So like everyone else my battery life sucks. No big deal. I bought the extended battery from Sprint, and I can see the battery diminish in front of my eyes. I mean dropping 1 percent per minute. Is there a way to test the phone to see if it is the culprit?
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ther are lots of ways to check things. does it drop 1% a minute all the time meaning you only get 100 minutes? does it only do it when you take it off the charger at 100% where ti will drop to any where from 99-90% in a matter of minutes?
if the later then thats normal and is because the phone doesnt have a trickle charge. this means that the phone charges your battery to 100% then stops however the indicator on the phone will not change it will still show 100% once the acctual power reaches 90% the phone then charges again up to 100%. what this means is once you take your phone off the pwoer if it has been sitting there even if it says it is at 1005 it can be any where from 90-100% which the battery quickly changes to over first few minutes.
If it happens past 90% and all the time then something is wrong and you likely have at least 1 if not more apps running wild on you, you have things set to sync constantly, and you have everything under the sun turned on for your phone.
for apps the paid version of system panel is very nice for monitoring you can go to monitor top and top apps and see which apps are using the most battery/cpu.
witht he information you have given that is aobut the best i can tell you. I would not say everyone has crappy battery life with the evo as i have slowly gotten my phone set up and now with moderate usage i can get 14-15 hours and at least 8-10 with very heavy usage(stock battery) which i dont consider to be crappy battery life.
I appreciate the response, and I forgot to add that I'm running stock unrooted sense. This is not my first Android phone so I know about battery managing. I don't have everything sync every two minutes nor do I have everything turned on. It does drop rather quick even past 90 percent. I think it might be the phone it self. I doubt I got 2 bad batteries, one being extended. I'll see if I could get a device swapped out.
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My first EVO was like that. It drained quickly shortly after charging. I could never figure it out. Till one night before going to bed, I noticed something weird about the bottom keys on the phone. They were " very dimmly " lit. The home, menu, return, search were all dimmly lit. It was I believe a defect in the phone. I got it swapped out. No problems like the 1% drain since then.
I have noticed that every time I load a new Rom on my phone (including a wipe) my battery life is awesome as long as I let the phone get down to about 2 percent before recharging. As soon as I charge the phone without the battery almost dead the battery life on the phone starts to suck. This leads me to believe that there is something written to flash memory when you plug the charger in. For a while I had noticed that if I plug the charger in in the middle of the day due to heavy usage that my battery life sucks for a week or so afterwards then slowly goes back to normal after regular charging before I go to bed. Under normal charging conditions (plug it in when I go to bed) I can get about a days worth of charge. This is a stark contrast to the 2 plus days I get out of the phone after a fresh ROM load is loaded and I let the battery almost die before charging it in.
Anyone else observe this or have any idea whats going on that can be causing this. Maybe its just a simple matter of finding the file and deleting it. And yes I have tried doing a jump charge and wiping the battery stats. It doesn't give the same results as a wipe of the phone with a new ROM.
My battery seems good if i do this...
Install new ROM or not, just charge phone while i sleep (usually from 12am-530am) up and at work, coverage sucks in the building so i constantly switch from 1x to 3g ... battery life drains and i will be dead by 12 - 1230pm If i leave it on charge from then until i hit 100% (usually 30 minutes after) i take it off and head out of work, ill last all day and end up at 12am again with at least 60%
This is all heavy usage. Pandora stays running, facebook and plenty of texts/emails. My phone will never sit still without any activity for 2 minutes.
Switching kernels is the thing that saved my battery with now my kernel is 2.6.32.32-ck2-BFS by ziggy
awesome battery life out of the stock HTC battery
It could be different phones handle the same rom/kernel differently too. I noticed this when i was running a blackberry storm 2. Both mine and my brothers, we would have the exact hybrid OS installed. let em sit idle after having done the exact thing....mine would drain a lot faster than his. could be phone vs phone in the same case as i mentioned, who knows? what rom / kernel you running?
Sorry man but I don't understand your post. The sentence where you explain what you do doesn't make any sense. Can you explain again.
I'm running Cyanogen 7 rc2 with the stock kernel that comes with it. I don't believe its possible to change the kernel on Cyanogen.
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Sorry man but I don't understand your post. The sentence where you explain what you do doesn't make any sense. Can you explain again.
