So I got a galaxy s3 from kogan, and it arrived with android 4.1.1 on it, but as soon as I connected it to my home wifi, it downloaded 4.1.2
i'm not sure if my battery life is the norm, but i get up at 6:30, get my phone off the charger at about 7:15, catch the bus for about an hour to get to school, and by the time i'm at school, the battery is already down to 90%, or lower, and that is only with the occasional facebook message or comment, and a few snapchats. by the end of my school day (3:05) i have about 50% battery, with only maybe half an hour total useage since i got of the bus at school. by the time i get home (5 ish) i'm usually down to 30-15%, depending. i don't play any games on my phone (because i'm trying to save battery), and my phone is connected to the wifi at school and the wifi at home but it is off during the travel time in between. I have power saving on and my screen brightness down to the lowest with auto brightness on. is this normal or is my battery draining faster than it should?
p.s. I am not rooted and on the stock rom 4.1.2
Here are some screenshots of the battery usage, it wouldn't let me attach them before
Nathan
Try disabling the notifications from Facebook and Messenger. It's probably the main cause for your battery drain.
Also try to disable the Sync option, Mobile Data (turn on when needed, not all the time! you won't believe how much battery it saves) etc etc..
I turned off notifications for facebook (but not messenger, all my friends are on prepaid so i dont txt much, i use messenger instead) and sync, and the battery still drops the same! my battery usage says that media server is using at least %20 of the battery! why is this?
you may try using the apps Greenify and DS Battery Saver
I use SotMax ROM and I for the same use for about 2 days the phone: P
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you may try using the apps Greenify and DS Battery Saver
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Greenify one of the best
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raied115 said:
Try disabling the notifications from Facebook and Messenger. It's probably the main cause for your battery drain.
Also try to disable the Sync option, Mobile Data (turn on when needed, not all the time! you won't believe how much battery it saves) etc etc..
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lol ... you can switch of everything and have a nice paperweight
Now seriously... If you don't use data then in Settings-Network switch to GSM only, set sync to 2 or 4 hours (depends how many emails you getting).
Fully charge the battery (switched OFF when charging), when charged (100%) don't turn ON, remove battery and touch the battery connections on the phone for about 15 seconds. Then reinsert battery, boot into Bootloader and go to Advanced - Battery stats and clear them. Then reboot... You should be fine after this.
Root phone and use greenify.
Also remove useless apps, which you can find in running tab
bdude52 said:
So I got a galaxy s3 from kogan, and it arrived with android 4.1.1 on it, but as soon as I connected it to my home wifi, it downloaded 4.1.2
i'm not sure if my battery life is the norm, but i get up at 6:30, get my phone off the charger at about 7:15, catch the bus for about an hour to get to school, and by the time i'm at school, the battery is already down to 90%, or lower, and that is only with the occasional facebook message or comment, and a few snapchats. by the end of my school day (3:05) i have about 50% battery, with only maybe half an hour total useage since i got of the bus at school. by the time i get home (5 ish) i'm usually down to 30-15%, depending. i don't play any games on my phone (because i'm trying to save battery), and my phone is connected to the wifi at school and the wifi at home but it is off during the travel time in between. I have power saving on and my screen brightness down to the lowest with auto brightness on. is this normal or is my battery draining faster than it should?
p.s. I am not rooted and on the stock rom 4.1.2
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use greenify to hibernate hungry battery eating apps and youll surely get the best out of ur S3s battery life
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well how to stop the media ???
I already disable it, but still will pop out in battery, any idea ??
and will drain a lot battery which also cause phone very warm
If you already have not. Disable the connection optimizer. Somehow it got enabled after the update. I was at 20% battery almost half way through my day. Now I finish my day with 60%. Battery life is actually great now!
