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[G4 General] dlscott1111:
This video is almost exactly representative of my battery. https://youtu.be/vMFjo9qWAng
[G4 General] viberzdae:
Anyone got problem with battery charging too slow? It charges fine when I'm not using the phone but when im concurrently charging the phone and using it... It takes forever to just charge 1%.

My cheap LG aka charges much faster than this G4 even when I'm using it..

Not to mention..the drain on LG aka is much slower than the G4.
[G4 General] nismo929:
I have noticed this too. Charging while using the phone is extremely slow.

However on a positive note, I got my best performance yet last night. At an idle, the phone uses less than 1%/hour, I can't complain about that. I do keep my screen brightness around 40 %, which maybe be low for some, but sufficient for my eyes/needs. Most of the day on Wi-Fi with location off. I played around a bit with glympse gps tracker yesterday, blue tooth streaming for about 1.5 hours, news reading, web browsing and reading xda. 4 hours and 51 mins! I know many people like location settings on, but if your looking to get that extra mile of battery...I think it's worth the three second toggle to get possibly an hour more sot.

Sent from my LG-H815
[G4 General] RedBullet:
So I had a bit of an interesting experience using my phone and charging in my car...

I have a quick-charge 2.0 charger, and I thought I would first try a wireless charger (yes, I know it won't be quick charge, but I thought it might work reasonably well anyway). but basically it was not able to keep the charge (slowly lost charge even though it showed it was charging). and it got pretty hot.

So, on my way back I decided to connect it directly to the quick-charge charger (phone was nice and cool and down to about 14%), and I noticed it still showed charging but was slowly looking charge. Eventually the phone just shut off when it ran out of power.

So, for my last experiment I changed the USB cable (the one I was using came with a different charger). At this point I noticed it was actually charging while I was using it. Gained about 20% in about 10 minutes.

So, not sure if the reboot fixed something or perhaps there are issues with USB cables and charging? Any thoughts?
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
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[G4 General] dlscott1111:
I get very similar. 4+ hrs screen on time consistently.
[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
I unfortunately experienced running-warm, short battery life, and slow charging. I returned mine the other day, as I only had 2 days left on my 14-day return period. If I had exchanged it, I would have had only 2 days to evaluate the replacement. I have Verizon.

This is my GSam log from the last day. I took it off the charger (100%) at 7:30 that morning. I got 1:54 of SOT, with 1:47 of WiFi. I was backing up some data over WiFi, prepping for returning the phone. By 4PM (8:30 later), I was down to 21%. I'm not impressed by that, getting that low makes me nervous, and it wasn't even at the end of the day.

The WiFi use did definitely warm up the phone, but I would offer that the use seemed pretty moderate to me. The only possible exception would be the WiFi, but even that doesn't seem unreasonable. See attached screenshots for the main view, and the breakdown of app usage.

I have the screen on Auto Brightness, set to 6%. I believe I had Location set to Battery Saving, but I don't remember for sure.

I was unable to figure out if a certain app was causing my problem. One night the phone stayed warm overnight (screen was off), and actually discharged from 50% to 20% overnight, while being charged. I hope something was just wrong with my phone.
[G4 General] RedBullet:
Was the replaced phone any better? I am suspecting that a firmware/software patch might fix stuff. But my verizon 2-week period ends today (like in a couple of hours and it is a one hour drive to the store...)
[G4 General] larsdennert:
I had a somewhat quiet work day today. First full day with the phone. Some phone calls, email, sms, took some photos on a job site and watched a few short Youtube videos. All radios and GPS on. A normal compliment of apps installed including Dropbox and Onedrive. Gmail, three MS Exchange 365 accounts with about 2000 contacts total. The battery really got hammered and the phone stayed pretty warm yesterday when I got the phone and set it all up. I was really worried about battery life, but it wasn't charged up either right out of the box.

