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For those with battery/lag issues

I noticed yesterday that my mt4g (stock, not rooted, with ota update) was warm and had dropped >10% battery in 30 minutes or so.
I loaded watchdog lite and didn't see any runaway processes or anything. However, my battery still seemed to be draining faster than usual and the phone seemed a bit laggy.
Today I was more curious so I fiddled with watchdogs settings and enabled monitoring phone processes. As soon as I.did this I got a notification about a process taking over 55% CPU. I opened up watchdog and saw that init process was using between 50-89% CPU.
I did a quick search of Google and xda and found some reports of similar issues with other android devices, namely this xda thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8966211&postcount=1
I turned on usb debugging as recommended and init has yet to set off watchdog again today. Phone seems snappier and battery seems a bit better so far.
Just thought id share if any other mt4g users are experiencing mysterious battery usage/lag, its worth turning on usb debugging to see if it helps - can't hurt imo.
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Hmm interesting. I've noticed that when I'm charging the touch screen gets a little unresponsive.
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werk said:
I noticed yesterday that my mt4g (stock, not rooted, with ota update) was warm and had dropped >10% battery in 30 minutes or so.
I loaded watchdog lite and didn't see any runaway processes or anything. However, my battery still seemed to be draining faster than usual and the phone seemed a bit laggy.
Today I was more curious so I fiddled with watchdogs settings and enabled monitoring phone processes. As soon as I.did this I got a notification about a process taking over 55% CPU. I opened up watchdog and saw that init process was using between 50-89% CPU.
I did a quick search of Google and xda and found some reports of similar issues with other android devices, namely this xda thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8966211&postcount=1
I turned on usb debugging as recommended and init has yet to set off watchdog again today. Phone seems snappier and battery seems a bit better so far.
Just thought id share if any other mt4g users are experiencing mysterious battery usage/lag, its worth turning on usb debugging to see if it helps - can't hurt imo.
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cool thanks for the info. i just did that for my phone so i will see if i noticed a difference in my battery life and performance

Hi Werk, glad to see my thread is helping you guys too..
Although it was my thread, thanks must go to Topcat who stumbled across this fix.
Im very confident that the /INIT process wont return, out of the 25 thousand + viewers only one has reported that the /INIT process has returned after restarting there phone, where a quick uncheck/check of USB Debugging has solved the issue again.
Personally I've not had the problem for sometime now and don't expect it to come back..
Regards Rick.

Arcadia310 said:
Hmm interesting. I've noticed that when I'm charging the touch screen gets a little unresponsive.
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I've had that issue with all my android phones it seems - Cliq, N1, Vibrant, MT4G and a G2 I had for only 2-3 days.

I have always kept usb debugging on, my battery life is good. 36 hours now and I'm down to 28 %. Mostly standby though. Going to run it down for full charge.

Well, after a full run-down of the battery yesterday and a recharge overnight, I'm off the charger for 8.5hrs so far today with heavy browsing, email, and Logmein usage and battery is at 65%. Very, very happy I stumbled across rixsta's post and Topcat's information. This is like a totally different phone now.

Thanks for the info werk. Charging my empty battery and just turned on USB debugging. Let's see how my battery life goes. It barely last 12 hours for me.

Arcadia310 said:
Hmm interesting. I've noticed that when I'm charging the touch screen gets a little unresponsive.
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You know what, I thought I was the only one that realized that lol. Mine does that too. Luckily I don't use it much when its needing charged but still.

turning off mobile networks seems to make my battery last a lot longer.

clivo360 said:
turning off mobile networks seems to make my battery last a lot longer.
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what is the point of having a phone then?

likeitnot said:
You know what, I thought I was the only one that realized that lol. Mine does that too. Luckily I don't use it much when its needing charged but still.
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Probably a bit o' that there ground loop. Strap more rubber on your feet, son.

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what is the point of having a phone then?
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Lmfao!
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Thanks. I turned on debugging yesterday around 1030. Normally when I go to bed around 2300 my phone is on its last leg or dead and I don't even touch it unless I have to, so that I can plug it in on my night stand when I go to bed. Last night around 2200 it still had a lot more battery than it usually does at that time... probably 10-15% more.
Also, thanks for mentioning watchdog, I snagged it off the market. Great app. bye bye ATK!

