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[G4 General] MariusZSAQ:
from 45-50% my battery drains very fast, i hardly get 3h, if i am lucky..

mix and brightness 50%

when i bought the phone i had 4-4.5 hours sot, i think this problem came with v10d update. i will try a factory reset later
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Yeah do that and then install the apps one by one. don't use restore.

i know someone that went 2 months with no more than 3h sot that remained 3h sot. he was convinced it was the screen that was using too much power.

then he tried the reset and clean install. result ? pushing 5h sot :)
[G4 General] MariusZSAQ:
i will use just lg backup for contacts,messages, pictures. it's that ok ?
[G4 General] imarcel99:
For me LG backup slowed the device down.
[G4 General] kyogiro:
Got my G4 since the day before yesterday. So far, battery life is not great but I've been spending a lot of time with the device re-installing my apps.

I'll wait a few days while I'm settling down with the G4 for a definitive verdict.
[G4 General] Croize:
im so impressed with the battery watching downloaded movies on this device ^^ :) 5 % been gone on 1 hour and 30 minutes :) about 30 % brightness & no wifi, bt etc
[G4 General] One Twelve:
yes i think that should be fine. But apps should be installed from scratch.

How did you setup the G4 the first time. was that a backup from google or one by one ?
[G4 General] gull_s_777:
Another run on G4. Half time with 3G and half on wifi

Browsing/Talpatalking mostly
[G4 General] awes0me1:
I was having quite bad battery life after about 4 recharge cycles so I let it die all the way down till it turned off, then let it fully charge now it's lasting slot longer. Give it try.
[G4 General] ImSpiderman:
Having really bad battery life after update to 6.0: from 100% to 10% with 7hr usage and 3 hours sot
[G4 General] Croize:
lol wow..... Google seem to know what they are doing :D
[G4 General] SIRKRA:
Personal usage on Marshmallow ( probably a lot lighter than anyone here! ), always end the day with about 2,5/3 hours of SOT and left from 40 to 50% battery, really happy with it! Coming from a Lumia 930 seems a paradise!
[G4 General] kyogiro:
It is my 4th day on my G4. It is not great so far. Here's today's breakdown.

Yes, I got 4 hours of SoT in a 12 hours span but it was with the power saving feature on at all time. Indoors, it's quite okay since the dimmer screen isn't that inconvenient but outdoors in direct sunlight...
[G4 General] dondavis007:
4 hours is more than I have normally. Not bad, LG haven't been battery kings since G2 sadly.

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[G4 General] kyogiro:
On power saving mode. In normal use, it's around 2-2h30 of SoT for me and I could hardly finish the day without having to recharge a bit my G4.
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Give it more charging cycles. Let's see how it is after a week say.
[G4 General] mothmanex:
Ok, I leave here the stats from both of my batteries (Original one and the one from the Cradle). I used 50%-100% of screen brightness the whole time.

Original Battery

http://imgur.com/a/uM5od

Battery with Cradle

http://imgur.com/a/TDE6I
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Run time : 1d 8h 28m

SOT:4h 37

battery remaining : 4% ?

what does S & C mean under apps consumption

Ultimate Browser Project C (21m54s / 21m54s) S(15) <--How to interpret this ?

Suggestions made to improve sot.

running at 5% brightness gets 7h 11m sot

15% brightness gets 6h 26m,

effectively half an hour more for 10% less brightness. extrapolating...

25% 6h

35% 5h 30m

45% 5h

55% 4h 30

65% 4h

75% 3h30

85% 3h

95% 2h30

Run time : 2d 10h 13m good standby

SOT:4h 29 still ?

battery remaining : 5% ?

here the suggestions are a bit odd

5% brightness is 3h 23m

15% brightness is 2h 28

why is it different ?
[G4 General] mothmanex:
I always ignore the suggestions. C is ususally the usage time. The app I use most is Reddit Sync. On the first battery, to get it to 5%, I used Netflix with speakers and at 100% brightness.
[G4 General] chewybang:
I'm about to chuck this thing against the wall.

My battery life has been abysmal ever since I got this thing 2 weeks ago. And you know what's worse? I have an 8500 mah zerolemon battery! The last two days I can barely make it to the day's end. I did turn on Advanced Calling yesterday so it may be related, but this is ridiculous! I'm on an LG G4 Verizon with 11A rooted (took the OTA, then rooted)

I have not done anything to the system ( no greenify, xposed, themes) other than doing the tethering hack (on unlimited data from VZW)

Any ideas on what to do. Location is probably killing me since my hometown is on the border of 4g/3g
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Then its something to do with your usage. Whether that can be 'optimised'.

