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Battery life decline?

dportal2006

dportal2006

Android Enthusiast
Have any of you guys noticed a battery life decline on your LG G2?

I have been using mine for close to a year now and i have noticed that the battery life is not nearly as good as it was when i first purchased the phone. I used to get around 5 hours of on screen time at the beginning and now it is closer to 3 hours. I am also getting weird battery drain. My phone is rooted but it is running stock. 4.4.2 on T-Mobile. I froze all the bloatware with Titanium Backup but the drain is still there.

Should I do a factory reset, or it this just normal wear and tear on the battery?
 
Well any battery is going to degrade over time, it's the way these things work.
Although over the course of this time, you may have added and deleted many apps to try them out. Some apps have a negative effect on battery life, and some leave garbage behind when the program is deleted which may cause the phone to work harder to search through dead extensions and empty file paths. It may be time to do a factory reset, and this may improve things a bit, but do not be surprised if you do not get the "5 hours" you're used to getting.
 
I've had mine since Xmas, definitely noticing a decline...this is why removable batteries should be mandatory. Thankfully it isn't Galaxy Nexus battery status yet lol.
 
dportal2006 said:
Do you have the phone or are you considering purchasing it at the moment?
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Considering it. It's between G2 and iphone 6 for me. I'm currently using an iphone 4 (and a Mac Air), and have used androids before that for years. Both have their pros and cons.

For me in comes down the following:

LOVE the idea of notification lights, and a bigger battery and no annoying 'sent message' sounds on the G2.

Prefer the size of the iphone 6, the stock font size options (G2's font does not get big enough for my aging eyes to read without glasses), the feel and looks of iphones, and how they seem to work well with a lot less glitches and issues. (The phone I was using before iphone 4 was a Lucid, and it had tons of weird glitches I could never get resolved).
 
Are you sure about the font size on the G2? I changed the DPI on my phone so this is smaller than stock.

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heycal said:
Considering it. It's between G2 and iphone 6 for me. I'm currently using an iphone 4 (and a Mac Air), and have used androids before that for years. Both have their pros and cons.

For me in comes down the following:

LOVE the idea of notification lights, and a bigger battery and no annoying 'sent message' sounds on the G2.

Prefer the size of the iphone 6, the stock font size options (G2's font does not get big enough for my aging eyes to read without glasses), the feel and looks of iphones, and how they seem to work well with a lot less glitches and issues. (The phone I was using before iphone 4 was a Lucid, and it had tons of weird glitches I could never get resolved).
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Go with the Iphone 6.
 
bberryhill0 said:
Are you sure about the font size on the G2? I changed the DPI on my phone so this is smaller than stock.
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I've put the font on maximum on a few different G2's at different Verizon stores, and it's always the same laughably small size for a "maximum" font. Both Iphones and Samsungs can get very large (literally about that big), but it seems the G2 and maybe LG's in general are lame in this department, as I coudn't make the font very big on old LG Lucid either.

dportal2006 said:
Go with the Iphone 6.
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Why do you say that? What's your thinking?
 
Have you let your phone die several times? That can hurt it.

If you can. flash a 26a rom. When I went from 24a to 26a my battery life improved even more. I'm at almost 8 hours today. I charged it for 10 minutes in the car while I picked up my food. Only on the way though, not on the way home. I played games this morning a while, I've sent/recieved some texts and picsc checked my CoC village several times and watched about 4 youtube videos. I'm at 75% right now. Screen timer is set at 5 minutes and brightness at 90%. Using Mobile data all day.
 
had my G2 since last Nov. factory reset significantly improved battery life. i have 75% of my old apps back on the phone.
 
Like others, I've been noticing shorter battery life but I've recently seen a material improvement. I've uninstalled a number of applications, notably android forums' own, Viber and others and switched rebtel to sleep mode. Phone has been on for 10h, a large part of it on 4g and I still have 45%. Not amazing but quite an improvement on what I used to get. None of these apps ever showed up in the battery usage top 20 but somehow, one or more of them should have. So check those little used apps, you might be glad you did.
 
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