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[G3 General] ACR_Manny:
Just my battery experience is I take it off the charger at about 8 am every morning and don't put it on the charger till I go to bed at 2 am. That's like 5 sometimes 6 hours screen time. No sync what so ever on. Notifications like fb and weather app check every 2 hours. I never have brightness more than 50% because it's bright enough for me below that. If I remember to I'll get a screen shot soon on my Battery usage.
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
Ok now I saw that screen shot. Yeah that SoT is very low, you are definitely having some wake lock issue. Even with bad reception it isn't this bad to have such high loss. You are having high standby loss.
[G3 General] hooozy:
One particular thing I noticed is that while using Quick Case cover, random photos are being taken and calls are made automatically from the circular opening. Initially I thought that this is because the screen touches skin while in pocket, but today I took out the phone from pocket and kept it on table and noticed that even without touching any body part, icons were touched and photos are being taken. Can the battery drain be related to Quick cover? I will test one day without cover and share the results.
[G3 General] RichardW1992:
A normal day of usage for me involves a lot of snapchat too, forget to mention that. So that engages the camera frequently, and doesn't appear to have drastic negative effects on battery life.

Interestingly today I was in a town centre all day and had a 4G data connection, whereas normally I only have 3G / HSDPA. My battery drained a lot quicker with similar usage to normal, just got home to only just 3.5 hours screen on time. Phone is on charge as I speak. Perhaps this is due to higher power consumption from the 4G modem?
[G3 General] alfablac:
Probably, data usage (on 2g, 3g, 4g scale) and Google now are probably the most battery drainers not only on G3, but every Android.
[G3 General] luisfillipe:
Im brazilian and every night i have to charge my d855 =(, it lasts more or less 12 hours, and here only exists the 10a firmware =(
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
Good to know the camera doesn't tank the battery fast. I did notice this at the shop when I played around with the phone taking snaps. At the time I thought the low battery drain while taking shots was due to the lack of an active cellular connection in the phone as it had no SIM card in it.

4G radio definitely takes up more power than 3G but people are reporting good standby times even on 4G radio, it's only under active usage the battery drains faster on 4G. If that 4G connection was spotty then the drain would be significantly higher.

Photos and calls being made without your permission? That almost sounds like a breach of privacy.

If it's doing that then those right there are your wake locks because the phone is in use without the screen being switched on.

Maybe that feature is buggy which is why it's causing all this.
[G3 General] Mu5ic92:
Just think about the improvement Android L will bring to this phones battery life. Coming from the S4 its pretty stellar as is.
[G3 General] rfarrah:
Had to post this. This is with fairly minimal usage - texing, a few calls, checking email. Using Greenify, but everything is on and syncing normally. Brightness at 89%.
[G3 General] mathsmart:
Even without root greenify really help to deepsleep the phone .. Mine with all bloatware all stock and ART Im able to deepsleep at 95 % wich is really good if you ask me for a stock unrooted rom untouch
[G3 General] alfablac:
Hello luisfillipe. I'm brazilian too... also I got a d855. You have to check your settings and usage.

This phone gives me more than 40h and roughly 5h SoT
[G3 General] cooldoud:
V10j leak, Brightness 50% auto, lte, email/messaging sync (gmail, whatsapp, Google+ etc.). No Facebook, Twitter or other social network.

So far I'm happy :)

Sent from my LG-D855
[G3 General] JasonJoel:
Brightness at 50% auto? Good grief some of you like dim displays. Mine is at 90% auto and I still think it is too dim at times.

I don't understand how you can even use it at 50%...
[G3 General] DevilMayEmo:
im looking for a phone with battery life as good or better than the lg g2. my g2 fell down and is broken.im looking to get a new phone but judging by this thread people dont seem too happy about the battery life. is it a software bug of some sort or is the qhd consuming power ?

anyone who has had/ still has the galaxy s 5 can chime in and elaborate how good the battery is ? i cant seem to make a conclusion.

thank you very much
[G3 General] mathsmart:
The phone will last you 2 days of light use if you know how to make the phone deepsleep properly im at 96 % into cpuspy DALVIK without root and greenify only and it last me like 2 days and like today im off and I did play alot with the phone and at. 18h00 pm its still at 67 % I just use it for browsing and youtube , mabye a bit of gaming but nothing more than 15 mins
[G3 General] rfarrah:
The G2's battery was the absolute BEST I'd ever seen and ever used, and it spoiled me. The G3's battery will not last you as long as the G2's without some active participation on your part. Users who have found and used Greenify or who keep a pretty low setting on their screen (I just couldn't do that to this beautiful screen!) seem to have the best results. Others have said that the ART vs Dalvik setting has made a difference for them. You can skim the thread for more tips.

