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[LG G5 Real Life Review] Levistras:
I get about 4hrs of screen on time. I'm using AccuBattery to measure this. Right now sitting at 78% battery it tells me it will survive for 3h 8m screen on, 8h 31m on my average combined use, or 21h 50m in screen off. At 100% it rates it at 4h 1m of screen on, 28h of screen off, 10h 55m of combined use.

On Saturday I had the phone off-charger (from 100%) for 12h 57m. Of that, I only had the screen on for 1h 19m. The phone dropped to 25% charge. Sunday it was off charger for 9h 22m, I used it for 3h 7m (33% of the time), it dropped to 12%.

Another day I had it off charger from 100% for 7h 54m. Of that, I used it for 2h 7m. It dropped to 9%.

I have bluetooth on almost all the time for my Moto 360 watch, my biggest battery drains when not using the device are Facebook, Transit Now, AccuWeather, Nova Launcher and Gmail.

From 0% it takes 2h and 2m minutes to charge up to 88% (or 43.3%/h) on my Nexus 6 charger (not using the G5 charger, I lost it).

Battery is rated at 2,200 mAh and the app estimates actual capacity is closer to 2,598.9 mAh.

Hope those battery stats help somebody.. in other news, I highly recommend the AccuBattery app, it has helped me alot keeping track of this stuff.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] otherego:
i recently update my h850 to nougat. Phone is not rooted. updated by lg bridge and factory resetted after it. configured as "new phone" on google account. just whatsapp installed.

Now battery drain when idle is so hight. Lg help desk have no clue about it.

May be defected hardware or better revert to marchmallow?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] skwieradee:
Same here, however I updated OTA and haven't done factory reset. There is something else unusual - I took my phone off the charger 2 hours ago but in stats it says over 6 hours of usage. Weird. In overall battery was average before update. Hopefully won't be any worse now
[LG G5 Real Life Review] 8raffaele8:
abnormal battery consumption

Hello,

I have a LG G5 SE and I have noticed an abnormal battery consumption during the night while the smartphone was in standby.

Let me explain better, I recharged the G5 to 100% till 02.00 am then I unplugged it and at 09.00 am the battery had dropped to 84% without using it ever.

I attached the battery consumption screenshots.

can someone explain why??

sorry i'm not able to add images in posts
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
Use tinypic.com or something to embed your images. :)
[LG G5 Real Life Review] sidehop:
It's not bad but when I go to bed I have Tasker automatically place the phone in Airplane mode to shutdown any background data activity. Makes a world of difference. I've done this with most phones I've owned if I know that I won't be using the phone for awhile then I just place it in Airplane mode or just shut off the phone to conserve battery.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] otherego:
i own a h850 and a h840.

just the first one have drain problems when idle.

the lg g5 se is ok

reading other forums seems issure relative to 20a.

20b is out and seems resolve the problem.

anyway 20b is just TIM branded. i Prefer to wait to european open.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] frottage:
I have also experienced very high battery drain since upgrading to Nougat. Reading on other forums this is a common problem - some suggestions ive seen are

a) turn "always on display" ON

b) to leave the phone and put up with the high battery drain and it will get better over time as the phone re-learns its battery optimisation

Ive done both of these things and actually it is getting better I think although im not sure if this is due to a or b
[LG G5 Real Life Review] gbetous:
I see that I'm not the only one noticing that the phone consumes really a lot (and is very hot !) when idle. I will try to test if there is any benefit with "always display ON" (I switched it OFF since the beginning). For me it seems that the phone nearly never go to S3 sleep mode.

What APK do you recommend to observe and track that ? I'd like to make some long tests (over a week) and compare different settings, launcher etc.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ushoda:
same problem here... phone idle is at the top on my list of battery usage, even more than screen or android OS. (h860, nougat)
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
BetterBatteryStats with adb command to get better stats!

* takes less power

* open source

* free xda edition

* best support (here in forum!)

* best results incl. wakelock monitoring
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
I've also noticed that my phone doesn't go into deep sleep enough; it can spend up to 40% of time at lowest CPU frequency which means only around ~55% is deep sleep time.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] gbetous:
Root needed :( I don't want to unlock the bootloader for now...

