Terrible battery life!! - LG G7 ThinQ Questions & Answers

No gaming, no intense use, no gps, no nothing... Just normal use: calls, social media, a few photos and that's kinda it..Look at this! Why is this happening to me?

26% usage by apps is a good place to start looking. Perhaps wakelocks or some rogue app in the background chewing up battery when the screen is off.

I just installed gsam pro. What could it be?

So the phone loses about 1% every 10 minutes without doing anything... What could it be?

Any help would be much appreciated. Could it have something to do with the system still settling up? I've had this phone for three days now.

This is what i got today.

Sometimes I'm getting decent battery with always on display turned off.

justforlgp500 said:
No gaming, no intense use, no gps, no nothing... Just normal use: calls, social media, a few photos and that's kinda it..Look at this! Why is this happening to me?
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Did your phone got hot while charging? Is you usb cable damaged? You maybe fried your battery
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justforlgp500 said:
This is what i got today.
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7% by voice calls, more than 1,5 hrs of talking.
what is eMAG? 10 minutes had consumed 7% of whole battery. Too much
And your Chrome is probably set up unoptimal, do you have all ticks checked in safe browsing? It's the reason Chrome eats too many %

justforlgp500 said:
No gaming, no intense use, no gps, no nothing... Just normal use: calls, social media, a few photos and that's kinda it..Look at this! Why is this happening to me?
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Turn on power saving mode then see the difference

justforlgp500 said:
This is what i got today.
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I find it very little, I have the same screen hours and I still have 43% left. I usually have the brightness in half and I'm always with wifi, 4g, always on display, and netflix

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[Q] Best way to save battery life (reasonably speaking)

I'm on the ViperOne ROM and what would you recommend to save battery life? (Whether it be apps, a battery saver, etc.) I'm getting on average about 8-10 hours. I feel like it should be much more than that but who knows I'm probably wrong and that's the norm lol.
Enazsem said:
I'm on the ViperOne ROM and what would you recommend to save battery life? (Whether it be apps, a battery saver, etc.) I'm getting on average about 8-10 hours. I feel like it should be much more than that but who knows I'm probably wrong and that's the norm lol.
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8-10 hours from 100% to 0%? It seems very low. There are people that can squeeze as much screen on time out of our M8. Maybe try an app like GSAM Battery Monitor or BetterBatteryStats to see if you have any wakelocks or any rogue apps that suck your battery.
You could also try Greenify which hibernates apps that are not active to conserve battery.
But my opinion is to reflash your ROM with full wipe and no tweaks or apps installed, run it for 2-3 days and check if you see a difference.
Using stock ROM and managing to get about 13 to 14 hours with 6 to 7 hours of on-screen time, depends on my usage which is light to moderate. Don't know if that's good enough though... however I'm satisfied with these stats. I know that I can achieve better though.
Performed all textbook instructions on how to increase battery life, switch off location services or put it on battery saving mode, increase your sync intervals or switch that off too.
I disabled 4G and got a lot better battery times from that only. 3G speeds are fine for me and im usually near a wifi network anyways.
And you can always enable 4G for those rare occasions where you need really high internet speeds and there's no wifi network nearby.
I come from an Xperia T. Got almost 1,5hours of screen-on time. Now this phone, it is madness. As student that uses his phone a lot, with 3/4G, wifi,... I am still impressed. On a normal day I can get 2 full day's with like 3hours of screen on time a day. For someone looking for good battery life, I think this may be one of if not the best phone to get!
