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[Nexus 5X General] Henrald:
Personal experience, I'm very disappointed with the battery life,having used my new Nexus 5X for a couple of days. Today, I used it from about 10am and it was down to about 19% by 4pm. I charged it for maybe 20 minutes and it was back up to over 50% - admittedly a fast recovery. But I just realised (about half past midnight) it has quietly died sitting next to me while I watched Netflix. As in, it's now off. What phone does that? "Doze" my ass!

I didn't think that a Nexus phone could realistically be this flawed when I pre-ordered it. I love everything else about it (except the slippery back that's itching to escape my hand), but I'm starting to feel cheated and I don't think I can get my money back. I wonder if there's any way a software update could help.
[Nexus 5X General] supercakefish:
Sounds like my Nexus 5 battery life.

You'd have thought there would have been a greater improvement than that considering the larger battery.
[Nexus 5X General] dwang:
35% increase in SOT is pretty good considering the battery only got ~20% bigger.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
You have good service where ever you were at from 10am to 4pm today? Or even while it was down while you were watching Netflix. Cause poor service is going to kill any phone's battery.
[Nexus 5X General] kkl1993:
Just letting you know, Google's return policy is 15 days from receiving the phone. You'll get a full refund, plus they'll provide you with a free return label.

I am trying the Nexus 5X because I can't stand the lag of the Galaxy S6. If I don't like the 5X, I'll probably just buy the 6P.
[Nexus 5X General] thesoldier:
Would you mind sharing your thoughts when you get a bit of use out of the 5X? I also am sick of my S6...thanks.
[Nexus 5X General] robstunner:
Ill be doing the same thing with my Moto X Pure I got a few weeks ago. I really like what I have, but the 5x is tempting as the 5 was such a great device.
[Nexus 5X General] jbdan:
Seems good so far. Have only had it 4 hours. Will revisit this thread in a week to better surmise
[Nexus 5X General] dbrohrer:
That makes sense. I am using a beta of SimpL layers theme. It's fantastic. It's on the Google plus layers page. Its really the only reason I rooted the 5x. The toast notifications look like an extension of the navbar when they pop up. Really cool. The only downside with layers at the moment is the app doesn't work with 6.0, so you have to move everything to the system/vendor folder yourself (and then manually set permissions on everything, otherwise everything with start FCing).
[Nexus 5X General] ph0b0z:
If this is the case, shouldn't we use a simple test aka, playing a very long youtube video at 100% or 50% brightness (using a specific brightness is too hard, i guess) from 100% to 0% battery, checking the SoT. Wouldn't this make a nice poll?
[Nexus 5X General] fitchpuckman:
all, check your mobile radio active stats for the various devices. i think it's been mentioned a few times, but there may be continuation of the mobile radio bug existent in Lillipop. if you think you're having the issue, report/star on the official Google Issues thread to let the mothership know.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=190396
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Oldie but a goodie:

http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/tmobile-phones-longer-battery-life

Would be nice if people stated the carrier they're on as it is another factor.
[Nexus 5X General] ibilln:
Interesting - had not seen that. I for one will follow your suggestion in the future, but (as one of the loudest complainers) I'll say that I'm on T-Mobile which is supposedly the best.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
That will be mostly due to differing brightness levels. Some users also use adaptive brightness so even if they have it set to 50% it might only be 10% brightness at times or nearly 100% in bright conditions.

Those are estimations only. For example 31% Screen with 1138mAh estimated usage does not mean my 5x has a 3500mAh battery.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
So far it's not looking much better. I'll post my stats when this thing drops to 10%. I'm currently sitting at 73% with 45min SOT most of which was in the dark when I was using it this morning.
[Nexus 5X General] murfi:
geez, how do you guys do that. i have my brightness at around 5% and never get more than 2.5 to 3 hours SOT. and i've already disabled everything - google now, nfc, bluetooth, adaptive brightness, all kinds of apps (hindi input, pinyin input and the likes), location off...

/edit: can it be because if that slightly yellow tinted display that some people report of? maybe its more powerconsuming that the non-yellow ones. mine IS slightly yellow.
[Nexus 5X General] jgummeson:
I also noticed that my 5x was being kept awake constantly yesterday. After rebooting yesterday afternoon it hasn't been an issue.
[Nexus 5X General] ibilln:
Argh. I mean... Argh. Thanks vmuch for posting.

