So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?
Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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ahent said:
Depends on what version of android you are using. 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 were great with battery life, 8.0 sucks and I have heard people in the beta 8.1 are saying the battery life is spectacular.
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I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.
That's interesting, there might be an app that isn't playing well with 8.1.
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snoprosledneck88 said:
So I got a brand new pixel XL a few weeks ago. I was reluctant about the whole thing because even though it's a new phone. It has been sitting in a box for over a year without being charged or anything. So long story short, I got the phone and the battery life is awful. I took it off the charger this morning and within 5 min of being off the charger it's at 96%. I typed this and that's it. My work issued phone is a standard iPhone 7. Absolutely destroys this pixel XL in battery life. What is your experience with this phone? Do you think it would be worth ordering a battery and putting a new one in?
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I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?
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I'm on the 8.1 beta. This thing doesn't hold a candle to my Nexus 6p that I had.
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Something is wrong then as you have said, 8.1 is awesome on battery.
I would bite the bullet and factory reset it, and hold off putting any apps on it, or making any settings adjustments for a couple of days.
If that works, go slow adding apps. If it doesn't yeah get the battery replaced.
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I didn't even consider the fact that a phone sitting in a box not charging for a year could effect the condition of the battery...is this really a valid concern? Would that really degrade the quality of the battery?
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Battery's don't like to sit. That's why a lot of people that have cars that sit or recreational vehicle put battery tenders on them. Maybe this doesn't apply to the batteries in our phones
I don't know if all battery types work the same. Car/boat/etc. have lead-acid batteries, the old rechargeable and battery phones were nickel-metal-hydride, and modern phone batteries are Lithium Ion. They all have different characteristics when being used and stored.
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I did a factory reset. We will see if that helps.
Doesn't seem to be making a difference. At 92% with 22 min sot
One more test. Airplane mode.
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One more test. Airplane mode.
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What is that going to show?
snoprosledneck88 said:
What is that going to show?
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We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.
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We know your apps are good...you just reset it. This will eliminate wifi or mobile freaking out. It's a long shot, I just like to eliminate possibilities.
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I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful
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I guess my only concern is a phone is going to get good battery life while on airplane mode. Maybe not. But with that enabled I won't be able to use the phone for anything so it will just be in doze which would result in good battery life. I understand what you mean but I don't know if it will really show me results that are useful
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Valid point. But I think a bad battery will continue to drain, maybe not as fast....but too fast for while on doze.
I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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I've always read that the battery percentage isn't too accurate above 90%. Also, don't the phones stop charging once full and trickle as it depletes? There's apps that had been made to do this as well since it's supposed to be better for letting lithium batteries. I'd give it a day or 5 before thinking your battery is bad.
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I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to
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I have had the phone for a few weeks and have just been kinda dealing with it. Maybe it's fine and I was just expecting more from it. So far it just has not been all that impressive.
Edit: your comment about the first 10% not being that accurate. There may be something to that because it does seem as though the first 10% goes fairly fast then it slows down after that. Maybe it's just something g that I need to get use to
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How much SOT are you getting in a day?
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How much SOT are you getting in a day?
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I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now
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I'm at 2hr 46min @60% right now
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Then i think your battery is good. Going by those numbers you will get around 6 hours of SOT.
I usually get around 3.25 hours of SOT with 50% remaining on 8.0 Oreo.
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I am using the set up in my signature and I am getting horrible battery life. I might change roms (as you all know) because of this...it sucks. What can be the cause of this? I have had my evo for 10 months now so I am wondering if it could be my stock battery. It could be the kernel? Who knows...
Here is some information:
No wake lock problem
Wifi at home
3G outside
Calibrated it once since I flashed this rom
Battery decreases 3-4% overnight when sleeping
Moderate to Heavy user: texting all day, 2 hours of internet, XDA, constant emails, news, engadget, and youtube
I can see the battery life decreasing at a rate of maybe 7-10% per hour when I use it
Starting to decrease much more than it used to
***Picture: Subtract 7 hours from the 18 because it was sleeping overnight***
Any suggestions would be appreciated. You guys have provided plenty of insight for me and I thank you all for that.
