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[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
My battery life has massively improved since implementing the Debloater Tool being talked about in this forum. First day with it in effect, I've gotten 4 hours and 16 minutes SOT across a period of 14 hours and 17 minutes with 25% battery still left. This puts me on pace for 5.7 hours SOT over a period of 19 hours. This is a marked improvement over what I was averaging pre-Bloatware tool (check my earlier post in this thread if curious).
[G4 General] ufgators232:
Disable lg health agent and see if that improves it.
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Disable most all of the LG & T-Mobile crap.
[G4 General] juju2011:
I'll just leave that here :)

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] skyelm:
Yep thats entirely possible especially when you leave your phone screen off, it just doesn't use battery at all. Overnight i loose 0%... Boss phone for sure. My only gripe is when playing games.. Damn battery drains fast something like 32-38% per hour so i get 3 hours gaming compared to 4.5 hours on note 4 granted G4 wins standby [emoji2]

Currently 45% since 7am now is 6pm with 3hour 30min SOT... No games played just lots of music and internet

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[G4 General] skyelm:
Oopps im using MS7 Rom on H815 v10d.
[G4 General] ambervals6:
That's poor.

Sent from my A0001
[G4 General] juju2011:
Lol if you say so -_-

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] thegrants82:
He's right that's really now that good.
[G4 General] androFRUST:
Hi guys, realised my G4 has horrible standby drain.. left the phone on table at 92%, after 2 hours at a meeting and checking the phone after its at 80%. What the heck is going on ? I dont even have that many apps downloaded.. just your usual FB, wassap and stuff... also... adroid OS seems like the major culprit here.. SOT is horrible too!!! ried restarting and factory reset still the same..
[G4 General] skyelm:
Hi make sure the highlighted is not ticked like on the picture. That will drain your battery.

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[G4 General] 0rigin:
Pretty sure it's WiFi going nuts. Happened to me too... Then I deleted EVERYTHING, reflashed, now it's ok...
[G4 General] stl-soldier:
Day 3 after 3rd full charge. No games. Short video, lots of web, some XDA. BT and WiFi on the whole time, and connected about half the time. 20 minute trip using navigation with GPS only. H815
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
I think we can say that he holds pretty well when it's not under huge stress or full brightness. Normal operations he can last a lot as it seems. Maybe with future updates this will get better.

One thing guys, do you recommend that i let the battery go 0% and he turn off on the first charge?
[G4 General] Allesa:
Anyone having problem with GPS indicator staying on status bar after using location based apps such as maps, foursquare, etc.? It seems GPS keeps on being used even though we're not using those apps anymore. The only way to make it dissappear is to force stop the apps or turn off location. This never happened on my previious devices. H818p
[G4 General] wargreymon89:
Mine turns off after being used, but something I the system seems to be using my GPS randomly, when I'm doing some stuff I notice it goes on when it shouldn't, and I have turned off everything I can think of.
[G4 General] Allesa:
I thought of that too. However, once i force stop the loc-based app running in the background the icon was gone.

The gps sign did not appear right after i used the app, rather a couple of minutes later. I suspect this location issue, the fact that mine is 818p dual-sim version, and the possibility of fastdormancy issues created severe battery problems for my device.

PS: no one knows how to enter LG's hidden menu on this device? The one similar to G3's 3845#*855# ??
[G4 General] admmck81:
Battery life is much better than my GS4 by far. I unplugged it before bed, took it to work, and I had barely any battery drain. I had to plug my GS4 in at my desk just to be sure I'd make it home before the battery died. I no longer have to do that. The batter will last all day if you don't game or watch movies on it. Heavy usage will drain it just like any other phone, though.
[G4 General] Lock-N-Load:
In all my Android years - since the original Moto DROID, I have never run BT, Wifi, NFC, GPS...

unless needed

. It is odd to me that people leave these things running all of the time.

