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[G3 General] silverblack:
Ive found battery life horrendous after the lollipop update even after reset.

Cant wait for new phones to arrive march-may to change it.
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
I've done 2 resets and now fone last 22 to 25 hours by time it gets to 15 % before used to last only 17 hours they shud update it make it more stable

get lag 2 opening apps messages about 2 second delay and some times I press the power button on back to look at time and it comes on and goes straight back off not enough time 2 check time
[G3 General] tersagun:
As a new Android user, I would like to get your feedback on this battery usage. Is this decent?

ChupaChups ROM - Stock kernel

8% after 22 hours.

2:30 screen time

3G - Sync enabled all the time. 6 active widgets which are pulling data every 15 minutes

No phone/SMS usage, only some web browsing and tweaking settings like Nova, e-mail etc.

22 hours is a long time indeed but 2,5 hours on screen time isn't much but it almost drained the whole battery. Is this common?
[G3 General] JohnRM:
Yeah, what is it with this switch phone on to get the time and it immediately switches off ? This happens on both KitKat and lollipop, and quite frequently.
[G3 General] Saratoga79:
Not bad at all but ahould be better. Is the first battery cycle on Chupa Chups? Android Kit Kat or Lolly Pop? If this stats are for the fist battery cycle after flashing a Rom, post your stats a week later to compare. When you flash a new Rom/Kernel it needs a time to settle.
[G3 General] tersagun:
Thanks for the reply.

And it's been over a week with this ROM. It's 5.0.0 Lollipop ROM (20e).

It seems like screen isn't the only behemoth for battery usage. Even with minor screen usage, active background stuff may drain the battery relatively quick. Not sure why everyone uses screen-on-time to judge the battery performance.
[G3 General] Saratoga79:
You may check your wakelocks with Better Battery Stats or Gsam battery monitor.
[G3 General] stoarn:
Unfortunately , the battery is not the best in G3 as it was in G2.

I am curious if someone know if it's possible to buy a stronger battery
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
Not enough curious to check the accessories section...
[G3 General] KaitoChini:
My Battery Life is now pretty bad since I use 5.0L (V20B) on my LG G3 from HK. If I use my phone for a short time like 5 minutes, my battery screen goes down from 90% to 88%.

I don't know why... and I use the official LG updates.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
we should buy mugen battery
[G3 General] KaitoChini:
Maybe, but with Mugen Battery looks the phone not really pretty.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
not so ugly but thick ! and but u have about 10 hrs screen on ! its dream :angel: im thinking to buy it
[G3 General] cupcup:
My G3 only lasts 10 hrs if I browser news or chat whole day. But if I leave it there, I think it can last for 2 days~
[G3 General] tersagun:
Depends on what you mean with "whole day".

you cannot surf internet for 5 hours, for instance. There are only a few phones which can endure 5 hours of surfing/chatting and G3 is definetely not one of them :)

I'm doing some tests on several ROM's. Will let you know my findings.
[G3 General] horde74:
@Up I can surf internet for more than 5h, 6h and more so G3 is one od them :)

Wysłane z mojego LG-D855 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[G3 General] AcidKiller:
My battery lasts for dayz....

longest was 187 hrs with 11 hrs on screen ...

Then again, its a zerolemon :P
[G3 General] jrtancinco:
Hi,

At first, I thought my stock battery was crap, especially coming from an LG Optimus G Pro which has great battery life. With my G3, I think I was charging my phone every 5 hours. But that was with very heavy usage coz I was still very excited with the phone and I was doing a lot of stuff with it (downloading software, playing games, online browsing, facebooking, benchmarking, etc.). I couldn't put the phone down, but that was a month ago.

Nowadays, my usage became moderate, which is my normal day-by-day phone activity. Maybe an hour or 2 of social media & flipboard, maybe 30mins to an hour of gaming (and I play 3D games too like Chaos Rings 2, Stranger's Wrath, Castle of Illusion, Shadow Sun, etc.), checking my MS Exchange email from time to time, 3-4 hours miracasting movies to my TV, a few calls & text messages, etc. I also never disable my mobile data and don't use power saving. I also don't turn on locations unless needed. With such usage, I only needed to leave my phone on the charger once daily (while I'm sleeping).

So I guess what I'm saying is unless I spend a lot of SOT and not Torrenting, I get really good battery life. I notice a bit of improvement on 20F official rom too.

