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[G4 General] jbdan:
I just came from my Nexus 6 and have really been pleased with the G4 battery life thus far. I have not owned it for long enough to make any solid conclusions, but so far I like it. With the N6 I got between 4-6 hrs SOT depending on the day. I'll come back later and post some more concrete stats after I've used the phone for a week or so.
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
You guys all seem like you're getting really good or at least halfway decent battery life. I have a T-Mobile G4 H811, on my fourth charge cycle, and I've been averaging 8 hours of battery life with 2 hours max SOT. Should I get mine replaced or give it a few more days to see if it gets better?
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
I would imagine that TMO just never turned it on from the user-side. Probably an oversight of some sort. Again, I only know the status on TMO US - not any other carriers since I've never looked into it.
[G4 General] GiancarloMorr24:
Great...thanks again for the help.
[G4 General] Allesa:
Based on previous experiences with other phones (s3,s4,s5,z1,z2,z3, g2, g3, etc) usually android phones comes with fast dormancy on by default. In bbs, untouched fast dormancy setting leave me with thousands of phone wakelocks, thus preventing the phone to sleep.
[G4 General] GiancarloMorr24:
However, wouldn't your network have to also support fast dormancy in order for the end user to benefit from the setting being on in the first place?
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Yeah, that is exactly correct. Not everything is optimized by carrier, since there are so many different Android phones and so many different carriers in the world. Most phones nowadays allow you to be on different networks. :) It's really up to the user to do these research, unfortunately.

On the other hand, my battery life has been really bad. Google Play Services have been eating most of my battery, but I love Google Now too much to be disabled along with location services.

28 minutes of on screen time shot me to 60% battery this morning. *Sigh*
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
I agree. Love Google stuff, but the Google Play Services eats up battery!
[G4 General] liamR:
Nothing special except from using facebook mobile site instead of the app. Everything is on (GPS, WiFi, DATA, SYNC) except from BT that I'm using a few hours a day and not all the time. I'm on LTE but usually using internet over WiFi.
[G4 General] Allesa:
Yes my carrier does not support it, while FD is usually on by default on phones. So switching fast dormancy to off is my first order of business once i get a new phone.
[G4 General] coolmaster121:
Im curious which variant of the G4 you have and if you have FD enabled.
[G4 General] fuzion23:
I have 1 hour and 9 min of sot and at 66% battery life. I do use the lux app for the auto brightness. Thinking about taking out facebook app. Dont really use it
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Do you actually see the FB app on the list of apps that's eating the battery? Mine isn't even on the list, but I keep hearing from FB app users that it eats their battery. How do I determine if it is eating my battery or not? :)
[G4 General] fuzion23:
I actually dont but thats what i hear too. I would like to somehow disable the tmobile manager. It report high usage
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Yeah, the only thing you can do is turn off the reporting on the TMO My Account app. It's unfortunate, but same issue with the G2 and G3. The only thing I have done in the past years is to put my location settings on battery saving mode, but it definitely still eats up juice.

Also very interested on how others are handling this specific TMO variant issue.
[G4 General] liamR:
I have the international H815 version. I didn't touch the FD (and my carrier doesn't support it).
[G4 General] Mindspin_311:
Hard getting a read on my battery life when Im in a 99% dead zone at work. Currently at 55% and 1h10m SOT. Hopefully this weekend gives me something better.
[G4 General] nexy33:
I have already raised a support ticket with lg 7.5 hrs with 1 hr 40 sot and 53 mins calls today is a joke sent them usage screens they requested if they can't do something it will be returned and I'll wait on the note 5, as this is unusable as a daily phone if I wanted crap battery life I would have got an iPhone.
[G4 General] erwaso:
I get between 3hr and 3.5hr SoT at 50% brightness of straight gamingbecore I hit 15% warning. I'll have a normal SoT time posted up soon, as in a mix of things lol

Sent from my LG-H815
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Issues with reception? A lot of email syncing? Location settings/Google Now turned on? Music running while the screen is off? Rogue apps?
[G4 General] Swizzle82:
I turned off all diagnostics, force stop it from time to time and disable location unless I I absolutely need it.

