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[G4 General] zkyevolved:
Yesterday, with GPS on, lots of pictures, and about 2 hours of SOT I arrived at home with 40% battery life; but I had charged it once again to 100% at around 5 o'clock because I didn't know if my battery with 65% after a full day would make it.

I think a big issue is the smart GPS. Today I will disable it to see if I get stellar battery life again! But in all honesty, I get good battery life with this device. Especially standby time. My Nexus 6 would be at 70% battery life with very little usage after 6 hours or so. This guy was at 85% with the same no-usage. Haha.

Here are my stats after yesterday and a night in airplane mode in which after 7 hours I had only dropped 2%.
[G4 General] Heligrom:
Anyone know the MMI code to check for FD on ATT? (I couldn't find if ATT uses it or not and the MMI code posted earlier in the thread doesn't work for me)
[G4 General] ragingredbull:
Indeed it was on auto brightness. Outdoors indoors so a variety of brightness levels. Still good though and perfect for my needs.
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
You guys aren't using Google Now or location settings, right?

It looks like my phone is pinging for location for about 15 seconds out of every single minute.
[G4 General] pfizzle:
I'm using both but my location doesn't ping too often. Do you have smart lock set to trusted places? I did notice my location constantly being locked when had that enabled. I since turned off trusted places and my battery life seems to have gotten better
[G4 General] Sfkn2:
No smart lock at all. I don't see any apps eating battery other than Google services either. I just leave GPS off and use the battery saving mode for location.
[G4 General] Clay330i:
Standby time is awesome. This is just sitting overnight and into the evening with very little use. No airplane mode!
[G4 General] ahsengah:
Can anyone tell me why my gps keeps turning itself on every few minutes? It's causing my battery to get smashed.

The location settings are default, switched on and on high accuracy. This hasn't happened before and I have left it on those configurations before.

Thoughts? Thanks

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[G4 General] phineous:
I haven't found any useful MMI codes that work on other carriers that work on the AT&T variant. Seems like AT&T disabled them.
[G4 General] herzzreh:
I've narrowed down constant location search to the TMo app. Probably something similar on other variants.
[G4 General] zkyevolved:
7 hours of battery life after taking 198 photos xD

Hello! I wanted to update. Today I had a photography class and I was switching between a DSLR and my G4. I wanted to learn how to take better pictures.

So over 7 hours, I took 198 photos with GPS location for each picture. Then my battery fell below 10%

I would say it was pretty good! That's A LOT of pictures in Manual Mode.
[G4 General] Bigdaddy168:
Hi, here are my battery stats after the first full charge.

Display brightness auto, mostly wifi active and sometimes bluetooth usage in my car..

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[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
Almost 5 hours of SOT, and the screen still consumed less power than the Facebook app?? That is extremely impressive.
[G4 General] Galaxicos:
How long does it take you guys to fully charge? Mine does around 1h40 minutes.
[G4 General] rav101:
Hi all,

For reference, I have the 815 Euro model which I have unlocked and rooted. What I've done so far:

1) Titanium Backup: I have manually uninstalled a lot of apps that I don't want or use.

2) Greenify: Hibernated a lot of apps that I don't regularly use so they are not running in the background when I don't want them to.

3)App Ops: Removed permissions from apps that shouldn't be so greedy in this area.

4) Adaway: Reduce ads in Apps.

5) SD Maid: Turned off auto start for apps that don't need to be on as soon as the phone is started up.

Still to do:

1) AFWall+: Set up to stop apps getting internet access

2) Tasker: I haven't used before but want to setup profiles that drop from 4g down to 2g when the screen is off for example to reduce battery drain when idle. I'm sure there are other things that Tasker could do but I'm ignorant of those at the moment. I will learn in time

This is my first time on an LG phone so I haven't fully got the hang of what all the apps are doing on this phone so am still working out what I can delete / hibernate so hopefully in time things should get even better?!?! Any who, I had the phone fully charged and restated last night before I went to sleep. I didn't realise that I have 'wifi scan when wifi is off' set as on so this needlessly drained some battery until I caught it this afternoon. I really haven't used it much today as you can see from the stats so does give a fairly representative view of idle battery drain...