Hope this helps.
[G3 General] Turb0wned:
So are the people having battery issues only those on 5.0? Hows the battery life on Kit Kat? I'm getting a G3 on Saturday.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
on kk battery was better , i had about 4:30 sot but in lolipop with same settings and usage my sot is about 3:30 :(
[G3 General] YodatheGIANT:
I just got the phone, and the battery life is fantastic compared to what I had. Streaming video lasts a good 4 or 5 hours, and if I leave it off the majority of the day it loses very little battery life.
[G3 General] robduk:
If I'm sitting at home on wifi watching videos and browsing I can get 5-6 hours sot, if I'm out and about it drops drastically to about 3-4 hours.
[G3 General] magikmichael:
Getting horrible battery life sunddenly today. 30 sot with 75% battery left. Found that google play services is the top battery drainer.

Update.... All seems fine agaom 2.5 h screentime with 50% battery left. All day on wifi... Browsing, whatsapp, facebook, flasing some mods.
[G3 General] strenkp:
Android 5.0 ... project volta ... big words

in reality, same phone, same apps, same user and kitkat much better battery life then 5.0 :(
[G3 General] SpectralMeat:
That can happen when your carrier doesn't have a strong radio signal and the phone is constantly trying to find the best signal source.

I know people that had excellent battery life and then they've switched carrier with the same phone and their battery life dropped drastically.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
i return to kk bcz i dont like lollipop battery life..
[G3 General] LoneWolf09:
Just got my phone a few days ago and im extremely happy with the battery life because as compared to my previous iPhone (lol) which would not even last 2-3 hrs of YouTubing,messaging etc etc.. iPhone totally sucks in front of this beast :D
[G3 General] strenkp:
guys old Android 5.0 updates sucked hard for battery (my cry few posts ago)

but latest firmware 20H OMG :)

3h SOC and 40% ... battery life is extremely improved for me. thank you LG for the update
[G3 General] Vahooli:
but 20H is not good as KK , i had 3:30 SOT in 20H and now i back to 10N and have 4:30 SOT with same usage
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
Here here :)
[G3 General] cliuc:
On Lollipop V20c-SEA-XX, the battery life is now => WOW

Those guys at PhoneArena should really put the updated G3 through another battery life test, curious to know exactly how much is the improvement :)
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
Love this battery life on 20h
[G3 General] hollisnh:
wow. stock rom or custom rom?

any custom kernal?
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
Absolutely stock nothing changed on 20f it only lasted 17 to 20 odd hours it was ridiculous
[G3 General] Gravediggaz:
My battery life is still terrible even with the new update
[G3 General] laiq:
have you tried to do factory reset ?
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
I did a factory reset after update maybe it's that I always do now
[G3 General] Vahooli:
guys use 10N to understand whats excellent battery life !
[G3 General] haris182:
just returned to stock kitkat by flashing kdz

on v10o now

so far so good :D
[G3 General] Sipi1302:
My battery, ANHD 9.3 20H
[G3 General] Burczyk:
Good day :D

V20h
[G3 General] tisho7:
I got good battery with 20h

This is my best result. [emoji2]
[G3 General] jabo052:
I'm currently at 45 hours and 20 minutes with 20% remaining. Only just under 3 hours of screen ON time, though.

Under MODERATE use, I've had fairly significant drop off to 12-14 hours and, under heavy use, I've lost 50% in just 3 hours. Great battery life if I don't use the phone. Meh to terrible if I use it normally to heavily. If the phone gets hot, which is easy to do, battery life really plummets.

Was super happy with battery life on this phone but it's really fallen off after only 3 months of ownership. Combination of heat issues(LG) and battery tech that still sucks(batt manuf).
[G3 General] dornz:
Hi i am on the same as you and ya WOW all day i get with plenty of use games/reading/etc great phone :)
[G3 General] Rexz0r99:
I have problems with my battery

I have recently putted CloudyG3 on my phone, but still i cant much more than 12 hours of battery out of my G3..

I have tried googling everything in here, but just can't find the answer. I have uploaded my BetterBatteryStats here.

I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance.
[G3 General] mathsmart:
Before lollipop only browsing could get my phone very hot ..now its much better and after one day light use still at 90% its much better than kitkat !

send from "the beast" lg g3
[G3 General] pesho00:
I am coming from Soni XZ1 Compact and LG G3 seems a lot worst on batery (Only ;) ), it's OK as long You are not fidlyng wid it. Instalations, restarts are eating batery a lot, games also. But it can last a day even under stress and if You only talk it can last two ;)
[G3 General] assafcha:
How you got this ?

I also use ANHD and my battery flies!

