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[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Yea this phone has Cpu1 and Cpu4 idling at 300mhz which really uses not much juice when it's not in use.

Hopefully you can figure it out!

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[Verizon LG G3] Neverender326:
For those of you having poor battery results I may have found something that hasn't been covered.

I was tracking down a force close in the G3 Tweakbox so downloaded catlog and saw it was being spammed by "sensors.qcom" I did not have this issue on my S3. I checked the BBS stats and sure enough sensors.qcom and a host of other sensor related kernel wakelocks were causing big time drain.A quick search found this thread:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=67189

I've since gone into system/bin/sensors.com and renamed it sensors.qcom.bak rebooted and the logcat spam stopped but now the screen won't rotate. Ugh. This seems to be an ongoing issue with no real solution on stock roms. Let's hope the great dev minds unlock the bootloader soon so we can jump to AOSP.
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
I've been thinking of what to do with all those damn sensors myself. That's the problem though things will just stop working like your auto rotate lol

I try to not even look at that tab in BBS anymore.. It's crazy.

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[Verizon LG G3] droidkevlar:
I was getting amazing battery life and all of a sudden I saw this popup in my wake lock. I have all location services turned on and all I do is have an app that does a reboot each night at 3AM and now its back to being killer battery life. Also, it stops this wakelock from going crazy. Maybe give that a try and see if that resolves your issues, along with turning location services back on.
[Verizon LG G3] Neverender326:
Try turning location reporting on then off, turning location services to high accuracy and then batter saving. This stopped the spam for me. It comes back after a reboot. ANNOYING:mad:
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
I'll keep and eye on it tomorrow and give your method a try for sure thanks for the idea.

Your idea here has definitely stopped my Logcat from being spammed.

Very strange thing we have going on here. Like you said before we need AOSP and a killer Kernel asap!

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[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
I was wondering if this might be sensor related due to it getting hot in my pocket with the phone facing my body. Take it out back to a cool running phone.
[Verizon LG G3] mjforte:
My usage for today. Mix of WiFi and some 4G. Browsing through chrome, reddit news, Tapatalk, youtube, some phone calls and texting. Pretty good and the best I've had so far.
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
Wow. Done anything to the phone or is it stock firmware?

Google Now On/Off?

Location Services?
[Verizon LG G3] mjforte:
Rooted and froze most of the unneeded bloat apps. Google Now is off and location services are on.
[Verizon LG G3] oneandroidnut:
we need roms!
[Verizon LG G3] droidkevlar:
You can leave Google now on and get amazing battery life. This screen shot SOT was tapatalk, chrome, reddit, fb, texting, etc type stuff, wifi and BT always on, and was on 4G prob have the time. What I have noticed is the money is rebooting at least once a day (I have it set to auto reboot at night when Im sleeping) You can go sometimes 2-3 days without rebooting, but after that, me personally I noticed weird wakelocks. So now I just have it reboot once a day and all is back to amazing battery life .
[Verizon LG G3] scy1192:
Surely you guys are all using like 0% brightness to get these times, right?
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
I can get 4 hours at 50% + auto. Set to 30% + auto right now.
[Verizon LG G3] scy1192:
Yeah I haven't been able to get much above 2.5 with 100% brightness (what can I say, I like a clear bright screen)
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
100% is bright! I thought even 50% was pretty bright.

My wife pulls 4 hrs SOT without even paying attention to power savings.
[Verizon LG G3] mjforte:
Yeah I always roll with 50% auto brightness.
[Verizon LG G3] JesseMT4G:
Just for giggles, tried 50% brightness on auto. I don't know how you guys do it. I can barely see my screen. I usually keep auto off and 75% brightness and it has done okay on battery life.

Started out terrible, but the more cycles I do seems the better the battery life.

Had 18 hours yesterday and 2 hours SOT. Still had 45% battery life. Could definitely deal with that.
[Verizon LG G3] RaptorMD:
I actually play a lot of casual games on my phone while waiting for things, time fillers mostly since I do not have a gaming console and I am a casual gamer. Still my phone is for pictures/video shots, playing media, web, email, txt and gaming, for me social media is of little interest.
[Verizon LG G3] McDastardly:
Anyone have stupid amounts of keep awake time from the android os? Seems like I average about 5 hours every day.
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
I haven't experienced times that high. Today's usage...
[Verizon LG G3] McDastardly:
Here's about the norm for me.
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
Using that as the start then yes...
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
Nightly reboot keeps the awake stat very close to screen on time for me.
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
A daily reboot definitely helps! Also for any of you guys that want to see more ideas that'll save you some juice check out my thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54342046

There's some suggestions in the OP as well as some general discussion from a few of us on other things we've disabled. And if any of you have more suggestions please chime in...

