Hi guys,
I need some help with my LG G3. I'm running Android now 2.4 and my battery is draining fast. I have this problem with every ROM. I just use the phone for social media and browsing. Things like Greenify and Wakelock Terminal don't help?
NFC, Bluetooth and GPS are off unless using (wich is very little) Please someone help me![emoji106]
AndroidCity said:
Hi guys,
I need some help with my LG G3. I'm running Android now 2.4 and my battery is draining fast. I have this problem with every ROM. I just use the phone for social media and browsing. Things like Greenify and Wakelock Terminal don't help?
NFC, Bluetooth and GPS are off unless using (wich is very little) Please someone help me![emoji106]
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What is your screen on time? The G3 usually lasts between 3-4 hours of screen on time, and sometimes even less if you play games.
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What is your screen on time? The G3 usually lasts between 3-4 hours of screen on time, and sometimes even less if you play games.
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Maybe with your usage it's 3-4 hours sot but you can't say this phone only averages 3-4 hours sot. Everyones usage is different and it can certainly do WAY better then 3-4 hours depending on the circumstances as you can see in the screenshots.
I average around 11h20m most cycles on my phone, And as you can see by the screenshots I provided it can easily exceed that.
Amb669 said:
Maybe with your usage it's 3-4 hours sot but you can't say this phone only averages 3-4 hours sot. Everyones usage is different and it can certainly do WAY better then 3-4 hours depending on the circumstances as you can see in the screenshots.
I average around 11h20m most cycles on my phone, And as you can see by the screenshots I provided it can easily exceed that.
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I have the same usage as him (Social Media, Youtube and browsing) hence the mentioned 3 hour screen on time. You may not be using Data/wifi when your screen is on, and so you get more than 10 hours.
srivas95 said:
What is your screen on time? The G3 usually lasts between 3-4 hours of screen on time, and sometimes even less if you play games.
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My screen on time is around the 3 hours max. But my screen brightness is very dim (30%)
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I have the same usage as him (Social Media, Youtube and browsing) hence the mentioned 3 hour screen on time. You may not be using Data/wifi when your screen is on, and so you get more than 10 hours.
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Yeah I know right. Some users even get around 20 hours battery life. It's just impossible for me
AndroidCity said:
Yeah I know right. Some users even get around 20 hours battery life. It's just impossible for me
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Try optimizing your phone setting using my battery saving tips. Here are the links to my optimizations.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56430238&postcount=1149
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=56475300&postcount=16
Try them for one battery charge cycle and report back.
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huyish said:
battery on g3 drain fast
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You can either spend time troubleshooting or do a factory reset. Gradually add back your apps and tweaks one at a time noting the impact on your battery.
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huyish said:
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I recently went 36 hours on a single charge with my typical usage. Streaming Youtube, playing music through GP Music, facebook, twitter, instagram. Then add in emails, phone calls and texts.
Yeah 3000 mah battery sucks! In all seriousness you might need to turn auto brightness on or you have apps running in the background.
huyish said:
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Not sure if this was a question or statement.. If your not rooted, root it immediately, then remove whatever bloat you have. I would also greenify everything, and that should give you much better battery life. I went from stock rooted barely getting 3 hours, to almost 6 hours after I rooted.
Try out lux for your screen auto dimming and juice defender or green power to help out.
Battery is comparable with Note 3 if you managed to disable sync when not in use. Mine can usually last one day without changing battery.
huyish said:
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You need to do some research and understand what you can do. I have gone as long as 70hrs on a charge.
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Not sure if troll thread or serious thread..
decaturbob said:
You need to do some research and understand what you can do. I have gone as long as 70hrs on a charge.
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Care to share your settings?
huyish said:
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May you post pictures of battery usage so we can analyze?
qbanlinxx said:
Care to share your settings?
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No syncing for starters..
No scanning of wif
No notification of available wifi
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Yes it sucks compared to other phones.
AWESOME G3
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You need to do some research and understand what you can do. I have gone as long as 70hrs on a charge.
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I don't buy three days almost. Was the phone sitting in a drawer on WiFi? Did you ever use it? I get an average of 15 hours at 50% brightness with mixed usage. YouTube, Netflix, gmail syncing, SMS, calls, a few games mixed in. I average around four hours screen time. I just can't see 70 hours of usage.
