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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeyla:
fd toggle

Hi there, I am not sure if this is the reason but I used to have Fast dormancy toggle apk on my old lgog to prevent the phone from complete discharge even though I was not actively using the devicd. I installed the fd toggle here,too and I can honestly say that if I am charged 100 % at about midnight, I have the same 100 at about 6:30 when I get up. Of course, no data,no sync,no wifi and no active use of any kind during that time. I do not know if the app is the key but the result is pretty impressive. I have the korean version F320K.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rndchef:
I was using the Snapdragon Battery app on my DNA. Never sure if it did anything. Is it worth using on the G2 as well? Love the phone! Less gimmicky than the S4 and more interesting than the Maxx.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fidelio_o:
Scross tell me you got a G2 lol
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
This is dumb. My G2 was at 100% battery for 3 hours! You either have a lemon or your cell reception is poor where you are. The battery life is not horrible.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmbtswmr:
Yeah, I'm with the rest. I'm coming from a MAXX HD (insane battery) and the battery optimization on the G2 is far superior (albeit smaller battery).
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoNsTeReNeRgY22:
Bought the phone over 24 hours ago and I am still on the charge from the box. Its running great for me with LTE on.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Did u also try either disabling all the bloatware on the phone? I am on the g pro att and reinstalled every freaking att app there is. And u can also use greenify that is a very good app putting apps u choice in to sleep. Try it out.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloggy:
Having extremely mediocre battery life the first couple of days with my Verizon G2. Down to 35% after a day of fairly light wifi only usage (2hrs 10m screen time).

BlockBeforeSleep and ActivityManager-Launch look like likely wake lock culprits. Android System is the highest usage category, even beating screen.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bri315317:
Mine is doing great!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johno601:
Was your battery life great out the gate or did it take time for your phone to adjust
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bri315317:
It was great out if the box. I have frozen all the ATT crap however.

FWIW it is killing my note 2 battery life that was pretty good.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johno601:
Seems like mine is dropping a little to fast with nothing running
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drathian1:
Mine lasted 8 hours overnight with only losing 3% battery.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mahendra1020:
The standby time is really crazy. This is after my second recharge. WiFi all the time.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmbtswmr:
For the people having battery issues, are you using wifi or cellular? What's your signal strength ,screen brightness, etc?

Again, coming from a MAXX HD, I am thoroughly impressed with the battery life so far.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Billy Madison:
It's not the battery life that horrible but those who just don't read a single post on forums like this. It was mentioned millions times

The battery life of G Pro is same horrible till you disable those battery hogs, IDK why yours G Pro was showing good battery stats w/o this tiny tweak
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevaristy:
I shouldn't have to disable Google now in order to get decent battery life. My note 2 didn't Have this Problem.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
I have everything on (BT, Wifi, GPS, Google Now, etc) and haven't changed anything and I only lost 8% overnight.

Battery life is great on this phone. Sounds like you have a rogue app or setting.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thevaristy:
I have tried better battery stats, gsam, wakelock detector to try and find the problem. The only wakelock is the nlp collector wakelock. The only thing that has helped is disabling gps. I had that same wakelock on my note 2, but it didnt destroy the battery like this one does. Im out of possible solutions. Any thoughts?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greyhulk:
Possibly a faulty device. You may want to get it swapped, but you might try a factory reset first.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johno601:
It seems my first G2 was the problem, the second is going strong
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mattw79:
I just had Verizon swap out the one I picked up Thursday. The battery went from 32% at 11:00 last night to dead by 6:00 am. That was after a fresh reboot to make sure no apps were causing problems. Tried factory reset, and still no improvement. Right before I brought it back it discharged 25% in two hours with 6 min screen time. I'm sure my battery was defective, when I picked it up originally the battery was completely dead. They had to charge it 15 min just to power on and activate it. The new one I just picked up had a 90% charge out of the box.

BTW, it's Verizon
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningembers:
I, too, am experiencing pretty abysmal battery life. 10 hours tops, with maybe 2 hours screen-on.

BBS seems to show NlpCollectorWakelock as the culprit, but I have GPS/location services and settings turned off and I've greenified pretty much everything that runs in the background (Facebook, et. al.).

I have no idea what's up :(

I'll probably attempt a factory reset tonight. Anyone happen to know if a factory reset wipes pictures/movies/music? The Factory Reset warning says it does, but that seems weird to me. I'm not used to phones without external storage.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shea-bird:
Everyone - Please state whether you have an ATT or VZ phone. It seems to me like the VZ phones are having the battery issues.

