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[Nexus 5X General] robstunner:
I got 3hr, 39 min with 7% left, 27hrs off charge. Ill get screenshots once I get to my phone. I wouldnt expect any more than that with a 2700mah battery.
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
I understand. I don't think he is asking for the moon. And battery life can vary greatly based on the user. One question, do you know when your device was manufactured? I haven't heard anyone say a positive thing about a device that was manufactured in September 2015. I wonder if the first batch of devices that were built all have some similar issue that causes a lot of the complaints I've read about.
[Nexus 5X General] Dwayne01:
Just looking at everyone's approximates and it really seems to blow mine out of the water. At 15% I have approximately 2 hours of life left. That can't be right. I really can't tell what is sipping my battery but it really just seems to drain. Can barely get through a day with moderate/light use.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Doze is on automatically, you would need to manually disable it on a per app basis for it to not work.

I believe it's software otherwise the excellent results that others and myself are seeing wouldn't be possible. In nearly every example I've seen here of bad battery life there are signs of the phone being kept awake for abnormal periods of time with the screen off.

I disable nothing but Locations services and with 50% brightness I can see 5+ hours SoT with mostly WiFi. Honestly if I were to do as you say and "doctor" battery graphs they would be 10+ hours SoT on this device easily. There are abnormal things draining people's battery to get some of these extremely low results.

Also remember that people who are having issues with their battery life are more likely to seek out this thread and post their results as this is the only battery or battery help related thread on the 5x forums and most of the internet. I encourage everyone who is happy with their battery life to post their results as well, and hopefully people don't fall into the trap of assuming what they see here is representative of most users (re: Sampling bias).
[Nexus 5X General] ibilln:
Maybe you are on to something re: the date of manufacture. I ordered mine about 4 min after the bidding opened; received it Wed, 21st, but I sent it back Sat, 24th.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I can't imagine Greenify would help much with screen on time. The same goes for Ambient display. Brightness at 40% would have a difference but it should actually make your screen on time WORSE than mine instead of better. I do have Location on but many good features need it to work. I'd hate to have to give up things that make a smartphone "smart". Kind of defeats part of the purpose in my opinion.

I'm also curious how you can have auto brightness on AND have it set at 40% brightness? Auto brightness is something I've always kept off since I don't like the brightness just changing(I just find it annoying) but I always thought that it automatically adjusts the brightness all the time meaning it could be 40% then 10% then 60% based on the surrounding lighting. I guess I'm confused about how the "Adaptive Brightness" works.

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I think he was referring to just battery life. I have to agree with his assessment. We dim the displays, turn off this feature, turn of that feature just to get through a single day of even light use. Google/LG could have easily resolved the issue by making the phone just a little thicker like 10mm thick and included like a 3,500mAh battery for not that much more money. Based on previous BOMs I've seen for different phones over the years it shows that the battery costs less than $10 so the increase in cost from a 2,700mAh battery to a 3,500mAh battery would have been very minimal.

These devices are meant to make our lives easier, more fun, etc but it really makes that hard when there is the constant concern of getting through and entire day away from a charger, carrying extra batteries(assuming the phone has a removable battery) or carrying a battery pack making us feel like we are handcuffed to an electrical outlet. We have these devices that are capable of so much but are still so limited because the companies that make them skimp on what I think is the most important part....the battery. The best processor, camera, speakers, screen, etc don't mean a damn thing if you can't even use the damn thing because the battery is dead.

I think he just wants to be able to use the damn thing for what it's designed to do without having to worry about the damn battery dying.

I mean I'm sitting here getting ready to leave work and my phone is sitting at 74% after 9 hours off the charger and that is on wifi all but 45 minutes, great cell reception, brightness at like 20% and having hardly touched it all day. 26% gone and I haven't hardly even done anything. No games, no YouTube, no music and no GPS. Just responded to two emails and spent a little bit of time browsing and on Facebook. Total screen on time....38 minutes.
[Nexus 5X General] szucsgf:
You're right, adaptive brightness adjust screen brightness based on your surroundings. However, with adaptive brightness on you can still move the brightness slider to make it bias towards dimmer or brighter values. Google default with adaptive brightness is for the slider to be at 50%.
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
I agree with that. I don't use location for much so I title it on and off. I would rather leave it on but...

