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[G2 General] revolt123:
I'm not sure if my battery is defective or not. Right out of the box was around 75% and I drained it until it turned off then charged it to full.

Over the next few days at work it's on wifi and then on 3G/4G before /after work. I pull it from the charger at 7:30am and by 7pm its at 40%. Then on Friday night I unplugged it at 12am with 100% and woke up the next day with 80%. It's dropping like 1% about 10-15minutes. Would a factory reset fix the battery drain? or call for a replacement?
[G2 General] hdjack:
My battery, I set at 60% with auto brightness

25 mins and 1%
[G2 General] jrgilbert79:
Juice Defender?

Dont get me wrong the battery is fantastic OO the Box but I have been playing with Juice Defender Ultimate to see if I can push it further. I have setup the schedules in advanced mode and JD reports I am getting 1.25 under heavy use and 1.68 under idle use. I know in theory that JD should make it better controlling the data connection and being wifi only at home/work. But it seems like maybe it overrides some built in scheduling and doesn't help as much as it used to on the old GNex. Any thoughts or things you have discovered?
[G2 General] brianfields33:
Here's mine

Disabled Google Now and wifi location. Mostly on wifi.
[G2 General] gtvanhorn:
Battery troubleshooting

To update things the alarm change worked on day one but not day two, next on day two when I noticed the battery drain I disabled the day dream clock and the drain stopped, I use this at night to visually see what time it is. Day three, set my alarm but when I woke up I disabled the day dream clock and no battery drain. Day four exactly the same, set the alarm and left it enabled, I woke up and disabled the day dream clock and no battery drain at all.

I will continue testing but it seems the Daydream clock feature could be hanging up and causing some unnecessary drain. Next i will test by not disabling the feature and see if the drain comes back.

I have not uninstalled apps any longer as I couldn't pinpoint once that was using more power or causing locks on the phone.
[G2 General] tiguy99:
Just wanted to share my own battery review...

Took the phone off the charger yesterday morning @ 7AM

Here's my phone with 13% left tonight. Keep in mind its almost 9PM on the 2nd day & my phone is still going on the charge from yesterday morning :cool:

Screen was @ 60% max..maybe turned down to 35-40% @ night on autobrightness

I've done nothing but browse the web, taken a few pics, recorded a 2 hour sermon @ church, made some calls on the bluetooth (Plantronics Voyager Legend) and earphone. Watched Youtube videos on the Youtube app...etc...that's my light to moderate usage.

This is the battery app I use

I can still keep going but my intuition is saying put this bad boy on the charger tonight

2 words...blown away!!!! I kept hearing how insane this battery is but to be honest, no other phone I've used can even come close this battery. This thing won't die! Can't say the same for the HTC One I returned for this phone

Thoughts?!!!!
[G2 General] heleos:
For those of you getting some not so stellar battery: if you're rooted, try uninstalling google play services and google search using titanium backup, then reinstalling from the play store. It's seemed to help with my battery
[G2 General] Vysin:
Does that stop them from taking like 30%-50% of battery?

I use Google now and having location access turned off is something that hinders it. I'd love to solve this problem
[G2 General] htcm7:
Isn't it Google Search and Google Play will be updated when use them for the first time, so, actually you never use stock version.
[G2 General] wadamean:
The battery in this phone which I have isn't so great. It does last the whole day at times and not. Like the phone is bipolar at times. But it's not at the state where it's annoying. I have gotten used to it and carry my charger just in case
[G2 General] Skizzy034:
Why are the benchmarks all against last year's and eariler devices?
[G2 General] gtvanhorn:
Battery troubleshooting

