What is your battery life? and what was the kind of battery life that you were expecting?

4.5A... wonder if there will be a battery heating issue or not..
And I'm wondering about the battery life. how many charge cycles can it tahan?

yea, not only no up or down preference, there's no female or male port, means the cable can be used either way.

For now, I seriously think that nexus is one of the brand to consider when getting an android.

But then again, we have htc m8 which is also quite nice and smooth.

With android L coming soon, the trend might change. If there's a day when google will be mainly responsible for all the phone's update, i think it doesn't matter anymore whether its a nexus, sony, samsung, htc or even xiaomi.

If that day comes when all phone is running on stock android, I think the better designed with better specs phone will be my phone.

Rapid idle drop.

Check:
-location
-sync
-google now

best is to use better battery stats to monitor what's draining your battery.

Worst come to worst, restore factory settings and see whether the problem persists. If yes, then most probably isn't software issue.

Yes, nexus are more for us who like to tinker around with their android phone, but that doesn't mean it is restricted to only us. I think the nexus now is more consumer friendly / noob friendly compare to previous versions of nexus. That is to say, stock is getting better and is sufficient for normal daily use, even for tweakaholic.

Actually I didn't think it was possible for google to control all the updates. Just a thought that randomly popped up.

Anyway, I think manufacturers might actually go closer to stock as seen with what motorola is doing if L is really that good when it comes out. Imagine, if L, J or K is something good , smooth, beautiful and all, to the point where the consumers actually prefer it to skinned android UI.

Also, don't forget Android Silver. Maybe it is the closest thing to what I said earlier about google controlling the updates for different manufacturer's phone.

This post has been edited by ck.chunkeat: Jul 24 2014, 05:12 PM

Guys, care to enlighten me on how you guys manage to stick with dalvik?

Since the last page consist of peoples saying how imba xposed is, I'm curious.
To me, I can't settle with dalvik because of the difference in speed between art and dalvik.

android L isnt that stable for me, I used it for awhile then changed back.

Like what's stated on the screenshot, the main culprit is gmail sync.
If you want more battery life, maybe change the sync frequency?

I installed the z2 bionic and dalvik patch, got a bootloop..This is my second time trying to flash bionic and dalvik patch. First time resulted in a bootloop and I never tried it since then.

I'm on PA + elementalx btw.

This post has been edited by ck.chunkeat: Jul 31 2014, 11:07 PM

Okay, after some problem with loading the optimization on pa, I finally installed it successfully without bootloop.

I did some comparison side by side:
Phone 1: PA 4.4.4 +elementalx + dalvik optimization
Phone 2: stock rom + elementalx + ART

I did a simple test by loading up chrome and settings. I then click the recent apps button, and click the 2nd last app to quickly switch between chrome and settings.

There's some lag and stuttering noticed on phone 1 while phone 2 is just smooth.Phone 2 had loads of apps in the recents as I didnt reboot it and I've been using it for the whole day. Phone 1 is just booted and there's no other app in recent.

Loading up apps seems the same speed but phone 2 is faster when going back to home from an app.

Anything I'm missing here? And I doubt I could ever bring myself to accept dalvik when I've experienced the speed for ART. Gona have to wait till xposed is compatible with art i guess.

Hmmm.. does it mean you never used ART before and yet you can still know your dalvik is better than ART? or is it that i misunderstood your sentence?

I flashed pa 4.44 and then flashed both Z2 bionic and dalvik, when system booted, there's an ota prompted for 4.5 or 4.45, forgot as I just dismissed the notification and didnt update it.

Hmm, it could be just my problem but thing is, I noticed the difference when I switched between ART and dalvik on my own phone. Now, I used another phone and compared it side by side. When opening app and everything else, both are on the same smoothness, but you can really see the difference when using recents. I don't even need to compare side by side and I already know there's some lag and stutter in recents on the phone with dalvik optimization compared to ART.

I wouldn't say it was designed to attack nexus 5. But it can definitely compete with nexus 5 price wise, hardware wise and software wise.

hmm, linux 3.10 kernel coming soon?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/goog...m-exynos-tegra/

2 of my bro used a white version. While I use a black version. Color wise, white is better, but if you wana use it without case, can consider getting black.. Cause of the soft touch of black color nexus 5, very nice to the touch..

Anyway, They were on case with white nexus, but didn't notice any color change so far.

Once you use a nexus 5, you can't really use another handset.. especially sony. I compared Z2 with nexus 5, Z2 is laggy...

Battery life wise i think Z1 might be better than nexus 5.

depends whether you have a casing on or not. If you dont have any casing on, then it is not normal. But if you have a casing which covers the button, then it might be your cover causing the problem.

Hmm... I think it shouldn't be soft to the point that it would be accidentally pressed without knowing.. Maybe send back for warranty?

The best thing to do is to compare it with another nexus 5.

Anyway, for those using PA, I recommend you to install an app call cyandelta.

Flashing updates has never been easier.

Well, after comparing it with ip5s. The ip5s volume button is very hard, while the power button of ip5s is similar but a little harder than my nexus 5.