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[Q] GB and battery life

Have been on GB for awhile now and for the most part, I'm loving it. I just read a post where the op says that Darky's gb roms have great battery life. I've been on Contiuum 5.5 since it came out, and I love Cezar's roms, but the gb one's seem to have less than desirable batt life.
I guess my question is this: It's been awhile now since I was on froyo and so I can't recall how battery life was. I'm thinking about going back, just for that reason. BUT, don't want to go through the whole process if batt life was just minimally better than 2.3.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Friday

My battery life is much better with these I9000 GB roms than it ever has been.
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I agree also, my battery life is the best it ever was. When I come home from school my battery life is around 80-75 percent. Versus on Froyo which would be around 45-40 percent.
Sent from a boy who lives in the City of the Damned, whose parents are Rage and Love.

GB has given me great battery life. On days that I play with my phone for hours (games, music, news, txt) at the end of day I would have less than 10% battery life. Now (with exception of when I use Netflix on 3G) I can't get below 60%.

Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...

FridayJ said:
Is everyone uc??? Perhaps (most likely ) I haven't got voltage set, or tweaks tweaked correctly...
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No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.

24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?

nakedninja42 said:
No, I use xcal kernel because I felt like my phone had more problems when I tried playing with UC or OC. Where I found my control is managing what apps are installed on my phone. Anything that is a resource hog is gone and anything that needs to connect to data all the time is gone. I also froze (using TiBu) google maps and SNS. Those two items on gingerbread seem to drain my battery.
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I've been wondering what SNS is.

alexige said:
I've been wondering what SNS is.
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It allows you to sync your Facebook, Twitter and Myspace accounts with the phone. Since I use Tweetdeck the only other purpose I would have it is to sync Facebook pictures with my contacts. Since I flash so often, its one less thing I have to link.
I learned that if I freeze SNS and install the Facebook app, I still can't sync the contact pictures.

I am on hour 36 with moderate usage with over half a battery left using Contiuum 5.x It is awesome!

I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.

FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I get about 18 hours on a battery with heavy use. Have you updated maps? The new updates are killers on battery sense it always restarts. Do you leave wifi and by on? These will also cause your battery to drain

KTownGT said:
24 hour battery life with heavy usage is doable.
EDIT: Did you flash to a GB ROM without clearing battery stats/flashing without a fully charged battery?
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KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...

I'm with Fred! Lucky if I get 10-12 hrs without having to plug tele in!
FredOak3 said:
I've tried several GB kernals and ROMs and my battery life sucks!
I can't get 24 hours out of any of them even with minimal use.
And yes I did a charge bump and no I don't have any widgets running and yes I froze maps and no I'm not OC'd.
I'm lucky if I get 10-12 hours.
I love GB and the speed and smoothness but this battery thing is giving me pause.
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I can easily get 20 hours, and I work in a giant metal and brick cage that is impervious to all radio signals.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

FridayJ said:
KT, I did flash with full batt, but didn't clear batt stats...
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I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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KTownGT said:
I would try clearing battery stats; what's the worst that can happen? You're battery life being bad?
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LOL @ KT!
Maybe I just need a new batt?

For those that haven't saw it yet:

Now that my battery stats are functioning after a few cycles, I'm getting phenomenal battery life.
The picture below documents it. It's probably light use for most of you - an handful of calls, checking my email every couple hours, an hour of music playing on a walk. I also shut off auto-rotate last night, hearing that it may solve the "charge drop" issue, and maybe that contributes to the following.

Today android os usage was about 5 hours and killed my battery. Could not get it to stop either even with reboots. Very annoying. Hasnt been happening much till today.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

What is reasonable battery use?

I diconnected my phone from the charger, and it was at 100% at 830 this morning and now at 1130 it is at 56%/. This is after probably abotu 1-1.5 hours of browsing the web on my phone and configuring widgets.
I was wondering if that is normal battery drain? I have been flashing my phone quite a bit lately and it seems that the battery life is not that great. I have already recalibrated my battery as well.
Also my phone is overclocked to 1.3ghz.

You might want a second opinion but I'm going to say yes
If there is evil in this world it lurks in the hearts of man.

