Terrible Battery Life After Kitkat - Verizon G2

[scott craft]

Leave Bluetooth off all day. Then at night before bed or whatever, go to settings, and then battery. You will see Bluetooth has used like 3 or 4 percent of your battery. And it was never on! At least this has happened to me, every day since 4.4 update. Other people have chimed in on this too.

I checked mine earlier before charging it and it didn't have any bluetooth usage showing. I did reset mine though. I read on android central that the update that gives the G2 knock code has a fix for this bluetooth issue.

 

[NWRULES]

I checked mine earlier before charging it and it didn't have any bluetooth usage showing. I did reset mine though. I read on android central that the update that gives the G2 knock code has a fix for this bluetooth issue.

Oh cool. Didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. Did you happen to find out when that update is rolled out?

 

[scott craft]

Oh cool. Didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. Did you happen to find out when that update is rolled out?

From what I've read in the forums over there it's just international models getting it right now. I haven't read any news about it coming to US carriers though.

 

[scott craft]

I just checked battery stats and the phone says bluetooth has used 5%, but gsam shows no bluetooth usage. Interesting.

 

[Future2Hope4]

It could be the global radio

Hello all.
May I offer a suggestion on how to improve battery life? Go to settings>Tethering & network> Mobile Networks>System select.

Check your network mode. If global is selected, change this to LTE/CDMA.

I remember when completing Samsung OTA updates that this feature would be activated by Verizon. Sure enough, they did the same on the lg G2 OTA update. Once I changed my network to the LTE/CDMA option, my battery life was better than before.
This may help a few of you avoid a factory data reset.

Secondly, I’ve noticed that once I force the network to change, the next time it resets to “Global” the battery consequences are not as severe. I’m not sure why the phone network changes like that but it does.


Hope this helps a few of the forum members.

 

[scott craft]

Hello all.
May I offer a suggestion on how to improve battery life? Go to settings>Tethering & network> Mobile Networks>System select.

Check your network mode. If global is selected, change this to LTE/CDMA.

I remember when completing Samsung OTA updates that this feature would be activated by Verizon. Sure enough, they did the same on the lg G2 OTA update. Once I changed my network to the LTE/CDMA option, my battery life was better than before.
This may help a few of you avoid a factory data reset.

Secondly, I’ve noticed that once I force the network to change, the next time it resets to “Global” the battery consequences are not as severe. I’m not sure why the phone network changes like that but it does.


Hope this helps a few of the forum members.

Thanks for the reminder. I forgot to do that. Hopefully that helps my phone some.

 

[windstrings]

I have good battery life if not better after the update, mine is set on LTE also.. Maybe by default, from Verizon?

Sent from my GS4 Zombie Communicator

 

[NWRULES]

Hello all.
May I offer a suggestion on how to improve battery life? Go to settings>Tethering & network> Mobile Networks>System select.

Check your network mode. If global is selected, change this to LTE/CDMA.

I remember when completing Samsung OTA updates that this feature would be activated by Verizon. Sure enough, they did the same on the lg G2 OTA update. Once I changed my network to the LTE/CDMA option, my battery life was better than before.
This may help a few of you avoid a factory data reset.

Secondly, I’ve noticed that once I force the network to change, the next time it resets to “Global” the battery consequences are not as severe. I’m not sure why the phone network changes like that but it does.

Hope this helps a few of the forum members.

Totally forgot about that option. Sure enough it was set to global after update. Will switch over to LTE/CDMA and monitor results. Thanks