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[Moto G 2015 General] nirez:
hello,

i am using htc one m7 since 2013. i want to change my phone. i am thinking of buying motorola moto g 3rd gen. i saw you changed to moto g from one m7. which version do you recommend? 1 gb or 2 gb?does it differ at battery life?

one m7 had several issues. one of the most annoying was (to me) heat issue. how is heating on this phone?

or do you recommend another phone than moto g?

thank you
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I had an M7 before the G3, although not directly... Get the 2GB/16GB model, don't even consider the 1GB/8GB model unless you have no choice, it just doesn't have enough RAM for smooth multitasking and 8GB isn't enough storage for much at all (you have less than 4GB available).

There is no heat issue with this phone... Doing graphics intensive gaming while charging will barely even be noticeable heat wise.

I have no qualms recommending the Moto G 2015, although if your interested in alternatives, the Huawei Honor 5x is a decent alternative.
[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
My battery usage after one day. Didn't use the phone after the charge, so the on screen time is from before the phone died

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[Moto G 2015 General] Gravemind2015:
No sim, Airplane mode on,Wifi is on(wifi was on during second part of the wifi bar after discontinue, the first part of the bar is a cosmetic bug),rest all off. 9 hours,yeah, its a good SOT.

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[Moto G 2015 General] Akash sky:
Moto g turbo ?
[Moto G 2015 General] Gravemind2015:
Nah, osprey! I am interested in turbo but don't have the device.

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[Moto G 2015 General] jnsson:
My battery usage while I'm in Amsterdam on holiday

Bluetooth: On (Music about 3 hours)

Google Now: On

GPS: On/Auto

Brightness: Auto 50%

Wi-Fi: On

Google location history: On

Data/Internet: On (roaming on Vodafone NL with LTE connectivity)

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[Moto G 2015 General] magirusss:
impressed with this "small" 2470mah battery, about 8-9hours screen on with two full days and almost no consumption at iddle , with a 3000mah battery autonomy would have been enormous
[Moto G 2015 General] kosmasgr:
What is your ROM ?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I can get 8 hours SOT out of my Moto when it's in airplane mode half the time too. :)
[Moto G 2015 General] magirusss:
and finish battery, almost 2 full days (42hours) with +9h screen on, not bad at all ;)

stock 6.0.1 2gb lightened for me with explosion kernel and more little personal mods, xposed, settings, etc to tune performance, look and battery

congrats :good:

i always use airplane mode at night during sleep hours
[Moto G 2015 General] hessien zaghloul:
thats bad! i just bought the 16gb version and the battery isn't up to my

expectation, i'm currently on 5.1.1 should i upgrade it to marshmallow?

on regular use/brightness on the lowest/without any gaming
[Moto G 2015 General] olinojephanko:
its same on marshmallow

now i lost 10% during night (5hours) and when using it during the day, with edge turned on i lose 30% in 2 hours...
[Moto G 2015 General] vodka86:
Bad experience with my battery life

Hello everyone,

I need your insight on my battery stats. I bought the Moto G 2015 since I wanted a phone whose battery would last at least 1.5 days, and so far (3 weeks), I need to charge my phone everynight.

I am not a heavy user on my phone (browsing, texting, and casual gaming). And still, I have no luck with my battery life. I have already turned off 4G (no use in my country), I do use wifi all day and 3G.

Check my screenshots and give me your opinions. I am thinking of installing a custom rom to see if I can improve the battery life to some extent... any recommendations?

Edit: I am on stock rom 6.0, no root, no modification whatsoever so far.

Thanks.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Something is waking the device and keeping it from sleeping a lot, but it should still be better than that... Your signal strength is good, screen usage is appropriate, and no app seems to be going crazy.

I would suggest installing GSAM Battery Monitor and running it for a couple of days and see if something looks different there, the stock battery app can be deceiving sometimes.

Without root it is tough to tell much more.
[Moto G 2015 General] riggerman0421:
5 social media apps running and using more battery than the screen. That might be the problem.
[Moto G 2015 General] vodka86:
How come using tinder, whatsapp, line, instagram drains the battery of a new Moto G (2015), but my old Moto G (2013) used the same apps, with a smaller battery, and had better performance?

I´m going crazy.

