Hi there,
I've been noticing that I've been getting very poor battery life on my new S3 both on ICS and now on JB. After some googling I found the problem of S3s not going into deep sleep when left idle so I installed BBS and sure enough, overnight when not touched my phone went from 100% to 18% (9.6% drain per hour). I have the statistics and it was awake for almost all of this time. I can't yet post screenshots as a new member but I was hoping somebody could help me get to the bottom of my issue.
The total time since unplugged from 100% is 8h 12 mins 21 s as a reference point.
Other:
Wifi On 8h 11m
Awake 7h 35m
No Data Connection 3h 34 m
Good signal 3h 27m
Deep sleep 36m
Screen On 2m
Kernel Wakelock:
PowerManagerService 7h 19m 89.4%
multipdp 1h 17m 13.2%
alarm 58m 12%
secril_fd-interface 51m
l2_hsic 34m
wlan_ctrl_wake 33m
wlan_rx_wake 27m
Partial Wakelocks:
AlarmManager 2h 24m 29.4%
MediaScannerService 1h59m 24.3%
Maps app:NLP PendingIntent client in googlequicksearchbox 1h 23m
SignalCollector.ScannerThread 25m
NetworkLocationLocator 13m 22
CPU states:
1GHz 7h 9m
Deep Sleep 36m
Process:
Maps wakelock
media wakelock
android.process.media
doubletwist wakelock
com.amazon.venezia
Finally, the battery tab in OS settings says that Maps used 29%, Media 23%, gpsd 16%, device idle 10%, cell standy 9%, screen 3%, Androis OS 3%, Androis System 2%, doubletwist 2%.
I know that AlarmManager can mean a lot of things but is there any way of finding out without rooting my phone?
Any help on the above would be appreciated as I'm getting pretty frustrated at losing 10% of my battery an hour.
Thanks.
So why isn't this in the Galaxy SIII section?
tomascus said:
So why isn't this in the Galaxy SIII section?
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Because I thought it might have been an Android issue. I'm sorry if I've offended you but I am aware of the etiquette and rules of forums and tried to pick an appropriate place for my thread.
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Because I thought it might have been an Android issue. I'm sorry if I've offended you but I am aware of the etiquette and rules of forums and tried to pick an appropriate place for my thread.
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Ye, this belong in the S3 forum.
Anyway, are you running stock kernel?
Was your wifi /gps/data on?
Tried to reboot? Wipe cache?
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ole12 said:
Ye, this belong in the S3 forum.
Anyway, are you running stock kernel?
Was your wifi /gps/data on?
Tried to reboot? Wipe cache?
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I think so but I'm not entirely sure what the stock kernel is. I've not rooted it and updated to JellyBean through an automatic software update so it should be the standard one.
Wifi GPS and data were enabled all night. I was at home so it would have been connected with that. GPS was not active at all during the time according to the battery stastics.
Have tried rebooting. Just wiped the cache there.
If it helps at all I've noticed that often it seems to display the SD card symbol when I turn on the screen, don't know if that has something to do with the mediascannerservice wakelock?
Clearing the cache and rebooting again hasn't helped.
AT4RFC said:
Hi there,
I've been noticing that I've been getting very poor battery life on my new S3 both on ICS and now on JB. After some googling I found the problem of S3s not going into deep sleep when left idle so I installed BBS and sure enough, overnight when not touched my phone went from 100% to 18% (9.6% drain per hour). I have the statistics and it was awake for almost all of this time. I can't yet post screenshots as a new member but I was hoping somebody could help me get to the bottom of my issue.
The total time since unplugged from 100% is 8h 12 mins 21 s as a reference point.
Other:
Wifi On 8h 11m
Awake 7h 35m
No Data Connection 3h 34 m
Good signal 3h 27m
Deep sleep 36m
Screen On 2m
Kernel Wakelock:
PowerManagerService 7h 19m 89.4%
multipdp 1h 17m 13.2%
alarm 58m 12%
secril_fd-interface 51m
l2_hsic 34m
wlan_ctrl_wake 33m
wlan_rx_wake 27m
Partial Wakelocks:
AlarmManager 2h 24m 29.4%
MediaScannerService 1h59m 24.3%
Maps app:NLP PendingIntent client in googlequicksearchbox 1h 23m
SignalCollector.ScannerThread 25m
NetworkLocationLocator 13m 22
CPU states:
1GHz 7h 9m
Deep Sleep 36m
Process:
Maps wakelock
media wakelock
android.process.media
doubletwist wakelock
com.amazon.venezia
Finally, the battery tab in OS settings says that Maps used 29%, Media 23%, gpsd 16%, device idle 10%, cell standy 9%, screen 3%, Androis OS 3%, Androis System 2%, doubletwist 2%.
