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[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hello guys. I am back to post some stats gathered from last weekend. I was at home all the time, so using WiFi all along.

Usage began on saturday 10:30 PM @ 95%. Moderate usage, web browsing, bit of camera, whatsapp, telegram and email.

Took screenshot this morning @ 6:16 AM, and battery was at 42%. So it is 32 hours usage with 53% drop at 4hr 35min SOT.

Impressive. This corroborates what i already knew. This phone drops battery slowly while on WiFi, and quicker while on 3G/4G.

Doze mode standby is almost same on both Wifi and 3G. Check the pics attached.

I will come back with more 3G usage stats shortly. Thanks and Cheers. ;)

PS :: PureNexus 19J build with elementalX v1.11 kernel. Ghostpepper (interactive) profile.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Wow. That's just ridiculous. In a good way. LOL.
[Nexus 5X General] pletpetplet:
Here my best SOT with EXKernel 1.11 Ghostpeper profile :D

Here is with stock PN kernel settings for 23 hours usege with around 40mins. gaming omline game.
[Nexus 5X General] oc2:
Stock, rooted, Franco.Kernel, Greenify, (Layers Theme "Gred")

38 hours on, over 6 hours SoT
[Nexus 5X General] osiris355:
Anyone 100% stock notice much worse battery life after 6.0.1 and even worse after the March security update?

I have no culprits in the battery stats but it just seems like doze no longer turns on. I have done plenty of factory resets. No facebook garbage and minimal apps installed. Before 6.0.1 I was getting 3.5 - 4 hours sot. Now I'm at 2 - 2.5.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Mine actually seems better. You saying you've done several factory resets with the March update already? Have any battery graph screenshots?
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hey guys. Here are some 3G usage stats. As I said in my previous post, using mobile data yields shorter battery life than being on Wifi.

13 Hours of Usage, mostly messaging and web browsing. 4hr 24 min of SOT. I do not know why, but that wifi bar stays on like that despite

me turning off wifi. Anyway the battery life I got there was good. Will be back with more stats.

PS :: Running 19J baseband, PureNexus ROM with ElementalX v1.11 kernel. Interactive profile - Ghostpepper.
[Nexus 5X General] netinetinet:
Chroma rom + ElementalX - interactive governor - Butterfly profile
[Nexus 5X General] osiris355:
Sorry for the delay. Yes I have done factory reset post March update since leaving N forced me to. Here are some screen shots. IMO its not very good... I know my network signal is not that great at times but I am on wifi then. Its my office so its always been this way even when battery life was better. If its a weekend and there is solid reception its no better either.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
That's pretty decent to me. Looks like 14 hours 46% on light use. What kind of percentage were you looking for by that time?
[Nexus 5X General] osiris355:
I used to be closer to 60 percent or more at that time. 20 hours was bringing me 3.5 sot on some days.

Now my sister just grabbed one and she says battery life is the same as her 2013 Moto X. :(

I swear its much worse now days than it was back in the fall.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
24 hours with 6 SOT!? I gotta see if that setup gets me anywhere close to that.
[Nexus 5X General] brholt6:
Unless I'm looking at it wrong (its been a long day), that's only 13 hours.
[Nexus 5X General] Donnie Sins:
Very pleased with the results.

I'm on Pure Nexus ROM, ElementalX kernel with Eclipse R2 profile enabled.

Google Now is completely off, GPS is set to Device Only, Auto Brightness on. As can be seen in the screenshots, I was on wifi or LTE the whole time.

I do have to say I have agressive doze enabled in Greenify, which helps me a lot.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I think you're right. Thought the "1 hod" meant 1 day. LOL
[Nexus 5X General] xeon2630:
Battery life is superb
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
So far the only battery difference I've noticed with the March OTA is that WiFi consistently shows up on my list now. I suspect it wasn't being recorded before but is indicating properly now. 5 hours SoT over 2 days still seems to be my typical drain with this device.

