

after the initial charge I had 3hour SOT

after about the fifth charge I have

4 - 5 hour SOT

Euphoria OS
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Admittedly I've not had much screen time out of this charge cycle but the phone has been on for 26 hours with 1 hour 34 minutes of SOT and I've got 61% left ?
[Nexus 5 General] CyberScopes:
Well my phone decides to shut down at around 30-50% and i cant turn it back on unless its plugged into a charger, and when it does turn on its at around 4%. Weird. I bought another battery from ebay and it'll be coming soon.
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
This is the link for the one i got http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00SHVIV96 the seller was itstek (fulfilled by Amazon uk)
[Nexus 5 General] haris163:
Anyone has LTE issues after installing a new battery? Around the same time I changed my battery I stopped getting LTE in some places I used to. Either AT&T changed something in my area (Tucson) or is my phone. I tried removing and reinstalling the back of the phone with no difference. The back of the phone is tight and flashed to the phone. Any ideas?
[Nexus 5 General] Sn00ky:
Thanks mate. Just ordered, your results convinced me. Hope that Cata + EX Kernel will give similar SOT. :)
[Nexus 5 General] Matrix_19:
I used to have between 4 and 5 hours SOT when I got this device, now it's more 2.5 to 3 hours.

I'm debating whether I should get a new battery or just wait 6 more months for the N5 2nd generation,
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
A few quid on a new battery is going to make your wait much more pleasurable :)
[Nexus 5 General] keijikage:
happened to buy some of t N5 batteries from shine-ebuy. Since I was going to try doing the "g2" battery swap, I had one on hand.

From right to left Original N5 battery (BL-t9), Shine-Ebuy N5, and Shine-Ebuy "BL-T7" battery.

It's obvious from taking them apart that these are cells that have been cut out of something else and soldered in to the fuel guge - most of the battery contacts have had extra length arbitrarily spot welded on What's interesting though is that even the 'fake' N5 battery is physically larger compared to the real one (by about 1-2mm), but stays in the same footprint - there's a lot more empty space for the fuel gauge on the real battery.
[Nexus 5 General] Quickfire:
What does this mean though? The battery isn't original, but is it a good enough replacement? I'm asking because I'm about to get one from here:

http://www.amazon.com/LG-Internal-Battery-Nexus-Original/dp/B00NCJMQXK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433916857&sr=8-1&keywords=nexus+5+battery
[Nexus 5 General] RickInHouston:
Nexus 5 bought when they first came out. About a year in my screen cracked and I sent it to LG for replacement. They had it a LONG time and I think the battery was also replaced. Date on battery is 2014.02.10.

For the past two or three weeks (as updates have been rolling out) I noticed bad battery life. I could have a full charged battery at nightime and by morning (no use) it would be almost gone. Decided to order the Amazon battery from Shine (China). The new battery is dated 2015.03. Looked promising.

Switched out old battery for new battery and charged it fully. INCREDIBLE. It's only been 24 hours but it looks very promising. I'm glad I went ahead and swapped out the battery. New life to a great phone. I rarely keep a phone two years but this one is going to last me.
[Nexus 5 General] hayzooos:
I'll agree with everyone else around here as well regarding the new battery. I thought the 5.1.1 update may have had something to do with it, but as with the OP and a few others, my phone wasn't restarting, it was shutting off. This lead me to believe hardware vs software.

I got an estimate I was happy with from a local repair shop and gave it to them before a trip (yay for SIM cards). When I got back, picked my phone up and it's been IMMENSELY better than it was before. I can actually have the phone on for more than 4 hours without needing a cord to charge the thing.
[Nexus 5 General] keijikage:
Given the track record of people buying from that seller, I would say they're good enough. I've bought a few cells from vendors in the NY via ebay, and they are not as thick as the original, so they are definitely subbing in some other li-ion pouch...
[Nexus 5 General] cuthighfit:
Im kinda scared to try this. Need people to assure me this is legit lol!
[Nexus 5 General] alen1901:
If you are scared for battery, go directly to lg, they will probably have that battery in stock but it will cost you much higher. And opening your phone, changing battery is easy, you cant screw up anything, just be careful with cabels.

Sent from Pure Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 General] androidsnax:
Go for it, one of the easiest "non removable" phone batteries to replace.

Just take your time and watch as many how to's as you can find, ifixit etc.

Get a decent quality battery, maybe don't be tempted to go for the cheapest, do your research...

The one I've got seems like a decent one and charging it seems like new, I've got another coming which has been given loads of great feedback as an actual OEM battery so will be looking forward to trying that one out.

Whatever you do, give it a few/10 days or so to settle down and don't judge by the first few charges.

