Ok guys, so i got my replacement siedio 3800, and after charging it initially for 12hrs, after I got it. The battery issue is still here. When the phone is not on, or standby, it is fine, however while using it, the % ofbattery life just keeps dropping, 1% every 2minutes about I timed it and averaged it. I checked GSAM 29.5% is used by apps, i have only 3g enabled, no wifi, bt, or gps. Plz help me get this fixed, same problem was with the Razr maxx. I am using Bamf JB rom. About to throw the stupid phone lol!
And i do have full 3g/4g, but only 3g enabled, with good signal strength
if you're saying it happens on your maxx as well... you have a app burning your battery
Find the app
Delete non essential apps
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god is the creation of people with nowhere left to turn
how do i find it? i am stock bamf jb , with gapps, thats all, and under battery, no apps are burning a lot, web browser was 6% was the most. and GSAM said only 29.5% of battery was apps
could it be google talk, or aim? i usually exit out of both when done. But google services is always on in running apps, but didnt want to disable, wasnt sure if that was for gmail. auto sync is off
thrgk said:
how do i find it? i am stock bamf jb , with gapps, thats all, and under battery, no apps are burning a lot, web browser was 6% was the most. and GSAM said only 29.5% of battery was apps
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What do you mean stock BAMF? BAMF is custom ROM and rooted... If you ARE rooted, easy. Download betterbatterystat from Play Store and see which app drains the battery the most.
is gsam the same type of app? It says apps are using 29.5% and browser is highest at 8%. I really dont want to pay $3 for the betterbatterystats
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is gsam the same type of app? It says apps are using 29.5% and browser is highest at 8%. I really dont want to pay $3 for the betterbatterystats
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then go back to stock. if the problems happens on stock WITH NO APPS, then you have a bad battery.
if it doesnt happen, you have a crappy app somewhere.
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is gsam the same type of app? It says apps are using 29.5% and browser is highest at 8%. I really dont want to pay $3 for the betterbatterystats
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If you don't wanna pay, you can still download it from xda. The dev offers the app for free for xda users.
Better...here it is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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I had the same issue on BAMF. I could still pull out about 2 hours screen time on my 2100mAh battery but while the screen was on I could watch the percent drop.
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How did you fix the issue? Also I disabled all extra apps so we will see. Otherwise does someone have a link to stock ROM image? Or another trick and tip
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is gsam the same type of app? It says apps are using 29.5% and browser is highest at 8%. I really dont want to pay $3 for the betterbatterystats
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Hello. That is why people invented .apk files. Just download a .apk file. It is what everyone does.
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usually bad/rogue apps wont show up on those battery apps. I remember i restored app settings/etc for dolphin from 2.3 to ics and that was the cause. Removing data/cache and the app itself removed the battery drain.
Do a binary search of apps (install half of them, if it drains then the culprit is in that half, if not in the other half, etc etc).
Try to disable as much syncing as you can, and definitely disable instant upload.
Betterbatterystats apk from the thread that deeren linked to. cpuspy might also help.
imo you should perform a reset and start over.....its faster
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Hello. That is why people invented .apk files. Just download a .apk file. It is what everyone does.
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Not everyone is self entitled enough to screw over some hard working devs, so your generalization justifying it is patently false.
Regardless, piracy and warez aren't welcome here. It's a quick and easy way to find yourself under the banhammer.
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How did you fix the issue? Also I disabled all extra apps so we will see. Otherwise does someone have a link to stock ROM image? Or another trick and tip
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I didn't.
Use WiFi when you can it what helps me. I am now on Affinity ROM and got 21.5 hours with 2 hours 45 minutes screen time. With the 2100 mAh battery. I am using the Glados kernel it came with and no tweaks to it.
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Trying to track down a rogue application is hard work, do it only if you feel like you're up for it.
Apps with good reviews and comments don't usually cause such a problem but checking per app reviews/ratings will take you, I don't know, maybe till you grow old.
Best thing to do is to reset everything and start light, with only a few apps, then install another batch of apps if there is no problem with installation of previous batch, this way you can find the culprit.
Good luck.
OK well I am back to 100% stock like suggested and charged my battery 10-100% overnight. Still losing lots of battery. 13minutes cut me to 94%. So it was the rom after 3hrs of getting back to stock. This is also my second siedio 3800 battery. What's next?
