LG V20 Battery Drain after Android – Nougat Upgrade

[Android Central Question]

I have had my LG V20 for one year with wonderful battery life, but ever since I've upgraded to the latest Nougat, I have been experiencing unbelievable drainage on my battery. I've wipe the cache partition, removed games I use to play got rid of the Launcher I was using and went to the phones default. Yes I get on Facebook, dating apps and message, but I did this before the update. I have purchased a LG V20 battery thinking that was the problem. Nope it hasn't. I know other people experiencing the same problem on their type of phone. Today at 7:30am I unplugged the phone, went to work. I got on FB/POF did some messaging and one phone call. At 1pm my phone reached 15% battery life. Is there any solution to this problem, I don't want to live by a electrical socket till the next release of a new phone with great battery life.

 

[pkcable]

How long did you wait after the update before you decided it was having battery issues? Usually RIGHT after a major update the phone will operate slower and drain quicker for a couple days usually not more than 2. Did you give the OS a chance to settle in?

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[donebrasko]

I updated mine this morning. Battery is draining in 5 hours now. Screen time under 2 hours.

And Google app stopped working. Ok Google no longer works.

I cleared cache and reset phone. Nothing changed. Now another Update had popped up. I'm afraid to accept it.

 

[muckrakerX]

What carrier?

 

[donebrasko]

What carrier?

Verizon

 

[muckrakerX]

When you say you reset the phone, do you mean a factory reset?

 

[huungryshark]

WoW this could be one reason my Taiwan Model is still old FW and july patch with exzellent battery life. better than my SEA Version with new FW and Sec Update.

 

[donebrasko]

When you say you reset the phone, do you mean a factory reset?

No just basic reset

 

[muckrakerX]

No just basic reset

Did you clear the system cache as well as the apps cache?

 

[donebrasko]

I did

 

[muckrakerX]

I did

You could try running in safe mode for a while to see if one of your installed apps is causing the problem.

 

[donebrasko]

You could try running in safe mode for a while to see if one of your installed apps is causing the problem.

Not doing it. Safe mode always ruins things when I revert back.

 

[muckrakerX]

Well, if you don't like safe mode, I guess you could do a factory reset... but I've never had anything change on my phones after switching back from safe mode.

 

[donebrasko]

Well, if you don't like safe mode, I guess you could do a factory reset... but I've never had anything change on my phones after switching back from safe mode.

All of my widgets have to be replaced and some apps just never get back right unless I uninstall and download them again.

 

[muckrakerX]

Could just give it a few days to see if the problem persists. Can you post battery stats?

 

[donebrasko]

Could just give it a few days to see if the problem persists. Can you post battery stats?

I will today. Yesterday I lost almost 40 percent in an hour. I was on FB and chrome. It didn't do this in the past. Another Verizon update popped up. I'm afraid to install it

 

[donebrasko]

I'm thinking it has to be a hidden system file hanging. This started two of Saturdays ago. I was in an area so bad that I had an x for a signal for around 2 hours. After that, my battery has been draining like this. That's the only thing I did different that day.

 

[donebrasko]

 

[flaskier99]

Experiencing the exact same battery drain issue, 9-11 hours prior to the upgrade, now I'm very lucky to get 5 hours. yes, the caches have been cleared and the phone has had time to settle.

 

[recDNA]

Yup