I have a galaxy s3 and recently i brought a class 10 sandisk memory card. . What i am observing is my memory card seems to be draining my galaxy s3 battery. For example on 100% charge, after 2 hour it goes to 80%. The very next day i used my galaxy s3 without memory card and to my surprise it went through the entire day with only 75% charge. This has drastically improved my battery life by not using a memory card. Has anyone experienced this problem. Please help me with this
And yes i have formatted my memory card and also used a new one but no help
Model No. I93000
Android Version - 4.1.2
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I am new to this tablet Arnova 10 G2 (101c). Got it like 2-3 days back. Trying to know it better, so don't flame me please.
I got the rooted firmware on through one of the bundled apps - arctools. So now, here are my questions:
1. Camera:
My camera works. But I can't see where it stores the pics. Even doing a media rescan in settings menu doesn't seem to help.
2. Internal Memory:
On the back it says the model is 4GB. But inside, when I am browsing in root explorer I see over 7 GB free. I have copied over 4 gigs of pdfs (books), and still have over 3 gigs free. Over 7 GB free space on internal SD normally translates to a 8GB model. This has got me perplexed.
3. Battery:
Installed battery calibrator. I drained the battery full until the tablet shut down by itself. Then I charged it to 100%. Used the battery calibrator to delete the batterystats.bin file. Then charged it until the light was green with the tablet off. Turned it on with charger unplugged.
I put it on a movie at about 60% brightness. After about 5+ hours, it was at about 55-60%. Then I took off the movie for some time, turned the brightness to 0, and was doing some browsing, and now I noticed battery at 65%. Battery usage details show spikes moving up while I was simply using it and no charger connected.
Is this normal? How long does it take for the battery to normalize?
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
diablo009 said:
Someone help me please. Even after 3 full charge-discharge cycles, my tablet when kaput from about 30 to 0 last night!
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Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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southphillysean said:
this isn't the Arnova 10g2 (Philly tablet) your speaking of is it?
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Nah. I got this from a store here.. it says Arnova 10 G2 (non philly). Philly is a different version of the same.
przemke said:
Regarding the pictures I won't help you till I have the tablet but speaking of storage you clearly got the 8gb model if you're sure there's no external (micro sd ) memory counted
Regarding the battery it seems that you messed too much with it unnecessarily and now (guessing) the battery electronics freaked out or the li-ion cells got damaged because of a deep discharge.
try to use it normally charging from say 10-50% when needed to full and after some cycle maybe it will get better ?
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I don't really know about this. All I did was a couple of full charge-discharge cycles, and nothing more.
And it showed ~7+ GB free on internal memory (without any sd card inserted).
I still have about 2 GB of internal storage free but I also have some spare micro SD cards and I wonder if installing one can hurt my battery life. Google revealed that the card may drain like 1 mA continuously when idling. This means that the card alone will drain 1500 mA/h battery in about 2 months which is quite Ok and you should not probably care about that. Is this true, or having the card installed may visibly affect the battery life? Thanks.
I installed a 8GB card on my photon and I can't see any difference on my battery life due to having it.
All my pictures/videos go to that one
Hi Everybody ...
I Bought SGSll From about 4 months and i was very satisfied with it and enjoying it so much till i get The Jelly Bean Update
after updating to jelly bean 3 days and i see my mobile is draining battery so fast and my mobile was full of applications also i found an error of SD UnExpectedly Removed and Preparing SD , Also I Found My Mobile Charging Slowly with The Original Cable and when i used the Usb Nokia Cable it charges faster ,, So I Reset My Mobile and Installed Few Applications and the battery became better but Not like On ICS So i Reset it again and Same Problem , My Friend S3 1 % Battery Stay about 15 Mins On internet And Mine Stay for about 5 Mins Max On Wifi But On StandBy It Go on 1 % each Hour Or Somethin . So Whats The Problem With The Battery Also The Cable and The SD Un Expectedally Removed I am Using San Disk 32 Gb , Do I Have To Root ? Or Rooting Will Help With This ?!
You might have damaged your sd card and now the Media Scanner is stuck at reading it, consuming all the CPU and battery.
Maybe this apk can help you:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.addz.mediascannerroot
Regards
I have a 64gb SanDisk UHS-1 high speed card, and have kept it in my Note since Day 1.
Recently, I took the microSD out and used the phone for 2 days without it. What I noticed is my battery life has been amazing since. Currently, I am on 94% after 3h 7m 32s on battery. 7 minutes of screen time. This has been very consistent on the same JB 4.2.1 preview 7 rom.
I know others have posted this kind of good battery life before, but I've never had this luck myself until now. I did not do anything differently except for taking the micro sd card.
Any thoughts on the relationship between microSD and battery life (especially a SanDisk UHS-1 high speed card)
I think the 7 minutes of screen time out of 3 hours has more to do with it than the MicroSD card. Of the possible 170 minutes you used it 7. That will give you amazing battery life itself with those kinds of usage results. I use a 32GB MicroSD and I get well over 14 hours a day of usage on JamieD's Preview 8.1 with JB 4.2.2
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I think the 7 minutes of screen time out of 3 hours has more to do with it than the MicroSD card. Of the possible 170 minutes you used it 7. That will give you amazing battery life itself with those kinds of usage results. I use a 32GB MicroSD and I get well over 14 hours a day of usage on JamieD's Preview 8.1 with JB 4.2.2
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This.
Screen>all when it comes to battery life.
Subject: Samsung Galaxy S5 Sluggish, High CPU Usage, Overheating, Rapid Battery Drain and Problematic Camera
Author: Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Country: Republic of Singapore
Document Versioning: 1.0
Timestamp: 13th April 2018 Friday 12:33 PM Singapore Time GMT+8
Good morning from Singapore!
