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[G4 General] Dennisg34:
Restarts def haven't fixed this. I never had that issue with my S5 though. I'll be able to use my better battery stats app once root is here and isolate the problem. probably some bloat bs
[G4 General] iakovl:
can someone recommend me a good app to log charger and battery activity? want to do some tests
[G4 General] gie62001:
Maybe you can try battery monitor - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw
[G4 General] rfarrah:
Find a good battery monitor and see what's going on. I left mine off the charger last night (I also keep everything on - wifi, bluetooth, syncing everything, etc) and had 4% usage overnight. I DO use Greenify to help with that...
[G4 General] Erik1805:
Thanks. Will do. And will install Greenify
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
Some screen on time usage stats at 75%.

Sync most things google, no facebook sync, manual emal sync. Leave NFC on all the time. Moderate use pattern, Youtube, podcasts, web browsing etc.
[G4 General] Dennisg34:
Did you used to have the Verizon S5?

Sorry for the quick sidetrack

Sent from my G4 using your mom
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
Just realized your question, yest I did have an s5 a while back.
[G4 General] Dennisg34:
Thought I remebered that picture and name! Welcome to the G4! I'm glad I switched!

Sent from my G4 using your mom
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
Thanks man for the kind words! Great to be here.!
[G4 General] bmac1191:
My battery life is terrible on the sprint version. I was just reading this thread for about 15-20 minutes and it drop 12%. Tried 3g, even worse. Wifi, gps, bt, everything off.

I installed a battery widget and it finds like 25 things to close down. Without root they just open back up again. I selected the option to close apps instead of run them in the background, but that stupid window tab thing keeps them open.

Returning this a few days before my deadline. I really love camera and screen.. so sick of amoled.
[G4 General] Clay330i:
What's your overall usage time?
[G4 General] ccinbrainsurgery:
Decent battery life

Tmo version. First charge cycle. Moderate usage pattern. Lots of play store updates, half an hour of youtube, about 30 or so pictures with the camera, about an hour of podcasts, no phone calls or texts yet, lots of whatsapp and hangouts use though, two email accounts on full sync, on auto brightness most of the time.

If I can make it to around 6 hrs SoT with a total usage of 20 hours or so, I would consider it a more than decent battery life, especially on the first charge.
[G4 General] Dennisg34:
This is the best I've gotten. Would be better if I can figure out this stupid

keep awake crap is..

Sent from my G4 using your mom
[G4 General] LancerV:
What shows up under location history
[G4 General] TheBiles:
Had the phone over a week now, and it's understandably disappointing coming from the Turbo. I can no longer make it through a 15+ hour day without returning to the charger. With regular use I will see about 2 hours of screen on time and 12 hours of total use. I definitely think Lollipop is a major contributor to this, and I'm eagerly awaiting my free battery.
[G4 General] LancerV:
Once I took care of apps that use location battery life better. The GPS on this phone sucks battery
[G4 General] rifler26:
Everything on this phone sucks up battery. I don't understand how I text maybe 25 times over the course of 15 minutes with the screen on for maybe 9 of those minutes, and my battery drops by 6 percent. Just seems ridiculous to me. Or does vibration use that much battery?
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
Vibration uses a lot more battery than emitting a sound.
[G4 General] audscott:
T-Mo after OTA

Seems battery really improved after update. Screen touch performance improved too.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
Good to hear. Once I get my replacement fully restored, I'll be able to test it out.
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
Expand please. What carrier? What kind of screen on time were you getting before? No more missed typing? Thanks!
[G4 General] audscott:
As indicated, it T-Mo. I got as high 5 hrs sot twice (out of 10 or so), but usually 4 hrs. Touch is definitely much better. Before the update, striking "p" always took three four times, but now I'm purposefully hitting far to the right (which seemed to be dead before) and it is registering without an issue. Very few false touches now, and I'm certain it's not placebo.
[G4 General] Magnus3D:
Should the battery drain when the phone is unplugged from the charger and turned off at night ? mine dropped down from 100% to 79% during the night when it was turned off and unplugged. That can't be right. :(

/ Magnus
[G4 General] Kenishi99:
Wow... Todays battery drain was horrible!

I attached some screenshots

90% in only 8 hours...

25% used by Android System...

7% used by Google Play Services

Only 2 hours screen on time...

What is causing the huge battery drain?

