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Random rebooting

For the last week or so my phone just reboots, not sure what is causing it ? I did notice the battery is a little warm but not always it does this 3-4 times a day. I switched roms and kernals with no result.Is my phone junk?
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I'd go back to the earlier kernel/rom first (at least another kernel) before saying phone is totaled.
Also know your rom, most aren't vanilla and might be running stuff you don't usually want/need. Turning off, freezing, or uninstalling some of that might help. Grab something like watchdog lite and see if you can pick out what's using most cpu and if you can do without it.

You could have also overclocked too high or made some change the kernel that caused some instability. If you didn't mess with any of that, then I don't know what else to tell you.
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Well thanks for the advice but I've already checked those areas and only ran the kernals that the builders had with the roms. On another note my battery temp hovers around 100 F at idle and goes up when in use, I've noticed reboot when using gps or playing words and sometimes youtube. Might need new battery anyone have any temps to compare?
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Mine is 104.35 now with nothing but Xda open
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jnmilli352 said:
Well thanks for the advice but I've already checked those areas and only ran the kernals that the builders had with the roms. On another note my battery temp hovers around 100 F at idle and goes up when in use, I've noticed reboot when using gps or playing words and sometimes youtube. Might need new battery anyone have any temps to compare?
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Do battery calibration after each flash to new ROM, also make sure you are not too undervolted which makes the battery work harder. And do not bump charge battery is set to 100% at about 95% of battery to save battery life. 100% is the worst state a battery can be in.
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You could always try flashing the stock RUU from your computer then run your backup. The stock RUU has been known to solve many issues.

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Do battery calibration after each flash to new ROM, also make sure you are not too undervolted which makes the battery work harder. And do not bump charge battery is set to 100% at about 95% of battery to save battery life. 100% is the worst state a battery can be in.
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So I did a battery config and my temp is down how do I check for undervolting, with a meter or application?
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I asked the same question, from research I found out most incredible's are having this issue, something to do with the usb or sdcard not working or something, there are a few threads here just not sure where the on with the link to the fix is
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I have a battery widget and it fluctuates 3.8-4.05 V but the battery rates at 3.7V ?? Most of the reboots are when the battery is 30% or lower. Last night the battery got to 109 before rebooting while I was using it on the charger. Then vibrated 3 times while the screen was off??? Hopefully this phone makes it 1 more month til new phones hit Verizon.
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Battery issues

My phone has TERRIBLE battery life. It lasts about 2 hours usually and sometimes 2 and a half. I'm running the stock GB from that came with the phone, but I am rooted. I have tried every single from out there..none of them give me sufficient battery life. By the time i get home from school by battery is down to 30%. What could be causing this? I'm also on my third warranty replacement phone and my second battery.
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Scoutamis said:
My phone has TERRIBLE battery life. It lasts about 2 hours usually and sometimes 2 and a half. I'm running the stock GB from that came with the phone, but I am rooted. I have tried every single from out there..none of them give me sufficient battery life. By the time i get home from school by battery is down to 30%. What could be causing this? I'm also on my third warranty replacement phone and my second battery.
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Normally I would suggest going to stock for people but in your case, maybe custom is the answer.
Do you have loads of apps and accounts setup by the way?
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kr3w1337 said:
Normally I would suggest going to stock for people but in your case, maybe custom is the answer.
Do you have loads of apps and accounts setup by the way?
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I have only the default accounts my phone came with(T-Mobile contacts, etc) and i have one Google account. And i don't have that many apps... maybe like 30
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Bad battery?
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Bad battery?
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This is my second battery (both sucked) and my third phone. And my 2nd charger...
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This really has no useful information to be helped. 2 hours? On stand by, screen on time, any cpu tuners, etc?
Maybe take screenshots of what the battery chart looks like and what apps have the highest percentage.

It is about 2 and a half hours of screen on time. And I can't get a screenshot of it because I just flashed a new rom, and my battery hasn't had a chance to settle in with the new rom yet. If it doesn't improve I will post a pic of my battery stats. Thanks.
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Well, I'm guessing there is an app that keeps running constantly. You should try an ICS ROM, that might help.

PrinceFX said:
Well, I'm guessing there is an app that keeps running constantly. You should try an ICS ROM, that might help.
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I flashed the ICS port and the battery is a tiny bit better but still sucky
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Same problem
I've been experiencing identical issues with my T989. I've had terrible battery life without many apps running in the background (as I use the stock task manager to execute all running apps). I've finally decided to root my device and install a 'set cpu speed' app. Even though I've set my minimum cpu speed to 200 MHz and max to 800 MHz it's still lasts for a maximum of 4 hours until I get the "Battery is critically low" message.
Does samsung provide warranty for their batteries? Because I've called to complain about battery life and they asked me to remove the battery and send the device itself so they could repair it. And under no circumstances would they offer me an exchange for the battery, maybe I just caught a bad rep?
I love this phone and all it's features and prefer this over the iPhone but I feel like i'm being forced to just purchase the iPhone 4s.

