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[G2 General] Noam23:
I could only drain the battery to 50% today, so I'm posting this for now to get this thread running (and tomorrow I'll post the 10% results). It's funny because I have no trouble finishing the battery everyday, yet today it's giving me "problems". It's like it knows it is being monitored, and the battery hogs are afraid of being greenified...

Let's get over my results in the main screen:

Phone

: yes, I did not use the phone to make phone calls. Not unusual for me...

Screen

: almost 4 hours screen time, pretty impressive considering the phone has been running for more than 13 hours, and the battery is at 50%. On the other hand I did not make any phone calls, so this could be part of the reason for that excellent screen-on time. Btw, I'm using "Lux brightness control" instead of the LG2's pathetic brightness control feature, the Lux app itself drew practically zero power (as can be seen at the "App Sucker" screen, or actually, you can't even see it because it's too down in the list).

Phone Radio

: At 7.9%, I don't really know whether it's good or bad, although this is definitely not a major battery user. I've attached the cellular reception screen too, just so people could reference with theirs. I think overall the reception is pretty good according to that image.

Wifi Active

: The Wifi has been on the entire operating time. Most of the time it was connected to my home router, and some of the time it was not connected at all, but still on (when I was out of the house). I'm attaching the Wifi screen so people could see how much traffic the phone had through wifi, for reference. With only 3.9% battery usage, I think there is no need to turn the wifi off, ever.

Held Awake

: The phone was awake for 1 hour (while the screen off, that is). Out of 13 hours being awake for 1 hour, I'm not sure whether this is good or bad. This will become clearer when more people will post their result here. It says that the power that was drawn during this 1 wake hour is 0.0%, I'm not sure if this is true, or some kind of inability of GSam to calculate battery usage for this awake period (if GSam IS correct, then I guess I don't understand what's the point of deep sleep, if the phone draws practically zero power even when awake...).

Bluetooth

: The BT was on the entire operating time, but connected to a device only a short amount of time. In any case it drew no power according to this screen... like wifi, I think there is no need to turn the BT off, ever.

Regarding the "App Sucker" screen, I can't really say anything intelligent about this, no app seem to drain the battery too much. The 4 hours screen-on time was mainly spent browsing the internet, using Whatsapp, watching youtube, using XDA app (not even listed in the first screen) neither of which seem to drain the battery too much...

So, now that we have some reference (and a reference for a pretty good battery behavior, I think) It will be interesting to see how your results compare...
[G2 General] djraimondi:
Just a quick question. I work in a building where there is terrible service. I mean so bad sometimes I get none at all. How does turning off mobile data save battery. Essentially your phone is still trying to connect to the mobile network all the same. I'm kind of looking for a technical explanation not just the 4g uses more battery type.
[G2 General] trickster2369:
Don't forget, the vzw version will throw a wrench into these comparisons.

Thanks Devs. From my VZW G2.
[G2 General] Noam23:
If you have bad cellular reception, turning off mobile data can help, but as you said it won't completely solve the problem because the phone still needs to connect to the network so you could talk and send SMS. I think switching to airplane mode (and using WIFI) is the best solution for battery life in this case. Still, I think you should use GSam to really see how much battery is drained by your bad cellular reception.
[G2 General] djraimondi:
I am using it now. Waiting until it drops to around 20% to post my results. Will get back.

Edit:

Here are my statistics. You think my phone just has bad reception and is in a bad area or there is something wrong with my antenna? My old Droid Razr HD was the same way, barely any service. I'm definitely not staying with Verizon. I pay out the noodle for "the best service" and I get crap. I live on Long Island outside New York City, my service should be amazing.

http://i.imgur.com/PDuWzZM.png

http://i.imgur.com/u4AR9Vl.png

http://i.imgur.com/IEA0Lir.png

http://i.imgur.com/K6rkYnD.png
[G2 General] Noam23:
Ok, as promised, here are my 10% results:

Phone

: did have some phone calls today, though nothing significant. I guess my usage can't really tell how significant phone calls are going to be with the G2, though this should not be a significant battery drainer for most.

