[Q] S3 battery discharge rate - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I usually charge my phone overnight, however now I'm on holiday and using my phone a lot less, and had 30% at the end of the day.
Went to sleep and when I woke up about 7 hrs afterwards, the battery discharged by about 20%. The only things on were cell data, and location services (neither was being used, obviously).
I'm currently using Fox hound ROM 1.6. Is this a normal rate of discharge, or do I need to investigate what is happening? The battery info looks like this:
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Vlad_M said:
I usually charge my phone overnight, however now I'm on holiday and using my phone a lot less, and had 30% at the end of the day.
Went to sleep and when I woke up about 7 hrs afterwards, the battery discharged by about 20%. The only things on were cell data, and location services (neither was being used, obviously).
I'm currently using Fox hound ROM 1.6. Is this a normal rate of discharge, or do I need to investigate what is happening? The battery info looks like this:
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What location services exactly?

As in the gps was not switched off in the quick settings toggles.
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Yeah GPS being on is fine as long as there aren't any apps polling for you location. Have you disabled location services in Maps & Google Now? Exchange services may have kept the phone awake as well. Download BetterBatteryStats and have a look at alarms and partial wakelocks.

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some help regarding wakelock!!!

no matter what i do, my wakelock problem never goes away
here's my latest screen shot after a fresh flash (used fastboot too) of Darkside, nothing installed, just syned with google.
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and here is my bbs ss
please someone give me some advice on how to solve this problem. I mean after a full wiped flash the phone still not able to sleep properly?
I'm currently using Darkside 3.2.0, faux latest kernel...
10% over 7 hours, ~1.5% per hour, looks like good battery life to me?
turl1 said:
10% over 7 hours, ~1.5% per hour, looks like good battery life to me?
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Thats exactly what I was thinking
Don't be concerned about wake locks if you get awesome battery life
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are your radios updated ?
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First of all thanks for the replies.
I know its not the worse possible battery drain, however data was off last night as I wanted to c if my phone actually goes to sleep.
my other android phone drained maybe 2% overnight with data off, so 10% seems a lot to me...
I have an international ATRIX and m using the latest radio (100.00 something like this) and no matter which rom I flash (aura cm7, and now darkside) the phone just stays awake.
With light use it lasts a day, but ideally 2 days is what im looking for!
Thanks for reading guys

[Q] Is it a heavy battery drain?

Guys,
since i am not sure what does good battery backup means for our LG Optimus One, i have decided to ask you instead.
The flat line in picture is when the mobile was in standby mode almost 7 hours. Mobile was at 90% when i woke up mobile from standby mode. I have no problem for battery drain in that period.
My proble starts when i started using data on my mobile. I used data for almost 3.30 hrs and mobile reached at 5% battery level.
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I wanted to ask you is that is it considered as bad battery backup? For me i sould have used the data 2-3 hours more. For my normal use also i cant get past 15 hrs in a day.
And why does Cell Standby and Phone Idle consume so much battery. I checked in Application/Running services "Settings, Juice defender, DSPManager, Google services and Android Keyboard" were running.
My battery health is Good.
I am on new bb. and on latest Nightly. With all other ROM even Oxygen gives me the same backup.
Help me to get better battery guys. How much battery backup you guys get.
Regards,
No that is completely normal....with data of course battery life goes down the drain. I get about 3-4 hours too so it's normal. Even on a Galaxy nexus it is the same thing.
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which font u using ???

Is my s2 charging by itself??

As per by 9pm my phone flashed up with 5% battery remaining so i put it down to try and make it last the rest of the night. I just went back to it now to find the battery was upto 8%. I know its hardly a big increase but it even shows up on the battery graph that it has increased, you can see that it hasn't been on charge.
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Anyone else had this happen?
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pretty sure it violates some law of physics for a battery to self charge :O
its probably a software glitch where the phone thinks it has used more battery than it actally has then it rechecks and realised it hadnt used that much.
adamsmth663 said:
pretty sure it violates some law of physics for a battery to self charge :O
its probably a software glitch where the phone thinks it has used more battery than it actally has then it rechecks and realised it hadnt used that much.
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Basically. The battery graph is more of a guess of how much you have left based on current usage. If you use it a lot it will think it has a lower battery percentage. When you stop using it it adjusts itself. It has to do with voltage going in and out and all of that technical crap but this is the gist of it.
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Mine did the same a few days ago, I loled . I agree with josh
remove battery and it would sure be at 3% 4%....
Happens to me quire a bit but mostly on reboot or flashing. Battery can lose as much as 30% but leave it untouched and it starts to increase. As Josh said it can also happen due to intensive usage.
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Regarding Settings > Battery

Hello guys, I'm trying to figure our how much my battery can last on one charge, but I'm having a problem in the
Settings> battery,
Where it is supposed to show the usage.
Every time I charge the phone and plug it out, the graph doesn't reset back to 0 hours and just keeps on adding on the total time the phone is on. You can see in the graph the battery percentage keeps going up and down, I can't get it to reset on every time I unplug it from the charger, even by pressing refresh.
Is this a bug for me or is there a proper way to do it?
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I have Canadian version of S3 and battery drain is very high, phone is so warm not easy to carry around comfortably, anyone had same issue?
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I have Canadian version of S3 and battery drain is very high, phone is so warm not easy to carry around comfortably, anyone had same issue?
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Hard to evaluate first part because only you know how intensive you use it. However, the bolded part concerns me. Could be a dud? Mine definitely gets warm especially here (check my location) but not hot by any means. Btw, do you have Infrared Thermometer by any chance?
Battery report only resets when your battery reach 90%+ and you unplug it

T-mobile Battery Life

I hope I'm not the only one with this problem, the battery after the update is absolutely horrible. I have to charge it twice a day now. Even with the screen at around 50%...
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It's not just you, but I have been able to last all day at 30% and turning everything off thats not needed.. and underclockin and also using juicer I think it's called
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what the title " T-mobile Battery Life" ?
With all the bloatware disabled my phone still lasts from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep. Thats including streaming spotify for 6-8 hrs at work thru bluetooth headphones. Not really noticing a huge change from 10G. Might also be worth including I keep my screen at 60% and almost never use wifi. Also I get 3-5 bars service almost everywhere I go on a normal day. I'm sure not everyone uses their phone under the same conditions so just thought I'd include that.
I suggest all of you to give this Artas's TWEAK a try for few days and check again. I got really noticeable change after this tweak this week.
I've had pretty good battery life, i'm rooted and updated to jellybean.
I calibrated the battery
put the phone in battery save mode or airplane mode when i sleep,
and keep the brightness at 50s.
my phone just died and it had around a 1 day and 15 hours on it (with mod-heavy use, pandora, web,)
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Unbelievable battery life with 21b
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