Day two of my new S III and I have the same issue that caused me to return the S II after a few days.
What's happening is that after a period of time, something causes the device to stay awake. Looking at BetterBatteryStatistics, it's the Google Backup and Restore process that appears to keep the device awake. Disabling the service doesn't solve things.
It's a lovely handset. But again something Samsung appear to do to the firmware makes it incompatible with my primary Gmail account.
*sighs* I really don't want to return it. I will factory reset, I will try another Gmail address but for goodness sake.
Anybody else seen this?
None of my android devices over the last couple of years have had this issue, whether on stock or custom roms.
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just fu.ck the stock rom hard and do install omega v3.0 !!
It's backing up your settings and apps so just leave wifi on for a while and then turn it off after an extended period. If you don't have an internet connection, it'll just hang there with a wakelock apparently.
Yeah it's a strange thing. My Samsung's have done it with the TouchWiz ROMs whereas the Nexus S was fine. It's weird.
Otherwise, the SGS III has coped well for the first charge. 24 hours off charge, over four hours of screen on time, almost six hours of Wakelock, automatic brightness (low for most of the time), little Internet use mind...
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Hi guys,
Not sure what could be the issue. I'm quite a veteran when it comes to troubleshooting these phones and flashing, etc. I've been a power user since the S1 and S2.
I flashed CM9 a few weeks ago, one of the stables and it was all running fine. One day I picked up the phone after charging overnight and it was really hot, the battery drained in about an hour or so, the whole time it was extremely hot.
I flashed a few other CM roms, which didn't fix much, tried full wipes and everything.
I've now gone back to an original samsung rom which I flashed via odin. This seems to have fixed the overheating issue, however, my battery barely lasts more than 3 hours on full charge and this is with absolutely minimal use (few phone calls).
WiFI is also extremely unstable. It takes a while to connect to any network, and when it does, it'll drop after a few minutes. I've tried different networks.
Scanning for WIFI networks works fine, so does this rule out a faulty WIFI chip?
I'm thinking the battery drain may be related to the WIFI card.
I've also tried a new battery.
Any suggestions, or is the phone fried?
A number of posts saying the same .
after charging overnight and it was really hot, the battery drained in about an hour or so, the whole time it was extremely hot.
jje
au_stevo said:
Hi guys,
Not sure what could be the issue. I'm quite a veteran when it comes to troubleshooting these phones and flashing, etc. I've been a power user since the S1 and S2.
I flashed CM9 a few weeks ago, one of the stables and it was all running fine. One day I picked up the phone after charging overnight and it was really hot, the battery drained in about an hour or so, the whole time it was extremely hot.
I flashed a few other CM roms, which didn't fix much, tried full wipes and everything.
I've now gone back to an original samsung rom which I flashed via odin. This seems to have fixed the overheating issue, however, my battery barely lasts more than 3 hours on full charge and this is with absolutely minimal use (few phone calls).
WiFI is also extremely unstable. It takes a while to connect to any network, and when it does, it'll drop after a few minutes. I've tried different networks.
Scanning for WIFI networks works fine, so does this rule out a faulty WIFI chip?
I'm thinking the battery drain may be related to the WIFI card.
I've also tried a new battery.
Any suggestions, or is the phone fried?
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No, to get up your hopes, the phone isn't dead, yet.
Try flahsing a ROM, other than CM. I have the same problem, with AOSP, that's why I stick to sammy based ROMs, AOSP is made for the device, but Google only tunes it up to their standards, when it has something to do with their Nexus devices.
I'd say: Try a different ROM, don't overclock it. If that doesn't work, flash stock and then try it. One of the two should work, though!
I've gone back to a stock Samsung 4.0.1 rom. Flahed using odin, yet still the same issue with battery life and WIFI.
I've heard somewhere that flashing CM9 can cause WIFI issues, and there's a specific flash procedure to get it working normal again?
au_stevo said:
I've gone back to a stock Samsung 4.0.1 rom. Flahed using odin, yet still the same issue with battery life and WIFI.
I've heard somewhere that flashing CM9 can cause WIFI issues, and there's a specific flash procedure to get it working normal again?
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There is no 4.0.1 for the S3. I'm just sayin'.
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My bad, I mean whichever came with the phone.