Stock device, no root. About 40% brightness and Google features remain enabled (GNow, Ambient Display, etc.)
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I'm still trying to figure out what's going on with mine. Yesterday I got 4hr 20min SOT with 16 hours off the charger. That was basically just Facebook and Chrome. I didn't even use Chrome that much which is usually my biggest battery high. No GPS. No Bluetooth. 80% WiFi. 20% brightness. I also had signal strength in the darkest green for like 80% of the day and the rest was light green. There were several items that kept my phone from sleeping but they were all Android things (Android OS, Android System and Play Services). Any way to fix those from keeping the phone awake? No 3rd party apps are keeping the phone awake so I'm pretty sure it isn't any other app. Do you have location services on? I do but only battery saving mode.

I'm so snazzier
[Nexus 5X General] ulxerker:
Standby time of more than 6 days!

Ok, so this here is about a possible standby time of more than 6 days by using Doze Settings Editor, see attached screenshots for details.

Of course, there was only light usage with SoT of 1 hour but again, this time its about maximum standby time, not SoT.

Non-root, everything stock.

Impressive.

Settings (via "adb shell settings put global device_idle_constants" because of non-root):

inactive_to=30000,sensing_to=0,locating_to=0,location_accuracy=20.0,motion_inactive_to=0,idle_after_inactive_to=0,idle_pending_to=300000,max_idle_pending_to=600000,idle_pending_factor=2.0,idle_to=3600000,max_idle_to=21600000,idle_factor=2.0,min_time_to_alarm=3600000,max_temp_app_whitelist_duration=300000,mms_temp_app_whitelist_duration=60000,sms_temp_app_whitelist_duration=20000
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I think there are ways to adjust Google services if you have root access (reference the post above this as an example) but unfortunately I don't have much experience there. I use battery saver mode for Locations as well, though I typically don't allow apps access to my Locations unless I need them to. Basically just Google Now, Google Maps, and the occasional Google Dialer using it that I can think of.

Apps such as Speedtest.net, News and Weather, etc. which request my Locations I deny, as I can simply set my city of residence manually and don't need my location polled for basic tasks like that.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Those other apps(like Speedtest) only pull location information when you use them right? Like Speedtest shouldn't pull my location unless I open it to do a speed test. Wouldn't that mean no battery use?

I just looked under location settings and "Recent location requests" has Android Pay, Google App(Goolge Now), Google Play Services and Phone. All of them say "Low Battery Use". I wouldn't expect those to be the cause.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I'm pretty sure apps can use your locations whenever they want once you give them permission. You would see them on your recent location requests if that were the case, but I'm not sure what the cut off time is to display those.

Typical 2 day discharge. Stock, unrooted. Mostly around 30% (10-50%) brightness and Google features remain enabled. March OTA.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hi guys. Here are results from Saturday night to monday evening. Nearly 2 days with equal use of Wifi and 3G.

Mostly email, IM, youtube and Web browsing. Occasional phone calls. The results are best I had so far.

PS :: Running PureNexus + ElementalX with Ghostpepper config. GPU max @ 450MHz.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Sometimes I wonder if it's maybe the signal strength. My "Cell network signal" bar it typically like yours (dark green most of the time with spots of light green) but I'm not sure how low it has to be to not show as some shade of green. Maybe my signal strength is lower than yours but not under the threshold to change it to lighter green or yellow? Although if it has some shade of green I would assume it would be good enough to not cause such a large discrepancy. Do some networks just cause a phone to use more power to stay connected to the network even if the signal strength is good?
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
It's been somewhat tested that wireless carrier makes a difference in battery life.

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/tmobile-phones-longer-battery-life
[Nexus 5X General] bbgun7:
For some reason, cell standby is usually a big drainer, even if the signal is good the entire time it's been tracking. Any ideas for how to fix that? been doing that both with and without wifi calling activated
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Remember this example I showed a while back? The colour on the graph doesn't tell the whole story in the same way that "bars" in the status icon does not either. If you want to see your true signal level you have to check Settings > About phone > Sim Status. As in that example, even green on the graph can be bad signal that drains a lot of battery such as in my work building.