Phones. Once more unto the breach, dear friends...
[Nexus 5X General] badenglishihave:
I'm really hoping it's not some variation in screens. I have a warm display, though I wouldn't call it yellow... no two parts will ever have the exact same power consumption but I would hope they would be within 5-10% of each other. Differences of 2-3 hours SOT vs 4-5 hours SOT that I'm seeing in this thread are remarkably different - but without additional data on cell service, brightness, etc, it's hard to analyze.

---------- Post added at 11:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:43 AM ----------

I have created a publicly editable spreadsheet to track SOT usage for people in this thread, along with some columns to contain other useful info about your setup (brightness level, etc.) Sharing screenshots is nice and everything but if we really want to compare SOT this is a better way to do it.

Please use the link below. I have collected all of the SOT data presented thus far and included all of your usernames, so find your name and update the info if possible.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16cGG2vOGivshmT0i-6nCAY1z5kMHqQ3M7BRx4T_Gmq4/edit?usp=sharing
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
My screen is warmer (looks yellow compared to my colder N5) and my results are good.

I think it's just the usual stuff, apps draining in the background keeping people's phones awake. Basically every low result here with below average run time shows large amounts of awake time with the screen off and usually poor signal as well, two things that will quickly drain any phone even if it has a 4000mAh battery.

Suggestion for anyone seeing really low battery life: Boot the phone into safe mode (long press the on screen shutdown button and choose safe mode) and test for a charge cycle. If it's a lot better you know it's one or more of the apps you installed, otherwise the issue lies with one of your connections or default Google services/apps.
[Nexus 5X General] badenglishihave:
Thanks for the tip on getting into safe mode! I didn't know that one.

I made the spreadsheet purely for screen power consumption. I know there are many other factors in total battery life but I think it would be too difficult to focus on them all. However, as far as Screen power in mAh goes, I'm not sure if it's an estimate based on total battery power lost and app usage or if it's measured at a hardware level.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Basically everything related to battery power is a software estimation based off the battery's reported voltage level which is constantly changing. If you've measured power usage you've probably noticed that the usage jumps around constantly from 50mA to 1500mA at any given moment depending on what the phone is doing at the time.

The mAh is listed as "computed power usage" which essentially means "used software algorithms to estimate".

I think the best way to go about what you're trying to do is using Current Widget or a similar type of application that can track and log power consumption throughout a long period of time. By doing this you would see that each user has vastly varying power usage based on their individual usage scenarios and can't really be compared without each user specifically tuning their device to a similar Usage, Settings and Signal.

Using current Widget on my 5x I've noticed that the microchip controlling the battery voltages is only refreshing the information once every 5-10 seconds as opposed to with my Nexus 5 which could update multiple times per second, though I'm not sure how that would effect the results.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
As of right now its probably going back to Google when I get my 6P. I have a week left to return it so I'll see how it fairs over the next few days.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
I have a feeling the percentage that is said to be used by the screen is very inaccurate. If you are getting several hours of screen on time (in the 3-4 hour range) and it's only reporting that the screen is using 3-5% then they is an obvious issue with the power usage calculation for the screen.

It's just common knowledge at this point that the screen is the biggest user of power.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
What will drain the phone faster?

1) Disabling every setting, going into Airplane mode and idle with the screen on.

2) Keep the screen off with heavy SoC load. Uploading and downloading torrents, transferring large files, downloading gigs of apps over weak signal mobile data, basically any heavy SoC load that doesn't require the screen.

The reason your battery drains so much faster while you're using the screen is because the SoC is working much harder. The second your finger activates the digitizer the SoC boosts the clock speeds to make sure the device feels responsive. Every thing you tap, load, and swipe puts load onto the SoC. That's even before you take into account any services you have running in the background and additional loads.
[Nexus 5X General] aamir123:
That's really a shame because the only let downs for me so far have been the battery life, call quality and some lag here and there.
[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
If you include that then locations you were in during the test would be helpful too since reception has an impact on battery life. In my area T-Mobile would probably have worse battery life than AT&T since T-Mobile's reception sucks in most of my metro area.
[Nexus 5X General] Pilz:
That's possible at least on my Nexus 6 it is. Actively avoid using the 5X outside so it doesn't ramp brightness up and die faster than it already does. I'm starting to dislike this thing more and more... My Nexus 6 is a beast and still gets 5hours+ SOT even overclocked...
[Nexus 5X General] Javi22:
Those who save so much battery with greenify, which apps do you greenify?