So the final word is fast dormancy should be enabled?
[G4 General] mediumraresteak:
Phandroid's brief thought on the G4's battery, 40 minute mark: http://phandroid.com/2015/06/04/mobile-roar-podcast-95/

For those who are too lazy to click the link, he thinks it's great and better than the N6.
[G4 General] nexy33:
Nope full coverage in reception same apps and setup as my s5, it's actually running more as I have bluetooth on for my gear s, and I get approx on avg daily 3-5 hrs sot, 1-2 hrs off calls and a bit browsing I avg 25hrs battery time on a year old device running its original battery, I'm not switching off stuff I need to use because lg can't fix their software, If the phone was not ready to market in a useable state where you don't have to switch every thing off they should never have launched it until it was useable, my s5 is stock boe5 no tweaks just plain touchwiz Knox is 0x0 never been flashed or hacked around with due to Knox. I'm hoping lg has a solution or a fix that doesn't require me disabling half my phone I like the g4 it's superior to my s5 in everything but stamina and I have an urbane watch winging its way to me.
[G4 General] stl-soldier:
This is after 8 hours of work today. Screen on time was all XDA, some email and text, and a little browser. I'm not sure if FD was on before, but I turned it off through the hidden menu anyway. Battery life has been incredible though, so I'm not expecting it to improve much. The first charge wasn't good, but after a handful of charge cycles it is impressive.
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Wow, that is extremely respectable.
[G4 General] nexy33:
I've stopped using my ivoler and turned fd off I'll see what it's like over theweekend then once I get some more charges in just use the stock charger
[G4 General] jbdan:
I do too. It's definitely better than the N6 so far. And i was very happy with the N6 battery life. I'll report back after I've used it for a week
[G4 General] mtva24:
Day two, same on-screen time as yesterday. This is on the Verizon variant, very disappointed. My M9 and Nexus both get better SOT.
[G4 General] aaronrw:
This phone kills the m9 in every way including battery life. At least 100% better and I used the m9 since preorder sale. Very happy.
[G4 General] mtva24:
I've banged out 4 hrs SOT on the M9 and I average over 3 hours. Can't even get past 2h 30 mins on the G4!
[G4 General] aaronrw:
Ouch. If a got 3 hrs SOT with the m9 I was charging it right after. But might have been bad battery.
[G4 General] barondebxl:
Second full day with this phone and im definitely pleased.

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[G4 General] stl-soldier:
After a full day. At least it lasts a long time using it to read forums and browse the web. Maybe this weekend I'll try to kill it with games and movies to see what the minimum is.
[G4 General] paulie72:
Today a lot of browsing and listening to music also. Tomorrow i receive my second battery and can check if it lasts longer. Is this normal SOT for the G4?

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[G4 General] neflictus:
Pretty bad considering you only have 8 hours of standby and probably used the browser most of the time.
[G4 General] liamR:
I don't think so, standby is incredible on the G4. You can leave it for hours (even the whole night) and it will only be down by 1-2%.
[G4 General] Mindspin_311:
Does the G4 not have this graph as an option to view? Where it shows when the phone is awake.

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[G4 General] neflictus:
So is my s6. At 99% after 8 hours. I'm interested in standby and sot.
[G4 General] liamR:
I have the S6E and I get better SOT on the G4 (about 4-4.5 hours@S6E and 5-5.5 hours@G4).
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
I only got 28 mins of OST yesterday with 16 hours of stand by... only my second full charge though. I was using my LG G2 charger. Just swapped to the new cable/charger today for the one that came with the G4 this morning - we'll see if there is a difference.