ps - I also use an app called Display Brightness that allows you to have a little

hidden

slider switch ON your screen (you pick where) that you can slide your finger up and down on the screen to control brightness real time manually. Better than Auto and quicker than the top quick access slider. Gives greater more immediate instant control over brightness to save battery as you pick the 1-100% brightness 1% at a time as you need it.
[G4 General] Fir3blade:
6h sot is above average, but 95% do get 3-4h sot, which isn't even average!
[G4 General] Swizzle82:
My places engine is the culprit for me. If you go to battery usage I bet android system - location services is the top one, if not close to. I turned off smart settings and my places under location and my battery has gotten better. That's also why you see the gps icon randomly. My places randomly checks location to see if it needs to change settings.
[G4 General] toge64:
I find the battery life is to be hit and miss. 3 1/2 hours SOT when I'm out and 4 1/12 at home on wi-fi.
[G4 General] wargreymon89:
Noticed Positioning reporting had been enabled for some reason. Turned it off again. Gonna try one day without Positioning and bluetooth/Google now for my Watch.
[G4 General] Deadpool253:
Not sure if the G4 is running mpdecision but all 4 smaller cores are running all the time even at idle according to system monitor. I still get decent battery all things considered but I can't help but think the kernel needs some serious updating and mpdecision needs to be murdered for something better like intelliplug.
[G4 General] davelee1054:
I don't know how you guys do it :/

At this point my 3 year old Optimus G is getting better battery life
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
I see that you have LTE, NFC, Bluetooth and Location everything ON. Do you use all that stuff at the same time?
[G4 General] Swizzle82:
I don't use that stuff all the time, but I get similar results.
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
I think it's all related to the usage that people give to the phone. He's not the best in battery, that's true... But, it always going to be dependent of multiple stuff specially for people that use LTE/Mobile data ON or not.
[G4 General] davelee1054:
Yes, I do. I had the same things on with my Optimus G and I could at least get a full day's worth of power.

Plus, if I disabled all of those things to get better battery life, that would totally defeat the purpose, wouldn't it. I expect to get good battery life because I have a good battery, not because I turn off all the radios on my phone.
[G4 General] Dennisg34:
Are you a time traveler?!

Sent from my S5 using your mom
[G4 General] Ace42:
Don't knock the Optimus G, it was the start of LG's success right beside the Nexus 4. My OG could get double the screen time of your G4, so it was obviously a great device at that time. :cool:

"I'd Totally Hug You, If That Was Something I Did"
[G4 General] smw6180:
One of the things I noticed is that my first couple of charge cycles were awful. Once hit the third it's gotten better and as of the 4th it's even better. It'll top out eventually but I wouldn't discount doing the empty/fill cycle a couple of times to see if it helps. I realize that the 'battery history' thing is old news and long since disproved, but I can't argue with results.

Not posting stats, because there's no point. Everyone's usage is different, and at the moment I think I've hit some kind of bug because I've been off the charger for an hour with 66% screen time and it's still at 100%....so I'm totally discounting that one.

Overall I've been getting 10-11 hours with normal (for me) usage...Facebook, tapatalk, blinkfeed (working great on this phone aside from G+), a little YouTube and some Tiny DeathStar (don't judge!). :)
[G4 General] broadway bloe:
Can I bloatware tool without rooting
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Absolutely. You'd be silly not to. Just use one of the guides posted on XDA.
[G4 General] broadway bloe:
Thanks. I want to get rid of a lot of this crap
[G4 General] juju2011:
Not as good as what I got camping on the weekend sot wise anyway... However before i plugged charger in I got 1.5 more he's sot and 12 hrs more usage considering people complaining about not getting past 3 hour sot and have to charge twice a day I'd say that's damn good...and what are your amazing g4 batt stats...care to share since mine wasn't all that good

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] cknorthpole:
You have data disabled.
[G4 General] 0rigin:
This is now a thread about measuring dicks.

Discussion is optional.
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
https://youtu.be/yzI2SYpZSgI
[G4 General] antus:
Ive had my G4 for 2 weeks now. I have found that the battery life has improved over that time, and is still improving. I guess it takes a few cycles to condition the battery. I noticed it did use up quickly out of the box, but its no longer an issue. I cant say how long it'll last, the lowest Ive let it get has been to about 8% and that was on an international flight where I read 60 pages of an android dev pdf, with screen on the whole time and much scrolling. And in extreme use cases we have the option to have a second battery we can swap in. No complaints from me. Aussie/Optus H815T, 10b then 10c firmware.
[G4 General] juju2011:
Yah only turn it on when I need to use it
[G4 General] rav101:
Not discounting the SOT you achieved but that does kinda mean it isn't a fair comparison to people posting SOT figures with data always on.
[G4 General] juju2011:
I've posted stats with data always on and wifi always on, and I get no near as good battery life if i only use them when needed so that's what I do now
[G4 General] rav101:
In fairness, all the power to you. You got through a weekend and did what you needed with your phone. That's all that matters :)
[G4 General] juju2011:
Yup was shocked 7.5hrs sot over 2.5 days but that's was me in the boonies with no coverage watching movies and using my phone as a iPod... I have found that stand by time on Wi-Fi is Amazon and sot not so good. on data sot amazing stand by is not lol that's my only issue right now, my missed taps went away when I took off screen protector

