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> The 5X has slowed to a crawl after a year of use. I ordered mine in November 2015 and it still works just as fine. Just as fast, if not faster with the Andro

by avar 10y ago

> The 5X has slowed to a crawl after a year of use. I ordered mine in November 2015 and it still works just as fine. Just as fast, if not faster with the Android updates, and the battery still lasts around a day and a half, i.e. usually 20-40% when I plug it in to charge at night.

cle 10y ago
Me too. I initially had some lag problems with it but turned off "Power button instantly locks" and it went away, and it's been smooth sailing since (about a year).
knz 10y ago
I have a Nexus 6 (and had a 5 before that). Painfully slow lag seems to be a recurring issue with Android....
- redorb 10y ago
  Just a counter point - I was going to recommend for him to get a Nexus 6, as a budget / value focused person I bought one new-in-box in September of last year, it's been a great phone. The battery is fine but not changeable easily. My nexus 6 hasn't shown any slow downs etc.. I'm on 6.0.1 and using T mobile. You can pick them up now $260 refurbished or $330 old-new-in-box stock.
  - knz 10y ago
    It's a great phone when he lag isn't bad. It's particularly noticeable when using the camera. My wife had the same phone and same issues, but I also know two people with a 6 who do not have the issue.
  - mszcz 10y ago
    Completely different experience here. N6 worked fine when I bought it about a 1.5y ago, then, when updating, turned on phone encryption (can't be turned off) and it's been a painfully slow ride ever since. Camera's glitchy and veeery slow. It's been getting to the point where I'm on the brink of throwing it against a sidewalk at times ;)
    - technofiend 10y ago
      The Nexus 6 camera particularly in HDR mode is nearly unusable unless your battery is > 60% and battery optimization is turned off for the camera app. Otherwise forget it. My device easily takes 10-15 seconds per photo to do HDR rendering. And you may not take another photo until the render completes. And yet I can't make myself upgrade to a Pixel because it seems I'd just be trading one set of problems for another.
mancerayder 10y ago
There might be something stealing resources on mine, or I just have a crappy battery. Either way it's been over a year. What I've done so far is join the Android beta program (yesterday) so I get newer versions of the OS, just in case there's a known issue that's been fixed. I've nothing to loose but my pains.
- avar 10y ago
  Go to the "Battery" tab in the settings and see what you're spending it on. Most likely you've installed some app that's running services in the background which eats up your battery.
- pasbesoin 10y ago
  I've experienced the same thing on my 5x that I did on my Moto X. Immediately after an OS update, battery life would tank. As in, dropping 10% per hour while sitting on the table idling, or about that. I found on the Moto X that a Google service was chewing up a lot of power/battery. Upon rebooting, that service would return to being a very minor component of battery use. The first time my 5x started discharging in similar fashion, I had a look at battery use and found the same thing. Turning the phone fully off and back on, as with the Moto X, seemed to "fix" this. I'm not saying this is your problem. Unless you never restarted your phone after such an update -- waiting and charging my Moto X overnight was not enough to make it go away. But even if not, maybe this comment will help out someone else.
maaarghk 10y ago
I have to agree with this. I bought mine in October a few days after it was released and it has only improved. I used to get random reboots, crashes, poor performance after a few days uptime - the various over-the-air updates solved all of these within a few weeks and the Nougat release improved performance even more. The battery life is also much the same as when I bought it - nothing special, but it can see me from 7am to 1am quite happily.
godot 10y ago
I got mine around the same time and have the exact same experience as you. Just as fast, battery still good (about same as yours), just as when I first got it.
barrkel 10y ago
I also have a 5X. If I'm moving, the battery runs out at about 20% an hour. I normally charge mine in the evening, so it's at 100% at midnight, about 90% in the morning, about 70% after my commute, and around 40% by the evening. It'll be somewhere in the 10 to 20% range by the time I get back home, often with the battery saver active. During the work day, I generally only use it to check headlines at lunch. I also use it to play back mp3s over bluetooth to my motorycle helmet. The screen is typically on during the day for less than an hour. The 5X is slower than the Nexus 5 it replaced - 50% more cores but they run slower and most apps take longer to start up. It's a mediocre device and the battery life is not good at all. Right now, the biggest drains, after screen at 12%, are Google Play services, Android System, Android OS and Mobile standby. I have a theory that it's Google's appetite for data that kills battery life. They make it hard to use the phone with location services turned off or in battery saving mode except when you want a location in Maps. When you want your location, it gets turned on and stays on. There's no easy way to keep it on to a minimum. I think it's a strategic goal of Google to use customer data for everything from location popularity to traffic, and they're willing to sacrifice customer batteries with nudging defaults to get there.
- mancerayder 10y ago
  Yeah, that matches my experience. Except that when I first bought the device, in December 2015, it had GOOD battery life. I don't play games, I don't do anything but browse, use a couple of social media apps (as in, two) sometimes, try to keep the display below 40% brightness. It rotted over time, like fruit left out on a hot day. The battery life became too gruesome to last the day. It could very well be the massive data needing to be funneled about your commute, which Amazon product you glanced at, which jailed AMP news article you read, which restaurant you just walked out of, and all that other stuff that inspires modern dystopian fiction books and shows, that's draining the battery life. Our dystopian information-centralized existence killed the battery life on my 5X. I'll take it.
- michel-slm 10y ago
  That's my experience with the 6P. The first few months, I used it as a phablet and didn't put a SIM card in, and battery usage was fine. Then I moved to the US, activated Project Fi on it, and battery life is horrible -- I suspect the way Fi frequency-hops between cellular providers and known open WiFi hotspots means it taxes the location services even more than if you're on a standard carrier.