Google Play Services is just destroying my battery. It's at 48% while my screen is only 12%. Again, only 28 mins of OST... I just disabled all the Google syncs, so we'll see.
[G4 General] Dennisg34:
So far only 7 1/2 hours (first charge) with 2 1/2 hours SOT. Not worried because it will get progressively better the next few charges

Sent from my G4 using your mom
[G4 General] stl-soldier:
Something is obviously killing it quickly. Hopefully disabling everything will work, and then you can just add one feature back at a time to see which one is the culprit. 28 minutes is unacceptable.
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
First part of my third charge:

See attached..
[G4 General] fuzion23:
You guys think greenify helps or make it worse since it has to turn on the screen real quick to hibernate then screen goes off again. Since its not rooted i have to enabled the auto hibernation feature under experimental
[G4 General] nexy33:
Turning off fast dormancy made a massive difference for me it's now giving me 3hrs sot and 40hrs standby this thing consumed next to nothing all night, massive change from the triangle of death I had with it on?
[G4 General] kolembo:
I've thought about that a lot. In the long term though, with Greenify, I get good standby consistently, and extended phone use whichever phone I'm using, rooted or not. I think it works because it does put everything to sleep. When I don't have Greenify, even though the Screen goes off, I wake up on the morning and find all sorts of things have been running in the background.

Deep Sleep Battery Saver is also very good - my issue is whether they clash or not.

These two are the best apps I've found though, especially if not rooted.

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[G4 General] nexy33:
With fast dormancy on.

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[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Battery levels continue to drop..
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Hmm how do I post large images? My attachments always show up so tiny..
[G4 General] nexy33:
Mines do to the forums probably have a limit on uploaded size set in the settings just speculating as I know vbulletin you can set resolution ,size or both
[G4 General] mediumraresteak:
Does the Verizon version have a FD option? I'm getting great standby time. Roughly 2 hours SOT and battery is at 60% after mostly gaming over 4G LTE and watching Youtube. Unlimited data woo woo!
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
How do we disable fd?
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
From the special menu..

Most US carriers support FD though.
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
Whats the code to get there?

I dont suppose you know if tmoble us supports it
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
My own quote:
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
TMO US does support it. I'll find the code in a bit, but stock setting has this set to "unknown" --> You will have to manually turn it on.

Or you can google - but I'm busy @ work :D
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
If you could post on xda you are not busy at work i know since im at work lol

So should i turn it on?
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
Try 277634#*# <-- enter this from dialer

Yeah, you need to turn it on for TMO US.
[G4 General] jbdan:
I've only had phone for 3 days so 3 charge cycles. I've disabled all the bloat apps I could and I've been on WiFi most of the day today. I've been very happy with the G4 so far
[G4 General] vaxick:
Phone seems alright on Wifi, but on LTE it eats the battery alive. Not sure if I'm going to stick with this phone or not at this point.
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
Any tips as to why mine isn't that great? My battery went from 30% - 24% in the 10 minutes since I posted this
[G4 General] paulie72:
With me by far my screen is the biggest battery consumer. I have mine set on 36 with auto brightness on. Is there anything i can do to lower my consumption?

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[G4 General] Lock-N-Load:
I run 20% brightness - no auto - as normal. I disabled a TON of bloatware. I have GPS and NFC and Wifi all off unless needed. I have a dark background image.

Suffice to say - I am

not

impressed.
[G4 General] Cubfan99:
Thank you for telling us this. I dumped the G3 for this reason. Auto brightness performance is huge with me. My current Note 4 is stellar in that department, and I'm no longer tempted to switch.
[G4 General] LancerV:
Install lux solution solved
[G4 General] stl-soldier:
Maybe excellent auto brightness is a Samsung thing. I never had to think about it with my S4, and I didn't touch it on the S6 either. Maybe this factory screen protector film is messing with it. I'll take it off and see. I was keeping it on until the real one I ordered comes in.
[G4 General] Sher The Love:
Got the phone last night (AT&T version) and my battery on the first day has been great. I'm at 36% now with almost 3 hours SOT. It was off the charger around 4:45 am, on mobile network till about 2, syncing two email accounts, WiFi and Bluetooth on all day (WiFi not in actual use till about 2), location accuracy set to high.

I do mostly emails, text, and reading on my phone. Not much video or gaming. Also, I'm not sure why "phone" is number one. I don't even think I made a phone call today. Must include something else.

I'm impressed, especially for my first charge cycle.

Edit: Auto brightness of with brightness around 75% most of the day.
[G4 General] tourbound129:
I charged to 100% today after getting my phone while doing LG backup from my G3. Since it hit full charge, I've updated apps, used XDA, AC forums, text, hangouts, whatsapp, Twitter, syncing 3 email accounts. Using Lux for auto brightness.
[G4 General] HelloDominick:
Several hours of music playback heavy Web browsing and games. Brightness always around 60% get around 4 hours of screen time...but standby is good will screenshot some tomorrow
[G4 General] Fir3blade:
First full charge...