I'm still trying to figure out why my battery on the MT4G is so poor. This is my 3rd Android phone in 2 years. I always have considered the battery life on my G1 and MT3G to be fantastic. I do the normal battery conditioning to begin with, phones are all setup fairly identical, and yet I can barely leave work at 430pm without having to run for my charger. Yesterday I turned on debugging (which was always turned on with the G1 and 3G) and it didn't work.

Even with set-cpu profiles setup my battery life Is not so great

Anyone have any updates on this issue that they would like to share?
I noticed that when I turn on usb debug, Windows 7 has trouble finding the drivers for the phone.

What do you guys consider "good" battery life? The phone lasts me through the day with moderate usage. I'm not on it 24/7 (because, you know, I have a life), but I do use it for texting, light browsing, Facebook, some games, music, etc, and I always have battery life to spare before going to bed. I charge my phone every night while I sleep. Are people expecting the phone to last several days without being charged?

kryptik06 said:
Even with set-cpu profiles setup my battery life Is not so great
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Just because you have profiles setup doesn't mean a thing. It's what those settings are that make a difference.
I have been consistently getting 36 hours of moderate to heavy use from my MT4G. My screens have documented that.
See here for a good example.

Check here for mystery battery drain on the MT4G that I found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872839&page=3
My MT4G now last about 2 days on a single charge with normal use. Which is comparable to my old 2G iPhone.

About to return this. =X

Battery life is SO bad I can't take it anymore...
Unplugged at 7am this morning and at 8pm I had to plug the thing back into a charger it shut itself off it had no more juice. I literally only answered TEXT messages today and that was it in absolute FEAR i would drain all my battery life.
This is NOT how a smartphone should be, especially out of the box. If this was an apple device the whole media world would be going nuts over this and it would be on CNN/Fox etc etc.
Honestly i'm going to give this thing one more day and try a few of the tricks I see on these forums if it doesn't get better i'm peacing out.

Wish I got 13 out of mine.
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Weird, mine's definitely better than my N1 was. maybe not radically so, but definitely better.

Getting 14-16 out of mine, with surfing, calls, etc.
Get "where's my droid power" from the market and see whats killing your battery. Mine was wifi calling DESPITE the fact that it is NOT enabled. I'm rooted so I froze it.
I also use Juice Defender and SetCpu.

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Getting 14-16 out of mine, with surfing, calls, etc.
Get "where's my droid power" from the market and see whats killing your battery. Mine was wifi calling DESPITE the fact that it is NOT enabled. I'm rooted so I froze it.
I also use Juice Defender and SetCpu.
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Dear friend, can you tell me how to root it?
I wouldn't mind freezing Wifi calling i think that might be doing it.

This is what I experienced with the Nexus S. My first one had terrible battery life, my second Nexus S had phenomenal battery life

Supposedly going into CW recovery and clearing battery settings helps alot. It was already stated by the CM team, I think, that the battery driver is really wonky in the stock build and they are working to improve it.
I can say that since 8am, with a day of push corporate emails, games, texting, WiFi, and WiFi Calling.... I'm now at 10pm 30%.
My Nexus One would be dead at 5pm. I'm happy.

I feel like the battery life has been good so far. I deleted all the apps from tmo and stuff I wont use. So far so good.... there's nothing running in the background that I don't know
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G2x Battery Life
What I do is when I'm not using my 4g I turn it on 2g and the battery last way way way longer...
I can go 15 hours easy on light heavy usage ...
try it before you return it ...
Just download a widget and turn 4g off when your not using it...
There is something wrong with the data on the phones software that is killing battery life....

i think im going to do the same very soon, the battery life is unacceptable and i dont think we're going to get much better results with fixed battery driver by cyanogenmod team.
and by the way, my N1 had much better battery life than this. This phone just reminds me of the g1, awesome phone but with terrible battery. i think im going to wait for sgs2.

I'm usually not the one to drain the battery and recharge it cause people said it will make a difference.
Well, I did it anyways and wow, what an improvement.
Its about 12 hours already and i have 80% left

I am getting 16 hours and would get more but always charge while sleeping. The first day I had it I listened to the music player for 5 hours straight while working about an hour of browsing 3-5 short phone calls and texting all day after about 10 hrs I still had 50% . I haven't rooted yet or done anything besides turn wifi calling off and I factory reset when I first got the phone because the T-Mobile Rep cancelled the setup. My vibrant couldn't even play music for that long unless I disabled the data connection all day.

