Hello there community. After owning the Nexus 5 for about 1 year and 3 months. My battery life has gone really bad in the last few weeks. I have tried calibrating it through sucking out the whole juice and bring it up to 100 % and such tricks, but the battery is still the same, draining a little faster than before. Im even underclocked and undervolted with Codeblue trying to save some juice, but is still is in a bad situation. So the question is, is it time to send it to service and change the internal battery ? Or most people are suffering after Lollipop ? etc... Any reply would be appreciated
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Ensifolk said:
Hello there community. After owning the Nexus 5 for about 1 year and 3 months. My battery life has gone really bad in the last few weeks. I have tried calibrating it through sucking out the whole juice and bring it up to 100 % and such tricks, but the battery is still the same, draining a little faster than before. Im even underclocked and undervolted with Codeblue trying to save some juice, but is still is in a bad situation. So the question is, is it time to send it to service and change the internal battery ? Or most people are suffering after Lollipop ? etc... Any reply would be appreciated
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https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nexus+5+Battery+Replacement/26009
My battery life is better on Lollipop. Some people say it's worse so...
Have you posted in the battery life sticky?
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Ello Folks,
I'm new to this forum and for some stupid reason I can't post within the forum I wanted to, so I hope someone can help me here..
I have been playing with Custom Roms for a long time and I have ALWAYS encountered problems regarding battery drain. I have searched innumerous times for ways to fix it.. I've tried many different ROMS and KERNELS and I always ended up with a massive battery consumption with little use. I then thought it was my battery as the device is quite old so I decided to buy a new original battery and still having the same problem.
I am starting to think that I am really dumb and doing something wrong or maybe I am just unlucky. I got my phone back in 2011 from T-Mobile UK and I am now running JB 4.2.2 Revolt JB I9100 and Dorimanx V9.33 as kernel.
My battery is going from 100% to 0% in like 4 hours. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
leoarten said:
Ello Folks,
I'm new to this forum and for some stupid reason I can't post within the forum I wanted to, so I hope someone can help me here..
I have been playing with Custom Roms for a long time and I have ALWAYS encountered problems regarding battery drain. I have searched innumerous times for ways to fix it.. I've tried many different ROMS and KERNELS and I always ended up with a massive battery consumption with little use. I then thought it was my battery as the device is quite old so I decided to buy a new original battery and still having the same problem.
I am starting to think that I am really dumb and doing something wrong or maybe I am just unlucky. I got my phone back in 2011 from T-Mobile UK and I am now running JB 4.2.2 Revolt JB I9100 and Dorimanx V9.33 as kernel.
My battery is going from 100% to 0% in like 4 hours. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
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Batter drain in 4 hours is not normal. But with heavy usage of 3g/4g it can be. As you said you got heating problems too.
So, first with the battery. Install betterbatterystats from play store. Let the battery drain off completely and charge it to 100 in a go keeping data network/Bluetooth/GPS/WiFi in off mode. Check how much time it's taking to charge it from 0% to 100%. Now discharge it off to 0% and Check the rate of discharge. If it's below 5%/Hour you are safe.
But if it is as you said before 4hours battery backup, there must be some trouble.
These kinds of drastic battery drain happens of many reasons.
1. Poor signal strength.
2. Overloading cpu ( which also cause overheating)
3. Any background running apps which utilizing a bunch a data.
4. Bad kernel (we can pick this out as you tried different kernels.)
5. Defective battery.
Or a last chance
6. A hardware failure.
So inorder to find the root cause behind this problem check each of the possibilities one at a time.
In case of cpu, change the governor and I/o scheduler and see.
In case of background running apps, check whichever programs revising maximum amount of battery.
Hope it helps..
jabrif said:
Batter drain in 4 hours is not normal. But with heavy usage of 3g/4g it can be. As you said you got heating problems too.
So, first with the battery. Install betterbatterystats from play store. Let the battery drain off completely and charge it to 100 in a go keeping data network/Bluetooth/GPS/WiFi in off mode. Check how much time it's taking to charge it from 0% to 100%. Now discharge it off to 0% and Check the rate of discharge. If it's below 5%/Hour you are safe.
But if it is as you said before 4hours battery backup, there must be some trouble.
These kinds of drastic battery drain happens of many reasons.
1. Poor signal strength.
2. Overloading cpu ( which also cause overheating)
3. Any background running apps which utilizing a bunch a data.
4. Bad kernel (we can pick this out as you tried different kernels.)
5. Defective battery.
Or a last chance
6. A hardware failure.
So inorder to find the root cause behind this problem check each of the possibilities one at a time.
In case of cup, change the governor and I/o scheduler and see.
In case of background running apps, check whichever programs revising maximum amount of battery.
Hope it helps..
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Cheers mate,
I am well aware that custom kernels allow me to overclock it and change governors and i/o and that these kinda settings have a major role on how much battery the device will consume. But as I have never really understood the diferences btw them I for once have never played with the values so I have always left 'em at their default value.
The only real reason I've decided to change to a Custom Rom is to get new versions of the Android OS and to get rid of the hideous TouchWiz skin from Samsung..
I am not living in the UK at the moment as got transfered to Brazil for work and I have been on TIM network and they suck badly so maybe cuz their 3G sucks its whats causing my battery to drain like crazy.
But I will definitely follow your instructions and hopefully I'll get a positive result..
Once again, thank you very much.
Just want to ask, usually how long does your battery last guys, while using wifi and games?
Is there a way or an app to extend the battery life of Xperia L?
