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[Nexus 5X General] timmylamoule:
Well guys,

I've got pretty bad battery stat and I'm asking for your help :D

I am currently on N Preview DP3. My everyday apps are Swipe (for Facebook), Chrome, Texting / Messenger / Whatsapp, and listening to music via Google Play Music -mostly intern music but sometimes streaming (in the screenshot below, it was like : 80% intern / 20 % streaming)-

My luminosity is at 15/20%, I've disabled Ambient Display, Location is High, Google Now is activated

Here are the screenshots from yesterday 5 PM to today 10 AM : Only 1h20 SoT and 60% battery consumed :(

General battery stats :

As you can see, Android System / Android OS / Google Play Services are the top 3 consuming apps so I took screenshots for each app :

What's wrong with my Nexus ? RMA ? Reflash it ? (I already did that last weekend)

And yes I know my cellular network isn't that good when i'm at work but well, some people here have medium - bad network and can reach easily 4 hours SoT :(
[Nexus 5X General] cristianfree:
Not bad !

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[Nexus 5X General] FreeCry:
Disabling location service and in addition, disabling location "scan" for other apps (advanced settings in the location tab) helped me save a lot of battery... If you can live with that turned off.

Also try additional automatic-brightness apps that are more configurable than googles auto-brightness feature. Power consumption with even medium brightness on an LCD is really high.
[Nexus 5X General] timmylamoule:
Auto brightness is off. I'm always at 15%/20%. Do you think it's too high ?

I've disabled "scan" for other apps but still the same power consumption :(

Do you guys have any idea why my 5X is draining so much battery ? (specially for Google Play Services / Android OS / Android System) ?

My battery stat : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67000333&postcount=1235

Anyways, thanks !
[Nexus 5X General] FreeCry:
Try an app like Velis Auto Brightness. A constant 15 - 20% brightness on your screen might not be needed for indoors.

Even though you disabled scan for the other apps, google (services) will still try to find your position with Wifi, Data and GPS which drains a lot of battery. Try setting location to energy saving or disable it completely and test that for a day - see if it helps :)
[Nexus 5X General] cristianfree:
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[Nexus 5X General] timmylamoule:
Hey,

I did what you told me.

Same result : 95 to 20 % : 2H SoT.

This time Chrome was very high (10%) , Screen was 11%, Android OS was 7% like Google Play Music :/
[Nexus 5X General] mxrider97:
Android M is way more battery friendly for me than N. On N I couldn't get more than 3 - 3,5 hrs SOT, whereas on M I can manage to get around 5hrs. I tried to reduce the battery consumption by flashing different custom kernels, but none of them were stable. I faced a lot of freezes and delays and the battery life didn't improve noticeably.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
It's possible and it was done by Anandtech back in their review in November. But of course that's just a test and unrealistic. That being said, Android N beta has been better for me than any Marshmallow update prior. Straight using the phone all night after dinner and I can get 45 minutes or so more SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Try stock N

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=66569573&postcount=1067
[Nexus 5X General] cristianfree:
With n whasap notifications sometimes delay :(

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[Nexus 5X General] Ghost9867:
try to unistall whatsapp and reinstall it
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Good battery for me with Android N beta. Hit 3.75 hours of pretty heavy browsing which is a first for me and then tested doze overnight. Went from 13% to 10% in just under 8 hours. Much better than anything I've gotten with Marshmallow.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock May OTA with locations disabled. Adaptive brightness set to 50%. Battery life seems about the same as always with the May OTA.

I ended up disabling Google Play Music. I use Spotify, and for some reason GPM likes to occasionally launch 2 services (sync and wearable) despite me not having a wearable or sync enabled for Play Music. I don't think it was really draining much battery but it annoys me to see apps do these things if I'm not using them.
[Nexus 5X General] pbailey212:
You have a survey[emoji4]
[Nexus 5X General] cristianfree:
With adaptative bright 3,3 H Sot without...4,2H SOT ...

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[Nexus 5X General] g33kt:
- charged up to 85%; after ~9.5 hours 68% and no deep sleep.