I'm losing about 8.3% battery life an hour according to the GSam app. There doesn't seem to be anything out the ordinary either.
Enazsem said:
I'm losing about 8.3% battery life an hour according to the GSam app. There doesn't seem to be anything out the ordinary either.
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Mind sharing your GSam stats here?
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Teriyakii said:
Mind sharing your GSam stats here?
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Here you are.
Enazsem said:
Here you are.
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Alongside with your app usage please.
And it seems that you're just having a lot of applications running on the background or it seems like it at least from first glance.
At least it isn't a hardware battery problem.
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2 exchange accounts, 1 pop account, Pandora / spotify / text messaging / wifi / emails / cal appointments / etc on all day while I'm at work:
I charge it at night, wake up at 7am with 100% and by 10pm I have ~25% left. Stock ROM, rooted.
Teriyakii said:
Alongside with your app usage please.
And it seems that you're just having a lot of applications running on the background or it seems like it at least from first glance.
At least it isn't a hardware battery problem.
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Sorry about that and the delayed reply. Here's both
And an updated screenshot of the battery usage.
Enazsem said:
Sorry about that and the delayed reply. Here's both
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Enazsem said:
And an updated screenshot of the battery usage.
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To be fairly honest, I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary here, apart for your wakelocks and since you've been doing a lot of gaming, I presume they are pushes from your games?
Also your percentage per hour is fairly decent if not good and 6 hours of on screen time is decent as well.
What you could try to do is disable push notifications from your apps as well as reduce your sync intervals for your social media applications.
If nothing helps, I would suggest a reset but that's only if nothing's changed over the coming days.
Keep us posted on how your battery is holding up bud.
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Teriyakii said:
To be fairly honest, I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary here, apart for your wakelocks and since you've been doing a lot of gaming, I presume they are pushes from your games?
Also your percentage per hour is fairly decent if not good and 6 hours of on screen time is decent as well.
What you could try to do is disable push notifications from your apps as well as reduce your sync intervals for your social media applications.
If nothing helps, I would suggest a reset but that's only if nothing's changed over the coming days.
Keep us posted on how your battery is holding up bud.
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Thank you so much for looking it over. I'll take a look at them and see if there's a way to turn them off and if it helps.
I'm running PA with Furnace and yesterday I got over 7 hrs SOT using Wifi. I was on reddit, playing games, videos, etc.. For me, coming from a Gnex that is awesome and I couldn't be any happier.
I use Greenify and the clear recents option. Kernel settings are stock besides Eco Mode, Max to 1728000 and Vibration Strength to 1300.
Putting governor on conservative also helps a lot, but your phone will be a bit slower, but not unusably slow though. According to GSAM my average is 19H40M of which 7H40M is SoT. I always have my phone on conservative, pretty much always on WiFi but when I'm not it's on 4G, auto brightness, always on power save mode, auto sync enabled, location on but on power save mode.
I also use greenify which helps a lot too ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng.greenify )
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Enazsem said:
I'm losing about 8.3% battery life an hour according to the GSam app. There doesn't seem to be anything out the ordinary either.
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That means you'll have 6 hours SOT , seems ok to me.

