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[LG V20 Real Life Review] Dishe:
I see but there are folks claiming to get 6 hours SOT in COMBINED use!

In this thread along with other corners of the internet, people are claiming 4100mah lasts easily into the next day with regular use. Not find-a-charger-16-hours-later, but actually have juice left over at the end of the day! One guy on a reddit thread just this morning says his perfine lasts a day and a half (if he puts it in airplane mode at night), and that's with 6 hours of SOT *during that day and a half*.

Granted, he is running Lineage, so I'm wondering if the stock rom is a hog or if I'm having a hardware problem. The fact that yours sounds like similar use to mine is interesting, however. You might be the only other person so far that says this might be considered "normal" for this battery capacity. Which honestly doesn't makes sense if you scroll back and look at what others were getting with fresh stock batteries with the device was new. They were able to manage 4-5 hours SOT over the course of a day, so a 4100mah battery should be MORE over the course of a day (as in, combined). Maybe you and I have the same battery draining problem. What rom are you running? Stock? Which variant? There's something fishy here...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] redmyth79:
Ok, I can get 7hrs of straight SOT.

What are these people calling a day? What apps are they using to consider there SOT?

I use mine for movies and camera/ video which is taxing. But I also use the DAC on it with good headphones. Also taxing.

I'm using my other phones a lot more for obvious reasons.

My battery is 4200 mAh. Now with that 7hrs of SOT I don't recall if I had a little combined time with it.

I do know though sense then I've had it go over 24hrs and had a couple hours of sot. But if somebody is saying they are getting 6hrs sot with 16hrs combined I think I'm calling bull****.

Again it's all about the apps they are using.

On the other hand my Xiaomi Mi 9 with it's 3300 mAh battery can sail past 12hrs SOT without a sweat.

I can get 31hrs combined with 6hrs 23min being SOT.

On average with it I get 9hrs SOT with 17hrs combined and still have juice when I charge it.

The LCD, Quad Dac and 1440p that you can not cut the resolution down are power hungry things. Not to mention the Chip was good but efficiency was not it's name.

Snapdragon 855 is a whole nother ball game as it's on a 7nm chip and is super fast yet super efficient.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Dishe:
Thanks for the clarification. Trust me, I'm aware that this is not the most efficient hardware, no reason to keep doing that. This is my wife's phone, my Moto G5 Plus has a 3000mAh sealed battery that easily still has juice the next morning if I forget to charge it. Benchmarks aren't close to an 820 chip, but they are actually quite close to my older SD805 handset, so not too shabby. Point is- I know other phones have better speed to efficiency ratio. My goal is simply to determine that since I have this V20 hardware now, I'd like to know if something is wrong that I can fix, or if I just have a lemon compared to what is normal for it. It is dying too quickly.

I don't know exactly what these other users who claim it works longer are doing with theirs. One claims to be on reddit and email a lot during those SOT hours. That's not much use outside of screen. My wife mostly uses whatsapp and email, some occasional google. That's really it. No DAC use, no video streaming, etc. A handful of pictures maybe here and there with the kids. She uses it for work mostly which has her on messaging and email a lot. I'm not talking about power use. She's getting 2-3 hours with 12-14 off the charger currently. That honestly seems right for a stock battery if it were new, not a 4100mah. I'm wondering if anyone else has had an experience like this.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] redmyth79:
Truthfully I'm getting much more then that. I do a lot of 4k video which is extremely taxing on battery life if not the very most! But I watch a lot of movies when I was using it regularly for that and I still far out did the to eat you are saying.

I mean 8% of a 4200 mAh battery in 22 min 4k recording ?

But I will do a test for you from tonight to tomorrow when I charge it and let you know all the states in case something is off.

