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[LG V20 Real Life Review] kparikh82276:
Wish they would update some of their software especially the camera software.

Looking forward to the Oreo update long time due hopefully it'll bring much needed freshness to this awesome phone.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
To power up, you consume Red Bull. But your phone just needs its adaptive fast charger. Rate this thread to express how quickly the LG V20 can charge. A higher rating indicates that it charges extremely fast.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] androiddiego:
I use Ampere to see the rate I am getting. First plug in might only be 90 mah. I unplug, replug, it jumps up to 350. A couple more times and I end up at 900-1200. Screen off and let it fast charge.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jamebarron88:
I recently tried out the HTC Bolt for a couple weeks and it seemed to charge much faster than my V20. Shouldn't it be the other way around since the Bolt uses quick charging 2.0 while the V20 uses Quick charging 3.0?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] pgag:
Slowest charging phone i ever owned but i still love it lol
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jellybear456:
My H910 charges relatively quickly. Just plugged it into a quickcharge 2.0, not 3.0 car charger and it went from 16% to 50% in ~25 minutes.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] josephmgaffney:
I regularly get rates of 1.8A or greater using a CHOETECH or Anker charger. One its above 80%, it drops down, but this is normal.

The Anker is QC3.0 and the CHOETECH are QC2.0
[LG V20 Real Life Review] argcargv:
agree, LOL

even my old G2 get 50% battery in half an hour.

what's with V20?

it uses QC 3.0, but charge slower.

I use original V20 charger, and when charging the status is "quick charging.."

it takes 2 hours from 27% to 100%

:sad
[LG V20 Real Life Review] spiderx_mm:
looks like something really wrong with your phone. My phone usually takes about 75 mins to charge from 0% to 100%
[LG V20 Real Life Review] argcargv:
maybe, but it looks like not just me though.

and btw, my LG G2 can do full charge in 1 hour and 20 mins (80 minutes), and it's not even QC 3.0

I read somewhere in gsmarena, QC 3.0 should charge to 80% in 30 mins
[LG V20 Real Life Review] spiderx_mm:
not sure about G2. I've never had one.

QC 3.0 might be able to do it technically, but I've never seen a phone that fast in charging yet. Not even the OP3T which every body is saying quickest in charging.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] argcargv:
Hmm.. okay.

How about your G Flex2? how long it would take to charge to 100%?

G Flex2's battery 3000mAh, right? Same as G2
[LG V20 Real Life Review] spiderx_mm:
That grandpa tooks around 2+ hrs to get full charge :D :D :D

But to be fair with the phone, I've never used the original charger of G Flex 2 to charge. I either used my old chargers from previous phones or I plugged it into my laptop to charge it. Let me find the original charger and try it when i get back home
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rowihel2012:
Great

Very fast charge
[LG V20 Real Life Review] midmadn:
Delete please.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] StarCommand:
I have absolutely no complaints with the charging speed. Also, I rarely drop below 40%.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] FastRedTesla:
My battery takes forever to charge up!

I just bought a VS995 Verizon Unlocked off the net. Was classified as "almost new - open box", hope I did NOT get a unit with problems. Re-charged it now a total of 5 times and on average (plus or minus 3-5 minutes) it takes approx. 3 hours and 18 minutes. for a full charge 0% to 100% . A few thoughts and questions came to mind while reading all your excellent posts:

1.) I believe he must of lost his quick charger because the one he gave me seems like he bought it off the net. Standard USB charger. So probably not using the quick charge function feature of this phone correct?

2.) Can I goto an electronics store and just copy whatever voltage and amps I need to perform a quick charge? Can someone please POST what the voltages and amps needed for a quick charge 3.0 please.

3.) Anyone have a bad battery or have one go bad after using the wrong charging devices? I was thinking of ordering a new battery BUT they are a little pricey. Anyone know some good outlets to buy them at a fair price?

4.) Does rooting the device and putting one of the ROM's on their cell solve anyone's battery problem? If so which ROM do you recommend?

