Nexus 5 battery life

[B. Diddy]

Wow, 15 minutes is a long time. I'm glad you waited it out. A 14% battery drain overnight is still abnormal. Do you have Location Reporting on? This is different from Location History or the general Location Setting. Apologies if you've already addressed this.

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[ottscay]

I moved from an N4, and the N5 has noticeably improved battery life for me. Both made it through a day of use just fine (I spend most of it on WiFi), but the N5 gets close to an extra hour of screen time so far.

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

Wow, 15 minutes is a long time. I'm glad you waited it out. A 14% battery drain overnight is still abnormal. Do you have Location Reporting on? This is different from Location History or the general Location Setting. Apologies if you've already addressed this.

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I have Location Reporting off. Most of the typical battery draining options available are turned off. Still kinda anal about battery drain since I just switched from a three year old phone with what became a crap battery. I also keep my brightness between 10-15% (which seems plenty bright for me in all situations except being outside in direct sunlight).

Just spoke with a Google representative on the phone about this issue and am waiting on a troubleshooting email. The woman was very helpful, nice, and easy to communicate with thankfully. She stated that the battery drain I'm experiencing is absolutely abnormal. She also informed me that a factory reset isn't as extreme as I thought it would be; should still be able to do a fairly quick and easy restore with the stuff saved to my associated account, which should basically get my phone back to exactly as it was (outside of some app information that may not sync back like Temple Run high scores as an example she gave). I had thought it would require starting over blindly and completely from scratch (hence my initial hesitation to do as much). Other nice thing is that I will be exclusively communicating with her about this issue apparently, so I won't have to describe my problems to 10 different employees. She also stated that I would be easily able to get a free replacement if none of the troubleshooting steps do the trick. Apparently a factory reset would be a last resort scenario.

Will keep you all updated with relevant info.

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

Other interesting thing that the woman noted was that the Nexus 5 should provide 8 hours of screen on time via WIFI and 7 hours of screen on time via LTE. When I told her about my usage patterns and the fact that I top out at 4-5 hours of screen on time, she said that was abnormal.

Just got the email with troubleshooting directions....very generic response unfortunately (i.e. update to latest OS, restart device, check battery settings for unused features or third-party apps that are draining battery quickly, close unused apps via recent button, try using device in safe mode, and lastly: factory data reset). Looks like I'm going to be doing a factory reset a little later today.

 

[B. Diddy]

When they say 8 hours of screen on time on Wi-Fi, I wonder if that's just from standard testing, which never seems real-world to me. Maybe that figure is based on testing where someone let a video loop over and over again, without doing anything else. If you're not switching or opening and closing apps, for example, that's going to increase your battery life, but it's not a real world situation.

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[anon(8256055)]

The way I see people on Facebook nowadays, I'm not so sure it's not real world use. I was on a 5 hour flight on Monday, and the gal next to me paid for GoGo internet service and spent a solid 4 hours on that brain-sucking social site. But that's another thread.


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[B. Diddy]

LOL. But even with Facebook, there's more going on than simply playing a video, for example. There's constant use of the keyboard (which will especially suck battery if vibrate is on), there might be linking to videos or websites, etc.

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

When they say 8 hours of screen on time on Wi-Fi, I wonder if that's just from standard testing, which never seems real-world to me. Maybe that figure is based on testing where someone let a video loop over and over again, without doing anything else. If you're not switching or opening and closing apps, for example, that's going to increase your battery life, but it's not a real world situation.

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Very likely. 4-5 hours seems to be more realistic screen on time from everything that I've researched.

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

Guess I'm actually going to try running the phone in safe mode while sleeping tonight and then try the factory reset tomorrow if need be.

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

Man....this is pissing me the **** off. Charged to 100%, turned off Wifi, went in backyard and rode the stationary bike for 45 minutes while surfing the web and listening to music nonstop. Ate up 16% of my battery which doesn't seem too off, but now it is saying that "com.android.chrome:sand.." is taxing my battery more than anything (27%, CPU total: 14m 5s, with Screen at 23%, Time on: 51m 51s).

I'd go in to safe mode to start testing that angle now buuuut I'd like to actually use my ******* new phone for the waking part of the day, ya know?

