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[G2 General] samitro:
Battery drain cause by Knockon?

So after I've tried almost everything to improve my battery life, I have finally found the root cause. After disabling Knockon in gestures, I'm getting excellent battery life. I used to have Android OS as the first in battery use details and used to loose around 10 - 15% over night, now it dropped on the list and my screen is number 1 and battery drain is around 2 to 3% over night. Not so good news actually as I love the knockon feature to wake up the phone. I'm on stock unrooted. Anybody having excellent battery life with good idle while having this feature enabled? thanks.
[G2 General] SPBoss:
Got 8+ hours in the end with over 36 hours battery life. Love this phone
[G2 General] khaytsus:
Obviously yes.. I highly doubt any massive improvement is due to knock on, since I've seen .4%/hr WITH email (imap push), google sync, weather syncing, etc, and of course, knock-on enabled.
[G2 General] jagman96:
+1

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This is insane.

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[G2 General] XERO_Racer:
Best battery life I've ever came across on a device

This is by far the best device I've ever owned with battery life

Rayglobe Flex ROM 3.5

Cant recall which kernel I used (will update this if i remember)

Mainly on WiFi but was on LTE for a couple of hours throughout

Little an hour of phone calls

Text Messages, Facebook, KIK, Syncing throughout the day

Web browsing

Just a little over 7 hours of SOT

3 days without a charger

Note: The graph shows a slight increase in battery but for some reason after extensive use the percentage jumps up a percent IE 20% then goes to 21% after turning the screen off and leaving the phone for some time
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
Stock?

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[G2 General] SPBoss:
Yes :)
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
Kernel stock?

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[G2 General] jagman96:
I use Greenify (w/Xposed experimental features), DS Battery Saver and yesterday I installed 2X Battery. I also have Tasker though I've found it mostly effective for streaming BT, turning on GPS for Maps and controlling volume based on time and location. My question, it seems like what I have is duplicate. Especially DS Battery Saver vs 2X Battery. What do you guys use and recommend.

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[G2 General] abdel12345:
You guys think kitkat wil make the battery better than it already is? I know it improved my nexus 10 battery but that's a big difference since it's vanillla and a completely different device :p
[G2 General] greyhd:
I don't use any battery extenders, but if you have tasker you can set it up to turn off data when the screen goes off and turn it on every hour to check for emails or whatever else you have synced to your phone.
[G2 General] jagman96:
I haven't done that but should. Is that any different than 2X Battery? Obviously they are different apps but I'm questioning whether the effect is the same.

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[G2 General] greyhd:
It's the same but I would use Tasker since you can customize it more, from location based or time based commands.
[G2 General] SKyRocKeting727:
I'm not happy about this but disabling Knock-on improved battery life by at least 20% for me. :( the coolest feature on the G2 turned off.....

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[G2 General] geoff5093:
They are basically the same. The problem for me is I use Google Voice, so by having mobile data turned off I don't get calls or texts.

Sometimes I find that not using any batter saver apps is better than having 3-4 apps running that try and help.
[G2 General] jagman96:
Even with that I'm not willing to give it up... I love that feature!

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[G2 General] zvone07:
Hey man, can you please share your setup (rom, kernel, options, disabled apps etc...)?

Thanks in advance!
[G2 General] SKyRocKeting727:
Two days later, enabled knock knock back on. Couldn't do without it. :)

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[G2 General] SPBoss:
Everything stock. Havent installed facebook and the only apps that have notifications enabled are whatsapp, kik and gmail.
[G2 General] Unleashed1985:
My battery life

After a long and great journey with my Samsung Galaxy S2 (i9100), I finally got my LG G2 D802 this monday.

I told myself to try the LG stock version, but I couldn't help myself and had to lose that junk for a nice AOSP based rom.

Enter ParanoidAndroid 4.0 beta with stock kernel...

Because the battery life on my i9100 wasn't that well, I was very curious to see what the D802 had to offer.

So I did a clean install, removed some useless apps, installed greenify (greenified most apps) and greenpower (sync every 4 hours).

Then I set my network to only 3G and set my screen brightness at automatic (this means low, because I'm mostly inside).

First of all this rom is super stable. I haven't had any SOD or freeze since flashing it.

How about battery life?

