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Which rom has the best battery life?

Currently I am running Liberty test build 48. It seems to last me around 6-8 hours on light use but I can't live like this forever. Light use is not why i bought this phone Lets face it. With heavy use every rom I have used has been around 35% after around 2-4 hours of heavy use with 4g enabled. All the reviews gave the bionic great battery life reports. But this is poor, I live with a charger in my pocket.
So my question is which rom are you using and what are you battery life experiences.?
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Stock. Debloated.
Battery life? More than 6 hours.
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Keeping 4g enabled all the time is what's killing your battery. All of the 4g phones have the issue but from what I've read Bionic is the only one out with decent life.

idefiler6 said:
Keeping 4g enabled all the time is what's killing your battery. All of the 4g phones have the issue but from what I've read Bionic is the only one out with decent life.
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I have never turned 4G off on my thunderbolt or bionic.
My bionic stock got about 20-30 hours with moderate use. With the TH3ORY roms I get about 8-10 hours.
The Thunderbolt got 6-8 hours stock, and 10-12 on the bamf roms
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20-30 hours!? I'm in awe. I must be holding it wrong or something lol.
I got 6-10 with 4g enabled but didn't answer the phone lol. No usage.
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Sjflowerhorn said:
20-30 hours!? I'm in awe. I must be holding it wrong or something lol.
I got 6-10 with 4g enabled but didn't answer the phone lol. No usage.
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Lol.
"Didn't answer the phone"
And yeah, 20-30 hours man? Was your phone dormant? Sleep mode perhaps? Did you lose it? Was it turned off?
Do share young Skywalker...
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Dumb question...but are you calibrating your battery every time you flash a new rom? If not that is your issue.
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nosympathy said:
Dumb question...but are you calibrating your battery every time you flash a new rom? If not that is your issue.
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Is it possible to drain the battery out on liberty and charge it back up without issue?

jr0324 said:
ive gotten 20-30 hrs as well stock debloated using task manager to auto kill just about every app running in the background, brightness 0%, wifi off, bluetooth on, 4g on, 3g on, location on. moderate use as well. got th3ory on here now, gonna see how well it holds up!
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No task killers, LTE enabled but on wifi most the day. Normal use. I got 20-30 hours on stock. Do your research I'm not the only one.
Coming from the thunderbolt I was very impressed.
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I do restart my phone every morning and keep the text and things cleaned out.
Just like a computer the better the maintenance the better the performance.
Also as I understand it don't run task killers, its like pulling the plug on your computer over and over and then wondering why everything is unstable.
Also isn't gingerbread built to close apps if they aren't in use after a set amount of time?
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6-8 hours isn't good
I've used most Android based phones and all of the Iphones. Loved the utility of the Androids but loved the battery life of the iphones. UNTIL the Bionic.
Based on my Thunderbolt experience I opted for the extended battery for the Bionic. Don't really need it. I use my phone almost totally for data and GPS. Easily 10 hours of heavy usage on standard battery. Not sure about the extended battery.
If you are only getting 6-9 hours on regular usage you really need to trim your running apps or return the phone. In my experience that is WAY under what your expectations should be. My best guess would be about 12-15 hours.

I should be getting mine in the next couple days and I've been curious about the use of 4G.
Is there any reason to have it on for the typical phone features? Such as phone calls, texting and idle. Unless you're a really heavy data user, it seems like you could have 4G off for a fairly significant portion of the day. Am I overestimating the power saved from having 4G off?
I haven't decided whether or not I plan on using any of the current roms, but I'm definitely not going to use one if that's the kind of battery life I can expect. I'd definitely like to hear more input about battery life from those using roms.

I have the 2760mah extended battery. Running d3blurr3d beta4. Im currently testing my battery to see how long it lasts. Right now im at 24 hours and I have 37% battery left. Battery life has been insane coming from the tbolt. Im in the moderate to heavy use bracket.
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jr0324 said:
damn th3ory rom sucks with battery life.. ~12-15hrs
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D3blurr3d or r3blurr3d?
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Well...
Having tried all the custom roms out there I can say without a doubt that d3blurr3d (currently running beta4 but beta6 is current) has the best battery life. I agree the r3blurr3d ate my battery alive but this d3blurr3d is a whole new story. Off battery with moderate usage for 12 hours I sit at 53% right now with the extended battery...used to be below 10.

