So I got the LG G5 last month on the 16th March. So far the performace is really good, But there are a few irritating problems with the phone. Why is that the LG G5 Battery dies so quick? Literally I charge it over night and it reaches to a good 100% but then within like an hour or 2 it goes down to like 80 or 70 PER CENT Within those hours?! I've tried multiple apps like greenify, Juicedefender and the system battery saver NONE OF THESE WORKED I even disable animations close off each app but no it just drains and drains. Oh yeah another worrying thing as well. At random times my phone will get really hot and my battery will also drain on that too sometimes i have to take out the battery just to let it cool down, how do I reduce these problems i dont want my phone to catch fire for no reason.
Your tips can be really useful to me thank you.
Anyone?
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Before we spit out tips. What version of android is it on? Was it used or new when you bought? Is it getting hot without you using it?
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Disable Facebook app and it's services and you will be good.
Last Facebook update screwed things up.
Nick216ohio said:
Before we spit out tips. What version of android is it on? Was it used or new when you bought? Is it getting hot without you using it?
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Android version: 7.0 Nougat
Phone condition: New.
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Android version: 7.0 Nougat
Phone condition: New.
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You need to tell us what model of the phone it is and the software version below build number. 7.0 is the main OS version but there's still plenty of other variants.
Same issue...
I have the exact same issue. The phone has been factory reset last week. Very few software are running on it (and Facebook is not one of them)
Software info :
Android Version : 7.0
Android Security Patch level : November 1, 2016
Baseband version : MPSS.TH.2.0.c1.4.00042-M8996FAAAANAZM-1.74551.2
Kernel version : 3.18.31
Build Number : NRD90U
Software version : H83120a
Hardware info :
Model number : LG-H831
I will try another factory reset. I won't install any software afterwhile to see if the issue still occur.
Is this what you needed?
DEVICE: LG G5 H850
Android Version: Nougat 7.0
Software version: V20A
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DEVICE: LG G5 H850
Android Version: Nougat 7.0
Software version: V20A
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Pretty much, would've been better if it were like the above post. The only time I've encountered the battery drain of that extremity was when facebook went haywire. I do still have on going issues with the phone only sleep sleeping 50% of time but it's certainly able to last me a day.
ZuneYT said:
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DEVICE: LG G5 H850
Android Version: Nougat 7.0
Software version: V20A
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Rooted?
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Rooted?
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Nah man its complete stock.
same here
I have had this problem a few times now also. Each time I was using FotMob a British Football program - checking game scores etc. After putting away the phone it heats up and later no juice. Normally I can go for 2 days. I throw my phone on the charger each night and I may still be on 50%. I think there is a clear trend with some poorly behaving apps. I had this happen since my update to 20b. Completely stock. Not a solution but maybe more info.
I also have a G5 and when I had this problem before I just did the simple solutions like not using the phone while it is being charged, lowering the brightness of the screen, and turning off WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS. Switch off the apps that you don't use. Go to settings and tap on Application Manager. Select 'ALL' then choose the apps you want to disable. Another reason might be because you did not update your software yet. I hope these help.
Never mind. I found ways to stop it now.
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Disable Facebook app and it's services and you will be good.
Last Facebook update screwed things up.
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This. But I only disabled Facebook messenger and replaced with Disa. There is also a lightweight version of messenger that is available.
Facebook app itself seems to be fine.
In my case after nugat the Facebook app kills my battery in 2 hours and over heats my messenger is fine.
So i just log in with chrome to Facebook and im back at 3.5h sot.
This has been a pretty interesting thread. Ever since I changed phones and got the LG G5, I've been trying to find ways to extend the battery life of my phone. Hopefully the time will come when we won't have to worry about the batteries of smart phones soon.
I am having similar issues but it seems to be when I am using Maps and Camera. When I have location turned on, and am using Google Maps, the phone starts to overheat very badly and the battery will completely drain from 100% within 90 minutes. Even if I turn off Location services, the phone remains warm and battery still drains quickly. The overheating and battery drain also happens when I use the camera. Very annoying as it starts to get uncomfortable to place in my pocket when it is so hot. I am on v20a-EUR-XX.
I think I will have to send it back to LG for another replacement... *sigh*...
check if you are using SD card more than 64GB and if so, remove it and try
Before android 7 never had this issue, i have h850 model. After android 7 the phone heats and drain battery fast, it is related to location i think some wakelock that is never stoped when using location, hope it will be fixed soon
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Android version 5.0.1
build number - LWX48P
JUST NEW MATERIAL DESIGN
im from india
I got the update too in UK but it looks the same to me!
is there any way to get root on 5.0.1?