Overall that is my only gripe about the phone. I love the DAC and for all you music lovers out there try Sirius XM on the LG-V20 and make sure to use Hi-Fi made headphones. I bought myself Bowers and Wilkens P7's, sort of pricey but worth it to me. The other thing is Napster as well the songs you download sound awesome with this DAC. For both of these APPS make sure you go into settings and adjust the quality of the downloads and streaming. Otherwise you could be listening to it with poor quality settings from the get go.

Ok well I appreciate any help or advice on my battery situation!

Thanks in advance to anyone helping me out.

--- Gary
[LG V20 Real Life Review] wshek:
Any charger that says Quick Charge 3.0 would work. I think even QC 2.0 would charge at the same speed, but just less energy efficient.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] evo4g63t:
The difference between qc 2 and 3 is 3 has a variable voltage allowing it to use energy more efficiently.

Excess energy is lost as heat on qc2, the power is reduced in qc3 when the battery starts to get full.

The charge time is the same.

Specs for QC 2 is 5V / 9V/ 12V, specs for QC 3 is

3.2v - 20v dynamic
[LG V20 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the LG V20 before depleting the battery.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mathiest:
I am getting about 6hrs of sot will post pic later
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mathiest:
Sot im getting right now
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
I dont know about you guys but im getting outstanding battery life. I'm going to do a test later today. Im going to charge my phone upto 100 (after it reaches 0 today) and then when 5 minutes after it says is 100, i will unplug it and i will put a 1440p video that last more than 8 hours and see how long it last with full brightness and wifi on. Then im going to post Very specific details about how everything went. Oh , aslo it will have speaker at its maximum

oh and just have in mind, i have 35 user apps installed, and some of them constantly sync (so it means more battery consumption)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] BlackKnight23:
Just over 3hrs. I dont think my phone has started optimizing apps or putting them in Doze.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] starflyr:
My sot had been nothing short of spectacular.. I'm getting 5hr average... nexus 6 would barely reach 3... my g4 not even 3 also..I always wondered how people were getting above 4hrs.. Ive gotten 6+.....I jus miss stock Android:)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mgymnop:
I get 4 hours with medium usage and leave everything on. Wifi, BT etc. Brightness is on Auto but it shows at 50% to 70% most of the time at work. It's my bright office...LOL
[LG V20 Real Life Review] s2kpdx:
Same as I got yesterday... I don't do anything to try and extend battery life though (brightness always on auto, and I usually turn it up a little bit). Today will be my 2nd full day with the phone, and after 2 hours off the charger I had 99% left (only 5 minutes screen on time), but then I used the phone for about 15 minutes and it dropped quick to 94%)... Time shall tell, hopefully it is till just optimizing like you said...
[LG V20 Real Life Review] AhsanU:
I'm on my 2nd charge and like you guys above, I'm getting abysmal battery life.

I'll give the phone another week or so to optimise, and if it doesn't - it'll be sent back to T-Mobile with a piss poor rating in terms of battery life. What a shame if that's the case..
[LG V20 Real Life Review] ars_92:
2 hr 17 minutes screen on time. 68% left, second screen turned on while sleep. Loving it! Restored all my app backup from Google, so its not a plain phone.

This is after my first full charge it's only gonna get better as I rarely install new apps.

Auto brightness at times, manual on others, as the brightness of this phone doesnt compare at all to my note 4.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] gsxrdennis25:
First full day at work with the phone, and actually pretty light usage day and gotta say the battery is a bit of a let down so far. My shorter days at work over the weekend gave me some concerns, but today I'm at 2% left with 13h 28m standby and 2h 17m screen time. No calls, no videos. Maybe a dozen messages, web browsing, 20mins of spotify for commute. Frankly it "feels" like it lasts the same as my 2 year old m8.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] imucarmen:
10hours 45Minutes :D

