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Nexus 5 |OT|

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Vyse The Legend

Member
cartoon_soldier said:
Battery for today:
9h35 minutes
33% left
4G & Wifi mix
Screen Time: 1h40minutes
55 minutes with no cell signal though
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Here's mine. Add 15 minutes to screen on time and 30 minutes to uptime, because I restarted the phone in the morning after breakfast, and the stats here only cover the post-restart.

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4G only. Google Now and syncing all turned on. I have nothing turned off in services. I do adjust screen brightness manually, though. The auto setting is clearly broken.
 
C

Chris R

Member
How do I view hidden folders on this in Windows? What shows up under internal storage isn't what the phone shows locally...
 
N

nico1982

Member
I received mine today. It is really a nice package overall. Battery has gone down from 70% to 20% after 5 hours, 3.5 of them being screen time.

I'm a bit disappointed by the screen. There's a stark brightness shift, especially across the shorter side of the screen. It is more noticeable to the left. By comparison the Nexus 7 is much more consistent. Colors are fine at all angles though. The low auto brightness doesn't help, I guess.
 
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jokkir

Member
cartoon_soldier said:
Battery for today:
9h35 minutes
33% left
4G & Wifi mix
Screen Time: 1h40minutes
55 minutes with no cell signal though
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Vyse The Legend said:
Here's mine. Add 15 minutes to screen on time and 30 minutes to uptime, because I restarted the phone in the morning after breakfast, and the stats here only cover the post-restart.



4G only. Google Now and syncing all turned on. I have nothing turned off in services. I do adjust screen brightness manually, though. The auto setting is clearly broken.
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Why are these two totally different results. First one seems bad but the second one seems good.

EDIT - Got the quotes mixed around
 
C

cartoon_soldier

Member
jokkir said:
Why are these two totally different results. First one seems bad but the second one seems good.
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Umm...he had better results than me though? I assume, you mean mine is bad since I posted first even though you quoted it second?

Big one for mine is 55 minutes spent with no signal I think. I also have push notifications for my exchange email account, not sure what effect it has. Also, the guest wifi at work is not strong in all areas, I believe that can have a negative effect if it drops/reconnects/keeps trying to find better signal.

Also, I have it on full brightness all the time. He also had no voice calls, I have 30 minute of voice call time. Also have bluetooth turned on so connect with car.

I will post battery results everyday. This Friday, I should be home all day which means no signal drops.
 
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Vyse The Legend

Member
cartoon_soldier said:
Umm...he had better results than me though? I assume, you mean mine is bad since I posted first even though you quoted it second?

Big one for mine is 55 minutes spent with no signal I think. I also have push notifications for my exchange email account, not sure what effect it has. Also, the guest wifi at work is not strong in all areas, I believe that can have a negative effect if it drops/reconnects/keeps trying to find better signal.

Also, I have it on full brightness all the time. He also had no voice calls, I have 30 minute of voice call time. Also have bluetooth turned on so connect with car.

I will post battery results everyday. This Friday, I should be home all day which means no signal drops.
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Full brightness? There's your battery suck. How can you tolerate the screen at max, it's like a flashlight!
 
S

Shambles

Member
Vyse The Legend said:
Man, you're preaching to the choir. The auto on this phone is so, so bad.
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I just assume it's an android problem. The auto is useless on my N4 as well. It's too dim in bright light, and too bright when it's dark. I always manually change it which for me basically means I turn it to minimum when I go to bed, full when I wake up, and halfway when the sun is down in the evening.
 
hitsugi

hitsugi

Member
I usually leave my phone at around 40-50% brightness and it's more than bright enough for me - especially with the N5. The only time I need more is if I'm under direct sunlight
 
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jokkir

Member
Auto is just way too sensitive and doesn't make use of the lowest possible brightness. Like if you use it in a completely dark room and manually change it to the lowest brightness, you'll notice the brightness can go lower.

Same with using the phone outside. You can drop the brightness a few dials and it will still be usable.
 
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kinn

Member
Vyse The Legend said:
Here's mine. Add 15 minutes to screen on time and 30 minutes to uptime, because I restarted the phone in the morning after breakfast, and the stats here only cover the post-restart.



4G only. Google Now and syncing all turned on. I have nothing turned off in services. I do adjust screen brightness manually, though. The auto setting is clearly broken.
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Wait, is this true?


Vyse The Legend said:
I'm sitting at 1hr and 35minutes screen on time using LTE-only, with 8 hours and 19 min uptime and 73% battery remaining.

This utterly destroys the Nexus 4's battery life.

:bow: Snapdragon 800.
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Wow. Im getting like just over 2 hours screen time at the moment with 20% left. Whats your secret!? lol


Coming from a S3 it used to display H or H+ sometimes depending on the signal/connection. N5 doesnt? All ive seen so far is just the H.
 
T

Tenacious-V

Thinks his PR is better than yours.
kinn said:
Wait, is this true?
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Well it's technically not broken, just with the settings google programmed, they think everyone is blind as shit.

If you manually scroll across the brightness, it goes like:

5% --> 10% --> 20% --> 80% --> 85% --> 90% --> 95% --> Max

So auto at like 25% is still bright as hell.

I have mine manually set at somewhere around 20%, just before it goes blinding. I plan to leave it there permanently, no need for auto.
 
X

xtop

Member
DarthWufei said:
Decent battery life you guys are posting. Does no one use JuiceDefender or am I just super old school? I mostly just hate wakelocks and having the connection running constantly.

Then again I also undervolt/underclock and go crazy with governors. I might be a tad insane.
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i can't seem to find the link now, but i don't think undervolting/underclocking is actually saving you much battery life
 
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HowardRoark

Member
TMobile won't activate my phone with the $30 plan... the website errors out with:

"We’re sorry, we’re still working to process your activation. Please wait a few moments and then try navigating to another web page. You should receive a text message to your device when your activation is processed."

