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Nexus 5 Battery Woes

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  • 06-10-2014 2:10pm
    #1
    Lord Derpington
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭


    My battery in the nexus 5 has gone terrible over the last two weeks or so, I'm generally having to charge it twice a day.

    Here is a screenshot of my battery usage from coming off charge at 100% around 9.30 this morning.Image

    The chargers I use is the one that came with the phone and the wireless nexus charging doc from play.google.com.

    Has anyone else experienced this?


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    #2
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Been happening to me too, much worse than usual over the last few weeks.
    Battery actually died after 12 hours and I'd barely used it that day. I turned off all location data yesterday and have seen a big increase in battery.

    Even now my battery is down to 65% after being unplugged and used quite a bit since 6.30am. Turn off location data for a day or two and see how it goes.


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    Lord Derpington
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Lord Derpington


    I have location data off, auto sync off and been on wifi instead of 3G/4G for the day, and its dropped 80% in 4 hours.
    I can't believe how bad it has gone, in the weeks prior I would get a day easily out of it.


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    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Lord Derpington wrote: »
    I have location data off, auto sync off and been on wifi instead of 3G/4G for the day, and its dropped 80% in 4 hours.
    I can't believe how bad it has gone, in the weeks prior I would get a day easily out of it.

    That is exceptionally bad. Try a factory reset?


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    Lord Derpington
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Lord Derpington


    That was my next step but there is so much I would have to backup prior to it.
    I was hoping, probably very ambitiously, that someone would have a "quick fix" or experienced this abysmal battery life also.
    I think if a factory reset doesn't fix it, the next step would be to contact Google support and see what they say.


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    ongarite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,217 ✭✭✭ongarite


    You're image attachment isn't showing what apps or processes are using up all the battery power.
    What are the top 3 listed as using battery?

    From what you have in the image attached you have a wakelock; an app keeping your phone away and probably at 100% instead of letting it sleep.
    Look at the screen on time vs awake..


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    Saipanne
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    I'm having the same issue with a Desire 601. Its brand new, so I don't see what a factory reset would achieve.

    Currently I have WiFi off, location off, update off. I have a task killer app switching off background apps. But still my battery lasts less than 8 hours.

    Any tips?


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    Lord Derpington
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Lord Derpington


    ongarite wrote: »
    You're image attachment isn't showing what apps or processes are using up all the battery power.
    What are the top 3 listed as using battery?

    From what you have in the image attached you have a wakelock; an app keeping your phone away and probably at 100% instead of letting it sleep.
    Look at the screen on time vs awake..

    Good spot!
    I wonder.. I have a moto 360 watch that is probably hindering that some amount, but there was a good week or more before the battery became this bad.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    ongarite wrote: »
    You're image attachment isn't showing what apps or processes are using up all the battery power.
    What are the top 3 listed as using battery?

    From what you have in the image attached you have a wakelock; an app keeping your phone away and probably at 100% instead of letting it sleep.
    Look at the screen on time vs awake..

    I have this issue too. How to I fix it?


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    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,850 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    My battery certainly isn't great, but I make sure I'm never that far from a charger. Have a cable at work and portable batteries in case I'm travelling for a few hours where I'll be using the phone a lot. If I was using it for 2.5 hours solid browsing or watching something the battery would drain pretty much fully.

    I still love the phone, but the battery was always a weak point.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    5starpool wrote: »
    My battery certainly isn't great, but I make sure I'm never that far from a charger. Have a cable at work and portable batteries in case I'm travelling for a few hours where I'll be using the phone a lot. If I was using it for 2.5 hours solid browsing or watching something the battery would drain pretty much fully.

    I still love the phone, but the battery was always a weak point.

    I've spent the evening researching this issue and does seem worth your while to manage your phone better. For example uninstalling or disabling unused apps saves on CPU usage and thus saves battery.

    Two apps I found help here:

    Clean Master
    Battery Doctor

    Take some time with them and they do help.


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    projectgtr
    Registered Users Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭projectgtr


    No issues here, but id be doing a factory reset and do a full charge/discharge and check it again. On a side note we should see a noticeable improvement in battery life with L launching shortly


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Saipanne wrote: »
    I've spent the evening researching this issue and does seem worth your while to manage your phone better. For example uninstalling or disabling unused apps saves on CPU usage and thus saves battery.

    Two apps I found help here:

    Clean Master
    Battery Doctor

    Take some time with them and they do help.

    These type of apps were used widely in the early days of Android, they don't have much use since Jellybean launched - anything them apps do usually can be found in the phone options.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Fieldog wrote: »
    These type of apps were used widely in the early days of Android, they don't have much use since Jellybean launched - anything them apps do usually can be found in the phone options.

    Not on mine. Just a single power saver button.


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    kingtiger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    use Greenify, stop all those poxy wakelocks

    battery saver apps just dont work


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    kingtiger wrote: »
    use Greenify, stop all those poxy wakelocks

    battery saver apps just dont work

    I tried that and it said I needed to root my phone. I'm kind of wary of bricking my phone.


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    kingtiger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭kingtiger


    Saipanne wrote: »
    I tried that and it said I needed to root my phone. I'm kind of wary of bricking my phone.

    almost impossible to do, use Wugfresh Nexus toolkit, its does everything for you

    http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    kingtiger wrote: »
    almost impossible to do, use Wugfresh Nexus toolkit, its does everything for you

    http://www.wugfresh.com/nrt/

    Mine is a Desire 601. There seems to be lots of options, but hard to know which to trust.


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    Saipanne
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    I should report that since using the apps I mentioned to remove or disable unused apps, my battery life has been greatly extended. I'm usually down to 30% by now, but I'm at 70%.


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Saipanne wrote: »
    I should report that since using the apps I mentioned to remove or disable unused apps, my battery life has been greatly extended. I'm usually down to 30% by now, but I'm at 70%.

    This thread is for a Nexus 5, not a HTC....

    There is no bloatware on the Nexus other than Google's own -

    HTC have a lot of apps and sync stuff that has to be turned off to preserve battery life, with stock android - its not as much...


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Fieldog wrote: »
    This thread is for a Nexus 5, not a HTC....

    There is no bloatware on the Nexus other than Google's own -

    HTC have a lot of apps and sync stuff that has to be turned off to preserve battery life, with stock android - its not as much...

    But I was right though.


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    #22
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Saipanne wrote: »
    But I was right though.

    Maybe for your own phone... (which isn't the subject of this thread)

    This is a Nexus 5 thread - not a thread about how YOU get battery life out of your HTC Phone... :)

    There is no by the book "this is how I will use my phone today" rule of thumb that we can all adhere to - everyone's mileage varies daily, what worked for you may or may not work for other's phones - just because it is android does not equate to "it all works the same"


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