I have adaptive brightness on. I said 40% because I keep it just below half brightness (in quick settings). Your statement is correct. Even though I set it at 40ish, it could adjust from 10 to 60 or more. I only mentioned it because you you can adjust the brightness from quick settings and it will adapt from there. If you toggle adaptive brightness on and off and change the brightness, you can see the difference. The total nits (actual quantifiable light output) is affected by both settings.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Oh, OK, that makes sense.

Thanks
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
My screen is using 3-5% of my battery total so before you make assumptions please look at what I posted... I'm well aware of the usual culprits for battery drain but I've never seen it occur this bad.

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Let me also say that my wife had a Moto X 2014PE which has a 5.2" 1080P AMOLED panel and a 2300mah battery. She always managed 4-5 hours SOT with 30-40% brightness and adaptive brightness on. There's no excuse for a 2700mah battery with a 1080P display to get less than 3-4 hours SOT even if it's an LCD.
[Nexus 5X General] aamir123:
I think there is a difference in screen qualities. I am currently around 2 hours screen on with over 400 mah used while someone else posted about the same while in the 200's mah.
[Nexus 5X General] big_b0sss:
Well now that I have used my nexus for a week and after careful observation my average sot is 3 hours which is actually worse than my s6 (4 hours of sot) but it beats s6 in standby my s6 would actually die during evening but nexus seems to last until i go to bed. People with bad battery i suggest do a factory reset and do not restore apps download fresh from play store and give few charge cycles to things get settled. I usually keep my sync on and location, gnow on and signal is a bit rusty at work otherwise I might be getting 4 hours nonetheless i am willing to sacrifice that for pure android experience it's just can't be compared with anything else.

Edit: did ended up with 4 hours of sot
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
Here is what I have for the past 2 days. About 47.5 hours, 5 hours sot.
[Nexus 5X General] aamir123:
What's up with your status bar icons? Why do they look different?
[Nexus 5X General] qwerty12601:
Obviously not a nexus5x. 25% battery went to display. Says 800mah used by display. That'd make the battery 3200mah. Nice try
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
Ha. Its most definitely a 5x. I assume since the display will use different amounts of power at different levels of brightness, the calculation is not nearly that simple. With adaptive brightness on, the screen is adjusting the output (and required draw from the battery). I don't know how else to prove it to you. Here is a screen of my settings. Believe it or don't. I'm not trying to trick anyone.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
What time are you using then?

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Edit Before I forget people are just confused because you have a theme applied to your system settings and status bar but appear to be running the stock ROM
[Nexus 5X General] :
honestly, I'm always using Wi-Fi and nothing else, all are turned off even auto-sync hahaha I really don't use them because I dont need them 99% of the time. also, I'm not as lucky as the other who get 5+ hrs of SoT with their device! :silly:
[Nexus 5X General] toro_37:
On latest factory image and I'm completely stock no root which is absolutely abnormal for me but battery sure is better on the latest factory image. It's unreal how great it is. I'll return and post some screenshots of what battery is like later. I've been a lurker here on xda for many years and finally posting some things. Appreciate all of you for being here and sharing your stuff. :good:
[Nexus 5X General] Finnit0:
Which is the latest factory image?
[Nexus 5X General] toro_37:
I'm on preview 7.1.1 NPF10C http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/1...view-now-available-nexus-5x-nexus-6p-pixel-c/
[Nexus 5X General] williamtavares:
60% auto-brightness.

GPS on.

WI-FI all the time.

Very few pictures taken.

Lot of Chrome, Instagram, Clover browsing, about 20 minutes playing a game, 30 minutes of video playback, downloaded some apps, Spotify, some calling and so on, usual stuff.

I realized that using the camera eats a lot of battery, when I take lots of picures, a barelly get 4 hours of screen on time.

I'm on stock Nougat, no root.

