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[Nexus 5X General] blinkin:
Oh thanks for trying to teach me something :)

Unless it was an irony; taken from wikipedia:

Anyway, if you wish we can create another topic to discuss the irony vs sarcasm topic :)

Without using irony this time - your sentence that with M battery life didn't improve is simply not correct. Unless you stated that it applies only to some specific cases in your previous comments; if that's the case I must apologize.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Professionals agree: battery life is good

The 5x has received yet another good battery result from a professional reviewer, battery scores across the board all seem to point to the same conclusion. GSMarena's take on the subject:

Interestingly they noticed video playback is draining battery on this device quicker than expected, so if you watch a lot video like I do you can expect lower results. However talk time and browsing time are great for a 2700mAh device (nearly double the Nexus 5's 2300mAh results in the same tests) and make up that difference from video playback.
[Nexus 5X General] iamterence:
Purposely left my charger at home when I went to work last night with my 5X to give it a true test of battery life. After my 8 hour shift, these are the results. Running latest Chroma ROM and ElementalX kernel.
[Nexus 5X General] tocophonic:
I got some REALLY bad battery life with my 5X, even after a full factory reset last weekend and manually re-installing all the apps I need (no restore from the Google cloud backup): http://imgur.com/a/PCai4

I've run out of ideas.. :(

I'm full stock btw.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Any idea what their test conditions are for the browsing test? Brightness? Wifi or mobile data? If wifi was on was Airplane mode also on? I might have missed it but I didn't see it mentioned in the article.

I tried a test a few days ago where I booted my phone in Safe Mode(didn't even know that was a feature until a few days ago). With wifi on and Airplane Mode off with excellent cell reception(darkest green bar entire time) and ~20% brightness. After 1 hour of browsing my battery had dropped from 100% to 80%. At that rate I'd expect to get ~4.5 hours. I would have tested it until it died but I didn't have time to do it that long. That makes me think that the GSMArena test must have been in Airplane mode. In your experience does battery life really last that much longer in Airplane mode using wifi vs on a cell network with excellent reception and still using wifi or do you think there is something else going on? I was in Safe Mode so I'd expect that any misbehaving 3rd party apps shouldn't be causing any issues.

Also, I noticed you said that you think the Nexus 5X has "received yet another good battery result". I'm just curious. In your personal opinion what do you consider as "good" battery life?
[Nexus 5X General] 95Z28:
That's an awful lot of SOT for an 8 hour work shift.
[Nexus 5X General] iamterence:
Hahahah, well I'm a security guard over night, so I really don't do too much of anything during my shift ?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
GSMarena uses 50% brightness but I'm not sure about the other settings. Anandtech's test is better for comparing between devices as they normalize brightness and other settings completely, but GSMarena does a good job estimating how long the device can be used based on 1 hour of talk, browsing, and video watching per day. That's how they got their 2 day to 2.5 day estimation for the 5x.

I consider it good battery life when a device gets equal or better battery life than similar devices. The 5x has been shown to out last similar performing device's with larger batteries such as the Zenfone 2 (3000mAh), LG G3 (3000mAh), and LG G4 (3000mAh), LG V10 (3000mAh), One Plus 2 (3300mAh), Nexus 6 (3220mAh), and many more.

How is that possible? The only answer is energy efficient hardware supplied with an appropriately sized battery pool.

None of those devices are considered to have bad battery life (well maybe the Zenfone2 due to its unnaturally power hungry display). Yet the 5x with only 2700mAh can actually last longer, generally costs less, and performs just as well. That's good battery life in my, and every one of the professional reviewers I've posted, opinions. You don't have to take my word for it but ignoring professional opinions as well would be foolish.