I know that AlarmManager can mean a lot of things but is there any way of finding out without rooting my phone?
Any help on the above would be appreciated as I'm getting pretty frustrated at losing 10% of my battery an hour.
Thanks.
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Which jb rom firmware are you using?..llb?? . The jb leaks and the first jb official roms of the s3 had media scanner wakelocks .. the media kept on scanning the sd card for stuffs even when not needed.. it can be solved by going to settings..manage apps... media storage.. clear cache.. ....
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Moved to Galaxy S III Q&A.
Chillz88 said:
Which jb rom firmware are you using?..llb?? . The jb leaks and the first jb official roms of the s3 had media scanner wakelocks .. the media kept on scanning the sd card for stuffs even when not needed.. it can be solved by going to settings..manage apps... media storage.. clear cache.. ....
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Kernel Version 3.0.31-368423
Android 4.1.1 which installed automatically via software upgrade option in settings. I'm on Orange UK.
Unfortunately in media storage it says cache 0.00b and no option to clear.
I tried turning off a lot of sync and changing email poll frequencies. This morning, same again. 82% drain in 8h 12 mins. However this time alarm manager was responsible for a very small number of wakelocks. Mediascannerservice was by far and away the biggest culprit. Any ideas to stop this short of formatting my SD? I tried clearing the media storage cache but it wouldn't let me.
Hi mate,
have you managed to solve this yet?
I have had my phone a few months and the battery life was OK.
Since upgrading to JB it is terrible - im losing about 10% in standby mode.
I have been looking around at a few things to try but i want to leave my phone in standby for an hour to see how much i am losing and where.
This is my first Android phone and although i love it the battery is a lot worse, for me, over my iphone 4 - with the same usage.
A question i have for people - when i had bad battery on my iphone i restored it in itunes and set it back up again. This seemed to fix the issue.
Should i do this on my S3? Have people managed to get a seemingly bad battery to perform better with a restore?
sh0wst0pper said:
Hi mate,
have you managed to solve this yet?
I have had my phone a few months and the battery life was OK.
Since upgrading to JB it is terrible - im losing about 10% in standby mode.
I have been looking around at a few things to try but i want to leave my phone in standby for an hour to see how much i am losing and where.
This is my first Android phone and although i love it the battery is a lot worse, for me, over my iphone 4 - with the same usage.
A question i have for people - when i had bad battery on my iphone i restored it in itunes and set it back up again. This seemed to fix the issue.
Should i do this on my S3? Have people managed to get a seemingly bad battery to perform better with a restore?
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I did a factory reset and the problem was gone. For a few days it worked absolutely fine until last week, when I spotted the battery draining excessively, checked BBS and noticed that media scanner was back. I hadn't added any media files for a while before or installed any new media applications. I cleared the cache for all media applications and it seemed to fix the problem again for about a day but then it came back. I'm really frustrated by this as I can't seem to stop the mediascannerservice from sucking up all my battery life.
OK so i left my phone untouched for 1 hour and 5 minutes and I lost 11% battery!
Any ideas guys?
FYI - the phone was in standby with no apps running for 1 hour.
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I did a factory reset and the problem was gone. For a few days it worked absolutely fine until last week, when I spotted the battery draining excessively, checked BBS and noticed that media scanner was back. I hadn't added any media files for a while before or installed any new media applications. I cleared the cache for all media applications and it seemed to fix the problem again for about a day but then it came back. I'm really frustrated by this as I can't seem to stop the mediascannerservice from sucking up all my battery life.
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I have read that this can be due to a faulty mp3 track.
I would suggest removing all your media and see if you still have battery issues.
If you dont then I have no idea how you would find out which track has the problem?! Do a chunk, check battery and then filter them out that way!
sh0wst0pper said:
I have read that this can be due to a faulty mp3 track.
I would suggest removing all your media and see if you still have battery issues.
If you dont then I have no idea how you would find out which track has the problem?! Do a chunk, check battery and then filter them out that way!
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Thanks for the suggestion but after reading that issue elsewhere on this site I have already tried that including going as far as formatting the SD card completely.
Not much help on these forums are there?!
Im gonna try and reset my phone tonight to see if that fixes the problem.
sh0wst0pper said:
OK so i left my phone untouched for 1 hour and 5 minutes and I lost 11% battery!
Any ideas guys?
FYI - the phone was in standby with no apps running for 1 hour.
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Try charging it and then letting it run for an hour from when you unplug it as that'll give a better indicator. Those usage statistics there take in to account all your usage. If you don't already have it you could get better battery statistics to help diagnose the issue. I believe it can be had for free somewhere around this forum.
AT4RFC said:
Try charging it and then letting it run for an hour from when you unplug it as that'll give a better indicator. Those usage statistics there take in to account all your usage. If you don't already have it you could get better battery statistics to help diagnose the issue. I believe it can be had for free somewhere around this forum.
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Yeah i installed GSAM battery monitor as well and it showed me i was using 11% in 1 hour 5 minutes.
It is telling me that Exchange Services is using 20% of the battery. The thing is that I have always had this on since I had the phone but my battery only seems to be getting worse after JB update.
Just to update this thread. My battery is now MUCH better. I think it was the 2 exchange email accounts I need to have.
I completely restarted fresh and everytime I load email i then clear the RAM. This has helped hugely!
Hope you manage to sort your problem out.
I'm having issues with the media application as well. Now sure what the hell it's doing, but from a 100% (powered off) charge, I dropped to 95% within 10 minutes. GSAM says Media is taking 54.5% of the battery... lovely!
Sadly, the biggest issue with this is that the phone never deep sleeps, so if I am below 40% battery before I sleep, there's a big chance my alarm won't go off in the morning...sucks!
I'll do some more research on this and report back if I manage to fix it.
Update 1:
Removed my card and let GSAM monitor usage. Surprise, surprise! Media went from top drainer to bottom of the list (actually showed as -2.8% lol).
Put the card back and in and mounted it, and media immediately jumped to the top of the list.
Currently in the process of backing up my card data. Gonna format it and put my stuff back and see what happens.
Update 2:
Yeah, formatting seems to do the trick, but as I soon as I copy across my camera roll, it starts flipping out again. Not sure what's going on tbh.
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Hi,
For those of you that have Battery Monitor Widget installed, what kind of average usage are you seeing with the phone idle, screen off?
On my old Desire it'd sit at something around low double digits, 10mA or so idle with the screen off...
On my new shiny SGSII it's at about 180mA odd, which may explain why I struggle to get a days usage out of it. I've tried different ROMs (stock rooted, lite'ning, currently on villain 2.4.2) and different modems (currently KG6) and have used Ti to freeze all of the samsung bloatware without any improvement...
What kinds of values are others seeing?
Thanks
Jon
in idle , i get average of 50-60mA .. but after 3,4 hours of idle , i can get it as low as 9-10mA .. running on sensation rom 1.4 .. in normal use , it will hike from 100+ma to 400mA ..
it's actually a bit higher than my last desire HD. which in idle can get as low as 4-5 mA .. i guess that's all depend on the kernel ..
seeing at your idle usage about 180mA, that's definitely have something wrong somewhere. gotta find what apps draining the battery
Just did a test while I was down the gym - with mobile data off, but streaming music to a bluetooth headset, it was down to 60-80mA. Turn it back on and it's gone back up again...
Gtalk is frozen, Latitude isn't signed in... Nothing obvious shows up in Better Battyer Stats.. Other than removing apps one by one, any bright ideas as to how to work out which is the culprit?
I think i read that HTC phones actuality give true mah battery rates where on the S2 it is only get`s estimated.
I fully charged it last night, and left it alone overnight. Perfect signal (local picocell about 10 ft away), pretty much everything disabled, all user apps, samsung stuff frozen - only google apps unfrozen. Background data disabled, bluetooth, gps, wifi off.
After a few minutes, after a short while at 60mA odd it sat idling at about 9mA pretty much all night - used about 8% overnight. I re-enabled background sync, now sat on my desk at work with a reasonable 3G signal it's sat at about 60mA.
Time to start unfreezing apps and see what's draining it!
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Time to start unfreezing apps and see what's draining it!
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Install 'Better Battery Stats' for that.
Regards.
ithehappy said:
Install 'Better Battery Stats' for that.
Regards.
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It's installed - I get a lot of events/0 and suspend listed in process, and not that many wakelocks listed...
I've just frozen the samsung email client (exchange) and the associated processes, and my usage has dropped from 60-100mA at idle to under 20 - looks like this may be the culprit!