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OK well I am back to 100% stock like suggested and charged my battery 10-100% overnight. Still losing lots of battery. 13minutes cut me to 94%. So it was the rom after 3hrs of getting back to stock. This is also my second siedio 3800 battery. What's next?
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Wait, are you talking about battery drain while screen is on? If that's the case 1% ever 2 minutes isnt that bad
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EDIT: Please read this entire thread, there's some good info. Every phone and every situation is different, however it turns out my battery drain was the result of my phone not hitting "Deep Sleep". The culprit was my SD card, if you're experiencing battery drain after upgrading to ICS try removing your SD card and restarting your phone, use the app CPU SPY to verify your phone is now hitting "Deep Sleep". Again please read on, amidst some trolls there is more detailed information.
SIDENOTE: This being my first thread I have to say on the whole I really like this community!
I never thought I'd be that guy saying don't upgrade to ICS, because the OS is so slick and fun. However the glitch with the battery drain nullifies it's value. My brand new phone, less than two months old will die before the end of the day without me making a single phone call. I'm talking maybe an 1 to 1.5 hours of use texting, checking mail, surfing, and my battery now runs dead before I even get home from work. If you go into Settings > Battery it will show you the break down of what's using what. At the top should be your display, it takes a lot of power for to run the ultra bright display and this is what I saw before the ICS update. After the update these are the numbers:
Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
The OS is taking 58% of the battery?!? This is crazy!The buzz going around the net is if you do a factory reset it will fix the issue, well it does, but only for a very short time.
I went through the pain and formatted my SD card, then did a factory reset on my phone lost everything, well I backed it up, but still was a long process. After all that I loaded up my apps, and everything looked great. If you I went into the battery break down Screen was back at the top and the Android OS was several rungs below. I was SO happy! It was worth it after all.... THEN
Imagine my chagrin I woke up this morning to a full charge. Didn't make one phone call, just checked a couple emails, and being only a HOUR into my day my battery is at 76%!! I look back at the battery break down, and there's Android OS sitting at the top, draining double the battery juice as the screen display. I mean this almost makes ICS useless, what good is this great cell phone if you have to be tethered to a power cord. WTF!! Point being, don't bother resetting your phone, it DOES NOT permanently help. If you haven't upgraded to ICS don't, we're all just screwed until they come out with a fix, and you see how long it took them just to get ICS.
I don't know what happened between last night and today, but my hope is some dev person will read this and it will help them pinpoint the issue.
Did you backup and restore your app data as well?
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Did you backup and restore your app data as well?
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Nope, the only thing I backed up was pics, music, and video, and I combed through those folders to make sure there were no sys files.
It sounds more like your battery is going bad. You can go to Sprint store and they will test your battery for you.
You might also want to get a battery monitoring program and see what is using the battery up.
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its not a ics glitch its your phone lol.. ive never had this issue.. plus with the source kernels coming out and with roms/tweaks already out youcan increase battery life yourself.. because your battey cant keep a charge you bash ics? go back to gingerbread then lol. i can use my phone for two hours and leave it off charger over night and still have at least 50% charge
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Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
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It looks like your phone may never be going into deep sleep. Get CPUSpy from Google Play and see what is going on.
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It sounds more like your battery is going bad. You can go to Sprint store and they will test your battery for you.
You might also want to get a battery monitoring program and see what is using the battery up.
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Having a bad battery would not make Android OS use the majority of his power though. I have had this problem myself in the past and never did figure out exactly what stopped it. Running Blue Kuban now and my battery life, though never great, is reasonable. FYI, I also run Juice Defender which makes a substantial difference for me.
Running pretty much stock ICS FF18, just have agat safe recovery/kernal installed. Yesterday I left Wimax on all day and when I went to charge it last night it had about 28% left. I made several phone calls, many texts/whatsapp messages, reading emails and using twiitter/fb a couple of times.
The battery life on this is not the greatest, for example, I forgot to turn off wifi when I left my house the other day, well my battery dropped about 30% in just a few hours. I now find that just leaving Wimax on all day is actually better and pretty much on par with just having 3G on, I prefer wifi at home but if I forget to turn it off it kills my battery.