BTW this is what 1 hour of WiFi browsing Reddit (a couple Youtube vids, lots of gifs/jpegs and reading comments) looks like on my 5x. That would be about 10 hours screen time at about 50% brightness with only bluetooth and NFC disabled. No airplane mode, no battery saver mode, all my usual apps and services running. You won't be seeing any 10+ hours SoT from me though as like most people I use my phone for many different things throughout the day. I ended the charge cycle with my usual 4-5 hours SoT over 2 days.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Thanks for the info. What you are getting in that screen shot looks decent. Wish I could get that. Lately, even in Safe Mode my phone is staying awake a lot. It doesn't seem to be entering Doze mode anymore either. I'm wondering if a factory reset will help but I have to find the time to do it. Backing up data, resetting, reinstalling apps and restoring data just takes so damn long. Hopefully after the holiday I'll have time to give it a try. Until then I'll be hauling around my 3,000mAh external battery pack. So far I've been disappointed and just don't have the time to deal with it.
[Nexus 5X General] neinfricatu:
Chroma and elementalx with default settings. Location on, wifi on, sync on.
[Nexus 5X General] random85:
Google Now Battery Killer?

Just to chip in, my battery life went from acceptable to fantastic after

Turning off Google Now

Rooting and getting Greenify

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[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
hi i just got my phone couple of days ago

at first i did restore from backup my battery life weren't that great 2 SOT - 11H+-

so i did a factory reset without restoring from backup yesterday

now i feel like my battery is a bit better i get like 4.5% drain per H at least by GSAM i think in reality its more than that
[Nexus 5X General] ibilln:
Interesting... But do you mean turn off google now on tap or all of google now. If the latter, how? thx
[Nexus 5X General] random85:
The former and the latter are both possible.

By turning off Google Now, I am referring to turning off Google Now Cards actually.

It's done by going into the "Google" application > Settings > Now Cards > Turn Off "Show Cards".

Significant battery boost for me at least.
[Nexus 5X General] MotoFrost:
Purchased my 32GB Ice Blue this past Monday and the battery life is surprisingly good. I had read this thread a few days before purchasing and you guys had me worried that the battery would be as bad as my S6.

I've had it for 3 days and consistently get 4-5 hrs SOT. Wifi and Data always on, BT on for a few hours streaming music to car or speaker, brightness at 40% indoors, lots of YouTube, lots of Reddit, taking pictures, syncing 3 different email accounts. My Gs6 typically got 2-2:30 hrs SOT with less usage. 6.0 is A LOT more stable than 5.1.1 Touchwiz. My only real complaint is that the front facing speaker quality is a lot worse than the downward speaker on the S6. I no longer have to worry about covering the speaker but it sounds worse anyways on the 5X...

So far no regrets! I am glad I got this over the Oneplus X.
[Nexus 5X General] 11100s:
Hey guy's, new n5x user here. Came from n5, and with my personal usage pattern I had 3,5 sot (after a year). With n5x and without changing anything in my habits I get more then 5h sot . WiFi and data always on. BT always off. WiFi set to 2,4 ghz only because my ap is b-g-n only. Data at 3g due to inconsistent 4g coverage. Gps on when needed. Really happy with this kind of results.

These may be not your usage pattern but given my n5 sot I hope it will be easier to calculate the difference.

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[Nexus 5X General] big_b0sss:
The battery life on this phone is really inconsistent sometimes i get 2 hours if sot and sometimes more here's one of the lucky days usage
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
How doze is working for you guys?

I don't think its working on my phone overnight im getting almost 20% drain like my old sgs3

Im getting 2 SOT and about 22 h battery life including 20% overnight drain (not a heavy user)

Wifi always on adaptive brightness on ambient display off and all other services off

Plus i have serious drain when screen is on...
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Check your Develop Options > Running Services for 3rd party apps and go from there. Those would be the usual suspects.
[Nexus 5X General] xxc0dvshal0xx:
Adguard seems to be taking a good chunk. Maybe thats the reason youre getting 2hours SOT?

Im wondering cause you have also hit 5 hours which is really good
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
I just checked there. Here is a list of running processes maybe someone can help?

System

whatsapp

sync.me

messenger

gsam monitor

Android system

Google process x2

Com.qualcomm....

Google app

Google music

Swiftkey

The only strange thing is they running seince the phone booted up...

System processes i can understand but swiftkey? Whatsapp? Or its normally like that?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Messenging apps and keyboard apps need to run 24/7 in the background otherwise they wouldn't be able to receive notifications and the keyboard would be delayed every time you try and type. Other apps can run in the background for various reasons, and generally they will never close unless you force them to. If you force them closed they're able to relaunch themselves.

