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Battery was 28% last night, the phone gained 3% overnight when It usually drains 2%, no usb connection as you can see in the graphic. What could cause this behavior? I’m just curious.
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NVMENOR said:
Battery was 28% last night, the phone gained 3% overnight when It usually drains 2%, no usb connection as you can see in the graphic. What could cause this behavior? I’m just curious.
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Perhaps its an issue with your battery controller. It was projecting a certain loss of battery but when it did not after waking from sleep it assumed it had charged and displayed a higher %?
That is completely conjecture based in no fact other than those made up by me, so please take it with a grain of salt. =)

i'll keep saying this, but nobody wants to look at the nexus s battery driver code. seems the phone is based off voltage tables, which fluctuate under load, and hence when you charge to 100% and unplug, it drops to 97%. because the voltage drop.
same could apply to this situation, very often you can see your voltage drop like that. especially if you left the phone idle all night after using it hard prior. voltage drops then increases.

Yes, I was using maps very hardly (at least in comparison to the rest of the day) and that’s the reason of the fast drop in the graphic, then the phone went sleep for almost 7 hours. I’ll take a look at what you’re saying about voltage tables. Very interesting info here.

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Yes, I was using maps very hardly (at least in comparison to the rest of the day) and that’s the reason of the fast drop in the graphic, then the phone went sleep for almost 7 hours. I’ll take a look at what you’re saying about voltage tables. Very interesting info here.
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you were using maps right around the time of that drop? then yes that's the reason. i wasnt directing the "code review" to you lol, just more of a general thing that was discussed in the forum previously. sorry
but this would definitely show, in my opinion, why there is also the 100% to 97% drop when taking the phone off the charger. voltage drop always ocurrs here.

RogerPodacter said:
... i wasnt directing the "code review" to you lol, just more of a general thing that was discussed in the forum previously. sorry...
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No reason to be sorry about, I didn’t take it that way; I just like to learn new stuff about how things work.

its the battery meter. you probably rebooted. the battery meter in android is known to be inaccurate. sometimes after a reboot it can gain or lose percentage. ive gained 25% before after rebooting! in reality, you didnt gain anything, its just the meter being off by a bit.

I just want to know how you get nearly 4 days of use out of a charge!
Don't you use your phone?

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its the battery meter. you probably rebooted. the battery meter in android is known to be inaccurate. sometimes after a reboot it can gain or lose percentage. ive gained 25% before after rebooting! in reality, you didnt gain anything, its just the meter being off by a bit.
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I haven’t seen this after reboot, this happened after awake and it wasn’t sudden. Phone without signal in the graphic is the “airplane-mode” It wasn’t off. I know that battery didn’t gain any charge, of course, It’s just the weird behavior of android reading battery information.
knytphal said:
I just want to know how you get nearly 4 days of use out of a charge!
Don't you use your phone?
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lol, yeah, It was a very quiet week.

it would be awesome if you could test this if you dont mind. turn your screen brightness to max, make sure your on 3g and not wifi, open google maps and scroll in one direction for about a minute or 2, check the battery percent and voltage. then turn off the screen, leave it sit for a few minutes, then see the percent and voltage readings.
maybe try a test a few times just for fun...you wanna place as much load on the phone as possible, so maybe even turn on the camera flash?

RogerPodacter said:
it would be awesome if you could test this if you dont mind. turn your screen brightness to max, make sure your on 3g and not wifi, open google maps and scroll in one direction for about a minute or 2, check the battery percent and voltage. then turn off the screen, leave it sit for a few minutes, then see the percent and voltage readings.
maybe try a test a few times just for fun...you wanna place as much load on the phone as possible, so maybe even turn on the camera flash?
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does any body else has an easier way, or can recommend a market app to test the battery life by using full features?

Quick test here:
Beginning with 3728 mV, stress the phone a little and It drops to 3622 mV, then I let the phone sleep for couple of minutes and after wake it battery shows 3730 mV. It seems to show higher values than those that were present before sending the phone to sleep. What could be said about that?
I’ll do another test with full charge and more stress, but for the moment, my phone is charging, yeah…. Finally.