Gesendet von meinem LG-H815 mit Tapatalk
[G4 General] solarizde:
Also now on my 3rd full cycle. Well so said it's not terrible, I come through a day but no heavy usage here. Frankly to say it's far of from any expectations.

Coming from the Sony z2 the LG screen and battery feels like a smartphone 2 years ago, not a current peace of technics. ?
[G4 General] Striball:
I got my G4 yesterday and battery life is on par with my G2 BUT, anyone notice that the G4 gets a little warm basically doing anything? It looks like there's no hindrance in battery life. Anyone have similar experiences?

The G2 doing the same things definitely handle the load better temp wise.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
I have found that the area behind the camera and button gets quite warm when it's doing some tasks. It seems to get warmer than my G3 every did. I've been going around the past week, wondering, why is this phone so warm in my pocket. I'm not even doing anything. I then see that Google Play Services has been using most of my battery and the phone is heating up.
[G4 General] Striball:
My top 2 usage apps is Android System and Screen.

Was Cell phone idle but I went into mobile network settings and disabled both of those.
[G4 General] rfarrah:
My battery life is very similar to my G3 - about one full day with medium usage (syncing everything, several phone calls, checking email, texting, little to no gaming). I think the Google Services battery drain issue is still with us.

Neither my G3 or my G4 gets as good battery life as my G2 did. At least not yet.
[G4 General] exaybachay01:
I've been getting about 4-5 hrs SOT depending on usage (if games are being played being then biggest factor). First 2 cycles were on the low end, mostly due to updating and installs, as to be expected. I have noticed the warmness that everyone else has mentioned over the last day, and when I casually mentioned it to T-Mobile (I was making family plan changes), the CSR brushed it off with "All devices are like that at first, my S6 gets super warm."

As an interesting battery example I'm attaching (if works right) a screenshot from this morning. My dogs woke me up in the 4am hour and I unplugged my phone not realizing what time it was. As it was my day off, I only checked a couple texts and emails over the course of 6 hours, with the screen dimmed a lot. It only switched over to 99% just as I took the screen shot to show the background levels.
[G4 General] fatboypup:
First cycle
[G4 General] JesseMT4G:
I don't even get 8 hours SOT with a zero lemon battery. I wish I could replica the usage some of you guys do, but on normal battery I get 4 tops.... That's with disabling 4G lte during my work day as I am too busy to use my phone anyway...
[G4 General] nipun1110:
same here. 4 tops.

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+1 here and it is normal - someone told me.

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Did u peel it off? What is the result? I am also using that. I can't peel it off right now as no screen protector is available here in the market. But if you confirm, the protector has some issues with brightness & battery drain, at least I will need not worry about having a defective device.

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You are getting 2 hours SOT & saying it's good????

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+1
[G4 General] geoff5093:
He said 2 hours SOT and still at 60%.
[G4 General] stl-soldier:
I didn't peel it off yet. I thought my new screen protector was coming today. It isn't coming until Monday. I'll update when I test it tomorrow night. I'm too scared to go without screen protection for too long since I'm not sure if I'm keeping it or selling it yet.

He also said it was mostly gaming over 4G, which kills battery a lot faster than just reading forums or web browsing. My battery life has been spectacular, but I'm testing it with Fast Dormancy on and Greenify disabled.
[G4 General] Sher The Love:
Anybody else getting "phone" as their number one drain without making any calls? I know there are some other processes that fall under there, but it is a bit strange.