I don't have a sim in mine so all my use is just on Wi-Fi. Indoor use with 30-40% brightness, 49 apps and services disabled. The day after this I did 1080p 60fps video streaming while plugged into my Bose speakers using the Hi-Fi DAC for a little over 5Hours and got about 6.5Hours total SOT. But so far 10hours 45 minutes is my record. Another time I did get right at 10 hours so it wasn't a fluke.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] JunBringer:
I'm not activating mine either so that's pretty sweet.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] rudbwoy:
I concur as well. I'm also coming from a Note 4 and the V20 is definitely brighter at 100%.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] cbizz:
Hey, can you share any settings you may have altered to receive such SoT. I'll be lucky if I get 4. I used to get 6-7 hours on the Note 7 I had.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotstocks:
Yeah the battery life sucks, and I like everything else about the phone except ****ty LED screen (I know why they didn't use AMOLED, not cost, but because with no physical home button, the buttons would burn images in AMOLED, LED won't). In any case the true test of a battery is Pokemongo at 100% brightness (which you need with this screen at all times to look half way decent). Note 7 5 hrs, Note 4 4 hours, V20 3 hours, all at 100% and same resolution/settings. So yeah, the battery life sucks, end of discussion. And my phone is a week old, no bloat and settled. Another quirk is sometimes Antutu gets 147k excellent score and sometimes it gets half that, for no reason at all, as well as 3dMark being horrible as well for some reason, half of what it should be.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Timefusion:
This is my third LG phone (Had the V10 and G5 before), and the battery performance appears very strong on this. On my first full, non-setup charge, and using my normal work activities (lots of emails, texts, calls, and periodic social media), here's what I got

Total time on battery: 54 hrs 52 min

Total call time: 3hrs 2 min

Total SOT 2hrs 44min

That's great life a regular business user. Also, the screen is way brighter than the V10 and G5.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
I've been getting phenomenal standby time on this phone, thanks to the new and improved Doze, better than any other phone I've ever had actually. I'm just not getting great SOT, like many others out there and I can't figure out why. I've had the phone for about a week now and all of the apps should've been optimized by now, I think. Anyone else having similar issues?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jax_xon:
Dmarco, a factory reset could be the solution
[LG V20 Real Life Review] hotstocks:
Guys it is simple. It is the same Snapdragon 820 in about 10 other devices with similiar battery sizes. But the V20 will get A LOT less screen on time, my estimation is 25-50% less depending on how bright the screen is. I need the screen at 100% and low comfort blue filter to make the screen even kinda decent, like a Samsung at 70% brightness. Anyways the LCD screen on the V20 eats A LOT of battery power, it can't compete with an AMOLED. That said, the only benefit is that in 2 years your screen won't have any burn in and be worthless.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Chaz187:
Im getting great battery life on the v20

Also sleep time is also great
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Slypnslyde:
View attachment 3926881 I did alright mostly YouTube and browsing
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Copy that. Thanks?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] varun.gid:
i think my SOT is good. if i use the phone for 14 hrs continuously it will give a good 5hrs.

if i keep it in my pocket, it still doesnt doze well i keep losing 2% every hour.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] porscheoscar:
I used to be 100% AMOLED all the way. Comparing my iPad Air to my Samsung Galaxy Tab S was no contest...Samsung by a mile. Then I used the V10 QHD for a year. I now realize how frankly distorted from reality the colors are with AMOLED. Not a big deal because its still nice to look at. But if you asked me if the next V20 should be OLED since its LG After all and OLED is their specialty, I'm not so sure now. Sure the Samsung gets better battery life but that benefit is compromised by not being removable, leaving you with one battery that diminishes each time you run a full discharge quickly if you're a power user.

P.s.

Nobody is playing Pokemon Go anymore.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Chaz187:
Doze will not work if the phone has any movement. It is designed to be at rest for it to operate.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jellybear456:
Have had the phone a full week now and I have to say I am pretty impressed with battery life so far. Each day I've gotten AT LEAST 5 hours of SoT, if not close to 6+.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Not true, the Doze feature in Android Marshmallow was set up to function when the phone was still without any movement. The new and improved Doze feature in Android Nougat is designed to function as soon as the screen is off. That's why we all love the new Doze feature. Google really knocked it out of the park this time?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] G1Master:
For whatever reason my LG V20 will not last no more than 19 hours with only 2 hours of screen on time.

Part of me wants to wait for 3rd Party battery companies to start making better batteries for this phone but at the same time this is a $800 phone...I should not have the need to replace the battery already....My 2 year old Moto Nexus 6 lasts way longer than this phone and I can game on it for a lot longer with out the battery having a huge impact. The LG just drains as I watch it.

