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[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
1080p mode works well! Makes the phone smoother having only 56% of the pixels to push. The difference in visual quality? Practically none.

G6 should definitely have been a 1080p phone imo - smoother performance (have had a high frequency of major jerks and scrapes of the UI in the past), brighter backlight (if they hadn't had so many pixels to start with), lower price.

Anyway, these tips from the OP and other users have been great. My standby drain has dropped from about 5%/h to about 0.4%/h, my last 5% as I'm writing this has lasted me about an hour, performance has also been better as a result of these optimisations.

Interestingly enough, since the Oreo update, ForceDoze actually made standby drain worse, so I turned that off earlier today and it impressed me.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
In the service menu. Go into the stock dialer and dial *#546368#*XXX# where "XXX" is your device's model number. Mine, the Canadian model, is an H873, so in place of "XXX" I would put 873. So for me, it's *#546368#*873#.

Once you're here go to SVC Menu>Force Long Display Mode and then set it to Off.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Thanks. Would that interfere with the fact that I'm running 1080p? Just that the OP says "don't touch app scaling" when not running original resolution.

Edit: was already disabled
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
No it won't. If you are using a custom DPI, then don't touch app scaling. It will change the DPI back to its default value if you do so.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] granazias:
Hi!

Have you mentioned a big difference in battery endurance after you changed the screen resolution from original to 1080p?

About how many SoT have you earned?

Regards.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Not much difference in battery endurance, but the increase in performance and decrease of heat has been noticeable. Here's what I got from this afternoon's usage.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Actually, there hadnt been much improvement at all until this afternoon after I took it off the charger. I was previously getting about 25%/h with display on, and 1%/h idle drain. Battery just decided to be a beast this evening, and I hope it stays, and/or I figure out what I did ?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] granazias:
So if there is not any battery improvement,does it deserve to drop screen resolution taking a risk for other apps to not working as they should?

Did you have any issues until now?

Thank you!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
No issues at all, and no risk really. Also hardly a drop in display quality. Only thing that doesn't work is always on display.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] granazias:
Hmm that seems really interesting so.

As about the AOD basically i never use it so i will not miss it.

I think i will give it a try because the last 2 months,before with nougat and now with oreo,i mentioned a remarkable increase of the temperature even when browsing on the internet and i can't explain why this happens..not always but very often,which it was not there from when i purchased the phone,but after a few months.

For that reason i made a factory reset after upgrading to oreo,but unfortunately still happens.

A last question please..if i drop the resolution and i don't like it,can i bring back the original?

P.S: what about your monster battery??

Did it finally became better today?

Kind regards!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Yes, you can use the same command but change "1080x2160" to "1440x2880".

Today my phone has been off the charger and using it on and off for 2h, still on 100% ?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] granazias:
Oh that's wonderful..maybe it has been calibrated good enough and now gives you best results..i hope it will continue like that so you can enjoy your phone as much as you want.

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
The last major thing I remember doing is accidentally deleting my whole Amazon music offline library off my SD card by clearing the app's internal storage data (which only read 1.7gb versus the 20+gb my music takes up on the SD). Don't know why those files would be causing 10x battery drain though... If it comes back, it's bye bye Amazon music.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Apps all work as they should. Only thing you're going to notice is the increased performance and reduced heat. And the AOD stops working.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] electrical potato:
For me the camera ui is buggy when i set the display to 1080p. Can someone check their camera app while in 1080p mode
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] boyriot:
:good:
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
I'm pretty sure mine looks fine

Edit: having said that, the viewfinder definitely isn't 4:3 aspect ratio like it should be. Sides cropped?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
Yeah, it's a global "issue" on lover resolution.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] electrical potato:
i mean yeah its usable. the only problems are the aspect ratio and for me (on 7.0 nougat atleast) the icons for the ui has some issue with contrast and text not being aligned
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Baijoosharma:
AOD

I downed resolution to 1080 and 380 density but AOD not working :(
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
Yeah, that's a known thing, read the previous comments on this thread...
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Baijoosharma:
Can scaling resolve the issue?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshames:
Regarding standby time, after a little test I realized something that may be obvious to some of you but wasn't for me-- that carrying the phone around with very light use is VERY different than idle time. I am using stock Oreo.