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] rav101:
I have a tempered glass screen protector and I was getting missed taps. I found a kdz update to the Firmware c/d (fresh install) has fixed those problems. Maybe worth a try so you can keep the screen protector?

I have also just moved over to nova launcher and made a few other changes so will report back on my battery life and SOT once I have had a chance to do more testing. I played chicken with low battery yesterday and found that I got just over 6 1/2 hours SOT from full charge with data always on and about an hour on Wifi over the course of about 13 hours (low screen brightness and not very heavy usage). Battery turned off before I got to take a screen shot of GSam but will see if I can replicate.
[G4 General] RedOCtobyr:
Wow, very impressive!

If it shuts off again, check GSam anyhow. I THINK it will still display the data if you select "From last full charge" using the triangle button. I think you can do this even if charging after powering it up again.
[G4 General] rav101:
Will do, I charged it up to full last night before using today. I have had the brightness up and been doing a few different things compared to yesterday but I'm still at the following figures which puts me on for just over 5 hours... View attachment 3439979View attachment 3439980View attachment 3439981
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
Same apps on both phones and same usage but I'm getting over 6 hr sot on my moto g3 an just over 4 on my g4View attachment 3440575View attachment 3440576
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
What did you disable
[G4 General] juju2011:
I have the h812 candian version could I still install the kdzs? ...30 brightness an hour of YouTube and Wi-Fi on all day... Not bad at all best stats thus far with Wi-Fi always on

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] rav101:
Sorry,

Just had a quick look in a couple of places and can't see a kdz for the 812 ?

Ps: that is some pretty awesome SOT
[G4 General] juju2011:
Thx man that's what I thought... We Canadians usually get updates last or not at all

p.s know of any good de bloat list. been looking for a list of all the LG apps that are safe to freeze in tb, froze like 15 apps so far, deleted all of Google's except drive Gmail and maps. But I feel I can disable more I took a look at one posted by a tmo guy but was full of tmo dependent apps

P.p.s kept phone running till power down and hit 7 hours sot just as it turned off lol

Sent from my LG-H812
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Most all the T-Mobile and LG crap. Basically followed the advice of others on XDA.
[G4 General] un.droid:
I have the TWN version for several days, got 10b update and I must say I have the worst battery life I've had for years. I get barely 2.5 SOT. I dont play games, use the phone mainly for facebook, whatsapp, some web browsing. Unbelievable. Before that I had S6 and got easily 3.5 SOT with the exact same usage. Disappointing. (BTW, all stock, WiFi and 3G mixed).
[G4 General] androFRUST:
I got 20 mins of SoT, battery at 64%. Off charger for 12 hours.. still an insane standby drain.. I have given up hope.. :crying:
[G4 General] Deusdies:
My battery has been abysmal. Only had this device for 3-4 days so far, and I'm not super impressed. Today, it was at 28% after 1hr 12min screen-on time, plus one call with my SO of 5 minutes. Might end up returning it, waiting for the Moto X Pure to come out and hopefully be decent.
[G4 General] rfarrah:
Facebook and whatsapp are battery hogs. In any case, the battery will improve over time - mine certainly has. Some things that will help: reduce screen brightness, and Greenify everything that makes sense for your personal tastes.

Good luck!
[G4 General] One Twelve:
Its possible now so has anyone tried intelli3g with a rooted G4 ?
[G4 General] rav101:
I tried it quickly and I'm not sure it is working. I need to do a bit more testing.

Unfortunately I had a bootloop which went after removing xposed so need to reinstall and see what the issue is before I can say for sure...

Edit: I have tried Intelli3G and it is working for me :)
[G4 General] pabloortiz75:
I don't really know the technical terms, but I assume SOT is the time that you have the screen turned on, right?