I am on ATT/40% brightness/mostly wifi/ and am getting phenomenal battery life...makes my N4 seem like a toy. I will post real stats after a couple more cycles.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SysAdmNj:
Am I wrong to recommend the OP try greenify app as well, and anything you see running that you dont want running you hibernate it? Also go to google settings, its in your app drawer with the green box icon and disable some things in there you dont need running. Android device manager is one I disabled in there.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
I have everything on Wifi, 4G, Bluetooth, google services, and 3.5 hours in i'm still at 100% battery!!!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] usefulidiot127:
I'm getting much better battery life with the VZW G2 than I was with the VZW S4. I'm not sure what the best way is to usefully quantify battery life these days.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alhadee12:
If you're getting subpar battery life, take a look in the calendar app and make sure you don't have "Life Square" running in the back. This portion of the app gathers information from a variety apps.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mediumraresteak:
Using the Verizon G2 and all the reviews about stellar battery performance seems to escape me as well. Something from their bloatware has to be eating up the battery while idle.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burningembers:
I made some tweaks and seem to be doing better now:

1a) Removed the system/app version of Facebook and installed it from the Market instead.

1b) Greenified Facebook.

2) Froze most of the AT&T bloatware.

3) Disabled Google Location services, rebooted, re-enabled.

4) Disabled Google Goggles monitoring of every picture I take.

I was getting about 12 hours or so before, I appear to be trending to do better so far...we'll see.

I already notice my NlpCollectorsWakelock is much lower.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmalakianic300:
Battery

My VZW g2 has been very well.

I've been listening to music off of Google Music Player all day and didnt even hit 50% yet.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beddachedda:
VZW G2 doing absolutely great on mine
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] montyf:
The battery is nutso on this things! Smokes my S4 and I think it's better than my note2 well
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingdady:
Thanks. Battery is fantastic now.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmbtswmr:
Not so and I am without a doubt a self-classified "heavy user."

I stream Pandora through my cars BT 1-2 hrs, have 2 Google account syncing everything, corp exchange (about 100 emails/day which I use more than my laptop including attachments, you tube, 1-2 hours of call on BT, web browsing, google now, gaming, apps etc. Plus 30 minutes staring at the beautiful screen.

I DO NOT use wifi. Unlimited 4G. Contrary to what most say, I have found wifi provides worse battery except in areas of poor signal coverage. I have no proof, but I think Google gets greedy when it sees wifi.

I run auto brightness, 40%

I have yet to fall below 18 hrs. of battery.

The key (IMO) is being judicious about what you allow apps to do in the background.

My Known batt hogs:

Facebook app (use mobile site instead)

Google Voice

Most Widgets (especially weather, news)

Any of the gimmicky Samsungy sensors based stuff

Verizon bloat (especially the ones that use verizon location services)

key tones and certain haptic feedback.

My gf is notorious for not closing/clearing her browser on sites that auto update.

Whatsapp

Outside of this I would think it's time for a factory reset and then a trip to the store to swap it out.

Hope this helped.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timur1403:
I have had the G2 for couple days now. The battery on the first day seemed really bad. The day I bought it, I used it until the battery dropped to about 20% and then I charged it fully for about 3 hours. But, just like the OP, the battery dropped 30% overnight. However, yesterday morning I plugged in to the charger again and let it charge for 5 hours. And now, 16 hours later, I am still on the same charge with 76% remaining! That's just amazing. Granted I am not a heavy user. Sent a few texts, made couple calls, browsed the web a little, went on facebook for total of maybe half an hour... I do have Wifi on at all times and I do have an exchange account set to push. I also disabled all the At&t bloatware (except for that damn Address Book app). With regular use, seems like this phone will last me couple days on a single charge easy. So far really happy with the device.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fisher421:
Battery life has been much better after turning off all location services.

how ever facebook app is making too many wake locks about (270 in 10 hours) . i turned off all notifications and event set refresh to never.

is that normal ?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __HellRaiser__:
I've been told facebook is one of the biggest battery drains...i dont even have the app on my phone.

