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[G3 General] Tarzan-:
Granted, but you should give G2's new sibling some margin for its bigger display with heaps more pixels.

Sent from G3
[G3 General] Enddo:
It has replaceable battery!
[G3 General] robstunner:
Show me where I can buy one ;)
[G3 General] LBTaylor1984:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1114...ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108
[G3 General] robstunner:
Ya..... $75 for a battery on eBay is ridiculous.
[G3 General] LBTaylor1984:
It's £22 that's not expensive
[G3 General] robstunner:
Says 40$ for me and 30 shipping or something like that.
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
Always carry a spare battery around and keep it fully loaded sounds like a good plan, but not for me..

A 3500mAh battery instead of 3000mAh would be a much better scenario.
[G3 General] robstunner:
I'm at with for 24hrs at a time, so it's nice to have a spare battery in my work bag when it's a long day
[G3 General] nap007:
here... :p
[G3 General] robstunner:
I wish I got that, looks like your not on LTE though, but that sold make such a big difference
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Excellent battery life on stock I should say, stock AT&T rooted, froze all bloat, greenify, could probably get a little more out of it but it's a start, all I hear is complaining about this phone. I'm at 54% with 3 hours on screen time. Should easily get 6 hours. Check screenshots
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Also if I disabled lte and checked the box in wifi to turn off when screen is off might be able to squeeze out more, just a thought
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
Was that all wifi? Still impressive, but I hardly use wifi. For me it's a mixed bag of LTE, 4G and Edge.... Sometimes no signal unfortunately. I work in PA and live in Eastern Ohio. western PA is terrible!
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Id say 70% wifi 5ghz ac and 30% Lte, phone is fast I click and it goes, is 6 hours screen on time not that great? I just get the impression of some people on here and other sites expect to much from this phone

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I'm just waiting for zero lemon to hit Amazon then I should be able to go a week or so without recharging, should be soon according to their website
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
6 hours is phenomenal for any phone. I don't even get that on my g flex. Like I said, I am in a low signal area a lot of times and that's the culprit for bad battery life, in essence it's not all that bad really considering. I generally get 16-18 hours and 4-5 hours sot. Would be much better if in good signal area all times. I am a uniform driver and all over the area.
[G3 General] robstunner:
Battery drain is not linear, just because your at 3hrs with 50% left does not mean you WILL get 3 more hours to 0%. I had 2hrs 48 min my first day with 50% left, yet i got to 0% left with no change in usage and 4hrs 40min SOT.
[G3 General] TEW999:
This is what I'm getting on average all the time
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
What.... Who said or assumed anything of the like?
[G3 General] hawkswind1:
Coming from a debloated Droid maxx with only a dual core and 720p, 3500 mah battery on 4.4.4 I was only getting a bit over 5 hours screen on time on average with auto brightness. I'd be more than happy getting 4+ hours on the G3.
[G3 General] crni6:
I got 5h max 5:30h SoT and I dont know how some one get 6:30h sot...? Oh yeah...what about sleep, I lose 3-5 overnight and first couple nights doesnt lose any %...is someone have same expiriance?
[G3 General] socalforlife:
The way I been using my phone for almost two days I'll get 6 hours or close to it
[G3 General] robstunner:
This guy..............
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Do you think 6 hours is not possible?
[G3 General] robstunner:
For me no, after 50%. Battery dropped really quick. Best I got was 4hr 40min
[G3 General] socalforlife:
I'm at 3h30min with 47% left. I'll post a ss if I can beat that 4h40min later today
[G3 General] Jiyeon90:
post stats using gsam battery monitor
[G3 General] robstunner:
OK sweet. I don't use battery saver or turn off data at all. Just greenify
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
So because you can't, nobody can... Get out of here with that bull...
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Yea I do the same, also phone doesn't get hot, using stock everything including launder
[G3 General] robstunner:
Again, FOR ME, no I can't. Where did I ever say not possible. I just asked for screenshot and said battery was not linear, which is true for every single phone.
[G3 General] JesseMT4G:
Right here you assumed I wouldn't... Generalizing.

It's all good.
[G3 General] Heisenberg420:
Screen time yesterday (29% left)
[G3 General] robstunner:
How??? What are u doing to get that kinda battery
[G3 General] gladiator1105:
i like it !
[G3 General] Heisenberg420:
Rooted, removed bloat, greenify, and switched to art.