Any ideas?
[G4 General] mrhizzo:
I am having problem with battery life too. Serious problem. And I think this will be solve only with a firmware upgrade. What will delay because in Brazil all these stuffs are slow. Very slow.

I am getting no more than 2 SOT with only wifi, mobile data off, no Facebook, no games and 3G only.
[G4 General] bozemajo:
That doesn't sound right to me. I've unplugged mine, worked out, then checked the screen ( not using it) after three hours, and still have 99%. I just use the stock charger. I'd be interested to see if the quick charger or wireless would affect the battery life.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
I don't know if it's the update or the replacement device that I got, but the battery life seems to be much improved over what I had before. I'm not sure yet, but I also think the battery is running cooler (which would mean better battery life as well).
[G4 General] Erik1805:
I am on the 3 charge now and it is getting better. I am on 13.5 hours losing 15%. Got data and Wi-Fi and bt always on

Verstuurd vanaf mijn LG-H815 met Tapatalk
[G4 General] nismo929:
Try turning off fast dormancy... worked well for me.

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Check that location settings are set to battery saving. I would only recommend using gps if you need it as it does cause some heavy draining on the battery. Also put smart settings off. As I mentioned in the previous post...check to see if your carrier supports fast dormancy. I would recommend giving it a try a couple of days with it off to compare. I get almost 1% lost battery over 7 hours if screen is not used, but also with Wi-Fi off.

Worth a try...
[G4 General] spridell:
For the first couple of days my battery was great.

Now the last 3 or so Android OS has been killing it. Using up to 30% each day.

I know its location settings but I use them a lot so i need them on.
[G4 General] officerdoofy:
On my current charge I'm at 43 hours of usage with 2 hours of screen on time...and I have 43% charge left.

Generally I turn off whatever I don't need or am not using at the moment.
[G4 General] droidrev71:
My battery life is doing well. 4 and a half to 5 hours sot.

I'm very pleased with my g4.
[G4 General] shook187:
My battery has been great with T-Mobile’s update. Definitely better than my S6.
[G4 General] Snakecharmed:
Consistent 4-5 hours of SOT with a high of about 5.5 hours. Idle is amazing. I've managed to get a 3+ day charge from 100-5% with the same 4-5 hour SOT.
[G4 General] ione2380:
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[G4 General] Pyrres:
My idle is really amazing after I disabled location cards and location history. Charged my phone last night and left it on and it lost 0.4%/hour in 11hours. My M8 could do 1%/hour and this just thrashes it. Sadly screen on still is not that good :/

Sent from my LG G4
[G4 General] 20degrees:
Think mine is getting better.
[G4 General] OJ1618:
On my third charge! I think the battery life on this device is pretty awesome when compared to Note 4/Note EDGE. I was able to get 5.5 hours of SOT with WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE/Location services ON.
[G4 General] TheBiles:
Good lord. That's almost double what I get. I'm right around 2.5 hours but with the same amount of time on battery, though. It seems like the battery drain is constant, even when the screen isn't on.
[G4 General] samxxx99:
I really dunno how some people are getting amazing SOT...

I already did a factory reset, and also uninstalled and re-installed google play services.

Yet, I'm getting max 2h SOT and phone if usually at 10% by 5pm.
[G4 General] LancerV:
Whats yalls overnight drain? If I unplug im loosing like 1.5% an hour without touching it
[G4 General] Snakecharmed:
< 1%.
[G4 General] paulie72:
<1%

Sent from my LG G4 H818P Dual Sim
[G4 General] rfarrah:
<5%
[G4 General] PunishedSnake:
I usually average 5.1 hr of sot
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
More screen on time @ 75%. Moderate usage, location set to battery saving.

And a pic of bella yesterday. Couldn't resist.
[G4 General] erwaso:
Does streaming Pandora over lte count towards SoT? The screen is off during use.

Sent from my LG-H815
[G4 General] DoctorB0NG:
SoT stands for screen on time. When the screen is off, that doesn't count as screen on time.
[G4 General] erwaso:
Just making sure. I usually get 3 hours SOT of straight gaming.

With regular use I get close to 4hrs. That's including lux lite auto brightness, a little gaming, GPS on, WiFi half the time, forum posting, email sync on for 2, Bluetooth and a few hours of Pandora. Pic below.