Well to my surprise I reached an off charger time of 34 hours and a screen on time of 9 hours and 36 minutes!!!

Did I mention this was reached with my first full cycle?! WOW!!

I haven't got this device long enough to know if this is normal screen on time, but either way I'm verry happy with it!
[G2 General] greyhd:
Did anyone ever figure out what the *backup* function under Android OS or why it keeps the device awake? I noticed today that Android OS was up to 48% when generally it's under 20% and *backup* was the cause for the majority of the usage.
[G2 General] JeffreyNijnatten:
Hmm i'll try tomorrow with that function disabled, i am curious hahaha
[G2 General] greyhd:
I tried to find it and disable it but couldn't find it.
[G2 General] Ekiang3050:
I thought this function was the Google backup? In backup and restore uncheck the backup my data option.
[G2 General] greyhd:
Just unchecked it, but not sure why it was waking up the device for so long. I thought everything was backed up through the sync process. I will keep an eye out on the battery.
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
that's quite a bit of improvement

If that's the case, i might end up disabling it permanently. One of the main reasons i am opting for this phone is great battery life. :)

May be there will be a fix in kitkat update :confused:
[G2 General] JeffreyNijnatten:
I did test it today but yesterday i had medium usage and today hard usage (video chatting and playing more music) so i can't really compare. I think it saves a little bit battery if you disable it.

Don't know why it s wake lock, I'll keep it disabled it can be handy if you install a new rom or sign in to a new device but for now for me it's useless.
[G2 General] abdel12345:
I accidentally feel asleep with my phone on at 85 percent with about 1.5 hours screen on. I woke up with it assert 38 abs sarong 9.5 hours screen on. That's pretty good even fir not using it on the Nexus 5 people tried this abs at 8 they'd be drained
[G2 General] khaytsus:
Why was the screen on the whole time?
[G2 General] abdel12345:
I have no idea. Now that you mention it I think it might have been a glitch because I had it set to shut after 2 minutes.
[G2 General] jordanlang2:
Please help, just got this phone and have 2x battery. These are my results.
[G2 General] khaytsus:
Meaningless info. Look at wakelocks, battery status, GSAM battery monitor, etc etc.
[G2 General] votinh:
When you woke up and got the phone, was its screen on or off? I just doubt that the screen was lit the whole time. Just sounds like reading wrong info or something.
[G2 General] beont:
100h battery

I didn't use my phone a lot this week, the battery is really impressive

Screen on time around 2 hours (original rom, nothing special turned off)
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
^^^ and you still have 29% juice left :eek:
[G2 General] shriom_manerker:
what on earth ? i end up with only 4h screen on time from 100-0 after about 17 hours of usage :( what is wrong ? fact reset didnt fix my issue, should i reflash my indian firmware ? currently d802 10c
[G2 General] abdel12345:
It was off
[G2 General] Jay07jay:
Thanks for the share
[G2 General] muffinflesh:
I was easily getting 50+ hours on stock rooted, but so far on grievous my battery life has been terrible. I hope it settles in a couple days or I may go back to stock
[G2 General] Dirtyzecrets:
Here is mine with uninstalled apk's and Flex Rom 1.5

Dont think I have had under 50 hours of battery time since I got my phone.. But the first thing I did was to root it, install custom rom and use the settings and bloatware removal I have always done on my Androids--

Kinda love battery life, it's MUCH better than s4...
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
here are my stats from two days ago

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[G2 General] Sfkn2:
I still don't understand how you guys do it.

I pulled 19 hours for this charge, and only 3 hours SOT. Have all my syncs on for Facebook, Google plus, Google Now, etc.
[G2 General] juggamonkey:
Don't worry man I've exchanged my g2 3 Times. And have never been over 4 hours 30 minutes of sot On any of them. ...only reason I exchanged them was hearing about other people's Battery experience. But I believe the biggest factor brightness which I leave at about 50 percent and signal if you use alotof mobile data
[G2 General] abdel12345:
I keep my brightness at 20 to 30 and hey 5-6 hours sot. I also don't use data much so I'm assuming your right
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
Do you two have Google now and location settings enabled and reporting? I'm going to turn those off and see if they really make up for more than 10 hours of usage. I'll report back tomorrow.
[G2 General] 3thman:
this thread makes me wanna cry and explode. how do you guys get this crazy results... this is insane I have done everything in the Android world to get the best battery life. everything you could imagine to improve the battery. but 50 hours ?? noway
[G2 General] abdel12345:
I have Google now off and location to just from device no GPS. Sometimes I shut them since I don't need it much.