Your battery life actually isn't that bad depending on how much you use your phone. Buy another battery on ebay and see if that helps. If you're looking to compare usage, I'd buy a stock battery instead of a cheap Chinese one, that way your tests will be accurate.
If your battery life just sucks and you want more juice, buy a few cheap batteries and an external charger and switch batteries when you get low. That's what I do, and it's great not having to turn radios off or do other tricks just to last through the day.
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You can try changing roms...I get 1day 5hrs roughly on CM7, stock battery. For how're you're using the phone, that seems about decent, in my opinion. As plainjane suggested, you can get some other batteries and swap them out.
Youre lucky! MY battery lasts like 6 hours with moderate use
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You can try changing roms...I get 1day 5hrs roughly on CM7, stock battery. For how're you're using the phone, that seems about decent, in my opinion. As plainjane suggested, you can get some other batteries and swap them out.
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I'm actually thinking of CM 6
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I'm actually thinking of CM 6
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With that battery life? Perhaps, but never in my days of rooting have I run CM6. I'm pure CM7. Not biased by any means; I've tried some things, but CM7 is my preference, and if you want a screen shot I can provide.
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With that battery life? Perhaps, but never in my days of rooting have I run CM6. I'm pure CM7. Not biased by any means; I've tried some things, but CM7 is my preference, and if you want a screen shot I can provide.
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Sure a screen shot would be good. Don't get me wrong, I like CM7 but I read CM6 with the snap kernel provides amazing battery life. To each his own I suppose.
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Sure a screen shot would be good. Don't get me wrong, I like CM7 but I read CM6 with the snap kernel provides amazing battery life. To each his own I suppose.
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Sure thing. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13722006&postcount=826
I don't have the newer one, as my phone is in the middle of doing some things, but that kind of battery life is attainable on CM7.
I'm having problems too... I'm running on Myn warm 2.2 rls 5 and it's not charging anymore! Battery life also sucks ass too! It's getting worse by the days. I plugged my phone in to charge last night, and woke up to 26 % WTH!? I don't know if it's my battery or the rom. Help?
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I'm having problems too... I'm running on Myn warm 2.2 rls 5 and it's not charging anymore! Battery life also sucks ass too! It's getting worse by the days. I plugged my phone in to charge last night, and woke up to 26 % WTH!? I don't know if it's my battery or the rom. Help?
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It could be your charging port. Those things break way too easily. When it's charging, check it every few minutes to make sure the charging light is staying on. One of my Evos had a bad port and when it first started happening, I would catch the light turning off then back on.
It could also be your battery. If you have another one you can test, see if it's any better. Or you can take the battery to Sprint and have them test it. Replacement batteries are pretty cheap if you get them on ebay.
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Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I sure do hope it's the battery. I mean I do use it quite often to watch movies and what not so I'm not surprised if it's bad but I know it can be the port too because lately it's been acting crazy on me. Sometimes the light will be on, but it really doesn't end up charging. I don't know what it is. So if I take it into the sprint store to check the battery life and they won't say anything about my phone being rooted? Lol.
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Hey, thanks for the suggestion. I sure do hope it's the battery. I mean I do use it quite often to watch movies and what not so I'm not surprised if it's bad but I know it can be the port too because lately it's been acting crazy on me. Sometimes the light will be on, but it really doesn't end up charging. I don't know what it is. So if I take it into the sprint store to check the battery life and they won't say anything about my phone being rooted? Lol.
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Even though it'd hardware, I'd unroot it, just in case they make a note of it for future services.
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Even though it'd hardware, I'd unroot it, just in case they make a note of it for future services.
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Yeah, I thought so too. It's still slowly charging.
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Yeah, I thought so too. It's still slowly charging.
