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[G3 General] willows:
I have a problem with LG G3 battery when playing a gaming and watch video. The battery drain very fast. I tried modern combat 5 with internet connection using Wifi, on Modern Combat 5 my battery drain 1% each 1 minute. Compare to my LG G2 and nexus 7, LG G3 battery drain too fast for gaming and watch video. I cannot find any solution to make my battery more efficient to play a game an watch movie
[G3 General] Amb669:
I read through this entire thread and didn't see anything similar to my results so here it is.

I know everyone is gonna ***** that i disabled this and that blah blah and ***** about my screen brighness, so here's the facts.

~~~ I only enable somthing i need when i need it, when i need emails i enable data or wifi, if i need bluetooth to trasfer files i enable it, after all said and done i disable it.

~~~ I work nights, i wake up in the evenings and don't get to see the sun all that much. therefor i use 0% brighness for my testing because these are realistic conditions for my lifestyle.

onto the topic at hand:

Everyone seems to be getting poor battery results except me... Mine, well mine is AMAZING...

I exchanged my last G3 for a new one because the glass wasn't properly attached to my screen and my screenshots were on my old phone and i forgot to upload my pics before i exchanged my G3 for a new one, currently re-running my previous tests with EXTREMLY posative results, i don't know why everyone is getting such bad battery life, but mine is EXTREMLY AMAZING.

My setup is 100% stock, stock rom, stock kernel, bloat still installed, not rooted yet, no apps installed except what came with the phone, on LTE network with mobile data off. i pulled my phone out of the box optimized all the options to maximize battery life including setting the screen at 0% since i was testing at night/indoors (screen in pretty bright at 0% at night ;) )

~~~ I'm running on the stock battery

~~~ I'm running version 10b

~~~ I'm running 0% Screen Brighness

~~~ I'm running with all the phones built in options optimized for battery savings

~~~ All bloatware is still installed

~~~ Built in power saver option is NOT enabled

~~~ Running on LTE with mobile data off, unless i need it.

~~~ Idle + Screen Off Results: ~~~

I'm getting around 5h20m per 1% on LTE with mobile data off while phone idles in my pocket with the screen off. (took 53h20m to drop exactly 10%)

~~~ Idle + Screen On Results: ~~~

My phone idled with the screen on with no useage for an amazing 15h58m SCREEN TIME before it finally succumbed.

~~~ Screen On + Daily Usage Results: ~~~

My phone under my daily usage habbits, mostly texting and phone calls and playing around with options, ui ect was able to achieve 11h18m SCREEN TIME.

UPDATE: Here's some early screenshots i took before i finished testing.

Here's a pic of some screen time, 4h21m with 72% battery remaining without charging it.

It would actually be 75% but i let it ldle with screen off for 15h8m or just a little under 3%.

Here's what my battery bar looks like while idleing in my pocket over the course of 6 hours on LTE network with mobile data off. (1% drain, probly about 1.1% to be really exact)
[G3 General] MassiveEffect:
What was the SoT for that run? I see 36% awake if all that's due to you using the phone then it's not bad but if all that came from the phone simply sitting idle then again that's another clear indication of wake locks from rouge program(s)
[G3 General] crni6:
Same here....is there any way to use app without root?
[G3 General] ppp2211:
Wakelock detector doesn't count the time with screen on as awake - it's only the time when screen is off and the cpu isn't.

There is a workaround for this, just do some googling, it requires some time, a USB cable and a pc, but it's possible for it to read data without having to root.
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
You mean to tell me you got over 4 hours of SOT with mobile data off and had 72% left? That is Incredible. I'm going to try this little test. I turned off mobile data and I'm still able to get calls and sms messages so I should be OK. Like you said, only turn it on when needed. If this is true that is pretty Incredible. I'll most likely try it with 20% brightness or so. Sometimes 0% is too little for me especially outside. I'll keep you guys up to date with results.
[G3 General] bustinstugots24:
So I'm running the test the EXACT same way you are and not seeing anywhere the results you have. I'm down to 90% with 38 min SOT used my music player for music for about 45 min and made about 10 min worth of phone calls. From what I'm seeing so far this is about the average I would normally see. No way am I going to get anywhere near your 4 and a half hours of SOT with 72% left. Power saving mode is not on and data is off with 4g enabled. Not sure how you are getting those numbers.
[G3 General] alfablac:
4h SoT and 78%? You probably left your phone doing nothing with screen on all the time enabled. lol