Probably just weak signal, see my responses above.

When my signal is actually good I can get around 5 hours SoT on mobile data such as this. Otherwise it can be less than 2 as in my above example, despite still being mostly green signal and lots of "bars".
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
Im not sure if thats the correct thread to ask, but i have not good battery life and half of the consumption is not listed in the stats. For example right now i have 45℅ and the total consumption adds up to 75% so there is around 25% that i have no idea how it got consumed.

Stock, latest ota update, non routed. The phone is new (a week) and while i am used to lg g2 i still believe i should have better battery life. Is there a way to know what the hidden consumptions are?
[Nexus 5X General] tangiers:
Not sure I follow your calculations, but I too am a new Nexus 5x owner and I am disappointed with battery life. I am a light user and have never been below around 50% on the numerous Android phones I have owned before by the end of the day until now. My Nexus struggles to go from 7am to 10 pm with very light use and being on WiFi most of the day. The battery stats don't show anything using a particularly high amount of power and I don't use Facebook or any other high consumption apps. Completely stock with March update. Looks like I will have to top up at lunch time with a charge.... A bit disappointed.
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
I dont calculate anything. Remaining battery 45, total battery according to remaining plus the stats is 75 so there is 25 that dont exist

Another example even worse. I am at 25, it adds up to 65, so now there is 35 of my battery that disappeared for no reason
[Nexus 5X General] cawith:
The consumption you see is percentage of the used percentage - not a total...
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
if it does not add to 100% even with adding the remaining percentage, how it is supposed to be only the consumption percentage?

by what you say (being percentage of used), then we have even more of the battery stats missing.

since LP the battery usage is calculated to total %, but in any case lets test it. when my screen consumption is around 25% it has around 700mAh. 700/0.25=2800mAh, which is exactly the battery in the 5x. so it certainly shows the total %, but it misses HUGE part of the info (1/3).

so my question is, is there a problem with my device or how i can see what the battery is secretly being used for? (non routed solutions please). i thought maybe it is from stuff that consume less than 100%, but then the % of "hidden" battery should not increase the more of the battery is used (from 25% to 35% in my previous examples)
[Nexus 5X General] cawith:
Read here...
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
thanks for the link, but i am a bit confused.

my 5x right now has 1% and the consumed stats add to 49%, doubling that like suggested in your link it fits nicely (we miss 1% which is probably because of decimals not being shown) . so far so good

the problem is

1. i still dont get the "overall discharging" thingy in the link, my phone is discharged almost to 100% so my screen should be responsible for 50% of it, not 25% (it has value equal to the sum of the rest processes)

2. why wouldnt google just double the values to correct it?

i dont say that what doubling the values gives wrong results, on the contrary its perfect, it simply has no logic behind it...
[Nexus 5X General] cawith:
My guess would be that there are a lot of services running in the background both during screen on and off, and those individually use less than 1% of the used battery. Therefore they are not shown in the battery stats but combined they add up to a quite large percentage. Try using Historian. It will give you much better picture of your battery usage.
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
dunno, my other phones would have 50% for the screen, so 25% on 5x seems low and doubling is just right so i cant help feeling its not a coincidence :/

in any case, thanks for the link. i will certainly use it when i get myself a usb to usb c adapter to connect to the pc ;)

in the meanwhile, could you tell me if my battery is good?

i got 5h SOT and 12h total, browsing > youtube > games, plenty of everything and 10mins of gps. most of it was at home with low brightness.

it does not seem bad, but G2 would last a whole day easily with such use...
[Nexus 5X General] cawith:
You can actually use the tool without a USB cable. Just follow the "harder way" instructions. I've only done it this way and then just transferred the file to my computer via Google Drive.

Sounds about right to me if you play games and watch some youtube videos, and especially use GPS. This really sucks the battery quickly. Try going a day without games and GPS and you might be able to get close to 6 hours SOT in the same period.
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
ok thx for the help and patience, much appreciated :)
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Yea the percentages never add up to 100%. It will only show a certain amount of drains on the battery list and kick off ones near the bottom. Otherwise it would list multiple pages of small drains if it was showing everything.