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Have you wiped you battery stats after reaching 100% and then let it fully die to calibrate the battery?
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Have you wiped you battery stats after reaching 100% and then let it fully die to calibrate the battery?
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Damn I forgot to do that. I charged my battery from 10%. I should calibrate again
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Damn I forgot to do that. I charged my battery from 10%. I should calibrate again
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Yea, whenever you switch roms, its best to do that, especial when doing sense <-> aosp.
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Yea, whenever you switch roms, its best to do that, especial when doing sense <-> aosp.
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Thanks for the tip man
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Thanks for the tip man
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Never a problem man.
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Have you wiped you battery stats after reaching 100% and then let it fully die to calibrate the battery?
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No, I'm not sure how to do so.
I know the HTC One has been around a while on other carriers. Has anyone seen any reviews on how long the battery lasts?
I saw decent battery life in other reviews. One thing that caught my eye as a negative was that it had very slow charging times compared to other phones.
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I saw decent battery life in other reviews. One thing that caught my eye as a negative was that it had very slow charging times compared to other phones.
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I read that also somewhere..
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I saw decent battery life in other reviews. One thing that caught my eye as a negative was that it had very slow charging times compared to other phones.
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The slow charging time was in an early 4.1.2 build. It has been fixed though already in a previous update.
I read they turned off the fast charge mode for it, I think in an effort to make the battery lifespan last longer.
I read that it slowly charges the battery on purpose. It allows the battery to last longer since it's not removable. Apparently the fast charge fries batteries pretty quick.
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I read that it slowly charges the battery on purpose. It allows the battery to last longer since it's not removable. Apparently the fast charge fries batteries pretty quick.
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Fast charging a battery phone is not really going to fry it... but there is truth that if you slow charge a battery, it will last longer.
I had the HTC One on T-Mobile for a while before switching back to Verizon and it got through the day with moderate to heavy usage. Overall you should be able to get a day out of it at least
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I had the HTC One on T-Mobile for a while before switching back to Verizon and it got through the day with moderate to heavy usage. Overall you should be able to get a day out of it at least
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What do you have now? Would you recommend the HTC one?
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Power Saver
Did Verizon remove Power Saver from their model? I can't find a setting anywhere. I know that 4.2.2 removed it from the notification screen, but it's not under the battery settings either. Anybody know?
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What do you have now? Would you recommend the HTC one?
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I'm back to the HTC One. The only reason I gave it up was T-Mobile coverage was terrible in my area
OK...My first full charge from 100%...the results???
I'm at 6% after 7 hrs 53 Mins
After a full days work (8 hrs) w/ my S4, I usually have about 65% left...I am hoping it will get better!
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OK...My first full charge from 100%...the results???
I'm at 6% after 7 hrs 53 Mins
After a full days work (8 hrs) w/ my S4, I usually have about 65% left...I am hoping it will get better!
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What was your screen on time? The only other reason I can think of that contributed to this was all the setting up, syncing, and downloading that you may have been doing on this first full charge (unless you did that all of that prior to this full charge)
Edit: Nonetheless, thanks for sharing. Hopefully it is indeed going to be much better than that on a regular basis.
It'll be a few weeks before I can tell if the phone's batter is any good. I'm spending a lot of time on it.
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What was your screen on time? The only other reason I can think of that contributed to this was all the setting up, syncing, and downloading that you may have been doing on this first full charge (unless you did that all of that prior to this full charge)
Edit: Nonetheless, thanks for sharing. Hopefully it is indeed going to be much better than that on a regular basis.
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How doi find on screen time?
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Did Verizon remove Power Saver from their model? I can't find a setting anywhere. I know that 4.2.2 removed it from the notification screen, but it's not under the battery settings either. Anybody know?
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Yea they did, there is a Qualcomm snapdragon specific power saver app in the play store that is supposed to be a viable replacement.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
All I know is that in the first few days to a week of me having a new phone, I get horrible, HORRIBLE battery life. Why? Because it's shiny, it's new, it's interesting!