I've never gotten 50 hours battery but I do get great screen time. I usually get my phone to lay the day with lots of use then I charge
[G2 General] zvone07:
The answer is: turn off 4G. And that counts for all of you who can't get decent battery life.

I did it myself and every charge is over 50h and over 4h SOT.

Cheers!
[G2 General] Unleashed1985:
I don't know how some of you get those "bad" results...

I'm on ParanoidAndroid and with deinstalling some apps, low screen brightness, always 3g, a little underclocking and using Greenify and Greenpower apps, I've managed to get a sot of over 10 hours, while being 45 hours of charger...

That's way too big of a difference with some of the results posted here...
[G2 General] greyhd:
I always have 4G and get around 40 Hrs and 7 hrs SOT. What I have is greenify apps I have picked when the screen shuts off, location settings is off, google now is off, google is synced every 4 hrs, email sync is off, and brightness is at 30%. You can use tasker or an app lie it to shut data off when the screen is off and only use data when the screen is on.
[G2 General] Spotja:
WTF!!! Dude, what were you using your phone for? Please post some screenshots:D
[G2 General] Unleashed1985:
Here's proof of my 10 hours sot. I achieved this by not listening to music, no phone calls and no games... Just Facebook, Whatsapp, XDA and surfing the web...
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
Turned off location settings, but didn't turn off syncs. Froze most apps. 45 minutes of screen on time at minimum brightness.. 75%..
[G2 General] iamshaked:
65+ hours for me.

pretty much from friday morning, until sunday before bedtime. This was actually using the phone also. minimally but using it.

Regardless, I havent had a phone do this in a VERY long time.

im happy :)

stock everything, i killed off as many stock apps as i could.
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
I'm doing exactly that. Guess I found the trick, but I like Google now too much to keep it this way.
[G2 General] votinh:
Are you guys trying to show off your battery life or what?

Here's mine, sitting there doing nothing. It does not mean it would last long if heavily used though.
[G2 General] CrashUK:
M8 how about my Samsung s2 is 2 years older. I got 10days 49 mins.

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[G2 General] maorosh:
you need to check how much time screen was ON ....
[G2 General] apexcell:
Without screen on time, it doesn't really make too much of a difference. I got more than 32 days, with still 16% battery left on my HTC One V, which has a little 1500mAh battery.

It's usage that's really important. ;)
[G2 General] xda219:
i only get 2 hours screen on with 9 hours usage..4g usage for a little bit..how do you get more than a days usage and 6 hours SOT?do you always enable battery saver?
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
By turning off all syncs, be on Wi-Fi mostly or turn off LTE, not use Google now or location settings, use minimum brightness on screen..
[G2 General] xda219:
i have 0% brightness no sync and google now..do you turn the battery saver on immediately?
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
I don't.
[G2 General] kartoonz:
hi guys, what exactly do you mean by "on screen time"? i'm confused here...

people say that they have watched youtube, videos, etc for 8-9 hrs and then some browsing for 2-3 hrs... now technically that is 12-13 hrs with screen "on". Then what is "on screen time":confused:
[G2 General] khaytsus:
The time the screen is on according to Androids battery stats?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49997440&postcount=306
[G2 General] alienware231788:
Thanksssss
[G2 General] tee00max:
What's going on. So I just got my G2 and I'm still slowly learning the tips and tricks to the phone and how to conserve battery life. It's doing pretty good so far but according to my battery stats, I'm getting a high battery drain from the Verizon hidden menu. I just rooted and flashed the stock deploated rom last night and I know I may need to let the battery settle. Anyone else experience this?
[G2 General] greyhd:
Get rid of all that bloat with TB. I have not seen that kind of drainage from the hidden menu.
[G2 General] nick_862003:
How..??

How mate...How is this even possible to have 7+ hours of screen on time..Please let me know the settings u use...Are u rooted or anything else that might help..

