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[G3 General] jasvncnt1:
Battery life so far on first charge is OK. I have to say on standby its just crazy. Charged last night and let it sit all night. 14 hours later it still had 100%.

Also anyone also using android wear with the phone? If so do you notice any battery drain form it? How far are you able to walk away from your phone before it disconnects?
[G3 General] _Infamous_:
Second charge Im happy it's all I need.
[G3 General] jtorrence3:
I haven't got the phone charged completely yet (vs985), but the drain is pretty fast so far. I actually see it ticking down as I use it.
[G3 General] Niko0olas:
Got my G3 yesterday.. Today i first used it (fully charged) at 5pm, a LOT of facebook and messanger, some instagram(my cousin :p), some snapchat, a bit of chrome, a LOT of sms, some youtube videos and playing around with the Xposed Tweakbox also it was always on the internet (wifi or data or both).. Plus the display setting on for 10min because i was cooking, so..

anyhow, its 5am (12hours later) and im at 20% remaining (says 2hours)..

This phone hates me after a first day like that xD
[G3 General] rfarrah:
Today was DAY 1 on my G3, but the battery has me concerned. Trying to give it a break since the screen was on most of the time while I worked to root it. Tomorrow will be a better test, but..... we'll see.
[G3 General] hbkekko:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fp0jhzi5laijmh2/Screenshot_2014-07-17-01-32-10.png

Not so happy, second charge for my g3? Is there any trick to increase my battery life? Will ART help me instead of Dalvik?
[G3 General] ikenvape:
From what I understand, the G3 would adapt to your usage. Meaning it would take a couple of days, for the system to be fully optimized.
[G3 General] AhsanU:
As mentioned above, your need to give your G3 a few days to optimize battery life. Even after that, you may want to consider rooting it and using Greenify. After extensively greenifying a lot of apps while keeping a few for widgets, I've gotten great battery life. I was at about 2.5 hours screen on time at 60% earlier this afternoon, this was done while listening to music at loud volumes too for about 3 hours or so.

One little tricky thing that wakelock detector was able to tell me was Google's voice detection was a battery hog. Disable the "okay google" detection from any screen and confine it to only the main menu for the best battery life.
[G3 General] MaximoMark:
2nd charge for me...
[G3 General] hbkekko:
it's my third/fourth charge, 2h04m with 50%

i've already rooted, u think i need to greenify?
[G3 General] Prentki:
Have someone read ebooks on it? If you read yellow text on black background will it juice battery slower? What are your opinions about usage of battery during streaming music via bluetooth (i got lg hbs-730)?
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
Won't save much energy, if any.

On an AMOLED screen it would be another story...
[G3 General] Ace42:
I use art on my E970, G2, Nexus 4, Kindle Fire, and Vibrant. All have seen battery improvements(all are in KK/4.4.4), therefore I will conclude that art is better for battery.

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[G3 General] mjforte:
Here's my battery life so far today. On LTE for 9 hours or so with browsing, texts, 30 min of Netflix and a short phone call. WiFi for a couple hours. Seems pretty good I think.
[G3 General] Enddo:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...ormance-wont-blow-away-today-will-get-better/

ART in KitKat is going to save you minimal battery. Like, single digit percentages. . .if that
[G3 General] JCJ77:
This is what I had on today.

What do you think? Decent?
[G3 General] arcanexvi:
It's not as noticeable as the jump on my n5 when running L as the art runtime there is much newer than what we have in 4.4.2 but I do get about a 10-15% bump when I use art instead of dalvik. Now if screen casting worked with art I wouldn't have to toggle back all the damn time...
[G3 General] Vahooli:
its bad :(
[G3 General] radeonxt:
that's cos i think it's heavy usage.
[G3 General] JCJ77:
Yeah...I figured so. Right now, I'm getting similar figures to what I had on my rooted S3. Hoping it gets better.

I've been tempted to try Juice Defender until Sprint receives a root method, but it's been so long since the app has been updated - no telling if it would even work.
[G3 General] :
Light to moderate usage. Stock everything, on dalvik.
[G3 General] hbkekko:
i think normal, just like me. i can see people here with 4/5/6 hours on screen time :eek: how is that possible...

my fifth charge:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ewa17ylsaiyz4mc/Screenshot_2014-07-19-01-17-32.png

it looks like going better every day

hope it's not just an impression!
[G3 General] inzimam:
People with on screen time of over 4 hours probably don't use the phone to make calls

4 hours plenty for me on a work day. 3 hours commuting. But I need to test with playing music or watching videos
[G3 General] Jiyeon90:
Terrible
[G3 General] rfarrah:
Yesterday I had about an hour and a half of phone calls, plus my usual medium-duty day. Unplugged at 5:45 a.m., got home at 6:15 p.m.with 29% left. Had to plug in and recharge because I was going out again, but that's not too bad for me.