I'm running Cyanogen 7 rc2 with the stock kernel that comes with it. I don't believe its possible to change the kernel on Cyanogen.
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You can use whatever AOSP/GB kernel you want.
So its been a while since my last update but I wanted to pass along some more observations in hopes that someone can tell me how the power system works on Android phone.
For quite some time I have been able to use my phone for 2 full days before it required a recharge. This came about when I loaded Cyanogen 7 on my phone from scratch. As long as I charged it every 2 days the phone would have no problems lasting for two full days.
Two weeks ago I got stuck at a car dealership for about 8 hours. I passed the time by reading books, playing angry birds and surfing the net on my phone. About 7 hours in my phone was at 2 percent. I plugged the phone into someones charger and charged it for an hour or so so I would have a phone for the drive home. Ever since then my battery life has sucked. For a while I could barely get a full day out of my phone before it would die. I'm getting about a day out of it now which is acceptable I suppose but Its disappointing since I know the phone is capable of so much more.
So seriously what is the deal with the charging system on this phone? Why is it the phone has excellent battery life only after the phone is wiped and fully discharged before it is plugged in again? If a wipe of the phone fixes the battery what is it about the whip that does the fixing? Can it be reproduced without wiping the phone?
Come on guys. Someone out there is smart enough to figure this out. Hook us up.
It'll constantly recalibrate after you flash, so no real need to do the full discharge unless you really want to. If you don't do it then it'll get stable and better accuracy after a couple of weeks, but yes when you first flash a ROM it'll have sketchy battery life.
The battery is charging fine but your phone is still trying to determine how big your battery is, so it may not fully charge all the way. The quickest way for your phone to determine how big your battery is, is to drain it all the way down then charge it all the way back up. Some say this is potentially damaging to Li-Ion batteries. Personally I don't do it because of that, but if you chose to not do a full drain, your phone will figure out your battery size it'll just take a longer time for your phone to do it.
The actual battery life you get on your phone varies hugely on (in order):
1) amount of CPU you're using
2) data usage
3) reception strength
4) Screen brightness
So that in itself will cause some drastic day to day difference in battery life.
With all that being said, the battery life you're not getting during the inaccurate gauge period isn't that much. If you're someone who needs every last minute of battery that you need to have them right away, then personally I would suggest doing some other things such as under-volting your kernel and lowering your clock speeds.
First, my setup:
- EVO 4G hw rev 0004
- Fresh EVO ROM 3.5.0.1 (basically not a whole lot more than a rooted version of latest OTA)
- netarchy havs more no sbc kernel 4.3.4
- stock 1500 mah battery
- stock charger
So I reset my battery stats on last Friday (it's now Monday) in the recommended fashion (charge to 100%, get as close to 4200 mv as possible, wipe stats, unplug phone, use until dead). I charged my phone overnight last night to 100%. Unplug from charger. Get on the subway to work. I have service in the subway stations but not in the tunnels. I'm listening to music on the subway the whole way. Phone gradually gets warmer and warmer. By the time I get to work, the battery reads 59%. The entire subway ride takes 45 minutes.
So in 45 minutes, my phone dropped 41% of it's battery charge. This seems unreasonable to me, even given the fact that I was going in and out of service and listening to music. I'm beginning to think my battery is dying/going bad (especially given the amount of heat generated by the battery). Before I complain to sprint or buy a new battery, I wanted to get some feedback from other EVO users who have maybe had similar experiences.
So does this 41% in 45 minute battery drain seem normal or abnormal, given the conditions states above?
I believe the reason why your battery is dying and getting hot is because it keeps looking for signal. Next time you charge your phone and get on the train put your phone in airplane mode and see if that helps at all. I know in my house before I got the airave i barely got any signal which was hurting my battery life.Then once I got the airave and always have full 3G the battery draining problem was gone.
I mean yeah I get that, but 1% per minute average? Really? That seems a little ridiculous.
Anyone out there willing to stick their phone in a lead box or some other service-less place for 45 minutes and see if you lose 1% per minute?
Absolutely possible. Searching for a signal uses a ton of battery, hence why your phone is getting hot. The phone can easily drop 1% per minute when searching.
Simple solution: turn airplane mode on while in the subway, turn off when you get out.
