Battery life question - does it make it through the day?

[jpcsoccer]

for any of you early testers, how is the battery life? does it make through a day?
i understand there is a second battery, but how early in the day do you need it?

thanks

 

[StevenJ_AK]

Re: battery life question

Depends on a lot of factors for me. I'm not using a test unit but an actual retail unit F500L on LG U+ in Korea. If I have no smart settings on, and using auto brightness as well I can easily get 4 hours SOT, some days I'm up to 6 hours of SOT. how does that transform into real world usage? Well depends on my day. Depends how many games or videos, and how long I've been streaming Google play music while I'm browsing or whatever. I can go all day some days, and then there's days I'm swapping batteries by 2 pm. Battery usage is such a hard thing to pinpoint and say I get "this much" since every day and every user is different. I've personally come to the conclusion that no matter what flagship phone you have your going to get whatever battery life you get. Yesterday I put a battery in around 5 pm. I had a whopping 1hr 54 mins of SOT before it was dead. That entire time I was taking pictures (around 300 pics, probably half in manual mode), using GPS to navigate the city, streaming some music at the same time. The battery lasted a total of 5 hours. I swapped that battery around 10 ish pm and its 130 in the afternoon the next day, and I have 78% left right now. Battery life is just so subjective and personalized per user and per session of use.

In short, its good, as good as any other flagship smartphone on the market.

 

[rnich120]

Re: battery life question



Here is my battery usage from yesterday with the screen brightness on Auto with a base of 10% as that is plenty bright for most situations.

Usage was a mixture of photos, phone calls and data usage.

Phone was off charge from 7.30am

I will do it again tomorrow with more heavy usage as its a normal working day

 

[PAC757]

Ok not to be a nay sayer, but I'm getting at least that much battery life, or better, on my year and a half old LG Optimus G Pro. A typical work day, I get 17 hours and about 3:45 minutes SOT, with a few phone 12 - 20 minute phone calls, a lot of texting, and about 2 hours of Google Chrome time. I think the battery in my Optimus G Pro it's 3140 mah though.

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[anon(5630457)]

for any of you early testers, how is the battery life? does it make through a day?
i understand there is a second battery, but how early in the day do you need it?

thanks

Here's what The Verge said about the LG G4's battery:

"The swappable 3,000mAh battery had no trouble lasting a full day of heavy use, and if you’re less demanding on your phone than I am, it will likely last into a second day. It’s better than the Galaxy S6, which just barely eked out a day for us"

Source: LG G4 review | The Verge

 

[Random_13]

Not too long constantly on screen(4 hrs about) but I got through a full 16 hrs today, moderate usage, with still about 30% left now. Using LG G3, I use Juice Defender, brightness, about 50%, data toggled on a few times for maybe 10 minutes at a time, same for wifi, small game play, moderate texting. So yeah! Not the best, but by far enough for me!

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[wrich2005]

Its getting better for me.. still not great. Last 2 phones were 6+ and Note 4. 6+ was best ever, Note 4 was probably the best android battery life except for some of the Droids. I'd say 2/3 of the battery life of Note 4 and 1/2 battery life of 6+ if thats any indication.

 

[wrich2005]

Here's what The Verge said about the LG G4's battery:

"The swappable 3,000mAh battery had no trouble lasting a full day of heavy use, and if you’re less demanding on your phone than I am, it will likely last into a second day. It’s better than the Galaxy S6, which just barely eked out a day for us"

Source: LG G4 review | The Verge

Its not as great as they make it sound. When they test them they usually have international models that don't have LTE so they're wifi only which consistently have better battery life. In the real world it doesn't get easily through a day unless you keep the brightness to a nearly unusable level and screen time around 2 hours.

 

[H_Wordsmythe]

That may be your experience, but it's hardly indicative of the norm. I get through a day easily, and average around 5 hours SOT. And that's predominantly on LTE rather than WiFi. Oh, and my brightness is set to 75% at all times.

 

[anon(9582230)]

That may be your experience, but it's hardly indicative of the norm. I get through a day easily, and average around 5 hours SOT. And that's predominantly on LTE rather than WiFi. Oh, and my brightness is set to 75% at all times.

Are you rooted? Even though I have everything disabled and use the brightness at 50%, never more, I'm not able to get more than 4,5 hours SoT. It's my maximum, what's wrong? Not rooted though

 

[Cwey55]

Been unplugged for almost 24 hours now. Over 3hrs screen on. Still at 46%.

Yeah, it lasts through the day

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[jtb79]

I think what really helps me make it through the day Is the stand by time. My battery does a good job of not draining when it's not in use. I think that's been one of the things the iPhone has done really well and in my experiences the G4 has done for me. I made it through a really busy day yesterday with 28% left at around 11 pm. I didn't check the screen time but I was fielding calls, texts and emails non stop from 6 a.m. till nearly 11. For me personally that's my real world usage and I'm getting by fine on a daily basis. I also have a fitbit syncing all day but I don't know how much that affects battery, but it's not hurting me.

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[H_Wordsmythe]

Are you rooted? Even though I have everything disabled and use the brightness at 50%, never more, I'm not able to get more than 4,5 hours SoT. It's my maximum, what's wrong? Not rooted though

Not rooted. I do have a consistently strong 4G signal, which helps a great deal, I'm sure. Also, my usage probably has something to do with it; I mostly use the Engadget and AC apps and do general browsing in Firefox or Opera Mini (I found that Chrome really chewed through my battery for some reason). That's during the day, and then in the evening I spend quite a bit of time on YouTube, and sometimes Netflix. I don't do any gaming. Also my GPS and Bluetooth stay off unless I'm actively using them. And I limit automatic-sync for Google services to Gmail and my Contacts.

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

I unplug at 7 am and it lasts me until I plug back in at 10 pm, with battery left to spare.