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[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Stock MM no root. My device has been losing a lot of battery during idle in the last few weeks. Removing certain apps, widgets, and settings has not resolved the issue. Sometimes rebooting seems to help but only temporarily.

The battery list doesn't show any real indication what is causing the idle drain (Phone Idle as expected), other then that WiFi does show up on my list regularly now but only as a 1 or 2% drain after 24 hours.

I haven't seen a flat Doze bar over night in a while now. There's still a few more apps and settings I can try to remove, then I may attempt a factory reset if it doesn't resolve.
[Nexus 5X General] thenessus:
If you're rooted, check your wakelocks
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
I'm surprised. You used to post up some impressive SOT and total battery times.
[Nexus 5X General] bobby janow:
Android wakeups 3.0/min jobscheduler.delay ? What is that?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
I am not but I may consider doing so if I end up unable to resolve this.

Me even more so. My screen on time is still about the same but before I could stretch 5 hours SoT over multiple days where as in the last few weeks my idle drain would be what I would expect to see only with a weak signal mobile data connection in previous months.

The easy thing would be to blame the most recent OTA but I doubt it's that simple. However something is basically making Doze appear to be non existent with my device since around that time.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Hi did you notice any difference with gapps in the later months?
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Actually since that day, I have been using gapps. Right now I am back on PureNexus after using Chroma for 2 weeks. ElementalX kernel was common.

Battery life is almost the same with both roms. One thing that I did out of paranoia was to use Titaniumbackup to freeze play store and play services when

I am not using them. This made sure no google cr@p causing background drain. However from last 1 week, I did not freeze those 2 apps. And to my surprise

they did not misbehave. Even in battery stats list, google was all the way down. Usage was well over a day.

STATS 1 - 73% used in 33 hours, Mostly web browsing and IM. 4hr 40 min SOT.

STATS 2 - 82% used in 36 hours. Hangouts, Web browsing and IM. 4 hr 47 min SOT.
[Nexus 5X General] thenessus:
You might want to check this thread once you're rooted:

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/help/google-photos-device-awake-diff-roms-t3406571
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Thank you for the update.
[Nexus 5X General] Shebee:
This was a full day, I switched to row io scheduler, not sure there are any real world differences between the different ones tbh, has anyone noticed a difference?

My phone was ~9h in my pocket while working, with medium signal strength (going from green to red every now and then in the battery settings), other than that I've listened to spotify, surfed with chrome and used fb/reddit.

I guess that's pretty decent ?_?

The mediaserver problem disappeared though, I don't think it had anything to do with the io scheduler.

I was never able to get crazy high sot, not even on my old phone, either I'm doing something wrong or my usage is just too demanding...
[Nexus 5X General] RashidD:
Guys just use PA. Best ROM hands down. 5hrs SOT easy.
[Nexus 5X General] herBosaurus:
What kernel? I've been meaning to try out Paranoid..
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
I guess it should be fine. I mean if you used it for 3h Spotify and with "red" signal as well it's normal... Low signal really destroys battery life.

Was this on WiFi only?
[Nexus 5X General] Shebee:
Hey, no wifi was only on for the last few hours, all other stuff was on mobile.

I'm reverting to stock to see how the battery life is on stock.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Well then it's a good result.
[Nexus 5X General] RashidD:
Stock is good. Elemental X is what I'm on now. It's good too.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
My idle drain issue seems to have resolved itself. There was a quick update to Google Keep and there is no longer "ReminderLoggingService" appearing at random times, I suspect that was the cause of the background drain even though Keep had 0 mAh reported battery usage and the service was only using 10MB of RAM.

Dozing and idling once more. Stock, no root. 40% brightness with Locations disabled.
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
No more idle drain!

I think a Dirty unicorn just pee on my device lol

Latest dirty unicorn with unicorn blood kernel

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5X en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5X General] matheussc25:
Wifi all the time, location "battery saving" videos on YouTube for 15 minutes, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram sometimes ...

Stock ROM, EX Kernel
[Nexus 5X General] harryohh:
Hi

Hopefully someone can help me with this. I have an issue where my phone doesn't deep sleep at all. The processor doesn't go below 384mhz. When I use Wakelock detector nothing stands out to say what is causing this. However if I reboot the phone it starts sleeping again fine for a day or 2 and then the same issue reoccurs.

