Can anyone tell me what this is that's killing my battery - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

Can anyone tell me what the heck is killing my battery here what's this media server crap. Heavy use music games and a movie. Stock non rooted.
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horr1blek1tten said:
Can anyone tell me what the heck is killing my battery here what's this media server crap. Heavy use music games and a movie. Stock non rooted.
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What is your screen on time? If it's 4 or more hours then this is normal.

I'm not worried about that and this is new the media server.
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If you stream music, or listen to music in the background while using other apps, that could be it. Surprisingly low battery life, I get mostly 12 hours with heavy use on full brightness.

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If you stream music, or listen to music in the background while using other apps, that could be it. Surprisingly low battery life, I get mostly 12 hours with heavy use on full brightness.
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Wow really? Do you think my battery is faulty? That's actually average battery life for me moderate use. At 50 brightness
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Here is the other Page maybe this ll help figure out why I have ugly battery life
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The fact that depletion is seemingly almost as fast as charging, I'll call a faulty battery. But your screen-on time is rather long at times, so that might lead to it. Try setting the brightness to automatic for a day, and see if that helps at all.

Post your screen on time and how long you were listening to music and stuff. Was it streamed or was it off your sdcard? Are you in a poor signal area or descent? Your awake bar shows you use your phone a lot or you have wake locks. Give us a little more info before you return the phone/battery.
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Post your screen on time and how long you were listening to music and stuff. Was it streamed or was it off your sdcard? Are you in a poor signal area or descent? Your awake bar shows you use your phone a lot or you have wake locks. Give us a little more info before you return the phone/battery.
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Timeout is set to 1 min. Music off my sd card poor service at least in my house I'm stuck on edge most of the time but I'm on wifi.
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5 hours on time is insanely good!

horr1blek1tten said:
Timeout is set to 1 min. Music off my sd card poor service at least in my house I'm stuck on edge most of the time but I'm on wifi.
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Dude if you have 5+ hours of screen on time your battery is good.

Crisisx1 said:
Dude if you have 5+ hours of screen on time your battery is good.
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FF02 Battery life?

I'm getting horrible battery life. Did a clean flash of ff02 right after it was leaked. 100% to 4% in 4hrs25mins. Anybody else getting this? I use it pretty heavily but it's still under 3hrs screen on with brightness at minimum.
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Using data uses a lot of battery too. How much data were you using when this happened? If you turn airplane mode on you'll likely get 6 hours of screen time.
Also, try removing bloatware. There's like 6 sns apps running in the background.
You don't by chance use the official Facebook app do you? That can get into a state where it will never allow the phone to sleep and will be constantly using %25 cpu.
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dberend said:
I'm getting horrible battery life. Did a clean flash of ff02 right after it was leaked. 100% to 4% in 4hrs25mins. Anybody else getting this? I use it pretty heavily but it's still under 3hrs screen on with brightness at minimum.View attachment 1116530
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Your screen was on the while time.... Duh
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Ascertion said:
Using data uses a lot of battery too. How much data were you using when this happened? If you turn airplane mode on you'll likely get 6 hours of screen time.
Also, try removing bloatware. There's like 6 sns apps running in the background.
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which ones did you remove?
ko's tweaks
not sure what rom ur running..but if its compatible with kobridge's batt tweaks, u should def check it out. I jumped on ff02 on venum's boa rom with the sf tweak and battery life is awweessooome!! and super fast!
Airplane mode would defeat the purpose of having a phone wouldn't it. I do use the Facebook app. I uninstalled it and will see if that helps.
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Alternatively, just hold down the home button and swipe it closed after you're done with it each time.
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jb8301 said:
which ones did you remove?
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All of them. I don't use Facebook or hardly anything that syncs often but removing sns apps made my battery better. Unsure of what appd to uninstall? Flash Calks bare from converter.
Turns out it was a bad battery. I'm now getting close to 10hrs total with 4hrs screen on time
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Did sprint replace it or did you buy a new one?
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I'm always seeing horrific battery life, very disappointing.
I bought an oem battery from eBay
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[TIPS] Lower Your Screen Power Consumption