Ok to update everyone it indeed is the Daydream clock feature under the Display settings that is draining my battery. Today I left this option enabled and unplugged the phone from the charger, my battery dropped 9% in 2 hours without any use and less than 3min of screen time. I then disabled the feature and rebooted the phone and the battery graph is now straight as an arrow again 1.5 hours later instead of a 45 deg angle down. Bottom line for my testing and experience if you are going to use the Daydream clock (nice feature for a night or desk clock) then enable it after you plug into charger then disable before you unplug otherwise you will have battery drain without reason. Hopefully this helps someone else, cheers.
[G2 General] mky4b11:
Finally getting some good deep sleep once I rooted and greenified everything. On stock I was losing about 5 percent every 6 hours of deep sleep.
[G2 General] Terence52:
Just gotten my G2 yesterday. Hopefully would get above 24hours with my usage.
[G2 General] Skizzy034:
Damn that's incredible! I don't think mine will come close to that..
[G2 General] abhinavsg:
the usage includes the phone on roaming for 14hrs, 3G data on 24x7, gps usage for 10 odd minutes.
[G2 General] leony74:
Battery life for me has been great Wi-Fi on autosync on thru out the day. I have used so many smartphones nothing compares to it. This is the prove, observe the screen on time and battery percentage since the last charge.
[G2 General] SuperMarioVT:
My best one so far loving every minute of this phone.
[G2 General] tripster:
When I initially configured my new phone, off of the initial charge, I got 5 hours of screen time and about 26 hours before it dipped below 5%.

After that, it started to chew the battery life and I barely got a full day between charges. This happened over the course of 2 additional charges.

In my despair I turned off/disabled a few things: Daydream, Google Backup My Data, Access to My Location, NFC, GPS (unless I was using the map), Hangouts, City ID, & some ATT apps (Drive Mode, Family Map, Locker, Messages, Navigator, Ready2Go, Smart Wifi).

Then the phone turned into a freaking beast. 82 hours on battery and 5 hours of screen time. And that's running (1) push exchange email, (2) gmail and (3) POP accounts.

Let's see how it does when some of those off items are re-enabled. Fingers crossed that the beast remains.
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Very impressive results.
[G2 General] BIGWORM:
I'm very, VERY excited to be picking up this phone on Friday. Can't wait!
[G2 General] thakilleffect:
Well here are my stats... Thats with 4g,blue tooth, and gps on all the time. I didn't use wifi whatsoever
[G2 General] Skizzy034:
I think I'd have about the same battery stats as some posted but Google's Services is my top percent used in the battery stats. How do I tell what is causing this: All I have is my Google account signed into like normal.
[G2 General] Vysin:
Same problem I had. What I did was disable location access. If you need gps it'll work when you turn it on, but apps won't be taking your location when gps is off.

Sent from my VZW LG G2
[G2 General] mky4b11:
Beast of a battery. 5 hours screen on time, 27 hours up time, with about 30% left on battery
[G2 General] Dchibro:
My best guess is you enabled Google Now and have location and history reporting active.
[G2 General] erapmicks:
U turned off ur data? What's ur settings?

---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:16 PM ----------

What's ur settings like? I never reached that much
[G2 General] mky4b11:
I was on a lot of wifi. Rooted. greenified lots of apps. And I control brightness with lux auto brightness manager and use less aggressive values. Screen brightness at about 70% brightness at the brightest.

I don't auto sync, but had lots of use of camera, browsing, instagrams, snap chat, Tapatalk, games, music, and streaming videos / music.

This phone is just amazing.
[G2 General] Skizzy034:
Which option in location access did you turn off? I use the weather widget and Google Now. Will turning off GPS effect that?

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:20 PM ----------

Every phone I've had I've used the same setup and Google Services never was up to the top like that. I use Google Now and other location based apps frequently.
[G2 General] Kas206:
Im amazed by the battery life this phone is giving me

5Hrs 13Mins screen on time and 22% battery remaining. Just 1 hour of wifi usage rest was 3G :good:
[G2 General] Vysin:
That screenshot in my post shows what I turned off

If I go to Google now it still shows me weather
[G2 General] benhando:
I have the Verizon LG G2 and get between 4.5 and 5 hrs of screen time. That is with all connections on and 4 email accounts syncing. I also keep my brightness at auto with a baseline of 80 percent. I get 2 days worth of use with medium usage and a full 7am to 10pm of heavy usage. I would like to know what brightness a lot of these battery results are using
[G2 General] ifizik:
So I'm sort of confused:

On my first charge out of the box I was able to get 24 hours of run time with almost 4 hours of screen time. Ecstatic about that. I drained my battery to 2%, put it on the charger, used it while it was charging and took it off when it hit 100% now its just dropping juice like a brick.

I took the charger off at 3:45 at work, now I'm at 80% 54 mins screen time. Seems a little off... I checked BBS and it says I'm getting 1 hour and 30 mins partial wakelock from Android OS. I checked somewhere else earlier and Key Chain was also draining a lot of the battery.

