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[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] waylo:
What carrier?

Edit: nvm you're in Europe. I think there's definitely a difference in carrier bloat or something.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] PaulB007:
I got about 17 hours yesterday with close to 5 hours SOT. At work today I started off the charger today at 10:20 and its about 7 now, I used the phone a bit, probably have an hour or so SOT and I am at 78% on LTE only. Some may not find this amazing but try coming from a Galaxy S6 that was DEAD and had to be charged at 5:30 each day to a phone that still has 78% after a whole damn day and I am amazed. Samsung REALLY dropped the ball on the S6, enough so that I swore I iwll not buy another Galaxy phone for a very long time until they can fix their garbage standby time
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] pcorchary:
So far, after exactly 7 days with my LG G5 on AT&T, I would say battery life is definitely my biggest disappointment. It is certainly no better than my 3+ year-old LG G2 that was my daily phone before the G5, and perhaps not quite as good. With a charger by the bed, by the couch, by the office desk and in the car, and I'm OK. Off charger it certainly can't last a 12 hour day.

(And I use zero social media apps, and turn of push on everything except my gmail and corporate mail)
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rauch:
Push email on, Facebook, a few YouTube videos, and quite a bit of web browsing, tapatalk, and texting.

Had 25% left with 4hrs 15min SOT yesterday. Meant to get a screenshot, but certainly an improvement over my S6 edge+ and nexus 6.

Loving this phone more and more every day.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
Battery and Radio Reception

I have been getting about 5 hrs SOT and good standby. Today I was in a meeting in an underground conference room and lost about 10-15% in an hour an 45 minutes. I am guessing that was due to not having reception and the phone constantly looking for a signal. I haven't seen this happen before. Just an possibility for some who are seeing poor standby battery performance.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
Three days in. Not stupendous; not bad.

Today

~23hr on Battery

42% left

3hr sot

Moderate usage

T-Mobile in SF Bay Area

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[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] riggsandroid:
since i'm getting maybe 15 hrs on battery with max 3 hrs SoT before my battery reaches 0. You're getting pretty damn good battery.

I'm on Sprint variant, probably something to do with it. Or possibly a rogue app, but GSAM doesn't show rogue app.

Factory reset for me if it doesn't sort itself out.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] caiko:
All these superior SOTs are a lie.None of the biggest reviewers on youtube have shown more that 3 hours SOT .They all say battery life is weak on this phone.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
I should have said "light to moderate" use. Still, not terribly bad. One thing I do is use Greenify. I don't greenify anything, just use the setting on Greenify to do "aggressive doze". Don't know if it helps, really; seems to.

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Nobody's lying. Think about it.

I've come v. recently from a nexus 5x, where 3 hr SOT is do-able - if you don't do anything but turn your screen on at v. low brightness and let it sit... From my experience on several 5X's the battery perf. differs from build to build of the hardware (!). Perhaps there is some issue like that here though I'd doubt it.

It sounds like you don't have a G5? If so, you should not offer random comments about people lying. "Big" reviewers are way less reliable that good ol' XDA.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] caiko:
I have had every LG flagship in last 4 years.All these SOTs shown here are Sci-Fi.Unless you use ur phone on 10 % brigtness and without any SIM
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] CRA5HER:
Very odd thing happening. My Maps app seems to be using 50% of my battery usage but it's never opened. Anyone know what could be causing this?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
Getting opinions from the masses (the average user) is probably more accurate then a few reviews on YouTube where some have had preproduction units.

I have absolutely no reason to lie, my battery life IS amazing on this phone. I use it on the way to work, after work, and into the evening and will get 5-5.5hrs on stock. My brightness is set to auto, and goes between 50%-100% whenever it likes.

You can say what you want, but this is my humble observation. If the sot was awful, id happily report it on here.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] caiko:
Look I am not trying to insult anyone here.I just remeber what happened when I bought the LG G4 -SOT has nothing to do with what was posted here.Same thing wilm happen now with LG G5 now.I will buy this phone for sure cuz I like it but ....
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ibilln:
It's the ghost of Android past. Appears from time to time, from place to place.

