Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
you have something else going on i lose 2% overnight...try airplane mode see what happens
I think your charger may be broken lol. You charge it every night yet your phone is at 53% when you wake up? Anyway, assuming you sleep 8 hours and that your phone was at 100% that is less than 50% on 8 hours. You probably get 17 hours standby time, not the best but not the worst. Try airplane mode
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think you are alone... Yesterday, beach day: From ten o clock with 100% brightness, about 40 minutes surfing with dolphin browser, total in amount 35 minutes facebook, 30 sms, 9 calls all about 2-6 minutes and some recording of the soccer game; the rest of the time the phone was on standby. Coming home with 80% left....
what says your battery settings? what stands by "battery in standby"? How much takes "android system", how many apps are listed in total? Do you have battery save mode on?=> Try to turn it off. Do you have auto brightness? Turn it off, set the display to 40-50% and make a widget on home with settings to 100% so you can read under heavy sun. You are outside the day?=> turn the wifi off....
Tell us more and post your results, the comment that your device is a bucket full of crap is bull**** because the S3 has one of the best battery and settings in smartphone business!...
Greetings,
Snew
My S3 depletes 1-2 % overnight.
This the EUROPEAN variant of the phone?
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no-one can give you a legit answer as you haven't bothered to tell us anything about what rom/kernel you are using, what you have installed, whether you have any syncs switched on..
why leave wifi on overnight? thats gives apps the chance to update in the background
have you looked at bbs stats?
fail thread imo
You sleep with your wifi on? what do you expect to happen? Also try rebooting before you go to bed.
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Twelve hours standby for me = 1% to 2% drop on stock .
jje
"solid fone"? Are we serious with the spelling? No wonder your having trouble.
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Twelve hours standby for me = 1% to 2% drop on stock .
jje
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now i would like to know how you get that because mine drops from 100% (99%) to 95% in just an hour on 3g but nothing else..
I think you have a defective battery. Mine just drains 2-3% in a 8-10 hour overnight standby.
I hate when people assume something sucks when it's their own doing that's causing the problem.
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I think you have a defective battery. Mine just drains 2-3% in a 8-10 hour overnight standby.
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thats what everyone is gettinn when no app or setting is draining the life out of the battery as seems to be the case with the OP's phone
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"solid fone"? Are we serious with the spelling? No wonder your having trouble.
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Don't forget grammar!!! Or is that American English?
Reckless187 said:
Don't forget grammar!!! Or is that American English?
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That's American Man. lol
Astonrynlds said:
Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
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Stop using Wifi, do not leave it on. Wifi is the culprit.
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Stop using Wifi, do not leave it on. Wifi is the culprit.
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I still suspect this may be router related though. When I had my crappy Netgear, I would get strange periods of battery drain on my SGS2 when WIFI was left on. That just about all disappeared once I upgraded to an Asus RT-N16 running Tomato, and now, I don't get any drain on my SGS3 as well when I leave WIFI (set to "Always On" under Advanced WIFI Settings) idling.
Astonrynlds said:
Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
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If mine is full before bed, its 85 percent plus in the morning
You have something that is sucking power, and you need to find it
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I still suspect this may be router related though. When I had my crappy Netgear, I would get strange periods of battery drain on my SGS2 when WIFI was left on. That just about all disappeared once I upgraded to an Asus RT-N16 running Tomato, and now, I don't get any drain on my SGS3 as well when I leave WIFI (set to "Always On" under Advanced WIFI Settings) idling.
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I too think it's router related. It can possibly be due to Wifi dual banding in some routers that support it. Faster internet with less battery life.
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I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
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I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
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its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
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its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
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Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
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Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
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GPS test, beautiful Widgets, battery indicator, arc media(removed ),updates for some apps and that's it.
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Quick question, which ROM are you running? Ever since I switched over to leaked JI2, every couple days I notice that after running one of a few apps, the CPU just seems to go into overdrive. The phone gets really warm and the battery drains ridiculously fast. So fast that even plugging into my car charger won't charge the phone, even on idle. If I reboot, the phone cools down and the battery drain goes back to its normal, slow self.
I haven't narrowed it down to any specific app yet, but it seems to be either, Foursquare, Great Land Grab, or Bubble Blast.