 

[clevin]

Other interesting thing that the woman noted was that the Nexus 5 should provide 8 hours of screen on time via WIFI and 7 hours of screen on time via LTE. .

Maybe invite her come to earth and get a N5 herself before reading out some sentence on a paper.

@T-Mobile GN3

 

[JohnnyBroccoli]

I'm sure that would be very helpful!

 

[ready2rise]

Not too happy with this after thirty minutes of on screen. New owner from e4gt and note3. May return since I was forced to update as soon as I powered up the device. I thought I would be able to use plan jane 4.4 before pulling the trigger on the newest updates. Also, I have virtually everything off as far as settings. And just typing on the keyboard makes a rattling noise???

 

[p3ntyne]

Not too happy with this after thirty minutes of on screen. New owner from e4gt and note3. May return since I was forced to update as soon as I powered up the device. I thought I would be able to use plan jane 4.4 before pulling the trigger on the newest updates. Also, I have virtually everything off as far as settings. And just typing on the keyboard makes a rattling noise???

Hmm... There must be something wrong - I get about 1h 20m screen time per 20%. I noticed you were using the camera (battery hog on nexus 5) and considering your screen was taking a massive 71% of your battery, you may be using an unreasonable brightness or perhaps auto-brightness.

Also, the phone made an update out of the box as a new version of 4.4 would have arrived since your model left the factory, that's all it is - you would want it to as the camera is immensly improved and lastly, if you go to settings/language&input then tap the settings icon next to your preferred keyboard, you will see the options, 'vibrate on keypress' and 'sound on keypress'. Untoggle those and you will be fine!

 

[ldwhitley]

Hi Peeps,

My wife and I have been living with our N5's for about a month now and I can share some of our experiences with battery life.

The phone typically makes it through the day for me but it will depend on how much time I've spent playing Ingress. Ingress run's the battery down pretty quickly and I've I've played much more than an hour or two there's a good chance that I need to recharge before the end of the day. My wife does not play Ingress and her battery life is good - she uses the phone lightly, mostly phone calls and text messaging, and she easily makes it though the day and has made it for 2 days without a charge.

Our early experience with the phone was different though and I experimented with leaving its idle usage to figure out what was going on. I would charge it before bed then leave it unplugged overnight. Now when I do that the result is that the phone is down less than 10% in 8 or 9 hrs. But before it was down as much as 50%. Eventually I figured out that it was WeatherBug. I uninstalled it and added AccuWeather in its place and the overnight usage dropped from 50% to less than 10%.

Now if Ingress would just do something about it's battery usage.

ldw

 

[anon(8256055)]

Battery life seems to keep improving. 13.5 hrs since charge, 3.5 hrs screen time, 40% battery remaining. love this phone! My GS3 was dead after 10 hours.

 

[clevin]

Battery life seems to keep improving. 13.5 hrs since charge, 3.5 hrs screen time, 40% battery remaining. love this phone! My GS3 was dead after 10 hours.

if you regularly get 7.5hr screenon time, why not describe what are those time you are using it for?

and maybe some tips for most others who gets 4-5 hrs regularly.

 

[anon(8256055)]

if you regularly get 7.5hr screenon time, why not describe what are those time you are using it for?

and maybe some tips for most others who gets 4-5 hrs regularly.

I've just followed the advice that's been posted here many times. Also running ART, and I don't use my phone for graphics intensive apps (games). And, as I've stated previously, I try to not run my battery much below 20%, so on the average I get between 5-6 hrs screen on time. Less if I stream movies (which I don't do on my N5 any longer since I got my N7).

 

[mrsmumbles]

if you regularly get 7.5hr screenon time, why not describe what are those time you are using it for?

and maybe some tips for most others who gets 4-5 hrs regularly.

It might also have to do with how full the internal storage is. Since I managed to fill a large portion of my n5 I get less battery time than I did when my phone was mostly empty. (I added a bunch of files off older micro SD cards temporarily.)

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[clevin]

I've just followed the advice that's been posted here many times.

you may want to remind readers with a link or two, obviously they are not that easy to find, otherwise most people here would be able to find it already

It might also have to do with how full the internal storage is. Since I managed to fill a large portion of my n5 I get less battery time than I did when my phone was mostly empty. (I added a bunch of files off older micro SD cards temporarily.)

Not sure, what could possibly be the mechanism causing this, if true?