For me I usually got around 2h sot in 24h with BT enabled and location in save battery. Do you keep this enabled too?

Also Ok Google hotword enabled, so useful

Also will try google fit but I guess it's a battery eater

Enviado desde mi Nexus 5X mediante Tapatalk
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
I greenify all social media apps Instagram snap ect and I open the apps to see my notifications.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
So an update on my issue, looks like it's a 7.1.2 beta with WiFi on problem. With WiFi off, doze kicks in fine.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Only on 7.1.2 beta? That's been something I've been noticing for some time. I'm just now on the 7.1.2 stock OTA and hoping they'd have resolved it but too early too tell.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Yeah I was fine with 7.1.1 with WiFi on overnight.
[Nexus 5X General] pgoelz:
Just as another data point, my N5X (16GB, ATT) has been on 7.1.2 beta since it was released with no battery drain issues at all. Maybe 0.5%/hour or less overnight.

Paul
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
With WiFi on I'm assuming?
[Nexus 5X General] zurik:
4:22 hours SOT

Stock Android 7.1.2 with stock kernel

75%-2%
[Nexus 5X General] pgoelz:
Yes, sorry.... should have specified. That is on WiFi with a strong cell signal. I also don't have anything other than Google Play Services syncing in the background.

Paul
[Nexus 5X General] linqdesires:
yes
[Nexus 5X General] Jerber:
Almost a day, a lot of use :) , oh, I have a lot of **** on hehe, like wi-fi all time, Google functions etc etc
[Nexus 5X General] bromoxitos:
after a daily use with most wi-fi and facebook,msg,viber,browsing for news etc, some game time and stand-by time in work with wi-fi on ofc

NEXUS 5X 16GB

DIRTY UNICORN OFFICIAL ROM WITH EX KERNEL glassfish 1.2 gov

STAY DIRTY___NEVER CLEAN!!!! :D
[Nexus 5X General] Jerber:
Thats a lot of time, any tips? I use 4G, Wifi all on, GPS, Google Services, Ambient Display, Auto Brightness, Google Now functions etc (as you can see, a looooot of crap but usefull for me haha), oh and I use a looooooot the camera.

PD: I have facebook and some beta apps, maybe that is not a good idea.
[Nexus 5X General] zurik:
3G, Viber, Brave Browser , GPS off bt off ambient off Google now app disabled , camera , manual brightness and Greenify to terminate apps to increase a bit the battery
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
So tried one more time last night and it did much better. 5% in 7.5 hours which is just about right for me. Probably just some random issues on my phone but was discouraging when I had 20% overnight drops for a few nights.
[Nexus 5X General] jrk190:
How is this in terms of battery life for my usage?
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
What services have you disabled in Appopps
[Nexus 5X General] bromoxitos:
Is all by default. ROM and kernel... i don't even know how to see that LOL...
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Hard to say as your screen shots are missing information. The second one you want to scroll down or use 2 to capture the full list and then also tap Screen it will tell the screen on time for the charge

Only 7 hours of the charger is pretty rough, but you were using it on and off for almost the entire duration. I imagine your screen time won't be too high as looks like the main drain was streaming music with Google Play which means less battery for using the screen. The weak signal throughout most of the 7 hours won't be doing the battery any favors and probably causing increased idle drain even on WiFi.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock 7.1.2 OTA. 30% manual brightness, only Locations and BT disabled. Gestures enabled including the new fingerprint one.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Is it normal that while I'm steady I get great battery life on standby (wifi or data doesn't matter) instead while i drive or walk the battery life just drops drastically? I have location, google now, google location history all off even WiFi is manually off. Today I did a 6h drive (as a passenger) and I came back home with 1h of screen time and 30% left, basically 50% was used while driving in standby. Unacceptable. I also tried to force Doze while walking once and it doesn't change anything. Is it possible changing cells so quickly destroyes the battery life while connected on data? My friends iPhone of course is stuck at 100% in the meantime.
[Nexus 5X General] andreim3:
Something is wrong with my phone!