From my perspective, and I'm a medium usage kind of guy (email syncing and reading, wifi and GPS on all the time, lots of texts, several calls, a bit of surfing - but no games) until I started using Greenify I could count on being back on the charger 12 hours after I started. Some days a little more, some a little less. On heavier days I had trouble making it 9-10 hours. Now, however, using Greenify, I am ALMOST back to the comfort level of my G2. Not quite there, but the additional advantages of a removable SD card (and battery) have made the G3 a better choice for me over keeping my G2.

Hope this helps in some small way. As always, YMMV.
[G3 General] npaladin2000:
Works great for me. Heck, 50% itself is too bright for me. You guys must either have faulty backlights or are trying to look at the screen with a light shining directly on the thing. :)
[G3 General] itsalexaye90:
How can you use it 90%? Too Damn bright.
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
When am outside and it is shining, I use it at 100% brightness...
[G3 General] MaxG338:
My Battery Life

Here's my battery life right now at the end of the day...this was a pretty typical day - light usage the first half of the day (in school) and then when I got home relatively heavy usage. I've had this phone for about a month now, not rooted. Can anyone tell me if this is normal battery life?
[G3 General] jeyd02:
Just try to quote him and grab the link from within the code.
[G3 General] trincisor:
So 4:40 and 5:40 respectively on full brightness and 230 nits

Something doesn't add up.

I'm sticking to my G2 :)
[G3 General] Jiyeon90:
and this is the video playback results

Full review here, but its in korean

http://www.playwares.com/xe/index.php?mid=maingame&document_srl=42190363
[G3 General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Those results are terrible O_o
[G3 General] vapotrini:
Wow, really hoping those results are somehow off... cause if they're real, there's no way I can buy this phone.

The benchmarks have really been all over the place, even with close settings. Puzzling.
[G3 General] nap007:
well guys you see nexus 5 is at the bottom of both tests while acording to many people it is not that bad, or is it?
[G3 General] trincisor:
Well nexus 5 was bad.

?
[G3 General] Zamboney:
All you crazy people posting reviews of the Korean version, just stop. It has a smaller capacity battery...
[G3 General] poczynek:
No. Both 3000mah.
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
This is a thread about G3 not G2...
[G3 General] soraxx:
Could those LG screen tweaks be used con LG G2 to improve its battery life? It would be amazing

Enviado desde mi GT-I8160 mediante Tapatalk
[G3 General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Those tweaks are bul****. They underclock CPU, GPU and then you get micro shutters, WTF
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
Easy, just install Dorimanx's kernel...
[G3 General] Sharpshooterrr:
Lol
[G3 General] alwayslearning:
a lot of talk about battery life, it comes down to how do you use your phone?

If you are a big user with games and video you could drain any phone if you tried hard enough. I have the GS5, G Pro 2 and the G3; I have had the G3 for a couple of days and yes I have the Korean model "L"; it works great on LTE for AT&T. I am more a business user, I do a lot of emails and texting, work on doc's and PDF's, excel and PowerPoint. the battery for the G3 last more than all day for my use, day one after normal use I still had 75% after 8 hours. so just for fun I set the screen to stay on and left it on for 3 hours and the batter dropped 10%.

what is great is this model came with two batteries, so if you are a big user and you want to watch all the episodes of Hunger Games in one day on your phone you will still be able to, just keep the 2nd batter near by.

in my option it is the best phone I have had in a long time for daily use. And I have had a lot of phones from the HTC One, to Note 2 and 3, GS4 and 5. I love my G Pro 2 but can't take it when I play golf (won't fit in the cup holder of the cart) The G3 is a big screen on a small platform, just perfect
[G3 General] hamad138:
I can confirm now that the battery can only reach 4Hours Screen per day for me, then it is over. And if u do more brightness , then its even faster. This battery Result from Korean website is accurate , not like anandtech whoo posts so false battery results

My G2 always done 6hours Screentime
[G3 General] jeyd02:
Which variant you have?
[G3 General] wargreymon89:
What does the battery usage report as the main drain of battery?
[G3 General] trincisor:
No screenshots and it didn't happen.
[G3 General] poczynek:
Re the repeated posts on battery life – this is ridiculously hard to calculate as sooooooo many factors come into play depending on a person's own configutation:

-Do they use location services – a notorious big battery drainer?