Settings > More Settings > Mobile Networks > Connection optimizer ( MAKE SURE IT IS UNCHECKED )
bdude52 said:
So I got a galaxy s3 from kogan, and it arrived with android 4.1.1 on it, but as soon as I connected it to my home wifi, it downloaded 4.1.2
i'm not sure if my battery life is the norm, but i get up at 6:30, get my phone off the charger at about 7:15, catch the bus for about an hour to get to school, and by the time i'm at school, the battery is already down to 90%, or lower, and that is only with the occasional facebook message or comment, and a few snapchats. by the end of my school day (3:05) i have about 50% battery, with only maybe half an hour total useage since i got of the bus at school. by the time i get home (5 ish) i'm usually down to 30-15%, depending. i don't play any games on my phone (because i'm trying to save battery), and my phone is connected to the wifi at school and the wifi at home but it is off during the travel time in between. I have power saving on and my screen brightness down to the lowest with auto brightness on. is this normal or is my battery draining faster than it should?
p.s. I am not rooted and on the stock rom 4.1.2
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maybe your phone doesn't go into deep sleep mode, use better battery stats to see what causes a kernel wakelock
hit thanks if it helps
I came from a ICS custom ROM and kernel and now have a JB (4.1.2) custom ROM and kernel.
And I don't know if it's me, or now the battery drains faster. I have done all the things a man can do to stop draining: minimun brightness, not a single one automatic synchronization, maaany system apps frozen, using Greenify to hibernate another bunch of them, power saver mode activated... anything I have ever read since I got my android phone (more than a year).
And still, with only a few minutes on WhatsApp and other few on wifi, I only get like a day, more or less.
Is that normal? I want to know the average, because I don't know if it is my phone/battery, or the new JB, or if all of this is just in my head.
Also, viewing streaming videos over wifi drains a lot. That is normal, right? Like two hours of video over wifi, is that OK?
Thanks.
You can try a custom kernel or custom rom xD
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That's what I already have...
I just want to know if this is normal or not.
2 hours of video on a HD display will surely drain the battery and even warms up the phone. that is normal.
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It's also normal that I hardly get a day of battery with normal-low use?
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maybe your phone doesn't go into deep sleep mode, use better battery stats to see what causes a kernel wakelock
hit thanks if it helps
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What settings in bbs to see that?
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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.
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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
Wanted to know from those getting 2 days out of the mini pro, what are your systems settings to make this possible.
1: I have my screen to less than 50%, can only still manage a day.
2: Do you guys turn off 3G HDSPA?
3: Does wifi use more or less battery than HDSPA?
4: Any of you using a blue tooth headset?
5: Any specific apps to kill?
6: Any special battery conditioning done? If so steps?
7: Do you guys have exchange e-mail on? push or pull?
The battery meter is showing more than 50% going to the screen.
Good that it seems I don't have an rouge apps and the wireless doesn't seem to take up too much battery, but a let down that I can't get more than a days worth of battery.
Found some decent battery recommendations here
Mike
Why are you trying to make your battery last 2 days? Do you not have access to a charger everynight?
Also I do not recommend you 'kill' any apps, due to the nature of Android. If you 'kill' an app, it's very likely it will just start up again, using more CPU cycles than if you just left it idle. This is especially an issue if you are using an auto-killer.
panamamike said:
Wanted to know from those getting 2 days out of the mini pro, what are your systems settings to make this possible.
1: I have my screen to less than 50%, can only still manage a day.
2: Do you guys turn off 3G HDSPA?
3: Does wifi use more or less battery than HDSPA?
4: Any of you using a blue tooth headset?
5: Any specific apps to kill?
6: Any special battery conditioning done? If so steps?
7: Do you guys have exchange e-mail on? push or pull?
The battery meter is showing more than 50% going to the screen.
Good that it seems I don't have an rouge apps and the wireless doesn't seem to take up too much battery, but a let down that I can't get more than a days worth of battery.
Found some decent battery recommendations here
Mike
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1. set 40%, add widget at front wall for fast switching (to 80%)
2. turn off mobile network (data), add widget at front wall for fast switching (to enable)
3. -
4. no
5. using system panel lite to clean and root uninstaller to remove apk at system app (currently memory at 230M-240M)
6. restart phone 3 time per day, use 1800mAh, charge phone when >5% energy, to 100% (45minutes), turn off while charging is more better.
7. no - exchange e-mail running at background processor (any unwanted background I will kill or remove; currently only 3 apps still running)
use dark theme/wallpaper for energy efficient (low brightness) and use earphone to listen music
=)
Why kill mem? Its there to be used. Free mem is useless mem.
The most drain=screen,wifi,gps,maps,bt
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r33p said:
Why kill mem? Its there to be used. Free mem is useless mem.
The most drain=screen,wifi,gps,maps,bt
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I noticed maps seems to stay on a lot. Anyone know how to make sure it stays off when not in use?
a-k-t-w said:
Why are you trying to make your battery last 2 days? Do you not have access to a charger everynight?