Foursquare I have, I don't remember when I installed it. I am actually just running stock TW.
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I get 15hrs... I am not ROOTED! I did the drain battery life process twice. This is with moderate usage. I am planning to do the drain battery process once a month cuz I hear it helps with battery life. Possible that u install something that's killing your battery.
Solution do the master reset if that doesn't help then it can be the battery is no good. I know that this is with the stock rom. If u are using another rom that's maybe the problem. U can try switchig roms to see if this is the problem. I hope this information has been helpful.
Does the master reset remove everything ? I have all my pics/videos on my phone meM. I have music and avatar on SD.
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I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
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I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
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I did turn it off So wifi stays on even in sleep but I thought that was the problem do I Changed it back. I Just removed Touiteur and it seems to decrease slower, I updated it Saturday night. ?
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hey presence ive been having the same troubles lately...and i also jst recently got on foursquare...so maybe thats what it is...ive been looking at all my latest inslaeed apps and nothing else seems like it would have a battery drain effect...idk lol
I've had it installed for a while But started using it as of late. GPS fails all the time now though for some reason. Idk. But its kind of frustrating
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I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
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I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
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It seems as though it drains faster in standby with nothing running. I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
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I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
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I guess we can safely say it is foursquare widget draining the battery then
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I've had this happen a few times. For me, it's usually because my battery status gets thrown off somehow. The phone would read that I have 55% battery life left, but it really only is at 25 or 30% and it always feels like it's draining fast. I usually turn off the phone, pull the battery out for a few seconds and then put it back it. When I turn on the phone the battery percentage is corrected and the phones seems to be back to normal battery use. I don't know why this happens.
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This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
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This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
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Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
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Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
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Same here, I rebooted after removing FS and some other apps/touitur and got 1day 13hrs on the next charge with pretty moderate use. So whatever it was, it's gone now. If it was FS hopefully it's fixed soon.
Had a similar experience, with battery % entering freefall every time I turned the phone on. Two things helped:
1. I did the drain cycle. Drain the battery completely till it shuts off and charge it to full while off. This does not 'fromat/form' the battery in any way it just helps the phone to calibrate the meter.
2. I uninstalled few apps that I suspected were draining the battery.
I advise you install JuicePlotter and see the graph of battery drain. You'll be able to tell if the phone is entering standby or not. Thanks to some culprit apps (still figuring out what it was exactly) my phone was not entering standby at all hence the crap battery life.
Forgive me if this is common knowledge but I wanted to bring this to this forum because I didn't see it.
I did a complete wipe and upgraded to CM9 and noticed my battery life wasn't that great. Wasn't as horrible as it got on my CM7 -SGS1, but pretty bad. 9 hours a charge or so, which is enough to get through the day at least. On a tip I downloaded BetterBatteryStats(worth every penny) and started looking at my Wakelocks. I noticed AudioOut_1 was top of the list by an absurd margin. So I did some searching and came across a thread in the Nexus section(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389214&page=3 and then to https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/AudioOut_1 Thanks Syn Ack).
Turns out there's an apparent bug that even with the screen off, it being touched can trigger a wakelock on the sound. Sure enough I turned off the Touch Sounds and Screen Lock sounds and I'm now losing about 4% an hour of light usage, major improvement.
Again sorry if this makes me an asshat, I just wanted to spread it to people who might be having this issue with their fresh CM9 install.
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Forgive me if this is common knowledge but I wanted to bring this to this forum because I didn't see it.
I did a complete wipe and upgraded to CM9 and noticed my battery life wasn't that great. Wasn't as horrible as it got on my CM7 -SGS1, but pretty bad. 9 hours a charge or so, which is enough to get through the day at least. On a tip I downloaded BetterBatteryStats(worth every penny) and started looking at my Wakelocks. I noticed AudioOut_1 was top of the list by an absurd margin. So I did some searching and came across a thread in the Nexus section(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389214&page=3 and then to https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/AudioOut_1 Thanks Syn Ack).
Turns out there's an apparent bug that even with the screen off, it being touched can trigger a wakelock on the sound. Sure enough I turned off the Touch Sounds and Screen Lock sounds and I'm now losing about 4% an hour of light usage, major improvement.
