Battery Life Time On Nexus 5
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I want yo Buy a cheap smartphone for testing purpose Ubuntu or if the device works well i want to use ir daily.
How good es the perfomance ando Life Time battery on the Nexus 5?
I was watching that the Nexus 4 and 5 are not so diferents On especifications.
Pd. I don't talk very well English, :c
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@martinm I use a Nexus 5 on a daily basis. UT on Nexus 5 is mature. It does all I want. The old battery on my device drains fast, which I minimize by only using network when I need to. But I've read on this forum that it's possible to replace the battery. However, the Nexus 5 is old and might not be best option if you're looking for long-term daily driver. In fact, I've just asked a question for next Q&A 109 about that.
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@martinm Battery isn't good on the Nexus 5 even when it's new so it goes worse as time pass. In general, UT works well on it though however, I think there's a possibility that it won't be updated to 20.04.
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As others have said, battery was never good on the N5. Your best aftermarket battery is the one from PolarCell.
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@martinm , I confirm what others said. I recently bought Nexus 5 in order to install UT and I tested battery for a week to know condition, it was able to run (idle) for 2 days while on UT it is max 12 hours.
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I never leave the house without a powerbank. I just can't because of the battery. High consumption by UT in combination with Nexus5-battery is a pain in the a...
Besides that, UT works fine on my device. -
@taiga-woods (all), If you look for great battery life experience, I can tell that I also have UT on Xiaomi MI A2. I do not use it much apart of reading news each evening but device (connected to wifi all the time) stays alive for 100 hours and more. Just FYI
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Hi, I am on my third Nexus 4 and Second Nexus 5.
One 4 developed a touchscreen dead area, another died after having a bath in the river, my first Nexus 5 got into a boot loop - I am told because the on/off micro switch failed. I purchased a new one but need a microscope to change it - they are really tiny. The battery life is much better on the 4 - but after having terrible (4 hours max) battery life on the 5 and I also noticed the phone was getting very hot I tried a launcher reset, an erase and reset - and switched on screenlock but it was to no effect. In the end a re-installation via ubports installer did the trick. I bought the Polarcell battery which now gives about 2 1/2 days on standby - happy to note also the bluetooth connection to vehicle works far better now - it used to connect and drop - but next time I must back up settings as I lost a fair amount of time setting everything up again. I am a dabbler not a typical Linux user - I generally copy and paste others scripts to try to make things work. Ubports Touch I think is great OS for phones - I had to use basic Android and found the experience frustrating. I think the lesser functionality of the 4 is acceptable when you take into account the battery life. Cheap as chips on Ebay if you are willing to wait.
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