Hi everyone
i have a strange problem that happens often with my phone,
i noticed there are some certain apps or games cause my phone to consume power more that usual.
what happened was, i fully recharged my phone, then installed (Where's my water, the free version) from Android Market last night, and i played it for a while, then i went to sleep and the phone on the stand by mode.
when i woke up this morning and i found that my phone lost almost 40% of its charge over night.
the only solution to recover from that high power consumption is to restart the phone, but it is really annoying!
i took a snap shot to the power graph and i made little explanations on it.
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any help would be really appreciated.
Sorry for bad English!
Download better battery stats from the market and it should tell you what was eating your battery. I'm guessing an app is keeping your phone awake. Check your uptime and awake time to see if it seems to close in numbers.
thanks for reply, but as you can see from that picture, the phone does not show awake condition while it consumes power.
anyways I'll try to install one of those battery monitor apps to identify what's wrong with the device.
thanks again
please help
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Hi everyone,
This is not a battery life problem. I've read the battery threads and could not find someone with a similar problem.
My problem: I left my phone locked and untouched while I went shower. Afterwards I decided to check my phone but it did not respond. I tried to turn it on but that failed too. The screen stayed black as if it was off. I ended up taking the battery out, putting it back in and turning the phone on.
The phone did turn on but my battery temperature was 45°C and 48%. My battery was 75% before I went shower. I checked the battery status page and here's what it showed. Notice the vertical drop in battery at the end of the graph.
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After a few minutes since restarting:
The android os % also has never been this high before. I've also never experienced any battery problems mentioned in other threads. I use my phone quite often so display is always at the top. This is the first problem I've encountered with my SGS2 which had made me quite sad since it's less than 3 weeks old.
Thanks for reading and would really appreciate any input.
Guys can anyone help me with battery life? I'm running cm7 nightly 9 and I've wiped battery stats. Also reduced friendcaster polling to 1hr after seeing the betterbatterystats screen
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Everything looks normal to me, and the wakelock didn't show any program that's drainging the battery bad...The Wifi didn't use that much battery too according to your pic. Display didn't use that much also(17%). So I say it might be your weak 3G/GSM signal that's draining the battery.
Thanks man! anyone else?
I was doing some browsing and downloading for a good 2hours or so before leaving it at 30% for about 8 hours with wifi turned on. Woke up to 3% battery
If that's a 2h period you have a display-on time for those 17%, and the rest of the drain is due to a severe case of the Android OS bug. 25% drain over 8 hours idle is horrible. Sadly, no real solution to it other than just trying around wiping the phone and playing with the configurations. **** percentages in the battery screen and look at actual uptime of the different things.
This dont usually happen. In fact, it only happen once.
All this while, the display always use the most battery life, about 50%
followed by android OS, about 10-15%.
my phone was fully charged before i sleep.
but i woke up with 5% battery left, the battery info says android OS used 60%!!
here is screenshot as proof.
i'm really confused, the phone state is appear to be NOT awake,
but the CPU usage is 1000MHz constantly while i sleep.
all this while i've been using rom tool box CPU slider to underclock it to 1000MHz, so thats the maximum my phone can go. i prefer it that way so its much less warm.
any idea whats causing this? as i mention before, this only happen once.
Even so, i'm very curious about this. any one experience this before? or know whats goin on?
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Better Battery Stats thread and partial wake locks is your start point .
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Hello everyone,
I've had my GS3 for over a month now and I can say I am quite happy with it. Battery life is rather consistent (I come from an Apple IP4).
There is something that is bugging me though. Every time I am connected to a wifi network, battery drains faster than usual. Whenever I check the battery usage, I can see that the phone wakes up for short periods of time repeatedly, mainly when I am using wifi. Here's a screenshot of it.
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I am on 4.1.1. No custom ROM and/or rooted.
Hope you can help me.
Something's waking your phone regularly... not WiFi. Use BBS to monitor what is doing it.
It is likely to be an app using a network connection for data retrieval.
My guess is that an app is set to sync\download\upload when you are on WIFI only, and stuck in a loop. Install Better Battery Stats, charge your phone fully, put it on WIFI and then leave it for an hour. Then check and\or post your BBS log.
Happy hunting.
Is there a free app that i can do that with???
Thanks a lot.
Probably wlan_rx_wake wakelock
There are custom kernels for that
You know, as i said, I've only had the phone for over a month. More info on that would be greatly appreciated.
After a single day of use, my phone was reporting less than 10% remaining, a little strange as I've not used it much, but maybe a run-away app so I plugged it in (Samsung mains charger), then this happened:
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Specs: Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300, not locked to any carrier, factory unlocked, no carrier logos or apps. Not rooted, standard OS, Android 4.3, Kernel 3.0.31-2788594, JSS15J.I9300XXUGNJ2.
So I'm now wondering either:
Super-powerful charger,
Phone thought battery was lower than it actually was,
Phone now thinks battery is a lot higher than it actually is,
Battery is on way out,
Something else?
wifi Seems on all the time. remember it's also the one that cause battery to drain.. some user/system apps running in the background..
Thanks, but I was more wondering about how the phone managed to go from 7% battery to 64% battery in less than a minute, and slowly increase from there until I unplugged it. It's at 54% now so appears to be stable.