So, just like anyone else, I have been having way worse battery life than I have been getting than when I first got the phone. Suspecting a defective battery I got a warranty replacement. Which did not help at all. Then I suspected something at a software level. After trying alot of roms avail. I finally walked up to the solution. It was the newest LG G2 OTA updates that were the culprit. I flashed the VS98010B_13 on my phone reset everything and booted and tried to run it for a day. It worked. I mean the fix, now as it used to it stays on 100% for about 2~4 hours and slowly dips down giving me about twice more battery life than I've been getting. I'm very proud of finding this fix and I decided to share it with everyone else. Tell me if it works for you guys or not. (I think downgrading really doesn't do anything LG never added any significant improvements.
Where did you find the b13 update? I'm on 12b and haven't had one issue with my battery
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Oh nvm you meant 10b. 10b was crap for me. It killed my battery.
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Very interesting! I'm on vs98010b with no 13 on the end... Not sure about mine. Seems like the battery has gotten a little worse, but I thought it was just because I've had the phone for 6 months and have flashed several things (flashing kills the battery over time)
Josh
I am on 12B and my battery life is pretty consistent since I bought the phone back in November of last year. I am rooted and have flashed several different ROMs and Kernels. I am currently running Malladus 1.2.8.
How is your usage? I would also suggest getting Greenify to hibernate apps that you aren't actively using. Might be a wakelock issue.
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I recently updated to 5.1, re-rooted, and unencrypted via the NRT. Since doing this my battery life has been less than satisfactory. Before I was getting 12-13 hours, now for the last 3-4 days I've been lucky to get 8. I am a very light user at best. Is this a bug in 5.1? Any thoughts or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Same here, but I'm rooted using Chroma ROM.
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google play services getting you? check your battery stats.
Android OS has been my main culprit since installing 5.1
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Android OS has been my main culprit since installing 5.1
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I just got the verizon nexus 6 with 5.1 on it already (so i can't comment what it was like on 5.0.1). but i am NOT impressed w/ battery life so far... moderate use (not heavy) I can get about 10-11 hrs.
i did notice that the screen takes up most of the battery, with a zopim chat app taking up the second spot (i use it for my business)... i just emailed them to see if they could forward it to their developer to optimize it for the update. we shall see.
Not sure what, but you guys are obviously doing something really weird to get that bad of battery life. Mine will do **THREE DAYS*** on light use (what you are all claiming).
That is up from about 1.5-2 days on 5.0.
Please post how battery life is working versus kitkat.
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Mine isn't noticeably different. In fact I haven't noticed any issues whatsoever (yet). It's only been a few days though.
Going from jelly bean to kitkat killed battery life... Took the sacrifice because of GPS bug, Wife was hoping this update would help it.
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Mine is horrible....weather app GPS stays on constantly...I can't get a whole day anymore. Weather app and some Daemon something says battery usage high. I even put weather refresh to every 3 hours and GPS icon constantly pops up in notification panel
I surprisingly get better battery life on Lollipop I came from Firekat and that ROM is better in terms of battery life from stock 4.4.2, but this Lollipop kills it all for me!
My battery life is better than it was, but the thing I'm really happy about is that my GPS locks MUCH faster than it was.
I am really liking lollipop. My battery life was good previously on firekat but I am sitting over 10% more battery and used it more than usual.
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I surprisingly get better battery life on Lollipop I came from Firekat and that ROM is better in terms of battery life from stock 4.4.2, but this Lollipop kills it all for me!
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I wanna pull the plug on this, also from FireKat. How did you do it? Did you just accept the OTA somehow? or did you use the Lollipop backup recovery method?
I don't know what should I do.
Thanks in advance...
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I wanna pull the plug on this, also from FireKat. How did you do it? Did you just accept the OTA somehow? or did you use the Lollipop backup recovery method?
I don't know what should I do.
Thanks in advance...
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I flashed back to stock unrooted NC2 with odin. I did lose all my stuff though so I would backup before you do. Or you could odin to stock OC1 and save all the trouble of OTA.
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I flashed back to stock unrooted NC2 with odin. I did lose all my stuff though so I would backup before you do. Or you could odin to stock OC1 and save all the trouble of OTA.
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Thanks a lot. I was thinking of trying to keep the root. But it's a very involved procedure. I'll just ODIN back and accept the OTA...
I would safestrap if you desire root. Worst case scenario you then use odin to stock.
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Battery life has been great with 5.0, disable all ATT bloat and Greenify all your user apps. Pushing 10 hours of on-screen time with stock battery.
My battery life has taken a nose dive. I am stock not rooted and barely make it 8-9 hours before I am at 5%. Before the OTA I was easily a day and a half. Something has changed. I have disable some "Unified Daemon (EUR)" but it didn't help much at all.
Can anyone help. After updating battery life sucks. Having issue with interest as well. If I turn WiFi then 4G let won't work.