- airplane mode on all night

- phone on the table

- wifi off

- Ambient display off

- location off

- Stock + ElementalX

Not sure why my phone can't deep sleep. Is it the fu*ing facebook messenger/app?

https://imgur.com/a/AvHmD
[Nexus 5X General] dhanmohan:
100% at night

74% in morning.. so that battery drain is cause of software or should i change battery?

also it takes 3 hrs to fully charge
[Nexus 5X General] surrealjam:
People with issues where phone won't go to sleep should disable backup in Settings > Backup & reset then restart your phone.

It's a known issue. See here https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=207700
[Nexus 5X General] g33kt:
How about disabling these services with Servicely app?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Well shoot. Hopefully Google fix that soon as most will probably want their backup enabled. That would make sense why many devices haven't been dozing very well though.

Still I can't really complain about battery life despite it not always dozing consistently.

3 day light usage with the stock May OTA. 50% adaptive brightness and mobile data was switched off most of the time due to weak signal in my work building. Locations disabled.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
http://www.androidauthority.com/battery-myths-688089/

Does disabling those make a significant improvement for you? According to this post, it's not much.
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Typical heavy usage for me...

Bone-stock N DP3, all natural, no preservatives... ;)
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Locations would use the most out of those 3. However even with locations on high accuracy I've seen similar 4-5 hours SoT over a day and can attest to it being fairly efficient on this device. It will increase idle drain though, I doubt it could idle for 3 days as in my last example with locations enabled.

BT idling for a day seems to use only a couple percent. But for those using BT to connect with devices it will be a drain that typically does not add much to screen on time. I'm not sure about NFC as I've always just had it off.

Though the main reason I disable these is because I'm not using them. Any battery savings is an added convenience and I can charge less often. These settings can also be quick toggled in the notification menu.
[Nexus 5X General] xeslaro:
Stock marshmallow. Mostly BBM, WhatsApp and Tapatalk. Still have 40% battery life.
[Nexus 5X General] quera:
Hey guys, is this right? Mediaserver with audio on for 5h37m? Notice that SOT was 3h31m. I did not use any audio app such as spotify or youtube or whatever.
[Nexus 5X General] tcuwolf:
Does the n5x have wifi calling
[Nexus 5X General] Psychofrantics:
There are people who use wifi calling on their N5x. Though it definitely depends on the carrier too
[Nexus 5X General] roofrider:
Happens with me too when the phone is not on silent/vibrate.
[Nexus 5X General] Javi22:
It happens for me too
[Nexus 5X General] emp504:
I have bt (connected only in car and max 2h at home)/wifi (most of day connected to a good-very good network)/gps (device only) on all day, they cost ~7-8% battery on my average use.
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
Hey

I quite like having location enabled to track how much walking i do. At the moment, its set to High accuracy. Is it still accurate but less power heavy to just have battery saving or GPS on?
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I would think it depends on the app that you're using. Something that's only a pedometer might not use GPS at all. But I think Google Fit uses it when you're outdoors.
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
Hello

I use Google Fit to track.

Its on battery saving and i have removed the FB app. Yet in 2.5 hours its gone from 100% to 77%! ave hardly used it. Made one phone call.

What stats do you need me to provide in order for some advice?
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Wow that's definitely unusual. Some screenshots would be helpful. The battery settings one with great and apps below and the detailed one after tapping the graph. At that rate, could be something trying to sync or backup.
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
Hows this?
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
See images above.
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
Now down to 50% with little use.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Do you have anything that could be getting to backup? Like Google Photos, Dropbox, etc.? I heard something with Google Backup in the settings too. Like you can try toggling it off, reboot, then toggling it back on.
[Nexus 5X General] surrealjam:
I think there is something going on as a wider issue... lots of reports of battery drain issues of late. My phone was fine for a couple of months when I first got it, then about 4 weeks ago it just went cr*p. There's the known issue of the backup service getting stuck after a charge, but I would say there are other things as well. Perhaps the 9.x Google Play services update has screwed us.