Games suck up a lot of battery life, but if you're including games and wifi and all that it could go up to 3 hours or a bit more
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Games suck up a lot of battery life, but if you're including games and wifi and all that it could go up to 3 hours or a bit more
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I see, I'm just worrying my battery won't last long half of a day when using both games and wifi. Now I know that's it's normal, thanks!
Hi,
Can someone give me information. So I unlocked the bootloader and update to FW 2.17 flashed a custom kernel and it seems that my battery life is shorter.
It says that the stand by time is 1 day and 13 hours on full charge, but before was 3 days and couple of hours.
Can someone tell me what is wrong. Maybe I did something?? I realy don't know
So my battery life has always been... Iffy at best but usually pretty consistent until about three days ago now from about 7 am till noon I'm loosing 50% or more of battery life on standby, completely dead by 2 or 3 with little use. I've cleared battery stats and flashed the latest mokee open source. Just trying to figure out if I should go ahead and buy a new battery, any help is greatly appreciated
thelogman said:
So my battery life has always been... Iffy at best but usually pretty consistent until about three days ago now from about 7 am till noon I'm loosing 50% or more of battery life on standby, completely dead by 2 or 3 with little use. I've cleared battery stats and flashed the latest mokee open source. Just trying to figure out if I should go ahead and buy a new battery, any help is greatly appreciated
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A new battery would help but kexec is the cause of all the battery drain.
So Hey, one of the main reasons i bought the Xperia Z3 was due to it's 2 day battery life, but for the last two months it's battery life has been horrible, I usually only get 1 day battery life with only around 2 hours on-screen time, Is the anyway to increase the battery life any of that
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So Hey, one of the main reasons i bought the Xperia Z3 was due to it's 2 day battery life, but for the last two months it's battery life has been horrible, I usually only get 1 day battery life with only around 2 hours on-screen time, Is the anyway to increase the battery life any of that
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Find source of battery drain.
Example...apps with network access, camera access, games with ads on notification are constantly running. Pay attention on this.
And also, stupid "social networks" waste lot of battery and mobile data.
Hussain_Salam said:
So Hey, one of the main reasons i bought the Xperia Z3 was due to it's 2 day battery life, but for the last two months it's battery life has been horrible, I usually only get 1 day battery life with only around 2 hours on-screen time, Is the anyway to increase the battery life any of that
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I have the same problem :/
Yesterday i had really good battery life, which lasted a day and a half, But today i fully charged it to 100% from 0% whilst the device was off the same procedure i did before, and i've already lost 10% within the space of an hour.
EDIT: I think GoLauncher is killing majority of my battery life. But it's probably the only Launcher i like.
Hussain_Salam said:
Yesterday i had really good battery life, which lasted a day and a half, But today i fully charged it to 100% from 0% whilst the device was off the same procedure i did before, and i've already lost 10% within the space of an hour.
EDIT: I think GoLauncher is killing majority of my battery life. But it's probably the only Launcher i like.
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A launcher, GoLauncher or otherwise, is responsible for an excessive battery consumption so ??? 3100 mAh battery power of z3 are not enough for a launcher ??? New news to me then!
Did you guys check if you have the "Mobile radio active" for long times on any of the other apps? I was suffering from this bug on Lollipop:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=165558
I was so desperate I reverted to KitKat and the battery life is back again. The stats on KitKat for today:
15h3m on battery
2h30m screentime
35m voice calls
And still 53% remaining.. When I was on lollipop I could just make it through the day. When I checked battery stats the screen wasn't the top consumer, usually some google app. Either Play Services or Gmail or Hangsouts, the apps would indicate hours and hours of "Mobile radio active". Check that link I included and see if your usage matches that issue.
Yes, mobile radio active is killing my battery when mobile network data is enabled.
I guess you nailed it, pakjebakmeel. This has been silently affecting my battery life. I used to get 5-6h SOT, now I barely even get 3h.
Numerous apps keep using "Mobile radio data" for a long time if not force stopped. This is ridiculous.
Only thing we can do is keep starring that issue hoping google will fix it.
pakjebakmeel said:
Only thing we can do is keep starring that issue hoping google will fix it.
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How did you revert back to KitKat?
This has been silently affecting my battery life.
niksun said:
How did you revert back to KitKat?
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Use flashtool to flash a kitkat ftf firmware.
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Any fix?
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Hey guys, quick question. All the sudden I'd say over the last month or so my battery life has been horrible. I used to go a day and a half roughly with normal use until I had 20% or less battery life. All the sudden now with no changes made to the phone (no new apps, ROM, etc.) the battery life is terrible. I am lucky to get 16 hours with the same usage before the battery is 20% or less. The only change was that I bought a quick charge 2.0 charger (this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QTJZ3D0?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00 ). I'd say I used this charger for about 3-4 weeks until the battery life was noticeably bad. Is it possible that this charger has actually damaged my battery and if so I am assuming it is irreversible since it is a non-removable battery? Thanks.
I have also noticed this.. but since I hadn't left it on stock ROM but for a day or so.. I cannot say that it is the new firmware or the ROM I'm using.. I have also seen a LOT of posting about this issue.. LP 5.x.x has a few bugs that are pretty bad headaches to deal with.... hopefully fixes come out for these issues... mainly (in my case anyway) battery life and data connection speeds
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I have also noticed this.. but since I hadn't left it on stock ROM but for a day or so.. I cannot say that it is the new firmware or the ROM I'm using.. I have also seen a LOT of posting about this issue.. LP 5.x.x has a few bugs that are pretty bad headaches to deal with.... hopefully fixes come out for these issues... mainly (in my case anyway) battery life and data connection speeds
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Thanks for the reply. I am using CleanROM 3.0 KitKat, been using it for a long time now and all the sudden it's bad now. Like I said, no changes made, I'm stumped