Battery performance better under 5.0.1

[Petros DIMITRIOU]

Went from 69% to 10% overnight. Seems there is a battery demon in my phone and I need to exorcise it out. The bad news is that I am not a priest...

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[belodion]

^^^If it comforts you, my Lumia 930 recently dropped from 100% to 3% overnight. Feel free to laugh.

But regarding the N5, have you or have you not done a Factory Reset? I've done mine although my problems were nothing like as bad as yours.

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[Petros DIMITRIOU]

My wife has a Lumia 930, and it has not misbehaved up to now.
This Nexus 5 is almost 3 weeks old, and within the first 5 minutes of buying it, I installed Lollipop OTA.
The battery started acting really bad for maybe a week, and then it seemed to stabilize.
As soon as I installed 5.0.1 OTA, the battery started acting again.
I can do a factory reset no problem, but as you can see from the uploaded photo, Google play services and Exchange services are working overtime.
At the same time I had installed the BatteryGuru, which in all honesty seems to be doing absolutely nothing to preserve my battery. In its settings, one can select to stop all apps from refreshing when inactive, and I have it as an active option to happen just 15 mins after last touching the phone...

 

[chezm]

I am finding no improvements with 5.0.1...same battery life as always for me with 4.4.4 > 5 > 5.0.1

 

[belodion]

Also, can you trust the Lollipop battery stats, or even make sense of them? My N5 is not being used as a daily driver at the moment, but here are the stock battery usage stats and the GSam Battery Monitor ones for the same period. Make sense of them if you can.

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[Petros DIMITRIOU]

Another strange behavior. Left the house this morning and the battery level started decaying without even me holding the phone in my hand. Any ideas why?

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[belodion]

Presumably all your settings are okay....syncing, location, etc., set to battery-saving modes?
If so, I think you've just got to try a Factory Reset.

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[Bront]

Clear the system cache in recovery after an update. When I went from 4.4 to 5, it sucked battery till I did that. Then it went back to normal.

Booting up 5.0.1 now, so I'll know more in the next few days if it fixes anything.

 

[belodion]

Good luck Bront.


....And what Christmas Day joy on waking my phone:

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[belodion]

^^^DOH!

Well I've force stopped Chrome at least.

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[Petros DIMITRIOU]

Did the factory reset and battery drain seems to have stabilized to 40% within 12 hours of operation with an hour and a half screen time. Not bad. Thanks for the tip.

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[PPP mcleod2]

I've been having battery issues since the 5.01 upgrade. Google services was a major drain for me. I read a thread somewhere to try turning off Google Now and see if it helps.

Turned it off last night, charged over night and bingo, significant improvement in battery life. So, for me Google Now is turned off for now. Frankly did not have much use for it anyway. Odd thing is, having the same feature turned on in my N7 has little impact.

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[Bront]

Ok, a few days in, and I've found it's better than 5.0 was for battery life, but about the same a 4.4 was with ART, which is where most of the battery savings I think comes from. On idle, I get about 1% drop an hour, though I have my phone not doing much in the background. Actively using it? Depends on what I'm doing. I started playing a fairly power hungry game of late, which doesn't help, but for non-that game activities, battery life seems pretty good.

Of course, I did a flash without reset because I was having issues with the Stock Recovery on 5.0 (the flash fixed that, up volume button wouldn't work). Clearing the cache I think helped as well, though I did that right after the flash was done this time.

I've been having battery issues since the 5.01 upgrade. Google services was a major drain for me. I read a thread somewhere to try turning off Google Now and see if it helps.

Turned it off last night, charged over night and bingo, significant improvement in battery life. So, for me Google Now is turned off for now. Frankly did not have much use for it anyway. Odd thing is, having the same feature turned on in my N7 has little impact.

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There used to be an issue about Google's location services and Google Now, if you didn't turn some of them off (or on), it caused battery drain issues. It was a problem back in 4.3, not sure if they every got rid of it.

 

[tonyr6]

The other night all of a sudden after minimum battery drain on my Nexus 5 running 5.0.1 streaming music I got massive battery drain. I listen to a 3 minute song and the battery went down 1% before the song was over then another song and the battery went down 1%. This was with the screen off. With the screen on I saw the battery go down 1% and then just opening the Amazon app not even 10 seconds later another 1%.

I of course have not rebooted my phone in a week. I rebooted it after and drain while streaming music was back to normal. So Lollipop still does not fix the sudden rapid battery drain. I still can't see how the Google developers can't seem to fix this common problem that only a reboot fixed. Force stopping every app does nothing only a reboot works. Lesson learned I am going to start to reboot it every other night when charging like I did with KitKat which prevents this.

 

[Andrei Paval]

Hi,
Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me if your replacement Nexus 5 battery has a varies temperature?
I mean if the temperature goes up to 35 Celsius when it's charging or you're playing games, of if it goes down to 25 when it's idle.
Because my replacement battery always stays at 29 degrees Celsius, no matter how I use the phone.
I think mine might be bad, but I want to check with someone else before buying another one.
Thanks.

 

[tonyr6]

You want better battery performance trust me don't use Bluetooth. I had my battery go down 4% just listening to locally stored music not streaming. What makes matters worse is that even after turning off Bluetooth sometimes the battery drain still continues and only a reboot gets it back to normal.

I now have all my Bluetooth speakers plugged into the AUX connection.