Give it a few days to a week and you will be back to mostly normal usage. I know that after the initial new phone excitement goes away, my battery life usually doubles.
Not to mention the battery cycle break in. I'm not sure if it's real or not, some people say it is, some say it isn't, but apparently it takes a few charge and discharge cycles for your battery to get to a normal state?
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All I know is that in the first few days to a week of me having a new phone, I get horrible, HORRIBLE battery life. Why? Because it's shiny, it's new, it's interesting!
Give it a few days to a week and you will be back to mostly normal usage. I know that after the initial new phone excitement goes away, my battery life usually doubles.
Not to mention the battery cycle break in. I'm not sure if it's real or not, some people say it is, some say it isn't, but apparently it takes a few charge and discharge cycles for your battery to get to a normal state?
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I read somewhere (pretty sure anandtech) that with these new batteries, it is advised against fully discharging. The optimal state is to charge it when it hits 75% ish.
If a battery dies, it dies, but you should not be purposefully killing it. I'll try to find the article, but I'm busy at work right now.
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I read somewhere (pretty sure anandtech) that with these new batteries, it is advised against fully discharging. The optimal state is to charge it when it hits 75% ish.
If a battery dies, it dies, but you should not be purposefully killing it. I'll try to find the article, but I'm busy at work right now.
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I don't know where you heard that, but for Lithium Ion batteries, over-discharging happens when you are around 2V or less... most phones will turn off when the battery gets to around 3.2V
Fully charged is roughly 4.2V
Most of these batteries are good for 250 to 400 charge cycles, It doesn't matter whether you are at 1% or 80%, the phone will stop charging once it gets to 100% since you cant trickle-charge Li-Ion batteries
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From what I've heard the battery is good for a day at best.
I've been debating One vs. Maxx for a few days... so confused... Battery Life vs. Sexy!
Just got my HTC One from Verizon. I am coming from a Note 2 which got excellent battery life but the phone was huge. The battery life is actually decent. I had the DROID dna and the battery life on that was horrible. So far it's pretty decent.
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Is the G4 really this bad? I bought one a few days ago, coming from the G2. I'm waiting for it to settle in but damn.. this thing goes through 3000mah like a fat kid through candy. My G2, now 2 years old lasts twice as long SOT. 6 hours to 3. I just.. I want to love the 4, but it is just too power hungry. Does this beast settle down over time? I have a week more to return it for something else, and on the verge.
Since firmware v10c there's a problem with GPS sucking battery. Try setting it to “battery saving“. Perhaps this improves things...
Yeah. Read that. Shouldn't have to turn everything down or off in 2015. I so love this phone but wow. The battery is nonsense. I went to it because my G2 was/is a champ. What is going on with this thing?
The battery in the g2 is much better, but finding a flagship from 2015 with a better battery than the g4 (and a comparable camera, screen, size etc.) is impossible.
It charges more than one percent per minute with6a normal charger, and you can buy a spare battery and a fast charger but the sot isn't going to get much better than what you're expering now. It's still the best phone ever imho.
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The battery in the g2 is much better, but finding a flagship from 2015 with a better battery than the g4 (and a comparable camera, screen, size etc.) is impossible.
It charges more than one percent per minute with6a normal charger, and you can buy a spare battery and a fast charger but the sot isn't going to get much better than what you're expering now. It's still the best phone ever imho.
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I got a free battery with it, and the charging cradle. Which is nice. I guess I just got spoiled. The G2 is so awesome, and I expected this to be the same. It's not. Not even close. I bought this G4, a Note 5 and an S6 at the same time. Both Sammy's perform much better, and that pains me to say. Ugg.
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I got a free battery with it, and the charging cradle. Which is nice. I guess I just got spoiled. The G2 is so awesome, and I expected this to be the same. It's not. Not even close. I bought this G4, a Note 5 and an S6 at the same time. Both Sammy's perform much better, and that pains me to say. Ugg.