In a 9 hour work day, with 5 minutes of phone calls, a few whatsapp messages, and checking email once or twice, I would drop from full charge to about 75%-- in other words about 3% an hour. I had basically considered that idle time usage, as the screen on time was like 10 minutes.

However last night I decided to unplug my phone before going to bed, leave it face down, and check it in the morning. In 8 hours it dropped just 3%. This is what many of the optimists out there are reporting.

So the moral of the story is that even very light useage, (perhaps because it involves movement when being carried around, some screen time, AOD and waking up more frequently) increases the battery consumption to a surprising degree, as compared to true idle time.

But even the 25% drop during the day is quite acceptable, and even on days with heavier use it will go down to say 65% which is still good. I have a charger in my car for backup and just plug it in at home in the evening.

I am always amused at the workers around me with Iphones and Samsungs who are already looking for outlets at 11 am...
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Nothing I know of can solve the issue... I think LG needs to implement this feature themselves for it to work properly.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] basicreece:
My iPhone 7+ used to last two days with moderate use.

With this LG G6 I charge twice a day, I have tested with changing the resolution and density, this caused more issues and battery drain was exactly the same.

Best results:

AOD - off

BT - off

wifi - on

Scanning - off

Brightness - 30%

Greenify - Everything but email, phone calls and messaging apps

I use Macrodroid app to automate a work profile.

Battery saver mode - on

location - off

bt - off

silent mode - no vibrate

brightness - 25%

pretty much a brick that I have to charge. Very poor battery life.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshames:
Wow, you must be a heavy user!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] basicreece:
Not really, id say moderate. But there you go, means charging twice a day I guess.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jostian:
Very strange, I must say that I had issues with greenify and uninstalled it and now use Naptime. have you installed better battery stats to see what is eating your battery? I'm a moderate user and easily get between 6 and 7 hours SoT and 60 odd hours between charges. Definitely some rogue app app or something, and definitely disable data if you are in wifi area, the pinging of the towers that your phone does while data is on also eats battery.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshames:
Greenify never did anything for me. Just took up space. I think with modern Android versions, the memory and process management is already being done and Greenify can add little.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Have you upgraded to Oreo? If so, have you tried wiping your dalvik cache?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] basicreece:
I'm on aospextended yes wiped everything and started fresh.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jostian:
You gotta get stock for best battery...
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] KingFatty:
Sorry for dumb question, but can someone clarify what is the 3-digit numeric code for the Sprint variant of the LG G6, for using when you enter the special code into the dialer for unlocking the secret menu? I thought Sprint phones are LS993 so I tried 993 as the code, but it didn't seem to work for unlocking the menu.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] sp_1st_timer:
Instead of using Greenify, use NetGuard (if your phone is not rooted). For rooted phones, I recommend Droidwall.

Unnecessary internet access by apps and "system apps" drains so much battery. For example, I don't use NFC so I make sure the app/service won't be able to use the internet. There are many apps and services I turned internet off because either I don't utilize them or they are not supposed to access the internet for their basic use. Some of them are:

- com.lge.remote.lgairdrive

- LG AirDrive

- nobody

- Cloud

- Collage Wallpapers

- Facebook App Installer

- Market Feedback Agent

- Evernote

- Mobile Services Manager

- Camera

- LG Keyboard

- EasyHome

- Handwriting

- File Manager (wifi only)

