This isn't your usual battery thread. My drain is MASSIVE. 25 percent in 2 hours just sitting with the screen locked. I am unlocked with TWRP. It started out of the blue, no new apps installed when it happened. I wiped cach/data and then had TWRP wipe the system partition. Then installed a clean ROM, Beans mostly stock ROM, the one I have been running since it came out with no problems. The massive battery drain continues. I have installed very few apps after flash, none of them are out of the ordinary. All data sync and app syn is off except Gmail.
The maps usage is weird, very high, I have gps turned off. But even the maps usage does not explain the rapid drop. Battery stats snapshot attached.
I am almost thinking my battery is just fried.
TonikJDK said:
This isn't your usual battery thread. My drain is MASSIVE. 25 percent in 2 hours just sitting with the screen locked. I am unlocked with TWRP. It started out of the blue, no new apps installed when it happened. I wiped cach/data and then had TWRP wipe the system partition. Then installed a clean ROM, Beans mostly stock ROM, the one I have been running since it came out with no problems. The massive battery drain continues. I have installed very few apps after flash, none of them are out of the ordinary. All data sync and app syn is off except Gmail.
The maps usage is weird, very high, I have gps turned off. But even the maps usage does not explain the rapid drop. Battery stats snapshot attached.
I am almost thinking my battery is just fried.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you checked to see if history is turned off? Maps will try to locate you based on cell signal if gps isnt available which would still drain your battery pretty fast if it was consistantly running in the background.
MAPS>>>SETTINGS>>>LOCATION SETTINGS
There you'll see options for location reporting, location sharing, location history, etc.
ballisticn8 said:
Have you checked to see if history is turned off? Maps will try to locate you based on cell signal if gps isnt available which would still drain your battery pretty fast if it was consistantly running in the background.
MAPS>>>SETTINGS>>>LOCATION SETTINGS
There you'll see options for location reporting, location sharing, location history, etc.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good call, history was on. Interesting that it stays active even though I had location reporting turned off. And I am in a building that gets a poor gps lock. You might have nailed it, I will let you/everyone know.
No joy, still dropping like a rock.
TonikJDK said:
No joy, still dropping like a rock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Search xda for better battery stats thread, download the apk and install. Maybe you're getting wakelocks somewhere causing it to drain. If that doesnt help maybe your battery just crapped out on you... o_0
And get Greenify it helps a ton especially with maps.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
TonikJDK said:
No joy, still dropping like a rock.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If u set ur automatic date and time and time zone off that will stop a lot of battery.
Thanks gang, BetterBatteryStats is awesome, and Greenify is looking pretty slick too.
Still struggling, but getting info. Battery is on order, really hope that is it but I am not hopeful. It really appears my Google Maps is out of control. During the screen shots below the phone was 95 percent just sitting. I did a little twitter, couple of emails. Never opened maps, location history, sharing and gps was off the whole time. Stand alone gps in locations was off, google and vz locations were on.
In four hours with only a little twitter/gmail it dropped 40 percent. For 3.5 hours of that time it was in deep sleep. I am not seeing any wakelock issues, that is attached. As is the 'current' stats from BetterBatteryStats.
The main battery stats from Android say Maps is using a good deal of this battery. I have uninstalled maps updates and cleared data on it. Maybe it is looking high because the battery is fu'bard. The new one wont be here for a few days because of the holidays.
I may be out of touch for a couple of days. Time to put some miles on the bike.
TonikJDK said:
Thanks gang, BetterBatteryStats is awesome, and Greenify is looking pretty slick too.
Still struggling, but getting info. Battery is on order, really hope that is it but I am not hopeful. It really appears my Google Maps is out of control. During the screen shots below the phone was 95 percent just sitting. I did a little twitter, couple of emails. Never opened maps, location history, sharing and gps was off the whole time. Stand alone gps in locations was off, google and vz locations were on.
In four hours with only a little twitter/gmail it dropped 40 percent. For 3.5 hours of that time it was in deep sleep. I am not seeing any wakelock issues, that is attached. As is the 'current' stats from BetterBatteryStats.
The main battery stats from Android say Maps is using a good deal of this battery. I have uninstalled maps updates and cleared data on it. Maybe it is looking high because the battery is fu'bard. The new one wont be here for a few days because of the holidays.
