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[LG G5 Real Life Review] shamm1987:
Enhanced LTE

Was doing some digging on this exact issue. I was getting a ridiculous battery drain from phone idle, which I didn't have for the first week of owning the phone. For the life of me I could not figure out what I changed, but I think I may have found a solution. I have the AT&T H820 and it turns out other devices of the AT&T variant (galaxy s6) had terrible battery drain with Enhanced LTE selected. I have just disabled it and will report back in a day or two to report the results.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] djsbad:
Thank you for the feedback on this. I have the Verizon edition and I've been looking for that specific setting since you mentioned it. I don't see it in my menu. I'd imagine you went to the mobile data menu under some and it was in the somewhere?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] shamm1987:
HD Voice

Enhanced LTE is AT&T's version of HD voice so maybe try turning that off.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] djsbad:
Thank you.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] vanshaj:
I have TMobile varient. Yesterday, I tried selecting 'Restrict background data' option (Settings > Mobile Data > Top right menu and select 'restrict background data' checkbox). So far its been better than yesterday.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] turbodroid:
I use Shutapp to end running apps and turn the phone over so the light sensor is covered and the always on display shuts off. Battery seems on par with my G3 which is the same size battery.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] TheJesus:
I have no stand by drain on my AT&T version. I have aod off and this is on my nightstand. So Wi-Fi enabled. Location and Bluetooth off. I charge to 100% then restart the phone and then unplug for the rest of the night. I will wake up anywhere from 6 to 10 hours later. Weekdays and weekends vary. But I will always wake up at either 99% or 100% my stand by works flawlessly. Just my process.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ran69:
my colleague has this and his battery drains while on stand by. not the best!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] tejasm1:
Inconsistent but normally good

In the second and third days that I had this phone it seemed to lose 1 % per hour which I feel is pretty good considering I had always listening for "ok google" and the fingerprint scanner on. I have no sim in the device yet. The first night it went from 80 to 2% on standby though that could have been just because it was the first night. I don't have always on display on.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] bklm1234:
I have an international version (H860) on AT&T network for about a week now. AOD is off, Wi-Fi is on, GPS is on Battery Saving mode. Every night, the drain is about 20%. Battery usage shows Android OS and Phone Idle being the top 2 uses. I reset the phone once already. The phone is set up the same as my G4, same set of apps. The G4 has only about 1% drain overnight. Can this be a defective unit?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
First try to put it on airplane mode overnight. Check if the drain stops.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] KyleK29:
Any luck with that?

My phone has been a bit wonky. Phone Idle has always been a top 2 drainer, even when I'm on it a lot.

If I plug the phone into a standard (normal) USB, it'll only charge to 83%-ish overnight. Have to plug into a fast charger to get the full 100%.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] drizzt:
I have a strange problem, if I unlock the phone from charger then my phone doesn' t go in deep sleep anymore. If I reboot then deep sleep works again until I plug to my charger
[LG G5 Real Life Review] shinobix37:
My battery is great while on standby. By the time I'm in bed, the battery would be like 40% so I choose not to charge. When I wake up, my battery is around 38% =). I also have a backup battery (yay promo!) so I keep that with me at all times, just in case.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] duke69111:
My battery life was excellent on my first full charge. 48 hour total and 4 hours of screen on time. By my third charge I was down to 18 hours and barely getting 4 hours of battery. Very disappointing.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
It's not the battery, it's apps.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] bklm1234:
I didn't try to put it on airplane mode. But I did a factory reset (the 3rd time). I didn't restore any apps to the phone like before. Essentially I only signed on to my Google account. I thought I'd test if the battery drain is normal with just preinstalled apps and my Google account signed in. It turned out to be working perfectly fine. Battery drain overnight was 2%. So there shouldn't be any hardware issue.

