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[Nexus 5X General] eng3:
Really? I see reviews where they are able to play a video for 6 hours. I figure this would be far worse than taking photos for 1.5hrs. I'll try to get more info (ie. number of photos) and the actual battery graph
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Taking pics would do a decent amount of drain especially if you do HDR+ on all the time like I do.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Playing a video is the least cpu intensive task, taking pics requires power for the camera. I'm just saying but I guess if the only did that it could make sense...
[Nexus 5X General] eng3:
He said he took about 100 photos. Screen was on 50% of the time so 1.5hrs about 1 photo per minute then 50% screen off. Even with that, 90% drain seems high
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
If the majority of the photos were HDR processing then I still believe it.
[Nexus 5X General] Max2mus:
No. I still have the drain unfortunately.

But I'm pretty confident it is connected with my home wifi because I see NETLINK wakelock taking most of the time + without wifi or flight mode phone is sleeping like a baby. The funny thing is that at work everything is fine with wifi.

I guess something is messed up with my Virgin Superhub router (which is Netgear technically). I'm trying all sorts of stuff currently - changing channels, frequencies, assigning static IPs etc - still no luck.
[Nexus 5X General] eddi0:
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipP7WgrE3HrVPcCcUeXClkJ69g9ZHPgh0jjxdZ-d

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM9-j-hCHQpd3G2IZHJmh_5T1KMoJ3ahCyWT5Nx

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipM_f3lBGZb__mrb42OUZBwDf6xtj98j_KoawGCn

Brand new 5X, not rooted, running stock 7.1.2

Getting about 2-2.5 hrs SOT. Why am I only getting that?

I see my cell signal standby is the second highest battery user and is not green, is that the problem?

Please help!
[Nexus 5X General] iamterence:
Because the battery life on this phone sucks.
[Nexus 5X General] Allek84:
Yoir signal if is too bad normally that your battery life would be shorter.But even if with good gsm signal you womt have maximum 3 :30/3:40 screen on time with relatively short uptime.
[Nexus 5X General] PlugaruT:
Maximum what I can get with this phone is 2.5 sot, full stock.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hello everyone. Some battery stats from 1st session of Android Oreo.

ElementalX kernel, stock oreo system, big Cluster disabled. Using the A53 cores @ 1.5ghz. Gpu @ 490mhz. Greenify for automatic screen off hibernation. Usage includes web browsing and watching videos.

Not intensive use. But lasted over 2 days with 5hr SOT. I am impressed.
[Nexus 5X General] Phalanx7621:
Well of course. If you don't use a custom ROM or at the very least a custom kernel and make adjustments to the kernel to increase battery life it's gonna suck. I would suggest either ElementalX or Phasma. I average about 3.5 hours SOT, but I don't ever let my phone drop below 25% so I could most likely get a lot more if I pushed it. Let me know if you want details about my setup, I've tried most kernel here and finally settled on a setup​ that works well.
[Nexus 5X General] PlugaruT:
Well, I was thinking about rooting my phone and installing a new kernel but keeping the stock ROM. I will be glad if you're gonna help me with the setting and tweaks to be made.
[Nexus 5X General] redj12:
Hi mate. Can you explain me how to dosable the big cluster ? I can only disable on of them. If I disable the second one, the fist I disabled turn On automatically.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Install ElementalX kernel manager app. In cpu options you can choose number of cores. Disable cpu5 and cpu4. Or you can also set the max big cores online to 0.
[Nexus 5X General] Bingley:
I'm getting max 2.5hrs on Oreo. Stock but rooted w/ Magisk, mostly in airplane mode, brightness around 10-20% as indoors. Pretty sucks.

Installed factory images and phone only 6 months old

https://i.imgur.com/zFylVCF.png

https://i.imgur.com/w34zMB2.png

https://i.imgur.com/HzUSLCg.png

Edit: Apps, for example Brave, indicate battery capacity is 1400mah: 15% use is 214ma
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Try a custom kernel. ElementalX for example. Also check out the Interactive governor profiles thread to find a profile that suits your type of usage. Also i recommend Greenify app to auto hibernate stubborn apps. If nothing works take the phone to service centre and ask them to take a look at battery.
[Nexus 5X General] :
Hello everybody ?