Going to try unfreezing it and seeing if it goes back up again...
I gave up trying to freeze / unfreeze stuff - too much hassle.
So - did a factory reset this morning, so back to a totally fresh villain install. I even removed my 32G sd card in case that was causing issues..
Disabled automatic app re-installing, and have been slowly setting things back up while watching the juice usage.
Currently with touchwiz and all of the samsung crap frozen, no widgets running, my 2 gmail accounts and exchange activesync configured, and it's idling at about 50-60mA.
It's going to be a pretty drawn out process working out what's causing the drain
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.
kuraiholy said:
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..
runtohell121 said:
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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dandrumheller said:
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.
runtohell121 said:
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.
SGS2 Running CM9 using XDA
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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kuraiholy said:
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
mainanu offered
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.
harleydad82 said:
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.
SGS2 Running CM9 using XDA
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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?
Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
Wait till you get about 70 percent discharge overnight then you'll have something to worry about.
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Wait till you get about 70 percent discharge overnight then you'll have something to worry about.
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thanks for the reply, but that's not really what i wanted to know...
If you searched or read the multiple battery threads then you would have found that yes it is normal .
All depends upon what running .
jje
At night I turn off wifi and data, my battery drops 3%, with data on and wifi off about 5% ( about 8 hours)
Based on reviews on the net it is possible to get it drop 6% in 16 hours with data and wifi on, not getting to this myself but happy enough.
roter$baron said:
Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
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It is very normal for Stock rom to consume that much battery.. However you can save more battery by going into Wifi > advanced > Keepy wifi on during sleep > Select Only when plugged in... Plus disabling wake up commands such as the ones for S Voice, or Google Now can increase battery life upto a great extent.
Also try turning off location services for apps that you don't use that often or the ones that don't really require location services that much.
I had 10 to 15% drop the night, after installing Chrome (because of google sync issue)
but after removed it.. im back to 6-7%
Anyway Dolphin is better
I can only say from memory ...
roter$baron said:
Hey,
I could not find a thread like this via the search bar, so I am opening one up. How much battery does your stock S3 consume by just lying there? I am losing about ten percent overnight, which seems a bit too much for me. Is that normal?
Thanks!
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I can only say from memory - a very clean S3 should get at most 2-3% discharge overnight (even with WiFi, data, BT and GPS started). That might no longer be achievable once you have a number of programs that interact and keep the CPU from staying into deep sleep.
Currently I am seeing at most 1-2% with my configuration - but that involves closing the 4 above before going to bed.(and to get to that point I had to drop a number of programs that were bad in this regard).
Do your own tests with that - look around after BetterBatteryStats.apk or something like that!
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I can only say from memory - a very clean S3 should get at most 2-3% discharge overnight (even with WiFi, data, BT and GPS started). That might no longer be achievable once you have a number of programs that interact and keep the CPU from staying into deep sleep.
Currently I am seeing at most 1-2% with my configuration - but that involves closing the 4 above before going to bed.(and to get to that point I had to drop a number of programs that were bad in this regard).
Do your own tests with that - look around after BetterBatteryStats.apk or something like that!
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Can I ask what your current configuration is?
I am currently running Omega v32.1 with the stock kernel.
I hardly use my phone during the day as I am at work for 12 hours, maybe send a few texts. 3g and sync are always on
I take it off charge at 5.30AM and when I get home at like 8PM it is down to less than 10%... and thats not even heavy use.
I have calibrated the battery using that batterycalibrate app for root users..
Hello,
I wanted to get your guys opinion as I believe my phone may have turned defective and I really don't want to go down the Warranty Route as I'll loose the phone for weeks. And willing to try anything suggested.
So here's the problem:
Battery Draining at very high rates. On stock battery, I am draining about 12% an hour, after 6 or so hours my 15% battery capacity left warning turns on. I figured it was the battery, so bought a double capacity 4200mAh Hyperion Battery. Now my battery drain is at 6% an hour (which is equivalent to the factory battery considering the double capacity).
I am currently on XXELKC 4.1.2 Stock ROM. When I first noticed the problem, I was on 4.1.1. Figured I would ODIN, Wipe all cache's, and start clean. This has made no affect on battery life.
Here's what I've tried:
- 4.1.1, 4.1.2 Stock ROMs from Wipe - High Drain
- Airplane Mode with Location Services Disabled - High Drain, but 4.5% an Hour instead of 6% an Hour.