I´ve installed GSAM, will post results in 2 days to see what goes wrong. Also, do you recommend rooting?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I would say [MENTION=3758758]riggerman0421[/MENTION] is probably more on the right track with too many social apps syncing constantly... Rooting may help, if you Greenify them or use something like JuiceDefender, just I wouldn't jump to that as an answer.
[Moto G 2015 General] vodka86:
Two days have passed... installed GSAM, deactivated Moto Display (thought screen may be turning on randomly inside my pocket, and saw it did woke up several times while on top of a desk and screen turned on on the slightest movement) and kept my phone use as usual, and still, battery performance is not up to what I thought this phone would be.

From the statistics of battery monitor and Gsam, the screen is definitely the responsible for my lower than average battery´s daily life. Today I charged it up to 80 % aprox. and used my phone very little (barely 1 hour on a whole day) and still, my battery went down really fast (right now I have 50 % left).

Do you consider this to be normal behavior of the battery, or am I being too much of a freak asking for more performance of a nice phone? It´s just that I had a Moto G2013 and initially my battery would last 3 days, and decided to change that phone since I had to charge my phone almost twice a day... which unfortunately I have to do with my new phone.

What do you think about this? Do you think my phone´s battery/screen have something wrong or is it me the one with a perception problem? I will appreciate your thoughts, which will help me decide whether or not to sell this phone and get one with a smaller screen.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Actually, I would say this is normal... Your mobile radio is using a fair chunk of battery but that's based on signal strength, nothing you can do about it.

Average use for me was a full day and 4 hours screen time. If I sat in one place and used it continuously on WiFi with excellent mobile signal I could push 7.5 hours screen time. I was never able to exceed 2 days on a charge.
[Moto G 2015 General] midhunkrishnan08:
My phone off at 5 %
[Moto G 2015 General] saransh arya:
No root ,no unlocked bootloader just stick rom
[Moto G 2015 General] Ikkix:
Guys im looking for ways to get better battery life. I use a lot of 3G, sometimes 4-5 hrs and adaptive brightness mode, and i have to charge around 2times a day i guess.. i am on AOSP CAF 7.1.1 ROM. Any tips?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Go back to stock... Sounds sarcastic, but it's not and it's true. stock has the best battery life.
[Moto G 2015 General] kiekeboeboe:
Lineage OS stock
[Moto G 2015 General] maly82:
My observation is:

On stock ROM with 50 brightness using phone for light gaming, texting, calling, using WhatsApp and catching up with emails and social media, about 30 minutes youtube I get roughly 5 -5:30 hours each time.

On any custom ROM I can only manage to get 3.5hours of screen on time, with same usage scenario.

My trick is to run battery up to 2% and then turn phone off. Let it charge to 100% and than put it back on without plug.
[Moto G 2015 General] lucasmartinsd:
lineage + squid kernel. wifi only.
[Moto G 2015 General] grengo:
[MENTION=2672440]ryude[/MENTION] U using wifi or 3g...?

Only on 3G how much screen on time u score...?
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
My job requires me to drive a lot so most of the day I'm on LTE.
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
Standby is really good.
[Moto G 2015 General] veimus:
Standby time is very nice, after 5 days 10h 32% battery left, screen on 3h, 30min voice call, network only 2G, ~40 sms.
[Moto G 2015 General] samir_a:
I can easily go past a day with moderate usage, which is surprising but i guess this is the advantage of a low spec processor.

But once again the Moto G has surpised me
[Moto G 2015 General] veimus:
i forgot wrote that my CPU is set-up to max 1GHz :)
[Moto G 2015 General] NOSTALGIA:
seems to have a good battery life generally.. really considering this phone as my next one.. im tired of flashing roms. i need something solid and basic.. this phone should answer my needs.
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
If you are rooted and have xposed, this module fixes a battery drain that is in lollipop 5.1.1.

Http://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/xposed-mobileradioactivefix-t3132956/page2
[Moto G 2015 General] XMoDuLeSx:
Testing the latest CM build /11 and so far battery is better than stock,i'll post the battery stats soon :)

Stock kernel minimum frequency is 800 MHz changing it to 200 work's oke without any random reboots so far also limit the CPU maximum screen off frequency at 800 and setting I/O fiops with 512 KB read ahead will give u crazy battery life and no drains!
[Moto G 2015 General] hiteshonline:
5hrs SOT

Games - watsapp-youtube-facebook-video-music-calling- messages thats all.
[Moto G 2015 General] Secuential:
12 hours of usage with 22% left. Played a lot of games and Whatsapp so I it's ok for me. Stock ROM and unrooted.

How many hours does it take to charge for you? I find that the charging time is extremely long.
[Moto G 2015 General] ==vj==:
Battery Stats & Usage - ORIGINAL UNROOTED G3

I am very happy with G3 battery backup.

