It is no secret that there is an issue with the batteries on the latest LG Nexus 5. Google has acknowledged complains from the Nexus users and is looking to develop a fix for the issue.
In detail, the battery on the Nexus 5 drains rather quickly. Google has identified it to be due to the device’s driver which uses up CPU time. This will result in the apps to continue to run in the background even though it was thought to be closed.
On the other hand, there is also the possibility of it being caused by a 3rd party application. The tech giant revealed “There’s been a significant increase in the frequency of reported problems. These may be related to a recent update to Skype, which seems to access the camera regularly from its background service in some way that triggers this bug.”
On the fix, Google continues, “investigating this, we’ve identified a few additional fixes that we hope resolve this issue for good. However, since the high CPU usage is an intermittent problem, we’re continuing to test our fixes to verify the problems are gone.
We believe we have fixes for the current high CPU reports on N5 due to mm-qcamera-daemon, and they will be included in the next maintenance update,” the company added before warning that said update will apply to the Nexus 5 only. “I’d also like to note that instances of high CPU use of mm-qcamera-daemon on other devices besides the N5 need to be reported to their manufacturers – while those devices also use a Qualcomm chip for their camera processing (and thus have a mm-qcamera-daemon process), each has differences in their software and issues with them do not necessarily mean the N5 has the same problem, and vice versa.”
So it seems that even applications like Skype is guilty for tapping in the phone’s resources in quiet. Fans and users do hope for Google to launch the fix fast as they can’t stand the need to charge the device every 10hours or so. The least Google could do is make the Nexus 5 run for at least 24hours without needing to charge.
