My v20 (H918) has been shutting off around 50% to 40% - LG V20 Questions & Answers

What happens is I'll be using my phone and it will just randomly restart at 50 or 40% and then when it turns back on it will be at 5%. Does this mean my battery is bad or what could it be?

sounds like a bad battery to me...

yeah the cheapest easiest fix would be to swap batteries. my note 3 started doing this then i bought a new set of batteries and it went back to normal. My moto x developed this issue too but the battery can't just be swapped that is why i picked the v20 vs any other phone as there is a vast lack of phones with user removable batteries... in fact it seems like this is the last of the phones to have the feature v30 doesn't have it none of the samsung htc or any other flagship phone have removable batteries...

Thanks I just wanted to make sure that it was a bad battery, I've actually had to switch back to my Samsung Galaxy S7 edge as a daily driver because of the battery issue. Is it safe to still use the V20? I don't want to risk a battery explosion or something. All I use it for anymore is really it's HiFi dac and the dual speaker mod since I have the free line from T-Mobile

It's perfectly safe, just needs a new battery to last as long as it did when new
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[Q] Poor battery life with replacement LG G2

When I first got my LG G2 phone, I was quite happy with the battery life. I could get about two days of battery life with a full charge. After not owning the phone for too long, the screen went garbled and stopped working. Loose connector, I suppose. Anyway, I got a replacement LG G2 (factory refurb, I assume) and the battery life is about half of what it was before. I'm lucky if I can go a full day without requiring a top-off.
Given that the G2 phone line was only released about 6 months ago, it's hard to imagine that the replacement phone's battery was used so much that it doesn't hold a significant charge anymore. The phone is similarly configured (stock Verizon OS, rooted, a number of bloatware apps removed), so I can't imagine why the battery life is so much worse. Had I not experienced such good battery performance with my first phone, I perhaps wouldn't mind so much. But this one is definitely a let-down.
What could possibly cause such a difference in battery life between my two instances of the same model phone? If my replacement phone does indeed have a defective battery, I'm suspicious whether I'd be able to get another replacement just because the current one isn't as good as my old one. Is perhaps the quality control on the G2 battery low enough that you might by luck get a good one or a bad one, and I was lucky with my first one and unlucky with my replacement?
Thoughts?
Mine is same my first g2 can get up to 6 hours of screen on time,But in the second g2 i only get max of 3 hours of screen on time...
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Thinking of switching to a S4 from a LG-G2

I've had my LG G2 for about 11 months now and love the phone. The two issues that are starting to bug me are -- lack of removable battery and that a lot of the LCD's seem to be frying on KitKat 4.4, which doesn't bode well, thus I've remained on 4.2.2 as it's been pretty much trouble free for me.
Although I loved the LG G2 battery life when I first got the phone (I could easily go 2 full days with about 15% to spare), I'm finding I'm down to around 45% life after one day, meaning I usually need to charge it at night, or make sure I'm near a charger the 2nd day. Not to mention, if I'm out during the day and end up using my phone a ton (Hiking, using the GPS, hotspot, etc), I don't have an easy way to recharge it. Although this hasn't been *too* bad, there's been a few times where I've gotten really sticky and gotten home with 5-6% left.
I figure the LG G2 - Galaxy S4 would be a reasonably fair trade on the open market -- and I'd get a 32GB SD card for the S4 as well. Anyone have both? I know the S4 has the 600 series CPU instead of the 800, but I really don't game that much on my phone. Just stupid piddling here and there.
Thoughts? I know I'd get a Qi charger ASAP as I love wireless charging on my LG G2

Opinions from owners

I just upgraded to a LG G5 with BestBuy since it was 1/2 off. This phone isn't bad by any means but I do have 14 days of time to swap the phone out for something else. I want to know what your guys experiences have been like since the phone has been out for a good month now.
Things I really look for in a phone are Battery and Camera.
What's your average battery life? Does the phone get really warm when QI charging? Autofocus and Camera quality? And just any other general things you think are important.
I've had phones from both LG and Samsung (Galaxy S5 and Nexus 5), but this time upgrading I found it a close tie between phones.
Thanks for any info. I appreciate it. Just don't want to get stuck with a phone I dislike for 2 years.
EDIT:
Welp, just noticed that there is an entire forum dedicated to reviews of the phone's features.
Mod's/Admins delete this thread if you need to
Upgraded? Yeah no... I love lg now a days but huge downgrade...
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LG is a downgrade to a Samsung phone or tablet, camera is great, battery is one day with the right battery saving apps will run all day, get about 3 hours screen time, doesn't get hot on normal use or charge with Qi.

Unsure of which new device 6P or V10? Help me!!