Also I do not recommend you 'kill' any apps, due to the nature of Android. If you 'kill' an app, it's very likely it will just start up again, using more CPU cycles than if you just left it idle. This is especially an issue if you are using an auto-killer.
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I'm not sure what value this message is supposed to provide. I've seen folks post that they can get 2 days or better out of the phone, if so what's wrong with wanting to do the same?
Also note that there are times when it's inconvenient to charge and I'd like to defer charging. I'm pretty much out of juice by end of day the work day, but would like to have a few more hours of battery left, having the phone on the charger all the time isn't always convenient.
Mike
panamamike said:
I'm not sure what value this message is supposed to provide. I've seen folks post that they can get 2 days or better out of the phone, if so what's wrong with wanting to do the same?
Also note that there are times when it's inconvenient to charge and I'd like to defer charging. I'm pretty much out of juice by end of day the work day, but would like to have a few more hours of battery left, having the phone on the charger all the time isn't always convenient.
Mike
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I understand if your phone is starting to go flat then you might want to start conserving battery, but if you have the ability to charge it then why not?
I agree with r33p. Using a task killer is possibly one of the worst things you can do to try and save battery. Using less memory does not save battery at all.
Also im not sure if this is true, but using a dark theme does not save battery as the backlight is still on, but screen is just 'hiding' it to create the black you see. So if anything it uses more battery.
I tend to keep a widget on my home screen to turn off data, wifi, and bluetooth. I turn them on when I need them, turn the off the rest of the time. As long as you aren't doing heavy internet browsing on your phone, you should be able to get two days use out of it.
Hopefully we'll get some custom roms for these things so I can justify rooting my phone. Then I'll uninstall all of the stock apps I don't want, both to clean up my app screen and to hopefully stop some of those background processes I don't need.
a-k-t-w said:
I understand if your phone is starting to go flat then you might want to start conserving battery, but if you have the ability to charge it then why not?
I agree with r33p. Using a task killer is possibly one of the worst things you can do to try and save battery. Using less memory does not save battery at all.
Also im not sure if this is true, but using a dark theme does not save battery as the backlight is still on, but screen is just 'hiding' it to create the black you see. So if anything it uses more battery.
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I must agree. Using a dark background does not save battery. That only works for oled or amoled based screen like the galaxy s series. Also they're right, don't use a task killer. Terminating apps just consumes more battery.
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panamamike said:
Wanted to know from those getting 2 days out of the mini pro, what are your systems settings to make this possible.
1: I have my screen to less than 50%, can only still manage a day.
2: Do you guys turn off 3G HDSPA?
3: Does wifi use more or less battery than HDSPA?
4: Any of you using a blue tooth headset?
5: Any specific apps to kill?
6: Any special battery conditioning done? If so steps?
7: Do you guys have exchange e-mail on? push or pull?
The battery meter is showing more than 50% going to the screen.
Good that it seems I don't have an rouge apps and the wireless doesn't seem to take up too much battery, but a let down that I can't get more than a days worth of battery.
Found some decent battery recommendations here
Mike
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i can last 1,5 day without charging.
if i dont do anything special besides reading mail and answering a few whatsapp messages i do about 3-4% an hour. if i dont do anything at all, like at night, it uses 1-2% an hour.
1.screen is 35%
2.i have 3g on. sometimes i put it on 2g only
3. i dont know but i turn off wifi en bluetooth whenever i dont need it.
4. i use bluetooth in my car tot connect my phone with my car. unfortunately this uses a lot of battery by being just connected.
5. i kill the popgames, this uses a lot of battery
6. most times i let the battery go empty and only then start charging with the powerconnector, not through usb with a computer.
7. i dont have exchange but imap push email and another account pop3 which connects once every hour. i use the app k9mail
last weekend i did 2,5 day but i was abroad and didnt have roaming data and turned off wifi en bluetooth.
i did 1% a hour except when i was driving and connected my phone to my car.
but still 2,5 day
dimocash said:
i can last 1,5 day without charging.
if i dont do anything special besides reading mail and answering a few whatsapp messages i do about 3-4% an hour. if i dont do anything at all, like at night, it uses 1-2% an hour.