I may not be giving this phone enough times to drain down to 0 but after having it since the 4th of November the battery life has been getting worse after every charge. I do make sure that the phone is using the "Fast Charging" by looking for the notification in the notification panel so I know its getting the full blast from the charges.

I am a heavy user but I've yet to push this phone to the "heavy usage" department reason being I still have my Nexus 6 with all the games and etc that I still want to play and use. So with that being said this LG V20 has been nothing but a form of communication for me for the past 2 weeks. Just using it for light texting, emailing and net browsing.

Not happy at all. More than likely I will be returning this phone today or tomorrow right before the 2 week mark to return for a full refund. Really is a shame. No more awesome phablets on the market...well at least within T-Mobile....and I was really hoping this phone would be replacing my aging Nexus 6.

I do have the Second Screen on all the time but I do use a belt holster to hold my phone. So the second screen does power off once the sensor is blocked. So it can't be the second screen. If I am not using my holster I lay the phone down on its face....which to me kind of defeats the purpose of having the second screen....

Am I wrong? Or does anyone else feel this way? I dunno maybe I am just still such a fan of my dual front facing speaker 6" monster Nexus 6. What to do what to do....
[LG V20 Real Life Review] FlyNikolai:
Okay so I'll say my impressions as shortly as possible.

I'm a Computer Technician, so I'm a very analytical person. And I'm from NYC so I'm into name brands & the best quality a bit more.

I must say, I NEVER owned a LG product before. I always saw them as a cheap brand with cheap parts IMO. And I was HIGHLY upset when I was forced to give up my Note 7 for it(just finally gave in a week ago because of that annoying update lol)

Now when my V20 first arrived, I was mad...for the lack of a better term lol. I hated the color and the build, I got used to the shiny Samsung phones especially that blue coral so beautiful geez.

I've had every Galaxy Note since the Note 2, no other phone. I'm a man of habit, and I don't like change much. Just always thought the Note series was the best phone every year

Now back to the V20, the same day I received it...I almost took it back lol. I literally walked into the T-Mobile store a hour after I got it, looking to get an iPhone. I figured I'll just switch it up & suffer until the New Note comes out

Long story short I couldn't do it, and decided to give the V20 at least 2 days...it's only fair right? Now I must say, it's been a week and I'm very impressed with this phone.

The secondary screen is so awesome, it reminds me of the first Galaxy Note Edge...with the REAL EDGE. Makes the screen look even bigger as a whole, looks like it's 7 inches

Also when I received a phone call randomly & saw it didn't take over my main screen and was in the secondary screen it felt heaven sent lol...I was sold after that.

IMO, coming from the AMOLED screens on the Notes...for some reason I like the V20's cooler flat screen better. Side to side with my Note 7, the Note looks so yellowish & warm.

It's funny how you can just be stuck on something by habit, and then you can just see an entire different world when you try change ?.

Overall this is an awesome phone, LG's UI is better IMO...and stuff like screenshots are so much better. I just wish the build was better, if LG can make this phone shiny & pretty next year...I would consider buying it over The New Note.

With that being said idk, I see people are getting horrible on screen time...my on screen time is pretty amazing

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Easily one of the best batteries I've ever had, if not the best. Also I haven't received any lag whatsoever, something I was getting with my Note 7...which I just dealt with in frustration.

Samsung really dropped the ball a bit here, I've seen the light lol...

I'm keeping an eye out for LG in the future...

Here's a screenshot of my current battery as I'm posting this, haven't charged it since last night...been testing it. I always get around 6+ hours on screen time
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
How on earth are you getting such phenomenal battery and SOT???

I'm going to have to do a factory reset and start over; installing my apps one by one. Thanks for your honest review. I love this phone?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] FlyNikolai:
That's a good question bro, lol. I did notice something however during the first few days with the phone

I noticed my battery took a very long time to drop from a 100% to 99%, like I mean literally a hour plus to lose 1%. I found that very odd & unbelievable obviously lol

And my battery management would just be stuck on initializing, it wouldn't show the apps or any power consumption. So before I crowned it best battery EVER lol, I restarted it a few times and it's been normal but just beastly since idk lol

I don't even know if my apps are optimized, I'm too scared to check any settings and screw anything up lol

For the record my brightness Is always between 50%-75% which is pretty bright

Try a reset, because this battery is awesome

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Here's a screenshot of my battery staying on a 100% for a hour!