Sent from my LG-H815
[G4 General] Gemichi:
now that I remember, the T-mobile version (H811) has a 2900mha battery instead of the 3000...
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
Actually, my TMO has a 3000 mAh battery. I think only the pre-production models they sent out to people of the media and early testers had that 2900 mAh battery. Both batteries I have with TMO are 3000 (one that came with the phone and one with the promo).
[G4 General] holzmann:
Disconnected phone around 9:00 AM this morning when I left work. It's now 15:25, so 6.5 hours of normal use for me. Battery at 88%.

Pretty good I think!
[G4 General] Gemichi:
ohhhh....oops. it would be suck if that really happened :P
[G4 General] yurushi:
I usually listen to music 2-3 hours a day and I end up getting towards 3 hours of SOT. Is this pretty normal? I use poweramp btw and have the H815 model :)
[G4 General] OJ1618:
I decided to test the battery drain overnight so I fully charged my phone and unpluged it at 10 pm. After 7.5 hours I checked the battery and it was 98%. So that is roughly a 0.3% drain per hour. Pretty satisfying I guess. I have the H818P model BTW.
[G4 General] duraaraa:
You might want to try from 99 percent instead of 100 though. The G4 falsely reports 100 percent a lot longer than any lower percentage, if that makes any sense.
[G4 General] OJ1618:
Hmmm. I will try that. the G4 just reminds me of iOS in terms of standby time.
[G4 General] didi_ghost:
G4's 100% lasts a lot, then it's full free fall [emoji14]
[G4 General] Theuntje:
Since a week my battery drains like crazy..

This morning I removed the charger around 7:00 and around 11:00 it was already at 23%.. Only used Waze for 40 minutes.. And a few messages.. Before it was around 70% with the same usage..

I notice that the 'sync'-icon is showing now and then. Even if I switch off the syncing..
[G4 General] theyownus:
it would be helpful if you post your variant when posting your battery life... I have a h811/T-Mobile and get ~2hrs screen on time and roughly 12 hrs on a charge. perhaps this is due to carrier bloat?
[G4 General] Theuntje:
I'm sorry. I've got an LG-H815 from T-Mobile. (no bloat)
[G4 General] rfarrah:
I can honestly say that battery life gets better over time. I have everything on / syncing and keep my screen at 89%. Several calls during the day, lots of texts, checking email accounts, occasional web search - no games. I end the day with something north of 35% battery life. A really heavy day will take me closer to 15-20% now, but when I first got the phone I had trouble getting to 6:00 at night with any battery left. I'm on VZW.
[G4 General] blastroid:
on my AT&T H815 I feel like I am getting very good battery life. Compared to my old Galaxy S3 my morning commute (1 hr mp3/flac over bluetooth + 40 min of SOT reading) I would start with 100% and arrive with 77% but G4 is arriving with 92%. The 3rd day I owned it I went 14 hrs without charging and was using phone,email,browsing with plenty to spare. With the extra battery I know my needs will be met in all but the most extreme situations.
[G4 General] bozemajo:
This reminds me... My phone seems like it stays on 100% for a disproportionately long time. Is my battery life just that good, or is it normal to surf the web and check an email for 10-15 minutes before it drops to 99%? It's nit-picky for sure, and I'm not really complaining, but it's just something I wondered.

Thoughts?
[G4 General] blastroid:
I notice this too on the G4. But I see that on some other gadgets (Pax2, macbook) as well and my theory is it is a mind game by the gadget makers to make you feel better about your battery life.
[G4 General] bozemajo:
Haha. It's not as bad as when the iPhone 4 went from 3G to 4G with a software update, or their signal bars that got a boost when the algorithm changed, but yeah.
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
I seem to be one of the unlucky few who only get 2-2.5hrs of screen on time and 10-14 hrs up time per charge. Really poor. I don't even use it THAT much in comparison to my OnePlus that lasted for ages under fairly heavy use.

I won my G4 in the photography competition s not sure if I have pre production hardware or what :S

I have a six month warranty so I think I'll try and get another unit. Weep.
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
I have had two G4s now with similar battery life to yours. So even getting a replacement may not be a guarantee of better battery life
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
Hmm.. How are people getting basically double what I'm getting out of the battery then.. Confused!
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
Confused and frustrated! After being unplugged from 9 or 10 am until about 10 pm with moderate usage, I'm down to like 20% or less with around 1½ - 2 hours of SOT and I'm seeing people on here getting 30 hours with 4 hours of SOT. I just want to know if I'm getting bad units or if the apps on my phone are just eating up the battery
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
Hm, thing is my standby time is alright really, loose about 10% over four hours.. Seems reasonable with WiFi on etc..
[G4 General] CrappleSucks:
I get good standby time too. If I leave it off the charger overnight, it'll usually go from 100% to like 94. But as soon as you have the screen on, battery life drops like crazy. I've gone down 5% in the last 20 minutes with the screen being on for maybe 6 or 7 of those minutes.