After testing some CPU governors (and all of these profiles who promise lot of battery) and io schedulers I will recommand to some users to use conservative and noop because since Android 7 our device is smooth enough to use this kind of governor.

You can also adjust them by lowering CPU frequencies to 960 MHz without any lags but if you decide to lower you CPU at this frequencies I will recommand you to use franco kernel or tasker to create profiles for heavy games and Android camera.

By using franco kernel and any rom and lspeed and applying these settings you can easily reach 4hours of sot.

As many professionnal devs are saying playing with new governors don't worth it as stock Androids govs are now developed enough to bring us power and stability.
[Nexus 5X General] bokilz:
Almost the same settings as sasank360 :

Stock Android Oreo | ElementalX Kernel | Greenify | Both big clusters disabled only differnce is i got Gpu at 600mhz | Medium/Heavy Usage

With a SOT of: 4h 49M

On stock android oreo and stock android nougat i had a terrible battery life of around 1h and 1h30 SOT Average, with the same apps installed.

I also ordered a new battery because i immediatly tought that was the cause of the draining. I will make a post about the new battery if it does make any improvement.
[Nexus 5X General] :
Got 5h of sot with Jolla (cause franco is actually not working) , Big clusters off, conservative gov with my tweaks, Lspeed,greenify.

I had 2h of sot with same use on stock before...

Don't know if Google devs are just stupid or if they want that we buy an other phone but it's crazy.
[Nexus 5X General] :
Proof of my sot just in case
[Nexus 5X General] Audriuskins:
4h SOT, Pure stock oreo, with all cores.
[Nexus 5X General] BNSoul:
7 hours SOT over 2 full days of usage with 100% stock apps and Oreo, everything enabled, including Google Now + Assistant + App, Location services & scanning, NFC... no battery saver / airplane mode. My cellular reception quality is over the top (same for WiFi) so I can have a lot of battery put into other stuff than powering the antennas.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Can we take a moment to discuss the neutered 8.0 battery stats? No more detailed graph, no way to see GPS, WiFi or mobile data time. Less detailed information in general which will make it harder to diagnose issues, but in exchange we get screen time on a per app basis. Yay?

Oh and "Memory" from the settings is now hidden in the developer options along with Running Services.

Anyways, so far 8.0 stock battery life seems similar to stock 7.1.2 for me which is around 5 hours SoT over 1.5 days. Locations and BT disabled as usual but also the newly defaulted developer option which keeps mobile data enabled during WiFi I've switched off.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I've had my current 5x for nearly a year now. My first one that I ordered on release day got the bootloop issue. This was actually my first phone I didn't mod or install a custom ROM. It's probably because I used to want a more vanilla experience and now have it so I didn't find it necessary. Over the 2 years I've probably only topped out around 4.5 hours SOT only because I was watching offline YouTube videos during a couple flights. Regular use I averaged 3 hours give or take 30 minutes. On days I got less SOT I got through the day and on days I got more I would have to charge mid-day.

I don't know how you guys can "easily" get 4 or 5+ hours AND get through a day or two but more power to you. Pun intended. [emoji23]

I can't wait to upgrade to the Pixel 2 XL already. [emoji4]
[Nexus 5X General] statikrage:
Just manual pushed the 8.0 update and getting great battery life compared to 7.2. Running stock rooted with magisk.
[Nexus 5X General] rp158:
Look here, what's possible. Without GApps, WiFi instead mobile dara, low brightness. Under heavy circumstances I get 6h SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] paradoxiumwind:
I got a brand new N5X from amazon the other day, unopened, I also bought a couple spare 'OEM' batteries while I was at it, but I hear people are just packainging lower mAH crap batteries in nexus stickers and reslling them?

