Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete
petes67bird said:
Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete
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Are you in an area with bad cell reception? My time without a signal is always very low only a few minutes and thats just from the time it takes me to drive through the mountain pass to and from work.
At work I have very low signal but driving to work I have great signal. So today my phone has been on 1.5 hours before getting to work. Cell standby is 63% and time without signal is 51%.
Btw this is a replacement phone. My first one had gps issues. Ive had it 3 days but seems to have weaker overall signal.
Here are my screenshots. Should I get this phone replaced too. I swear my other phone had great battery life. I have barely touched this phone but it's only on its third battery cycle. Battery is at 82%. Opinions please.
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If its due to bad signal then that completely explains my battery. I have horrible signal at work
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If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.
popfan said:
If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.
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Can't turn LTE off currently.
That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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I would be happy if I got that amount of battery life. I can barely get 11-12 with normal usuage.
But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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Cell standby is caused by LTE searching, 4G Searching, GPS searching, and WIFI searching when it not connected.
So 70 % or more of my battery was used for searching for signal? That's pretty lame considering I keep everything off or disabled unless I'm using it. .... how does that make sense.
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I'm getting a semi high time without signal. Is it my area or a bug?
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Mines low. Might be the area?
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There was a bug in older phones, especially running 2.1. I had it with my Eris. I considered it a visual-only bug...meaning it didn't affect my battery life at all. You could tell if you had it because the Time without Signal would sit at exactly 50%.
From my limited use of my new DINC2, I don't believe it has this issue. So unfortunately it may be your coverage area.
To correct the TWS display, there was a fix involving airplane mode. This would drop the TWS number down after using the phone for awhile. As I said, I'm fairly certain it was inaccurate, as in my city I'm hardly ever without even a 3G signal. If yours is showing something other than 50%, then this bug is likely not the cause.
Mine is 1%.
Mine ranges from 6-24%..prob my area...ft riley Kansas....
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ttupa said:
There was a bug in older phones, especially running 2.1. I had it with my Eris. I considered it a visual-only bug...meaning it didn't affect my battery life at all. You could tell if you had it because the Time without Signal would sit at exactly 50%.
From my limited use of my new DINC2, I don't believe it has this issue. So unfortunately it may be your coverage area.
To correct the TWS display, there was a fix involving airplane mode. This would drop the TWS number down after using the phone for awhile. As I said, I'm fairly certain it was inaccurate, as in my city I'm hardly ever without even a 3G signal. If yours is showing something other than 50%, then this bug is likely not the cause.
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Yea I had that back in the day
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My time without signal is 0%, even though my bars and 3g indicator would say otherwise. My cell standby is only 7 minutes though. That may be a whole other problem all together.
devator22 said:
My time without signal is 0%, even though my bars and 3g indicator would say otherwise. My cell standby is only 7 minutes though. That may be a whole other problem all together.
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I believe doing certain things, such as rebooting your device, will reset the counters. It could be 0% since the last counter reset.
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+1
Dial it up...
Let us know if it (or anything) helps!
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Dial it up...
Let us know if it (or anything) helps!
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I did...it updated my prl..I just have terrible signal on my base..
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Sorry, but thanks!
Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
Here as well.
What ROM are you using?
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I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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What ROM are you using?
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I am using the stock rom.
owlchemist said:
I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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Yeah that's what it means. But why is it so high. My old HTC Aria only used about 15-20 percent battery for cell standby.
boom10ful said:
Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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Now i'm even having trouble staying connected to my 5ghz network. I'm literally standing right next to my router and the phone just drops the connection like every hour.
As you use other stuff those percentages go up.
IF you have had your phone on for 3 hours and done nothing with it then cell standby will be high as the stuff below it was used a lot less.
I ve had mine on the battery for 20 hours and cell stand by is 34%
If you were to say play a game for a long time then your game and screen would go up in time.
Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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RayTrue04 said:
Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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here it is.
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here it is.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here's what a normal cell standby looks like.
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Here's some info on it. They even tell you how to work around it. I honestly forgot about airplane mode. Brings back memories when I did it after every power up lol
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13744
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Cell Standby is a bug, easily fixed. Use the Flashable zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
Some ROMS may not have this fix included, but most does. If you see that you have really high Cell Standby try this out. Worked for me, I was on FreeGS3 and the version I was running didn't have it, now the lastest release has it included.
Now new problem. the phone turns on for 2 seconds and then turns off again. this is random though. Usually happens every 2 hours or so.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here you go.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here you go.
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Here you go.
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Lol it doesn't even show it! Maybe Samsung new about it so they just hid the time without signal from displaying on the cell standby
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here it is.
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im using wicked sensations v.1.... at the beginnig of his rom post post about mid way down the is a flashable cell stand-by fix... just fyi....goodluck
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Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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This is probably due to a well known bug on the Galaxy S III series, originally reported in the international version. The actual power consumption of Cell Standby is being overstated in the stats by a factor of about 10. This is a reporting issue, not an issue with actual power consumption. See this XDA thread.
It needs a fix from Samsung.