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When I was on CM7 without working GPS, my phone would get freakishly hot if GPS was turned on. The battery would drop about 1% per minute as well. I have working gps now on MIUI and while the phone gets warmer, it's nothing close to what I was seeing on CM7.
I guess yours could be something similar.
I would like to recommend an app from the market called juice defender. It works wonders. Just get the free version (not the beta) and set it to balanced which is the lowest setting. It saves me so much battery.
Its bound to come up.
For the week prior to the shipping of the pre-order units, conversations with AT&T reps were almost always the same. Love the phone, I moved from iPhone to this phone, its dam fast, the battery sucks.
I got my phone Friday morning around 10ish. I charged fully, went to AT&T to swap my chip over and I let the battery drain. Since then, the battery life is barely tolerable.
I use the same process all the time on all my phones. No charge until I go to bed at night...usually 11. I take it off the charge when I wake...usually 5ish. I read the news, etc for the next 20 minutes. I then go to work, charging until I get to work. I arrive at work around 7ish, with a full charge. And I go all day. Even on weekends I do this.
The Lumia 900 battery was not lasting through the day.
I go to plug in the phone last night, and I noticed its almost fully charged. I checked to see if this was my phone, which is stupid becase we only have 1 lumia.
So this morning, my usual routine, phone was fully charged and off the charger at 6:45. Its now 9:20, so ~2.5 hrs. The charge is at 98%. I know it gets better with time, but it usually takes a week or so....this is good news for battery hounds.
Day 5:
6 hours off the charger
Tons of email and messages
about 1 hours of Peoples tab and Internet
2 15 minutes phone calls
Battery at 79%
Is that good?
Ok, finishing my 8 hr day, well, actually 9 hrs. Came in the door at 100%.
Phone Calls: 4 for a total of 1 hr.
Text/Messaging: Alot, in the hundreds.
Social/Internet viewing: about an hour.
Battery Charge out the door: 66%
I guess that works for me.
Sounds like it. My focus would have been at 50% by then.
Everywhere I read says the battery types in our phones do not have memory and do not need primed. That said I was in panic mode yesterday when I picked it up from At$t. Phone stated it was at 15%, I drained it setting up the phone and finished it off with WPBench. It only took about 1.5 hours for it to say it was 100% charged with 1 day 15 hours till needing recharged. Once off the charger I made a call to my mom to see how I sounded. Call lasted about ~8 minutes. Once off the phone it said I had 79% charge left. This was around noon. I was able to make it to 830pm with 9% charge left, that's when I connected it to the charger.
Today, a full day of work, with an office inside a warehouse (horrible connection 1 bar'ish) I listen to music stored on phone via the phone's speaker at level 1 (same as level 10 on my Focus) for 8+ hours and played Wordament a few times and had about 30 emails, 17 text messages. I have 3 active background tasks, and 18 advance background task. I'm home now with 23% (2 hours remaining, 11 hours since last charge) charge remaining. All %'s and time is from the battery saver tab of the phone.
I'm still undecided on the phone's battery life. I suspect that a firmware update may be needed like the 800 to fix the accuracy of battery meter on the NL900.
I would like to hear from others and to see this become a thread in progress to help decide if the phone is displaying the correct information concerning the battery.
P.S> Turned phone off and back on, it now states 32% remaining (4 hours). I think the phone will need a firmware update to stabilize the battery meter.
It goes through the same routine as my Surround, and so far today, and my battery is at 61% where my Surround would have been <30%. Whether it was just old, bad hardware, whatever... My Surround had terrible battery life. This phone is much better by comparison, which exceeds my expectations.
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It goes through the same routine as my Surround, and so far today, and my battery is at 61% where my Surround would have been <30%. Whether it was just old, bad hardware, whatever... My Surround had terrible battery life. This phone is much better by comparison, which exceeds my expectations.
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Good plan...better than my last phone, Check! End of Checklist.
I have noticed that the battery life is no where near what I expected based on all the reviews and threads I am reading about it being great. I hope it gets better over time given that its only 4 days old.
I charged the phone fully overnight and took it off the charger at 9AM. I have taken a short 5 minute call, sent a few texts, 10 minutes of browsing the web. I have 2 email accounts set to push (outlook and gmail), bluetooth off, wifi on, signal is a little weak in the house so I'm sure that diminishes the battery some due to the radio having to poll for the signal all the time. As of right now I am at 11%. That's 8.5 hours of minimal use.