I did another factory reset. This time after I entered my Google account, I let it restore my apps (I chose restore from my G4 backup, Google's backup). Last night was the first night after this reset (the 4th). Battery drain was only 3-4% with all my usual apps installed. I'm happy. The difference this time is I didn't use LG Backup. The 1st couple of times, I backed up my G4 using LG Backup to a microSD and did the restore on the G5. Maybe something's wrong with LG Backup. That's the only difference really.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] duke69111:
I turned off the hd voice / advanced calling as an earlier poster suggested. Charged to 100%. In 8.5 idle hours it used 1%.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] duke69111:
By disabling Advanced calling, I got 4 hours and 40 minutes of screen time on almost 35 hours of battery. Nothing else was changed or disabled.

I'm going to enable it today and measure what I get.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] jor1ge:
Same here. Used to happen sometimes to my g4 as well. A friend's Samsung s7 has the same problem .

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[LG G5 Real Life Review] drizzt:
I found that Waze is the problem
[LG G5 Real Life Review] bklm1234:
I think I found the culprit of my standby battery drain. I turned on location Smart (un)Lock. That was the only thing I did that day. That night, the excessive battery drain came back. The following day, I immediately turned off location for Smart Lock. That night, normal battery drain. My suspicion about LG Backup causing the battery drain is most likely groundless.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
Only if you don't turn it off. That's why Waze went with persistent "Turn Off" notification.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] kuz420187:
I was experiencing horrible battery drain all of a sudden. I disabled a lot of "useless" apps, like google magazine, amazon music, etc. Seems to have fixed it. Battery was dying at 20% per hr. easily, and running hot and slow. Another trick you can do to save battery is turn off gps, nfc, bluetooth when not in use. Also turn off autosync in settings.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Lord Morpheus:
I normally unplug my phone from the mains when I go to bed @ 100%. When I wake up, 6/7 hours later, its normally on 99%
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Tomaj33:
I have the same im galaxy s7. The reason is in android.

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[LG G5 Real Life Review] PHYCLOPSH:
You will need root to fix the idle drain. After that you can use Greenify experimental aggressive doze feature which kills all idle battery drain I can think of (G3 running MM).
[LG G5 Real Life Review] donjo19:
This has to be the worst battery life of any phone I've ever had. Really hoping for ROOT soon on the US VZW variant to get some more control over this.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] osiris010:
I've been reading all the responses to this point and so far I can't figure out the source of my battery drain. I've had the phone for a little over a month now and I was averaging 10-12 hours with around 3-4 hours SOT. Sometimes 13-14 hours with 1-2 hours SOT. These past 10 days my battery has been awful. My battery drains when I'm not using it. I'll check the time periodically and my battery will drop sometimes as much as 5-10% in an hour. What's weird is I'll typically make it to noon or 1pm (100% off the charger at 7:30am) with my battery at 70-80%, and then by 5pm (sometimes earlier) it'll be at less than 10%, or dead.

Attached are screenshots from today with less than an hour SOT, off the charger since 9:30am at 100% and it was basically in my pocket all day.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] donjo19:
It's probably just the OS. A way for them to sell more external batteries that they advertised so strongly for.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] PHYCLOPSH:
What software version are you all using? I just received my H820 and it drained about 10% overnight with original H82010c software which seems about normal for Marshmallow as I haven't optimized anything (disabling apps or installing battery savers).
[LG G5 Real Life Review] donjo19:
Verizon 12A
[LG G5 Real Life Review] PHYCLOPSH:
Okay I upgraded to H82010h software. Everything seems about the same. However I fixed most of the standby drain by installing DS Battery saver (slumber mode) and Greenify (with the new no-root aggressive doze mode) and after white listing a a few apps, only 2% battery drain overnight with WIFI and data left on.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] donjo19:
I've found my battery has been lasting longer if disabling wifi when not connected, as well as turning the location services to "Device sensors only" and turning off auto-brightness for the screen. Can be frustrating doing but its helped, if people are looking for some tips, thats what I've found to work so far.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Bastienhere:
If you have a bad cellular signal, be warned, it can drain up to 40% overnight!

It happened to me few times, everything is off (wifi, data, etc) but with a weak signal in my bedroom. (I set my cellular MODE to all + LTE)

It drains 30-40% overnight, with the battery graph showing a stair-like graph.

