[Nexus 5X General] jimv1983:
Did you not read my entire comment? I said it "COULD" be apps that are draining abnormally. I also said:

"...or it could mean that using your phone, even with everything behaving as it should, just takes power to run and 2,700mAh just isn't that much. "

The quote from Anandtech is just one person's opinion and based on what I've experienced myself, seen on this thread (much more than 2 or 3 people over and over again) and the thread with the SOT poll that opinion doesn't match most people's experience. It has nothing to do with "confirmation bias". This is actual experience.

The Anandtech article also said "While battery life may have been an issue with older Nexus devices, I think it's safe to say it's no longer a concern with the Nexus 5X." yet I have found that the battery life of the Nexus 5X isn't much better than my Nexus 5 when it was brand new.

Many people are getting 3-4 hours SOT and from what I've seen it's usually closer to 3(which really isn’t all that good) than 4. Also, most of those cases are based on EXCELLENT conditions like great cell reception, wifi 100% of the time, very low brightness, etc only doing things like browsing. If you have excellent cell reception in your home and good wifi and never leave the house and only do things like browsing then maybe that 4 hours SOT is more obtainable. And in those cases you are likely next to an outlet so it doesn’t matter as much anyways.

If you go out in the real world where you don't have wifi everywhere (or very poor wifi), have varying levels of signal strength, have to increase brightness because of a bright sunny day or are doing things that take much more power like using GPS for directions or play games (even for a short amount of time) then that 4 hours SOT drops to a much lower number. You can’t do a web browsing test over wifi in airplane mode with the brightness set low and then use that as a basis to say “I don't think battery life will be an issue for

ANY

Nexus 5X user”. I, others on this thread and those that have voted in the SOT poll ARE Nexus 5X users and for many of us battery life IS AN ISSUE.

The fact of the matter is people DO go out in the world with their phones. They DO go to areas that don’t have wifi. They DO use their phones for GPS directions. They DO have to increase screen brightness in sunny outside situations and in those situations. All these things….and more. It would be really nice if a phone could handle a “normal” day. For many of us it can’t and neither can any other phone.

As far as people not attempting anything to fix the problem what can they do? Turn off features? Uninstall apps? Not use it at all?

As I mentioned before, while browsing on wifi with cell reception very good and screen brightness set at low my phone drops 1% every ~2.5 minutes which would result in less than 4 hours of total usage(SOT and total time off charger) with consistent conditions. I’ve even tried switching to a browser like Lightning and it didn’t make much difference. In the battery details Screen, Chrome, Android OS and Android System are almost always the top users so nothing else really seems to be killing the battery. So, in this case I actually DID try something with no luck. What else is there to do besides stop browsing completely?

Anything else is really out of our control. If I have to turn off all the features and uninstall all the apps that made me want a smart phone in the first place then why have one at all? I might as well go back to my Sony Ericsson W760 dumb phone.

I also want to mention that in the graph you posted(from Reddit?) in response to blassster and daver68 it shows that the most people are actually getting 2-3 hours SOT so that really doesn't match up with Anandtech's claims(or yours) either. So the person from Anandtech says battery life shouldn't be a problem for

ANY

Nexus 5X user but the biggest group from the graph that YOU posted shows otherwise.