But since my post, I enabled back the "Always ON" feature. Can't explain why, but it really seems to help the phone to go to S3.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
THAT’S ABSOLUTELY WRONG!

YOU CAN USE IT WITHOUT ROOT & WITHOUT UNLOCKED BOOTBLOCK

!

as i wrote, please use adb command as described below! (see here too!)

1.) be sure to have usb-debugging allowed at phone/developer setup

2.) connect your phone to your pc

3.) If not exist, install "

LG G5 usb driver

" to your pc

4.) if not exist, install "

mini adb

" to your pc

5.) open cmd shell window ( execute command "cmd")

6.) execute command "adb devices" in CMD window

7.) if everything goes right, you should see your device now

8.) be sure, that "

betterbatterystats.apk

" from xda is installed

9.) type in following command:

"adb -d shell pm grant com.asksven.betterbatterystats_xdaedition android.permission.BATTERY_STATS"

like described here

If everything is ok, you have grant the permission to get stats now.

attention:

* enter all commands without "":cool:

* all needed drivers and tools are

linked!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] gbetous:
I just read the description of the app in the store, and obviously made a big confusion :)

Thanks for your help, I installed the XDA version, and granted the permissions. Let's now make some stats !!!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
Did you really forgot to press the thanks button?:D

_________________________________________________

I have some special apps they never sleeps, so i have a minimum of 12% (0,5%p.H) drain per day.( This result persists after my change to Nougat! )

Without root, it was not helpful to try greenify app because all power you have spend, was needed from greenify! So the result was +/- 0 :p

BTW: There are some things, you often forget!

1.) Knock on modus of your phone takes power too! To disable it, spend battery power.

2.) same with the "always on display" at your lockscreen

3.) LG MLT logging service takes mem and power!

4.) W-Lan background scanning takes also power! Disable notification and scan if you do not need.

5.) Mail and FB or WA uses many power.

6.) unsused apps sometimes need power! Freeze them if you do not need.

7.) "Ok Google" function needs power because the microphone is always on!

8.) Live background drains your battery!

9.) "background data enabled" takes power because some apps with adds drains during they are working!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Marcz1c:
Guys I want to bring my experience, hoping to be helpful. ;)

I had the exact same problem that many of you have reported, excessive battery drain and phone that he never went to sleep mode.

Reading around (here and on other blogs) it seems there is a bug with "google backup" on some devices, so a couple of days ago I disabled it in the settings and situation seems to be back to normality!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
Can you maybe go into detail how to disable/tweak those things? You just mentioned them, without telling what should be changed. For example (all without root of course):

1. how can I disable the knock on feature?

2. what is LG MLT logging service, how to disable it, if so, any disadvantages from disabling it?

Also, doesn't betterbatterystats also drains (more) power if installed? Does it make sense to install it, if you're happy with battery, would you make it worse by installing it, because it logs/debugs in the background?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
[MENTION=3058841]mkdr[/MENTION]

specially for you:;)

1.) Knock on modus of your phone takes power too! To disable it, spend battery power.

you can use "quickshortcutmaker" or "SDMaid" or "V10 Hidden Setings" app to create a link to "Knock out"; than disable it.

(V10 Hidden Setings is the easiest way to do)

Attention: YOU WILL LOSE THE "knock to switch screen off" function too!!! as long as this feature is disabled!

2.) same with the "always on display" at your lockscreen

-> Setup->Display->"Always-on" option set to off!

Attention: YOU WILL LOSE some given informations on lockscreen! as long as this feature is disabled!

3.) LG MLT logging service takes mem and power!

open dialer and enter: *#546368#*850# -> open SVC menu and than LDB -> disable MLT and reboot

4.) W-Lan background scanning takes also power! Disable notification and scan if you do not need.

->setup -> WiFi-> AdvancedWiFi ->disable "notification for open WiFi" and for "Keep WiFi on when screen is off"

Attention: YOU WILL LOSE notification of available WIFi networks ! as long as this feature is disabled!