Regards,

Ravi
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
Instead of tasker, use the APP intelli3g , it works for what you want :). It's this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voidvapps.intelli3g&hl=pt_PT
[G4 General] rav101:
Hi didi_ghost,

Thanks for the suggestion. I am actually aware of intelli3g but don't you need Xposed framework? I had a quick look and didn't think it was compatible with the G4 yet? If it is, can you point me in the right direction please??

Many thanks,

Ravi
[G4 General] Velcorn:
I was about to complain about my battery life just now but it seems I'm just being a bit paranoid about it... I'm having Wifi on all the time and been using my phone every now and then during the day and with 23% left I'm at a screen on time of 3:30 hours which is actually pretty ok; not very good but ok for the usage... I will monitor with GSAM though and make sure there is nothing draining my battery unnecessarily... Because recently I've noticed my phone to get pretty warm without doing too much... I may back up everything and do a factory reset if the problem persists and see if that helps...
[G4 General] bartekc00:
I am very disappointed with battery drain at night. I expected it to drop like 4% through 8 hours but I keep getting 10% less when I wake up. Could you give me a piece of advice? Wi-fi on, FB on, sync on. Went to 2G mode. Location off and no Google Plus and other Google services. Only GMail on. I am sure that someone in here is able to get less than 10% with my configuration. Thank you all and I am hoping to get some solutions. I have greenify but I would prefer not to use it :)

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[G4 General] didi_ghost:
Oh yes sorry friend i totally forgot about the Xposed :( it's a shame because that app's amazing.
[G4 General] LancerV:
Pretty bad lol damn t-mobile

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[G4 General] rfarrah:
Greenify would definitely help, but I would also kill facebook and anything else that you don't need to be syncing overnight. Facebook is a battery hog.

As always, YMMV.
[G4 General] bartekc00:
Well,

That's what I thought. FB is a very dangerous app :D I am looking forward to android M to turn off sync in specific hours. Thanks for the answer.

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[G4 General] Heligrom:
Actually been noticing better battery life after 3-5 charge cycles. Easily can get 1.5 days out of the phone now with 3+ hours SOT. Works for me.
[G4 General] rav101:
I know!! It's the one I usually use so I'm waiting on Xposed... Also for Amplify so I can get better control of my apps waking up my phone too.

Having a look at my battery stats, I am noticing that I get very good stand by time but my SOT is not that great (I used to get 8 hours on my M8 although with a custom rom). Let's hope we get the custom rom scene going soon so people can bake in both additional performance and battery life..
[G4 General] rgs2:
Very impressively done and very interesting, Ravi. Let us know how it develops.

I'm not rooted so can't use some of the apps you mention but others were new to me and I'll try them out. Since I'm in a WiFi zone most of the time, I turn off Mobile Data and lately I've turned off Location as well which seems to use a fair bit of battery, constantly checking where the phone is. Where I live Google Now doesn't give me much and I'll turn them on as needed. GPS is off as well since I'd only use it to find my way and I've disabled internet access for a number of other apps. Facebook and Google+ are blocked, of course, unless I want them. I'm using Greenify and also Llama to handle Wifi. Llama turns off WiFi when I leave home or work (don't need it on the road) and turns it back on when I return. Also turns off WiFi at 10 every evening and turns it on in the morning. Result: I go to bed with the phone fully charged and wake up with a loss of only 1 or 2 percent and sitting at 98 or 99 percent. I'm usually at over 50 percent after 16 or 17 hours unless I use it a lot. When I do I've managed between 4 1/2 to 5 hours SOT. There's a lot one can do to get great battery life out of this phone.

Richard
[G4 General] rav101:
For reference, I got down to about 24% after 39 hours and at that point had 3 hours 42 minutes SOT. I didn't run it down to zero as I'm out this evening and wouldn't have easy access to charge. I was keeping my screen very dim so that will also have had an impact on my results. I will do a proper deplete once I have everything setup as I like and post up another set of pictures. My feeling is that you can set the phone up to only sip the battery, however because of the higher screen resolution, the SOT times are going to suffer.

