I've gotten this notification a few times. I got it for Waze (navigation), MapMyRide, and maybe something else. But while I appreciated the info, I told it to do nothing, since I was running them on purpose. But if it flags a rogue app that was unexpectedly drawing a low of power, the notification would be very helpful.
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I've gotten this notification a few times. I got it for Waze (navigation), MapMyRide, and maybe something else. But while I appreciated the info, I told it to do nothing, since I was running them on purpose. But if it flags a rogue app that was unexpectedly drawing a low of power, the notification would be very helpful.
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Took a trip this weekend. Used the camera a ton. That didn't seem to kill the battery as much as I thought. I'll say this I feel like of all phones used the screen on time kills my battery the most on this one. My brother's s6 does 1 percent per half hour SOT. This phone does ten percent per half hour for me at 60 brightness
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I'm not defending the G4's battery life, based on my experience with mine. And I'm not trying to accuse anyone of "faking data", or anything like that
But it simply isn't believable that the S6, or any current phone with a "normal" battery, drains 1% per half-hour of SOT. That implies the phone can do 50 hours of SOT, which is just not realistic.
Please, I don't mean this as a personal attack, or anything nefarious like that. If you extrapolated based on how long the G4 takes to go from showing 100% to 99% (which takes longer than the rest of the 1%-drops), you'd assume the G4 would get much longer battery life than it actually does. Perhaps it's something like that with the example for the S6?
Even 10% per half hour of SOT suggests 5 hours SOT. I was on-track for only 2.5 hours on the last day with my G4 (I was at 1:55 of SOT, down to 21% battery), so I guess I would have been thrilled to drain 10% per half-hour of SOT
Out of the box, I've gotten just over 4hrs of SOT (almost 100% on LTE radio) after disabling most of the VzW bloatware. I see some more great ideas to get even more life out of full charge, thanks to the posts on this thread. I still may root this in the future (to incorporate Greenify and Titanium, among other capabilities), as I have with all my Android phones in the past. Thanks!
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At some point over the past few days, I have started experiencing absolute battery torch. The phone discharges even while plugged in, gets exceedingly hot, and lasts roughly two hours off of the charger before dying completely. I posted in the T-Mobile My Account app thread but since this is also a general battery life thread, I thought I'd document it in here as well. Some battery screenshots:
Any tips for how to solve? I've updated the app, disabled notifications on the app, and tried a variety of other more general battery fixes to no avail.
At some point over the past few days, I have started experiencing absolute battery torch. The phone discharges even while plugged in, gets exceedingly hot, and lasts roughly two hours off of the charger before dying completely. I posted in the T-Mobile My Account app thread but since this is also a general battery life thread, I thought I'd document it in here as well. Some battery screenshots:
Any tips for how to solve? I've updated the app, disabled notifications on the app, and tried a variety of other more general battery fixes to no avail.
Do you need the app? Have you tried using the Debloater Tool to disable that app?
http://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=545184
Here's how my day went. Seems like I'm doing about average for battery performance. Today was 100% on LTE, and so far I'm pretty satisfied with my G4's performance. With a good amount of usage, it lasts all workday without going back on the charger, but does need to around dinner time if this trend continues.
Compared to my GS4 it replaced, this is a huge improvement. With this software update, I can only hope everything improves. http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/547472-g4-verizon-software-update-06-30-15-a-2.html
Compared to my GS4 it replaced, this is a huge improvement. With this software update, I can only hope everything improves. http://forums.androidcentral.com/lg-g4/547472-g4-verizon-software-update-06-30-15-a-2.html
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I'm not defending the G4's battery life, based on my experience with mine. And I'm not trying to accuse anyone of "faking data", or anything like that
But it simply isn't believable that the S6, or any current phone with a "normal" battery, drains 1% per half-hour of SOT. That implies the phone can do 50 hours of SOT, which is just not realistic.
Please, I don't mean this as a personal attack, or anything nefarious like that. If you extrapolated based on how long the G4 takes to go from showing 100% to 99% (which takes longer than the rest of the 1%-drops), you'd assume the G4 would get much longer battery life than it actually does. Perhaps it's something like that with the example for the S6?
Even 10% per half hour of SOT suggests 5 hours SOT. I was on-track for only 2.5 hours on the last day with my G4 (I was at 1:55 of SOT, down to 21% battery), so I guess I would have been thrilled to drain 10% per half-hour of SOT
No offense taken at all, you're very eloquent in your reply
Attached is the screen shot I went off for my brother's uses. I rounded up. It was secretly 24 minutes screen time equating to 1 percent battery.