1.screen is 35%
2.i have 3g on. sometimes i put it on 2g only
3. i dont know but i turn off wifi en bluetooth whenever i dont need it.
4. i use bluetooth in my car tot connect my phone with my car. unfortunately this uses a lot of battery by being just connected.
5. i kill the popgames, this uses a lot of battery
6. most times i let the battery go empty and only then start charging with the powerconnector, not through usb with a computer.
7. i dont have exchange but imap push email and another account pop3 which connects once every hour. i use the app k9mail
last weekend i did 2,5 day but i was abroad and didnt have roaming data and turned off wifi en bluetooth.
i did 1% a hour except when i was driving and connected my phone to my car.
but still 2,5 day
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Does 2g only save battery over wifi and 3g? If so, is it sufficient for e-mail?
Mike
I normally put all of my most used widgets on the front page for quick access
3g or wifi pref. 2g is painfully slow.
Yea and forget appkillers,delete the apks or freeze the unwanted services.
The tricky part - what (not) to delete.
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You need root to do that, however.
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Does 2g only save battery over wifi and 3g? If so, is it sufficient for e-mail?
Mike
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yes 2g saves battery
i was told that because of the continues switchting between G, 3G and H the battery consumes a lot of energy.
when you put it on 3g only or 2g only it saves battery.
becasue i dont have 3g everywhere i go i put it on 2g so that i can make calls everywhere i am.
if i need to do some things on the internet i switch it back to 3g.
2g is enough to recieve mail and whatsapp messages.
my mail wont come in as fast as wifi or 3g but that doesnt matter to me.
dimocash said:
yes 2g saves battery
i was told that because of the continues switchting between G, 3G and H the battery consumes a lot of energy.
when you put it on 3g only or 2g only it saves battery.
becasue i dont have 3g everywhere i go i put it on 2g so that i can make calls everywhere i am.
if i need to do some things on the internet i switch it back to 3g.
2g is enough to recieve mail and whatsapp messages.
my mail wont come in as fast as wifi or 3g but that doesnt matter to me.
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How do you set it to H only? Is this via WCDMA only?
I'd love to drop the bloatware, but want a clean root option that won't affect functionality.
Mike
I have about 2 days. Currently I'm on 82% 12h since charge. My experience:
1. I keep 3G switched off most of the time when I'm outside. Only if I really need the speed for uploading a photo or update an app.
2. I keep Wifi running all the time at home.
3. I have disabled Location&Security both Use network and GPS. These seems to drain battery even if maps and latitude is disabled.
4. In the carrier settings I have disabled automatic mode and going for manual mode and selected my carrier.
5. I always use the back button on any app until I reach the home screen before locking.
My idle drain is about 1.5-2%/h when I'm at home with wifi. Outside with 2G it's draining a bit more and with 3G it uses insanely much battery.
I have lot of push services running (fb/g+/twitter-notifications, Whatsapp and gmail + an Exchange account)
I have also noticed that the battery calibration is a bit flaky. From time to time I run the phone until it dies (sometimes at 8-10% but sometimes at 30%). Then I'm unplugging the battery for a minute, plug it back and charge and it have calibrated and doesn't die at 30%.
Another thing I have noticed is that I can't get more than 4172mV charge. The battery should be able to charge to 4200mV.
Two good apps for monitoring battery usage is BetterBatteryStats and Battery Monitor Widget (which is more than just a widget)
do you guys charge till it reaches 100% or just till it turns green?
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do you guys charge till it reaches 100% or just till it turns green?
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thats one other discovery I have made.
when the phone says 100% it's actually still charging (can be seen that there is a charge indicator at the battery and also can be seen from Battery Monitor Widget)
Another thing is that when it has reached 100% it starts to drain battery until it reaches 95% then it starts to charge again. (nothing uncommon with that) but the phone still shows 100% so sometimes when it's unplugged it can actually be at 95% (but starts to countdown from 100%).
Battery Monitor Widget can alert when it's actually fully charged with a notification.
panamamike said:
How do you set it to H only? Is this via WCDMA only?
I'd love to drop the bloatware, but want a clean root option that won't affect functionality.
Mike
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i just change it from GSM/UMTS to GSM only
i have a dutch language installed so i dont really know what the exact english translation is.
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.
krico said:
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!
xclub_101 said:
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..