So here I am at the end of my quiet day at 84% battery. See attached. My previous two phones were the Motorla Droid Maxx with a 3500ma battery and before that a Motorola Razr HD Maxx also with a 3000ma battery. I may not be exact on the battery specs but both had massive batteries I didn't have to charge every day. I would often come home on the 75%-80% battery still remaining. I'm happy that G4 can reproduce that same usage without running in their battery saver mode. :good: Hopefully this performance will last. The Hexacore really can burn through battery when you demand things from it but under normal use, the A57s seem to sit pretty idle.

I know the 2015 Moto X is coming next month but the old one has just a 2000ma battery and I can't be weaned from big batteries I don't have to worry about. Not happy with Moto's Read Only system partition either. So far the LG has better MS Exchange services than Moto as well.
[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
I'm sorry, I should have been more clear.

I simply returned it, I did not exchange. If I had exchanged, the 14 days does not start over. I bought from Best Buy, not an actual Verizon store, I don't know if Verizon's policy is different.

In your case, you might want to return, not exchange, if you are also at the end of the 14 days. Or else you will only have hours to evaluate the replacement before being stuck with it.

I plan to wait a few weeks and see how things develop, before deciding whether to buy another G4.
[G4 General] bmac1191:
My battery was terrible at first.. but after about 3 cycles it is much better. I've been using it very lightly and it was down to 35% after 3 days from last charge. Even with light use that seems very good. Overnight I lose about 2-3%.
[G4 General] xis123:
A day and a half on battery - 3 hours screen on time, 3 hours of calls, wifi on, bluetooth on, can't complain. I'm pretty happy with my battery now!

Just shy of two weeks ownership now - I'd say the battery's run in!

The only qualm I have is that of the usage of Android OS - I've attached a screenshot. Is that within standard parameters?

Absolutely loving this phone - from a Nexus S to a Optimus G to a G4, this is by far the biggest leap in performance lol.

LG H815T
[G4 General] AnteusFogg:
What services do you have active? (GPS, Low-batt location, wifi, BT, Wear, etc)?
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I am very impressed with my battery life. My One M7 only managed around 3.5 hrs SOT max, so getting 6hrs SOT with 27hrs up time, for my usage is amazing. I watch a lot of videos, some Whatsapp, very little calls but with 4G on most of this charge. Downloaded a lot of apps over 4G and wifi. Screen brightness on auto showing 68%, reading XDA and Android Central forums on and off throughout day, 3 email accounts syncing. I have disabled 13 Google apps i wont use. Also used Access Lock to remove some permissions from apps like location. I have found that the google maps navigation munches my battery when in high accuracy mode. Drove 70 miles, took 2 hours and lost 60% battery.
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
That's bonkers - six hours!
[G4 General] Lock-N-Load:
I am

not impressed

with battery life. At all.

Many people here claim to do so much more with their phone and get so much more life than I do. I never run BT, wifi, GPS/location unless needed. So, I have it using the least possible power in that respect. I have disabled all the bloat I do not use so they cannot run in the background.

I wonder if it is just weak reception in my area and so it sucks the battery down wasting power trying to keep 4G and a strong cell signal. Not sure what more it could be as I don't have anything unique going on compared to most and I do not get nearly the life others do on Verizon.
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I know. I was using it during the day yesterday and left it for a while. When i went back to it the battery was avove 50% and over 3 hours SOT. Blown away really. And the camera, oh the sweet, sweet camera is brilliant, although my One M7 is no competition.
[G4 General] BektesU:
6hrs sounds like a dream. I only get 3hrs. Do you have link for the Acces Lock app?
[G4 General] dislplin01:
He is full of it, no way he is getting 6 hours if SOT and 27 hours of up time with that much use, this phone just doesn't do that,
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I read it on Android Central. This is the post from Tourbound129 on the LG G4 forum. Look for "Optimizing G4 Battery Thread" page 2 midway down.

"Download Quick shortcut maker on the play store.

Open it, change 'incremental search' to ' normal search' and search for Access.

You should get a Settings option that you can expand. Look for one labeled Access Lock and click on it.

You can then try to see if it works out just make the shortcut."

