Optimizing G4 battery thread

[KPMcClave]

2 things stick out to me:

- Held Awake is 2 hours. That seems like a lot. I know it says it's only 1% of battery but it means the phone isn't sleeping correctly. Which ties into my 2nd thing.

- Your phone has discharged 19% in the 5 hours that the screen is off. That's almost 4%/hour. That seems high but since I don't use Gsam I haven't looked at that number on my own phone.


Obviously perspective is everything but you are basically at 9 hours up and 4 hours SOT with 25% left. Extrapolate out and that would be s about 12 hours up time with 5 hours SOT. I personally wouldn't call that horrible.

I'll download gsam and see what it says about keep awake for comparison.

Thanks. I appreciate it.

 

[GTS21]

You're getting far more SOT than I am. I honestly have no idea at this point if I have a bum phone, or if it's normal.

 

[KPMcClave]

I just booted up my Droid Turbo. I got a couple of Breaking News push notifications from a local TV station's app...that I did not receive on the G4. I did receive the other push messages from USA Today, theScore, etc. on both phones.

First thing we do, is we kill that news app.

App is by Nexstar Broadcasting if anyone else has one of their stations and its app in your area. Take a look and make sure it's functioning properly.

It would be ironic if its staying awake and still not pushing noitifcations.

Acess Lock says Keep Awake was last used by it 17 hours ago.

 

[anon(782252)]

I just booted up my Droid Turbo. I got a couple of Breaking News push notifications from a local TV station's app...that I did not receive on the G4. I did receive the other push messages from USA Today, theScore, etc. on both phones.

First thing we do, is we kill that news app.

App is by Nexstar Broadcasting if anyone else has one of their stations and its app in your area. Take a look and make sure it's functioning properly.

It would be ironic if its staying awake and still not pushing noitifcations.

Acess Lock says Keep Awake was last used by it 17 hours ago.

I don't think keep awake and notifications are tied together, at least not on the ones I have tested. Each app could operate differently I suppose.

 

[KPMcClave]

You're getting far more SOT than I am. I honestly have no idea at this point if I have a bum phone, or if it's normal.

But how is your overall battery life. The ratio of my SoT to my overall battery life doesn't seem to make sense.

 

[KPMcClave]

I don't think keep awake and notifications are tied together, at least not on the ones I have tested. Each app could operate differently I suppose.

Oh, I was just pointing it out more to show that the app isn't working properly on the G4. At least in those two instances. So, maybe it is misbehaving in other ways.

 

[GTS21]

But how is your overall battery life. The ratio of my SoT to my overall battery life doesn't seem to make sense.

I believe I'm getting better overall battery life. Again, not sure how or why.

 

[anon(782252)]

Thanks. I appreciate it.

Ok, so it's only been 2 hours but here is where I'm at.

Over those 2 hours I averaged about 10 minutes/hour for held awake but more importantly the phone only used 2% of the battery when the screen was off which would be 1%/hour.

I will keep it installed at least thru another charge cycle and post more info.

After obsessing over battery stats for a while I've definitely settled into loving the performance I'm getting and I've stopped monitoring so much.

Having said that, I'm happy to help in any way even if it means monitoring things for a day or two.

 

[txsizzler]

Well, right now I am at over 31 hours usage, and at nearly 4 hours 40 minutes of SOT (still using without charging posting this), with 10% battery remaining. Very satisfied!

 

[GTS21]

Well, right now I am at over 31 hours usage, and at nearly 4 hours 40 minutes of SOT (still using without charging posting this), with 10% battery remaining. Very satisfied!

That's simply amazing to me. We're worlds apart in battery performance with the same phone. May I ask, when your screen is on, what your activity is on your phone? When my screen is on, I'm pretty much always playing words with friends, or browsing. The only way I could get your SOT numbers would be to set the phone display to always on and put the phone down.

 

[KPMcClave]

Ok, so it's only been 2 hours but here is where I'm at.

Over those 2 hours I averaged about 10 minutes/hour for held awake but more importantly the phone only used 2% of the battery when the screen was off which would be 1%/hour.

I will keep it installed at least thru another charge cycle and post more info.

After obsessing over battery stats for a while I've definitely settled into loving the performance I'm getting and I've stopped monitoring so much.

Having said that, I'm happy to help in any way even if it means monitoring things for a day or two.