How does it compare to your stock experience?

Where is reblurred at? Saw it before but nit recently. Lately just r3blurr3d 1.7 or the liberty teat build on andirc#bionic
Edit: nevermind found it in deblurred on page 50 in rootzwiki forum
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Stock debloated, 10 to 15 hours if I'm in a good coverage area, if the phone is looking for a signal 2 to 4 hours.
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New Bionic owner looking for tips!

Getting my bionic tomorrow, what are the first few things I should do to it, apps to get, or anything else y'all would suggest. I want to root it but don't know how.
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Return it. Then buy sometbing other than motorola.
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if you want something you can flash roms and kernels with, you chose the wrong phone unless moto unlocks the bootloader

Lol well that was a lot of help. It's a replacement for my crap Samsung Charge or should I say the previous 4 replacements.
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Get a spare battery. I got 2 with a charger for less than $13 on ebay with free shipping.
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davwman said:
if you want something you can flash roms and kernels with, you chose the wrong phone unless moto unlocks the bootloader
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What's that mean? I want ICS when it's available.
Just want a fast bloat free phone that I can teather and run root apps on.
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Bought 2 extended batteries and covers and battery only charger with a regular battery today.
3 batteries ftw!
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thereisone said:
What's that mean? I want ICS when it's available.
Just want a fast bloat free phone that I can teather and run root apps on.
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well then, you are good because thats what the bionic is most capable of.

Now I just have to figure out how to do it!
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davwman said:
well then, you are good because thats what the bionic is most capable of.
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For tethering, try ClockworkMod Tether. I also installed Eclipse ROM 2.1 a few days ago and it seems to work pretty well, without any bloatware (which didn't bother me much on this phone anyway).
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thereisone said:
Lol well that was a lot of help. It's a replacement for my crap Samsung Charge or should I say the previous 4 replacements.
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Hi thereisone. I also just switched over from the charge last week. I've been very happy with the bionic. I had the static problem with my radio, but I was also disappointed with the battery life, slow GPS, and general slow response on the charge. All these were improved on the bionic. Of course the screen isn't as nice, but I can live with it. Only real complaint is that the camera sucks.
Anyway, I've been writing up a guide for how to root and get to the latest and greatest. It can be hard to figure it all out because of out-of-date posts. Like others have told you already, we can only go so far right now, but if you just need a phone that functions without all the bloat you'll be alright. I'll have it up by tomorrow.

Get a 901 radio data is,very stady nit so hot on 893,
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Please do.
tuckmobile said:
Hi thereisone. I also just switched over from the charge last week. I've been very happy with the bionic. I had the static problem with my radio, but I was also disappointed with the battery life, slow GPS, and general slow response on the charge. All these were improved on the bionic. Of course the screen isn't as nice, but I can live with it. Only real complaint is that the camera sucks.
Anyway, I've been writing up a guide for how to root and get to the latest and greatest. It can be hard to figure it all out because of out-of-date posts. Like others have told you already, we can only go so far right now, but if you just need a phone that functions without all the bloat you'll be alright. I'll have it up by tomorrow.
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The other day I went to the verizon store and played with the Galaxy Nexus. I've been thinking about retiring the Bionic for the Nexus, bad thing is the Bionic was a birthday present from my family and I feel bad for ridding it. Anyways, to my surprise, it felt like the Nexus was running as fast and smooth as my Bionic was. I was kind of shocked honestly. So the only thing the Galaxy has going for it: unlocked bootloader, ICS, its a Nexus Device.
anyways hope that makes you feel a little better about having the Bionic.
Before there were any roms for the Bionic, I rooted it (there are guides on how to in the dev section) then found some free apps from the market that remove bloat.
If you are comfortable installing roms, there are instructions on doing so in the dev section but read them carefully and do not skip steps. I recommend eclipse 2.1. It's fast, it looks nice, and it has a much better data connection thanks to the 901 radio. It's a bit tricky to flash for some, but because you are on stock, you will have less of a problem.
Hope it helps!
Happy Droiding!