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[Verizon LG G3] xJujux:
I just bought the g3 and I can't get it into deep sleep I rooted it and removed all the crap bloatware and with those wakelock apps I haven't seen anything out if the ordinary so any help would be awesome....

Update..only does it while plugged in?
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Grab Better Battery Stats and post some screen shots of your Partial WakeLocks, Alarms, and Other screens. Then we can see what's going on more

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[Verizon LG G3] Buzzy42:
I'm definitely seeing weirdness with Android OS using a lot of battery, but it seems to depend on the day. Part of it is due to tethering at work but it doesn't explain all of it. I'm going to have to dig through this thread a bit. I keep wondering if it's XPrivacy running (phone is rooted+Xposed) as it didn't seem to be this bad before rooting.

I've noticed just using the phone (with around 30-40% brightness) I can watch the battery drop about 1% every 3-4 minutes which gets disheartening, definitely seems like I've mucked something up. (or something's out of control) My specs don't look too bad, though.
[Verizon LG G3] droidkevlar:
I use Xprivacy and do not have these issues. Some have mentioned that you need to toggle location settings to High use and then back to medium use. I have a rule setup so that when I launch Maps, it does this auto, so that might be why it still sticks after a reboot for me as others have said you have to do this after each reboot. And I use maps daily.
[Verizon LG G3] Neverender326:
Here's my latest run. I've tweaked frameworks and play services. WiFi all day. Using Lux auto brightness sits at 70% in the office and I use llama to automate the radios (screen on vs screen off) This doubles my S3 SOT. 1st pic is after waking up. I charged to 100% took it off and went to bed. Second pic is after streaming twitch and YouTube all day.

I'm positive I could get another hour at least SOT with 18% left but I'm leaving work for the day. I'm liking these results!
[Verizon LG G3] xJujux:
But it only happens when I'm on my charger doesn't that seem off that it just throttles to 300 mhz instead of deep sleep when charging?
[Verizon LG G3] dlscott1111:
Here's a time lapse video showing exactly how much screen time you will get if constantly playing a video on the g3. Actually better battery life than the gs5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10UQ1XYyfnI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Verizon LG G3] Buzzy42:
Hrm, I use Maps and Waze daily as well, sounds interesting. I know on my old phone I would have to manually kill Maps or else it'd silently drain the battery, I wonder if something similar is at play here...

What are you using for the rule to switch the location settings?

I haven't had the chance to get BetterBatteryStats installed, hopefully this weekend.
[Verizon LG G3] BlueHarford:
Everything has a better battery life than the gs5, I hated that phone
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
My friend who has a GS5 charges it about twice a day, he dates hates it!

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[Verizon LG G3] distortedloop:
Cheap date?

Does she at least put out at the end? LOL
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Oh you know it!

Lol

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[Verizon LG G3] droidkevlar:
I use automatit the free version. I have a rule that turns GPS to full when maps launches and then back to batt saver after you exit maps. I also created a few new rules that seem to have made batt life even better. Auto reboot each night and after reboot toggle GPS. This is best batt life for me so far.
[Verizon LG G3] gbenrus25:
I have the exact same issue with my G3. When in my pocket, gets really hot and battery dies quickly. I bring it out and it cools quickly. Must be a sensor issue. Going to try to exchange the phone
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
If you're rooted you try to see what WakeLocks you have.. I'd be interested in seeing what's causing this

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[Verizon LG G3] gbenrus25:
I am rooted. I believe it's Google search. It typically uses a lot of the battery percentage and also shows a good number of WakeLocks using wakelock detector.
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Do you use Better Battery Stats?, a screen shot of your Partial WakeLocks would tell a lot. Or from WLD expanded view so you can see what exactly is causing what... Up to you though, I'm always curious to see what other people's phone are up to lol

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[Verizon LG G3] tech_head:
17.5 Hours with 60% left.

