Why is my battery life so low on the LG G6?

[shulman]

Same problem with all LG Phones. My LG G3 has 90% power at bedtime yet the battery dies during the night without any usage. During the day, I must bring along 3 fully-charged spare batteries otherwise it shuts down. The camera seems to drain the battery although I turn the brightness down to 70%. My LG G5 is not much better for battery usage. On the other hand, my old iPhone 4 from 10 years ago, holds power all day & night.

 

[idon12no]

No problems with that View attachment 277579

Wow!

 

[Morty2264]

No problems with that View attachment 277579

Holy mackerel!

 

[devaa]

Holy mackerel!

Currently not bad either.

 

[Morty2264]

Currently not bad either. View attachment 277754

Wow! Your battery life is tremendous! I really want this phone haha. I've wanted it since March. It'll either be this or the 5T. Only time will tell!

 

[devaa]

I've never had less than 5h of SoT i think the best SoT i had was 8h and 20 min. I think i posted it somewhere here on the forum.

Umm, i like the new mate 10 pro. For me the best phone of 2017.

 

[Morty2264]

I've never had less than 5h of SoT i think the best SoT i had was 8h and 20 min. I think i posted it somewhere here on the forum.

Umm, i like the new mate 10 pro. For me the best phone of 2017.

That's really good SOT!

 

[benjamin19]

Just my opinion, but I don't do much by way of turning certain features on or off on my phone to try and squeeze more battery life out of my phone. I bought a secondary external battery and use it throughout the day to top off my phone. I bought a phone to use it, not to turn certain useful features off. Battery life is so subjective anyway based on which apps people use. If you spend a lot of time on websites or apps with just text and very little images or videos, you'll use far less battery. So, a person could theoretically do everything out there under the sun, and still never seen the numbers that others are seeing.

This endless searching for more and more battery life from our phones has been going on for as long as we've owned them. Each generation of smartphones, we think it's somehow supposed to be better. But yet we want our phones to be more powerful. To be able to do more for us while using less battery. To be able to load things quicker.

My point is that we should only be comparing our own usage against ourselves. No two people will use their phones in the same exact way.

I'm personally not going to cripple my phone and usage to try and squeeze another 30 minutes of usage. For me it's simple. I just plug in an external battery into it and continue to go about my day as usual. My life is now worry free when it comes to how much battery life I have left. Believe me, three years ago, I was at the stage where I stressed about battery life. So I went through all the steps that others said I should do to find this elusive screen on time that others were achieving. I found that I didn't enjoy using my phone at all.

This guy right here speaks my language. What does it matter if your phone died at 2pm, or 4 pm, or 7 pm, either way, you have to charge your phone phone before getting to the night stand. Use the phone to the max. Push the limits. Charge the phone when you need to. That's what wireless charging and quick charging are there for.

I have 2 plans. If it's a day where I'm going to be at my desk for most of the day, I use a thin case and keep the phone on the wireless charger to keep it topped off. If I'm going to be out on the go, I have a ZeroLemon battery case, or a separate batter pack with me to top the battery off.

Because of this mindset,I haven't looked at screen on times or battery settings in months.

 

[ksmithservices]

Still works wonders for me. 6am I unplug and the lowest I've gotten is 12% at 11:30pm that night. And I was using the phone quite a bit. I haven't needed to plug in the phone before bedtime at all since making these posts for you guys. But I also don't use a ton of social apps... It only takes one app to drain your battery in the background.

 

[idon12no]

Still works wonders for me. 6am I unplug and the lowest I've gotten is 12% at 11:30pm that night. And I was using the phone quite a bit. I haven't needed to plug in the phone before bedtime at all since making these posts for you guys. But I also don't use a ton of social apps... It only takes one app to drain your battery in the background.

I tried your system, but it didn't work for me. I think it's because I have too many messaging apps. And it may be completely unrelated, but I have to say I got my email address hijacked about a day after I did this system, so beware. Like I said, may be completely unrelated, but that was my experience.

 

[ksmithservices]

Yeah... I would say unrelated lol... The apps I showed are tried and true. Now I am experimenting with Servicely. The one that doesn't require root.

Again... I went from 4 hours SOT to not even needing to think about charging it.