:highfive:
[Nexus 5X General] fishjinkies:
In your opinion, which android version has better battery life? (6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1 DP)
[Nexus 5X General] pgoelz:
5.x had very unstable standby drain. 6.x was noticeably better but would still occasionally drain abnormally fast after transitioning from WiFi to cell data and back. That seems 100% resolved in 7.x, with 7.1.1 DP1 and DP2 possibly even a little better standby drain. But I am talking standby drain, not screen on. I don't pay any attention to screen on time as I am not a heavy user and screen on time is much harder to judge than standby time.

In my experience, 7.x is the best build I have EVER used, going back to 2.x. If my N5X never got another update, it would be OK by me.

Paul
[Nexus 5X General] harryohh:
Anyone notice serious battery drain overnight on the latest 7.0 image? I notice that if I have any notifications over night my battery has drained massively by the morning. I'm talking 20 - 30% in 7-8 hours. However if I received no notifications throughout the night I only lose a few %.
[Nexus 5X General] Batticus:
I'm so done with this ****. This time Audible apparently caused 600 wakelocks. I don't even know what to do anymore, frankly I don't want to do anything anymore. I just want to use this phone and the apps like they are supposed to be used. I'm not sure if I will stay with Android. This is infuriating.

Any ideas? How many more times should I factory reset, wipe caches, reflash everything, clean install everything or uninstall apps which I'm actually using but apparently should not...
[Nexus 5X General] CazeW:
Some app seems to definetily be keeping your phone awake. Have you tried Greenify? If that doesn't help, then there are other methods like identifying the service that is keeping the phone awake and completely disabling it from the app. BetterBatteryStats and Disable Service are good for that.
[Nexus 5X General] Geliao:
From 99% down to 13%. I'm so glad I reached 4hours screen on time. My phone is still virgin though. Running fully stock. 7.1.1 NMF26F.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'd be happy with that 21 hours off the charger. I never get that with my usage.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock 7.1.1 (no root) with 50% adaptive brightness. The only settings disabled here are Locations and BT. Spent a lot of time on public transportation doing last minute mobile shopping and price comparisons, VLC was used for local music playback while Spotify was used for music streaming. About 50/50 mobile data and WiFi usage.

Compared to 7.0 I've noticed an improvement in idle drain specifically in those less than ideal situations such as experiencing loss of signal. Still not back to the "perfect Doze" my device experienced for the first 6 months of its life and it's possible this idle drain will degrade over time as well.

However with Locations enabled on 7.1.1 I've seen the idle time go down much faster than it did previously. That includes both High Accuracy and Battery Saver modes, I didn't try Device Only as I find that mode is pretty useless. Hopefully this is just a bug with Google Services and will be resolved shortly.

One last thing: don't disable cellular data when using WiFi. It was like this for me on 7.0 as well, lots of idle drain on WiFi when cellular data is disabled. Even on WiFi the device is still trying to use occasional mobile data and I'm assuming can cause idle drain if it's not available.
[Nexus 5X General] ErikFry:
Most of the people who are posting 5+ hours SOT rarely use their camera or browse social media/stream music.

If you can find someone who gets 4.5 hours+ of SOT that frequently takes pictures and uses 2 of the top 5 social media apps, I will buy you a beer.
[Nexus 5X General] migueldbr:
Like i said before, those on 5/6h sot either use the phone those 5/6 hours straight or are those guys on chat apps like whatsapp and such. Basically everything that uses the cpu on low frequencies. We could easily check and compare usage with a cpu frequency usage table, but no one posts that
[Nexus 5X General] Stevica Smederevac:
As someone who gets 5,6 hrs of sot ,I can confirm you're right. That's the non stop (more or less) usage. It's only on wifi and indor so the brightness is relatively low.

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As someone who gets 5,6 hrs of sot ,I can confirm you're right. That's the non stop (more or less) usage. It's only on wifi and indor so the brightness is relatively low.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'll buy them a 12 pack. LOL
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Guys that's weird what is happening to my phone. Got it yesterday after third RMA. I rooted, flashed a new ROM, kept untouched my phone for a night.

No being awake, just once for a bit-50%

don't think wifi used battery, bcz doze

Edit: aktywność = activity latarka włączona= torch

Reinstalled ROM, already pixel ROM, installed wake locks detector, there is nothing special, only calendar that already used to Greenify this and it's a bit better.