Streamed iHeart for an hour and basic use with a couple of games on and off.

Sync of 4 email accounts.
[Verizon LG G3] gbenrus25:
I don't use Better Battery Stats. Pls how do you see the expanded view on WLD?
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
By that I just meant click on a particular one so it expands it like this

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[Verizon LG G3] droidkevlar:
I have tested this for a week now and this battery life is amazing. I have wifi and bt on all day, connected to wifi 8 hours a day, crappy 3g/4g speeds cuz my work sucks, listen to google music streaming music for 1-2 hours depending on traffic, have about 1-4 hours SOT, send about 10-100 texts and about 5-45mins of phone calls a day, and never once get close to needing to recharge. Usually around 30-60% left depending on SOT time. And this is off the charger for min 18 hours a day. Here is what I have done to get this.

I use automatit (free version) to set the following rules:

Reboot nightly at 3AM

Upon reboot, toggle GPS

When disconnecting from car BT, if streaming Google Music, kill app

The reason for the reboot nightly is I found out about after 2-3 days of not rebooting, I would get a weird wakelock of wifioffdelayifnotused. It would destroy my battery. No idea why it happens, but found that this was happening in the G2 as well and a reboot would resolve it. Reason for toggle GPS is as others have pointed out, after a reboot, it would cause a weird wakelock issue as well until you toggled this. And last, the reason for killing the music app is I noticed even though that it wasnt streaming anymore, it would still drain my battery.

Hope this helps out others. This phone seriously has the best batt life I have ever owned and I have owned all the top devices over the past 3yrs.
[Verizon LG G3] kafreeman:
Did you exchange the phone? Any change?
[Verizon LG G3] gbenrus25:
Sorry about the delay. I did get the phone changed and it's much better. Must have been bad sensors on the last one
[Verizon LG G3] jfriend33:
I came from the almighty droid maxx too. I'm on my third day of use. I figured my battery demands were low enough (only charge maxx every 2 days) I'd take a risk plus I HAD to alternate upgrade anyway with no other options.

Are you missing active notifications? I am missing quick capture. And maybe assist. But this display is gorgeous. And to be able to actually have choices for accessories on a non carrier exclusive device is, well, nice!

The standby time on this is great. Only 4 percent overnight 8hrs of drain. But who knows. I figure my maxx probably had a little degradation in the battery anyway.

I'm on the fence about just letting go of my ocd charging habits since batt is removable. My maxx I always used a 2.1a charger and basically only fully cycled it once a month. Plus I never left it for hours unattended plugged in.
[Verizon LG G3] Fuse8499:
I've had the phone for 5 days. The first 2 days battery life wasn't very good. Battery seems to have stabilized after I ran it through cycle a couple times. I also disabled a few system apps that weren't necessary. Not sure if that helped. I'm happy though. Gets me through a full day easily with moderate usage.
[Verizon LG G3] GoBears:
I was getting pretty bad battery life. I'm talking 2-3 hours SOT until dead. I was rooted with a bunch of stuff frozen and xposed installed with a couple of modules. I was just about to go back to the S5 because it did much better for me. Last night I restored to stock and did not re root yet. I disabled whatever apps I could without root and now my battery is all better. Easily double the battery life I was getting. Now I'm not so sure I want to trade back lol. If you're constantly getting poor battery life, try restoring back to stock and starting over. Worked wonders for me.
[Verizon LG G3] Cruiserdude:
Oddly, I've found my battery life to be noticeably worse on ART than with Dalvik, even though I have all the Verizon stuff frozen. That's inconsistent with how the runtime works, but I would frequently find my phone getting hot and draining for no reason, even though it seems to work fine on the other variants. Went back to dalvik and it definitely improved alot, though I do miss the snappiness of ART.

Still, hopefully we'll see an update soon on this, I can't imagine what LG would be waiting for, since it's apparently not even in Verizon internal testing yet...
[Verizon LG G3] tu3218:
Still stock and running on dalvik. Battery life has been pretty good so far. The screen does use a decent amount of battery, however standby on this phone is absolutely amazing. Even after a couple of weeks with everything installed, standby is still amazing. I am very impressed.
[Verizon LG G3] LaTropa64:
Decent Screen on Time when it's just playing a movie.

