yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G2 General] kidrobot52:
Thanks gary(pressed the button but im old school so still have some manners. Lol

So that's basically because i was listening to music. Ok so that solved that one. Thanks.

Sent from Odin's beard
[G2 General] randomguy321:
Interesting thread, I'll upload my pics when I hit 10% :)

2 questions though, my biggest battery consumers are "Android system" and "Android kernel" why would this be and is it normal?

So far I've had 36 hours of usage out of my phone and I'm on 30% at the moment.
[G2 General] zevim2005:
It means you have wakelocks,you need to find which app is causing this!
[G2 General] randomguy321:
How would I go about doing that?

Thanks for the response!
[G2 General] zevim2005:
Download betterbatterystats and see which app is causing!

Hit thanks if i helped you!
[G2 General] greyhd:
I am getting the same battery life and here is the top three wakelocks from the BBS, not sure what apps these are related to:

Kernel Wakelock List:

bam_dmux_wakelock

radio-interface

PowerManagerService

Partial Wakelocks List:

BlockbeforeSleep

AudioOut_2

Activity Launcher

I am not sure what apps these are relatedto, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
[G2 General] Csutakos:
Wakelock is caused by the 4 hours of music
[G2 General] amonrei:
The trick to get massive screen time is to actually use your device the whole time lol. My record was 7 hours+ so I'm not surprised to see people get 9-10 hours. But realistically, with the device sleeping occasionally through out the day, 5-6 hours is good enough.
[G2 General] greyhd:
Yea I get 5-6 hours screen time and happy about it.
[G2 General] wizzcap:
Been having piss poor battery life the last couple days. Screen time is only from chrome and facebook. Any thoughts? Before I would be at around 70-80% at the same time of day with similar usage. Could it be *backup* which is causing what seems like a massive amount awake time?

Edit: this is a VS980 stock rom no ota
[G2 General] greyhd:
Seems chrome is using up the most. Have you tried another browser?
[G2 General] wizzcap:
Hmmm I can try dolphin. It puzzles me why it changed all the sudden though.
[G2 General] fiaskow:
What is the longest time anyone could go between recharges? And what was your usage/settings like for this time period? I've heard from someone about 4 days. I'm not sure its possible. Although, I know that if you disable the radios and remove your sim card, the phone can stay on for more than a week. Just goes to show how much energy the radios (and the screen) uses.
[G2 General] greyhd:
Just try it and see what happens. It changes for me as well and what I have noticed is a reboot always seems to fix it.
[G2 General] Kreuger:
My phone was just under 58 hrs when it died last weekend but I forgot to screenshot GSAM before it did (I wasnt home anyway). That was moderate to light usage.
[G2 General] Rashad83:
Well it really depends on what apps your using, if you play music, video or games alot then the battery time will drop really fast. So it's really different for everyone but the longest time i achieved with light usage basically 1h to 2h internet and chatting, without music,video, and games. I got over 70+ hours. But my average is 1.5 to 2 days.
[G2 General] wizzcap:
Last post I had really bad battery life. Happy to report it is back to normal! I must have not restarted the phone for a week or so and things went wonky with the system.
[G2 General] htcm7:
Well, let the attachment speaks. I set to airplane mode between 9pm and 7am.
[G2 General] zathus:
Brightness is at 30 but it always says dark..

Anyways. Last screenshot is the native battery app but shows the insane standby time i had last night.
[G2 General] Sean473:
I've basically got 4 hours screen time at 60% screen brightness. I've disabled LG apps and tried everything but god knows where I'm getting so much draining.. My wakelocks are basically due to phone usage etc.. I'm getting massive Android System drain in the main OS battery stats... its like 31% while Android OS is using 15% (causing 8 hrs of wakelocks supposedly which makes no sense when comparing it to the screenshot below..)... My screen barely uses 20% and this shouldn't be happening.. I really don't know what to do to improve battery life...
[G2 General] OldOldDev:
Brightness kept to a mimimum for most of the time. Had a lazy day today so spent the time checking out and downloading themes, playing games, reading the news etc. Spent wayyyyyyyy too much time on my phone
[G2 General] SKyRocKeting727:
You guys get outrageous screen times! I barely get over 5 hours if I'm lucky...