I may be out of touch for a couple of days. Time to put some miles on the bike.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What does the Partial Wakelock screenshot from BetterBatteryStats look like?
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium HD app
Did you hibernate maps in greenify? There's no way it could draw that much power if you have and you're not using the app at all.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
shangrila500 said:
What does the Partial Wakelock screenshot from BetterBatteryStats look like?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Very clean, just the gmail syncs. It is attached.
joshm.1219 said:
Did you hibernate maps in greenify? There's no way it could draw that much power if you have and you're not using the app at all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Good point, I did not. I have now...but since uninstalling map updates and clearing it's data it is not showing up in the battery stats at all. But I will Greenify it. Battery drop is a little better, but still massive.
My next test is to recharge it and let it sit in airplane mode.
TonikJDK said:
Very clean, just the gmail syncs. It is attached.
Good point, I did not. I have now...but since uninstalling map updates and clearing it's data it is not showing up in the battery stats at all. But I will Greenify it. Battery drop is a little better, but still massive.
My next test is to recharge it and let it sit in airplane mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When Maps was still updated was it showing under the Partial Wakelock tab?
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium HD app
I dont know if this would help....but with my last phone.. the gnex, I would go outside and get a solid gps lock then turn off gps. It would stop the constant searching for a lock and battery drain. If I never got that initial lock, even with gps off it would drain it but not really show up in a better battery stats as a problem....just had to do it every time phone was rebooted of course but not that much of a pain.
jersey droid said:
I dont know if this would help....but with my last phone.. the gnex, I would go outside and get a solid gps lock then turn off gps. It would stop the constant searching for a lock and battery drain. If I never got that initial lock, even with gps off it would drain it but not really show up in a better battery stats as a problem....just had to do it every time phone was rebooted of course but not that much of a pain.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He turned off his gps.
joshm.1219 said:
He turned off his gps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes I know. But in the gnex days even if I turned it off, without first getting a lock, it would be the cause of battery drain. I don't even dare to think I understand the why of it, only that it was the solution that everyone on the gnex xda forums offered.
jersey droid said:
Yes I know. But in the gnex days even if I turned it off, without first getting a lock, it would be the cause of battery drain. I don't even dare to think I understand the why of it, only that it was the solution that everyone on the gnex xda forums offered.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really that's so weird maybe it's from maps trying to use the network for location... I don't see how it could be the gps radio if it's off.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
joshm.1219 said:
Really that's so weird maybe it's from maps trying to use the network for location... I don't see how it could be the gps radio if it's off.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Because even though the GPS is turned off the apps still doesn't realize that when running in background mode. Its like it just never made the connection to GPS being turned off and stopping searching.
I've read about this quite a bit and it is just something to do with how Sammy phones communicate with Maps.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium HD app
Don't use greenify to solve your problem. Find the root issue first. Then use greenify if you want.
Try going to Maps in manage apps in settings and clear all data.
You could also uninstall maps and reinstall it. (Probably need to be rooted and use a something that will uninstall a system app like Rom Tool Box)
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
ezas said:
Don't use greenify to solve your problem. Find the root issue first. Then use greenify if you want.
Try going to Maps in manage apps in settings and clear all data.
You could also uninstall maps and reinstall it. (Probably need to be rooted and use a something that will uninstall a system app like Rom Tool Box)
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Tibu works for uninstalling Sys Apps as well.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium HD app
shangrila500 said:
Because even though the GPS is turned off the apps still doesn't realize that when running in background mode. Its like it just never made the connection to GPS being turned off and stopping searching.
I've read about this quite a bit and it is just something to do with how Sammy phones communicate with Maps.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using XDA Premium HD app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting thanks for the info.
Sent from my SCH-I605 using xda premium
Related
I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
presence06 said:
I have noticed my battery sucks lately. I know the battery isn't the greatest but I was able to get easily a day of use out if it. Now I can barely go a day. I purchased beautiful Widgets, battery indicator and xda app all last week And it seems after that is when my battery went to **** .I used launcher pro for a bit too but started having lag problems so I removed that. Today I uninstalled beautiful Widgets. I'm on wifi and in airplane mode. As I'm typing this I've lost %2 already. Wtf is going on? I have GPS Bluetooth and usually wifi off. I have use only 2G networks, sync only gmail and screen manually set and set to low 30sec TO.