One thing I noticed is that I do see, when viewing the Battery Status page in the diagnostics tool, the current discharge seems to get pretty high without touching the phone. It will go from 100 mA to approx 600 mA, hover around 300 then back down to 100 mA and repeat this cycle over and over.
Can it be that push is not set up correctly with Gmail? On the iPhone I remember having to set it up as an additional exchange account to get push to work correctly.
Coming from the iPhone 4S, I'm getting less battery with the Lumia. I'm fairly certain it has to do with my phone swapping from 4G to LTE all day long while I'm at work, even though when I have LTE reception its full bars. Hopefully a firmware update comes out that will either fix this issue or let me turn off LTE entirely.
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Coming from the iPhone 4S, I'm getting less battery with the Lumia. I'm fairly certain it has to do with my phone swapping from 4G to LTE all day long while I'm at work, even though when I have LTE reception its full bars. Hopefully a firmware update comes out that will either fix this issue or let me turn off LTE entirely.
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LTE can't be switched off manually ? I assume its a similar situation with GSM/HSDPA switching up all the time.. it drains my battery as well, so that is why I keep it locked on either EDGE or HSDPA. There should be an option to turn off LTE if you don't need it, especially considering AT&T's LTE coverage isn't all that good yet.
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Coming from the iPhone 4S, I'm getting less battery with the Lumia. I'm fairly certain it has to do with my phone swapping from 4G to LTE all day long while I'm at work, even though when I have LTE reception its full bars. Hopefully a firmware update comes out that will either fix this issue or let me turn off LTE entirely.
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I think that's my issue as well. At home for some reason I get a very weak signal (1 bar of 4G) and I think its burning a lot of juice trying to maintain the signal. About a mile away from the house I get full bars on LTE.
I am loving the battery life on the lumia.
Then again I was using the skyrocket before this..
I've used both my 4s and lumia today.
iPhone's at 63%
Lumia's at 70%
The only thing that kills my battery is internet sharing (duh).
Nokia is Battery god
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My Lumia is clearly having issues with battery calibration- could someone help me out with a test?
With all my other Windows Phones, if the battery runs down, the phone gracefully goes to about 2-4% (as shown in battery saver) and displays "goodbye" and shuts off. This is what is supposed to happen. With my Lumia 900, it goes to 0% and I get about another 30 minutes or so of heavy usage (in my case, streaming video/downloading apps/etc). The Lumia then just shuts off. No "goodbye", just straight to black and needs to be plugged in.
Can someone run the battery out on their 900 and tell me if they get a graceful shutdown or not? Clearly, my battery is showing much more depletion than actually exists, and I'd like to see if this is unique to me.
Thanks!
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My Lumia is clearly having issues with battery calibration- could someone help me out with a test?
With all my other Windows Phones, if the battery runs down, the phone gracefully goes to about 2-4% (as shown in battery saver) and displays "goodbye" and shuts off. This is what is supposed to happen. With my Lumia 900, it goes to 0% and I get about another 30 minutes or so of heavy usage (in my case, streaming video/downloading apps/etc). The Lumia then just shuts off. No "goodbye", just straight to black and needs to be plugged in.
Can someone run the battery out on their 900 and tell me if they get a graceful shutdown or not? Clearly, my battery is showing much more depletion than actually exists, and I'd like to see if this is unique to me.
Thanks!
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I ran down my Lumia last night, and it did NOT do a graceful shutdown.
For the record, I think my battery life has been fantastic. Yesterday was day 2 for me, so I've still been playing with the phone constantly. My phone was removed from the charger at 7:30am, played with non-stop, (easily 4-5 hours of screen-on time, I'd estimate,) played about 2 hours of light gaming (words by post and doodle god,) and just short of 2 and a half hours of meetings over bluetooth. My phone didn't die until just after 11:00 last night.
Once my usage evens back out, I don't think I'll have any problem at all getting 2 days out of the phone.
For reference, my GSM Galaxy Nexus would have died in the same amount of time under normal (pretty light) use. My Lumia has been doing double-duty, as I'm usually using my Kindle Fire for bathroom breaks, and I've been using the Lumia in there, as well... So, I'm impressed.
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I ran down my Lumia last night, and it did NOT do a graceful shutdown.