Take care
[LG V20 Real Life Review] baldybill:
Is anyone using LKT, L Speed, NFS-Injector, or any other kernel tweaking apps/settings to get more screen on time?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Lebatman:
Every V20 I know in real life seems to have ****ty battery life. (I know like 3-4 only though)

I don't know who these people on the internet are who seem to be getting ridiculous battery lives on stock roms... but for me and my friends, that isn't the case. It's a short battery life on a laggy interface.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] woldranger:
I'm one of "those people". My battery life was improved alarmingly by switching to perfine li-po batteries. I went from 2.5-3.5hrs SOT to 5.5-7.5, from struggling to last a day of regular use to getting 1.5 to 2 days between charges.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] MR.EXCEPTIONAL:
I have H990DS and Confirm its terrible battery life.From the first day until now, near 3 Years of use , I get 2-3 Hours of SOT and I changed battery for 3 times.Going to Change my cellphone and DO NOT buy any LG Phones again!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] baldybill:
Does running dark mode help increase the SOT any?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Mysticblaze347:
It will help. Less stress on display from white (brightness).
[LG V20 Real Life Review] baldybill:
I wasn't sure since we have a LCD screen, not Amoled or whatever
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Mysticblaze347:
Whites are kinda like having brightness turned up, takes more power.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] aygross1929:
I disagree if anything light mode will help since you can turn your brightness down compared to dark mode
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Mysticblaze347:
Auto brightness is adjustable/auto yes, but I was talking kinda like less blue light (comfort view). Less strain on pixels, less strain on battery. It might not really change, but could help. To each their own.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] surfthesummer:
New Perfine 4100mah battery excells :)

I just got a Perfine 4100mah battery and the first time with a fully charged battery I ended the day with a bit over 5 hours SOT and still 40% left. Auto brightness, browsing with Opera - half time on 4g half time on Wi-Fi, over 2hr phone calls and a dozen pictures... Still on non rooted Nougat, but over 100 system apps/services disabled.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] baldybill:
what system apps / services have you disabled?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] surfthesummer:
File attached. Also installed Blue light filter app with intensity 3, screen dim 5 and color temp 4500, comfort view enabled and screen retention is completely gone. Not sure if it's the app or the new battery though....
[LG V20 Real Life Review] surfthesummer:
Over 6hr SOT, 33hr standby, 2hr talk time - two days and one night, one day 4g only with poor reception, the other one mixed 4g and Wi-Fi, auto brightness. Screen retention confirmed comletely gone for now. Nougat still does it for me :)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V20's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] douger1957:
Compared to the Note 7 there is next to zero residual battery drain. I forgot to plug it in one night and saw a 2% drop.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Z51:
Doesnt really drain on sleep mode. Not bad.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] biggnaa20:
This is great to hear. My V10 can drop 30% overnight. I can't wait to upgrade.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dbornack:
I'm losing upwards of 15% at night. Not good.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Daniel323la:
This has been one of my BEST PERFORMED sleep time phone so far! Must be something w NOUGAT also? Love it!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mix1987:
I noticed sometime when we insert a new sd card the phone needs to create an internal list and this process can suck alot of battery. It might or might not be this issue thats causing some users to experience overnight battery loss.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] AlexRaya:
I got my V20 yesterday and had it sit overnight, and the drain was practically zero. Very impressed so far.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] leyvatron:
Standby drain is beyond great. If the phone is off, then 0 to 1% is lost, depending on the stand by time.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Slash8915:
The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.

It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Ryano89:
So over an 8hr night you would lose 16%? That's not gifs at all.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] midnightmaraude:
I just got the phone last night. First of all... damn this is a sexy beautiful phone. Sleek slim as hell and the best phone I've owned thus far.

What is not okay is the battery drain in standby. I put it on the nightstand at 100% at 11:30pm, woke up at 6:30pm (7hours total) and it was down to 40%!!!!

Not okay LG. I moved over from the LG G5 and the standby on that was excellent, would still be in the 90%s , I hope an update is issued to fix this problem
[LG V20 Real Life Review] leyvatron:
Over 6 hours of stand by time with 0% lost. I have 4 email accounts running, a few game notifications, etc... No facebook.