-Do they use Facebook – a notorious big battery drainer?

-Do they have wakelocks checked by Betterybatterystats?

-Do they use wifi most of the time or 3g/4g?

-Do they even have 4g?

-Do they have other apps that drain?

-Do they use Greenfiy?

On and on and on and on – no one's configuration will EVER be the same.

And that's why so many differing opinions – good and bad – are all over the internet with reviews and individual users (esp on XDA).

There is only one way to test battery – buy phone, use phone. The rest can only be a general guide.
[G3 General] killerskincanoe:
Not great, but typical for a non rooted device with all the bloat I guess. I'm used to going 48 hrs btwn charges tho. Pretty lite user

Scribed hence forth from thy LG G3
[G3 General] xRamz:
I get only 4 hours screen on time too. Had the phone for a week, each day the phone is either dead or almost dead at 4 hours
[G3 General] MaxG338:
I disabled most of the bloatware..does that do anything? It didn't really seem to speed up the phone or improve battery life.

True, but at least the total time on battery lasts me throughout the day...my last phone was an HTC Inspire, and that thing could go from 100% to dead in just a couple hours :laugh:.
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
barely 2 hrs of SoT in 21 hrs with 17% left is definitely weak. Android system is using up a lot, this means there is some rouge app causing wake locks. Use battery battery stats app to find what is causing that.

I used to think the same before but really a pair of eyes that see quite well in lower brightness is the sign of healthy pair of eyes. I would be concerned If I needed to use that high a brightness when others seem to find 50% already too bright. :)

High brightness should be needed only outdoors.
[G3 General] DevilMayEmo:
Aww god, i'm so impressed by the lg g3 yet at the same time so saddened by the fact that the battery life doesn't seem to be as good as the g2. I can't even deicde upon which phone to buy at this point, i have even considered just buying another G2 seeing as its price has been slashed nearly by half. I consider myself a heavy user. Then again, it has a replaceable battery which is a huge plus.

I am honestly not as turned off by the galaxy s5's design, probably because i haven't owned an sgs2,3 or 4. I also love the rubber back of it.

The other reason i don't want the lg g2 once again is because the battery is not replaceable. So i'm really deciding upon either a g3 or a sgs 5. Although i like the UI on the lg g3 even better. I guess i will just have to think about it for a while. There's no doubt in mind that the G3 is the ultimate phone at the moment. But seeing as in my opinion almost all phones that come out these days really have the performance, i'm just looking at battery life at this point. How awesome would it be if LG G3 offers would offer a version without the QHD, that thing would be a beast, replaceable battery, combined with the 3000 mah and less pixels => that to me would have been the king of all phones. I'll think about it a little longer, so far i've been having a really hard time making up my mind.
[G3 General] cooldoud:
So in the end, 41 hours on battery with 4.5 hours screen on time before plugging in with 4% left. Good enough for me!

Sent from my LG-D855
[G3 General] WastedJoker:
Hard to accurately assess because I'm still in the "just got my phone and constantly tinkering with it" stage but even so I've seen a marked different between the firmware it came with (10A) and the 10F version I flashed a couple of days ago.

I'd say it's around the same as my HTC One m7 when the phone is being actively used BUT when the phone is not being used and idle, the battery lasts ages compared to my HTC One m7.
[G3 General] veronesi.n:
Hello guyz,

i'm on 10g, rooted, installed greenify and disabled some apps...

Just have to say... wooooaaaaa ... almost 17hours up a day... using bluetooth to stream music to my car, high accuracy gps for navigation apps, wi-fi always on. Just get airplane mode when @ work because don't have mobile network there, but i use wi-fi...

Battery life is really good, I plug my phone when going to sleep @45-50% of charge !!!