Well an update or something changed last night as now my battery life is ba c k to normal if not better. For the past week I was lucky to get 8 hours on a charge even in power save mode. Today after 8 hours I am still at 88 percent, battery meter now projects 3 days left before recharge. The offending app must have been discovered and corrected. I am on stock.
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Hey all,
Last flashed on FireKat months ago and have been wanting to try out Lollipop but wasn't sure if it was ready yet. When I first used FireNote, mega was remarking that it would be a few months before KK was stable enough for everyday use.
Have you guys had good luck with custom Lollipop ROMs? Which ones are the "best" ones you'd recommend?
Sorta/not really. It's like smooth sailing except when you hit the new barrier reef. But it's pretty!
Latest problem is Viper4android can't possibly work until someone figures out how to enable SELinux Permissive mode. Then like something makes a noise or vibrates in a way you might have tamed with Xposed before. But there's no Xposed either. How do you fix it? You don't. I might just go back. Sucks either way for now.
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How's battery life? Right now on firekat I'm losing 35% per hour during use and 3-5% per hour when the screen is off. Can't be worse than this.
Lack of viper and xposed aren't really deal breakers for me. Inconvenient, yes, but still usable.
Root WiFi hotspot still works I assume?
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How's battery life? Right now on firekat I'm losing 35% per hour during use and 3-5% per hour when the screen is off. Can't be worse than this.
Lack of viper and xposed aren't really deal breakers for me. Inconvenient, yes, but still usable.
Root WiFi hotspot still works I assume?
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Running FK with them specs you didn't have something setup right. I'm lucky to use 35% in a days time just saying.
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Running FK with them specs you didn't have something setup right. I'm lucky to use 35% in a days time just saying.
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Yeah i figured that battery life was abnormal. Not sure how to troubleshoot it, though. When I go to look at battery stats (using GSam) to troubleshoot, it just shows that most of the battery is consumed by "Android System," followed closely by "Kernel (Android OS)." Battery life was pretty good when I first installed FK, but has gone down considerably since first install.
Any idea on how to further troubleshoot?
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Yeah i figured that battery life was abnormal. Not sure how to troubleshoot it, though. When I go to look at battery stats (using GSam) to troubleshoot, it just shows that most of the battery is consumed by "Android System," followed closely by "Kernel (Android OS)." Battery life was pretty good when I first installed FK, but has gone down considerably since first install.
Any idea on how to further troubleshoot?
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Not knowing how you flashed it. always odin back to nc2 then install ss and tr, Flash the rom. Never use battery saver. When using greenify make sure its uncheck in exposed. Don't forget to make a fresh backup of nc2 before flashing fk. But the new build v19n3 and v19n4 is running awesome. Great battery life. One thing I do is in tb is to change Google play services from system app to user app. Hope this helps. If you try this rom again and have problems jump over to the fk thread since this thread is Q&A on LP.
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Not knowing how you flashed it. always odin back to nc2 then install ss and tr, Flash the rom. Never use battery saver. When using greenify make sure its uncheck in exposed. Don't forget to make a fresh backup of nc2 before flashing fk. But the new build v19n3 and v19n4 is running awesome. Great battery life. One thing I do is in tb is to change Google play services from system app to user app. Hope this helps. If you try this rom again and have problems jump over to the fk thread since this thread is Q&A on LP.
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Yeah I installed FK according to all the instructions and it was fine at first. Battery life degraded over time, though. To give you an idea how long ago I installed FK, I have version 4 installed.
What I'm wondering is if i should install the newest FK or jump over to lollipop. Anyone have any experience with both? Curious to see all the new lollipop features and battery life can hardly get WORSE compared to what I have now.
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Yeah I installed FK according to all the instructions and it was fine at first. Battery life degraded over time, though. To give you an idea how long ago I installed FK, I have version 4 installed.
What I'm wondering is if i should install the newest FK or jump over to lollipop. Anyone have any experience with both? Curious to see all the new lollipop features and battery life can hardly get WORSE compared to what I have now.
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Well I tried LP on a older Nexus 4 that I just tinker with I didn't like it. I put slimkat back on it. But the new fk builds is great. I'm not switching to LP unless Mega does a LP build for us. Like I said if you try the new builds just jump over on the threads if you have problems.
It looks like allianceROM is one of the more popular Lollipop ROMs. Anyone have any opinions on it vs firekat?
I think lollipop roms are awesome, very smooth. I did have better battery life with 4.3 then anyother
Hi everyone,
I have extensive PC knowledge and have been in the computer repair industry for years. I do not, however, have hardly any experience with Android devices beyond daily use.
I purchased a used Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N900A (AT&T), which was previously unlocked. The phone is now under service with MetroPCS.
When I first boot by phone, it shows a quick screen with a picture of a padlock, which is UNLOCKED, and the word "Custom."
So, I was reading up on Cyanogenmod, but everything that I can find about it says that it is unable to be used with the AT&T version of the phone. I was going to follow this guide a guide from the CM wiki page but as you can see it says that I shouldn't try.
