[Q] Battery Drain Issue - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Im having a battery drain issue with temaseks unofficial cm10.2 rom..Ive been flashing roms for a while now,
but thats as far as it goes for me
Ive searched many forums and found no real answers to this issue, my battery is draining extremly fast, ive got temeseks kernal installed
and have zzmoove profile set, and its on extreme battery..but still high battery drain..Im not sure what to do because of all the roms ive flashed, this seems to be the one i like the most and i find it to be the most stable in terms of performance.
Ill really appreciate if someone would help me :good:

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Buy "better battery stats".
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m01zn said:
Im having a battery drain issue with temaseks unofficial cm10.2 rom..Ive been flashing roms for a while now,
but thats as far as it goes for me
Ive searched many forums and found no real answers to this issue, my battery is draining extremly fast, ive got temeseks kernal installed
and have zzmoove profile set, and its on extreme battery..but still high battery drain..Im not sure what to do because of all the roms ive flashed, this seems to be the one i like the most and i find it to be the most stable in terms of performance.
Ill really appreciate if someone would help me :good:
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HI, I had this problem in my Galaxy Note 10.1 .
My girlfriend's Galaxy S3 also started to eat up battery after 4 months.
for both of them, I got the charger and data cable replaced by the samsung service center.
The problem got solved.
So, may be this can be your case too.
The thing is, for charging a battery to it's full capacity, the charger need to supply appropriate current and appropriate voltage. Now with the malfunctioning of the charger (source) or the data cable (path) can lead to unhealthy charging of the battery.
Now, According to my logic, (I am not sure if it's true) the phone reads the voltage and tells you the percentage of the remaining battery. But actually battery does not have much current to make the voltage stand still. That is because, when the phone will not recieve appropriate current according to the system's resistance, It will definitely eat up more voltage, and the battery will drain quickly.
I hope this helps you
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Aosp are known for draining s3 battery, especially cm.
It is a simple suggestion, but on MY ACCOUNT foxhound 0.1 based on 4.2.2 is one of the least battery draining samsung based roms if not the least. It is certainly stable, you can theme it with xposed and change launcher if you don't like touchwiz....
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And a free alternative to better battery stats is wakelock detector.
Remember if you choose any 4.2.2 samsung based rom not to change kernel, default is good enough anyway...
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Sorry, here are my battery stats from yesterday afternoon, I had charged my phone till 63 percent, and less than 5 hours later my battery had been drained..

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killbubble said:
Aosp are known for draining s3 battery, especially cm.
It is a simple suggestion, but on MY ACCOUNT foxhound 0.1 based on 4.2.2 is one of the least battery draining samsung based roms if not the least. It is certainly stable, you can theme it with xposed and change launcher if you don't like touchwiz....
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And a free alternative to better battery stats is wakelock detector.
Remember if you choose any 4.2.2 samsung based rom not to change kernel, default is good enough anyway...
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Hi I really appreciate your feedback, but I am not so clued up on how exposed works or how to theme, Ive tried to, butIi couldnt really grasp the concept..:silly:

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Technical-ish definition: it is a framework, so it wraps around android system at startup and patches the ui packages required for it to apply mods.
User definition: a package you can install to mod your phone, mostly for themes. First you install it, then you install modules, which are more packages that come with options. They basically use the xposed framework to be able to mod/theme your phone. So.
install xposed ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401install apk and open app. From there you can EASILY install the framework with a button).
Install any module (they come as apks).
Activate module within xposed and use module to tweak settings (usually they come with their own app, or you can just go to modules in xppsed and press the name).
When you restart the phone will apply changes
pretty easy, all the developing is back end.
If your phone crashes at startup there is a package ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1619566&d=1361912360 ) you can flash through recovery to simply disable xposed at startup no problem so you can then go back to xposed app and disable modules not compatible with your rom that made your phone crash. Some nice modules (you can find installation apks either on xda or inside xposed download menu):
Nottach xposed ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285074 )
wanam xposed (app store or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2383484 )
Xblast tools ( http://repo.xposed.info/module/ind.fem.black.xposed.mods )
Gravity box (download section in xposed or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316070 )
Maybe you can find some more of these in download section within xposed app, also look there.
There are also many other packages for tweaking backgrounds or just the status bar and many specifuc things....
And there is much more. Remember these modules may make the phone crash if applied together (there is a check-box activation menu in xposed managing , so you can have more installed at the same time but not activated) so it's probably best not to activate the most similar ones at the same time.
Also you can find somewhere in xda a thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327541) which rounds up all xposed available modules. Or the website which is a bit more difficult to navigate, i'd use xda.thread.but you can also find modules here ( http://repo.xposed.info/module-overview ).
xposed may look complicated, but couldn't be simpler!
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killbubble said:
Technical-ish definition: it is a framework, so it wraps around android system at startup and patches the ui packages required for it to apply mods.
User definition: a package you can install to mod your phone, mostly for themes. First you install it, then you install modules, which are more packages that come with options. They basically use the xposed framework to be able to mod/theme your phone. So.
install xposed ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574401install apk and open app. From there you can EASILY install the framework with a button).
Install any module (they come as apks).
Activate module within xposed and use module to tweak settings (usually they come with their own app, or you can just go to modules in xppsed and press the name).
When you restart the phone will apply changes
pretty easy, all the developing is back end.
If your phone crashes at startup there is a package ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1619566&d=1361912360 ) you can flash through recovery to simply disable xposed at startup no problem so you can then go back to xposed app and disable modules not compatible with your rom that made your phone crash. Some nice modules (you can find installation apks either on xda or inside xposed download menu):
Nottach xposed ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285074 )
wanam xposed (app store or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2383484 )
Xblast tools ( http://repo.xposed.info/module/ind.fem.black.xposed.mods )
Gravity box (download section in xposed or http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2316070 )
Maybe you can find some more of these in download section within xposed app, also look there.
There are also many other packages for tweaking backgrounds or just the status bar and many specifuc things....
And there is much more. Remember these modules may make the phone crash if applied together (there is a check-box activation menu in xposed managing , so you can have more installed at the same time but not activated) so it's probably best not to activate the most similar ones at the same time.
Also you can find somewhere in xda a thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2327541) which rounds up all xposed available modules. Or the website which is a bit more difficult to navigate, i'd use xda.thread.but you can also find modules here ( http://repo.xposed.info/module-overview ).
xposed may look complicated, but couldn't be simpler!
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Thanks so much!
Really helped:good:

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Glad to have helped!
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m01zn said:
Im having a battery drain issue with temaseks unofficial cm10.2 rom..Ive been flashing roms for a while now,
but thats as far as it goes for me
Ive searched many forums and found no real answers to this issue, my battery is draining extremly fast, ive got temeseks kernal installed
and have zzmoove profile set, and its on extreme battery..but still high battery drain..Im not sure what to do because of all the roms ive flashed, this seems to be the one i like the most and i find it to be the most stable in terms of performance.
Ill really appreciate if someone would help me :good:
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Try using better "wifi on off" application from play store. Looks like your wifi is using lot of battery juice.
Also try Googy kernel.

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Zee991 said:
Try using better "wifi on off" application from play store. Looks like your wifi is using lot of battery juice.
Also try Googy kernel.
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Its seems like when my mobile data is on, my battery is getting drained, my battery was almost drained at like 12, but lasted me the rest of the day when i switched off my data
it could be because Bittorrent sync wasn't disabled in data, but ill only know for sure tomorrow..

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Here are my battery stats for today

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I have been struggling with very high battery drain rate myself for long while. I even bought the fat and heavy 3000mha battery pack - samsung's official, to combat it and it still did not feel right.
Always HIGHEST battery draining cause if I let the phone idle a lot, is Android system, that's weird.
Finall I caved and tried better battery stats and just immediately looking at the core stuff in "android system" or so, seems it is Wifi wakelocking the phone.
Wait what, why is Wifi doing that?
Anyway, pretty much disabling wifi remedies that... THough I would prefer to use Wifi myself.
Whatever it is, and seeing it crosses over roms, even official though there it is least felt - It has something to do with samsung's wifi driver updates or something. I may be just silly for thinking maybe 9.0 that mine shipped with was so much better in that regard.
My hope is lost of samsung actually fixing this, all they seem to so is make it worse gradyally and increasingly.
TL;DR: Wifi is a bish.

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Same issue.
I bought the i9300 a couples a day brand new. but i did replace the stock rom with others. and even it`s still a bit rubish, even in RAM. 10h of normal use and my battery is gone... and my RAM is only ~100mb free.

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m01zn said:
Here are my battery stats for today
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Did you turn mobile data off?
It looks like youve had over 4 hours no data.
Plus, lots of network related wakelocks multipdp... Shame we cant see what the deleted wakelocks are... l2_hisc is high too.
"deleted_wake_locks" (): 4 h 18 m 41 s (15521 s) Cntc/wc/ec)721540/0/9118 42,6%
"multipdp" (): 2 h 52 m 29 s (10349 s) Cntc/wc/ec)4071/0/4070 28,4%
"l2_hsic" (): 2 h 30 m 31 s (9031 s) Cntc/wc/ec)17053/3130/17052 24,8%

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Yeah..I turned my mobile data off because after lunch my battery was at 20% and it lasted till I got back home at around 6..any suggestions? Anything else I could provide that would make it easier to diagnose the issue?
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You need to try and "catch" whatever those deleted wakelocks are... You're going to have to manually keep an eye on BBS.
Personally, I would just factory reset teh device and start fresh.

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Yeah..I'm going to do that now..hopefully that will sort the issue out..Will let you know the outcome..Thank You I really do appreciate your time
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Also remember to use samsung's battery reserve option (i don't know the italian translation for english, it's that icon accessible from samsungs.notification that usually has the recycling or battery icon), because even though a phone can already be draining little battery (which is my case), that option can have a 50% improvement. Which is of course excellent if you can't charge your phone during the afternoon.
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Is that normal?
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