So, I called the number, and they claimed only Walmart can activate that plan. A bunch of you guys did this without Walmart involvement, right?
 
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wario

Member
HowardRoark said:
TMobile won't activate my phone with the $30 plan... the website errors out with:

"We’re sorry, we’re still working to process your activation. Please wait a few moments and then try navigating to another web page. You should receive a text message to your device when your activation is processed."

So, I called the number, and they claimed only Walmart can activate that plan. A bunch of you guys did this without Walmart involvement, right?
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yeah, walmart isn't necessary to activate. i bought my sim card and activated it online through the t-mobile website.

maybe it's the phone imei number? try activating with a different phone and just swap the sim card into the nexus 5 once it's activated.
 
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GoldenEye 007

Member
HowardRoark said:
TMobile won't activate my phone with the $30 plan... the website errors out with:

"We’re sorry, we’re still working to process your activation. Please wait a few moments and then try navigating to another web page. You should receive a text message to your device when your activation is processed."

So, I called the number, and they claimed only Walmart can activate that plan. A bunch of you guys did this without Walmart involvement, right?
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I was able to call them and activate with no problem. Probably just a dbag rep on the line.

I just explained I got the error on the website and wanted to call to make sure for that plan.
 
M

Mooreberg

is sharpening a shovel and digging a ditch
Should be receiving mine tomorrow. Do all the new Google Now features play nice with a third party launcher like Nova?
 
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ramoisdead

Member
Well now that people have their Nexus 5 phones in their hands, how is the volume for music/calling using stock Android? Is it better than the Nexus 4 because that phone had horrendous max volume.
 
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cartoon_soldier

Member
ramoisdead said:
Well now that people have their Nexus 5 phones in their hands, how is the volume for music/calling using stock Android? Is it better than the Nexus 4 because that phone had horrendous max volume.
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A LOT better than N4. I can hear my music in the shower now! Also had a 2 hour phone call with a client on speaker and it was great.
 
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HowardRoark

Member
wario said:
yeah, walmart isn't necessary to activate. i bought my sim card and activated it online through the t-mobile website.

maybe it's the phone imei number? try activating with a different phone and just swap the sim card into the nexus 5 once it's activated.
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The trouble is that I'm coming from Verizon. I do not have another phone to activate.
 
E

Exokell

Banned
ramoisdead said:
Well now that people have their Nexus 5 phones in their hands, how is the volume for music/calling using stock Android? Is it better than the Nexus 4 because that phone had horrendous max volume.
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the speakers arent as good as my old mono htc one x. That beats shit really made a difference lol.
 
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Zaraki_Kenpachi

Member
HowardRoark said:
TMobile won't activate my phone with the $30 plan... the website errors out with:

"We’re sorry, we’re still working to process your activation. Please wait a few moments and then try navigating to another web page. You should receive a text message to your device when your activation is processed."

So, I called the number, and they claimed only Walmart can activate that plan. A bunch of you guys did this without Walmart involvement, right?
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I've been using the plan for a couple years but years ago when I set it up I just called tmobile and created it after getting my sim and then yesterday I called them to activate the new sim and withing 30 mins everything was ready to go.

wario said:
yeah, walmart isn't necessary to activate. i bought my sim card and activated it online through the t-mobile website.

maybe it's the phone imei number? try activating with a different phone and just swap the sim card into the nexus 5 once it's activated.
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I can't imagine it's the IMEI since all us other T-Mobile have been telling them the IMEI to get LTE.
 
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Zaraki_Kenpachi

Member
I have a question, is there a way to have multiple keyboard layouts for different languages with the stock android keyboard? My old phone had it but not sure if stock android does.
 
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kinn

Member
Tenacious-V said:
Well it's technically not broken, just with the settings google programmed, they think everyone is blind as shit.

If you manually scroll across the brightness, it goes like:

5% --> 10% --> 20% --> 80% --> 85% --> 90% --> 95% --> Max

So auto at like 25% is still bright as hell.

I have mine manually set at somewhere around 20%, just before it goes blinding. I plan to leave it there permanently, no need for auto.
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Ah ok. Thanks for the info!

Hopefully google fixes this.
 
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this_guy

Member
HowardRoark said:
TMobile won't activate my phone with the $30 plan... the website errors out with:

"We’re sorry, we’re still working to process your activation. Please wait a few moments and then try navigating to another web page. You should receive a text message to your device when your activation is processed."

So, I called the number, and they claimed only Walmart can activate that plan. A bunch of you guys did this without Walmart involvement, right?
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It could be the sim card you bought. Some sim cards bought on Amazon or eBay for whatever reason won't work in the $30 plan.

*edit - never mind saw that you got it working.
 
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Zaraki_Kenpachi

Member
Is there no way to send photos in google hangout?

Edit: Nvm, apparently you can't add pictures after you start typing but can add typing after a picture. What a crappy interface.
 
H

HowardRoark

Member
I bought the Sim card directly from T-Mobile. It was an issue with the area code. I got the tip from XDA, tried a different one and it worked.
 
R

Rootbeer

Banned
Mine arrived at 2pm, but couldn't set it up till now (I work nights). Looking closely for dead pixels, think I lucked out. Updating it now... this is exciting :3
 
Wag

Wag

Member
Mine shipped. My first experience with smart phone so I have no idea how to even set it up once it arrives.
 
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Joco

Member
Arken2121 said:
Hey guys, dumb question but do you have to condition the battery with this phone?
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I'm wondering the same thing, this is my first phone with a non-removable battery so I'm a bit concerned about it. I charged it to full capacity before I did anything else with it (is that the right thing to do?) but would like to know what else I should do to condition the battery if necessary.
 
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