Later I fully charged and then unplugged before going to bed at 11:30. Got up this morning at 7:30 and still had 100% on meter. Dropped fast to 98% after some screen on time, but I wanted to see if there would be much loss with little / minimal-syncing usage overnight. Pretty happy with that result.

I'm on VZW, stock/dalvik.

As always, YMMV.
[G3 General] danny_and_2:
I know this sounds odd, but could people include to their post, what version of the LG Software they are using?

Like "D85510A_00" or something? :)
[G3 General] jhericurls:
I'm averaging 20% battery for 1 hour of screen time on mobile data. You get more of course if you use Wi-fi.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
my plan is buy this phone and im reaally worry about this , i hope LG release more power battery for this phone in accessories
[G3 General] kafreeman:
Went to bed with 32% wrote up with 32%. Seems like it dropped pretty fast after but I'll try again tonight.
[G3 General] MMarkkk:
D85510g_00 Auto Brightness 61%
[G3 General] jasvncnt1:
My first charge. Att. Sync on. Mostly WiFi.
[G3 General] jamespat93:
Can people getting over 5 hours screen time share how they're getting it please?
[G3 General] Ace42:
On my G2 I get betwn 7-8hrs SOT with ART. On stock I was getting 6.5hrs (SOT) max w/o ART. Of course there are a bunch of other factors for this, but ART is also faster. More noticeable on older devices though.
[G3 General] JCJ77:
If I had to guess - I would say they are rooted with uninstalled bloatware and greenified apps. Take some time to look back through this thread, you will notice the trend. If your phone if "rootable" and you know how to root, it might not be a bad option for you. I will root once the option is available for my variant (Sprint), but I believe all other variants can root now.

Again, only if you are comfortable with the process.

Good luck.
[G3 General] 613BulletProof:
Im pretty sure I did the other day. Still had some life left as well.

From what I remember that day...

Auto Brightness

Disabled wifi at work since I dont need it

Auto Sync was on the whole time

All the obvious was off, GPS, Location, Auto Rotate (for me I dont use this much)

I dont play any games nor do i listen to music or watch videos on my phone much.. I work in front of a computer all day, have my Nexus 7 at home for videos etc etc..

Battery life I would say is GOOD on this device, not great... trust me I just returned my Z2 for camera issues, that battery was GREAT!
[G3 General] jamespat93:
Thanks, I've rooted and greenified my apps already, even used titanium backup to freeze some things too. I was on Dalvik before and even after those steps was only getting around 3.5 hours screen on time. Now I've switched to art and I think ill end up with 4.5 - 5 hours screen on time, which will be my best time yet. I've seen some people post 6 hours screen on time but I just cant see how thats possible?
[G3 General] biustech:
damn i'm jealous now. i can barely make 3h SoT with ~ 20-30hrs total time. i've frozen most of lg stuff through TB, using 35~40% brightness fixed not a heavy user just facebook, whatsapp and few hours of music through bluetooth. apparently no drain from wakelocks wakelock detector is showing normal behavior from my apps i think.

still trying to find a sweet spot ....
[G3 General] JCJ77:
Yeah...I don't know, man. Maybe someone will share.
[G3 General] p70shooter:
It's weird how all the phones differ. Here is mine, rooted and some things greenified.
[G3 General] jamespat93:
Can you share what you did to get that screen on time?

What level of brightness? Have you frozen or greenified apps? Are you using art or dalvik?
[G3 General] Enddo:
I'm sorry, your anecdotal evidence is rather meaningless. I'm not telling you how to use your device. I run ART myself. But I don't do it for battery life

if you have more data, like the like I posted, where they actually ran the exact same tests over and over. Then it would be more meaningful. You saying you get an hour and a half of your daily screen time doesn't mean much due to the dozens of dozens of variables that could affect it
[G3 General] itsalexaye90:
I'd uninstall that sprint app if possible. It's raping that battery.
[G3 General] Ace42:
I don't regularly record my battery stats because the usage is normally consistent. I mainly use Amazon, google plus/hangout, gmail/email, browser(aosp), xda app, camera/gallery, phone/sms, google keep, and calender. This is essentially what I did on my previous phones when they were my primary device.