I updated last night. My battery life seems to have diminished after this update
ronj1986 said:
I updated last night. My battery life seems to have diminished after this update
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its buggy and lagging few force closes
Not had these issues. Not buggy or battery issues used watch all day and on 87 percent
I have notification issues...sometimes the notifications doesn't show up
Mine also seems fine. No crashes or bad battery. It must be linked to an app you've installed that isn't fully lollipop compatible.
Not had notification issues if it helps
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I have notification issues...sometimes the notifications doesn't show up
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Among a couple of other annoying things this is the biggest issue I have. I think it depends on if I have for example a future reminder sitting in the tray. The often times hangouts don't come in then other times it does..
I have the same issues with the notifications not coming in. It's always been Hangouts when I've noticed it. This didn't happen before the L update, that I noticed at least, but the watch was still pretty new to me.
Force closing is a bit much here lately. Seems like when it does it is hung up syncing or something
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Force closing is a bit much here lately. Seems like when it does it is hung up syncing or something
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Mine has been to lately. It looks like it's Google now/search for me every time. Once in a while when I give a voice command.
Newbie to watch
Hi:
I just got one of these off of ebay. I came from a TOQ, which I liked a lot. I thought I would try a Android Wear device. So far, I am not that impressed. I have 2 main issues: 1) the battery life sucks. I got maybe 6 hours. This makes the watch almost useless. 2) the "tilt to wake screen" feature is not working., which might be affecting (1). The watch is running wear 5.0.1.
Does anyone have any advice on how to make the battery life better? I have read that the old OS had a longer battery life. Do you recommend rooting the watch and putting an older OS on it?
Did you factory reset it? 6 hours? That is not right at all.
Check the battery life in the Android Wear app... that should tell you if some rogue app is killing it too.
Some apps you already have on your phone when you pair the watch will install a wear app on your watch without telling you. Like I Heart Radio and Amazon Shopping.
7eregrine said:
Did you factory reset it? 6 hours? That is not right at all.
Check the battery life in the Android Wear app... that should tell you if some rogue app is killing it too.
Some apps you already have on your phone when you pair the watch will install a wear app on your watch without telling you. Like I Heart Radio and Amazon Shopping.
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Thanks. I found SYU ware manager since I posted this and killed some things. Let's see how it goes today.
7eregrine said:
Did you factory reset it? 6 hours? That is not right at all.
Check the battery life in the Android Wear app... that should tell you if some rogue app is killing it too.
Some apps you already have on your phone when you pair the watch will install a wear app on your watch without telling you. Like I Heart Radio and Amazon Shopping.
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Thanks. I found SYU ware manager since I posted this and killed some things. Let's see how it goes today.
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Well, that really didn't help all that much. I took the watch off the charger around 7am and it would have run out of power at around 4:15 - only ~8hrs. I would like it to do better. I will move this discussion to the Battery Life Discussion.
Thanks.
Hello to everyone
I have some issue with battery, camera, ram memory after update to android 5.0.2.
First the battery, my screen light is 40% all the time, i use viber, whatsapp, messenger and chrome about 2h a day. Before the update, my battery life could stand approximately 2 days without charging now is about 4-6 hours a day, Does any of you have the same problem?
Secondly camera, when i shoot a picture from a distance of two meters I realized that the image is blurry in low light, but when i take a picture with flash, phone can't focus the object, in daylight the picture is pretty ok.
And third RAM, after closing down an app, and again open that app i realize that phone force stop that app, but after closing a chrome browser my screen freeze for two seconds..
I lost some Features, smart pause, widget on lock screen, plug and pop, LG Software when plug usb to pc, lost two or three options in connecting method?
I apologise for my bad english.
Thank you in advance
Did you OTA update or flased kdz file?
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AntonPanos said:
Did you OTA update or flased kdz file?
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It's official version for east europe.
OTA.
I used 5.0.2 from first release and I can tell you the truth. It just sucks. LG probably released this update without fixing bugs to make people angry... They did it intentionally to tell us "Sorry, but your phones are aging. They can't handle it better" and forcing us to buy new smartphone. Sad, but It's true. On Lollipop I saw they fixed some things that was broken in Kitkat like GPS, blinking screen on low brightness (in my opinion they just increased minimal screen light equivalent to 10% on kitkat but I can be wrong) and some others. Battery life is worse and RAM management is terrible. I tried to make swap partition or test some settings on Low Memory Killer but without success. Phone started lagging and freezing from sometimes to often. 2 days ago I returned to kitkat and I am on ART. It's faster and more stable. I recommend you to flash good old 4.4.2 too
Some people will probably tell, that fresh rom is always faster. It's truth, but my uncle have D620R too. He's using stock and updated Kitkat on dalvik without root. When I get his g2m in my hand I just noticed that Kitkat is much better compared to my slow Lollipop
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Is there any other solution?
JocaSkljoca said:
Is there any other solution?