For the record, I think my battery life has been fantastic. Yesterday was day 2 for me, so I've still been playing with the phone constantly. My phone was removed from the charger at 7:30am, played with non-stop, (easily 4-5 hours of screen-on time, I'd estimate,) played about 2 hours of light gaming (words by post and doodle god,) and just short of 2 and a half hours of meetings over bluetooth. My phone didn't die until just after 11:00 last night.
Once my usage evens back out, I don't think I'll have any problem at all getting 2 days out of the phone.
For reference, my GSM Galaxy Nexus would have died in the same amount of time under normal (pretty light) use. My Lumia has been doing double-duty, as I'm usually using my Kindle Fire for bathroom breaks, and I've been using the Lumia in there, as well... So, I'm impressed.
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doesn't the verge give that nexus god status? If so, you're blaspheming. Bravo on the battery life!
I happened to have been at the store to pick up some corporate devices. We're mostly an iOS shop with some Androids and Blackberries in between. I'm probably the only person that has a Windows Phone 7 device. Anyway, while I was there, I happened to bump into the Nokia rep for the store so we chatted for a bit and we discussed the device and what I like and don't like about it. He informed me that in order for the Lumia to get a full charge, you need to use the charger that came with it. Specially for the first 5-6 times. It apparently outputs at a different wattage then most charging devices and that any other charger will only charge the battery to around 70% even though it would show it at 100 on the screen. The Lumia charger will also bring the 900 to 90% charge from a dead battery state in about an hour.
For those experiencing the dismal battery life try charging with the Lumia charger instead of your other chargers. I was doing the same thing since I had tons of micro-usb chargers from my other device. I'm going to try now to see if what he was saying is true. YMMV
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I happened to have been at the store to pick up some corporate devices. We're mostly an iOS shop with some Androids and Blackberries in between. I'm probably the only person that has a Windows Phone 7 device. Anyway, while I was there, I happened to bump into the Nokia rep for the store so we chatted for a bit and we discussed the device and what I like and don't like about it. He informed me that in order for the Lumia to get a full charge, you need to use the charger that came with it. Specially for the first 5-6 times. It apparently outputs at a different wattage then most charging devices and that any other charger will only charge the battery to around 70% even though it would show it at 100 on the screen. The Lumia charger will also bring the 900 to 90% charge from a dead battery state in about an hour.
For those experiencing the dismal battery life try charging with the Lumia charger instead of your other chargers. I was doing the same thing since I had tons of micro-usb chargers from my other device. I'm going to try now to see if what he was saying is true. YMMV
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This is true with WP7 devices across the board, and especially true with Mango devices. Using the $1.95 amazon throw in car charger, doesn't seem to work.
I've been able to successly use the Dell Venue Pro and the Samsung charger interchangibly with all my devices with the same impact. Amazon special...not so much.
The Nokia's rep was a standard CYA response they always give, but in this case its pretty true. At the very least check the outputs on the charger you are using and insure its equal or better than the Nokia/Samsung ones.
Good Call out.
Battery is ok better than my dvp by a slight bit
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The Lumia Battery life probably drained faster than other phone because of its 4G - LTE capabilities. I actually have a blackberry and I usually used it for 2 days without charge. I now switch to Lumia and have the same difficulties to maintain the phone's battery life to maximum. I have been playing with my phones for several days and it last up till 7 p.m with 2 hours of browsing. 20 texts and emails, and also playing games for 1 hour and a phone call for about an hour.
I have an interesting perspective. I got the phone on Friday, and fully charged overnight. Saturday the phone lasted about 15 hours before it drained. I'm now traveling in Brasil, and yesterday after 15 hours I had 48% left. The big difference here is in Brasil there is no LTE, so I'm roaming on regular data, but used the phone for a lot of emails and texts.
I'm happy so far with the batter!
Just an FYI,
My 1st sprint GSIII was fine for the 1st month. I could get upto 3 1/2 days of battery with very light usage (mostly standby time). NOt sure what caused what happened next but the phone became extremely warm and the battery life dropped to approx. 2 hours. The phone was very warm even while off for hours!! And it obviously got even hotter while on the charger. The only way to get the phone to return to room temp was to pull the battery and leave it out for a few hours. Turning wifi/data/sync/GPS etc. off did nothing. The odd thing was, the battery was a normal temp. The heat came from the lower part of the phone (where the processor is). It also gave incorrect battery readings. While plugged in it would read "100%" and "charging" the LED stayed red, never turning green. I also could pull the battery and put it right back in and it would read 20-30 % difference VS. when I took it out.
