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I keep reading all the posts here and elsewhere referencing people's overwhelmingly positive experiences with the touchwiz update. Since applying the update, however, my battery life has gotten much worse, even though I have the same homescreen setup (ie., I'm not using any of Samsung's widgets. I also would say the experience has gotten laggier and less smooth. There is often a "catch " at the pivot point between homescreen, very momentary, and but not there for me before the update. The browser too force closes for me often, unless I regularly remember to open up Samsung's task manager and clear memory. I like some features of the update, like being able to type in the forums without lag, for instance, the but wish these other issues hadn't come along with it.
danwc said:
I keep reading all the posts here and elsewhere referencing people's overwhelmingly positive experiences with the touchwiz update. Since applying the update, however, my battery life has gotten much worse, even though I have the same homescreen setup (ie., I'm not using any of Samsung's widgets. I also would say the experience has gotten laggier and less smooth. There is often a "catch " at the pivot point between homescreen, very momentary, and but not there for me before the update. The browser too force closes for me often, unless I regularly remember to open up Samsung's task manager and clear memory. I like some features of the update, like being able to type in the forums without lag, for instance, the but wish these other issues hadn't come along with it.
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Sounds like something went wrong with your update imo. A lot of people are happy about TW not for the UI changes etc, but for the performance and stability improvements.
Have you tried a factory reset?
Hello doesn't know if it can be helpfull...but i experienced a laggy TW...and in order to try chrome bookmark to sync i tried to delete browser cache and data, and to stop it. The i relaunch the browser...and reconfigure my account for bookmarks sync...now there is a new folder called chrome, but still no my chrome bookmarks...but..tadaaa...i have no more lag on my honeycomb desk, and even the application draxer are very smooth...i was nearly decided to make a full wipe ...but right now i'm not, and i'm really happy with the smoothy interface of honeycomb...i will post a video for new features on my blog so you will be able to see if you consider it laggy or not, but i don't. It's in french but, well videos are videos ;-)
http://honeytab.eklablog.net/
Figured out some things, much happier camper now
Just to update:. I did a factory reset which didn't seem to make all that much difference, but in looking through the settings I noticed the gps was set continuously on and the screen brightness was not on auto. Turned off the gps and set brightness to auto and battery life has more than doubled now. A huge improvement, and and the "catch" when pivoting between homescreens seems gone too. Don't knowing it was any one of those things by themselves or the combination, and but I feel much better about the update now.
I keep the display at what looks like about 30%. I always leave GPS on. My battery life is fine.
However, on the first day after the download it went down much quicker than normal. I believe that's because it was a Saturday and I was spending a lot of time lurking around TouchWiz. Since then I see no difference than before TW.
My battery used to last a couple of days with light usage. Now im lucky if i can get 6 hours. I even wiped battery stats but still battery life is terrible....
UPDATE
I fully charged my battery, reset battery stats in recovery, unplugged and rebooted. After 10 minutes im at 78% battery. I hope its not pershoots new kernel thats causing it....
no issues here; try a reflash
Yeah i went ahead and did that. Went to stock, updated to 3.1, updated to google movie, and now when I go to update, it says no update available. Is the touchwiz update fully available yet? I would rather get the ota instead of a rom version...
With Nodo my LG has battery life little more than 24h, even when heavy used for gaming, email or internet. Mango version used almost exactly same, has battery life about half of it, and after 16h is totally dead. Turning on batery life saving in Mango does not change anything. I have open-marked phone, and to download mango I had to full flash old european firmware and upgrade to Mango. Any comments or solutions?
I noticed the same, battery drain is going down much faster then before.
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With Nodo my LG has battery life little more than 24h, even when heavy used for gaming, email or internet. Mango version used almost exactly same, has battery life about half of it, and after 16h is totally dead. Turning on batery life saving in Mango does not change anything. I have open-marked phone, and to download mango I had to full flash old european firmware and upgrade to Mango. Any comments or solutions?
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The same happens on my LG
Double wattusage
This is common, I too have experienced this.
I am trying to research the issue.
I got worse batterylife after the pre-update for Mango, where they altered the speech quality and touch sensitivity on the phone. I am assuming this is related to the radio in the phone, so I've ordered a new SIM card to rule out my dated SIM card for the phone.
If you search twitter for mango and battery, you will see that 50% of posts quote better batterylife with mango, so I'm assuming this is a firmware issue from LG, and not a mango issue.
Anyhow, early tests showed E900 using 1,3watts to playback a video, while the iPhone4 used 0,7...
Also the iPhone4 manages 40 hours of music playback. I'm lucky if I get 7-8, might be due to three different apps showing up in the app-switcher when playing a podcast. The music hub start screen, the podcast list and the podcast itself. Should be just one instance...
Will post back later.
Reset your phone
By factory resetting after Mango installation I went from 0 days and 12 hours standby time, to 1 day and 16 hours.
So there is something messed up in the Mango deployment that causes batterylife to be cut in half. To bad.
The same thing
So you recommend. To factory reset or reflash and than install Mango again, don't you?
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By factory resetting after Mango installation I went from 0 days and 12 hours standby time, to 1 day and 16 hours.
So there is something messed up in the Mango deployment that causes batterylife to be cut in half. To bad.
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Can anyone confirm a factory reset has resulted in increased battery life as well?
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Can anyone confirm a factory reset has resulted in increased battery life as well?
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It worked for me.
I just tried it two days ago, it seems better, but this will be the first day without having a charger handy. So, I'll post later if it actually helped.
On the bright side, setting up the phone again was a snap. Reloading the programs was the slow part, because you had to navigate from the "receant purchases" on your account to find the programs you had installed.
Not for me.
I've even reflashed from StarHub to European Open today.
Nothing changed.
I'll check tomorrow if something will change.
What is your batterytime in batterysaver when fully charged? When going to google mobile search, do you get the featurephone edition or the touch friendly for advanced phones? If you change the language for typing does it work or does you keyboard stay the same? These are all errors I had before.
I waited for my official Vodafone mango deployment, and after it was installed I 100% reset my phone in settings dialogue. No funky xda installhax0r stuff.
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What is your batterytime in batterysaver when fully charged? When going to google mobile search, do you get the featurephone edition or the touch friendly for advanced phones? If you change the language for typing does it work or does you keyboard stay the same? These are all errors I had before.
I waited for my official Vodafone mango deployment, and after it was installed I 100% reset my phone in settings dialogue. No funky xda installhax0r stuff.
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I have none of the other issues you descirbed... just the battery life issue. If either changing push email etc doesn't make things better, or I see a few more people saying that a reset helped them, I may go the reset route. Hopefully that doesn't need to happen... seeing as I chose WP7 and not Android so that I could avoid issues like this.
I started thread at MS Q&A
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-90c3-405e-8073-18e12bfab008?tm=1318370390863
After a factory reset it seems that my battery drain is back to normal. So, for me it worked
Is there a big difference after the factory reset? Does it worth to try?
I am facing this battery drain issue too. Battery falls down by 14% overnight in standby without data connection or WiFi. Factory reset didn't solve the problem. Any solution?
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I had big battery drain problems after mango. now it seems to be more stable. anyways, I think it might have been some kind of program, running under nodo intructions, like facebook, maybe some compatibility issues, I dont know, I only know that after updating all the programs I have to the oficial mango version, battery is doing better. not a lot better, still crap, but better than before!
The factory reset thingy worked for me as well , now I got about 2 days of battery instead of a half day
I have about a week if i use it as a phone only and one day if i use everything.
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The factory reset thingy worked for me as well , now I got about 2 days of battery instead of a half day
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Two days of battery keeping 3G data connection ON all the time? Or only when needed?
Good morning Everyone,
I received the OTA update to lollipop on Tuesday night. Since then, I've noted the following:
Upon successful completion of the update, I was prompted to update google play service. I don't know for sure whether it actually updated but it did take a very long time to do anything. The phone was largely non responsive at this time.
The phone seems to be a little laggy since the update.
My battery life has tanked. I used to get close to 36 hours out of the battery. This has since decreased to 6 hours.
I do see another user experienced issues with google play services. I have tried clearing the cache on both the google play store and google play services and rebooted as was suggested in that thread, though I was not prompted to update it. I'm running version 6.5.99 (1642632-438) of the google play service.
The main concern is the lag and the battery life. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going on?
S79
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Good morning Everyone,
I received the OTA update to lollipop on Tuesday night. Since then, I've noted the following:
Upon successful completion of the update, I was prompted to update google play service. I don't know for sure whether it actually updated but it did take a very long time to do anything. The phone was largely non responsive at this time.
The phone seems to be a little laggy since the update.
My battery life has tanked. I used to get close to 36 hours out of the battery. This has since decreased to 6 hours.
I do see another user experienced issues with google play services. I have tried clearing the cache on both the google play store and google play services and rebooted as was suggested in that thread, though I was not prompted to update it. I'm running version 6.5.99 (1642632-438) of the google play service.
The main concern is the lag and the battery life. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going on?
S79
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Sounds like you might have some sort of file corription os something, i just installed 5.0 lollipop yesterday aswell and everything on mine works GREAT and my battery life has gotten way better then when i has kitkat, if i was you id o reflash lollipop on your device and im sure that will fix your issues.
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Sounds like you might have some sort of file corription os something, i just installed 5.0 lollipop yesterday aswell and everything on mine works GREAT and my battery life has gotten way better then when i has kitkat, if i was you id o reflash lollipop on your device and im sure that will fix your issues.
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Thanks DopeShow. It's good to know this isn't necessarily a system wide issue. I'll try reflashing as soon as I can.
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Thanks DopeShow. It's good to know this isn't necessarily a system wide issue. I'll try reflashing as soon as I can.
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Yup, No Problem. Anytime, im sure youll have it running perfectly after you reflash 5.0
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Yup, No Problem. Anytime, im sure youll have it running perfectly after you reflash 5.0
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I'm backing up my data now.
My S5 is not rooted. What method would you suggest I employ to reflash? I'm guessing recovery mode but wanted to get your thoughts.
My battery life is horrible on 5.0 too... I'm not rooted, so it is hard to tell what is killing it...
Just shows up as android kernel and Android system in GSAM battery program. They are taking over 2x more battery than the screen is.
Might need to factory reset at some point...
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I'm backing up my data now.
My S5 is not rooted. What method would you suggest I employ to reflash? I'm guessing recovery mode but wanted to get your thoughts.
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You can Odin either an OA8 tar from Sammobile or Odin a NK2 tar then OTA to NK7 and OA8. Both of these don't require root. Also, I'd suggest factory resetting once you flash a tar, as it should improve battery and it might be required to boot.
First thing to try to fix the battery drain is boot to recovery and clear the cache partition. If that doesn't work then a factory reset will be necessary to fix it. I have personally always done factory resets after system updates dating back to Froyo. Just helps to clear everything up.
Thanks for your suggestions guys. I booted to recovery and performed a factory reset. Early indications suggest battery life is greatly improved. I'll post back in a day or so to give you a final verdict.
I hope very few users suffer from this, but if so I trust this information is helpful.
I can't say I have really noticed a decrease in battery life, but I have noticed it takes longer to charge now.
I watched movies and television shows on my device yesterday, all day. Started with a full charge and got almost 8 hours of screen on time before I plugged in. Batter still had 12%. This was with stock non-rooted version of Lollipop. Seems comparable to what I was getting on KK.
I also had issues when updating to Lollipop. I had issues with Google Play Services, and I ended up having to do a factory reset of the phone.
For the most part I have had no trouble with apps force closing or anything like that. But I have had horrible battery drain as well. When I am not using my phone, it seems that the battery life maintains pretty well. But when I use it even for not intense tasks - browsing news apps or something like that - it drains really quickly. I'm lucky if I get 6-8 hours of use per day. I used to be able to last a solid 14 hours of decent use before I had to recharge.
Any thoughts what could be causing it after I did the factory reset? My phone is not rooted.
same problem
Non-rooted S5 and after lollipop update it is chewing my battery and generally laggy (slow response to screen press). Even getting force closes on apps. Backing up now for a factory reset. Hope it helps.
Edit - 3/5/15 Factory Reset and reloaded all apps. Still working through all my website logins and settings. Not enough time to know if it fixed my battery issue but feels like the lag issue is fixed. Only been a day and initial thoughts is a reset was the cure. Will check back after the weekend with an update.
Recently ( Since the marshmallow update) I've been getting just absolutely horrendous battery life. I'm talking around 6 hours. Which is just unreal! I've had the phone for about a year and half and I find this ridiculous. Going through the settings/battery panel it says bluetooth has been taking up ~50% of the battery but that makes no sense since it did not do such before the update.
This is just so frustrating because it's such a great phone. Maybe I just need to replace the battery but who knows. Any insight would be absolutely amazing!
It seems to me that several apps can be the cause of this issue (bluesleep wake lock). I experience it since I updated my Note4 to DBT 6.0.1 PDA N910FXXS1DPG1, CSC N910FOXA1DPE1, Phone N910FXXU1DPB1. I disabled almost every app that has Bluetooth access, still bluetooth hinders the phone from deep sleep. Very annoying since I also wiped completely and reinstalled the image. Only solution so far is to disable BT. Will roll back to DPE6 or DPE1 soon, but am concerned because of missing security updates in that case (rooted).
See also this N6 thread.
So I reinstalled DPE6 and experience the issue right after booting and installing TWRP/SuperSU, with only Better Battery Stats installed. Could it be hardware related? I remember having this issue for the first time a week ago or so, without any new app being installed or other change made to the system.
After the oreo update my phone is laggy and overheating quite often. Battery drains much faster in use, but lasts more on standby.
All the above with typical use FB, instagram, chrome etc no games.
I know I can hard reset my phone but this is great inconvenience with all the banking apps etc.
Already cleared the cached memory, and restarted the phone
I just think it's a bit too much for a one year old flagship device to be that laggy. It was not that fast to begin with but now it's going out of hand. And it is not normal to require a full wipe because of an update, since that makes sense only for us here in XDA but not for the rest of the world.
Anybody with the same problems or suggestions??
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After the oreo update my phone is laggy and overheating quite often. Battery drains much faster in use, but lasts more on standby.
All the above with typical use FB, instagram, chrome etc no games.
I know I can hard reset my phone but this is great inconvenience with all the banking apps etc.
Already cleared the cached memory, and restarted the phone
I just think it's a bit too much for a one year old flagship device to be that laggy. It was not that fast to begin with but now it's going out of hand. And it is not normal to require a full wipe because of an update, since that makes sense only for us here in XDA but not for the rest of the world.
Anybody with the same problems or suggestions??
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I'm already on Oreo and no problems so far without factory reset (updated via LG bridge, OTA always gave me these problems like you are facing right now). This behavior is usually caused by some installed app and not by OS itself. So try to uninstall all unnecessary apps, anyway I guess you can't avoid factory reset in your case...
I also did the update with the bridge, and i am on the hunt for the guilty app!
Apparently I am the only one!
No you are not alone. When Oreo was released, i used flashable .zip (i wiped all partitions including data in TWRP beforehand) and i was experiencing exactly same problems. Sometimes after restarting the phone there was no cell signal at all and i had to restart it once again. But the biggest problems were lag, really noticable lag and battery drain.
I said that can't be right and:
Downloaded Oreo KDZ
Factory reset phone
Flashed KDZ
Manually wiped all partitions (cache, dalvik, system, boot, data) while in Fastboot
Back into download mode and flashed KDZ once again
After going through all this my phone is snappy once again and battery lasts up to two days when I'm not using it too much.
I had Problems, too. I was on Fulmics 4.2 and first tried to install the Oreo ZIP via TWRP. Phone was lagging alot afterwards. I used LGUP and the KDZ next, thereby factory resetting my phone. Everything was snappy afterwards, no overheating or battery drain. I installed TWRP (3.1.1, since 3.2.1 didn't work) via fastboot and flashed Magisk 16.0. Boom, Phone was lagging all over the place, and battery drained fast. Flashed KDZ via LGUP again (Upgrade, not Refurbish), thereby loosing root, but - Phone was snappy, no battery drain.