- Disabled all Samsung Apps - seemed to have little impact
- Disabling Google Now has made zero impact on battery life.
- 4.1.1 BBS revealed nothing - may need to try again on 4.1.2
Any ideas? Or is this sounding like the phone? Is it possible after a wipe the phone, when I re-enter my Google Credentials it is restoring some data which is defunct and causing high drain?
Note: Screen shots are with the double capacity battery taken right after a clean Odin upgrade to 4.1.2. Only ran Android Activation and thats it.
It looks like your phone isnt going to sleep properly. Try a custom rom/kernel.
Have you done a full whipe ?? If not, do so, and don't forget to make a back up first. It worked for me !
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I had similar issues, I factory reset worked, and I also download rescan media root app to disable the media scanner which was my main battery killer.
WHen you do the factory reset make sure your phone is connected to the internet, so it will prompt google to store the apps you have and remote install when you sign back into the phone.
I have performed a full wipe but that had minor impact on battery life but I wounder if the Google Restore possibly restored an invalid setting. I will try this again without entering my credentials and see if there is a link with a restored setting. I will have to give the rescan media app a try as well.
5kops said:
It looks like your phone isnt going to sleep properly. Try a custom rom/kernel.
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Any specific kernel in mind. From what I've been reading no kernel seemed to stand up to magically solve battery issues without voltage drop or cutting services like Google now from the rom.
use better battery stats app to determine what is causing those wake locks.
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use better battery stats app to determine what is causing those wake locks.
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I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
Results from BBS is attached.
I once had that kinda issue too
What I did was Factory Reset and that did the trick for me
How about trying the app CPU sleeper?
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I've had this issue before on the i9100 Galaxy S II, where it didn't seem to matter what I did, it chewed battery just as soon as I put my Google account back onto the handset. I believed it was caused by the Samsung calendar bug. So absolutely; try it without putting your Google account onto the device.
Also, your WiFi signal looks low, although this has less of a difference compared to having low mobile coverage...
DaRacerz said:
I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
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your first post has a huge amount of wakeocks that arent going to be reflected with an hours run on BBS. If i were you id charge it to 100%, unplug just before going to bed and then show us the BBS log in the morning so people can see whats happening over an 7-8 hour peroid
DaRacerz said:
Hello,
I wanted to get your guys opinion as I believe my phone may have turned defective and I really don't want to go down the Warranty Route as I'll loose the phone for weeks. And willing to try anything suggested.
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Have you tried flashing a custom ROM?
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I have attached a run with BBS for 1 hour. Nothing is really standing out. The phone was in deep sleep for all but 2 minutes. I did have Google Now and Location Services Disabled as that was eating away an impressive 10 minutes / hour from deep sleep. But my battery life only increased from 6% an hour to 4.5% an hour. An improvement but weak IMO considering the larger battery.
Results from BBS is attached.
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It looks like the same problem I was having. Your WIFI is always on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35813539
Also leaving your Bluetooth On all the time is going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
pinguy1982 said:
It looks like the same problem I was having. Your WIFI is always on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35813539
Also leaving your Bluetooth On all the time is going to drain the battery pretty quickly.
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its not wifi always on, my wifi is always on too and i lose 2% over an 8 hour standby period.
Its more what apps are using the wifi connection and waking the phone up, thats what the op needs to look into
I have to say ive had pretty bad battery lately aswell. If op doesnt mind I might post my bbs log tomorrow sometime
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MRDOCA said:
I have to say ive had pretty bad battery lately aswell. If op doesnt mind I might post my bbs log tomorrow sometime
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More information can't hurt. Post in and Maybee there is a correlation.
OK. So I went ahead with your suggestions and did the following
Factory Wipe again from Settings Menu
Went back to factory Samsung battery for consistency in reports to other users
Took out both my sim and sdcard to eliminate those possibilities
Put into airplane mode
Disabled a bunch of apps (ss on next post)
Still bismal results but better than before. 7 percent an hour drain. Attached all the files. Ideas? Google says phone is awake but bbs doesn't seem to shed any clues for me...
And here are the disabled and installed apps
your phone isnt going to sleep at all....something is keeping it awake..try a stock rom ( any will do) with full wipe. Dont restore anything with titanium backup. Disable auto sync on everything. Set wifi sleep policy to always. See if the problem persists.
5kops said:
your phone isnt going to sleep at all....something is keeping it awake..try a stock rom ( any will do) with full wipe. Dont restore anything with titanium backup. Disable auto sync on everything. Set wifi sleep policy to always. See if the problem persists.
