How's the battery life on your Nexus 5X?

[PhiPsi32]

Agreed, SOT can be misleading. Streaming media, downloads, phone calls etc. all have an impact. If I have a heavy calling day, my phone is toasted. But for many people, SOT will be the leading source of battery consumption. It points in the general direction of a metric for assessing the useful duration of the battery.

I'd like to see a measurement like User Interaction Time (UIT) which accounts for all the time you use your phone (which includes screen off activities like listening to music).

 

[jturning]

Well how's battery life on the 5x?

Pretty bad. Runs down fast just listening to podcasts and music. If I don't charge during the day it would be down to 10-20% at night with not really that much use. Maybe a couple hours of screen on time.

I'm not that happy with it. Battery is poor, screen quality is poor. Thinking of sending mine back and waiting for a 6P. Coming from the Amoled of my MotoX 2013, this has been a shock. Of course I can pick out every LCD screen's defects, but the 5X has more than most. Just slightly uneven backlight, and edge bleed is noticable.

 

[ducatti20]

Battery life is so person to person based on apps and how you use your phone... In my case, battery life so far is fantastic... With my previous S4 and S5, on a work day my phone would sit and drain, rarely made it through the workday (12 hour shifts) unless I never touched it. So far with my 5x, I have been off charger for 7 hours and am at 82% at time of typing.... Fantastically low drain for me after 3 10 min calls, so light email and Tapatalk use and light texting. We'll see how it holds up on a non work day where my usage is higher... But I'm pretty damn pleased thus far.

 

[DWolf1231]

Agreed, SOT can be misleading. Streaming media, downloads, phone calls etc. all have an impact. If I have a heavy calling day, my phone is toasted. But for many people, SOT will be the leading source of battery consumption. It points in the general direction of a metric for assessing the useful duration of the battery.

I'd like to see a measurement like User Interaction Time (UIT) which accounts for all the time you use your phone (which includes screen off activities like listening to music).

True. I normally have a minimum of an hour of bluetooth media streaming per day... sometimes a lot more. I'm far from an expert, but my experience on previous phones is that an hour of Bluetooth equates to at least an hour of SOT when it comes to battery consumption.

 

[PhiPsi32]

I'm seeing something weird. On my initial battery test, the bar for GPS was filled in all day even though I only used location services briefly in the morning. This morning, I turned off WiFi after unplugging from charger. This afternoon I check battery stats and WiFi bar is filled in all day. After toggling WiFi on and off, the usage bar has dropped off. Not sure what that means. And, side note, my phone is lagging for the first time in eight days. Kind of weird.

 

[drathos]

I've noticed that Bluetooth seems to use a lot more power than it did on my Nexus 5, even when it's not in use (turned on, but not connected to anything). At the end of the day yesterday, it accounted for 10% of my battery usage.

 

[ducatti20]

So far 19 hours off charger, 3 hours SOT and still at 25%. Bluetooth on, been connected to WiFi and cell networks all day. Very happy so far.

 

[jturning]

Pretty bad. Runs down fast just listening to podcasts and music. If I don't charge during the day it would be down to 10-20% at night with not really that much use. Maybe a couple hours of screen on time.

I'm not that happy with it. Battery is poor, screen quality is poor. Thinking of sending mine back and waiting for a 6P. Coming from the Amoled of my MotoX 2013, this has been a shock. Of course I can pick out every LCD screen's defects, but the 5X has more than most. Just slightly uneven backlight, and edge bleed is noticable.

Follow-up, using Chrome beta and the phone is'nt as warm and the battery is doing better. This also fixed the edge bleed bug on my carbon N5X. Think there was a serious issue with Chrome draining the battery. Good news is that it's fixed in the beta version.

 

[Bob Garon]

I've noticed that Bluetooth seems to use a lot more power than it did on my Nexus 5, even when it's not in use (turned on, but not connected to anything). At the end of the day yesterday, it accounted for 10% of my battery usage.