Very odd ?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Thanks. I constantly keep my brightness on 70% and am lucky if I can break 3 hours of SOT.

I'll do the reset tonight, after work. I agree though, this phone is a beast?
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Ashk91:
please tell us your results after the reset
[LG V20 Real Life Review] porscheoscar:
How does this screen time compare to the Note 7 in your 4G area?

I too was sold on the Note series after dropping the iphone. But once Samsung screwed us with no SD card or removable battery and no IR blaster I was all for the V10 before anyone even knew what it looked like or that it was even called the V10. At the time we thought it was going to be the LG Pro. And I too was sold 110% on AMOLED until I saw a LCD QHD display. The whites are a lot cleaner even compared to the V10.

I consider the V20 the best piece of hardware I have ever owned....from Palm, Handspring, BlackBerry, Sony, Moto, Apple, IBM, Toshiba, Asus, Acer, Samsung, Nexus...LG has topped them all.

The Pixel XL sounded interesting but no Micro SD or removable battery makes it the Android version of an iPhone, missing deal breaker features.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Lorisdodaro:
Hi, as soon as it's possible I'll be an owner of this awesome v20. But I have a doubt, why do you have so much different results of autonomy with its battery life?? It depends on what? Ok, different uses, but don't justify 2/3 SOT difference, IMHO.
[LG V20 Real Life Review] Jbuddy45:
Nearly at 5 hrs SOT with 9% to go. That's with heavy use, play newsstand content download, unplugged at 100% overnight. Brightness kept between 30-65%.

Some light Spotify listsing with Bluetooth headphones.

A few pics taken (awesome camera, by the way).

I'm calibrating the battery, so hopefully I'll yield an even higher SOT afterwards.

Overall I'm very happy I went with the current Android flagship underdog =)
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Just a simple factory reset, or should I do a factory reset and then install my apps from scratch or from backup? Thanks
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jax_xon:
I think is better first only install the apps from play store that use the most, and check battery drain, if all is ok, go for more apps, and if is ok, you can install all that you uses in backup
[LG V20 Real Life Review] dmarco:
Thanks. Will doðŸ‘
[LG V20 Real Life Review] jinkerz9430:
I believe the reason we constantly see so many different SOT with huge differences is because That a battery is 3200mah doesnt mean that the apps must respect that. I mean, sure, apps are optimized but they still there, some of them constantly running. When i had my first LG V20 (defective) i had 35 apps >> user apps. The others are system apps which also some of them runs in the background sucking up mah. So, about 18 of my apps are constantly synchronizing>> which means sucking up more mah, also the screen brightness and other factor will have an impact. But APPS are the issue here. For instance, i have an application which merges every mail provider there is (i have 4 accounts in and i set it up to sync every 30 minutes to not miss mails that are important and with time limitations. So, the app synchronizes not only 1, but 4 accounts, which means sucking up more mah. So, that apps + 17 more apps out of the 35 user apps i have will cause significant changes on how well my battery performs. I got 14 hours of SOT when i had my defective V20 (with all the apps installed). Now, in my old lg g3 i have 70 user apps installed, but still only 18 apps that are constantly synchronizing. Thus, the battery i got with my defective V20 wont significantly change unless i either: a) install more apps that requires constant synchronization or b) i adjust the apps for the better or the worst. >>> plus also some other factors such as whether the 2nd screen is on or off during any given time (which i had always on)... etc etc etc. And i believe this would be the case with every smartphone out there. :cowboy:
[LG V20 Real Life Review] mchllsndrs:
I've had my phone for about 3 weeks now and I get 5-6 hours of sot with medium to heavy usage- emails, web browsing, YouTube, music etc. The battery lasts about a day and 1/2 which compared to my previous HTC M8 is pretty good.