Richard: If you let me know which apps you are not familiar with, I'm more than happy to tell you what they do and how to get the best of them. :)

Regards,

Ravi
[G4 General] juju2011:
9 hours of usage with 5 hours and some change sot WiFi or data on the whole time brightness on auto and heavy usage..... That's pretty damn good I'd say
[G4 General] Sean473:
How does your G4 do this? Mine doesn't even reach 3 hours SOT with such use most of the time... Just short of it...
[G4 General] juju2011:
Go dev options and tick the box that says use awesome player (depreciated). when I had my s4 had to tick that because nuplayer caused ridiculous drain on 5.0,5.0.2,5.1,5.1.1,5.2. there was supposed to be an update to fix it but phone broke before I could test and I got this instead if the s6. -_- starting to wonder if it was a such a smart move.I have charged 4 times in last day and a half but each charge I get more battery usage and more sot. I went from 3 hours to 5 sot now and also I find battery plummets on WiFi but is amazing with 4g and lte when my crappy network connects to it
[G4 General] Clay330i:
Agreed. Use the browser for Facebook. My phone will sit at 100% for over 11 hours if I don't touch it. That's with Gmail syncing as well.
[G4 General] Nils001:
A poll would be quite nice because its hard to browse through 600 comments.
[G4 General] rgs2:
Thanks very much, Ravi. Since I haven't rooted I can't use App Ops, Adaway and AFwall+. May have to think about rooting in the future as I learn more about what you're accomplishing. I downloaded Permission Manager which you don't list since you're running App Ops,but couldn't get it to run - flashes once and closes down. Not sure what the problem is there but I emailed the people who make it to let them know.

SD Maid is the other one and it looks interesting but I think I've only scratched the surface so far. I'd be interested in hearing how you use it.

I'm running Llama rather than Tasker and find it works well. I used Titanium Backup on my HTC Desire which I'd rooted, but haven't used it on the LG G4.

Best regards,

Richard

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Ravi, meant to ask you what you think of the suggestion by juju2011 to use Awesome Player rather than NuPlayer. If I understand his post correctly he seems to be saying it's more efficient on 4g and Lte but less efficient on WiFi. If that's the case I'm not interested as I spend much more time on WiFi.

Regards,

Richard
[G4 General] rav101:
Hi Richard,

All of the apps I am using require root. With regards to SD Maid, its primary function is to delete stuff you don't need (such as caches, temporary files, remnants left from uninstalled apps etc). It also optimises all of the databases on your phones and has the ability to toggle autostart features of different apps when a phone is turned on.

I used to use Awesome Player on the HTC One M8 (Lollipop edition) as this made a big difference on battery drain. I hadn't noticed the same app coming up on GSAM but have noticed another mediaserver app taking a bit of battery. I have turned on Awesome Player and will report back
[G4 General] juju2011:
Going through my first cycle with awesome player still crazy drain on wifi but have way more usage. right now at 30% batt with 7 hr 57 mim remaining 17hrs 5 min up time 3 hr 13 sot will post screen when battery hits 5%... These stats are with moderate usgage, yesterday I sat on it with WiFi on the whole ten hours of usage I had and got the 5 hr sot so we see if I can hit 5 again today with and hit 20 hours of usage.... Haven't used WiFi only data and its only on when I need it then off when I don't. on this cycle battery stats are definitely getting better but could also be the non hardcore usage... On the s4 the extra drain was called miscellaneous but don't see that here, there was a way to turn it on in dev options but I don't see it
[G4 General] juju2011:
First cycle with awesome player
[G4 General] larsdennert:
You realize you can use App Ops without root! It works for downloaded apps.

http://xdaforums.com/g4/general/app-ops-available-root-t3141191

And you can debloat system apps.

http://xdaforums.com/g4/general/bloatware-tool-t3141890
[G4 General] pfizzle:
I'm interested in Llama, have you noticed if you've gotten any wakelocks while using it? I would like to use it to make it automatically enable/disable certain settings, but if it will cause my phone to stay awake and lower my battery life i'll do it manually until we can get the full Smart Settings on verizon

Edit: just tried Llama and it won't pick up any cell towers, nor will it run a simple action I set up to turn off data once Connected to my home wifi
[G4 General] rgs2:
Thanks, Larsdennert. There are a number of App Ops apps on the Play store. Which one have you used on the LG G4? And thanks for the debloat link.

