Google Voice and Battery Life - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

In this thread, post your battery life and whether or not you use google voice.
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I hadnt even suspected google voice as being a problem. Ive added several apps that are big on energy but voice was added and configured at that time.
Id be interested in seeing how this turns out. Im at the point where 500ma chargers are useless i have to use 1amp like stock always.
This is what happened on a charger one day:
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RainMotorsports said:
I hadnt even suspected google voice as being a problem. Ive added several apps that are big on energy but voice was added and configured at that time.
Id be interested in seeing how this turns out. Im at the point where 500ma chargers are useless i have to use 1amp like stock always.
This is what happened on a charger one day:
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Dude, that is some HORRIBLE battery life... Unless you have a ton of screen on time there is something wrong. I run those same 21 hours without any charging and 3 or 4 hours screen on time at least...
Also I have GV installed

Remember thats over 33 hours on that screen shot. You can see how little the screen usage is. Its all running processes and nothing major was showing on the other page.
Right now im an hour in and still at 98 percent. One change though making IM+ do background push mode automatically. I removed Samsung Apps which is known to suck power but had no sign its push process was running.
The awake usage has gone say down since then thats for sure. Still cant rely on standard 500 ma usb ports and chargers like i used to.

I ditched GV a while ago because the early version I was,using was crushing my battery. Someone please prove me wrong and I will add my inverted or transparent version back ....
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JohnCorleone said:
I ditched GV a while ago because the early version I was,using was crushing my battery. Someone please prove me wrong and I will add my inverted or transparent version back ....
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Ill definitly keep my eye on it. Im going to bed so this round of battery life is a bit useless. 5 hours in with 1 hour of screen, awake times match the screen on times closely. down to 70% battery.
Doesn't seem like google voice was really a part of my issue.

RainMotorsports said:
I hadnt even suspected google voice as being a problem. Ive added several apps that are big on energy but voice was added and configured at that time.
Id be interested in seeing how this turns out. Im at the point where 500ma chargers are useless i have to use 1amp like stock always.
This is what happened on a charger one day:
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That is truly horrid battery life. Looks like you have major wakelock action there, considering your phone was basically awake the entire time without the screen being on the same time.
I'd suggest getting the betterbatterystats app (search for it on xda) and rule out that a rogue program is causing the wakelocks. You should be able to figure out if Google Voice is doing it with that program as well. Betterbatterystats really helped me out big time.

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6 hours screen on?

Sure sure it's with light use, but just the fact that it can hit 6+ hours screen time after more than a day and a half... sits pretty well with me.
No games, 30% screen brightness, 74 mins of calls, quite a bit of texting & whatsapp, 30 odd mins browsing, wifi 100%, sync on, only 1 widget.
aokp, lean kernel, undervolted, K6, extended battery.
Loving this phone!!!
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Not bad at all! Especially considering 74min of phone calls.
NICE!!! Can't wait till my extended battery comes in.
Nice. I've had my extended battery for 2 days now and I am seriously impresses ed with it. It on my drive home I'm at 65% instead of 30%. I really think the extended battery should of come stock.
I got a similar 6 hour in airplane mode. I was watching a movie while roaming on vacation.
Verizon stock rom. stock battery.
Even stock SGN makes wonders with battery on Wi-Fi But still your stats are truly amazing
OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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republitarian said:
OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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No, he didn't? Look closer on first screenshot. There is no sign of charging on those lines below the graph. Those places where graph line goes up are pretty normal and that doesn't mean device war charging.
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OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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There's no charging there.
Line is going up for a little, but that's normal and it often happens in my phone too.
republitarian said:
OP did charge the phone for a bit....like 3 times don't know for how long....but nonetheless amazing stats...
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Nah I didn't charge it at all, as the other guys pointed out. I remember my battery dropping to 4%, I then put down my phone and when I came back later on, it was reading 5%. I thought I was going crazy, but looking at the graph now I see it really did happen. It raised from 4% to 5% and stayed there for a bit before dropping to 4% again.
Anyway, I hope this wasn't a one off... it's not doing as well today with the same usage. We'll see...
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Not bad at all! Especially considering 74min of phone calls.
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Actually, the phone calls don't do much damage... You should be able to talk 11hours on this phone apparently...
I am very jealous. I am lucky to get 3-3.5 of web surfing.
With standard battery, you can get almost 11 hours screen on time (by doing nothing):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1366878&highlight=max+battery
So, that's the limit
My experience with extended battery, 2000 mAH, GSM, I could get 4 and a half screen on time with 61 hours stand by time. For sure, it can go down to 6 hours or more screen on time if I down the standby time. All with stock ROM, stok kernel, un-locked
It is not difficult to achieve that knowing the limit, all depends on how you set it up and how do you use your phone.