I'm loving the battery in this thing...I've been unplugged for 3 hours...have had 2 phone calls that were about 15 minutes each....have had blue tooth on and connected to my car for about 30 minutes, GPS has been on the whole time and....im STILL at 100%. Droid Maxx my a%$....this phone is the battery king.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ksc6000:
Omg when the hell are people gonna realize that if your phone stays at 100 after a good dealof use that means your battery meter is INACCURATE!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __HellRaiser__:
If you say so....but i dont agree....it just dropped to 99%...and yesterday when I left work .....after 10 hours with usage.....i was at about 85 %....when i got home I tried to drain the thing by gaming and watching movies on it and it out lasted my patience. I finally got it to 28% at around 2am...its still the battery king.

the phone is new...i dont think my battery has even had a chance to get inaccurate. :-/ when i got the phone it was drained to 5%....then died at the store as we trying to activate it...I would say my battery is pretty damn calibrated...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingdady:
Totally agree. This phone has been amazing. This battery runs circles around my sgs3. I finally can go 2 days on battery. My S3 would of been on its 4th or 5th charge with same usage. Bye Samsung, I'm officially a LG fan now.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beddachedda:
terrible, i agree, it just wont turn off!

push exchange, gmail, on 4g a lot and travelling in the car, and was this this morning
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mediumraresteak:
I had posted earlier that my battery experience was quite horrendous as well but after I did a couple factory resets (mainly due to camera and old apps installing from backup account), I've experienced a very strong performance. I have only a couple apps installed so it was probably an app from my old phone that was hogging all the juice while idle.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BaronInkjet:
I did a little checking and one app, which I rarely use, was taking 58% of battery life. It also is crashing a lot when it didn't in 4.1.2; I wonder if this might be a theme. Also had a gmail crash today. I don't think I have every had that before.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rndchef:
Battery is awesome! Compared to DNA. I am a widget freak as one of the best reasons to own android over apple. Tiles shmiles. Boring! I have news, weather, three push accounts running and no worries about making it through a day. Now I need to break myself of the charging habit. One of the main battery savers is using a program like automatelt which cell ID locates you at home and work and auto turns on Wifi and gets me off of the LTE network. I don't have to think about it. Saves major battery drain. Does a ton of other stuff as well.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
People need to stop blaming the phone for bad battery when it's some stupid app on their phone. We all know the phone has a 3000mAh battery. If it drains really fast for some reason, then it's not the phone but your apps.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finkalink:
Same here, I actually got 50 hours in one go as of tonight! I'll make a post detailing it soon.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmbtswmr:
Um, yes. Facebook is redicuously good at two things:

1. Sucking

2.Killing Battery

Use the mobile web version and long live your battery!

Clearly you haven't owned the G2 yet. It's not a calibration issue, this phone is just that good. My phone has been off the charger since 6am and been under medium to heavy use and it's still at 61%. (9:08pm now)

I hope more people pay attention to this. Using app backup has and always will be bad for the optimization of your phone's battery.

Fresh install is the way to go. Disagree? Factory reset and then install your apps one by one and then remeasure.

You're welcome in advance.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
Are you saying that the minute the phone drops to 2999mAh the phone should report 99%? Technically it's not 100% but it's not at 99% either. If the phone takes 2 hours to get to 2970mAh, should the phone report 100% or 99%? Obviously this phone is not going to report 99% until it gets to 2970mAh, it's not under reporting. Some people might prefer that.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodimus_prime:
wanted to chime back in, both of my G2s are now getting 50 hours +

maybe its a break in thing?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fisher421:
AudioOut_3

I used the default music app to stream music over bluetooth in my car. after 40 min or so the battery started draining heavily like (10% per hour) without any use. a restart helped but this is concerning. anyone else having the issue?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoNsTeReNeRgY22:
I started using the Snapdragon Battery Guru and it actually seems to be helping! Just have to get out of the "learning" phase.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app&hl=en
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BaronInkjet:
There is a setting in wifi on AT&T to auto connect to available wifi hotspots. I turned it off last night, and my battery has been much better today. Has been unplugged for 10 hours, and now @ 76%.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IamPro:
Anyone use Chrome? Seems like its hurting my battery, still got 4.5hr screen on time but def think I could do better
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fisher421:
more issues..