I bought my G4 just a few days ago, after reading good and bad reviews about the battery life. So the first thing I did was to test the battery. I charged it for two days in a row during all night and then in the third day I opened Youtube and played a 1080p video with 75% screen brightness, Wifi on, all other connections off and no SIM card inserted.

The phone took exactly 5h26min to turn off, so I assume I have a 5h26min SOT, that's it? It looks very different from what I read here, so I guess I am missing something?
[G4 General] DoKaTSuYa:
Damn you charged it two days in a row lol, it's written the Screen On Time in the settings...
[G4 General] sobelixtus:
Yep. You should use it instead of playing youtube videos in loop.
[G4 General] pabloortiz75:
Well I just wanted to test how long it would take to turn off when playing a 1080p video, because I still have a LG G2 and wanted to compare. I can't find that option anywhere on the G2.

The G2 turned off after 4 hours and the G4 after 5h26m. My G2 battery is not in the best condition, it used to have a much better performance. I think the battery lost its charge because I use the phone a lot and sometimes I recharge it 3 times in a day :D

I must admit that I was surprised by the 5 hours + screen time on the G4. After reading this thread carefully, I was expecting to get something near 3 hours. Do you think the fact that I didn't have a SIM card has a big influence in the results?
[G4 General] sinple:
Just playing YouTube shld last longer.

I believed other ppl wrote their SOT after a mixture of usage for a day, like fb or Whatapp, listening music, gaming etc. Hence difference in battery.
[G4 General] imarcel99:
Do you guys clear recent apps or not? In order to achieve best battery life
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
I don't know how it's affecting my battery life but I try not to have more than a handful of apps running at once. More just an ADD kinda thing than anything.
[G4 General] imarcel99:
Is this the reason my battery is going out so fast?

So far on 47% and 1h50min SOT and less than 8 hours on battery
[G4 General] DeadSOL:
Screen-on time depends highly on the brightness level. I achieved 5+ hours SOT when I was browsing Reddit at night with brightness all the way down. This was around 2 hours of Reddit because I couldn't sleep and the rest of the time, I was using Whatsapp, the camera, and playing music via Bluetooth.

On normal days, I average around 4 hours of screen on time. My brightness varies between 40%-90%. This includes an hour of playing music via Bluetooth, data or wifi on at all times, using Facebook, using Whatsapp, using Chrome, and browsing Reddit.

I'm pretty happy with my battery life. I can finally leave my house with 30% battery and not worry about it dying in an hour as my Nexus 5 used to do.
[G4 General] Slider22:
That's completely normal.

50 % > 1h50min.

(Average SoT is 4 Hours.)

True. But it's not really realistic to post 5 Hours SoT with zero brightness.

It's sad to say, but with regular use (around 30-50% brightness) the SoT is around 4 hours.
[G4 General] herzzreh:
I just wish that this phone will one day achieve Z3 SOT. One and only thing I miss from Z3.
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
Z3 doesn't have a 2k screen so G4 will never reach SOT of Z3.
[G4 General] dondavis007:
And Sony has ever been very good at optimization, probably near stock makes that far easier than having to support an excessive skin. Look a TouchWiz :)

Sent from a mobile gadget.
[G4 General] DoKaTSuYa:
Just the Screen which always consumes more than 50%, so... even an update can't really improved the battery life, it's more hardware than software.
[G4 General] 0rigin:
Ok I guess..:)
[G4 General] xoxey:
i think lg g4 has pretty decent battery life compare to z3,lg screen resolution&its pixel density high compare to z3 so i will agree with that.....i hope androidM can fix all these issues when LG releases out.......:good:
[G4 General] Uncle Lizard:
After I removed all the T-Mobile apps and all the LG ones I don't use I've been getting about an extra hour of SOT on average (about 4.5 hours). Today I was at home on Wi-Fi all day but I was using it heavy at times. This is the best I have SOT I have gotten so far. I don't have any battery saving apps installed life greenify, auto brightness enabled with the brightness level at 50%, and location on and set to battery saving mode.
[G4 General] FadeFx:
Thats about the same thati get, i think there are two battery hoggs hardware wise that i dont really use, first is lte, i think this could burn battery like hell, and the a57 cores, so gaming is a battery killer for sure...