Also keep my brightness pretty low, I've been fine with 10-20% indoors, 60-70 outside. 50% for videos. As far as my usage yesterday I did mostly browsing, YouTube, and tapatalk.
[G3 General] npaladin2000:
I have a feeling the people with battery issues are cranking the brightness. Maybe we should be posting that as well.
[G3 General] nap007:
yes the battery drained faster on 50% or below capacity

and a tip from me is that DO NOT unplug the charger as soon as your battery hit 100%... plug it on for 15-20 more minutes and the battery somehow overcharge to like 110%... I often get full 20 minutes screen on time before the battery down to 99%... when just doing long reading with low network activity, it can even get to 40 minutes screen on time before down to 99% :D
[G3 General] Enddo:
I've had the same 'overcharge' type effect on the N5 as well. it works well
[G3 General] splcfiya:
Its not really apples to oranges. Not everyone is buying this phone BECAUSE the screen is 2k, a lot of people are buying a phone or looking into buying a phone with a screen that just happens to be 2k. So from that angle, the other 1080p phones are equally appealing to them so they are all on the same platform...

I'm going to buy a phone this month, i want one with decent battery life, does this device have it or does it not? That's just the bottom line, everything else is fluff.
[G3 General] raber111:
This is my battery life . how is it ?
[G3 General] gorillaz1:
Looked good to me.

Without any real tweaks, I was at 19% with 4 and a half hours of screen on time, and 18 and a half hours total.

I feel like that's pretty solid. If I'd just let it run, I probably would have gotten to 22 or 23 hours easily.
[G3 General] MMarkkk:
+ Greenify

Auto brightness 55%,

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[G3 General] bluebobx:
I'll second that. Apart from towelroot and switching brightness to auto I've not done anything and I'm getting good usage (e.g. meaningless battery stats say 27h43m on battery and 37h42m left).

One thing I have noticed though - my G3's battery seems to be sensitive to ambient temperature both for discharge and charging. If the G3 is on a window mount (so in line of the sun) then putting the aircon on to cool the window (and also the G3 obviously) then charging is noticably faster. Also the one vacation day where I had a battery life "concern" was also the warmest one. Anyone noticed anything similar?

I have NOT seen the back-heating-on-charge issues that some have reported.
[G3 General] gorillaz1:
That is awesome, I haven't heard of greenify, I need to look into it.
[G3 General] Tarzan-:
Consistently 4-5 hrs sot with 80% brightness

Sent from G3
[G3 General] socalforlife:
Excellent battery life, phone doesn't even get hot either
[G3 General] Seifer1975:
Well, finally got some time to chart my battery life. Note that phone is rooted, bloatware removed, ARTed, auto-brightness at 70%. Location services on, bluetooth on for about 10 hours connected to both a smartwatch and headset.

Overall, I am happy with the battery life.
[G3 General] death__machine:
Not that happy with battery. But it's just my second charge cycle. Maybe it'll get better with updates or more charge cycle.

Used it with auto brightness on, 4G most of the time, sync off, and battery-saving location.
[G3 General] Vahooli:
i think ART users have better battery life . isnt it?
[G3 General] InsaneJester17:
You guys keep saying "auto brightness at blah percent". Is this something only rooted users can change?

Is greenify useful at all when not rooted?

Thanks guys.
[G3 General] Ace42:
Yes, ART is more battery efficient on any android device. However ART may not work with all apps yet.

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[G3 General] xxxda13:
No anyone can change the it. When u go to settings then display u can select the percentage while on auto. Changing the brightness while on auto sets your "base" level of brightness.

And from what I know greenery if about useless without root bc u need su permissions in order for greenify to hibernate apps. Which is the main appeal of greenify
[G3 General] InsaneJester17:
Oh cool. Thanks for the info!
[G3 General] JasonJoel:
People keep saying that, but from testing on various phones that is not always true by any means. Depends on the apps, phone, etc. On some app/phone combos ART is better, on some it isn't.
[G3 General] jcwxguy:
my phone was 100% charged last night when i went to bed, was dead by the time i woke up. Couldnt check battery stats to see what used the battery the most.
[G3 General] p70shooter:
Weird, mine uses bugger all overnight. You must have a rogue app or something.
[G3 General] jcwxguy:
charging my phone now, and hopefully find out whats going on. I have the same 10 or so apps i had my g2 with no issues .
[G3 General] Iceax123:
So had my first proper charge from 0 and normal usage.