I got one one here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172352710274

And one here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172352710274

Took some pics:

I have yet to open my new N5X and compare the battery (nor do I really want to tear the covering off the battery to check what's underneath) but does anyone think these look like legit OEM batteries? Since they are (presumably) unused, and the one in the phone could be two years old, might it be worht replacing the one in the phone? I'm putting off taking the back cover off because I ended up snapping the contacts and could never get the back on properly again with my Nexus 5.

One battery has a manufacture date of 02/11/15, the other 01/12/15, no sure what hte one in the phne is like. I bought some copper shims to put on the CPU that over hears I will have a loot at it then, but I also might end up sending it off to china to get the ram +storage). upgrade

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pics of batteries here: https://imgur.com/a/UROLN
[Nexus 5X General] ronin1985:
Battary drain Screen off

Some weeks ago i suddenly had to charge my nexus 5x much more often. At this time CM13 was installed. So i diceded to upgrade to Lineageos 15.1. Unfortunately the battery drain was still much to high. I loose like 5% per hour during idle (only wifi turned on). I installed AccuBattery, Wakelock Detecor, ElementalX kernel, but i could not detect something, which is causing the battery drain (see my pictures). Do u guys have any other sggestions for me? How many mA/h are you lossing during idle? I have the impression that ~120mA/h is way to high.

Thank you
[Nexus 5X General] Navalon:
Hi guys! After test android 6, 7 and 8 in my nexus 5x. I have got the feeling that the battery life is better with android 6 but I am not sure. In all the version I used greenify and magisk with battery improves. I think that the implementation and when I disable background app services is better in 6.

What do you think? I don’t know how to do...

Pd: all android versions are stock
[Nexus 5X General] nashy10:
Rogue drain

Hey everyone just getting back into this phone has been a while, been trying different ROMs etc. I am running AOSIP unrooted and I'm having issues with the battery. Cpu does not seem too deep sleep, instead it stays at lowest frequency, I had accubattery installed but it didn't really help me narrow anything down other than I have a problem. Location services are on and I use Facebook app but haven't had problems deep sleeping with other ROMs, here are my cpu stats over a short period with maybe 15 mins of screen on time.really love this ROM so I'm here trying to sort the battery issues, all help is appreciated. Have blocked wakelocks with app ops from most main offenders, no change.
[Nexus 5X General] :
I think it's because of the preinstalled kernel in this ROM, try an other one, I can recommand you sphinx, tell me if it fixed it, if not I will try to help you the best as I can ?
[Nexus 5X General] Zlutypomeranc:
Please dont.. over 6 hours on naked browser, like idling with minimum brightness. Others can do better with some other 3rd party app.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Wow, that battery life is INSANE. With what seems to be like 42 hours off charger(I wish it still showed actual time on battery life Kit Kat did) and 5.5 hours screen on time with seems like ~8 hours off wifi with patches of weak reception.

With all but 30 minutes being on wifi with light green or dark green reception all day and brightness at like 20% I'm barely able to manage 4 hours screen on time with like 14-15 hours off charger.

Are you a wizard or something?
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
It's SimpL layers theme. Beta build from the Google Plus layers page.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I'd actually expect those situations to drain the battery about the same since all the other things combined probably use the same about of battery as the screen all by itself.

I didn't own a Nexus 6(way too big for my liking) so I can only base my opinion on the few hours I tested one in a store and the battery life reviews I have read and based on that I'd say that 5+ hours SOT is well above average for that phone.
[Nexus 5X General] fitchpuckman:
Nice work, thanks. adding mine in shortly.
[Nexus 5X General] xepter:
I'm thinking this was a bad batch thing I'm on a September manufactured 5x and my battery life is horrendous 2 hrs sot in 12 hours and dead
[Nexus 5X General] dugboy:
how does one check for manufactured date?
[Nexus 5X General] xepter:
It's on the box sticker
[Nexus 5X General] szucsgf:
Mine was manufactured October 2015 and I get 5+ hours sot on a full day's use.
[Nexus 5X General] xepter:
OK thanks for checking. so far I think I'm right if we get some more people to post and confirm I will be contacting Google asap.
[Nexus 5X General] ubcjack:
Anyone knows why Android OS is always on the top of battery using app list now? There is not enough info in the detail to see what's causing this to happen.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
A phone can can drain its battery without the screen even being on, but just having the screen on and nothing else barely uses any power. Compare idle power consumption with the screen off to idle power consumption with the screen on and they're practically the same. This is mainly due to Panel Self Refresh which stops updating the screen if nothing moves or changes.

