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Nexus 5
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That's a low average - what screen brightness are you using?
And what are you doing with your phone?
Very light use I listen to iheart radio app about 3-4 hours on wifi and some texting, web browsing, and facebook. If I don't do any web browsing I got about 70% after a 13hr workday. I just got the phone a week ago maybe the battery is still new. Firmware is 4.4.3 notice the wifi and cell signal seems to be bad in certain areas.
Just used the Nexus as my only camera on my trip through Yellowstone. I noticed exactly what everyone else has, in outdoor situations the camera is very good, but when indoors in low light it has trouble. Outperformed my travel mates iPhone 5 during the day and failed at night.
After 6 Month with the Nexus 5:
The camera is good enough for a phone. For a really good camera buy a camera.
The battery life is rather poor.
Android (now 4.4.3) is fast and smooth, upgrades don't slow it down as in iOS
No iOS app I miss. It's all here, and often better as apps are not as isolated as on iOS. And you get more useful apps, µtorrent for example.
Still happy. Have more functions for half the price.
The camera is good enough for a phone. For a really good camera buy a camera.
The battery life is rather poor.
Android (now 4.4.3) is fast and smooth, upgrades don't slow it down as in iOS
No iOS app I miss. It's all here, and often better as apps are not as isolated as on iOS. And you get more useful apps, µtorrent for example.
Still happy. Have more functions for half the price.
7 months for me and i agree. The battery life isnt that great lately but i have a lockscreen notification running on it that takes up some battery. If i delete that, it will last all day no problem with my regular usage at work. Ive been using it a lot more lately playing games that i usually dont use and that drains it faster as well.
Everything else i agree with. Runs great, smooth and since ive stopped using the stock email and using Bluemail instead along with Gmail, it just adds to a better experience as well.
People complaining about battery life probably do not realize that signal strength has a LOT to do with battery life.
The Nexus 5 is kind of hard to peg down for me.... while at work, my battery lasts quite a long time because I have a strong signal. If I sit it my basement at home where I get 0-2 bars then I can wake up with less than 50% battery.
The Nexus 5 is kind of hard to peg down for me.... while at work, my battery lasts quite a long time because I have a strong signal. If I sit it my basement at home where I get 0-2 bars then I can wake up with less than 50% battery.
Well.
You still can't change the fact that a 2300 mah battery on a 5 inch display is ridiculously small.
I used my Nexus 5 the same way I did with my Note 3.
Always on LTE (no wifi).
I would get 2.5-3 hours of screen time on my Nexus 5 on a day's usage.
I would get 5-5.5 hours of screen time on my Note 3 on a day's usage.
So that 900 mah difference does make a huge difference. Something the Nexus 5 should have addressed.
New version 4.4.4 available!!
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerheadktu84p
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btw, this is my latest battery life
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerheadktu84p
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btw, this is my latest battery life
usually i get around 22-27h and 4.30-6h on screen.
most of time under Wi-Fi, automatic brightness, 50-75% of signal strenght, using tapatalk, chrome, zooper pro, widgetlocker, youtube, music, calls, no gps (if not needed), etc...
stock ROM and kernel. but usin Xposed with 7 modules activated.
actually i make nothing special.
till the Ota.zip comes out, you can install this with any toolkit (most of them for "windows") or fastboot (mac).
i use MAC.
OTA Updates download links:
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/20/download-android-4-4-4-ota-update-nexus/
http://www.droid-life.com/2014/06/20/download-android-4-4-4-ota-update-nexus/
What's the advantage of BlueMail?
For the battery I like to add, so far in 7 month the phone failed twice in the morning due to total battery drain. In the office the phone sits all day on the wireless charger. So it's always 100% when I leave office. Not sure if something was running in the background. Wifi is always ON, no LTE.
The stock email wouldnt give me links to click on like if i got a notice from here, you cant click on the thread to go to it.
BlueMail is pretty nice. Swipe left to delete or mark as done or swipe right to read later and pick how long or how many hours or days you want to read it later or hold down on one to be avle mark all you want to delete.
It also fits the screen without having to pinch out and then go back and forth to read it all. It all fits in the window. Dont know if that is changed in the stock email but thats how it was when i did use it.
You should give it a try...its free.
When you're already carrying close to 30 pounds on your back you'll make that sacrifice real quick.
I am so sorry, but let me correct this. You didn't 'found' the link, you are simply a f'king forum spammer.
Yep that's the thing isn't it? Also that old argument "the best camera is the one you have with you", it's quite true really. I have a Note 2 with a crap camera + a decent point-and-shoot, but I end up always reaching for the phone first, as it's ususally in my hands anyway. I'm quite over having a so-so camera on my phone, and this will greatly influence my next choice of phone. (Yes, haven't upgraded in a long time, I'm cheap
)Yep that's the thing isn't it? Also that old argument "the best camera is the one you have with you", it's quite true really. I have a Note 2 with a crap camera + a decent point-and-shoot, but I end up always reaching for the phone first, as it's ususally in my hands anyway. I'm quite over having a so-so camera on my phone, and this will greatly influence my next choice of phone. (Yes, haven't upgraded in a long time, I'm cheap
Exactly. The Nexus did a really good job (in my opinion). I also wasn't expecting DSLR quality shots though.
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