I bought this phone in September and m very disappointed...my huge problem is the battery life which is awful...i can't compare it to any other phone that i had before ... it sucks...is there any way to make it last longer ?custom kernel ?anything ?Never had a phone that bad (
rootkited said:
I bought this phone in September and m very disappointed...my huge problem is the battery life which is awful...i can't compare it to any other phone that i had before ... it sucks...is there any way to make it last longer ?custom kernel ?anything ?Never had a phone that bad (
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Auto brightness, turn it on. NFC, Bluetooth turn it off. I always suggest that users turn on extended standby mode but some people want their whatsapp or email to come through instantly all the time which I can understand but it's a real life saver for me, I personally don't have a massive issue with my battery, lasts a whole day, sometimes less if I use the phone heavily.
MadManMark said:
Auto brightness, turn it on. NFC, Bluetooth turn it off. I always suggest that users turn on extended standby mode but some people want their whatsapp or email to come through instantly all the time which I can understand but it's a real life saver for me, I personally don't have a massive issue with my battery, lasts a whole day, sometimes less if I use the phone heavily.
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The autobrightness is on, and nfc and bluetooth are always off (since i don't use em)...I need my e-mails, and Whatsapp is not even installed on my phone..turning 3g off or enabling the extended standby mode is like ... hmmm, i carry a 4 inch useless device around ... (
rootkited said:
The autobrightness is on, and nfc and bluetooth are always off (since i don't use em)...I need my e-mails, and Whatsapp is not even installed on my phone..turning 3g off or enabling the extended standby mode is like ... hmmm, i carry a 4 inch useless device around ... (
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Your emails would come as soon as you turned on your device anyway could you screenshot your battery usage please?
i don't know how to take screenshots
i understand that the e-mails arrive as soon as i turn the phone on, but this is not ok...it will become a habit to look at the phone ....
Very easy to do, hold volume down and the power button
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I think there is also a problem with reading the actual battery level (hopefully not hardware). The other day mine dropped from 15% to 0% in 10 seconds. This has happened a few times before when the battery gets around that level.
halfmanhalfmachine said:
I think there is also a problem with reading the actual battery level (hopefully not hardware). The other day mine dropped from 15% to 0% in 10 seconds. This has happened a few times before when the battery gets around that level.
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happened to me too...i was looking at the phone because i heard the battery notice, and than, paaaf, turned off .... i guess i'll unpack my old iPhone 4 which is already packed to be soled on ebay...
Try disconnecting your battery then, hold power button and volume up till you feel 3 buzzes
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Switch of the rotation sensor.. I read it somewhere I dun remember.. No prblm giving it a shot
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Tried calibrating the battery?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
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Tried calibrating the battery?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
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i have to root the device and to be honest, i am sick of it ...
attached screenshots...bare in mind that 3 hours the phone was on 2G and the display was as dark as possible (unable to see anything in the day light)
You could use clockwork recovery to erase the battery stats as well. I don't think you need root for it.
You charge to 100%, reboot into recovery erase battery stats, unplug and boot normal. After that you let it drain on its own until dead.
I've read that sometimes it worked after the second calibration or something but i believe it might be user error.
I erase the stats every time I flash a new rom. ...
I am now on 2.3.7. ... Maybe is better
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You could use clockwork recovery to erase the battery stats as well. I don't think you need root for it.
You charge to 100%, reboot into recovery erase battery stats, unplug and boot normal. After that you let it drain on its own until dead.
I've read that sometimes it worked after the second calibration or something but i believe it might be user error.
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Battery stats doesn't do anything: http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
That is, it essentially holds the information displayed in the Settings > Battery screen. Nothing more, nothing less. Thus:
It has no impact on the current battery level shown to you.
It has no impact on your battery life.
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I would advise you to update your phone to the latest firmware, it has better battery management... If you are rooted, you can try custom kernel like ThP or Sliding_XP and custom Rom based on stock... I used to get only 10-12 hours of battery life in 2.3.7 before rooting.. The steps I took to improve battery life are:
1) Root the phone, add init.d and build.prop tweaks or install a Rom that has tweaks like Brain_ICS or XPT's Vision Roms.
2) Use any custom kernel based on stock that are tweaked to give better performance and battery life, along with above Roms
3) Switch off WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC when not in use. Or better, use NFC tags to switch settings (like WiFi on only at home, Bluetooth on only in car)
4) Keep the brightness to the minimum setting when indoors and keep it in auto brightness when outdoors.