I was so used to Blazers 4.1 battery life, the battery lasted forever and I could leave wifi, bluetooth etc on all day. Just hoping for the ROMs to start incorporating the recently released source so that we can get better battery life on these great ROMS.
This is all known information. That's why you use custom roms that have much better battery life.
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I had same issue here with custom rom FF18 touched by SGS3. Went back to EL29, FF18 is glitchy and slower anyway.
Confirmed, factory reset battery drain exists.
OP, why don't you put up a screenshot of your battery graph? The expanded one, not the one that lists the percentages.
There are a number of reasons why this could be happening. One of my biggest drainers on CM9 was Google login service, turned out the "keep this device backed up with Google" in the backup and reset settings was completely preventing my phone from going to sleep. This is but one example.
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I am getting decent battery life with the 'super galaxy rom' almost on par with the caulkin el29 build I was using... LOVE it!
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You guys need to quit crying wolf and figure out what is really draining your battery. Maybe your google drive is syncing, or you have facebook running, or email is pulling too often, ICS does not kill battery rogue apps and wrong settings do.
Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats (search xda for other versions)
and this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel&hl=en
Figure out whats waking up your phone and running when its not supposed to be and until you have data STFU
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You guys need to quit crying wolf and figure out what is really draining your battery. Maybe your google drive is syncing, or you have facebook running, or email is pulling too often, ICS does not kill battery rogue apps and wrong settings do.
Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asksven.betterbatterystats (search xda for other versions)
and this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.systempanel&hl=en
Figure out whats waking up your phone and running when its not supposed to be and until you have data STFU
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seconded, attached is the battery stats for an average day for me on ff18 based goodness.... these "problems" are all able to be resolved rather easily with very little effort... this is not a paid tech support forum and no one is going to spoon feed you when solutions have been posted countless times in countless hysterical threads like this
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My phone is not rooted and this is the battery life I'm getting after the OTA with light use. With regular use I get at least 25-30 hours.
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My phone is not rooted and this is the battery life I'm getting after the OTA with light use. With regular use I get at least 25-30 hours.
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Just curious, what's your display time. From the looks of it, doesn't seem like much. But still, that's pretty impressive nonetheless.
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nim6us said:
Android OS: 58%
Screen: 18%
Cell Standby: 10%
Phone Idle: 7%
Android System: 2%
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It looks like your phone may never be going into deep sleep. Get CPUSpy from Google Play and see what is going on.
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So if it's not going into deep sleep what's the fix?
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This is all known information. That's why you use custom roms that have much better battery life.
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I'm a super n00b, if you or someone could link me to the best ICS ROM the cool kids are using I can figure out how to install it.
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However bottom line, before ICS upgrade my battery life was great and my Android OS was not 50% of my battery power. I'm not rooted or have any custom anything, after the ICS upgrade my battery drains rapidly. I'm willing to do what it takes to get it fixed, however I do fully put the blame on ICS, I'm using stock everything, the battery is good, something in that update is screwing my battery.
All I was trying to do was give developers, a little insight that the factory reset temporarily fixed the issue, for 3-4 hours before bed I monitored it and everything was good. So hopefully this will help turn the light bulb on in someone else's head.
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ICS works really well for some, but for others it renders the phone completely useless. I'm one that it won't work for as well. The battery life is **** and 4g connectivity is non existent. As a result, I'm back to EL29/GB until a patch is made.
I spent 4 days after teh OTA was released trying to find fixes, trying to make it work, using different kernals and modems, but had no success. I posted about it many times and more or less was told that I was doing it wrong.
On that not, good luck mate. Here's to hoping for a patch from samsung soon. :good:
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demonlordoftheround said:
So if it's not going into deep sleep what's the fix?
I'm a super n00b, if you or someone could link me to the best ICS ROM the cool kids are using I can figure out how to install it.
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However bottom line, before ICS upgrade my battery life was great and my Android OS was not 50% of my battery power. I'm not rooted or have any custom anything, after the ICS upgrade my battery drains rapidly. I'm willing to do what it takes to get it fixed, however I do fully put the blame on ICS, I'm using stock everything, the battery is good, something in that update is screwing my battery.