Since I switched to WCDMA, the drain seemed to stop. i think lol.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
Phone Idle

Hi guys. I love the phone, but at work where my signal is poor, my battery life is horrible. Phone Idle ends up as the top battery drainer. Initially, Android OS was one of the top drainers. That was when I had setup the phone using LG Backup. I honestly thought the phone was defective, but things definitely improved after I did a factory reset and setup the phone manually this time. Now the Android OS battery drain has been resolved. I'm now testing things with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth location scanning off to see if that will lower the Phone Idle battery usage.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
Chiming in here.

For just a few weeks ago, my H850 had pretty good battery life, but almost all of a sudden, it started to get drained really fast.

Just installed GSAM Monitor, and looks like it's the kernel that is doing the draining. A bit wierd that this happened, since I didn't update anything when it started.

Was still on V10d, then I updated it to V10e - no change in draining.

Have not yet tried a factory reset, but if the problem occurs, I will do that, or maybe even root it.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Croize:
i get 1-2 % usually overnight with greenify installed :) 100 % during night is usually 100 % when i wake up 8-10 hrs, with fb installed ^^
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
I have two phones and whenever I swap back to my Nexus 6P and back to my LG G5 (or when I first activate the G5), Android OS seems to be the culprit in keeping the phone awake. I do a reboot and immediately Android OS drops back down in the battery usage. There's obviously a weird bug somewhere. After that the battery life is great.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
Rebooting does not work for me, unfortunately...
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Smithfolk4:
I have the same issue. The phone is held awake all the time. If I reboot, it goes into deep sleep, but always before the end of the day, and usually within a couple hours, it is back not going into deep sleep. I can't figure out what is causing this.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ffforce:
I am having high battery drain lately as well. I installed wakelock detector lite to find out what is causing it and found out that there is a kernel wakelock causing my cpu to never go into deep sleep. It remains at 300+MHz all the time. Name of the bugger is anx_wlock but I cannot find any information about it
[LG G5 Real Life Review] bluerain28:
So far so good on my G5 (H860) since I factory reset it. Also fixed the heating problem. Now it's cool. :). Happy with it.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
Seemingly at random, Android OS creeps back up after a few days. I have no clue what causes the kernel to go nuts. I reboot the phone and everything is fine until the next time it happens. Without a doubt there is a software bug somewhere. Hopefully Android N will resolve the issue in the distant future.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
I'm going to disable Backup my data and see if it solves the Android OS battery drain. See this link for more information http://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/06/android-os-bug-causes-battery-life-issues-via-wakelock.html
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Barachiel:
Same here. Phone never sleeps. Android OS stands for 60% of the battery consumption.

anx_wlock is the culprit here aswell. My phone drains 5% per hour, so i lose about 40% over night even with a great signal.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] bluerain28:
Try to do a factory reset guys. Maybe that will help. Because it helped me a lot.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
I did a factory reset a while back and it definitely helped. Now I get the kernel / Android OS bug preventing the device from going into deep sleep every 2 to 4 days. Hopefully turning off Backup my data will solve that.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ffforce:
I did a factory reset but I restored using lg backup and still have the same problem. This is so annoying.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
Tried a factory reset, then restored apps via backup - did not fix the issue for me.

Going to try a hard reset with no backup to see if that makes it better.

Waiting for Android N to come out might be too long a wait for me. :P
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ffforce:
Did it work out for you? I want to try it but I have no time to do it.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mkdr:
Just force it to GSM if you are at home or have wifi, it will dramatically decrease sleep drain. Of course this wont fix your problems with some process keeping it from going deep sleep.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Tomaj33:
Its standard in android and if you want stop the drain then buy iphone [emoji3]

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[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
Did not work for me, even tried a hard reset with no backup - still high drainage.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Barachiel:
Realy? I've had +30 Androids, this is the first one it has happened on.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Tomaj33:
Realy? I've had every the best android phone like s6, s7, lg g5 and every android phone has battery drain. Every night I lost 10-20% energy versus iphone 1%. I used lte, wifi bluetooth and gps still on, and i have 2 mail box and facebook [emoji106]

The last good android its 4.4 then in s4 my phone lost 2% energy per night [emoji19]

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[LG G5 Real Life Review] ffforce:
I would think that since it happens on a lot of our phones suddenly, it's probably a system app that screwed up since it survives hard resets as well. Google, or LG, we wouldn't know without root.