NVMENOR said:
Quick test here:
Beginning with 3728 mV, stress the phone a little and It drops to 3622 mV, then I let the phone sleep for couple of minutes and after wake it battery shows 3730 mV. It seems to show higher values than those that were present before sending the phone to sleep. What could be said about that?
I’ll do another test with full charge and more stress, but for the moment, my phone is charging, yeah…. Finally.
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its too bad my app (my sig) doesnt work for the nexus s, because i just recently added real time voltage vs current graphing, taking 2 second readings, for these exact circunstances. its fun doing these types of tests on my n1. but the battery driver and model is too different in the nexus s to use the app...
n1 doesnt use voltage at all for percent readings, but my hunch from code was the nexus s does. that's why i was so curious. check out some screens though for fun. you can really do some interesting tests with such high sample rates.

Battery getting worse day after day.

Well, for the first days the battery life was great, going on almost a week and the battery life is bad, just as bad as other phones. The phone with regular use would by 9pm have aprox 40% left yesterday had 30% no today I am already getting a warning of low batt and use was normal...wow....this is not looking good

Just curious...what apps do you have under your "Accounts" area in Settings set to sync?
What apps do you have running persistently (check your notification drawer)?
Screenshot of your battery usage?
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my battery is low or around 30% at 12am when i sleeep sooooo

Out of habit I plugged mine in via PC USB for an hour (charging it an extra 50% from 8%) but according to my battery stats I'm rocking nearly two full days (1d 22h) from 100% with only an hour plugged in while gaming....with me being in an area with one bar to no signal for over 10 he's today. My GS2 couldn't do that .
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Edit: oh, and I'm still at 42% typing this ;-)

hmm, rogue app that you installed??
mine has been great since day 1 with no hiccups. 15hrs or so with 3+ screen time yields me about 25% battery left at end of the day

Yeah, not really impressed with the battery life either, barely make it through the day with moderate use. Screen is a killer!
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17h 30m with 52% capacity left after moderate use today (2 hours reading the news with various apps on LTE/4G and the rest of the day on WiFi, with maybe an hour browsing, updating apps and fiddling). CPU - 7.05% at 1.5 GHz, 4.85% at 1.13 GHz, 3.07% at 810 MHz, 80.64% at 384 MHz with the remainder of CPU usage scattered in between. Pretty good really - much better than my HTC Desire.

Use BetterBatteryStats and check for rogue apps sucking battery.
After that, if your phone still is dying incredibly quickly, just use the phone until it dies. Then boot into hboot (volume down and power button together, a white screen with blocky text and some androids on the bottom will show up), and keep that open until the phone shuts off again. Then do a full charge to 4.2v.

Try a number of battery saver apps / tips
aimfire72 said:
Yeah, not really impressed with the battery life either, barely make it through the day with moderate use. Screen is a killer!
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I had a Desire, have a Xoom & now a X. Found with large screen devices you have to use those normal tips such as screen brightness, rougue app killing, sync for FB / mail. Rooted the HTC when first purchased with Leedroid to fix battery. Got 50% more from just that process. Didn't wait for the first OTA upgrade to fix that first horror release. Suggest:
a) batterysaver (or similar) on all devices - I reckon it gives a little %.
b) Turn off all apps not being used
c) Turn down screen
d) Turn off Bluetooth / GPS / etc when you don't need them
e) In car, at work, use charger
Gotta love smart phones. If you use it, you will lose it. (Battery that is).

gentzleon said:
Well, for the first days the battery life was great, going on almost a week and the battery life is bad, just as bad as other phones. The phone with regular use would by 9pm have aprox 40% left yesterday had 30% no today I am already getting a warning of low batt and use was normal...wow....this is not looking good
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- Root it and remove all the bloatware.
- Turn off auto brightness and set it at a fixed level (minimum is too dark, I have it set a little above minimum)
- Only enable wifi/gps when you need them
- If you need sync, turn down the syncing intervals
I get great battery life on this thing. There must be something you are doing. What do you mean by 'regular use'? Are you playing games for hours on end?

I seem to be having the same problem. Last screen shot I had I was at 37% with 16 hours. Now I'm sitting right now at 40% with 5 hours. Not sure what's sucking up all the juice. I don't have any sketchy apps installed. Might delete them one by one see how that goes because something is seriously draining the battery and I know it's not normal.
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Turn off auto brightness if u have it on. My battery is amazing, even at full brightness, but auto is too agressive and drains more that it saves
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Simple reboot seem to fix it.
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my battery was horrible. In fact I went to take it back to att. He told me to try a complete factory reset and try it factory without any extra apps installed. So I did and my battery is sooo much better during my "test" before I couldn't get more then 9 hours with 3 hour screen time but now look at it. I'm guessing ny case it's an app like task killer or something I had on the phone killing the battery. Now to figure out what it was.
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I just got over 36 hours on one charge and had 16% left. That was riding a motorcycle for 3 hours through the mountains where I know there is spotty coverage plus a 2 hour conference call on Friday.
One thing I've noticed, check your wireless settings and make sure Best Wi-Fi Performance is unchecked. I had that turned on and got about 9 hours on a charge. Turned it off and fantastic battery life.
Ski