WiFi and HSPA mixed usage:

Sot: 7:20hrs

Music listening: 5:40hrs

Chrome browsing: 45mins

Camera: 30mins

Whatsapp & Telegram: All the time

Moto app: ON

YouTube: 40mins

HSPA only usage:

Sot: 7:15hrs

Music: No

Chrome browsing: 2hrs

Camera: 20mins

Whatsapp & Telegram: All the time

Moto app: ON

Offline Video playback: 1hr
[Moto G 2015 General] nandakis4:
My battery discharge on Normal usage - (Adaptive brightness - ON)

1) 1 hr gaming

2) some mobile downloads with cellular network (Edge)

3) 15 to 20 mins playback

4) whatsapp, and surfing with cellular network (Edge)

Finally... these are results..

but i use heavily i will get OST - 2hrs to 3hrs
[Moto G 2015 General] SuperSpies:
OK can someone explain this?

I just got the phone today, and after I fully charged it I checked the battery stats and it says I only have 8 hours of standby at 97%. Shouldn't I be getting way more on standby?

http://prntscr.com/899q2w

There's the battery screenshot, couldn't attach for some reason.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Give it time and a couple charge cycles... You can't really see the battery life with such a minuscule amount of use.
[Moto G 2015 General] ==vj==:
:laugh: Don't trust that estimated time.. after your battery level reaches 90% it will start showing 18hrs so on.. Use your phone upto 5% of battery and check your battery stats.. SOT , OVERALL TIME so on. I had been getting 7:15-7:20hrs of SOT repeateadly before Rooting phone. Now i have ROOT the phone and i gottu check whether it gonna be same or better or less. Logically it should be same unless we tickle with kernel parameters.
[Moto G 2015 General] orogiad:
i wonder if this is the problem i am having. the battery seems really bad (coming from and LG Volt especially). it was draining while it was in use and charging last night.

Lolipop System UI is at the top of the list for battery usage for me as well, unlike what im seeing from anyone else's screen shots.

something isnt right.
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
Superb battery life:

Got the phone today, it was at 43%. Set it up on wifi, downloaded apps, intense use.. brightness was more than 50%.

3hrs SOT (from 43% to 1%) with heavy use.
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
Yes that's what I was having too. Also I use Amplify to restrict wake locks. Now I get 6-7 hrs screen on time with 30% battery left.

something isnt right.[/QUOTE]
[Moto G 2015 General] barondebxl:
This phone has monstrous battery life. It's an absolute champ. I'm on my first charge with 16 hours off charge and 7 and 1/2 hours of screen on time. Nuts!
[Moto G 2015 General] drico_649:
Moto G3 (XT1544), Stock ROM, Greenify+L Mod Speed

I Left the phone resting while I slept, then I've used all day until discharge it... Mainly using facebook, whatsapp and reading articles in Chrome.

Got 6hs 5min of On-Screen time (08:45AM (9/10)~12:20AM (9/11)
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
Debloated custom ROM based on stock firmware.

Email syncing every hour for 2 accounts.

Google Now.

Ghostery browser without adaway or hosts adblocking.

Stock kernel settings.

Disabled google account automatic syncing.

Deleted all moto apks, so no moto actions or display.
[Moto G 2015 General] jawadpe:
what rom are you on, using greenify? I get 5 hours screen on time max with a lil clash of clans , surfing on opera and a lil of texting and calls.
[Moto G 2015 General] barondebxl:
No roms, 100% stock no greenify
[Moto G 2015 General] jawadpe:
woah, that's cool. I just got greenify and tweaking it to my settings now. Hope I get at least close to 7 hours. cheers mate
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
Greenify in my experience has always used just as much battery as it saved. Therefore it was better for me to use an app such as "Disable App", to disable system apps and that's it. Hibernating does not save much battery, and Greenify has to continue running in the background to hibernate those apps.
[Moto G 2015 General] Rajadhiraja9*:
Are these stats are with Moto Active Notification or without?

Coz i bought my Moto G 2015 2GB variant yesterday and i got only 4hr 20 Min SOT!

Why..
[Moto G 2015 General] christopherrrg:
Rooted / Xposed Stock LP-123.72-43

With moto display ON

(Gravitybox)

Edit - mind the tiny charge, that was hooked up to PC for the SD card heh
[Moto G 2015 General] jinx8402:
Anyone else having issues with bluetooth draining the battery badly? I usually leave BT on to connect with my car when I'm driving., however on the Moto G it really eats the battery. yesterday it was #1 in battery usage with high amount of keep awake/CPU usage.