How bright do you like you screen in % ? in manual.

verizon used to require dual active radios for LTE a while ago. That means two cell radios running. I hear of late with VoLTE that is no longer the case. Do you know what band verizon 4g runs at where you are ?

But if you have advanced calling, that occurs over wifi.

Running hotspot means receive then broadcast over wifi, consumes power.

Oh, this is another thing that will kill battery. Constant handover between 4g and 3 g. I noticed you had your data on 3g. But what is your mobile setting on ? cdma/3g/4g (auto)

To stick that on 3g only means if your 3g signal drops there is no handover to cdma. So maybe cdma/3g with 3g being preferred is the best option.

Tell us your signal strength. how many dbm's you get with your cell signal. settings->about device->status. look for signal strength. ideally you want those dbm to be lower than 90 for data. If its nearing 100 then your cell radios have to work harder. If its faster speed, still harder than slower speed.

Distribute the workload. If you run a hotspot chances are you in one spot most of the time.

Get a powered mifi router. You will need to get another sim. Stick that sim in the mifi and let it do the tethering over wifi. Let it take the hit for borderline 3g/4g and tethering. Turn off data on your device and just use wifi. This way your calling over wifi will work too.

When you're out and about you will have to decide whether to use 3g or 4g.
[G4 General] chewybang:
Question: Can I do Xposed on a Verizon rooted device? Or is it only available for the international/T-mo versions?

I have it at 50%. I understand that can take quite a bit of power but I know there are people here using 100% brightness and getting the same SOT with the standard battery.

It switches between 4G and 3G constantly. Like you said, I truly think this is the main problem.

I think it uses VolTE so it's not always wifi, at least that's not what I thought. I did turn off Advanced Calling for a few hours and that "seemed" better. I'll have to test some more.

Definitely; however, I rarely use this. I only use it to power my kids' iPads when I'm driving long distances. This particular day (attached screenshots above) I didn't have it on at all.

So I'm with you on this. I noticed the setting is set to "Global", whatever that is. I changed it to "LTE/CDMA" for a bit but didn't think that was a big deal. Can anyone elaborate on the difference between Global and LTE/CDMA and if it would make a difference? I don't travel outside the country; however, I live in the boondocks in California... almost considered another country ;)

If I could do that, that may work. I just don't know how to force 3G only. Anyone?

Around the house, it is in the low 100s for 3G. I'll have to look at the 4G when I get home today as I failed to do so.

That would be a good idea. Like I said, I only use tethering when I'm out and about with the kids, but it's a great idea to make full use of my unlimited data.

Thanks so much for your time in responding. I really REALLY appreciate it.
[G4 General] Erickm0529:
Battery life issues

Ive had the lg g4 since about July and ive felt as if the battery dies way to quickly. I can get maybe 3 hours of sot on a good day if i have my brightness at 45%. Opinions? Ibe gone to sprint to ask and theyve always say its the battery. Currently on my 4th battery with the same issue. Phone also tends to get more than just warm.
[G4 General] kyogiro:
Same with mine. I'm just waiting for Android 6 and see how things are going from there. Otherwise, I'll try to exchange mine with a new one with my retailer.

I think I could get a decent battery life without putting my G4 of battery saving mode all the time, but the heat just kills it too quickly.

Oh and by the way, GPS works fine on battery saving mode as long as the screen is turned on, otherwise you would lose the GPS signal (couldn't map twice my running tracks with the screen turned off).
[G4 General] rav101:
This is how I'm doing on the cm12.1 build from yesterday. Not bad so far with just greenify setup...

I've not even installed Xposed and as such this is without amplify, intelli3g and other battery saving methods.
[G4 General] spartan268:
Not bad???

That looks crazy good assuming you havent charged it at all
[G4 General] rav101:
Nope, I'm a good boy and don't give wrong impressions like that.