BTW one way to guarantee a perfect doze period over night is by disabling the internet connection before sleeping. Usual stock no root with about 30% brightness and Google features enabled.
[Nexus 5X General] bbgun7:
But even when I'm on wifi with wifi calling (wifi preferred, so no bars at all), I still get large amounts of cell standby drain. Any way to fix that?
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
Any recommendations for a good app to check wacklock?

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[Nexus 5X General] tacofromhell:
Better battery stats
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
I was wondering about this app work properly on stock mm. But I think I'll jab to unlock my bootloader to root now ?

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[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
Well I think I'm gonna cry

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[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Happy or sad tears? Was that 17 hours on the battery with only 54% used?
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
i'm pretty sad... I get this kind of usage without using my phone during the days... no google now location in battery saver mod... I think I'm gonna have to root to find out where is the problem... my battery usage is really bad for me...
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Do you have a screen shot of the more in depth battery graph that has things like screen, awake, WiFi etc?
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
I'll do it tonight

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[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Google play services are still dangerous. I flashed gapps last week and observed slightly worse battery life.

I do not use gapps. Without gapps I get superb battery life. Keep in mind that we have low mAh to work with.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Looks like you spent a lot of the time talking on the phone. Talking on the phone doesn't use the screen so this is an example of a task that will use your battery and not add any Screen on Time.

Usage, settings and signal have the biggest impact to battery life.

This is a scenario where your usage dictates less screen time. Despite this you were still on point for around 3 hours SoT over 2 days, which can be considered to be good battery life with that much voice chatting and most of the devices features (settings) enabled.

Much too useful to give up IMO. You can always disable Locations and Google now if you like and reduce Google Play Service drain by 90%. Also I still see superb battery life while using them on my stock 5x.

Don't tell iPhone people with their 1715mAh that 2700mAh is low haha. :p As you probably know, it's not the pool size but how you use it. Many devices with 3000mAh battery can't even last as long as the Nexus 5x including the Asus Zenfone 2, LG G4, etc.
[Nexus 5X General] pletpetplet:
DU rom Unicorn blood Bluejay profile amazing :D.

http://imgur.com/vmM0SNS

http://imgur.com/QIbgjGn
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
That was pretty much the same usage on my n6 and battery was much better... Maybe I'm to demanding with my n5x

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[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Every battery comparison I've seen shows the 5x ahead of the N6 in battery life, but I never used one myself so that's all I have to go by.

Your usage is mostly Voice calling and the N6 has more efficient battery usage during that task, mainly because of the larger pool size and the screen remaining off during voice calls. Due to the N6 having an older generation 2k resolution OLED display which struggles with high brightness, screen usage will drain its battery much quicker than the 5x's more efficient 1080p IPS display.

Brightness plays a big role. The maximum brightness of the N6 is 258 nits where as the maximum brightness for the 5x is 486 nits. So you would have to have the N6 on 100% brightness and the 5x somewhere around 50% brightness to properly compare screen time.

With web browsing (lots of white screen) the N6 can fall behind even the N5 with its 2300mAh battery. This is with all devices normalized to 200 nits brightness, which is nearing the N6's maximum level. Taken from the Anandtech review:
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
Thank fit this information

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[Nexus 5X General] RockinAmigo14:
Hey all, I've been having some less than stellar results with my 5x, which I love otherwise. I usually top out at a very max of 3.5 hours SOT but usually right around 3. I leave my data turned off most of the day. My usage is primarily just social media and other light weight apps. I play a couple of word puzzle games, and sometimes play music in the car during a 35 minute commute. The music is local, not streamed. Is this about right for stock?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Actually looks pretty standard for how you're using it. Do a lot of those apps run as 24/7 background services? You can check in Developer Options > Running Services for those that do. Possibly remove any apps you're not using or restrict their background data (Settings > Data Usage) for less of a hit when using a mobile data connection. You could also try toggling BT and WiFi off from the swipe down menu when it's not being used.