Yea there are definitely some rogue apps that will kill your battery. Best bet install an app one at a time and see which one starts affecting battery life.
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Are you guys rooted or flashed a different ruu? That would be nice to know, and how many emails, brightness etc. I've been on my phone for 2 hours or so of screen on time and its at 34%. My brightness is set at 20% and I turned gmail sync off. When I charged it to full this morning it was only at 4.177 is that normal? Some people mention that theirs is at 4.2.
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Shaddy-Z. said:
Are you guys rooted or flashed a different ruu? That would be nice to know, and how many emails, brightness etc. I've been on my phone for 2 hours or so of screen on time and its at 34%. My brightness is set at 20% and I turned gmail sync off. When I charged it to full this morning it was only at 4.177 is that normal? Some people mention that theirs is at 4.2.
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i'm with you. I have seen some posts on here about 4.2 and noticed some say 4.3 should be achievable. Perhaps they are rounding up the 4.177 to get the 4.2? I, too, charge to exactly 4.177 in morning on full overnight charging. Actually, my device is 4.187 until i unplug, when it immediately drops to 77. That said, my battery life has been great in the 9 days since my initial day or two with the phone.

Seido 3800 maH battery purchased! - best practices?

http://www.amazon.com/Seidio-BACY38...yrocket/dp/tech-data/B006SQ12E8/ref=de_a_smtd
Just purchased the battery above! My very first Seido. Hope everything goes well but based on the reviews it should do exactly what I want and need it to do! Can anyone give me any input on best practices once I get my battery in? I did rush delivery and it should be here tomorrow.
1) I've read a couple people saying it reads 100% all day and some people say it reads perfectly find (battery is at 50% and the indicator on the phone actually says 50% too). How do I get it to read the battery correctly?
2) Also, should I charge it once I receive it first or should I put it in the phone and drain it all the way first then start charging?
3) Does the battery have that auto off charging thing that turns off charging when it reaches full? Or do you have to baby sit it and your phone when it's charging and unplug it from the charger manually to stop the charging from ruining the battery?
4) Is the battery actually fully charged once your phone says 100% or do you have to charge a couple hours after that still?

I have one.
- youll want to properly calibrate your battery. Mine came with about 40% to start with. Just use it normally to drain it first then fully charge up to 100%. When you reach it youll want to charge it an extra 2 hours or so. Also dont forget to wipe battery stats and pull it out for 30 seconds before use.
- it took me about 6-7 charges to get it going at its full potential.
- try to avoid charging in the middle of battery use to 0%.
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anomy13 said:
I have one.
- youll want to properly calibrate your battery. Mine came with about 40% to start with. Just use it normally to drain it first then fully charge up to 100%. When you reach it youll want to charge it an extra 2 hours or so. Also dont forget to wipe battery stats and pull it out for 30 seconds before use.
- it took me about 6-7 charges to get it going at its full potential.
- try to avoid charging in the middle of battery use to 0%.
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Thanks man.
Ok I received it and I was able to drain it from what it read as "40%" and brought it down to 0% dead with a bunch of indoor GPS, pandora playing, all radios on, and max brightness and screen on in about 3 hours.
I'm letting it charge now to 100%, going to let it charge an additional 2 hours after that and then "wipe battery stats."
[Q] Does this mean go into recovery and do the wipe battery stats option in there after it hits 100% + 2 hours?
[Q] What does it mean pull it out for 30s before use? Does this mean wipe battery stats -> then take the battery out of the phone for 30s -> put the battery back in -> turn it on? Is that the right order?
If someone could answer soon that'd be awesome. It's charging right now and I want to make sure to get this down right the first time