1st time on kk(no art)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53378380&postcount=611

kk (w/ art)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53445993&postcount=624

kk( 7+hrs & ignore that its aosp/mahdi, I can't find the post I made while on lam hoang's stock kk but the hours would be about the same)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=54114612&postcount=12446
[G3 General] :
I have Sprint and I've never even seen the connections optimizer app show up in my battery stats. Mine is enabled too. ?

It ain't nothing but a G thing baby... Lg G3 LGSL990
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
I'm stock. Location enabled, auto brightness, sync on, Google now on. I don't play games on my phone. I just use social media(IG, G+, and Twitter/Talon).

I do have better service with lte active than I did with my S3 that could only use 4g.
[G3 General] splcfiya:
Perhaps that all depends on your type of SOT, are you streaming video on LTE, web browsing on wifi, or watching movies in airplace mode?

I went through only one charge cycle and was able to get 4 hours of SOT with about 15% battery left. I was on LTE for the majority of that time while shooting video and taking pics. I assume that if I'm not Wifi for most of the time and arent shooting that much video I could perhaps get 5 hours, and if I want to go on airplane mode and watch a movie or read, perhaps i could get 5.5?
[G3 General] Tarzan-:
My latest battery with some tweaks

Sent from G3
[G3 General] aleandre1974:
That, and in my case, the use of Setcpu to restrict the CPU clock to more reasonable (1.5 ghz) frequencies. I initially did that since I thought the phone was getting too hot for my taste, and got as a bonus extended battery life : ST went from 4h to 5h30 yesterday, with heavy Web browsing, xda app, calls, a bit of light gaming (doodle jump). LTE on for 1 hour, the rest with WiFi on all the time, and a bit of bluetooth as well.

In setcpu, the profiles allow you to control CPU frequency depending on the temp of the battery. Now experimenting with the powersave governor, I had "interactive" yesterday.

In GSAM battery monitor, the screen takes only 35% of my power draw (I also use LUX to control my brightness according to my taste). I believe that the snapdragon 801 is also the culprit of the low battery life we seen in some cases, as obviously having it at 2.5 ghz must require significantly increased voltage...
[G3 General] navlem:
Anybody saw this guy with 6 hours on screen time yet?

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[G3 General] AhsanU:
If that's the amount of life you're getting I'd say yeah, you should. It'll get a little better regardless, as my G3 began getting the best life after about 7 charges.

Greenify will seriously help with battery life, especially with root and xposed framework. I would recommend rooting since system apps are usually behind battery drain. And with apps like Facebook being system apps now - I'd recommend it
[G3 General] jamespat93:
Yeah that's true, I'm usually web browsing mostly on LTE, don't watch videos too much and never use aeroplane mode really. I think a big battery drainer for me was using boat browser, it was always one of the highest percentages on my battery chart, after a few changes and using the stock browser I'm now getting 5 hours screen on time.
[G3 General] nap007:
it's like buying a sports car and then replacing the engine with a worse one for fuel efficiency... it's just facepalm...
[G3 General] :
I know it's been mentioned but for those experiencing horrible battery life, do you have Google Now enabled? I tried it out yesterday and it seriously raped my battery. After disabling, battery life went back to being awesome.

It ain't nothing but a G thing baby... Lg G3 LGSL990
[G3 General] CheesyNutz:
2nd charge and battery is not horrible it gets me through the day and then some I get about 14 hours with 4-5 on screen .still a major change from my note 3 that got 28 hours with 7 hours of screen time

LGG3 and beyond

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Why the hell would you want to drop the screen resolution that's like gutting the phone

LGG3 and beyond
[G3 General] robstunner:
Its the same thing as people bragging about performance benchmark scores, so stupid. Yea I can get 8hrs sot if I put it on airplane mode on 720p and stare at one picture all day...
[G3 General] navlem:
Not everybody buys the G3 for it's pixel density. There are so many things about the G3 that makes it awesome.

And I'm sure there will be people who will be willing to trade pixel density for battery life.
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
I have Google now on. This is between yesterday and today.
[G3 General] :
Sprint model? Not that it should matter but it seems these devices vary from model to model.

It ain't nothing but a G thing baby... Lg G3 LGSL990
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
Nope t mobile. I'm stock btw.
[G3 General] rushless:
Less than five hours is worse than my S4, but has a smaller 1080p display.

