So I have searched high and low looking for answers to my problem, but to no avail.
Im not sure if this is the right thread, if not please direct me to where i will be more suited.
Device: gt i9300 international
Im having terrible battery drain issues with every rom I have tried, apart from cyanogenmod 10.1 which I didn't like.
It seems as though the battery will not charge above 50 or so percent and then will completely run flat after about 5 hours, and thats on standby. I have tried liquidsmooth, cyanogenmod 10.2, AOKP and multiple others, (all jb 4.2.2 roms, apart from cyan 10.1) and they all worked perfectly apart from the terrible battery life. I was under the understanding that my current roms (liquidsmooth) battery life should be excellent but It wont get above 60 percent and runs flat within hours.
I have tested multiple chargers, charged it while on and off, always shut my apps when not in use... all of the usual battery stuff.
Im at a loss as to what to do.. How do I fix it?
Please help me xda you're my only hope.
Josh
Yoshundorf said:
So I have searched high and low looking for answers to my problem, but to no avail.
Im not sure if this is the right thread, if not please direct me to where i will be more suited.
Device: gt i9300 international
Im having terrible battery drain issues with every rom I have tried, apart from cyanogenmod 10.1 which I didn't like.
It seems as though the battery will not charge above 50 or so percent and then will completely run flat after about 5 hours, and thats on standby. I have tried liquidsmooth, cyanogenmod 10.2, AOKP and multiple others, (all jb 4.2.2 roms, apart from cyan 10.1) and they all worked perfectly apart from the terrible battery life. I was under the understanding that my current roms (liquidsmooth) battery life should be excellent but It wont get above 60 percent and runs flat within hours.
I have tested multiple chargers, charged it while on and off, always shut my apps when not in use... all of the usual battery stuff.
Im at a loss as to what to do.. How do I fix it?
Please help me xda you're my only hope.
Josh
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Hi there.
Download megawipe
Download temasek ROM with latest kernel
Flash megawipe in recovery, this will delete everything on internal SD
Flash ROM gapps and kernel
Download / install stweaks
Choose zzmoves
In zzmoves lab choose yanks battery profile
In power tab set charge hard voltage to default
See how that goes mate.
Please use the report button this is not Q&A
Yoshundorf said:
So I have searched high and low looking for answers to my problem, but to no avail.
Im not sure if this is the right thread, if not please direct me to where i will be more suited.
Device: gt i9300 international
Im having terrible battery drain issues with every rom I have tried, apart from cyanogenmod 10.1 which I didn't like.
It seems as though the battery will not charge above 50 or so percent and then will completely run flat after about 5 hours, and thats on standby. I have tried liquidsmooth, cyanogenmod 10.2, AOKP and multiple others, (all jb 4.2.2 roms, apart from cyan 10.1) and they all worked perfectly apart from the terrible battery life. I was under the understanding that my current roms (liquidsmooth) battery life should be excellent but It wont get above 60 percent and runs flat within hours.
I have tested multiple chargers, charged it while on and off, always shut my apps when not in use... all of the usual battery stuff.
Im at a loss as to what to do.. How do I fix it?
Please help me xda you're my only hope.
Josh
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Charge the phone
Install BBS (you can find it here on XDA for free)
Let the phone rest 1 or 2 hours
Show us what BBS have under "Kernel Wakelock"
Regards.
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I installed the Resurrection 1.0 rom yesterday, but 30 mins web browsing this morning dropped the battery to 80%!
Which ICS SGS2 rom gets the best battery life?
It's best you try them for yourself, Just keep testing until you find one that is suitable. I personally, keep changing between CM9, WanamLite, Foxhound, Resurrection (Maybe you didn't install it correctly? Worked fine for me).
So far WanamLite is just right for me (Different ROMs have different advantages ) It's also Quite good on Battery Life.
Definitely installed ok, not much you can do wrong installing it tbh
Never heard of Wanamlite or Foxhound. Had been using Checkrom 2.3.6, but fancied trying out ICS to see what it was like.
After flashing a new ROM quite often you need to drain the battery completely and charge it a couple of times before you really get the best battery life from it.