5.) Mail and FB or WA uses many power.

if not needed, you can disable Push Mail and sync of every social network app like E-mail; WA;etc.

COLOR="Red"]Attention: YOU WILL LOSE notification of new mails etc ![/COLOR] as long as this feature is disabled!

6.) unsused apps sometimes need power! Freeze them if you do not need.

->setup -> apps freeze all unnecessary apps if possible

7.) "Ok Google" function needs power because the microphone is always on!

open google app and enter app setup menu section "voice" and disable "ok google"

COLOR="Red"]Attention: YOU WILL LOSE possibility of awakening your device with "ok google"![/COLOR] as long as this feature is disabled!

8.) Live background drains your battery!

don’t use live backgrounds!

9.) "background data enabled" takes power because some apps with adds drains during they are working!

->setup->mobile data-> enable "data saver" option (don’t forget your necessary apps to prevent against saving!!! This is possible for every app!)

about "betterbattery stats":

there are two kinds to work for "betterbatterystats"!

normally BBS takes the system logs to calc battery stats. This takes really less power but give you the information you want.

If it is necessary, you can enable "watchdog" mode to get more informations. This will drain more than the normal mode!

More important is to grant the permissions that BBS needs! Specially on our G5! I have described this procedure a view posts ago. (106)

Hope this info will help you to reduce your battery drain.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
I am not satisfied about 3). I just googled it and it seems to be some kind of spy app, is that true? I can't believe that this is the case. Do I need root to disable it? What happens if I disable it? Will OTAs still work without it?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
Reading a story at many places, does not guarantee that they is true!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] caavila2:
Connection problem or invalid MMI code is what I get when I try disabling MLT. Anyone know why that is
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
del. because not longer necessary
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
I found this: http://devtester.ro/projects/lg-firmwares/mlt.php

Stating it is spying for specific keywords, scanning your phone and sends them to LG servers, known keywords:

"suicide", "child p***" and others

Is this some sick joke? How can that be allowed in normal countries for example US, EU!? I can't believe that can be true??
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
keep calm!

disable MLT and forget it!

BTW: Do U use FB or WA? :D

My live time is to short to think about spying.

Please let us now return back to topic!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] falco9017:
thank you for your guide, very useful! :)

I tried to understand my insane drain with this app, and I found out that on page ALARMS I have this com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox which has hundreds of wakeups during screen off time (98% of total :rolleyes:). Does someone knows something about this issue?

In case you are wondering I don't have voice search always active and my GPS is not turned on.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
i have compared this to my stats: 8 wakeups during a day! (24h):)
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
God, I just had a shocking stat today; 50% battery used, 1.4 hr SoT but 4 hours of wakelock out of 10 hours off charge...that's so broken. I will use betterbatterystats to get a better look; previously I used GSAM monitor but even with adb permissions it is not sufficiently comprehensive on the wakelock detail.

I disabled the cards for google now and it's starting to look a little bit better. I no longer get awakes every other minute...

That's a lie, after a full recharge and using it briefly before returning to my pocket I'm finding wakelocks again when my phone claims to be in sleep.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
I wanted to give the xda bbs apk a a try but I can't install it. The button "install" is deactivated (nothing happens when I touch it => weird). Any idea why or how? So I just installed it via adb too:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb install bbs.apk

Success

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb -d shell pm grant com.asksven.betterbatterystats_xdaedition android.permission.BATTERY_STATS

The last command didn't give any feedback though, did it go through? And how come I coudlnt install the apk on the device?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
this is ok! you will get a message only if the process has failed!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] :
How does the g5's battery fair to something like he s7? I'm considering buying this phone for $400. Are there any other phones I should look out for under $400?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
screen on time:

LG G5 -> https://xdaforums.com/lg-g5/review/screen-time-t3361322 ~ 5h SOT

Samsung S7 ->https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s7/review/screen-time-t3330751 ~5-7h SOT

Samsung S7 edge ->https://xdaforums.com/s7-edge/review/screen-time-t3330791 ~5-7h SOT
[LG G5 Real Life Review] JMak00:
I just bought the G5 this weekend, so can't help you on the battery question, but, if you decide on the G5, look at Best Buy if you're in the US. I got my G5 for $5/month for 24 months through Sprint. AT&T and Verizon had same deal, but it appears that those two have expired and are at $12/month and $15/month, respectively.