Any suggestions?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
flameinthefire said:
its the poor os. not the battery it self. why do you think everyone wants froyo so bad.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
joshthewaster said:
Sounds like way more than that. I can certainly type a couple paragraphs before my % drops at all. You sure haven't installed something else? If not you could have a defect.? Possibly return it and get a new one?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
GPS test, beautiful Widgets, battery indicator, arc media(removed ),updates for some apps and that's it.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Quick question, which ROM are you running? Ever since I switched over to leaked JI2, every couple days I notice that after running one of a few apps, the CPU just seems to go into overdrive. The phone gets really warm and the battery drains ridiculously fast. So fast that even plugging into my car charger won't charge the phone, even on idle. If I reboot, the phone cools down and the battery drain goes back to its normal, slow self.
I haven't narrowed it down to any specific app yet, but it seems to be either, Foursquare, Great Land Grab, or Bubble Blast.
Foursquare I have, I don't remember when I installed it. I am actually just running stock TW.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I get 15hrs... I am not ROOTED! I did the drain battery life process twice. This is with moderate usage. I am planning to do the drain battery process once a month cuz I hear it helps with battery life. Possible that u install something that's killing your battery.
Solution do the master reset if that doesn't help then it can be the battery is no good. I know that this is with the stock rom. If u are using another rom that's maybe the problem. U can try switchig roms to see if this is the problem. I hope this information has been helpful.
Does the master reset remove everything ? I have all my pics/videos on my phone meM. I have music and avatar on SD.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
Aspeds2989 said:
I have all of those apps except for battery indicator. I get about just over a full day. I would say turn off Wifi Sleep Policy and see if that helps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I did turn it off So wifi stays on even in sleep but I thought that was the problem do I Changed it back. I Just removed Touiteur and it seems to decrease slower, I updated it Saturday night. ?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
hey presence ive been having the same troubles lately...and i also jst recently got on foursquare...so maybe thats what it is...ive been looking at all my latest inslaeed apps and nothing else seems like it would have a battery drain effect...idk lol
I've had it installed for a while But started using it as of late. GPS fails all the time now though for some reason. Idk. But its kind of frustrating
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
disturkis4u said:
I have the same issue and i run system app n it doesn't show anything abnormal running. Its awfully frustrating i went from being good for 18hours to being in the red after 12 hours. I dropped 2% just writing this. I have only 84% left after 1.5hours this morning...and I have no service during my 1hour commute so I haven't used it. Standby is killing my battery.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It seems as though it drains faster in standby with nothing running. I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
presence06 said:
I removed FourSquare last night and have nothing running as far as widgets. I'm going to reboot and see. I've had it unplugged since 7am this morning, after a little over an hour I lost 2%.. not that bad I guess..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I guess we can safely say it is foursquare widget draining the battery then
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I've had this happen a few times. For me, it's usually because my battery status gets thrown off somehow. The phone would read that I have 55% battery life left, but it really only is at 25 or 30% and it always feels like it's draining fast. I usually turn off the phone, pull the battery out for a few seconds and then put it back it. When I turn on the phone the battery percentage is corrected and the phones seems to be back to normal battery use. I don't know why this happens.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
pavvy said:
This was suddenly happening to me today -- my battery started draining very quickly, mostly on standby (I usually have quite good battery life). No new or unusual apps installed in the past week (I don't use Foursquare).
I gave it a power-down/battery pull; no adjustment in the % as described in the post above, but it seems to be draining more normally now. Weird....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
Shrivel said:
Same thing happens to me every couple days. Rebooting the phone fixes it every single time though, so it's not a big deal if I catch it in time. If I didn't catch it, I'd estimate my phone would be drained (even in standby) within 4 hours or so.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here, I rebooted after removing FS and some other apps/touitur and got 1day 13hrs on the next charge with pretty moderate use. So whatever it was, it's gone now. If it was FS hopefully it's fixed soon.