So I don't use my phone while I'm working or if I'm in class. When I'm in class I have just Pandora going but otherwise its nothing else. Cell standby uses 82% of my batter....
Sucks getting like 2 hours of acctual use and I cant get ics on my phone
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So I don't use my phone while I'm working or if I'm in class. When I'm in class I have just Pandora going but otherwise its nothing else. Cell standby uses 82% of my batter....
Sucks getting like 2 hours of acctual use and I cant get ics on my phone
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I had this problem while in training last year for my current job. The training room was a dead zone and the phone was working overtime to try to find a signal.
If you weren't relying on Pandora, I'd just recommend Flight Mode. Worked a treat for me. Maybe just try setting it to not use 4G while you're in class and see if that helps.
Nowadays, I have a 64GB SDXC card with about half of it loaded with music. Don't need TuneIn Radio (or other streaming options) unless there's a specific musical itch my collection just won't scratch.
Also, getting ICS on the 'unbreakable' AT&T phone was far easier than it sounded when just reading about it. Have a look at the various threads and just remember that 'Step 1.bat' won't tell you that it's succeeded. XD
EDIT: You know, I was just looking at that screenshot... 8 hours on the battery, and it's barely dipped at all, judging from the graph on top. '81%' just means that 81% of the drain was due to Cell Standby.
Yea it looks to me like your getting some good up time there. One thing I noticed with Pandora is the adds will cause a heck of a drain on battery and chews up quite a bit of data as well. I personally use a add blocker from the market and a app manager to keep stuff optimized. I also use a add free Pandora I found here on XDA but mainly for data reasons since I only have 3gb.
LTE can drain battery pretty good. Mine isn't as drastic as yours though.
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Today I went from 65% to 30% in an hour... I want ics! another question. Can we increase the limit on how large a video we can small? Gosms allows up to 5mb I think and the quality of the sms size is horrible to say the least.
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My battery wasn't that bad on GB lol. You must be getting terrible signal or something
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I live by a tower on campus lol
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I fixed it
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how lol
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how lol
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Set up jucie deffender pro to enable 4g only on a few apps 100% like Pandora the rest I disabled 100% or set to come on when I.open then and am looking at them 5 hours almost and im just hitting 69
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Figured I start a thread specifically for the T-Mobile variant. I will say that I'm pretty pleased with the battery life thus far. I hated having to give up the ease of some functionality just so my Samsung OG Epic 4G could make it through the day. Meaning, turning off bluetooth, live wallpaper, wifi, etc.
I feel like I haven't had to do that even though there is a battery saver mode already. I'm currently sitting at 54% and it's been a day since taking it off the charger.
I currently have all the bells and whistles going. Live wallpaper and facial recognition to unlock. S-Pen detection and the whole 9. Anyhow, just wanted to see what everyone else is getting.
I'd be happy with 6 hours screen on time
i had the galaxy s3 before the note 2 and i have noticed huge battery improvements
I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
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just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:
blazinazn said:
I was briefly reading through the manual and saw this:
Do not wait until your battery is completely depleted before
charging your device. Repeating this process of a complete
discharge and recharge can over time reduce the storage
capacity of any battery.
Pg 15
just thought I'd pass it along. I usually run my battery all the way down and let it die before recharging:
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dam thanks i was about to do a few full discharge and full charge again, thanks for the info.
I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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I'm not getting great battery life yet and have had the phone for over 24 hours since I picked it up yesterday morning. Can't pinpoint wjat could be draining it.
What do you guys think?
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My guess wouod be your cell signal. Lot of yellow in there. Weaker signal means more battery drain
Good point. At work I'm on wifi but when it's not it is on edge
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All I have to say is wow.
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All I have to say is wow.
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Total screen on time?
offdutyninja808 said:
All I have to say is wow.
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Looks like my battery life on my S3 with the Anker 4400mah battery!
Fairly light usage while I was at work. I always run power saving mode and auto dim.
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Heres my battery
Here's mine.
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Unbelievable. Its DOUBLE what I get on my note 1. This is the first time i can remember in years not changing a battery during a day.
I have had WiFi on most of the time.
I never thought I would see 14 hours.
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The battery life on this is simply amazing. I am still shocked to see how good it is. I tried everything today to run it down. Barely even used WIFI today. Basically all 4G. Screen brightness was about 50% at least all day. Never below as well. Crazy awesome battery
My battery life is insane. Ive used my phone nonstop all day and its still going. I should easily get between 8-9 hours of onscreen time.
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Im Impressed
Pretty impressive!
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Pretty impressive!
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Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Agreed graveghoul.. I cant kill this thing. This is near tablet like battery life.
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Me too. 6+ hours of screen time. No screenies at this time.
Not surpriesed though. Near tablet size should equal near tablet like battery life.
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Just got a replacement Epic from Sprint about a day ago. Looks new, probably refurbished. They replaced my old one because it started having some problems along with fast battery drain and inconsistent battery level readings on the device.
So I have my new device along with a new battery from sprint, and I thought all would be well but my new epic and new batter is still draining about 10% every 20 minutes with light use (internet browsing over wifi w/ lowest screen brightness setting). Also, when the phone gets to about 30 or so percent battery life it starts lagging and when I pull the battery or reboot it, the batter meter will read real low (like under 10%) once it powers back up.
