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Getting good battery backup [Not Rooted][Review]

Hey,
It's been 2 weeks since I got my Black 32Gig Nexus 5, I was a little bit afraid about the battery backup of N5 from reviews, every reviewer pointed out that N5 battery is downright bad but after getting my device I found out that N5 battery is NOT that bad but actually offers good backup :fingers-crossed: , the funny thing is when I charged first time and used my N5 it went down after just 5 hours with SOT of 2 hours !! but what makes me wonder is that after my first charging backup starts to increase !! I don't know why is this happening but battery backup actually increased noticeably day after day, I just don't know how this is happening may be battery is taking time to set up, I know first days we use our device with everything turned on thereby draining battery more than after getting used to but I can confirm that's not the case, backup is actually increasing. I have attached images of my current backup+settings.
Battery Status
Total time on battery : 20 Hours
Screen on time : 5 hours
Settings
Not Rooted.
Brightness: 20%(Approx.), Auto was too bright.
Location : On all the time with Battery saving mode.
WIFI: On all the time
Data: On all the time(HSPDA)
Bluetooth/NFC: Off all the time(I didn't had a chance to use it)
Google Now/ Location reporting : On
Vibration on typing(Key touch): Off (prolly most don't care about this but a big battery drainer)
Usage
30 mins of phone call
30-40 mins of web browsing with Chrome
30 mins of gaming (Temple run and NFS)
20 mins of music
Couple of photos taken
Couple of apps downloaded with playstore etc
I know battery is NOT a pro side of N5 but 20 hours is all I expect from a quad core smartphone !! also backup is really not a dealbreaker for Nexus 5.
My humble small review
Cons (That would go first)
Speaker - This is the biggest problem and a "can be deal breaker" con of N5, I never expected BOOMSOUND from this phone but current ouput is downright bad.
Camera App - Sucks big time, lot of time to focus etc but don't take me wrong image quality is NICE.
A bigger battery would have been better (Not saying current backup is bad)
Button rattling, negligible but shows production carelessness.
IR Blaster would have been nice, It's kinda asking a lot for $350 device it would have been a bigger plus since Kitkat is natively supporting it.
Pros
Everything else than cons about the phone are huge pros :angel:
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20 hours of battery life is amazing

Is battery backup the same thing as battery life?
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imneveral0ne said:
Is battery backup the same thing as battery life?
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I didn't get what you asked !!

albertpaulp said:
I didn't get what you asked !!
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He was confused with that term so am i

He's talking about battery life. Great battery stats you have posted thanks
NX5

No idea how your achieving this because I can't.
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While I haven't seen any crazy battery life from this phone I have been getting 4½ hours screen time with 20+ hours on a charge consistently. After I figured after that touch sounds were causing a bad wakelock I was having the first couple days.
So I'm perfectly happy with battery life, its an improvement over my G'Nex and that's on LTE the entire time.
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95Z28 said:
While I haven't seen any crazy battery life from this phone I have been getting 4½ hours screen time with 20+ hours on a charge consistently. After I figured after that touch sounds were causing a bad wakelock I was having the first couple days.
So I'm perfectly happy with battery life, its an improvement over my G'Nex and that's on LTE the entire time.
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So you're saying touch sounds can be a huge battery drain?

Wow never thought that the N5 can achieve 5 hours SOT!
I have a very similar phone usage, so this is a great post, thank you!
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Should I get one?

Hello dear XDA friends, Although I don't post a lot I still love you all .
Anyway, I am really tempted to get a Mate S ($/€319) after my LG G3's screen basically broke in half, the battery exploded and the touchscreen only working 10%, it's basically useless right now and I need a phone to replace it for a while until I decide what's going to be my ''real'' phone (I hate Apple but the 7+ Camera is amazing but then again maybe note 7 refurbs will be cheap.) So yeah I need to bridge the gap and I want to gift it to a relative when I'm done with it.
So is it worth it for 300 bucks?

Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.

dai75 said:
Hi,
I have the phone since 3 months now (rooted and latest rom version) and it is in overall very good but the battery. Screen is very great but although there are a good device manager, it doesn't stand a full day without reloading.
Also you can see from the different posts that this phone is not very popular among Android's cooks. So not a lot of answers and not a lot of tricks and tweaks. I regret the time I had a Nexus 4 where community was very active. Anyway, as I am really focused on battery life, this is the real flaw of this phone for me. But I guess there are not many phones that could do better.
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What's the longest screen on time you got?

It actually depends what you gonna do with this phone.
I own it for last 8 months never really felt need for better battery during normal usage.
My typical usage with all the time brightness at auto and slider at max ( which on huawei even when inside usually means 80-90% brightness ) and outside always even when is dim day is 100% or boosted screen mode ends up with average 4:30-5h SOT with around 18-20hrs on battery. This is with about 60% wifi 40% 3g.
This includes bunch of social apps, youtube , music, calls, sms, light gaming of around 1hr per day.
The great thing about this phone is its soc and screen, the to S-amoled it never gets hot thus for it doesn't drain battery life fast like snapdragon devices.
Biggest fall of this soc is its GPU it isn't as good for heavy games like s810 devices for example.
If you're not a gamer I highly suggest this phone. If you have more money I suggest p9+, its a beast in all regards.
Here my current battery life stats
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Xdekker said:
What's the longest screen on time you got?
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As you can see, I charged my phone and unplugged at 00.14. Wi-Fi off and no mobile data, no screen on. No apps running apart from home launcher and myProfile. All others are greenified. So in around 8h sleep it decreased by 20%.
I tried many tricks and I consider myself skilful for this (my LG G2 could last 3 days) but cannot do better with this one. The ROM is not good enough yet and update frequency is not good.

Got the LG G4 so this one can be closed

Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V20's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

Compared to the Note 7 there is next to zero residual battery drain. I forgot to plug it in one night and saw a 2% drop.

Doesnt really drain on sleep mode. Not bad.
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This is great to hear. My V10 can drop 30% overnight. I can't wait to upgrade.

I'm losing upwards of 15% at night. Not good.

This has been one of my BEST PERFORMED sleep time phone so far! Must be something w NOUGAT also? Love it!

I noticed sometime when we insert a new sd card the phone needs to create an internal list and this process can suck alot of battery. It might or might not be this issue thats causing some users to experience overnight battery loss.

I got my V20 yesterday and had it sit overnight, and the drain was practically zero. Very impressed so far.

Standby drain is beyond great. If the phone is off, then 0 to 1% is lost, depending on the stand by time.
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The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.

Slash8915 said:
The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.
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So over an 8hr night you would lose 16%? That's not gifs at all.

I just got the phone last night. First of all... damn this is a sexy beautiful phone. Sleek slim as hell and the best phone I've owned thus far.
What is not okay is the battery drain in standby. I put it on the nightstand at 100% at 11:30pm, woke up at 6:30pm (7hours total) and it was down to 40%!!!!
Not okay LG. I moved over from the LG G5 and the standby on that was excellent, would still be in the 90%s , I hope an update is issued to fix this problem

Over 6 hours of stand by time with 0% lost. I have 4 email accounts running, a few game notifications, etc... No facebook.
This was taken after I cleared most of my notifications.
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So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?

midnightmaraude said:
So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?
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Give it a day or two, the battery will and should improve.
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I too have noticed that this phone has significantly less standby drain than the S7 i was using between the Note7 return and the V20. All in all just better with the battery in my opinion. I usually listen to Pandora all day long at work (wired) and then use my BT headphones at the gym for a couple hours each night too. With the S7 I had to recharge the phone near the end of the work day or i would be cutting it close by the end of my workout. Not the case at all with the V20, after my workout im around 45% still. I do have 2 email accounts / FB / bunch of other stuff running at all times too pretty much. Get a lot of calls / texts throughout the day of course too. So far it has been amazing

I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....

