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[Nexus 5X General] IwantricexD:
How did you ever get 6 hour screen over 2 days? My old gsm galaxy nexus got 2 hour screen over like 6 hours, had to carry 2 spare batteries for the thing to make it through the day.
[Nexus 5X General] PhilipL:
Hi

From a different direction, I've hardly touched the phone since charging it overnight, and its now reporting 11 days of predicted usage. It's been pinging away with Gmail and Hangout notifications but I've read them on the computer. Wi-Fi is on, location on and connected to 4G, just shows how much power the screen uses!

Regards

Phil
[Nexus 5X General] P3Droid:
I find that the N5X has great battery life, I am really happy with Doze and how it works.
[Nexus 5X General] 95Z28:
Wasn't hard, by the time I stopped using the Galaxy Nexus the battery was 2 years old and had diminished greatly. With that said, I simply pointed out my experience on an old device, not really concerned with you believing me and not sure why so many seem to have an issue with that. I'm sure you can find some old posts on the Galaxy Nexus forum if you're that interested.
[Nexus 5X General] DOBBY0:
I got 3.5 hours first day after opening box with around 79%. But I was on WiFi and stuff all day. Waiting for Fedex to bring my project fi sim so then I can do real world testing. I'll be back!
[Nexus 5X General] PhilipL:
Hi

With reference to Doze, this will not help anyone here in this thread. It only kicks in when the phone isn't being used, so if you are draining the phone from charged to almost flat in a day, Doze can't help, as the phone is draining because you are using it. It will help if you have any mis-behaving apps over night that continue to phone home draining power, as Doze mode will see the phone isn't being used and force these apps to stop, so you wake up hopefully to find little charge is lost, but then overnight you are charging your phone for the next day I expect so Doze is irrelevant when it's powered for charging.

It's really for things like tablets where people often leave them unused most of the day and overnight, so they can keep power in standby.

Regards

Phil
[Nexus 5X General] aamir123:
How many people here actually used app permissions to get better battery? I wonder how much of a difference it'll make.
[Nexus 5X General] SlimSnoopOS:
I've only had my 5X for two days, but this happened to me yesterday at work. Even though I had disabled Wi-Fi scanning when I first booted the phone, I had this. Somehow, hours after my first boot, it was enabled in Location I guess when I first turned GPS on? Did you check there again and turn that off SINCE you first booted the phone?
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
Yes i checked it couple of times...
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Gave only 2.4 Ghz a try at my job and seemed to be a bit better than usual today. Feel like I had another 10%-15% more than usual at my clock out time. Will keep it on that for now and see how it is for the next week or so.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
This always happened with my N5 as well if I disabled WiFi after leaving the WiFi network's area. The WiFi wasn't actually remaining enabled however, it was just being falsely reported on the graph that it was and no extra battery drain was attributed to WiFi.

I tested with my 5x and the same thing happens. So it looks like it's a left over visual glitch with the battery graph introduced in Lollipop.

So to clarify, disable WiFi while still connected to the WiFi network and it should show no bar for WiFi on your graph. Either way if it's the same issue as before (and it looks like it is) it should not be draining battery.
[Nexus 5X General] PiousInquisitor:
I believe Google Now also keeps WiFi "on" in the battery stats.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I don't believe so. I can get my graph to show WiFi properly as off if I use the "trick" I mentioned above. Enabling or disabling Google Now seems to have no effect on the glitch.

Unless you mean the setting to allow WiFi to always scan in the Locations options, but most people have that disabled and are still seeing WiFi as on.
[Nexus 5X General] makogaleos:
Phil, thanks for sharing your insight! I was wondering why everyone else on Marshmallow was getting such fantastic overnight standby time, so I disabled Wifi Calling and presto! I went from losing 1.60 % per hour with Wifi Calling enabled (measured two nights in a row to the exact same basis point!), and then disabled Wifi Calling to get 0.14% per hour battery drain!

For others trying this out (note: I'm not sure that this is necessary), I would suggest restarting the phone after toggling Wifi Calling.

Screenshots are Nexus 5X. All same apps. Only change was to enable/disable wifi calling.