With 21% of battery I've had an 81 minutes of SOT. Never happeend to me something like this, not when I use or mobile data.

I use elementX kernel with hawk tail 1.2 on a pure nexus custom rom.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
But wouldn't that equal to over 6 hours of SOT if you kept going? Sounds great to me.
[Nexus 5X General] andreim3:
I hope that. I finally found a good configuration of battery life. 6h SOT will not be possible today because I played on my way home a game and it sucked my battery. Still 2:30h SOT and I have 50%. I hope now that this configuration keep working.
[Nexus 5X General] amir7777:
Can you share your new configuration please?
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
Configurations don't matter alot. Of course if you use some governor profile you can squeeze an extra 45 mins of life but what really helps is lowering your screen brightness! It's an LCD screen so it used 2x-8x more power after it reaches the 60% mark. Keep it under 15 % and manually increase in sunlight and you will get battery life that's amazing. Also It seems that Dirty Unicorn ROM consistently offers more battery life than stock and Pure Nexus. Here are my results using Butterfly profile with Phasma kernel.
[Nexus 5X General] andreim3:
Hei, here is my ex kernel backup, save it in ex kernel folder and restore it with ex kernel manager.

Hope that it is enough.

As I said, I use hawk tail 1.2. Interactive Governor, touch boost disabled.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1go4g0_5JTseFRJYlVkODlxZUU/view?usp=drivesdk
[Nexus 5X General] amir7777:
Thanks a lot!

And how is the DU ROM making a difference in battery life? Thought only the kernel makes a tiny difference
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
I don't know exactly why the ROM itself is better than let's say PureNexus at battery I believe it's due to the commits they do and how it's optimized. I ran PureNexus for months but you can definitely feel a difference in battery when compared to Dirty Unicorn. The kernel also makes a difference on pure stock DU I was getting roughly 5 hours on screen time, with the kernel, thermal throttling tweaks, ram management tweaks I'm getting just a bit over 6 hours. This is been the usual since like a week ago ever seen DU updated to 7.1.2 .
[Nexus 5X General] La Grande:
Hey , would you tell me about your kernel and tweaks? That would be nice . Im on du 7.1.2 with unicorn blood kernel by default
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
I've been using the latest build of Phasma Kernel using the Butterfly profile. I changed io to Zen and read ahead to 2048k, I also changed entropy to be around 33%, Westwood west used instead of cubic and IPA wakeclock is turned off.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Seems WiFi idle drain remains worse over long periods of idle than with mobile data for me, not something I expect to change with Android O.

Stock 7.1.2 OTA, 30% manual brightness, only Locations and BT disabled.
[Nexus 5X General] dirtygeek:
is that BL-T9 compatible with BL-T19 in Nexus 5X?

Because in my country so difficult to find Bl-T19
[Nexus 5X General] alirezaircn:
I just flashed Phasma kernel. How did you applied Butterfly profile and did all those changes? Sorry for dummy question.
[Nexus 5X General] Sinistersky:
I get about 15 h of SoT on 72h standby. I dint know, this seems kinnda bad to me.
[Nexus 5X General] EstiR86:
Download the ElementalX manager app and from there it is self explanatory.
[Nexus 5X General] lfuentes:
I´ve get 4:42 (20% Battery left) SoT, Stock 7.1.2

(Bluetooth Off, GPS High Accuracy, WiFi On, Mobile Data On)
[Nexus 5X General] Max2mus:
Hi! I have been experiencing weird battery drains recently, it can be something close to 30% overnight.

I tried detecting wakelocks with Batter Battery Stats and Wakelock Detector but had no luck. Also tried to change location modes and turn it completely - no luck (nlpwakelock dissapears but no change in battery life)

Currently after a completely clean flash (maybe a week ago) I'm using latest SAOSP with EX Kernel and glasscannon profile but the problem still remains.

Before that I tried different kernels (franco, EX, stock etc), tried lots of profiles, was on PureNexus 7.1.1 - nothing helped.

Also started to use greenify with aggressive doze - still no luck. The phone sleeps but battery is bad..

I'm pretty sure it is not supposed to lose that much battery overnight and actually a long time ago it was completely fine.