Sleep mode is awesome I bearly notice a drian.

titoh said:
I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....
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7 hours I slept last night with v20 unplugged after fully charging. Burned 1%.
Your issue seems to either be low signal strength or apps waking the phone.

I am havei very little sleep drain. This phone has really surprised me. I have been loyal too thenote series since the n2.... And when the n7 issue started and we had to return it I decided to give the v20 a shot. So far it has really surprised me!
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Question Why my battery life is so low?

I got this phone after seeing tons of reviews that Samsung S23 has amazing battery life
But i am ending up charging my phone twice a day because of very less battery life.
I am not a power user, mostly using phone for browsing and texting.
Yet the SOT is still so less?
I am using light mode in battery settings - Adaptive refresh rate - mostly wifi- Dual Sim 5G
25W official Samsung charger.
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1rahul said:
I got this phone after seeing tons of reviews that Samsung S23 has amazing battery life
But i am ending up charging my phone twice a day because of very less battery life.
I am not a power user, mostly using phone for browsing and texting.
Yet the SOT is still so less?
I am using light mode in battery settings - Adaptive refresh rate - mostly wifi- Dual Sim 5G
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From your picture you can't see that the battery has been charged for the last 19 hours.
So where are those twice daily charges?

You are using two sims, if the signal is not great or will drain battery.

First of all, turning 5G for dual sims drains the battery so fast and secondly, I can see very well from the image you posted that you haven't charged your phone for 19 hours and some and that's great battery life to me. Also, if you happen to be using your screen at 2k or so, you better lower it at 720p or at least 1080p cause remember that galaxy S23 is only 3900 mAh and that's not a very big battery capacity like its bigger brother the S23 Ultra which is 5000 mAh and can pretty well handle intensive work! Hope my answer helped you.

Facebook is not your battery's friend.

ze7zez said:
From your picture you can't see that the battery has been charged for the last 19 hours.
So where are those twice daily charges?
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For those who are saying i didn't charge it from 19 hours, please note that standby time was long because i charged it at 12am last night and then binge watched Netflix on TV, slept late and then woke up late too.
So mostly it was standby.
If i am using it regularly, then the SOT is very less.
Please see the SOT in the screenshot.

Ozim1111 said:
First of all, turning 5G for dual sims drains the battery so fast and secondly, I can see very well from the image you posted that you haven't charged your phone for 19 hours and some and that's great battery life to me. Also, if you happen to be using your screen at 2k or so, you better lower it at 720p or at least 1080p cause remember that galaxy S23 is only 3900 mAh and that's not a very big battery capacity like its bigger brother the S23 Ultra which is 5000 mAh and can pretty well handle intensive work! Hope my answer helped you.
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Option to change screen resolution doesn't seem to be visible to me in display option, can you please help tell where it's at?(Normal S23,not Ultra or +)

Morak75 said:
Facebook is not your battery's friend.
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neither twitter nor instagram... and facebook is the most offending application of the battery in the android world, i agree with you

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You have two sim cards active, three and a half hour of screen on time, and 19 hours of screen off time. I think it is great.
Peogle that shows a great screen on time, they do not stop using it. No screen off time.

General The battery drain got EVEN WORSE FOR ME

10% battery drain in 20 minutes seems like my battery just killed itself at this point, hell nah man, never in my life am i getting this brand, NEVER, legit, how much stuff do i remove and limit to use my phone is annoying, i paid $820 USD for it and it's pure s**t. Please stay away from ONEPLUS-OPPO, or to be honest any chinese brand per se. NEXT PHONE I AM BUYING WILL BE IPHONE 15 PRO MAX, F ONEPLUS.