1130 AM? If so that is not good at all.

Not good at all, I am running Pinnacle 1.2 for 29. 5 hours since last charge and I have 29% remaining, that includes roughly 3 hours display on time and just shy of 1 hour phone calls.
Very happy with Pinnacle 1.2

ridethelight said:
1130 AM? If so that is not good at all.
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Yeah 11:30 AM. Perhaps I should look into flashing another rom, although I have been very happy with Apex 9.2 except with this battery issue.

BumRush said:
Yeah 11:30 AM. Perhaps I should look into flashing another rom, although I have been very happy with Apex 9.2 except with this battery issue.
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If you're on Apex, try going without the overclock and switching to the DarkCore kernel. That might help your battery life a little bit.

Did the phone feel hot?
What kind of sites were you hitting? White background? Lot's of Flash?
You've got three things that I see hitting your battery hard - the data transfers, the screen and the CPU usage. Depending on how your overclock is set up, I'd guess it's causing your CPU to use at least 30% more juice.
I can get days of idle time, but only hours of heavy use out of my battery. There are certain web sites and games that seem to suck the battery dry.

jmtheiss said:
If you're on Apex, try going without the overclock and switching to the DarkCore kernel. That might help your battery life a little bit.
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I am already running dc 3.1. I may try to undo the overclock.
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Did the phone feel hot?
What kind of sites were you hitting? White background? Lot's of Flash?
You've got three things that I see hitting your battery hard - the data transfers, the screen and the CPU usage. Depending on how your overclock is set up, I'd guess it's causing your CPU to use at least 30% more juice.
I can get days of idle time, but only hours of heavy use out of my battery. There are certain web sites and games that seem to suck the battery dry.
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Nothing really intensive. Mostly just xda forums.

I notice that I get much better battery life with i897 roms vs i9000 roms.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Sounds like you have an app running wild.

Well when my phone is on standby, I find that it drains at a reasonable rate. It is just when I use my phone that it drains fairly quickly.

You're doing it wrong.
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MZCaptivate said:
Not good at all, I am running Pinnacle 1.2 for 29. 5 hours since last charge and I have 29% remaining, that includes roughly 3 hours display on time and just shy of 1 hour phone calls.
Very happy with Pinnacle 1.2
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29.5 hours? With Pinnacle 1.2 I'm getting about 8 hours with moderate use

Agree with jsfLip!
With moderate use, my Cap get out of battery in 8-10h.
Iam using Pinnacle 1.2, its standby status is quite good! 1-2% after 8h standby at night!
Please have a try!
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What's your combo? (rom, kernel, modem?), Ben?

I agree with Ben. You're doing something wrong.
Sent from my Captivate

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29.5 hours? With Pinnacle 1.2 I'm getting about 8 hours with moderate use
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and whats the definition of moderate use? Sorry I ask this but I have seen people with 4:30 hours of display calling it moderate.
Plus you need to caliberate your battery

Can't figure it out.
To: miztaken1312
I've tried different settings on my phone and have not been able to get your kind of battery life.
I recently flashed MosaicVI and using the JV6 modem. After using this modem I have been getting better results but not quite as good as your.
What I'm trying to find out is there any certain setting you have your phone in, i.e. only on WiFI, Auto Display, sound, Disabling Your data when not using it? I would really love to get this kind of results. I'm sure everyone else would to.
Oh, I've also cycled my phone battery 3 times everytime I flash a different ROM. Please school me up on how to get those results.
P.S. I tried to quote you and reply but me being new to posting comments did not let me.

Go to market and download "Data switch". You will see marked improvement to your battery life.

So is that the secret? "Data switch".

All it does is turn off data usage so your cappy is not using data for all the background services (synch and such). Its what I use when I want the battery to last and don't need a data connection.

Why I think battery life sucks so bad...

