What happened to my battery life??????? - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Battery life was great, not rooted. But the last 2 days have been ****ty! Took the battery off the charger today about 6:10 am, and this is what i looking at now. Was at work most all day. Made 1 five min phone call. Played Tetris for like 15 mins. And checked instsgram. Wtf is cell standby, had the phone in airplane mode most of the day.
Any suggestions?
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There's a bug with how cell standby is reported. It is *not* draining battery at the rate reported. They basically put a decimal point in the wrong place, so it is nearly always at the top.
As for why are you getting worse life, what changed? Did you install anything? There is usually an app responsible for it.
Another thing that can do it is having problems holding on to signal. If you're lucky enough to be in a sprint LTE area, you may be dropping 4G frequently, I would see this at work with my GNex, but my S3 seems to be much better about it.

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So how's battery life?

Much better than the 4G? Someone...anyone?
a little too early to tell i would imagine.. i can let you know tomm
but kinda hard to compare it to my evo since i rooted the phone as soon as i could... spend a year with the phone rooted
so of course, the phone was better than a stock evo
i dont think this should be bad, as long as you turn your data off and all those other things you can do to save batt.
of course, at 1st everyone will be playing with the phone, so its hard to say but with normal use it should last as a phone like thing should.. smartphones have never been known for their batt
Ive had it on since I got it and its still alive
Battery life is a lot better than the stock Evos for sure. It is a lot better than the reviews you've been reading, or comments about it for that matter.
For know battery is great for me. But i can really tell you tomorrow if the phone still alive after work!
My bet is that they aren't regular Sprint users and don't see the "4G on" button as some sort of suicide switch like we do....they get sent a review phone to review.
Then they rag on Wimax for a while neglecting that it's in fact a relatively more robust protocol and it's the frequency involved that causes the horrible signal propagation characteristics Sprint/Clear's WiMax has become known for...
...and then they applaud Sprint for getting on board the LTE bandwagon, even though most (who understand) consider it the lesser protocol....even though Sprint's LTE will be high frequency and just as ****ty (or ****tier) as WiMax.
...WiMax with Verizon's LTE frequencies would be amazing...ahem....in theory, of course.
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but kinda hard to compare it to my evo since i root it the phone as soon as i could... spend a year with the phone root it..
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are you really saying "root it" instead of "rooted" ?
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are you really saying "root it" instead of "rooted" ?
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lol My EVO 4G was root it as well LMAO Good catch
Looks good so far. I have been using it heavily, youtube, spiderman , camera/video, etc... and I am only at halfway. I didn't charge it before I started using it so I am not sure where it was when it I started.
seems decent, was at home when I got off work. charged it to full been using heavy and still at 85% after 3 hours with Bluetooth,WiFi,gps off and hourly sync of fb twitter pulse and push gmail.
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I've been texting, youtube 3d, watching green hornet, xda, with WiFi on and it just now took a notch away from my battery and I've been doing all this for +2 hours. Personally for my level of usage vs my old EVO I can already tell a major difference in the battery.
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The jury is still out for me.
I took it off the charger at 6:00 (EST) this morning. Sent about 12 text messages, checked facebook, checked twitter (then closed app), did a few minutes of web browsing, listened to a downloaded podcast on my car radio via bluetooth (~45 minutes), wifi has been off, 4G off, bluetooth off after I got to work, and i'm at 70% right now.
EDIT: Forgot to add I use Push gmail and push active exchange from work set to "as mail comes in" on M-F 7a-7p then it switches to once every 30 minutes.
Did you guys calibrate the battery with the charge technique 8hours on 1 hour off and turn on two minutes then turn off and charge for another hour
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Is anyone's battery really bad? I woke up to the battery at 830am est at 80%. I took 2 3d pictures and use trillian for about 30mins. My 4g gps and wifi are off and tuned 3d off after taking the 2 pictures. I'm sitting at about 60% and it's only been about 2 hours. Not sure if it's just my phone and if i should exchange it.
Those with bad battery life, did you do the ota update? My phone doesn't sleep anymore.... Awake time and sleep time the same????
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Jeebus!! You guys are scaring me. I get mine at Noon tomorrow.
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Those with bad battery life, did you do the ota update? My phone doesn't sleep anymore.... Awake time and sleep time the same????
