LG G4 Battery Life Thread

[cdubb1]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

I know. I was just saying that I use an extended battery. But I don't use a Zerolemon. Those things are bricks. I use a Mugen battery. Granted mine adds thickness and weight, but not nearly as much as a Zerolemon.

Gotcha.

 

[Almighty1]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

Wonder if you still love moto after bought by Lenovo

I love the Motorola's made in Singapore that are made by Flextronics instead of the China variety. The foreign sold Motorola's were of better quality. Lenovo also bought IBM's PC Division so it really depends as the Droid Turbo 2 brought back the MicroSD slot.

 

[Almighty1]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

Speaking of comparing radios, the G4 seems to be every bit as good as the reception I got with my Moto Droid Bionic. So there's that going for it too.

It's hard to tell until you're in weak signal areas... My G4 since yesterday in areas with good signal 4G LTE for the last 27 hours has been on 1X, it wouldn't even go to 3G. Toggling Airplane mode on/off didn't make a difference. I had to power off the phone and back on before 4G LTE would work again. Not sure what happened but it seems like it wasn't scanning for a better signal.

 

[Almighty1]

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739 apps?! How much space do all of the apps take up?

Some of the apps are small and I'm including the system apps which are already close to 300+ alone as that's what Titanium Backup seems to count since I manually restore each app with Titanium Backup from the cloned MicroSD card, it isn't that many user installed apps. As for space, if it was the apps alone, I would have 20GB of Internal Storage left, I have a 200GB SanDisk MicroSD card. But the thing is Google app, Translate, the offline languages are hogging up quite a bunch of space as it put the phone with 5GB of storage remaining. Once you installed a certain amount of apps, Google Play will not work correctly as downloads will pause and then either fail or it will restart because the phone ran out of memory trying to do the install process and you'll get lucky and it will install after about 2 hours per app if you're lucky. Greenifying the apps will make Google Play Store work correctly again, otherwise one will need to use Safe mode to update apps. What's weird is my Motorola XOOM tablet has the same exact apps and it doesn't have the problem so it's not the RAM issue either as the problem happens with both the Motorola Droid RAZR HD Maxx and the G4.

 

[Mooncatt]

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It's hard to tell until you're in weak signal areas...

Agreed, and I've been lucky enough to test it. One of the buildings I go into often is a manufacturing plant, and having so much metal surrounding me makes signals iffy. With my G4, I can still get about half the bars LTE in the deepest part, which is comparable to my older Bionic. With my HTC M8, I was lucky to get 1X in the same spot. Often times it would just loose signal all together.

Now that I think about it, I still have my Bionic. I may take it with me to compare signal strength on my next trip there.

 

[Almighty1]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

Agreed, and I've been lucky enough to test it. One of the buildings I go into often is a manufacturing plant, and having so much metal surrounding me makes signals iffy. With my G4, I can still get about half the bars LTE in the deepest part, which is comparable to my older Bionic. With my HTC M8, I was lucky to get 1X in the same spot. Often times it would just loose signal all together.

Now that I think about it, I still have my Bionic. I may take it with me to compare signal strength on my next trip there.

That's good to hear that LG actually has good RF performance. I remember about 10 years ago, Motorola and Nokia will pick up signals fine but Sony Ericsson which has the best looking menus could not pick up a signal at all. I guess HTC is in the later camp.

I still wonder if the SIM can cause it picking or not picking up a signal as with the exact same PRL, the older SIM card would pick up 4G LTE but the newer one would cause the phone to be on 3G for some time before it will find the 4G signal.

 

[benchph]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

4 mos into owning the g4, i can say the battery is just sufficient for moderate users. But for heavy users it wont last a day. Better bring an extra battery.

Unit does heat up when i play games. But its bearable. Besides the expandable memory and replaceable battery i bought this phone for its camera. For me the best out there today.

 

[VISHNU VENUGOPAL]

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Frame of G4 is metal or plastic ?

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[KPMcClave]

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Why is this phone so cheap all of the sudden? Seems like a good phone but I've seen new ones for like $280 on Swappa.

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The V10 was released.

 

[KPMcClave]

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Frame of G4 is metal or plastic ?

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Plastic.

 

[KPMcClave]

Re: Lg g4 battery life & performance... Is it still worth my money ?

4 mos into owning the g4, i can say the battery is just sufficient for moderate users. But for heavy users it wont last a day. Better bring an extra battery.

Unit does heat up when i play games. But its bearable. Besides the expandable memory and replaceable battery i bought this phone for its camera. For me the best out there today.

This seems closest to how I'd describe it. It also (as with all phones but seemingly even more so with the G4 in my experience) varies wildly depending on what you're doing. Using the camera or editing pics (even the Gallery uses a ton of juice) and the battery will be pretty bad. That isn't a shocker given that cameras usually chew up battery, plus the quality of the camera and of the screen on the G4, but it's more severe than I've ever experienced.

It isn't only the camera and SoT, though. I've paid particularly close attention to my battery behavior since I got the G4 in mid-June. My sense of its discharge rates are that they can vary noticeably from one day to the next, even if I don't use the camera or view/edit pics, and use seems otherwise very similar. While this is probably tied to using an app or two more than others one day compared to the next, it isn't something I've pinned down.

Over more than 5 months with the G4, I'm still left scratching my head fairly often as to why battery is so different this day compared to that day with similar SoT and overall usage.

