Nexus 5x Battery Life Thread

[-sandro-]

Is it normal that while I'm steady I get great battery life on standby (wifi or data doesn't matter) instead while i drive or walk the battery life just drops drastically? I have location, google now, google location history all off even WiFi is manually off. Today I did a 6h drive (as a passenger) and I came back home with 1h of screen time and 30% left, basically 50% was used while driving in standby. Unacceptable. I also tried to force Doze while walking once and it doesn't change anything. Is it possible changing cells so quickly destroyes the battery life while connected on data? My friends iPhone of course is stuck at 100% in the meantime.

 

[andreim3]

Something is wrong with my phone!
With 21% of battery I've had an 81 minutes of SOT. Never happeend to me something like this, not when I use or mobile data.

I use elementX kernel with hawk tail 1.2 on a pure nexus custom rom.

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[EeZeEpEe]

Something is wrong with my phone!
With 21% of battery I've had an 81 minutes of SOT. Never happeend to me something like this, not when I use or mobile data.

I use elementX kernel with hawk tail 1.2 on a pure nexus custom rom.

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But wouldn't that equal to over 6 hours of SOT if you kept going? Sounds great to me.

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[andreim3]

But wouldn't that equal to over 6 hours of SOT if you kept going? Sounds great to me.

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I hope that. I finally found a good configuration of battery life. 6h SOT will not be possible today because I played on my way home a game and it sucked my battery. Still 2:30h SOT and I have 50%. I hope now that this configuration keep working.


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[amir7777]

I hope that. I finally found a good configuration of battery life. 6h SOT will not be possible today because I played on my way home a game and it sucked my battery. Still 2:30h SOT and I have 50%. I hope now that this configuration keep working.


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Can you share your new configuration please?

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[EstiR86]

Can you share your new configuration please?

Configurations don't matter alot. Of course if you use some governor profile you can squeeze an extra 45 mins of life but what really helps is lowering your screen brightness! It's an LCD screen so it used 2x-8x more power after it reaches the 60% mark. Keep it under 15 % and manually increase in sunlight and you will get battery life that's amazing. Also It seems that Dirty Unicorn ROM consistently offers more battery life than stock and Pure Nexus. Here are my results using Butterfly profile with Phasma kernel.

 

[andreim3]

Hei, here is my ex kernel backup, save it in ex kernel folder and restore it with ex kernel manager.
Hope that it is enough.
As I said, I use hawk tail 1.2. Interactive Governor, touch boost disabled.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1go4g0_5JTseFRJYlVkODlxZUU/view?usp=drivesdk

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[amir7777]

Configurations don't matter alot. Of course if you use some governor profile you can squeeze an extra 45 mins of life but what really helps is lowering your screen brightness! It's an LCD screen so it used 2x-8x more power after it reaches the 60% mark. Keep it under 15 % and manually increase in sunlight and you will get battery life that's amazing. Also It seems that Dirty Unicorn ROM consistently offers more battery life than stock and Pure Nexus. Here are my results using Butterfly profile with Phasma kernel.

Thanks a lot!
And how is the DU ROM making a difference in battery life? Thought only the kernel makes a tiny difference

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[EstiR86]

Thanks a lot!
And how is the DU ROM making a difference in battery life? Thought only the kernel makes a tiny difference

I don't know exactly why the ROM itself is better than let's say PureNexus at battery I believe it's due to the commits they do and how it's optimized. I ran PureNexus for months but you can definitely feel a difference in battery when compared to Dirty Unicorn. The kernel also makes a difference on pure stock DU I was getting roughly 5 hours on screen time, with the kernel, thermal throttling tweaks, ram management tweaks I'm getting just a bit over 6 hours. This is been the usual since like a week ago ever seen DU updated to 7.1.2 .

 

[La Grande]

I don't know exactly why the ROM itself is better than let's say PureNexus at battery I believe it's due to the commits they do and how it's optimized. I ran PureNexus for months but you can definitely feel a difference in battery when compared to Dirty Unicorn. The kernel also makes a difference on pure stock DU I was getting roughly 5 hours on screen time, with the kernel, thermal throttling tweaks, ram management tweaks I'm getting just a bit over 6 hours. This is been the usual since like a week ago ever seen DU updated to 7.1.2 .

