How to Fix the Rapidly Draining Battery Issue on Your Nexus 5

[fluffygood]

How to Fix the Rapidly Draining Battery Issue on Your Nexus 5


Google took notice, and today, stated that a fix was on its way. Ready to be delivered through the next maintenance update, the fix concerns high CPU usage causing battery drain through the persistent use of mm-qcamera-daemon, a camera process built into the Qualcomm CPU.

 

[the tall guy]

Would be good if we got an indication of time frames

 

[Podolsky]

Does this fix have to do anything with camera stop launching?

Posted from my new Nexus 5

 

[patruns]

Does this fix have to do anything with camera stop launching?

Posted from my new Nexus 5

Yes they figured out the camera bug causing the CPU to max out and drain the battery and for some, killed the camera app requiring a reboot.