Screen

: As you remember, yesterday, after 13 hour phone usage, I had 50% battery, I had 3 hours 47 minutes of screen-on time. At that point I thought I might get over 7 hours screen-on time, but here I show about 5 hours 25 minutes. I guess that if I completely drained it, I would have gotten close to 6 hours, not bad.

Phone radio

: seems similar to yesterday, about 10% of the battery... I still get good reception, as the image shows.

Wifi active

: Wifi had been on the entire time, using 5.6% of the battery.

Held awake

: So, yesterday after 13 hours of usage, the screen was held awake 1 hours. Today, after a total of 31 hours, the phone was held awake a total of 3 hours. It seems that the phone consistently is held awake for about 1 hour, every 10 hours of operation time (under my specific configuration, that is). I still find it weird that this "held awake" time did not tax the battery at all. How is this possible ?

Bluetooth

: was on the entire time, not connected most of the time. Zero impact on battery.

Regarding the App Sucker screen, similar to yesterday, can't say anything special about this. This day I kept browsing the interned using Opera browser, and added another hour using Runkeeper with GPS tracking (with screen off). After a full cycle of battery usage, the main battery draw comes from the Home launcher, next is Opera browser, and then the apps become pretty much insignificant in terms of battery usage. Maybe two last points here: I'm using both Lux brightness control (to control auto brightness) and Delayed Lock (to remove the lock when connected to certain wifi points and BT devices), both of these apps always run in the background, yet consume practically zero battery, so high recommendation for both of these (they also work great with the G2). Last point, I'm using all the google location access services (everything is turned on there), and I really don't see this taxing in any way, using this GSam report.

That's it for now. Waiting for your results for comparison.
[G2 General] Noam23:
Interesting results. I thought this thread would be revealing, and it doesn't disappoint already.

Your phone reception is pretty bad, much much worse than mine. BUT, you can see that the difference in battery draw is not really significant between my case (I have great reception) and yours, in both cases the phone radio took about 10% of the battery. It seems that the phone reception qaulity doesn't make much difference on the battery (whether it's pretty good, or pretty bad. Maybe this will change if the reception is horrific... like 0 and 1). Comparing my GSam report to yours, you will gain practically no battery advantage by making your phone reception better (at least considering your current phone usage - you barely made phone calls, but still phone reception is also important in order to keep the phone connected to the network, and also for mobile data...). This is REALLY surprising, I thought that when comparing my excellent reception to your very bad one, if I got 10% battery usage (for phone radio), you'll get something like 30%. This did not happen at all, surprisingly!.

Your Held awake time is pretty much similar to mine, as evertything else is similar to mine (wifi active, etc.), yet you seem to get significantly less screen-on time than I. I can think of one explantion: I see you are using G2's automatic brightness control, which is pretty horrible, while I use Lux brightness control, which can reduce the brightness much much more, when it's appropriate. I really can't think of any other major contributor to your battery drainage in comparison to mine...

One thing still keeps me bewildered: why doesn't the "held awake" period tax the battery ?? I mean, the phone is awake, yet no battery is being used... how could this be possible ? Is this a problem of GSam which can't read this information right ?
[G2 General] RiverdALIEN:
When you turn off mobile data the phone stops searching for a data connection, thus this battery draining process is halted
[G2 General] RiverdALIEN:
Barely read through the details but I charged my phone to 100% last night, pulled it around 6am today. Been texting and tweeting moderately. Made a few phone calls, checked voicemail. Used the flashlight a couple times and took a few pictures, flash off.
[G2 General] djraimondi:
This is true but look at the sent part of data of the phone radio. My received data is much higher then yours but I can assure you I only receive data via WiFi because my phone signal is so bad. Your sent in comparison much more data then me probably via your phone signal.

This is also very important. I had my mobile data OFF while at work today. I have a shift tomorrow where I will keep the mobile data on and post new results.

Edit: Also about the phone being kept awake and not using any battery. It does seem odd. Perhaps we should also use the orginal screenshots of the stock battery app (pending you still have stock rom).
[G2 General] RiverdALIEN:
Something wrong with my photo attachments
[G2 General] RiverdALIEN:
The rest of my screenshots
[G2 General] Noam23:
But, I don't see how the stock battery app will shed any new light on the kept awake period, if anything, the stock battery app is less detailed regarding almost everything...
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Again, 3G always on when WiFi wasn't. Also ~1h30m of music via Poweramp. Same setup as before, but now I am using Tasker + Synker to disable non-vital sync accounts when on data.

