Verizon 4.4.2 Kitkat New Features and Bugs

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Battery life seems to be better for most people on 4.4. Perhaps you have an app that isn't compatible with 4.4 and draining your battery. Are you using stock 4.4 or some custom recovery?

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AndroJak

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Stock. Having lived with a GNex for a good while I am all over the battery diag tools, nothing obvious. Android System, Kernel, System usually the top consumers.

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I have done a number of factory resets. Even went back to 11a tot file and did all the ota updates. Even after root and greenifying my usual apps my battery life def drains more than it did on 4.2.2. It really is noticeable. Very annoying. With absolute same usage when I got home with 4.2.2 I would have 55 to 65% left. Now the best I can pull is 35 to 40%. Really annoyed. Anyone else?

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AndroJak said:
For me I have about 20% less battery life on 4.4 which is pretty disappointing, also had one lockup yesterday that I never had on 4.2. On the good side, tap and pay works with google wallet. I will ride this for a couple weeks before I consider any changes.
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I figured this out today, don't know if it's been posted yet or not but if you disable "scanning always available" in advanced WiFi setting battery will improve.
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You can see that I disabled it shortly after charging at lunch.

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No problem. Actually, I was getting ready to flash back to 12b because of the battery on this Rom. I've been trying to figure out why WiFi always showed up when off for days. That along with a ril wakelock that appeared to have something to do with WiFi. This looks promising.

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I'm not sure how many people use hangout but back on 4.2 it showed the android emoji, whereas in 4.4 it shows LG's variants. They aren't bad but I much prefer the android's!

Does anyone know how to switch back to them?
 
AndroJak

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1heffer said:
I figured this out today, don't know if it's been posted yet or not but if you disable "scanning always available" in advanced WiFi setting battery will improve.
You can see that I disabled it shortly after charging at lunch.

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Thanks - mine was already disabled.. Odd that battery life is impacted - must not be hitting everyone or there would be more posts about it one would think..
 
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radioguinea said:
I have done a number of factory resets. Even went back to 11a tot file and did all the ota updates. Even after root and greenifying my usual apps my battery life def drains more than it did on 4.2.2. It really is noticeable. Very annoying. With absolute same usage when I got home with 4.2.2 I would have 55 to 65% left. Now the best I can pull is 35 to 40%. Really annoyed. Anyone else?

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Don't do a factory reset. Go into the LG mobile support software on your computer and under options click update recovery. It doesn't format your phone it basically just reinstalls the Ota over the one already installed.
I had the same terrible battery life situation and I tried formating it to stock and it didn't help but what did was the above. Now I have a hard time being below 60% on a heavy day of use.
The other day I let my phone go through the entire battery and it got 5.5 hours of screen on time and over 45 hours of just straight up battery life. It's ridiculous
 
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mrgoodpaul said:
Don't do a factory reset. Go into the LG mobile support software on your computer and under options click update recovery. It doesn't format your phone it basically just reinstalls the Ota over the one already installed.
I had the same terrible battery life situation and I tried formating it to stock and it didn't help but what did was the above. Now I have a hard time being below 60% on a heavy day of use.
The other day I let my phone go through the entire battery and it got 5.5 hours of screen on time and over 45 hours of just straight up battery life. It's ridiculous
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Thanks for the suggestion, gave it a shot, update complete and charging now, will post back results.
 
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Happy to say that the mobile support software re-update corrected my poor battery life. A big thanks mrgoodpaul, I was about to go back to 4.2.2!

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Okay, so the biggest drain on my battery was in fact due to an app. TheChive app was constantly running in the background if not manually killed. I now get close to the same battery life that I had on 12b.
 
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