I bought my used/second hand Samsung Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 phone for SGD$150 after the mobile phone shop in Singapore allegedly performed Factory Data Reset. I tested the used/second hand Samsung Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 phone extensively before purchase, from dialing to having a short telephone conversation to sending and receiving SMS messages to taking 16 MP photos and 4K Ultra HD videos. Everything is OKAY. I was satisfied with the outcome of my testing, paid SGD$150 and took the Android phone home. But of course I did not test the performance of the Android phone with an external microSD card inserted.
I went home and performed Factory Data Reset again for another three (3) times. The following day I proceeded to install close to one hundred (100) apps on my Samsung Galaxy S5 Android 5.0 phone.
Then I started noticing that my Samsung Galaxy S5 is sluggish (extremely slow), overheats and suffers from rapid battery drain problems. The phone battery would be flat after merely a few hours. After reading an online article, I suspected that Facebook might be consuming a lot of CPU resources, memory and battery power. So off I went to uninstall Facebook regular flavour and installed Facebook Lite. But that did not solve the problem. My Samsung Galaxy S5 is still sluggish (extremely slow) and suffering from overheating and rapid battery drain problems. Besides the 100 apps that I installed, I also observed that TouchWiz Home Launcher crashes from time to time. Fearing that Touchwiz Home Launcher was also causing problems for my Android phone, I went to install Nova Launcher and switched over to Nova Launcher. But that did not solve the problem as well. My Samsung Galaxy S5 still remains sluggish (extremely slow) and suffers from overheating and rapid battery drain problems. But somehow I liked the Nova Launcher interface over TouchWiz Home and it stayed on.
I was at my wits end. Subsequently I thought of checking the CPU usage on my Samsung Galaxy S5. After a quick search on the Google Play Store, I installed Simple System Monitor. To my horror, the overall CPU usage on my Samsung Galaxy S5 is almost 100% CONSISTENTLY!. Android.process.media (aka Media Storage) and DCMProvider came out at the top of the list, consuming 20% and 10% CPU usage respectively. I launched a Google search on android.process.media (Media Storage) and DCMProvider. After reading several online articles, I realized that inserting an external microSD card into my Android phone and having thousands of files on it was a MAJOR issue. The reason why I needed an external 64GB Samung Class 10 U3 microSD card and having thousands of files on it is because Samsung Galaxy S5 has only 16 GB of internal storage and my WhatsApp data storage requirements is 21 GB. I really have no choice but to root my Samsung Galaxy S5 using Chainfire Auto Root (CF-Auto-Root) and install FolderMount(Root) app to store my WhatsApp data (21 GB as of now) on the external 64 GB microSD card instead of the 16 GB internal storage. Without FolderMount(Root), I could never store my 21 GB WhatsApp data on the external 64 GB microSD card instead of the 16 GB internal storage. Android.process.media (Media Storage or Media Scanner) probably stuck/hanged/took forever at scanning thousands and thousands of files on my external 64 GB microSD card, consuming 20% (overall close to 100%) CPU usage, slowing down basically everything on my Android phone and causing rapid battery drain. I know I should not have used FolderMount(Root) to solve my massive 21 GB WhatsApp data requirements but it is a requirement.
As it turned out, I have no choice but to turn off android.process.media (Media Storage). Further research on the internet also shows that Samsung Link app (flagged by DCMProvider) consumes a lot of CPU resources and causes rapid battery drain as well. I had Samsung Link app turned off as well because I could not turn off DCMProvider.
After turning off android.process.media (Media Storage) and Samsung Link app (as flagged by DCMProvider), the situation started to improve. The overall CPU usage on my Samsung Galaxy S5 is no longer close to 100%. In fact, the overall CPU usage now hovers around 20% or lower. Sometimes it might spike above 20% but it is still bearable. Rapid battery drain issue has also improved. Previously my phone battery will be flat in a few hours. Now my phone battery could last longer provided that there is no heavy usage on my Android phone. In order to better monitor CPU usage on my Samsung Galaxy S5, I have also installed OS Monitor app as well.
Although turning off android.process.media (media storage) and Samsung Link app has resolved the sluggish, high cpu usage, overheating and rapid battery drain problems, it has also caused some other problems as well. (1) For example, I could no longer take screenshots on my Android phone. (2) And I could no longer review photos on the Default Camera app immediately after taking a photo.
How do I resolve problems (1) and (2)?
As of now, I am still having problems with the Default Camera and Timestamp Camera Pro apps. Despite alleviating high cpu usage on my Samsung Galaxy S5, Full HD (1080p) and 4K (2160p) videos taken with the camera on Samsung Galaxy S5 are jerky or pauses from time to time. This has nothing to do with the Smart Pause feature on my Samsung Galaxy S5. I have it turned off. Is the CPU (microprocessor) on my Samsung Galaxy S5 not powerful enough to take Full HD and 4K videos, resulting in jerky footages or footages which pause from time to time? Please help me to resolve the camera issue on my Samsung Galaxy S5, especially with regards to taking Full HD and 4K videos. My 64 GB external Samsung microSD card is already fast enough to take 4K videos, being a Class 10 U3 card itself. Maybe it has something to do with the filesystem on the external SD card? It was formatted with the exFat filesystem. But the thing is, recording videos on the INTERNAL STORAGE is also jerky and pauses from time to time.
Thank you very much.
PS. I could not afford to buy the all new Samsung Galaxy S9 for SGD$1500. So I had bought an used Samsung Galaxy S5 for SGD$150 instead.
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