Again sorry if this makes me an asshat, I just wanted to spread it to people who might be having this issue with their fresh CM9 install.
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thanks for the info!
I get huge audio out wakelock too, ill try this out.
Interesting, I'm getting that same process at number 1 but both of those are already disabled for me.
Same here. But it seems like the duration is less than it was when I had sounds on
I'm going to play with this today and see how well it works. I'll post back tonight sometime.
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I think this somewhat worked. I was getting huge battery drain when I slept and last night I only lost 6% over 6 hours
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Turn off wifi and battery life is great (on standby). Previously I had wifi on, battery drain 4%-6% an hour, but with wifi off, it drains only 0.8% an hour (95% battery after 6 hours of standby, randomly checking). This is on 3/30 build.
edit: I left wifi on.. 8% battery life drained within 1 hour and 30 min..
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Turn off wifi and battery life is great (on standby). Previously I had wifi on, battery drain 4%-6% an hour, but with wifi off, it drains only 0.8% an hour (95% battery after 6 hours of standby, randomly checking). This is on 3/30 build.
edit: I left wifi on.. 8% battery life drained within 1 hour and 30 min..
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This sounds like you have an app installed that treats wifi data usage differently than cell network data usage. Gonna guess that you had a lot of wlan-rx wakelocks over that period of high drain with wifi on...
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This sounds like you have an app installed that treats wifi data usage differently than cell network data usage. Gonna guess that you had a lot of wlan-rx wakelocks over that period of high drain with wifi on...
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BBS doesn't say anything about wifi
Partial wakelocks: AudioOut_1 (8m 34 s) 3.8%
AudioIn_19 (1m 58 s) 0.6%
Couldn't find anything regarding wlan-rx in kernel or partial
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BBS doesn't say anything about wifi
Partial wakelocks: AudioOut_1 (8m 34 s) 3.8%
AudioIn_19 (1m 58 s) 0.6%
Couldn't find anything regarding wlan-rx in kernel or partial
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I stand corrected.
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Turn off wifi and battery life is great (on standby). Previously I had wifi on, battery drain 4%-6% an hour, but with wifi off, it drains only 0.8% an hour (95% battery after 6 hours of standby, randomly checking). This is on 3/30 build.
edit: I left wifi on.. 8% battery life drained within 1 hour and 30 min..
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I totally agree, with each phone I run a simply test. I'll get to that in a sec. On my last phone "captivate" wifi was actually better than data on standby, but not this phone "SGS2". With that being said: I charge 100% then left wifi on while I went to bed. Woke up with 70% over 8 hours of standby not impressed. Next night did same thing 100% but with data on instead. Woke up with 95%!! ....I personally have up in notification bar data toggle and wifi, I leave data off most of the day while I'm out. I turn it on when I want to check email or FB etc. best amount I've lasted was 1 day 16 hrs... With 26% battery left. Ik some Ppl won't want to do that but just a suggestion. Hope this helps anyone out.
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I unplugged and after browsing, making two calls, a text, and finding some places on google I checked an hour later and bam, I had 97% left. I can live with 3% an hour drain with high usage. I also keep WI-FI and Bluetooth on and have it connected to my car. This definitely fixed my problem, hope it helps everyone else.
My setup is nothing but stock install of CM9(3-30), stock battery and everything.
Well after using it for a full day. (14 hours) I can honestly say that for me. This hasn't improved anything. It hasn't made anything worse either though. I'm sitting at 28% right now. Which is the same as I was getting prior to this change.
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Forgive me if this is common knowledge but I wanted to bring this to this forum because I didn't see it.
I did a complete wipe and upgraded to CM9 and noticed my battery life wasn't that great. Wasn't as horrible as it got on my CM7 -SGS1, but pretty bad. 9 hours a charge or so, which is enough to get through the day at least. On a tip I downloaded BetterBatteryStats(worth every penny) and started looking at my Wakelocks. I noticed AudioOut_1 was top of the list by an absurd margin. So I did some searching and came across a thread in the Nexus section(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1389214&page=3 and then to https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/AudioOut_1 Thanks Syn Ack).