That's because the amoled on the vibrant is a huge battery hog
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Actually OP, if it was an Apple phone Steve Jobs would just tell you you're holding it wrong.

player911 said:
Supposedly going into CW recovery and clearing battery settings helps alot. It was already stated by the CM team, I think, that the battery driver is really wonky in the stock build and they are working to improve it.
I can say that since 8am, with a day of push corporate emails, games, texting, WiFi, and WiFi Calling.... I'm now at 10pm 30%.
My Nexus One would be dead at 5pm. I'm happy.
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R u talking about the wipe battery stats in advanced?

[VERIZON] Absolutely Horrible Battery Life

My only concern when buying this phone was battery life compared to my Razr Maxx. I was expecting it to be shorter...... but not this much!
I have tried restarting and clearing cache+dalvik. It seems to keep happening.

Eesh that is definitely not normal. I have the Verizon GS3 and get far better battery life.
I would suggest a factory reset. That seems to work for some people. Otherwise I'd suggest getting a replacement.
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looks like something is waking up your phone like crazy when the screen is off...

I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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Schaweet said:
I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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can you elaborate more on this? i downloaded the program and I dont see anything irregular at all. when i go to "partial wake locks" i see audioout only taking up 2.4% TOTAL TIM, 7M51S and the next one being dropboxcpuolywakelock
next one being backup, so on and so forth, none above 2%....
I am experiencing the exact same battery life drain as the op...except i have the tmobile version

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can you elaborate more on this? i downloaded the program and I dont see anything irregular at all. when i go to "partial wake locks" i see audioout only taking up 2.4% TOTAL TIM, 7M51S and the next one being dropboxcpuolywakelock
next one being backup, so on and so forth, none above 2%....
I am experiencing the exact same battery life drain as the op...except i have the tmobile version
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I had the same issue the other night. Took it off the charger and fell asleep.... when I woke up over 1/4 of my battery was gone. Android System showed the same high percentage used. I went into apps, android system, force stopped it, rebooted.. Hasn't crept back up since.
From my understanding, under idle, android system should be in the 5-10% range.

I did a full system reboot, pulled battery and restarted - all better. Something was tripping my battery up as well. It's not the phone, somethings causing it.
Galaxy S3 - Locked...

Schaweet said:
I love these sort of posts. You obviously have a wake lock that is keeping your processor active when not in use. Download "BetterBatteryStats" from the market and check out your wake locks and partial wake locks. It will be petty obvious at that point. It's most likely a rouge app.
It isn't a systemic problem with the phone. I get around 20 hours with slightly more than moderate use.
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not sure how thats possible at all.. I have the t999 gs3 and other verizon users confirmed very similar battery life..... these phones get around 2.5 hours screen on time.... soo to actually get 20 hours of use, MOST of that time has to be with the screen off.. i dont see how moderate usage would yield 20 hours.... ide LOVE to get 20 hoursss

Topher227 said:
My only concern when buying this phone was battery life compared to my Razr Maxx. I was expecting it to be shorter...... but not this much!
I have tried restarting and clearing cache+dalvik. It seems to keep happening.
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Your phone never sleeps. I would do a factory reset.

joemagistro said:
not sure how thats possible at all.. I have the t999 gs3 and other verizon users confirmed very similar battery life..... these phones get around 2.5 hours screen on time.... soo to actually get 20 hours of use, MOST of that time has to be with the screen off.. i dont see how moderate usage would yield 20 hours.... ide LOVE to get 20 hoursss
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that's what i get, with 2-2.5 hours of screen time. no lte for me though.

I have Verizon GS3 and battery life is great. I too had an issue with battery drainning fast on my GS3 but found out it was Enhanced Mail Apps that I was using that killed my Battery so I uninstalled it. After the uninstall, my battery life has been great. You really can't compare battery life between Mot Raze and GS3. GS3 is far superior.
There must be an apps that is draining your battery.
Here is my battery stats. This is with moderate use.
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By the way, I was mostly on a LTE network except for maybe 30min.
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That is far from normal.
100% LTE. Moderate with periods of heavy use. I would run a few cycles to see if your battery performance improves. Also, as other users have stated, keep running BetterBatteryStats for a few days and it will keep catching the wakelocks you're getting. If you still can't figure out the problem, I would seek a replacement battery from Verizon just to be sure.
Edit: Forgot to mention this before. If you haven't yet, plug your phone in and charge the battery to 100% with the phone powered down completely. Then let it run all the way down before charging it again. Doing this once effectively "trains" the battery to better read its full capacity and won't hurt the overall life of the battery. This is something that I find is often missed with new batteries, but I have had great results with.
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Thanks for the replies... i did a factory reset and did not use Titanium to restore the apps in case one of them was causing the drain.
I'm still getting random drains by "gsiff_daemon" (which i'm seeing others having issues with this too). Fortunately this drain is fixed by a simple reboot. Yesterday I was able to get just under 15 hours of what i'd call light'ish use (under an hour of cached Spotify, WiFi all day, 10 minutes of phone calls, 30 SMS) and was at about 5%. Keep in mind I had about an hour in there where good 'ol gsiff was suckin down the battery (It took about 20% in 45 minutes).
The final test for me is this weekend. If it can last a whole day with my moderate/heavy usage.... i'm keeping it. Otherwise, its back to the Maxx.