All I was trying to do was give developers, a little insight that the factory reset temporarily fixed the issue, for 3-4 hours before bed I monitored it and everything was good. So hopefully this will help turn the light bulb on in someone else's head.
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I have a thread stickied in general called "welcome to he et4g" that might be a good place for you to start, from there you'll figure out what you need to search for to learn more... there is no best rom its a matter of opinion, so read the dev threads and see what looks good to you... bottom line without seeing more information from you I would guess you have something running in the background preventing deep sleep, as mentioned earlier... also are you leaving wifi, Bluetooth, etc on? That'll kill your battery quick... do you live in an area with poor sprint signal? Constantly searching for service will also drain you battery. What do you have to set up to sync? And how often? There are easy ways to prolong battery life on ff18 and the vast majority of people complaining about battery life have not taken positive steps to learn more and resolve their own issues... it can be done, good luck
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Okay, so I am getting pretty bad battery drain whenever I use my phone. The phone goes into deep sleep just fine, and wakelocks don't seem to be an issue. Whenever I use any app though, the battery drains very quickly. Now obviously using the device will make the battery drain faster than it would when it's asleep, but I'm talking about losing 2-3% with only playing 2 minutes of Scrabble or checking a news feed for less than 3 minutes. My screen is on half brightness, but it's only been a week since this has really been noticeable.
I'm not sure if my battery is getting worse or something (although I try to not overcharge it and let it get to around 50% which I don't see why that would be an issue) or this is just an illusion and it's been happening the whole time.
Has anyone found any solutions or ideas to help conserve battery?
I'm stock, nonrooted, running the latest update. I never have any sync or push notifications active. I keep NFC on but I've had that on since day 1 and didn't seem to be an issue before. I restrict background data for the Play Store (tried that yesterday but didn't seem to help much), brightness is always around halfway, and I am using JuiceDefender pro. I have the Amazon App Store installed which I've considered to be an issue, but haven't seen many people complain about it recently and it doesn't seem to report anything on BetterBatteryStats.
Bump? =\
I've been experiencing the same problem as you recently. I'm going to backup and format EVERYTHING and odin back to stock and see if that'll help.
I have a feeling it has something to do with my SD card.
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I've been experiencing the same problem as you recently. I'm going to backup and format EVERYTHING and odin back to stock and see if that'll help.
I have a feeling it has something to do with my SD card.
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Hmm I didn't think of that. I have an SD card as well but I've had it for quite a while so I'm not positive if that's causing it.
Tell me if ODINing it back to stock actually does something. I believe that the battery itself may be causing the issues though, but I'm not sure.
...So there's only one other person which these issues? What am I doing wrong?
I hate to keep bumping this thread but I am literally only getting 3 hours of screen on time when I'm on airplane mode and am at 20% brightness.
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For the moment, my battery seems to be doing better. The only reason I wiped out my SD card was because my phone started getting hot at the bottom when listening to music from my 32GB SD card, so I thought it was some sort of corrupt file my phone kept trying to read and drained the battery
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Okay, so I am getting pretty bad battery drain whenever I use my phone. The phone goes into deep sleep just fine, and wakelocks don't seem to be an issue. Whenever I use any app though, the battery drains very quickly. Now obviously using the device will make the battery drain faster than it would when it's asleep, but I'm talking about losing 2-3% with only playing 2 minutes of Scrabble or checking a news feed for less than 3 minutes. My screen is on half brightness, but it's only been a week since this has really been noticeable.
I'm not sure if my battery is getting worse or something (although I try to not overcharge it and let it get to around 50% which I don't see why that would be an issue) or this is just an illusion and it's been happening the whole time.
Has anyone found any solutions or ideas to help conserve battery?
I'm stock, nonrooted, running the latest update. I never have any sync or push notifications active. I keep NFC on but I've had that on since day 1 and didn't seem to be an issue before. I restrict background data for the Play Store (tried that yesterday but didn't seem to help much), brightness is always around halfway, and I am using JuiceDefender pro. I have the Amazon App Store installed which I've considered to be an issue, but haven't seen many people complain about it recently and it doesn't seem to report anything on BetterBatteryStats.
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Can you post a screen cap of your battery statistics?
tkepk181 said:
Can you post a screen cap of your battery statistics?
