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Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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Ok its me aging hopefully this hasn't been posted either cuz I haven't came across it....but anyway today I decided to calibrate my battery let it die out and charge while the phone is off...and this was around 5pm....I fell asleep and it is now midnight and its still charging and I know stock batteries don't need a lot of time to charge unlike extended batteries.....has anyone else come across this or does this phone need 7hrs plus of charging??
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There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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DDiaz007 said:
There is no need to calibrate the battery. When the phone reaches 99% charge capacity, it will take a while for it to achieve 100%. Once it achieves 100%, it will let the battery drop back down to 95% then it will begin charging back to 100%. It is a repeated process. It will keep doing this until the phone is removed from the charger.
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Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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computerkid23 said:
Yea I understand that as far ad the phone being on and charging right?? But my phone was off and after 7hrs my charging like was still red I just turned it on and it was at 90 and just like that it went to 70
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That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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That is interesting.. Are you using the stock battery/charger? Are you connected through an outlet or usb port?
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
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Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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Once you disconnect, your battery drops from 90 to 70 in a matter of minutes?
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Yes it did there was a lil notch gone in the status bar next thing I know the battery is at the 70% Mark
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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I have yet to experience this substantial drop. Hmm...
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DDiaz007 said:
If that is the case, I would say bad battery. BUT I do remember reading that there were some Evo 3D's that suffered from the same problem, and they were also getting extremely hot. If that is the case, I suggest exchanging.
Was your phone normal before?
Ok and yes I got the phone 2days ago and besides the 3 digit weather issue my phone was normal to my knowledge
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So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
Edit: Have you done any of the OTA's?
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EricSS619 said:
Happened to me before when my phone died..... This battery takes forever to charge.
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Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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So at one point and time, it was normal? Have you installed any apps since then?
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It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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Ok well ill do another test later on cuz if the phone takes this long to charge I would think we should have awesome battery life say 10 hours plus I could be wrong tho
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Let the phone die down to 15%, then charge it. If it drops significantly again, then we may have a problem. It could be a bad battery or an app you must have downloaded.
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It was normal as no issues that I've noticed but this was the first time I charged the phone being off also and I doubt an app wouldn't cause this specially when the phone is off so therefore nothing running
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A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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A smart phone is like a pocket sized computer. There can be malicious apps that can harm the phone. But if that isn't the case, I suggest hard resetting. If that still doesn't work, replace.
Edit: Try my other solutions first.
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Gotcha thanks....ill try all the above
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I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
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Yes stock battery and its through an outlet I never do usb cuz i don't believe it charges fully (IMO)
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What makes you think this?
nhutpham said:
I personally had strange battery problems the first week I had the phone, and after that my battery life became quite good (I did the battery calibration technique from the og evo and it helped a lot also).
So if you're saying it's strange after a couple days I'd say give it a chance to go through a couple more charge cycles. I'd bet the issues will sort themselves out.
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I'll give it to the end of the week and see what happens ......thanks everyone
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Hay guys,
So for the first couple of weeks my battery life was awesome on the s3 and was going an entire day easy with like 40% at night before bed...
However now it is seriously draining fast, I go to work at 8 get home at 5 and I have about 12 percent left with moderately light use...
First thing I thought was maybe an app but in the battery section didn't show anything odd, I got betterbatterystats to see more detailed but don't know what alot of the wake locks are... Here are the screen shots any input/advice is welcomed!!!
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neone have any ideas??
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dk125 said:
neone have any ideas??
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WAKELOCKS ask in the better battery stats thread .
jje
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
You might have an app draining your battery, install free "Watchdog" app, and set it to monitor all processes, and it will sound an alarm if an app is misbehaving.
Also install cpuspy and reset the counter and then leave your phone for 30min or so, then check how much time your phone spends in deep sleep.
John.
LondonLion said:
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
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NOT TRUE.
jje
Thanks got cpuspy and it spend most time in deep sleep... I'm Inking now it's because at work I have bad reception if that's the cause what can I do? If anything lol...
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If you dont use 3g or 4g for downloads, switch your phone to gsm, A stronger signal means the phone does not have to work as hard and uses less power.
Also disable account syncing, stops your phone from waking up.
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Thanks got cpuspy and it spend most time in deep sleep... I'm Inking now it's because at work I have bad reception if that's the cause what can I do? If anything lol...
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LondonLion said:
Have you changed the Rom? If so you need to download a battery calibrator from the store and reset the stats with it once fully charged.
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I thought this is a myth that a google engineer confirmed
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A lot of people swear by this one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1507905.html
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CRBoy47 said:
I thought this is a myth that a google engineer confirmed
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Anyone else noticed android system eating up all their battery?
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Andrew_han said:
Anyone else noticed android system eating up all their battery?
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Thats a rogue app causing the high android sys.
+1, I've seen this on 2 handsets.
Using GSam Battery Monitor, then clicking on app usage ->android system -> manage -> clear defaults
The above seems to stop the issue after a reboot. I've not seen it happen again since I did that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but 9hrs and 47% left doesn't seem like a problem... if you take your phone and leave it on (with screen off) and wait until it dies then charge and turn on you will see that the "system" eats almost all your battery. There is nothing wrong with your phone unless you used it a ton and the system still eats all your battery which If that is the case and it's been 9 hours and had 47% battery then I would think you were doing MUCH better than most, imho.
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Anyone else noticed android system eating up all their battery?
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I've got the same problem. Only yesterday, mine was over 65%! My phones horrible on battery life. Some things definitely up
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When I click manage it won't allow me to clear defaults...
