You likely won't notice an increase in battery life, but some claim the phone is much smoother.
If you're looking for battery savings, my first recommendations would be to turn off location services when not in use, manage screen brightness manually, and connect to WiFi whenever possible
I've had mine on for about a week now.
I do notice that the phone's battery does appear to last a little longer as I find I have 70% left when I leave work, whereas before I would have around 60%.
I haven't noticed any other issues with it and have just left it on.
I enabled ART on mine when I read this thread... took a few mins for apps to be converted, but everything works fine as far as I know, tho I'm not a big app hog.
Has anyone experienced any major issues with ART runtime? I'm currently debating whether or not I want to make the switch, since it is under developer options.
It does make things appear to run perceivably smoother, but the initial reboot takes like 10 minutes. I've also noticed that if you dirty flash a new rom while in art mode, it takes a long time to boot back up. Another thing to watch out for is that many apps don't work or are buggy while in art mode.
Well I won't be flashing any ROMs or even rooting anytime soon. But I do have 161 apps installed. So if there are alot of buggy apps knowing my luck most of mine will be.
DU will work with ART as far as I know, but it isn't supported by the devs. I seriously doubt I would notice if it did speed up my N5. I'll just wait for it to become the default rather than experimental.
I've just switched over on DU so I'll report back how it goes re: stability, performance etc.
It still reverted back to dalvik. I don't have exposed installed anymore, I chose ART, the phone rebooted but when I just checked the runtime it's back to dalvik.
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