battery sucks

battery on g3 drain fast
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:
battery on g3 drain fast
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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:
battery on g3 drain fast
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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:
battery on g3 drain fast
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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:
battery on g3 drain fast
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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
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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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.
bigbrd222 said:
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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.

Battery life

Anyone have feedback on SOT?
Anecdotally, about 3 hours SOT. But my signal isn't great, and I'm a moderate user.
I'll post some screen shots later. But it's above average battery life. 3 hrs SOT usually. Using it with LTE and no Google now service. Lasts around 16 hrs.
varun.gid said:
I'll post some screen shots later. But it's above average battery life. 3 hrs SOT usually. Using it with LTE and no Google now service. Lasts around 16 hrs.
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Here is the usage. Not that great but manageable.
Actually, I'm getting a pretty awesome SoT: 6 hours, with light-moderate usage (mostly reddit and G+, some Youtube, Hangouts and Chrome). Auto brightness is on, sync is on, 3G on (although I'm on wifi) and NFC is on.
Mind you, I don't use any crappy battery-draining apps like WhatsApp/Facebook/Snapchat/Viber.
So...6 hours SoT but your screenshot shows just over 3?
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He has half battery left
Battery seems to be sliding more quickly here. Time will tell.
Looking forward to getting some custom kernel love on this device tbh.
UPDATE: I'd call myself a moderate user as I don't really game much.
I'm getting pretty horrendous battery life. Looking at it dropping a percent near every couple of minutes, maybe less, of use. I left work at 16:00 and I've dropped from 50% battery (minimal use from 06:20 this morning), to 24% while I type.
That's just not acceptable. I'm looking at getting barely 3.5hrs SOT at this rate.
I thought it would settle but it hasn't. I've got Greenify pro and even hibernated Facebook and Messenger but I'm not seeing too much of a difference.
Phone also appears to get hot with certain task very very easily. Particularly when browsing. Might try a different browser, but if the problem, this is therefore only a workaround.
The Robin is my wife's phone. She charges it each morning before work and after 24 hours usually is down to around 35-40% and will have at least 2.5 hours of SOT.
She uses Wi-Fi at home, and I think all of her SoT is in chrome. She uses Gnow and has location set to high accuracy.
This morning she didn't charge it and was at 62% but I didn't check her usage stats. Tonight she'll be at 36+ hours off the charger and I'll check it then.
Yesterday was an incredible day for battery. Hit a magical 5 hours of SOT. Normal usage, but I am a light to moderate user.
Please define light to moderate user if you can? I have emails, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc all syncing and use mainly chrome, YouTube and the above apps..I'm seeing close to 3 hours SoT with GPS Bluetooth and wifi always on.
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Wiggz said:
Please define light to moderate user if you can? I have emails, Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc all syncing and use mainly chrome, YouTube and the above apps..I'm seeing close to 3 hours SoT with GPS Bluetooth and wifi always on.
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@Wiggz - I use Messenger, Facebook, Bacon Reader, Twitter, Inbox, and Chrome most of the day. I have GPS off since I don't really use Maps too often and brightness was at about 50-55%. I also don't have a BT device, so BT is off as well.
Just wanted to see if anyone else has more feedback
km8j said:
Just wanted to see if anyone else has more feedback
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I'm getting great battery life, after having applied PROJECT SKYNET Genesys TX7.
arcadia2uk said:
I'm getting great battery life, after having applied PROJECT SKYNET Genesys TX7.
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How much SOT
km8j said:
How much SOT
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I haven't used it for much more than GPS driving. An hour and a half with screen constantly on used up about 16% of the battery, indicating slightly over 9 hours.
3hrs SoT isn't better than average, 4hrs is average.
So no one is getting good battery life? 4 hours screen on is AVERAGE. You should get that with LTE enabled and using twitter, reddit, youtube, etc.
arcadia2uk said:
I'm getting great battery life, after having applied PROJECT SKYNET Genesys TX7.
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you willing to give a more detailed setup of how you flashed this to Robin? Im new with this stuff and didn't full understand the linked page ha.
Nextbit_Khang said:
@Wiggz - I use Messenger, Facebook, Bacon Reader, Twitter, Inbox, and Chrome most of the day. I have GPS off since I don't really use Maps too often and brightness was at about 50-55%. I also don't have a BT device, so BT is off as well.
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If you are going to use Facebook and the Messenger app you will never have decent enough battery life on any phone. Those are some of the worst apps developer could have made and consume A LOT of battery in background. If you remove those two apps I can almost guarantee that your battery life will be improved by 20-25%.