- FM Radio

- Gallery

- XT9

- Home

- Home Theme - LG

- Home & app drawer

- Live Wallpaper Picker

- Quick Help

- Quick Help Service

- SmartWorld

- Quick Video Editor

- SmartSetting

- com.android.wallpapercropper

- Calculator

- Google Drive Promotion

- Google Pay

- Duo

- Drive

- Instagram

- Facebook

- Docs

- Sheets

- LG Mobile Switch Launcher

- Google Play Music

- Slides

- TalkBack

- com.android.frameworks.telresources

- Photos

- Google Play Movies & TV

- One Handed Controller

I also turned off internet for game apps which have online play option but I only use them for offline single player mode. NetGuard prevents them from downloading the ads as well, unless I forget to close them properly.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
Here's my battery usage from today.

A lot of instagram, LTE for about half the day. AoD on, and I kept the stock screen screen resolution. Spent some time playing graphically intense games as well. I also had music playing in the background for the majority of the day.

I am NOT using greenify, forcedoze or anything of the sort.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] jshames:
Pretty reasonable and pretty much what we expect. You get through a day and have to charge in the evening.

Obviously some very heavy users here get shorter life

Like with other components on the phone such as the camera, screen etc -- manufacturers use cost-benefit considerations when deciding on the battery capacity-- in terms of size, weight, price etc.

And they probably aim for the "average" light-moderate user-- which covers 95% of customers.

Heavy users such as gamers etc are outliers and it probably isn't worth it for the manufacturers to put in bigger and heavier batteries just so they won't have to recharge every few hours.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sachin T V:
How that nav bar?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] MDW 100:
Substratum
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] tagadazy:
Almost 2 days of use

Hi. I thought i should share!

I am using a brand new lg g6+ in Finland. I upgraded to oreo immediately using lgup and a kdz file from the internet.

I followed many instructions here:

-Secret menu and disabled ldb and the screen things

-screen brightness around 60% (i want to see well)

-no wifi (usually, if i download apps i might turn it on)

-i have tried to disable internet activities like apps and using battery saver on. I need to work on this more.

-regular screen resolution

My use is normal, in 35 hours of standby and on-time

(1 charge gave me 35 hours of regular use) :

-screen on time a bit less than 5 hours

-some internet browsing every now and then

-30 min of calls, a few sms

-maybe 2 hours of tidal hifi streaming, half of it using Bluetooth and half with earphones

-some google mapping

-maybe 2 hours of gaming (not graphically intensive)

-next thing i will put location off and see if it matters...or maybe try creating those habit management (workplace, home, etc)

Does anybody know if wifi or mobile data at home consumes more battery, does it make a difference?

I am starting to believe this machine could go 48 hours with 5 hours of screen on time if properly handled ( no, i will not put screen brightness below 55 )

Good luck pushing that 48 hours!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
That's a really good results.

Of course, the mobile data consumes more battery.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Baijoosharma:
i am using Oreo no need of any modification 100% stock ROM with all bloatware giving me avg 5+ Hrs SOT, previously it was very hard to reach 4Hrs :D
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
Ironically, deleting battery-saving apps seems to save battery.

Thanks for sharing!
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
I deleted the FB app, then the Instagram app is f*cked up..

I went to sleep from 22:21 (10:21 PM), then I wake up, and checked the time at 08:15 (8:15 PM), it's about 10h of standby with airplane mode off.

~30% DRAINING 10H OF STANDBY!

I checked the battery usage.

Just look at these screenshots guys..
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] abderian2004:
I am getting 17hrs of standby with 5hrs of SOT after playing 2hrs of an online game (Raskulls).

I have removed Facebook, Instagram and Evernote via adb and installed their lite version. Keeping power saving mode always on and brightness to auto.

Using native resolution, I tried changing the resolution to 1080 but I noticed no big difference in battery saving so back to 1440p resolution.

I used package Disabler pro to disable all unwanted apps. Uses package Disabler mentioned in this video -- Video link

Also, I am not using any hybernating app as it doesn't work on my non rooted LG G6 HS870DS.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] aunogo:
After I updating to Oreo, I have noticed battery drain by the 'Home App".