All accounts set to sync, one Gmail account and one push exchange, brightness on auto.

Did 12 hours on dav then flicked over to art. Total up time was 32 hours and screen on time of just over 4 hours.

That's good enough for me for now.

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[G3 General] xxxda13:
Yea that's not normal. I unplugged my phone at 100% and went to bed. 7 hours later it had lost 3%
[G3 General] raber111:
It's not bad today
[G3 General] gladiator1105:
not bad can you share more info ? like do u use art or dalvik ? brightness level ? any special tweak ?
[G3 General] digweed4me:
Not bad I did disabled LG health and news app
[G3 General] Galaxynote1234:
Has anyone here used gps with the phone? If so what are your battery stats looking like? Is anyone using juice defender to increase battery life also?
[G3 General] S3RV1N:
I use my phone sporadically, I'll use it for a good 15-30 min burst then have it in pocket for an hour or so. Pretty much rinse repeat all day till about midnight then it sat overnight without charging.

I have GPS off and battery saver kicked on at 20% Brightness on Auto with a baseline of 40% No ART enabled and LG health on, 60/40 on LTE/WiFi
[G3 General] S3RV1N:
Its set by default as on and I really didn't notice a difference when I got. I just turned off on my 3 charge and the only difference I noticed was I got 1hr more screen time and about 2hrs less standby time. So I don't really think it had an impact. On my older android phones GPS was a battery killer so LG must have worked some voodoo to get it to sip such little power when on
[G3 General] stevieraveon:
Ok, I'm pretty happy so far. Here's me at 80% after 19.5 hours unplugged last night before going to bed. I have only used 1 hour onscreen time, and I've been at home on wifi the whole time, so I know it's not crazy, but I am mostly glad I think of taken care of any wakelock issues.

I turned off Carrier IQ and I used a method I found online to stop Play Services from doing unnecessary wakelocks.

I had push email turned on the whole time, GPS and bluetooth turned on, screen was at 50%.
[G3 General] u1988:
How?

what method ?

Can anyone please make One post with all the instruction & apk we need to do to make the most of this battery ?!
[G3 General] digweed4me:
Update on my battery usage it's 9 pm now using heavily since 10 a.m.
[G3 General] robstunner:
Have you turned anything off? Location services? I got rid of my g3 and I'm starting to wonder if it was a bum unit
[G3 General] jamespat93:
Instructions

Can anyone thats getting at least 6 hours screen on time make a post of instructions please?
[G3 General] atistang:
I've noticed that my S4 would get to 100% but it would take another 10mins on the charger before the "please unplug charger" message would come up
[G3 General] osmosizzz:
G2 user here. One thing that some of us are discovering is that the G3 software is the cause of battery life being a little low. Using a G3 rom, many of us are having worse battery life than stock G2 ROM specially while Using the phone so the display is not entirely to blame.
[G3 General] mgbotoe:
This is really nice to know! Everyone blaming that beautiful thing for everything lmao
[G3 General] xxxda13:
What does heavy mean? From yout sot it looks like just heavy browsing correct? Thanks
[G3 General] gorillaz1:
I realize it's not a ton of screen on time. But I'm at 20%, with 3 hours of SOT and I've been on battery for 29 hours and 33 minutes.

This thing REALLY sleeps well. Also, there is no root or greenify or anything involved.
[G3 General] kevina90:
Yeah im at 20 percent with 3 hours SOT as well, but ive only been on batter for 8 hours...

rooted and greenify
[G3 General] gorillaz1:
Are you keeping the screen at 100% brightness the whole time or something? I've not had anything less then 20 hours. And that was with 5 hours of SOT.
[G3 General] kevina90:
Keeping it at 50% with maybe 20-30 minutes of gaming

Rest of the time was snapchat/texting/browsing.

I haven't disabled anything but the att bloat so I'll try disabling LG health and Google now and see what happens.

But standby time is absolutely incredible.
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
Similar for me 6 hours of sleeping woke up to see it lose only 5%. Left the phone home today on wifi left it at 79% came home 11 hours later it was at 69%. This is for my first full cycle charge too. Not bad in my opinion.
[G3 General] varunkumars:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone/3521687/lg-g3-review/?pn=2

Good news about the battery.
[G3 General] bazzanaja:
gizmodo is a joke of a tech site. Very amateur journalism and they loathe Apple products.
[G3 General] varunkumars:
Verge reviewed it and the battery too and gave it a very good rating. How it stacks up against g2's battery is yet to be known.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/4/5778556/lg-g3-review
[G3 General] Henry443:
I have Galaxy S 4 it has many awesome features.

