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How is your N5 Battery Life ?

how is your N5 battery life discussion ? when you turn on everything such as bluetooh on , NFC on, sync on, gps on, and brightness set to either 100% or to auto, I wonder how long is your nexus can get through since you fully charged the phone itself from 5-6am in the morning . can it last till evening 10pm if the whole day you use it for texting , facebook, instagram, chrome with 5 tabs minimum , youtube, mail, reading news, recording video and take a snap from the camera .
a humble experience from all of you will be highly appreciate guys.
p.s = the reason why I making this thread is to compare with how good the battery with moto x.

No one even has the phone yet.

zephiK said:
No one even has the phone yet.
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Sure they do... how else are people taking pictures to compare the N5's camera to the iPhone 5S??

tkoreaper said:
Sure they do... how else are people taking pictures to compare the N5's camera to the iPhone 5S??
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I should be more specific, I'm talking about ordinary people. The people taking pictures using N5 and comparing it to the iPhone 5S are media outlets who have had prior access to the device (or early access from Google).
And honestly if they DO have the phone then they cannot comment on the battery life because it'll take at least 3-5 days (given a week) for the battery to settle in. Not to mention, you won't be doing your daily things on the phone as you'll be busy setting it up with the apps you've used in the past/transferring data/etc.

zephiK said:
I should be more specific, I'm talking about ordinary people. The people taking pictures using N5 and comparing it to the iPhone 5S are media outlets who have had prior access to the device (or early access from Google).
And honestly if they DO have the phone then they cannot comment on the battery life because it'll take at least 3-5 days (given a week) for the battery to settle in. Not to mention, you won't be doing your daily things on the phone as you'll be busy setting it up with the apps you've used in the past/transferring data/etc.
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Nothing a little Titanium backup can't solve. By the looks of the other threads in the forum some people have had the device for a while... As early as the beginning of October. No point in shooting down someone's thread just because you have nothing to contribute to it.

zephiK said:
No one even has the phone yet.
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Funny I do and too early to tell.
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recklesslife85 said:
Funny I do and too early to tell.
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Not meant to hijack the thread, but how do you like it in white? how's the look and feel?

recklesslife85 said:
Funny I do and too early to tell.
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Cool , please kindly review the battery performance to us if you don't mind .
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recklesslife85 said:
Funny I do and too early to tell.
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OT: I know this isn't the right place but...How is the back of the white N5? It get dirty fast? Could it turn yellow as someone said? :s
IT: It should take a week for the battery to stabilize, so the first real impression could come just in some days

namartlu said:
Not meant to hijack the thread, but how do you like it in white? how's the look and feel?
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Its lovely but so is the black I got both here but prefer the white.
The OS is the biggest change, a lot has changed in kitkat. Different ways to access different things and the app menu is completely different. Battery life I got near 3h 58 with 10 percent left from 82 percent and that's from restoring all my apps and more so I'm kinder hoping we'll reach 5h or a little more. Screen is beautiful but speaker isn't great. Though I'm comparing the speaker to a 5S which is pretty good.
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Alfonso87 said:
OT: I know this isn't the right place but...How is the back of the white N5? It get dirty fast? Could it turn yellow as someone said? :s
IT: It should take a week for the battery to stabilize, so the first real impression could come just in some days
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Looks pretty white to me but that could change in time. Looks lovely and white right now.
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tkoreaper said:
Nothing a little Titanium backup can't solve. By the looks of the other threads in the forum some people have had the device for a while... As early as the beginning of October. No point in shooting down someone's thread just because you have nothing to contribute to it.
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I have nothing to contribute? ...... you can't tell the battery life with having the device for less than a week.
This thread is just as pointless as the threads asking for the best ROM/Kernel or threads asking when TMobile will have N5?
I'm not shooting anyones thread but its just a silly question to ask when the phone was released just a little over 24 hours when only <1% of orders requested has been fulfilled. The only ones with the phones right now are media outlets or the individuals who ordered immediately and live in a close proximity to the point that they can have next-day shipping pretty much.