Hmmm... well doesn't look like I may post screenshots nicely, so you'll have to copy & paste these to see into your browser to see:

imgur.com/jMjl8br

imgur.com/yofgLqz
[Nexus 5X General] kenhicg:
Can someone tell me what 10121 is?
[Nexus 5X General] aamir123:
If you uninstalled something it may be that or the app is unknown or something and you have to use adb to find the name.
[Nexus 5X General] fiore95:
Disappointing battery life
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
My bluetooth is killing my phone right now. It was 10% of my battery usage last night, with just as much power consumed as my SOT (which was only 3 hours). Has there been any thoughts on why BT is so power hungry in this device? I have always left it on on all my devices, and never seen it use so much power.

I have already attempted a factory reset (though I did still do the automatic downloading of all my old apps). When I first set up my phone I did the same thing, but had GasBuddy installed, which some people suggested was the app at fault. I removed that and it seemed to improve a little, but still seems off.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
If you have Bluetooth on but not connected to any devices it should use little to no power at all. If Bluetooth is connected and transferring data then high battery usage is normal.
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
Yeah, i leave it on for my car infotainment system (phone calls only, don't ever stream). Hardly ever connected, that is maybe 30 mins a day. Same usage pattern as my two previous phones but with much higher battery consumption.
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
Attached screenshots after just getting out of work today. Unplugged from 6 am to 4pm, with little actual usage.
[Nexus 5X General] Casyis:
Try disabling bluetooth scanning. Go to Settings>Google>Location, tap menu at top right, Scanning, and disable. If you haven't already.
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
I've tried that as well, no luck. By the end of last night, I had only 2 hrs SOT. Bluetooth was the highest consumer @ 12%. Today, I have disable BT all together and so far, batter seems to be lasting longer. Hoping the 6.0.1 update fixes whatever is wrong. If that doesn't work, I might do another wipe, this time not restoring apps and configurations.
[Nexus 5X General] Casyis:
Do you have Gas Buddy? It's been causing Bluetooth drain according to some other threads.
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
I did previously, but uninstalled it. Seemed to help a "little". The updates I provided yesterday (along with the screenshots) were after wiping and without installing GasBuddy, but obviously still getting lousy battery life with BT on.
[Nexus 5X General] jinx8402:
Well, I decided to wipe again, this time forgoing letting Google restore settings and apps, and the battery stats look much improved. BT is no where to be found, and it looks like doze is working as well. Will see how this goes for the next few days to see if it's an actual improvement.

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[Nexus 5X General] kenhicg:
Thanks. It was the t-mobile app I removed. Since then battery life has been quite good.
[Nexus 5X General] Evillarney:
Chroma rom with elementalx kernel

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[Nexus 5X General] nemonius:
What is the best way to find out why android OS keeps device awake all the time? It doesn't sleep at all. The screenshot is taken after unplugging from charger 2,5h ago.
[Nexus 5X General] rgerrans:
Have you taken the 6.0.1 update yet? I was having the same issue (as have lots of people on this and Lollipop). Sideloaded the OTA 2 days ago and yesterday I noticed for the first time that Screen jumped up to my #1 battery user and saw Android OS dramatically drop the keep awake time (been off charger for 2 hours this morning and Android OS keep awake is 4 1/2 min). Not sure if it was the update or a coincidence with something else I might have done.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Too early to confirm but the 6.0.1 (OTA in my case) update may have changed how drains are being associated. WiFi and a few others have suddenly appeared but it could also be a glitch as my battery stats haven't been reset in over a week. I will test and confirm in the next few days.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I've been wondering the same thing. I also see varying degrees of Android OS keeping the device awake too much. Although not as extreme of an issue for me as for [MENTION=3214955]nemonius[/MENTION].
[Nexus 5X General] crxmax:
I'm about to buy one of these off craigslist lol. Does the battery suck on this phone or what? I'm coming from a opo. Thanks for any info guys.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I'd say it's pretty good.