Had a similar experience, with battery % entering freefall every time I turned the phone on. Two things helped:
1. I did the drain cycle. Drain the battery completely till it shuts off and charge it to full while off. This does not 'fromat/form' the battery in any way it just helps the phone to calibrate the meter.
2. I uninstalled few apps that I suspected were draining the battery.
I advise you install JuicePlotter and see the graph of battery drain. You'll be able to tell if the phone is entering standby or not. Thanks to some culprit apps (still figuring out what it was exactly) my phone was not entering standby at all hence the crap battery life.
hello
i recently installed on my vibrant the ROM: VIBRANT [ROM][SKANG] JELLYBRO CM10 KANG build
at the start it work fine, a little slow, so i installed the devil3 kernel 1.0.4 for JB
the kernel did the job and now it work much faster BUT now the battery life is barley last for 10 hr !!
any one can help me solve this ??
i cant charge my phone 3 times a day!!
thanks in advance
Calibrate the battery and don't over clock a lot.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
iKoolkid said:
Calibrate the battery and don't over clock a lot.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
can you please be a little more specific about what to do??
i don't really understand what calibrate mean? and i didn't change the over clock at all
Download the battery calibrator from the market. Charge to 100, then calibrate. Maybe your phone is not getting into deep sleep.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Go to my Battery Guide stickied in the Q&A section and see if any of those tips apply. In the 3rd post, there are apps that will help determine what is draining your battery.
Download Betterbatterystats from the 3rd post and run it. Post a screen shot of Partial Wakelocks/Since Unplugged and we'll see what is draining your battery and move on from there.
Woodrube said:
Go to my Battery Guide stickied in the Q&A section and see if any of those tips apply. In the 3rd post, there are apps that will help determine what is draining your battery.
Download Betterbatterystats from the 3rd post and run it. Post a screen shot of Partial Wakelocks/Since Unplugged and we'll see what is draining your battery and move on from there.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
first of all thanks for your quick help!
now i did take a pic of the screen and i will do the battery calibration app, but after the instillation of the ROM i did go to the CWR and did wipe battery status but it did noting.
thanks again for your help
Can you give a screen shot like the above but with a little more time on it than 4 minutes? Maybe with a few hours on it. That way we can see a little more info. All that is on that screenshot is the modem initializing and your media scanner.
Also when you wiped Battstat in CWR, that was the same thing as the Battery Calibration app is doing. Just the app is easier in that you don't have to boot into recovery to wipe them.
Do the battery calibration when your phone is charged to 100%. A buddy of mine was having awful battery life, turned out he wiped his battery stats when it was only half charged and then it seemed to charge only half way.
Charged it to 100%, then calibrated and viola.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Toast6977 said:
Do the battery calibration when your phone is charged to 100%. A buddy of mine was having awful battery life, turned out he wiped his battery stats when it was only half charged and then it seemed to charge only half way.
Charged it to 100%, then calibrated and viola.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
here is a more updated pic of the battery status
and i did the battery calibration from the CWR ween i was on 100% charged battery
hope the pic will help!
thank you!
Perfect. You must have either your GPS or Network Location on all the time. That is what is killing your battery. Do you use Maps/ Navagation a lot? How about apps that track your location like Foursquare/Twitter/G+ or FB (even apps like Angry Birds do this crap). Find the app that is broadcasting and you'll find the leak.
I have the MLB At-Bat app on both my phone and my tablet and on my tablet, I allow it to use my location so I can watch the games. It is a wifi only tablet and I have the wifi policy to cut off when tablet is in stand-by mode. On my phone however, I manually turn it on/off when I want to watch a game, so it never interferes with deepsleep and not broadcasting my location using GPS and battery at the same time. See where I am going with this?
I am betting that you don't get into deepsleep much because of the wakelocks interupting the sequence. Install CPUspy and let it runs for a few hours. After a bit, open it up and I would venture to say that your DS will be minimal.
Let's solve your battery drain first and then we can put on our tin-foil-hats and I'll show you some apps that are tracking you.
Woodrube said:
Perfect. You must have either your GPS or Network Location on all the time. That is what is killing your battery. Do you use Maps/ Navagation a lot? How about apps that track your location like Foursquare/Twitter/G+ or FB (even apps like Angry Birds do this crap). Find the app that is broadcasting and you'll find the leak.
