Nexus 5 battery stamina

[thehabsonice]

Hello everyone,

I have had my N5 for about a year now. I still enjoy it as much as I did on day 1. But recently I have noticed my phones battery life has been terrible. I get at best 3 hours of screen on time and I definetely need to charge my phone during the day; it won't last the entire day anymore. Now I know to some extent this is normal as batteries tend to deteriorate over time but I find this is a little excessive. How are your nexus phones in terms of battery life?

 

[Rourke24]

Weird, mine is also a year old and last month it seems to be declining

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[belodion]

Mine is about eight months old and although I don't time it I can certainly get more than 3h screen-on time. I will not let the battery drop lower than 30% charge if I can help it and if possible will charge it well before it gets that low.

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[thehabsonice]

Mine is about eight months old and although I don't time it I can certainly get more than 3h screen-on time. I will not let the battery drop lower than 30% charge if I can help it and if possible will charge it well before it gets that low.

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Hmm, what if you go in the battery settings and then click on screen. It will give you the screen on time.

 

[Soylent_Green]

I can usually get 3 or more hours of on screen time, I never let my battery go below the 50% mark and I charge it frequently as it's best for the battery.

 

[AaronTV]

Mine is also a year old and the battery life is bad, especially the last couple of months. I'd be lucky to get 3 hours of screen on time. It's usually around 1.5-2 by the evening with battery below 15%. I almost always need to charge it for twenty minutes to finish getting through the day.

I'm hoping for some Lollipop based improvement....

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[belodion]

Hmm, what if you go in the battery settings and then click on screen. It will give you the screen on time.

Yes, but I mean that I no longer feel the need to do that. I'll have a look later before I come to recharge, and post the result. It would have been useless to do that with my first post, since the phone was freshly charged when I sent it.

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[NannerAirCraft]

I've had my Nexus 5 since christmas and I usually get around 2 and half hours of screen time. If I'm lucky I can get 3 hours and sometimes I get less than 2 and a half hours. I'm a high school student and I leave home with a 100% charge at 6:35 A.M. The bus ride is about 50 minutes and I always have my brightness set to the lowest during that time. During school I pretty much never have my brightness above 20% as I can see fine at that level. I use it off and on during classes (playing games while I shouldn't be ). School gets out at 2:30 P.M and then its another 50 minutes to an 1 hour ride home. Usually by the time school is done and I'm on the bus I'm below 25% and sometimes my phone dies before I get home. Although I do carry a 10000mah external battery pack so this isn't as much as an issue for me because I'll usually charge it during the bus ride home. I do hope Lollipop increases the battery life a little bit, just gotta wait for that OTA update...

 

[Tom Miller3]

I read somewhere, I cannot remember where that Android lollipop drains nexus 5 much faster than 4.4 is this true? What do you think?

 

[NannerAirCraft]

That was a bug with Lollipop which caused the battery to get drained very quickly.

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[srkmagnus]

I got mine at release and it seems to be holding up fine. Just updated to lollipop and all seems good as well.

 

[zedz]

I read somewhere, I cannot remember where that Android lollipop drains nexus 5 much faster than 4.4 is this true? What do you think?

A bug that Google discovered and rectified very quickly, end of story.

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[belodion]

OP: As mentioned in my earlier post here's my screen-on time, with battery at 36% in this instance. Various brightness levels, fairly light use, texting, bit of YouTube, news, forums, browsing. I shall be charging soon.

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[thehabsonice]

OP: As mentioned in my earlier post here's my screen-on time, with battery at 36% in this instance. Various brightness levels, fairly light use, texting, bit of YouTube, news, forums, browsing. I shall be charging soon.

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That's actually amazing, I can't get my phone to last that long... Are you running LTE?

 

[belodion]

That's actually amazing, I can't get my phone to last that long... Are you running LTE?

No....good 4 or 5 bar 3G H or H+ signal, most of the time. I guess the strong signal helps with battery....also, I'm using an unlocked phone free of carrier bloatware, which I imagine might make a noticeable difference. Also again, I didn't use it much for two or three months, when my G3 was the daily driver, so the battery has had less use than the phone's age would suggest.

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[belodion]

OP: Update....things are now very different, on Lollipop. Down to 35% battery, about 2.5h screen-on time, low brightness settings, fairly light usage.

 

[Brian Low]

I used to get maybe around 4 hours on screen time, but after a couple months when 4.4.4 came out i was averaging around 3 hours 30 mins. After the lollipop update its definitely lower. Roughly around 2 and a half to 3 hours.

 

[Saverio Geronimo]

Hi!
Updated a week ago to lollipop and no problem with battery life, disconnect at 8am. and by 11 pm. Still have a 20% of battery with almost 4 hours of screen use. Working on 3G, nova louncher and no rooted...

 

[tonyr6]

OST on lollipop is not so good. I am afraid to even use my screen. All I did was download a Bible app and read for not even a minute and my % dropped about 3%. I use my phone most for streaming music and the battery life is fine as long as the screen is off. Also disabling Fit helped much but I was hoping for better OST.

 

[Benjamin_NYC]

A bug that Google discovered and rectified very quickly, end of story.

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Oh really?

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