Sent from my G2
[G2 General] TEXASMADE1978:
I agree ;) I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary that I can think of. I adjust my screen brightness as needed, try not to run any apps that are known battery suckers. My usage on this particular batt cycle I did a lot of reading on XDA, web browsing, Twitter, Flipboard, downloaded some apps, and a few posts on FB. I always keep Google location access and GPS disabled unless needed and I sync all my accounts manually. I usually get a solid 6-6.5 hours when I listen to music and do some light gaming in addition to everything else I listed. I wish I had some secret recipe for the screen on time cause I would definitely share.:thumbup:
[G2 General] realeze:
Screen brightness at minimum and very little idle time results in great on screen times.

Over 8 hours of screen time in under 10 hours of total use? My computer at work doesn't see that kind of on screen use... ;)
[G2 General] khaytsus:
He might have been at work... It IS Christmas time ;)
[G2 General] Steamer86:
I've hit 7.5 with good configured lux -20% base auto settings and medium usage. I'm pretty sure I can get 10 hours medium use OST if I get a -40 configured correctly ado it doesn't stay to dark when I go out. With good config, this battery is beastly.
[G2 General] imkr1:
Where attached pics?
[G2 General] bervin:
This is my first time using a phone with a non-removable battery, 3 months on i feel like the battery has degraded in ability to hold as much of a charge. Do you guys feel the same? it may be placebo:eek:
[G2 General] zathus:
Placebo or defective phone. No way in 3 months should you see signs of degrading. Mine is the same or even slightly better then when I first got it.
[G2 General] SomethingWild88:
So what do you guys think? What can I do to improve battery life?
[G2 General] zevim2005:
find wich app isnt alowing your phone to deep sleep!
[G2 General] SomethingWild88:
How would I find that out?
[G2 General] hudarsono:
mine also still good, but yet to see as I just using it for 1 month. :)
[G2 General] khaytsus:
2 days, 11 hours to 10% on my ATT G2 on AOKP 4.3. Pretty typical usage for me. No phone calls, not much screen on time, mostly emails weather etc.. I play games on my tablet. I historically lost most of my battery in my pocket, so I'm stoked about the G2 battery life.
[G2 General] imkr1:
Brightness mostly at 30%...
[G2 General] lkess:
What were you doing with it? I can barely play 2 hours of games - if this is unrealistic ok, I just want to know if like 4 hours of gaming is possible not to tank the battery
[G2 General] zathus:
It depends on the game of course but I can get 3 hours max out of asphalt 8. Candy crush is a real battery killer.
[G2 General] lkess:
I can not get that amount of time with any game, puzzle and dragons, swordigo, ridiculous fishing. all of them wreck the battery
[G2 General] SmiLey497:
With auto brightness on.
[G2 General] TEXASMADE1978:
I'm not exactly sure who you are asking attached pictures from, but I have been receiving ridiculously great battery life and have posted screenshots, post #198,199 and 223. But I will post them again just in case. Next time it would be more helpful if you quoted the person that you wanted to attach pic. These pics show that my battery time actually increased from 6 hrs:14 mins ScreenOnTime and 16 hrs powered on 11/21 to 8 hrs:40 mins ScreenOnTime and 19 hrs 53 mins powered on. Sure I could have gotten my phone to last another 10-15 hours by not using it. Phones are made to be used, and with all the bells and whistles this phone has, the battery time is spectacular. Some of the people having problem are the ones who dont have the slightest idea about Googles location access, GPS running even when you do not need it , among many other things. End Rant.. Thanks
[G2 General] clapper66:
I just switched from a s4 to the lg g2 and I was amazed with the battery life. The s4 has a 2600 mAh battery and the best screen on time I could get is 3 and a half hours. Then i got the G2 witch has faster hardware and a 3000 mAh battery and expected similar battery life, but the g2 blows the s4 out of the water. I was amazed when I got just under 6 hours of screen on time. This phones battery life is amazing. :D:D
[G2 General] vPro97:
Those of you with very low android system battery usage- do you have knock on disabled?
[G2 General] Sean473:
Yes knock on is off in such case!
[G2 General] vPro97:
I am now charging my phone to 100% and I turned "Knock-on" off. The best I've got was 30 hrs of standby and 4hrs of screen on time (with 30 % battery left). I will report back how battery goes and if i will adapt to using the power button to turn it on.
[G2 General] j0ff:
So just for a laugh I thought I'd see what the max screen-on time I could get was. It's stock rooted but that's about it. I put it in airplane mode but then turned wifi on (so no cellular data but still got wifi). I turned the brightness down to 0 without auto and stopped the screen from ever turning off. Then I basically left it for as long as I could (I barely used it)

This was basically just a benchmarking exercise as I just wanted to see how long it would last (this is not how I normally use my phone!)