You guys have any clues why from out of the box to the first charge I'm draining much faster?
[G2 General] Loaf.:
The battery life for me thus far is maddeningly inconsistent. It's fantastic and almost too good to be true when it's good, but absolutely terrible when it's bad. I've already exchanged 2 of these because I thought there was something wrong causing the battery to drain so quickly and randomly. I'm not doing or setting anything differently than on my One X where I could reliably make it through a day without reaching critical battery levels and guess where my battery would be depending on how heavily I used it. With this I'm having to constantly check where the battery is at just to make sure nothing's gone haywire.

The screens attached are from today, where the only heavy stuff was done in the first 1.5 hours where I was on an hour long call and then some browsing on wifi. After that it was light usage but the phone just decided to keep draining battery to the tune of ~25% every 3 hours until I decided to reboot. I re-launched all the same apps and resumed my same use pattern and suddenly everything decides to behave. Total screen-on time was only 1:15.

I'm hoping this is some sort of software/firmware power bug that can be fixed and soon, because the unreliability is a huge negative for me on an otherwise fantastic phone.
[G2 General] bps119:
I'm a strong advocate of rebooting after taking it off the charger. I think that the stock charger caused wakelocks akin to what I've experienced on other phones with after-market chargers. Today, I went 6.5 hours off charger and still had 100% battery left. The day before, I took it off charger and didn't reboot and I lost 10% in around 2 hours with the same use. Give it a try and let me know what you think. Here's my current cycle
[G2 General] bps119:
Delete
[G2 General] bps119:
Damn this new tapatalk update!
[G2 General] joemagistro:
guys... posting your total device battery times are pointless!! theres so many contributing factors to having lengthy time... anyone can turn their phone off and post results from 24 hours because they dont use the screen!

you wanna post battery results that are useful? Post your SCREEN ON TIMES.... that actually is a useful measure to compare to others results

down to 70% with near 3 hours of screen time! thats amazing!
[G2 General] bps119:
You should look at the posts above that one. I posted exactly what you did, but tapatalk app deleted one of the pics in the first post, so I did it through 2 posts.

You should actually heed some advice and post total cycle time as well as screen on. 10% drain per hour is not great screen on time if your screen has been on the entire time since you've been unplugged.
[G2 General] joemagistro:
9.5 hours within that 30 percent.. So 6 hours idle and 3 screen on
[G2 General] Skizzy034:
It does make sense. I took mine off the charger last night and it dropped to 73% in just 5 hours with NO usage lol so I rebooted and it started draining normally again. I had been seeing a lot of this since I got the phone. Sometimes it's incredible and others it sucks.
[G2 General] Panzerapple:
I am about to give up on this phone. Yesterday I pulled it off of the charger went to work played with it that night went to bed at 86 percent woke up to 45 percent charged it went to work it was draining quick charged to 80 percent before lunch it is at 23 percent with 30 minutes of screen time. Nothing out of the usual for wake locks and it deep sleeping. My Nexus 4 gets two days easily. Screw it returning it to stock and giving it back to ATT. Done screwing around will order an Nexus 5.
[G2 General] TNT321BOOM:
My battery life is kind of weird. Sometimes it will be good, but then will lose 10 percent really quickly. Once I reboot, it goes back to normal. Not a big problem, it's just strange.
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Theres DEFINITELY something wrong with your phone. Its either a rogue app or your phone is faulty.
[G2 General] mrstarzan:
I can't kill this battery in one day! Well, maybe I could but I'd lose my job. Coming from a Gnex with two extended batteries to make it though an entire day and now not worrying about battery levels is so liberating!
[G2 General] Clienterror:
77 hours on standby with 4.5 hours screen on plus a few hours of screen off music streaming.
[G2 General] currentsupply:
There is something up with this phone wasting energy on Android System/Android Services. The phone will burn through a bunch of unknown tasks and kill the battery even when the phone is not in use.

I've turned off Google Now completely. I keep getting the GPS beacon in the notification bar even when I am not doing anything with the phone except surfing the web and texting. That thing should stay off completely unless I open google maps. Somethings weird.

Android System is always at the top of my battery usage now.

I'm stock ATT, not rooted, not unlocked.

My battery goes down to 66% with 1 hour of screen time by noon.

