Hey guys,
I'm running the Cataclysm ROM Android L build LRX21O, with Franco kernel r68. My battery drain is massive; and adaptive brightness is pissing me off. I used the NRT to flash the Stock Android L first, but it had so much lag that the icons on the home screen took their sweet time to pop up, and of course the battery drain. Two days ago I flashed Cataclysm hoping it would solve my problems. The lag is gone and I'm happy about that, battery drain is still pretty bad. I went down from 100% to 87% in only 45 mins and the stock battery stat app says "about 5 hrs. left."
Second, the adaptive brightness makes the screen so dark when I'm using the phone at a certain angle, for instance while typing this post. Same thing happens while I'm outside and I can't see anything!
Anything to solve these problems will be appreciated. I've gone thru reddit posts and XDA but to no avail.
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Since owning my charge i have yet to really experience this awesome battery life that everyone is talking about! I have used gummycharge 1.8.5 and am currently on eclipse v 1.1 and am losing 2-3% in about 5 minutes of sitting idely and that just doesn't seem right! I've noticed that my display is never using less then 80% can anyone offer any ideas or similar experiences?
App drawer > Task Manager > Running > Exit all > RAM > Clear memory
Make sure you do that whenever you are done using any app, and I mean ANY app, everything stays open and they will devour your battery life, hope this helps because doing this I get around 8-10 hours of HEAVY use :]
thecontrolm7cl said:
Since owning my charge i have yet to really experience this awesome battery life that everyone is talking about! I have used gummycharge 1.8.5 and am currently on eclipse v 1.1 and am losing 2-3% in about 5 minutes of sitting idely and that just doesn't seem right! I've noticed that my display is never using less then 80% can anyone offer any ideas or similar experiences?
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I had the same issue. I ended up going back to the stock rom with regular voodoo kernel. You should try the phone stock for a few days to get a base line for battery life. Also try wiping battery stats after your battery is fully charged.
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My display is always ridiculously high too. Usually 70-80% on auto brightness. Something is not right. I'm on gummy 1.8.5.
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I disable autobrightness and use InvisiBright. Also, touchwiz has the status bar trick (long hold) built in to help manually control brightness.
I recently rooted my Nexus 5 and flashed stock clockworkmod. Since doing that I have noticed my battery is dying incredibly fast. I could get through a whole day on a full charge and now it's down to about half that. According to the battery stats the screen and system is taking up the most time. The screen has been on 2 hours and only been off charger for 6 and the battery is currently at 20%. I have tried a few battery calibration apps and such but nothing seems to fix the problem. Had a similar problem with the Samsung GS3 after rooting...any tips to get better battery life after root and not worse? Thanks!
P.S. Also been running greenify root for apps that don't need constant internet access.
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I recently rooted my Nexus 5 and flashed stock clockworkmod. Since doing that I have noticed my battery is dying incredibly fast. I could get through a whole day on a full charge and now it's down to about half that. According to the battery stats the screen and system is taking up the most time. The screen has been on 2 hours and only been off charger for 6 and the battery is currently at 20%. I have tried a few battery calibration apps and such but nothing seems to fix the problem. Had a similar problem with the Samsung GS3 after rooting...any tips to get better battery life after root and not worse? Thanks!
P.S. Also been running greenify root for apps that don't need constant internet access.
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Many users claim to get great battery life with the Franco Kernel. They say its better than stock.
Disclaimer: I'm 100% stock and unrooted so I can't vouch.
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I think I would reset back to out of the box and start over. My experience has been the opposite. I did everything with Wugs nexus root toolbox ,its near dummy proof for guys like me
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Superman366 said:
I recently rooted my Nexus 5 and flashed stock clockworkmod. Since doing that I have noticed my battery is dying incredibly fast. I could get through a whole day on a full charge and now it's down to about half that. According to the battery stats the screen and system is taking up the most time. The screen has been on 2 hours and only been off charger for 6 and the battery is currently at 20%. I have tried a few battery calibration apps and such but nothing seems to fix the problem. Had a similar problem with the Samsung GS3 after rooting...any tips to get better battery life after root and not worse? Thanks!
P.S. Also been running greenify root for apps that don't need constant internet access.
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For us to help you post screenshots of your better battery stats logs.
Which method did you use for root? I don't think rooting actually causes a drain in battery life but I could be wrong
Just rooting won't have any impact on battery. Could be apps that you installed.