I'm quite surprised with 27 hours screen on time..!

Just to note that I was still getting all my notifications (eBay, email ingress etc) so the phone wasn't doing completely nothing
[G2 General] vPro97:
This proves the efficiency of GRAM
[G2 General] edpo1976:
Hi, guys?.

I`d like to ask if anyone has noticed a big battery drain with Quick Windows functionality activated.

I'm using official LG case for the very first time, and I've lost 7% of battery this past night (normally, I only spend 1% in my sleep time). Is it possible that some kind of sensor is preventing phone to go to deep sleep?.

i'd like to know too if Wifi Optimization saves a lot of battery, I'm having delay in whatsapp notification while deep sleep, and I wonder if that function could be the culprit.

Thanks in advance.
[G2 General] alexcreto:
I came from a S3, also amazed at the battery time! I was afraid the ips screen would destroy my battery before the end of the day
[G2 General] Schmiesus:
This is about my average it seems.
[G2 General] stickshift88:
I'm not sure if there is something up with the battery in my phone but I'm not getting any sort of screen on/standby times that a lot of people are posting. I'm not sure if it a a gsm vs cdma issue since I'm on Sprint?

This is screen shots and BBS from last nigh after charging to 100 and letting it sit overnight. From what I can tell I'm getting nailed by NLP deadlocks but I'm not sure what else I can do to get better life out of my g? Any thoughts.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hf0bfytn6v7j2z3/BetterBatteryStats-2014-01-13_105113201.txt
[G2 General] khaytsus:
So you normally stream 2G of data, every day? Seems like fairly extreme usage to me.
[G2 General] Schmiesus:
On an weekend where I have pushed my kids to stay awake through their naps and I wanna make an attempt at getting some food I. Yes. I'll post again. Today since this is a work day and its completely different usage style.
[G2 General] amonrei:
Well no gaming for me obviously. Just the usual social & browsing stuffs.
[G2 General] lkess:
ahhhhh, ok. That makes more sense, which apps are you using?
[G2 General] amirhad:
Please help
[G2 General] amonrei:
Just the usual Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. I do have Greenify to make sure it sleeps well though.
[G2 General] lkess:
I'm not rooted so I haven't tried that yet, but now I know rooting is the way to go! Thanks man
[G2 General] Steamer86:
Today's screen life.
[G2 General] vPro97:
Either stop posting these screenies or tell us your secret :p

Anyway, It's not recommended to drain your battery that much :/
[G2 General] Steamer86:
The battery/charge/discharge has enough logic to shut down before power level becomes dangerous. Same set top end leaving it on charge. Doesn't really matter unless your cycling it through excessive heat. Charging and discharge logic are quite smart in today's phones w/ LiPo batteries. Doesn't matter and really only overheating constantly would make a noticeable cycle life drop in 24 months with this superb quality battery build. Anyway, just keep a bloat free clean phone. Most Google full sync, rest manual. NOW widget on home screen, location reporting off. Wi-Fi and GPS always on. Screen was always dim on around -5% via Lux 90% of the time, as I was home. GRAM had a lot to do with it also a most was taptalk, forum, and browser. Just around 20 min video/Facebook. I probably could of squeezed out to 10, but I'm not sacrificing usability, or setting sync / ping schedules. With my old JD setup, I may have been able to push 11 SoT. Not going to sacrifice though with this phones battery strength. Still unreal to me.

Sidenote: I use flashed stock browser.
[G2 General] gmickel:
What is up with my Battery D:

I don't really understand why my phone radio is using such a freakishly large amount of my battery... Any help/suggestions would be appreciated!

Well it appears since I am a noob on this forum that I can't post the picture... Well, here is a link to the photo imgurDOTcom/HROUqLN
[G2 General] greyhd:
What browser is everyone using?
[G2 General] mab71:
Is this ok?
[G2 General] Kermit33:
No need to delete the FB application, just sign out when you finish with it, it will save a lot of battery.
[G2 General] Steamer86:
I just greenify / kill services through task manager. Never sign out, never an issue on drain.
[G2 General] xxBrun0xx:
If you really want to take a scientific approach to battery life, I would think you would need a baseline. To get a baseline, you would need a bunch of people to submit their daily battery life (hours screen on, standby time, and remaining %). After a while, you could develop a baseline. Then, you could look at outliers and determine the causes of their either much better or much worse battery life.