English is probably not his first language. I don't think he's trolling.
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chrisjm00 said:
I don't buy three days almost. Was the phone sitting in a drawer on WiFi? Did you ever use it? I get an average of 15 hours at 50% brightness with mixed usage. YouTube, Netflix, gmail syncing, SMS, calls, a few games mixed in. I average around four hours screen time. I just can't see 70 hours of usage.
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I had 3.5 hrs of screen time and like I said that is my record for battery life.....no synching, no wifi notifications...... I typically average over 24 hrs on battery.easily. I'm rooted, running zonerom. People that get 8hrs or less don't have their phone set up right. Plenty of info in XDA how to maximize battery time.
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Itchy. Tasty.
I just had to, sorry.
I wouldn't say battery life sucks but it is definitely not what I expected. It lasts me all day without boosting, but I can't go without charging overnight, unlike my OPO. I charge my OPO every other day. The G3 must be charged every night. Not a big deal, because I am used to charging my phone every night while I sleep. But considering the G3 and OPO are essentially the same phone except for the 1440p display, that shows what the G3 battery life could have been if LG had gone with 1080p.
Battery sucks doesn't really present much of a platform for helping you. I get all day usage from my phone on a single charge over night, that's all I ask from a phone. Screen time will vary from just shy of 4hrs to my best of 6hrs. I have 2 email that sync, web browsing, bt all day with my gear, calling and texting with minimal gps usage and turn on and off gps and Wi-Fi as I need.
Post some screen shots and let us know your usage habits, are you stock or have you rooted, what apps you use frequently and what you are doing to conserve battery life. With that information perhaps we could help out some. I will also second greenify. It does help.
Hello XDA forums! I've used this website for many many purposes and now I'm actually here to open up a topic myself
So I'm with this G3 for about a month by now, but thing is this week, or maybe since 2 weeks ago, I started to have terrible battery lifetime. It lasts around 4-5 hours. Maybe less sometimes. And what I do isn't a big deal I have my screen at around 25% WiFi and Chrome surfing. That's all!
What do I need to show you guys? I have better battery stats and some other apps
http ://imgur .com/DB7oL3V
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Are you are using your phone constantly with the screen on for almost 5 hours or just 1 to 2 hours of surfing the web and the other 2 to 3 hours with the screen off?
jobella said:
Are you are using your phone constantly with the screen on for almost 5 hours or just 1 to 2 hours of surfing the web and the other 2 to 3 hours with the screen off?
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When I use it, it starts to die quickly, but when screen off, it's not that bad. But lately I found myself scared to use the phone. Because something drains too quick. Everything is hibernated on Greenify but still doesn't help me
And for example I lost 5-7% at night screen off
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When I use it, it starts to die quickly, but when screen off, it's not that bad. But lately I found myself scared to use the phone. Because something drains too quick. Everything is hibernated on Greenify but still doesn't help me
And for example I lost 5-7% at night screen off
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5h SOT is normal for G3 running 5.0 rom. 5-7% overnight isn't, it should be 3,5-4% over 7-8 h of standby.
YaDr said:
5h SOT is normal for G3 running 5.0 rom. 5-7% overnight isn't, it should be 3,5-4% over 7-8 h of standby.
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What should I do? Should I downgrade to KitKat?
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What should I do? Should I downgrade to KitKat?
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To get more SOT? Yes. Standby can be fixed by understanding the output of BBS.
YaDr said:
To get more SOT? Yes. Standby can be fixed by understanding the output of BBS.
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It's quite complicated! Could you please write me a little easier information about that app? I have it installed all clearly, should I take all screenshots or else?
Maybe use gsam battery or another app to determine wakelocks and other battery munching apps.
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the ZTE Axon 7 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
One of the better SOT phones I've owned since coming from smaller 4.5 inch screens. I easily get 4 hours on a long day (16 -18 hours off the charger). I watched 2.5 hour movie the other day and did some more stuff. In 8 hours, I had over 5 hours of SOT with 47% battery left.
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One of the better SOT phones I've owned since coming from smaller 4.5 inch screens. I easily get 4 hours on a long day (16 -18 hours off the charger). I watched 2.5 hour movie the other day and did some more stuff. In 8 hours, I had over 5 hours of SOT with 47% battery left.
