Nexus 5 Battery with 5.0

[crxssi]

This sounds exactly like what I'm seeing with mine. I can have a 30 minute phone call that drops the battery 5% max but typing this post 3% gone.

I played a bubble game yesterday for 15 minutes and it wiped 10% of my battery out. When I use the phone for anything, you can almost watch the battery going bye-bye. It also uses more battery when in standby than before.

The battery life on the Nexus 5 has never been great, so for me it is not like 5.0 made a HUGE change, but overall I say battery life is worse now. Plus things are more unstable (I have had the camera error, my N10 has frozen twice for no reason and lost sound once which I have never seen before). Things are also generally more annoying.

 

[tonyr6]

Battery was at 87% with only 4% drain overnight. Having issues streaming DI.FM so I switched from WiFi to LTE to test out was still buffering the screen was on maybe a minute or so and off battery drained 3% in less than a few minutes. OST sucks badly with lollipop. Of course don't let a Google search tell you unless doing a search you look at the forum links here and the XDA forums otherwise battery life is great according to this tech sites etc.

 

[crxssi]

Battery was at 87% with only 4% drain overnight. Having issues streaming DI.FM so I switched from WiFi to LTE to test out was still buffering the screen was on maybe a minute or so and off battery drained 3% in less than a few minutes. OST sucks badly with lollipop.

One thing is certainly true- the wonderful new bias control for automatic brightness is misunderstood by most people (most still think it is either manual or auto, and that auto has no adjustment/bias). And by default, I think the bias is set brighter than before when running in auto and that will eat up more power when looking at SOT/OST (screen on-time/on screen-time). I tend to run mine a few ticks lower than the default, middle setting now.

 

[Rutz1104]

10 hours on a full charge is pretty damn good battery life for the N5. Why is that a problem?

Smoledman I use to get proper 22 hrs of avg battery usage with Bluetooth, Saavn app for music continuously on with my calls n texting on any social network with Skype daily for Atleast 2 hrs

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[Jnorton2724]

I've factory reset my phone after the ota and its doing okay. Its seems about the same as kit Kat based on screen on time.

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[btroberts011]

I have given up on the battery coming back. Will be flashing KitKat on device very soon.

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[Rutz1104]

I've factory reset my phone after the ota and its doing okay. Its seems about the same as kit Kat based on screen on time.

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Did U factory reset back to kit kat or u using lollipop.

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[Buddy1969]

What I realized is, that everytime I turn on the screen, I see the "location" icon shortly on top right side of the screen. Seems that while my screen is off, the device always tries to get my location. This happens even after a reboot, when no mapping or other location based app (except for Google Now) is in the memory.

I think that could be one of the reasons I don't get more that 2 hrs screen on time anymore (was 3 and more under KitKat)

 

[canterp]

my Nexus 5 drains battery in a few hours...if I turn off the wifi then it is normal.

You have to wonder how this could happen.

Does anyone know if there is a fix from Google?

PC

 

[21stNow]

For those of you saying that you wiped the cache and it didn't help, how did you do it? I wiped cache through Settings>Storage and it didn't help at all. When I wiped the cache partition through the recovery menu, I got improved battery life.

 

[ianhanson85]

For those of you saying that you wiped the cache and it didn't help, how did you do it? I wiped cache through Settings>Storage and it didn't help at all. When I wiped the cache partition through the recovery menu, I got improved battery life.

I've done both and a factory reset. With a good signal I was able to get 4 hours screen on time with kit Kat, with a poor signal I was getting a little over 3 hours. Now with lollipop I get just over 3 hours screen on time at best. If I am in a poor signal area I'm lucky to make it 2-2 and a half hours. Its just simply not acceptable. The battery graph is useless on lollipop IMO. It does very little to help locate where the drain is coming from. I have all location services off. I don't have the FB app and disabled fit. I'm so disappointed with lollipop so far. I was really hoping I would be able to see better screen on time and so far that is just not the case.