I'd expect situation 1 to last at least 2x as long as situation 2. Probably much more. The screen is just one component doing one thing, the SoC is many components doing many things.

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I'll help with your spreadsheet, can we add a column for % used or remaining? I won't be draining my battery down on a consistent basis but I wouldn't mind contributing slightly less complete results as well (from 90% to 40% for instance). I also don't plan on full charging or draining my battery very often in the hope of increasing battery longevity past the 2 year mark.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
It's actually very common; when the phone was brand new I would frequently get a minimum of 6hrs SOT and even got 11hrs SOT one day by downclocking the CPU. I posted a screenshot of it last year in the battery life OP because it was a crazy amount of SOT, but anyway I've used my Nexus 6 for nearly a year now and I've never gotten horrible SOT even with all of the dumb things I do with it. I've flashed a ROM, made a TWRP back up and had bluetooth, GPS high accuracy etc... one and still got 4.5-5hrs SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Doze working its magick

From 90% to 17% (Total: 73% used)

Usage was on WiFi with 1.5 hours of streaming Twitch.tv in Source quality. This example has the mysterious "99031" which I think was Google App (or maybe Google Services).

Brightness 50% (adaptive)

Disabled: Locations & Bluetooth.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Of course the phone can drain the battery without the screen being on but that doesn't mean it takes more power than the screen. Just having the screen on actually takes a LOT of power.

Set your screen time out to like 30 minutes and see how long it takes for the battery to drop 1% vs how long it takes for the battery to drop 1% with the screen off. I just did this test myself. It took 6 minutes for my battery to drop from 46% to 45% while doing nothing. With the screen off that same 1% would last me up to 4 hours. Now obviously some of that is Doze doing its thing but that is still like 40x the power drain. While actively doing something like using the Facebook app 1% drains in about 3.5 minutes.

So totally idle screen of ~4 hours.

Idle with screen on drops that to 6 minutes. That is a decrease of 97.5% just by having the screen on doing nothing.

Doing something with screen on drops that to ~3.5 minutes. That is still more than half the time of the screen being on but the phone being idle.

I think that is pretty clear that the screen is using more power than anything else.

First of all does the Nexus 5X even have Panel Self Refresh? The Nexus 5 didn't and I can't find anything that says that the Nexus 5X does. Secondly, with Panel Self Refresh the screen does still get updated it just updates from a screen render that is cached instead of the GPU re-rendering the same image over and over again for no reason. It doesn't stop the LCD panel itself from refreshing. Then there is the back light which uses a lot of power.

If what you are saying is correct then streaming music with the screen off should kill the battery quicker than doing nothing with the screen on but that is absolutely not the case. Based on my test of draining 1% in 6 minutes a full battery should drain in about 10 hours with the screen on and phone idle. Streaming music with the screen off will last MUCH longer. I haven't actually done the test but I think the Nexus 5 would go like 18 - 20 hours of streaming music with the screen off and that is on a phone that wouldn't have even got 6 minutes of idle screen on time.

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4.5 hours screen on time with 1/3 being streaming and it only used 73% on a stock ROM and kernel?

Please share your secret. My battery life seems to be getting worse since I got the phone.
[Nexus 5X General] fitchpuckman:
3.5 hrs SOT (420ish mah so far), 91% of battery used in 15.5hrs. no adaptive brightness, manual brightness set to ~15%, ambient display on, tusted voice and ok google set to wake phone if voice recognized (even though I dont actually use that feature...), location set to battery saver, exchange (via Touchdown HD) and gmail accounts syncing all day. a couple notes:

1) still seeing crazy modile radio active times from some apps (facebook, google play, amazon shoppping app), and it far outpaces their use. for example, i used facebook for a little over 10 minutes to, but have over 50 minutes of mobile radio time. yesterday i had about 12 minutes of facebook with something like 90 mins of mobile radio time. today, over 30 mins mobile radio active from amazone shopping app even though i only opened it and browsed for about 3-5 minutes at one point.