The background services are wasting away the battery life.
[G2 General] jordant2:
I definitely disagree. 10% drain per hour of screen on time is great! That would yield 10 hours of screen on time. I've had lots of phones and none could come close to ten hours of screen time no matter what you did. Most phones can't even get five hours without major tweaks/custom kernels. I'd argue that you should not be about to use your screen for an entire 10 hours unless you're on a long flight!

I took my phone off the charger Friday morning and have gone over 24 hours with nearly 3 hours screen on time and I still have 72% remaining! Phenomenal! And I'm doing this on a stock rooted bell ROM without a custom kernel.
[G2 General] iastonish:
Been getting around 8 hours of screen on time. Stock att variant
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Fantastic!
[G2 General] gm007:
Guys who are having battery drain should download wakelock detector from playstore and post here some screenshots so we know what is eating your battery.

Never has such great battery life on any phone i used before.

In morning a took out my charger and use my phone for 1 hour 15 minutes and only 4% dropped: )
[G2 General] Vysin:
Woah that battery life is insane gm.

I can only get half of that per cycle. Can I see what apps you had running?

Sent from my VZW LG G2
[G2 General] DaveHTC200:
I've had 5 hours screen time, with 39 hour uptime. I leave my phone on when asleep, but don't disable data etc, so very happy with that!!

No WiFi, 3G only (due to network), sync on etc etc :D
[G2 General] gm007:
Camera,browser,whatsapp,calls,xda,playstore.....
[G2 General] barondebxl:
This is mind boggling battery life, and im using a note 3 which I thought was best. Wow.
[G2 General] gm007:
Me too i can't believe my eyes.

I didn't try games on this phone,so i test how much it hold.
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Oh my gosh man this is insane... wow. That is so remarkable. I dont think any phone beats this. Wow.
[G2 General] theartofdance:
I can't get hours like these to save my life.
[G2 General] hackarchive:
OH DEAR BEAST!!
[G2 General] KrisisTP:
I'm getting 6 hours or so screen on time, 36+ hours on a single charge with moderate use. I let my son watch movie after movie on a long car ride, I watched a couple episodes of shows on Netflix, made calls for an hour or so. Absolutely zero complaints about the battery life...it's phenomenal compared to any other device I've seen. It even outlasts my 2012 Nexus 7.

VS-980 with Malladus ROM
[G2 General] mky4b11:
This is the first phone in a long time that I don't hold back on using just to get through the day.

Amazing phone.
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Nice. That's great to hear. My G2 will be here by tuesday.
[G2 General] theartofdance:
XDA won't let me post photos, but I'm not even close to getting these hours that everyone else is getting. I'm lucky if I get 12 hours on 5 hours of screen time...
[G2 General] benhando:
I have the Verizon version and I am noticing that during phone calls the battery goes down much faster than any of the reviews have shown for the international version. Anandtech got almost 24hrs of talk time.I've noticed that the battery goes down about 10 percent for every hour on a call. Also from reading this thread I have noticed that the devices with the highest battery life tend to be ATT G2's. I wonder what makes Verizons LTE network so different that it might be draining more battery. On side note. I Have been playing Clash of Clans for about an hour a day and it destroys my battery life, plus the phone gets super hot.I can only get about 3 to 3.5hrs of screen time but it can at least last me throughout a day. This is at 50 percent brightness BTW.
[G2 General] Vysin:
This is all on wife with medium/heavy usage. I usually get 4-5 on a regular day of heavy usage not on wifi.

Sent from my VZW LG G2
[G2 General] s1mpd1ddy:
Rooted, froze a bunch of bloat, greenify, disabled ciq and the lg tweak, GPS off unless I need it, 30% brightness (indoors majority of time). LTE majority of the time. I also lost about 8% overnight. 40 minutes Netflix and YouTube streaming over LTE and reddit all day.

6hr screen time

Very happy with the results
[G2 General] erapmicks:
Can u list which u greenified and which ones u froze (bloatwares) and the LG tweak? Thank you in advance
[G2 General] s1mpd1ddy:
Sure!