I do clear data and force stop but the battery not improved.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] amrnagy16680:
my G6 on Nougat S.O.T was 4 or 4.5 hours now on Oreo just 2 or 2.5 hour !!!!!!!!!!!!! what can i do :(
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
If you're willing to factory reset, I recommend you downgrade back to Nougat. Otherwise, you can try debloating.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
Guys.. I'm really sad again.. and again.. and again.

The battery life (SOT) is getting worse..

I tried everything, i googled, "forumed" a lot of about this thing, but nothing helped.

The SoT is absolutely better on WiFi, but i only use wifi when i'm at home.

Look at my stats on (WiFi)--(3G+ - 4G)

This was a really light usage, a little bit waze (12 min) just for get traffic info on the route.

~about 30min of youtube backround music via wired earphones.

~little browsing: 16min

~I took 4-5pic

And yeah, EX Kernel Manager just fcked up for some random reason, I don't know why, but whatever, that's it:

2h 30m SoT

---------- Post added at 08:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:56 PM ----------

I think, LG ruined my battery with Nougat 7.0, maybe I have to buy a brand new battery? I must have use this phone for 1 yeah, but I'll never buy an LG mobile in the future.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] fegitoli:
Don't buy a new battery. You're better off getting a new, non-LG phone.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
Yeah, I will. But i wrote, i must use this mobile 1 more year.. :(
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] NaylinnMaung:
right now, are your on oreo or nougat?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
I'm actually on a rooted stock oreo.

I'm started using Accubattery (Pro) from today, i want to know my battery's health/capacity, and this is the only way to do this.

Now I using Titanium Backup instead of Package Disabler, and using lower CPU clocks, let's see what'll be happen.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] supersonicsensei:
Cropped camera window

The phone seems snappier than before, though I'm not sure about battery improvements. Have to test more. One problem I have is the camera window gets cropped. Even though I've set it to 4:3, it's showing me a ~16:9 viewfinder.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
Read back in the thread man.. it's a known issue on the stock cam app.

Use Gcam. Cstark versions supports both cam (normal-side).

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-cstark27/
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] lorikeet:
Looking at your screenshot, it appears your signal strength is low. If signal strength is not good, RF power output will be increased to compensate which might drain the battery.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] adorable:
https://ibb.co/QpFG11w

Just as a baseline for those comparing methods to save battery life running opera mini for a few hours with data saving and ad block on on 4g lte T-Mobile.

H873 on 8.0 h = 5~ hours Screen on time.

Always on display on

Auto brightness on

Wifi, bt, location, sync off.

No energy hogging social apps like fb, insta.

Only Twitter and line. Twitter has all notifications, background updates off.

Disabled most of the installed apps I don't use - Google mostly (search, news, music, games, gboard, etc) and many of the other preinstalled like fb, evernote.

Auto sync disabled globally.

Only Line checking, T-Mobile Tuesday's notifications allowed in background..else, turned off in other apps.

In location , Only GPS allowed, not cell tower!

For Google maps, NO Google location allowed (cell tower). Yes,.you'll get a pop-up asking each time you start maps, click disable, but the moment you allow Google to get precision location, everything including play store starts sucking up location (battery) info in the background all the time.

Only turn on location when using maps, else turn off.

Google play - no auto update check, no play protect checking, no auto updating. Let Google auto anything and it'll suck up battery life.

Installed office, skype, onedrive, office lens, Firefox, edge, line, k9 email, opera, opera mini, here maps, as major apps - auto anything / background turned off in all of them.

Everyday, run smart cleaning to clear memory and kill background apps.

....

All that has been all I've done for other phones I've owned.

Heavy daily web browsing pushing 40+GB/month (without videos, music) - just web, email, Line mostly. Some music and navigation daily - 1 hour or less.

....