Hey , would you tell me about your kernel and tweaks? That would be nice . Im on du 7.1.2 with unicorn blood kernel by default

 

[EstiR86]

Hey , would you tell me about your kernel and tweaks? That would be nice . Im on du 7.1.2 with unicorn blood kernel by default

I've been using the latest build of Phasma Kernel using the Butterfly profile. I changed io to Zen and read ahead to 2048k, I also changed entropy to be around 33%, Westwood west used instead of cubic and IPA wakeclock is turned off.

 

[bblzd]

Seems WiFi idle drain remains worse over long periods of idle than with mobile data for me, not something I expect to change with Android O.

Stock 7.1.2 OTA, 30% manual brightness, only Locations and BT disabled.

 

[dirtygeek]

is that BL-T9 compatible with BL-T19 in Nexus 5X?
Because in my country so difficult to find Bl-T19

 

[alirezaircn]

I've been using the latest build of Phasma Kernel using the Butterfly profile. I changed io to Zen and read ahead to 2048k, I also changed entropy to be around 33%, Westwood west used instead of cubic and IPA wakeclock is turned off.

I just flashed Phasma kernel. How did you applied Butterfly profile and did all those changes? Sorry for dummy question.

 

[Sinistersky]

I get about 15 h of SoT on 72h standby. I dint know, this seems kinnda bad to me.

 

[EstiR86]

I just flashed Phasma kernel. How did you applied Butterfly profile and did all those changes? Sorry for dummy question.

Download the ElementalX manager app and from there it is self explanatory.

 

[lfuentes]

I´ve get 4:42 (20% Battery left) SoT, Stock 7.1.2
(Bluetooth Off, GPS High Accuracy, WiFi On, Mobile Data On)

 

[Max2mus]

Hi! I have been experiencing weird battery drains recently, it can be something close to 30% overnight.
I tried detecting wakelocks with Batter Battery Stats and Wakelock Detector but had no luck. Also tried to change location modes and turn it completely - no luck (nlpwakelock dissapears but no change in battery life)
Currently after a completely clean flash (maybe a week ago) I'm using latest SAOSP with EX Kernel and glasscannon profile but the problem still remains.
Before that I tried different kernels (franco, EX, stock etc), tried lots of profiles, was on PureNexus 7.1.1 - nothing helped.
Also started to use greenify with aggressive doze - still no luck. The phone sleeps but battery is bad..

I'm pretty sure it is not supposed to lose that much battery overnight and actually a long time ago it was completely fine.

I am posting some overnight stats pictures from BBS and WD. Can anyone please give me any ideas what can cause this battery drain?
Thanks!

 

[CazeW]

Hi! I have been experiencing weird battery drains recently, it can be something close to 30% overnight.
I tried detecting wakelocks with Batter Battery Stats and Wakelock Detector but had no luck. Also tried to change location modes and turn it completely - no luck (nlpwakelock dissapears but no change in battery life)
Currently after a completely clean flash (maybe a week ago) I'm using latest SAOSP with EX Kernel and glasscannon profile but the problem still remains.
Before that I tried different kernels (franco, EX, stock etc), tried lots of profiles, was on PureNexus 7.1.1 - nothing helped.
Also started to use greenify with aggressive doze - still no luck. The phone sleeps but battery is bad..

I'm pretty sure it is not supposed to lose that much battery overnight and actually a long time ago it was completely fine.

I am posting some overnight stats pictures from BBS and WD. Can anyone please give me any ideas what can cause this battery drain?
Thanks!

Tried with turning WiFi off for the night? You can also try putting the phone in flight mode for the night. If it still drains that fast, it could be a hardware problem like I had.

 

[-sandro-]

I hear you, it sucks when you get no wakelocks and the battery drains anyway... Can you try clear the cache and dalvik? it helped sometimes. What hardware problem @CazeW?
Please let us know what you discover.