Hello,
I have a Galaxy S2 which I managed to keep on an extremely low battery drain with many custom ROMS I flashed and now a happy owner of a Galaxy S3 on which I initially flashed ICS ROMS (v4.0.4) without problems keeping also my battery drain (with over 300 apps) on very low levels.
However, having now flashed a couple of JB ROMS (4.1.1 which base I really love) I discovered that there is no way so far to get rid of the battery drain occurring with MediaScannerService running. I have tried almost all the solutions proposed in XDA (except so far the format of my sdcard which I will do as soon as I get a full backup) but nada. Yes I did clear my caches, removed my battery, changed kernels etc... but it would seems that after 4.0.4 ROMS, any 4.1.1 brings the same problem.
So my question is this. Is this a general issue with 4.1.1, is there any workaround to it, I love 4.1.1 and I won't be too happy getting back to 4.0.4 ROM versions....
Another thing I also noticed with 4.1.1 is the WiFi scanning for networks every xx seconds (4 or 5) but I don't know if this is normal, if this is a phone issue or what. My WiFi is set to be always on.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestions
Yannis
This is a bug that happens sometimes, there's an app on market to disable media scanner and enable when you want it.
The solution I found prior to this was to wipe my sd card
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5hZGR6Lm1lZGlhc2Nhbm5lcnJvb3QiXQ..
Thank you very much guys for the heads-up.
I did use the mentioned little proggy but the result was the same.
I am now backing up and then moving my nandroid and titanium backup to PC before formatting sdcard as a last resort.
I will post follow up in the morning.
for me media scanner only drains my battery when i just turned on my phone. it goes away eventually
slaphead20 said:
This is a bug that happens sometimes, there's an app on market to disable media scanner and enable when you want it.
The solution I found prior to this was to wipe my sd card
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It's happening all the time for me. Since yesterday when I installed, eating up my battery like crazy!
I've got the same problem with my Gnote. The only solution I've found (which isn't really a solution) is to disable it as soon as you boot. I did that this morning and the device has been perfect all day.
The question I have is if you wipe the sd card do you have to do that EVERY time you flash a ROM? The dev for my ROM has been updating around twice a week, it would be a total ball ache to have to format every time you re flash.
Splash
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Well here is what I discovered in my case....
Major issue with sdcard, as soon as I formatted it through phone's option and copied back all previous data around 10gigs, things got immediately better and phone went into deep sleep around 75-80% while previously it went never over 45-50% in sleep mode.
Then, accustomed to my previous Galaxy SII which after playing around with CPU Spy and BetterBattery is still giving me over 2 and half days of life with moderate phone use (shutting down WiFI at night) I found out that progs such as Latitude or Maps etc... always have a couple of settings which are defaulted to move data which must be disabled. Since then, my consumption has dropped to very satisfying levels, I will change my sd to a class 10 sdcard now and charge the phone fully for the rest of the day.
Then I will unplug it for the entire night, turning Wifi off and I'll see in the morning what will I get, I will of course post my findings and numbers.
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Mediascannerservice is fu..ed
I have the same exact problem on my SG3, its reaching the point that i'm seriously considering throwing it to the curb and getting a phone that freakin works as it should. I'm in ICS 4.04, non root.
I've restored my phone 10 time thus far, symptoms are the same as described, mediascannerservice scanning non stop, battery drain, phone heating up for cpu throttling on highest core only,this is been monitored with betterbatterystats and CPU spy. i thought i had a corrupt file as stated elsewhere, wiped the phone clean, formated the sd card, my last attempt was to not use the sd card at all, same fu.. thing. i can't just stop the media scanner service for it won't detect new songs i add to the phone, which i do very often.
I've narrowed it down to Player Pro, once i install it, it kind of messes things up.
Is anyone else having any issues with there S3 and Player Pro?
Can any of you stop the media scanner service and have new files detected somehow.
How long does it take for the S3 or ICs in general to detect new media files?
when i wipe my phone clean, it detects them immediately, I just hope that player pro is the culprit of this mediascannerservice thing thats driving me crazy!!
MediaScannerService and Fast Dormancy?
Sort of the same problem here.
I was using my SGS3 in the US for several months, carrier StraightTalk using AT&T network. At first I had some connectivity and battery issues showing secril_fd-interface and multipdp wakelocks in BetterBatteryStats. Those where all corrected by turning off Fast Dormancy with the toggle app in the Play Store. So far so good. Good battery perfomance, lasted 1,5days moderate use, good 3G speeds all day long.