I decided to flash elementarx kernel, I changed governor profiles, maybe a bit better, but anyway average battery drain when screen is on is 27%/h (acceptable) and still ~5%/h

By counting battery stats, all the time ~6%^ is missing, I don't know how. I disabled Google now, Google assistant is not configured so it shouldn't drain my battery.

I don't use apps like Facebook, messenger in Google play edition, only lite versions and after phone lock they used to be greenified, so they are no longer active ( and they ain't turn on, bcz when I receive a message neither I get notifications, only when I launch an app.)

I can't post more screenshots yet, because I had been charging phone so often today because I needed it to have charged. I'll try to post this night some when it will be out of battery.

Any ideas? I'd love to have about 4h SOT I used to have on stock (even 4,5h)

Bests, Merry Christmas
[Nexus 5X General] Stevica Smederevac:
As you can see for yourself, your cell signal is bad and it's number 1 on your draining list. Nothing much you can do except switch to 3g or even 2g if you don't use mobile net. Otherwise, you'll have to live with that
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Yeah, but look, there was a bit activity and then signal got to green. And later was back inactivity.

I had closen blinds so that's why it was a bit poor signal.

Today at night I'll put my phone again without a charger to see results.
[Nexus 5X General] Stevica Smederevac:
I guess the phone was struggling to switch from LTE to 3g or vice versa and that resulted in bad battery life. I see a period of good then bad then good again. You know what happened during those times so that's the answer
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Yeah, I understand activity, but I don't understand why there was for all the time the same level of drain ( I mean x% /h) I remember times when after night was still the same level of battery as before.
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
OK, good signal, what may be cause then?

Before RMA was everything quite okay

I mean the last part with no activity
[Nexus 5X General] explorer1234:
My battery Use

in Daily Use

Wifi On

gps off

screen light = normal

Network = 2G

when I Install 7.1.1 beta my Battery Use Has been Very BadðŸ˜ž

What can I Do?ðŸ˜

(sry for my Bad english)
[Nexus 5X General] CazeW:
That looks quite a bit the same as the drain I had. Only way to fix it for me was to RMA the phone and have the motherboard swapped. Try if you still get the drain with a clean ROM (no extra apps, no Google account) and having it in flight mode. If you do, doing a RMA will be the only way to fix it.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
That sounds a bit drastic considering the only symptom is above average idle drain. There are some random idle drain issues in Android some of which I've experienced myself. Generally a reboot can help, but I also suspect something to do with WiFi maybe switching between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz as idling on mobile data usually allows my phone to Doze more consistently. Last I tried Locations was also draining more than normal on stock 7.1.1
[Nexus 5X General] CazeW:
It is drastic but if it's the same issue, that's the only way to fix it as it is a hardware problem. My phone drained 2.5%/h when idling with nothing installed, no Google account and while being in flight mode with everything turned off (location, scanning, WiFi, NFC, bluetooth, syncing etc). That's why I told him to test it to make sure if he has the same issue or a software one.
[Nexus 5X General] Kirankj1724:
Here is my setup with ResurrectionRemix ROM+Kernel.

I'm not a heavy user. Just a bit surfing on chrome, lots of chat on WhatsApp and videos on YouTube.

:D
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Thanks I haven't expected about that.

When hard use battery has quite good stats, currently I'm running stock with my modifications, with almost no Google apps including Google now etc and still it drains hard even when phone is not awake. When I count per cents of use every hour miss more per cents and sum is never equal 100%
[Nexus 5X General] :
same here. I've been facing this issue since October. During 7hrs of sleep with no data or wifi i loose almost 12-15℅. On airplane mode is slightly less i.e. 10-12%. I doubt that it is a bad battery because i bought this phone in may 2016. I will use it for couple of months more and then sell it.
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
I go to a seller in New year. Last 2 months 3 repairs already, I want refund
[Nexus 5X General] Sinistersky:
If you can, check your battery production date. My date was 30.10.2013 with a brand new device. It drained like crazy sometimes withouth any apps even, and the last 2 weeks it dropped more than 25% per hour of standby screen off. When I opened it, it was kinnda getting bigger and bigger so I changed it today for a new one, and now the drain is 0.75% per hour standy and 15% per hour of screen on under heavy use. This battery is 05.06.2016 made.