Thanks :good:
[G2 General] SPBoss:
When i took this screenshot everything was stock. Sync was turned off apart from whatsapp and greenify was installed. You will notice this because i have 100% battery life on standby for 8 hours before it dropped to 99%(in the first screenshot)

Now i have lg g2 dorimanx kernel, xposed framework mods and disabled fast dormancy. Battery life is the same but MUCH smoother with new kernel and more features. Best thing is it is stable as I'm still using stock rom.
[G2 General] muffinflesh:
Over 75 hours on a charge... God phone
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
what about mine??? :)
[G2 General] happyantix:
I have two G2's here at the moment, one is a 5 months old the other 1 month, i am testing the battery on both at once, comparing.. the 5 month old one is on 98% overnight and the newer one is on 95%, could this be because the battery hasn't "broken in" on the new one?

Testing both at full stock each with a sim card on the same network sitting next to each other!

I'm selling one of them, i bought it at a good price and fixed it :)
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Stats from my last charge
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
Which kernel? Configuration? WiFi all the time?

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[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Everything Stock

Auto Sync Off, Wifi On all the time. Weather widget (HD Widgets) with update interval 4 hours and instructed not to use the GPS.

Using Lux for Auto Brightness.
[G2 General] GTnik:
You didn't touch some things in engineer menu?
[G2 General] finkalink:
Ahh! That same issue happens for me. It's so very minor though, and I don't even have Plug and Pop disabled. I tried to restore it using Titanium and no change. Let me know if you find out what happened. Thanks!
[G2 General] Beaumac:
Slide Aside is great because there are a few apps that I use all the time - email, keepass and chrome specifically. I like to be able to know exactly where they are without having to scroll through the recent apps menu.

Wireless storage basically creates a network share out of your phone. You can easily transfer files to and from the device without connecting a usb cable. It's great for music and video because it's faster than USB and better for the battery because it is not charging.
[G2 General] drkow19:
Someone posted last page to just uninstall Plug and Pop app, and it won't show FC anymore. I just reflashed stock and redid everything, this time not uninstalling as many apps.
[G2 General] paffinity:
Mine is telling me I could get 100+ hours...
[G2 General] Viper76269:
this is amazing. going to this from the Gnex will be a breath of fresh air.
[G2 General] chaqfoistylo:
I've noticed that DLNA is a significant drain on battery for me. Does anybody know where to change these settings. Is it on the phone or TV?
[G2 General] cpark92808:
Just had a quick off topic question,

for 2x battery, how did you get rid of the percentage notifcation?
[G2 General] xwonic:
this is the kind of detailed tests i want to see. good job!
[G2 General] finkalink:
If you go to the Settings, notification, choose battery icon theme, and transparent icon. It still shows up in the shade for me, which I like.
[G2 General] Fakexican:
I've been pretty unhappy with my battery life so far. I've disabled the facebook app, turned Google location services on and off, and removed the default weather/clock widget on my AT&T G2, and this is a typical day of battery life for me. I'm going to do a factory reset tomorrow, but if that doesn't help, I'm taking it back to the store. I should be getting more than 2 hours of screen time...coming from the GNex, I was really expecting a significant improvement! Any thoughts on the possibility of this being anything but defective?
[G2 General] sam2c:
Getting unbelievable battery life here......36 hrs off the charger and 6:20 hrs of screen time and still have 16 percent left. all I did was run cleanTOOL script, disable carrier IQ, and disable wifi/cell tower assist for location. These figures are with 60% autobrightness, and 1 google account syncing. I dont remember being so happy with any other phone. Fantastic processing power and battery life, what more can you ask for in a phone?
[G2 General] Mize:
My battery life isn't a step up from my Nexus 4 so far. Yesterday it was dead by the end of the day. I keep finding my biggest battery user is Android System (instead of screen). Last night I disabled carrier iq, backup and location so I'm hoping today goes better. I had a BB Q10 for a few weeks and that sucker went 2 full days of good use between charges...too bad it couldn't really deliver on running sideloaded Android apps.
[G2 General] joeynox:
Fly you all to achieve this are you actually using the phones? If I don't touch my g2 it will last forever. Once I start candy crush holy crap the battery dies insanely fast. Or web browsing and you see it tick away.
[G2 General] oliver2ooi:
I hope this thread isn't dead. I've been playing around with my G2 D802 to get an optimized battery life. Overnight charging seem to improve it too.

