i take it back battery is trash!!!!

[syspry]

Let's not be to quick to jump on the OP like everyone did on the S6 forum. I find it very telling that Google announced Doze at I/O and it's obvious to me that in this way they're quietly conceding there's issues with battery life on Android high end devices. battery tech progression simply said, sucks compared to the progression of the rest of smartphone tech on Android right now. The OEM arms-race and spec wars brought this on. battery manufacturers have done pretty much squat to keep up, so now Google gets left holding the bag to find a solution.

The fault IMO rests in the combination of OEM's and Google not working close enough together. You can pretty much leave an iDevice sitting unused for days and the battery barely budges. Try that on Android and compare. The difference is that Apple controls the whole hardware and software scheme, Google does not, and this, on top of the spec wars between OEM's and battery tech lagging behind is the result.
The solution is that Google and the OEM's both need to clean up their act. Android M appears to be an admission of this, but we'll see how it plays out.

 

[jdfry15]

I haven't had a chance to run the g4 down enough due to work, but I've been very happy with battery. It's nowhere near the iphone 6plus I have but it doesn't seem too far off from my note 4 I've been using with the same usage. That said I would factory reset and if that doesn't work I would swap it out. It may just be a bad unit.

 

[oldschoolsig]

Like mentioned above...lg send me another battery please or take back.

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[Jared DiPane]

3.5 hours of screen on time. 16 hours off charger. Still 40% left here

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[Inders99]

The fault IMO rests in the combination of OEM's and Google not working close enough together. You can pretty much leave an iDevice sitting unused for days and the battery barely budges. Try that on Android and compare. The difference is that Apple controls the whole hardware and software scheme, Google does not, and this, on top of the spec wars between OEM's and battery tech lagging behind is the result.
The solution is that Google and the OEM's both need to clean up their act. Android M appears to be an admission of this, but we'll see how it plays out.

Yup!

 

[Jeremiah Bonds]

wow,

today I got 19 hours out of my batter before I plugged in at 5% left. Did you try a factory reset yet?

 

[maduro78]

One thing I did notice it does hang on 100% for an especially long time

 

[TheMarcus]

I'm noticing pretty terrible battery life, too. Did a factory reset out of the box, but after running it for a couple days, I'm hoping another fixes this.

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[bembol]

Isn't this the reason why u have a replaceable battery?

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I posted that in another thread. LOL Seriously, I rarely took advantage of this, even the Powerocks 9000mAh battery pack I bought was only used 1-2 times.

Every flagship I've owned only a few have let me down but all my recent have been very good and I'm happy as long as it last me a full 12 hours shift.

 

[Meagey]

A big battery helper is to make sure you have auto brightness on especially if you have the screen on for a while... I know with my g3 if I had the brightness all the way up I can literally watch the juice run down. I got 16 hours of pretty decent usage yesterday and was still at 25% when I plugged in and today I was at about 20% after 10 hours but used it more today.. The battery is definitely good to get you through the day. Otherwise lgg4promo.com to get your second battery, external battery charger, and 32 if microsd for free!

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[txsizzler]

Yeah, me thinks you probably have the screen brightness set very high, and not running it in Auto. Any phone, especially as one as bright and beautiful running at 1440p like this LG, will have the battery get wiped out.

 

[truthteller10]

On vacation and cant even keep it off the charger..the battery performance is not good ..period

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[Almeuit]

On vacation and cant even keep it off the charger..the battery performance is not good ..period

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Have you tried some of the things others have suggested? Others are reporting decent to good life so a few troubleshooting steps may fix it.

 

[mrcrusha829]

Not good

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Screen was on for an hour.. is that at full brightness? App Usage is at 40% ... you gotta click on that and see.

 

[lrrowley]

My battery life has just been so-so as well. I have the H815 and I'm using it on T-Mobile. It has been slowly getting better the more I use it though, so I'm still breaking the battery in. I have it on auto brightness but I also changed the slider from 100% to 50% and it improved the battery.

I think part of my problem is that I'm coming an Xperia Z3 which gets phenomenal battery life. I thought the Z3 was the same as other flagships but now I'm realizing it really is better.

 

[AndroidHabit]

I recently got 5.5hours of SOT. I took a screen shot and will post it in my thread soon.

 

[Inders99]

The problem with auto brightness is that it's dim, auto should be pumped up 10% to get it working properly.

 

[erwaso]

i'm barely getting 4 hours SOT. Pretty much the same as my S6. Kind of disappointed in that. Going to give it a few more days and see if it gets better.

Which phones are getting over 4 hours with your specific use? Just curious cause that's great

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[TechGod2014]

If you're on T-Mobile try to disable their diagnosis features and their WiFi scanning tools. That helped my battery life a bit. At first I felt the same as the OP but 5 days in it seems like it's getting a bit better. Yesterday I finally got a lil closer to 4 hours of screen on time. Hopefully it Will get better.

 

[TechGod2014]

Here's a screen shot of my recent battery life.