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_nexus_5x_battery_test_results-blog-15120.php

http://anandtech.com/show/9742/the-google-nexus-5x-review/5
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I think someone's posted those stats before. In general, I feel like most phones do better in endurance tests than real life use. 8.5 hours of Web browsing and 6.5 hours of video is great on paper but too bad I only get 3 maybe 3.5 (if I'm lucky) hours of SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] crxmax:
Sucks. Now I'm having second thoughts
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
It's just average battery really. If you're able to top off for 30-60 minutes with the fast charger or eventually with fast charging battery banks, it'll be fine.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
That is to be expected. Your usage case does not match the usage case set out in the test scenario.

For instance there would be no point comparing battery life without a perfect signal on each phone but most of us will rarely get perfect signal. That's just one example of the plethora of differences between the way you're using the device and how it's being used in the test.

What can be taken away from it is that the device out lasts similar devices with larger batteries.

Also you can see many examples of users achieving 5+ hours SoT with their own usage scenarios, including (another one I've posted multiple times) the quote from the Android Police review:

The AP review also includes this screenshot (5 hours SoT with 10% remaining):

My apologies if I'm starting to sound like a broken record but a lot of people come into this thread without reading previous posts, and seem unaware of this publicly available information.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Right. But there's always exceptions whether it's on the extremely low end or high end. On a whole, it appears to me that it's average. I know people CAN get 5 hours, but do they really get that on the regular? I doubt it.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
It's not going to blow other devices out of the water but it will pull ahead those which are using more power hungry internals such as 2k resolution displays and 3-4 gigs of RAM, despite them having larger battery pools and generally costing more money.

5 hours SoT on the regular would hardly be out of the question. I've posted multiple results each week since launch day showing so. Not only that but do you think the AP review would post non-standard battery life? That is their normal daily usage and they saw over 5 hours SOT. He even mentions his usage scenario there:

I've shown 10 hours SoT is possible browsing with Reddit is Fun. That was 50% brightness and included HD Youtube, gifs and jpegs as well as a lot of comment reading and posting. That is what we CAN get, but 5 is more likely on the regular with mixed usage.

Is it possible for everyone? No. Usage, Settings, and Signal have a huge impact on battery life and for some their usage simply does not allow for that long of screen time. If you do a lot of voice calling, text messaging, downloading, even listening to music (as small of a drain as it is), anything that drains battery without using the screen will cause lower screen time.

This may seem like an oversimplification but to get long screen on time, you do need to actually use the device with the screen on for long periods of time.
[Nexus 5X General] nemonius:
Yeah, I manually updated to 6.0.1 after factory reset.

Seems like the only option is to root and try to use betterbatterystats.
[Nexus 5X General] Evillarney:
I'm also coming from an opo and tbh the opo has much better battery life. But I'm getting insane amounts of sot with the elementalx kernel installed.

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[Nexus 5X General] Evillarney:
I do get it regularly.

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[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
More power to you. Were you getting that stock?
[Nexus 5X General] Evillarney:
No. On stock I get like 3-4 hours max.

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[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Nice. I think I've been stock long enough. Time to give a ROM and kernel a try. You on a different ROM?
[Nexus 5X General] Evillarney:
Yeah I'm using chroma with elementalx kernel. I did underclock my big cluster a bit though. Haven't noticed any performance difference.

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[Nexus 5X General] nemonius:
Installed ElementalX-N5X-1.02 over stock 6.0.1 and the android OS draining stopped. Don't know what caused it but it seems fine now. :good:
[Nexus 5X General] tacofromhell:
Looking good!
[Nexus 5X General] tacofromhell:
Best day so far! Using stock 6.0.1 decrypted with EX kernel
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Starting today I'm seeing a huge battery drain from GPS. I haven't used GPS at all and location is on Battery Saving.

The phone has been awake a lot with Maps as the top user saying that GPS has been active for almost 10 hours.

Anyone else seeing this issue?

On an interesting side note the last chunk of screen on time shows the phone as not being awake. That's kind of strange tool
[Nexus 5X General] :
Very happy. I'm stock didn't get 6.0.1 yet
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
2 day battery life with a mix of 3G and WiFi, 30-70% Lux auto brightness on stock 6.0.1. Only NFC and BT remained disabled.