So yea, check the battery
[Nexus 5X General] Batticus:
So how did you check?
[Nexus 5X General] Sinistersky:
Opened the back cover. It's really easy. There's youtube videos of it. And the date is stamped in the lower right corner of the battery.
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Battery must be good because it had been good before RMA.

I kept my phone on my airplane mode on the night. -1%

When I woke up I disabled and kept it without airplane mode enabled --6% in few minutes with good signal!

So guys, what can I do? It worked well for me before RMA and I don't think it's battery problem.

Currently fully stock
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock 7.1.1 December security. About 40% manual brightness with only Locations and BT disabled. Only 3g/H cell data used.
[Nexus 5X General] zurik:
LineageOS (CM14.1) + ElementalX 4.03+Airplane Mode + Wi-fi turned on
[Nexus 5X General] RokRovan:
Pure Nexus + ElementalX 4.03 with HawkTail 1.2

The dip in the middle is me trying to take a 4K video of fireworks at -10°C. Went from 60% to shutdown in about a minute. I booted the phone 2 hours later after charging it for maybe 5 minutes and it showed 58% battery.

imgur album: http://imgur.com/a/Nt7D7
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Is there a way to disable location automatically when the device is locked/screen off ? I noticed a drain when location is on in standby even if everything like scanning or history are off...
[Nexus 5X General] Batticus:
Tasker might help with that.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock 7.1.1 about 30% manual brightness on average. Only Locations and BT disabled.

Doze seems to work better for me on Cell data than it does on WiFi which makes me think my Doze issues are WiFi related. Is it like that for anyone else? Oh well, on to the January security OTA.
[Nexus 5X General] sarath300:
not at all a great battery. Given that the capacity is 2600 maH it serves the purpose for half day for a power user
[Nexus 5X General] tekanina:
PixelRom and Racer kernel using hawktail profile. Location on high accuracy and doing nothing to hinder my smart phone from being smart.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I believe it's 2700 mAh. BTW is your device able to Doze properly on WiFi? How about on cell data?

Impressive screen time even if the brightness may have been around 20% by my estimate. But is there a reason you didn't want us to see your app usage? The first screenshot should be scrolled to the bottom as anything useful at the top there is duplicated in the detailed graph screenshot. You can fit the entire app list into 1 screenshot if you scroll it down.

Otherwise people will just assume you were reading ebooks most of the day, or worse, idling with the screen on. As it stands we have 8+ hours of active usage but not a single app to indicate how it was used. Nothing to indicate a smart phone experience took place anyways.
[Nexus 5X General] tekanina:
Crap just recharged my phone so no ss. Mostly browsing sync for reddit, XDA labs chrome and Google searches.. A couple YouTube videos. Screen was on auto brightness around 50% but was mostly was in my house in the dark. Streaming GPM while driving about 20 minutes back and forth from work. I just used my phone like I always do. Just changed kernel from elementalx. My bad of it's an issue I'll delete the post. Not trying to fool anyone.
[Nexus 5X General] hilla_killa:
Most ive ever got is like 5hours with moderate light use but 8 hours just seems like nothing at all was being used which dont make a smart phone be smart! Id like to see if you could your app usage like [MENTION=5530350]bblzd[/MENTION] mentioned. I mean if you could tomorrow or whatever hen you get 8 hours of sot! Thanks
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I feel like if I had the exact same setup I would gain like 15 minutes of SOT. I know it. HAHA.
[Nexus 5X General] tekanina:
I'll post screens tomorrow no matter what even if I get 3 hours. Could've just been a fluke or something. No trying to bs anyone might've just got a little excited and wanted to share.
[Nexus 5X General] hilla_killa:
I'm actually on path to excellent numbers today pure nexus, elemental, hawktail 1.2, greenify (aggressive doze)!! My bad for giving you **** man