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VincentAnoid

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I'm looking to buy the G2, coming from a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. My nexus' battery goes flat after a few hours of on screen time. I was hoping that the G2 could last a much longer time than this. I'd like to use it for typing out long emails or essays whilst on the train connected through a Microsoft Wedge Keyboard. Will it really be able to 11 hours (web browsing time) for my word processing?

LG G2 review: Beautiful monster - page 2 - GSMArena.com

I believe 'Web Browsing' will have very similar impacts on the battery as word processing.
 
I came from a Gnex as well and that phone has one of the worst battery lives of any phone. The G2 is considerably better. I'm a heavy user. Between my daily use and my little ones constantly playing games and videos in the evening after work I still get a full day in.

If there's one thing you don't need to worry about on this phone it's the battery.
 
I don't know of a phone with a better battery. On days of very heavy use, which for me is primarily internet on wifi, I rarely ever get below 40-50%. I've never had to recharge this phone on the same day and on light use days, I can go 2-3 days without a charge.

I also came from the Gnex and to say it's like night and day would be the understatement of the year.
 
I'm at 60 hrs right now with 35% left... with light use. 23% screen time. I have location mode set at "battery saving", and location history and reporting off. The phone is a non-rooted, stock VZW with the KitKat update. If I need the GPS for navigation, then I'll change the location setting to "high accuracy". Otherwise, it's not needed. There are probably other tweeks. But really, if one can get a full day's use out of a charge, then what's the big deal. For the majority of users, there's always an outlet of some kind to charge a phone. Anyway.. as long as nothing is amiss with the phone, you shouldn't have a battery problem with the G2, no matter the settings.
 
No, it won't do 11 hours of browsing (Screen On Time) time on a single charge, no phone by itself will...

The G2 battery is incredible, I came from the Rezound which has very similar battery life to the GNex, I get easily 5-6 hours of screen time with good signal for normal web browsing/Tapatalk type stuff, with a little to spare.

There is one phone with better battery I am aware of... The Moto G that my son has out performs my G2 for battery, he has gotten 7+ hours of non-gaming SOT, but in every other respect it is inferior to the G2 (smaller screen, 3G/HSPA+ only, slower, etc).

To get that kind of screen time you may want to consider a tablet, and only a handful of Android tablets are capable of 11+ hours of screen time, like the Lenovo Yoga 8, Asus Transformer T100, or even the (cringe) Amazon Kindle Fire HDX. The iPad Air and iPad Mini will get right around 11 hours as well.

If you want to get that amount of screen time out of a phone, consider an external battery back... for well under $50 you can get one around 10,000mAh which will easily meet your time requirements with most newer phones.
 
Thanks for all the replies. It says on the review site that it's capable of those kind of one screen times (11 hours+). I was hoping it could last this long so that I could watch films when travelling or do some word processing through the aid of an external keyboard.

Could you post some screenshots of your battery graphs after a general days use, as well as the time the display has been on please? I'm looking to use this phone as stock with only a few/none background services such as WhatsApp.
 
I got G2 on at&t for my wife a few weeks ago. It came with KitKat pre-installed and I'm thoroughly impressed by its battery life and performance. It seems just every bit as good as new S5 except water-resistance, camera and screen.

GSMarena updated G2 review after KiKat update and compared it against S5. It lost to S5 in overall score but it edged out S5 slightly on battery test. I have no problem believing that. I'm quite impressed by G2 to the point of not feeling much for G3 unless it has S805 chip.
 
Sandroidfan said:
I got G2 on at&t for my wife a few weeks ago. It came with KitKat pre-installed and I'm thoroughly impressed by its battery life and performance. It seems just every bit as good as new S5 except water-resistance, camera and screen.