Thanks.
[G3 General] myasstse:
Flash back from 20b to 10n for a week average battery life stock rom + root (greenify) alot of snapchat Facebook WhatsApp and Instagram and around 10 YouTube clips
[G3 General] Sipi1302:
Just using the stock kernel on default settings and everything as is in the rom.
[G3 General] Kallen:
My T-Mobile does just fine

I'm still on my first week with my G3, but I'm quite pleased with battery.

Last night, I went to bed at 88%. I left on Data, Wifi, and bluetooth. Woke up to 82%. Not bad, IMO.
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
Hi guys

I've seen that it could be a good thing to do a factory reset on my G3 so i did it

I'm on Lollipop v20h and i had (and i have ..) a bad battery life

I never had a good battery life with this phone, in my memory, I never exceed 4h, my battery life is usually near of 2-3h max but I don't play with my phone, i pay my attention on the brightness and i try to not use 4g everytime and GPS is disabled

Could you explain how is it possible to have such different battery life between all of our G3 ?

I can't give you screen cause i'm new but for some stats:

2h42 screen on - 4% left

The screen used 39%, Android 8%, Facebook 8%, Android (again ?) 7%, Messenger 5% etc ...
[G3 General] ishanbhatnagr96:
Messenger seems to drain battery a lot. Delete it for a day or two and test your battery. I think that'll help.
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
Thanks, i've uninstalled Messenger and i'll try

I hope it's not this app because i often use it
[G3 General] Vahooli:
use 10N rom
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
I don't want to change my firmware, sorry
[G3 General] MehruNisa:
Do you have bad network coverage?

Battery drain sometime is due to fluctuations in 2g 3g 4g
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
I'm in a big city (Toulouse in France, 4th city of the country) but i don't always have a good network .. The "line" of network in the notification bar is always between 1 or 3 lines, i never have 5 lines (i don't know you name it in english, sorry)

EDIT: I blocked my phone on 2g/3g only and i'll see after a few days

Btw, tonight i went to bed with 45%, i woke up with 48% ... without plane mode haha
[G3 General] ishanbhatnagr96:
Did deleting messenger help you?
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
I don't know for the moment, I woke up with 49% at 8h30

Actually I have 38%, I unplugged the phone since 11h30 and 2h04 screen on

EDIT: well .. i had to plug my phone at 12h00

I plugged it now because i had 7%

Messenger was not the problem
[G3 General] tsimitsangaz:
what rom is ANHD?
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
Well, today i'll try something new, i switch on 2G ONLY and i have a really good network reception (5/5), i'll try a complete day like that to see if it's the network (because normally in 4G it's more like 1/5 or 2/5)
[G3 General] MonstaSaleens:
bad battery life

I am fairly new to this device. Havnt had it for a week yet but I am getting really bad battery life. I can only get about 3 hours and 30 min sot. I am rooted and I'm running Jasmine Rom vs985. I've tried switing to 5.0 aosp Roms but those seem to have even worse battery. I'm thinking about updating the baseband to fix the problem but dont know how to. If anyone can help me with that I'd appreciate it. And how do I switch to 3g on stock Rom? Any other ideas on to fix my battery? It tells me that screen is the most thing eating up battery and I'm using 0% brightness. And android os is the second saying awake time is 1 hr. I'm on 91% with only 46 min screen on time. Please help.
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
So, after a day in 2G network, it's not better, it's the same

Actually 17h16, phone unplugged at 7h50 (less than 10h on battery)

I have 20%, luminosity was at 100% during 15 min (screen on, i was outdoor), and the rest of the time, im between 0 and 60% luminosity

No game, no calls, just sms (around 100 on Textra), wifi sometimes

Consumption:

54% screen (2h30 screen on)

Android 10%

Android again 9%

Phone 4%

ActionManagerService 3%

CHrome 2%

com.android.systemui 2%

Snapchat 2%

swiftkey 2%

...
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
Do u have Facebook installed I had it and signed in all the time but since my last reset I've got it installed and not signed in unless I use it my fone lasts from 25 to 30+ hours now before it was 17 to 20 hours
[G3 General] MisterIchiban:
Okay i'll try this ! I agree with you, facebook use a lot of battery (when i had a Galaxy S and One X, he used a lot of battery but i forget to try on my G3)

I actually have 5%, i will do a complete cycle and i will see after a few days
[G3 General] djdeepblue:
Should I try 10N for battery life? I'm using 20H and the battery flies.