I don't use Bluetooth much so is there any way to shut it completely down until I do need it?

Posted via my Nexus 5X

 

[mr_nobody]

I don't use Bluetooth much so is there any way to shut it completely down until I do need it?

Posted via my Nexus 5X

It's off by default. You can turn it on/off in the settings or using Power Toggles.

 

[Bob Garon]

It's off by default. You can turn it on/off in the settings or using Power Toggles.

Yes I do know how to turn it off and on and you don't need power toggles to turn it off because you can use the quick panel for that. My comment was because a couple post above mind somebody said that bluetooth is running in the background and causing 10% battery drain even though it is switched off. So I'm wondering about that in particular.

Posted via my Nexus 5X

 

[PhiPsi32]

I've seen the same for WiFi and GPS. They're turned off but still register on the battery usage chart. Not sure what that means.

 

[MartinMPL]

Pretty bad. Runs down fast just listening to podcasts and music. If I don't charge during the day it would be down to 10-20% at night with not really that much use. Maybe a couple hours of screen on time.

I'm not that happy with it. Battery is poor, screen quality is poor. Thinking of sending mine back and waiting for a 6P. Coming from the Amoled of my MotoX 2013, this has been a shock. Of course I can pick out every LCD screen's defects, but the 5X has more than most. Just slightly uneven backlight, and edge bleed is noticable.

I think I said before, you have a dud and should get a replacement anyway.

 

[Bob Garon]

I see people are discussing their build date of their device. Where do you find that exactly?

Posted via my Nexus 5X

 

[drathos]

Yes I do know how to turn it off and on and you don't need power toggles to turn it off because you can use the quick panel for that. My comment was because a couple post above mind somebody said that bluetooth is running in the background and causing 10% battery drain even though it is switched off. So I'm wondering about that in particular.

Posted via my Nexus 5X

Actually, I said that it was on, but not in use.

 

[DWolf1231]

I've noticed that Bluetooth seems to use a lot more power than it did on my Nexus 5, even when it's not in use (turned on, but not connected to anything). At the end of the day yesterday, it accounted for 10% of my battery usage.

Do you have GasBuddy installed? A few have reported that it makes the Bluetooth go nuts. Happened for me on my second day of having the phone, so I uninstalled and it's been fine ever since.

 

[stepaul8]

This is a really broad question, but do you think I'd be alright on a nexus 5x battery? I usually just check fantasy football, email, web browse, pictures, I stream a lot from Google play music. I usually have screen on time at about 3 hours. Also,I'm going to college next semester and I'm really looking for something that can stay alive overnight so I can wake up with at least 10% left.

Edit: I'm coming from a xperia z3c
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[CantWaitForEvo]

Do you have GasBuddy installed? A few have reported that it makes the Bluetooth go nuts. Happened for me on my second day of having the phone, so I uninstalled and it's been fine ever since.

Thank you for this!!! I was wondering why my bluetooth was going crazy, it's been driving me nuts. Any ideas why GasBuddy is doing this? Has it not been upgraded to 6.0 compatibility yet?

 

[anon(9690742)]

In the last few days i feel like the battery has been getting worse.

For instance: I unplugged it today at 11am. It's now 1:15. So in 2 hours and 15 minutes I'm down to 80 percent, and I've hardly used it. The SOT is only 27 minutes.

I can't really narrow down a culprit app for drainig my battery... although yesterday my Android System had used up 12% percent of the battery, and the Android OS had used up 15% Does this seem right to anyone?

I'll post an end of the day screenshot for ****s and giggles later.

 

[drathos]

Do you have GasBuddy installed? A few have reported that it makes the Bluetooth go nuts. Happened for me on my second day of having the phone, so I uninstalled and it's been fine ever since.

Actually, I do. I hadn't thought about this being the cause as it didn't show up in the list and I hadn't actually used it for a couple of weeks. There's no settings related to bluetooth, so I can't imagine why it needs the bluetooth permissions or what it's doing with them.. Uninstalled it is.