But battery timing is issue it give only 4 to 5 hours that's not enough for me anyone tell how to increase that i get a new one but it has same problem.
[G3 General] malachow:
Still not accurate in fact.. Why the hell none of tech-sites haven't posted even a screens from battery info such as SOT? :confused:

I'm pretty sure about one particular thing - all of us are waiting to read this one, the very best & precise review - from GSMarena with its full battery tests. Yeah, give me that. :cool:
[G3 General] varunkumars:
uploading pictures

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[G3 General] Kawaisa:
"We noticed that during periods of high exertion the device will adjust the device to lower maximum brightness levels, either to conserve battery or lower heat dissipation."

This is the "overheating issue" that guy on youtube was talking about. It's less of an issue and more of an inconvenience if you're planning on gaming for long periods of time at 100% screen brightness. And it's not like the phone turns off, it just limits it to 80% or 90% brightness from what I understand.
[G3 General] jeyd02:
Thanks I'm using your quote.

actually where is the source for LG g3 battery test?
[G3 General] trincisor:
How do they come up with the endurance rating. What's their formula

Is the web browsing on WiFi, let or 3g
[G3 General] Kawaisa:
"A score of 40h means that you'll need to fully charge once every 40 hours if you do one hour of 3G calls, one hour of video playback and one hour of web browsing daily."

http://www.gsmarena.com/gsmarena_lab_tests-review-751p6.php
[G3 General] nap007:
so how the hell a phone with worse talk time, worse web browsing and worse video playback time still get bigger endurance rating? lmao
[G3 General] Kawaisa:
You didn't read it carefully.

It means that the G3 has much superior standby time.

1 hour of browsing on wifi, 1 hour of 3G calling, and 1 hour of video playback per day means that the G3 will outlast the G2 in between charges.

It doesn't mean that the G3 will outlast the G2 if you drain the battery just by browsing, placing calls, and watching videos.
[G3 General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Battery results is not promising. They included so large screen just for numbers, not real reasons.

I am bit disappointed now.
[G3 General] jeyd02:
In a brighter side, it could change when final release comes...
[G3 General] MasK:
Guys.. let's not forget to compare with G2 KitKat!! It's definitely a better comparison since both devices are using KitKat :good:

Why do you think the timings for web browsing and video playback differ so much if both have on screens? Is it because one uses internet (wifi/LTE?) and the other uses a video decoder?
[G3 General] jeyd02:
Gotta say, that is a way better comparison. I wonder what network the lg g3 user did.
[G3 General] Kawaisa:
that is interesting now that you mention it after seeing the kit-kat numbers. The video playback an talk time numbers are similar.
[G3 General] dkimmortal:
I'm disappointed at the huge difference in browsing time.. I don't understand why when video playback is similar.
[G3 General] wargreymon89:
Yeah,I kinda find that browse time very weird. If it was the screen it should impact both video and browsing. Then again, they do have an early Korean version.
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
I think first phone the G3 have to face is its predecessor aka G2 in terms of battery life and display quality...

As I use a G2,I really wanted to buy a G3, but it doesn't look too good now, I for sure won't by a new phone which has worse battery life.
[G3 General] milky1112:
Only on first full charge.. still going through disabling apps that i don't need/use (on sprint so greenify only works so well minus root) Not seeing incrediable battery life. Figure it will only get better once i get things the way I want them.. I'm coming from an S3 with a 4300 MAH battery Rooted, running different kernel.. so got really spoiled by it Hahaha.. If it can survive my work day.. I'm happy (At work on wifi.. at home on wifi..)
[G3 General] Enddo:
I agree. LG optimized their kernel and Optimus wakelocks very well
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
How were you able to disable LG health? My phone won't allow me to do so. I'm on tmo us.
[G3 General] digweed4me:
I just disabled lg health and news app heavy means 2 hours on call (speakerphone) and 1 hour of you tube lots of browsing and messing with phone, lots of text
[G3 General] Tarzan-:
It's a system app and you need root privileges. Are you rooted?