I am rooted, I installed The Peoples Rom all according to the instructions from qbking77 on youtube just as I had with my last phone without problem.
I have calibrated the battery twice, and wiped the battery stats in recovery.
I was having these same problems with my last epic which is why I had it replaced. Now I have a new one and new battery and the same problems. How can I fix it?
Also not using GPS, Bluetooth, etc
Just wifi and web
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Just got a replacement Epic from Sprint about a day ago. Looks new, probably refurbished. They replaced my old one because it started having some problems along with fast battery drain and inconsistent battery level readings on the device.
So I have my new device along with a new battery from sprint, and I thought all would be well but my new epic and new batter is still draining about 10% every 20 minutes with light use (internet browsing over wifi w/ lowest screen brightness setting). Also, when the phone gets to about 30 or so percent battery life it starts lagging and when I pull the battery or reboot it, the batter meter will read real low (like under 10%) once it powers back up.
I am rooted, I installed The Peoples Rom all according to the instructions from qbking77 on youtube just as I had with my last phone without problem.
I have calibrated the battery twice, and wiped the battery stats in recovery.
I was having these same problems with my last epic which is why I had it replaced. Now I have a new one and new battery and the same problems. How can I fix it?
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Sounds like an application you are installing is the culprit. Search XDA for "better battery stats" and download/install that application. It will tell you what wakelock is your problem.
Wiping battery stats has been stated to do nothing to benefit the phone/battery/user. It's a placebo. (http://www.androidcentral.com/wiping-battery-stats-doesnt-improve-battery-life-says-google-engineer)
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Also not using GPS, Bluetooth, etc
Just wifi and web
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GPS and Bluetooth being enabled is fine. They remain inactive until a process calls that action; such as opening Facebook or Maps.
I don't have many applications installed. I installed the battery app just now, so now what do I do with it? How do I use this information?
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I don't have many applications installed. I installed the battery app just now, so now what do I do with it? How do I use this information?
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Play with the settings in the middle and last drop down menus to pick a duration of time and then toggle the top menu to see what's keeping your phone awake. usually "partial wakelocks".
Also, if you have a virgin install, then you can very well have a battery on its' last leg. We have an old phone, so it is very possible you have an old battery. Yes, even from Sprint.
If you don't see any outliers in BetterBatteryStats, then I'd suggest just spending the $12 or $20 on an Epic 4G Touch battery. That one is a 1800mAh battery, compared to our phone's 1500mAh and fits in our phone.
The only thing that seems to stand out is No or unknown connection (something like that) screen (which is always on lowest setting) and wifi (which I'm mostly connected to indoors) the battery that sprint sent me for the replacement is from the GS2 (that 1800mah that u were talking about)
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Here's a screenshot of the battery stats I just took. Its been about 20 minutes since I unplugged that phone, when I unplugged it, it was at 98%... I believe it was at 87% in that pic.
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Toggle the "other" drop down menu and select "partial wakelock".
Also, check your time without signal in: settings > battery > cell standby menu on your phone. Anything greater than 3% will be a battery drain.
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Ok here's screenshots of the things u asked for... all I've done since last post was browse a couple of webpages, and took a long shower lol
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Things seems normal from the screenshots. Could just be an old or bad battery. You could complain to Sprint about it, 50/50 chance on getting a free replacement.
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Ok I'll try that and hope for the best, are u sure there's nothing else i can check? Just to make sure?
Also, even if I get another replacement from Sprint, I may still go to Amazon or ebay... can you recommend any sellers or specific batteries... after market or OEM?
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nikon120 said:
Toggle the "other" drop down menu and select "partial wakelock".
Also, check your time without signal in: settings > battery > cell standby menu on your phone. Anything greater than 3% will be a battery drain.
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The cell standby percentage is, in fact, greater than 3%
hence battery drain.
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Ok I'll try that and hope for the best, are u sure there's nothing else i can check? Just to make sure?
Also, even if I get another replacement from Sprint, I may still go to Amazon or ebay... can you recommend any sellers or specific batteries... after market or OEM?
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I got mine off Amazon. I made sure I got an official Samsung battery (1800mAh). You shouldn't have any issues locating a few on there.
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Put your phone in airplane mode for 3-5mins, then take it off. Check and see if battery still drains.
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The cell standby percentage is, in fact, greater than 3%
hence battery drain.
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How can you tell?? What do I do to fix it?
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How can you tell?? What do I do to fix it?
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The screenshot you posted showed a cell standby percentage of 7%. I'm not sure what to do to fix it because it hasn't happened to me before.
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So I pulled out my old battery last night and put it in the phone, and allowed it to charge overnight. This morning I put my phone through its normal use. I've been on my old battery for a little over 30 minutes and have on dropped about 8% in this time. I still feel like that's a lot, but its better than 10% every 20 minutes on the "new" battery they sent. So I'm guessing this would mean it is the battery that sprint sent that's causing the problem?
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