Gesendet von meinem LG-H815
[G4 General] Uncle Lizard:
It's certainly better than my nexus 4. Still not completely satisfied, but if I need to I can use the spare battery LG gave me for free to get me through the rest of the day. I used to have to charge my nexus 4 at least three times a day just to get me to bed time.
[G4 General] juju2011:
Light usage Wi-Fi on while time spent the day reading on my 12 hour drive on grey hound his my stats I got for the day
[G4 General] Pyrres:
Wow did not expect such a big difference in 10b and 10c eur versions. I finally had the energy to update and reroot my phone and idle is much better and no more random GPS usage. No settings altered and my idle seems to gone down again. Now on rooted stock 10c eur software with debloat and greenifying done. Good to see LG fixing these things.

Sent from my LG G4
[G4 General] Rikoman17:
http://imgur.com/a/w45lu hey guys any ideas on how to fix this problem .it's been happening for 3 days with 2 different batteries
[G4 General] DoKaTSuYa:
You always need data ? at home use Wifi.
[G4 General] Krokogator:
[MENTION=5881756]Rikoman17[/MENTION]

Can you give us more info about your usage, more stats (not only sot)? How you were using your phone, what was standby time, everything :>

Edit:sry didn't see other pictures on my phone browser. Maybe you using max brightness all the time?

Wysłane z mojego GT-I9301I przy użyciu Tapatalka
[G4 General] Rikoman17:
ive tried brightness at 50% with auto and 0% with auto as well and the reason i had data on is i was at work
[G4 General] DoKaTSuYa:
Try to not use auto brightness
[G4 General] Rikoman17:
The thing is i had better battery life before in this phone with auto . i was getting close to 4 and a half sot
[G4 General] imarcel99:
It's only getting worse for me. V10c eur so far 50% left with only 1h15 min SOT. Only wifi on nothing else
[G4 General] UktenaWarrior28:
This is based on a 51% charge which is a first for my phone being this good.

I will charge it over night and post my results based on a 100% charge. Data and some apps in background and I force stopped some apps through dev options. And constantly cleaning my ram, for some reason it always needs to be cleaned every 5 mins with min usage.
[G4 General] stryyker:
There you go. 100% and wasted 85% in a day with almost 4h+ sot, with 15% left (could squish little more batt for more sot but i as happy)
[G4 General] CasseTrop:
WTF is the point of this thread ? Disable all the Apps, Data, wifi, GPS, BT, Lowest Screen brightness, "use the phone" idling as much as possible.

Then post a screenshot and win the coolness contest ?

So awesome, thank you for all the help.

/faceplam
[G4 General] Johnny Broccoli:
Wow you're cool. Maybe if you read more closely, you'd notice the helpful posters/posts are giving a rundown of what their basic usage is.

If you don't find any of it interesting or useful, you are more than welcome to run along.
[G4 General] gabripo93:
Weak! Under nexus 5!

3 hours Screen On time to go to 20%! And I don't use 4G!
[G4 General] Red_Baran:
I get maybe 5 hours at 0 brightness. With full brightness sometime 3 hours. Streaming video use as well as background syncing.
[G4 General] mtva24:
Yup...still horrible
[G4 General] xgerryx:
Wow that is really bad. I'm hovering around 3- 3.5 hours of SoT but I have seen 17 hours of total life. Bordering on "acceptable."
[G4 General] mtva24:
Yup...not starting fanboy wars, but i went out and bought a gs6 edge+. See below (same settings/no root)
[G4 General] xgerryx:
I was considering going back to Samsung after the M9 disaster, but no removable battery, no SD card (that was the big one) AND questionable battery life made to get the G4. Honestly, I miss my S3. haha.
[G4 General] mtva24:
I own the M9 too. I've reach 4 Hrs SOT more than a few times, but of course, that has a better processor and FHD screen. I regularly get over 3h 30 mins same settings... My Nexus 6 is my battery champ. I get over 4 hrs consistently with that phone. The G4 is by far the worse when it comes to battery performance, but at least I can swap it out....
[G4 General] faizalotai:
For those who have SOT below 4 hours, can you guys check Google Play Services version,

and what version of google play services in that device

Here are some discussion about GMS and which version that hogging our battery life.. sort-off

http://xdaforums.com/g4/help/android-drains-battery-t3179800
[G4 General] mtva24:
I have version 7.8.99 (2134222-440)
[G4 General] faizalotai:
I've once use that version but barely reach 4 hours SOT..