recklesslife85 said:
Its lovely but so is the black I got both here but prefer the white.
The OS is the biggest change, a lot has changed in kitkat. Different ways to access different things and the app menu is completely different. Battery life I got near 3h 58 with 10 percent left from 82 percent and that's from restoring all my apps and more so I'm kinder hoping we'll reach 5h or a little more. Screen is beautiful but speaker isn't great. Though I'm comparing the speaker to a 5S which is pretty good.
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Looks pretty white to me but that could change in time. Looks lovely and white right now.
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3h58 on battery or sot ?
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banboy said:
3h58 on battery or sot ?
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Screen time it was 4h something on battery. Can only get better and won't have load of apps downloading this time. I'm happy so far.
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recklesslife85 said:
Screen time it was 4h something on battery. Can only get better and won't have load of apps downloading this time. I'm happy so far.
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Are you able to get through from morning fully charge till 11pm ? What is the latest battery stats in the evening ?
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banboy said:
Are you able to get through from morning fully charge till 11pm ? What is the latest battery stats in the evening ?
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Don't know yet. Will report tomorrow, got it at 11 this morning and let it run down download loads of apps and using it for calls and texts and more.
I think battery will be fine.
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recklesslife85 said:
Don't know yet. Will report tomorrow, got it at 11 this morning and let it run down download loads of apps and using it for calls and texts and more.
I think battery will be fine.
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Thank you n I will the next day for your report my friend
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Mine so far and should hit 6 hours hopefully. Plus I got Google now on which is draining the battery it seems. Its off now.
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recklesslife85 said:
Mine so far and should hit 6 hours hopefully. Plus I got Google now on which is draining the battery it seems. Its off now.
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Hmmm not bad , you get through 11h , and Google now drain most of battery huh ? How do you know
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banboy said:
Hmmm not bad , you get through 11h , and Google now drain most of battery huh ? How do you know
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Google Search is Google Now. I've not used it so why would it drain. I've turned it off and its stopped draining the battery.
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recklesslife85 said:
Google Search is Google Now. I've not used it so why would it drain. I've turned it off and its stopped draining the battery.
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Sorry but do you know how to turn off Google search ?
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Note 3 Battery Drain ( sloution worked for me )

amazing battery performance after dong the following...
1- turn off smart stay
2- turn off smart pause
3- turn off smart scroll
4- turn off smart air gesture
5- turn off Air View
6-turn off NFC
7- turn off Sbeam
if you don't use them make sure they are off.
only turn them on when needed.
running rooted note 3 Official ROM.
Peace

Thx it helps brother

Oh really? Does turning off features save battery?

tcntad said:
Oh really? Does turning off features save battery?
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yeah worked for me pretty well

Lets cut him some slack shall we?

Shall I also turn off my handset?
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I never turned them on to begin with... now what?

I appreciate your effort but without showing your SOT we won't know how good is your battery life.
Plus your screen shot obviously shown that your phone has been recharged to a certain amount. Good effort but this is not really a genuine battery test.
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I keep all of the above on aswell as Bluetooth and manage the following
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I can't believe my battery backup after turning off my phone.
LOL
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looool
jakethesnakeuk said:
Shall I also turn off my handset?
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yeah keep it off for 3 to 5 days ... then never turn it back on ... should solve your issue.....

williamyi said:
I appreciate your effort but without showing your SOT we won't know how good is your battery life.
Plus your screen shot obviously shown that your phone has been recharged to a certain amount. Good effort but this is not really a genuine battery test.
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thankss... yeah i forgot to take a screen shot of screen time.. the reason i uploaded this is because i usually get 1 day max of usage... but since i turned all theses features off. and kept same usage it lasted longer...
for the charging times its not really a charging as it was only some time spent for transferring some files between my pct and handset.
thanks for the info tho...

After all this, turn off the phone as well. You won't believe the battery life

phyowaiummg said:
I can't believe my battery backup after turning off my phone.
LOL
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you should also put it upside down.. try that

then what is the use of buying note3

sx4 said:
then what is the use of buying note3
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use them when needed...
most of the time people leave them on, and when they need the battery the most ... its not there....

sx4 said:
then what is the use of buying note3
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S- bean, smart stay, air gestures, etc are useless in my opinion. They're only functions for showing your friends how many things your phone does and then turn them off and never use them again
Great battery life and performance, great s-pen functions like action note, drawings and S- Note, those are real functions of the Note 3
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Me too, they've been off since I got the handset. I'd CM11 this thing if it was 100% stable. I keep TouchWiz for the s-pen - but I find I rarely/never use it.

Best advice here:
Remove the battery after a couple of hours use wait 3 days with battery removed.
Repeat.
This way it could last an entire month
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anthon said:
S- bean, smart stay, air gestures, etc are useless in my opinion. They're only functions for showing your friends how many things your phone does and then turn them off and never use them again
Great battery life and performance, great s-pen functions like action note, drawings and S- Note, those are real functions of the Note 3
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.... AGREE:good:

led light and light manager

After upgrading to 4.4.3 I found I still had no led notification working.
So, I installed light manager. At first it took 120+ mb and started to
drain a battery. For some time the situation changed and it is now at
about 4 mb. At the moment the app just vanished and I had to load
it again.
Does this sound familiar?
Best regards all.