Today I did some testing with not using my phone at all. 1.5 hours with BT turnded off used 1% of battery vs 1 hour with BT turned on using an additional 4% of battery with a keep awake time of 36 minutes for BT. This seems odd, as I never experienced this with my previous phone.

Any thoughts or ideas?
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
Nope... Use my Plantronics headset all day, barely puts a blip in my battery usage with 2-3 talk time per day.
[Moto G 2015 General] christopherrrg:
You running custom or stock ROM friend?
[Moto G 2015 General] jinx8402:
Stock '15 G in the 2GB/16GB configuration
[Moto G 2015 General] christopherrrg:
Ah see I've only got the 1GB/8GB so I'm not entirely sure. You would think yours would perform better with more RAM allocation, have you tried any custom?
[Moto G 2015 General] jinx8402:
I wiped the cache partition to see if that helps, and so far so good. Recharged to 100% and have had bluetooth on for the last hour and it is not being reported in the battery stats yet. Will give an update tomorrow if it seems to fixed the issue.
[Moto G 2015 General] jawadpe:
Hey guys, I didn't wanna start a new thread regarding an issue. Google play services is eating up a lot of battery lately. Is it some setting i did wrong ? i went through entire google setting, i actually have turned Google Now and Google launcher off.

I'm on complete stock and no root and nova launcher.

Here is a screen shot.
[Moto G 2015 General] nileshlog:
I've read the review on GSMarena but the performance scores are on synthetic benchmarks. Can anyone give realworld performance? Battery/heating/frame drop etc on games like subway surfer/candy crush, limbo etc. Not intending to play games like GTA or NFS on it. Only for watching movies while travelling, whatsapp/facebook, calling(ofcourse), may be even videocalls, GPS for health related tracking(google tracks or such apps), web browsing and using day to day apps like shopping apps, banking apps etc. Need honest advice. Also hoping thsi one gets updated to Marshmellow.

Basically I want the phone to get me through the day while I perform some of these tasks.(no multi task/Very rare multi task)
[Moto G 2015 General] Techguy18:
It drains 1% for every ~3minutes while playing bombsquad.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
My typical day is Facebook/G+, YouTube, texting, web browsing, online shopping, Ingress, Candy Crush... similar to your usage. I get a full day's usage (16 hours) with about 5 hours screen time and 30% battery remaining, mixed WiFi/LTE, all services enabled (GN, location, Moto Display, etc)... Well working (I am out 4 days, home 3) there are times I don't get WiFi for days and signal might be bad and I may go a 8+ hours without LTE, but I have never gotten less than 3.5 hours screen time with 16% remaining (never gotten low battery alert), and that was weak 2/3G to no service most of the day. I can sit in the living room, not moving around and just playing Candy Crush, Pokemon Shuffle, and normal stuff for 7-8 hours of screen time with no problem on strong WiFi signal, so the battery life is good but not exceptional.

As far as Marshmallow goes, of course it will get it... Motorola has a 2 year life, give or take, even the 1st Gen G got Lollipop so we will get Marshmallow, and Nougat/Nerds or whatever the next Android version is called as well. All things considered I think we will see it no earlier than the very end of December to possibly as late as Mid-March.
[Moto G 2015 General] nileshlog:
Hey thanks for your prompt reply.

I am also tempted by Asus Zenfone Laser(Snapdragon processor) and Huawei Honor 6(Kirin 920 SoC).one cheaper and another just bit costlier as compared to Moto G3. Asus purely due to same/better specs at lower price and Honor 6 because it has one generation old flagship specs at just a little more. I think Honor 6 has already received LP update but not sure about Marshmellow. Same for Zenfone too. Honor 6 runs on 32 bit architecture and other two(Moto G3 and Laser) on 64 bit. Anyone any suggestion regarding my shortlist. Or any other phone suggested.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
In my opinion the order would be:

1) Moto G 2015

2) Asus Zenfone 2 (any model)

3) Huawei Honor 6

The Moto G will have the best support, both from the manufacturer and the developer community.
[Moto G 2015 General] mariox_92:
Battery duration

Here I post my battery stats!:)
[Moto G 2015 General] zinconnu:
Is it "easy" to replace battery on this Moto G version ? :confused:
[Moto G 2015 General] Preep:
No.

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All with wifi?
[Moto G 2015 General] jdaclutch:
Not bad at all.
[Moto G 2015 General] Preep:
All wifi?