5) I live in an area which has better 2g coverage. In network settings, if you set the network mode to select only gsm, battery life vastly improves as there is no searching and switching for a 3g connection. Also I find that staying in 2g gives better network clarity. I shift to 3g when I require high speed browsing only.
6) I usually keep data connected with auto sync on and extended standby mode on. If you switch off extended standby off, you can last through the day but only if you reduce the amount of apps syncing and the polling time of each app. In my case, I have switched off syncing for Twitter, facebook, Google+ etc and sync only for Google contacts, calender and Gmail.
7) I also have automated the phone to switch to airplane mode from midnight to early morning.
By the time I get home from work, I have at least 40% battery remaining. On the whole, I get 22hours on average and I have got 1day 12 hours maximum from my Xperia P. And happy with my choice.
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Forgot two things:
I keep all location services switched off and turn it on only when required. This prevents the Map app from unnecessarily polling for location and helps save battery.
And sorry for such a long post. There won't be a tldr.
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Just had this weird experience, battery was on 1 percent then I rebooted my phone using power button and volume up, then my battery shot up to 28 percent
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that was android normal problem....thats why developer making phone by using high capacity battery (motorola razr maxx) . By using 3000mAh battery also just give certain phone for 2 days (using galaxy note 2). Android jelly bean suck battery juice faster because of its f***** project butter (uses cpu and gpu at the same time). Now phone developer starts frustrated on android...hehe (from my speculation)
Android problem how?
Almost all smartphones last about 1 day. Don't blame the Operating System it's the same battery life in all smartphones. Blame the battery technology.
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Android problem how?
Almost all smartphones last about 1 day. Don't blame the Operating System it's the same battery life in all smartphones. Blame the battery technology.
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one day means 24 hours...24 hours means more than i need .... i only get 10hrs if i don't touch the device...used, i get like 5 hrs .... anyways, thanks for your feedback...
PS: Xperia P, Red, for sale - 2 months old
Hi all,
I'm new in this forum so I hope to break no rules in my first post. So first of all: I'm fighting this problem for nearly a year right now, I tried so many things I can't even remember and I really never found a answer in any forum.
I had a Samsung Nexus S which started to have this strange Android OS battery drain some weeks before the OTA ICS came in. I read thousands of forum posts to try tons of stuff to solve the problem without any success.
I then decided three weeks ago that it's obviously time to get a new phone so that I bought the Galaxy SIII (int). Strangely I still have great problems with my battery life which brought me here to ask some pros now.
Phone: Samsung Galaxy SIII (int)
ROM: StockROM (4.1.1) and CM10 Nightly
Carrier: German E-Plus
What is the most noticeable about the battery drain is, that it appears in standby (over night) in both ROMs, Stock and CM10 likewise with some minor differences.
In 10h standby (Wifi on, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC all off, only few widgets, AquaMail on push) battery goes down from 100% to 70%.
After all, I tested both ROMs in the same situation over night and the bettery drain is pretty comparable (see the screenshots).
What I already tried (in both ROMs):
- disable all Google Maps autostarts and disable all location services
- disable apps like Gtalk, G+ etc.
- uninstall AquaMail
without any effect on the standby battery drain...
Any idea about this?
Thank you,
Mika
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What is the most noticeable about the battery drain is, that it appears in standby (over night) in both ROMs, Stock and CM10 likewise with some minor differences.
In 10h standby (Wifi on, Bluetooth, GPS, NFC all off, only few widgets, AquaMail on push) battery goes down from 100% to 70%.
Mika
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It can happen if u have a weak network signal. It takes out a whole lot of battery. And with wifi on, I believe that's a decent battery life. And try putting the phone on flight mode during night. Saves a real bunch of juice. And do a cache clean and reboot.
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It can happen if u have a weak network signal. It takes out a whole lot of battery. And with wifi on, I believe that's a decent battery life. And try putting the phone on flight mode during night. Saves a real bunch of juice. And do a cache clean and reboot.
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Thanks for the quick reply! About the network signal: in both cases the signal was pretty good. Did you check the screenshots? In both ROMs the NetworkLocationLocator seems to use much battery during night. Is that normal in standby?
What is strange as well is, that after I changed the SIM card into my new phone, did a factory reset on the old one (which I did several times before) and installed some basic stuff with a different google account, it looses some 10% in 24h in standby with Wifi on.