I'd drained it last night and charged it fully, maybe I'll try it a couple more times before changing again.
Mind you shouldn't be hard draining it at this rate
Saruya said:
Definitely installed ok, not much you can do wrong installing it tbh
Never heard of Wanamlite or Foxhound. Had been using Checkrom 2.3.6, but fancied trying out ICS to see what it was like.
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80% Battery consumption after browsing for 30min doesn't sound right, out of curiosity, did you notice a sudden drop in battery life all at once or was it gradual throughout when browsing, Just asking coz I know some ROMs have an ICS bug where the battery would register wrong % values all of a sudden esp after taking it off charge, the quick fix for this is to take out the battery for about 10sec + then reinsert it.
It was gradual throughout the 30 minutes, but between stopping browsing and putting the phone away and getting into work it dropped another 8% or so down to 72% with no activity.
Might just be calibration errors. Hope so, it's a nice rom, very smooth and stable (the qualities I look for most tbh).
Saruya said:
It was gradual throughout the 30 minutes, but between stopping browsing and putting the phone away and getting into work it dropped another 8% or so down to 72% with no activity.
Might just be calibration errors. Hope so, it's a nice rom, very smooth and stable (the qualities I look for most tbh).
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Cool!
Btw you can find a list of SGS 2 ROMs over here http://www.galaxys2roms.com/
quite nice to see at a glance most popluar (not all) SGS 2 ROMs.
Just try them until you find one that meets your needs.
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so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
kiltev said:
so as im a new user and i can't post in half of the forum, but i've still got this urgent question/ point to ask, here's my question:
i recently moved on the new 1.9.1 ressurection remix rom from the 1.3, and aswell changed my kernel to siyah, now lately my battery drains preety quick (yes i did burn it down to 0% and charged it over to 100% few times), but here's the thing, when once i had issues with screen burning 30%-45% of my battery, now it's lying low on 10%-20% while the real issue now is the "Android OS" which goes as high as 60%-70% of my battery, i've been trying to calibrate the battery and reset battery stats and discharge and recharge couple of times, but this just keeps going on... any way to solve this?
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OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
beston94 said:
OK! I've read your situation. This is the only thing that I can recommend. Try installing a Gingerbread rom and see if the issue persists. If it does then some of your application could be the culprit behind the battery draining issue. But again, thats just a guess...And if it is one of your applications that is causing the drain then you should install bettebatterystats from this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
Then charge your battery to 100% and try a new calibration method, maybe you haven't heard of it. But if you charge till 100% then take out the battery for exactly 3 minutes and put it back in and power up your phone and use your phone normally as you do and then at 20% or lower go and check betterbatterystats and see what is causing the most of the battery drain.
Have a great day and good luck with the battery drain, hope this helps!!
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i did read about the new method today, but havent had the chance to try it yet.
im not sure if it's a certain application that causes it, but in the battery stats it points out "Android OS", i've seen many galaxy nexus users complain about the same problem, even with stock kernel/roms, and galaxy S2 users that moved from gingerbread to ICS. it's logical that ICS will take more battery because of the control over multiple cpus and all this kind of stuff but im not sure how much it is about that "Android OS".
anyway ill try to have this battery calibration new method once my battery will drain out, and im probably not going to go down to gingerbread again because i already know its not gonna persist because i remmember how my phone behaved on GB and that those 2 systems work completely different and i want to solve the drain per ICS and not solve the issue by downgrading back down to gingerbread.
thank you for your time and help anyway
fxa5209 said:
Did you check the ROM FAQ about battery draining?
Please check it out. There is also an example of making some changes using extweaks which comes installed by default with ICS Resurrection 1.9.1.
Here is the link to FAQ.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=26341532&postcount=33924
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thanks for the link, i haven't noticed too much i havent done yet, they poiny siyah kernel as one of the 3 good 1s that work well with the rom for better battery, and i am testing different governors, clocks and voltages but there's many options so i can't do it all in an instant so it takes time...
thanks for your help
Hi All!
First I want to thank you guys here, I've learned everything about Android through this forum and others.
But I am facing a weird issue here.