No way to get this using mobile data, wifi or any other thing. Pretty good results, though.
[G3 General] hooozy:
Just a little more than 2 hours
[G3 General] 573W1E:
I'm pretty sure there is something going on with my G3's battery life... Would this drainage be considered acceptable for 1hr 47m SOT at around 70% brightness while on cellular data? If its not, how successful are factory resets in solving battery life issues?
[G3 General] stevov:
Your pic shows Bluetooth, nfc, wifi, cellular all on. Wifi is not full and cellular is one bar. What else are you doing ie gaming, location settings etc.
[G3 General] PedroDaGr8:
The damn sprint connections optimizer keeps draining the crap out of my battery. Usually 40+%, have no clue what that is about but I'd love for it to stop.
[G3 General] limdnas:
Best confg in kernel d'Or battery live?
[G3 General] danon.brown:
There was an option to disable that thing on the sprint note 3 in the settings. I assume it can also be done for the g3.
[G3 General] Cholo981:
Does anyone have problems with Maps and the GPS from the update?

This is my situation:

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Localization is turned OFF. I checked many times.

But the battery setting screen show GPS activated all the times and Maps it's the app which drains most of the battery.

Still... the battery life it's not bad at all. 36-40 hours, which it's pretty normal to me.
[G3 General] NIKEstickER:
Got 14 hrs w/o charge and 5-1/2 hrs screen on today which is pretty sweet
[G3 General] Richieboy67:
That is awesome!

I plan on getting a back up battery too so I should be good always if I get anywhere close to that!
[G3 General] traffas:
For what it's worth, I streamed an auctioneer contest today on Ustream...started with a full battery and streamed for 2 hours and went down to about 60% battery. I did set the screen to 44% brightness.
[G3 General] Richieboy67:
That's great! Streaming is a battery killer. I may just go grab one tomorrow. Battery is sounding much better than my nexus 4.
[G3 General] pedja.m:
44h +, 5h 15m SOT, pretty satisfied.
[G3 General] faybarn:
I came from the nexus 4 about 2 weeks ago now, I'm so glad that I did you wont be disappointed if you swap. I used to charge my nexus throughout the day, the G3 lasts me all day with ease plus the camera and screen are so much better. I miss custom roms but hopefully some day they'll come to the G3.
[G3 General] Qn666:
Not use it for some time ;)

v10h

Send from LG G3
[G3 General] ppp2211:
Your results aren't really that good, right now I have 25h of standby with 1,5h of screen on time and still 73% left, and I used some 3g as well, not only wifi.
[G3 General] Japultra:
How's the signal strength where you are (in terms of dBm)?
[G3 General] ppp2211:
It really varies depending on where I go, right now I have -99dbm on HSPA, but I can easily get both much better and much worse reception just by going into a different room.
[G3 General] Richieboy67:
Today is my first day of use. I've used 2:57 screen time and still have 52% battery left!

I've been mostly on WiFi but have done intensive cpu stuff like running back ups and video. Camera too.

So far I'm very impressed.
[G3 General] stevov:
A few weeks on and battery is still rock solid
[G3 General] illmatters:
I get max of 3hours OST after a week of owning this phone. I checked for updates on the phone and no firmware updates have come through, any reason why it hasn't updated? I see its helped everyone battery life out and I need that bad! Im with Optus in Australia if that makes any difference
[G3 General] fbfortes:
could stop the battery drain. battery charged to 100%. updated to version v10j. root and battery calibration after about 2 hours of battery to 100% and charging. rebooted and left carrying the entire night.:D
[G3 General] shadehh:
As a user who went for a g2 after the nexus 4 i can tell you that that phone was badass. Unfortunately it broke and i had to go back to my n4. After a few months on the nexus 4 i couldnt help but start missing my g2 with its amazing battery life. Being the spontaneous person that i am i randomly went to the shop one day and got the g3 thinking doesnt matter had sex :)

I recommend it whether you choose the g2 or g3 you cant go wrong
[G3 General] willows:
G3 when standby the battery is amazing but when screen on and for playing game (modern combat 5) battery drain is like crazy its decrease 1 percent for 1 minute. Any one have solution for this please share here.
[G3 General] Richieboy67:
Of course the battery will die faster playing a cpu intensive game.

