Battery + display issues.. - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Howdy all..
I have a couple of questions about battery usage relating to screen power consumption.
First some background on the.phone
Aussie i9100t
Cm7.1 with its base kernel (wolverine)
Stock radio kf2
Now, if j sit down and read tapatalk or Facebook for 15 minutes ill burn 5% battery (even with the new Samsung 2000mah battery I just bought)
I have the brightness set to manual and as low as it will go, it actually seems way too. Right for minimum settings to be honest.
Just wondering if anyone has some suggestions on where too look for issues
Edit, just a note, I've had 2x i9100's prior to this model and I'm pretty positive they weren't this bad
Cheers
Kyle

Try a different radio, if your browsing on 3g....if on wifi try a different kernel like siyah

Thanks for the reply.
I gave siyah a go yesterday for 12 hours but found a similar result with the stock battery.
Dunno hey, just find it quite strange that the last 2 sgs2s I've had were not like this..

Couple of screenshots..
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kyl3 said:
Couple of screenshots..
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Try new siyah 2.6.6i with ondemand as default. Worked great for me.. My battery is almost dead in pic bcz i tried ics for a few min but it killed battery as u can see ;( back on siyah and gone a hour of listening to music and xda browsing battery went from 15% to 12% lol stock battery also auto brightness on
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Thanks for that mate, do you find lag when scrolling with siyah? I got it a bit, maybe selected the wrong governor or something ...

kyl3 said:
Thanks for that mate, do you find lag when scrolling with siyah? I got it a bit, maybe selected the wrong governor or something ...
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Nope.. I use setcpu for uv and oc and used tegrak oc app to uv gpu and change governor to cfq which i believe is better (in my opinion)
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Weird issue with battery on ICS final.

First full day using this rom and I'm impressed worked smooth had a few hiccups like airplane mode not working right at first.
But what I'm here to ask is will a "wipe battery stats" work I have no clue as it why I was awake when the screen was off . But my concern is the 30-40% drop in battery life
Any ideas?? thanks in advance
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Wiping battery stats won't help you, there's a wakelock issue going on there. I would recommend installing BetterBatteryStats ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 ) and checking into what is keeping your phone awake, be it a system app or user-installed.
SirFork said:
Wiping battery stats won't help you, there's a wakelock issue going on there. I would recommend installing BetterBatteryStats ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 ) and checking into what is keeping your phone awake, be it a system app or user-installed.
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Ok ill try that I installed it last night but was just to tired to continue .. also my phones been on the charger for about 6 hrs and is not going past 78% but ill reboot before I ask questions about that.
Thanks.
Edit- it was poweramp again and I dk y but the reboot brought it back to 100% should I do a wipe when its at 100% next time just to be sure?
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SirFork said:
Wiping battery stats won't help you, there's a wakelock issue going on there. I would recommend installing BetterBatteryStats ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 ) and checking into what is keeping your phone awake, be it a system app or user-installed.
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It happend again I don't know what % it was right before the drop but it always drops to 19% what could it be?
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(Q) Lost 25% ina few seconds. WTF?

title says it all really everytime my phone is around the 30-40% range it drops suddenly to 19% always to 19% and I have no clue why I've calibrated, wiped and did a restart while plugged in battery pull and still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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Try to see which applications are running and what is more consumundo battery.
And also recommend that you calibrate. Me, whenever I do this procedure, I have a good improvement in autonomy.
Does this happen across different ROMs? You might have a bad battery.
DopeHack said:
title says it all really everytime my phone is around the 30-40% range it drops suddenly to 19% always to 19% and I have no clue why I've calibrated, wiped and did a restart while plugged in battery pull and still nothing.
Any suggestions?
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I only flashed once never switched roms
Sent from Atrix 4G running CM7 ICS Final @ 1.2Ghz
Use Better Battery Stats and Watchdog Lite to see whats happening. In watchdog lite u can set the cpu percentage max to be 20% so that anything going beyond that can be reported. Usually works for me.
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live4nyy said:
Does this happen across different ROMs? You might have a bad battery.
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I think it might have been the state my battery was in when I flashed the first time because it hasn't done it yet and I was rom surfing last night nothing out of the ordinary happened I'll report back after work tomorrow that should be a good enough time to test it out
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Can anybody help me with this?
Sent from my Neutrino'd out Atrix @ 1.3Ghz.

Really bad battery life...