I used to be able to restart the phone and get better battery life at least for a while. Even that has stopped working lately. Sigh.
[Nexus 5X General] oxfordmark:
Sorry sent the same...
[Nexus 5X General] XMoDuLeSx:
So far powns :fingers-crossed:
[Nexus 5X General] roofrider:
Finally on stock N and the phone dozes significantly better. For the first time, my screen off/overnight battery drain was at around 0.18/hour. I did notice WhatsApp keeping my mobile radio active again yesterday, but I did a clean flash last night in hopes things will be different today. Will try stock for a couple of days before flashing EX kernel to compare.
[Nexus 5X General] roofrider:
Update

The screenshots are absolutely killing me. Not sure how to fix it or what's wrong. Google Services does that even with location services turned off. If not for these damned bugs, I believe I'll get good SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Disabling Google Backup hasn't made any difference in a week of testing. No improvements to Doze or battery life in general.
[Nexus 5X General] suphan:
Which rom use?
[Nexus 5X General] XMoDuLeSx:
That's Validus latest built, btw new Broken os 4.8 with phasma r18 aosp kernel is better
[Nexus 5X General] Androloid:
Maybe there is a special character in some of your contacts. I had one contact with some symbols - hearts along it (not sure how it got there), so it could not be synced and contacts would stuck in syncing forever.

Послато са Nexus 5X уз помоћ Тапатока
[Nexus 5X General] Erps-Kwerps:
I'm getting exactly the same on my stock N (I had same on stock 6.0.1).

The Screen-On power comsumption is equal to Android OS and Android System.

My stats are 2 hourts SOT and ~17 hours ttl usage until the phone is dead.

Overnight it has ~2% per hour discharge.

This is totally not a traveler phone, despite having descent camera.
[Nexus 5X General] mxrider97:
You must have a lot of wakelocks then. During 10hr sleep I get only 1-2% of drain.
[Nexus 5X General] myawan:
Don't blame phone for your poor battery timings. Problem lies somewhere in your apps and usage.
[Nexus 5X General] klaymaniaf:
XtraFactory rom, elementalX latest, AmanuensisOne gov profile.

Excelent battery life. All day heavy usage. With lower brightness can reach 7,5 hours SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] mxrider97:
Well, umm..., I..., I don't know what to say. I'm pretty shocked tbh haha. I'll update after the whole cycle, if it's worth it.

Chroma + latest elementalx with AmanuensisOne profile.
[Nexus 5X General] Ghost9867:
Where i can find this amanuesnsisone profile ?
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Sorry, ummm where does it show the heavy usage and more so 7.5 hours SOT?
[Nexus 5X General] klaymaniaf:
4 hours SOT , 1 hour calls, 30% remaining, brightness set to 35%, whatching youtube video, facebook, instagram, whatsup (curios because thus apps does not appear as draining battery, but I use swipe for facebook)

I think it s great!
[Nexus 5X General] klaymaniaf:
Here. From here. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67205985&postcount=3641
[Nexus 5X General] Erps-Kwerps:
As the problem stays in safe mode also I will not blame any software other than Google's.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
And it's been like that since the day you got it? Have you tried a factory reset? Android N Beta?

I've never gotten a bad battery drain that wasn't fixed with at least a power off and on.
[Nexus 5X General] ubdu:
Would running unencrypted improve battery life?
[Nexus 5X General] Erps-Kwerps:
Yes, it was like this since the first day.

I tried N and factory resetting. I see absolutely no difference between N and 6.0.1.

Now I'm on N DP2, still the same, no matter how I use it, my phone won't survive the whole day even lying without usage.

The battery drain stays same (~2%/hour) even in BatterySaver+Airplane modes.

Unfortunately I bought the phone through internet so I can't return it.

Maybe I should try other ROM, but I really like the stock and OTAs :)
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'm on DP3 and a couple times I've forgotten to plug in before sleeping and doze worked as advertised. 2-3% over 8 hours.
[Nexus 5X General] ErnuB:
New Nexus, the battery seemed to last less than it should, this screenshots are taken on the first battery cycle right after a factory reset

MOD EDIT: Please use hide tags for large images

Just 12 hours seems not right. I have location high accuracy on and now going
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Looks about right for the Facebook app and using a mobile data connection. Idle time would improve if you allowed the device to idle more. Also you want to give the device a few cycles after a factory reset to build caches and what not.
[Nexus 5X General] lee82gx:
Looks right to me. If you expect more, then maybe try using Chrome for facebook, but in the end I believe it'd be almost the same.
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
New Nexus 5x thst was factory reset.