Battery jumping

Good day everyone, I've been using CM9 for awhile now and its been an awesome ride so far. Everythings been working almost perfectly. Recently, my batteries(stock one) percentage level's been Jumping up and down...a lot. For instance, I woke up to it (while off) having 100% on the indicator, turned it on, and it dropped to 51%, re-booted it to see if that'd help but it dropped again to 12%. This kindof things been happening for awhile and still with Alpha 2. Should I just get a replacement from sprint? Or is there a workaround.
Also, Music's apparently been taking up to as much as 40% of my battery usage even though If don't even have it activated at the moment. I've tried deleting the apk but it appears com.android..., I may just be being a noob, but any help?
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Jump" is typical when you don't power off completely and then power back on no work around other than turn it off leave the battery out for like 3 or 4 minutes and power it back up
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Try an app called bloat freezer or paid version of Titanium Backup and freeze music.
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Have you tried calibrating ur battery? Give that a try and see if that doesn't stop it completely.
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CASHVILLEBOS said:
Have you tried calibrating ur battery? Give that a try and see if that doesn't stop it completely.
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Apparently calibrating the battery according to some Android Engineer does nothing. The percentage you have left is directly related to the voltage of the battery. So if you are at 3.95 volts, that roughly corresponds to 50% with a range of 3.7 to 4.2 Volts on the battery. What the OP saw is the bbb...battery boot bug. If you are rebooting and you are lower than 70% do it while plugged into something. If it does happen as Biggie stated, simply remove the battery for a couple of minutes and reboot. It is a false report to the phone.
This has almost always been a issue for me when I flash anything new. It stays that way for until I deplete the battery, connect and leave connected til 100%, deplete the battery and follow the same process for about 3 full cycles and then all is well! Leaving battery out for a breather sometimes helps but I installed an app that has a widget and it keeps the regulating kinda monitered so I can be a little more at ease. Will post directly after this. But I also noticed that there have been times when the readout was a very low battery red [but I knew couldn't be true] and after I put it in airplane mode and didn't bother it for 5-10 minutes when I looked back again, battery would be yellow almost back to showing good and my battery stats show the levels increased. I think cm9 can't handle too much at one time anyways
Edit: that app I think is called battery info. Its pretty simple =) hope it helps! L8rz
Edit2: that app is listed in market as battery widget not battery info
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Did I get a defective battery?

Just got my s3 like a week or so. I made a mistake and not charge it initially (thought it was a myth). I used my battery all the way to 17%. Now my battery only average up to 2 hours screen on. My sister who also got the phone as the same time has about right hour screen on time. Did I screw up or it's just my battery being defective
EDIT: attached is the battery stats
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What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
mt3g said:
What's brightness set to, and what are you doing while the screen is on? You on WiFi most of the time?
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Well, when I'm in door, I use low brightness most of the time. Only when I'm outside I would use auto brightness. Since I'm in wifi zone most of the time, yes I do have wifi on. I mostly use my phone for twitter, web browsing, and youtube, nothing heavy like gaming or benchmark.
Hard to say if its defective but I've definitely seen a lot better battery. It might not hurt to try and get a new one.
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you should calibrate your battery a couple times once you get the phone. do it a couple times and it will fix itself. also check all your syncing settings. this phone will deplete a battery in 5-6 hours if fully charged and phone brightness is up all the way while watching videos.
Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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Calibrating batteries is a myth from the days of older battery technology. Draining your battery to 0 on purpose is actually killing your battery faster because you just used up one cycle.
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I think you're right
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There's a bug on stock that makes cell standby much higher than it really is. So I wouldn't worry too much about that.
Also, Google Chrome is a huge battery killer for some reason. Consider switching to a different browser?
Still having the original battery in my vibrant and getting 8-9 hour charges while killing the battery 100% and charging it up once a week does nothing? Same thing for my g2x. I get about 10-11 hours on the thing daily original battery as well. If anything and you're not rooted to delete battery stats, its a good thing to do a couple times. I don't think I have hurt the battery at all, and if anything they still last very long...
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A (HOPEFULLY) unique battery question for i747