I do think the dpi might be lowered as standard in cm but need to validate.
[G4 General] imarcel99:
What did you greenify?
[G4 General] spartan268:
At this point I think you're good to go. Running CM vs stock is a different ball game as far as things like wakelocks goes.
[G4 General] chewybang:
Do you guys have a microsd card installed by any chance? Do you know if your heating issues started once you put the card in? Someone in the Verizon thread mentioned he had the same issue and he tracked it to the microsd card. I have one installed and I feel like i have a portable furnace in my pocket. I'm going to run this as is (with card in) for one more day, then take the card out tomorrow and monitor it.

Just wanted to give you guys a heads up.
[G4 General] rav101:
Almost everything. Leave whatsapp and other important things, otherwise everything else only turns on when I need it. The only one I would want to degreenify is snapchat otherwise it's perfect for me.
[G4 General] sguerra923:
Quick question, has anyone purchased the Trendon batteries on Amazon? So far, I'm having good experiences with them but I noticed once the battery life gets down to single digits like 7% then it's starts climbing back up to 8%, 9%, then 10% without being plugged in. Then it would start dropping after being used. Anyone have similar experiences? Do I need to re-calibrate my battery stats?
[G4 General] Croize:
just use it normally, it probably settle down .
[G4 General] three-armsally:
I use Greenify, I put screen brightness to less than 50%, I've turned off location and auto sync but I have really bad cellular reception. I get only 1-2 bars at home. Any tips on maximizing battery life at home or am I screwed?
[G4 General] One Twelve:
A mifi router that you can stick your sim in. This means you need an extra sim.

or a cell phone booster and hold on to your existing sim.

You did not mention how many hours sot you get ?
[G4 General] Almighty1:
I posted in the other thread. My MicroSD 200GB card died about 2 weeks ago so I was running without the MicroSD Card until last wednesday and it still heated up and I am using the throttle Mod v2.1 too.

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I and others have had Xposed running since mid-August using flashfire on bootloader locked G4's, I have the Verizon Wireless variant.

http://xdaforums.com/g4/themes-apps/guide-installing-xposed-locked-t3181593

Verizon Wireless was formed as GTE Wireless, BellAtlantic Mobility, PrimeCo, Vodafone AirTouch (formerly known as Pacific Telesis) so it is big in California. AirTouch until the Verizon Wireless merger owned 60% of AT&T Wireless while the other 40% is owned by AT&T Wireless previously known as McCaw. GTE Wireless is known as System B (wireline carrier) while AT&T Wireless is known as System A (wireless carrier). AT&T's TDMA network is good but when they first went GSM which was PCS1.9Ghz, the network sucked as there was no signal anywhere until they upgraded the towers and added back 850Mhz, this was known as the AT&T Blue Network. AT&T Orange Network also PCS 1.9Ghz with 850Mhz added later is what was Cingular Wireless California/Nevada which was Pacific Bell Mobile Services prior to that. T-Mobile which started out as Voicestream Wireless in California/Nevada used Cingular Wireless's network towers as they did not have their own towers while Cingular used T-Mobile's towers in New York. After AT&T Wireless bought Cingular Wireless, the AT&T Orange network was sold to T-Mobile. Been using and testing AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless since 1988 and Sprint/PBMS since 1996.
[G4 General] One Twelve:
And what about this mysterious bootloop issue that is going around ? ie risk.

The guy lives in a borderline 3/4g area. His battery is dying because its searching for a weak 4g signal. he wants to know how to disable 4g so he can use 3G with fallback to 2g ?

is there a way to do this without rooting. On GSM devices this is easy.

The other question is how does one find out what bands the G4 is connected to ? is there some dialer code that can show this for a confirmation.

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So in addition to euro h815 there is also h811. Good. One more added to the list.

what about mysterious bootloop going around ? risk.
[G4 General] Almighty1:
No idea about the mysterious bootloop as I had experienced it and it wasn't xposed that caused it since the problem happened on my Motorola Droid RAZR HD Maxx running Kitkat too which was a year before I even had the G4. It was caused by Titanium Backup and usually requires uninstalling Titanium Backup, reboot and then installing Titanium Backup which will fix the problem. and that's not a bootloop but rather the phone will reboot after starting up randomly. So TiBu got corrupted somehow, not sure what causes it but it happens from time to time.

In any case, what city is he in specifically because I know across the Golden Gate bridge, EDGE Wireless now AT&T Wireless has better coverage than Verizon Wireless as of a few years ago, learned this from HowardForums but that is atleast 7-8 years ago I'm talking about.