Hello guys I wrote a guide that will help you improve your battery life because screen is the most thing that uses battery, here is a solution for all that, don't forget that the screen sensor for auto brightness is also taking lot of power.
enjoy
http://nexus-hacks.blogspot.com/2012/08/increase-nexus-battery-life-by.html
I like my tip better. Turn off your screen.
adrynalyne said:
I like my tip better. Turn off your screen.
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Tried this and it wasnt very much fun! :cyclops:
tgyberg said:
Tried this and it wasnt very much fun! :cyclops:
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But oh so effective!
I just keep my phone in airplane mode and brightness all the way down. I get great battery life.
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I just turn my phone off.. crazy battery life
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But seriously my tip works XD turning off screen or airplane or even phone off! is not so much fun lol
Trying it out now. Lowest brightness really is not low enough.
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miketoasty said:
Trying it out now. Lowest brightness really is not low enough.
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Cool finally someone agree !!!
Try and tell me ^^ you gonna be impressed, it's only good indoor tho or at night.
adrynalyne said:
But oh so effective!
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And once again you made me laugh hard :thumbup:
I think we tested screen filter current draw on the nexus one and it showed no difference since its a software solution only. The mA draw remained unchanged using it or not.
Anybody noticed the difference, its doing great here.
This doesn't strain my eye as much, but doesn't see much on battery.
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I've been using screen filters for a long time now. Great app!
Sounds interesting, I guess, but lately I've been thinking my screen is actually more dim than I'd like it to be. To be honest, I wish auto-brightness settings erred on the side of "more bright" rather than "less bright." There's probably a mod for just that, but I haven't really looked for it yet.
I managed 4h30m screen time on auto brightness, data on.
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lithid-cm said:
I just keep my phone in airplane mode and brightness all the way down. I get great battery life.
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At first I was like
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but then I was like
Just discovered screen filter. I can see my screen on time getting a lot farther now, thanks.
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Wow dude thanks I never realized how bright my screen was at its lowest setting
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So your tip is to install an app?

My battery...