That seems more a normal balance. I went back through Access Lock and some of the apps (though not all) I had restricted Keep Awake on a couple of days ago now had that checked again. I'm not sure what's up there. I unchecked everything I want restricted again and we'll see how it goes. The absence of the news app I uninstalled didn't seem to make a difference, so I reinstalled that. Hopefully that fixes the push notifications for that.

 

[KPMcClave]

Well, right now I am at over 31 hours usage, and at nearly 4 hours 40 minutes of SOT (still using without charging posting this), with 10% battery remaining. Very satisfied!

Yes, that is also a more realistic spread between SoT and overall battery (if not even better for overall).

 

[KPMcClave]

With what I usually do with a phone for battery optimization, plus the added Debloater app and extra couple of tweaks I normally don't, this phone should at least be giving me good life, especially if it can provide almost 5 hours of SoT.

 

[txsizzler]

That's simply amazing to me. We're worlds apart in battery performance with the same phone. May I ask, when your screen is on, what your activity is on your phone? When my screen is on, I'm pretty much always playing words with friends, or browsing. The only way I could get your SOT numbers would be to set the phone display to always on and put the phone down.

During that time, I am surfing the web, Facebook, watching some videos (usually over WiFi for videos), texting, picture taking and editing, using this app plus the eBay app.

I keep my brightness in Auto, plus I have disabled the Google services I do not use, set my email to sync only hourly.

With lots of use, I can hit 7 hours SOT with over 16 hours usage (have done this many times). Love the battery life!

 

[KPMcClave]

Related to my earlier posts, I just noticed something. If I go in to Settings > Battery, Screen, Android System and Android OS are my top battery consumers in this charge cycle (almost 6 hours since charge). Both Androids are 12% of my drain each.

When I click on Android OS, Keep Awake is 1 hr 11 m 59 s. I have no idea if that is in line with what should be expected or not, but it jumps out as much higher than anything else I checked for Keep Awake.

Can you guys check that on your G4s and let me know if you have a similar Keep Awake rate in Android OS?

If this is out of whack, does it give anyone more of a clue as to what could be causing it/my overall battery drain issue?

 

[anon(782252)]

Related to my earlier posts, I just noticed something. If I go in to Settings > Battery, Screen, Android System and Android OS are my top battery consumers in this charge cycle (almost 6 hours since charge). Both Androids are 12% of my drain each.

When I click on Android OS, Keep Awake is 1 hr 11 m 59 s. I have no idea if that is in line with what should be expected or not, but it jumps out as much higher than anything else I checked for Keep Awake.

Can you guys check that on your G4s and let me know if you have a similar Keep Awake rate in Android OS?

If this is out of whack, does it give anyone more of a clue as to what could be causing it/my overall battery drain issue?

I would say that's definitely very high for keep awake.

I'm only 3 hours up time since charging, 50 min SOT, and Android OS is only at 22 min awake. Double that at 6 hours and 45 min awake, which would be over an hour less than yours.

I'll have to do some research on what could be causing it but we may have found your issue.

 

[rsbenedict]

On Android OS I have1h 7m 29s Keep Awake on 7h 41m on usage on battery.

 

[Nunya Biz1]

I couldn't figure this out. Duh.

The G4 still has LG's Access Lock menu from the G3. You can access it by following these steps. Enable the hidden permission manager 'Access Lock' on LG G3

There's another way to do it i found in XDA that i used on my G3 that doesn't require changing launchers but i don't have it right off hand.

It's no xprivacy, but it helped me get control of some apps that were using gps when they shouldn't be and deny some permissions that i didn't think apps should have.

 

[camelot023]

What screen brightness is everyone using? Is everyone using auto or do you have it set at a specific point? I've used a lot of the tips and tricks in this thread to adjust battery usage. Yesterday I got just over 3.5 hours SOT, with a total of 13 hours up. I have my screen set at 50%

 

[KPMcClave]

What screen brightness is everyone using? Is everyone using auto or do you have it set at a specific point? I've used a lot of the tips and tricks in this thread to adjust battery usage. Yesterday I got just over 3.5 hours SOT, with a total of 13 hours up. I have my screen set at 50%

I had mine set to 50% for several days when I first got it (Monday before last). I decided on that setting when Auto was too dim.

Since then I've switched to the Lux app and it does a far better job of managing auto brightness than the LG itself does. I think I am averaging less, maybe significantly less, than 50% brightness setting overall with it.

Of course, as with all 3rd party apps, one has to wonder how much the app uses in battery to try and save battery someplace else. I figure in this case , since the screen eats the most juice, it's likely a positive. The app works great.