And this began at around the 50% mark and as soon as it starts my battery starts dying way quicker
Do these screen shots help?
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any ideas? seems like xda needs to be manualy killed or it ends up using alot of resources in the bacground
I have seen the same on my phone, but it has not happened consistently enough for me to narrow down the possible cause...
Happened to me once so far. Charged my phone to full and went to work. I didn't use my phone for anything other than to check the time. I started noticing that the back of the phone was getting very hot, more so than when charging. I pulled my phone out and the battery was waaay down :
Hasn't happened since (fingers crossed).
Edit: I guess mine wasn't the Android system, but cell standby.
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knifedroid said:
Happened to me once so far. Charged my phone to full and went to work. I didn't use my phone for anything other than to check the time. I started noticing that the back of the phone was getting very hot, more so than when charging. I pulled my phone out and the battery was waaay down :
Hasn't happened since (fingers crossed).
Edit: I guess mine wasn't the Android system, but cell standby.
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What is that icon left of your wifi indicator?
IceCreaMan said:
What is that icon left of your wifi indicator?
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Some stupid verizon thing I can't get rid of.
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It seems ok for me. The most eating up my battery seems to be cell standby
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Mines too...i even got almost 40% on cell standby...><……
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The fix for the cell standby drain is easy, see here: http://techsplurge.com/10665/solution-samsung-galaxy-s3-cell-standby-battery-drain-problem/ As for the android system drain it seems to have resolved itself. I still get alot of kernel wakelocks from bam_dmux_wakelock though
So i bought this phone 2weeks ago and two days ago i flashed via odin xls8. This is my battery life. Is this good? Im unrooted and totally stock, on ics i had almost 5h of screen...
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Cascabreu said:
So i bought this phone 2weeks ago and two days ago i flashed via odin xls8. This is my battery life. Is this good? Im unrooted and totally stock, on ics i had almost 5h of screen...
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It's not bad. Try better battery stats to see your wake locks and cpu spy to see if your device is deep sleeping
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Thanks i will update tomorrow or so...
About deep sleep i already checked vefore and it does but as for better battery status i just downloaded the app. Should i just let it installed and dont touch or do i need to run in the background?
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Cascabreu said:
Thanks i will update tomorrow or so...
About deep sleep i already checked vefore and it does but as for better battery status i just downloaded the app. Should i just let it installed and dont touch or do i need to run in the background?
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Some parts of it need root access. But it should still give you the wake locks. Just let it run in the background and check it after a min of 5hrs
Is that good for you? That's all it matters.
It looks alright to me.
Can it be improved? Of course.
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Take a look at this thread. It says ics but the info and concepts should be similar
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26960054
Thamks for the help but i dont wanna install a custom kernel yet since they are all experimemtal for jb.... waiting for siyah stable.
I will cjeck those wake locks today
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Seems like google + is the biggest battery drainer... and the ls... service whats that?
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I think you have several times recharge the battery to 100% and also drain the battery until phone turn off to calibrate.
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I think you have several times recharge the battery to 100% and also drain the battery until phone turn off to calibrate.
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U know that doing that u are killing the battery dont u??? Lion battery never should be drain totally and as for charging i have no option to let it go to 100 since i charge it over night
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I wonder if it can make it another 2 hours... using 2x battery and setcpu.
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I wonder if it can make it another 2 hours... using 2x battery and setcpu.
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If you're on stock TouchWiz or Hyperdrive you should be able to get 4+ days no problem.
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If you're on stock TouchWiz or Hyperdrive you should be able to get 4+ days no problem.
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On stock battery? What universe do you live in, the never-use-my-phone-iverse?
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32BitWhore said:
On stock battery? What universe do you live in, the never-use-my-phone-iverse?
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LOL Oishikatta that's what I was thinking. I'm usually lucky to get a full day during the week. Didn't really use it that much this weekend...
I get up at 5am take phone off of charger start Bluetooth audio streaming at 7am and stop it at 330pm go home play some games text facebook and all.
when I go to bed at 10pm im usually at 15 percent with 4hours screen on time.
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On stock battery? What universe do you live in, the never-use-my-phone-iverse?
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Probably with an onscreen time of 30 minutes.
I go on average 36 to 48 hrs...
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I get an average of 20-25 hours per charge. Usually I plug it in around 15-20% charge left. Screen on time varies from 4 1/2 hours to 6 hours 45 minutes. Depends if im using the browser more.. Can't beat that. Coming from a Rezound....this is killer battery life.
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I get an average of 20-25 hours per charge. Usually I plug it in around 15-20% charge left. Screen on time varies from 4 1/2 hours to 6 hours 45 minutes. Depends if im using the browser more.. Can't beat that. Coming from a Rezound....this is killer battery life.
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You have sync off or something?
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You have sync off or something?
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I never knew it was turned on in the first place. I don't use it . Why? Are you having short life issues?
Not bad, I have greenify, setcpu, etc. Screen on usually about 3 3.5 hours.
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One great feature of our phones is the option for an extended battery. I run a 5200mah battery and these shots are from a day when i was testing out how many hours screen on time I could pull off
On normal light usage days/weeks I could probably get 4 -5 days no problems. Just I reboot and flash a lot so rarely do I get those screen shots lol
Also I run Mahdi ROM with KToonsez kernel...
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Are you using SetCPU free or the paid version?
I got the paid version. Actually think I got it way back when either the first DROID came out, or when I had my incredible.
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