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Yeah here's what I'm getting today.
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disabling S Voice helped a lot for me
vile1 said:
disabling S Voice helped a lot for me
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I don't have it enabled but thanks for the suggestion
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Looks like you have shout of time without signal. Are you turning data off when not on use?
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U can also put on airplane mode when your not using it. It helps out a lot for me
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Looks like you have shout of time without signal. Are you turning data off when not on use?
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Cristian210 said:
U can also put on airplane mode when your not using it. It helps out a lot for me
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Yeah it can waste a lot of battery I admit. I do put it on airplane mode when I'm not expecting any calls but I still need to use this thing as a phone so it's tough.
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Have you installed better battery stats to see if you are getting excessive wakelocks?
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Have you installed better battery stats to see if you are getting excessive wakelocks?
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Yes I have and my phone has no issues being in standby
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I must be doing either something really wrong or else...
My battery last me a little over one hour on standard battery (original rom+root) and that's me even using lean kernel. I've seen on forum some people were able to get as much as four hours of their screen why is it with my phone I'm only about to do so little?
What's the best so to see what's going on with my phone, who eats my battery, which apps are doing something that they shouldn't.
It really is killing me, I want to be able to enjoy my phone longer.
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a1exus said:
I must be doing either something really wrong or else...
My battery last me a little over one hour on standard battery (original rom+root) and that's me even using lean kernel. I've seen on forum some people were able to get as much as four hours of their screen why is it with my phone I'm only about to do so little?
What's the best so to see what's going on with my phone, who eats my battery, which apps are doing something that they shouldn't.
It really is killing me, I want to be able to enjoy my phone longer.
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download a battery monitor app from the play store
k786 said:
download a battery monitor app from the play store
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Which one in particularly?
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a1exus said:
Which one in particularly?
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BetterBattery stats works
Settings > Battery > History details (touch the graph)
Battery shows what apps use the battery, history details shows signal and other stuff.
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Settings > Battery > History details (touch the graph)
Battery shows what apps use the battery, history details shows signal and other stuff.
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Yeah, over there it says that screen is used 50% of battery and it was roughly a little over one hour, I can attach screenshots if that helps..
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BetterBattery stats works
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Just purchased that app, will give it a go.
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Yeah, over there it says that screen is used 50% of battery and it was roughly a little over one hour, I can attach screenshots if that helps..
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It is normal that the screen uses a lot of juice. What is more interesting is which apps are on 2nd and 3 spot. Do post screenshots if you can.
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Herman76 said:
It is normal that the screen uses a lot of juice. What is more interesting is which apps are on 2nd and 3 spot. Do post screenshots if you can.
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I will post pictures later, but here is quick overview:
#1 is _ALWAYS_ : Screen
#2, #3, #4 and #5 is: Phone idle, Voice calls, Android OS, Cell standby (not in order, so i took example from several screen shots that I saved)
do you have a terrible signal where you're at? does it jump between LTE (i see you have verizon least based on your image under your name) and 3g alot?
Zepius said:
do you have a terrible signal where you're at? does it jump between LTE (i see you have verizon least based on your image under your name) and 3g alot?
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to save power I completely switched over 3G (by turning off 4G (LTE))
on the top of that whenever I can I always switch WiFi on to switch to WiFi instead of 3G and whenever WiFi is not available I always turn it off.
and here is a kicker: I also use Ultimate Juice Defender (w/ pretty aggressive settings (turning data on only every 15 minutes)
please see attached dump from BetterBatteryStats
Better battery stats Apk is free for xda members, use search. BTW, it sounds like your battery is done. Get an extended OEM battery. They're really cheap on Ebay.
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Soldier 2.0 said:
Better battery stats Apk is free for xda members, use search. BTW, it sounds like your battery is done. Get an extended OEM battery. They're really cheap on Ebay.
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Why is my battery "done" ? I blame Sandy as before that it was fine, I'd easily do close to 2h of Screen time (at least 1h30m), now after Sandy due to reception that I'm getting right now I think that's why I'm getting so little now..
Seems like you got it all figured out then.
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Man, I'm not from the US, but if Sandy came by my town, i guess my screen on time would be the least of my worries. Lol, can you imagine what damage it may have done (more than likely) to the cell towers and radio equipment?
