Post/discuss your battery life!

[wargreymon89]

We were missing a dedicated thread for discussing battery life, maybe due to the fact that not many have the phone yet.

I test LG phones and I put them through the same battery test with 3 topics, video playback, surfing and gaming at different screen brightness.

You can see the results here in Swedish, you can easily understand the numbers in the diagrams
Or you can read the whole article Google translated (turned out pretty good grammatically).

So post your battery results and discuss how to make it better (or worse)!

 

[Phurkus]

We were missing a dedicated thread for discussing battery life, maybe due to the fact that not many have the phone yet.

I test LG phones and I put them through the same battery test with 3 topics, video playback, surfing and gaming at different screen brightness.

You can see the results here in Swedish, you can easily understand the numbers in the diagrams
Or you can read the whole article Google translated (turned out pretty good grammatically).

So how do you feel about the battery life?

this is somewhat disappointing.
thanks for the Post though OP, and i agree. i expect for the g4 threads on XDA to boom after its released on all major carriers. Ive been lurking here since day 1 (;

do you know about the stand by time? how long the battery can last when its not in use

 

[wargreymon89]

this is somewhat disappointing.
thanks for the Post though OP, and i agree. i expect for the g4 threads on XDA to boom after its released on all major carriers. Ive been lurking here since day 1 (;

do you know about the stand by time? how long the battery can last when its not in use

Ye, the battery time is much better than G3 if you do light usage, but as soon as you fire up some little heavier so the SoC has to work it plummets quickly.

The standby time is pretty good, several hours per %. But I did have some problem with Google Now wakelocks I think (hard to check without root), became better after uninstalling updates for Google Search and Google Play Services and then reinstalling.

 

[Phurkus]

Ye, the battery time is much better than G3 if you do light usage, but as soon as you fire up some little heavier so the SoC has to work it plummets quickly.

The standby time is pretty good, several hours per %. But I did have some problem with Google Now wakelocks I think (hard to check without root), became better after uninstalling updates for Google Search and Google Play Services and then reinstalling.

Damn i was really hopeing for a great battery on the g4 after the announcement of the 808 chip. im coming from a ****ty droid razr m that dies quickly after a day, with terrible stand-by time. But i guess as long as the g4 battery is better than my phone, its still an upgrade

 

[wargreymon89]

So after a a full day of my normal usage yesterday, web browsing, simpler games, some minutes of phone call. I did test that chess program in the other thread that ate like 10+% of my battery pretty quickly.

I ended the day at like 19%, then I forgot to charge it over the night, and it was down to 11% when I woke 12 hours later (Yay weekend). Then I used it down to 3% (dont mind the 30% after charging a while). I do have something under Android-System that is using my GPS and is draining battery sometimes, not much, but still irritating. I tried turning off lots of stuff, but cant seem to find the culprit.

 

[dondavis007]

Where did you get a G4 in Sweden?

Sent from a mobile gadget.

 

[wargreymon89]

Where did you get a G4 in Sweden?

Sent from a mobile gadget.

Im a LG Ambassador, so we get phones to test and spread our experience about them

 

[xzfzx]

Im a LG Ambassador, so we get phones to test and spread our experience about them

so you did you use lg g3 in the past?(or in other words what phone did you use before the g4)
and how is the battery life on the g4 compared to the phone you used to use =P

thank you...

 

[Phurkus]

so you did you use lg g3 in the past?(or in other words what phone did you use before the g4)
and how is the battery life on the g4 compared to the phone you used to use =P

thank you...

also intersted in hearing this. hope you can reply

 

[wargreymon89]

so you did you use lg g3 in the past?(or in other words what phone did you use before the g4)
and how is the battery life on the g4 compared to the phone you used to use =P

thank you...

I used G3 before G4 and G2 before that. G4 is better than G3 at light work like chatting, surfing, watching video, but gaming and when it stresses the SoC it becomes worse, even worse than G3. Some days ago I had 3:45 SoT at 3% when I had used the chess app in the other thread for a while. The day after I got 5 hours and 20% left because I had done mostly chatting and browsing.

The screen is almost as power efficient as G2 (which is awesome considering QHD and larger). But SD808 eats power like a fat kid eats candy.

 

[xzfzx]

I used G3 before G4 and G2 before that. G4 is better than G3 at light work like chatting, surfing, watching video, but gaming and when it stresses the SoC it becomes worse, even worse than G3. Some days ago I had 3:45 SoT at 3% when I had used the chess app in the other thread for a while. The day after I got 5 hours and 20% left because I had done mostly chatting and browsing.

The screen is almost as power efficient as G2 (which is awesome considering QHD and larger). But SD808 eats power like a fat kid eats candy.

worse than g3 is not somtihng that i want to hear,i hope that software update can fix this....
and because you answered, and got to play with both devices what do you think about the display brightness and outdoor use?(compared to the G3)

 

[wargreymon89]

worse than g3 is not somtihng that i want to hear,i hope that software update can fix this....
and because you answered, and got to play with both devices what do you think about the display brightness and outdoor use?(compared to the G3)

At 0% its much darker than G3, at 100% its pretty much same as G3, not sure where that extra 25% brightness went really. I havent had any problem seeing the screen in the sun, not that I bring it up in direct sunlight much, also since I havent gotten it to overheat and lower brightness automatically, it should be a much better experience in the sun.

 

[PunishedSnake]

Zerolemon for me then

 

[savedR]

Thank you for this thread. This is all I needed to hear.

I have suffered through sub-2-hour screen on time on the G3 for a year now. I have done everything, turning off location, even getting the phone warranty replaced once, getting the Lollipop update, factory resetting yesterday. I have uninstalled apps, left them installed and Greenified. I have done some pretty in-depth testing with Gsam, Better Battery Stats, and the stock battery usage chart. I'm rooting my G3 right now just because I am scientifically curious what in the bleeding ****ing hell is eating my battery on this phone that I wiped yesterday. Yesterday.

I'm either going to Edge up to a Droid Turbo, like my wife has, since my Droid Maxx never did this, get an S6 Edge, or even just get a dumbphone I can make calls on and charge every 3 days, then get literally a Gpad or Nexus 8 or some smallish Android tablet with LTE.

After preordering the flagship phone last year, with more RAM and better specs than everything on the market, then suffering with charge-twice-a-day battery life for a year, I think smartphones have literally failed me, and I think I'm done.

 

[D_Magic]

Better battery then i had on my s6

 

[didi_ghost]

Better battery then i had on my s6

Seems good. What usage was that?

 

[D_Magic]

Seems good. What usage was that?

Browsing internet, watching youtube, news apps, xda app, taking some picrures, playing simple games, whatsapp and e-mail

Around 60 to 70% brightness and wifi and 4g active and used both indoors and outdoors and when outdoors wifi still active and brightness at 100%

This i got another day

 

[didi_ghost]

Seems impressive and going against what is being told around there.

 

[xzfzx]

Better battery then i had on my s6

thats good news, do you happen to have greenify?

 

[D_Magic]

thats good news, do you happen to have greenify?

No greenify, never used it and no power save modes

Just normal use

Note 4 i get 7 to 8 hours sot

Nexus 6 4 to 5 hours

Galaxy s6 4 to 5 hours

G4 5 to 6 hours

All same use nu greenify or power save modes