And still can't get 6 hours of screen time. Seriously wondering if the battery is screwed.
[G2 General] :
I'll bet the 15 widgets aren't helping. Widgets are a big part of Android, but some can be real battery hogs.
[G2 General] clausnake:
Ok so this is the stock rom and unrooted device after i switched to nova launcher. Huge improvement imo.
[G2 General] Noam23:
Where is your brightness bar set? If it's not very high, you seem to have a weak battery indeed...
[G2 General] metalboy94:
60% I think, auto brightness. I have since brought it a bit lower.
[G2 General] imkr1:
Its not 0% brightness .. I manually set around 30 to 50% brightness .. but Gsam always displays as "dark"...
[G2 General] thenorm89:
Could someone enlighten me on this drain? Can't seem to even get more than 24 hours on battery, don't feel like I've even used the phone heavily.

Stock Rom, no root. Thanks.
[G2 General] djraimondi:
Download wake lock detector. You definitely have a wake lock that is preventing your phone from deep sleep. Also download better battery stats as another battery notifier just to compare and post results of those.

Because your home is using a bunch though I wanna blame a widget on your home screen.
[G2 General] thenorm89:
No widgets besides stock weather and clock app, and calender. Doesn't make sense for this kind of drain.
[G2 General] djraimondi:
Like I said get those two other apps then post all three results and we will see what we can find.
[G2 General] clausnake:
Try getting a new launcher. I switched from lg's stock one to nova and there is a quite big difference.
[G2 General] djraimondi:
This as well. The only gesture I have on is knock on. If you have all the gestures on they can consume some battery.
[G2 General] Ditey1:
I guess I must be doing something wrong because since I've had my AT&T LG2 since September, am getting fantastic battery life. Am not a super heavy user, just average but I do have syncing turned off & only sync when I need to. I just love this phone to pieces & still have the LG Optimus G as a back up. Both of these phones are great. Love the button on the back feature since the buttons on the side always got mashed when I handled the phone. Love the knock-on - knock-off feature & just am pleased as punch with this phone & that includes the battery life. Did I mention how much I love this phone? I do & receive texting with & without pictures, make & receive phone calls, take vids, love to change wallpapers often, send e-mail with/without pics, use google search for places when driving, etc. etc. etc. You get the idea. :) Have it linked with my car so I can control some of the car functions when not in the car & also use hands-free calling.

Have done various tests on this phone just to see how long this phone could last with minimal use & got tired & bored with doing that after the phone actually lasted me 5 days plus. Am perfectly happy to plug it in every few days for a charge & it works just fine for me. As I stated, however, am not a power user so I do realize that experiences with battery life will be different for those people. Just wanted to give my 2 cents. :)

........and.......just a bit of info ....... am a 66 year old gal who loves tech gadgets & am not living in the stone age ..... LOL :)
[G2 General] roper15:
I have a Sprint G2 and so far my battery life has been pretty good. However, sometimes sytemui will start taking up a lot more battery life than usual and I'm not sure why. Normally it's around 1-2% but I've seen it get as high as 20% of my battery use. Any help would be appreciated.
[G2 General] greymdx:
Sprint GSam

Okay, so here's a bit of a (stupid) story. I purchased my G2 from best buy about a week ago, and subsequently dropped some water on the screen. Don't know if there was any damage to the charge port (i made sure to dry it off completely before starting it up. So I'm a bit paranoid now and was wondering if I should return it for a swap since I'm in the 15 day window. Anyhow, to ease my mind I'm going through this thread to compare battery life. Could of sworn I was getting better battery before this. Oh well... Don't think anything has been affected on the internals, anyone care to confirm that I'm just being paranoid beyond belief? :confused:

Anyhow, I'd like to post my results, but I don't have many posts yet and can't link yet, anyone care to help me out with the link? I can pm you
[G2 General] Rashad83:
I think no matter what you will still have doubts, and what if scenario. Better return it and get another one.
[G2 General] TEXASMADE1978:
Im on stock unrooted and i am loving my battery life, this is hands down the best device i have ever owned.
[G2 General] TEXASMADE1978:
The rest of my screenshots..
[G2 General] Dark Obsessions:
is it good or not ?
[G2 General] imkr1:
Mind sharing us your Rom and setting?and level of brightness?
[G2 General] yyz123:
Here's my most recent screen shots.