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Or just watch local video and make calls, like a lot of reviews did. That is why reviews like Anandtech, GSM and Laptop Magazine point out the average of two hours less than the Note 3, M8 and S5. Big difference between light and heavy use. Calls, texting and local video are light and do not tax the display or gpu.
[G3 General] death__machine:
So this is the max I've been able to get after a day of heavy usage. I can assume that some battery was lost because I was in this area where my phone didn't have any signal. Not bad I think. This is without connecting it to the pebble tho.

About four hours of screen on time. Brightness was on auto but mixed between 50/100%. WiFi and Mobile Data were both used.
[G3 General] conan1600:
I get fair battery life. Knock on turned off, multi tasking turned off, sync turned on 24/7, several widgets running, unrooted, no bloatware uninstalled, low to no signal area, wifi on 24/7, brightness on auto indoors, quick remote toggled off
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
Is it possible to post your app usage activity from the GSAM app? I think that is missing in many people's posts.

The G3 seems to be in line with most flagships if people stick to voice calls, chat IMs, stored video play back especially if all of this was done on WiFi. Mobile data also seems more less similar but varies of course depending on signal strength.

The real killer is GPU burdened tasks like web browsing. If people do a lot of web browsing compared to any other tasks in a day then the battery tanks much faster. Most reviews that weight more web browsing time have noticed this trend.
[G3 General] npaladin2000:
I've noticed my T-Mobile G3 tends to "give up" on weak signal more quickly than my AT&T G2. There may also be a factor in how these devices are holding on to weak signal, which is a notorious battery sucker.
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
Agreed. Signal was a huge issue on my S3 and it sucked the hell out of my battery.

I get great signal on my g3 cause it has lte capabilities so that's a big plus for battery life. Its like if I was in WiFi at home.
[G3 General] npaladin2000:
Yeah, with me the signal at home is so rarified I just flick it over to 100% WiFi calling while I'm on those APs, and it shuts off the cell radio entirely rather than trying to hold on to a -110 dbm signal. Which has to be helping with the battery. ;)
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
This is my second full charge. Not bad if you ask me!
[G3 General] Zackarak:
Is it normal to have ~2.5%/h battery drain when the phone is on standby? I'll root later and monitor with bbs
[G3 General] FallingEdge:
An hour of just web browsing on Firefox with mobile data and auto brightness dropped me from 100% to 85%. Does that sound about right? Seems really fast to me. I really do wonder if my battery is just bad and I should return my phone and get a new one.
[G3 General] Enddo:
I think it all depends on what you're running. Most people say the device sleeps incredibly well. 2.5%/h is something many people in the N5 forums would love, but it seems little high here. Maybe try signing out of some things like Google+ or hangouts(if don't use those services)
[G3 General] Zackarak:
My N5 had bettery battery time on standby. Thanks for the tips. I signed out of hangouts. I use it for sms/mms only. I got Wifi, 3g, mobile data, sync on. But I did get better battery life on standby on N5 with these on.
[G3 General] 557953:
Anyone else have a really long stay at 100% and then it falls steadily? I can get far more SOT on 100%>99% than i do from 99>98 for example
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
Could you post your App sucker stats from GSAM for that cycle run? Thanks
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
I was on at 100% for the first 3 hours of my day just listening to music, then it starts to drop little by little. Still having great battery life so far on day 3
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
That's all mostly on WiFi?

Whats more heavy YouTube streaming or Netflix?
[G3 General] rkirmeier:
That's an hour of screen on time. Do that math... That's over 6 hours of screen on time web surfing. How is that fast??
[G3 General] BoundsChecking:
My stats of the other day. Lots of Twitter, texting, and a few short phone calls. Was on LTE most of the day, until I started using twitter heavily, then I switch to WiFi. In love with the phone, and the software. On ART, no Greenify, and Ok Google on any screen detection running (I love it)

I've had my phone for about a week and a half, so I believe it is as optimized as it gets.
[G3 General] jamespat93:
What brightness do you use? And do you have any tips? I would love to get 6 hours screen on time.
[G3 General] walkerx:
my battery fluctuates - yesterday it was down to 25% - it had gone down a bit at work while it was on 3G only - but I have noticed that if in pocket it does randomly come on - but the biggest culprit is Google Play Services draining the battery - today though it is currently on 86% (12h 51min) - and this only dropped from 90% just before the update
[G3 General] danny_and_2:
So today I have tested my device, which took an awfull lot of time due to the OP Performance of the LG G3. However I was at work and had nothing else to do lol. :D

Remember, this is my first day on D85510G, so the rom/kernel isn't settled in yet.