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[btroberts011]

Well I have an answer for those of you who are experiencing battery drain from your screen being on, but you're not going to like it. Use battery saver mode right from the beginning. Performance is crap, but it is a temporary fix until something is done. I think the notification and home button bars might be eating the battery. If there was a way to make them black(any color) it could allow us to not see such a tax on our batteries and not have to be in power saver mode. See if this helps.

G1, myTouch(rooted), nexusS, Nexus5

 

[Rutz1104]

For those of you saying that you wiped the cache and it didn't help, how did you do it? I wiped cache through Settings>Storage and it didn't help at all. When I wiped the cache partition through the recovery menu, I got improved battery life.

Hey I did it with recovery menu n still its d same, I will like try again if u can give me d proper steps so that I can check myself if I have done rite

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[21stNow]

Hey I did it with recovery menu n still its d same, I will like try again if u can give me d proper steps so that I can check myself if I have done rite

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I copied these steps from a reddit discussion:

You turn off the phone, then hold the power button and volume down to go into the boot loader.

Then hit volume down till it says Recovery, and hit the power button to select.

Then you will see the android lying flat with the words "No command." underneath.

This part took a few tries, but you now briefly hold down the power button for about half a second to a second (not too long or the phone will restart I think) and WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE POWER BUTTON, tap the VOLUME UP BUTTON and LET GO OF BOTH.

This will bring you to a menu with several options, like loading from ADB (sorry if I said that wrong), along with an option to Wipe Cache. Use volume buttons to scroll down to Wipe Cache and hit power button to select. It will prompt a couple of status messages as its doing so (takes a while, about 10 minutes), and afterwards it will bring you back to the previous menu with the first option now being to Restart the phone. Select that one, give the phone about 10 minutes to not just boot up to the home screen, but let all the startup actions take place, let your apps ping the servers or whatever else, and then you should be good to go.

 

[Dr. S]

Add me to the chorus of people who have seen decreased battery performance since the Lollipop upgrade. With KitKat, I would usually be around 30-40% at the end of the day, but now with the same usage pattern the battery saver mode usually kicks in, so I end up around 10-15%

Here's my usage for today. The first half of the day was fine, then things took a dramatic nosedive. I used it pretty lightly today, with only 30 minutes of on-screen time, 15 minutes of phone calls, and playing some podcasts in the car via Bluetooth. Despite that, my phone was just hemorrhaging battery, losing what felt like 1% a minute at times.

I've disabled Google Fit per the advice in this thread, and I tried disabling smart lock to see if that made any difference, but I don't think it did. I have no idea what's going on, but at this point I would roll back if I could.

 

[Rutz1104]

Hey 21StNow do I need get a back up for all the data

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[andyhurley]

My battery since Lollipop seemed to be ok, maybe just a little better than Kitkat but over the past few days it has taken a dramatic plunge for the worse.

For example today, after just 3 hours I have 77% left and the highest users have been gmail, google services and Android OS (all 4%) and then screen (2%).

Something must have changed to make these so high, it's not like I've even read any email this morning...

 

[21stNow]

Hey 21StNow do I need get a back up for all the data

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No, this doesn't erase any data.

 

[andyhurley]

For what it is worth I cleared the system cache (took ages - maybe 10 minutes) but this did not seem to have changed the battery trajectory. One thing has just occurred though, since Lollipop I switched to using the gmail app to pick up my IMAP email. As a result it was also picking up my mail from my google account (which I never use). I just checked and it seems to default to continuous collection and syncing of 30 days. I have turned off that sync so that just my IMAP email will be synced every 15 minutes and if that does not result in a drop in the gmail battery use I will switch off gmail and revert to the old email app I was using before (aquamail).

 

[raqball]

My brightness is cranked all the way up.. What can I say I like it like that.

4 hours of screen on time with 11% remaining.. I'm happy with that considering my brightness level.