This was taken after I cleared most of my notifications.

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[LG V20 Real Life Review] midnightmaraude:
So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] leyvatron:
Give it a day or two, the battery will and should improve.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hazardus320:
I too have noticed that this phone has significantly less standby drain than the S7 i was using between the Note7 return and the V20. All in all just better with the battery in my opinion. I usually listen to Pandora all day long at work (wired) and then use my BT headphones at the gym for a couple hours each night too. With the S7 I had to recharge the phone near the end of the work day or i would be cutting it close by the end of my workout. Not the case at all with the V20, after my workout im around 45% still. I do have 2 email accounts / FB / bunch of other stuff running at all times too pretty much. Get a lot of calls / texts throughout the day of course too. So far it has been amazing
[LG V20 Real Life Review] titoh:
I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....
[LG V20 Real Life Review] likecookies:
Sleep mode is awesome I bearly notice a drian.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Skripka:
7 hours I slept last night with v20 unplugged after fully charging. Burned 1%.

Your issue seems to either be low signal strength or apps waking the phone.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Chaz187:
I am havei very little sleep drain. This phone has really surprised me. I have been loyal too thenote series since the n2.... And when the n7 issue started and we had to return it I decided to give the v20 a shot. So far it has really surprised me!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Skripka:
Hey there, I remember you from the L900 Note 2 days of Team Veritas, small world :highfive:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Chaz187:
Yup glad to see you here! I hope to get some themes done for the phone soon.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jayochs:
standby drain is nothing special for me. at 745am I used it for like 22 min and got it to 99 percent... laid it down and didn't pick up again until like 1040am, and it was at 94 percent.

Sent from my LG V20 US996
[LG V20 Real Life Review] daytonasportster:
I find that if you look at the battery usage the drain is from Google.

A reboot or an update to one of the main Google apps is available that usually stops the drain
[LG V20 Real Life Review] roosta:
I've have mine for a little under a week, but feel silly reviewing it now. A true test of this phone and the quality of its battery use on Nougat, is truly shown in 6 months time. Every phone should start off with a great battery life when it comes to standby use.

RooSTA
[LG V20 Real Life Review] saltdiscus:
I had fully charged and unplugged phone slept 8 hour and saw 2 percent battery down.I usually keep all my app open.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] yluxion:
LG phones always have solid standby time, V20 seems to be no exception. Only 4% battery drained after 8 hours on sleep mode. :good:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jayochs:
that must be nice. mine drains like crazy sleeping and idk why lol
[LG V20 Real Life Review] brfield:
Not too bad if I do say so.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] axaman943:
I always turn on Airplane mode when i go to sleep. some nights i have only 4% drain during Night time, this morning i had 16% battery drain to find out in battery statistics that Phone IDLE drained 10% and Android system drained 6% battery overnight...

---------- Post added at 03:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:50 PM ----------

Anybody can explain how they achieve to only have 1-2% drain overnight?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] KUSOsan:
Standby is awesome on the V20. Highest my standby drain has ever gotten to was about 8% one night but I don't remember what the anomaly was. Normally get around 4 or 5%
[LG V20 Real Life Review] VU HEO:
Remove Facebook app, no game app [emoji3] [emoji2] [emoji1]
[LG V20 Real Life Review] axaman943:
It ain't facebook app, in the stats a can clearly see that phone idle is the most hungry process, when i set my V20 to airplane mode it lasts for days... poor software otimisation i guess
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Inahoa:
V10

I had the V10 before going to the V20, the battery issues are the samw for me. The V10 had its own issues, which is why I wanted something supposedly better, but never mind. I'm considering the Samsung 8.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] iareu:
Overall I'm satisfied with the battery life, i come from a nexus 5 and now i get almost double sot at 4-5h, but what i don't understand is that "phone idle" consumes the same as the screen. What's up with that? I'm on everything stock, (don't see any button for upload so i can show some screen shots) .
[LG V20 Real Life Review] ogie14:
^Click/tap "Go Advance" right next to "Post Quick Reply".
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dcd1997:
Android OS & Battery Drain

Last time, there was a battery issue and now i think i've tackled a culprit which happens to be "Android OS"

Even in standby with no third-party apps, wifi, location, service, sync...and so on, it used up to 30% of battery in 4 hours.