As stated above, I would make sure you have the 901 System Version. You can check that on the Settings->About Phone menu. It will read 5.9.901.XT875 ... The next thing would be to root it and then install a Custom ROM which is compatible with this version. AFAIK, you have to buy a MySQL app to modify one of the system settings to allow you to do the WiFi tether. You have to fake out the installed Verizon app. Sorry if you already know all of this but when you install the Custom ROM they generally recommend you clear all of the stored data so you will have to set up all of account usernames and passwords again for the apps that are in /system.
I rooted my phone before I did anything. I just took it home, plugged it into the computer and started the scripts I needed.
Good Luck.

It came with 893. Should I use forever root update then flash eclipse?
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I can be considered a newb when it a to all this rooting. I know nothing so I'm leaning as I go. Following the guides I can find and useful users like y'all.
Thanks.
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My instructions are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
Still updating a few details. Allow until this evening and then try it out.

I also just got my Bionic today as a replacement for my Charge. My Charge had an unfortunate accident and were out of them so they offered me the Bionic and LG Revolution. Like I'd really pick the Revolution over the Bionic? Lol
But looking forward to the guide cause I am completely lost when it comes to the Moto World. And also am looking to wifi tether.
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tuckmobile said:
My instructions are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455888
Still updating a few details. Allow until this evening and then try it out.
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I've had my Bionic for a few months, and have been recently resisting the .901 update because I didn't want to lose root. All that aside, followed this guide and it worked great!

[Q] Vibration Issue

Well I like what everyone has done.
I am using Gingervolt, blitz 2.1 Gingerfussion 3.8 and ics tweaks
Now for some reason atleast once a day my phone will start to vibrate. The only way to stop is to pull the battery.
Has anyone run into this/
Is there a fix that I have not found while searching these forums?

Your best bet is to kill anything that involves vibrate on your phone. I used to get that every now and then, and thought it had something to do with using setcpu. When it happened after I uninstalled setcpu, turned off all vibration and haven't had that issue since.
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I had that issue until I used setcpu and put the minimum at .768. Hope that helps
Gingerfused Gingervolt 1.3 + Blitz

I believe it's an issue with blitzkreig. BK 2.1 was suppose to fix that problem but I guess it didn't for some people. This only happened to be twice then went away. Others haven't been so lucky. But I would try maybe not overclocking too much and keeping the min above 245. You can check out the Blitzkreig thread in the development section too. Other people mentioned the problem there as well.
By the way I use CPU Master. Not sure if that makes a difference.

I have had this problem as well and it doesn't happen so often but I found that instead of having to do a battery pull you can hold the power button and it will stop mostly annoying that it does it since you can't stop it or do anything except restarting

Haptic Feedback
This has happened to me as well. I thought it was because of blitzkrieg 2.0 and 2.1 but still did it after reflashing to stock kernel. I think it has to do with haptic feedback because it starts while pushing home or back buttons.
I will try setting min cpu to 765.
I have not had to pull battery, it just reboots after about +/-20 seconds.

My phone does the samething vibrate for a long time every 4 to 6 hrs n then reboot not sure what to do. I uninstalled setcpu n super script running blitz 2.1 n gingervolt 1.3
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My girlfriend's Revo is vibrating non stop once or twice a day. It is running gingervolt 1.3 and that is it. She runs very few apps and I am going to go through the list to see if there are any apps causing problems. This vibrating issued existed before rooting and installing the gingervolt. I attribute the problem to reside with the code Verizon uses to activate and install bloatware. From what I can see there is some Verizon encoded bloatware that cannot be stripped out (that is not network CDMA verification code).
I can say this phone is frustrating and really wish that android phones would be released with without carrier tweaks. I switched back to an iPhone just because at the end of the day I still have battery life, no carrier bloatware, and the music integration with my car is less problematic. The thing is - it kills me to have an iPhone from geek standpoint. I applaud google for taking a stand with the carriers and revoking the developer phone status on the samsung CDMA dev phones. The carriers really need to stay out of the firmware of these phones and just apply their configs for the device to work on their network and leave it alone from there. This would yield to more frequent official updates and possibly an android device that is much more stable (provided the manufacturer doesn't screw things up with their overlays). Sorry for the rant.
With that being said has anyone found additional solutions to vibration issue?
Thanks,
matt