How long is your battery lasting in total?
[G3 General] willows:
One and half hour
[G3 General] ehmjay:
Best i've had so far.. downloaded and watched 11 episodes of SAO II plus some web browsing, facebook, COC,.. brightness at auto50%..
[G3 General] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
I noticed over the last few days, being my weekend I did not have to rely on my phone's alarm to wake me up for work/class... That if I turn the phone off while charging, the phone battery *seems* to last longer, I could be right, or experiencing a placebo effect. I have been using my phone just like any other day, and seem to be hovering around 10% higher (60%) after 2.5 hours SoT.

If anyone is willing to try it out and compare their findings with mine, I would be interested to see. I will continue to test this periodically. :)
[G3 General] tom13mcpherson:
Hi

I'm on Optus Aus too.

What software version are you on and what do you want it to update too?
[G3 General] moussa01:
mobile data on

Can anyone post battery stats with mobile data on
[G3 General] hooozy:
Pls help! With SOT of 1 hour, the battery dropped to 60%. I found that I'm running a lot @ 300mHz. I'm badly in search for the culprit app that's keeping the phone awake... With all Research on my unrooted phone all I can find is android system is consuming most of battery (shutdown monitor, home selector etc) Pls suggest how to get rid of these system essential apps, without rooting! Or else is there any other way to find out battery sucking apps?

Ps: I also changed the runtime from Dalvik to ART, thinking it matters, but the battery consumption remains the same.
[G3 General] Vivasanti:
Why dont ya want to root?

Its hard to work it out completely without it.

Try wakelock detector/betterbatterystats, they will work but only show you a small snap of info without root.
[G3 General] insang-droid:
Stock rooted with greenify Google play services and Google search. 3 hour OST.

Some CoC playing Some angry birds Some Amazon video. Lots of texting and little bit of maps.

Only phone that will beat this is droid turbo.
[G3 General] terry_mccann:
Its all down to the display, overnight is fine 1 or 2 percent loss. But once the display is running you can see percentage drop by the minute.....useless so far. Have ordered a new battery on warranty, but I dont think this will change anything.
[G3 General] kp1314:
I've had the D855 16GB for almost two months now and I have had battery and overheating problems from day1. Over the last week my batt has drained out by 1pm after unplugging at 8am. SOT of just under 2 hrs at 60 brightness. And then I would charge it up again only to be down to single digits by the time I am home by 7. I tried the stumproot and resolution change to HD into my 2nd week of ownership. Dint help a great deal, I wasnt gettin the full experience from the phone either, so i went back to stock. Tried the batteryguru app from snapdragon until last week and that would see me home with around 20 percent left. I have ordered for the caseology batteries with external charger and still awiaitin it after two weeks since I am in India now. I seriously think some of the batteries are faulty, with all the mixed opinion on battery life.

I came from a Note 2 and really love the device, but the battery isnt lettin me use it. My phone is a middle east version, I will try for a replacement if the caseology batteries dont work.
[G3 General] meyerweb:
Check out System Panel: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel to see which apps are using the most cpu,

The pay version is better, and can monitor app activity over time: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel.r1
[G3 General] koppee1:
I bought an original second battery...didn't make a difference. It's really the phone. 3 Hours to 3.5 Hours screen on time average for me. With lots of clash of clana play time. Rooted, Greenify...

Stand by is awesome though..but yeah...when screen is on...the.battery drops like crazy
[G3 General] Kl3m3n_G3:
Hi XDA community. I recommend to use this settings: WIFI ON, LOCATION OFF, BRIGHTNESS ON 50% +AVTO, also TURN ON battery saver(bluetooth off, vibration off, led off).

With BATTERY SAVER on I get like 5 hours screen time on , but without I get like 2.5 or 3 hours screen time on. So 20%~ 1 HOUR screen on(50% brightness)
[G3 General] hwong96:
Battery life is very good. I managed to get 6+ hours of SOT in the last two charging cycles. The first 6+ hours SOT was using 55% of battery and usage was 38 hrs 8 mins with 15% battery remaining. The last 6+ hours SOT was using 58% of battery and usage was 28 hrs 23 mins with 21% battery remaining. I have battery saver turned on at 20%. I do not play games or use facebook. Phone usage includes calls, messaging, email, web surfing, youtube hd & 4k videos, flixster, xda, camera. I turn off auto sync, set brightness to 60% auto, turn off quick circle case ( I use Spigen slim amor case), location set to network only for Lookout.
[G3 General] zebster:
Is it the d855?