Sprint Best Buy deal

AT&T and Verizon deal

See the Slickdeals thread.

What's better is that the LG G5 still qualifies for full trade in toward the S7 and iPhone at TMO and others.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
Wanted to ask for reference values, now that I have run BBS for a few days. Is it normal on the G5, that it has a "Awake (Screen Off)" value of about 15%? I mostly always come to 85% deep sleep, and 15% Awake (Screen Off), with a drain between 0.7-1% per hour, which is really bad in my opinion.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
i need ~0.4% /h now. (No WLan; No BackData; GSM2 only / its just a phone with some apps. No internet because i don’t need i-net on my phone)

Awake screen off =1,9%/24h! DeepSleep93,6%:D
[LG G5 Real Life Review] PHYCLOPSH:
On my H820 (AT&T) I consistently got 3 hours SOT before upgrading to Android 7.

Welcome to Nougat, now I barely average 2 hours SOT. I do use Bluetooth during the day, which apparently Nougat abhors.

BAH DAH BAH BAH BAH - I'M HATIN' IT!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
This phone has taken a nose dive in SoT and standby times. I honestly don't know how to find the culprit, even BBS with adb enabled wakelock viewing doesn't show anything obvious.

A few screencaps with details of my average day
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
but this are screen-shots of GSam not of BBS ;)

anyway...

4 message apps are syncing; other apps will use background data too...

W-Lan scans over the whole time...

54% of your SOT with bright screen...

this was reasonable for short battery time too!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
Forgot to take screen caps on BBS but it didn't show much anyway.

Not sure why WiFi is scanning constantly, I do have it connected always otherwise it disconnects within a few seconds of screen off.

I've set the display to auto brightness...

You may say that's reasonable but using the exact same apps and usage I have almost double the SoT on my Xperia Z3... Double for a bit more battery size. It's bull crap to say that's acceptable.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
[MENTION=4089546]Ultraman1966[/MENTION]

did u read this=? -> https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71111346&postcount=111
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
Yeah, I've looked at it but I'm more concerned that the last month I've been seeing a significant drain but nothing else about my usage or apps type has changed.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
[MENTION=4089546]Ultraman1966[/MENTION]

did you tried the watchdog feature of BBS too?

did you tried a factory reset?

did you compare the battery capacity (mAh) between now and last month?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
How I check the battery capacity? Factory reset will be a last resort as I use my phone for a lot of authentications.

I will look into the watchdog feature but I'll also post some screencaps after another day.

I am currently using data saver and I've disabled always on wifi.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
use V10hidden settings app option "battery info" for it!

or use "hidden menu" call *#546368#*850#; than select "SVC Test" -> "battery test" -> "charging test" -> activate "Battery Log" to see the value for it.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
Thanks for the tip. So no change with using data saver and having wifi turn off unless plugged in.

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=aEZtUU9MZVY0dlRHRlVNb2RUU0hYR1ZYbVM1Ymt3

It is due to the CPU not sleeping and staying for hours on lowest frequency but there is no clear cause other than android system itself.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
ok, if it is possible (maybe on weekend) try to get results with active airplane mode too!

Then we can see, if some apps or higher net traffic was reasonable for the battery drain.

BTW: i can not understand the big difference between "Wi-Fi on" and "Wi-Fi active"!

7h! what to hell your Wi-Fi is doing there?

WíFi is not really off if the symbol tile is dark!!!

Please go to setup->WiFi->AdvancedWiFi->"useful settings" and set "keep Wifi on..." to "No" AND set "WiFi notifications" to off to be sure that the system is off if screen is off!

ok, you have 13h23min time over all. 7:40h deep sleep+2h screen on time =9:40h

so ~4h are not clear.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
Hi, I know my wifi is turning off when screen is off as there's a small delay when I wake the device and wifi is initially off. I had also turned off the notification and any scanning options!