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You could help if you complain to LG about the GPS battery drain problem like me and others did already. Try “battery saving“ on GPS and post your results afterwards. With a decent screen brightness, I always get 4+ hours Screen on time. Not playing games or doing heavy battery draining tasks, though.
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Is the G4 really this bad? I bought one a few days ago, coming from the G2. I'm waiting for it to settle in but damn.. this thing goes through 3000mah like a fat kid through candy. My G2, now 2 years old lasts twice as long SOT. 6 hours to 3. I just.. I want to love the 4, but it is just too power hungry. Does this beast settle down over time? I have a week more to return it for something else, and on the verge.
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This is my battery stats all stock
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This is my battery stats all stock
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Man oh man, you are having better luck than I am. I might have a faulty unit, not sure, but the battery on this one is like driving an old car with a big V8. When you stomp on the gas you can literally see the gas gauge go down before your eyes. This phone is no different. My G2 was honestly 3X better than the G4. Good luck to you guys, and I mean that sincerely, I do. But I'm returning this thing. For me, at least... it is a pass.
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Man oh man, you are having better luck than I am. I might have a faulty unit, not sure, but the battery on this one is like driving an old car with a big V8. When you stomp on the gas you can literally see the gas gauge go down before your eyes. This phone is no different. My G2 was honestly 3X better than the G4. Good luck to you guys, and I mean that sincerely, I do. But I'm returning this thing. For me, at least... it is a pass.
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I get as good if not better battery life on here than my g2/g3...a few kernel tweaks with kernel adiutor and using greenify to settle hungry apps...i highly recommend keeping g4 as you won't find much better battery without a lower end processor
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I get as good if not better battery life on here than my g2/g3...a few kernel tweaks with kernel adiutor and using greenify to settle hungry apps...i highly recommend keeping g4 as you won't find much better battery without a lower end processor
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Your g2 was defective.
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I get as good if not better battery life on here than my g2/g3...a few kernel tweaks with kernel adiutor and using greenify to settle hungry apps...i highly recommend keeping g4 as you won't find much better battery without a lower end processor
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Kind of the point though. I shouldn't have to tweak settings, and root a brand new phone to make it work. I'm not here to bash the G4 (I own it) but it stinks.. Ok.. bashed it lol. Seriously. I have the exact same apps loaded on it as my G2 and if sucks battery like a $2 hooker. The Camera is good, not sure as great as was reported. The speaker was kind of bashed from the reviews but I think it is AWESOME! So loud. But... battery. Nope. I don't care if they give me 40 free ones to swap, I shouldn't have to.
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Your g2 was defective.
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No...my g2 got 5.5-6 hours screen on with medium use...i have gotten 5.5 to 6.5 on my g4...not defective but actually quite effective...my g3 battery was garbage...g2/g4 are masterpiece
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No...my g2 got 5.5-6 hours screen on with medium use...i have gotten 5.5 to 6.5 on my g4...not defective but actually quite effective...my g3 battery was garbage...g2/g4 are masterpiece
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That's kind of what I meant. With my debloated, greenified, taskered, tweaked and optimized g2 I got sot of up to 10 hours, the g4 gives me 4-5. Except from every test ever and every user experience, I think not even LG tries to pretend that the g4 has the slightest chance to reach sot like the g2 did. You're the first person to say so ever, so I assumed the only explanation could be that your sot on the g2 were mediocre.
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That's kind of what I meant. With my debloated, greenified, taskered, tweaked and optimized g2 I got sot of up to 10 hours, the g4 gives me 4-5. Except from every test ever and every user experience, I think not even LG tries to pretend that the g4 has the slightest chance to reach sot like the g2 did. You're the first person to say so ever, so I assumed the only explanation could be that your sot on the g2 were mediocre.