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Where do I check for this info. This is what my battery usage looks like right now:
4 hours on battery:
Display: 83%
Cell Standby: 5%
BeyondPod: 3%
Phone Idle: 3%
Android OS: 3%
Mediaserver: 2%
Bluetooth: 1%
EDIT: Just saw this:
Uptime: 11:57
Awake Time: 9:46
If I'm reading this right, the phone only slept for 2 hours last night? Is this normal?
Mine has been wonderful. Can't put it down... So my awake time is high. I think there is wake lock issue with facebook for HTC friend stream syncing. I don't use it now, but noticed it yesterday. Apps that were battery hogs on my 4G are not so bad on the 3D.. like word with friends.
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I was getting insanely bad battery life, I lost about 50% within 30 minutes. This is what I did to fix it, I applied the OTA (still was getting bad battery life) then I did a factory reset on my device and let it charge all the way up to 100% over night. So far I've had it off the charger for almost 2 hours, haven't really been using it a lot but I've lost only 4% in 2 hours. I can really tell a HUGE improvement.
i let mine charge all the way plus some then took it off the charger and starting messing with it.
as my previous post...ive been texting and doing calls rather heavy while having wifi on and i took it off the charger around 530 600 am and its now 2 here and im at half or so.
the battery is doing well for me. also this thing charges so damn quick.

Love the battery life so far!!!!

I'm off the charger 6 hours of Heavy Use and I'm still on 72% so I can say it is way better than my EVO 4g by a lot!!!
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Are u guys getting good battery life?
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Hell No, I charge my phone for 3 hours and i barely use the phone and it dies half way throu the day. I dont even have my Wifi, 3G,4G, Bluetooth On, Even Brightness i put it to low lighting and the phone doesnt last till 6pm. I charge it in the morning (11am 100% charge - 5pm 2% left. I love this phone but the battery life sucks !!
Well idk what's wrong with ur phone but I'm getting amazing battery life, but i get it today so idk but has been using the phone like crazy with non stop!!
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Battery life is awesome! My 4g has 3500mah and my 3d has 1700mah. I use both and the 3d last longer every time! In fact, I have 3d on wifi all day and making phone calls with "groove ip" and it still lasts longer!
Great mine has been in 3g, WiFi,Facebook, XDA app since my las charge (6 hours ago) texting a lot too I'm it still on 65% pretty damm good
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hmmm.. Its shocking to me cause my phone dies quick. Well i have insurance so i think i will just get it replaced or buy another battery. I had other android phones that lasts me almost 2 days, but so far i had a bad battery experience with this one.
Yea something is wrong with that battery, buy a new battery and test it
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On my first day I can seriously say the battery life on the 3D exceeds that of the EVO 4G .
Battery : 24%
Been running for the past 9hrs 53 mins
This is with atleast two hours of phone calls
I just spent an hour or so soaking up 3D youtube videos
Well over 150 texts sent and received today .
I spent a good part of the day playing with settings , checking facebook .
Weather (every hour) and Google(mail contacts calender) on sync
Playing around on the market .
changing notification sounds and ringtones .
My previous EVO 4G would have died long before now . If you are expierencing bad battery life . Check for any apps that might be running or causing your phone to have issues . Remember not all apps are set up for gingerbread just yet either even though most are . Use old tricks from the EVO 4G to conserve battery life . I leave 3G and gps on all the time . But if what they say is true about batteries breaking in especially after a few charges and discharges I am gonna be content with this phone as it is . I can only imagine what will be the next leap forward when devs start making kernels and roms for this thing . Seidio's extended batteries market might collapse LOL .
I don't see how any of this is possible. The EVO 3D dies when you make a phone call, just like the 4G did.
I"m going to have to buy an extended battery so I can make 2 phone calls. This blows. How are you all doing this?
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I don't see how any of this is possible. The EVO 3D dies when you make a phone call, just like the 4G did.
I"m going to have to buy an extended battery so I can make 2 phone calls. This blows. How are you all doing this?
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Something isnt right there if you make two phone calls and the phone dies , my advice is take it back to sprint and explain your situation . Either your phone is faulty or the battery is faulty . Also did you accept the updates ? Supposedly the updates include some fixes to correct a sleeping issue the phone was encountering .
did everyone remember to run that battery COMPLETELY dead and charge it COMPLETELY up at least 2 times?
I did and no problemo!
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did everyone remember to run that battery COMPLETELY dead and charge it COMPLETELY up at least 2 times?
I did and no problemo!
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Nope, because its not necessary to do that with Li-Ion's. Its also unhealthy to discharge a Li-Ion battery too far (although I'm going to assume this phone has a discharging characteristic that would prevent 'complete' discharge as that would completely kill the battery).
Regardless, my battery life is amazing compared to either of my 4G's (1 rooted, 1 stock gb, and even my buddy's 4G with extended battery). My absolute heaviest usage day, off the charger for about 10hrs and I still had in the upper 60's left of my battery percentage. I leave 3G, wifi, & gps on all the time. I also generally have on my BT and am connected to my headset.
I still wont forget the time a HTC Rep called me asking me my opinion of the Evo 4G . I told her I loved the phone . She asked me if there was anything that could be improved on . My response was this "Dear god put a real battery in these things , I know flip phones with bigger batteries " . She was alittle speechless at that one ROFL but apparently they listened some what LOL
Heavy usage to me is when the screen never sleeps. Like you are watching netflix nonstop or using the web nonstop, or Sprint tv nonstop. In situations like this all the battery saving tips will not make much of a difference since the screen on and 3g/4g radio will be on constantly. If any 3d can get 6+ hours of battery life out of it I'll buy one right away. Sadly most of the usage posted here is what I consider light or medium usage at best. Mucho texting and weather widgets is not what I consider heavy usage.
45% left after 21hrs. wifi on constantly, been texting, playing games, playing with 3d camera. Although it was sleeping during the night, but still pretty damn good.
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45% left after 21hrs. wifi on constantly, been texting, playing games, playing with 3d camera. Although it was sleeping during the night, but still pretty damn good.
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Live wallpaper running in on homescreen and on lockscreen too?
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Something isnt right there if you make two phone calls and the phone dies , my advice is take it back to sprint and explain your situation . Either your phone is faulty or the battery is faulty . Also did you accept the updates ? Supposedly the updates include some fixes to correct a sleeping issue the phone was encountering .
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I was being very sarcastic. it's not that bad, but my battery barely lasts 4 hours. I make about 300 outbound calls a day to clients, that doesn't include the incoming email, calls, txts etc.. syncing, GPS, sigh....
dont worry am on the same boat, i barely used the phone much and i get the same problem with the battery life. I completely charge it with everything off, wifi, 3g, 4g, bl/tooth, no syncing and it dies half of the day. I think some 1st batched phones in the U.S are faulty
Which charger are u guys using? I use the two in one Sprint wall charger thats also a cigarette car charger. My battery life is not great but its not horrible. I get about 6-8 hours with heavy use

Cell Standby percentage

Curious what everyone else has listed as cell standby percentage listed in battery usage. I just happened to look and mine is listed as 100% without signal even though I have had signal all along. I wonder if this could be a bug like the 50% without signal I experienced with my cappy.
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My cell standby is 6% currently
Mine is 21%, Android OS at 59%. Signal is constant yellow, which is odd since it was in decent signal much of that time.
Well that is weird, mine is reading 100%. I wonder what is going on.
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OK me thinks maybe I wasn't clear in the OP. What I am talking about is when you bring up Battery Usage and then click on Cell Standby it then brings you to the break down of the Cell Standby. There you will see Time On as well as Time Without a Signal. In my case the Time Without a Signal is reading 100%. What is everyone elses reading?
Time without a signal: 31% - rather surprised it's that high
To the OP, I was just about to make a thread on this because I knew I couldn't be the only one with this problem. I've had this bug since day one, it always says 100% no cell service.
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
Oh wow. I haven't even looked at this until I saw this thread. My cell standby says 3% but it says I've gone without signal for 96%. And I've been in coverage for most of the day
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6% every time I've checked
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I'm not sure if it's the same thing but in the international version it's a display bug and for some reason if you go into settings--about phone---status, the % starts to drop.
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I think its the same thing with this phone. I did what you said with going into settings /status and now my percentage is dropping.
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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First 4 days there was no sight of this on my device, this morning after installing google voice i've noticed mine now says 100%. Out of curiosity do the rest of you with this discrepancy have google voice installed?
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Nope, no Google Voice and my Time Without Signal is 100%.
maybe they miss word it. maybe it should have read "Time with Signal"... cuz I am on a Microcell... and I have signal alllll the time
Just saw this thread and checked - I'm another user with 100% time without signal indicated. Been in decent coverage most of the day. I have google voice installed.
Mine is 13%. Still weird
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It seems to be a known bug with the GS2. There are threads discussing it in the I9100 forums. Ever since I went into About Phone/Status my time without signal percentage has stayed St 0%. I guess it's kind of like the 50% bug with the GalaxyS1.
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Mine is 2%.
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Checked my wife's SGSII tonight when she got home from work. Reported cell standby as 6% of battery use, and 0% time without signal. She has Google Voice installed as well.
A couple of maybe related items:
a) When we brought both devices home, hers connected to our MicroCell with no problems. Mine would not connect at all, until I did a sim swap with her device. After swapping back to our original sims, both connect to the MicroCell.
b) with very similar time off the charger today (me at 10 hours, her at almost 12) and similar screen on times (me: 1hr 27 min, her 1hr 11min) she had 60% battery remaining, I had 33%. I am running some additional apps, and used google nav for about 6 minutes. She was in wifi coverage all day (except while commuting) I had no wifi all day. Not sure if the battery burn difference is justified by those differences or not - or if they are possibly somewhat related to the 0 vs 100 time without signal indication (I was only showing 7% battery drain from the cell standby).
I too have the 100% "bug" I also read in the i900 threads that once we go to:
settings>about phone>status the "time without signal" percentage will begin to drop. I can confirm it. It's at 98% for me now. I seem to have pretty good battery life. About 16 hours on a single charge. I think its just a bug but makes me wonder if my battery life would last twice as long with "time without signal at 0%" I do not have google voice and all the apps and widgets I have that can be configured are set to sync manually (with the exception of the google apps) (auto sync is on).

Bad battery drain issue

Hey guys please help. I barely use my phone and the battery still drains very quickly. If I charge it up to 100% before I go to sleep and then unplug it, by morning it is at 50%. The only sync option I have on is Gmail mail. I have 4G and wifi on but I really doubt those are killing my battery. In the time it took me to type this message I lost 2%. I can't live like this! Suggestions?
Ps for the first 2 or 3 days that I had my phone the battery life was fine. No issues.
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Turn off 4g and WiFi for starters. Don't need 4g since lte is not out yet. And if your house has no WiFi makes no sense to have it on searching for something that is not there. Also hold home bottom and close apps and clear ram.
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Hey guys please help. I barely use my phone and the battery still drains very quickly. If I charge it up to 100% before I go to sleep and then unplug it, by morning it is at 50%. The only sync option I have on is Gmail mail. I have 4G and wifi on but I really doubt those are killing my battery. In the time it took me to type this message I lost 2%. I can't live like this! Suggestions?
Ps for the first 2 or 3 days that I had my phone the battery life was fine. No issues.
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I've been having the same issue on my att galaxy s3. I think there is a bug possibly when the phone is having issues maintaining a data connection. I always know when I am going to have an issue b/c the phone will stay warm even when I'm not using the phone. The only solution I have found is to turn off mobile data. Restarting the phone every day seems to help as well. There are a few other threads from people having the same issue. I'm guessing it's the data connection connecting and disconnecting over and over again. Cell standby will usually show up as taking up the most battery life.
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Turn off 4g and WiFi for starters. Don't need 4g since lte is not out yet. And if your house has no WiFi makes no sense to have it on searching for something that is not there. Also hold home bottom and close apps and clear ram.
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I have At&t in San Francisco. We have very fast LTE here. I shouldn't have to turn it off. That's why I bought the phone.
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TeeRoPrice said:
I have At&t in San Francisco. We have very fast LTE here. I shouldn't have to turn it off. That's why I bought the phone.
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Unfortunately the lte does drain your battery. So does the keyboard vibrating with every click. Get a app that with shut down background apps when your screen is off and temporally disable data. Works for me since I usually have at least 10 to 12 apps running that I forget to turn off.
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Chrome in its current version has been identified as a big battery drain even after the app is closed. Some bug. I'm still using it though, nothing else works as well.
http://global.christianpost.com/new...ttery-problems-solution-and-how-to-fix-77482/
Note that is the International GSIII, but you seem to be having similar issues, as was I. I made a nandroid and flashed it, we will see. Last night my phone died in 7 hours with little to no use.
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My cell standby does that too! I was wondering if I was the only one. Hell, I'm at 91% with only 15mins of screen on time and 2hrs off charger.
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If you're using widgets that auto sync like fb, weather etc. By default they're set to sync every hour. The first day I got my phone I got 4 hours screen time and about 17 hours total on the battery, but I didn't have any widgets running. after I started running fb and weather it went to 1 hour screen time and about 9 hours total on the battery. Google+ was the main juice guzzler.
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It really is a shame that we are disabling the design features of this awesome phone just to prolong the battery life. Are we really more concerned with battery life than the capabilities of this phone?
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It really is a shame that we are disabling the design features of this awesome phone just to prolong the battery life. Are we really more concerned with battery life than the capabilities of this phone?
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Yes, yes we are. Some of us, myself included, don't sit by a charger all day. Longer battery life is essential for me, at least until I get another battery.
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Yes, yes we are. Some of us, myself included, don't sit by a charger all day. Longer battery life is essential for me, at least until I get another battery.
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Humans are really complicated. We asked for compactness and features up the "kazoo" and yet we look for less power consumption. Lmao.:laugh:
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Humans are really complicated. We asked for compactness and features up the "kazoo" and yet we look for less power consumption. Lmao.:laugh:
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Yeah I know right? We want everything
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AT&T lte is not a huge battery drain in my experience. Your battery usage is not normal so you either have a bunch of social media going crazy all the time or some rogue apps preventing deep sleep. Try using better battery stats to see if you can track things down.
Also forcing Wi-Fi to not use power save is s big drain did you do that? *#0011# menu Wi-Fi
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AT&T lte is not a huge battery drain in my experience. Your battery usage is not normal so you either have a bunch of social media going crazy all the time or some rogue apps preventing deep sleep. Try using better battery stats to see if you can track things down.
Also forcing Wi-Fi to not use power save is s big drain did you do that? *#0011# menu Wi-Fi
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My drain was the same as his the very first day I had my phone (before I installed any apps).
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I had very bad battery life too on my first S3. Luckily I hard bricked it and got a new one right away. since it was only one week after the date of purchase they gave me a new one right in the store (Telus). This second one has amazing battery life with my same consumption. I find it weird too. about 30 hours with wifi and lte on and still got 24% left on it.
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My drain was the same as his the very first day I had my phone (before I installed any apps).
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I've tried the wap.cingular apn and it wasn't significant change at all for me. YMMV.
Has anyone on this thread ever drained the battery completely and charge it back to 100%? It might help.
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I had very bad battery life too on my first S3. Luckily I hard bricked it and got a new one right away. since it was only one week after the date of purchase they gave me a new one right in the store (Telus). This second one has amazing battery life with my same consumption. I find it weird too. about 30 hours with wifi and lte on and still got 24% left on it.
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That's strange. Think I should exchange mine? I've had it 2 days.
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Hey guys please help. I barely use my phone and the battery still drains very quickly. If I charge it up to 100% before I go to sleep and then unplug it, by morning it is at 50%. The only sync option I have on is Gmail mail. I have 4G and wifi on but I really doubt those are killing my battery. In the time it took me to type this message I lost 2%. I can't live like this! Suggestions?
Ps for the first 2 or 3 days that I had my phone the battery life was fine. No issues.
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I also notice the abnormal Cell Standby consumption, it actually happens after I added my Outlook corporate email, with ActiveSync enabled. After I seting the sync option to every 1hr instead of ActiveSync, it went back to normal.
See if it helps you too. Good Luck.

Battery drain=bad batch of phones?

Being there's so much difference in battery life, I was curious if there might be a bad batch of phones. My phone gets great life and my dad's gets significantly less. He works about 2 blocks away from me and actually has a stronger signal in his building than I do at mine and his battery drops like a rock with nothing running. I'm rooted and froze the AT&T bloat. He's stock.
