Wondering about the Nexus 5's battery life?

[ARossetter]

I'm just gonna leave this here. Note that my office is in a black hole where T-Mo constantly switches between 3G, HSPA+ and LTE, so I would expect battery life at least on par with the GS4 I used prior. Fortunately, that was not the case at all.

 

[Gekko]

wow 12 1/4 hours and still at 51%? looks good to me.

 

[clevin]

screen on time and brightness please.

btw, you on wifi?

 

[ARossetter]

Sorry, can't pull numbers retroactively, but I can tell you that brightness is at its default setting (auto), I WAS on LTE during the day (this photo was taken at home after work), and the display was active, as general as this sounds, more than it would be in a typical day's use, as I had several, "wow, so that's the Nexus 5, huh?" types of encounters yesterday, so I was constantly waking it up to show people things.

Typical use for me is Hangouts when not at my desk, a few short (~5 minute) phone calls, a YouTube video or two, and news reading on Flynn a few times throughout the day. I don't play games on my phone, so this is not a good representative test for people that expect 20 hours straight battery life playing Asphalt 8. This IS, however, a good "average day at the office" type of test, which I wager is a majority of cell phone users who may have been scared away from the reviews regarding battery life.

 

[Hasbrobot]

Very nice..!

Personally going to be switching from the galaxy note 2 to the nexus 5 in January because I've had it with lack of updates. I've been with android since cupcake and the system updates are very meaningful to me. Anyhow I've been worried about the battery on this but this has put my mind at ease.

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[srkmagnus]

Nice battery life. I'm in similar situation at work where my coverage is always switching, so battery life is not the greatest while indoors. A few more days until I get to test it out.

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[consequence7]

Here is mine...

 

[jflexe99]

The first few days so far have been good. I haven't been super heavy watching videos and making calls, But from a full day, over 12 hours and about 2.5 hours on screen time I had about 40% or more left at the end of the day.

The battery at idle KILLS the N4 IMO. The N4 would just drain 1% every like 30 minutes or so it seemed. This retains its idle battery WAY better. I am always on wifi, with data normally off, auto sync off, gps off, mostly everything off besides wifi

 

[clevin]

Here is mine...

BBM is a massive battery sink.

 

[consequence7]

Oh thanks for telling me I did not know, I uninstalled so I'll see what the difference is now.

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