100 apps, notificazione and updates disabled where possible, biggest processes: facebook, messenger, AccuWeather, telegram, WhatsApp and sometimes Dropbox and keep.

What's going on at night? Why is it turning on so frequently?

Also is the feature to turn on the screen when moving the phone going to impact the battery life?
[Nexus 5X General] myawan:
Touched 6 hours of SOT for the first time. PN plus EX with ghostpepper.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
If that was your first night after doing a factory reset, I would wait it out and see how it does the next few nights. It could have possibly been doing leftover syncing/backing up.
[Nexus 5X General] lee82gx:
I presume you don't have airplane mode during the time with no cellular reception, so I'm guessing your Mobile Standby is waking up to try to connect to network.

As said in a few posts back there may be some syncing going on etc, which happened so often in my first few weeks of buying the phone. After a few weeks of stable use, I find wakelocks are getting rarer.
[Nexus 5X General] Erps-Kwerps:
So this is my stats for N DP3.

Not promising :(
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
Question:

How much Android Operating System-> Keep Awake is good?

I'm at 2 hours and 42 minutes.

19% battery left

Phone has been on for 26 hours with 3 hours and 17 minutes of screen time.

GSam battery monitor tells me that wakeLocks only counted for 2% of the battery
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hello everyone. I am back after a long time. Have new stats. This is the best I ever got.

60 Hours of total use. Mostly web browsing and phone calls. Played subway surfers for 40 min.

Got 6hr SOT. Incredible. Chroma ROM + ElementalX kernel. Ghostpepper profile.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Something is obviously keeping your phone awake. Have you tried a factory reset but not restoring apps? A true fresh start.

---------- Post added at 11:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:43 AM ----------

That's probably just perfectly fine because of your total time. The post above yours had nearly the same awake time but only 9 hours on battery so that's not good in his case.
[Nexus 5X General] Javi22:
Unbelievable :0

The key is that you got no awake time at all apart from screen off

Do you use some app or something?

I get a lot of bars in 'awake'
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Stock N DP3

No tweaking, no customization... ?
[Nexus 5X General] Erps-Kwerps:
Actually I did a factory reset before installing N preview.

I can do it again but I'm not sure that it will help, because same discharge I see in safe mode also where all the 3rd party apps are disabled.

I suppose this is a firmware or system level malfunction and resetting user data will not help, am I right?

I think to wait for DP4 and tell you if anything changes.
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
wow is it so much better?
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Yeah that sounds wrong. You have screenshots of it happening while in safe mode? Too bad you can't exchange your phone.
[Nexus 5X General] Ghost9867:
Do you use somthing like naptime ?
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
It can only get better :D. Another cycle, medium usage only...
[Nexus 5X General] Ghost9867:
How you do this ?
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
I do not use any apps to force sleep. I have a suggestion. If google apps are misbehaving, open titanium backup and freeze play store and play services.

Also I do not use any email app that continuously syncs in the background. I use k9-mail. I manually sync regularly as I do not receive a lot of

emails. In my opinion, Facebook, twitter and all the junk (google bloat) are responsible for device being awake for long periods.
[Nexus 5X General] dog121:
Here's mine dp3 stock full charge at midnight 5%loss in 9hours...
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
- I turn on Location and BT only by demand.

- I am using Facebook on the browser.

- I only read articles, forums and news most of the time.

- I listen to music about 1-2 hours everyday

- Google now, cards, weather widget, photos, yahoo and inbox sync are the only active background apps.

- I am using 10 mins standby/sleep time to avoid frequent locking/ unlocking
[Nexus 5X General] Skulltec:
What are you talking about, how is this medium use? 7hours screen on time in a period of 11 hours?
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
My location is on low and bt always off.

Sadly I have the annoying facebook and messenger apps

I have Google Now, I don't know what cards is but Ho do I disable background apps?

How do I set stanby sleep time?

Thanks

Wow is Android N so much better? I do a bit less than 1% per hour!
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Check my previous post to see the details.
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
please replky to my post above
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Sorry I was referring to the same thing Google Now Cards. I don't disable background apps but I only enable it on startup if setting is available.