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Haven't noticed a wakelock problem with Llama. Haven't seen any problem with picking up cell towers either. It finds them even though I have location turned off. Make sure you have two conditions set up for every action and make sure the none of the conditions have any extra events triggering. The conditions have to be identical. Worth reading the Llama instructions - small dark grey icon to bottom left. Until I did that I had a few problems.
[G4 General] larsdennert:
I used any cut to make the short cut to access lock. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spring.bird.anycut
[G4 General] brysonwong:
[IMG="http://i.imgur.com/aZRB9KGl.png"]http://i.imgur.com/aZRB9KGl.png[/IMG]

Anyone can help me rectify why my android os is in the top list? It's draining my battery.. Used to 20 mins of SOT before it drop to 99%. Now it's only 10 mins or less.. not rooted, is there anyway I can check what app is using android os to drain battery?
[G4 General] asuraaaa:
3 hours screen:
[G4 General] spartan268:
Could be literally anything bro. Any news apps that you installed recently? Has your connection been sketchy lately? If you check in Settings > Battery and Power Saving > App usage, you might be able to find some offending apps here. Go through each one individually and take a look at the CPU times and awake times, it may correspond to your issue.

For me, the new snapchat update killed my phone. And BBM had a wakelock which didn't consume my battery a whole lot, but it adds up in the long run. I just pressed the 'Stop' beside it then problem solved.
[G4 General] andxit:
I bought today LG G4.

At 17.00 battery was at 37%.....at 19.08 100%.... is it normal ? i think my phone has a very slow recharge....

I put also a screen of phone temperature; Wifi on without opened app

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2hy13w7dRyKX3lMUTA4OWgtOWM/view

phone is everytime a bit hot....
[G4 General] spartan268:
If you were using your phone at the same time, then it will explain the slow charge. But two hours for a 75% top off doesn't seem too bad. Considering you just bought it as well, it's likely doing a lot of background syncing as well.
[G4 General] rfarrah:
...... and the battery is brand new. It seems to work better all around after a few cycles.
[G4 General] andxit:
63% of charge, from 37% to 100%

Cpu temp it's good or a bit high?
[G4 General] DsturbD:
not bad really if you ask me, didnt plug in my phone last night, could almost go 37+ hours on a charge, i'm good with that :)
[G4 General] juju2011:
This phone is sick 5 hr sot 30 hr up time
[G4 General] zero1000100:
My G4 Battery Life

Ok, so I'm definitely what you would consider a heavy user. I've used Android devices for quite some time and pretty much have my setup memorized as far as apps and tweaks. Normally I immediately root and strip down software via ROMS and mods. Unfortunately that isn't a reality yet on the TMO G4 so I'm having to tweak my stock G4.

So there's quite a few features that come preinstalled on the G4 that I will never and mean never use that I disabled out the box. Examples of this are Smart Bulletin, QuickCircle Case, Smart Settings, WiFi Calling, and pretty much all the LG features they were so kind to install. I normally use a Nexus device as I had the Nexus 6 prior to the G4 so I'm used to a Stock/Pure device. This of course creates my first issue with the G4 which is the UX 4.0 that comes preinstalled.

I can't do much about that at this point without root so I'm having to make due until that glorious day is upon us. So, this is what I've done so far to get what I would consider respectable battery life. Not great but not complete trash either. Combine that with my removable battery and I'm doing alright. I'm not getting OnePlus One or Z3 battery life but it holds its own.

I do keep Bluetooth on at all times connected to a Moto 360 FYI. Also I leave Location on and set to High Accuracy. I'm on Cellular Data about 99% of the time with WiFi turned off.

Tweaks:

Settings/Call/VoLTE/Turn Off

Settings/QuickCircle Case/Turn Off

Settings/Call/WiFi Calling/Turn Off

Settings/Home Screen/Smart Bulletin/Turn Off

Settings/WiFi/Advanced WiFi/Always Allow

Scanning/Uncheck

Settings/Shortcut Key/Turn Off

Auto Brightness off and set to 50%/2 minute timeout

Settings/Dual Window/Off

Oh, I also turn off NFC unless I'm going to actually use it. I've never used it on my last 4 phones.

I disabled a few apps that I never use or have replaced with other apps. The screenshot is attached as well.

Now of course this set up won't work for everyone but it works for me. I've attached some screenshots of various days battery life performance. It's not consistent but its usually pretty close. Now, there's a caveat, if I simply just unplug my G4 from 100% and watch YouTube videos attempting to destroy the battery it can die out pretty quickly. The great part about that is so does every other smartphone on the planet. So no need to stress.

Anyway, hopefully this helps some new users as well as old. There's definitely enough threads on this topic. Look at the bright side, it could be worse...you could own an S6. Take a peak at their battery life woes on the XDA forums.