 

[ksmithservices]

Also... It doesn't matter about the notifications you get. As long as you have every other app in not being ignored by doze it'll make them sleep. Your social apps you've selected are being ignored and make no difference on doze ability to run. Thanks to ForceDoze doing its thing.

 

[bobdob]

I'm personally not going to cripple my phone and usage to try and squeeze another 30 minutes of usage.

I agree with this, but at the same time, I'm seeing a much larger difference than that between the "out of the box" and "optimized as much as I want" performance - and this is without going crazy crippling my phone. The difference between 25% and 50% battery remaining at the end of the typical day does not make much practical difference - I'm still going to charge it when I go to bed - but it does mean that I have a little more leeway for an atypical (higher usage) day.

This is kind of like the raging debate between larger batteries and slimmer phones. For me, if the battery can make it through a typical day with some to spare then I'm good. I'm used to charging every day. A 20% or 50% larger battery than that doesn't really help me - it only makes a difference if I can charge every other day instead. I'd prefer the thinner and lighter phone. But to some people, that extra power makes more sense.

 

[devaa]

 

[ksmithservices]

One other thing I noticed is widgets suck battery a lot. I was playing with KWGT widgets as well as pandora, play music and Spotify and I took them off and seen a big difference in battery. Sucks that they're not optimized yet after all these years...
Long story short... Less widgets... Better battery.

 

[ksmithservices]

Here is another way to extend battery. Disabling this WakeLock... Carrier IQ IQAgent also called CIQ. I went back and forth figuring out how to disable it and found a way. This is a system which send statistics to your carrier to improve their system. Legit has no helpful use for the consumer. Especially if you want max battery. This thing was "partial waking" (meaning waking but not waking screen) my device 500x in a few hours. Ridiculous! Anyways... Get ADB for your computer (look up how to) and run this command without quotes:
"cmd appops set com.carrieriq.iqagent WAKE_LOCK ignore" hit enter. If you get no error or message at all then it worked. The app is still there... It just won't wake up your phone while dozing. On YouTube XDAdevelopers channel has a video called "take control of wake locks on any Android device no root needed" which is where I learned how to. Found the wake lock itself using wake lock detector app from play store.

 

[bobdob]

A minor correction about wakelocks - not because what you said is fundamentally wrong, just because more understanding can always be helpful when you are trying to deal with this kind of thing.

A wakelock is when your phone is prevented from going to sleep when it otherwise would. This is different from an alarm which actually wakes up the phone (not necessarily turning on the screen) if it is sleeping. Blocking wakelocks does not block alarms (which is not to say that blocking wakelocks is not beneficial).

Also, seeing that an app had X minutes of wakelocks does not mean that app necessarily kept your phone awake an extra X minutes. It means it requested that much awake time, but for some of that time your phone may have been awake anyway for some other reason (overlapping wakelocks, alarms, or the screen is on).

The name "partial wakelock" means that the wakelock is directly requested by an app. There are also kernel wakelocks, which are also quite often caused by apps, but indirectly (for example, there are wifi wakelocks that will naturally be triggered by apps using wifi).

Wakelock detector is a good way to see wakelocks, but "better battery stats" can be even more useful (it can show you alarms and other things). You will unfortunately also need to use adb to fully enable all its features.

 

[ksmithservices]

Wow thanks for the details. Appreciated.

After disabling the Carrier IQ wakelock there's definitely a significant difference in battery by the way!

 

[ubizmo]

I haven't had much luck getting adb to work but some of the other suggestions in this thread have been very helpful.

 

[Denispearl]

One more treat bump from me. Have used the phone for 6 months only. When noticed significant decrease in battery life. Did anyone noticed same battery performance issue after such a short period? I've put screenshots below. Those showing the cycle from 100% to 20% I've used the phone normally,with 30min Bluetooth and Spotify on. Och yes, I've noticed that battery life changed after installing and short use of 2 cleaning apps - cleanmaster and something like "Google clean" (don't remember now) what do you think about those stats? Also checked with battery manager and apparently there only84 % of capacity left. What? After 6 months?
Is it normal? Has anyone else experienced same issue? planning to claim battery replacement via lg warranty. Do you think I would succeed?