I wonder if there is anybody with root that can help to find out the culprit?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mhajii210:
Backup my data

Guys go into Settings, General, Backup & reset, and make sure Backup my data is off. Reboot after you do that. So far that seems to have solved my battery drain issue (high Android OS battery drain). Also, when you factory reset, try not to restore from Google and setup the phone completely new with a minimal number of apps. Hope you guys find a fix as I know how frustrating this is.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] molbor:
I can hear u never had a Sony. My old z3 compact easily made it trough the day with heavy usage, like gaming etc, never bothering about turning of gps or sync or whatever. Light usage I easy made it to the evening the 2nd day. With stamina mode on made it to a third day. And with ultra stamina like 4-5days up to a week. And it running marshmellow. Thats how it should be.

With my g5 I'm glad if I doesnt have to charge once after work, in that case I havent used it at all.

I think it s***. And its not just LG. It's terrible that they cant fix a decent batterylife..
[LG G5 Real Life Review] tomarin:
HI guys, just want to share my experience with our G5. I did root and instaled Genisys ROM.

For a week I have been testing al sorts of things so to have max battery life.

In the end I am now with 45 % remaining after 46 hours and 4 hrs SOT. I usually have 50 to 60 hrs with 5 hrs SOT.

I have spent numerous hours restricting apps privileges, and mostly watching for batt drains, which usually come from various app comunicating with someone over wifi.

My location is for now disabled and also at this point I make no calls which will drain the battery like crazy I supose.

I use secondary display but I allways turn the phone upside down so it shuts off. Also screen brightness should always be minimum (LUX is a great app, since I find LG automatic setting always too bright)

Check every single app especially those with connection to cloud storage and of corse push notifications.

My experience with greenify is a bit strange. (just root and no xposed)

After setting all in greenify it wouldnt go in dose mode after screen lock. Then I acidentaly dropped my phone on the table one day and doze mode came to life!

And it worked like a charm until I decided to set up an alarm which totally messed up greenify and dose mode because android decided it wont sleep with alarm hour set.

I should be happy with my SOT and total batt hrs, but I am not! All this trouble to get what I had on debloated LG G2. And also it is not all android MM to blame. My wife has a Hawei P9, also on MM, and

without any messing around it battery life is DOUBLE. So I wish you all good luck with your drains but my conclusion is that you have to DUMB DOWN this smartphone if you want a decent battery life.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] vdoggie:
how is 45 - 60 hours with 4-5 hours SOT not insanely good? also why go to all this trouble? are power outlets a premium where you live or something? with an external battery cradle/charger and the normal outlet charger I'm NEVER low on juice.. no matter where I go.. this phone is amazing!!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] marac1993:
Has anyone tried Hibernate Manager app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.root.battery.saver.sleep.hibernation

I installed it yesterday on my G5 (not rooted) and I think that my standby drain is smaller. I checked some apps to hibernate and wifi to switch off when my device is locked.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
I rooted and flashed a custom ROM - drain was still there.

Installed BetterBatteryStats to see what caused it, and it's a kernel wakelock that's called "anx_wlock" - information about it is non-existent, I've tried talking to LG Support about it, and they couldn't give me any answer at all, all i got was the standard talking points like "you should always update", "it's probably an app that is causing it".

So hoping that someone that is far more skilled in kernels and such figures it out..
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
Flashed Nougat. No drain. I didn't have drain on MM either to be honest. I'm trying Nougat now without Greenify, but I'll enable it later. I'm getting around 4 hours SOT with 25 hours on battery. I consider it good. I also have another battery in my bag at all time so I'm not worried.