GPS is turning ON automatially . even if i un-checked and turned it off int he Location Access. and Draining battery
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] triskropf97:
Okay so I've had my G2 since last Friday.. I absolutely LOVE it but one problem my battery is getting worse and WORSE.. the standby battery drop is outrageous.. seems like my first full day was the best it been downhill since... btw I did a factory reset to see if it helps n it didn't... I rooted and froze almost all the bloat and greenify'd all my background apps... and with data off 80% of the time at work today it was still dropping 5-10% an hour in my pocket.. ideas? Help?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d.cortez:
i know this post isn't going to help those experiencing battery life issues, but i wanted to share my experience today. (knock-on wood) battery life continues to compare favorably for me. today was an atypical heavy usage day and after 14 hours i have 27% battery left. on the surface that doesn't look good, but considering i received approximately 119 emails (replied to 38), 63 text messages, 2 hours of phone calls and 10 hours of screen time, i'd say having 27% battery remaining is good.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IamPro:
Jesus, what is your brightness at? Anything special going on with your phone?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d.cortez:
brightness is 50%, nothing special going on. disabled (via App Settings) all at&t stuff, froze the software update APK, but that's about it. i use my device for phone calls, email, texting and web browsing primarily and i'm not a gamer, e.g., don't play games on my phone. also, not fondling it all day long. i could be an "atypical" smartphone user by today's standards. :)
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
The biggest battery tip that I got which immediately solved all of my battery woes was to turn this off. Once I did, my battery life skyrocketed. Give it a try.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayochs:
10 hours of screen on time? what the bloody hell!?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rick.brewer:
I have been getting nearly twice the battery life compared to the DNA.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mediumraresteak:
Can someone tell me what RILJ and AudioOut2/3 is? It seems to be waking up often. Everything else seems decent or average.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] onetake:
Home taking up too much power after full charge.. but it goes back to normal after I restart it..

Anyone know why?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dmarco:
You definitely need to figure out what's wrong with your particular device, because I have never experienced such amazing battery life than on my G2. I usually charge it to 100%, then I unplug it and leave it on overnight and when I wake up it's typically around 98%. Trust me when I say, this phone has phenomenal battery life and that also has to do with the Snapdragon 800 processor in it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caecusscius:
My battery life has been great, except when using Blue tooth in my vehicle. Audio over blue tooth seems to be the one thing that kills it slightly. But even then, its much much better than my Gnex.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbungle999:
I'm still having intermittent idle battery drain. Some days or parts of the day I can be idle for up to 3 hours and I only see 1- 2% drain. Then most of the time I can see a drain of 10% in 1 hour. I don't get it and I'm passed my 14 days. Others report the same thing but nobody knows why. Any clues?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caecusscius:
Are you in an area of no or bad signal? that will drain your battery pretty fast.

Think about WHERE you are when you get the drain.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazrin313:
My first day usage, imho its fricken great
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
A reboot will likely clear up the issue. I'm fairly confident that it's a bug involving location services. The attached are a couple shots of my Android System detail.

One is from a day when my idle drain spiked. Notice the GPS line? My GPS was off the entire day. It also had a button to location services.

The other shot is today where my idle drain has been great. No GPS line and no location services button.

Kinda weird.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilmonstertruck:
4 and a half hours of screen time with 22% left is pretty badass
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heatshiver:
The biggest downside (for me) about the G2 is that we can't put in a better battery. But there ways around this. My best suggestions are to downclock your CPU after using BetterBatteryStats - or a free alternative; CPU Sleeper Quad Core, and Greenify. All these suggestions require root access. You can get into more detail about these from my battery optimization thread in my signature.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
Better battery? I've had 52 hours on a single charge with 4 hours of screen on time, and on a heavy use day I've gotten over 8 hours of screen on time (Auto brightness with 70% baseline). Do people need more than that?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbungle999:
Is everyone experiencing this unusual idle drain wakelock issue on Verizon or att? I'm having it on att
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dchibro:
AT&T here, but the issue hasn't come up a lot. In fact, 3 times in 2 weeks. I'd still like to nail down exactly what's causing it though without having to turn location services off completely.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrbungle999:
All locations on but phone was on idle whole time. No screen time.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EvntHorizn:
curious question

Just curious because I am trying to be cheap and narrow down if I am having a battery issue without purchasing better battery stats. When everyone is getting these 7+ hour screen on times, what is taking the largest amount of power under your battery stats. On my old nexus it was almost always the screen, however on this phone in most cases android system is usually the highest percentage. I have a Verizon G2. I would say I'm probably getting between 3.5 to 5.5 hours of screen on time (with wifi for basically all data use). Which is a huge improvement for sure over the nexus but I honestly have no clue how people are getting to 10 hrs. I don't think I'm having any wakelock issues only because generally if the screen is off I get the same ultra slow drain percentage wise that everyone else is getting. Thanks for the help.

Just wanted to add that I run my screen at 40%, with automatic always on.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiguy99:
Google the older version of better battery stats APK & download that. I have the older version & its free. Use it on all my phones
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmbtswmr:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you do not own the G2. Otherwise, this would never have been said, especially in this thread.

When you have a phone that can outlast TWO Galaxy S4 batteries, you stop using that same tired lame "no removable SD, no removable battery" argument for slamming a phone.

Or maybe just trying to get more traffic through your sig?