And for the the person that thinks i am talking B.S. about 6 hours SOT, read that whole thread and look around the forum. People are getting better SOT than me. Believe what you want, i don't care either way. It is not a competition to see who gets the most SOT, it is about showing that it is possible and helping each other to get the best out of our devices. If you dont have something constructive to add dont say anything. If you dont believe me ask for more info to substantiate my answer. I actually took screen shots with both GSAM and the normal battery usage app, if that would help.
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
The GSAM battery stats for you disIplin01. With all the apps used. Aplogies to everyone else for all the images. I will post the midway point on this charge after this.
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
Around the half way point
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I have full bars signal indoors(H) only not 4G, perhaps this is helping me a lot. I dont have facebook installed, only whatsapp. No games, skype, viber. Recently installed a number of apps so this may affect my readings going forward. I dont use BT, Wifi only at work and home, location on but gps only unless i am navigating. I have disabled 13 Google apps, have photos app syncing, just changed 3 emails to 2 hourly syncing.

I would suggest giving the Access Lock a look at. Perhaps it could help a bit by removing location from a number of apps, or other permissions that you dont want an app to have. I never knew about this feature in Android until i read the Android Central forum. Friendly lot over there, and very helpful
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
Usage this morning since unplugging. About and hour and 20 minutes watching video, 30 to 40 min on AC and XDA. Other messing around on battery stats apps. Wifi 99%of the time. Only came off to test data speed. Perhaps managing the location permissions and keep awake permissions is paying dividends. It helps that this phone is really good when in standby.
[G4 General] rfarrah:
A weak signal will definitely eat more battery. I was out in the country most of yesterday and my battery life was cut in half. I keep my brightness pretty high (89%), so that impacts my battery life as well.
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
What permissions did you change exactly? I'll try it on mine.
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
This is ridiculous. I unplugged yesterday at like 3:30 PM and have basically had it on standby other than sending some texts and listening to Spotify for like 30 minutes. I went through the access lock and unchecked keep awake for everything in there. That helped a little bit but I lost 1% per like 3 or 4 minutes of screen time. How you guys are getting 3 hours SOT by 50% is ridiculous. I'm lucky if I manage 1½ or two hours in a full charge. I really like this phone but I would totally return it if I didn't have my extra battery on the way. I got this to replace my Note 4's bad battery life and this is doing worse than that was.
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
I posted that at 61% with 35 minutes of SOT and now I'm at 55% with 40 minutes of SOT
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I went through every app i could and removed location and keep awake. I have tested a few apps to see what the impact is and so far nothing in terms of app performance. I also removed camera for some apps, not that it should impact battery. I just had a vision of someone using my camera to spy on me so have unchecked all of them.

I have used My Phone an hour or so for navigating today. Below is the screen shot i have just taken on this charge. Used 4G and high accuracy. Also streamed 600mb of youtube on 4G while out. Have to say i am very happy with my phone's battery.
[G4 General] comp101inc:
Battery is very disappointing

The battery on the g4 is very disappointimg to say the least i have owned the g2 g3 and now g4.
[G4 General] painedglass:
I know some are disappointed with the battery life on the G4, and rightfully so. I'm going to give LG/T-Mobile one major update to correct any outstanding deficiencies before I pay it off and go for a Galaxy S6. I really have grown fond of the camera, and was able to compare pictures between my G4 and a friends S6, and thought mine looked better.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
Standby time is great on the G4 for me, but watching periscope will deplete the battery in a matter of minutes dropping 20 percent in 10 minutes or so. I wouldn't think that periscope would be that intensive. It's not high quality video, but it drops like a brick. I've got to curb this periscope habit (new app, new toy! LOL). Tune-in Radio also seems to drop the battery quickly.
[G4 General] BektesU:
May I ask how your battery life (SOT) was before you did that Acces Lock trick?
[G4 General] Fastbird:
Haven't done much audio or video streaming at all, but for just a normal 12 hour work shift for me, it's been OUTSTANDING with web browsing. Probably 2 hours or so of screen on time during a 12 hour shift and I usually come home with around 70-75% battery remaining if not more.
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
I had been reading the battery stats threads on AC and XDA and followed some of the suggestions soon after receiving my phone so i cant say for sure. I think i only had 2 charges before making the changes. The one charge was used almost entirely by navigation which was around 3 hours SOT. The other was 4 hours with mixed use(reading 2 forums, watching tv series, downloading and installing apps etc)
[G4 General] rasel800:
For those who are experiencing battery drain from Google Play Services, i found a solution in AC forum which seems to be working well.