The phone was swapped at a sprint store covered by insurance.
The only thing i did differently usage wise was link the phone to my dropbox account. It seemed to sync normally so i can't confirm dropbox caused the issue. I just can't figure out what the phone was "doing" while it was off. Just thought i'd share the story with the phone. The new 1 is running fine.
I found this today. Appears to be helpful with heating up and improved battery life.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1790061
Let me know what you think.
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This doesn't sound good at all. My cousin's GII on AT&T did something similar to this. The phone would be completely turned off and it would vibrate every 10 minutes. Even pulling out the battery and reinstering it made it automatically turn back on and vibrate again and again.
Hopefully this is an isolated issue what you are talking about.
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Just an FYI,
My 1st sprint GSIII was fine for the 1st month. I could get upto 3 1/2 days of battery with very light usage (mostly standby time). NOt sure what caused what happened next but the phone became extremely warm and the battery life dropped to approx. 2 hours. The phone was very warm even while off for hours!! And it obviously got even hotter while on the charger. The only way to get the phone to return to room temp was to pull the battery and leave it out for a few hours. Turning wifi/data/sync/GPS etc. off did nothing. The odd thing was, the battery was a normal temp. The heat came from the lower part of the phone (where the processor is). It also gave incorrect battery readings. While plugged in it would read "100%" and "charging" the LED stayed red, never turning green. I also could pull the battery and put it right back in and it would read 20-30 % difference VS. when I took it out.
The phone was swapped at a sprint store covered by insurance.
The only thing i did differently usage wise was link the phone to my dropbox account. It seemed to sync normally so i can't confirm dropbox caused the issue. I just can't figure out what the phone was "doing" while it was off. Just thought i'd share the story with the phone. The new 1 is running fine.
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What kind of signal are you getting?
Mine was like what you descrbed for a couple days(almost no signal at home) and I was getting ready to return it but didnt have time because I was leaving for Vegas. Long story short when I got to Vegas I upated profile and PRL and havent had a problem since. Maybe the towers in your area are under constrction.
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My phone has gotten hot ever since I got it, but it will cool down when I stop using it. I am getting horrible battery life even witha 4300 mah battery. today it wouldnt even last 11 hours. It had 3 hours total usage time on it. I am now trying another 4300 mah battery to see if that is the problem or if its the phone. my reg battery wont last me very long either. I am also using juice defender free version and advanced task killer plus the built in task killer and I cannot get my phone to last very long. With my orig Evo I had the sprint extended battery (2500? mah) and it last me til bedtime with 50% left.
The only time this happened to me was when an badly behaving app "ran away". I would get really bad battery usage at the same time. I could cure it by clearing ram, which shut down all the running apps. Since this hasn't happened to me in a while I'm guessing that whatever app was doing that to my phone has been updated to fix the bug.
My issue was very odd. My phone was normal lasting up to 3 days with very light usage. It would sit for hours at "room temp"..the only thing i did differently was link it to my dropbox accnt. It seemed to sync ok..it was shortly after that i noticed the phone was very warm towards the lower 1/3 of the phone. I thought maybe there was something running or taxing the processor. So after working on it for a few days(turning everything off i.e. wifi/gps/data/sync/etc etc.) the battery got worse and worse. I then unlinked dropbox, stopped all running apps and let the phone sit in airplane mode over night. Still no joy. So i turned the phone off and let it sit for about 6 hours. It was still "very warm" while off!! At that point I pulled the battery for about 2 hours and the phone returned to normal temp. What could the phone be doing while turned off for hours?
The phone was stock and updated. I use an airrave so i dont have signal issues. The processor seemed to be running at full load even while the phone was off. The battery life went from around 3 days to not even 2 hours. The phone did seem to have the known "cell standby" issue(where the counter is reporting an incorrect usage %). While charging, the phone was even hotter to the point of me thinking it would burst. Oddly enough, the battery was at a normal temp. It was no where near the temp of the bottom of the phone(where the processor is located).The new GS3 is running normally so far. The tech at the sprint store couldnt figure the old 1 out so they just replaced it(insurance/no charge).