If I were you I would try and use the process of elimination to see which one of those 3rd party apps might be the main cause of your issues. I read a lot of complaints regarding facebook Messenger BTW.
[Nexus 5X General] gleggie:
After letting my phone settle in for about a week with elementalX kernel, I've been getting pretty good battery life. The doze editor app + amplify + greenify also help

Sent from my Nexus 5X (vzw)
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
Ok ill try to delete messenger...

I dont have Facebook Instagram etc..

Ill report if something have changed thank you!
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
You can also use an app called Greenify to stop services from enabling themselves, if you don't want to delete them.
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
I used it on my old sgs3... The apps that running on the background now are the apps that i wont hibernate anyway...

But maybe i found a solution for doze dosent kicking in

Yesterday i disabled and enabled optimization (doze) for all of the apps and tonight i got like 5% drain overnight instead of 20%

I would like someone that have the same problem to try disable and enable (maybe reset preferences would work as well) to confirm my experience...
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Google Now is one of my favorite features. That would suck to have to turn it off to get decent battery life.

---------- Post added at 10:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:42 AM ----------

Based on what I see on your app list of battery usage it doesn't seem like you were doing that much. Besides the benchmark tests you ran for one hour (which I'm guessing was Geekbench based on your screen shots) I don't see anything else really happening. Just curious, what else were you doing for the 3 hours that got you that battery life since nothing else major seems to be taking more than 5% battery (Phone Idle)?
[Nexus 5X General] leo.best1398:
What screen brightness is this.My nexus 5x gets less than half that sot at Max brightness but I don't want to compromise on brightness.

I have a suspicion that 5x's from carphone warehouse are worse than Google store ones
[Nexus 5X General] nemonius:
Seems that dose is not working. Android System keeps phone awake all the time. I just did a reset and using the latest version of android.

Had to restart device so times were reseted.
[Nexus 5X General] MrHollow:
I didn't really include all the apps in the screenshots. I used it mostly with Google Chrome, Youtube, Feedly, Dominations and some other not so highly intensive applications.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I'm not familiar with Feedly or Dominations and I haven't really paid much attention to how much power YouTube takes but in my experience Chrome, with anything more than just very light usage, is always a pretty big power user and is usually pretty high up on the list for battery usage. Usually either 2nd, 3rd or 4th(screen is always 1st for me). It seems like you aren't the same experience. Did you take a screenshot of Chrome's battery usage? I'm curious to see what the power usage details are under your use conditions.

---------- Post added at 09:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:31 PM ----------

Regardless of what shows up under "Running Services" shouldn't they all still be put to sleep when Doze mode kicks in? Isn't that kind of the point of Doze?
[Nexus 5X General] MrHollow:
Unfortunately no. Dominations is a game similar to Clash of Clans and Feedly http://feedly.com/ is rss based.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
So I just did another test on my Nexus 5X. I charged to 100% and unplugged and browsed with Chrome until my phone hit 90%. I also restarted in Safe Mode and enabled Airplane Mode and turned on wifi(all done before unplugging). By doing this I eliminated any drain from 3rd party apps and cell reception(which is great in the area I did the test anyways).Brightness was at like 20%.

I ended up getting 29 minutes of SOT. That is a discharge of about 1% every 3 minutes. If I had continued the test until the battery died(which I don't have time to do) it would have lasted about 4.5 hours with a total off charger time of the same 4.5 hours. That's very disappointing, especially considering the conditions I tested with. It's also not really any better than when I did the same test but not in Safe Mode and with Airplane Mode turned off which leads me to believe that none of my apps are misbehaving and that the cell reception is good enough to have almost no impact on battery drain.

This really makes me wonder how anyone is getting 5 hours SOT AND a full day off the charger with higher brightness while doing more power intensive activities.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Lux auto brightness between 30 and 70%, mostly around 50%. NFC and bluetooth remained disabled, no smartlocks. All other features enabled.
[Nexus 5X General] blinkin:
Google now / cards / high accuracy?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Google now cards, on tap, OK Google enabled. Location services on battery mode.