Turns out there's an apparent bug that even with the screen off, it being touched can trigger a wakelock on the sound. Sure enough I turned off the Touch Sounds and Screen Lock sounds and I'm now losing about 4% an hour of light usage, major improvement.
Again sorry if this makes me an asshat, I just wanted to spread it to people who might be having this issue with their fresh CM9 install.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1565091
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ah so same thing, just not in this forum, like the other thread I posted
I did this on my phone yesterday, and it seemed to help quite a bit. After I first did the latest nightly my battery drained stupid quick, after this it dropped down to a normal level.
So yeah, turning off Wifi and the AudioOut_1 drainers, I'm getting 1% or less drain per hour on standby. Awesome stuff guys.
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I totally agree, with each phone I run a simply test. I'll get to that in a sec. On my last phone "captivate" wifi was actually better than data on standby, but not this phone "SGS2". With that being said: I charge 100% then left wifi on while I went to bed. Woke up with 70% over 8 hours of standby not impressed. Next night did same thing 100% but with data on instead. Woke up with 95%!! ....I personally have up in notification bar data toggle and wifi, I leave data off most of the day while I'm out. I turn it on when I want to check email or FB etc. best amount I've lasted was 1 day 16 hrs... With 26% battery left. Ik some Ppl won't want to do that but just a suggestion. Hope this helps anyone out.
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As this is not normal behavior, I'm going to suggest that you look for the app that is using your wifi. I leave my wifi on 24/7. Go to sleep with a full charge, wake up 7-8 hours later with only 3-4% gone.
What's probably the best way to go about doing so?
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Audio out was causing a nasty wakelock on my device as well... Thanks for this info... - and now I know to disable these sounds in the future anyway. Who needs em?
I don't know if this is normal but the cell standby odds the mist thing that shows battery usage so is this normal?
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Anyone will help in this ?
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Not quite sure but i think thats happening because you might have left that "Hey galaxy" command on because of which the microphone is always working and therefore the battery gets consumed.
And if thats not the case then idk whats wrong
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I don't know if this is normal but the cell standby odds the mist thing that shows battery usage so is this normal?
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download and install "bad ass battery monitor" from play store and find the culprit
Well in my HOX after 4hours of standby i get only 2% loss or less. Tegra 3 5th companion core helps saving it.
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Well in my HOX after 4hours of standby i get only 2% loss or less. Tegra 3 5th companion core helps saving it.
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Cell standby has nth to do wif CPU..
I am getting the same problem too..
Got this problem too, would love to know what it is.
has anyone checked if one of the system's features is always on and that is why battery is getting low?
Yep having similar problem too, anyone have an idea?
4 hours 2% or less on the HOX, It maybe that yours is faulty. mines doesnt seem to change whatsoever from when I go to bed until the time I wake up over 8 hours or more ,
back to the SGS3 its definitely software related. just wait for an update from samsung
I know the epic had a similar issue. Check the time without signal and see if that shows a high percentage. If so, try cycling the airplane mode on and off and see if that helps. It was a work a round for the epic.
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i would say this cell standby drainage issue is down to either one of these being on:
S beam
Smart Stay
or you have left the voice command on.. the "hey galaxy" rubbish.
i would say the latter two would kill your battery fairly quickly as you are always having the FF camera on / the mic alwasy on.
Normally what's the average off the battery if I'm using the device normally for calls and having wifi link all the time?
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cell standby is the battery used by the radio mine is @ 38% top of my list two.
54% battery left, thats 17h 40m 20s lol on battery.there is nothink to worrie about mate!
Maybe cause I switched from iphone I used to have my mobile for two days and a half when I lower my screen brightness
But here it stays max for one and half day
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The Cell Standby is an idle process that must run: your CPU is always working, it can't ever turn off or it wouldn't recognise wake-ups, emails etc, so when it's not actually actively doing anything it has to run a low-priority process to keep it doing something.
The only way it can ever do literally nothing is when it's turned off.
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The Cell Standby is an idle process that must run: your CPU is always working, it can't ever turn off or it wouldn't recognise wake-ups, emails etc, so when it's not actually actively doing anything it has to run a low-priority process to keep it doing something.