People should say if use wifi, 3G/4G or mixed, games or not, normal use or just with screen on. I can have 10 hours if do nothing.
[Moto G 2015 General] orogiad:
im getting the same thing. Play Service is using a large amount of my battery daily. this is the 2gb model. i replaced the 1 gb for this one and the 1 gb and that one was having battery drain issues with the Android UI before a factory reset.

tempted to reset this phone as well to see if it helps. this is a drag.

edit: i searched the issue and it looks like some people have had success by uninstalling updates on Google Play Services and then reinstalling them and rebooting.

i tried it, so ill monitor it over the next few days and see if it helps.
[Moto G 2015 General] jawadpe:
I actually got mine to stop draining. I had it all disabled at first, that's when the drain started. I enabled google now app with cards and location on, then did a cache partition wipe from recovery. been a week and it seems to have fixed itself.

The next proper system and google update will hopefully fix it even more.
[Moto G 2015 General] Preep:
Google services is a pain, or a ****, like you prefer. No matter what phone you have, it makes random battery drains, I see it all days on forums. Google should work on it.
[Moto G 2015 General] Cazomino05:
just got my moto g 2015, wifi on/bluetooth on/mobile data on without using the phone:

looks like it'l do 2 days easy without much use - very happy coming from my Nexus 4.

EDIT: screen on time is 58 minutes by the way.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
My moto g3 on fist day charging gives me around 6hrs of on screen time. Awesome battery however i have not used much just:

Bia3:-90mins.

Music:-120mins.

Whatsapp-all time

Wifi-always on

Snap some photos...

Bittorent running for 108mins.

It goes for two days....

Sent from my MotoG3
[Moto G 2015 General] garikfox:
I get 7 days out of my Moto G 2015 :D

WiFi: Off

Bluetooth: Off

Location: Off

Data: On

Note: I only use it as a phone though and get maybe 2 calls a week.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Beat me if you can.......;)

This is with heavy usage like watching 3 movies, playing music , wifi on all time.

Note:Power saver turned on only at 5%.
[Moto G 2015 General] jawadpe:
how??!!?? Max I get is like 4 hours screen on :( with like close to 3 hours of clash of clans though lol..
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Honestly i also dont know how i get it but just used up my device watched movies, and my wifi is on all time and i also us bitgorent app very much.
[Moto G 2015 General] h0ttentot:
I'll recharge to 100% tonight and check, but i think i'll get the same as you.

I only use wifi at home and 3g when out or at work.

I'm using Resurrection Remix rom and didn't flash gapps because i don't need any google services. I never got to any critical situation with my battery after using it all day, i just charge it every night out of habit.
[Moto G 2015 General] vaibhav808:
Actually it all depends on what kind of usage you do, if your phone is not much old.

My Moto G3 battery work for whole day, where all messaging and browsing is done on 4G.

So its going quite good for me !!
[Moto G 2015 General] Jeconias Santos:
My battery is not the best, but it's to use on a daily basis. :D
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
I've beat that before, just yesterday I had 6hr 38min with 32% battery remaining.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Then cheers to you....[emoji12]
[Moto G 2015 General] kaustubh_lipare:
Below are my battery stats after using it for almost 1d 4h 36mins with 31% remaining...

1 ) Screen on time is : 3hr 45 min

2) Usage patterns: call for 27 mins, wifi on for 1d 4h 37min, Music for around 30 mins, 30-40 camera click, Normal Whatsapp,

3) I am on Cyanogen Nightly with Xposed framework and Blue_spark custom kernel installed onto it.
[Moto G 2015 General] fix-this!:
I've had mine for a week and the battery life is worse than the nexus 5. Thinking about returning to amazon and getting the 5x. I can't be attached to a charger all the time plus the super slow charge is driving me mad. The reviews of this device were way off.
[Moto G 2015 General] whitedragonz83:
Wow, this is really surprising to me as I went from the Nexus 5 to a Moto G3 and found the battery life to be 2-3 times better on the Moto G3. Easily going 1 full day between charges compared to 2-3 charges per day on my Nexus 5.
[Moto G 2015 General] acejavelin:
I am quite surprised at this as well, my battery life is significantly better than either the Nexus 4 or 5, easily getting a full days use with ~4 hours screen time and a little left in reserve... have you installed GSAM or other battery monitoring software to see what is using the battery and verifying that it is sleeping properly?
[Moto G 2015 General] ryude:
Here's mine.
[Moto G 2015 General] fix-this!:
i returned mine and got a m9.
[Moto G 2015 General] banerjeeayan1996:
Not bad
[Moto G 2015 General] Cryosx:
m9, battery life, not good :eek: