[Q] Faulty unit? - G Pad 8.3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everyone,
I just bought a new LG gpad and the battery is awful.
Browsing webpages gives me about 3/4 hours of lifespan but the worst part happend tonight
I had 32% battery left and decided to switch off the unit completely, when I turned on the pad this morning there was no battery left at all
I believe this unit is faulty or is normal to consume battery when switched off (not sleeping)
Do you experience the same?
Thank you.

gas777 said:
Do you experience the same?
Thank you.
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When my tablet is off, I don't lose a single percentage point over night.
Maybe you need to return yours.

Battery isn't amazing but its pretty darn good with screen at 60% and under clocked to 1100mhz. I can get a days use out of it and no loss of charge overnight.
Yeah, yours sounds wrecked.
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I lose about. 1%every 4 hours with device powered on but sleeping and wife connected
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Canadoc said:
I lose about. 1%every 4 hours with device powered on but sleeping and wife connected
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Tssk, your poor wife, you fiend!!!
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Wifi lol
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T-Mobile Terrible Battery Life

Hi everyone I got my phone 4 days ago and have been through charge cycles but my battery life sucks. I only get a Max of 2hrs on screen time and 12 hours with the phone on (if its in airplane mode the whole time). Also, it takes forever to charge. I charged it from 7pm to 10:30pm and it went from 2% to 34%. And as i type this message (on wifi) I lost 3% battery life. What should I do?
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Also it seems that display takes up 50% battery (which is good) but as soon as I send one text, phone immediately goes to 50% and display down to 18%. It stays that way all day and rebooting does not help. And the battery percent goes up and down without charging. And yes I have calibrated it multiple times
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Have you considered getting another battery
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I would not like to spend anymore money on this phone if possible. I just spent $680 on it. What kind of battery life are u getting?
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You should return it. My on screen time is 3hrs and I still have 61% left.
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Yup, I can get 4+ hours screen time, not on power saver. You need to swap your phone out, something's not right.
Something is definitely wrong. I had a 45 minute conversation in my car today with the screen on for navigation and it only drained 15%. I was quite impressed.
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Call up T-Mobile and tell them your battery is defective and they will send you a new one free of charge. Plus you can keep your old one.
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Well I went back to the tmobile store and just swapped the phone. Hopefully this one will be better than the last.
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Scoutamis said:
Hi everyone I got my phone 4 days ago and have been through charge cycles but my battery life sucks. I only get a Max of 2hrs on screen time and 12 hours with the phone on (if its in airplane mode the whole time). Also, it takes forever to charge. I charged it from 7pm to 10:30pm and it went from 2% to 34%. And as i type this message (on wifi) I lost 3% battery life. What should I do?
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Most likely, you have a lemon, and you should exchange it.
keep in mind, if you store your phone in a hot place it will drain considerably quicker..happen to my S2
G1_enthusiast said:
keep in mind, if you store your phone in a hot place it will drain considerably quicker..happen to my S2
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I always have my phone in my pocket so its not really ever in a hot place. But thanks for the suggestion
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Scoutamis said:
I always have my phone in my pocket so its not really ever in a hot place. But thanks for the suggestion
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You clearly have something defective.
(from my phone)
em2drvr03 said:
Call up T-Mobile and tell them your battery is defective and they will send you a new one free of charge. Plus you can keep your old one.
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are you serious? can someone verify this?
Do you have low signal. At my home I had the same issue, but on sprint. Using something like juice defender extended my battery life considerably.
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Lieu10ant said:
are you serious? can someone verify this?
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Here we go. Now everybody and their mom is gonna try to scam T-Mobile like Charlie did HTC for the battery covers. :-[
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The_Biz said:
Here we go. Now everybody and their mom is gonna try to scam T-Mobile like Charlie did HTC for the battery covers. :-[
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Then they'll start charging. My friends Sensation legit needed a back cover for his phone (power button was shot and volume rocker fell out) but he couldn't get one from HTC after three attempts.
Try doing a factory reset. It helped on my S3.
prophetx2 said:
Do you have low signal. At my home I had the same issue, but on sprint. Using something like juice defender extended my battery life considerably.
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Signal is strong where I live so that wasn't the issue
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vince2398 said:
Try doing a factory reset. It helped on my S3.
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Tried that and it didn't help so I got it replaced. Getting much better results with the new phone
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Overnight charging:is this good or bad

Hi, I have read here that some are doing this. What would be the effect of this on the battery life, as it usually takes only about 3 hours to charge to full. Thanks
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There's no effect, it's fine. The phone knows when to stop charging.
agreed - I've been doing this with my phone every night since the G1 days with no problems
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No overheating or whatever? Okay thanks. Nice to know that.
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mrm43 said:
No overheating or whatever? Okay thanks. Nice to know that.
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the charging micro will turn off supply to the battery when it is 'charged' so nothing to worry about at all
Yeah when the phone gets to 100% it will disconnect until 98% then start charging again.
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Unlike me, the phone knows when it's had enough!
Lesicnik1 said:
Yeah when the phone gets to 100% it will disconnect until 98% then start charging again.
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I think this is a base android feature, even my TF101 tablet does this when it's on the dock. It'll discharge until about 96% then start re-charging.