Just my .02. I love the idea of making this more systematic. Maybe someone could make an app to get this data and send these stats to a database whenever the phone was plugged in. Hmm...
[G2 General] greyhd:
What are other browsers to use besides chrome?
[G2 General] Rashad83:
I think that was the original purpose of this thread, thats why we are using gsam app to report back although it has its draws. But i haven't heard from NOAM23 for a long time now.

---------- Post added at 07:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:07 AM ----------

I like the idea of establishing the baseline for the benchmark, maybe a follow-up thread to this one should be created. We need to do the testing with fixed parameters to be accurate, the following is some suggestions:

A- First test (No gaming test, No Browsing, No app use):

1. Fully charge the phone with it being turned off, then turn on.

2.Turn on everything in device( gps,wifi,data).

3. Discharge the device until 10% without use, report back with gsam charts.

B- Second test (browsing test only):

1. Fully charge the phone with it being turned off, then turn on.

2.Turn on everything in device( gps,wifi,data).

3. Discharge the device (only browsing) until 10% without use, report back with gsam charts.

... we can suggest further tests in the future for different type of use.
[G2 General] Funkym0nkey:
This is ridiculous battery life. Never seen this from my previous phones. Not even Note 3.

This is the battery life after my usual work day. My Nexus 5 would be almost dead by now.

On PA beta 3.

2 emails, falcon pro, Facebook, whatsapp, Google+ including auto photo backup all syncing in background. All syncs are on.

Not even at 50% yet. Very impressive.

Brightness on auto.
[G2 General] kapybarus:
Do you have messenger? Do you greenified anything?
[G2 General] Funkym0nkey:
If you mean Facebook messenger then no. I do not use Facebook messenger. I am Hangouts and whatsapp guy. Both are always running. I don't use any power management apps. No greenify. This is just plain PA beta 3 install. Not a single sync disabled.

My nexus 5 with similar use with exact same settings and apps would give about 3.5 - 4 hours of screen time before or would die on me. Same titanium backup restore on G2. Really impressed so far.
[G2 General] mademan420:
Light to moderate usage all on LTE with no WiFi at all and BT on the entire time. Some music streaming with screen off. Used gmaps with GPS to nav about an hr trip as well. All in all, I think this was pretty good.:good:
[G2 General] SKyRocKeting727:
Over 3000 wakelocks...outrageous. I don't know what's causing this. Can someone venture a guess on what's causing this? I don't know what *backup* is.

Sent from my JEE TWO
[G2 General] Steamer86:
Google sync settings and data backup. About to force the Play services 4.1 update from 1-9-14 and turn locating reporting back on check how much they fixed the location drain.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...player-new-google-drive-api-preview-and-more/
[G2 General] Steamer86:
Extreme improvement of wakelock and battery life since 4.1 Play services update with reporting, now, and now widget on home screen.
[G2 General] ksc6000:
How has everyone's battery been after updating to kit kat? Any differences noted?
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
I have a quick question.

After mobile indicates that battery is full and i should unplug the charger, there is still charging sign visible on battery indicator.

But if i don't unplug, this sign disappears after about 40 minutes. And mobile stays on 100% longer before it starts to drop.

My battery need calibration?
[G2 General] ksc6000:
I think it's saturation charge. This seems to happen to everyone's G2. You don't want to get saturation charge normally. Take it off as soon as it hits 100%. On a day when you know you'll need the absolute most battery possible, you can let saturation charge happen (let it charge overnight).
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Little weird. Didn't notice anything like it on my previous smartphones.

May be LG has deliberately set it to show 100% while it is actually at 90% or something? Trying to prolong battery's life?

It doesn't need to be overnight though. It takes 40 minutes from showing 100% to the point where it actually stops charging.
[G2 General] accordex:
My battery is horrible on kk, on 4.2 I'd be at 92-95 at this time,. I'm at 68...

Also, its saying I'm at 18hrs even tho. I unplugged this morning 4 hrs ago.

I 've noticed this before, where it's not resetting the stats, or maybe it's resetting them when the charge gets to 100, but is still plugged in.