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I'm literally just watching my battery drop. I was at 69% when I posted my last message 12 minutes ago and I'm at 63 now. The battery should not be draining this fast
[G4 General] Ryslegit:
I unplug my phone around 7am with normal use throughout the day and by 7pm im around 20% with about 3.5 hrs of screen on time. This is also with using greenify, no wifi, and I have poor cell service in my office.
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
Is your gps/location set on battery Saving? Are you manually syncing email? Do you have lux installed? Grenify? Are you using apps that sync often? Tell more about your setup.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
My battery life has drastically improved after I got the replacement. It might not be the new phone, though, it may have been the 10H update on TMO. My first phone didn't get it before I returned it, but when turning on the new phone, it downloaded and installed automatically.
[G4 General] Gemichi:
From what I see, most people are getting around 2:30 to 3:00 hrs of sot...which is what I'm getting on my nexus 4....this make me wonder should I get the g4
[G4 General] Snakecharmed:
It really varies. I reported earlier that I get 4-5 hours of SOT consistently with a high of 5.5. Saying that now on page 47 of the thread, you would think that I have a golden battery. You take my results and compare them to earlier posts in the thread and my SOT is only average.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
First real huge battery glitch for me. My phone froze and I had to force restart it. It was charging fine before the freezing. Afterwards, it won't charge beyond 41%. It's been stuck there for at least 30 minutes and it still says 1 hour 21 minutes until full. I've never seen this before. Temp is running at 96F and it won't register knock code or double tap to unlock at all. Screen is noticeably warmer (though not as hot as my first phone). I am on an ANKER quick charger that usually gets me about 1.5% charge per minute. But now the battery is frozen at 41%. I'm going to restart the phone and see if that fixes it. I am texting on the phone simultaneously, but I've been able to do that before and have the phone charge normally. Very weird.
[G4 General] rscooldesire:
Battery life is somehow disappointing, however it is better that G3 when you use the phone for web browsing, chatting or playing some lighter games.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
Update: I restarted the phone and it actually was charging and showed 97% after restart and charged normally thereafter. The touch sensitivity also returned. So not sure what happened. Still running a bit warm at 98F.
[G4 General] OJ1618:
So I decided to test the battery drain overnight again but this time from 99% instead of 100%, as one member here suggested that G4 doesn't report the battery percentage accurately when at 100%. The results are pretty good. I only lost 4% over 7 hours. That's roughly 0.6% per hour. Again, WiFi/Bluetooth/LTE/Location Services all ON. Location is set to battery saving mode.
[G4 General] Gemichi:
Do you mind telling your activity on the phone?

For me, in a typical day, I mostly leave WiFi on when I use it at home and if there is a good connection at school. Most of the time, I turn on the data (4g on my nexus 4, unless I flashed another rom and too lazy to flash the 4g radio) mostly. I browse the web, watch some YouTube videos and that's about it. Don't play games at all. If I were to get the g4, I might use the camera a bit more because of fast focus and fast launching of the camera app. (My Interest in street photography).
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
I had location off for most of the day. Email sync was set to auto but I don't get many really. I don't have lux installed, isn't auto brightness good enough for getting the right level?

I do have Greenify installed but it's limited as I'm not rooted.

Apps that sync often.. How do you tell? I have WhatsApp, Twitter, Ebay, Flickr?