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How are you measuring SOT? I can't find it in the stock battery stats.
biglilsteve said:
How are you measuring SOT? I can't find it in the stock battery stats.
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you install an app like BetterBatteryStats .
biglilsteve said:
How are you measuring SOT? I can't find it in the stock battery stats.
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GSam battery monitor.
There is a free version and a paid version, not sure which one this is but it'll get you close: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
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you install an app like BetterBatteryStats .
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Does better battery stats require root? Does it read system stats or does it create its own?
tele_jas said:
GSam battery monitor.
There is a free version and a paid version, not sure which one this is but it'll get you close: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
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I don't like gsam because it doesn't read the SOT from the system. It records it's own stats.
GSam battery monitor allows you to see the stock android battery stats and screen on time from there by going to the menu on the bottom right, clicking more and then Battery Use - Built In. If there is an easier way to get to stock android battery stats, I'd love to know.
biglilsteve said:
Does better battery stats require root? Does it read system stats or does it create its own?
I don't like gsam because it doesn't read the SOT from the system. It records it's own stats.
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"BetterBatteryStats is calling the "batteryinfo" service of Android to retrieve data already lying there without generating overhead" and no it doesn't need root
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GSam battery monitor allows you to see the stock android battery stats and screen on time from there by going to the menu on the bottom right, clicking more and then Battery Use - Built In. If there is an easier way to get to stock android battery stats, I'd love to know.
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Good to know, thanks!
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"BetterBatteryStats is calling the "batteryinfo" service of Android to retrieve data already lying there without generating overhead" and no it doesn't need root
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This is exactly what I want. Sweet!
My first not-at-home day, I averaged just under 5hrs SOT in a 14 hour day.
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One of the better SOT phones I've owned since coming from smaller 4.5 inch screens. I easily get 4 hours on a long day (16 -18 hours off the charger). I watched 2.5 hour movie the other day and did some more stuff. In 8 hours, I had over 5 hours of SOT with 47% battery left.
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What settings do you guys have setup? My battery is down to 27% after only 8.5 hours off the charger and not much video watching. How do you have your phone setup concerning gestures and everything? I use the fingerprint unlock and the double tap feature and so far I am not impressed with the battery.
What settings are you using? I'm barely getting10hrs of battery
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What settings do you guys have setup? My battery is down to 27% after only 8.5 hours off the charger and not much video watching. How do you have your phone setup concerning gestures and everything? I use the fingerprint unlock and the double tap feature and so far I am not impressed with the battery.
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What settings are you using? I'm barely getting10hrs of battery
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Nothing special, really? It's basically stock, I just disabled some stock apps: Browser, calendar, stock email, Gmail, Hangouts, and stock messaging. Everything else is left alone.... I even installed the actual Facebook app (aka: battery eater) for the first time in a few years, since my battery can keep up now.
imp3r10 said:
What settings are you using? I'm barely getting10hrs of battery
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You either have very bad wakelocks or you've got a LOT of screen on time.
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You either have very bad wakelocks or you've got a LOT of screen on time.
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No screen on time. I am in an area where I get no service and was using WiFi, so today I turned on Airplane mode and then WiFi and it seems to work a lot better. though I still need to investigate is battery drain is bad when using the phone in normal service area.
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No screen on time. I am in an area where I get no service and was using WiFi, so today I turned on Airplane mode and then WiFi and it seems to work a lot better. though I still need to investigate is battery drain is bad when using the phone in normal service area.
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Sounds like wakelocks to me
This is the best phone I've owned in terms of battery life. With nova launcher and using nova's battery widget I can see my SOT. I average 5:30 which is alot for me. I have gotten as much as 6:40! This is all usually over 12-28 hrs. The phone is just phenomenal, just wish the camera was better.
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This is the best phone I've owned in terms of battery life. With nova launcher and using nova's battery widget I can see my SOT. I average 5:30 which is alot for me. I have gotten as much as 6:40! This is all usually over 12-28 hrs. The phone is just phenomenal, just wish the camera was better.