I see you're using the GPS quite a bit. I'm assuming it's on High Accuracy? Unless it's for turn by turn navigation, see if you can get away with Device Only (only uses GPS: slow but accurate) or Battery Saver (uses WiFi and mobile data, fast but not accurate) mode.

These are pretty basic Android tips but that's about all I can offer. Going further might require flashing some custom software.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
My phone has been sitting on my desk at work for the last ~1.5 hours. The battery bar has been dark green the entire time. SIM Status > Signal strength is showing "-102 dBm 38 asu". I'm not really sure what that means. Good or bad?
[Nexus 5X General] lopri:
I recently reacquired this phone and the battery life isn't as good as it was the first time. Is it because of the updates?
[Nexus 5X General] george241312:
Don't know is this is good or not.
[Nexus 5X General] tangiers:
Clearing cache through stock recovery made a huge improvement for my battery life.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'm guessing you were using your phone for a few hours straight with the screen on at one point? Cause I see a pretty stay decline from 6 pm on. If so, the SOT looks about right to me.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hello guys. Back with some more stats :laugh:
[Nexus 5X General] ulxerker:
thanks for the advice, I just tried it by myself by wiping cache partition. do you have a more detailed explanation in which ways it improved the battery life for you?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Sounds almost exactly as in my example where battery life was cut in half, my signal was also around -100 dBm. At about -110 dBm it can basically start cutting out completely. This measurement is not linear either, so -100 can be something like 10x worse signal than -90.

Updates don't seem to have had any negative effects for myself. It could be the apps you're using but I could only guess without any screenshots.

Looks good. I can tell you had your brightness quite high (over 50% by my estimation), and as [MENTION=2840465]EeZeEpEe[/MENTION] mentioned it looks like the device was being actively used for the better part of 5 or 6 hours with mobile data and BT usage. BTW you can tap on the graph and get even more detailed information for next time.
[Nexus 5X General] tangiers:
I was struggling to get a full day with WiFi on 90% of the time and very light use. I now am left with about 40% battery at the end of my day.
[Nexus 5X General] Sarg92:
This past week my phone has been hit by the mobile radio active bug. Google Play services tops out my battery usage after keeping the mobile radio active for over an hour despite little use. This as a result is taking a hit on my battery.

Has anyone else had this issue or know how to get around it?
[Nexus 5X General] luckana:
Basically, you can't [emoji1] This bug has been following me since 3 phones and hundreds of different roms and kernels
[Nexus 5X General] myawan:
It just shows at the top, actual battery drain is low.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Just typical 2 day. Stock, no root, mostly 50% brightness. Internet was disabled while I slept.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Did you stay in one place that whole time cause you have perfect signal!
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
No. Also green doesn't necessarily mean perfect signal, -100dBm can show as green which is pretty weak signal such as in this example.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
True but still it was dark green the whole time which is pretty impressive.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I guess it seems normal to me, if I see weak signal it's usually because of certain large buildings with just the occasional yellow blips such as this other example.

It's possible this device just works well with my network. I'm using Wind which is like a low budget version of T-mobile in Canada, 3g/H+ only.
[Nexus 5X General] ulxerker:
try to update to newest Google Play Services 8.7.0.3, after that restart your phone and check for changes.

For me it helped.

In addition to that you also can clear cache in recovery.
[Nexus 5X General] jlvlawrence:
Here's my typical usage on a Verizon sim. 1 hr 50 minutes of SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
For all of those who are facing battery drain due to Google play services.. i suggest a not so elegant solution.

When you don't use play store.. go to data usage and disable background data for play store and play services.

I did that yesterday and i have not noticed any drain from those two services. I will come back to post some stats in a couple of hours.
[Nexus 5X General] ulxerker:
... but then you don't receive any messages and/or notifications anymore, do you? ;)
[Nexus 5X General] myawan:
What sort if notifications you receive from play store?