I only get about 3h30 SOT...
[G3 General] Vahooli:
yeah , i was on 20h and 3:30 sot and now in 10N i have 4:30SOT
[G3 General] mab71:
How's this? Never seen this before on a g3. Reminds me of my old g2
[G3 General] Kallen:
How did you accomplish THAT?
[G3 General] mab71:
Using cloudy g3 1.2...with some tweaks and xposed... My phone sleeps like a baby
[G3 General] Kallen:
Nice. So, that chart was all during sleep mode? No active usage?
[G3 General] mab71:
Yes.. During the day, the battery doesn't go down as fast as other roms I've tried.
[G3 General] lolatyou1:
my battery has gone to hell with stock rooted lollipop, its terrible..

i get maximum 2 hours of SOT ... If I leave the phone on standby, it can last.

i barely have any apps and greenify running ones, screen is the biggest sucker. Phone is a few weeks old, too late to return..

What should I do? (please no roms, kernels and i don't want to spend extra on extended batteries)
[G3 General] mab71:
Have you tried doing a factory reset? Many have reported that it helps
[G3 General] wugooey:
what is ANHD?

what is ANHD? thanks. I am trying to improve my battery life. My firmware is currently D85220C. I get 3.5 hours of screen on time at most.
[G3 General] tsimitsangaz:
I have 20H and I am thinking to flash 10N kitkat I have d855 2gb EUR , is it smoother and will I get better battery life than Lollipop ? What are your opinions guys? Thanks
[G3 General] Vahooli:
yeah , about 1hour more SOT
[G3 General] mihaiand:
Smoother than L?
[G3 General] ganesh81289:
Battery Life

Dear All,

I had massive issue with the battery as I upgraded my phone officially to the android 5.0 - lollipop. My phone used to drain of in less than half a day, and with intensive usage of about 2/3 hours of screen on with 30% brightness set, the phone would die in 5/6 hours at the max.

Then I rooted my phone, went back to 4.4 - Kit kat, and found a massive change in battery life, put a custom rom that was by cynaogen mod , my phone stayed for about 2 full days with 4 hours of screen on time. Had some functionality like the quick circle, and remote, etc though i dont use them daily missing. So went back to official Kitkat version of the Europe region for the LG D855 ( LG G3) 16 GB, 2 GB ram version and the phone is absolutely good now.

If you want some extra piece of battery , just root your phone and use this application battery calibration from your play store, and your phone's battery would get even better.

Thanks
[G3 General] sceryavuz:
3:30-4:00 hours %50 brightness. This is good for 2k res. screen.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
both are smooth , but totally i dont like lollipop for its ugly notification and batterylife .
[G3 General] mihaiand:
Cloudy 1.2 is amazing!!!

Thank you mate, I've tried most L roms, this is faster at oppening ANY app.
[G3 General] Wyrmfang:
Is this normal or draining too fast? Stock 20h, location and NFC disabled.

Also, it drains like 15-20% per night.
[G3 General] Svartsyn333:
I'd say it's a bit too much. Mine doesn't drain more than 5% over night on 5.0.

The moment I was really impressed by the battery life was when I got ~30 min screen on time with 50% brightness without dropping a single percent. All in all I would say 5-6 hours screen on time overall.
[G3 General] Wyrmfang:
That's quite a big difference! Due to the fact that I factory reset my phone after installing Android L, what would you recommend me in order to get more battery life? :confused:
[G3 General] Svartsyn333:
If you've rooted your device I strongly recommend Greenify. I greenified a lot of battery sucking apps, eg Facebook and the Messenger.
[G3 General] Wyrmfang:
I am using the same apps as on my old phone(which had a 2100 mAh battery) and I have a much worse battery life on LG G3. Also, could the charger be the problem?

I'm charging it right now, currently at 55% and the estimated charge time remaining is 1h47 minutes.
[G3 General] lolatyou1:
did a factory reset and let it drain to 2%, then fully charged..

it was going along good, was getting almost 5 hours s.o.t.

now its screwed up again, battery is draining faster than ever, its due to "mediaserver", its consuming more than 50% of battery..

GSAM can't pinpoint, tried wakelock detector but can't find culprit.. I have no pics or music on my phone. greenifed almost everything.

don't want to factory reset each time, anyone run into same issue?
[G3 General] ishanbhatnagr96:
Have a look here, http://geeknizer.com/fix-android-media-server-scanner-sdcard-cpu-battery-drain/
[G3 General] mrzodiac:
Switched from nexus 5 to LG G3 to get better battery life. But battery is horrible on both phones with lollipop.

So my question, switch to stock kitkat or a custom lollipop rom for better battery life ?
[G3 General] Vahooli:
i like stock 10N rom
[G3 General] ganesh81289:
Switch to custom or stock kit Kat and you would have a good battery life. Tried it. Lolipop and lg dont go well.