Is googly play music a power hog? I swear I only played a few songs at the most and seems to have used more power than I expected.
[G2 General] suhiiii:
Rayglobe 3.0 + 2.03 g.lewarne kernel ,first full charge :good:
[G2 General] Noam23:
Can you show me the app sucker screen arranged by "gps time used" ? GSAM seems to have a problem accounting for GPS battery drainage.
[G2 General] bigup7:
battery stats from 1st full charge on a brand new G2, ROM: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2505682 (stock kernal)

wanted to get more screen shots but ran out of time before battery died

this was with a mix of everything i do day to day, also using Lux dash half way through on wake on brightness setting.

was trying for 5 hours screen time :cool:
[G2 General] CPCisHere:
My battery seems terrible compared to the others posted here. When I purchased the phone the battery was dead. Seems like they usually have some charge. Does anybody have any suggestions to help or do you think I have a defective battery?
[G2 General] lch920619x:
seems defective battery. No way you can suck one third juice from the battery in only 0.5 hrs SOT. It should last like 3hrs + for even very heavy gaming. I would say 5+ SOT and 24hrs + stand by seems to be the normal battery life from my experience and others screenshot in this thread.

Unless your place has very very terrible signal reception or something. your battery must be dead...

And BTW draining a li-ion battery completely to 0% is indeed very harmful to it.
[G2 General] zevim2005:
Your battery is defective!
[G2 General] metalboy94:
You people shouldn't rush claiming it's a dead battery. Data does seem to drain more battery on some networks, especially if there are many connected apps in the background (bam_dmux wakelock). Also, CPCisHere seems to be using 4G => extra drain.
[G2 General] nic85:
only Wifi, 35%screen brightness
[G2 General] CPCisHere:
Thanks for the replay. I'm going to try it 4g turned off. If that doesn't work I might see if can get a replacement.
[G2 General] yyz123:
Why is Nova launcher taking so much battery? I also don't know why so much battery was drained during screen off and why my held awake time is in the 4 hour range. :confused:
[G2 General] djraimondi:
Yes I know we are suppose to use Gsam. I have posted my Gsam screens many times before. I have a different question now referring to android os and system. Which of these can I disable via titanium and will not cause issues. Also wtf is verizon hidden menu.

http://imgur.com/D0Bcacq.jpg

http://imgur.com/HwyfiDR.jpg

http://imgur.com/l7T9ofR.jpg
[G2 General] Jacobz1996:
i dont know why the android system is eating so much battery can anyone help me please

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sorry it won't let me post the screenshots

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sorry it won't let me post the screenshots

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sorry it won't let me post the screenshots
[G2 General] :
I would like to know how to troubleshoot this one to, cant seem to find enough granularity to assessing what uses what power.

tip to jacobz, use a image host site and just post the links as imagelinks

Sent from my LG-D802
[G2 General] metalboy94:
Use BBS, it will show which wakelocks are part of Android System. Usually they have roots in the framework.
[G2 General] bervin:
generally speaking, do you guys have better battery with stock or aosp roms?
[G2 General] cristy7610:
This are my values with G2 802 international stock and rooted.Is normal that value with system wake lock?
[G2 General] Jose_Paramore:
How much battery does 3g consume in standby mode for you guys? With data activated.

Enviado desde mi LG-D802 mediante Tapatalk
[G2 General] anorexia1981:
My lg g2 d802 battery is not going evet 1 Day i dont know what the problem is
[G2 General] lkess:
Ok, so my battery life has been not great. I can get maybe 12 hours max. When I took these screenshots I was home all day, phone said it had 4-5 bars all the time.

Anyone have any ideas? I turn off carrier IQ, disabled almost all of the at&t bloat. I'm not rooted or running a custom ROM. Google now and location services on, but Gps, nfc, and bluetooth are off.