Lg tweak here, not sure if its a battery saver

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2479892

Greenify: amazon appstore, baconreader, ebay, facebook, fios mobile, google goggles, lenovo supercamera, tweetcaster pro, Verizon fios app, xda premium 4

Froze:

Att apps - address book, code scanner, drivemode, familymap, hot spots, locker, messages, navigator, readytogo, smartwifi

Other apps froze - City ID, games, lg intelligent agent, lg mlt, lg vpn, life square, life square log, weather , weather theme, ypmobile
[G2 General] WhiteZero:
Just remember folks, it's generally considered better to charge your phone before the battery runs out. Doing full cycles on lithium ion batteries only degrades it faster. Though it is fun to see how long the G2 can go on a full charge to zero. :)

But if you want that non-replacable battery to last, charge it more often.
[G2 General] htcm7:
Agreed and want add a few notes.

The battery for International version, as I know is Lithium Polymer, not Lithium Ion. Lithium Ion is for Korean version. Lithium Polymer is safer and more expensive than Lithium Ion, and yes is not good to charge it when it is almost empty. Let say, is better for you to charge it when Android OS gives a battery level warning, which is 14%.

Despite its uni body design, actually you can remove the back cover without damaging the phone to replace the battery.

Currently LG's SC on my country already sells original back cover for G2, I am sure in the future they will sell also the battery.
[G2 General] sil0:
Stock Bell Rooted, seems to be less bloat than ATT/Verizon variants.

Uninstalled/froze apps as per this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2448848

Backed up/uninstalled Plug and pop, Disabled Google Settings and location settings, Wifi off when not in use, screen at 10% (no auto)

Will see how far i get, good start so far, beast battery :D
[G2 General] Damasterjj:
still at 100% with 8 hours standby and 15 min. screen time.

verizon rooted, I disabled a few things base on my preference

edit

finally drop to 99% after 8.5 hours standby and 23 min. screentime
[G2 General] barondebxl:
Incredible.
[G2 General] theartofdance:
21hrs 43mins on 4hrs and 42mins of screen time. This may be the best I've gotten so far...? Deep sleep times were better than usual. I wish i could post pictures...but I still can't. Hahaha. I need at least 10 posts apparently. Almost there!! :P
[G2 General] addicted1900:
Without auto-synch and GPS / Location Services off ^^ ?
[G2 General] Damasterjj:
thanks,

I always have auto sync on for gmail account, but gps/location off.
[G2 General] noxxle:
G2's battery is Lithium-Polymer, while the N3's is -Ion, right? If so, the G2 should both last for many more cycles and wear slower.
[G2 General] hurja:
I find the battery in this to be quite good. I can charge this every other night without needing to worry about battery charge. When I bought this I got 11 hours of use from this with 6,5 hours of screen time straight off the box.

I think that's decent.
[G2 General] dythan2005:
Disabling the 7 ciq on my rooted att g2 did wonders on my battery life
[G2 General] somemadcaaant:
I have to say that even at 5% there's still juice for an hr or so is pretty amazing, on my old phone it would shut off at 8 to 10% remaining.
[G2 General] accordex:
Living this phone.

Not sure about the android os being so high.
[G2 General] Vysin:
Yeah after some battery stats and wakelock, it looks like LG VPN and task manager are the ones that are doing most of that for me atleast
[G2 General] zabihjan:
Excellent battery life ever easily does 2 days without charging with good use incl GPS camera internet voip etc
[G2 General] cruzargel:
Setting the auto clear ram in task mgr settings to 3days made my standby time much better.
[G2 General] sil0:
Loving this Battery! 6hr 39 mins of screentime.:laugh:
[G2 General] The_Engine:
First day using new G2. Almost 17 hours on battery with 4.5 hours of screen time. Mostly work email and social networking, greader. One long phone call. Mix of wifi and cell, with about 4 hrs commuting and going through many 3g to 4g transitions.

And 22% left.

Insane.

Oh, and that's stock, unrooted. I disabled some bloat but that's about all.
[G2 General] purpleraintoxicity:
[? QUOTE=dythan2005;46509859]Disabling the 7 ciq on my rooted att g2 did wonders on my battery life[/QUOTE]

7 ciq what's that?
[G2 General] sil0:
LG G2 Seniors club 60+

The charging speed on this thing is bonkers..
[G2 General] tiguy99:
7 ciq what's that?

Yes what is that?!!
[G2 General] Dchibro:
Yes what is that?!![/QUOTE]

Carrier IQ on the AT&T version runs 7 processes. T Mobile has it too but it has the option to turn it off.