This doesn't address the root cause of something preventing the phone from sleeping, but I thought I would mention an app that helps extend battery life. Personally I get great battery life regardless of any "saver" apps, and have never gotten less than 12 hours on a full charge, and that was very heavy use. I probably average closer to 20 on moderate-heavy use.
Anyway, as some know there are apps that will automatically turn off your data connection while the screen is off. Most turn the connection on for 1 minute, every 15 minutes while the screen is off so that you still receive email, ect... This does not affect phone calls and text messages, as they do not use apn and would be received immediately. These products can significantly extend battery life with little complication, particularly if you stay connected to LTE all the time. As an example, overnight I might lose about 20% of my battery or more while sleeping. With one of these apps I lose only about 4-6%.
I personally like the BatteryDefender app, very simple to use, and very reliable.

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Coming from the HTC Thunderbolt, the Sammy GS3 is a nice change as far as battery life!

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Did you have your phone on Airplane Mode or something for half the day?

Is my MAXX battery good or bad?

I'm coming from a Galaxy Note 2, which had a superb battery. There would be days when I would barely use up 20% of the battery on that thing.
I recently moved over to the Droid MAXX and noticed that on the drive to work (about 30 min) this MAXX battery would drop around 10%. I'm feeling a bit disappointed in the decision to go with the MAXX and it was solely based on the mammoth battery. I can't see how people are saying they are getting 2 full days out of this.
I'm not sure if my perception is off because of the Note2 was I spoiled? Is this normal for other MAXX users?
I've attached my GSam screenshot. Normally around this time with the Note 2 i'd be at like 75%, with the MAXX i'm at 59% with Auto Screen (which i dislike) and very normal/low usage.
I was really hoping to be able to hammer on this MAXX and never ever worry about battery life but i find myself anxious about it and wondering if i made the right choice. I would love to hear some other stories about their batteries. Did i get a lemon?

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I'm coming from a Galaxy Note 2, which had a superb battery. There would be days when I would barely use up 20% of the battery on that thing.
I recently moved over to the Droid MAXX and noticed that on the drive to work (about 30 min) this MAXX battery would drop around 10%. I'm feeling a bit disappointed in the decision to go with the MAXX and it was solely based on the mammoth battery. I can't see how people are saying they are getting 2 full days out of this.
I'm not sure if my perception is off because of the Note2 was I spoiled? Is this normal for other MAXX users?
I've attached my GSam screenshot. Normally around this time with the Note 2 i'd be at like 75%, with the MAXX i'm at 59% with Auto Screen (which i dislike) and very normal/low usage.
I was really hoping to be able to hammer on this MAXX and never ever worry about battery life but i find myself anxious about it and wondering if i made the right choice. I would love to hear some other stories about their batteries. Did i get a lemon?
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I suspect a bad battery, or perhaps a rogue app? I've seen a couple of other posts about poor battery so I am wondering if there was a bad batch of batteries.
I am nearly 40 hours off the charger with about 3 1/2 hours of screen time and I'm at 7% remaining. I just watched a 43 minute TV episode and I went from 15% down to 7%. I haven't used any drastic battery saving tricks. I have power save on, that's about it.

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I suspect a bad battery, or perhaps a rogue app? I've seen a couple of other posts about poor battery so I am wondering if there was a bad batch of batteries.
I am nearly 40 hours off the charger with about 3 1/2 hours of screen time and I'm at 7% remaining. I just watched a 43 minute TV episode and I went from 15% down to 7%. I haven't used any drastic battery saving tricks. I have power save on, that's about it.
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have you disabled the bloatware apps?
also i wonder if i try to return it because of the battery issues if they will give me a refurb or not, i fear a refurb will be just one with a similar battery issue. the phone works fine, just not getting the battery life i expected.

digiburd said:
have you disabled the bloatware apps?
also i wonder if i try to return it because of the battery issues if they will give me a refurb or not, i fear a refurb will be just one with a similar battery issue. the phone works fine, just not getting the battery life i expected.
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I have 5 apps frozen, but that is all. Wi-fi has been on almost the entire time too. I'd probably have quite a bit more battery remaining if I'd remember to turn wi-fi off when I'm not near a network.