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Man, I'm not from the US, but if Sandy came by my town, i guess my screen on time would be the least of my worries.
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it's not like Sandy moved in or anything... Sandy is already gone and people (including me) heavily rely on their phones to communicate with others and so am I, so I need my phone more then I did before and if it's dying half way through the day that's a problem for me.
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Seems like you got it all figured out then.
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heh, I wish)) if I did, I wouldn't post question here. You on another hand seems to jumping the gun way too quickly with determination of battery "dead", I do appreciate any input but this isn't exactly helping me..
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heh, I wish)) if I did, I wouldn't post question here. You on another hand seems to jumping the gun way too quickly with determination of battery "dead", I do appreciate any input but this isn't exactly helping me..
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Your awake / screen on ratio looks pretty nutty to me. Basically your phone was awake for 4 hours, and your screen was on for 1 hour. Titaniumbackup kept your phone awake for 38 minutes; why is that?
Sign out of any google services you don't use like Google Talk and / or Google+.
Turn off location services and only turn it on when you need to. It's easy to toggle this by placing a Location services shortcut on your homescreen. This, for me, has had the largest impact on my idle battery usage. With location on, batt would drain around 2 to 3% per hour. Now it takes 3 hours idle to take the battery down 2%.
skadebo said:
Your awake / screen on ratio looks pretty nutty to me. Basically your phone was awake for 4 hours, and your screen was on for 1 hour. Titaniumbackup kept your phone awake for 38 minutes; why is that?
Sign out of any google services you don't use like Google Talk and / or Google+.
Turn off location services and only turn it on when you need to. It's easy to toggle this by placing a Location services shortcut on your homescreen. This, for me, has had the largest impact on my idle battery usage. With location on, batt would drain around 2 to 3% per hour. Now it takes 3 hours idle to take the battery down 2%.
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I think Titanium Backup was doing backup and then uploading it to Dropbox (happens once or twice a week at night)
Google Talk and/or Google+ is closed (and even cleared from recent task upon completion of using them)
location service I use, I'm sharing my location with some other people, but i'll give that a shot to test it.
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Just installed a battery saving app from snapdragon..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xiam.snapdragon.app
Has someone used this app for a while... please share experiences and comparison with other apps like juuce defender.
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I just downloaded it to see how it does compare to Juice Defender and DS Battery Saver Pro. I never really like Juice Defender and have been using Battery Saver for a month and it seems to help my battery life.
Once I have been using for a few days I will report back what I think about it. Thanks for the post tho otherwise I wouldn't have found this app.
Just installed this.... will report back when it's done learning and switches to saving mode.
Thanks for the heads up, i'll give this a try.
nice grabbed this up will be checking it out.
Just posted this in the Verizon Galaxy S III forum as well.
Still seems silly to me that we are going to have to have 4 separate discussions for an app that will work the same on each carrier.
I'm not really sure on what the value of these apps are.
Letting my phone do whatever it wants when I'm on wifi and my phone is sitting idle, my phone uses around 1%/hour of battery life.
Some portion of that is all this app could really save then, right?
Why bother if, in exchange, I'm possibly having delayed notifications, apps not updating in the background, etc.?
I've been running this app .today is 3 day (around) have not rebooted or anything using phone as always honestly don't see a difference yet..
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This app just switched from learning to power saving mode. Will see how it goes.
hedphones said:
This app just switched from learning to power saving mode. Will see how it goes.
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Mine too. I didn't think it would ever switch over. I'm interested to see how it goes. I currently use 5.8% battery per hour. Hope it helps out.
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I just downloaded it to see how it does compare to Juice Defender and DS Battery Saver Pro. I never really like Juice Defender and have been using Battery Saver for a month and it seems to help my battery life.
Once I have been using for a few days I will report back what I think about it. Thanks for the post tho otherwise I wouldn't have found this app.
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Let us know how it fares against JD and BSP. I have JD Uktmate and have been happy with it. I lose about 1% an hour at night which is better than the 3% I was losing prior to purchasing JDU.
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Let us know how it fares against JD and BSP. I have JD Uktmate and have been happy with it. I lose about 1% an hour at night which is better than the 3% I was losing prior to purchasing JDU.