Standard exorcism routine:

Clear data in maps app

Reboot phone

Use maps a bit

If that does not work,

Turn off location

Reboot phone

Turn on location

Turn off GPS

Use maps a bit

If problem persists, all hope is lost.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] yumfoods:
With the caveat that I don't have this phone (yet): in addition to the excellent exorcism suggestions given above, I just wanted to point out (if you hadn't seen it yet) the suggestion that someone offered in the first few pages of this thread of giving gMaps all permissions. They said that tamed gMaps for them.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sdesmore:
I really want this phone as I had the G2, G3 and G4 but I'm a bit concerned reading the battery reviews. My wife's S7 easily gets 5-6 SOT and the phone last 2 days on battery.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jonathan-H:
I get just under 6 hours SOT now that I have turned off the Always on Display and the Fingerprint security.

With those two in use, I was getting between 2 and 4 hours SOT.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] CRA5HER:
Thanks! By giving it full permissions, I'm assuming that means enabling it for:

Contacts

Phone

Storage

Your Location

Those are my options under App Permissions for gMaps. Are those it?

For now, I followed the standard exorcism routine and deleted cache and data which didn't seem to work. And then I accidentally uninstalled gMaps then reinstalled it. That actually resolved the problem and for the last 24+ hours, gMaps doesn't seem to be a background battery hog anymore.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DualSportDad:
It was me to said to give maps full permissions. It will solve your maps problems. I uninstalled and reinstalled to but after the first time I opened maps I noticed GPS turning on all the time. As soon as I toggled the permissions the GPS symbol went off and battery life has improved.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] sstanton86:
Get it, you won't be unimpressed! I keep always active display, and auto brightness and I get 5-6hrs sot.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] DualSportDad:
Always on display, no wifi or Bluetooth, days always on, Google syncing.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] srimay:
I have all Google apps not syncing, except inbox. I turn data and location off while I'm at work and the phone is in my pocket. I only use Wi-Fi at home, about 8 hours per day. I get 18 hours on battery with 5 hours SOT. this is about the same or slightly more than I got on my s6 edge that was rooted and had a custom Rom and kernel, tweaked for battery life. I feel once we get root and such, this is only going to get better. This battery easily gets me through a day as it is so I'm happy already
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] grkmaster:
I am on Tmobile In NY and got my phone day 1 at the store. I think I am going to do a factory reset. I am not getting optimal battery life. I will get 3 hours or a little more so of SOT but with my phone lasting only about 10-12 hours. Having to constantly recharge every half a day is painful and annoying having to carry my portable anker charger with me everywhere until my spare battery arrives. I also installed NOVA bc of the lack of the app drawer and not sure if that is causing an issue. I have uninstalled lots of apps and not really makign a difference. I also think one of my issues might have been restoring everything from the LG backup app from the G4 to G5 and wouldn't be surprised something there caused an issue. My phone will tend to warm up once in a while and my battery starts dropping rapidly
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] waylo:
I get similar stats on my t-mobile one as well, fairly disappointing but on par with many other users and reviewers. Then you have the odd unicorn phones here and there (none on t-mobile that I could tell) with crazy good battery times.

I also think about that possibility, weird settings carried over from lg backup. I think I had an odd GPS defect as a result of that which has not shown itself recently. Let us know how your factory reset pans out.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
After a Couple Weeks

I have had the phone a couple weeks and have some observations. If anyone has any ideas on these it might help us all out.

I use Wifi at home, but most of my experience is from work where I have a decent 4G signal. Verizon service.

I have debloated the phone using the Debloater program for PC by Gatesjunior. Nice software he developed there. There are a lot of things running on the phone that I an afraid to disable because I don't know what they are.