My concern is about freezing an app, a system app with titanium backup. I've tried this many times and it keeps bugging me. Have any of you frozen an app and still see it running?

This happened to me with the doubletap (knock feature), froze it with TB, woke my phone by knocking and it still works! The only way it would not work is by simply disabling it in gestures settings.

The first time I wasn't sure about this was when I read your post on all the apps you've frozen/uninstalled through TB, that I preferred freezing only, that kept draining the battery in "Android System" battery view.
[G2 General] daraldf:
I'm in the same boat. My AT&T G2 uses about 1% of battery for every minute of use.
[G2 General] StreetkillnHD:
i play to much plants vs zombies 2 for it to even last 5 hours.
[G2 General] zathus:
Maladies 1.1.8 snapdragon battery guru. Greenify hibernating most useless apps.. google books, movies etc. GPS on, bt on, WiFi on. Screen brightness varies from 50% to 15%. I'm getting some pretty amazing battery life. Had it on airplane mode and my daughter watched a movie for 9 hours lol. Still had 45% left
[G2 General] magestic1995:
What have you guys done to disable carrier iq. I have looked it up and have not found a real way to disable it. This is a link to my post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=46955034&postcount=389
[G2 General] StreetkillnHD:
i can only comment on battery idle time. its amazing.

but when i use it. it just drains quit a lot. i can go through 10% in less 30 minutes with just web browsing and texting and using tap talk.
[G2 General] ginold:
Can anyone confim that this is normal? i have an LG g2 with 3000mah and i loose 1% of battery every MINUTE while playing games, so 10 minutes of modern combat 4 or plats vs zombies is around 10 % (strange because the graphics complexity is very different) , 60-70% brightness, sound half way or headphones. Some people are speaking about "5h of screen time easily" while i get 2-3h ... some site even says " When we had kept the WiFi and 3G network on for a whole day, had surfed for around 3 hours, played games for about 1 hour, watched videos for around 1.5 hours and had talked for 2 hours we were able to get back up for 1.5 days. "
[G2 General] ndnesh:
Sweet ! the G2 is a beast!
[G2 General] Sfkn2:
What is an 'engineering' menu?
[G2 General] giorgosfil13:
This is with normal use
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
WiFi all the time and 2g on right? Which kernel?

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[G2 General] yellowman82:
What is normal use? Whats the screen on time? Base on the graph seems like you really haven't used it much.
[G2 General] giorgosfil13:
Wifi was on, Mobile Network to 2G, Data Off, Sync Off, Brightness 80%.

As for the actual screen time I don't remember. I did moderate use of the phone though.

I use the Stock ROM. It is actually the first phone in years that I haven't rooted. I didn't see the point. Everything is working incredibly well.
[G2 General] Tinchoska:
I am on stock with xpose and some apps deleted and it rocks!!!!!! Waiting to see how it goes on kk

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[G2 General] gull_s_777:
After 50h on battery
[G2 General] gunlock4real:
and what brightness you used, zero ?
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
I have Lux for Auto Brightness.

Using this profile :)
[G2 General] greyhd:
He is also on wifi, so that contributes to the battery.
[G2 General] Jose_Paramore:
Even with WiFi, that's insane.

Not saying that he's done that, but in my opinion some people just cheat for getting these stats...
[G2 General] greyhd:
Yea, there are ways to show great battery life even if you charged it.
[G2 General] yiu1213:
Great sharing
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Yup i noticed that these stats don't refresh immediately on plugging in, but GSam stats do.

I am pretty sure i might hit 10h screen on if i don't play games. :)

I'll try to share GSam stats.
[G2 General] Jose_Paramore:
I'd be nice to see them :)

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[G2 General] greyhd:
Also post what Rom, Kernel, what is synced, and turned off. Install greenify and if you don't have done so already.
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Here you go

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51057912&postcount=336
[G2 General] spectrox:
I don't think that mine is so good...sync always on, 3G/Wi-fi 70% time...

What do you think guys?

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[G2 General] greyhd:
Not too ad but you might want to look at what you have synced. Also the signal strength will play a part in your battery length.
[G2 General] spectrox:
Sync is about Facebook, Google apps, Twitter, Whatsapp... my signal is good at all...

Look what is using my battery...

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[G2 General] greyhd:
Turn off Facebook, everything from Google except contacts, app data , hangouts, and calendar.