I opened MX Player and started a movie on a loop. I set the volume at 15 in MX Player (which is max volume of the device, though MX player can go even higher) and I set the display brightness at 12 (of 15) (which overrides whatever brightness you've set in your phones settings).

[IMG="Loop play of 720p movie in MX Player at 12 brightness"]http://www.imgur.com/buXrMIBl.png[/IMG]

That was the last time I checked it. It lasted about 8:45 minutes doing nothing but looping the movie.

I performed the same exact test (same movie, same brightness, volume, etc.) on my old Galaxy S4 at got 7:30 minutes of screen on time.

But actually using the phone, I haven't been so happy with battery life so far. I've only had it five days so I haven't put it through all the usual tests but today I used navigation for about 30 minutes, browsed the web and a few other random things for a total of 3h32m of SoT. 9h30m since unplugged and I'm at 27% right now. We'll see. I read about the rave reviews of the GS5's SoT and it makes me wonder if I should stick with this phone.

edit: one note that happened at least a few times while looping the movie, it would pixelated very badly. I just had it propped up on my desk while I was doing other things so I'm not sure how many times it happened but I noticed it more than once. When I was doing the same test with the same movie on my Galaxy S4, I never saw the movie pixelate.

[IMG="Drive 720p pixelization on LG G3"]http://i.imgur.com/WW7EXY9l.jpg[/IMG]
[Verizon LG G3] trent999:
One thing pretty remarkable about my VG3 is how well it deep sleeps. If it is sitting with the screen off overnight, it doesn't use hardly any battery at all.

Tethering with WiFi Tether App rooted, though, chews through battery fast.
[Verizon LG G3] LaTropa64:
I think it's cheating about the battery percentage it displays when it sleeps.

I unplugged it right before bed last night at 100%, during sleep I was woken up by a 45 second call and one text that I didn't bother to reply to.

9h40m later when I finally roll out of bed the battery life was still showing at 100%. I watched a 10 minute YouTube video and did a couple other things and it lost 3% in just 12 minutes.

Right after that screenshot I used the phone very heavily over the next hour (mostly using Chrome and Twitter) and my screen on time was 56 minutes and the battery was already down to 86% after barely over an hour after waking up with it at 100%.
[Verizon LG G3] LaTropa64:
Sorry for yet another bump but I'm doing another battery test between my GS4 and the LG G3. It might become a YouTube video if my old phone doesn't run out of storage space and I figure out time lapse.

I have to say I like the color reproduction on the GS4 much better than the G3. The battery life is a bit better so far on the G3 though.

Just a sample pic from my awful P&S earlier that shows the GS4 showing much better blacks then then the LG G3:

[IMG="Recording the GS4 and G3, it may never make it to youtube."]http://i.imgur.com/3UWwgBol.jpg[/IMG]

As for battery life, right now it's 1h41m in and the GS4 is at 73% and the LG G3 is at 76%. I do have to note that the GS4 has been loading the videos much master though and I've had to pause it for a fraction of a second many times to keep the G3 in sync... despite them playing the exact same files on the exact same playlist in the exact same player (MX player) and on the exact same brightness and volume.

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Again, you can see it's not perfectly in sync because the GS4 loads the videos faster but it's also catching up in battery life. 70% vs 72%. All the dirty pixels across the entire image are the fault of my 7 year old P&S digital camera.

I'ts not making me feel confident about a phone that's 1+ year older than the GS4 but barely gets better battery life and has worse color reproduction with blacks being grey instead of black.

[IMG="GS4 vs G3 battery life"]http://i.imgur.com/a2za61Oh.jpg[/IMG]

I don't know.

Edit: GS4 is winning now. 2h34m in and 59% on GS4 vs 57% on G3. Sad.
[Verizon LG G3] LaTropa64:
Yet another reply. Just to note the GS4 has pulled ahead of the G3 in battery life by a few percentage points... and, in my opinion it has much better color reproduction. Especially when it comes to blacks. QHD is a gimmick on this screen in my opinion. See these examples from a terrible camera with no good focus that still make it obvious.

^ click pics to enlarge
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Although I think it's great what you're doing here with sharing your experience and even running a test... I think it's somewhat pointless to compare FHD S-AMOLED screen to a QHD IPS one.

