Should I trade my LG G3 for another phone because of battery life

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I recently bought an LG G3 which I think is a pretty good phone.

However, I find the battery life is not as good as my previous phone (Galaxy Note 3).

I greenify installed and I'm on marshmallow so I have the benefit of doze.

I am wondering if I should just trade it for another phone?
Anyone have any suggestions?
 
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i really enjoy my G3, it is a brilliant phone, but yeah the battery is crappy, i would get just under a day (which isnt a problem to me but the other battery related issues are really frustrating).
Im on my third battery, and now i am getting the bootloop issue (something to do with the battery) so i will need to get battery number 4 :(
 
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Had my G3 for 3 weeks now, latest bug seems to be the phone rebooting on its own, yesterday it rebooted 3x, I think I have nailed it down to the FM app.

Have not started FM today and so far so good.
 
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There's also the annoying issue with the sound when playing music through headphones where there's a hissing in left ear.

Fix is to unplug headphones, make a call, replug headphones and it works, hissing gone.

I'd hoped they had fixed this in MM.
 
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Bond said:
Why buy this? We're on G5 already.
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Budget, needed a phone for music actually that could support large sd card, big screen and device received decent audio output reviews.
Was receiving Marshmallow, seems like good choice for what I paid under 4k, 2014 flagship.
 
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Mine is also 2 years old. But I bought it second hand becuase the note 3 got damaged. So I was wondering if I should trade it for one of the Xiaomis or Huaweis. Or something like that. I can't afford a g4 or g5 so that's out
 
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I would do that, as im tired of these battery issues popping up, but when it works its an awesome phone.
 
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Lets see... Get to work around 7. by around 2, needs to be charged. Keep my charger on me all the time

Its bugging me. So yesterday I installed CM 13. So testing it out today. lets see how it goes.
 
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Kav33r said:
Woah mine lasts about the same. And its pretty annoying. Im actually considering buying another battery or one of those huge batteries, but cant find them around here
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So as I mentioned before - I installed CM 13 on my G3 now. The battery life is definitely much better than before.

The phone has been on now without a charge since yesterday morning and its on 30% now.
If i go to battery settings now - it says approx 12 hours left.

The big difference now is that the phone is hardly using battery while in standby,
this was not the case when I used the stock LG rom.
In the morning I would wake up and the battery would be down by 10 - 15 percent, yet the phone was idle the whole night which is strange because I have marshmallow running so doze should of helped a lot.

As a side note - when I was rooting the device before I installed CM 13, I used kingroot and it said that there were a bunch of apps that autostart and it can disable all those apps and save me up to 30% battery life. This might be why the battery drains so fast.
Might be worth the look if you don't want to install a custom rom.
 
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