My serial number contains a PTM and the end number is in the 40000's. His serial number contains PZK and ends in a number in the 30000's. If you have time post your serial # info and how your battery life is.
I returned my ladies OG and now her battery life is better. Even b4 I rooted it drain was better from prior phone. Could be a batch. That's my lead as well
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I'm contemplating returning my phone just in case of a 'bad batch,' but I'm afraid I'll get a phone that's even worse lol. I can't forever replace phones. I'm just trying to make it work.
Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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You can threw clockwork easily. It doesnt matter though. Trust me.
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Does this phone have the ability or need to reset battery stats? I know you couldn't do it, or it was unnecessary on the SGSII. Just curious if it's a calibration issue.
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Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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Resetting battery stats actually has no correlation with battery life whatsoever. It is not what controls the percentage that we see in screen. I believe it just tracks what apps or system files are or have been using up the battery. Battery stats gets an automatic reset whenever you reboot anyways.
For those with bad battery drain, just try and see what your serial numbers are n post it here to compare.
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http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/articles/wiping-battery-stats-is-pointless-says-google-r316
First time I read it, it blew my mind. Talk about placebo effect.
Jesus...its a SOFTWARE bug...not hardware. We ALL have it. We just use our phones differently.
Dude, you're blowing smoke off an asbestos fire. You have no idea what exactly is causing it.
Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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The battery life on my phone and seemingly most folks is great. Granted some folks probably live on the cusp of LTE coverage in their area and the radio is killing the battery while liking for signal (that happened to me with my EVO 4G).
If it were all devices, then only the battery life fanatics who shut down everything would be seeing 20hrs on a charge.
I think there's a bad batch of hardware or there.
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my s/n: KPUU 40000's the high end. I dont think its a batch.
seems odd that those who are having the issue are not likely to make to 10hrs on a charge (often 1/2 that)...while others are bumping 20hrs (myself included).
i have 4 emails on constant sync, as well as, facebook, weather, xda and a chess. each day has a couple hours of screen time. 1hr each day of either Pandora or Audible. 20-50 text and @45min - 1hr of phone time. ... in case you think i put my phone in my pocket and forget about it.
granted, i do connect to wifi at home and work. and i live in an area where i have solid LTE coverage at all times.
audible and screen time are my worst battery drains.
jamesc760 said:
Where do you go to get the serial number of the phone?
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We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
cerps said:
We got ours off the box. Not sure where you'd get it in the phone.
Did a little more research. Set them side by side for an hour with screens at same brightness, always on, with Nexus live wallpaper running. Both were hooked into wifi and the microcell. Battery usage over a 1 hour period was pretty much identical (within 1%). Then did some web browsing and hit all the same links and drain was the same. We thought it maybe was just battery conditioning. When I first got it I did 2 full drains and recharges with it off. He did that about a week in and thought it was fixed.
I left and a couple hours later his battery started to tank. Only thing we noticed was his accelerometer hung for some reason and had 5 hours on. He hadn't used anything that should have turned it on so no idea why it got stuck. Turned it off and the battery usage slowed to what one would expect. Then it had another couple minute burst of dropping. that was the last I heard.
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Lol you ended it with such a dramatic air. "That was the last I heard". Dun dun dun! Lol. Sorry I just played some Alan Wake that's why
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The one thing I've notice about my phone is that when looking at my wireless icon in the notification bar, there is something transmitting 90% of the time (download it appears as it is just the bottom arrow blinking). It does this even when sync is turned off. I've gone through the phone and I can't see any app running. Has anyone else noticed this?
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I'm convinced there's a bad batch.
My replacement phone literally just ran all night. I had been awake backing up my system with Titanium, and it stalled before I went to bed. TB kept my phone running for 8 hours straight with the screen on and my phone is only at 18%.
If your battery life is ****, return it. Currently running Stock, rooted and unlocked with dormancy fix.
So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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mws1986 said:
So this is what betterbatterystats is showing me. I'm using around 5.8% a hour that's not the best but that's not bad right?
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Take a shot of the alarms, kernal wakelock, and partial wakelock pages.
I had not enabled su privileges to it yet so I will have to wait on the alarms.
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