Battery draining fast

My T-Mobile note 2 battery is draining extremely fast its NOT rooted. So I don't understand why isn't draining so fast someone please help. And if anyone is having this same problem how did you fix it without getting a replacement device.
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See if anything in the Better Battery Stats thread will help you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809&nocache=1
That will at least allow you to see what's doing it.
I will thanks
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Check the battery stats for "gpsd". Mine started draining after updating to 4.1.2. It appears (for me at least) that the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
If this is the case for you. Switch the service/function of and notify Samsung.
How many hours do you get when your battery is draining fast?
My stock phone started to drain fast as well. Within 6 hours unplugged I see myself having only 60 percent remaining with barely an hour screen on time. I tried to narrow it down to a rogue app but it seems the OTA was more plausable and easier to blame lol
Now back to using Jedi again.
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Dmwitz said:
the Samsung "find-your-phone-if someone-steels-it" was behaving badly.
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What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.
slybarman said:
What app is that? I was not aware of that feature.
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It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
tabashir said:
It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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Are you sure Dive and the remote control functions are supported on our phone?
My phone isn't rooted. And Im new too this so I'm a little bit lost on what to do. Before that T-Mobile update I would get 24hrs+ but I'm lucky enough too get 8hrs and that's without heavy use
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tabashir said:
It's called DIVE and does more than just recover lost phones, it is a management suite, not that I've spent a lot of time on it so far.
http://www.samsungdive.com/about/forwardSiteGuide.do#
http://www.samsungdive.com/DiveMain.do
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That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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zen0s said:
That's only for international version like N7100... US don't get that feature on T889.
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Thats what I thought.
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Same here. Hope it can get fixed soon
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Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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janjannsen99 said:
Because you have Some 'crap ware app like faabook runni ng
its notorious for drain.
See what ywve got running In the background and that where the answer will be
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That's not it ever since this multiwindow update battery life has diminished. I can't figure it out. Like right now all I did is a little bit of fb twitter Tapatalk gps music and thats it and its at 38% unplugged since 6 hrs and on screen time is 2 hrs.
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I turned off the multi window under settings cause I rarely use it and ive been unplugged for 9 hrs and have 56% left I also am syncing manually. Hopefully this will help
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Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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janjannsen99 said:
Yea multi view does seem to contribute to see extra drain. But as I see it my phone lasts all day no matter what I do to it. I've never EVER had to say...dang where's my charger. Not with this phone. It's perfect for me . I use it HEAVILY
I trade commodities so I'm constantly on the Internet and syncing prices all day long. I don't use wifi. Ever
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I don't use mult window just to sgow off to my friends I ise my phone moderately and can get 8 hrs max 4, 5, or 6 with heavy use r u stock?
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Battery life.. just amazing

after rooting and getting my note 3 on att I have to say I am just in awe how good the battery life is.
I have sync on for gmail, facebook, linkedin and moderate use I am at 2 days and 7 hours off the charger with 18% left. Screen time of 5 hours and 6 minutes.
Killed a lot of apps with TI and it has really just been awesome
Yeah, I'm about to hit éight hours of screen on time, pretty damn good for a stock unrooted phone.
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Steve Lazarus said:
Yeah, I'm about to hit éight hours of screen on time, pretty damn good for a stock unrooted phone.
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Battery life is incredible. Im on my first cycle, 1 hr on screen time, 9 h off charge and 75% left. Fantastic.
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I'm totally stoked on how awesome the battery life is! Full day of listening to SiriusXM, while using the built in pedometer, texting, and using Google Hangouts for face to face chatting, and still last all day!
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According to my usage scheme, I had to replace battery twice with s3, and once with Note 2, but this thing can leave even more than 10%!
It even can last five days if you leave it idle 24/7.
Not bad
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fredrick1213 said:
Not bad
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cool. i got 9.35mins display time, 1.13 hours call, wifi on and 4g.
help
fredrick1213 said:
Not bad
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how do you get such good battery life??
itzsmokey said:
how do you get such good battery life??
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By not using your phone
slick4mitch said:
By not using your phone
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Yea that's what I try to do and it works, but I would love to get 7 hours of screen time
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I think the common element here is all these people where getting great battery life before KK dropped. I know mine has gone downhill after KK.
stevessvt said:
I think the common element here is all these people where getting great battery life before KK dropped. I know mine has gone downhill after KK.
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If you're rooted, try disabling DVFS through Wanam. It substantially increased my battery life.
Thanks Ill give it a try....
There is already a Battery Life thread.
Please search before posting
Thanks
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What's wrong with my phone?

So I have a zero lemon 9300mah battery and got the mean bean rom been almost a month that I charge my phone fully and in 2 hours it goes to 50% so I though it was the battery. I changed the battery to a new one still died fast than I thought it was my rom. So I changed that last night to liquid smooth and charged overnight. Woke up at 8.30 and now it's 11.00am I am at 33% from 100% what's going on please help me.
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Check your battery stats... See whats keeping your phone awake
mrevankyle said:
Check your battery stats... See whats keeping your phone awake
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how do i do that?
sofia-captivate said:
how do i do that?
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Settings/battery
If your screen/display isn't the top thing then in most cases you have a problem
This is what mine looks like
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This may sound silly, but do you ever turn your screen off, lol.
Just kidding, but that's pretty bad.
Click the screen on and see what your time is. Is that with the Zero Lemon?
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Either a CPU max run state...or a serious wake lock...or both..
Zero lemon getting drained like that is a serious problem...
I would suggest a "complete" wipe...and the flashing of a rooted stock rom as a test base...
If the device still exhibits the behavior...then a hardware issue may be at Work here...
If the device gets hot to the touch....then get the device to a stock and clean state...so some unmodified testing can take place...
Let us know...g
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Even if you leave your screen on, never turn off zerolemon should still last you much longer than 4 hours of screen time. I have one, I get 3 days usage out of it

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