I usually have a multimeter on my counter for my ecig mods, and, since I change batteries pretty often now that I have spares for my thrill, I'be been randomly checking thier voltages. What I've found is that a "dead" battery is at ~3.7V. That's not dead. These phones should discharge to something like 3.2V. Anyone have any idea as to why they would read nominal voltage as dead?
Sent from my LG-P925 using XDA App

After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
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lastdeadmouse said:
After few more charges, it discharges to about 3.43V, still high I think, so I'll keep an eye on it.
Sent from my LG-P925 using XDA App
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What you're saying actually makes sense. The system has to calibrate itself to the battery. This is why battery life tends to improve over time as you discharge and charge the phone. There are ways to kick start the process but eventually it will do it on it's own. My battery life has tripled after a couple weeks.
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i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"

puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot

josuelopezv said:
Try installing a ROM that removes some of the services that a stock rom has this way will save your battery time a lot
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what do you suggest??

puzzl31 said:
what do you suggest??
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I have installed several ROMS i am new to the LG Thrill but with my previous HTC G2 y used cyanogen but as per this is a 3D phone cyanogen is not ready yet. But the best rom i have tried so far has been the thriller
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1261704
although is missing good things from the newer firmwares like the 3d app converter.
But i'm ussing the thriller Rom until LG releases the Gingerbread official update that comes with great new stuff

Here's what I've found out about the battery. It's apparently a known issue by google addressed in later updates.
Here's a great method to work with it for now.

puzzl31 said:
i am wondering why i have fully charged and discharged my phone numerous times and my battert is horrible. its gotten worse. i unplug it with 100% at 5:30 a.m. its now 9:40 a.m. and im at 62%! i have sent 2 text messages this morning and my app manager has no open apps. Why would my battery be so bad? i have had this phone since the day it came out and love it. im not real familiar with all the "rooting" or all this fancy stuff but i do know that the phone should have a better battery life than it does.
Does anyone know what i should be looking at to see what is killing the battery so fast. almost 40% in 4 hras and i havent even used it?
thanks.
"puzzld"
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This mine with 48% battery life left. I found out on mine if you play one of the 3d games and don't exit out of right it continued to run and eat the battery. I use wifi where ever it is available. Always leave it on unless I am on the road then I turn it off so it won't be hunting for a connection. Have gone 28 hours and have 30% battery left.
Had phone since September 4th and battery life has improved tremendously. Stock and unrooted.
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My phone is stock and unrooted as well. i charged it this morning from completly dead. started to charge at 6:30 am and took untill almost 11:00 before it was a 100%. now it is 1:30 pm i have sent 1 text message and thats it except meybe waking it up to see if i have missed calls or txt and my battery is down to 44%! 2 hrs really? i have not used it. Wifi is on but should not be sucking that much juice. i trashed the yahoo news app. my weather app is set to update manually. i dont have anything special done to my ohone like all these forums suggest the "rooting" or special rom's. it pretty stock.
I have used the battery calibrator app and it didnt seem to do anything for me. anybody else have other suggestions? i basically get about 3-4 hrs of battery life berfore having to charge unless i use the phone then i get about 2.
oh yeah and my wife has the same phone, some battery issues but i think her's is normal. so to see if it was the battery or my phone we swapped batteries. my original is in her phone working fine and i have her's and still crappy so i know it wasnt just a bad battery.
what do i do next??

You could install CPU spy from the market and see what it is showing you. See if it ever gets into deep sleep mode. I also use battery monitor widget from the market to see what all is using battery.
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Replace Battery?

What kind of battery life should I expect typically out of this phone that only sees relatively light use? I do keep wifi, bluetooth and google location services on at all times, and usually use the phone for occasional calls, texting and some web browsing I rarely stream and almost never play games. The battery life in the attached screenshots seems a little extreme, no? Please let me know what you think. I am running the Columbian variant of Marshmallow on a G800M. It is not rooted, but I debloated it considerably using TWRP file manager. Battery life is similar on any ROM I run on it however.
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So I am thinking I am having battery issues. I purchased this phone just a couple of weeks ago used, so I am not surprised to see that the battery may have seen better days, as the phone is probably 3 years old. Does anyone have any recommendation for a new battery? I see lots of genuine article samsung batteries being sold as new, and under ten dollars pretty much anywhere but my concern is that they have been sitting on the shelves for years now. Has anyone had any experience with these batteries? Any recommendations for something better?
Also, I am seeing both "eb-bg800bbe" and "eb-bg800cbe" batteries available for this phone. Currently, I have the "B" variant, but does it matter?
Thank you for your time