I am running LiquidSmooth 2.5 Official Used to be on CM 10.1's Nightlies
and on The Siyah 1.9.1
I have tried everything to keep my battery fine, but its not working.
Here Are the issues:
1- When doing a HR, if battery level is 100%, it goes down to 3 or 4% and phone reboots multiple times atleast 5-7 until it works fine again, and i have to recharge the battery again. DRIVES ME NUTS
2- The charging is pretty slow now, 5 6 hours would get me to a 70% and not a 100, Tried all ways to charge, and charger and battery are working fine on other phones. though the iPhone Power Brick charged it a bit faster it took about 2 hours to a 100.
3- Discharging is pretty DAMN Fast. it would take the phone 3-4 hours of use MAX and I am out of battery on the 3G and 5-6 on WiFi, I lose about 2 percent every 2-3 Minutes. and when Idle or in DeepSleep which I am sure the phone goes to according to ''BetterBatteryStats'' it would last 7 Hours at best.
4- If Charging the Phone and using, the Battery level still goes down, until it reaches 1% then screen flickers and goes Off and i have to wait for the battery to regain charge on the boot screen with the Battery icon and the Yellow Exclamation Mark, and then After 4% I can reboot the phone, and that cycle would go on and on.
here are the Solutions I Tried:
Flashed CM 10.1 with stock Kernel and with Siyah (Updated Software Everynight)
Flashed LiquidSmooth 2.5 with stock Kernel and with Siyah.
Tried Different CPU Governors (Pegasuq, and Hotplug)
Turned off Unneeded process like (GPS and so on)
Used Different Chargers, Batteries and charging ways that work fine with any other S3 that is running on TouchWiz.
Calibrated Battery by letting it Discharge to 0% then charging to 100% uninterrupted.
I Ran out of solutions, so If someone could please HELP!! :")
Hi there Omar,
1, what exactly do you mean by hard reset ?
2. have you tried a different charger ? or a different charging port ?
3. that is indeed not the best battery life, could you tell us what app's use your battery?
It can be viewed in settings>battery
4. same as 3..
Hard Reset as in Remove the battery while phone is on, or Pressing Volume+ and Power Button.
I Tried 3 Different chargers, Sony Xperia Z, iPhone 5 (Charged it a Bit Faster) and Google Nexus 4 Besides Mine.
I dont have too many apps, actually I Uninstalled most of my apps that wake up the phone from deep sleep like Kik but What mostly uses my battery is Maps While i Dont Use it, 14% and Shazam while not in use also 12%, and the screen ofcourse 24% those are the three top consumers.
Iphone 5 ?? how did you connected it to you s3 ?
ok HR is usually referred when you factory reset your phone, that's just rebooting
But I agree it's not a normal behaviour to fall by 95% each time you pull the battery. What rom are you currently running? are you rooted ?
By the way there aren't really advantages in this kind of reboot FYI.
If you don't use the google maps i suggest disabling it via settings>apps>maps - disable.
Same about shazam try maybe another app like "soundhound" or sony "trackid"
iPhone 5 Power brick and My S3 USB Cable.
I Did disable them.
But still after working on everything I've tried most solutions and nothing is working with it!
Oh ok it's clear now
What about your phone state ? are you running stock/custom rom ?
I am running Liquidsmooth 2.5 Official and Siyah 1.9 Kernel
I Used the Liquidsmooth without the Custom kernel, only its stock one.
and Before I Had CM 10.1 Nightly with the stock Kernel and also with Siyah
Same problem with all combinations, and I Switched to Liquidsmooth because I thought the issue was from the Instability of CM 10.1 due to that its experimental, but seems not.
Well from my experience there are few cm10.1 builds that are working very good, so i guess it's not the problem.
Why not backup your rom and reinstall it(or another one from the development section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1566)
Don't forget when backing up do not backup any system app only user app.
Hi All,
The battery on my Galaxy S3 is not charging fully even when on charge all night (it will get to about 70 - 75%) in 10 hours of charging.
During the day, when not on charge, the battery drops like a stone, as you can see in the below screenshots.
I think this started happening when I updated the Samsung firmware to 4.3, but can't be 100% sure. I have tried a tip I found about turning off email sync, but with no change.