I came back to my country (Spain) 4 days ago, switched to spanish carrier (a Vodafone-band virtual carrier). That is the only change my phone has experienced, changing carrier.
secril_fd-interface, multipdp wakelocks back to de top battery consuming kernels. MediaScannerService is the partial wakelock that consumes the most by far, even if I turn off fast dormancy, which my company claims to support. If I keep 3G on, I need to change batteries twice in a day now. But if I turn to 2G, it can last for 1,5 days or more.
I've tried a factory reset, wipe cache and delvik, still the same problem. It's something to do with 3G connectivity, probably with fast dormancy right?
Thanks for any kind of help!!
asimo83 said:
Sort of the same problem here.
MediaScannerService is the partial wakelock that consumes the most by far, even if I turn off fast dormancy, which my company claims to support. If I keep 3G on, I need to change batteries twice in a day now. But if I turn to 2G, it can last for 1,5 days or more.
I've tried a factory reset, wipe cache and delvik, still the same problem. It's something to do with 3G connectivity, probably with fast dormancy right?
Thanks for any kind of help!!
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I follow this tip and it solved my battery drain due to MediaScannerService. Found a couple bad media and remove it.
http://thistechiegirl.com/2012/04/16/battery-drain-after-installing-a-rom-on-android/
"Check Settings>Battery, and if you see Media Scanner at the top of the list then it could that there are some corrupt thumbnails or database that makes the Media Scanner run berserk. To Fix, use SGS Tools, choose [Delete corrupt images on SD], reboot."
check this out. best solution
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/stop-media-scan-on-boot-scan-on-demand-with-rescan-media/
Intro
Hello I'm a very old lurker in this forum yet a new member and this is my first post so please don't kill me if I failed to follow the rules or if my English sucks. I will try to organize this thread and make it clear and easy to understand and read, while providing as much information as I can.
The Problem
So my i9100 has been having extreme battery drain lately, about 2% per 3 minutes. I refrain from using it throughout the day to help my battery hold until night. When I do so, it is usually about 40% by the time I go to sleep with having BARELY used the phone. Probably just now and then to answer a Whatsapp message or to check the time. I've long ago uninstalled all games since I can't even think of playing games with this horrible battery status.
How it started
The last thing I can remember before starting to have this problem is about a year(?) ago when I was on Jellybam. I had good battery, and then a build with an excellent battery came out and it worked perfectly. I can't remember which version it was, but a little after that, I updated Jellybam and noticed SUPER battery drain. I waited a little for the next updates but it wasn't fixed, so I changed a ROM. I noticed that it wasn't helping. So I tried the following for a couple of months now:
Attempts To Solve The Problem
I have tried the following:
Using lowest screen brightness
Disabling obvious stuff like GPS, Bluetooth, Wifi, 3G
Closing or even NOT installing any known battery consuming apps
NOT using task killers
USING task killers
Underclocking
Removing widgets. Using least icons possible on launcher
Using many different launchers
Changing ROMs, kernels and both
Reverting back to stock
Buying a new battery (extended and not original)
Trying a new original battery from a friend who has i9100
Flashing modems and RILs, including GetRIL. In fact, I've had better battery with worse signal (but not always). I think it was with XXLPH or XXLPW.
Using battery savers like JuiceDefender which basically do everything I've already tried. What's a smartphone without internet
Using BetterBatteryStats and Gsam Battery Monitor Pro. Did not notice anything special (but I am not pro enough to understand everything on BBS, though I googled some of the things and haven't noticed something unusual). Maybe some pro can help me with it.
Assumptions / Notes
A couple of versions ago, I have used Omega ROM version 4.2.1 which suddenly fixed(?!) my battery. I can't remember which build it was, but the new one doesn't fix the battery drain. I assume it could be due to the radio update to XXMS2
I have a feeling that the drain is related to the modem (aka baseband), because I've had some more battery-friendly modems and some less
I have tried many modems that are supposed to work perfectly (and really gave me good connection speed and signal), but they did not fix the battery drain. Even on stock rom
My provider is Golan Telecom, which is supposed to work good with Cellcom modems, but it didn't. At least not battery-wise
Last resort can be taking it to a lab, but it's hard for me to stay without my phone, and I think people here are more skilled than the noobs in the lab.
Can the problem be hardware-related but not battery-related? May it be caused by the huge amount of times I've flashed ROMs and kernels?
Had my phone for around 2 years
Never bricked my phone
Sorry for being a burden to this forum with this first post of mine, but thanks a TON of anyone who can shed some light on this problem for me!
*I have attached one log of BBS
2h screen on , 3h wifi running and 50% how you did that?
I don't think that is a big battery usage
Which battery do you have?
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krazy1101 said:
2h screen on , 3h wifi running and 50% how you did that?
I don't think that is a big battery usage
Which battery do you have?
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Don't know, the battery is just dying so fast...
I got the original one that comes with the i9100
It doesn't look horrendous to me. Things to do though :
1. Grant BBS root rights. Need it to see network and alarms.
2. Did you play music at all? If not, you need to diagnose apps which are putting out sound. Viber is a common culprit.
3. Deleted_wakelocks comes when you turn wifi off. As it's so large, something is killing you when you're on wifi. My guess would be wlan_rx_wakelock. Basically you need to turn off wifi when you're not actively using it to avoid the drain from it. "Better wifi on/off" may be an app which helps you out there, it'll automate the turning of wifi on and off with your screen.
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Hopper8 said:
It doesn't look horrendous to me. Things to do though :
1. Grant BBS root rights. Need it to see network and alarms.
2. Did you play music at all? If not, you need to diagnose apps which are putting out sound. Viber is a common culprit.
3. Deleted_wakelocks comes when you turn wifi off. As it's so large, something is killing you when you're on wifi. My guess would be wlan_rx_wakelock. Basically you need to turn off wifi when you're not actively using it to avoid the drain from it. "Better wifi on/off" may be an app which helps you out there, it'll automate the turning of wifi on and off with your screen.
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Thanks for your reply.
1. I have given it root rights, and will soon upload an updated log
2. I haven't played music at that time, not that I remember, but even with different players or not players at all, and without sound on keypress, the same drain is occuring. Also, I have long ago stopped using Viber as it eats the battery even more. My battery can't afford to have Viber :/
3. The drain seems to continue with or without wifi. I usually leave my wifi on when I'm at home, like now, but I have also tried, many times, to leave 3G without wifi and see if the battery improves. It didn't, unfortunately.
Hi XDA
I literally don't know what to do with my Samsung Galaxy SIII for a bout half a year ago i updated my phone to Android 4.3 and things went a bit weird. First thing I noticed was that the phone was really slow to wake up from standby, sometimes I had to take out the battery because nothing happen. The second thing is that it sometimes get really hot even on standby. I can't make it though half a day without charging my phone! Today it got mad at my phone again and was searching around the web for a solution, I came by lot of forums with people who was dealing with the same problem, but no fix able. I found a guy who had a an app which could register the battery usage in a graph. After running the app i noticed the same as the guy from the video - my phone is pretty normal on use, but then I turn the phone on standby it goes insane (look at the picture linked below)..
I don't know how to deal with the problem. I have gone though the applist to see any remarkable apps, but nothing has cough my attention.
I hope you guy are willing to help me - Save my phone!
mathias.gren said:
Hi XDA
I literally don't know what to do with my Samsung Galaxy SIII for a bout half a year ago i updated my phone to Android 4.3 and things went a bit weird. First thing I noticed was that the phone was really slow to wake up from standby, sometimes I had to take out the battery because nothing happen. The second thing is that it sometimes get really hot even on standby. I can't make it though half a day without charging my phone! Today it got mad at my phone again and was searching around the web for a solution, I came by lot of forums with people who was dealing with the same problem, but no fix able. I found a guy who had a an app which could register the battery usage in a graph. After running the app i noticed the same as the guy from the video - my phone is pretty normal on use, but then I turn the phone on standby it goes insane (look at the picture linked below)..
I don't know how to deal with the problem. I have gone though the applist to see any remarkable apps, but nothing has cough my attention.
I hope you guy are willing to help me - Save my phone!
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Wrong phone forum!!!
Here is your phone forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3
Hi, did you solved your problem?
If not, i'd recommend System Panel app. Download it, install, launch. Then go to Menu->Settings, check Enable monitoring option. Then let your phone to be in idle mode several hours - maybe before going to bed. After it - go to SP->Menu->Monitoring->History (in bottom right corner)->Press chart in top left corner->Top apps. Then you'll see top applications that worked in idle mode.
For more information go to 4pda russian forum and search "Советы по улучшению энергосбережения устройств на Android OS" thread - google translate will helps
Try This,,,,,,
I think some app is malfunctioning , i would suggest using Greenify if u r rooted ,
And if u r on Stock ROM then i would suggest u to delete or disable the BLOATWARE.
It helped me hope this was helpful
4.3 on the S3 is extremely buggy especially without Samsung's patch ( which didn't do much ). There isn't much that you can do on stock Touchwiz, except maybe flash a custom kernel. I would suggest flashing a custom rom, but that is up to you. There are many choices for custom roms here including Touchwiz, if you like it.
I've been experiencing disappointing battery life since the android 4.3 update last month on my non-LTE t-mo galaxy s3. I know there's been a lot of discussion and advice by t-mo reps on various forums, but it simply isn't accurate. The party line is "something you installed on your phone is causing increased battery drain after the 4.3 update." However, my partner and I have two identical T-mo galaxy S3's. We have entirely different sets of apps installed on our phones. As soon as we installed the 4.3 update, both of our phones started to drain rapidly faster than before the update. On 4.2 our phones would last to 50% by the end of the day (~8pm) with light to moderate use. Now they're at ~20% by the end of the day, and I can see my battery levels drop faster just while using the phone. This is totally unacceptable. I've downloaded battery monitoring apps, and no apps I've installed are draining the battery, it's the system and kernel that take up most of the cpu. People are saying it's the touchwiz additions that are causing the system to use up more cpu cycles. I refuse to do a factory reset because there's so many reports of this not doing anything. There's clearly a bug in the 4.3 update for the SG3, unless it's touchwiz as everyone seems to indicate. How can I check to see if something is causing too many wakes?
4.3 works prefect here. same battery life as with 4.0 or 4.1.
it's not the fault of 4.3.
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mdm_hsic_pm0, the battery killing wakelock I have witnessed on every rom I have flashed lately.
Now it has come to this point where Im really asking myself why do I still use this phone when it can drain out the battery at any given time in my pocket without me noticing it until its too late...
I have tried every possible fix and at this point Im really about to give up and go back to my old Windows Phone which atleast worked.
Am I alone with this problem? I just cant be the only one who has to deal with this :crying:
Late night thread start in the wrong area, I was supposed to post this on the I9305 Q&A section...
Heatti said:
mdm_hsic_pm0, the battery killing wakelock I have witnessed on every rom I have flashed lately.
Now it has come to this point where Im really asking myself why do I still use this phone when it can drain out the battery at any given time in my pocket without me noticing it until its too late...
I have tried every possible fix and at this point Im really about to give up and go back to my old Windows Phone which atleast worked.
Am I alone with this problem? I just cant be the only one who has to deal with this :crying:
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I feel your pain. About a year ago, I traded in my beloved Note 2 solely due to this wakelock, and got a Oneplus One. I will never buy another phone without an unencrypted bootloader, so that rules out any further Samsungs, it appears. But I otherwise loved the Note. I had the 1 and the 2, my wife still has the 2, and I have a 10.1 (which does not suffer this wakelock). But I could not stand my otherwise stellar Note 2 due to this wakelock appearing out of the blue and destroying my battery on a regular basis. I researched this for A YEAR and never found any solutions, and got to the point where I put a wakelock detector widget on my homescreen and whenever I noticed the wakelocks over 50%, I rebooted, which usually solved it for a day or two, but sometimes for only a few hours or not at all.
My wife still has a Note 2, though, and trying to renovate her phone, I put a Slim rom on it. thinking that perhaps the problem had finally been solved. These are the best battery roms for the Note, but they still suffer the wakelock, like every other rom and kernel I tried, and I tried all of them. But it seems the AOSP roms get the wakelock about twice as often as the Touchwiz roms - at least once per day instead of every other day. So she's stuck with a Touchwiz rom, and also has the wakelock detector widget on her homescreen and has to reboot every other day. My advice is to give up - if you are getting this wakelock, there is no solution, so don't think you are going to fix it.