Any ideas what is causing this?

I've uploaded some photos to give more information.
[Nexus 5X General] Shebee:
Here a few more stats, completely stock and rooted, no fb/messenger.

It says Wifi was on all the time but it was only on for a few hours when at home, weird.
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
My best results so far

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5X en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Back to normal....

Had terrible wakelocks and I almost decided to reset to factory default but then it went away after reinstallation of many apps or maybe it was just a sickness of a phone like a fever or cold. :)
[Nexus 5X General] Ghost9867:
What combo ?

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You have only flashed elemental x ?
[Nexus 5X General] khanjui:
Paranoid Android, ElementalX with almost all default settings (only I changed the minimum big cluster freq = 384MHz and thermal throttling = 53°). Always 100% brightness, LTE. Sometimes high accuracy GPS. Wi-Fi always on. Phone is generally too hot due to weather.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Damn. Always 100%?!? Is that really necessary? I know we have LCD screens but I found my father's AMOLED screen at 100% for who knows how long and it has some terrible burn in.
[Nexus 5X General] MaLiXs:
Latest dirty unicorns. And some tweak

Envoyé de mon Nexus 5X en utilisant Tapatalk
[Nexus 5X General] khanjui:
I was wearing sunglasses, it's too much sunlight in here.
[Nexus 5X General] matheussc25:
I use the "EX Kernel Manager" in "GhostPepper" Greenify and fell asleep some applications. Stock ROM
[Nexus 5X General] atrix4nag:
Default DU. Nothing changed. installed Facebook, whats app etc. Yesterday I was down to 48% after 9 hours from charger and I had 4 hr+ SOT. my mistake forgot to take screen shot.. :( I was browsing continuously for at 3.5 hours.

with regular usage I am getting around 5 hr + SOT with full charge.
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Nice. There was an update to Google Photos and some other Google apps (Keep, Now) that may have been causing high idle drain. So far things seem much better for me.

Everyone: make sure to update your Google apps if you're experiencing higher idle drain than normal recently. Or possibly don't update them ever as to avoid such problems lol.
[Nexus 5X General] crian:
Can confirm that amazing battery life on "stock" Dirty Unicorns. It's really awesome how the N5X performs with this ROM.
[Nexus 5X General] SweetShadow:
With stock July update and eleX kernel on GhostPepper i'm getting 04:40 SoT on 19%. 50% Brightness,PoGo, netflix and messenger mostly

No greenify/xposed/Naptime or any other saving app installed.

Since i can't post external links due to post limitation: hxxp://imgur.com/a/PLXeN
[Nexus 5X General] atrix4nag:
This time i got screenshots.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67697970&postcount=1199
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Back to normal

Battery life is mostly back to normal now after a couple weird weeks. Stock June OTA as I haven't received the July OTA yet. No root access or battery saving apps.

Brightness was used at 30-40%, stock Google features remained enabled except Locations during this time.
[Nexus 5X General] Shaolin007:
Can any one explain me this?

Left my phone at night at 74% battery and in morning at 7am i saw it was 46%.

Isnt it weird....
[Nexus 5X General] knipp21:
Does anyone have an issue with Bluetooth and it affecting doze?
[Nexus 5X General] surrealjam:
How many people are affected by the damn android system backup battery drain described here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=207700

I assume it can't be everyone else the internet would be awash with reports... but I've had it, my girlfriend has had it and my Mum has had it so I can only assume it's fairly widespread.

I've had to disable the backup feature in Settings > Backup & reset for the last couple of months. Pretty annoying.
[Nexus 5X General] Handala48:
Is this normal?

Hi,

These are screenshots of my battery life. This is for a basic usage (read news, facebook, twitter) within 8-9 hours. Is this normal for Nexus 5X? Or is my battery busted?
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Screen on time?
[Nexus 5X General] Handala48:
3.5 hours
[Nexus 5X General] khanjui:
Normal.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Average
[Nexus 5X General] Handala48:
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Alright, thanks guys.
[Nexus 5X General] Exiwolfman:
Im running ElelentX and Ghostpepper governor plus Pure Nexus rom and getting around 5.5 to 6 hrs SOT plus double battery life.

And absolutely no issues plus no more lagging just super fast and snappy.
[Nexus 5X General] zilf:
My Bluetooth is going crazy after I updated to the July security update.

