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[HOWTO] Stress Test your I9000 internal SD for defects in Froyo 2.2

This guide is mostly aimed to the Galaxy S i9000m owners, but it's also good for all other International SGS models as well.
The SGS family of phones were introduced July/August 2010, this give us a little bit over 6 months left of warranty, before your warranty expires, make sure the internal SD is working properly.
Upgrade to stock 2.2 as soon as possible, see if your phone can survive a month on 2.2 under heavy stress usage.
There are many LEGIT ways to test the internal SD without voiding the warranty:
Stock un-rooted methods:
Copying / Deleting large collection of music and/or videos to the internal SD
Install like 300+ apps from Android Market, then massively "Update All" in Android Market <<<<<<<<<< Most efficient test for unrooted
see if you can install any new apps from market, after the 300+
see if you can install any new apps from the External SD, if the internal SD is gone, or dying, it will get stuck on "installing....." forever
Recording 720p Videos with the camera app, until the memory runs out, repeat several times until you feel it's safe <<<<<<<<<< easy and efficient
Root required methods:
Full system Backup/Restore using Titanium Backup or similar Apps <<<<<<<<<< Best Method

mine died trying to copy the appmanager and titanium backup directories from my saved copy on external sd back to sd.. a few minutes after copying they dissappeared.. don't need to be rooted for that.

I'd like to know if anyone had their new/returned SGS with JL2 die that was NOT rooted and is completely stock. Anyone?

I have not had any issues with my SGS i9000M as of yet (knock on wood) and you will see the updates I have done since I purchased it on August 30th, 2011. I had no issues with it on JG9, JH2 (original), JH2 (bootload fix), JK4 (First official FroYo) or JL2 (Newest FroYo update) and I updated to JL2 on December 23rd or 24th so almost 2 weeks ago.
Man... I KNOCK ON WOOD so much hoping I have been one of the lucky ones!!!

can6rxw said:
I'd like to know if anyone had their new/returned SGS with JL2 die that was NOT rooted and is completely stock. Anyone?
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you can count mine
there is a topic floating about it

can6rxw said:
I'd like to know if anyone had their new/returned SGS with JL2 die that was NOT rooted and is completely stock. Anyone?
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I've just got mine from the Bell store where I left it on Dec 17. It's the same old from the very first batch phone. They just re-flashed it with JL2. I'm not going to root it for now so I'll try all legit methods to stress the internal storage. I was thinking, what about re-flashing JL2 using a registry hack (setting an older version) with Kies after installing 300+ apps? That should probably push it to the limit.

Install 300+ apps? That's like a day of work, don't you think?

Or you can just flash different roms with odin

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Or you can just flash different roms with odin
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that's not accurate, flashing the ROM leaves the rest of the internal SD untouched
you are only messing around with the partition and format, that doesn't really kill the internal SD, it just messes it up, it gets corrupted, but it can be fixed
real internal SD death are not fix-able

You are correct, I was simply being a little sarcastic as many believed it was odin messing up the phones.

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You are correct, I was simply being a little sarcastic as many believed it was odin messing up the phones.
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unfortunate, but true
too many people believes flashing is what kills the internal SD

simplest method which unknowingly sped up the death of my first phone was using the galaxy S to record HD video to the internal card when I was on vacation.
Or, you could just leave it plugged into a charger and leave HD video recording on. My phone died 1 day after recording about 1 hour of HD video (at various times) on the internal SD.

TorontoR said:
simplest method which unknowingly sped up the death of my first phone was using the galaxy S to record HD video to the internal card when I was on vacation.
Or, you could just leave it plugged into a charger and leave HD video recording on. My phone died 1 day after recording about 1 hour of HD video (at various times) on the internal SD.
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That is also an excellent way to do it
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and it's totally legit, no rooting required

TorontoR said:
simplest method which unknowingly sped up the death of my first phone was using the galaxy S to record HD video to the internal card when I was on vacation.
Or, you could just leave it plugged into a charger and leave HD video recording on. My phone died 1 day after recording about 1 hour of HD video (at various times) on the internal SD.
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Sounds like a cool idea. I'm gonna try it.

TorontoR said:
simplest method which unknowingly sped up the death of my first phone was using the galaxy S to record HD video to the internal card when I was on vacation.
Or, you could just leave it plugged into a charger and leave HD video recording on. My phone died 1 day after recording about 1 hour of HD video (at various times) on the internal SD.
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Thumbs up,
I think this will be much easier method for most.
Not saying this is how you should be torture testing it but alternative to what Original Poster posted.

xxgg said:
Thumbs up,
I think this will be much easier method for most.
Not saying this is how you should be torture testing it but alternative to what Original Poster posted.
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Any reports of people successfully passing this test...? Maybe if someone could write a simple app that fills and empties the free space of the Internal SD Card...

knightdaemon said:
Any reports of people successfully passing this test...? Maybe if someone could write a simple app that fills and empties the free space of the Internal SD Card...
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I received my phone yesterday, making a 2 and a half hour commute to pick it up. I am performing this stress test on my phone at the moment. I hope it survives.
What is the indication of having passed this test? Would I have to repeat the hour of video recording how many time? Daily over the course of a month?
I need to read up on the indicators of what constitutes a failure, besides the catastrophic kind. Any offers of advice?
Jan 8 2011 10:00 am Update:
Finished recording 1 hour of video. Repeating to further stress test. Hopefully time will tell quickly if there are any problems or not.
11:23 second hour of video completed. I will try to continue doing this cycle of recording and deleting through out the day, unless one of the experienced posters thinks this is inadvisable.
5:10 pm third hour of video complete. Decided to not delete, but fill the card up as much as possible.
6:11 pm fourth hour of recording complete, this video was recorded without deleting the third hour recording.
6:36 pm Fifth recording never reached an hour. Got a maximum recording size reached message at 20:54.
Also received an additional warning ' not enough memory available', which stopped me from doing anymore video recording. Well restart phone and try continuing.
7:25 pm sixth attempt was stopped at 40:50, along with the memory error. Tried clearing ram to see if it helped, but it did not. Restarting phone.
7:39 pm cannot attempt a 7th video. Despite restarting the phone, the memory write message persists.
Will delete videos to see if this changes things.
9:05 pm one hour video recorded, after deleting previous videos, no memory error.
10:14 pm reached 56:56 before I got the maximum recording size message.
11:14 pm was able to record another video without deleting. Recorded to 57:45.
12:32 pm hmmm . Checked my sd card memory. Only 833 MB left. Deleted all the videos, but the card is still only showing 833 MB of space left.
12:38 restarted phone. almost all the free space is now being recognized (13.02 of 13.03 GB)
Can any one interpret these results?
Jan 11 5:16 pm I got my first force close, using the xda application... maybe I will run some more stress tests.

TorontoR said:
simplest method which unknowingly sped up the death of my first phone was using the galaxy S to record HD video to the internal card when I was on vacation.
Or, you could just leave it plugged into a charger and leave HD video recording on. My phone died 1 day after recording about 1 hour of HD video (at various times) on the internal SD.
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I tried a few times and my phone says recording failed after a few seconds... is this normal or is it a sign of a dying phone?

How cool (or sad) would it be...
If you are physically at the Samsung Service Centre yourself to pick up the phone and you perform some sdcard benchmark alike and break it on the spot
Or
You'll at a Bell Corp store and kill the sdcard on the spot too, than tell them that you want a new phone, and you break that crap again, and over and over...
go through their entire stock of galaxy to fine that one rare survivor phone.
absolutely crazy.
i hope one of those dualcore phones get released within Q1 fast.

May I suggest a another torture option?
Mount your internal sdcard connected to your PC.
Than run & repeat disk benchmark, do some disk defrag (which isn't recommended for flash type of drives, that is why you do NOT defrag SSD).
Or do a Full format over and over,
May ways to do things that you should do to a flash type of drives. (but should not die from it but shorten the life of it by xxx amount of hours of it's life. You'll probably have upgraded your phone few times more before it really dies)

Objective data on performance differences with Encrption on vs off

In the development forum, there is now a method to disable encryption with or without root. Many people say the phone feels faster with encryption off, and battery life is improved. I wonder how much of this is placebo effect? We have two Nexus 6 phones. We turned encryption off on one to compare. AnTuTu was around 51,000 on the encryption off phone, and 50,000 on the stock phone. We cleared all open apps, and tested different things simultaneously. We could not see any difference in camera start times, phone app opening times, Photo gallery opening, Chrome opening time, etc.. The only noticeable difference was when we turned the phone on after being off. The stock phone takes about 15 seconds longer to turn on. My son thinks battery life is better, but we have not done an objective test with a good measurement. Anyone else have real data?

performance, as in phone speed is not affected. what is affected is the speed it reads and writes to your storage, that is it. this is an antutu of a nexus 6 that is still encrypted. again, it only affects read and write speeds to your storage.
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rdalcanto said:
In the development forum, there is now a method to disable encryption with or without root. Many people say the phone feels faster with encryption off, and battery life is improved. I wonder how much of this is placebo effect? We have two Nexus 6 phones. We turned encryption off on one to compare. AnTuTu was around 51,000 on the encryption off phone, and 50,000 on the stock phone. We cleared all open apps, and tested different things simultaneously. We could not see any difference in camera start times, phone app opening times, Photo gallery opening, Chrome opening time, etc.. The only noticeable difference was when we turned the phone on after being off. The stock phone takes about 15 seconds longer to turn on. My son thinks battery life is better, but we have not done an objective test with a good measurement. Anyone else have real data?
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I bet if you took all the people *****ing about the encryption and handed them a random phone, they wouldn't have an idea if encryption was enabled or not.

I've not noticed performance difference either way. I don't like being forced into it though.

If battery performance is really better, i would be interested in doing it....

I'm not seeing any difference in usage after decrypting.

I realise this is a nexus 6 forum, but I'm still waiting for mine,
Anyway, heres a video I made showing the difference on the n5
Nexus 5 - Android 5.0 Lollipop - Encrypted vs Une…: http://youtu.be/2gmdRlg0vag
Quite honestly I run Encrypted now and I don't notice

I'm still encrypted and haven't noticed anything. Granted, i would like the camera a little faster but no big deal.

It seems as though there's another variable in this equation...different memory modules in Nexus 6 units:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/nexus-6-internal-memory-chipsets-t2955045

Yeah I've been both ways and can't tell a whole lot. Plus like the guy above me just mentioned we got different memory.

If we break it down into its basic parts this is the pros for each.
Disabling encryption:
-less CPU overhead
-significantly faster disk I/O
-less CPU overhead=less battery usage( potentially minimal)
-Faster boots
Encryption On:
-safer data
-maybe something I missed
Now its completely possible that all of the pros for decrypting are so minimal they will be hardly noticeable. So basically you have to decide what's more important to you. Personally I haven't needed decryption since I've owned a G1, and I would rather have my phone run more efficiently, though its possible you may choose different.

Just leave it, as most govs can decrypt it within minutes

Traace said:
Just leave it, as most govs can decrypt it within minutes
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In that thread, I can draw no meaningful conclusion about the different vendors used for RAM/Flash.
I suspect it's a non-issue (other than perhaps statistically seeing a fractional of percent differences between the vendors). The differences in doing software encryption would over shadow any vendor's RAM/Flash differences IMHO.
I would put more energy and thought in getting Qualcomm / Google to get hardware assisted encryption going (releasing the libraries).

Has anyone been able to compare CPU usage during storage benchmarks for encrypted vs unencrypted? I think the idea here is that the CPU is doing the decrypting and therefor limiting the speed that we can access data. If that is accurate, we should see 100% CPU usage during storage benchmarks when the phone is encrypted and something less than 100% when decrypted.

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Traace said:
Just leave it, as most govs can decrypt it within minutes
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Most govs have absolutely no f's to give about what I have on my phone.
I turned it off the instant I got to my laptop. don't need it, don't want it, have no use for it.

It shouldn't matter whether there is a tangible performance difference to the user or not. The truth is there objectively IS a performance hit with memory read/write, and first and foremost, they are forcing encryption onto people without a choice, on a platform that is all about choice. It is like anonymous user stats. I usually leave it unchecked but I wouldn't really care if I forgot to uncheck it. But once that checkbox disappears and you can't do anything about it, well that's a problem for me. Encryption of my data? No I want my data to be free and unencrypted especially if I may need to access it without encyption keys thank you very much.

Nougat wreaking havoc on your battery? Solutions...

Welcome to Nougat prison.
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If you're reading this, you're probably regretting taking the latest OTA update.
It seems that Google hasn't been so kind to our batteries this time around, and with no root is in sight (thanks AT&T), our likelihood of any real battery life improvements is severely limited. Here are a few tips which may help remediate the situation.
Don't drop the soap...
Suggestion 1.) Reset app preferences. This may help to sort out some battery draining bugs:
Navigate to Settings>General>Apps>(dropdown)>Reset app preferences
Suggestion 2.) Disable all AT&T & LG bloatware. Less apps to run = less potential battery drain:
Navigate to Settings>General>Apps> disable everything you don't need
Suggestion 3.) Force GPU rendering. This will take some load off of the CPU which is more power-hungry than the GPU:
Navigate to Settings>General>Developer Options>Force GPU Rendreing>On
Suggestion 4.) Disable battery optimizations for all Bluetooth-related entries, Nougat is known to play nasty with Bluetooth:
Navigate to Settings>General>Battery & Power Saving>Usage>Ignore Optimizations
Suggestion 5.) Turn off IZAT low power location estimation. Contrary to it's description - this will actually actively use Wi-Fi for location services when your GPS is off. This feature is a no-go for battery life:
Navigate to Settings>General>Location>Low power location estimation>Off
Suggestion 6.) Disable Wi-Fi when screen is off, this will mitigate network drain while your phone is idle:
Navigate to Settings>Networks>Wi-Fi>(dropdown)>Advanced Wi-Fi>Keep Wi-Fi on when screen is off>No
Suggestion 7.) Disable Enhanced LTE services. You will lose HD call audio, however this feature is known to cause excessive battery usage on the AT&T network:
Navigate to Settings>Networks>More>Enhanced LTE Services>Off
Suggestion 8.) Install Greenify and Greenify pretty much everything, including system apps. Make sure you connect the phone to your PC, enable USB debugging and run the ADB commands to enable aggressive doze. It is still far better than Nougat's built-in doze.
Suggestion 9.) Pray. Jesus may not save your battery, but doing anything rather than using your phone may help the battery last longer... :angel:

Or just do a factory reset and solve a lot of the issues. I don't have the battery drain I always do a factory reset after an OTA for 2 reasons 1 it's recommended 2 it solves the optimization of apps because when changing operating systems it doesn't do a smooth transition and usually leaves behind some of the old system cache that can only be removed by factory reset
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krazyace35 said:
Or just do a factory reset and solve a lot of the issues. I don't have the battery drain I always do a factory reset after an OTA for 2 reasons 1 it's recommended 2 it solves the optimization of apps because when changing operating systems it doesn't do a smooth transition and usually leaves behind some of the old system cache that can only be removed by factory reset
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Not everyone wants to do a factory reset. It can be a big pain losing data and restoring all your apps one by one. If course this wouldn't be a problem at all if we had root, because we could use a custom recovery and clear the system cache manually.

Idle drain vs SOT before:
Idle drain vs SOT after:

Factory reset is the only way to go, does wonders for the phone

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Factory reset is the only way to go, does wonders for the phone
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I reset my phone 4 times two different ways. I think I narrowed it down to Android Wear. Will know today. Because this sucks.

Sobr0801 said:
I reset my phone 4 times two different ways. I think I narrowed it down to Android Wear. Will know today. Because this sucks.
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So pretty much anything I install kills the battery that runs in the back ground.

Sobr0801 said:
So pretty much anything I install kills the battery that runs in the back ground.
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Yup, I've pretty much figured out this phone. Carrier models (especially AT&T's) really suck because of background apps you can't disable without root (which is also likely impossible unless they'd release a .TOT/ .KDZ to be examined for root possibility). Additional installed apps drain the battery to varying degrees, especially with Nougat. Compounding everything, this phone's battery life is anywhere from 2/3 to 1/2 as efficient while using mobile data/ especially with a low mobile signal. Factory resets do nothing to fix these problems. Hopefully 7.1.2 or 8.0 will eventually be signed and distributed for us, otherwise this phone seems like a lost cause.

Strange thing it's it now works. I pretty much uninstalled everything. Then I slowly reinstalled the things I wanted slowly, over weeks. Even android wear. But there are things that still will crush the battery life. Either way it seems normal now.

PHYCLOPSH said:
Welcome to Nougat prison.
Suggestion 9.) Pray. Jesus may not save your battery, but doing anything rather than using your phone may help the battery last longer... :angel:
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I am awaiting my g6 and was curious to know the battery life , came from real life review battery standby drain on g6 to here via link. This made me lol . Thanks for the other suggestions as well , will try them out.

Thank you for this! Ever since getting this phone (Just over a year ago), the ONE THING that has bugged me is the immediate and apparent horrible battery life! I went through this and did as much as I could, and noticed an immediate improvement. Also has helped with the heat, it would get a worrying level of hot. One thing I wasn't able to figure out was this, as I couldn't find it where you indicated in settings.
PHYCLOPSH said:
Suggestion 3.) Force GPU rendering. This will take some load off of the CPU which is more power-hungry than the GPU:
Navigate to Settings>General>Developer Options>Force GPU Rendreing>On
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Thanks again!

JMTurner1981 said:
Thank you for this! Ever since getting this phone (Just over a year ago), the ONE THING that has bugged me is the immediate and apparent horrible battery life! I went through this and did as much as I could, and noticed an immediate improvement. Also has helped with the heat, it would get a worrying level of hot. One thing I wasn't able to figure out was this, as I couldn't find it where you indicated in settings.
Thanks again!
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You need to activate the Developer Options. To do that simply navigate to (assuming to are on G5 LG-H820, Android v.7):
Settings>General>About Phone>Software info
Now start tapping on "Build number" till you get the message "You are now a developer".
Developer Options will appear in:
Settings>General>Developer Options

Huge battery consumption, help needed

Hi all,
I am very satisfied with my device except for the battery life. I always had like 3-4 hours SOT. I was not happy but it was OK.
Lately I started charging the device every day after work (I would come home with dead phone after only 8-9 hours of it being unplugged).
So I thought the battery is defective, I must change it... and I did change it yesterday. The thing is that even the new battery behaves almost the same. It approved somewhat and now I will return home with 10% battery instead of dead phone 1 hour ago. But still the battery is terrible...
Can anyone help me, share some advice on how to improve it? I have disabled many software (even facebook), disabled location... did everything I could think of.
I am thinking some app is drawing the juice but cannot put my finger on any of them.
Some screenshots are attached that might help with your tips/advices.
Thanks!
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Are you rooted? On nougat? If so get background restrictor APK here on XDA and kill background apps and tasks so they can't run if you do not open them. Lower screen brightness. Install kernel auditor and shut off cores 4 and 8.

ljesh said:
Hi all,
I am very satisfied with my device except for the battery life. I always had like 3-4 hours SOT. I was not happy but it was OK.
Lately I started charging the device every day after work (I would come home with dead phone after only 8-9 hours of it being unplugged).
So I thought the battery is defective, I must change it... and I did change it yesterday. The thing is that even the new battery behaves almost the same. It approved somewhat and now I will return home with 10% battery instead of dead phone 1 hour ago. But still the battery is terrible...
Can anyone help me, share some advice on how to improve it? I have disabled many software (even facebook), disabled location... did everything I could think of.
I am thinking some app is drawing the juice but cannot put my finger on any of them.
Some screenshots are attached that might help with your tips/advices.
Thanks!
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uninstall chrome. Then try accubattery (better bcause after android 7, they join all in android system to mask each app consumption. If after this you still can't find out where's the problem, start the phone in "safe mode". Even the consumption is better in this mode you must do a full wipe in recovery mode (vol up+power+home) and after this, reinstall one app each time and see after reinstall the second one and so on until you find out in which app is draining the battery
If you want you can starting by disabling background data in settings but I think isn't the clearer way to find out

This is going to surprise you.
I've had this phone for years and I've tried everything - and the BEST result is when you DON'T DO ANYTHING except disable Facebook and Instagram, and any Google Apps you don't use.
Do not tamper with anything else.
I figure that Samsung tunes this phone so tightly that if you leave it alone it operates as it should.
Anytime I disabled anything else, battery life suddenly and drastically reduced.
The phones runtime software kicks in and if you have disabled something it checks routinely, it will keep the phone awake constantly looking for a ping back from that process.
I just went through the whole process again meticulously, App by App.
Also DO NOT enhanced messaging OR the device antivirus. If you have, you must reset and then train yourself not to engage these too regardless of how hard The phone tries to persuade you!
Then - the battery life becomes like a normal phone which means you'll still need to charge everyday but it will take you through a full heavy day... And this is fantastic!
Honestly try it and you'll see what I mean. The S6 edge plus is so finely tuned, anything you block will start a feedback loop.

I had similiar problems , the way i fixed it, i disabled/uninstalled all samsung applications what i dont use, i disabled/uninstalled all google applications what i dont use. Cold weather (like -20C) will affect the battery life too.
Disable / uninstall apps you dont need. That helped me a lot and got even more battery life while at stock nougat rom with all updates installed.
try wiping cache from recovery and reboot your phone.
I hope this helps you

The Android Oreo 8.0 update is FINALLY here

Here's the info released today on T-Mobile's website: https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-34136
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It looks like the update pushes are on a daily limit right now. But regardless, it's here!

Downloading it right now!

LG G6 ThinQ. Nice!

never thought we'd actually get it, updating now!

Updating now. Odd that it is still unavailable via Bridge.

So far nothing really noticeable besides major changes to the setting menu. They also added a square dot on the navigation bar so that you can hide the bar per app. Battery life still unknown. I do wish we have 8.1 instead, but I think this is the end of this phone. I will check if the Bluetooth stuttering issue is resolved for my car.

Is someone willing to grab the KDZ from LG Bridge?
-- Brian

Battery life doesn't seem good. It appears to be noticeably worse although I don't remember the old battery life. Today is weekend so I am mostly at home connected to a very good wifi signal. Phone has NOT been reset. It was upgraded last night so today was the first full day use.
Total time 10 hr since removal from charger at 100%.
Battery is down to 34%. SoT is 3 hr even as of now.
About 25 min of YouTube and everything else is web browsing and using Relay Pro (reddit app).
Feels disappointing. I wonder if we'll ever see 8.1, which has more battery life optimization. My bet is never.

My wife's T-Mobile G6 feels more laggy and chop on this new update.
Man I miss the old days of all carrier phones being able to root and ROM, I'd love install Lineage 15.1 on this phone.
Oh well, I'm happy as a clam on my Pixel 2 XL which is smooth as butter.

Updated my G6 yesterday. It became really smooth and lag-free, whereas on Nougat my G6 was constantly microstuttering. So far, I like the update.

THE BATTERY DRAIN HAS BEEN FIXED FOR ME. Go to settings >> storage >> internal storage >> Free up space. Then select everything, including the various cache memories and delete them!
It doesn't delete your data, just some temporary cached memory that's used for efficiency which really isn't all that important. My battery on-screen time used to be 3 hours after the Oreo update, but now it's been well over 6 since freeing up space.

Khotum7 said:
THE BATTERY DRAIN HAS BEEN FIXED FOR ME. Go to settings >> storage >> internal storage >> Free up space. Then select everything, including the various cache memories and delete them!
It doesn't delete your data, just some temporary cached memory that's used for efficiency which really isn't all that important. My battery on-screen time used to be 3 hours after the Oreo update, but now it's been well over 6 since freeing up space.
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Thanks, gonna give this a try.

Welp, that didn't work for me this drain is crazy getting tops 2 hrs of SOT. I've read on the net that resetting it to factory helped for some any confirmation on this?

I found the culprit which was Fitbit. I deleted the app and I'm at 4hrs SOT with 65% left. Will reinstall the app tomorrow and see how it goes.

Bad news the Oreo update broke my BT with my car head unit. It was working well enough with 7.0 but 8.0 causes the audio to cut in and out about every 2-4 seconds. My other phones playing the same content perfectly without any issues. I haven't factory reset the G6 yet, but BT on this phone never worked well with my car head unit. It does work flawlessly with my Sony WH-1000XM2.

focus-pocus said:
Updated my G6 yesterday. It became really smooth and lag-free, whereas on Nougat my G6 was constantly microstuttering. So far, I like the update.
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Mine is exactly the opposite. Slow, laggy, awful experience.
I HATE LG's ROMs. Just way, WAY too stuffed with bloatware.

Android Auto is broken. It won't connect to my car.
This phone is brand new to me, I just got it as a certified refurb from Amazon. This is very disappointing to me, since I used it daily with my last phone.