So I am really in need for solution or what you guys can really suggest like what i can disable or anything....

1- It's not the battery since i've tested this with the one come with the package

2- I've already done factory resetting a few times as well

I appreciate all the comments. Thanks in advance!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Mattemaio:
Same problem...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] lallolu:
Same problem for me. The phone loose about 2% every hour just idling. Whereas my LG G4 lose 2% in 20 hours when idling. The culprit seems to be the wifi which trggers connectivityservice wakeloc. System idle per day takes about 30% battery according to Gsam. This is so annoying.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Mattemaio:
http://www.droidviews.com/bypass-factory-reset-protection-lg-devices/

My device had an other user before me. Could, the factory reset, left something wrong?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] lallolu:
I assume you are not rooted like me. I discovered that location services uses the wifi even when wifi is off. Turn this off in settings->location->scanning

Also in settings->wifi->keep wifi on. Set to never or only when plugged in.

It seems that people that have greenify installed and are rooted do not have thia problem since it seems that greenify works better with root.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] TNG08:
dischargin when not in use

Hi everyone,

I bought a used h990n and it discarges really quick when I don't use it. I tried factory reset, kdz flash trough LGUP upgrade, and it's still the same. If i charge it to 100% it goes to like 50% to the morning. If i chech baterry usage it doesn't show anything. Also the phone can't read my fingerprint while charging. The only thing left is to try the refurbish option in LGUP because they say it is a deeper clean than just the factory reset. The battery is in good condition, if I take it out it doesn't discharge, and if I use the phone it discharges in a normal time (like 4 hours of sot)., so it has to be something with the phone/software not the battery. Today i will try to refurbish it with LGUP, but i really don't know what else I could do. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotcell:
0.2%/h
[LG V20 Real Life Review] TNG08:
Wow. How did you do that? What is that app?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotcell:
GSam Battery Monitor, H990ds rooted with DirtySanta 721-10g kernel + SuperSU + Greenify (no magisk, no xposed framework or modules, no google accounts, Play Store disabled-> Yalp Store used, google play services framework still enabled).
[LG V20 Real Life Review] DesertEagleSlim:
My drain is super minimal. I use DS battery saver, and greenify
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kovacszj:
Hi,

Try these:

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/lgv20/comments/5vcbvq/my_v20_battery_drain_fix/

2. Calibrate battery:

https://www.orduh.com/fix-lg-v20-ba..._calibrate_lg_v20_battery_without_root_access

3. If you use an sd card from an Android 6 phone, try to format the card, or delete android system-related folders.

4. Use greenify (or such app) until the battery drain gets normal. Then you can delete it.

5. Switch off wifi notification.

6. Switch off wifi and bluetooth scanning in Settings-Location-3 dots-Scanning. But if you use smart settings don't turn off wifi scanning.

This helped me hope it will work for you.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] TNG08:
Thank you!

I did all of these, and that's what happened at night... I'm afraid that my phone is having some harware issues, like motherboard failure or sg..
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kovacszj:
Your wifi is eating way too much battery. What will happen, if you turn it off? Maybe something wrong with your router?

Check my battery stat.

Probably you should check your battery drain in airplane mode (switch everything off, including wifi) during night.