The only way it can ever do literally nothing is when it's turned off.
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The point is that it's using too much power, or at least it's being reported of using too much power. And nobody has been capable of showing details until now and I don't have my phone yet. It should not use more power than the S2 since they have almost identical broadband chips.
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cell standby is the battery used by the radio mine is @ 38% top of my list two.
54% battery left, thats 17h 40m 20s lol on battery.there is nothink to worrie about mate!
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My standby is high as well but i get really good battery time though. Still only a couple of recharhes and a fair bit of use as i have had to hard reset as well.
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You are aware of the fact that the percentages must sum up to 100% don't you?
If you want to see what really happens when you phone is asleep you may wan to try BetterBatteryStats
Anyone with a telecom New Zealand (9300T) can you check your cellstandby for battery
It is using more than the screen is.
yesterday phone was at 30% with only 2 hours screen on.
Cellstandby used 67%
Can anyone else confirm that they are having the same problem on the S3 or is it the telecom nz firmware doing it.
If so I will root and flash another providers firmware
I have the phone in dubai and the cell standby has been very high since day 1.
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Anyone with a telecom New Zealand (9300T) can you check your cellstandby for battery
It is using more than the screen is.
yesterday phone was at 30% with only 2 hours screen on.
Cellstandby used 67%
Can anyone else confirm that they are having the same problem on the S3 or is it the telecom nz firmware doing it.
If so I will root and flash another providers firmware
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Yea my cellstandby is reading 42%,says it was the cell radio oslt when i clicked o it. Im on telecom fyi
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Same problem in norway .
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This is NOT an issue. The numbers have to equal 100% as its a measure of what's been happening since your last charge so if its doing nothing then cellstandby gets the highest percentage. ITS NOT A BUG.
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Yea my cellstandby is reading 42%,says it was the cell radio oslt when i clicked o it. Im on telecom fyi
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That means that it has used 42% out of the 37% that have been used during those 8,5 hours. 42% out of 37% = 15,5%
Hence, cell standby, only used 15,5% of battery during those 8,5 hours.
15,5/8,5 = 1,8 % an hour.
Not an issue, as stated previously.
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This is NOT an issue. The numbers have to equal 100% as its a measure of what's been happening since your last charge so if its doing nothing then cellstandby gets the highest percentage. ITS NOT A BUG.
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Go away with your baboon logic. There's people posting 5h screentime battery statistics with cell standby having almost equal percentage as the screen. Either it is a very bad reporting error, which I doubt because people are reporting bad standby battery life, or there is something wrong with the modem firmware which has already happened on other devices.
It is an obvious issue, and please go install Badass Battery Monitor or something else to view the absolute µAh draw so we can stop the lame excuses about how things need to sum up to 100 and other flawed logics.
Hence, cell standby, only used 15,5% of battery during those 8,5 hours.
15,5/8,5 = 1,8 % an hour.
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And since when the hell is 1.8%/h pure modem draw been acceptable? The Galaxy S2 with the predecessor of the exactly same modem hardware is getting 0.5%/h total standby draw usually.
I'm on Vodafone nz. With pretty heavy use the figures were just over 7 hours screen time out of 12 total and cell standby stood at 14%
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IncCo. said:
That means that it has used 42% out of the 37% that have been used during those 8,5 hours. 42% out of 37% = 15,5%
Hence, cell standby, only used 15,5% of battery during those 8,5 hours.
15,5/8,5 = 1,8 % an hour.
Not an issue, as stated previously.
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Safe man, I was really only posting to help confirm things for the OP but thanks for the info mate
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Those with high cell standby values.Try a different modem firmware.
There is no one size fits all firmware on Galaxy phones.
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guy try to go into airplane mode at night or when u dont need it really.
sJ
I have the same problem with standvy taking over 2%/per hour. And the radio bar is always 2-3 bara... Didn't have that much problem with gs2.
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same problem.
Phone Radio drains around 30-50% of my battery life.
It drained over 8% of my battery in 5 hours today. (Battery at 78% now in 5 hours - was 100% this morning)
Having this problem as well. Phone wont last me throughout the day with minimal use and you can feel it hot when placing it in my bag.