Had the same issue as well with Franco kernel. Started from scratch, meaning unroot, lock. Then unlocked and rooted again. Performed factory reset and installed app by app. Took a few days but battery life is good now.
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try to use franco r32.
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Download wake lock dectector and see if you have got any ridiculous wakelocks. That's usually the issue with horrible battery life.
Hi guys, last night I flashed elemental x .38 kernel paired with my slimkat weekly 4.6 build and a weird problem occurred...
so i went to bed with 93% battery left and I woke up with 82% (i never had deep sleep issues before with any kernel) and then when i turned on my phone, it was EXTREMELY laggy... I thought i was a kernel setting, it was not... I reflashed the kernel and tried franco, and used stock slimkat and they were ALL laggy. I don't know why as to it is laggy since it has never been for my phone, I didn't do any tweaks overnight and the kernels are all pretty much stock settings.
Can anyone help!?
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Hi guys, last night I flashed elemental x .38 kernel paired with my slimkat weekly 4.6 build and a weird problem occurred...
so i went to bed with 93% battery left and I woke up with 82% (i never had deep sleep issues before with any kernel) and then when i turned on my phone, it was EXTREMELY laggy... I thought i was a kernel setting, it was not... I reflashed the kernel and tried franco, and used stock slimkat and they were ALL laggy. I don't know why as to it is laggy since it has never been for my phone, I didn't do any tweaks overnight and the kernels are all pretty much stock settings.
Can anyone help!?
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Use this app
http://goo.gl/Ba3W4M
Observe it for few days
Looking at what is causing battery drainage
Just make sure that NFC, Background wifi scanning, Auto syc, bluetooth, wifi, data are off when not needed
If there is no result, post that app screen shot here
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I think I found the error. Only my Nova launcher was lagging so I thought my whole phone was lagging while scrolling..
However the battery is still draining quite quickly than normal...I'll take a look for a few days with this app.
Thanks
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Hey everyone, took the update to Android 4.4.4. The battery life is significantly worse then it was before on 4.4. I am only able to get about 10-12 hours on the battery with light use (3-4 hours of screen time.) Is anyone else having this issue? I am watching my battery and the culprit seems to be my screen at around 30-40%. But I have the auto-brightness off and screen time out at 15 seconds after inactivity. Anyone having this issue and have any idea on how yo fix it? I upgraded from stock 4.4 and am not rooted or unlocked.
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Hey everyone, took the update to Android 4.4.4. The battery life is significantly worse then it was before on 4.4. I am only able to get about 10-12 hours on the battery with light use (3-4 hours of screen time.) Is anyone else having this issue? I am watching my battery and the culprit seems to be my screen at around 30-40%. But I have the auto-brightness off and screen time out at 15 seconds after inactivity. Anyone having this issue and have any idea on how yo fix it? I upgraded from stock 4.4 and am not rooted or unlocked.
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Your android system usage seems high. I've had the update a few days and I'm running consistently at 7%
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Any ideas on what I could do to fix this? Factory reset, anything of the such?
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Ironman57RazrMaxxHD said:
Hey everyone, took the update to Android 4.4.4. The battery life is significantly worse then it was before on 4.4. I am only able to get about 10-12 hours on the battery with light use (3-4 hours of screen time.) Is anyone else having this issue? I am watching my battery and the culprit seems to be my screen at around 30-40%. But I have the auto-brightness off and screen time out at 15 seconds after inactivity. Anyone having this issue and have any idea on how yo fix it? I upgraded from stock 4.4 and am not rooted or unlocked.
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I am unrooted & I have everything but active display & voice dialing disabled(along with nessisary Google stuff). My android sys is 6%.
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I am unrooted & I have everything but active display & voice dialing disabled(along with nessisary Google stuff). My android sys is 6%.
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Wipe cache partition solved my drain, once updated 4.4.4 I experienced crazy drain, after wipe I'm getting 3.3% per hour (Gsam), my device is droid maxx (love it)
Hello,
I got a second Nexus 5 after my first one suddenly developed a modem fault and refused to work in 2G areas. This time, I got one in red, used, manufactured in March 2014. The phone is in great condition and is as good as new.
Problem is, the battery life is really bad. I'm on stock rom with ElementalX 1.12 and despite undervolting by -25 on all frequencies, my battery life is as shown in the images below. I easily got 3.5-4 hours of SOT with some 15-20% battery remaining on my previous Nexus 5 which I got in December 2013. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is the only phone I can afford right now and I'll have to live with this purchase till at least next year. Thank you.