Yesterday it was at 45% battery drain. Now 16% after 10 minutes without any connection to other devices.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Which kernel for great battery? Also a little of bit of undervolting could be beneficial?
[Nexus 5X General] khanjui:
http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/general/guide-advanced-interactive-governor-t3269557

Undervolt is unneccesary for this device.
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Guys one question. A solution of my battery drain are wakelocks, i have downloaded Amplify and some screenshots from it here :

As you can see many many wakelocks. Should i buy pro version to control them or not?

What to do with them?

I gave some screenshots from battery stats in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3420415

Currently phasma kernel, coming from franco, and as I have written there, greenify, force doze and Amplify enabled.

Forced hibernation apps after lock screen also enabled. WiFi turned off after using, bt, localisation etc also turned off.

Currently bit better, any ideas?
[Nexus 5X General] kingsfall1233:
I'm getting a 3hr sot and a stand by of close to 18hrs. I wonder why is my kernel taking up so much power.

I'm also getting a pretty high battery drain while on standby: - 33% over ~18hrs is approx 2%/hr

On pure nexus rom w/ element kernel + Governor settings from http://xdaforums.com/nexus-5x/general/guide-advanced-interactive-governor-t3269557thread
[Nexus 5X General] atrix4nag:
Follow this thread, Make changes in amplify as suggested in this thread. You will see good battery increase.

upload your bbs log file as posted in post#6 to get suggestions.

http://xdaforums.com/android/general/guide-extreme-battery-life-t3095884
[Nexus 5X General] Stevica Smederevac:
I have 2 day standby, 3,5hrs SoT and still 45% percent left:confused:. Elemental x,ghost papper and Yaosp.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
N Preview 5. I AM IMPRESSED. Used for 1.5 days... 5 hr 27 min SOT. Most of internet usage was LTE. Was connected to wifi while I was at home, but i was not using wifi.

Mostly web browsing, messaging, camera. Better than marshmallow, but not a great improvement. It is an improvement nonetheless.
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Today I'm going to do bbs log file, just back home.

Some pics from today, I can Say I like today battery. Much better than previous. (w/o greenify etc)

Lte when GPS turned on, even little bit more

I am ready to install n preview to get everything for fresh and optimize battery, I did it once and wakelocks started, what is cause?
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Very promising...
[Nexus 5X General] slugger09:
I bought a 5x last weekend and if I'm honest I was extremely worried about battery life as I have read so many complaints. After a weeks use I can easily say I had nothing to worry about, even with a new battery that needs a few charge cycles the 5x is on par if not better than my previous phone an iPhone 6 and my 5x is running stock with no tweaking etc. I take it off the charger at 6am and it lasts me all day which includes 8 hours of playing podcasts and music at work, by the time I put it back on the charger at 10pm it has at least 30% battery life left.
[Nexus 5X General] kevin0304s:
I bought a 5x earlier this month and i've noticed a big battery drain while playing at Fifa 16 Ultimate team :o I have only 1.5h Sot while playing with this game... When i play CSR2 the battery drain is ok. What's the problem? I've also snapchat which is a big battery consumer...
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Some games will simply use more battery. I find EA games usually have online elements and background functionality which tend to use more resources.

Stock July OTA, 40% manual brightness and Locations on High Accuracy. No settings disabled and no battery saving methods. Spent about an hour transferring files to another device using Android Beam (NFC) and Bluetooth as well as a bit of gaming.
[Nexus 5X General] Big ZD:
Hey All,

Can you offer opinions on my battery life on beta 5? Is the level of OS and System use par for what most everyone else is seeing?
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Similar to mine
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Your signal just destroys your batteries!
[Nexus 5X General] Domin_PL:
Because it's looking for a better one ye?

Unfortunately I live in place where the signal is medium (1 circle LTE, just H+ when using data)
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
Yours doesn't seem too bad though. All the orange and red for Big ZD is definitely bad.
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Also but mainly because with weak signal your phone needs to use more power to reach the tower.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Absolutely right. I tested this on my phone over last one week. 4 usage cycles in total. Two of them are more presentable in terms of screenshots..

I attached pics of latest usage (Today). 100% to 38% in 12 hours. Using LTE all along. 4:21 SOT.

The Zip file has previous usage cycle (yesterday). With 100% to 20% dropping in 13 hours. LTE again. 4:23 SOT.