Id say your good with the drain and recharge plus the extra 2 hr.some may say battery stats are a myth.I look at devs roms and none if there instructions include reset battery stats if I helped hit thanks...good luck with your battery I hope it helps
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Charge it to 100% + extra 2 hours then go to recovery and wipe battery stats. After that turn ur phone off pull out the battery out for 30 sec. Then put it back in and proceed with normal use. Then as I said before try to avoid charging in the middle to its way to 0%. And repeat.
The myth about battery stats was regarding a different matter. When i did not calibrate my battery for a long time I noticed that it decreased total life by 10%. So it is imperative that u do it at least time to time.
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anomy13 said:
Charge it to 100% + extra 2 hours then go to recovery and wipe battery stats. After that turn ur phone off pull out the battery out for 30 sec. Then put it back in and proceed with normal use. Then as I said before try to avoid charging in the middle to its way to 0%. And repeat.
The myth about battery stats was regarding a different matter. When i did not calibrate my battery for a long time I noticed that it decreased total life by 10%. So it is imperative that u do it at least time to time.
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Been doing it and im VERY happy with this battery. I actually do not mind at all the "bulk" that the battery + cover brings to the phone, I prefer it! It makes the phone less slippery and a much better feel in my hand!
I ordered the case + clip holder from Seido as well and can't wait to get those in.
First test: (I never charged it the entire day)
3 hours of GPS
heavy browsing
music playing every once in a while
pandora
max brightness
no juicedefender, but i did use SetCPU to underclock the CPU when the battery got too hot (which never happened)
Lasted from 7am to 6pm. That is an INSANE amount of time considering all the unnecessary stuff I was doing with it! This battery is amazing!
I'm going through a "regular" day of usage today instead of trying purposefully to drain it. It's been off the charger since 7am and its sitting at 72%. Satisfied! :highfive:

syypher said:
Been doing it and im VERY happy with this battery. I actually do not mind at all the "bulk" that the battery + cover brings to the phone, I prefer it! It makes the phone less slippery and a much better feel in my hand!
I ordered the case + clip holder from Seido as well and can't wait to get those in.
First test: (I never charged it the entire day)
3 hours of GPS
heavy browsing
music playing every once in a while
pandora
max brightness
no juicedefender, but i did use SetCPU to underclock the CPU when the battery got too hot (which never happened)
Lasted from 7am to 6pm. That is an INSANE amount of time considering all the unnecessary stuff I was doing with it! This battery is amazing!
I'm going through a "regular" day of usage today instead of trying purposefully to drain it. It's been off the charger since 7am and its sitting at 72%. Satisfied! :highfive:
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Blown away right now, with how well 5.1 is running with the 07162012 Nightly CM9. Never had this much success with battery before!
Can't post screenie yet, but will add once I am allowed to.

Weazmeister said:
Blown away right now, with how well 5.1 is running with the 07162012 Nightly CM9. Never had this much success with battery before!
Can't post screenie yet, but will add once I am allowed to.
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I just flashed CM9 Nightly 07162012 yesterday and the battery life has been amazing.
I work at AT&T Corporate Store so I use it at work.
-A few calls
-Texting
-Pandora
-Metal Slug 3
-Facebook
-Instagram
So basically my daily usage and within those 23 hours it also includes me downloading all my apps and syncing my information on to it.
*Oh, I also have the same battery. That's why I posted this on here.*
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Here's my results
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Thanks for the feedbacks guys, this looks very promising.

Are you like me with battery life?

I'm getting pretty good battery life on bean R2 (I easily average 20+hrs). But no matter which ROM I am on, no matter if I'm getting great or poor battery life, I always start to get on edge once I have dropped below 70%. I start to think, damn there goes battery today. I realize I still have 3/4 of my battery remaining but I just feel this anxiety that my phone is not near full charge.
I let it drain to empty a couple times a month but it becomes almost unbearable when I get down to the last 1/3 of my battery life.
Is it just me?
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sounds like you need to turn off percentages. I had this problem until i turned it off. Now i have to go a few steps further to find out what it actually is and that makes me not care as much.

My battery life is HORRIBLE.

Have you tried using an app like GSam Battery Monitor?
I've been able to track down a few issues with that app, including one where I needed to wipe my cache to stop my internal sd card from being continuously scanned.

I always get over 2 hours of screen time over the course of a day. Currently using AOKP Jelly Bean, and it's still the same!
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1Android said:
I'm getting pretty good battery life on bean R2 (I easily average 20+hrs). But no matter which ROM I am on, no matter if I'm getting great or poor battery life, I always start to get on edge once I have dropped below 70%. I start to think, damn there goes battery today. I realize I still have 3/4 of my battery remaining but I just feel this anxiety that my phone is not near full charge.
I let it drain to empty a couple times a month but it becomes almost unbearable when I get down to the last 1/3 of my battery life.
Is it just me?
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Don't drain your battery. People really need to stop thinking these are the old batteries of yesteryear. Draining your battery will cause it stress and lower it's overall life and charge over time. Draining your battery is causing exactly what you're trying to prevent. Best practice is to let it get to 15-20% and then charge.
On topic, I get anxiety about battery at around 70% too. Mostly because it seems to hit that point pretty fast, but then can last the rest of the day no problem.