Most of the info I found was from early or mid 2014. Now that it is nearing the end of 2015, has anything changed?
If I cannot use CM, what ROM would you all recommend? My main reasons for installing a ROM are:
-A Spartan design. I like everything very clean, very minimalistic, with no fuss.
-Saving battery life
-Getting rid of all the bloatware and AT&T **** on my phone which doesn't even work because I'm on MetroPCS
-Customization (does this have to even be listed?)
-Phone as a hotspot without paying MetroPCS $5 a month
I am basically a complete noob when it comes to Android modding. I rooted an old Avid ZTE I had, but never did anything else with it and that is as far as my knowledge goes.
If anyone would be so kind as to recommend a ROM, and link a guide for installation that I can follow, I would be very grateful. Who knows, I might end up becoming a regular poster here.
Boot loader is still locked so no roms that require a custom kernel.
I personally recommend you to root your phone, disable bloat and install nova launcher.
Most all roms are simply user hacks since we are stuck on touchwiz.
Some are quite good but in the end they are still stock based.
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Sorry as for hotspot I believe there are xposed modules for that.
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Check out allience rom. I can go almost two days on battery.
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Or dynamic rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2709701
Ive been using Arryamod, which is pretty close to stock with some tweaks and no bloatware and lots of customization.. Plus its lollipop
I read that a lot of problems in OOS system.
battery draining.
sometimes device didnt boot up after ota update or stuck on TWRP recovery.
OP releases many updates and I need to wipe this phone after new version was released? why?
I'm debating whether to buy the device.
I have none of these issues
No issues here.
I would say that these are mainly user errors..., They can not read correctly (or make a little research) before doing something to their phone.
Battery drain can be caused by a lot of things (user settings, faulty apps, signal and so on).
No issue here about battery life nor updates.
Hi,
Flashed 3 or 4 times my 1+3 before offering it to my son when I received my 1+3T, also immediately unlocked and flashed from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4 and now on RR 7.1.1 by nicesoni_ash and never had one issue during processing.
I agree with @Manson79, mostly user errors. Reading some topics and not only one may save from a lot of fear and time...
Cheerz
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I've had 0 issues even on a custom ROM and a really good SoT too.
I think a lot of fears come from other people who do very silly things to their phones and do not understand what they are doing.
Buy one, its a pretty good phone.
Yeah, i'm running android N and oos 4 stable. After the ota update, the phone was lagging,but then ive made a factory reset and now everything runs incredibly smooth. Im very pleased with it
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many problems in OP3T !!!
even GPS problems..
No issues like this at all. Maybe Oxygen is not the most picture perfect and polished OS but definitely none of there happen
How the OP3T is the fastest phone in the world if the oxygen is didnt stable system?
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many problems in OP3T !!!
even GPS problems..
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Yes, READ comments. I have NO issues with OP3T running OOS 4.0.1
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How the OP3T is the fastest phone in the world if the oxygen is didnt stable system?
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I don't understand you.
The OP3T never tried to claim a title of 'fastest phone in the world'. It has great hardware yes. Oxygen OS is a great software.
It seems you're intent on bashing the OP3T, so you're better advised buying a more expensive phone.
Not sure if OP is trolling... anyway, most problems are user errors. Most don't even clear the cache after doing a major OS update like from MM to N, or install random apps that they have no clue what they do in the background, and then go complain.
I am using latest OOS and have zero issues. Battery life and speed are amazing.
On the initial Nougat update I had horrible battery. With the newest update, getting amazing battery. Everything seems to be running great.
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On the initial Nougat update I had horrible battery. With the newest update, getting amazing battery. Everything seems to be running great.
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That's funny. I had the exact opposite of you on the initial release. Good battery, poor performance. At least scrolling certain apps. But I agree, this release is running great.
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That's funny. I had the exact opposite of you on the initial release. Good battery, poor performance. At least scrolling certain apps. But I agree, this release is running great.
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Will just leave this here.
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Will just leave this here.
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So I guess you figured out your battery drain issue? Have you had that battery performance on the nexus 6p before?
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So I guess you figured out your battery drain issue? Have you had that battery performance on the nexus 6p before?
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Not quite this good. It was this newest update that seemed to fix it. Happy with the entire phone now.
I do have one problem with battery life as in attachment. But I still find it a decent phone with at least 4hrs of SOT. I'll still struggling finding what causes the issue but no success so far. I strongly recommend the phone, since battery is the Google issue.
I got no issue since I got my OP3T, mine is chinese version A3010 run 3.5.4 and now 4.0.1. I mostly got 6 to nearly 7 hours of SOT. I play game about 15mn to 30mn each charge and watch youtube all day long. I rocks two sim cards and mostly use wifi. If I use 4g, battery drop very fast.
This is on Official RR 7.1.1 not bad for being on cellular network about 80% of the time.
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