1. Go to Apps->Google Play Services

2. Clear cache

3. Uninstall updates

4. Reboot

5. Go to Play Store and reinstall updates

6. Reboot

If you see Uninstall Updates is disabled:

1. Go to Security->Phone Administrator

2. Uncheck Android Device Manager

3. You should see the Uninstall Updates enabled now.

4. After reinstalling updates from Play Store, you can check the Android Device Manager.

I got like 4 hrs SOT at battery level 33% today, which is quite an improvement i would say...
[G4 General] gibbo82:
First charge
[G4 General] gibbo82:
After first full charge.
[G4 General] blastroid:
into my 3rd week and still getting solid usage and normal behavior. Went on a road trip last weekend and not being in the city did drain the battery quicker even though I wasn't using navigation or wifi. Used the G4 for a My Tracks bike ride - 3 hrs tracking on my old S3 would burn 30% and then unless I rebooted the phone would deplete super quickly after I closed the app. G4 3 hr ride used 10% battery. GPS still doesn't show 0 ft at sea level but I guess that's the GPS thread.
[G4 General] Gemichi:
my first day of full charge, 16hrs now at 53% with 2hrs of sot...not sure if this is good or not. I kind of timed and came up with 1% drain per hour with data on. Going to leave it off charger tonight and see how it goes.
[G4 General] Icculus760:
After a few days post Factory Reset, I can safely say that it had a significant impact on my battery life (in a good way!) Obviously not 100% sure if the battery improvement was solely due to the Factory Reset or if there was a few misbehaving apps that I didn't end up reinstalling, but my battery and heat issues have been resolved. Now if there was only a simple fix for poor WiFi (and poor wifi not just due to Android issues w/ Comcast's routers that is!)
[G4 General] AnteusFogg:
How do you manage the permissions for location/keep awake? Are you rooted?
[G4 General] :
It's about three pages back here.
[G4 General] BektesU:
Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out!

How was your battery life (SOT) before this?
[G4 General] OJ1618:
2 weeks with the phone, the battery life is still great. I never turn off (WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE/Location). 5 hours of SOT over nearly 15 hours on battery, and I still had over 20% left. I think I could push it to 6+ hours SOT.
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
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Please expand on your usage. what do you have syncing? Email sync? Do you keep it on autobrightness? Is location set to battery saving or high accuracy? Etc.

Thanks!
[G4 General] Gemichi:
after my first charge. my usage mostly starts after it went past 65% mostly on standby mode and I kept it off the charger overnight. It drained less than 1%

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[G4 General] OJ1618:
I mentioned in previous posts that my brightness is set to auto with 50%. My location is set to battery saving. I have 2 email accounts that are scheduled to sync every 10 minutes. I also have one Google account. I don't use power-intensive apps, mainly reading news and some Web browsing, YouTube, music, social media.
[G4 General] Cubfan99:
I've found that the new Google Photos app causes Play Services to consume battery like crazy. Either uninstall it and go back to the old Photos app by reinstalling G+, or turn off the auto-backup feature on the new app. That fixed things for me.
[G4 General] larsdennert:
Holy crap!! App Ops is available in the G4. I don't think people realize how significant this is!!

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[G4 General] tourbound129:
It was available in the G3 also. LG just decided not to take it out.
[G4 General] brazeal:
Thanks for the info. This really made a big difference in my SOT. On my first full battery charge after making the change, I managed 6 hours of SOT. This was mostly browsing with my screen set at 43% brightness. I'm thrilled with that result. I deleted Facebook and chrome and disabled all of the T-Mobile bloatware as well.
[G4 General] darabo:
Battery life has been great so far (Verizon model). Almost two days of use out of it and five hours screen on time!
[G4 General] arcteryxbird:
Can someone help me understand Screen on Time a little better? After 8 days with this phone, GSAM shows me averaging 15h Battery Life with 3h 5m SoT (2h 4m max). Does this mean I'm getting significantly worse battery life than those who are claiming 5 hours SoT? Or does it simply mean I'm not actually using it as much as those who are claiming 5 hours SoT? I can't say I'm too impressed with the battery life, but I'm not super bummed out about it either. I've followed a lot of the suggestions in this thread and on AC's forums for maximizing battery and I just don't see it getting significantly better. FWIW: AT&T model in an urban city setting with good LTE.
[G4 General] Voltage66:
Endurance test went great, battery last 2 days and it gave me 7h of SOT.