appye said:
What kind of battery life should I expect typically out of this phone that only sees relatively light use? I do keep wifi, bluetooth and google location services on at all times, and usually use the phone for occasional calls, texting and some web browsing I rarely stream and almost never play games. The battery life in the attached screenshots seems a little extreme, no? Please let me know what you think. I am running the Columbian variant of Marshmallow on a G800M. It is not rooted, but I debloated it considerably using TWRP file manager. Battery life is similar on any ROM I run on it however.
So I am thinking I am having battery issues. I purchased this phone just a couple of weeks ago used, so I am not surprised to see that the battery may have seen better days, as the phone is probably 3 years old. Does anyone have any recommendation for a new battery? I see lots of genuine article samsung batteries being sold as new, and under ten dollars pretty much anywhere but my concern is that they have been sitting on the shelves for years now. Has anyone had any experience with these batteries? Any recommendations for something better?
Also, I am seeing both "eb-bg800bbe" and "eb-bg800cbe" batteries available for this phone. Currently, I have the "B" variant, but does it matter?
Thank you for your time
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That seems to be pretty normal battery life for what you have explained. If you keep your data on that is going to waste your battery dramatically and if you are constantly going in and out of service then that is also a big battery drainer. Try to only use data when you need and change the GPS to low power mode instead of high accuracy and you should see a difference in battery life. I don't think you need a new battery at this stage.

appye said:
What kind of battery life should I expect typically out of this phone that only sees relatively light use? I do keep wifi, bluetooth and google location services on at all times, and usually use the phone for occasional calls, texting and some web browsing I rarely stream and almost never play games. The battery life in the attached screenshots seems a little extreme, no? Please let me know what you think. I am running the Columbian variant of Marshmallow on a G800M. It is not rooted, but I debloated it considerably using TWRP file manager. Battery life is similar on any ROM I run on it however.
So I am thinking I am having battery issues. I purchased this phone just a couple of weeks ago used, so I am not surprised to see that the battery may have seen better days, as the phone is probably 3 years old. Does anyone have any recommendation for a new battery? I see lots of genuine article samsung batteries being sold as new, and under ten dollars pretty much anywhere but my concern is that they have been sitting on the shelves for years now. Has anyone had any experience with these batteries? Any recommendations for something better?
Also, I am seeing both "eb-bg800bbe" and "eb-bg800cbe" batteries available for this phone. Currently, I have the "B" variant, but does it matter?
Thank you for your time
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I think you can buy a battery on amazon for 10$. Li-Ion batteries lose their capacity mostly as result of charging-cycled and not for lying around. And i would buy the same variant.

Well, I got impatient and purchased a generic replacement battery off of eBay. It is billed as 2300mah, so we will see what happens.
I don't want to babysit the settings everywhere I go so I will just deal with whatever battery life I get.
Anyway, I am sitting in a waiting room right now and saw it switch from LTE (and one shaky bar on reception) to H+ and the reception bars went all the way to four!
I got the G800M variant because I wanted LTE under Cricket (at&t network) ... I am wondering if LTE has been burning a lot of battery. Both at my home and at work, I rarely have more than two bars.
Anyway, I changed network mode in settings to WCDMA/GSM (disabling LTE) to see what happens. Are there going to be areas where these modes are not available and LTE is? I don't mind the speed hit if it improves battery life, but I do like having coverage.

Oh wow... That made a huge difference in standby time. I only burned about 2% over ten hours last night!
With LTE enabled, I would burn at least thirty...

Battery performance of Moto G5s plus

Hi,
I want to understand battery performance of Moto G5s plus. I am seeing that battery life of my phone is very poor. It goes down to 70% from 100% in an hour with just usage of YouTube.
When i received my cell phone i haven't full charge it's battery before starting it. I have full charged my battery when it was 40% remaining. While the official manual says that, we need to full charge it before starting our cell phone.
Does Moto G5s plus need full charge of battery before start (when we are starting our phone just after unboxing)?
Anyone have similar issue?
How's battery life holding for others?
Thanks,
Abhishek

abhishek17 said:
Hi,
I want to understand battery performance of Moto G5s plus. I am seeing that battery life of my phone is very poor. It goes down to 70% from 100% in an hour with just usage of YouTube.
When i received my cell phone i haven't full charge it's battery before starting it. I have full charged my battery when it was 40% remaining. While the official manual says that, we need to full charge it before starting our cell phone.
Does Moto G5s plus need full charge of battery before start (when we are starting our phone just after unboxing)?
Anyone have similar issue?
How's battery life holding for others?
Thanks,
Abhishek
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My phone's battery drained 12% for three and a half hour screen use (browsing, messenger etc. and Mortal Kombat - only 20 mins, though). The screen is almost at the least brightness.
I too faced q similar issue as yours. Turned out it was because of some app Battery HD or DNS something app (used to block ads) or maybe some other third-party app. I uninstalled all those and the performance improved significantly.
Give it a try.