That said I don't have a screen shot for my G4 use. Essentially it went from 76 to 66 percent while I did the following with screen on at 60 brightness for a half hour:
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I wanted to chime in on the thread here. I followed tips from the thread except denying keep awake permissions of apps. But the changes don't appear to improve things for me. I have gmail app and yahoo mail app. Both are push. Google syncs are app data, calendar, chrome, contacts, and gmail. I don't know how often auto sync occurs. But if it is more than 4 times in 24 hours it is probably too much. Facebook contact sync and yahoo mail sync. I have disabled the following items in Settings > General > Apps:favorite contacts widget, file manager, google play books, google play movies & TV, google play music, google play newsstand, google+, hangouts, instagram, LG health agent (LG health app can't be for some reason), messenger, and pages manager. Everything but the LG health agent had marginal impact. I went from 10 hours on a full charge out of box to 12 hours on a full charge to now average of 17 hours on a full charge. LG health accounts for a gain of 4 hours itself even though I never even opened the app and simply disabled it after all the other stuff was marginal. My daily use is 3 hours screen on time, 1 hour or less talk time, auto brightness, wifi on. This usage has been pretty much the same for previous android phones I have had and with those my deep sleep was 80% but for some reason it is only 50-60% with this G4. Something is keeping awake or waking it too much but I haven't figured out what it is. Tomorrow I am going to follow the steps for wakelock detector to see if it sheds any light on what it is. In android's battery use thing it shows google play services as using more than 20% by the time the battery is down to 20%. Gsam only lists it as 2-3%.
I can't for the life of me get this thing to last nearly long enough. I've factory reset and wiped the cache twice now and still am having issues. Wish I had half as good of battery life as some of you guys. 
It's a shame because I really like the phone and the camera.
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txsizzler, wow, that is mighty impressive!
bbhybridchris, one thing that stands out is that txsizzler's 2nd-highest-consumption item is phone idle, then Android OS, and Android System, with Play Services way down the list. But on yours, Play Services is #2, not actually far behind your screen.
I know there were mentions made of ways to reduce the draw of Play Services, I think it was. Have you tried those to see if they help?
bbhybridchris, one thing that stands out is that txsizzler's 2nd-highest-consumption item is phone idle, then Android OS, and Android System, with Play Services way down the list. But on yours, Play Services is #2, not actually far behind your screen.
I know there were mentions made of ways to reduce the draw of Play Services, I think it was. Have you tried those to see if they help?
Yes I've done those and for some reason play services is high on my list always no matter what I've done. It was even that was on my prior Nexus 6 perhaps android wear is having some affect on that I don't know
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If you click on Google play services and Android OS, how much time is listed next to Keep Awake?
I have a Microsoft band and when I use Bluetooth, the keep awake time seems to skyrocket. So even though Bluetooth in itself may be low power, the effect it has on the system is an issue.
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That's the tricky part.
I've been quiet on this topic for a while now, as I tried to wrestle my battery in to submission. I think it's starting to finally look like it's smoothing out, but man did it take a long time and muchh trial and error.
I had the very obvious high keep awake times for Android OS. I couldn't figure out exactly what was causing it, as I went through the normal things I do to tweak my phone (many mentioned here), then debloated with the Debloater app, which I haven't done before (haven't been able I don't believe) and set some extra Google stuff to manually sync that I normally don't have to bother with. I ubninstalklked some things (Nova, my clock widget, sevral apps). Any improvements were modest if at all.
I finally got to Fenix. It had been humming along, doing what I expected and want it to do, smoothly. Given what it does and how, I thought maybe it was the issue. I uninstalled ...and today my Android OS has been kept awake for only 45 minutes on up time of 14 and a half hours right now. I had been hitting two hours of awake time after only 6 hours when I first started chasing this down.
Now, I don't necessarily think it's Fenix only (though it may be). I think it glitched on me somehow when I used LG backup to restore it when I got my G4. I know there were other apps that, for example, weren't pushing notiifications, that started if I uninstalled and reinstalled. Sometimes updates of the OS have a funky effect on installed third aprty apps, and sometimes a restore like LG Backup can also cause an issue.
I just wish it was easier to figure out what the problem really is when an issue presents itself. There was nothing in Fenix's own behavior, or its own battery stats, that raised a red flag. It would be higher in the battery use heirarchy if I had it open for a while, but nothing that seemed outlandish.
Anyway, hopefully I can now get on to normal life with the G4. Maybe this info will steer someone else in the direction of their own fix.
Tried the suggestions on here except for the turning off gmail sync and the bloat remover. I disabled Google now for a while and was still getting around 3 hours on screen, so I re-enabled it. I don't understand how some people are getting 5-6 hours while I get 2-3. Just cleared all the cache for my apps and am hoping it will improve. Also, my on screen time is spent on low brightness, so it isn't like I'm at 100%. Closer to 0% and automatic and indoors.
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