And heavy usage went great too but less hours of using and under that heavy usage still I am happy with battery life. I had like 6:30 SOT and 10 hours of battery life but remember it was heavy usage.

okay this is crazy it went to 7:20 SOT with heavy usage but I didn't manage to screen shot it because it just went off right at the moment when I wanted to do it, something is wrong with this phone he just won't to get

0% battery life.
[G4 General] larsdennert:
Everybody's use and configuration will vary but from I can see, the phone is as good as any I've seen with a 3A battery. If you leave it be, it refuses to drain the battery. If you use it normal, you don't have to give a charger a second thought for a whole day. If I use it hard, my thumbs and eyes get tired first.
[G4 General] androFRUST:
not sure if this was brought up before but i have a few queries. Im living in Asia and i just bought a H815, v10a.EUR model. Just wondering if anyone has encountered any battery drainage issues.

Read somewhere that the LTE bands may be incompatible and may cause some excessive strain on the battery as the phone tries to connect to the network..

currently its about 5pm and batt is at 52%, was off the charger at about 630am.. usage on battery is just under 10.5hours with a SOT of 1h54m.. watched a few youtube videos and surfed the web and played some games (barely 5-10mins).. is this normal?

would it get better overtime? its been my first full charge..

and has there been any updates which im not aware off that improves on any earlier performance issues.. my other HTC one m8 has been turned on for the same amount of time but that is my primary driver and its down to 49% but ive used it more than the LG... just a bit worried since the battery in the ONE is smaller but the LG has a supposed, better SoC...

thanks in advance!! cheers..
[G4 General] thegregulator:
That seems about normal for now long it's been off the charger. It should get marginally better after a few days of usage but don't hold your breath for a massive increase in battery life. In my limited experience with the phone it's definitely better than the Galaxy S6 in terms of battery life. I'd put this phone roughly on par with the Nexus 6, with my usage anyways. It's not the best, but it's not awful either.
[G4 General] androFRUST:
noted. thanks for the info... just hope mine behaves itself.. had rotten luck when it came to devices with battery that people claim were fantastic,.. then again... the g4 is not known for battery life right? cheers
[G4 General] Snakecharmed:
Now that I have two batteries, I can definitively say that not all batteries are created the same. Of course everyone should already know that the battery is a huge variable, but nobody could address it when extra batteries weren't available.

While the battery that came with my phone managed 5.5 hours SOT on its first charge from 100-6%, the promo battery only managed just a couple of minutes shy of 4 hours SOT on its first charge from 100-1% with similar usage before the phone automatically shut off. The battery that came with the phone has yet to go under 4 hours SOT under heavier use.
[G4 General] Allesa:
Two weeks in, this is the best I could get from my h818p.. Tried single SIM mode before, not much of a difference..

WiFi 99% of the time, location on only when I need it, streaming Bluetooth car audio for about 1 1/2 hours, brightness on auto 30-50%, mostly indoor use, 1 email account sync, some unused Google apps syncs off, app-ops set to cater my need, fd off.

Usage: mostly whatsapp, line messaging, path app, browsing, short phone calls, Bluetooth audio steaming to my car, took some pictures, and other light uses.

I notice on 50% mark my sot was 3.15. However after that battery percentage dropped rather quickly.

Definitely better than my previous 1080p screen m9. Would've liked 6hrs sot but meh I got a spare battery for a total of 10+ sot
[G4 General] Gemichi:
On my second charge, I'm only getting 3:30 sot...