GL [emoji89]

... sent from the Nexus 5000
[Nexus 5 General] cuthighfit:
Sure thing man. Ill prep up first properly...Will report soon!
[Nexus 5 General] ozzmanj1:
Hey Cyber, My phone would do the same, I bought a replacement a couple weeks ago and it should be here in a day or so. I would be using my phone and it would say 40-50%, all of a sudden it would shut off. I would then power it back on only to find it say my battery was at 2-5%.

Soon as I get my new battery I will let it cycle a couple times and report back. I got fed up with my battery doing this for the last month and decided it was time to replace.

I'll be going off these suggestions:

https://plus.google.com/wm/4/+PiereligioDiSante/posts/YTvjantgDAM

Edit: How has your phone been with the new battery?
[Nexus 5 General] onjchan:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/PolarCell-Akku-LG-Google-Nexus-5-BL-T9-D821-D820-Accu-Batterie-Battery-Acku-/331503404699?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item4d2f24869b

Anyone tried this before? Saw it on the other post. Price is really ridiculous though. All of the amazon and ebay batterys seems to be fake(?) and my paranoia makes me think that they will a) die very soon ,or b)blow up, anyone have a long term report on how those replacements goes?
[Nexus 5 General] Kroniq:
I bought one that looked identical to the OEM battery that supposedly was manufactured on 3/18/2015. It was at 20 percent when it booted back up, but now I can't charge the phone lol. Anyone else had this problem?

edit: hopefully I just forgot to connect a ribbon or something. Going to take a look
[Nexus 5 General] ichundu:
I have tested this battery. First the price is like that because they are out of stock at the moment. I bought it for ~$26 kept it for 2-3 weeks and returned it back because i had no gain in battery life. It was the same as the original one despite it being 1+ year old and slightly lower capacity. Maybe i had bad luck but in my opinion it's not worth for the extra capacity.
[Nexus 5 General] CyberScopes:
Hey man, battery has been much better with the new one, no longer automatically shuts down. But its not like the battery was very good in the first place anyway :D
[Nexus 5 General] AndreIrawan97:
So, my problem is, everytime i discharge it, it went from 100-95 in just 5 minutes light usage, after that, the phone feels normal (slow drain)

Is it because the battery problem?
[Nexus 5 General] GtrCraft:
No, your battery should be draining fast the whole time then, let it discharge almost to 1%. It needs to be calibrated
[Nexus 5 General] nomyst:
Hello, bought several batteries from Polarcell. All were good and had higher capacities than the original batteries. Have a nice day. Bye.
[Nexus 5 General] joeyxl:
So im getting horrible battery life on my nexus 5. when i unplug from the charger,

i get estimated 5 Hours of battery life remaining. i took a screenshot, and at 47% it said i had just below an hour and a half of battery left. ive tired to reflash 5.1.1 two times now and still get the same results. all stock no root or nothing. should i get a new battery?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBGnj4iE3Yob1NMa1R6b3hVRFE/view?usp=sharing
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
The last few percentage probably wasn't fully charged yet when you unplugged. This commonly happens when you unplug the phone right as it reaches 100%, or sometimes after a long charge where trickle hasn't kicked in yet.

Also I've noticed as the battery gets older those last few percentage are less likely to hold a charge. My battery also tends to drain quicker from about 20% or lower consistently now, a sign of degradation after 18 months or so.
[Nexus 5 General] nooktablet:
is it possible/a good idea to replace the battery without removing the dbrand skin on the back cover?

---------- Post added at 01:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:59 AM ----------

my says Battery Health is "Good" lol. does it always say this regardless of whether your battery capacity has decreased or not?
[Nexus 5 General] onjchan:
Yes. My totally dying battery is still "good" according to the phone. No idea how it decided whether it is good or bad.
[Nexus 5 General] onesolo:
Maybe it's the cell batteries inside the batterie...
[Nexus 5 General] hayzooos:
That's my suggestion. I was seeing similar issues as well. Here's another question for you...when your battery is low and you plug it in, wait for a bit and see what it says for time to fully charge? If you're under 2 hours or so, you should get a new one.

Yup, I replaced my battery and I have a dbrand (white carbon fiber) skin on the back of my phone. Nothing happened to it at all.
[Nexus 5 General] michaelopolis:
Must Disagree, i get good battery life and it takes roughly an hour to charge my phone up to 100 percent
[Nexus 5 General] hayzooos:
From it being 5% or less? I just got a new one and it would probably take 2.5-3 hours to charge it I would think.
[Nexus 5 General] bblzd:
Not using the stock 1.2A charger. It would never go that fast, so that would make me agree with the poster you responded to as that could be a sign of a damaged battery. It takes 2.5 hours to full charge the device with the stock charger, possibly only 2 hours if you pull it off right as it hits 100% and let it drop to 95% or so.