For the time being, i keep using Oreo unrooted, since i like the new Features, and hope the xpirt will publish a new Version of Fulmics ROM.
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After the oreo update my phone is laggy and overheating quite often. Battery drains much faster in use, but lasts more on standby.
All the above with typical use FB, instagram, chrome etc no games.
I know I can hard reset my phone but this is great inconvenience with all the banking apps etc.
Already cleared the cached memory, and restarted the phone
I just think it's a bit too much for a one year old flagship device to be that laggy. It was not that fast to begin with but now it's going out of hand. And it is not normal to require a full wipe because of an update, since that makes sense only for us here in XDA but not for the rest of the world.
Anybody with the same problems or suggestions??
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When you say "overheating", how many ?
For me since Oreo, I find that the phone heat a little for minor activities : web browsing, whatsapp, switching between different apps... For me the "heating" begins when I can feel a hot point near the fingerprint sensor. By GSam battery monitor, phone is arround 33°.
The max I reached is about 38-40°, especially when I charge the phone with quick charge.
edit : just watching 5min of youtube video with 4G, @480p => 36°
edit 2 : https://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-G6-Smartphone-Review.199364.0.html#toc-emissions
according to notebookcheck, on Nougat it should not exceed 34 degree maximum on max load, and 38 degree when charging
No problems at all here
I also have problems, I installed oreo with TWRP, and since the update, the sound bug and the phone is very slow, after 5 minutes everything becomes normal, but it warms up quickly and the battery is discharging more quickly, otherwise there were improvements, the camera takes a better picture and we lose less battery standby
Usually after a rom flash the phone need about a day to settle down and things became stable.
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Apparently I am the only one!
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No, I already had the same issues with Nougat!
Now I bought an OP6 so bye bye forever LG!
Well, inhad to make a clean install by resseting the phone.it was just unusable! The last drop when when I tried to switch cameras from front to back and it just got stuck in between the two.had to wait 25-30 sec for that!
Let the phone settle for some time.
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Let the phone settle for some time.
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Mine was misbehaving like that for over 3 days. That's something else.
No issues here at all. Got Oreo via OTA on 23 May, despite my unlocked bootloader, otherwise stock. Snappy, normal battery life, can get 2 days out of it with moderate use (native res, WiFi/BT on, Location on high precision, sync on, logs off). Your lag/heat/drain issues don't occur on stock so I doubt it's LG's fault. More likely due to rogue apps or your config.
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After the oreo update my phone is laggy and overheating quite often. Battery drains much faster in use, but lasts more on standby.
All the above with typical use FB, instagram, chrome etc no games.
I know I can hard reset my phone but this is great inconvenience with all the banking apps etc.
Already cleared the cached memory, and restarted the phone
I just think it's a bit too much for a one year old flagship device to be that laggy. It was not that fast to begin with but now it's going out of hand. And it is not normal to require a full wipe because of an update, since that makes sense only for us here in XDA but not for the rest of the world.
Anybody with the same problems or suggestions??
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your case is better my phone is warm and battery drain even we it is ideal after i update to Oreo
After the factory reset, it is much better! It was never as fast an 1+ is but still it's ok. So fat not many issues
I suggest you making sure its a full install (even if it's a dirty flash from kdz rather than OTA...) and rctd disabled if you root
should i debloat in oreo?
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No you are not alone. When Oreo was released, i used flashable .zip (i wiped all partitions including data in TWRP beforehand) and i was experiencing exactly same problems. Sometimes after restarting the phone there was no cell signal at all and i had to restart it once again. But the biggest problems were lag, really noticable lag and battery drain.
I said that can't be right and:
Downloaded Oreo KDZ
Factory reset phone
Flashed KDZ
Manually wiped all partitions (cache, dalvik, system, boot, data) while in Fastboot
Back into download mode and flashed KDZ once again
After going through all this my phone is snappy once again and battery lasts up to two days when I'm not using it too much.
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so... i have to flash oreo twice?