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doesnt do anything, i get about 12% drain in 9 hours when im sleeping, what it does just turn off wifi for me if im not in range, which is useless, having wifi on doesnt drain much battery at all
Thanks for the link! Will update in a few days with results
can't tell if it's just a placebo effect or not, but i feel like my battery life is a little better after using this app
I haver never once had a random reboot until I installed this today not sure its related just throwing it out there
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After using this for the past few days I would say overall it is not that bad of an app. I am really starting to like it. My average battery usage went from 5-6%/hr to 3-4%/hr. I know there are a lot of variables that go into this but I would say it works as well DS Battery Saver. I have also used JD but never really liked that app. I will continue to use this app to see what the long term would be on here but its a good find in my opinion.
If nothing else try it out for a week or so and compare stats. I use Better Battery Stats to get my info from.
Has anyone compared this to the relatively new "Greenify" battery saving app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
Anything that suggests it saves battery makes me nervous. Because the only way to do that is to shut down apps. And when you shut down the app, it may not get updated, or it may open very slowly when you do need it, etc.
I did not like it much... i am guessing that all this app does is change sync frequencies of different apps. To do it it tries to determine your location so that it can turn sync off/on or change sync interval based on your prior usage patterns.
Once it was out of learning mode, i noticed that my s3 battery drain was quicker due to excessive usage of maps by this app.
I uninstalled the app... and have got my battery life back.
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Has anyone compared this to the relatively new "Greenify" battery saving app?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155737
Anything that suggests it saves battery makes me nervous. Because the only way to do that is to shut down apps. And when you shut down the app, it may not get updated, or it may open very slowly when you do need it, etc.
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I just downloaded it and Greenified Facebook, ESPN Radio and ScoreCenter so far too see if I notice any difference.
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I don't like this app. It turned off almost all my syncing for my Google account lol. I was wondering why I wasn't getting my emails lol
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I have been stressing myself out about this for over a week, trying different things, buying new batteries trying new chargers, changing roms.
Turning so many things off basically making my phone into a dumbphone to try to figure out why my battery life is so bad. Could it be I just have a bad phone and need a new one??
I had a Galaxy S3 gave it to my GF, never turned any sync services off and I am able to get 20+ hours with that phone, this phone is HORRIBLE.
I was stock getting about 5 hours before dead battery (phone would get real warm- battery stats showing 33C+).
So I rooted and took it back to an LJC rom (4.1.1). Tried different modems, kernals, files tweaks with root explorer.
I bought BBS, a battery calibrator from the market and still cant see any problems that would do this?
last picture......
Should I just take it into Sprint and get a replacement???
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I have been stressing myself out about this for over a week, trying different things, buying new batteries trying new chargers, changing roms.
Turning so many things off basically making my phone into a dumbphone to try to figure out why my battery life is so bad. Could it be I just have a bad phone and need a new one??
I had a Galaxy S3 gave it to my GF, never turned any sync services off and I am able to get 20+ hours with that phone, this phone is HORRIBLE.
I was stock getting about 5 hours before dead battery (phone would get real warm- battery stats showing 33C+).
So I rooted and took it back to an LJC rom (4.1.1). Tried different modems, kernals, files tweaks with root explorer.
I bought BBS, a battery calibrator from the market and still cant see any problems that would do this?
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What ROM are you installing over and over again?
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i had that issue. i fixed it by installing the same rom a couple times, and wiping cache/dalvik alot.
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I am running Macintosh 3.0 and I have power saver turned on, and I run DS Battery saver all day long. I am getting 2.5 days solid with moderate use. I am pretty sure DS Battery Saver is what is saving my battery. Let me know if you want to try the app. I have the .apk saved on my sdcard.
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I will try that !
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Also try uninstalling and reinstalling facebook. My girlfriend's phone (GS3, not a note) went from 8 hours to probably 14 hours just by using the mobile web version of facebook instead of the the app. Facebook is atrocious at making apps.
But it really does sound like you got a lemon here, I'd get a replacement from Sprint. I don't think I could kill my battery in under 10 hours unless I was playing a game non-stop. My phone is completely stock.
I will uninstall Facebook, and test it out. Thanks!