The location polling of Google cards need disabling. Moto assist while driving also polls GPS as well. That and disabling zap by switching off have been a great help.
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The location polling of Google cards need disabling. Moto assist while driving also polls GPS as well. That and disabling zap by switching off have been a great help.
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Just realized that neither of those were even turned on. Not a good sign.

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Just realized that neither of those were even turned on. Not a good sign.
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under settings/battery what is the top usage? Also does it look like it is being held awake a lot? I always used bettery battery stats and cpu spy to determine if I had an app or process giving me partial wake locks.

[Q] Awful battery life - just me?

I got my Nexus 5 on Monday and have been pretty happy with it so far. Today was the first day I actually had to be away from WiFi for the day and the battery life has stunned me with how poor it has been. I haven't seen battery drop so fast since I had my Desire HD. I took it off charge about 9am and at just after 8pm as I type this I'm down to 10% with under 2 hours screen on time. 100% to 10% in around 10 hours with less than 2 hours screen use.
Has anyone else had this poor battery life? I'm going to let it run down completely, install GSam and see if it happens again but from what I've read on a few reviews (The Verge was the main one) this seems to be almost normal. I would be unhappy with battery life this bad after two years, not two days.

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I got my Nexus 5 on Monday and have been pretty happy with it so far. Today was the first day I actually had to be away from WiFi for the day and the battery life has stunned me with how poor it has been. I haven't seen battery drop so fast since I had my Desire HD. I took it off charge about 9am and at just after 8pm as I type this I'm down to 10% with under 2 hours screen on time. 100% to 10% in around 10 hours with less than 2 hours screen use.
Has anyone else had this poor battery life? I'm going to let it run down completely, install GSam and see if it happens again but from what I've read on a few reviews (The Verge was the main one) this seems to be almost normal. I would be unhappy with battery life this bad after two years, not two days.
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The good battery apps like BBS are broken on KitKat.
But your battery life is not normal. Mine is quite good, about what I would expect. For reference, my GS3 would use 0.2-0.4% per hour while idling during the night. I can't get real numbers or monitor wakelocks on this phone yet. But so far, seems at least somewhat similar to that.
Use Greenify.

Dyonas said:
I got my Nexus 5 on Monday and have been pretty happy with it so far. Today was the first day I actually had to be away from WiFi for the day and the battery life has stunned me with how poor it has been. I haven't seen battery drop so fast since I had my Desire HD. I took it off charge about 9am and at just after 8pm as I type this I'm down to 10% with under 2 hours screen on time. 100% to 10% in around 10 hours with less than 2 hours screen use.
Has anyone else had this poor battery life? I'm going to let it run down completely, install GSam and see if it happens again but from what I've read on a few reviews (The Verge was the main one) this seems to be almost normal. I would be unhappy with battery life this bad after two years, not two days.
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We can't really answer about your phone without knowing your usage habits. I mean, what you posted doesnt seem bad, especially if you're in a crappy signal area or play games.

my battery has been around 20% better than on the N4
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Coming from an iPhone 4, I am shocked by how much faster Android is sipping on the juice.On my iPhone, I would probably be around 70% 7 hours into the day, my N5 is at 50%.

47% after 11 hrs for me

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We can't really answer about your phone without knowing your usage habits. I mean, what you posted doesnt seem bad, especially if you're in a crappy signal area or play games.
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A brief summary of my brief usage. I haven't played any games at all since I got the phone and the only usage has been social network apps and very light browsing of around <20 minutes. Oh and I made a call that lasted around 15 seconds. Everything else is stock setup. I have unlocked the bootloader but I did that prior to setting it up due to it wiping everything in the process.
Basically I've used it as much as I'd use my Nexus 4 and that wouldn't see so much as a 30% drain by now. The only thing that I am looking at as a possible cause is that the phone defaults to wanting 4G only. I'm not on a 4G plan or in a 4G area but even with that Mobile Standby is only showing 4% battery use. Suffice to say I switched that to 3G when I saw it just before posting. As I said, I'm going to drain it completely then charge to full and watch it very closely but I wanted to get thoughts while I waited.
I have contacted Google to see if there are any known issues that have popped up but the response I got just suggests turning off practically everything! Why would I opt for a powerful phone just to turn off sync, location services and anything that makes it a smartphone? The baffling one to me is suggesting I switch to AIRPLANE mode if I'm not near WiFi! I didn't buy a WiFi only tablet, I bought a phone!
"If you know you won’t be near a mobile or Wi-Fi network for a while, switch to Airplane mode"