You would set sleep time under Settings/Display/Sleep menu
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
Thanks,

do you mean a setting inside the app or a system setting?
[Nexus 5X General] Donnie Sins:
I'm pretty sure he means the system setting;)

Sent from the Matrix
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
where is the enable on startup system settings? I've been searching for something like that for a couple of days!
[Nexus 5X General] Donnie Sins:
Some apps do have this option, but it differs per app. If you have root access on your phone, you can try to search for something like 'autostart'. I'm not sure if these kind of apps are still updated, but I used to use them on previous Android versions. Don't know the names anymore...

Sent from the Matrix
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
It is an app-dependent setting for e.g Adguard, Android Assistant etc have it.

If you want to save RAM, you can disable background services and activity inside Developer options. If I am running benchmarks I usually tweak them.

HTH
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
Thanks.

Docthese app really work?

Will I still get notifications by disabling background processes?
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Apparently, yes. :)
[Nexus 5X General] lefantome:
I rebooted my phone and the setting reset itself, is it normal?
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
The Background Process Limit does but not the Don't Keep Activities
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Looking good from DP4

Heavy usage today doing browsing/google now/news, 3+ hours music on BT, corporate email syncing :D
[Nexus 5X General] mxrider97:
Completely stock?
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
As always. :cool:
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Man if you can get 6 hours with this phone you could probably get 10-11 easily with the big battery phones.
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
That will be quite ambitious but possible. For now, medium usage will take you to the 7 hours territory. ?
[Nexus 5X General] roofrider:
Some are quite lucky.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Actually you're probably right ☺ but with 7 hours and 22 minutes on a 2800 mAh battery, you could possibly get 9.5 hours on a 3600 mAh if all things were equal. And here I am struggling to get 4 hours. ?
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Do you use your screen at 50% brightness all the time ? I use the phone indoors mostly.. at 15-30% brightness. I get about 4-5 hr SOT depending on usage.

I still think google apps are culprits. Thats why after downloading the apps I need, I freeze play store and play services apps. This makes sure my phone sleeps

well and google apps are no where in the battery drain list. All i have is screen, browser, telegram, vk and maybe mobile radio.

I will however start my usage pattern, this time however with 50% brightness at all times. I will report how it affects battery life for same use pattern like web

browsing, IM , email and phone calls.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'm at about 25% with Adaptive brightness on. I picked that because it was the level where in dark ambient light, it's a notch above the lowest. I noticed below that, it's all the same lowest brightness in dark ambient light.
[Nexus 5X General] Shaolin007:
On Android N Developer Preview 4.

Most of the times i faced one issue is

" Settings has Stopped ".....

Major Issue here.

I am just noting it down here some bugs (Dont know whether to say it or not but just to check with you guys)....kindly let me know if this is the problem you have been facing guys.

1)In Settings ->Display ->Display Size when u change it from default to large after that plug in your headphones and check whether there is a delay in doing volume up and volume down during listening to music or videos.

2)In Settings ->Display ->Display Size when you change from default to large check the status bar will go missing with dates on top left side only it will show time.

So please guys if you find these bugs please report it and as well let me know for further bugs.

Thanks guy's.﻿

Just check my Battery Stats.
[Nexus 5X General] AG22:
Hello, everyone. I'm new here and i've got some questions.

Sorry in advance for noob questions and my poor English.

I've disabled some apps in order to save battery. About the system apps, which one can I disabled?

What happens if i restrict second plan data usage for Google Play Store and Google Play Services? Hows will it affect me? The data usage is only for mobile network or also for wifi?

If i disable Google Play Games, will I still be able to download and play all games availables on Play Store?

About the Locations Settings, the option "Battery Saving: use wifi, BT and data" really spends less battery than "Use GPS Only"?

I'm sorry for so many questions, but i wanna understand better how the system works and find some tips for battery improvement.

Here is my battery, use only on Airplane mode, NFC off, BT off, GPS on (GP Use Only). Is it ok?

I have 4 days using the phone.

[IMG="1"]https://s31.postimg.org/uyxmslraz/Screenshot_20160618_152923.png[/IMG]

[IMG="2"]https://s31.postimg.org/92b3s8e4b/Screenshot_20160618_152901.png[/IMG]

[IMG="3"]https://s31.postimg.org/asu4tpvnf/Screenshot_20160618_152910.png[/IMG]

Hope some of you can help.

Best Regards.