GSMarena updated G2 review after KiKat update and compared it against S5. It lost to S5 in overall score but it edged out S5 slightly on battery test. I have no problem believing that. I'm quite impressed by G2 to the point of not feeling much for G3 unless it has S805 chip.
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Are you talking about the benchmarks that they did? Because I would take that with a grain of salt since they don't really matter much. The G2 is smoother and performs better on KK.
 
acejavelin said:
There is one phone with better battery I am aware of... The Moto G that my son has out performs my G2 for battery, he has gotten 7+ hours of non-gaming SOT, but in every other respect it is inferior to the G2 (smaller screen, 3G/HSPA+ only, slower, etc).
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I think the Motorola RAZR performs better as well.
 
I don't know if this is relevant or not. Someone on VZW's site claimed better battery performance when going in and changing the following from Global to LTE/CDMA (would be for VZW).

Settings | Tethering & networks | Mobile networks | System Select
 
stef7 said:
I don't know if this is relevant or not. Someone on VZW's site claimed better battery performance when going in and changing the following from Global to LTE/CDMA (would be for VZW).

Settings | Tethering & networks | Mobile networks | System Select
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Thanks. I've had an LG G2 for a little over two weeks. I will try that and see if it adds to battery life. It doesn't seem like I have been getting the stellar battery life that others have been reporting, but I haven't tried to do anything about it yet. Great phone so far.
 
Sure, I have mine setup like that.

To be perfectly honest, I think my battery longevity on JellyBean was better than it has been on KK.

FWIW: Today - down 20% in 10hours time: checking a few emails and synching email accounts on 4G, a couple of quick calls, a few Whatsapp messages over 4G. Display brightness 45%, timeout after 5min of inactivity (I think I'll lower that).
 
stef7 said:
Sure, I have mine setup like that.

To be perfectly honest, I think my battery longevity on JellyBean was better than it has been on KK.

FWIW: Today - down 20% in 10hours time: checking a few emails and synching email accounts on 4G, a couple of quick calls, a few Whatsapp messages over 4G. Display brightness 45%, timeout after 5min of inactivity (I think I'll lower that).
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You used 20% battery in 10 hours with occasional use? That's very good actually, in fact, 2% per hour over time is fantastic.
 
Last night / overnight 10 percent per 4 hours just syncing mail. That's not so great. On jelly bean I think I was going two and half days on a charge with more activity.
 
I recharged yesterday, so I don't recall the exact numbers, as I wasn't concerned. But, I had over 90 hours on the battery with about 20% left! This is on KitKat. (I did a factory reset after the upgrade.) I do have to say that I'm not a heavy user in that I don't play graphic intensive games and I don't have Facebook and other "social" apps constantly polling. But I did play some games, texted quite a bit, used the camera and photo editing quite a bit, and made several calls each day. Oh... and I did browse the Internet several times a day. And if I'm interested in seeing Facebook, that's how I do it, not by the app.

I can't explain why my battery longevity is so good. The phone is not rooted. I have disabled several apps. I turn off the notification LED at night. I don't use automatic brightness. Probably most importantly, as I said earlier, I'm not dependent on having Facebook, Twitter, and all manners of apps waking and poling the phone constantly. With the phone at 100% when I went to bed, it was at 98% this morning. Oh.. one more thing, I looked at my account and stopped automatic syncing of several things I'm not interested in syncing. I keep location set at "battery saving mode" unless I'm using GPS. And I always have Wifi on.
 
I will try synching email a little less often. Anyone know how to do this in GMAIL? I can't seem to find the setting for it.

Yes, about 2%drain overnight is what I remember on JB. Not what I'm experiencing now.

And yes, I did a FDR.
 
stef7 said:
I will try synching email a little less often. Anyone know how to do this in GMAIL? I can't seem to find the setting for it.

Yes, about 2%drain overnight is what I remember on JB. Not what I'm experiencing now.

And yes, I did a FDR.
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If your using the Gmail app, it just uses Google Services, which are always connected and can't be changed. You would have to switch to Email/K9Mail or similar app and connect via IMAP or POP3 to change sync time.
 
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