I feel like my standby time isn't too bad tho.. It's my screen that burns through the battery.
[G4 General] rsbenedict:
How many updates do you get with WhatsApp and Twitter? Every time you get a new message or a new tweet, you're using up battery. How do you use Flickr? That could use up some battery as well. And if you're actively searching Ebay, that again will toll your battery, though not as much as other things. Depending on how you use Flickr on your phone, it takes a lot of battery to light up all those pixels. How much battery does your battery stats say that those apps are using. Are they at the top? Or is it just screen time?
[G4 General] OJ1618:
I would consider my usage to be moderate. Mainly I use my phone for socail activities (Instagram, Snapchat, Foursquare, XDA), media consumption (YouTube, Music), some news reading and some web surfing/email. No games, no power intensive apps. And I always keep the running apps on check and make sure that they're closed/Greenified. My screen brightness is set to Auto with 50%. With that I can manage to get 4-5 hours of SOT over 13-15 hours of usage.
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
WhatsApp about 20 an hour ish but very few on anything else really. My one plus one lasted for ages and I didn't need to turn off sync, location or anything.
[G4 General] Theuntje:
(from BetterBatteryStats)

Yesterday my phone lost from 78% to 25% while I was sporting. But the phone was active for most of the time..
[G4 General] Icculus760:
I'm a moderate to heavy user and had the Verizon G4 since its release. Constantly getting AT MOST 2hrs of screen on time.

Decided to do a factory reset last night around 7PM w/ 100% battery level to start. After setting up the phone last night, playing some games, letting it discharge overnight, using bluetooth on the way to work this morning - it's 9AM now, I still have 20% battery left and my SoT is almost 3 & 1/2 hrs now! No way I would've gotten that SoT before the factory reset.

Obviously your mileage may vary, but if anyone is having horrible SoT times, a factory reset seems to have worked for me (and here's hoping I didn't jinx anything and it'll be the same 3-4-5hr SoT over the next few days too!!)
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
I did the same and didn't notice any difference.. Maybe you didn't install all the apps you had before? Let me know how you get on over the next few days!
[G4 General] AnteusFogg:
I've got to say so far so good. I'm getting around 3h SOT with about 24h battery life. Not as stellar as my former XPeria Z3 but the camera is too amazing to pass.

One thing I noticed though is that on my Z3 I'd leave the location on "High Accuracy" yet Google Play Services and the likes (except basically the Camera, Waze and Maps) would still use "Low Battery" location, typically not using the GPS even though available.

It seems that with the G4, those services that don't require high accuracy will use high accuracy if available. Does it make sense? Any idea what differs? Is it a Sony-exclusive implementation?
[G4 General] acleworth:
I'm getting about 3h 30m
[G4 General] alexfoxy:
Agree about camera. I turn off my location if I'm not using maps etc though I feel like I shouldn't have to to get through the day.. What brightness level do you have on to get that screen time?
[G4 General] dlscott1111:
If you goto settings, accounts, you can find out what apps sync and you can tweak that. The built in auto-brightness doesn't get bright enough for me so I use lux. Seems to help with the battery too. I get 4.5hrs+ Screen on time pretty consistently. I leave location on Battery Saving pretty much all the time and I manually sync my email. I have ubersocial as a twitter client and I believe it only syncs when i open the app. Not sure about whatsapp or flikr, I don't use those.
[G4 General] AnteusFogg:
I use automatic brightness. Contrary to other phones it seems to not matter what level of brightness you set, autobrightness is pretty much fixed.

My typical usage is, I'd say, moderate:

- 10-20 minutes of news reading in the morning

- 30 minutes of Waze (GPS on obviously)

- Spotty whatsapp / web browsing / email throughout the day, adding up to 30min to 1h screen time

- 10-20 minutes of news reading at lunch

- 10-20 minutes of news reading in the evening

- 30min to 1h gaming in the evening

To be noted: No Facebook on my phone but Good For Enterprise is pretty nasty on battery.

Also I have Android Wear so BT on all day. Wifi ON only at home.

I typically finish the day around 15%-10% and for having tested overnight drain I'm confident saying it counts as 24h battery life but obviously I prefer to plug my phone to have it full in the morning.

I had the phone for a few days only so I guess it'll vary but I'm hoping it'll be for the better.

My cellular coverage is very good so it does certainly help.
[G4 General] duraaraa:
Today, I'm getting really good battery life.

This is the first day after having charging the phone at night. Other days I would leave the phone off the charger at night to test out its draining.

Right now I've got 97% with screen on for nearly 30 minutes and nearly 30 minutes of voice calls in 5 hours of usage.

Of course, it was at 100% for a really long time.

Bluetooth (Android Wear) and Wifi on the whole time.

I've had the phone for about a week and never saw battery life this good until today, though.

Only thing that kind of bothers me is according to GSAM, Android Kernel has a ton time with the phone kept awake, but still, with no usage, draining less than 1% per hour and a half.

I'm on a rooted European H815.