So, I'm using the newest stable release of CM9 with Siyah kernel and my battery life is terrible. Not even using the phone for an hour, eight hours of standby, and it's already down to 30%. Any solutions?
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itsPIXL said:
So, I'm using the newest stable release of CM9 with Siyah kernel and my battery life is terrible. Not even using the phone for an hour, eight hours of standby, and it's already down to 30%. Any solutions?
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Most battery drain issues are user related, check your apps with Better Battery Stats and install cpu spy for sleep time of the cpu. Might be some rogue stampeding apps/widgets on your phone
As you can see on attachments, my battery stats are equal... my awake time is very high, and i have better battery stats installed, it says my cpu time are 90% into 200mhz mode, but as you can see 15% with 13h of usage... but doesn't show any application draining my battery...
Anyone know how to trace this correctly?
Battery probs
Hi mate! Its mi first post i hope they will be no errors!.
I had the same prob as u and i did this:
1-Install ---> Battery Calibrator ( root need ) from googleplaystore.
2-Charge it to 100% REBOOT YOUR PHONE (program dont say a thing about this
3- Press button , all your battery stats will be correct now
4- If u continue having this probs you have to Re-boot your ROM and do all this steps with 3 wipes
itsPIXL said:
So, I'm using the newest stable release of CM9 with Siyah kernel and my battery life is terrible. Not even using the phone for an hour, eight hours of standby, and it's already down to 30%. Any solutions?
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Remove bloatware or freeze them
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You are using siyah?
Make your cpu 1200-200 or 1000-200
Overvoltage 50
And you will see the difference.
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I found that Friendcaster for Facebook was giving me wakelocks. BetterBatteryStats is a must-have.

[Q] Do you think my SGS3's battery lasts normal?

Hi everyone. I've seen couple friends of mine saying that their S3 last like 2 days. I can't even see the night with mine. I used the screen only an hour but it's already %37. I guess there's something wrong. Can you check it out and tell me if it's normal?
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Not normal..i can easily get 4 hrs on screen time and 12 h total time
Im on paranoidandroid rom
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Diaze said:
Not normal..i can easily get 4 hrs on screen time and 12 h total time
Im on paranoidandroid rom
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What do you suggest me to do? I bought this from USA but now I'm in Turkey so I don't have warranty here. Do you think if I buy a new battery it's gonna fix?
Get yourself a Battery Mix from playstore, observe the graph and try to find out which application is using the cpu, I mean, see which one is constantly using the cpu even though you didn't use it.
(eg: on my phone google chrome and line are the main culprit)
Burak123 said:
What do you suggest me to do? I bought this from USA but now I'm in Turkey so I don't have warranty here. Do you think if I buy a new battery it's gonna fix?
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Try using better battery stats and see what is causing wakelocks so u can fix them and ur battery will last longer
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That´s not normal, i am on Jelly Bean stock rom and rigth now i have 32% left with 1d and 9h43m, with normal use, phone calls, sms, wi-fi on.
I bought the Samsung Extra Battery Kit a while ago. At first I thought it was just placebo, but now I am pretty sure that the newer battery has a 1/3 better battery life than the one the S3 came with.
So I think not all batterys are created equal or degenerate after a few months too quickly.
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Strange battery problem

I have an extremely strange problem with the battery of my s3. When I'm at home, where my signal is extremely poor I last roughly a day wasting 40/50% so that's after 15 hours of discharge. When I'm at work I.e walking taking the train etc, just generally at work my battery goes down 70%!!!!! In 5 hours with minimal use. Eg. Screen on for 20 minutes. Voice calls 10minutes. I can sometimes Ferrell that the s3 Is warm surely it can't be because of the fact it's in my pocket causing the s3 bather to start warming up. I have tried using better battery stats but it gives no reference set yet. Can someone please assist in how to check what the culprit maybe? GPS is off Google now is off. WiFi is off power saving is on. All apps have been closed. Is identical to what I have at home.
Run better battery stats look for wakelocks.
jje
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Better battery stats isn't working on s3. It says no reference point set yet. It's a common problem being faced by a lot of s3 owners regarding that app. The developer hasn't updated the ap
Wat. You must be doing something wrong. I recommend using v1.11.0.0. Proof below
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can someone link the download page for better battery stats... can only find pay version
Search google xda better battery stats if you cannot buy it
jje
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Just thought I'd update I found v1 from somewhere and its working so far I think. I monitored it yesterday and saved the file and now I'm going to do my traveling like I do most days and hopefully you guys can help me deduce it if I can't.
Thanks,
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Just thought I'd update I found v1 from somewhere and its working so far I think. I monitored it yesterday and saved the file and now I'm going to do my traveling like I do most days and hopefully you guys can help me deduce it if I can't.
Thanks,
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Post in the better battery stats thread .
jje

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