1) I can get good SOT, 5+ hours if I use the phone a lot. It seems that standby is what drains the phone. If I don't use the phone much the SOT is around 3-4 hours.

2) Most battery use goes to Android OS, Google Play Service, Phone Idle, and Cell Standby. If I use it a lot, Screen gets up into the top couple. I am not used to seeing these 4 taking so much battery. I am coming from a rooted phone (G3) where I was able to limit wakelocks, so that may be why some of these are so much higher than before. With the G3, I used to always have screen as the highest user, usually at 60% or so. Android OS was around 10% on the G3. Play services was around 5%. Now both are much higher.

3) I haven't noticed any difference between using the fingerprint scanner or not. Some people have said that they get better battery when the scanner is turned off.

4) I have tried both CDMA and Global settings and don't notice any difference.

5) In GSAM, I usually get zero usage showing up from apps. I get a lot of usage under the Held Awake category and I can't figure out what is causing that. Probably Android OS and Play Services. GSAM also shows the phone radio using quite a bit which is similar to the installed battery monitor. With the G3, the phone radio usually only used a few percent. Now it is much higher. Of course the GSAM I was using before had root access, so it may be seeing things differently.

It seems that anything we can do to reduce the Android OS, Google Play Services, and Phone Radio would really help with battery life. I know that the S7 Edge guys had issues with Android System and were able to reduce its usage, but that is different from Android OS.

Any thoughts on this would be helpful.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] riggsandroid:
I've had to freeze (pm hide) a bunch of apps. I was getting 3 hrs max before.

Now I'm getting what I showed.

I'm on Sprint variant so it might apply to everyone.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hyperxi:
Yes the standby time isn't the best on my G5 either.. I had to disable the Facebook app ( which was a system app for some reason) and battery life has improved a bit

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Which apps did you freeze?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] riggsandroid:
Here's a list. I also disabled a bunch of stuff that I could.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/...NqRD25soUWaYdd4Kpm245cM/edit?usp=docslist_api
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hyperxi:
Ah so you did disable Facebook. I wonder if it isn't the biggest offender on that list of yours
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] riggsandroid:
It wasn't. Those were done in four or five steps. The last few had most impact.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
Thanks. I will try some of these out.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gavinfabl:
Battery life is the offest thing. I can go from 5 hours SOT down to 2 hours SOT. Normally lower SOT comes when phone gets warm. Clearly a bug somewhere. I'm sure an update will fix it. Not bothered either. Normally a soft reset clears warming phone and stabilises battery.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
google play services is a catch all for apps that doing things in the background.

Does your battery stats indicate any apps that are consuming more total cpu power in relation to what they consume in cpu foreground ?

These would be the ones clubbed into google play services.

You said you debloated are there any carrier apps running still. maybe you missed a few.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
I don't see any apps in the battery usage list that are ones that I don't use. The battery used by the apps seems to be consistent with how much I use them. The only things I see that don't make sense are Phone Idle and Cell Standby (and Google Play Services). These are much higher than I am used to seeing.

I used Gatesjunior's debloater program to disable a bunch of apps that I couldn't disable using the native app manager. I then read in the S7 Edge forum that doing so could result in an increase in battery usage. So, this morning I reenabled all of the apps that I couldn't disable using the app manager. I will see how battery usage goes today. I will probably start trying to disable some of the apps that I had already disabled a few at a time if my battery improves today. If the battery doesn't improve based on reenabling stuff as per the S7 Edge forum, I will disable all of the ones that I already did and try some more. I had disabled a lot of stuff based on my experience with the G3. That was a lot of LG apps.

The only Verizon Apps that I can see that are not disabled now are com.verizon.llkagent, com.lge.verizonsettings, com.lge.VerizonHiddenMenu, com.lge.vzwpoa, com.vzw.hss.widgets.infozone, and com.lge.helpcenter. There are a lot of LG apps that are not disabled, including the simple ones like calculator, calendar, and email.