As the title suggest. I am in need of a new phone. I current have an LG G3 and I love it. I drive for UPS so when I'm on a blind route I need to have a long lasting battery for GPS. Plus i stream music all day long (at least 10 hours). With the G3 I tend to swap batteries at about then 8 hours mark if not the 9. I know with the 6P thats not possible. But I do have a battery pack I can charge it on. Which i hate doing but if it can charge up fairly fast. like 20% in 15 minutes or so thats great.
The V10 i've been reading so many reviews of horrible battery life, some even saying the battery is done after 5-6 hours. But it is a removable battery so not that big of a deal, but 5-6 hours is crap.
So help me out here. Which one do ya'll suggest...and yes i know I'm in the Nexus 6p group, but you're all XDA'ers and I'm sure you've all used a multitude of phones.
How much juice can the 6P soak up from a 2.1 volt or amp..never remember what it is, battery backup in 15-30 minutes time?
how long are you getting out of a full battery after you root, rom, customize your 6P?
I've noticed there is no real "following" in the V10 development thread. So thats also a bad mark for the V10.
The 6p will be done with 6hrs SOT. Actually, running GPS and music, even with screen off im not sure you can hit 8 hrs regardless of ROM or kernel. That's a tall order, GPS kills battery on any device.
Why not just charge it while using it with a DC charger?
6P all the way. I have the 6P and my brother has the V10 and my phone blows the V10 outta the water... His phone is dead by 11am and the poor software makes the phone slow. If anything get the G5 if you're set on LG. The 6P is the best phone I've ever owned. From iPhone 3g, 4, SIII, note 3 and 4. My only con would be the camera and it's difficulty in focusing on close objects (could be user error!)
I owned the v10 and battery life is weak. Go with the 6p and you won't regret being stuck on a locked bootloader ( if you're not using the T-Mobile variant) you have more options and the front facing speakers blow the v10 out of the water
maybe you should get the s7 edge, it has superior battery life than v10 and n6p, but is fragile. also i am getting 2-4 hrs sot on n6p no matter the rom or kernel , with 3g on all the time.
thanks guys. i cant charge the phone while using it thru DC because no sockets in the trucks. i wish they would start installing those things but no luck. its gotta be a battery pack.
ive never been a samsung fan.
Don't get the V10.. I had the G3 and was in love with that phone! It had everything I wanted in it, but got fed up with not having a "pure android" phone so got the 6P, my first Nexus device. My buddy just got a new phone around January and love the V10, but started running into issues with the battery. It wouldn't charge properly, the battery port was busted and wouldn't hold the charger in place so he had to get a new phone and when it came in the mail it always randomly reboots. So not sure if he is having bad luck or if the issue is with the first generation of that device.
Wouldn't touch an LG device right now. I loved my G3, and my G4 was just replaced with a 6P. Terrible battery, bootloops and wifi is terribly broken on the G4. not the same phone as the V10 but close enough. LG is having tons of issues right now
I had the v10 before I bought my 6P and hated that phone with a passion. The screen would have weird colors, battery life sucked, and the dev community for it is lacking. I highly recommend the 6P

Which battery to buy for the Galaxy S5?

Few months ago i brought a samsung battery for my S5 from a local tech shop.
I've got a feeling it wasn't a Genuine one or could be a bad one. But i've been having issues with it.
So i wanted to buy another battery but not sure which one to get. Also on a tight budget right now.
I was looking at the RavPower S5 battery. Is that good? I know it doesn't have nfc, but i hardly use that feature.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battery-RA...515020637&sr=8-1&keywords=ravpower+s5+battery
Please help me out, thanks. :good:
FfsWally said:
Few months ago i brought a samsung battery for my S5 from a local tech shop.
I've got a feeling it wasn't a Genuine one or could be a bad one. But i've been having issues with it.
So i wanted to buy another battery but not sure which one to get. Also on a tight budget right now.
I was looking at the RavPower S5 battery. Is that good? I know it doesn't have nfc, but i hardly use that feature.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Battery-RA...515020637&sr=8-1&keywords=ravpower+s5+battery
Please help me out, thanks. :good:
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I bought two of these for my parents identical phones https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Capable-YONTEX-Replacement-Protector/dp/B074PQL78T/ref=sr_1_12?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1515042133&sr=1-12&keywords=s5+battery
Brand is "Yontex" and came with extremely tight tolerance screen protectors (I think I went through all of them but one until I got one to fit).
They claim to have NFC like the stock batteries. I let them charge, then drained them to 0 a few times like they state to do in the instructions.
1-On my dads phone who just has basic stuff installed, the battery life increased back to how it was when new...It can sit for almost 2 days on one charge.
2-On my moms phone who has an insane amount of crap running 24/7, the battery life did not really increase that much until I started running a wake-lock app to figure out what was still draining the battery.
(snapchat, gasbuddy, weather channel & facebook were the major offenders).
I have not actually tested the NFC function since they never use it. On another note, I don't think Samsung makes S5 batteries anymore, so any stock you find is old stock from when they were being produced years ago. Lithium batteries die whether being used or sitting on a shelf, so a fresh production date helps.

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