I have been very pleasantly surprised with the battery life with my Nexus 5, I have noticed however that Google Location service likes to use battery power, more importantly - GPS - way too much..
However, I leave it on and even still it easily lasts me a day of use, with around 30-40% left depending on how much I use it.
What are your highest apps in the battery use screen?
Try turning off Google location services.

I am really pleased with battery life. Around 30-40 % left at end of day.
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Just you.all stock and battery life is way better than galaxy s4.

LaurenceGough said:
I have been very pleasantly surprised with the battery life with my Nexus 5, I have noticed however that Google Location service likes to use battery power, more importantly - GPS - way too much..
However, I leave it on and even still it easily lasts me a day of use, with around 30-40% left depending on how much I use it.
What are your highest apps in the battery use screen?
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I saw similar with the Nexus 4 but refused to switch off location services and it seems ok. I've attached screenshots just taken. It seems I was a little off with my browsing estimate which shows 36 minutes in Chrome but still hardly astronomical.

OK so far the general opinion seems to be that it's just me. That helps me eliminate the phone and / or battery just being awful so thanks guys.

I'm at near 11 hours and am at 69%.. with an hour screen time. Not great but it easily gets me through the day. By the time I plug it in tonight it will probably have 20-30% and 3 maybe 4 hours of OST. That's more than enough for me
I should mention I have location off.. and only turn it on if I'm going to use the GPS
I also have Google Now off I don't need those flash cards to tell me how long it's going to take me to get home.. it's useful sometimes but I rarely look at em.
I'm pleased with my battery so far.. for the super heavy user they definitely wouldn't get a day.. but for me I'll get it easily.

its been pretty terrible for me with identical setups as other devices.
it has me seriously contemplating going back to my htc one. overall i do love the phone tho so hopefully I get a better idea when betterbatterystats is updated.
Few things with battery thats annoying me is google services kill this phone worse than any other ive owned. Even with google now disabled and location disabled. Also my daily drive to work I always use waze w/ screen on. With my other phones (htc one / n4 / iphone 5) i generally lose between 10-15% battery. On this phone im easily losing 25%.
I have access to charging so not a huge deal for now. Its a new os update so maybe it will get ironed out.

garyHal said:
Coming from an iPhone 4, I am shocked by how much faster Android is sipping on the juice.On my iPhone, I would probably be around 70% 7 hours into the day, my N5 is at 50%.
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you are forgetting you are having a full HD and quad core phone now.

Ahh you got that google services bug eh.. that will kill any battery

Despite not wanting to I did a factory reset and installed a handful of apps, nothing that should cause issues anyway. When I got to Twitter though just after installing I noticed two warning notifications crop up that I remember just dismissing without thinking last time.
com.google.android.gsf.login
com.google.android.calendar
Both state they need installation of Google Play Services. I've ignored them for now so it'll be interesting to see if they have anything to do with it. I know the screen is going to be using more battery than I'm used to when it's on and notice that in battery use it's just everything else.
Friday will be the ultimate test of sorts. I've disabled WiFi, I'm charging it up and have disabled a few location things I don't care about. If it goes down hard again then it's going back.

thegtfusion said:
you are forgetting you are having a full HD and quad core phone now.
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And a MUCH larger battery

My battery life over the last 3 days on the N5 has been equal to and a little bit better than my GS4 I've had since launch. Very pleased

Dyonas said:
OK so far the general opinion seems to be that it's just me. That helps me eliminate the phone and / or battery just being awful so thanks guys.
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I don't think what you're getting is that out of the ordinary. Between screen time and cell reception (the largest contributors to battery life) you could easily be seeing 'normal' battery life.
Don't expect more than 3.5 hrs of screen time, especially if you have reception issues when not on WIFI. And I'm talking 'normal' computer/dev/IT guy usage (e.g. using the phone as it's intended aka using google now, using one or two emails with push sync, using music services occasionally and sparingly during a day, NOT running in airplane mode, not disabling a crapload of smartphone features).