I live in a borderline 3G/4G area too since in the house at the same spot, sometimes it will have 4G and other times, it will be 3G and I'm in San Francisco, I can walk 100 feet in either direction and it will be a full 4G signal. I mean for the last 12 hours, the phone at the same stationary spot has been on 3G. It should be 3G and fallback to 2.5G and then 2G, I thought if you access the hidden menu, you can disable the 4G. No idea how to figure out what bands it's connected to as that would be interesting. I'm still trying to figure out how the phone supports Verizon's 700Mhz LTE when none of the specs for the G4 indicates 700Mhz anywhere. One other thought is to make sure we have the latest PRL (Preferred Roaming List) which sometimes requires powering phone off, taking out the sim, power on phone without sim for 5 minutes, power down and reinsert sim and power up.

Wonder if this app might do what you wanted to know:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.simplyadvanced.ltediscovery&hl=en
[G4 General] ZeroCoin:
Battery life has been pretty good for me. Had some issues around a month ago and tracked it down to the outlook app. Ended up disabling outlook syncing until a recent update. Seems to have been fixed and I haven't had any problems recently.
[G4 General] three-armsally:
I used to get like 2 hours and 30 minutes of SoT, figured out that the drain came from google fit. Uninstalled fit and now I'm getting up to 5 hours of SoT.
[G4 General] davebugyi:
Pretty good, I have to say on 4G, the whole day today.

7HD 6.1 (5.1.1), SuperXE kernel, Greenify and Amplify running.
[G4 General] alok_dhawal:
Hi people... Have been using G4 for 2 months now...after the latest update v10f I have the feeling battery has got worse...I used to get 15-18hours standby ...or if I am using continuously 4hours screen on time ...and now it's gone down to 2hours... Anyone else facing the same.any suggestions to improve?

I am on stock v10f software dual simH818 version. Screen brightness custom at 35%

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[G4 General] imarcel99:
Dude take a look at Whatsapp because this thing is eating alot of juice
[G4 General] ImSpiderman:
I'm having that problem with Whatsapp too, but it reaches like 40-50%
[G4 General] chewybang:
So just to follow up: I decided to do a factory reset since I was having trouble installing apps (e.g.: They would download but never start installing from the Play store). I remember when I first got the phone, I let it update using Google's servers' backups. Well, it hung while installing certain apps, including Google Services. I noticed in another thread where Google Services was causing battery drain and heating issues, so I bit the bullet and factory reset. Upon resetting, I decided NOT to take the backup from Google but just install each app one by one. I was careful to install those apps that I deemed necessary (yes, Facebook and Instagram included). Guess what? No more heating issues like before! I've noticed it goes into 3G a lot less than before for some unexplained reason. Also, when it goes into 3G, it heats up a bit but NOWHERE NEAR what it used to before.

I did this yesterday and spent about 5 hr SOT setting up the phone and running it pretty strong, and still finished the day with 53% battery (granted, I have ZeroLemon 8500 mah battery). Today, I've been unplugged since 3:30am and it's almost noon and I'm at 92% (but only about 1 1/2 hours SOT). I'll continue to monitor but so far so good.

Thank you all for your help trying to fix my dumb issue. I hope it was Google Services going rogue on me from the start.
[G4 General] geronib:
Just stock,no special settings....watched 2 movies and the rest web browsing....
[G4 General] spartan268:
I had this issue before as well. Had to wipe all cache/data for whatsapp, uninstall, reinstall. And it seemed to stabilize after. And if you haven't tried already, giver her a reboot.

That's good man :|
[G4 General] tqwzUX6fn39GZMEzSnDF:
I don't have facebook, twitter, whatsapp and co. Most time phone is stand-by, but wifi on. 2 or 3 h/day screen is on, brightness <50%. Battery is sufficient for 2-3 days.

Especially stand-by is very impressive for me (before I had a Samsung 3 with cyanogenmod). Almost no battery drain.
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Bingo! heard this story a number of times already with the same results :)

good

Nobody knows the reason, just that doing what you did fixes it. That google services saga seems to affect other devices as well. Uninstalling updates to google services provides temporary relief and it comes back again.

A factory reset is an extreme measure that only gets considered once a certain threshold of pain has been crossed :(

if it heating up on 3g then your 3g signal must be weaker than 4G.

what is the signal strength in dbms from settings->about device->status for 3g and 4 g ?