Use ledblinker far better app
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Ben36 said:
Use ledblinker far better app
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Looking after your advice.
If you don't mind, what makes it better? I would like
it to stay away and keep a battery.
Best regards.

fooboo said:
Looking after your advice.
If you don't mind, what makes it better? I would like
it to stay away and keep a battery.
Best regards.
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Well it has options for every app plus charging etc and I get 0 noticeable battery drain with it and it never falters or bugs out
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Ben36 said:
Well it has options for every app plus charging etc and I get 0 noticeable battery drain with it and it never falters or bugs out
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Nice to hear. I cannot say if light manager drains, since
on 4.4.3 battery seems to live shorter.
I assume we are talking about lite blinker version, right?
Best regards.

battery drain?

Hi Guys,
Got my mate 9 first two charge was ok displayed 60hrs, lasted two days. Now it shows only 26 hrs and the Android System shows 19% of overall usage. Nothing runs in the background. Tried restarting several times. Everything is stock.
Any ideas?
Thanks,

Do you still get 2 days with same usage? If yes don't worry about what the battery show.
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Check this video to see how this change when the screen brightness is high or low

I have same problem. I m on L09B138 and i ve done factory reset after upgrade.

Punishere said:
I have same problem. I m on L09B138 and i ve done factory reset after upgrade.
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Did it resolve after factory reset?

mR.fR34ky said:
Did it resolve after factory reset?
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For first cycles yes but later no i got results as you did. After few cycles i can see only 27h of battery on normal mode. Maybe its 138 bug i dont know but battery drain is higher then 126. I can get only 6 - 7 SOT but on 126 can get 8 and half SOT.

This phone IMO has strange behavior as far as the battery life. I can watch YouTube, browse the web and use the XDA app all day and get 8 hours screen on time. It is strange to me that listening to podcasts while I work, the battery seems to drain at the same rate as if I were watching YouTube. I'm not complaining at all, it just seems strange to me. I am on the 138 build.
Most phones I've had in the past, drain about 5% per hour while listening to podcasts, and this phone seems to be about the same. But as far as screen on time goes, the Mate 9 destroys the competition.

lyall29 said:
It is strange to me that listening to podcasts while I work, the battery seems to drain at the same rate as if I were watching YouTube.
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What app are you using? It barely drains on Pocket Casts for me.
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Governa said:
What app are you using? It barely drains on Pocket Casts for me.
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I'm using Doggcatcher at the moment. I want to use Pocket Casts but I can't because I listen to a podcast that has a monthly subscription. I tried loading the podcast URL into Pocket Casts and the app does find the podcast, but I can't find where to put my username and password for the podcast. I don't see any advanced options like in Doggcatcher.

lyall29 said:
I tried loading the podcast URL into Pocket Casts and the app does find the podcast, but I can't find where to put my username and password for the podcast. I don't see any advanced options like in Doggcatcher.
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Do send the developers a quick message. They're quite active and I'm sure they'll help you out.
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Governa said:
Do send the developers a quick message. They're quite active and I'm sure they'll help you out.
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I meant to but never did. I think I will today. Thanks for reminding me.

Looks like it's fixed. 67℅ and shows 35 hrs. All I did is put into ultra battery saving and then exit.

Mate 9 build L29b185c172 power consumption

I updated my phone yesterday and the log was about system optimization and power consumption, but I noticed that it's consuming more battery now specially in idle state. So anyone else is facing this problem?

Abdo2 said:
I updated my phone yesterday and the log was about system optimization and power consumption, but I noticed that it's consuming more battery now specially in idle state. So anyone else is facing this problem?
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How did you update?

fh probably

I did a full install of L29C432B176 yesterday and see improved battery.
about 1% per hour, though mostly idle.

gm007 said:
How did you update?
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Ota update

Abdo2 said:
I updated my phone yesterday and the log was about system optimization and power consumption, but I noticed that it's consuming more battery now specially in idle state. So anyone else is facing this problem?
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Probably just re-indexing. Give it a day or 2.
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Governa said:
Probably just re-indexing. Give it a day or 2.
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Check if it's any app in particular.
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why is this thread not in the Q&A section
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