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You can try to use xposed with Amplify module and Greenify
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Would like to ask which software version you guys have? I have the V20b-esa-xx
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I have been testing out 5.0.2 on my D618
Here's what I have noticed:
The image quality from camera is the same, gps is still bad (still tells location inaccurately), speed is the same as it was in kitkat, and I believe battery is almost the same as it was in Kitkat. There are also some added and removed features and added lollipop animations
proudtobepinoy said:
Would like to ask which software version you guys have? I have the V20b-esa-xx
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I have been testing out 5.0.2 on my D618
Here's what I have noticed:
The image quality from camera is the same, gps is still bad (still tells location inaccurately), speed is the same as it was in kitkat, and I believe battery is almost the same as it was in Kitkat. There are also some added and removed features and added lollipop animations
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On my d620r with v20c vodafone and v20c poland gps works better. On KK I must wait longer to get fix and it drops connection often. You can try fastergps from google play if you have root
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always factory reset after big ota
V20a-220-05
proudtobepinoy said:
Would like to ask which software version you guys have? I have the V20b-esa-xx
Update
I have been testing out 5.0.2 on my D618
Here's what I have noticed:
The image quality from camera is the same, gps is still bad (still tells location inaccurately), speed is the same as it was in kitkat, and I believe battery is almost the same as it was in Kitkat. There are also some added and removed features and added lollipop animations
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After checking out for a few more days, I can definitely confirm that the battery is a bit worse that it was in Kitkat. A few days ago, after I woke up in the morning the battery went from 24% to 14% (It went down by 10% just being on standby). Plus, I tried charging the phone overnight but to my surprise the phone is not event fully charged yet? I slept at 10:30pm and I woke at 4am, I checked the phone it's still charging at 98%...
Anyone know's how to fix this? I'm getting terrible battery life and one reason I bought the G2 mini over others is it's battery life...
Ca any one find out wat update was because is still:
Android wear: 1.3.0.2442001
Google play: 8.3.01
Android OS: 5.1.1
I'm sittiing at:
1.3.0.2176821
late,
Coz
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maurin3do said:
Ca any one find out wat update was because is still:
Android wear: 1.3.0.2442001
Google play: 8.3.01
Android OS: 5.1.1
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Mine just got the update as well. Same version numbers as yours. I'm also wondering what has changed.
kvnhmmd said:
Mine just got the update as well. Same version numbers as yours. I'm also wondering what has changed.
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Mine too. same version as OP. Probably just a monthly security update?
I just received an update as well. Has anyone figured out what has been changed?
Build number is LCB51
Android Wear version, Google Play Services etc. Is same as OP.
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Mine too. same version as OP. Probably just a monthly security update?
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I was wondering if it was a security update, but I believe that's currently exclusive to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Getting the update now. Going to see what's all about
I assumed it is pushed to our watch? No update when i press system updates on the watch
Zenroid said:
I assumed it is pushed to our watch? No update when i press system updates on the watch
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Connect to your local WiFi and try again
The updates is to do with the ui-google cards. Nothing to do with security issues.
Nothing for me yet even on WiFi new google cards sounds more interesting than security updates then
I just installed the update and immediately noticed there's now a toast that will pop up when you charge the watch or take it off the charger. It could just be me but I don't remember that being there before.
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I just installed the update and immediately noticed there's now a toast that will pop up when you charge the watch or take it off the charger. It could just be me but I don't remember that being there before.
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that toast has been there all this time and even before the update.
Getting the update now. I noticed the Stock Exchange Card has been updated the other day (prior to the update).
Damn I was hoping for Marshmallow though. I can't wait to enable this speaker
ashwin988 said:
that toast has been there all this time and even before the update.
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Weird, I could have sworn I'd never seen them before. Maybe I was experiencing some sort of bug fixed by the update.
http://phandroid.com/2015/12/03/google-now-update-android-wear/
Finally got the update as well but seems I don't see improvement with the bluetooth range at all not sure if I should return it
So nothing new... lets hope 1.4 marshmallow will come soon...
Is it possible that the update fixed some battery drain issues? Its been rather amazing. Charged to 90% yesterday 8am. Heavy notification use, ambient mode, gestures on, navigation to home and ran 6 miles using two tracking apps and pandora. 45% at 12 hours later. I was at 65% before the run but kept the screen on while jogging so i could read my progress. Loving it. Cant wait for custom roms!
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alrosal said:
Is it possible that the update fixed some battery drain issues? Its been rather amazing. Charged to 90% yesterday 8am. Heavy notification use, ambient mode, gestures on, navigation to home and ran 6 miles using two tracking apps and pandora. 45% at 12 hours later. I was at 65% before the run but kept the screen on while jogging so i could read my progress. Loving it. Cant wait for custom roms!