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OP. Your problem is not your ROM or anything else. Jeeze people.
Those partial wakelocks are PURELY from Google Now and the wifi/network based location. Either turn off Google Now, or turn off network-based-locating and those partial wakelocks will disappear....I'd also wager you have Sprint Connection Optimizer still running causing your phone to hangup trying to find a network conenction.
My battery took a good hite when I updated to 4.1.2 used to get 20+ hrs with 7+ screen time now I get about 14-15 with 4-5 hrs screen time
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Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
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Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
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Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
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Ok I turned off Google Now, network-based-location, and Sprint Connection Optimizer. I have also installed DS Battery Savor Pro running in balanced mode. I dont have facebook installed anymore also. Here are the screens, still just as bad........
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What of the borderline useless bells and whistles do you have enabled? I.e. face recognition/unlock, auto-brightness, SPen battery saver etc? Things like battery savers unsurprisingly don't help so i'd nix it as it is only wasting battery.
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Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
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Meh. On this device I always aim for getting 10%/ battery usage per hour of screen-on-time on TouchWiz ROMs, and a fraction of a percent per hour in screen-off....something is burning battery here, and it is probably a system setting.
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Based on your first pictures, your status bar, and the amount of awake time your phone is showing I'm guessing a couple of things. Do you have a phone signal where you spend most of your day? If my awake bar was solid like yours I wouldn't have a battery after 7 hours either. I would backup everything and do a full wipe / clean install and run the phone a day or so.
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I am going to try that now, going to do a wipe of everything and not install anything except the battery tools.
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What of the borderline useless bells and whistles do you have enabled? I.e. face recognition/unlock, auto-brightness, SPen battery saver etc? Things like battery savers unsurprisingly don't help so i'd nix it as it is only wasting battery.
No face recognition/unlock, auto brightness is enabled, but with that little screen time does it really matter? No SPen battery savor. Thanks for the suggestions.
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The thing is, I have a Galaxy S3... The Note II is setup no different then that, settings or otherwise. I am trying all of these suggestions, but why did I not have to turn any of these off on my S3?? Same service area obviously. I took the Galaxy S3 off the charger last night at 100%. Put a new battery in the Note II so it was at 100%. Let them both sit on the counter for 1 hour. S3 had 98%, Note II was at 87%... No calls no texting, no screen time. It is so fustrating! I have had my fair share of battery tweaking with previous phones (HTC EVO, HTC hero). It seems something isn't right. I had problems with stock rom, that is why I rooted so quick, to try a different ROM.
If the wipe does not work I will try to get Sprint to get me a replacement, was hoping the get this figured out before I fly to Florida for a week. Good thing I have extra batteries.
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The thing is, I have a Galaxy S3... The Note II is setup no different then that, settings or otherwise. I am trying all of these suggestions, but why did I not have to turn any of these off on my S3?? Same service area obviously. I took the Galaxy S3 off the charger last night at 100%. Put a new battery in the Note II so it was at 100%. Let them both sit on the counter for 1 hour. S3 had 98%, Note II was at 87%... No calls no texting, no screen time. It is so fustrating! I have had my fair share of battery tweaking with previous phones (HTC EVO, HTC hero). It seems something isn't right. I had problems with stock rom, that is why I rooted so quick, to try a different ROM.
If the wipe does not work I will try to get Sprint to get me a replacement, was hoping the get this figured out before I fly to Florida for a week. Good thing I have extra batteries.
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I would get a replacement. You should not have to turn off all thr features to get decent battery that defeats the purpose of having a smartphone.
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I recommend having Sprint check it out for you and then buying Ds battery saver pro!!!
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I recommend having Sprint check it out for you and then buying Ds battery saver pro!!!
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Bought Ds Battery savor. Charged phone to 100% put it in airplane mode went to bed at 11pm (phone at 100%), woke up at 7am and it was at 8% Fail! 0 screen time, 0 talking, zero everything and lost charge in a little over 8 hours! Going to use it in florida the next week, with my extra batteries and most likely going to return when i get back
Thanks All for your suggestions!
Has anyone disabled samsung push service. If not does it drain battery I have had it disabled since I bought the phone because I never use samsung chaton or other aops **** that but I want to start to use Chaton but not if push services has a big affect on battery.
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