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will try to keep people up to speed if I find out anything useful.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
That's the problem no way to tell which apps are using google play services. If that item is high some one or more is doing something. Could be as a result of apps you use that get stuck, could be other apps you don't use.

What you have to do is identify the culprits and this is the difficult bit. The basic tools that android provides are pretty much useless.

Read

this

. Requires you to generate a bugreport at the end of the battery cycle.. Which you then check for any private or sensitive info. Scrub it then upload to the server he's graciously put up. You will then get some interesting graphs and listings which might help track down who is doing what and when.

Debloating is useful so long as you know what you're doing. Have to be careful with it. If you disable an app that others are dependent on they will get confused so tracking down the dependency chain there takes trial & error. people have posted lists in AC in the LG forums of which apps are safe to debloat.

Have always found debloating to be a bit extreme and really more of a last resort to those on carriers.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
Thanks again. I will see if I can work the bug report thing when I get home.

What did you mean by people have posted lists in AC in the LG forum? I will search anyway and see what I can find. I did before and the lists were not too developed yet because (I think) the phone is pretty new.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
it was for the G4.

This is the AC

thread

which refers to the

one

back here..

Block list for Verizon further down that thread.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
Got it. Thanks.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
makes me wonder whether you have 'always on" switchd on. If so, using the phone more will prevent 'always on' from switching on. When the phone is idle it will come on and you will lose 1% per hour. It's not a lot over 10 hours but adds up when you get to 20 hours.

I don't think it has anything to do with android os, play services and system being on top though.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] bolillo:
Well this is the best i have gotten out of it, this is the original lg battery and with the others from the preorder bonus i get less but it is slowly climbing
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
I don't have the always on screen on. It is off and I have never used it. I think it may have to do with some apps that I disabled. I turned them back on this morning and things seem better as far as standby. Right now I am at 66% with 2:05 SOT and 16 hours since unplugging. The Android OS, held awake, and Google Play Services are all somewhat reduced.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ItBankRock:
Hi guys! These are my findings on my new G5 that I got just last Sunday.

I have the H860N (dual sim) on build v10c. Take note I am only using SIM1 as the second slot is used by my 64GB microSD (it's a hybrid slot).

1st test

Usage:

WiFi only

2G Mobile network only

A lot of YouTube streaming, some photo shooting, kinda heavy social networking in Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, a bit of casual gaming (One More Dash, Stacks, Piano Tiles 2, etc.) and a lot of web browsing.

[IMG="SOT G5"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21538802/ForXDA/sot.jpg[/IMG]

2nd test

Usage:

WiFi and Data (4G) - 50/50

A lot of social networking during data usage. A bit of listening to music, photo shooting, web browsing and YouTube streaming during WiFi usage. Some casual games as well.

Power saver triggered on 15%

[IMG="2nd test"]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21538802/ForXDA/sotwithdata.jpg[/IMG]

My rating: 4/5 - Need bigger battery module :D
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
It looks like my battery issues were due to disabling some app. This is my second day after reenabling everything except what can be disabled with the native app manager. I am at 64% after 11 hours, 24 minutes and 2:25 of SOT. Also had 10 minutes of phone calls. Google play services and Android OS are much lower in usage and the held awake time in GSAM is lower. Deep sleep for 7 hours and doze for 1:45. I am using aggressive doze in Greenify. I leave wifi scanning on. Use high accuracy location (GPS and networks). I don't think this uses much more than just networks unless you are using a GPS intensive app. I am on 4G most of the day and have a good signal. On wifi at home. I am pretty happy with the battery life as is, but with root I am sure it will be exceptional.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] iamtha1:
First battery cycle att lg g5.... Pretty impressive
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
More Observations

If I use the Google app (Google now) it starts something that results in significant standby drain. I can go into the app manager and force stop the app and it stops the drain. May also be associated with Chrome. I don't use Google now too often, but the last two times I did I used it to search and it uses Chrome as the browser. I will keep an eye on this and see if I can narrow the cause.