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I would believe it. I got about 5 hours in my last run. What I think ate up about 20% was listening to music through the speakers.. The phone drained faster than normal Witt the speakers on at max volume.. Which makes sense and is 5000% tolerable because how amazing they sound.
Furthermore, if I could get some stronger cell phone signal, that would help with screen on time too. I never have no signal, but I never see over two bars of signal either.
Sorry about double post.. Forgot to include second one..
Ok, I thought this was a battery beast but I think I was wrong. I don't expect any phone's battery indicator to be totally accurate but I've noticed that if I top the A7 up a little the battery doesn't drain *at all* for a long time. I've been letting it go down to 30% then topping it up to 40% where it stays without moving even while I'm streaming music and surfing for half an hour. Fishy.
I thought that as I was on about 3:30 sot at 40% I'd let it go down further to see if it would reach 5 hours. Three charging cycles in a row the phone has hit 19% and then reported that it's empty and shut down.
EU model build B03.
Hi Guys,
I have checked the real-life reviews about the SOT and I see lots of people posting a SOT of 8+ hours.
Personally I get about 6 hours consistently every time but never was able to get these miracle numbers. Are you people just lowering your brightness to the lowest point and having battery saver on all time to be able to show off? or is there some magic going on?
Anyways, if anyone has tips regarding maximizing the SOT without giving up to many features I'd be happy to know (e.g. WiFi scanning off or on, disabling location tracking etc.). I don't want to root my beautiful device .. yet .
Thanks! Never Settle!
5 to 6 hours is average with moderate usage. 4 to 5 hours is with heavy usage like GPS and YouTube. 7+ hours would be with minimal usage plus few tweaking like dark theme and wallpaper turn off location and data. It all comes down to how you use the phone. I have rooted my phone with magisk and using greenify and Google play services doze module it gives me excellent battery life. 2 days of usage with single charge get about 5+ hours of sot. Which is very surprising
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5 to 6 hours is average with moderate usage. 4 to 5 hours is with heavy usage like GPS and YouTube. 7+ hours would be with minimal usage plus few tweaking like dark theme and wallpaper turn off location and data. It all comes down to how you use the phone. I have rooted my phone with magisk and using greenify and Google play services doze module it gives me excellent battery life. 2 days of usage with single charge get about 5+ hours of sot. Which is very surprising
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Yeah I'm not saying it's bad! For me it's more than enough. Love it. Just wondering how haha.
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Yeah I'm not saying it's bad! For me it's more than enough. Love it. Just wondering how haha.
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I'm guessing they don't use battery draining apps like Snapchat and Facebook. I also turned off raise to wake and ambiant display and got way more sot. I went from 4 to over 5.
I used to get 8-9 hours on my OP5 and I'm averaging 7-7.5 on this 5T. Maybe its a ROM thing or maybe the taller screen is playing a role, either way I don't mind since 7 or so hours is still really good for my needs
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Hi Guys,
I have checked the real-life reviews about the SOT and I see lots of people posting a SOT of 8+ hours.
Personally I get about 6 hours consistently every time but never was able to get these miracle numbers. Are you people just lowering your brightness to the lowest point and having battery saver on all time to be able to show off? or is there some magic going on?
Anyways, if anyone has tips regarding maximizing the SOT without giving up to many features I'd be happy to know (e.g. WiFi scanning off or on, disabling location tracking etc.). I don't want to root my beautiful device .. yet .
Thanks! Never Settle!
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5 to 6 hours is average with moderate usage. 4 to 5 hours is with heavy usage like GPS and YouTube. 7+ hours would be with minimal usage plus few tweaking like dark theme and wallpaper turn off location and data. It all comes down to how you use the phone. I have rooted my phone with magisk and using greenify and Google play services doze module it gives me excellent battery life. 2 days of usage with single charge get about 5+ hours of sot. Which is very surprising
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Just like @big_b0sss said, it all depends on how you use your phone. When I wanted to check sot , I used it very frequently by browsing, games , YouTube etc and I got around 8 hrs sot with about 15% battery still left. But that's not how I really use my phone, with my normal use , I charge my phone when it's at about 30% and when I do it's every 2 days and sot at about 4-5 hrs which is absolutely fine for me.
I get 7-8 hrs with easy use(messaging, social media, browsing) on 80 percent wifi and 20 mobile data.
