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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
by 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 agoYeah, 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 agoThat'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.
- freddyc 10y agoI briefly used a 5X that I was given for free but quickly abandoned it in favor of my trusted Nexus 5 after experiencing similar issues. Despite being 3 years old (!!!) it's still rock-solid and super smooth running Nougat. I used to get a new phone yearly (if not biannualy) and the Nexus 5 is the first phone I've had where I don't have the urge to upgrade to the latest and shiniest device as soon as it hits the market.
- Fiahil 10y agoListening to Spotify with a bluetooth headset is by far my biggest drain on the 5X (~40% per hour). I've come to use the jack cable more and more, and now it's okay[0]. Luckily, I'm not an iPhone 7 user. [0] "okay" yes, but if people at Spotify would spend more time on battery and network issues than moving menus to weird places, I would be happier. Alternatives are worst, so it's just a matter of giving them money until they work on something you consider useful. As a consumer, this is infuriating.
- rbrcurtis 10y agoFWIW, I have a iphone 7, and I use bluetooth literally all day listening to audio books. My battery doesn't really seem to be impacted significantly.