I guess it would have been better to buy a Google Pixel 7 Pro or Samsung S23

That I agree, OnePlus while they have this policy, besides the problem with battery and such...never again. I'm going for Samsung, pixel phone is another brand I never gonna go back to...

zopostyle said:
That I agree, OnePlus while they have this policy, besides the problem with battery and such...never again. I'm going for Samsung, pixel phone is another brand I never gonna go back to...
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My Pixel 7 is the first Pixel i ever had, previous phones were Honor, Huawei and Samsung, but Pixels stock Android is just soooo much better

VistaSlayer said:
I guess it would have been better to buy a Google Pixel 7 Pro or Samsung S23
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Nah, I don't want any problems anymore, enough of this bs, I will just get the iphone 15 pro max and I will be happy ever after, my parents have iphone 13 pro max, man those things last forever, two days of HEAVY usage, perfomance, realllyyyy gooodddd, not that oneplus has bad perfomance but it's at the expense of battery life, 3 hours compare that to 11 hours, insanneeee
not even google nor samsung get that, hoping 15 pro max would have even better battery life. Either way it will be better than this bs phone.
Official Oneplus hater

My battery is holding at an estimated 90% according to accubattery. That's fine for a device that has been used as a daily for a year+. But something is draining it, I wish we could figure out what is going on, mine has been noticably worse since I updated to OOS13 recently. It may be a coincidence, but something is up and it's got to be software related.

i got mine this January and for my use i get an hour for every 10% using full hd and high fps setting.. so around 9.5 to 10 hours sot on a full charge..
if i lower the resolution and fps i can get around 11 to 12 hours sot.

Yaj00j said:
i got mine this January and for my use i get an hour for every 10% using full hd and high fps setting.. so around 9.5 to 10 hours sot on a full charge..
if i lower the resolution and fps i can get around 11 to 12 hours sot.
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That's got to be a troll, please don't play with me haha

Yaj00j said:
i got mine this January and for my use i get an hour for every 10% using full hd and high fps setting.. so around 9.5 to 10 hours sot on a full charge..
if i lower the resolution and fps i can get around 11 to 12 hours sot.
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never, maximum 5 to 6 hours sot

i am not trolling and i will charge to 100% and post proof after a day's use.
my device is almost brand new and my use is pretty light.. mostly reading stuff, discord, texting and youtube, bluetooth spotify when driving.. not much calls.. almost no games. i have also disabled some system apps and i use a firewall app (afwall) to block apps which i feel have no business to be online (even system apps such as photos, camera, phone etc).. i also disable the background data for almost all the apps and only gmail and whatsapp are allowed to autostart.
my device is a 2210 running c.26 2215 fw with root, and lsposed aswell.
i'm posting the current battery screenshot.. it was around 60% initially and you can see from the use i'm getting about an hour sot for every 10%.
obviously if your use is heavier than mine you'd get less.. but 5 to 6 is just too low imo.. that is probably like all day heavy graphics gaming sot. i suspect that the ultra fast charging will ultimately damage the battery pretty quickly because of the heat and maybe thats what you are facing.
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regrestbuyingOP10pro said:
That's got to be a troll, please don't play with me haha
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Not trolling, check my SOT leaderboard thread... I've had some staggering sots.. the 8 pro was superior though. 14 hours

I don't know what to say tbh, i just reseted my phone back to oxygen os 12 lol
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i am not trolling and i will charge to 100% and post proof after a day's use.
my device is almost brand new and my use is pretty light.. mostly reading stuff, discord, texting and youtube, bluetooth spotify when driving.. not much calls.. almost no games. i have also disabled some system apps and i use a firewall app (afwall) to block apps which i feel have no business to be online (even system apps such as photos, camera, phone etc).. i also disable the background data for almost all the apps and only gmail and whatsapp are allowed to autostart.
my device is a 2210 running c.26 2215 fw with root, and lsposed aswell.
i'm posting the current battery screenshot.. it was around 60% initially and you can see from the use i'm getting about an hour sot for every 10%.
obviously if your use is heavier than mine you'd get less.. but 5 to 6 is just too low imo.. that is probably like all day heavy graphics gaming sot. i suspect that the ultra fast charging will ultimately damage the battery pretty quickly because of the heat and maybe thats what you are facing.
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