I have the MLB At-Bat app on both my phone and my tablet and on my tablet, I allow it to use my location so I can watch the games. It is a wifi only tablet and I have the wifi policy to cut off when tablet is in stand-by mode. On my phone however, I manually turn it on/off when I want to watch a game, so it never interferes with deepsleep and not broadcasting my location using GPS and battery at the same time. See where I am going with this?
I am betting that you don't get into deepsleep much because of the wakelocks interupting the sequence. Install CPUspy and let it runs for a few hours. After a bit, open it up and I would venture to say that your DS will be minimal.
Let's solve your battery drain first and then we can put on our tin-foil-hats and I'll show you some apps that are tracking you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i don't use at all the GPS or maps or navigation , i canceled all the location services in the settings !
i have no idea how to Find the app that is broadcasting?
i uninstalled a lot of apps after what you wroth me but still no change
i have a felling that all of this is happening because of the devil3 kernel, just after i installed it the battery went low!
Do you have the devil configuration app?
If so, what are your settings?
I run the devil kernel on both of my devices and I average about 28hrs battery life with moderate to heavy use.
sent from my magic box to yours
Woodrube said:
Let's solve your battery drain first and then we can put on our tin-foil-hats and I'll show you some apps that are tracking you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now that is frickin' comedy! On a serious note though, it does get frustrating chasing these things around. After I flash and get everything setup I make a nandroid.. Then when it happens I skip all the trying to find the culprit business and reflash and restore from scratch. I would rather have the hassle than be annoyed lol.
Hi
I ave a S3 and recently the battery has been draining quite quickly.
I have a reserve battery so I keep swapping
Q: will 4.1 rectify or what do you suggest.
thanks people.
Run Better Battery Stats look for wakelocks . Its your apps draining.
jje
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
JJEgan said:
Run Better Battery Sta
ts look for wakelocks . Its your apps draining.
jje
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
"wakelocks" ?
what's that
cheers
rathomo said:
"wakelocks" ?
what's that
cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No idea not got Google on my phone .
jje
rathomo said:
"wakelocks" ?
what's that
cheers
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
A wakelock is something that keeps the phone from sleeping properly, thus draining your battery quicker. The most common wakelocks are audioout_1 (any sound played), or networklocation (something that keeps wanting your position)
Try disabling GPS, auto-sync and disable wifi when you're not connected.
rathomo said:
Hi
I ave a S3 and recently the battery has been draining quite quickly.
I have a reserve battery so I keep swapping
Q: will 4.1 rectify or what do you suggest.
thanks people.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I upgraded to 4.1 a little while ago and I found that my battery life was pretty much the same.
To try and help rectify the situation I went through and disabled a bunch of apps that I just didn't use. I found that the Samsung apps (sync adapter etc.) were causing some heavy duty battery drain. I should say that my phone didn't have any issues with disabling Samsung software, but I can't be sure all of your apps will keep working.
I'd also suggest installing and running Carat for a week or two. It gives you some good insight into what's using your battery, lets you kill apps that are misbehaving and also lets you know which apps are potential battery hogs or have battery issues. You can then choose what you want to do with misbehaving apps. If it's an app that you just don't need then get rid of it, if it's something you use, perhaps look for an alternative or maybe use a task killer to just control the misbehaving apps, any not everything else. After running Carat for a while I really stripped back the apps that I had installed and only really have the apps that I need / use on my phone. Just be patient as results will take a few days to come through.
After all of that I get around 18 hours of "normal" type use: e.g. a phone calls, SMS, web browsing, corporate email sync (push), a polling email account and 2 Google accounts syncing. I have the Facebook app installed, but I have disabled auto-updates for that as well as Plume and Taptu.
Oh, I also set my phone to airplane mode between 11pm and 5am every day if I'm at home. I use PhoneWeaver to control my phone's profiles. And obviously GPS will drain the battery if it's on, and I also use Wi-Fi where I can, but turn it off if I’m not using it.
With 4.1 you'll find that Now *can* potentially cause some extra drain depending on what you do with it and what your location settings are. For the record, I'm using Now with the location settings on and I'm quite content with my battery drain. It can always be better, but I can live with charging once a day (I plug it in overnight and unplug when I go to work).