50 minutes of charging to get back to 75%.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'm liking stock 6.0.1 so far. Android OS and Android System battery usage have gone down.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Lux auto brightness. Stock 6.0.1. with NFC and BT disabled.
[Nexus 5X General] galaxys:
6.0.1 seems better...
[Nexus 5X General] X7-Ghost:
Been great for me on omni 6.0.1 with xposed; i'm getting -4% overnight, so 8hrs!! that is very good for standby time, way better than lollipop anyways.
[Nexus 5X General] Azurael:
I get similar life to my former G2, which seems pretty good to me as it has a smaller battery and a supposedly less efficient SoC. There is one dramatic difference though: mobile data! Both phones are capable (running CM13, incidentally) of 5+ hours SOT or just about stretching to two days normal usage+standby if necessary, but there's no way I'd have been able to spend 4 hours on a coach browsing the web on the G2. You could kill that thing in under 3 hours browsing away from Wi-Fi. Samsung may have a dramatic sustained performance increase from Qualcomm in this generation (which will hopefully go away once Samsung are fabbing their SoCs) but I bet their modems aren't as good!
[Nexus 5X General] ZackPrince:
4-5 SOT is better for me just average user. [usually 3-4 SOT]

i dont want it draining so fast without no reason and keep it longer.
[Nexus 5X General] Evo_Shift:
I feel battery life is pretty good other than when Google Play Services decides to keep my phone awake for hours. When that doesn't happen I end the day with 30% battery at least and 3.5-4 hours SOT. When Play Services decides to keep the phone awake I either catch it and reboot because the phone is hot after it has drained like 15% even though I haven't been using it or I don't catch it and the phone needs charging before the end of the day. 6.0.0 was better for me.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
About 5 hours SoT with mostly mobile data usage (3g/H+), constant 50% brightness (manual), only NFC and BT disabled.
[Nexus 5X General] govindadas:
Given that my 4yo gnex still had the original battery and could only do about 30min of sot, the battery on N5X is AMAZING. I've gotten 3-4 hrs sot to hit 15%battery. That's over a regular 8hr day or so. Stock ROM all Bells and whistles on: Google now, bt, etc.
[Nexus 5X General] vemakohe:
Chroma with elemental x kernel touchboost disabled 5 hour screen time 1 hour calls 10 % battery left
[Nexus 5X General] kvarga:
This 4-5 hours battery life is seems constant in the long term. Looks promising. But I need to charge ~3 times a day if I follow the 4th point of google's recommendation. That's not what my common sense says..

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/6187455
[Nexus 5X General] rydare:
That's a tip to make your battery last longer before it needs to be replaced. Deep discharges negatively impact battery longevity more than shallow discharges. For example, going from 100% > 40% and back to 100% does double the impact that going from 100% > 70% and back to 100 does. I don't know why they recommended never going below 50%, since batteries last longest in storage around 40% charge.

I believe that my current behavior of charging once every 24 hours is better for the battery than charging every few hours to keep it topped up. Only time will tell though. Eventually I will have to replace the battery in this phone regardless of any best practices, those tips are just to make it last longer before it becomes necessary.

I was kinda negligent and allowed the battery to get to 13% today, but I already have 5.5 hours of SoT over a period of one day and 14 hours (38 hours).
[Nexus 5X General] keijikage:
With good reception, I seem to be getting a little over 5hr SOT. I doubt I will be able to get any higher than this.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
50% brightness, everything enabled except NFC and bluetooth. 1080p streaming, browsing, lots of picture taking and a bit of gaming.
[Nexus 5X General] Evo_Shift:
I uninstalled the updates to Google Play Services and the Google Play Store then let the phone reinstall them. This required me to add my Google accounts back to my phone so it is kind of annoying to do. However, for 3 days now I have not had Google Play Services keep my phone awake for the 45+ minutes it had been pretty much every day in the past. It hasn't even been showing on my battery stats in fact. I am hesitant to believe this actually fixed that issue for me but I am hopeful.
[Nexus 5X General] gleggie:
Anyone know what's causing my Google Play Services wake locks? Never had these in the past and I haven't changed my usage
[Nexus 5X General] eggdashure:
I have to say that I'm amazed by the numbers I am seeing on here...3 to 5 hours of SOT!? It's 2:00PM and my battery is down to 35% (after starting at 7:00AM) with only 1 hour and 12 minutes SOT! I also keep the brightness at about 25% and have disabled the Active Display. I've already Factory Reset it twice with no change in the battery behavior.

