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7 clever tricks to help you increase the LG G4's battery life

posted by Luis D. / Jul 21, 2015, 10:16 AM

7 clever tricks to help you increase the LG G4's battery life

Although the LG G4 is capable of pulling off adequate battery life, longevity definitely isn't among its strongest sides. But don't grief, current or prospective LG G4 owners, for there's an ample amount of things you can do to help the smartphone perform a little better in the battery department.

Therefore, we'll introduce to 7 simple tips that don't require rooting or mingling with hidden menus and obscure features, just some good old fashioned menu browsing. There it goes!

7 clever tricks to help you increase the LG G4's battery life

Turn on Battery saver

Disable Dual Window

Disable Vibrate on tap

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7 clever tricks to help you increase the LG G4's battery life

What you want to do is head over to Settings > General > Accounts & sync and use the menu to disable any app sync activities you don't need to have active. Examine the various accounts that certain apps and services (such as Dropbox, Pinterest, Facebook, whatever) have registered under Android's Accounts menu, and deactivate features at will.

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7 Comments

1. OmegaV

Posts: 4; Member since: May 14, 2015

I wouldn't call this clever at all...you're just telling users to turn off stuff. These options would work on any phone no matter which OS it was running because the more you disable the better battery life you achieve. At this point we need more than clever tricks for battery life - we just need to use extended battery cases, external battery packs or hope manufactures will put in larger or more efficient batteries. This would allow us to leave on everything and not worry about disable or toggling stuff on and off so damn much!

posted on Jul 21, 2015, 10:48 AM 0

2. TyrionLannister unregistered

The only thing that can help lollipop devices are prayers. Google play services is way out of league for any OEM to manage. And the saddest part is, google is doing nothing to fix their pig of an app.

posted on Jul 21, 2015, 10:56 AM 2

3. lallolu

Posts: 731; Member since: Sep 18, 2012

It is utterly ridiculous what gogle has done with google play services and location services. They eat battery like no man's business even when one turns off location services, they still manage to run in the background anyway.

posted on Jul 21, 2015, 1:10 PM 0

4. Kary1

Posts: 300; Member since: Jun 26, 2015

I had much bigger problems with that issue before Lolipop--now it's almost entirely disappeared. So I don't think it's necessarily a Lolipop issue, or that Lolipop makes it worse. But yes, it is an Android problem.

posted on Jul 21, 2015, 5:17 PM 0

6. Kary1

I would agree. Most this stuff is stuff you can do on almost any phone, but just with different directions. Also, the Battery Guru program didn't do much, if anything, on my Snapdragon phone. Hardly a great tip.

posted on Jul 21, 2015, 5:18 PM 0

5. theBankRobber

Posts: 682; Member since: Sep 22, 2011

I run pandora between 5-7 hours while at work, watch a few videos and do some web browsing and manage 8 hours of life. I just swap the battery out and keep going. If I do a small amount of wev browsing and 1 video, I can mange a whole day on a single charge. It's still a fantastic phone.

7. p51d007

Posts: 700; Member since: Nov 24, 2013

I haven't worried about battery life in over a year. If you have a device like mine, with a huge 6+ inch screen, and a FOUR THOUSAND mAH battery, even with heavy use it lasts well over a day, without resorting to "tricks" to keep the battery up. It's these silly increasing specs, faster processors, higher density pixels on screens. Not needed.