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That last run posted was stock 4.1.2 XXELKC firmware and Factory Wipe from Settings Menu. I also performed Wipe and Cache Wipe in the Bootloader (Power Up + Center + Power). All I did was install bbs and never put in Google or Samsung credentials and disabled some stock apps from running.
If your not referring to factory Wipe, can you please explain further? Thanks.
Hi everyone. I hope this is the right forums for this thread.
I noticed a decrease my the uptime of my phone over the past few months - which is due to the age of the battery I guess, no nothing alarming.
But a few days ago, I flashed a custom rom (I was on Supernexus 2.0 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076650) Slimbean build 8 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2060541) and all of a sudden my battery went haywire.
The phone would heat up for no reason (as if on charge + everything toggled on + playing a game and microwaving it at the same time) and I lost 40-50% over 20ish minutes.
I reflashed it with the same rom and the problem stayed though it was less frequent. Still I barely manage 4 hours without a charge (lasted at least 20 before that flash)
I went back to Supernexus (v3.0 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407449). Battery life seems to have improved at bit and phone heats up less.
However on using the phone moderately - some internet browsing over wifi - I lost about 30% over 30 minutes which is at least twice as much as what I was experiencing.
On checking battery usage I noticed "Android OS" was coming on top (same as with previous rom) as opposed to the screen which was eating up most of my battery before.
I checked BBS but saw nothing out of the ordinary but maybe I can't read it properly since I'm not used to it.
So I don't know what to do now. Help anyone?
Edit: Added BBS log
Try a new battery (Go with the obvious stuff first).
Andish said:
I checked BBS but saw nothing out of the ordinary but maybe I can't read it properly since I'm not used to it.
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Why not post the BBS log then? Maybe somebody else can read it properly for you
fxrb said:
Why not post the BBS log then? Maybe somebody else can read it properly for you
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Cause I'm a derp who forgot to attach it Edited first post
MistahBungle said:
Try a new battery (Go with the obvious stuff first).
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I didn't see your message. I have no access to another battery unless buying one of course - which I'd rather avoid doing if it's not the problem.
I don't see this BBS log corresponding in any way with what you said in your first post.
From the log one can see that your battery dropped by about 70% within about 10h, i.e. 3.5% / 30min and not 30% / 30min as you said.
With a screen-on time of 1h 28m within those 10h 18m total time, the values are not really that bad I think.
To further improve the situation you should take care of the first wakelock (NetworkLocationLocator). Without this service waking up your phone permanently it will remain an additional 35m in deep sleep, consuming very little battery. Use google or search on XDA for what you have to disable to get rid of this wakelock.
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I don't see this BBS log corresponding in any way with what you said in your first post.
From the log one can see that your battery dropped by about 70% within about 10h, i.e. 3.5% / 30min and not 30% / 30min as you said.
With a screen-on time of 1h 28m within those 10h 18m total time, the values are not really that bad I think.
To further improve the situation you should take care of the first wakelock (NetworkLocationLocator). Without this service waking up your phone permanently it will remain an additional 35m in deep sleep, consuming very little battery. Use google or search on XDA for what you have to disable to get rid of this wakelock.
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Well when I went to bed it was at 100% charge. 87% on waking up (~8.30). I checked my mails, and browsed the net a bit (~9.00) it was at 56%
I fiddled around in google services. I didn't check it after flashing. Some stuff were checked by default. Will see how goes.
Andish said:
Well when I went to bed it was at 100% charge. 87% on waking up (~8.30). I checked my mails, and browsed the net a bit (~9.00) it was at 56%
I fiddled around in google services. I didn't check it after flashing. Some stuff were checked by default. Will see how goes.
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I've been running into similar issues, and doing a battery calibration seems to have helped me (so far). My phone would use battery quickly and also shut off without warning. I have used the option to "Reset Fuel-Gage Chip" in STweaks when running Siyah Kernel, but since I'm using SuperNexus 3.0 (not sure if I can use Siyah Kernel with it), I downloaded an app off the play store last night simply called "Battery Calibration". I'm still letting the battery drain completely so I'm not sure how well it works yet. Apparently it just deletes the batterystats.bin file.
After running the Fuel-Gage reset on my previous ROM, my phone no longer shuts off without warning. It would start to flicker the screen, kill the data, and then shut off with plenty of battery left according to the OS.
Doing this may hopefully help you as well, since you've been switching ROM's.