Anyone else?
[G2 General] ksc6000:
Have you noticed the same thing for your screen on time? Has that also gone down?
[G2 General] accordex:
Yes, way down, it drains like my s3 did.

I hate this, the battery life on this phone was ridiculous on 4.2...I always got home with 70-80 percent left after work. Now it's like my s3, I'm at 34% with light use today.

---------- Post added at 03:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:47 PM ----------

Btw I factory reset after updating
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
You have official kitkat update installed?

Post your GSam stats. That should tell what is eating the battery.
[G2 General] ephumuris:
I get 8 hours screen on time with being off the charger for around 17 hours... I guess i'm a heavy user? But my point is battery is great on the Spanish Vodafone KitKat. I don't think it is worse than on JB.
[G2 General] Billy Madison:
I think the reason of bad battery is poor modem implementation in Kitkat. The cell standby consumes roughly 20% of battery, which was never seen on previous Androids. And then again, seems like NlpWakeLock & NlpCollectorWakeLock never stop from waiking Kitkat up, for location. Read this
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Well here are some fresh stats :)
[G2 General] ksc6000:
That looks great, what carrier and version of android are you on? Stock Rom?
[G2 General] accordex:
Is this normal?
[G2 General] ksc6000:
Unfortunately it seems to be. I'm seeing the same thing.
[G2 General] ch0c0lateb0yctg:
my battery stat keep resetting after updating to 4.4.2...any fix?
[G2 General] JohnC1789:
Seen some intense drain today with little usage. I have no real idea what is causing this. Any ideas?

Phones been on for 6 hours 30 mind with screen time of about an hour. I tried rebooting hence the different times in gsam. Rebooting hasn't helped nor did a quick splurge on charge. Letting it drain completely seems like the best thing to do now.
[G2 General] ksc6000:
I think something is going on with the AT&T lg g2 regardless of android version. I'm stock rooted 4.2.2 and my battery has been draining really bad for the past week. All of a sudden. Before this week it was excellent. No changes. I think it has to do with the network. If I look at gsam my stats are fine. Awake time is less than 12 minutes over 9 hours. But battery has dropped like a rock. If I look at the history chart, my signal suddenly gets worse, even though the phone has been sitting the exact same spot the entire day pretty much.
[G2 General] ksc6000:
And now it's behaving back to normal. I don't get it.
[G2 General] Jose_Paramore:
My last cycle stats. I don't know how do people manage to get about 7-8 hours of screen on...

Enviado desde mi LG-D802 mediante Tapatalk
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
No carrier. Have international version.

Using 4.2.2 stock rom.
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
This is low for this phone. Are you playing high end games all the time???

Share your app sucker shot as well.
[G2 General] Mattecko99:
How do you even end up getting 5? I'm going to post mine soon.
[G2 General] shriom_manerker:
no gsam monitor but

this is the max i ever got !
[G2 General] Mattecko99:
Here's my stats. Still don't get how anyone gets over four hours.
[G2 General] foxracer89:
I have similar results as You. did you notice that most of the results with Better battery performance in app sucker are with Home app being the highest battery drainer. I wonder how is it possible, because it's pretty simple launcher.

I do get around 4 hours of screen but not much more.
[G2 General] gull_s_777:
Disable the "Wi-Fi & mobile network location" option in Location access and restart the phone. This will bring Google Services battery usage to less than 1%. :)

And if you use stock weather widget then you must know that if you have instructed it to use your current location, then it will be checking your location every 3h interval when updating info. So if you do not move around a lot then you can manually enter your city there so that it won't be doing location check every 3h thus saving you more battery.
[G2 General] Dkrizzle:
7 hours of screen time? Holy ****. What settings do you use?
[G2 General] Rajaasim1980:
I get more than 7 ..between 7.30 to 8.00 hour ..display always consume 50 percent or more because i am heavy user..see here this i got now after 51 percent of battery

Using stock cloudy 1.3 kit kat 4.4.2 with display between 50 to 60 percent and WiFi always on..normally surf web or apps and use whatsapp most of the time
[G2 General] revan17:
I've started having abysmal battery life. I've flashed kk kdz and started from scratch yesterday. Greenify all apps I can think of, frozen all bloat. Google now is not running, location services off, Google backup turned off, I barely used the phone. I've had great battery life on kk before, it's abysmal the last week. No apparent wakelocks, no rogue apps. I'm literally stumped as to what is happening. ?