EDIT- Oh and I have the at&t model, so the d800
[G2 General] djpeesh:
Your battery seems fine.

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Try a hard reset. What is PAD? Maybe that's killing it?
[G2 General] lkess:
Pad is puzzle and dragon. It's a game, and I'm unsure if that is the cause of the drain. It doesn't seem to use that much power, but even on days where I do not play it, the battery drains.

I need to try a hard reset, I just dont have the time to at the moment bc of finals.
[G2 General] TEXASMADE1978:
The best screen on time yet on my Verizon G2, stock- unrooted. No lag at all, and smooth and fast .
[G2 General] lkess:
I turned off location services, the battery life is what it should be, but then whats the point?
[G2 General] djpeesh:
The gps on the g2 is Crap. I accidentally forgot to exit from Facebook, and when I looked at my phone 20 mins later, battery was down to 93 percent from 100.

So especially indoors the gps is terrible and lands up killing your battery.
[G2 General] lkess:
I always leave gps off, but i turned off all the location settings, I got this phone so I could have almost everything on
[G2 General] yyz123:
New best for battery life: 1day 21hrs on light use had WiFi on the whole time too.
[G2 General] rfvreynoso:
I think this are pretty good results but let me know if thry can be improved.

Screen was on auto at 35% thrn at 90% for the mayority of the day depending on what i was doing, all the youtube time was spend on 720p video and manual 90% brightness. Wifi was all the whole time and used while at home.

One thong i do not get is why home use as much battery as the browser and i was actively using the browser and the browser used the cpu for longer and even still home took as much battery as the browser?

Another thing is my google services behaving as it should? I read here somewhere that is recommended to take it out using tibu and redownload it from market. Is that accurate? Why is that?

Some phone calls here and there as well. Screenshoots below.
[G2 General] rfvreynoso:
Screenshots
[G2 General] Sean473:
Can you explain how you got such a high amount of time? Also what % is your screen brightness?

Thanks
[G2 General] yyz123:
Nothing special really, no magic here.

I don't know what my screen brightness is since I let the lux light app manage my brightness. It's been cloudy and I'm rarely in really brightly lit areas so I can only guess my brightness has only been around 50% or less.

I disabled and uninstalled any apps I don't need and you can see from my screen shots I didn't use any apps that consume lots of power (ie. no games). I also stayed connected to WiFi which is more battery efficient than using 3G/4G wireless data. Widgets can also eat a lot of power, I have 3 home screens and 5 widgets (Google keep, dashclock, calendar, Google play music, and BBC news).

Aside from that, I'm running stock unrooted phone with nova launcher. I haven't noticed any significant changes in power usage from stock to nova launcher though. I also have Qualcomm BatteryGuru app installed which supposedly helps manage your power usage but I don't really know how it works. It just tells me it's helping me save power.

While under heavy use, I have burned through my battery in 18 hours with 4.5 hours of screen-on time at a constant 70% brightness. Again no surprises there either.
[G2 General] Sean473:
I'm a heavy user so that makes quite a bit of sense...Fair enough...

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What are you doing to get so much screen time? Its almost absurd... 9 hours wtf...
[G2 General] :
Omnirom gave me good batterylife, like stock
[G2 General] rfvreynoso:
I'm using my lg g2 and try to post screenshots of my results but not showing up.

Pic .1
[G2 General] MajorSuccess:
Depending on my usage, I usually look at about two days worth. I'm not a heavy user, but by the end of the two days, I still look at about 5 hours on screen with plenty of standby. But my usage is how I use my phone, and it's nice to know I won't have to worry about battery every single day.
[G2 General] rfvreynoso:
How's my battery life? All youtube was at 720p res and at manual 90% brightness.
[G2 General] kidrobot52:
Ok so what is wakelock and why is it so power hungry. Still have completed a 10% charge so ill upload those in a couple hrs.

Sent from Odin's beard
[G2 General] garyd9:
A wakelock is a way for android to "lock" your device awake. For example, so it can stay awake and play music, or stay awake waiting for a response from a mail server.

Take care

Gary