There's almost 4 hours of wakelock where my phone is in low CPU mode but it's sapping quite a lot of battery juice. I've tried to see if having always on display made a difference (I usually have phone with face down or in pocket) and there is no discernible difference.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Icetea:
as i wrote, i have apps like NetGuard; BluLight; YAAB; Walton txt; USSD Dual Widget; MacroDroid; AVL running in BG without battery optimization and get a drain of ~6% over 12 h in the night. Can’t help u because no plan! Sorry, i’m out now.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] dba.rknair@gmail.com:
I have seen good battery backup if i keep sync off, using only 1 sim out of 2 give very good stand by with heavy usage. Those who experience fast battery drain can try switching off the Sync and Location.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] PHYCLOPSH:
I found that enabling Nougat's built-in data saver really helps (restricting background data for all apps), that and just not using the phone at all.

I consider myself fortunate to squeeze 2 hours SOT out of a charge after optimizing as much as possible. Sometimes I've only got 30 minutes SOT like WTF!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Ultraman1966:
Haha, that's quite amusing and defeats the purpose of having a smartphone! But I too face the same dilemma...
[LG G5 Real Life Review] 4b3ck:
LG G5 AT&T here, right now at 21% with 45h overall usage and 3h5m SOT, WIFI and LTE mixed use
[LG G5 Real Life Review] lolmensch:
it is so weird, i lose like 20% in 3 hours on a freshly installed fulmics or even stock. with lineageOS i get <1% per hour. But in lineage I didnt receive any whatsapp messages nor is the camera acceptable so I have to deal with frustrating stock rom
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mcall_r:
I was just about to send my phone back to LG when I decided to upgrade to V20D (stock) and reset to factory settings using recovery menu, now I'm getting amazing battery life! The only thing that still drains battery quite much is Google maps when driving, but I just plug into the charger in the car.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] younngblood:
Hey guys! I found out that Android and Kernel are the top sucker apps. Is this percentage even normal? What can I do? Just wait for the next Android update and hope for the best? I really don't want to factory reset it again.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] manganoid:
I agree, I Played NFS No Limits for 6 and a half hours straight, wasn't very hot. Great battery life imho, sleeps like a baby, i lose 1-2% over night. Mine is h860, 6.0.1 v10a. Should i upgrade it to Android 7 because I've read that many people have a huge battery drain on Nougat?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Skipjacks:
Nougat works fine for me. I get 1 - 2% overnight drain as well on the H830 running Android 7

I also have a scheduler app that turns off auto sync and bluetooth from midnight to 7 am. I keep NFC turned off because I never use it.

I also only turn wifi on when I want to use it. So it's off 23 hours a day.

That gets me 4.5 - 5 hours of screen on time, depending on how fast I use it. 4 hours if it takes me 2 days to drain it. 5 hours if I drain it in 1 day.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Czarny 8:
How is your battery usage for the "phone idle" process? At me, regardless of anything, always eat the most battery. I tried to restore the factory settings without installing the application, and it always consumes 15-20%. Screen 5-10%

Wysłane z mojego LG-H850 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[LG G5 Real Life Review] SergiuStatache:
Hi

I have the same issue with my LG G5, i'm loosing % way too fast and seems that Android OS and Phone Idle are eating most of the battery.

Here is a capture -> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B03gjcAMiexaLWlFQWIzeWRFRFE
[LG G5 Real Life Review] redhotneo:
Hey guys.. try this for battery.. noticed this feature was on, on my phone. turned off and battery improved..

Go to settings, display, more. turn of screen saver..

Just leave alwayson on with clock and that should improve your battery.. seems screen saver drains the battery
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Skipjacks:
Don't forget to turn off background location scanning. That's a battery killer and Google LOVES to turn it on discretely, especially when you use Google Maps.

What happens is that even with your location and wifi turned off, Google turns the wifi on and runs it in the background. It then uses the wifi to get a general location of the device.

It's shady as all hell and Google does NOT well advertise that they do this.

It's tracking you and it's using your battery to do it.

To turn this off go to Settings -> Location -> 3 dots in the upper right hand corner -> Scanning -> switch wifi and bluetooth to OFF