I wont start talking about the % use of cell vs screen. But when the battery lasts 10 hours with only 30min of screen use throughout the day, then there's a problem !!
I had this problem with Galaxy S. Changed modem firmware seemed to help a bit but still isnt as long as my previous phones.
yuhaohuang said:
Having this problem as well. Phone wont last me throughout the day with minimal use and you can feel it hot when placing it in my bag.
I wont start talking about the % use of cell vs screen. But when the battery lasts 10 hours with only 30min of screen use throughout the day, then there's a problem !!
I had this problem with Galaxy S. Changed modem firmware seemed to help a bit but still isnt as long as my previous phones.
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Seems something is wrong with your phone. Mine has had medium use for over 20 hours and i have 36% battery left.
Mine is at 61% now and it's has 09:30 hours use. My screen has been on for 1:30 hours so quite heavy use.
The weird thing is:
My phone radio started out with 55% power use the first 2 hours and dropped to 30% power use and is still dropping. No idea why tbh. I didn't use my phone more or let my screen on for more time..
My screen is still around 50%
My app use is 21% now. (with sygic taking up 10% while the app is not even on)
Hey new here....
12 hours with absolutely no usage besides alarm and went from 100 -> 13% battery.
Will get the battery app mentioned previously and see what that reports.
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Mine is at 61% now and it's has 09:30 hours use. My screen has been on for 1:30 hours so quite heavy use.
The weird thing is:
My phone radio started out with 55% power use the first 2 hours and dropped to 30% power use and is still dropping. No idea why tbh. I didn't use my phone more or let my screen on for more time..
My screen is still around 50%
My app use is 21% now. (with sygic taking up 10% while the app is not even on)
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Something is causing a wakelock. Use the app betterbatterystats to identify the culprit.
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I was going to make a topic a our this problem but then i saw this. So basically the guys have described the problem we have with cell stand by. Below are the screen shot I took after my battery reached 6%.
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guy try to go into airplane mode at night or when u dont need it really.
sJ
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I usually turn my phone off at night funnily enough
My phone was at 70% cell stanby, the Android OS bug that was ever present in the SGSII seems to have all but gone but now we have cell standby
Hi guys
I've been playing around with my galaxy s3 for several days and I'm very pleased.
But one thing is still very annoying as a previous iphone owner. That's the battery life.
I just attached a screenshot. For 9 hours 12% drains during sleeping thus basically screen has turned on for only few mins.
Is it normal??
Wanna hear you guys opinion.
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Hi guys
I've been playing around with my galaxy s3 for several days and I'm very pleased.
But one thing is still very annoying as a previous iphone owner. That's the battery life.
I just attached a screenshot. For 9 hours 12% drains during sleeping thus basically screen has turned on for only few mins.
Is it normal??
Wanna hear you guys opinion.
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Hello,
i don't think is normal here is my use over night.
It's without sync and wlan, with sync and wlan it takes 2-3%
If you turn off wifi, data and GPS and put the phone on energy saving mode (its on the top bar menu, just drop it down and you will see it) then after 8 hours the phone is almost 0% drain.
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If you turn off wifi, data and GPS and put the phone on energy saving mode (its on the top bar menu, just drop it down and you will see it) then after 8 hours the phone is almost 0% drain.
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Thats correct. It seems like for most people its the cellular data that is killing the battery. If I turn off 3G data, I get good battery as well but with cellular data turned on, battery will not last a day.
yuhaohuang said:
Thats correct. It seems like for most people its the cellular data that is killing the battery. If I turn off 3G data, I get good battery as well but with cellular data turned on, battery will not last a day.
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I use "tasker" to switch on the sync only every 30min for 3min. Like this I have ~ 50-60% left in the evening.
Thank you guys!! I'll test it out today
I'm going to turn everything off such as wifi, sync..
I don't use 3g often though. I'm a pretty heavy user like 4-5 hours screen on and I get 14-15 hours battery life.
Anyway I'll see how it will affect on my battery.
Thanks!
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I actually just tested this over night. Wlan and sync off but 3G on, it drained only 4% during night. My old iphone 4 drained only 2% in the same conditions. However, I find 4% acceptable.