I use imprint but not any smartlocks. Phones WiFi is set to 2.4Ghz, and I unchecked a couple "send my stats to Google" options. That's about all I've changed.

The 3rd party background services I currently have running are dashclock, airdroid and lux.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I keep my wifi frequency set to "Automatic" because I use 5Ghz at home. Would you expect this to have a major impact on battery life while browsing? I did the test at work and I'm not sure if I was connected to 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz.

I just can't seem to figure out what is going on. I ruled out a 3rd party app misbehaving while the phone is awake(because of Safe Mode) and cell reception(because of Airplane Mode). Even with all that I'd still only get ~4.5 hours SOT AND total time off charger. Somehow you seem to be getting about the same SOT as I would get PLUS, from what I can tell from your graph screenshot, ~23.5 hours of additional time of charger(~28 hours off the charger total) with NO Safe Mode, NO Airplane Mode and still have 23%. Also, you seemed to have spent at least some time playing a game which I would expect to really kill the battery.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I use 2.4Ghz because I've had WiFi issues using Automatic on this device as well as my last device (Nexus 5). Also my home network is only 2.4Ghz.

WiFi drain on this device seems amazingly low. At first I thought Android 6.0 might have changed the way it reports WiFi drain because on my N5 it was always in my top 5 drains, but on the 5x it's never even on the list. However my N5 on 6.0 still has lots of WiFi drain so it must be the hardware.

After 24 hours of WiFi usage I will have Cell standby at about 1%, but no WiFi. That tells me that a voice only mobile signal is using considerably more battery than my WiFi. I've only actually seen WiFi as a battery drain on my 5x after downloading 3+ gigs from the play store and transferring another few gigs of media and even then it dropped off soon after.

So I'm not sure why but WiFi seems to drain nearly zero battery on this device for me. Something like 100x less computed WiFi usage versus my N5, and even less computed power than voice only mobile signal. Either that or the 5x SoC associates WiFi drain differently some how.

Every WiFi network is unique and can act differently. Some people are reporting large WiFi drains on there device in which case their WiFi network and WiFi settings should be troubleshooted. Specifically those folks who find it draining less by setting "Use WiFi during sleep" to never as that would indicate their WiFi is using more idle battery than their mobile data connection. There's no normal situation that I can think of where WiFi should be using more battery than mobile data.

To answer your question: I would only suggest forcing your device's WiFi to 2.4Ghz as a troubleshooting measure, if you think there might be an issue with your WiFi.

Other basic troubleshooting steps for WiFi can include: rebooting the router, updating router firmware, or forgetting and relearning the device's WiFi networks.
[Nexus 5X General] briant1234:
I've noticed recently if I use an app with location and then later turn off the location on the device I get crazy GPS wakelocks. In this case it was with the maps app, but I've also seen it after turning it on and using a geofilter in snapchat. Any idea why this is happening?

https://i.imgur.com/djmxOQY.jpg
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Thanks, I'll try forcing wifi to 2.4Ghz only to see if that makes an difference. The test I referenced earlier was done at work where I have no control over the wifi network but I'll see what I get at home.
[Nexus 5X General] Code_PLeX:
I just noticed that my wifi is always on

I disabled wifi disabled wifi connection during sleep and disabled wifi scan for location and still wifi is on

Somebody else experiencing it?
[Nexus 5X General] robstunner:
I really don't think that matters much any more.
[Nexus 5X General] big_b0sss:
First charge cycle, and very disappointed. I hope it gets better after few charge cycles :( i had ambient display off, vibration off and brightness very low
[Nexus 5X General] robstunner:
I would get rid of any samdung app that self installed on that phone.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
It was awake a whole lot though. Guessing Spotify playing in the background with the screen off a lot?

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S5.
[Nexus 5X General] Bigal77:
How is that bad... Seems like spotify was playing all day and that s health alone took 10 percent.