Similar kind of usage in both cases. Web browsing, Messaging and Emails. Occasional camera use. But it is clear that I got better result today.

Because cell signal was better. It has more "green" bars in the battery graph, compared to the yesterday. When signal is low, device uses all its resources

to pull every bit of it into device. Makes device consume more battery and sometimes heats up a little bit.
[Nexus 5X General] klaymaniaf:
Battery is averrage whatever you do. But 4-5 hours SOT is just annought for a fast charge phone.

Best actual combination tested : PureNexus + elementalX kernel default config.

This phone is great and therefor we should not use battery tweeks that decrese performance.
[Nexus 5X General] Banoone:
Hi guys,

I just noticed that my phone lost over 20% battery over night without me doing anything. I don't use the phone that much but still the battery dies so quickly.

I am running the current developer preview and havent made any changes such as kernel updates. Am I doing something wrong here? I am far away from

4 hours of SOT I maybe get about 2 hours.

[IMG="Battery Life 1"]http://i.imgur.com/0dmG2uMm.png[/IMG][IMG="Battery Life 2"]http://i.imgur.com/Zgb4xdHm.png[/IMG][IMG="Battery Life 3"]http://i.imgur.com/OVnzo72m.png[/IMG]

Could you guys give me any hint as to what's going on there? Or is that normal behaviour?
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Well something kept the phone awake too much. It's impossible to tell like this, you need BBS to check wakelocks.
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
For myself, I noticed a big drain with WiFi on while overnight. It's like either WiFi or an app that's using WiFi doesn't allow for Doze to do its thing. When I turn WiFi off, just 5% or less over 8 hours. I haven't tried testing the difference out with DP5 though.
[Nexus 5X General] Banoone:
Hello,

But shouldn't the phone go into doze mode and drain almost no battery at all overnight or when it is off? As I said I get about 2 hours of SOT which seems quite low.

I'll try the wifi thing aswell thank you for the hint.

I just downloaded the app and it looks like I need root access to see both kernel and partial wakelocks?
[Nexus 5X General] Exiwolfman:
The only way I find this phone to work well is rooted with either custom kernel or and rom, with both changed it becomes an awesome phone and I get 5hrs SOT and more with double battery life.

Now I actually love my nexus 5x and used more as a DD than a backup.
[Nexus 5X General] nokiagye:
Same here
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
Go to wifi settings use "disable when sleep" or sth like that, go to viber options-> general settings -> wifi policy and choose "comply with phone setting"

Keep data always open as to get messages when wifi is off, dont worry it has almost no wakelocks, unlike wifi

I have mentioned this so many times that i probably need to make a sig xD

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Also right now i am using EX with ghostpepper, 50C thermal limits (except battery ofc), disabled 3 little cores, rest of cores (big too) down to 1200mhz and gpu to 450mhz

No problems with performance, butter smooth and even load times are almost same. Unfortunately the thermal design of the phone is mess so it still throttles after some time under heavy use, though it takes longer and recovers back to speed almost as soon as you stop the demanding task.

That phone needs some filling with thermal pads all over its insides, its crazy stupid that all heat is in a single spot while the rest of phone is cool
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
So gave doze a try with WiFi on again and lost only 2% over 7 hours. There is a weird GPS and awake time in the middle of the night but no battery draining during that. ?
[Nexus 5X General] ErnuB:
What do you guys think, seems a bit low duration do have now and high accuracy, worth noting I have my screen under 30% brightness
[Nexus 5X General] roachkazy:
What rom and kernel are you using?
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
Have you tried this?

Same might apply with other chat apps too

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If you care about battery life and performance, i would say that xtra factory + elementalx with ghostpepper are the winning combination. Ofc there is not as much customization as other roms, but i personally dont mind and i will flash it as soon as a N version gets released
[Nexus 5X General] Joms_US:
Usage from yesterday...

N DP5

> 3.3 hours music, > 1 hour browsing, email ( personal and corporate ) and static pages reading, Adguard in the background.

