Is anyone else's battery on crack? - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Usually I can go a full 16 hour work day without needing an extra charge, then last week it started not holding the charge so well. In fact Tuesday it had 30% and I left the house for half an hour, and when I came back the phone had shut off and was at 0. I hadn't even touched it. I am on a mix of Wi-Fi and LTE. Anyway, that was odd. Now look at the battery usage...
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Do you have a screenshot of the stats when the battery went all out of whack?
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My android system has been going crazy the last week or so, usually would be at 5% our do but lately has been 40+ easy... been to lazy to wipe and re flash as I'm sure that will fix the issue, but lately I've been near power all the time so it hasn't really bothered me.
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I flashed with Highonandroid and got 30+ hours. Probably could have gotten double if I didn't kill half of it installing all my apps back on.
What rom are you using?
On the stock image I was only getting 9 hours.
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tuffluck said:
Usually I can go a full 16 hour work day without needing an extra charge, then last week it started not holding the charge so well. In fact Tuesday it had 30% and I left the house for half an hour, and when I came back the phone had shut off and was at 0. I hadn't even touched it. I am on a mix of Wi-Fi and LTE. Anyway, that was odd. Now look at the battery usage...
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it looks like weatherbug and google maps take a lot of battery

i never truly understood why people boast of their battery life when they have the screen on for 10 minutes in 2 days

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i never truly understood why people boast of their battery life when they have the screen on for 10 minutes in 2 days
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+1
if you are not using a phone, turn it off and the battery will hold charge for many, many days.

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Battery life

So far I've experienced excellent battery. I charged it fully when I got it home, and then unplugged it. Here are my results on an uncalibrated battery with moderate use except for when it sat overnight.
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Not to shabby. This was with background data on, auto sync off, with the only the maps app being stopped.
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Looky here at my battery life with heavy usage. Not too shabby hey?
whatsitsnamenow said:
Looky here at my battery life with heavy usage. Not too shabby hey?
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Good one.
My Photon can get me 4 hrs under the same conditions. Let's hope the battery will get better after a few recharge.
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My Photon can get me 4 hrs under the same conditions. Let's hope the battery will get better after a few recharge.
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lmao good one
From A thread over at androidCentrel posting Epic Touch usage.
Tkemack
Screen On & awake look to be on roughly 70 - 75% use within 14 hr
Photon doesn't come close to such battery performance .
I'm looking forward to some Touch custom roms Battery life will get even better.

			
				
Im in debate battery life seems decent for me but no where near what other people are posting. I got 9hrs so far and im at 20 percent with screen on for 4 hours. Dodnt play any games just some web, text and xda. Does this seem right?
The first four hours the powersaver settings were still on. So wifi on, no 3g,4g,no auto sync,brightness at 10 percent.
Last five hours Auto sync is on. Brightness is 25 percent. 3 mail accounts with mail only and I've only had 1 email pushed the whole time. 4g off. Wifi only the whole time no 3g. Screen timeout 30 seconds.
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[Q] What the hell is this dip in my battery life?

So, at some point I turned off my phone and I -think- the sudden spike down in battery life is around that time.
Anyone got any explanations?
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Mine has done that as well a couple of times. One time I had a charge of around 75%...rebooted my phone, and the battery was down to 15% percent.
Maybe it's just another bug we'll have to deal with until they come out with a fix.
thats strange mine doesnt have that much of a dip
every samsung product I have does this, gt 7, gt 10.1, droid charge, and this one. I don't recall my og droid, evo 4g or 3d doing this.
All phones show a dip when there is a battery pull while the phone is on....
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Wasn't a pull, just a shutdown and reboot.
gmap516 said:
So, at some point I turned off my phone and I -think- the sudden spike down in battery life is around that time.
Anyone got any explanations?
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Hi, what app is this?
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Stock battery stats lol
**** didn't notice that graph at the top.
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well if your phone was rebooted then that bald would have been reset because it displays monitors since last power-on.
there seems to be a bug where the cpu fails to underclock after a certain amount of usage and/or load. rebooting after intensive apps and/or before leaving the phone idle for extended periods of time seems to solve the problem for me. yes i get that too.
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**** didn't notice that graph at the top.
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just press on top after you press battery usage on the screen that shows you the battery usage.