The vibration issue is the phone getting stuck in the shut down process. People who run blitzkrieg have this issue, but its nothing major so hasn't really been worked on. Those not running blitzkrieg kernel, try Gingerhome ROM, then go back to gingervolt to see if that fixes it. If its constantly doing it after that, let us know.
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I had this too multiple times a day until I set my min to 768. Hasn't happened since.
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Sorry for blank...
my issue seems to be battery related. I just got the reset with 33% and now i have 6%
Devs.. look into it!
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kcarden said:
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my issue seems to be battery related. I just got the reset with 33% and now i have 6%
Devs.. look into it!
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That's nothing to worry about. It's still at 33%
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markapowell said:
That's nothing to worry about. It's still at 33%
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well I've come down to the conclusion that it has something either to do with that or the notification light. for instance i only get the reset when the blue light comes on. so maybe it has something to do with the blue notification light? is there any lead on where the promblem resides?

kcarden said:
well I've come down to the conclusion that it has something either to do with that or the notification light. for instance i only get the reset when the blue light comes on. so maybe it has something to do with the blue notification light? is there any lead on where the promblem resides?
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From what we have found, it seems to be related to the vibrate function.
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billney said:
I had this too multiple times a day until I set my min to 768. Hasn't happened since.
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So far this seems to work. How has your battery life been with the min set this high?
***Update***
buttons are flashing at the bottom and it rebooted. I think I'm going to unroot & warranty the device for her. Then for valentines day buy her an iPhone and sell the warrantied Revo.

[Q] New cpu app to help with battery life?

Found this new CPU app and you can change the voltage in it
https://market.android.com/details?...29tLnNtYXJ0cHJvamVjdHMuQ1BVQ29udHJvbExpdGUiXQ..
I was wondering if blitz supported the voltage adjustments as maybe it would help us that get a decrease in battery life because of blitz? Ik its UC already but thought fine tuning it to phone could help even more?
Also, if you were to use this with rom toolbox would the CPU settings interfere? Would you have to remove rom toolbox?

Can't change voltage. Lol
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revo_65 said:
I was wondering if blitz supported the voltage adjustments as maybe it would help us that get a decrease in battery life because of blitz? Ik its UC already but thought fine tuning it to phone could help even more?
Also, if you were to use this with rom toolbox would the CPU settings interfere? Would you have to remove rom toolbox?
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You don't have to remove toolbox, just uncheck the supply on boot setting
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revo_65 said:
Can't change voltage. Lol
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Blitz is already waaayyyy undervolted anyway lol

spc_hicks09 said:
Blitz is already waaayyyy undervolted anyway lol
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Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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It's so weird that yours is that bad. My "phone at idle" uses just 4%. Have you tried using "Watchdog" to see if you have some rouge app using up all your battery?
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spc_hicks09 said:
It's so weird that yours is that bad. My "phone at idle" uses just 4%. Have you tried using "Watchdog" to see if you have some rouge app using up all your battery?
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No, just because I only get the drain with blitz, but heck I'll give it a shot
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revo_65 said:
No, just because I only get the drain with blitz, but heck I'll give it a shot
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Let me know if it helps out any.
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revo_65 said:
Lol ik, willing change anything and everything to fix my battery drain when in idle
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that is strange, just this morning my phone was idle for about 2.5 hours and was at 80%
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KaneOfMars said:
that is strange, just this morning my phone was idle for about 2.5 hours and was at 80%
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Usually not that bad I'm guessing?
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I unplugged mine last night at 7, this morning at 6 it was at 82%
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So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.

revo_65 said:
So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.
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Oh ok, well I'm glad it's getting better for you though.
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revo_65 said:
So at 5 hours I am sitting at 70% when the last time I used blitz at three hours I had 65% Idk if it is this app or some other magical reason that my battery life is improving but I am definitely happy it finally did!
Also, hicks, watchdog didnt show me anything abnormal so I dont think that was my issue.
Running 122/1200 with smoothass.
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You got that with the CPU app you posted?
My battery drains 10% every hour on idle. It's horrible.