Have fun with your new phone and keep a charger on stand by! If you use your phone medium to heavy use you should get to the end of your work day and you can charge it when you get home. Did you get your sd card issue resolved?
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Ive found that having a spare battery always charged, along with the spare battery charger handy so I can charge a battery while using my phone, works great for my mental 'battery issues'!

On Synergy 1.3, I have AMAZING battery life! Can usually go 2 days between charges if I wanted to...Unplug the phone at 8am and at midnight, I'm rocking 50-60% still, depending on the day.
GSam Battery Monitor can help find apps that are abnormally draining the battery...But I've found that it too can cause the phone to get stuck in a wake lock...So I don't keep it installed, only use it if I have a weird battery drain issue.

I'm the same way, if not worse. I constantly look at power usage (in miliamps and %/hr). I should just remove all battery widgets and percentages, I almost always have enough battery, just paranoid.

Mercuie said:
On topic, I get anxiety about battery at around 70% too. Mostly because it seems to hit that point pretty fast, but then can last the rest of the day no problem.
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That's weird how they do that.
My phone does the same exact thing with the big 4000+ Hyperion battery. It drops to 70% in what seems like no time at all, then three hours later it is still at 70%. The battery gauge obviously is not very accurate at all.
Right now, my phone has been on for just under 10 hours and says it is at 40%. if I just let it go (I charge it every night) it would run all night and still be at around 40% tomorrow morning.

I am the same way after just installing synergy 1.3 on saturday I have been constantly checking battery percentage. Anytime I change anything I get obsessed with it for a while.

This is what I like to see! Used to not be able to get close to 3 hours screen on.
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What did you change to get increased screen time?
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Switched to beans custom rom. This will be my first discharge though.

Battery
I've read about the new batteries and not letting them completely discharge, instead recharging when it gets to 15% or so.My battery life was awful, if I was at 45% or less I needed to plug it in before going to bed. This was a daily thing, I charged my phone every night, Well I forgot the other night and woke up to a dead battery. I plugged the phone in and turned it on while charging. I charged it to 100%. This was 2 mornings ago (not been charged since) and I'm just now a 46% with normal usage (for me). I just thought this was interesting and wonder if anyone else has experienced this or can replicate it.

Battery Life
I'm getting smoking battery life, been tethering a good 2/3 hours and been on the phone and answering email add day and checking this site. I am on 1.5 Synengy, and using the Snapdragon CPU script that was posted in one of the forums. I can post the link as I don't have a large enough post count, however I would search the forum and find the mod and use it.
It's amazing, I'm at 51% battery and have not plugged in all day. I unplugged it at 7:30 am Arizona time and it's 4:30pm AZ time.
Try it, it' works.
Rob

I get better battery life with than I did with my rezound with extended battery
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Here is what I was talking about it's works for me.
Here is the link to the mod I used on my G3 it works amazing, it's a little confusing to enable, but one it's enabled you can rest assured it will work.
You can also change the processor speeds along with the battery save options.
Make sure you read the OP VERY CAREFULLY, it's where all the details are to run the script.
URL: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800703&highlight=cpu+editor
Good Luck
Rob

Battery life
kench33 said:
This is what I like to see! Used to not be able to get close to 3 hours screen on.
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Wow, your cell standby was eating you up. Hope you got that fixed.
As far as battery life, I feel mine is average to good. Cell standby and Android OS account for only 9% and 5% of my battery, the other 52% of it used up is screen.. so I think thats pretty good numbers to see.

Nexus 5 battery problems

Hi. I have a two-months-old Nexus 5 (stock ROM & kernel; rooted). Two days ago my battery suddenly started having some problems. First of all, it doesn't last more than 1-2 hours with normal phone usage. Then it often becomes hot, even when not charging. Last but not least, if I keep using my phone while charging, it charges incredibly slowly, or it doesn't charge at all (the charge remains stable). I'm using the stock charger. Any suggestion?

