Google Nexus 5
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Even after I uninstalled it it continued to drain .... So I've gone back to a factory fresh model
Fresh phone and I was getting wake lock 100% of the time ... From Google search.
Battery useage was Still minimal but the cpu was awake all the time and being attributed to Google search
Quick Google said this was linked with Google now so switched it off and I'm back to hardly any CPU usage and less than 1-2% in 2 hours
Gonna start installing my apps as I need them and monitor one by one rather than reinstalling them all at once and having no idea what the hell is going on
Gonna install a much better batter monitor to ...
Fresh phone and I was getting wake lock 100% of the time ... From Google search.
Battery useage was Still minimal but the cpu was awake all the time and being attributed to Google search
Quick Google said this was linked with Google now so switched it off and I'm back to hardly any CPU usage and less than 1-2% in 2 hours
Gonna start installing my apps as I need them and monitor one by one rather than reinstalling them all at once and having no idea what the hell is going on
Gonna install a much better batter monitor to ...
Edited by Fletch79 on Sunday 26th January 13:35
Having upgraded from a Nexus 4 to the 5 I'm amazed at how much better the battery is. I took it off the charger this morning at 7am, I've used it a lot today for surfing the web, making and receiving calls, texting, Facebook, viewing documents etc, and at 8:20pm now it's still on 51%. My 4 would be into the 15% remaining now and warning me to connect a charger.
Not sure if it has already been mentioned in the previous 27 pages, but if you want to improve the battery life it is worth enabling ART (Android Run Time) instead of Dalvik in developer options. Made a big difference to my N5.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2013/12/13...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2013/12/13...
Wheat said:
Just won an auction for a black 5. Looking forward to comparing it to the iPhone 5s I'm currently using, excited to use a naked android rather than sony/htc skins I've used before
My missus has a 5s and they are pretty much on a par as far as performance goes. I think the N5s browser is a litte faster.The rest is just down to preference. The wife wants a phone that just works and I want a toy to arse around with
I've moved over to ART from Dalvik and have noticed a bit and of an improvement. Not an amazing improvement in speed as it is already pretty damn quick but an improvement none the less. There doesn't seem to be that slight stutter I experienced from before in some apps when opening them.
I've had to log back into all my sites on chrome though.
Now to test the battery and see if there is any improvement.
Edit - scrap what I said. I can see a better difference in loading apps now and I've tried almost all of them on my phone (I've got about a hundred apps). Quite impressive.
I've had to log back into all my sites on chrome though.
Now to test the battery and see if there is any improvement.
Edit - scrap what I said. I can see a better difference in loading apps now and I've tried almost all of them on my phone (I've got about a hundred apps). Quite impressive.
Edited by TotalControl on Wednesday 5th February 09:51
Gren said:
My missus has a 5s and they are pretty much on a par as far as performance goes. I think the N5s browser is a litte faster.
The rest is just down to preference. The wife wants a phone that just works and I want a toy to arse around with
Yer I like to play around with gadgets but never liked the skins the phone company's put on android so hopefully the nexus will right up my street. How does the battery compare on the two phones?The rest is just down to preference. The wife wants a phone that just works and I want a toy to arse around with
Wheat said:
Gren said:
My missus has a 5s and they are pretty much on a par as far as performance goes. I think the N5s browser is a litte faster.
The rest is just down to preference. The wife wants a phone that just works and I want a toy to arse around with
Yer I like to play around with gadgets but never liked the skins the phone company's put on android so hopefully the nexus will right up my street. How does the battery compare on the two phones?The rest is just down to preference. The wife wants a phone that just works and I want a toy to arse around with
Mine's rooted with a custom kernel and rom although no undervolting or underclocking. Not sure whether it made any difference to battery life anyway but as I said, I see it as something to arse about with.
Gren said:
Battery life between the two seems similar - on an average day we're both at about 50% when they go on charge. It's my 3rd Android handset and by far the best for battery.
Mine's rooted with a custom kernel and rom although no undervolting or underclocking. Not sure whether it made any difference to battery life anyway but as I said, I see it as something to arse about with.
Cool. Thanks for your reply. I should receive my Nexus tomorrow and so I'll set it up over the weekend and towards the end of next week I'll give a full report of nexus v apple on battery, performance, ease of use, suitability for certain tasks. I've had a 5" screen in the past (xperia z) and found it too large. But my work is rapidly heading to more emails/ more PDFs so I need a small computer in my pocket at all times. Hope the Nexus will fit in as I love the pricing, the immediate and naked android updates and the range of 5"7"&10" products. Mine's rooted with a custom kernel and rom although no undervolting or underclocking. Not sure whether it made any difference to battery life anyway but as I said, I see it as something to arse about with.
Will I need a case for the Nexus of is the screen fairly scratch proof?
Thanks, mine comes with a case so if it's sub standard, at least it will do until I can get a better one though. Can't stand screen protectors though, I haven't payed 100s£ for one of the best phone screens around just to cover it in a 99p film of plastic. Never needed one on the iPhone. It lives with coins/ keys and is compleatly unscathed. In thinking with gorilla glass the nexus will match it
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