That's about what mine was. And yep that app
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revo_65 said:
That's about what mine was. And yep that app
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Okay thanks I'll try it out.

A few things that people seem to forget when comparing battery life. One person can get twice the battery life than someone else for many reasons.
A few:
1) are you in a 3g or 4g area? 4g will use more battery because of dual radio (recommend to switch to CDMA only mode when in a 3g only area, OR when you don't need 4g connectivity)
2) What options are running? (Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc) Don't have any of those features on, especially Wifi, it will suck your battery down quick.
3) Your CPU app (Such as SetCPU). Is is set to Performance, OnDemand, PowerSave? I don't fiddle around with custom settings, just use the stock of those 3 and notice a major battery improvement with just the stock PowerSave.
4) Is your screen brightness on manual or auto mode? Auto mode will take 2-5 times as much juice as it's constantly scanning and changing screen brightness.
5) (almost forgot this) Most importantly, make sure you are in a good signal area (at least 80%) before complaining of poor battery life. Anything below 80% signal can cause your phone to search hi and low for a better tower and better signal. Anything below 50% is likely to draing your battery in half the time, or even less. Constant scanning for a better signal uses up a LOT of juice. I've had past phones that lasted for 2.5 days on a single charge when in full signal. Down to about 10-12 hours in poor signal and similar usage in both areas.
5.5) Those who don't yet know... Don't complain like the ones on Verizon website/reviews where the only thing that some will complain, or markdown on, is battery life. You are using (by assumption you reading this in this forum) a 4g, dual mode phone. NOOBS: This means there are two radios/antennas in your phone that are working together. One on 3g(CDMA) and one on 4g(LTE). This automatically makes your 4g phone use more battery. Don't like it? Go buy a 3g only phone... :O
Make sure to also not have any 'task manager/killer' running. These apps are not only bad for your phone (been proven), but they also use more juice than they save. At least in my experience and from other posts I have read.
-Cybie

Official KitKat Released

Anyone notice any differences from the leaked KK?

Zero. It's exactly the same.
Thanks Devs, from my LG G2

I'm noticing a gapps force close on each reboot .
Stock, never rooted.
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0331 said:
I'm noticing a gapps force close on each reboot .
Stock, never rooted.
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You're likely using Swiftkey. This seems to be an issue for all of us using that keyboard, however, it doesn't seem to cause any functional issues with the keyboard or phone. It's a minor annoyance, and is hopefully being addressed by the Swiftkey devs.

LTunez said:
You're likely using Swiftkey. This seems to be an issue for all of us using that keyboard, however, it doesn't seem to cause any functional issues with the keyboard or phone. It's a minor annoyance, and is hopefully being addressed by the Swiftkey devs.
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Yes, I'm using swift key.
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The battery life sucks. I used to get 21 hours on a heavy usage and now I only get 15

mrgoodpaul said:
The battery life sucks. I used to get 21 hours on a heavy usage and now I only get 15
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I too am getting horrible battery life. My phone also seems to get quite a bitter hotter after the update as well.

cckeeler said:
I too am getting horrible battery life. My phone also seems to get quite a bitter hotter after the update as well.
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I'm really hoping that the Rom just needs to settle down and it gets better over time

im getting overheat in my vs980 stock 4.4.2

For those with bad battery life - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52283936&postcount=153

Is there a certain version of the lg mobile software support tool I should be using? VS980 isn't there under the install driver options and the software doesn't see the phone even though I can see it in windows explorer when hooked up through usb.