I got 11 hours from 100% with 5 hours screen-on time

tarun0 said:
My phone's battery drained 12% for three and a half hour screen use (browsing, messenger etc. and Mortal Kombat - only 20 mins, though). The screen is almost at the least brightness.
I too faced q similar issue as yours. Turned out it was because of some app Battery HD or DNS something app (used to block ads) or maybe some other third-party app. I uninstalled all those and the performance improved significantly.
Give it a try.
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Did you full charge your phone before you switch it ON for the first time?

I would check for a rogue app draining the battery. I've had the phone for a week now and the shortest SOT I've had was 3hrs. That was with streaming music through Bluetooth while driving for 13hrs. My average ok normal day has been 5hrs with 35 percent left on battery.

No issues with battery life here. I didn't fully charge my device when I first unboxed it. Matter of fact, I didn't charge it until that night.
I've had this device since Saturday, so it's hard to say exactly how well battery life is exactly, but based on what I've seen so far...it's pretty damn good. I took it off the charger 5 hours ago and it currently says I have 2 days left. I haven't used it much today as I'm at work, but I have a feeling something isn't right with your setup [emoji848]

Being nobody else has posted any screenshots, figured I'd show mine [emoji6]
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Did you full charge your phone before you switch it ON for the first time?
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No. Instead, I used it until the battery discharged to 0. Then I charged it to 100 and used it till the battery drained to 0. Did the same like thrice. I really doubt such a thing had any effect on battery, though.

tarun0 said:
No. Instead, I used it until the battery discharged to 0. Then I charged it to 100 and used it till the battery drained to 0. Did the same like thrice. I really doubt such a thing had any effect on battery, though.
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Did you try holding it in your left hand, hopping on your right foot, waving it around and around your head, shouting "go battery go go charge"? I reckon it's got as much chance of making a difference as anything else. It's a lithium ion battery - just charge it when you think that you're going to need it to last longer than it would if you didn't charge it, and make sure you fully charge it if you intend leaving it unused for months. Anything else is cargo cult nonsense.

Webern said:
Did you try holding it in your left hand, hopping on your right foot, waving it around and around your head, shouting "go battery go go charge"? I reckon it's got as much chance of making a difference as anything else. It's a lithium ion battery - just charge it when you think that you're going to need it to last longer than it would if you didn't charge it, and make sure you fully charge it if you intend leaving it unused for months. Anything else is cargo cult nonsense.
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Haha! I only replied to what the OP asked. BTW my intention to drain the battery to 0 before charging was to measure the time it takes to get fully charged from 0.

Webern said:
Did you try holding it in your left hand, hopping on your right foot, waving it around and around your head, shouting "go battery go go charge"?.
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I had to lol at that. Moved to the Moto from a seriously battery impaired Nexus 6P and that was about the only thing I didn't try.
"Go battery go go charge" is now our household meme for "I have to charge my phone". Thank you.

tarun0 said:
No. Instead, I used it until the battery discharged to 0. Then I charged it to 100 and used it till the battery drained to 0. Did the same like thrice. I really doubt such a thing had any effect on battery, though.
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Yes, you are right. Old batteries needed to full charge before switching it ON for the first. What i find surprising is that Moto is saying the same for new generation batteries and printing it in Manual.

I finally got a fresh new g5s plus and so far I can't complain about the battery life. On my second charge I got 2 days of battery with 8 and a half hour of screen on, but only a few calls, and almost always wifi. The next days I'm using the phone lot heavier with lot of GPS and calls, so we'll see then how it's going but so far I'm very satisfied.
By the way I haven't fully charged the phone out of the box but I've waited untill it was almost fischarged