I'm using CM9 beta 3.
Is this normal
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My battery life time is pretty bad with CM9...
But when I tested that, my battery was already dead (not working well)
I've ordered a new one. Because my battery lasts only about 10 minutes. No joke !
You should probably get a new one, or don't use CM9...
Because this isn't normal. Others battery lasts about 1-2 days on CM9. (saw some screenshots in this forum, with cm9 and 2 days battery lifetime, without charging)
Try to turn of your Data connection (if you have one) or try to use WiFi instead of Data Connection if possible.
What about display brightness? Turn it down on about 50% to save power.
Hope I could help you a bit..
Busted. said:
My battery life time is pretty bad with CM9...
But when I tested that, my battery was already dead (not working well)
I've ordered a new one. Because my battery lasts only about 10 minutes. No joke !
You should probably get a new one, or don't use CM9...
Because this isn't normal. Others battery lasts about 1-2 days on CM9. (saw some screenshots in this forum, with cm9 and 2 days battery lifetime, without charging)
Try to turn of your Data connection (if you have one) or try to use WiFi instead of Data Connection if possible.
What about display brightness? Turn it down on about 50% to save power.
Hope I could help you a bit..
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Hmm. Thanks for your help. I think i have problem with my battery
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AzizWahid said:
Hmm. Thanks for your help. I think i have problem with my battery
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I think so aswell, because I had the same problem..
I'm using CM9 Beta 3 ,, And for me battery is much good
(But after Calibrating Battery and 3x full cycle charge)
Check this for battery calibrating https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
And you may also check CPU Spy.. and see if your phone doesn't go to deep sleep : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&hl=en
spider2030 said:
I'm using CM9 Beta 3 ,, And for me battery is much good
(But after Calibrating Battery and 3x full cycle charge)
Check this for battery calibrating https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=en
And you may also check CPU Spy.. and see if your phone doesn't go to deep sleep : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&hl=en
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Umm. What is deep sleep?
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AzizWahid said:
Umm. What is deep sleep?
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Deep sleep is a process qhen your phone processor is ''stand by mode'' so it doesn't consume too much battery but all the phone's apps are still working. That is deep sleep with my version. If anyone could add more or correct me please do
Pressing "Thanks" button will be much appreciated if user's posts useful for you
Got it. Thanks
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heres mine for one day use stock 1850mah battery on vzw
Classic.
Bet you've never seen a battery this ****ty. This is daily. And I've tried everything. Beginning to think it's a hardware issue.
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This is mine after a 24 hour shift at work 3G/HSDPA mobile data, sync, GPS and WI-FI always on etc.
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Hey !
CarbonRom v1.5 beta
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Can get about a day and a half squeezed out with pretty regular usage throughout the whole day before charging the next night. Sky Rom
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My phone only charges to 85% and never resets, so I have to deal with this...
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yami951 said:
My phone only charges to 85% and never resets, so I have to deal with this...
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Haha this is cool
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Running CyanogenMod 10.1 I can get a couple of days with moderate usage.
My ROM "Blue Fear" with stock kernel..
Feels like Bravia Engine and Audio effects drains battery but I just love the sound quality on my ROM. .
+ the battery life!
manumanfred said:
My ROM "Blue Fear" with stock kernel..
Feels like Bravia Engine and Audio effects drains battery but I just love the sound quality on my ROM. .
+ the battery life!
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Sweet looking, but notsureifsrs about the battery life. 3 charges and only 4 hours of screen time isn't good at all.
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yami951 said:
Sweet looking, but notsureifsrs about the battery life. 3 charges and only 4 hours of screen time isn't good at all.
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I use flash player to watch movies from my nexus.
And I have listened music and I kept 3G on!
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Derping around, SoD, down to 15%
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I don't use my phone for long periods of time usually. Run cm10.1 and can get through a day and a half with typical use. This isn't a good representation but figured I post any ways. Just shy of 3 hrs screen on. Had to transfer some files to the computer hence the charging.
Location services off, sync off unless needed, auto brightness
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Media server battery drain issue

I have searched a few times for a resolution to this problem, but have been unable to find one that works. I have noticed that when the media server shows up under my battery stats screen I usually have an update waiting on play store.
Is there any way play store could be the cause?
In other posts I see people complaining of 10-20% battery consumption. Mine has hit up to ~70% battery consumption.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention I'm running 4.3 stock firmware non rooted.
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Turn your data off when you're not using it. But most likely it's an app causing a wakelock.
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Will try it out. Thank you
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Turning off data did not help, but the cause you mentioned is probably correct.
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Try this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rrr.android.mediaserverkiller
Use my settings , once you set thise settings , before exiting the app , hit kill server and see that helps
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Settings
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It requires root
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Saiya69 said:
It requires root
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Ah well I dont think theres away to get rid of that unless you root , thus reason I started rooting way back in og evo days lol
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Ok this may be a dead question, but something I would like to add. For the past two days I have not seen the media server in my battery stats. This is a shot of what I saw this evening. Which this is what I think my battery page should look like. I have not made any changes that would explain why it's not showing up. Any ideas or comments appreciated.
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Saiya69 said:
Ok this may be a dead question, but something I would like to add. For the past two days I have not seen the media server in my battery stats. This is a shot of what I saw this evening. Which this is what I think my battery page should look like. I have not made any changes that would explain why it's not showing up. Any ideas or comments appreciated.
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I've only noticed media sever when I ise streaming apps , loke Pandora , youtube and so on... have you used any of those apps ?
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Not today, not sure about yesterday. This is not the only time it has not shown up for a few days. I also have not had any app updates. I think it's like bilgerryan stated that something is causing a wake lock but I close out apps when I finish. And usually use avg task killer to kill most running tasks.
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