dMeeech said:
I've been experiencing identical issues with my T989. I've had terrible battery life without many apps running in the background (as I use the stock task manager to execute all running apps). I've finally decided to root my device and install a 'set cpu speed' app. Even though I've set my minimum cpu speed to 200 MHz and max to 800 MHz it's still lasts for a maximum of 4 hours until I get the "Battery is critically low" message.
Does samsung provide warranty for their batteries? Because I've called to complain about battery life and they asked me to remove the battery and send the device itself so they could repair it. And under no circumstances would they offer me an exchange for the battery, maybe I just caught a bad rep?
I love this phone and all it's features and prefer this over the iPhone but I feel like i'm being forced to just purchase the iPhone 4s.
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4 hours is much better than what I get... I get like 2 hours max. This is my 3rd phone and I have 6 different batteries ans 3 different chargers so...Idk what my issue is either.
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Need battery tips for 6+ hrs screen time

Hi guys using wicked with trinity 7b. See a few people posting 2 days on one charge and over 6 hours screen time. Would like to know how as i cannot get anywhere near that. I use system tuner, odex my Rom and kill my tasks whenever possible. I use lh2 modem.
Anyone with huge battery time please help us out here. I'm sure many of us would like some help. Also if you tweak your build.prop press share that.
Looking for details. I'm not a noob
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They are not using the stock battery. If you want battery like that, buy an extended battery. That is the only answer.

What I find most telling in many of these screen shots is that Device Idle and Cell Standby are almost always in the top.

Woodrube said:
What I find most telling in many of these screen shots is that Device Idle and Cell Standby are almost always in the top.
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Cell standby is actually lying. It was coded with a decimal in the wrong place and so it shows that it uses a lot more than it actually does. Purely cosmetic really, but can be annoying when testing battery issues.
Edit: many custom roms have corrected this btw.
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No it's on stock battery. I get about 5 hours now looking to take it to a higher level. Pun intended
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DocHoliday77 said:
Cell standby is actually lying. It was coded with a decimal in the wrong place and so it shows that it uses a lot more than it actually does. Purely cosmetic really, but can be annoying when testing battery issues.
Edit: many custom roms have corrected this btw.
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Ya, I saw that before. There is a zip floating around here somewhere that moves it from .34 to 3.4 and fixes it. But you're right that most custom ROMs have this (Cell Standby) fixed.
I just mainly think that Device Idle even being in the top 3 or 4 is a very telling sign that the phone is not being used very much.

Install the easy battery saver app.

I hate to be the jerk... but OP has spammed every rom thread nearly bugging about screen time. Nowadays its hard to get 6+ hours of screen time. Maybe switch to an older, dumber phone with not as sexy as display and you will have better luck. Or carry a spare battery... or strategically place chargers in common spots.
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GalaxyS3Guy said:
I hate to be the jerk... but OP has spammed every rom thread nearly bugging about screen time. Nowadays its hard to get 6+ hours of screen time. Maybe switch to an older, dumber phone with not as sexy as display and you will have better luck. Or carry a spare battery... or strategically place chargers in common spots.
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Do i here snake Nokia phones?
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Im running liquid smooth and ktoonz kernel overclocked to 2.1ghz With max brightness here's my results
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shehade08 said:
Im running liquid smooth and ktoonz kernel overclocked to 2.1ghz With max brightness here's my results
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This isn't a battery screenshot thread. You charged your battery anyways.
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The only way i could probably make 6 hours screen on time would be to lower brightness all the way down, turn off data whenever Im not using it, turn of autosync, underclock and undervolt. But then what would be the point of me having such an awesome phone
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Because you CAN.
elflip88 said:
The only way i could probably make 6 hours screen on time would be to lower brightness all the way down, turn off data whenever Im not using it, turn of autosync, underclock and undervolt. But then what would be the point of me having such an awesome phone
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I do all those things (-underclocking and undervolting), and more, because I don't need most of this on all the time, and my screen time is great. Plus, I bought a 4400mah extended battery & get 4-5 days on a single charge.

Then u need an old nokia.

joshnichols189 said:
This isn't a battery screenshot thread. You charged your battery anyways.
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When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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shehade08 said:
When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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Screen shots are great guys. I do want to see them. Most importantly trying to see if there are deeper settings and apps to freeze or avoid and tweaks to build.prop etc.
Rom and kernel and modem used would be helpful.
Also, you did charge but the timer will only reset when you fully charge the phone.
sgs3 : wicked v6 Rom : uv : odexed : trinity

shehade08 said:
When you plug you phone in the charger the hours reset, my screenshots were to show that its not impossible to get 6+ hours, if I under clock and turn everything off I can probably get that.
The liquid smooth ROM has amazing battery life, you should give it a try I think you will like it.
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That's not true.. I just plugged mine in and the hours did not reset. I think they only reset after you hit in he high 90s
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Crisisx1 said:
That's not true.. I just plugged mine in and the hours did not reset. I think they only reset after you hit in he high 90s
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Oh really? Mine seems like it resets automatically...I guess I don't pay much attention to it
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This is most I can get with everything normal on ( data, sync, and music) I can reach six but I would have to under clock to 1.3-1.2ghz and turn off data.
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Post your battery life