Is there any possibility, the battery life changes significantly with changing the google account because of differences in the contact or calendar app or whatever? Or could be the missing SIM be the huge difference in battery life?
Thanks again
Mika
Disable all sensors gs 3 has loads of them for smart stay front cam needs to be on always which drains battery.. So that should help the case
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it looses some 10% in 24h in standby with Wifi on.
Is there any possibility, the battery life changes significantly with changing the google account because of differences in the contact or calendar app or whatever?
Mika
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With wifi on, that's a real good battery life.! A whole day and just 10%. And I don't think battery life has anything to do with the Google account. If u have turned on auto sync, that's gonna consume some battery too as the apps like fb keep running in background.
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With wifi on, that's a real good battery life.! A whole day and just 10%. And I don't think battery life has anything to do with the Google account. If u have turned on auto sync, that's gonna consume some battery too as the apps like fb keep running in background.
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Hi Lifehacker7,
like I wrote, the 24h and 10% do not concern the Galaxy SIII but my old phone.
Maybe I have to clarify that again: it's not about a general battery life but about the standby power consumption. Maybe someone could have a look at the screenshots. I guess they might be very helpfull!
And again: there are two different ROMs I tried. So it could have nothing to do with the sensors and stuff since the CM10 does not use them at all...
Cheers,
Mika
nice ideas
Anybody who could maybe have a look at the BetterBatteryStats screenshots and say whether there's something conspicuous?
Is for example the deep sleep mode with its 75% in standby normal or should that be less?
Should be the Android OS (in CM10 ROM) or Android System (in StockROM) be the most power consuming process? With my old phone its always the Wifi which is first in list.
Should Google Maps with its three processes, especially the NetworkLocationLocator (see the screenshot of the StockROM) wake up the system so often in the night?
Any ideas?
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Hi Lifehacker7,
like I wrote, the 24h and 10% do not concern the Galaxy SIII but my old phone.
Maybe I have to clarify that again: it's not about a general battery life but about the standby power consumption. Maybe someone could have a look at the screenshots. I guess they might be very helpfull!
And again: there are two different ROMs I tried. So it could have nothing to do with the sensors and stuff since the CM10 does not use them at all...
Cheers,
Mika
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I got this! Network locator is taking too much battery. U have the gps turned on?
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I got this! Network locator is taking too much battery. U have the gps turned on?
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No, I even turned off the location services completely, without any effect!
I tested both phones, my old and my new one again this night with the same turned on/off (Wifi on, GPS off, auto sync on, ...) both with a SIM card with the same carrier and both with some apps like fb, whatsapp, weather widget. Old one lost 3% in 8h, new one lost 21% in the same time.
No ideas?
You can see a bunch of threads on the google forums already regarding miserable battery life on Android 4.2.x because of LocationServices
Anyways, try this on CM10.x ...disable Location services (GPS + Wireless) ..reboot ... now enable the GPS only ... if it asks that Google will collect data in background, blah blah select Disagree ... reboot
Using Developer Option menu enable onscreen CPU Usage and leave phone on standby ... you will see that Android OS usage will come down drastically (almost stop!)
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You can see a bunch of threads on the google forums already regarding miserable battery life on Android 4.2.x because of LocationServices
Anyways, try this on CM10.x ...disable Location services (GPS + Wireless) ..reboot ... now enable the GPS only ... if it asks that Google will collect data in background, blah blah select Disagree ... reboot
Using Developer Option menu enable onscreen CPU Usage and leave phone on standby ... you will see that Android OS usage will come down drastically (almost stop!)
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Thanks for your idea!
I tried that in StockROM, and it did not change anything, same battery drain in standby. The NetworkLocationLocator in BetterBatteryStats is not listed under partial Wakelocks anymore. So I think, that's not the problem.
Any idea?
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Thanks for your idea!
I tried that in StockROM, and it did not change anything, same battery drain in standby. The NetworkLocationLocator in BetterBatteryStats is not listed under partial Wakelocks anymore. So I think, that's not the problem.
Any idea?
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Can you post BBS CPU States and wakelocks screenshots
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Can you post BBS CPU States and wakelocks screenshots
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This is the 8 hours after I turned off location services on StockROM. I barely used the phone this 8 hours.