Edit - It looks like it may take a reboot to stop the drain.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ~~Tito~~:
Heavy use I can get 8-9 hours on thing. Although I am using the device a crap ton more just to use it.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] barondebxl:
The standby time on this phone is incredible
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] cerebellio:
Couldn't agree more with this, it is very impressive.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] hyperxi:
Do you guys have Facebook and Instagram running? I have them installed as system apps on my H860, and they're causing a lot of wakelocks. Even without the two, the phone always loses about 1%/hour
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mxhamn:
hi every body

thx for screenshots from power usage page on your G5.

anyone have screen shot of Quick Charge 3.0?

some sites say 83% in just 30 minute, but some user say it's only 60 percent!!

which one is true?

how realy use QC3 ?

thx
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] gie62001:
Plenty of information about the chargers here - https://tapatalk.com/shareLink?url=...share_tid=3358220&share_fid=3793&share_type=t

G5 charging data with QC2.0 and QC3.0
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] ~~Tito~~:
Today's medium usage. Not too shabby. Light web browsing here and there, streaming music, and one or two calls.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Pphish20:
Who says G5 gets bad battery life?

Bit over a week with the phone.

H850 stock rooted v10c. Xposed v83

Used greenify and amplify;disabled and removed some stock apps, AOD and daydream off.

Let phone top up for 1hr after reaching 100%full charge

Best battery life I've had on a phone with no kernel manipulation yet...

I reached 7hrs SOT with like 5hrs YouTube and 20hrs on battery...but this was the 2nd day and I thought it was a fluke.this last cycle was post worthy these pictures were taken evening of 5/4 after almost 36hrs on battery. I've gamed,browsed,used camera,streamed HD video and been on mobile data for most of it...that's balanced but heavy use.

My only gripe is that Wi-Fi does seem to drain me more than mobile data(no tests yet to back that up) still coming from g3 this is incredible!

Who cares if the s7 gets better battery life this has a smaller battery that does better than other's in the g-series, and it's replaceable(unlike comparable devices) giving the device more longevity.

This battery life reminds me of my g2.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] nwijma:
Wow, I don't even get half of your battery life. Any specific settings for greenify and amplify?
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Pphish20:
Stock for amplify(free version) also free greenify so just some normal user apps it keeps closed. Not sure if it's lack of carrier bloatware or what, but this things screen uses almost no battery compared to my g3
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Ixstala:
I've had my G5 for over a month now. My battery life has been excellent, my phone is stock (Verizon) and I'm using Greenify. I have advanced calling off! I think the non-root version of GSAM was contributing to battery drain.

My phone discharge rate idling is very low ~1-1.5% per hour.

I've gotten up to 5 hours SOT time, but the images below are with 3 hours SOT of gaming - the phone still lasted almost two days.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2dgw5wKP9fud1BNNGlIVEdURWM
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
Nice. Are you doing anything to get Google Play Services so low? I can get about the same except for Google Play which stays up near 20% for me. What carrier are you on?

Thanks.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] barondebxl:
Hi, I'm not doing anything special to be honest. My G5 is the International H860 model and I use cricket. Use the phone regularly about 60% wifi and 40% Cellular data.
[LG G5 Guides, News, & Discussion] Smithfolk4:
I see that now. I missed the model number the first time. Are you rooted?

I am guessing that there is some bloat or something with the US versions that is causing the Play Services to run higher on my phone. I also saw on your OP post regarding G5 that you have great standby time. I don't see that. Sometimes I have very good standby with the phone in deep sleep a lot of the time and sometimes standby is pretty bad. A lot of people think it is related to higher drain on wifi. That might be right, but I haven't confirmed it because even when I turn wifi off I get worse standby time at home. I also have a worse 4G signal at home so that may have something to do with it.

Anyway, I agree with you. The G5 is a great phone. I wish we had root. I have a feeling it will come.