I have been off the charger for about 5 hours and SOT a little over an hour (on WiFi, mix of YouTube and web browsing). I find it hard to believe that my phone and cell standby are accurate.
[G4 General] NeXuS|93:
first charge

texting, surfing, bluetooth music streaming, no games, wifi + lte, auto brightness, most time at 0-50%

pretty fine so far. :o
[G4 General] Nasty64:
Same here.
[G4 General] tapanzee:
I haven't found the autobrightness to be that useful,but the app Lux has been helpful toward this end.
[G4 General] mtva24:
Turned on the wi-fi, dropped my brightness down to 75% and got about an hour. This is my best so far, which is pretty sad (Verizon variant)
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
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[G4 General] Thrillhouse847:
Updated post below.
[G4 General] Thrillhouse847:
On WiFi most of the time with gmail, calendar and contacts/people syncing. Location reporting off and location set to battery saving. NFC off and screen brightness set to around 25%.

Sent from LG G4
[G4 General] Sammae7:
So far I'm getting, at the least, equal to my G3.

Speaking of, does the G3 battery work in the G4?
[G4 General] tourbound129:
No, the G3 battery has some little feet on one side.
[G4 General] Nasty64:
I got over 5 hours screen time today, with 16% left in the battery.
[G4 General] Snakecharmed:
Don't give my phone/battery too much credit; this was only the first charge, the SOT isn't amazing, and I haven't installed my SIM card yet because I'm reluctant to make this my daily driver until I get my screen protector. Basically, it's being used as a Wi-Fi-only tablet right now and it idles as well as advertised.

NFC off, location off, auto brightness, time on was primarily spent installing apps and web browsing in Lightning. No video and no picture taking.
[G4 General] AhsanU:
I've been getting far worse than usual battery life, don't know why. But I've disabled the smart settings, am only using LTE, and have disabled various apps I don't normally use like Google+ and what not.

Am quite desperate for root right now! Damnit :( greenify works so much better with it and Wakelock Detector doesn't even work without it.
[G4 General] Striball:
My results:

This is my 2nd day with the phone and this is after the 2nd full charge. This time was better than my first as I had the "Phone" drain so I took those settings off. The results today aren't great by any means. My G2 would probably still be at 55-60% and that's WITHOUT babying it. I babied the hell out of the G4 today making sure I was getting all I could out of it. BTW, idle time is very very good. LTE internet browsing drops the battery % like no other.

Auto brightness set at 33%

Wifi browsing for about an hour, 3 bar signal LTE browsing for probably 40 minutes.

No video viewing

Apps used consist of about 90% texting, and 10% a game I play (has no moving frames)

I turned on LTE only when I needed it and turned it off when not needed. GPS or NFC wasn't used. Auto Sync was on. I disabled all the bloat I could (Also do this with my G2).

I know I read that the G3 has like this battery learning feature (don't quote me on that), if that's true, is that also the case with the G4? Because I sure hope so. Battery is the most important aspect to me alongside camera. I'd imagine it gets better within a week, but if it doesn't when I'm actively trying to save battery in all aspects then I'll pay the restocking fee and go back to my G2.

EDIT: Battery saver was just turned on right before I took the screen shots.
[G4 General] jamestest1122:
Mine is still fine. But not sure how it will be 1 years later. My experience is that battery problem happens after some time of usage.
[G4 General] Sher The Love:
For "phone" drain, what settings did you take off?
[G4 General] mediumraresteak:
Here's my 3rd charge with the Verizon version.

Battery settings: 4G LTE, Auto Brightness with 50% base. No sync, BT, wifi, location. Kakaotalk and Juice Jam took up the bulk of my SOT (3 and 2 hours respectively). Also browsed the web and Youtube for an hour. I don't use wifi cause of unlimited data on 4G lte.
[G4 General] Striball:
Settings>More (under networks tab)>Moble Networks>Mobile Data>Uncheck both settings.

Didn't notice any difference in LTE or signal.
[G4 General] jbdan:
I've had G4 since last Wednesday. This was about 18hrs total time with 15 on WiFi and 3 on LTE. 40 min phone calls. I'm really happy so far
[G4 General] Sher The Love:
Unchecking the first one disbles data for me all together.
[G4 General] Striball:
Hmm weird, mine seems to be working as it was before disabling it.
[G4 General] AhsanU:
Bit of advice to those looking for slightly better battery life: Google framework services were killing my battery, and it's because of sync - disable the ones you don't need! After disabling things like people and magazines, keep, TV, etc., my battery life got better.

My situation was particularly bad because I use three different gmails haha