I'm also experiencing loss of WiFi Signal regularly, crazy lag in Hangouts and while using the camera. Running 6.0.1. Perhaps I have a bum unit? :confused:
[Nexus 5X General] ulxerker:
Sometimes Google Play Services just go crazy. Try the following trick and report back: restrict mobile data for Google Play Services and Google Play Store, after that do a hard restart by pressing all 3 buttons for a few secs. Once restarted, you can enable mobile data again.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
One thing that has worked for me in the past with Google Play Services drain is to clear the storage cache in Settings > Storage > Cached data and rebooting. This is kind of a "fix all" suggestion that Google support will sometimes mention but it has worked for me on my N5 with a similar issue a year back.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
You aren't alone. I'm not getting quite as bad as you but not too much better either.

---------- Post added at 02:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:23 AM ----------

Any idea what would cause Android System to have a huge time holding awake? By the time I get to 24% I always have a value WAY higher than your 6 minutes.

I'm still very envious of the battery life you seem to get. I mean almost 5 hours SOT on mobile data and 50% brightness and about a 5 hour span of weak signal strength. Damn. That is impressive.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I pretty much get the exact same thing everyday at my job. I out on airplane mode and just WiFi and end up getting an extra 10% give or take. I have terrible service of 0-1 bars.
[Nexus 5X General] Gairtial:
5h SoT, 36h screen off (13%/hr (~7.7hr if I ran the battery flat with nothing else) screen on, 0.7%/hr screen off):
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
When you do a Factory Reset, are you restoring after or do you start clean? Just wondering as some have mentioned they were having performance/battery issues until they tried a factory reset without restoring, just a clean setup and downloading a couple apps at a time to monitor if and when the issue returns.

Losing WiFi signal though makes me wonder if that could be the root cause. Without a solid internet connection the device and its radios need to work over time to accomplish most tasks.

I couldn't say for sure. If you have root access you could potentially use a wakelock detecting app to give us an idea what processes (including Android System and Android OS processes) are causing your phone to wake. I would assume it's relating to one or more of the phone's settings. My changes shouldn't have a significant impact on battery but just in case it might help I've made an exhaustive list of anything I've disabled, in order of potential drain:

-BT and NFC

-WiFi and BT scanning

-Restrict background data on 4 apps that I noticed using background mobile data without me needing them to. (G+, Drive, Twitch.tv, and Current Widget)

-Play Store auto download, I get notifications but they won't update without my intervention

-send anonymous statistics to Google

-touch sounds, vibrate on touch, vibrate on type

-Automatic date and time

-5Ghz Wireless (I'm using 2.4Ghz only to resolve WiFi performance issues on my home network)

-emergency cell broadcasts

-Hangouts

-Day Dream

Wow that is some detailed info there, thanks for sharing. What software is that BTW? I wish we could all post stats like that but I'm assuming it requires root access.
[Nexus 5X General] Gairtial:
That's Google's battery historian. It doesn't require root at all, just ADB or developer settings enabled and among other things, it'll also give you a full breakdown of wakelock (again, without root). I set up an instance of it and wrote a guide on how to use it here. I also wrote a more detailed guide on Reddit here.

I've also written an (at the moment unfinished and unreleased) app that can display this info on the device (still without root). Not ready to release it yet though:
[Nexus 5X General] eggdashure:
Restore via Google during startup...yes. Restore via Titanium Backup...no. I'm trialing this device as our Healthcare Agencies potential next distributed device to replace our aging S3's. The added security of the Fingerprint Reader would be hugely beneficial to our staff who also want a more compact device than say the 6P (smaller hands). For us in IT, the capability to quickly image these devices using Nandroid backups is intriguing as well.

Anyways, if I am having this much trouble with the device...our end users will have twice that. :silly:
[Nexus 5X General] bobby janow:
The device is not for you or your users. Samsung might be a better fit.