Jaggions said:
Hi. I have a two-months-old Nexus 5 (stock ROM & kernel; rooted). Two days ago my battery suddenly started having some problems. First of all, it doesn't last more than 1-2 hours with normal phone usage. Then it often becomes hot, even when not charging. Last but not least, if I keep using my phone while charging, it charges incredibly slowly, or it doesn't charge at all (the charge remains stable). I'm using the stock charger. Any suggestion?
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What does the battery settings show?
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What does the battery settings show?
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Just buy another phone that has higher than 2300 milliampz

Jaggions said:
Here you go:
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Looks like wakelocking. You'll need root and BetterBatteryStats to fix it (without guessing).

dicecuber said:
Just buy another phone that has higher than 2300 milliampz
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The Nexus 5 has been proven to last longer then an SGS4 which has a bigger battery, and the HTC one with the same size battery (under proper testing conditions) all while using a faster SoC. Do you troll the forums for those phones as well?
Maybe a Moto G or LG G2 would suit some people better for their increased battery life, but that doesn't mean you need to troll every thread on here with false accusations.
If you'd like any more proof on how the N5 battery lasts longer and is more efficient than competing phones of higher prices, just let me know.

Aerowinder said:
Looks like wakelocking. You'll need root and BetterBatteryStats to fix it (without guessing).
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I did what you said; I have attached some screenshots. I'm not an expert about this, but it seems like you were right. What shall I do?

The most important stat to look at is partial wakelocks - it lets you see which app or apps are waking.

Mort said:
I'll have to check on that... I think it might not be that easy...
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Just attach the log, missing info from those screenshots.

Aerowinder said:
Just attach the log, missing info from those screenshots.
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Sorry for the delay. Here you go:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5og53439mj8b5cg/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-28_175226040.txt

Jaggions said:
Sorry for the delay. Here you go:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5og53439mj8b5cg/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-28_175226040.txt
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Go into device settings > Location. Set Mode to Device only. Ensure that the Google location reporting in that same area is off.
Take another BBS log and post it.

I experience the same issues. Not charging when connected or even lose charge when connected. I am still figuring out what causes it. First of all try using the original cable and charger. Second, disconnect the charger when the screen is on, I read somewhere that can help as well.
Today I had the same issue again, but just before I started charging, the battery would lose 1% per 2 minutes and my phone became very warm.
If I find out more, I will let you know.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda app-developers app

Aerowinder said:
Go into device settings > Location. Set Mode to Device only. Ensure that the Google location reporting in that same area is off.
Take another BBS log and post it.
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I did what you said and today the battery drained much faster then before. Here you have the logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5temccnzh1mnky/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-29_121755481.txt

Jaggions said:
I did what you said and today the battery drained much faster then before. Here you have the logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5temccnzh1mnky/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-29_121755481.txt
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EntriesRefresh_wakelock (com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.Google Search): 4 h 47 m 17 s (17237 s) Count:0 98.6%
That is the problem. That particular wakelock belongs to Google Now. I hope you don't use it, because the solution is to turn it off (from within the program). You could try force stopping and/or wiping it's data. But the fact of the matter is that it's a bug in the app.
Google Now has been this way since it was released. The only conclusion I can draw is that Google doesn't care. It's never behaved properly. And that location reporting (that you've now disabled) is completely out of control, been that way for a year now. I actually greenify the Google apps now. I'm tired of putting up with the lazy programming. Keep, Now, Chrome, Drive, Maps, I greenify all of those. I still allow them to sync, but Greenify will kill them again after they are finished.

Jaggions said:
I did what you said and today the battery drained much faster then before. Here you have the logs: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b5temccnzh1mnky/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-29_121755481.txt
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Thank you. I'll try disabling google now and I'll let you know.
Sent from my Nexus 5 using xda app-developers app

I can confirm that I have no battery problems anymore (today after 6 hours of average usage it was still at 80%!!). Thank you all for your help!

Good to hear. If anyone else see's Android OS or Search taking up 50% or more of your battery that can be mitigated.

Jaggions said:
Hi. I have a two-months-old Nexus 5 (stock ROM & kernel; rooted). Two days ago my battery suddenly started having some problems. First of all, it doesn't last more than 1-2 hours with normal phone usage. Then it often becomes hot, even when not charging. Last but not least, if I keep using my phone while charging, it charges incredibly slowly, or it doesn't charge at all (the charge remains stable). I'm using the stock charger. Any suggestion?
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Take out your Battery, put it on a flat surface say a table. Try to Spin it....if it spins over 2 rounds then you need to buy a new battery.