Not great... But screen time had little to do with it and phone probably couldn't doze with music playing
[Nexus 5X General] 95Z28:
I'm currently only half way through my first full charge, but so far not looking like any improvement over my moto x 2014 which has a smaller battery. I'll probably return if battery doesn't improve over the next couple days. I don't know why so many excuses are made about battery life all the time, battery technology is not keeping up with hardware, my old Galaxy Nexus regularly got 6 hours screen time over 2 days, all my phones since then are lucky to get 3 hours SOT over 2 days. Yes I know screen resolution's are higher, more powerful processors, ect, but batteries are also bigger. I don't think it's unreasonable to be disappointed when a new phone with various "battery saver" technology still fails to match a phone from 4 years ago.

Other than finger print scanner being pretty convenient, I really see no benefit to this phone over my moto x 2014 that justifies spending $450 bucks.
[Nexus 5X General] robstunner:
I have no idea how your getting worse battery life on this phone then you did on the galaxy nexus. That thing NEEDED a spare battery for me. Idle alone it would be dead by dinner.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Four of the top five power users are things that shouldn't be using that much power and still barely 4 hours screen on time. When I first got my Nexus 5 it was getting, at best, about the same battery life and that was with about 15-20 minutes of non-CPU intensive gaming, about 30 minutes of streaming music, about 15 minutes of calls over Bluetooth, using LTE for about half the day and a small mix of other things(SMS, Facebook,etc).

Considering the Nexus 5X add things like Marshmallow's Doze, Lollipop's Project Volta, a some what more efficient CPU(Snapdragon 800 vs Snapdragon 808) and a battery that is 17% larger and the type of usage I was expecting better.

For probably 75% of the time 4 hours screen on time would be more than enough but the other 25% of the time I am away from a charger from like 9am to maybe 1am and am using the phone heavily. It would be nice to know that it can hold up in those situations.

It's too late to cancel the order now. The phone is being delivered tomorrow but I may end up returning it. Although I don't know what else I would get. No phones have what I would really call "excellent" battery life and I don't want to put up with something like TouchWiz, Sense, etc ever again either.

One thing I'm really hoping is the wifi wake lock bug is resolved. When I first got my Nexus 5(running Kit Kat) it would sleep just fine. As soon as I updated to Lollipop I started having an issue where the phone was ALWAYS AWAKE if I was connected to my work's wifi network and awake a lot more than it was on Kit Kit when on other wifi networks. On mobile data it sleeps much more often. When my Nexus 5 got the Marshmallow update last week the issue was still not fixed so I'm not expecting it to be fixed on the Nexus 5X since it very clearly seems like a software issue since a hardware issue would have shown up on Kit Kit. Sure would be nice if that was fixed.

Also, when experiencing the wifi wake lock issue it either isn't any specific app or the app that is causing the issue isn't reporting it on the Battery info screen. I've done a test by charging to 100%, restarting the phone and unplugging it and then just leaving it on my desk untouched. I just now repeated the test at work and the battery dropped 5% in 15 minutes and the battery history details showed the "Awake" graph as solid green. Under the list where it says what apps have used battery it shows nothing at all.
[Nexus 5X General] 95Z28:
A lot of people complained about the galaxy nexus battery, most of them were carrier version complaints. I had the GSM version from Google, and I know there were many people on xda that had even better battery life than me. Not sure which version you had, but there were screenshots of the GSM version getting 8+ hours SOT. Mine had great standby time.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
8+ hours?! Yeah maybe if that person was reading a book on their phone the whole time. ?

Sent from my Sprint Galaxy S5.
[Nexus 5X General] RidinNerdy:
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!![emoji13] [emoji23] *FALLS OFF CHAIR*

I would definitely give it a couple more cycles though because that's really bad..
[Nexus 5X General] optimummind:
Today is my 3rd day with the N5X and I got 4 hrs and 38 mins sot with 10% left. Phone's been on for 17 hrs with WiFi and LTE on, ambient display on, OK Google on, GPS on, and autobrightness. I'm pretty happy with it. It's better than my S6E.
[Nexus 5X General] prince93:
I have similar symptoms on my nexus 4. I searched before and used betterbatterystats to analyze the problem and found that the work WiFi keeps broadcasting its ssid periodically to the devices connected to it on the network so that when you are roaming in the work buildings under different access points for example with the same WiFi network name you will get a handover automatically. This prevents my phone from going into deep sleep as it always gets notified by the WiFi access point through the ssid name broadcasting. I have found no solution for this issue.