SOT doesn't matter here because of the type of usage. Note that Android doesn't report correct usage when playing music and BT. :)
[Nexus 5X General] Exiwolfman:
Pure Nexus rom and EX kernel
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Lots of awake time while your screen is off, so the device isn't able to enter deep sleep or doze. Most likely due to 3rd party apps, the most likely culprits would be what you see running as 24/7 background services as seen in Developer Options > Running Services.
[Nexus 5X General] ErnuB:
Uninstalled those, let's see how it looks after, thanks for the advice
[Nexus 5X General] EeZeEpEe:
It was probably just a random thing. But I'll keep that in mind if I ever see that happen again.
[Nexus 5X General] sasank360:
Hey guys. Back with some results.

Chroma rom + ElementalX latest.

Using micro Gms..

Standard use.. web browsing, messaging, emails and

bit of camera..
[Nexus 5X General] sstanton86:
I'm considering getting a 5x. I used to have one at release, everything stock - and although I loved the phone, the battery life was absolutely horrendous. Has this been improved? Or is it worth me rooting and messing with kernels etc to squeeze the most out of the sot etc?

Thanks in advance!
[Nexus 5X General] -sandro-:
Depends on what you judge horrendous battery life...
[Nexus 5X General] myawan:
Nexus 5x's SOT ranges from 3 hours to 7 hours depending upon your usage style and ROM/KERNEL setup.
[Nexus 5X General] sstanton86:
I'd probably say under 4-4.5hrs sot.
[Nexus 5X General] KOala888:
Hello guys, just bought nexus 5x, how is your battery with pokemon go like?
[Nexus 5X General] b1g1an:
I get three hours plus SOT, screen on all the time as Pokemon Go 'breaks' the gyro (just need s a restart to fix when done), set to mid brightness, patchy mobile signal so bit less life than some may get.
[Nexus 5X General] KOala888:
Well i got more like 2,5 hours. Could you tell me more about gyro problem?
[Nexus 5X General] Exiwolfman:
Root and kernel, I'm on pure nexus rom and EX kernel with this I get double battery life and almost SOT plus better performance...so ya root is a must for a 5x
[Nexus 5X General] seabro01:
Battery life was very mediocre (3-4 hrs SOT) when I first got the 5x. Now I'm getting 6-8 hrs SOT over 15-20 hrs with stock rom and ElementalX with MadDog profile. Usage mostly includes Tapatalk, web browsing, streaming music, texting and some YouTube with ~70/30℅ wifi/data, decent signal, <20℅ brightness indoors (50-65 in daylight), Google Now disabled and location mostly off.
[Nexus 5X General] sstanton86:
Holy moly.

Just that one post has made me wanna keep my nexus 5x. Mines stock, and less than a week old and by the time I leave the house, text/whatsapp, read a few articles and listen to the radio in the gym I'm almost at 50%. I tend to get 2.5-3he's SOT tops. But now I'm tempted to do all the things you've mentioned. Haven't rooted and flashed Roms in a few years so not sure I'd know what I'm doing as much ?
[Nexus 5X General] bblzd:
Unless you're mostly browsing Tapatalk with all those settings disabled (Google Now, Locations, BT, probably NFC and more) that won't be obtainable. Usage and settings like that play a much bigger role than minor tweaks can make.

At most we're talking around 20% battery life improvement by reducing SoC performance in certain situations and reducing Google Services functionality, but even that's probably pushing it.

So with your current usage and around 3 hours SoT, you could hope to extend that about another 30 minutes without changing anything else.

People over emphasize the impact that root level tweaks can have. Anyone who claims they're seeing +100% battery life such as the fellow you responded to, is not comparing apples to apples as that is simply not possible.
[Nexus 5X General] Giorgos Chatziioannou:
Depends on usage actualy, playing games or using buggy apps and nothing can help (tried pretty much everything). Medium/light usage can see gain though, if not in battery then at least in smoothness
[Nexus 5X General] kokbiloking:
Guys I currently have S5 I am getting 5hr SOT wifi use with greenify in 1 day.. I want to upgrade to note 4 or N5X .. Main concern is battery life Secondly good camera too.. Can i get 6 7 Sot with note 4 or should i go for nexus 5x...

Reply must Plz..!
[Nexus 5X General] seabro01:
The 5x camera is very good but the Note 4 should get better battery life.
[Nexus 5X General] kokbiloking:
Does new phones like p9 lite honor 5x A5 6 preferable overr these
[Nexus 5X General] seabro01:
I'd take the Nexus 5x over all those phones. Still one of the better midrange phones due to camera, FPS, accurate screen, USB type C and updates.