Also try to check google account sync (maybe there's a sync failure)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] pbedard:
Trash
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotcell:
I'll show you what is the trash:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] pbedard:
I cant root mine i git a replacement im stuck
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Lebatman:
I don't get it, how do people's V20s drain so slowly, and then there are so many like me whose V20 seems to have run a marathon by the time I wake up. Is it that there are so many lemons in their battery dept, or is there sometime else?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] kovacszj:
Well, it is possible to achieve 0,2 % per hour drain, but at least the phone must be rooted, you have to use apps like greenify (to put apps to sleep asap), myandroidtools to control google play services and downloaded app services, app ops to control permissions, kernel adiutor to underclock your cpu and choose different cpu governor, use less app, control your services (switch off location, bluetooth and wifi scanning, etc.). But first of all, you have to figure it out, what's more important for you: almost 0 battery drain or running services. As far as I understood, "normal" battery idle drain is about 1% per hour, but I think "normal" has a different meaning for everyone.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] fanasty:
It works well on standing by. I like the secondary screen. It actully saves energy by preventing people from lighting up the entire screen for timing or checking updates too much
[LG V20 Real Life Review] paul999:
blue active gov + greenify google play service = win
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mattnin:
Why does the standby drain have to suck so bad for this phone? It wasn't always like this. When I first got this phone and one of the earlier stock builds, the standby was impressive. Now, regularly through the night the phone wakes up and does something and drains the battery. I'm getting between 3 to 4 hours of SOT which is just unacceptable. I really want to like this phone but the bloat in the stock ROM's is ridiculous and very little developer support for this phone for custom roms like Lineage. I really don't want to have to root the phone just to fix the stupid stand by drain. I don't think it's google services causing the drain either, I think it's the LG bloat on this phone. I have very little running on this phone, no social media, etc.. I've always been about optimizing my phones and preserving battery life and this phone just won't cooperate in its stock form.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotcell:
You answered yourself. Root, remove bloat, optimize as you wish. Without root, your options remain severely limited.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
Playing Candy Crush for 22 hours straight can take its toll on your battery (and your marriage). Rate this thread to express how the LG V20's battery performs under heavy use. A higher rating indicates that it lasts a long time even when playing games, streaming video and audio, and doing other CPU-intensive activities.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
3 hours and 8-12 minutes of 1440p video at full brightness, loud speaker, wifi on, and screen recorder running (although the file messed up so i cant post it).
[LG V20 Real Life Review] qs504792:
bad
[LG V20 Real Life Review] fr4nk1yn:
Battle Bay: Less than 2 hours!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Thoragh:
I can honestly say that it really depends on what I am doing. For example if I am digging around on the WOW companion Application or Yahoo's Fantasy Sports Application, the whole phone will get heated up and the battery starts taking a nosedive. If I'm not doing anything with my phone it can go 15 hours straight without losing a single percent. If I am just watching YouTube or something along those lines at 1080 or lower it seems to still go down, but not nearly as quickly as the (possibly poorly - from a power consumption view - designed) apps mentioned before.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] sobriquet506:
As far as I'm concerned the removable battery negates any battery performance complaints. Out of power? Pop in a new battery, and you're 100% in a few minutes, back to endure more "heavy use"... How can any other modern flagship begin to compare?! (not to mention a year down the line, when I can just buy a fresh battery to mitigate deteriorating capacity, while the crowd has to buy a brand new iphone/s9/m10)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rudbwoy:
I've been playing Sky Force Reloaded a lot the past week. I had to be next to the power charger. I haven't bought a spare/secondary battery yet. I carry around a usb battery and a short cable when I need too...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rudbwoy:
Installed some more apps and games, and talk about nosedive. From the time I leave the house at 7AM to about 12 noon, the battery drops down to 15%(battery warning). I have to charge it then. I have to charge it again when I leave the office, which is around 5PM. Battery level varies at that time. Then charge again before bed. I still haven't rooted my phone. Phone temperature remains about 80F to about 108F(heavy use while charging) at times. LinkedIn, xfinity, Groupon, Weather, Waze, etc. Battery drainers! I've about almost had it. I miss root, and miss the ability to freeze apps. I will have to root this LG V20 sooner or later...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] aliguu:
Yes my does that too.. Battery lasts just a bit over half day. I purchased 2nd battery but it's getting very annoying to change and charge them when ur between places.

Hope he gets better