P.S: I'm down to 22% within the last 30 minutes with an extra 10 minutes of SoT while doing nothing but keeping the screen active.
How's your signal?
Signal is generally good. I was travelling to a remote location today hence the poorer signal but on any day, my battery is pretty much the same. Especially now that I'm back home with a solid signal, it's still dropping battery.
whisky_ said:
Hello,
I got a second Nexus 5 after my first one suddenly developed a modem fault and refused to work in 2G areas. This time, I got one in red, used, manufactured in March 2014. The phone is in great condition and is as good as new.
Problem is, the battery life is really bad. I'm on stock rom with ElementalX 1.12 and despite undervolting by -25 on all frequencies, my battery life is as shown in the images below. I easily got 3.5-4 hours of SOT with some 15-20% battery remaining on my previous Nexus 5 which I got in December 2013. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is the only phone I can afford right now and I'll have to live with this purchase till at least next year. Thank you.
P.S: I'm down to 22% within the last 30 minutes with an extra 10 minutes of SoT while doing nothing but keeping the screen active.
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your battery is fine. the longer you go without charging, the shorter amount of screen time youre gonna get. im a heavy user, and use up my battery within 10 hours, but i see 5h sot every day. you are using closer to 24 hours but are seeing 3.5-4h sot. i see nothing wrong with your battery. lower your brightness some and youll see better battery. keep your brightness around 20%.
20 hours, 33% remaining, what's the issue? 3hrs SoT is what is to be expected without reducing the settings that drain your battery. A small undervolt and custom kernel aren't going to affect your run time noticeably, so you've actually yet to do anything significant to increase battery life. That would require adjusting settings to maximize run time.
For more information, see the battery help thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/battery-life-help-troubleshoot-battery-t2785128
EDIT - just saw it was already linked.
Hello,
I am using nexus 5 for couple of days now. Recently I am getting this running process "mm-qcamera-daemon" which is eating 31% of my battery life. (Check my screenshots attached) which is even greater than screen % of about 16% only.
The battery drains real quick. Even though I reboot the phone,it doesn't work.
I also keep getting error message of "cannot connect to camera".
Romush,
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romusht said:
Hello,
I am using nexus 5 for couple of days now. Recently I am getting this running process "mm-qcamera-daemon" which is eating 31% of my battery life. (Check my screenshots attached) which is even greater than screen % of about 16% only.
The battery drains real quick. Even though I reboot the phone,it doesn't work.
I also keep getting error message of "cannot connect to camera".
Romush,
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reboot to get rid of the battery loss. and where did you buy your n5? and is a warrenty exchange possible? since your having camera issues as well. you can try going to the main settings, apps, yhen find the camera app and clear its data.
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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it could be a bug with the rom you are running, if its a custom rom. if so, id flash the factory img first. btw, which version of android is running? anyways, if after flashing the factory img it still happens, i suspect a hardware issue if your camera is not working. so, after a full run, it uses that much battery or is that only in the very beginning, when you just start using after unplugging?
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I cleared the app data and rebooted. But still same mm-qcamera-daemon is still there eating up my 31% battery.
Is that a bug or issue with my ROM??
I bought it from 3rd person so no exchange possible.
Should I be worried about my battery??
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ok, i didn't see the screenshot before. i see. do you use the camera?
Hi simms22,
I am using stock ROM running on andrioid 4.4.4
This issue doesn't always arise. But happens In like 3-4 days.
Yes I do use the camera.
When I reboot it. It works fine for couple of days again.
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romusht said:
Hi simms22,
I am using stock ROM running on andrioid 4.4.4
This issue doesn't always arise. But happens In like 3-4 days.
Yes I do use the camera.
When I reboot it. It works fine for couple of days again.
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ok, then you just have the normal bug with the daemon. after using the cam, reboot. and that should keep it from appearing mostly.
The bug is bugging me. Whenever you need the camera most it shows the error.
Anything you can help me with again.
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romusht said:
The bug is bugging me. Whenever you need the camera most it shows the error.
Anything you can help me with again.
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just clearing the camera apps data and rebooting.
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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romusht said:
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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About 4 hours on my wireless pad mate (throws out about 1.0 amp)
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romusht said:
How long does it take for your nexus charge with 5V 1.2A adaptor??
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100 minutes with a dual usb 4.1 amp charger