Running ics anakonda today
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FreeGS3 rom Ktoonz kernel Ktoonservative governer using freecharlesmanson gverner tweaks, Undervolted by a large amount (1512= 1050 mv and 96 = 800 mv) also minimum is 96 and max is 1512.
I use my phone as usual reading emails I have push mail on always and also i have facebook checking in every hour and also a voicemail app checking in every 30 minutes, I browsed the web a bit googling information. Im not much of a talker so talk time would be low (Its 16 minutres and 4seconds). Also the place I work in has very varied reception some places being completely 0 bars no service to some areas giving 4 bars but mostly low reception.
This is all to give an idea of how I used my battery. Im sure if I had it lying in a corner with data off and not using it all it would probably last a week.

CM10 stable release. No battery saving options on. Most of my syncing is turned off except gmail and contacts. Screen is at 60%.
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Rawr.

cbass15 said:
Rawr.
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I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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GiantJay said:
I can get this too when I charge my phone like you did..
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I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.

cbass15 said:
I charged it for not even 10 minutes...only because I thought I was leaving..My bad for a tiny charge..still amazing battery life IMO.
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It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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Damn. I meant to take a screen shot yesterday.
All day at home on wifi, AOKP stock. After 14 hours I still had 55% left

GiantJay said:
It is. I knew you only briefly charged it but it looks bad.
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It does look bad.

That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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daniel4653 said:
That charge is like 15-17% that's a lot for 10 mins Lol
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Was more like 5-10% sir still take that away, and you still have amazing battery life

Cbass what rom/kernel are you on?
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Stock unrooted. Loving this :
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Anakonda rom. Juice defender enabled, all syncs on, windows 7 launcher, no wifi in house , Mediocre service.
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Odexed Blue Holy Grail v2.0 LJ7
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Back up, working with a MONSTER.

Damn is that extended battery?
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I, personally, don't focus on battery life at all. I run Bluetooth all day, listening to my music, play games on it during my lunch hour and other times throughout the day and send texts/emails off and on all day, and it's down to about 40% by the time I leave work on a normal day. That's unplugging at around 7:30AM, and leaving work at about 5-5:30PM, so that's about 10 hours mid-heavy consistent usage.
To me, as long as I get my full day out of it, I'm perfectly content with it. I don't need my device to be a battery warrior, I need it to be a power beast and do what I want it to do, when I want it to do it. I personally dislike apps like Juice Defender and those that disable radios and data on me. I also don't like using CPU scripts to limit the CPU, undervolt it and all that. To me, it just seems contradicting to buy a powerhouse like the S3 and then strip away it's best and most powerful features. I also don't like the small influx of bugs that arise when you start doing things like disabling data and limiting the CPU/voltage. I like my smartphone to be as smooth as possible, all the time, without any hitches/bugs.
I'm a very heavy user and rely on certain notifications as they are sent out, so extending the battery by an hour or two is the most I could hope to gain by using these apps/scripts, and the level of frustration that come with them when I get syncs late or things are sluggish isn't worth it, imho.
Don't take that the wrong way, I'm not saying they are bad apps at all, nor are the CPU scripts completely pointless. I would give them a high rating if asked, because they do their functions well. I'm just saying they don't work for the way I use my device.

2nd day on Goodness 7.03 with the stock kernel, considering my average use it's pretty sweet by the end of the day.
P.S. loving the goodness, has to be tied with wicked sensations for #1 rom in my book
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Battery life, just saying...

For SGS3, out of the box, the battery life is ok, not something to write home about. Yet, if you get rid of the bloatware, freeze some applications you don't intend to use on daily basis you can end up with more than 24 hours of battery life for sure.
Check the attachment and let me know how's yours looking like. I'm curious.

Not to mention use a custom kernel, low screen brightness, turn off auto sync and try to get inverted apps.
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I get ~4 hours of screen on time on stock without really messing with anything. Rarely am I below 30% by the end of a typical day, so it works fine for me.

I get pretty good battery using both touch wiz and liquid smooth 4.2.2
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md1008 said:
I get pretty good battery using both touch wiz and liquid smooth 4.2.2
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Can you please define "pretty good battery"? That's a bit fuzzy. Do you have a picture to prove that?
From you what you see in the attachment of my initial post, I do have close to 8 hours on battery and the current level is (was) at 65%. Indeed there was some charging during the day but I don't count that because I was using the GPS location. This being a battery intensive operation, I didn't count it in.

For me its good enough but me thinks I may delete my wp8 launcher. Everyone has their own standard of what's good and bad battery life. For me I am happy of I can make our most of the day on a single charge which I can. Buy a bigger battery or a spare. Check if any applications are causing drain. Check your settings like GPS, Bluetooth, auto sync etc.
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Sorry OP, already one of these threads open. Check it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29341302
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