I think there is something very strange with my d855.

Running lab501 battery test app i get 8 hours SOT in browsing test with 50% bright.

With normal use cant get more than 4 hours...

4 hours is the same i get with an app called battery drain that drains the battery putting cpu to 100% and screen brightness into 100% and gets the phone very hot.
[G3 General] hwong96:
No, I have the D850 at&t variant. Did you turn off Google location reporting and set location to wifi? Set your display to 60% auto and see if battery life improves.
[G3 General] Swizzle82:
Ever since I recieved my extra battery and charger Ive gotten excellent battery. I attribute it to not having to charge as often. I let one battery go down to 20-30% before charging now and allow a full uninterupted charge in the cradle. Ive been seeing an avg of 20+hrs on battery and around 3 hrs screen on time. SOT doesnt really matter to me and is an inaccurate way to judge battery because sometimes youre doing more or less with each use. I dont have crazy tweaks installed just greenify and I restrict background data on most apps. I think greenifying certain apps does more destruction than benefit too, so I dont greenify chrome, play services, youtube and a couple of others.

D851
[G3 General] MaxG338:
Not bad at all.
[G3 General] Mchi5:
I just got the g3 over the weekend and get about 4-4.5 hours of screen on time. Not great. On my Note 3 I can get about 6 hours SOT.

I had to order the zerolemon extended battery. . Because I cannot stand charging 2-3 times a day
[G3 General] Vivasanti:
Really, charging 2 - 3 times a day - i laugh.
[G3 General] Mchi5:
Why's that funny? If I play any games, YouTube, etc it's true. It's actually not funny but pretty sad
[G3 General] Vivasanti:
Devices are not made for playing youtube and games most of the day - if you want a games machine you brought the wrong phone, if your charging that much you probably need to spend sometime outside :D
[G3 General] Mchi5:
Ok but these smart phones are made to multitask and basically are replacing tablets in use. I just use gaming and YouTube as examples because they're the biggest battery drainers

I also use alot of productivity apps like Google docs and sheets for work related stuff.

And before you get all high and mighty and judge others maybe some of us don't want to be tethered to a wall outlet, or constantly worried about our battery life, because we actually use our g3 for everything, work, casual, and such. And maybe next time you will have something constructive to say instead of "you probably need to spend some time outside" . . And phones can be used outside too...
[G3 General] Vivasanti:
Whoa calm your tits sunshine!

The 4k screen is by far the biggest drain EVER - i still stand by my claim your brought the wrong phone for what you wanted to do.

Should have went with full HD

/end.
[G3 General] Mchi5:
Since you have no idea what I use my phone for, you're just talking out of your ass. I'm so glad you know better than me what phone is best for me and for my needs ?

So I guess you knew I use my phone for Epocrates, up to date, medical calculator, Medscape, Google sheets, Google doc, Facebook, Twitter, etc

/end.
[G3 General] manaup:
I'm on a sprint g3. Has anyone tested if being in great 3g data location would use less battery compared to being in a low lte (1-2 bars lte) connection area? What I've done is change the network settings to 3g/cdma only to see if I get better battery.
[G3 General] relipe:
Stand by mode

The only way that the battery lasts long, several days until it is in standby mode. :(
[G3 General] sullysnet:
anyone notice battery drain after recent updated to Google apps? My sister and I noticed it and both have unistalled the updates. I felt Gmail and Google Drive for now but uninstalled all others. Her battery life was restored, my change was just last night. I won't know till later today.

thanks for the help
[G3 General] treyw1035:
I can confirm the same. I'm wondering if this is related to the issues Google confirmed on the Nexus 5 rollout of Lollipop. It appears to be an issue with NFC. Try disabling

(I can't post the link to google's forum but its Issue 189:	miscellaneous in battery stats for anyone that wants to look further
[G3 General] MaxG338:
I've noticed battery drain is much, much worse when Google Services are running heavily in the background and causing wakelocks. Recently, Google Services was using 60-70% of my battery and I could only get 3-4 hours of screen on time. Now, it seems to have fixed itself somehow and it's back to using under 10% of my battery. Now I can get around 5 hours of SOT. Turning off location and auto-sync also helps, obviously.
[G3 General] sullysnet:
thanks, I removed all of the updated besides Gmail, Google Drive and now added in Google + I do not keep NFC on, so it shouldn't be that on mine. I think I turned it off on my sisters as well. I'd need to ask her. I talked to her yesterday and she confirmed a return to normal battery life once removing all Google related updates. Which one is the bad one is unknown. My phone right now feels warm so it could be Google + that is the only one I added back in for the day.
[G3 General] Billy Madison:
So, I don't believe either that your Note 3 could resist 6hrs of Youtube streaming or gaming. It would drain in the same 4-4.5hrs SOT. There's no magic behind Note 3
[G3 General] Mchi5:
Well doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Remember the note had a bigger battery, 3200 vs the g3 3000. Plus I had the note 3 rooted.