The bottom line I've finally landed on, in my most humble opinion, is that the calibration, and probably optimization, of the G4 battery is not ideal. While battery discharge is often pretty good, it is also unreliable. Now, the first thing keeps the second thing from being a deal breaker. Even when I have days when the battery life seems less, it's still OK.

I just never have felt that I got it "right" with tweaks and such on the G4. I've not felt that way with a phone before. Even if it was only the "best I can do," I've gotten to as point I felt I had maximized use for my needs and preferences on any particular phone. The G4 always feels like it's somehow wasting some of its power.

All of that assumes you actually use your phone. If I set iot on a table and didn't light the screen, I think the thing might need a charge in July. Standby time is excellent.

 

[Aflaaaak]

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This seems closest to how I'd describe it. It also (as with all phones but seemingly even more so with the G4 in my experience) varies wildly depending on what you're doing. Using the camera or editing pics (even the Gallery uses a ton of juice) and the battery will be pretty bad. That isn't a shocker given that cameras usually chew up battery, plus the quality of the camera and of the screen on the G4, but it's more severe than I've ever experienced.

It isn't only the camera and SoT, though. I've paid particularly close attention to my battery behavior since I got the G4 in mid-June. My sense of its discharge rates are that they can vary noticeably from one day to the next, even if I don't use the camera or view/edit pics, and use seems otherwise very similar. While this is probably tied to using an app or two more than others one day compared to the next, it isn't something I've pinned down.

Over more than 5 months with the G4, I'm still left scratching my head fairly often as to why battery is so different this day compared to that day with similar SoT and overall usage.

The bottom line I've finally landed on, in my most humble opinion, is that the calibration, and probably optimization, of the G4 battery is not ideal. While battery discharge is often pretty good, it is also unreliable. Now, the first thing keeps the second thing from being a deal breaker. Even when I have days when the battery life seems less, it's still OK.

I just never have felt that I got it "right" with tweaks and such on the G4. I've not felt that way with a phone before. Even if it was only the "best I can do," I've gotten to as point I felt I had maximized use for my needs and preferences on any particular phone. The G4 always feels like it's somehow wasting some of its power.

All of that assumes you actually use your phone. If I set iot on a table and didn't light the screen, I think the thing might need a charge in July. Standby time is excellent.

Have you noticed a difference in battery life since the Nov. 24th update? I'm mostly on standby, but noticed my battery life has at least doubled - I have not charged the phone since the update, and am still at 40%. Use is maybe a tad less, but not that much less.

 

[KPMcClave]

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Have you noticed a difference in battery life since the Nov. 24th update? I'm mostly on standby, but noticed my battery life has at least doubled - I have not charged the phone since the update, and am still at 40%. Use is maybe a tad less, but not that much less.

Nope, not in the slightest here. I went from 12A to 13B.

 

[Aflaaaak]

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Nope, not in the slightest here. I went from 12A to 13B.

Maybe the biggest benefits are in standby.

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[1901Madison]

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Can anyone explain why my Mugen 6200 mah extended battery never gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, even when in use, but the stock battery gets into the high 90s? Also, why is my Mugen battery getting about 3 times the battery life as the stock battery when it is only twice the size?

 

[Mooncatt]

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Can anyone explain why my Mugen 6200 mah extended battery never gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, even when in use, but the stock battery gets into the high 90s? Also, why is my Mugen battery getting about 3 times the battery life as the stock battery when it is only twice the size?

I can't really explain the length of use, but I can understand the temperature. Batteries have various C ratings, which is how much amperage draw/charge is available relative to its capacity. A 1C rating is 1A for every 1Ah capacity. For the stock battery, a 3 amp draw would be 1C because the battery is 3Ah (3000mAh). The higher the C rate used, the hotter it will get. But when you put a larger battery in, the phone is still going to use the same amount of current. So if the phone pulls 3 amps with it, you're now only drawing less than 1/2C from the battery. In effect, the battery just isn't working as hard for the same current demands.

 

[anon(782252)]

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Can anyone explain why my Mugen 6200 mah extended battery never gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit, even when in use, but the stock battery gets into the high 90s? Also, why is my Mugen battery getting about 3 times the battery life as the stock battery when it is only twice the size?

What stats are about 3 times as much? Screen on time? Total up time? And what exactly are you getting with extended battery vs the stock battery?

 

[1901Madison]

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What stats are about 3 times as much? Screen on time? Total up time? And what exactly are you getting with extended battery vs the stock battery?

Here are my stats....pretty good!

 

[Josh Stickney]

Re: Phone is overheating and battery is draining!

Hi guys. Sorry for the bump but I was having the same issue and saw this thread for ideas. I actually looked at my battery usage and saw Exchange was eating up most of it during this hot battery drain. I got rid of using the default mail app and started using TypeMail and have not had an issue since.

Just thought I would share for someone else searching this. Love my G4

 

[RenoD2010]

Sudden G4 GPS battery drain

Has anyone noticed GPS being the primary drain on battery recently?

I have an unrooted AT&T variant. I'm starting to wonder if quick charging is have a negative impact on my battery's ability to hold a charge.

As for GPS, there are no rouge or strange apps accessing location. Just stuff like weather, Chrome, the system, etc. I have been charging at around 40% up to something in the 90's (read this prolongs the overall life of the cell).

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