The LG G6 does have "Mini Mode" where you swipe left or right across the buttons at the bottom of the screen, and it'll shrink the display to a sizeable, smaller display for one-handed use (activate in settings).

Might this be the same/similar as reducing the resolution in adb?....
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] spiderio:
thank you i will try to make it 1080p to save the battery
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] darek1995:
You'll save only 5-8% of the screen usage, it's an QHD LCD panel, so doesn't really matter if you lower the res on it. It has more disadvantages than advantages.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Looneer:
I installed v20i OTA update on the 1st April and my battery has been atrocious for the past 2-3 days (it loses 5%/hour with the screen off). I've had the phone since July 2018 as a replacement for my LG G4.

I so wish I could get a good phone with a removable battery.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] granazias:
Did you try a hard reset after the new update?

I know it's very annoying to set up your phone from scratch,but in such cases is the only way to fix any issues after updates.

The same happened to me in the past after a security update,and after hard reset everything worked as they should..even the battery times were better.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Looneer:
Good shout and I might go this route if none of the remedies in this thread work out (I didn't need them before this week). Cheers.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] hani1337:
Just go back to 7.0 its good for battery
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] matthew33:
If you want the best battery, download Naptime Premium and select aggresive doze - it's FANTASTIC!

Matt
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tag49:
Pie is awful for my battery, and you ?

Hi,

I followed all this guide before with android 7 and then 8, and my SoT was only about ~3h30, it was awful. I never managed to obtain a correct battery life (and I am not a hard user : no social media app, no games, a lot of features are disabled).

So I did the Pie stock update yesterday.

My battery life just melt away overnight.

Check that : with Pie, only 2h20 of SoT ! :confused::crying:

And I did a factory reset.

How is it possible ?

So I just put again resolution to 1080, hopping to gain 1h of SoT...

Remark : regarding disabling LDB and Log Service, with Pie it was disabled by default, I did not remember if it was the case before.

I only have the phone since 1 year and half and I really trust that battery is damaged / faulty. But several app are saying that battery is "good"...

PS : btw, I did not manage to find the option to wipe cache/data, seems it's only possible to do a factory reset now
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tag49:
2 others remarks regarding this guide :

In the secret dialer ("*#546368#*870#") > SVC MENU > Battery test, I noticed interesting thing, and I would like to know if other people have same behavior :

Have a look at the last row : Charge now raw / charge full

It seems the max is 3149000. I guess it's the max mAh of the battery, so officially it's 3.300 mAh.

When I charge my phone and the battery reaches 100%, I noticed that in fact it was not 3149000/3149000. It was something like 3026000/3149000. I left it plugged in longer, and it has exceeded the limit of 3149000.

Quite strange.

Is there other people here with 3149000 value ?

I changed resolution to 1080x2160 and I adjusted the DPI to 500.

But now when I take screenshot, they are like "zoomed". In fact there is only a small part of the screen in the screenshot.

I did not have this issue before with Oreo.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kaioh_shin:
[IMG="battery test"]https://i.imgur.com/apslgRe.jpg[/IMG]

Initially I thought mine is worse at 2874000, but it actually charged to almost the full amount.

We need to re calibrate the battery.

Battery cycle is 737

Condition still Good

The zoom effect is "normal", happens to everyone and I haven't seen a fix. You have to live with it, which was a deal breaker for me.
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] Thelock1:
Can I change the resolution if I use Havoc custom rom?
[LG G6 Guides, News, & Discussion] PerséidesRL:
I don't know if there is a rom feature that does that but :

If you are rooted : use DPI Changer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chornerman.easydpichanger (adjust Density and Resolution)

If not rooted : read the first post and do it via ADB
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] VantuzProper:
I've got my 3T's persist partition completely dead, no filesystem. make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p15 doesn't help. What to do?
[OnePlus 3T Questions & Answers] BillGoss:
Running

ls -la /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name

shows that persist is /dev/block/sda2 on my OnePlus 3T.