One last point, my battery life has gotten exponentially better since day one. Give your battery some time to adjust to use and charge cycles before you lose your cool.

P.S. I attached some screenshots from when I had my OnePlus One and Z3 for comparison. It's the last 4 screenshots. All the others are from my G4.
[G4 General] One Twelve:
That was one hell of an opener, welcome to XDA. I looked at your screen shots with interest and summarised your findings.

G4

2015-06-16 - 3h32m with 12h14min

2015-06-17 - 5h20m with 5h41min (youtube only)

2015-06-25 - 4h39m with 11h7min

2015-07-16 - 5h38m with 13h34min

2015-07-16 - 5h21m with 12h34min

2015-07-17 - 4h19m with 16h41min

It looks like you're averaging 4-5hrs which is better than the 2-3 or 3-4 that people have been complaining about.

opo

2014-08-31 - 7h9m with 16h26m

z3

2014-11-31 - 7h11m with 1d2h29m

I note the dates you posted of the OPO & Z3 would have been before they got lollipop. how did the L update fare with both. When i spoke to an opo user he said he used to get 7-8h with kk but when L arrived that was reduced to 5-6h. he actually switched to the G4 and was happy.

This confused me as i figured someone used to such good battery life isn't going to be happy. But now its clear that 1h extra of SOT on a tweaked opo isn't that much of a difference over a tweaked G4.

S6 has been out longer than G4 so has even more whiners. I've come across a few S6 tweakers who are managing to eke out more from the battery like you have. This lot are of course in the minority. S6 has root now so there is room for further improvement.

yep, as the coating that accumulated on the cathode due to the battery sitting on the shelf starts to break down after a few charge cycles so the battery capacity will increase.
[G4 General] rgs2:
Thanks zero1000100 and one twelve for some interesting posts. In going through my own settings which are somewhat similar I noticed one that I hadn't changed and am not sure about. Allow Wifi Scannng (when WiFi is off). Unlike you I use mostly WiFi. I guess here is a case where root would be useful as I want Llama to still be able to scan for networks but I can't think of any reason to let Google or other apps do so when WiFi is off. I'm getting around it now by turning off Location for the most part and stopping other apps from scanning as I find them.

Interesting that you leave Location on High Accuracy. I've turned it off entirely since I usually don't care whether the phone knows where I am and I figured high accuracy would impact battery life a lot. Seemed to make a difference but maybe I should check that again.
[G4 General] DsturbD:
i'm just gonna leave this here...

admittedly, i dont have the screen on as much as [MENTION=6832524]zero1000100[/MENTION] does but i use iheart radio which keeps the phone awake for about 2 hours each day, SOT about 2.5 hours, and i leave everything as it is, wifi on, BT on, GPS on, no apps disabled or turned off even the LG and Tmobile ones, brightness set to auto, etc and i still get almost 40 hours on a charge. even if i doubled my SOT to 4-5 hours i'm quite certain i would still get over 30 on a charge

maybe my phone got sprinkled with magic unicorn farts or something :p
[G4 General] zero1000100:
Unfortunately I don't have that answer for you as I got rid of both prior to Lollipop. I've also heard similar reports about the battery life becoming worse after the Lollipop update. Still solid but just not legendary anymore.
[G4 General] juju2011:
I feel you got 5 hrs sot and 31 hrs uptime yesterday with WiFi and data on when I needed it and played music for 2 hours batt life is amazing now was skeptical first 3 days but now on the 4th n 5th day I'm a believer going to keep my g4 instead trading in for the s6
[G4 General] DsturbD:
yeah it seems to get better after a few charging cycles, let it get down as low as you can, like right now mine got to 5% left after making a few calls this morning so i have it charging now

another cool thing is this phone charges fast, like 90 minutes and its done. dont remember how fast my nexus 5 charged though, so it could be normal

oh and death to samsung and touchwiz!!! :cyclops::p:silly:
[G4 General] juju2011:
This is my first non Sammy device in for ever :/ kinda liking it not gonna lie this Sammy fan boy has moved on I think unless in 2 years they make something thing epic beyond belief. Agree death to touchwiz ... Charges even faster powered off got to 60% charge from 0 in 30 mins
[G4 General] DsturbD:
makes sense, might try that next time :good:
[G4 General] neflictus:
Pretty much the phone has awful battery life.

From LG H815
[G4 General] juju2011:
5 hr sot 31 uptime your right very awful battery life -_-