Sent from G3
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
Unfortunately no not yet. That's what I figured. They are currently working on a root for my phone carrier. Thanks anyway. I wouldn't think LG health would be such a battery drainer
[G3 General] digweed4me:
You don't need root it's on system setting I forgot where it was sorry I already returned my lg g3 waiting for one plus one now.
[G3 General] jeyd02:
This is true indeed.
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
First full official charge and got through with 4 hrs and 52 min of on screen time all on wifi but also had lost about 15% in sleep mode for about 17 hours as well (11 while I was working and 6 hours of sleeping) hopefully it will improve even greater but I'm impressed for an initial charge and discharge.
[G3 General] fonsoyo:
I got 4 hours of screen time on yesterday on my first full day today I'm at 2 hours of screen time on and I'm at 43%.
[G3 General] F4M0U569:
You will be waiting for a while. I think by the time you get it there will be 10 other flagships
[G3 General] digweed4me:
I already ordered the one plus one ,out of nowhere I got the invites
[G3 General] F4M0U569:
have fun wit it
[G3 General] koppee1:
Yeah..I have no problems when the phone is not in use. I think it'll probably last a couple days at least if I don't turn the screen on. My pRoblem is when I'm using it haha. I'm getting around 3.5 hours to 4.5 hours on screen time. Most of the time probably around 4 hours.

I've rooted the pHone and disabled all.The bloat I've seen ( including carrier iq), so that probably helps the sleep. I'm not sure how to prolong my on screen time though. Any suggestions?
[G3 General] BoundsChecking:
Grabbed these real quick. Medium use throughout the day, about 5 or 6 10-25 minute phone calls, lots of texting and Snaochatting, and then heavy Twitter use for about that last hour before I plugged in. I'm on ART with 40% brightness, and auto brightness on. Pretty freaking good. Almost as good as my G2, on AOSP. ?
[G3 General] Enddo:
for screen on time the biggest culprit of battery usage is the display. this is for all smartphones too and has nothing to do with the QHD display in general. even with the Nexus 5 the screen uses anywhere from 60-80 percent of the total power used(if left on all the time)

the best thing for you to do is to lower the brightness. try 25% lower than you are using it now. this can be changed, of course, if you're outside and literally need it. but if you're inside, you can go as low as 0 percent and it is still visible. it won't pop out at you, but you can easily use it at zero percent brightness while indoors. even if you don't go that low, 25 and 50 percent are good levels too. while it might seem too low at first, give it time for your eyes to adjust and this will be your best battery saving technique possible.
[G3 General] Jiyeon90:
Anyone who went from the Z1 to the G3? Which one has better battery life?
[G3 General] shook187:
After my first initial charge I have been extremely satisfied with battery life. With auto brightness set and all my user apps Greenify, I was able to have over 5 hours screen time with 15 percent still remaining.
[G3 General] koppee1:
I did. Surprisingly, I find battery life to be similar. Stand by time for g3 is a lot better. But on screen time is similar. For me that Is.
[G3 General] splcfiya:
18 hours and 32 minutes on battery, with 4 hours of SOT. That was my first charge cycle, it was off of wifi from 96% down to 33% (about 6pm till 2am). This is ok, hopefully next couple cycles will improve. I didn't expect to get the 8 hours of SOT i've seen some getting on the M8 and GS5 thread, but i was hoping for at least 6 hours.

Note: it says 16.5 hours in the screen cap, i was 2 hours on battery , but i plugged the phone in for a minute to transfer some music. So the clock reset. My percentage didn't increase during that time.
[G3 General] Fir3blade:
Absolutely no offense, and I believe you, but I get really great batterylife with Cloudy G3 rom and kernel on my G2.

Better than with stock 4.4 and on a level like my G2 was on JB.

Sorry for OT!
[G3 General] osmosizzz:
Yeah there are some phones that get great battery life on the G3 ROM its just that quite a hand full don't. My phone doesnt like Kitkat period. I had beautiful battery life in JB. Averaging about 5 and a half hours screen on time with about 17 hours run time. I loved it. Now i'm lucky if I get it to 4 hours screen on time and 12 hours run time. with the G3 rom it was even worse. Standby was fine. but battery dropped super fast while using the phone. but I do believe you have great battery life. I call those A class LG G2 lol
[G3 General] IXChicharitoXI:
My first charge. Super happy with my results.
[G3 General] radeonxt:
tried testing battery with antutu tester.

battery was at 100% when i woke up the phone was turned off.

turned it on and battery was at 67% remaining.

score was 5731