Device: LG G3 - 16Gb.

Rom: D85510G_00 (Rooted).

Runtime: Dalvik.

Brightness: AUTO.

Settings: WIFI OFF, BT OFF, Mobiledata ON, SYNC ON & GPS ON.

Kernel: Stock with Tweaks: (Done by Trickster MOD)

CFQ I/O.

MultiCore Powersaving = 2.

Tweaks:

0,5X Animation.

G3 TweakBox.

Frezzed some Google Apps.

Other: LTE FIX

[IMG="1."]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2865558&stc=1&d=1406057510[/IMG]
[G3 General] gladiator1105:
how did you tweak the kernel ?
[G3 General] danny_and_2:
Rooted the phone with PurpleDrake-Lite, installed SuperSU & Installed Trickster Mod. Here you have the opportunity to do what I'd have done. :)

Good luck to you all.

PS. Unquote my picture, so it dosen't appers 2 times. ;) No need for it. :)
[G3 General] u1988:
Can anyone please share a Summary of what can we do Apart from the first post ?

There are more than 65 pages, and it's hard to understand what apps / settings to install and change with and without Root.

Thank you!
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
A pretty tough question in itself because of too many varying usage styles and other variables to account for but here's what people are doing:

If they are not using the mobile data they turn 3G/4G data off while on WiFi, some turn on airplane mode when they go to sleep. Some keep both of radio and WiFi on as the device sleeps well even with the radios on, works well if the cellular reception in the area is excellent. Disable bloat (one person's bloat maybe vital set of apps for someone else so it depends on your needs). Screen brightness set to a fixed value like around 50% or less and auto brightness disabled.

All of that without rooting.

With root there are more options with kernel governors, underclocks and greenfiy

If cellular reception is spotty then you are definitely going to have very poor stand-by life and as a consequence less SoT when the total off-the charger time is stretched out.
[G3 General] Japultra:
For the Max CPU setting of 1.8GHZ, did you set your CPU Frequency Control Max to 1728000 or 1958400? I don't see an option for 1.8GHZ.
[G3 General] danny_and_2:
Unquote the big picture, no need to quote that. :)

I set'd it to 1728000, however I have doubled check it here today & it dosen't seem to stick, which means my CPU Freq isn't changed on the picture.. Hmm. Sad & Awesome at the same time. :)
[G3 General] biustech:
Also here. Doesn't stick.
[G3 General] Zackarak:
Wow I'm getting 0.5%/h on standby now. I think signing out of hangouts did the trick
[G3 General] Mexirab2000:
Battery life now sucks

I posted in the Q&A forum, but I just saw this thread. Basically since yesterday my battery can't hold a charge very well at all. The usage graph is straight down... but I used it for a week without issue. I'm not sure what I could have done to kill it that quickly.
[G3 General] ez4nick:
My results after my first day. About my usage: wifi on the entire time, but not connected to wifi the entire time, connected to lte but mobile data off the entire time. Mostly texting and web surfing was my usage, nothing I would consider heavy usage. Google now enabled, and I disable most of the att bloat included. I did check periodically at the ram usage and it seemed a constant 1.9-2 gb being used, assuming that is normal. Baseline brightness was set to 50%. I did notice while asleep the battery hardly drained at all, but as soon as I start using it then it goes down. Guess I'll give it a few days and hope it improves.
[G3 General] 00dahc:
This phone is semi-retarded. It's kind of funny.

Yesterday I played a game in the morning for about 20 minutes and when I was done it said I still had 100% battery. I went 15 hours and it still said I had 55% battery left, with a decent amount of use with web browsing and emailing for work.

Today I'm at 57% after 9 hours, but thankfully I have 45 hours and 20 minutes more to go on the charge.

Ha. Stupid phone is stupid. Oh well.
[G3 General] gladiator1105:
5.5 SOT + 20H on time
[G3 General] 557953:
Thats funny, does it just plummet when it gets lower?

I noticed my 100% lasts lots longer than my 99% downwards, doing an experiment at moment to see how long it stays on 100%.

Currently @ about 8 hours wifi-on, data-on, minimal SOT (couple of mins just to check its still 100%) 20% brightness, stock debloated....

Will post results if I remember