I am posting some overnight stats pictures from BBS and WD. Can anyone please give me any ideas what can cause this battery drain?

Thanks!
[Nexus 5X General] CazeW:
Tried with turning WiFi off for the night? You can also try putting the phone in flight mode for the night. If it still drains that fast, it could be a hardware problem like I had.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
I hear you, it sucks when you get no wakelocks and the battery drains anyway... Can you try clear the cache and dalvik? it helped sometimes. What hardware problem [MENTION=1346563]CazeW[/MENTION]?

Please let us know what you discover.
[Nexus 5X General] CazeW:
Don't know what exactly was causing it but a motherboard switch fixed it.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
When do you think the issue started and was it like that on stock as well? How high up on your battery list does Google Services tend to show?

I'm on stock 7.1.2. 30% manual brightness with only Locations and BT disabled. No root day 1 launch device.
[Nexus 5X General] Max2mus:
Thanks for the idea - I have just tried in flight mode for the night - lost 1% in 7 hours of sleep. It is not hardware problem it seems. But it is still really bad to experience battery drain with no proper wakelocks.

In normal battery stats it is not that much actually. In BBS or WD it is on top so I'm pretty sure it is connected with Google Services but I can't determine exactly which one it is.

Usually the biggest wakelock (still only 10-15min max but maybe that is the problem) is com.google.android.gms/.measurement.PackageMeasurementService. I have found somewhere that it is connected with Google Firebase Analytics but could not find an app waking the device for this.
[Nexus 5X General] :
Hi guys,

After months of testing all kernels and tweaks and setting differents settings I found the perfect balance.

Configuration :

-Lspeed : configured will all set on battery

-Greenify : some are saying it is no more efficient on Android 7 but it is not true .

-Rom: Pure Nexus

-Kernel : franco kernels

-Franco kernel app or kernel audiutor or elementalX

-resolution changer app

Settings:

-cpu : 2 Big cores off and other CPU set on 960mhz and governor set on conservative

-resolution set on 720*1280 and 282 spi

-touch boost disabled

- if you use franco app set all on battery and create per app profilés

-Lspeed setted ON BATTERY

- greenify : freeze app you don't need but don't freeze app like Gmail, play store...

-use battery calibration if you get problems after flashing rom.

-in Android settings in wifi set wifi during idle to never and notification for wifi to disabled

-in Android settings in location tap on the 3 points in top right and tap on research and disable two things.

So all other tweaks and profiles are not really effecient

See the screenshots for proof . I get 5h30 with wifi,4G and playing clash royale most of time (and when I play clash royale I use a profile to run it at 1,2Ghz).
[Nexus 5X General] amir7777:
Nice settings man. What's the theme called tho?
[Nexus 5X General] :
DNA projet (free on play store)
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Why didn't you just a buy a low end device then? you basically halved the features and performance
[Nexus 5X General] :
What you said is not useful Guy...

You are not on the good thread .

I gave tips to help other users to maximize their battery life and on a low end device you can't lowering you CPU without bugs and lowering resolution is your choice.
[Nexus 5X General] crazyates:
1) Project Fi. Where else can you get a cell phone bill for $24 (my average for the past 3 months).

2) Camera. Most low-end phones have ****e cameras. This one is actually quite nice.
[Nexus 5X General] :
1000000 Times thanks you Guy !

Finally someone who really understand things.?
[Nexus 5X General] mr.ace:
[MENTION=3479377]Max2mus[/MENTION] your problem in idle drain is fixed??because i have same problem as you
[Nexus 5X General] eng3:
I helped my parents each get their first smart phone (Nexus 5X). They have been reporting very poor battery life. My father said he will start with a full charge and go out and take lots of photos. 3hrs later, he will get a warning that he is down to 10%. I installed Gsam on his phone at one point. He says it tells him 53% is used by screen, 45% app (44% "app combined cpu"). He tells me he has lowered the screen brightness. He typically has cell data and bluetooth off but wifi on. 1.5hrs of screen on draining 50% of his battery??? is that even possible? He tells me that my mom's phone doesnt do much better and will maybe last 5hrs. Their phones are completely stock from project fi. I'm trying to explain to them how to take a screen shot of the battery settings screen.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Honestly I wouldn't be so surprised if you lose all the battery if you take pics for 1.5h