But yes I did get 5.5-6 hrs of on screen time with the note. And that is with light gaming. Which is the same as the 4 hrs for g3, light gaming only
[G3 General] jammychap:
This morning after just 4.5 hours use I'm down to 45%battery 35% of that was down to android system and 15% down to display, screen is at 37% brightness the rest is minimal, I have already removed the smart bulletin and LG health, I'm using deep sleep battery manager and do battery manager side by side but still poor battery life, roll on lollypop

---------- Post added at 09:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:39 AM ----------

P. S. I only used the phone for 1.3 hours of that
[G3 General] jammychap:
On 7 hours the phone shut down, along side the G3 I'm running my old rooted GS3 i9300 running Neatrom that has all the same Installed apps but still has 88% battery life left, something is certainly wrong with the G3
[G3 General] jammychap:
Ok update,

I have tried lots of tricks n tips to extend my battery life on this phone, greenified apps, frozen a few I don't want with TB like the health app, set email accounts to update every 2 hours, running deep sleep battery saver, Clean master and DU battery saver but was still struggling to keep the phone on over 14 hours.

last night I found a top tip inside one of my installed apps, inside Clean master there is an autostart manager, I have blocked loads of apps that I don't want starting on their own like AA, amazon, argos, asda, and loads more and hey presto a nice cool phone and after 11 hours use I still have 53% battery left with 2.25mins screen on time :good::good::good::good:
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
The best trick for me is xposed modules called amplify.
[G3 General] jammychap:
Can't use exposed on lollipop [emoji19]
[G3 General] hokiealumnus:
Since there is already a thread on battery life, I have a good question to need to ask. In my normal use, I can't get this phone below 45% when it's time to go to sleep around midnight (after unplugging around 7:30am). Granted, I'm not watching movies/TV shows on it, which would drain it more.

Anyway, is repeatedly plugging the phone in at 45-50% when I go to bed going to hurt the battery's capacity, or is that just plain old school and doesn't matter any more?

This is a wonderful "problem" to have of course; the battery life on this phone is fantastic for me.
[G3 General] alfablac:
I think it doesn't matter anymore. That's how I use this phone. I get until 30-40% on a 18-hour run with ~4h SoC average.

I use SetCPU and a custom kernel to make profiles for almost everything I do in the phone. It helps a lot.
[G3 General] Marcovanbasten:
It better to charge it when it is at 40% than 5%...
[G3 General] sagarb:
Im Getting the best battery life
[G3 General] Pfeffernuss:
Of whom?
[G3 General] rowbaggie22:
Just wondered bout battery life as fone been off charge 22 minutes and its used bout 10 percent is that normal or not fone usually lasts me a day anyone got longer if so how
[G3 General] iBolski:
Were you doing anything during those 22 minutes? Or was it only on standby? I know for me, I charged it up before I went to bed last night and it was at 100%. 6 hours later, when my phone's alarm went off (I use it as an alarm clock), it was still at 100%. Again, that is on standby, and using Greenify.

If you were using your phone for 22 minutes and it went down 10%, what were you doing? If you weren't using it and it was all standby, then you have a rogue app or service running that's draining your battery. Or you have a lot of synching going on (Facebook, GMail, Google Play Books, Movies, Music, etc).

Just saying it went down 10% in 22 minutes and not giving us any clue as to what was going on with the phone during those 22 minutes doesn't help. So, if you could give us a better idea of what was going on during those 22 minutes, that would definitely help us give you a better answer to your question.
[G3 General] Progamersparsh:
Here is my setup

Chupa Chups rom and kernel

300-1947mhz set on boot

Intelli min

No UV no gpu underclock

560 DPI

Greenified some apps

Full day usage with mixed data and WiFi always on 30/70% GPS on for about an hour or so for apps like tinder and badoo