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Since you use whatsapp a lot how do you find its impact on battery when it is working correctly ?

this is an app that relies on push notifications to work, so its keeping the device up more often than necessary. This is a battery killer app.
[G4 General] spartan268:
When it's working correctly it hardly uses any battery. It'll be at about 2-5%(Depending on how popular I am that day) battery use at the end of the day in the android battery information section of settings.

I also use this in conjunction with Greenify Donate package (Allows push even when hibernated) and Amplify has a few tweaks which reduces any polling/waking WhatsApp will do for no reason. Even without all of the above, I found WhatsApp to be a good piece of optimized software for our Androids.
[G4 General] myid.m:
My g4 give me good battery life.standy and usage.
[G4 General] Croize:
Not been using phone alot. Mostly trying out doze. Awesome! Happy with result:)

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[G4 General] gabripo93:
Screen brightness? Rooted G4? Power saving always enable? Synchronization Disabled?
[G4 General] myid.m:
im not rooted. set 20% auto and power saving when reach 15% as usual. this sot was on weekend spending a lot browsing internet, whatsapp and wechat ,email and pdf. i do sync manually at home. on workday its kinda hard to reach higher.usually 4.5 and nearly 5h only. i dont use smart notice and disabled some apps too.
[G4 General] lasha117:
i had problem yesterday. my battery was on 6% i pluged in charger and after 2 hour it got only 35%.

i restarted it and it is now fixed, but all my programes catche was deleted :|
[G4 General] xdag4:
I get about 6 hours of screen on time. But I don't have any google apps and run CM.
[G4 General] ObiDanKenobi:
I also have 6 hours SOT, and I do have gapps, so they are not the problem if you tame them. Use AppOps, exposed/amplify/greenefy.
[G4 General] 3thman:
How do you guys get 6 SOT in gonna cry.. Tell me how!! What ROM r u using??
[G4 General] vagelis74:
For all of you with battery problems try the batteryguru from playstore.

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[G4 General] ObiDanKenobi:
Usage: I use the phone light, no games, just browsing, tapatalk, twitter reading books etc.

Display: I use automatic brightness via Lux, from 25% to 80% indoor. The screen is fairly bright, I do not use it dim, as I do not like it.

Root: The phone is rooted, chaged some dpi and used the ctt mod and asertive disaplay mod.

Debloat: I do not use couple of LG apps and Google one so I have uninstalled them, not all of them as I do not have a complete backup of the system and do not want a bootloop

Xposed: I use Xposed/Amplify (free) to tame hte nlp wakelock

Tasker + data: when screen off, the wifi + data are switched off, data goes to 2G. I have a tasker taks that comutes to 3G when the data is enabled.

Result: around 6 hours of SOT, right now I have 2h:42min SOT, 57% battery remaining, 26h since last charge.
[G4 General] NuclearBastard:
This is the max I got to, at least last time I actually bothered to check and tweak.

Rooted H815L, debloated with Titanium Backup using some of the threads' here insights.

GPS/BT off (unless I Waze), WiFi here and there, LTE most of the time, manual brigthness depends on where I am and what I'm doing.
[G4 General] elkolodj:
I-m very dissapointed I only get 5 hours more or less. Ive been using the camera and wifi a lot. maybe thats the reason, but the camera and the wifi are there to be used!

4 - 5 hours is not enough for me it should last at least 12 - 13 hours.

I had to buy a pair of extra batteries from amazon, I-m using 2 batteries per day now. I would like to use only one
[G4 General] 012512:
Why don't try using a power bank or serlemon external battery cases? ?
[G4 General] elkolodj:
im just saying....

it is the same, I would have to charge the power bank first anyways,

I must add to my comment that Ive been using the gps, google maps a lot because im exploring a city and I need to know where im going, and what public transport I should take. Maybe the GPS is draining my battery most than anything else....
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Outdoors, means max screen brightness. Add gps on top and it all adds up.

5-6h under heavy use is decent. With 4k video recording it will be less. be thankful you can at least replace the battery.

I would say use powerbank to charge spare battery in a cradle. This way you are charging battery not phone :)

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light to moderate use.

I find 25% manual indoors good enough.

optional

Was looking this up and the fix is

here

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good idea if there is 2g in your area. many places do not have it any more. Too bad because 2G is best for standby.

Have to check whether leandroid will allow to do this.

Doable with 25% screen and greenify.