[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Almighty1:
Number of apps does matter if they are keep starting up, I forgot I am running Lookout too which is not greenified and running even when PowerNap is running, lookout is a major battery killer from what I heard. Also, I think a lot of the installed apps have the wakelocks even when greenified as the apps does cause lots of harm to the phone as I mentioned before, I had issues with Google Play Store after there is a x amount of apps on the phone even though they were not running that Greenify fixed. Basically, I would download and install in Google Play Store, the download takes a while to start and it will hang in the middle of the download and after maybe an hour, it will go into installing and either it will install or it will fail after another 30 minutes. And that's just one scenario. Other times, it would download and then the download would restart or the download will just hang and nothing happens. Yet, downloading is fine while in Safe Mode and this is not a signal issue because I have it on WiFi. I have the same issue on the Motorola Droid RAZR HD Maxx as well which has 1GB of RAM vs 3GB on the G4. Funny thing is my Motorola XOOM Tablet doesn't have the problem even with the same amount of apps. Greenify did fix them though on the G4. I heard from others that Greenify just kills the app but it still doesn't stop wakelocks from those apps that are greenified which is where Amplify comes in except I have no idea how to use Amplify to bounce the wakelocks, etc.. As for misbehaving apps, I'm sure I have a lot of them on the phone for all I know as many have never gotten updates and just disappeared off Google Play Store formerly Android Market.

As for standby, as I'm pariticipating in market research programs, things like Screenwise Trends Panel, Media Insiders VPN, lookout and sync are running fulltime regardless if the screen is on or not. When I get the 3-4 hours SOT, I have 75dBm or stronger signals since my phone is only off the charger when I am actually not in the house and that's when I'm usually in downtown San Francisco where the signals are strong. I can get to downtown SF in 15 minutes flat and usually spend about 3 hours there and then come home when the phone goes back on the charger until the next time I go out, the only reason I even unplug the phone when I'm home is usually when I am trying to do something with instructions on the screen of the computer. My phone will not charge from USB ports on the computer either as while it shows charging, the % actually goes down like it was draining instead of it charging.

The heating up issue can be when it's not really doing anything, I can load up Contacts to check a missed call which was from a few days ago and it can heat up.

LIke I mentioned in the other thread, I can walk 1 block in either direction which is about 100 feet and then the 4G will be strong so it seems like the signal is not penetrating well through the mountains and trees.

I know bar means nothing but for some reason, the G4 seems to display higher bars with a weaker signal. Like -118dB will get 3 bars while -108dB will get only the 1st bar. 3g in any case is -92dBm and it seems like it depends on my luck as I can hit tower 347 which is XLTE (band 13) or tower 349 which is LTE (band 4) from what I can tell. Even the same phone can have different RF performance from what I can tell as they just have to be within a certain spec but will not be identical as the specifications is not that tight. What I was saying earlier about Sony Ericsson has nothing to do with bars but whether it can hold a call or not, this was before there was even data as Nokia and Motorola always had better RF performance than other brands of phones when it came to signals as those two usually can make calls reliably when the other phones can't make a call which is what I'm thinking about LG as Samsung is known for poor RF signals as well as both of these are really new in radio design while Motorola has been making phones and radios forever and Nokia even though it used to make toilet tissue existed in the mobile area way longer than Samsung and LG has.

I think the thing is 3G runs on 850Mhz or traditional cellular frequencies which is why the signal is strong while 4G LTE runs in the high 1.9Ghz or higher frequencies which was the same problem why 1.9Ghz PCS carriers before they had 850Mhz were unreliable because it's hard to hold a signal.

As far as PRLs go, I called level 2 tech support at Verizon Wireless and they basically told me to turn phone off, take out sim card, turn phone on without sim for 5 minutes and then turn off, put sim back and turn on as sometimes the PRL doesn't update automatically correctly and you have to physically force it. I have PRL 15428 which should be the latest, too bad no one posts what the latest version of the PRL is anymore like people used to on HoFo.

As for the battery, hard to say unless I had another one to try as there is something causing the stuck battery % indicator which gets stuck at 73/74% or 97% and while it shows charging, it doesn't move beyond that point whether in regular or safe mode. Only way to get past the stuck issue is to charge the phone completely powered off. I thought I fixed that with Greenify but last time, I moved the brightness to 100% with Auto and the problem came back. I changed it to 0% Auto and the problem is gone.