Screen on time

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 3 before depleting the battery.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Getting sot only around 3.5hrs.. Battery is average
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Getting sot only around 3.5hrs.. Battery is average
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Usage? Mobile data or wifi?
Unboxed it charged it till 99 and started using it. Still on 11% with <5 hours of SOT. Installed apps, using fb and normal browsing. I dont have any complaints with battery
samisharora said:
Unboxed it charged it till 99 and started using it. Still on 11% with <5 hours of SOT. Installed apps, using fb and normal browsing. I dont have any complaints with battery
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Sounds great so far, knowing that the battery normally becomes better after 2-3 days of charging I hope that we will reach even better SOTs
I hpe for at least 4-5 sot with wifi and normal usage and 3.5 hrs for mobile data.
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Usage? Mobile data or wifi?
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Mobile data 3g
SOT really depends on usage, and whilst I was one like many here that is obsessed with SOT, I've started to just use phones without really worrying about it. Plus Dash charge is a great addition (aside from having to carry the charger with you).
Used a few apps, specially Snapchat and Whatsapp. Got a screen on time of 3.5 hrs on 4G. Decent yeah. OPO had a tad bit better.
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Used a few apps, specially Snapchat and Whatsapp. Got a screen on time of 3.5 hrs on 4G. Decent yeah. OPO had a tad bit better.
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I think it is good. So with wifi around 4,5 hrs sot with this usage.
Getting 4.5 SOT after 1st day of use.
Battery currently at 11%.
Dash charger charges the battery really fast to.
No complaints and oxygen os is updated to latest
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johncanadude said:
Getting 4.5 SOT after 1st day of use.
Battery currently at 11%.
Dash charger charges the battery really fast to.
No complaints and oxygen os is updated to latest
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What's the stand by?
I bought it on the launch day and conducted the test the next day after a full cycle. At precisely 5 pm I unplugged the device, at 100%, Connected to wifi with brightness at 25%, with auto brightness off. The phone was at 3% the next day at 4 pm. I got about 5 hours and 15 minutes of screen on time, moderately heavy usage, the phone only lost 6% overnight. Made 15 minutes worth of phone calls, light gaming, lots of browsing and video watching. And some apps with location as well. My previous phone was a oneplus one and for my usage, it seems to be giving me better battery life.
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What's the stand by?
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18 hours
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Web browsing, transferred around 60 apps from old phone, Whatsapp, an hour and a half of music streaming along with writing using the mobile office app. 70:30 WiFi:3G usage. Battery @9% currently.
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Web browsing, transferred around 60 apps from old phone, Whatsapp, an hour and a half of music streaming along with writing using the mobile office app. 70:30 WiFi:3G usage. Battery @9% currently.
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I'm soo ****ing tempted to send my nexus 5x back and get the op3. 400 bucks is a steal with those specs. Also your SOT looks good. Are you using a dark theme and a dark wallpaper or not? From what I've read it comes prerooted?
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I'm soo ****ing tempted to send my nexus 5x back and get the op3. 400 bucks is a steal with those specs. Also your SOT looks good. Are you using a dark theme and a dark wallpaper or not? From what I've read it comes prerooted?
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Nope. Actually refrained from using the dark theme to see how well the battery does. And my wallpaper is the default never settle wallpaper. And no, it doesn't come pre-rooted.
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Nope. Actually refrained from using the dark theme to see how well the battery does. And my wallpaper is the default never settle wallpaper. And no, it doesn't come pre-rooted.
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Thanks for the info. Rooting that thing shouldn't be too hard anyway. Wonder how much battery you can sqeeze out with a dark theme / wallpaper? Haven't used an oled screen in years, though. Even more tempted now.
Time on: 7h 2m 41s
Computer power use: 534 mAh
I'll PM the Droplr link for the battery stats and SoT screens
I've using the following:
Dark Mode active throughout
Night Mode active throughout [ I REALLY REALLY LOVED IT, so I keep it on all the time.]
Apps used - Gmail, Excel, Word, Dropbox, Apple Music, Pocketcasts, Fenix, Messenger and Whatsapp.
Data usage is split over LTE and WiFi.
Battery was at 5% as I post this
If there is any other stat you'd like to see let me know
I'm getting exactly 5 hrs of sit for the last 2 charge cycles. Completely on wifi. No sim cards for now and moderate usage with low to no gaming.

wifi calling process draining battery

I've attached the battery breakdown. Is this normal?
Doesn't look right especially Google Usage thats huge.
Heres my breakdown on mostly 4G data.
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I've attached the battery breakdown. Is this normal?
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Unless you have poor cell reception at home id turn off wifi calling then. Most public wifi won't allow wifi calling anyway so it doesn't serve much purpose if it drains your battery that bad.
With s20... everything drains battery. I get 3 hr sot with 97 hz. I am not even using wifi call, play games or use social media.
emremutlu said:
With s20... everything drains battery. I get 3 hr sot with 97 hz. I am not even using wifi call, play games or use social media.
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I'm on 120hz and can easily get 5-6 hours SOT
Google doesn't seem as high now, it isn't even on the too used list. I disabled WiFi calling but it's still showing up. Unrelated but I keep getting occasional sms stuck sending. A restart fixes it.
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I'm on 120hz and can easily get 5-6 hours SOT
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I got s20+ exynos and since i have the phone sot is 2 or 3 hrs. Camera drains battery very fast and device gets really hot. Any suggestion to improve battery life?

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