Posted on 08/17/2018 6:19:52 AM PDT by jimjohn
Since shortly after last Thanksgiving, my wife and I been pulling our hair out over this phone issue. The batter drains like crazy, and at about 15%, the battery dies. Then it takes like 10 minutes to restart the phone while watching the screen say:
"Optimizing App 1 of 1".
You can image in an emergency, the phone suddenly becomes useless.
This morning, for the 2nd time, it decided to lock up at about 63% power, then restart. It takes about 8% of power to start up in these conditions. But if your battery's dead, I need to charge it up to 22% before the phone can even start.
Yes, I have scoured the internet. Deleted the Zedge app long ago (Didn't have the others). Folks at the Verizon store had no clue (probably did, just didn't want to deal with it).
Friends all telling me to go Iphone (I'm resisting), and I don't want to 'brick' my phone.
Has anyone else experienced this? If so, have you found a solution?
This Verizon LG4 phone is about 24 hours away from being used as a rectangular hockey puck, or a skipping stone.
I’ve got a note 5 - no problems
Mine are doing great (I have four of them, all lg - g3’s and g4’s).
I was going to replace them with Samsung and found out samsung has changed their plug to be unique similarly to how iPhones use a unique plug.
Guess I won’t be doing Samsung.
No more problems than I usually have with my LG G5.
I can’t speak to Android problems, but I found my iPhone battery drained faster if I kept apps open. Now I close them all when not in use and get a much longer run on a charge.
When is the last time you updated your OS? This sounds like an older OS issue to me. My android does not do this at all. My quick and dirty research indicates that optimizing apps is an older OS issue where the app was compiled at runtime and new Android OS’s resolved this.
Sounds like you need to do a software update on your OS to me.
I have a Galaxy S6 Active, running Android 7.1 Nougat.
My s9 works fine. So did my s7 and s5.
I am not a big fan of LG products.
No problems with my Samsung S6
I get great battery life on my Samsung J7 with Android version 7.0. The newer OS are much friendlier to battery life. They also have a feature that optimizes the phone. Keep your brightness diwn. Even just a tad lower helps a lot.
I used to have this problem. You can’t have the phone plugged in when you turn it on. Let it charge for a while, unplug it turn it on then plug it back in. One other thing I do is I have one of those extra battery pack chargers so when it gets low I plug it in. Yes I have an old Moto X.
how old is the phone?
“Guess I won’t be doing Samsung”
Love the new Samsung plug!
My only Android problem is that it’s an Android and Google stalks me. Not that I do anything interesting or remarkable, but it just creeps me out on general principle.
Get a Blackberry KeyTwo or KeyOne (both Android). I go 48 hours of heavy use without a need to re-charge. Amazing battery life and excellent phones.
Without knowing the model phone or android version, suggest the two links below. Not all versions benefit from all optimization, but some tuning always helps some.
From personal observation....
- Keep the internal memory as clear as possible.
- store ALL photos on SD card
- if using kindle or audible, or any application that pulls down articles, install the application so it stores data to the SD Card (also a browser setting for this).
- some third party applications will allow running from the SD card.
- run optimization (current on-board version is pretty good, and will even allow setting power management on most commonly used applications
- if the phone does not have an SD card, upgrade phones. ALL computers benefit from clear ram and large storage away from the operating system.
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-optimize-android-phone-716299/
Good hunting
KYPD (and your internal memory clear)
I’ve been striving to get all of our plugs compatible with one another. That totally messes it up. And the old plugs are great. No reason to throw out all my old cords. This is what kept us from iPhone. Well, one of the things.
“Get a Blackberry KeyTwo or KeyOne (both Android).”
I have a Blackberry Priv (Android), and the battery seems to drain quickly, even though I never leave any apps open, and I turn off location unless I need it.
When it exasperates me enough, I move the SIM card back to my BB (non-Android) Classic and am much happier.
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