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If you got 10 hours sot with g2 you were heavily underclocked and at that rate wtf is the point...i actually got a much smoother experience and better battery life by raising the min clock on big and little cores as with the stock settings both jumped around ridiculously chewing up battery on simple processes...we shouldn't have to root to fix anything but it's never the case...and getting 21 hours out of my g4 with 6 hours sot with browsing some gaming and lots of youtube vids I'm beyond impressed...h811 has no custom kernel yet so no undervolt is present...this phone will just continue to get better imo...i cant believe the complaints i see about a device that surpasses 95% of anything on the market
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Is the G4 really this bad? I bought one a few days ago, coming from the G2. I'm waiting for it to settle in but damn.. this thing goes through 3000mah like a fat kid through candy. My G2, now 2 years old lasts twice as long SOT. 6 hours to 3. I just.. I want to love the 4, but it is just too power hungry. Does this beast settle down over time? I have a week more to return it for something else, and on the verge.
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If you don't use auto, what manual settings for brightness would you normally use on the G4 ? Mention the figure in % or the range.
Are you on wifi or data, mixed ? what share each.
i gather you are on H815.
hey there @android404 mind sharing your g2 setup for those 10 hours and screen brightness also? i'm thinking my g2 might be a lemon i never reach even 6 hours with no heavy usage but i am on stock rom and kernel and i don't even use greenify i have no problem rooting it so please can you tell me your rom kernel clocks and whatnot? thx in advance.
Update. I went for broke and did a factory reset before I was forced to return it. Seems to have made a world of difference. Now it is performing the way I would expect it too. Not as good as the G2, but not draining before my eyes. I think something must have been borked. I'm going to be cautiously optimistic atp, but I have a week more of daily use to play with it. (Might get an extension) but so far, in the last 26 hours it is night and day difference. Whew. Really didn't want to take it back.
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If you don't use auto, what manual settings for brightness would you normally use on the G4 ? Mention the figure in % or the range.
Are you on wifi or data, mixed ? what share each.
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Normally keep it at 60% and mix between wifi and data but 75% of time it is on wifi. H812.
Yeah. Much better. Been unplugged for 10.5 hours and sot is just over an hour. 84% battery left. Same usage before the reset and it would have already been next to dead. Something was mucked up. I take back what I said before. This is what I expected.
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Yeah. Much better. Been unplugged for 10.5 hours and sot is just over an hour. 84% battery left. Same usage before the reset and it would have already been next to dead. Something was mucked up. I take back what I said before. This is what I expected.
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Glad to hear it...i hate to see people leave for bad experience on a device that has such potential...development is slow atm but once cm gets stabilty and a few more variants have unlock/workaround this device will gain notoriety like the g2 had and the g2 was a beast...was my favorite device to date and i see the same potential here
I absolutely love and adore this tablet. I actually bought it refurbished a couple years ago and it still operates smoothly.
However, I notice that the battery drain is getting a little bad. When I fully charge it and look at the battery stats it usually tells me I have anywhere from 3 hours to 6 hours of battery use.
I'm a heavy tablet user so maybe I have been using the battery a lot.
I notice that there are battery replacement kits online. I'm really freaked out about the idea of changing the battery on this because I don't think it will be as easy as changing the Nexus 7 2010.
Can anyone provide me a bit of feedback on this? Should I be considering changing the battery at this stage? Should I even attempt it? I'm really afraid of ruining my tablet.
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I absolutely love and adore this tablet. I actually bought it refurbished a couple years ago and it still operates smoothly.
However, I notice that the battery drain is getting a little bad. When I fully charge it and look at the battery stats it usually tells me I have anywhere from 3 hours to 6 hours of battery use.
I'm a heavy tablet user so maybe I have been using the battery a lot.
I notice that there are battery replacement kits online. I'm really freaked out about the idea of changing the battery on this because I don't think it will be as easy as changing the Nexus 7 2010.
Can anyone provide me a bit of feedback on this? Should I be considering changing the battery at this stage? Should I even attempt it? I'm really afraid of ruining my tablet.
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I don't think, that this is an indicator for getting a new battery for your tablet. Since Marshmallow the battery statistics on my flo show me exactly the same for the first few hours after fully charged. Let it run about some hours and us it normally - and you will see later a new calculation for about 3-4 days...
So it looks here since using Marshmallow.
Okay, I'll hold off on the battery for a bit.
Does updating apps put a damper on the battery as well?
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ev1lchris said:
...Does updating apps put a damper on the battery as well?
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Yes! - all read/write processes on emmc are eating our battery...
It seems to be eating it up quite a bit though.
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Try this, always charge it powered off. My battery stats have been completely off since mm but by chance I discovered that I get my normal 8-9h SOT if I turn it off before charging and power it on after disconnecting the charger. I've had mine since late 2013 and still see fantastic battery life.
Has anyone noticed battery life has decreased since upgrading to the latest OS?
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Has anyone noticed battery life has decreased since upgrading to the latest OS?
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I've seen a decrease in battery performance but this has only been my first day on the update
I haven't noticed any difference. Still fast and battery has been good.
Seems the same to me. I'm on Elemental's kernel though.
Mine is back to the way it was before the 7.1 update.....better.
mine seems like its the same
It depends on what you have enabled, that will make a difference from 7.1 to 7.1.1. For example double tap to wake and lift to wake, you're turning on sensors and having them running, using more power.
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It depends on what you have enabled, that will make a difference from 7.1 to 7.1.1. For example double tap to wake and lift to wake, you're turning on sensors and having them running, using more power.
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Very good point. I am only running dtw
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oneandroidnut said:
Very good point. I am only running dtw
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"only" ddtw, actually tuns on the digitizer 24/7 waiting for you to ddtw. I don't think it uses too much, at least I've not noticed.
Ive noticed the radios working differently too..
clockcycle said:
"only" ddtw, actually tuns on the digitizer 24/7 waiting for you to ddtw. I don't think it uses too much, at least I've not noticed.
Ive noticed the radios working differently too..
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Interesting my battery life is the same though
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If screen brightness is over 70-80â„… the battery will gone be flat in 6 h keeping just to 50â„… the battery is holding like 14h its strange but the usage is not showing nothing strange,or maybe my phone is defective...
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My home has weak (or non-existent) cell signal strength. Since 7.1.1, Mobile Standby uses twice the power compared to anything else, and as a result overall battery life is hugely reduced. Under 7.1, the battery curve flattened off nicely overnight; now, it just continues downhill.
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My home has weak (or non-existent) cell signal strength. Since 7.1.1, Mobile Standby uses twice the power compared to anything else, and as a result overall battery life is hugely reduced. Under 7.1, the battery curve flattened off nicely overnight; now, it just continues downhill.
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Can you not change the radio? I'm not sure if their backward compatible but worth looking into
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I've wondered the same thing, but until now, I've been happy to keep my Pixel in original, stock condition.
Will see how it goes over the next few days, but might have a go at changing the radio if it's as bad as it currently seems.
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I've wondered the same thing, but until now, I've been happy to keep my Pixel in original, stock condition.
Will see how it goes over the next few days, but might have a go at changing the radio if it's as bad as it currently seems.
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That's fair enough!
Let it settle and have a look into it! Hopefully it'll get you back to a better battery life
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Battery is still good for me.
Battery life has been great for me no issues since 7.1.1
Yeah my battery has been good now too... Idk very weird maybe it was the DTTW or maybe the new version needed to sit in for a few days. I don't know... But whatever thanks for the update guys!
i have a few tweaks in my build.prop that have seemed to helped with my battery, along with su.d scripts that run on boot that have helped alittle.
My pixel XL (unlocked bootloader, stock otherwise) shows 25% battery, then suddenly powers off the phone. When I plug into power while off it shows 0% battery. I power on phone and get into OS and it shows the same 0% or 1% and proceeds to charge properly. However, when it gets down to 25% again it just powers off and says 0%. Is my phone's battery toast or am I missing something?