I'm really impressed with this phone's battery life. With my HOX i couldn't stay whole day with that use :D
[G3 General] SamDH1:
Here's my battery issue...

Just installed BBS, hopefully find the crazy app making this guy stay awake all night. Otherwise, before this wake lock, it's still been awesome
[G3 General] basongwe:
I've only 3h30 SOT on my 10j non-rooted device BUT with greenify.

What can I do to have a better battery life ? Please. I must root it ?
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
Which app was ?
[G3 General] SamDH1:
Not a clue, there seems nothing suspicious :/ There is a lot of audio mix processes though, and they are the reason for the wake locks, but I have no idea where they were coming from... But after a restart they were gone. I'll see what happens tonight and if it repeats itself.

Does anyone know what the audio mix processes are??
[G3 General] vdude:
Same situation with 10e non rooted with greenify

3h30 SOT was my best

Currently in areas where signal is not so good, switching frequently (I blame this as main reason for this awful battery performance)

Two weeks with the phone
[G3 General] pride_kr:
+1....

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Guys I bought last Sunday this phone.... Was on A version... Was having trouble with battery life and when I connect to socket power, using this phone, it just wasn't charging, just maintaining. Flashed J. Version as some people was saying it was having good battery life....

Well iam having a terrible battery life!!!

IM on 65% 1h screen 4hs of use and installed just whatsapp and facebook!!!

Guys please help, it is normal???
[G3 General] xRamz:
I just installed J yesterday. Got 1hr screen, 4hr use at 81%

Greenify most apps including fb, and have whatsapp
[G3 General] hatlesssandman:
I had a slight quibble with some forum members counting out the g3 battery as a dead beat ( they were apparently impressed with the gflex and its 720p screen. At that time i mentioned the g3 battery will get no less than the g2 if not more regardless of the 2k screen. Now I rooted the phone 2 days ago and put it through some heavy use. Actually got to playing around with an old Google tv lying around since i recently discovered the showbox app spent a good part of the day casting to the big screen and multitasking at the same while watching the latest shows and movies. Freaking awesome app btw! Nonetheless this bugger just refused to die! I have everything on full blast was downloading like crazy to figure out a way to seamlessly cast my macbook the same way... any way... my screen is on auto (100% because i can and it still doesn't die so why not eh?) although it rarely reaches 100% since I was indoors most of the time. I have frozen just about all sprint junk except the apps I'm scared to because they have funky names and no icons... also i froze sprints bull crap location polling service! It's a huge battery drain! Now that's not to say i dont have location on i have manually turned off location settings for just about every app except Google Now and gps based apps (that covers 99% of location based services you will ever need). Also i keep the wifi location polling on doesnt hurt battery and makes google now even more smarter. I have 2 gmail accounts syncing on auto (one every half hour for LG Email and the other every 1 hour for LG email) and rest of the syncing is on auto sync. I have frozen LG launcher and use blinkfeed launcher because it's much more useful and cleaner and lag free. Also i have an app called Automateit (simplified tasker alternative) freaking awesome set up about 15 rules that will help prolong battery while increasing utility of the phone NOT sacrificing it! Of course greenify is obviously enabled. And here are the results on Day 2 of heavy use after root. Yea this phone gets better battery life than the g2 which i have owned for 4 months and this is without a custom Rom or kernel! Just imagine the potential! O btw i have the phone in performance mode via trickstermod was running benchmarks yesterday so turned it up and decided eh wth let's see how long it will last. Pleased to say I'm extremely surprised, i imagine someone whose really conservative with battery usage could easily get 9-10 hours of screen time. What more do people want out of a phone!!!
[G3 General] vdude:
What about 3G - LTE signal during use? For my situation (similar) I suspect that tris is the problem...

People celebrating battery as wonderful should tell how much of their performances is done on wifi and how much with 3G -LTE-2G data connections (especially if switching between 3G, LTE and/or 2G is frequent)
[G3 General] oracleoftruth:
I'm getting around 3-4 hour Max screen on time. What am I doing wrong. Frozen bloat, installed greenify, turned off stuff like location. Still Burns at nearly 1percent a minute when doing anything like web browsing.
[G3 General] phillio:
Thats my best so far, stock phone, no root, greenify or launchers even kept lg health on, pretty pleased with that.
[G3 General] DevilMayEmo:
So after a long time of thinking lg g3 or sgs5 and hearing about possibly a weaker battery i no longer regret my purchase. This is on my first charge and this baby is absoloutely amazing i love it
[G3 General] koppee1:
that's normal if you keep your brightness quite high like i do. try setting your brightness to auto and around 30%...you'll see a jump to maybe 5 hours or more.