Stock kernel or custom?
Using widgets and a lot of other things with sensors will cause battery drain too, I only get about 4hrs but it does last all day
I get approx 7 hrs of sot with moderate usage. No root, deep clear in recents, force stop messenger and whatsapp, location off wifi scanning off, automatic brightness.... I play shadowgun online 1 hr, youtube and uc browser.....
I got 9 hours SOT. No limits ROM and franco kernel ?
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the OnePlus 8 before depleting the battery.
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Pretty impressed with battery life. And that was with heavy usage : installation of a lot of apps/mods, downloads through games, videos (especially 1h under direct sunlight).
I know it's not representative of a normal day because of the quarantine but I found it really good.
Can anyone else post screenshots? In the YouTube reviews they indicate very different battery consumption among them. 5:30 some, others 8:30
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Battery life and charging cycle question
Hey Buddy,
May I ask how do you charge your OnePlus 8 phone? All the way to 100% or less? Do you keep it charging on even if its at 100?
Slightly over 4 hours of SOT with 50% battery left.
Impressive and slightly better than what I was getting on my 8 Pro.
Not bad. I'm also using xXx Magisk and ElementalX Kernel.
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Not bad. I'm also using xXx Magisk and ElementalX Kernel.
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My stats are not bad and for my usage the phone lasts all day. But how can you reach those values?
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My stats are not bad and for my usage the phone lasts all day. But how can you reach those values?
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It depends on which apps you have installed and how you use them. Therefore, results will vary from person to person. To give you some guidelines, this is what I do:
I use GPS and location services sparingly instead of leaving them on
Google app and Google Assistant are disabled, along with some Google analytics
I use a Chromium-based web browser, such as Kiwi instead of Chrome itself
I debloat unused apps that would otherwise just sit there, wasting space
I typically charge the phone to full while it's off and uninterrupted
Touchboost is disabled
Hope that helps.
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It depends on which apps you have installed and how you use them. Therefore, results will vary from person to person. To give you some guidelines, this is what I do:
I use GPS and location services sparingly instead of leaving them on
Google app and Google Assistant are disabled, along with some Google analytics
I use a Chromium-based web browser, such as Kiwi instead of Chrome itself
I debloat unused apps that would otherwise just sit there, wasting space
I typically charge the phone to full while it's off and uninterrupted
Touchboost is disabled
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Thanks a lot. I took some of your tips without impacting what I expect from the phone and it made quite a difference. I had too many apps that I was simply not using. And some applications that were polling my location too much for no reason. I'm also using dark mode as I'm actually enjoying it. I almost didn't change anything but it really shows that if you do some minor tweaks and remove aps you're not using you end up with enough battery to last a full day comfortably.
Really surprised. Attaching my new SOT.
This was a more demanding usage of the phone than my previous post but surprisingly I got 30% more battery then before.
And this while playing COD for almost half an hour.:victory:
Can you guys post more stats?
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Can you guys post more stats?
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SoT is just pefect. And don't worry it's the same everywhere, look :
I think something wrong is going on,poor SOT,never had I pass 5.5 hours of SOT.
Not the longest SOT but I can easily stay multiple days on one charge when using my phone 2-3 hours a day. The flat parts in the plot are the nights when my phone was on airplane mode.
I also had some pretty good experiences while using my phone as a hotspot. This used to drain the batteries of my previous phones quickly but with the OP8 I can easily share connection 2-3 hours and still have the battery last me at least for the day. (Not included in the screenshot)
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I get abt 10 hrs
My last post was quite poor in infos so I'll detail more this time. Using it one day, you can have up to 10h SoT, using it throughout the days will give you around 8 hours SoT.
I've done two things: used my phone for two days of normal use (at home, playing videogames for about 2h a day because I had no friends to hang out with :crying and got three days of lite use (1h gaming per day or less because I had friends this time :victory, 7h SoT
To sum up: using it over the days will reduce SoT, but overall the battery is really good
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I dont know if it is normal, or not. But forexample, i chatge phone OP8 full, and i use it, lets say until 50% of battery, then i connect phone to PC to transfer some files. and if i check after battery it said that it is full charged 5 min before, and it stay 50%