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I've been trying to figure out if something was wrong w/ my battery meter ALL FREAKIN' DAY! My watch has only dropped 1% in 16 hours. Moderate/low notification, i've been streaming music from my phone all day and using the watch to control it etc.
Hi All
Hope this is the right place to post.
So had my G5 since last Friday (17/06) and it's awesome the best phone I've ever had.
I have one small niggling problem that's not really that big a deal but it bugs me, in my battery usage I only ever have
Screen (56% currently)
Phone idle (32% currently)
Cell standby (4% currently)
Voice calls (3% currently)
Android OS (3% currently)
The first few day it only listed screen and cell standby, it's never listed a single game or app no matter how much I use them, spoke with LG support on live chat they don't have a clue what's up and don't seem to think it's a problem which it's not really but like I said it bugs me.
So I thought I'd see if the best tech support on the planet, the good users of xda had a clue to help me get this sorted, the phone works fine in every other way well apart from k9 mail not polling over night due to doze but sorted that now but that's a k9 problem.
So if you have any ideas please share, I've tried factory reset a few time and safe mode too.
Thank you in advance.
Same problem, tried some third party apps to monitor the battery like gsam and I've discovered that apps, even games, if they don't drain much battery are not listed in the settings, and in gsam are inferior to 1% around 0.X%.
Sometimes telegram and whatsapp pop-up, because maybe they drain the battery.
Happen the same on a S7 Edge of a friend of mine, maybe is a Marshmallow bug?
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Killua96 said:
Same problem, tried some third party apps to monitor the battery like gsam and I've discovered that apps, even games, if they don't drain much battery are not listed in the settings, and in gsam are inferior to 1% around 0.X%.
Sometimes telegram and whatsapp pop-up, because maybe they drain the battery.
Happen the same on a S7 Edge of a friend of mine, maybe is a Marshmallow bug?
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Thank you, good to know it's not just me and it could just be a bug in Marshmallow.
I did notice earlier after I posted that when I took it off charge for a minute or so it did list some apps, so looks like as more power was used they must of dropped off because they haven't used enough power to then register any usage.
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Thank you, good to know it's not just me and it could just be a bug in Marshmallow.
I did notice earlier after I posted that when I took it off charge for a minute or so it did list some apps, so looks like as more power was used they must of dropped off because they haven't used enough power to then register any usage.
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Will see, I'm very happy with the battery life, the only two things that drains are the modem (where I work the signal is weak) and the screen
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Same "problem" here. I use Youtube a lot, and it doesnt appear in my battery usage.
Just updated, maybe 10D solved this.
Will report tomorrow
Yep, the proble seem solved in 10D
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Killua96 said:
Just updated, maybe 10D solved this.
Will report tomorrow
Yep, the proble seem solved in 10D
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Good to know just got 10d myself a few minutes ago, but strangely some apps started to appear in battery usage list this morning strange goings on with the G5 but I still love it.
Update: Your right it, it does seem to have fixed it all apps that I've used have appeared in the list.
Yep, solved too with the new update.
I got this phone last night. I'm not sure but the battery drains quite fast (4hours screen time). Heats up insanely fast, like I'm just downloading something or browsing a bit then it goes 50 degrees celsius (cpu z). I'm not rooted yet so everything's in stock. I'm haven't tried stamina mode yet as I'm still testing it with regular use. But seriously, I'm really concern about the battery and heat issues. Any help would be really really appreciated. ??
Baseband version 32.2.A.0.253
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Try updating to the newest software version, 32.2.A.0.305 . It helps with both battery life and heating, or at least it did for me.
Procrustinator said:
Try updating to the newest software version, 32.2.A.0.305 . It helps with both battery life and heating, or at least it did for me.
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Hi, thanks for finding time to reply here. I checked my phone for updates but it seems to be updated. Is there some specific link to get this update?
My best advice to you would be to "Get used to it" :|
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Hi, thanks for finding time to reply here. I checked my phone for updates but it seems to be updated. Is there some specific link to get this update?
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If your phone hasn't received the latest update, you might want to use FlashTool to flash the firmware. If you're nor familiar with Flashtool, do a little searching in the Z5 Compact forums, and you will find plenty of info on how to do it. It's not very difficult.
I'd point you to a couple threads about it, but I'm at work and don't really have the time to find them at the moment.
You could use flashtool to flash the latest firmware + install adb and fastboot (if you unlock your bootloader). Installing a modified kernel will seriously reduce heat issues and reduce battery drain.
Stamina mode is fine, but of course it only works by certain features of your phone when your battery level is getting low.
Thanks for the advices! By using this flashtool, I do not need to be rooted yet, correct? I'll do some searching about this method. Thanks! ????
Sadman Khan said:
My best advice to you would be to "Get used to it" :|
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This. With every update some people claim to have magically have fixed battery and heat issues but reality is the phone has had these problems since launch and they aren't going anywhere.