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This is fine you dont have any issue with your battery.
[G3 General] mab71:
I don't really know how i got this..
[G3 General] mckoffly:
Actually I'm thinking about to switch from my LG G Flex to the LG G3. But when reading about those battery problems I'm not sure anyway :confused: on amazon.de there is a review of one person who said after deleteding the McAffee App there was an big increase in battery life and an other customer confirmed this und changed his really bad review of the G3 to an very good.

Maybe the peoples with really bad battery life could check if deleting this app will also improve their battery life and give here a short feedback?
[G3 General] savedR:
Cross-post from G4 "how's your battery" thread.

Thank you for this thread. This is all I needed to hear.

I have suffered through sub-2-hour screen on time on the G3 for a year now. I have done everything, turning off location, even getting the phone warranty replaced once, getting the Lollipop update, factory resetting yesterday. I have uninstalled apps, left them installed and Greenified. I have done some pretty in-depth testing with Gsam, Better Battery Stats and the stock battery usage chart. I'm rooting my G3 right now just because I am scientifically curious what in the bleeding ****ing hell is eating my battery on this phone I wiped yesterday.

I'm either going to Edge up to a Droid Turbo, like my wife has, since my Droid Maxx never did this, get an S6 Edge, or even just get a dumbphone I can make calls on and charge every 3 days, then get literally a Gpad or Nexus 8 or some smallish Android tablet with LTE.

After preordering the flagship phone last year, with more RAM and better specs than everything on the market, then suffering with charge-twice-a-day battery life for a year, I think smartphones have literally failed me, and I think I'm done.
[G3 General] ishanbhatnagr96:
I usually get about 4 hours of sot each day... Maybe try and take your g3 to a service center?
[G3 General] gavin-phelan:
Always only get 2hrs or less screen on time with screen turned down and location off etc. Don't no what to do
[G3 General] MonstaSaleens:
what rom are you running? kernel? any battery saving apps you're using? is your phone on, as in data and phone calls? did you keep airplane mode on all day? xposed?
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
Most SOT I got on the g3 is 3 hours. That was when I first got it, cycled through the battery a few times. Now I am lucky to get 2. I generally average 14 hours with that, but for the size of the battery and my habits, I should be near 4. I don't know how people get those crazy SOT from factory...
[G3 General] HeXaLox:
You all might be jealous but take a look at this LOL
[G3 General] mab71:
One plus one?
[G3 General] xxsashixx:
I just got my G3 a couple of days ago in hopes to getting better life & because it supports QI charging

I'm having huge battery drain/wakelocks

I'm using greenify & amplify as well as some xposed modules

Using Cloudy LP w/RIN kernel. Interactive -60 undervolted. 300Mhz min 1.9Ghz Max. Row & 2048 read ahead

Everything else is pretty standard..I'm not sure how to fix this.. please see screenshots below. Should I flash to KitKat?
[G3 General] HeXaLox:
Nope lolol its the g3 dude... And it's running 4.4.4 KitKat!!!!!!
[G3 General] mab71:
Lol... Cm11? Care to share the link to it?
[G3 General] ishanbhatnagr96:
You're ****ting me right? 17h sot on G3. Lol
[G3 General] robduk:
Zerolemon?
[G3 General] HeXaLox:
All on the stock 3000mah battery lol I knew no one would believe me but its true!! I was using it all day and it did give me that much battery life... Here's what I did...I flashed the stock 4.4.2 modem for the vs985( since mines Verizon ) and then went to pac-rom's latest nightly and flashed that and ever since I've been having frickin amazing battery life...I literally watched 4 episodes of Green Arrow before it hit 85% after a full charge...clearly lollipop is unoptimized and the Lollipop modems are the battery suckers!

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Here's what I flashed:

https://basketbuild.com/devs/pacman/vs985/KK/nightly

You need gApps as well and I flashed the modem from here:

http://xdaforums.com/verizon-lg-g3/development/rom-stock-root-deodex-t2932683
[G3 General] crixley:
Nope..... I don't buy this at allllllllllll. Unless you severely tweaked it to be min frequency, lowest brightness and displayed only a black screen for the length of time.
[G3 General] HeXaLox:
I didn't tweak anything lol I just don't have a bajillion apps installed and my brightness was at 25% and even if was a black screen its not going to save battery...an IPS display will continue to suck battery regardless of what's on the screen, but now if it was amoled then that's a different story.
[G3 General] joshuadjohnson22:
just seems not possible without a huge battery. 6-8 would be a record but 17 just seems like dream land
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
Which kernel to use to improve the battery?

I am on cloudy 2.2