See here:
[Nexus 5 General] wolfen69:
Big time WRONG. "The shorter the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. The exception may be a periodic calibration of the fuel gauge on a smart battery or intelligent device."

From here: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

This is not a fly-by-night website. It is considered one of the best in the world when it comes to batteries. There are also numerous other sites that will say the same thing. Modern Li-ion batteries should not be drained all the way if you want to prolong battery life.

In the old days, you could do this and it may have actually helped. I hope I have enlightened someone.

Btw, I never go above 90% or below 50%. Mine should last a good long time.
[Nexus 5 General] danmaman:
you can also look here

http://www.newpower99.com/LG_Nexus_5_Battery_Replacement_Kit_p/lg nexus 5.htm

only if the battery is needed:p:silly::laugh:

cheers
[Nexus 5 General] nooktablet:
too expensive
[Nexus 5 General] mikeszf:
You should, and in the mean time I would recommend you kitkat you could also install Amplify (xposed) and greenify.

The system monitor app used to tell me the phone was going to discharge on 6 hours, right now it's at 11:10 it used to be about 12:15 when new but I then I'm on lollipop and even with the tweaks the battery is still worse than kitkat, also the new battery I got is from 2013, the one the phone came with is from 2014.
[Nexus 5 General] zerosum0:
That's why most devices are shipped with the tree at 60%. A phone with the batt this has and is heavily used will need replacing after 2 years. Did mine and it's like night and day.

Sent by entanglement.
[Nexus 5 General] FabianFR:
Pay attention on Amazon Reseller!

Be carefull with battery replacements from Amazon Resellers:

- My first battery's life had to be changed after it has lost a noticable amount of its capacity and decreasing SOTs as a result of that

- I orderd a replacement from an Amazon Reseller in Germany an got a bad suprise: with the battery my Nexus began to randomly reboot.. One or two times a day at the beginning, but heavily increasing over a few days to a "boot-loop" like state

- I contacted the Reseller and got a replacement, of course I tried different ROMs and kernels before that step ;) To my dissapointment, the problems were exactly the same with the new battery.

- Fortunately I bought another battery from a different Reseller on Amazon, because I allready had a bad feeling about my first shop.. and the results confirmed my thoughts: no more reboots or bad battery life with the new one!!

Conclusion: Pick your battery reseller wisely and rather spend an extra dollar to prevent getting useless crap ;)
[Nexus 5 General] papepo:
Can you said me the reseller?

Thanks

Cheers
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Which is great but lithium batteries are not at 0% when your phone says they are. They are at a level the manufacturer has deemed safe to prevent deep discharging and you are not draining it all the way. Although the advice is generally good, if you were to follow it to the letter of the law you would never leave the side of a power socket and you would be a jibbing wreck though fear of your battery pegging it.

The battery in my wifes Nexus 4 has hit zero every day since it was bought on launch day and it is still going like a good'un.
[Nexus 5 General] thesebastian:
I replaced my battery, but didn't improved significantly the battery life. It's similar to the old (retail) battery.

The main difference is that my old battery had issues with the %. From 100% to 50% was draining so slow, and from 50% to 0% pretty much faster.

Now is more balanced with the new battery. from 100% to 50% faster than before, from 50% to 0% slower than before.
[Nexus 5 General] FabianFR:
The reseller that sent me a working one is called "Handyparadies GmbH". But it looks like they don't have Nexus 5 Batteries listed at the moment :/

The price I got my replacement battery for was approx 14€

I recommend to be careful with the seller: "mobiledirect24" Maybe I just had bad luck with my 2 batteries, seems strange to me anyway..

Keep in mind that these sellers probably only ship to Germany (at low shipping costs)
[Nexus 5 General] mk69:
Genuine Nexus 5 Battery "LG"

I was getting poor battery life with my N5, So I decided to replace it with a hopefully "OEM" genuine LG Nexus 5 battery. Searched high and low for the real thing, but was never sure a 100% without sending it back to LG and let them do it... Form what I gathered The front of it should have the "LG face" and "LG" on the upper left corner. There where some confirmed photos of the back of removed OEM batteries that had "SONY" on the back and the UR symbol. What I see on ebay/amazon/etc... is something with "samsung" or "LG" on the back to the batteries that are sold on these sites. Perhaps a "SONY" battery pulled from an old Nexus 5 on ebay, but why would I buy an old battery that may not have much life in it.

Fast Forward to my replacement, the battery that I pulled out of my N5 was made in 2013 and has "LG" with some numbers on the back... So I am sure there is not only one sole manufacture for these batteries, and they maybe made by many other companies and each of them with there own QC..... ymmv!!!
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
I've read all posts here and didn't find my answer:

Did anyone ordered "original battery" and get slightly narrower battery? This one I've ordered from Replace base ltd and it's maybe 1mm smaller than original. You can see left edge how close is the text, LG logo etc. to the edge itself. Is this original battery?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/03wkuf8ar4kw0ai/IMG_20150725_175505~01~01.jpg?dl=0

This one on photo was faulty.
[Nexus 5 General] mk69:
what are the markings on the back????