Can anyone offer me any help with this?
Cheers
Dan
Dazzuko said:
Hi All,
The battery on my Galaxy S3 is not charging fully even when on charge all night (it will get to about 70 - 75%) in 10 hours of charging.
During the day, when not on charge, the battery drops like a stone, as you can see in the below screenshots.
I think this started happening when I updated the Samsung firmware to 4.3, but can't be 100% sure. I have tried a tip I found about turning off email sync, but with no change.
Can anyone offer me any help with this?
Cheers
Dan
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Well .. how old is your device?? coz a battery is not going to last forever .... may be it has lived up its life...
coz i have updated to Stock 4.3 firmware as well and my S3 is around 18months old ... but i am getting an average battery life ...
Thanks
Shrewdy said:
Well .. how old is your device?? coz a battery is not going to last forever .... may be it has lived up its life...
coz i have updated to Stock 4.3 firmware as well and my S3 is around 18months old ... but i am getting an average battery life ...
Thanks
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It is about 18 months old. Could be the battery, but I would expect it to last a bit longer than this. It didn't slowly lose charge, it just started dropping very quickly one day.
Dazzuko said:
It is about 18 months old. Could be the battery, but I would expect it to last a bit longer than this. It didn't slowly lose charge, it just started dropping very quickly one day.
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May be then you can try some other Modified 4.3 Stock roms (like NeatRom, ArchiDroid's Rom etc.) to see what battery performance you get ...
And if you still have the same problem ... the only way to make sure is to buy a new one ...
Thanks
That's horrible. Did you perform a clean wipe after upgrading to 4.3? If you didn't, I suggest you to.
If your device is rooted i highly recommend you to get Boeffla Kernel and It's Boeffla Config application from Play Store and from the configuration app set the AC current to a higher number and enable ignore safety margin.
Dazzuko said:
It is about 18 months old. Could be the battery, but I would expect it to last a bit longer than this. It didn't slowly lose charge, it just started dropping very quickly one day.
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Faced this issue. Kept losing 10-15% per hour. Changed roms and still had this issue occasionally.
Problem was the battery. Changed it and no issues so far.
A lot of people use the phone for games, movies etc while charging and this shortens the life-span a lot.
~ RazorMC
i have installed some roms. when i install for the first time, battery time is good. but whenever charge my s3 for the second time battery drains faster.
Lastly, i installed ArchiDroid V1.7.15. Standby time was more than perfect. on avarage usage, 3,5 days
But after i charge it for the second time, battery drains faster
what is my fault?
Let the ROM settle. use what ROM you want. Charge it few times. It should pass like one week at least tohave a good view on how the battery performs.
Bloatware, apps, wallpapers, startup apps, backgrounds.. they will all consume power.
shivadow said:
Bloatware, apps, wallpapers, startup apps, backgrounds.. they will all consume power.
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yes but i install the same apps and system each time
Are you on a cm or Touchwizz rom ?
Personally, my method for having a pretty good battery life is like this :
- After you flash your rom let the battery get empty and then charge it to the max without have it on, just plugged in.
- Repeat this method for at least 2 times and then you will get a good average of what the battery life looks like on this rom.
Keep in mind that each rom have different battery life, because of all the tweaks and optimizations that the developers add to it.
And also, don't forget that AOSP rom ( CyanogenMod, ParanoidRom, etc... ) are slightly less under the official samsung rom in terms of battery life. That's why a large number of people prefer official samsung rom instead of the AOSP one.
I think that everyone does have your problem actually
thank you
i am on ArchiDroid V1.7.15 rom
No problem
interesting, i did it 3 times
3,5 - 4 days standby time with medium usage
when i recharge from zero, it drops 85% in 4 hours, with very little usage
reformat, reinstall ArchiDroid V1.7.15 rom. and it is great again...
i do not understand anything
Maybe you can try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Battery_Calibration
But I'm not sure this will work or not. Someone says this is just nothing but waste of time
RibozoM said:
Maybe you can try this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Battery_Calibration
But I'm not sure this will work or not. Someone says this is just nothing but waste of time
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i have tried it 3 days ago. anyway, thanks for your help
any other help?