Also, give the phone a few days to let it settle in. I noticed quite a difference in battery drain over the first week of flashing, even with the same pattern of usage. One day I'd get 8-10 hours the next 12 or so. So give it a few days and see how you go.
Hope that helps and good luck!
Mike.
My s3 battery is awful! I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm not rooted, I have no roms and I run everything stock. Today I went to clinical at the hospital, I unplugged my phone at 6am, by 12pm my battery was less than 40%, by 2pm it was yellow. I used the phone for about 30 minutes throughout that time during my lunch period using Facebook and texting. Literally, only around 30 minutes of usage and this happens? The phone is only a few weeks old. It seems the major problem is maps. I always get messages that maps has unfortunately closed yet I've never once used maps, haha. I though updating it might help, to no avail. I took a screen shot of my battery stats, and at school maps was at 65% usage as opposed to the 54% as shown in the photo. Either way this is ridiculous, makes me regret getting this phone. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it or let me know if this is normal though surely it's not.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
Also thought I might mention that the phone runs really hot just sitting in my pocket. Not sure why, and the 11 hour on time you see on the screen took 2 charges to get.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
Turn off your gps and un install maps then reinstall.. Or go into application settings and clear maps data and cache.. I see that percentage is really high and abnormal..
Turn off your wifi while your out and about as well..
Spewed said:
My s3 battery is awful! I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm not rooted, I have no roms and I run everything stock. Today I went to clinical at the hospital, I unplugged my phone at 6am, by 12pm my battery was less than 40%, by 2pm it was yellow. I used the phone for about 30 minutes throughout that time during my lunch period using Facebook and texting. Literally, only around 30 minutes of usage and this happens? The phone is only a few weeks old. It seems the major problem is maps. I always get messages that maps has unfortunately closed yet I've never once used maps, haha. I though updating it might help, to no avail. I took a screen shot of my battery stats, and at school maps was at 65% usage as opposed to the 54% as shown in the photo. Either way this is ridiculous, makes me regret getting this phone. If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it or let me know if this is normal though surely it's not.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it also looks like your roaming? but yeah turn off gps and disable maps app or clear data and cache for it
Also go to Google settings and un tick most of the location settings including check ins and what ever else you don't like..
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
I've never have GPS on, ever, unless I want to use it. In which case I turn it off immediately. I just cleared the data and cache on maps. Also, my phone does state I'm roaming anytime I'm on not using 4g or 3g, data and wifi is usually off. In my notification bar it does shown the gps signal, but it's not actually using it, if it's using it it shows brs similar to the wifi indicator when it's in use. This is a weird tick with verizon. So I checked my location services and the only thing that was on was location history, which I went ahead and turned off. Will report back regarding battery life.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
You are in the wrong forum, this is the international i9300 forum.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756332
American or Canadian SGS3? Read this before posting!
After doing a complete wipe install of mean bean, my battery is still draining about 2%/minute. Now, I realize there is more than likely some other issue, that installing mean bean uncovered or removed the block before.
Questions;
1) is it normal for the screen to be using 60% of the battery power?
2) Is there actually an app that controls the battery usage, and truly kills apps?
- I have tested several, with no noticeable difference in power usage.
Thanks for any advice, for a somewhat novice rooter.
yup
The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
Fixed, I think
trsix said:
The 60 normal if screens been on a lot. The 2% deal sounds whacked. Have u gone into settings/apps/running to see whats running?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm not sure what I changed, I limited the processes to only 4 running, that might have helped. The battery still drains faster than before when the screen is on, but not as it was before. I am giving "Easy Battery Saver" a try see if that tells me anything useful, it at least keeps the settings that are applied. With any luck it will keep working until I break it again, lol.
Greenify and juice defender
Sent from my EVO using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Seems like you get bad signal
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
I was having bad drain issues and read some post about location tracking with Google maps. I disabled that and my battery life on MB 3.09 is back to normal which is great.
Funny thing is this happened seemly out of no where but I think there was a recent update to maps. My location tracking has always been on and never seemed to affect battery life before. Go figure.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app