I gave up on trying to get a longer battery life, i want my screen bright...looks so nice :D
[G3 General] DevilMayEmo:
xD.. Im so happy im one of those who really only has to ever have their brightness very high when i actually need it. Some people i know cant live with high brightness.
[G3 General] coltonfisher:
I keep wondering the same thing, except I'm maxing at 2 hours SOT when using data and not wifi. So frustrated.
[G3 General] hooozy:
I downloaded the app but have no idea how to use it. Pls help
[G3 General] vdude:
I agree.

Battery using data just sucks.

Hopefully it is not hardware-related (weak antenna frequently loosing signal when this is weaker) but I'm afraid this could be the case.

Waiting to install v10g/H or J to see if any real improvement can be software-related, if not will return the phone and look for something else
[G3 General] oracleoftruth:
Had much better day today and I think I know why. Checked battery stats yesterday and qcom-sap-wakelock was eating battery all day. Did a search and there are numerous bug reports of that for the nexus 4 and 5 (both made by lg) on kitKat. Turns out it's caused by the wakelock for wireless charging not turning off. I charged with cable after reboot and battery lasted much longer today. Checked stats and the wakelock was gone. Still have odd looking wakelocks but not as bad. I'll check those another time.

SO takehome is don't use wireless charging. Which sucks. Could be my wireless charger or could be generic. Also could be fixed soon. Who knows.
[G3 General] Deagles:
İ don't get it, i left my phone with about %56 charge before sleep when i woke up it was %43. It always happening to me phone is not rooted senks are on i will try the turn the senks off this time and see how it's goes if it's not work i will turn the airplane mode on as a result missing lots of calls and back to the stone age.

It's really weird G3 has 3.000mah huge battery capacity but i used to have iPhone 5 before it and it was better with the battary life. Im consuming crazy amount of battery it's really frustrating to watch the battery bar
[G3 General] Robin2:
I don't have those problems. Make sure you have the latest software update installed.
[G3 General] insang-droid:
It's likely an app.. Put your phone in SAFE MODE and retest. I thought the same until I realized my apps were causing wakelocks from location, updates, and other crap.

to get to SAFE MODE, press and hold power button until the power menu comes up. Press and hold POWER OFF and you'll get a SAFE MODE confirmation. boot to safe mode.

you have access to all of your stock apps within Safe mode.

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ON SCREEN TIME is mis-leading. one person's 4 hours OST can be completely different than another. IE.. I can have 5-6 hours of OST on Kindle.. while if i do games.. it'll be 2HR OST.

if you really think there's something wrong.. put it on Safe mode and see.. if it still has issues with SAFE MODE>. then you got faulty phone/software. if you have no issues with SAFE MODE. then it's one of your Apps.

I'll give the only credit to APPLE as they seem to have less runaway apps. than google. their phone sucks still.
[G3 General] SamDH1:
Ever since I put screen to 50% Auto and disabled the sounds like screen lock and button presses etc to stop the audiomix wake locks, my battery could just about last two days if I don't use Snapchat!!!

Last night, after a day of 7:30 to 23:30ish, still rocking 36% with a day of games (Scribblenauts, Shadow Fight 2 and Into the Dead), screen time was above 6 hours, heavy messaging, and going out n about. I left it off charge last night to see how the battery would do and it only dropped 1% after 8 hours, everything still syncing from all my accounts which is impressive. The highest app was Snapchat which sucks battery but that's cuz camera and you can't really stop that, and if there is really weak/no signals then it drops a little quicker; but not dramatic.

But BBS shows little to no harmful wake locks now and no power hungry background processes. It's class! Can you imagine this with Project Volta, getting potentially 30% more battery life time too. Waaahhhh
[G3 General] insang-droid:
Nice.. I'll try to turn off press/on/off sounds as well. just leave notifications and media on.. seems like a good test..