Hey All,
As per the N00B video, I'll try to keep this short.
So today was my first full day with the SGS3 (ATT). The battery life is ABYSMAL. I had it in airplane mode for about 8 hours (for reasons not important to the thread) and light usage (Facebook/internet) for 20 min. With another hour or so with all radios on and no usage. Add all that up, and I went from 100% to 1%. Unlike most others, my biggest usage was Android System....Not screen. I am un-rooted. I've downloaded no different apps then with my previous Android (OG ATRIX). I had/have Lightflow on both. That's the only thing I can think of that would cause this.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I downloaded BetterBattery, and will have it running after I charge up my phone.
And if this is discussed elsewhere, my bad. Maybe point me in the right direction?
Okay, it is my opinion, only having had my 474 for a little over a month that you have a rouge app.... delete lighrflow. After that, see how it goes.
I have been using the stock rom for the entire time (rooted the day i got it) and have tried 2 roms. Ive tried juiced defender and that didn't
really yield great results. I'm not considering using the stock ROM with kootz or whatever it's called kernel. Ive read that that combo
yields better results with regards to battery life.
I'll post in the next few days. Need to run it for thru 3 charges to see results.
Anyone else care to chime in??
I've run Ultimatum 1.3 and Kylan.... admittingly, not long enough to see if battery life improved....
Yes_Ima_N00B said:
Hey All,
As per the N00B video, I'll try to keep this short.
So today was my first full day with the SGS3 (ATT). The battery life is ABYSMAL. I had it in airplane mode for about 8 hours (for reasons not important to the thread) and light usage (Facebook/internet) for 20 min. With another hour or so with all radios on and no usage. Add all that up, and I went from 100% to 1%. Unlike most others, my biggest usage was Android System....Not screen. I am un-rooted. I've downloaded no different apps then with my previous Android (OG ATRIX). I had/have Lightflow on both. That's the only thing I can think of that would cause this.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I downloaded BetterBattery, and will have it running after I charge up my phone.
And if this is discussed elsewhere, my bad. Maybe point me in the right direction?
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Use BetterBatteryStats and try to track down any wakelocks that are happening
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As others mentioned, do the better battery stats and un install light flow. I believe that the developer acknowledged the battery drain for the S III.
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Could be the gsiff-daemon bug. Try turning on Power Save and see if it helps. I normally get 15-17 hours per charge. That's with everything synching every 15 minutes, chrome browsing, Facebook checking, game playing, app downloading, and general reading.
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Android system % is really high.

I saw a post about this, but I can not find it now.
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The android system % is really high. For reference the screen time is at 2h 58min in that shot.
The post I saw about it mentioned a patch that fixed that in some phones? Just curious if there is something I can do to fix it and improve the battery life further.
This is on jedi xp9 with saber kernel.
What were you doing with the phone in that one hour? If nothing serious you have a battery leak problem. 31% for one hour is just not right. I used to install a calendar widget that causes leak like crazy, even after I un installed it. Had to do a hard reset to fix it.
1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.
Its just the only thing using battery. That's good. Youre getting phenomenal battery life. Trust me. When I posted my last message I didn't see a pic of your time stamp. Do math on total CPU usage of the android system. Also Google backup transport uses a good chunk. Disable that if you don't want it. (When flashing a new rom Google transports your old backup onto your device)
Anyhow here you go. Do the math and see how much battery life to CPU usage I would get verse what you got. If you are never using your phone the is and or system will eventually kill it. Using a larger percentage. It looks like you aren't even using your phone. 36 hours of battery is insane. Also note my screen was on just a little over 3 hours. (At minimal brightness always)
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Spoontain said:
1hr? The battery was at 1d 11h and some change, but yeah I am prolly going to do a clean install. I'm thinking maybe my titanium backup is goofed up.
Just wasn't sure if there was a system patch that was for that, I thought I had read that somewhere.
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Sorry my bad. But it still doesn't look right to me that your system is burning more battery than the screen.
It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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AlonB. said:
It seems like your phone was idle for the most part of that battery time. If so, then it's normal to show more android system usage percentage than other things, since there are background processes running. If that's the case, your battery drain is good, especially if you're 4g was on the entire time.
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Yeah I never turn the 4g off. Guess I was just miss understanding the post.
Yes the phone was idle a lot, normally is on my days off. During my work week im looking at 18-20 hours getting me to 60-40% and me charging it it before bed. Being in reinforced concrete buildings 2 stories underground causing me to the have a poor signal I figured that was pretty decent.
Anyway thank you guys for the information.

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