G4 battery is worse on marshmallow.

[CellTheUltimateAndroid]

It's true. I get around 30 min less screen on time, and I've had it for around a month.
Also what's up with that 6% on battery usage?

 

[RapidTurtle]

I also had battery issues. I wound up doing a FDR and that fixed the issue. I know it's a pain to do, but it did work for me.

 

[LeoRex]

Yeah, when it doubt, reset. On major point upgrades, that's usually par for the course. There's a lot of backend crap that gets updated and sometimes your app data hides a little nugget that doesn't play well when in the new framework.

I pushed my wife's 811 up to 6.0 last week and the thing has been running like a champ actually. Idle has improved by leaps and bounds (her phone sits a lot), active seems as good, maybe a tick better. And the phone runs a lot better than it had at 5.1. It's smoother, less stuttering and fewer frame drops. And the touch response has noticeably improved.

 

[tardus]

I may have to bite the bullet and do a factory reset which is kind of pain. The only thing that has helped was to turn data off. Fine if Wi-fi is available, but not a complete solution.

 

[LeoRex]

Oh, if you've been on 6.0 long enough for the google backup to run, it's not quite as painful when you restore. 6.0 has a lot of new backup APIs... You can see which apps you have bought into the new system by going into the Google Drive app settings and looking at the app backup window. For those apps, it'll restore both the app AND the app data.

 

[tardus]

Oh, if you've been on 6.0 long enough for the google backup to run, it's not quite as painful when you restore. 6.0 has a lot of new backup APIs... You can see which apps you have bought into the new system by going into the Google Drive app settings and looking at the app backup window. For those apps, it'll restore both the app AND the app data.

I just did the factory reset, and I noticed the differences that you mentioned when I booted for the first time after reset. Now I'm doing a restore using LG Backup & Restore. I've had great success with that in the past - with G3. I just hope it won't restore the "bad" stuff that may have caused the poor battery problem.

 

[LeoRex]

Well... a lot of time, that bad data is buried in the runtime junk.... which hopefully will have been refreshed when the apps get reloaded.

 

[Bonovox72]

This bad data is not really what I think is happening. I had a black leather LG G4 sim free UK from Amazon & it had Android 6.0 out the box. The phone was made 11 days ago & the battery was absolutely awful on Marshmallow & this was out the box not updated from Lollipop. Something called LOGD was draining the battery

 

[LeoRex]

logd? Something was writing like crazy to the system logs then.. Probably getting festooned with exception errors from an app that was writhing in pain.

 

[tardus]

logd? Something was writing like crazy to the system logs then.. Probably getting festooned with exception errors from an app that was writhing in pain.

According to XDA LOGD is apparently a primary cause of the battery issues with Marshmallow. There's no way to get rid of it unless the phone is rooted.

Let's hope for an update soon to get rid of that bug.

 

[Brayden Turner]

It is a G4. The reason I bought mine and made it my daily driver is due to the ability to switch the batteries out. I have 3 batteries for my phone with chargers that charge the batteries over night. Put the batteries in the car before you leave for work and you are set. Extra batteries are incredibly useful and allow me to leave my screen brrightness at 75% all the time.

 

[benchph]

I had a g4 who just got a boot loop and got a replacement refurbished g4.

My old one ran android 6.0 and had horrible battery life. I am currently running on v10f-sea-xxx. The last incremental update for lollipop before getting marshmallow.

i will stay in lollipop for about a year or until i hear from this forum that MM has solved the battery issue.

 

[tardus]

It is a G4. The reason I bought mine and made it my daily driver is due to the ability to switch the batteries out. I have 3 batteries for my phone with chargers that charge the batteries over night. Put the batteries in the car before you leave for work and you are set. Extra batteries are incredibly useful and allow me to leave my screen brrightness at 75% all the time.

I got the extra "free" battery since purchased the G4 when it came out. I rarely used the spare until Marshmallow came out. Now I'm swapping batteries just about every day. This is even after resetting the phone.

 

[tardus]

I just did the factory reset, and I noticed the differences that you mentioned when I booted for the first time after reset. Now I'm doing a restore using LG Backup & Restore. I've had great success with that in the past - with G3. I just hope it won't restore the "bad" stuff that may have caused the poor battery problem.

Update: It's been a few days after the factory reset and performance is somewhat improved but not close to where it was with Lollipop. The factory reset was painless - so not much downside. This is what I did:

1. Used LG Backup and Restore to save the backup to the sd card. I also saved a copy to my PC...just in case.
2. System settings->Backup and reset->Factory data reset
3. When rebooted I let Android do it's thing to restore. (the first time I stopped it in the middle and skipped to the next step but the results were not good so I did it a second time, and let it finish. The Marshmallow restore is improved!)
4.Opened LG Backup & restore and let it find the available saved backups. I chose the latest one to restore.

Everything was close to 100% back to how it was before reset. Some text messages - conversations from prior years were out of order - a handful appear on top.

The only annoying thing - the default sms app changed the setting back to "Delete old messages" - lucky I caught it and no messages were deleted.
Smart cards are appearing occasionally for some reason, although turned off in settings.

 

[kraze4u]

To improve battery life you can limit apps running in the background to 4 in the developer options. Its worked well for me on lollipop.

 

[TNCattleDog]

Battery life on my Verizon G4 with MM has been gradually improving almost daily. Batter life for me is now better than it was on lollipop.

David

 

[tardus]

Battery life on my Verizon G4 with MM has been gradually improving almost daily. Batter life for me is now better than it was on lollipop.

David

I found the same thing. Factory reset and restore using LG Backup made a significant difference, and now the battery life continues to improve. Still not what it was on Lollipop but getting much better!

 

[Catalin Esanu]

For the last two days this process is on top of the list. It has no label. What can it be?

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[Catalin Esanu]

It's been two days since this process appeard, but it has no label. What can it be ?

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[tardus]

For the last two days this process is on top of the list. It has no label. What can it be?

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Is Android OS or Android system listed below (lower down than can be seen)? My guess is Android OS which should be greater than 5%.
But why it isn't labeled is the question. Is your G4 rooted by any chance?