by avar 10y ago

cle 10y ago

Me too. I initially had some lag problems with it but turned off "Power button instantly locks" and it went away, and it's been smooth sailing since (about a year).

knz 10y ago

I have a Nexus 6 (and had a 5 before that). Painfully slow lag seems to be a recurring issue with Android....

redorb 10y ago
Just a counter point - I was going to recommend for him to get a Nexus 6, as a budget / value focused person I bought one new-in-box in September of last year, it's been a great phone. The battery is fine but not changeable easily. My nexus 6 hasn't shown any slow downs etc.. I'm on 6.0.1 and using T mobile. You can pick them up now $260 refurbished or $330 old-new-in-box stock.
- knz 10y ago
  It's a great phone when he lag isn't bad. It's particularly noticeable when using the camera. My wife had the same phone and same issues, but I also know two people with a 6 who do not have the issue.
- mszcz 10y ago
  Completely different experience here. N6 worked fine when I bought it about a 1.5y ago, then, when updating, turned on phone encryption (can't be turned off) and it's been a painfully slow ride ever since. Camera's glitchy and veeery slow. It's been getting to the point where I'm on the brink of throwing it against a sidewalk at times ;)
  - technofiend 10y ago
    The Nexus 6 camera particularly in HDR mode is nearly unusable unless your battery is > 60% and battery optimization is turned off for the camera app. Otherwise forget it. My device easily takes 10-15 seconds per photo to do HDR rendering. And you may not take another photo until the render completes. And yet I can't make myself upgrade to a Pixel because it seems I'd just be trading one set of problems for another.

mancerayder 10y ago

There might be something stealing resources on mine, or I just have a crappy battery. Either way it's been over a year. What I've done so far is join the Android beta program (yesterday) so I get newer versions of the OS, just in case there's a known issue that's been fixed. I've nothing to loose but my pains.

avar 10y ago
Go to the "Battery" tab in the settings and see what you're spending it on. Most likely you've installed some app that's running services in the background which eats up your battery.
pasbesoin 10y ago
I've experienced the same thing on my 5x that I did on my Moto X. Immediately after an OS update, battery life would tank. As in, dropping 10% per hour while sitting on the table idling, or about that. I found on the Moto X that a Google service was chewing up a lot of power/battery. Upon rebooting, that service would return to being a very minor component of battery use. The first time my 5x started discharging in similar fashion, I had a look at battery use and found the same thing. Turning the phone fully off and back on, as with the Moto X, seemed to "fix" this. I'm not saying this is your problem. Unless you never restarted your phone after such an update -- waiting and charging my Moto X overnight was not enough to make it go away. But even if not, maybe this comment will help out someone else.

maaarghk 10y ago

I have to agree with this. I bought mine in October a few days after it was released and it has only improved. I used to get random reboots, crashes, poor performance after a few days uptime - the various over-the-air updates solved all of these within a few weeks and the Nougat release improved performance even more. The battery life is also much the same as when I bought it - nothing special, but it can see me from 7am to 1am quite happily.

godot 10y ago

I got mine around the same time and have the exact same experience as you. Just as fast, battery still good (about same as yours), just as when I first got it.

barrkel 10y ago

I also have a 5X. If I'm moving, the battery runs out at about 20% an hour. I normally charge mine in the evening, so it's at 100% at midnight, about 90% in the morning, about 70% after my commute, and around 40% by the evening. It'll be somewhere in the 10 to 20% range by the time I get back home, often with the battery saver active. During the work day, I generally only use it to check headlines at lunch. I also use it to play back mp3s over bluetooth to my motorycle helmet. The screen is typically on during the day for less than an hour. The 5X is slower than the Nexus 5 it replaced - 50% more cores but they run slower and most apps take longer to start up. It's a mediocre device and the battery life is not good at all. Right now, the biggest drains, after screen at 12%, are Google Play services, Android System, Android OS and Mobile standby. I have a theory that it's Google's appetite for data that kills battery life. They make it hard to use the phone with location services turned off or in battery saving mode except when you want a location in Maps. When you want your location, it gets turned on and stays on. There's no easy way to keep it on to a minimum. I think it's a strategic goal of Google to use customer data for everything from location popularity to traffic, and they're willing to sacrifice customer batteries with nudging defaults to get there.

mancerayder 10y ago
Yeah, that matches my experience. Except that when I first bought the device, in December 2015, it had GOOD battery life. I don't play games, I don't do anything but browse, use a couple of social media apps (as in, two) sometimes, try to keep the display below 40% brightness. It rotted over time, like fruit left out on a hot day. The battery life became too gruesome to last the day. It could very well be the massive data needing to be funneled about your commute, which Amazon product you glanced at, which jailed AMP news article you read, which restaurant you just walked out of, and all that other stuff that inspires modern dystopian fiction books and shows, that's draining the battery life. Our dystopian information-centralized existence killed the battery life on my 5X. I'll take it.
michel-slm 10y ago
That's my experience with the 6P. The first few months, I used it as a phablet and didn't put a SIM card in, and battery usage was fine. Then I moved to the US, activated Project Fi on it, and battery life is horrible -- I suspect the way Fi frequency-hops between cellular providers and known open WiFi hotspots means it taxes the location services even more than if you're on a standard carrier.