V20A-EUR-xx .
[LG G5 Real Life Review] ffforce:
I talked to LG Support and they said it would be fixed in Nougat. I flashed the HK version since SEA version is taking too long, but no joy. I still get a huge drain. I will wait for the SEA version before making noise again
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
I've flashed the EU version, still have a high drain.. Maybe 7.1 will fix it? :p
[LG G5 Real Life Review] dba.rknair@gmail.com:
I am using the phone for last 1 month. upgraded to N after a week and for me the phone idle takes the most in battery usage. Tried Hibernate Manager,Shutapp & Wifi Manager but didnt help much.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
If you are rooted (I assume you can because you flashed EU), you can install wakelock detector and see what is eating your battery.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Avengeme:
Don't be a douchbag, iPhones are notorious for ****ty battery life anyways.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] HoffaLompen:
If you look closely at one of my posts just above here, you can see I did just that ;)
[LG G5 Real Life Review] Avengeme:
I still have my Z3C, I'll throw my SIM into it if I know I'm going to be away from a charger for a while, or if I'm going to be out on the 4 wheeler using GPS heavily. I still love that phone!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mcall_r:
I would love to know what you guys are doing to get 4 hours SOT. I got a replacement mainboard and battery from LG because the first G5 I had was barely getting me 1.5 hours SOT. The replacement is much better, about 2.5 hours SOT but still quite far off 4 hours. I use it through the day on 4G and then on Wifi when I go home, make a few calls, mostly for whatsapp but nothing intensive. Automatic brightness, disabled always-on display, bluetooth on for my moto360 watch and about 30 mins a day listening to music.

Could the guys who are getting 4+ hours SOT tell me what they are doing?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mayamo:
When you go look at the "battery usage", does anyone see "camera" being number 1 app using up all the battery? I don't even use camera and I still see that it used up 20-30% of it. Is this a faulty unit?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
Try a day or two without the moto360. Also, if you have so so reception on your cell, it could drastically reduce battery life.

Also, keep in mind that some of us have root and running apps such as Greenify which can help with battery life.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mcall_r:
Yeah, already tried without the moto360. Bluetooth isnt the culprit and there doesnt seem to be one particular app or service that is using all the battery. Screen is always somewhere near the top of the list.

I am always on either full H+ or full 4G signal.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
I believe some app is keeping your phone awake..preventing deep sleep. Problem is that you need root to find out which. Try Wakelock detector, maybe there is a way to make it work without root.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mcall_r:
I will try root and see how it goes. Is the process for unlocking the bootloader and installing twrp the same on Nougat?
[LG G5 Real Life Review] galr:
You dont need to unlock the bootloader again (if you did before). But if not, I believe it's the same process.

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Just use the new version of TWRP. From November.

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And new SuperSU
[LG G5 Real Life Review] senrog3:
I got V20A as well but 25 hours?? That is amazing. My "Phone Idle" consumes nearly same amount juice as screen. Currently my battery is at 72%. SOT is 1h 38min at 8% juice which is the same percentage consumed by "Phone Idle".

And I am on very low usage.
[LG G5 Real Life Review] aneesh99:
I found that Facebook was the major culprit of poor standby time even though battery stats wasn't reporting this as an issue. I was losing around 3-4% on standby before, and less than 0.5% per hour after force closing it. Using Swipe Pro instead now!
[LG G5 Real Life Review] mendeln:
I have the AT&T LG G5, almost 0 drain on standby, went to sleep with battery at 24%, woke up 6 hrs later to 24%, (then plugged in to the quick charger and was up to 100% in about an hour). (don't use facebook, don't use the always on screen, and google is not listening for my voice all the time).
[LG G5 Real Life Review] molbor:
Installed v20 nougat on my G5 a few days ago. Still the disqusting drain. Lost 28% during night, while my chinese imported Oukitel k6000 pro lost 1%. Same apps. Theres something wrong with most G5s, probobly something with the hardware.