Battery life

This phone is only lasting me about 8 hours before my battery will die. What can I do to help out my battery?
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download an app call battery calibration, then after a full night of charging, go to that app and calibrate with the charger plug still in, after its done reboot phone and take it off the charger. drain the battery until it shuts off by itself. charge it back up while its off. then continue to use as normal. wait a couple days to see if the battery gets any better. my phone doesnt last too long either, im thinking of replacing the battery to see if thats the problem
Try removing some apps, that worked for me there was some apps that were sucking up my battery.
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slap on a extended battery!
Kiss it three times, say two Hail Mary's and toss it over your left shoulder.
No seriously, battery life is very dependent on many things, and your statement doesn't come close to providing enough information for anyone to give you any real help. At minimum you need to provide the following during your 8 hours ...
- Total Display on time
- Brightness setting
- What you have auto syncing and how often
- Average signal strength
- Usage pattern (web browsing, calls, streaming video, etc.)
- Widgets on your home screens
- Screenshots of your battery usage and graph
My phone will also last around 8 hours if im constantly using it.
Thanks everyone for the responses. I will try out all the advice.
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wxcolon said:
Thanks everyone for the responses. I will try out all the advice.
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With moderate use, I get about 20 hours. With heavy use I get about 10-12. It's still enough to get me through the day
Love this phone!
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This is my battery after heavy use. I love the battery. Calibrated.
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[Q] Sleep of Death with Stock

So I read about other people having this problem with custom ROMs or rooted phones but I am on unrooted stock after OTA. I thought was one of the 60 or whatever apps I bought during the 10 cent promotion but I uninstalled them all and I still had the problem. It's not frequent but it's happened 3 times in the last couple of weeks. It's mildly annoying to have to pull the battery but the part that I can't live with is that whenever it this happens, my battery drains like crazy. The battery usage drops off a cliff and I caught this one after no more than 5 minutes. Any thoughts on this? I don't have an SD card so it's not that. Thanks!
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to find the rogue app use betterbatterystats and cpu spy. not sure if they superuser. also badass battery works too.
Mine did this the other night on Calk's ROM. Something got stuck keeping the phone awake causing that cliff like drop off.
Happened to me on stock once, installed some game but didn't play it so I don't think that was the reason. It was either the default browser or the contact list.
Thanks for the replies. I figured it was an app but wanted to be sure before I started deleting things. I was just worried that this might be something to do with hardware or something.
I have same problem with different roms and i don't know what to do...
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I had the same problem I figured out it was my wifi being turned on all the time. I have always heard leaving your wifi on when it's availible was supposed to save battery but I checked in better battery stats and saw there was almost 7000 wakelocks in a 5 hour period. I turned wifi off problem solved I only turn it on when I need to.
It is happend even wifi is off.
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It is happend even wifi is off.
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Your battery might be going bad... take it out and spin it on a flat surface if it spins freely the battery is most likely done.
My battery have 3 months old. My s2 is new....
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cristianu said:
My battery have 3 months old. My s2 is new....
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Same thing is happening to my friend's white E4GT, I think there might be a defective/bad batch.
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Battery life

Good battery or software bug? Still on 100% even after 1hour 25 minutes
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And I have played candy crush for 10 minutes, half hour YouTube, dual sim connected with 4G
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Nizamani said:
And I have played candy crush for 10 minutes, half hour YouTube, dual sim connected with 4G
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I think its just a bug, mine seems to stay on 100% for a long time too. It does drop eventually. The battery life is very good on this phone though. I've never had it run out during a day yet. It does seem to better reflect battery use at it gets lower.
GavCity said:
I think its just a bug, mine seems to stay on 100% for a long time too. It does drop eventually. The battery life is very good on this phone though. I've never had it run out during a day yet. It does seem to better reflect battery use at it gets lower.
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Yes you are right after 90 minutes it's dropped to 99 and 98, I thought I have to restart to get correct reading but didn't
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I have same issue. Stays at 100% after 30mins or more of usage. As soon at it drops to 98% battery drain becomes normal.
I did the calibration reset code *#0228# and it didn't change a thing.
Battery life is good on this phone but nothing impressive.
Probably needs a few charge cycles for the battery to calibrate properly, happened to me too.
Still going strong, no power saving , 4g all the time , Bluetooth all the time, alot of games, Facebook and YouTube
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My battery life
this phone is excellent on battery life.
when i first used it and charged it to 100%, I noticed the same thing, and was confused, checked to see if the phone froze, etc. But then I started to feel invincible from the overabundance of power. LOL.

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