2) as you'll notice in the attached android battery monitor, it shows my wi-fi on fo rthe majority of the day even though I NEVER TURNED IT ON UNTIL APPROX 6:30PM. this is strange. GSam barely shows it on. what also odd is that it, midday, it showed a few apps had wifi packets sent even though at that point i hadn't had wifi on since yesterday afternoon.
[Nexus 5X General] fitchpuckman:
4 more screenshots per my prior post
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I have now had my Nexus 5X for 6 days and the battery life just seems to be getting worse. Is there anything I can do? I'm thinking about returning because of how bad it is.

Just some browsing and Facebook. WiFi all but 30 minutes of the day, location on battery saving, bluetooth off, adaptive brightness off with brightness set pretty low(see screen shot) and good cell reception. I'm at 43% with just barely 2 hours screen on time and only 9.5 hours off the charger.

How the hell are people getting 4.5-5 hours SOT with like 24 hours off the charger(or more) doing more power intensive things like streaming video,etc and I can't manage more that 3.25-3.5 SOT with 12 hours off the charger?

Any suggestions(that doesn't involve rooting) to help this crap battery life would be very much appreciated.
[Nexus 5X General] zjsdlr2:
My 5X is an October manufactured phone with terrible battery life. The best SOT I have had is about 2 hours and I have been using it for 4 days now. Today, I have only an hour of SOT and am at 35%. Android OS, Android System and Google play services are top 3 users of battery followed by screen. Factory reset with only the original apps installed does not help. Drain occurs on wifi and LTE equally bad. I just requested an RMA. The rep said that they have had several people with the issue but she thought it was a bad battery. Hopefully the new phone works better but I am skeptical.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I feel your pain. Looks like you have it worse than I do(which I didn't think was possible) but if things continue to decline like they have since I got the phone 6 days ago then I might me in your position by the beginning of next week.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
So I did my best to avoid using the phone outside and as a result most of the usage was away from direct overhead lighting inside as well. The battery life ask didn't faire well and I'm not certain the stats are off. Chrome has never used that much battery on any device I've owned. I'll give it another day or two before sending it back. I can't deal with this mediocre battery life in a idealized scenario... It will likely die by 1300 tomorrow if I use it normally from 0500 when I get up

Also notice how much the better drops the second I use the phone. It's ridiculous how steep those declines are when the display is on.
[Nexus 5X General] rgerrans:
I just noticed similar wifi behaviour today. I had an extended travel day today so set wifi off all day (including 5 hours in airplane mode) and mine also shows wifi on all day.
[Nexus 5X General] blinkin:
is the location -> scanning turned off for the wifi?
[Nexus 5X General] badenglishihave:
Go right ahead, it's publicly editable! Maybe OP can link to the spreadsheet? It just isn't that helpful, IMO, to see so many screenshots of SOT without any context.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
Well it's been nice testing the 5X but I can't deal with their battery life. I'm sending it back and picking up a backup 32gb 6P because with the cases I bought for the 5x (2 adopted ones) the price difference is only a few dollars. I hope the situation improves for everyone who's keeping theirs but I'm out.
[Nexus 5X General] NOSTALGIA:
do you have viber??

viber has a built in setting that bypasses the device's wifi connection
[Nexus 5X General] rgerrans:
Good catch. Surprised that overrides airplane mode as well. I wonder if having that and Bluetooth scanning (first time I've seen that option, wonder what the use case is for it) off will make any difference in battery.
[Nexus 5X General] blinkin:
no problem :)

you sure it overrides airplane mode? Wouldn't make much sense especially on the airplane :D