The AMOLED is always going to produce Blacks better and get better Battery life in my opinion.

Two totally different technologies.

I think a comparison between the Note 4 and the G3 would at least put the two different displays on more of a level playing field.... Although even then the Note 4 has the Snap 805 and bigger Adreno chip as well.

I came from an S4 myself and I loved that phone and actually loved the screen too but I'm quite happy with the G3 screen... Think it's a personal preference.

Don't think I'm knocking what your trying to do here... I'm not... Just wanted to weigh in [emoji2]

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[Verizon LG G3] THEbigSWEEN:
Just wondering, but on the G3 have you adjusted in settings-->accessibility-->color adjustment? And when you click to the left of the on/off switch and get to where you adjust it, I have mine set to where the top rightish part of the folder (file manager) is in the bottom of the circle and the top left of the actual adjustment circle is covering most of the "a" and the rest of the letters of "camera." (if you look at it that will make more sense) but I thought colors seemed slightly "dimmed" as well and adjusting to that darkened them up and gave it a hint of blue that reminded me of using morfic's trinity kernel on the Galaxy Nexus. All my previous phones were Samsung and last one was a Note II and given I haven't done a side by side comparison like what you're doing I haven't had any complaints and have been VERY happy with the screen and phone in general. Just figured I would mention that color adjustment for if you hadn't done it, maybe it would "even the odds" a bit in that aspect of your test. :D
[Verizon LG G3] tech_head:
An AMOLED with a bright background will get worse battery life than an IPS/LCD display.

AMOLED has a light source for each pixel. So an off pixel will be black.

An LCD will close a shutter for lack of a better term. So black may the same but since most scenes aren't really black they will look worse.

To extend the battery on an AMOLED display use black backgrounds. An LCD will be pretty constant at a particular brightness level, no matter the content.

Think of it this way:

AMOLED has better blacks, but battery life is dependent on content displayed where bright scenes will cause battery drain faster at any brightness level.

IPS/LCD will have blacks that are probably worse, but the battery drain will be independent of content and only overall brightness level will have an effect.
[Verizon LG G3] Mistertac:
Well said man.

I've read many articles on the AMOLED vs LCD/IPS and that's what I took from it more or less just... You explain better than I did for sure.

I'm still torn a little, loved my S4 screen but I'm really loving this one even more .

I need to see the Note 4 screen I think to make the call. Although really I think they're both great at this point.

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[Verizon LG G3] tech_head:
The S4 screen was better than my Razr HD, but I never really got used to the over saturated colors.

The G3 screen is much better and you can adjust some of the parameters.

I don't see the screen as a big battery draw.

Mine stays on auto at about 75%

I also leave BT on 100% of the time.

Right now I'm almost 13 hours in with 61% battery left.
[Verizon LG G3] LaTropa64:
I gave that a shot. I set mine to just how you described. I think I do like how it looks a little better now.

---------- Post added at 10:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 PM ----------

Battery results:

Different than before while looping the various shorter clips. The G3 got less battery life this time than my old phone.

LG G3 dies: 5h16m48s

Samsung GS4 dies: 5h57m14s

[YOUTUBE]_mYWfyH9Uag[/YOUTUBE]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mYWfyH9Uag

In my previous test with the same two phones, I looped a single movie over and over and the GS4 lasted 7.5 hours while the LG G3 lasted over 8.5 hours.
[Verizon LG G3] jcc2z:
Batteries

I figured I would post here instead of making a new thread...

After I got my G3, I went to eBay and bought a China "3500 mAh" battery. After using it, it doesn't seem to really function any better than the stock OEM. At the time, that was the only battery available other than stock because I had just bought it upon release.

My question is--Has anyone tried using the batteries that are now on eBay? There are ones that are 3800, 3850, 4041.

Currently, my battery life just sucks. Granted, I did come from the Maxx and I am an extreme user. I've disabled a lot of things and tried different apps, but it doesn't seem to help my problem of struggling to get thru an 8 hour day.

Thankfully we now have our bootloaders unlocked, so I'm hoping some tweaked ROMs will help out, when they do start coming out.

But anyways, any feedback on the alternate batteries would be appreciated. I have a feeling the 3500 that I bought was a cheap 3000 knock off wrapped in a different label. Just wondering if they are all like this.

Thanks