This was just pulled out of my 2 year old N5

Front -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/j90cmf0xyawwwhi/20150725_231659_SUPER.jpg?dl=0

back -> https://www.dropbox.com/s/4amy9s8yjns1msh/20150725_231719_SUPER.jpg?dl=0

The one I got off ebay was almost the same with the exception of the 2015 year date on the front and the "dot matrix type" info on the back was more towards the middle of the battery (same LG blah, blah, blah....)

So far I am happy with the new battery, I think my battery meter just needs to calibrate to the new battery, I feel I am getting at least double the time. I am running stock everything, not rooted, etc...
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
[MENTION=611354]mk69[/MENTION]

My replacement battery looks the same as your photos but I can clearly see your battery has enough width for all text.

My original battery from Nexus is almost the same as replacement/yours except two things (sorry I have no photos):

- on the front below date, product number doesn't end with LLL, but SBL (I think)

- on the back dot matrix text is completely different than replacement. I think it doesn't even say "LG....."

When I was replacing battery I didn't have camera. I can take few photos when I receive new battery, seller has sent me replacement and it should arrive in several days.

I hope battery dimensions will be the same as original :/
[Nexus 5 General] ImBrakkie:
I'm currently waiting on a N5 battery replacement, hopefully it will improve my battery life.
[Nexus 5 General] cbowens:
Just wanted to post my own positive results and add to the success stories of this post. After reading through all of what people had been posting here, I still wasn't completely convinced, but I decided that spending what ended up being 8 bucks was an acceptable risk, especially considering how poor my battery life had become. As a bit of background, I was at the point where if I basically didn't use my phone at all during the day, I would still be down to around 40% or under by the evening, and by didn't use I mean under 30 minutes of SOT with no major background drains occurring. I got my replacement battery from an Amazon vendor who had reliable reviews, and it arrived around 2 weeks later, approx. 3 days ago. I've now had a chance to run it through a couple power cycles, and the difference is honestly unbelievable. I can say with great confidence I've seen around a 30% increase in my battery life, easily getting me through the day with decent use. I can only conclude that my original battery really had lost quite a significant amount of its capacity over the year and ten months that I had owned it, which I believe was at least significantly contributed by my use of qi charging while driving. I noticed early on how hot the charger and the phone would get, particularly with both music and navigation active, to the point where during the summer I generally acknowledged that it would shut off charging to cool down within a short time. Given how high temperatures can negatively affect battery longevity, I've decided to avoid using the qi charger in the car with this new battery. As an aside, with battery life no longer being a constant concern, I find myself enjoying the N5 much more than I was, and I no longer have any desire to upgrade! Thanks to OP and to everyone else on this thread that contributed success stories and convinced me to give it a shot!
[Nexus 5 General] dakore:
I would say that I don't take care of my battery and yet it works ok for second year. Even the same as new battery :)

My phone has different story to tell. I own it since november 2013 and I play a lot of Ingress. This is a game which drains your battery within couple of hours. My battery very often drops to <20% before I put it on charger. I charge my phone twice a day - overnight and in the middle of the day. I carry powerbank all the time so sometimes I charge phone just to keep it close to 100%. When I take break from Ingress my phone lasts all day long and really cannot complain. So far I didn't notice any battery degradation, especialy not that >significant< as some mentions. My average batt consumption when playing Ingress over night is mostly 35-40%/h. On sunny days it raises to 50+%/h with autobrightness.

My sot when not playing Ingress hasn't changed much since I settle on same and familiar setup. My usage is always the same, litterly, same apps, same setup. Only app versions have changed.

- First 20% of battery I achieve 1-1:20min sot. Same is on LP and KK. Actualy, I have constant pattern day after day: 100-80% = min 1h sot, 100-60% = min 2h sot. 100-50% = i expect min 2:30h sot. And that is my battery routine every working day :)

- last 20% is fine. When idle and powersave active it holds quite good in standby with LTE (very good signal) - battery holds charge good!

- I use stock charger with stock cable. Often I use wireless charger at work.

- I often play Ingress/games and charge via powerbank - that produces some heat, especially now at summer.

Few weeks ago I've ordered new battery from ReplaceBase Ltd. First battery was faulty. Second one too. Third was working ok! I put it on test of daily usage pattern and - it was performing exactly the same as old battery.

I didn't expect any boost, I just wanted to see is there any change. I'm glad my battery is still good after so much torture :) Will keep using it till it dies, and I'll put new one to drawer.