Stand by and Power Saving - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

Hi there,
Just a quick question, is it normal that the : Cell StandBy takes so much % of my battery?
Another question also, is it worth is to be in power saving mode?
(Right now im not gonna root my phone for the first month I have it because of the easy garantee during this period and also because I want to be sure everything is good with the phone hardware, so I can't control the CPU and voltage, thats why I ask about the power saving mode)
Thank you

Yes.

bravomail said:
Yes.
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ok, but do you know if it is normal that my Cell standby takes so much battery %?

Yes we all suffer this issue very common
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[APP]Easy Battery Saver

Hey guys. Firstly i want to state that i am not really a big fan of battery saving apps or task killing apps. But i must admit this application really got me thinking again about that opinion of mine. I want to introduce you guys to a little find i found on the market called Easy Battery Saver. You can get the free version which basically does all you need or i think there is a Pro version to.
Link to the application is here
Description of the app from the creators:
Easy Battery Saver, your super battery savior
Does your phone always need charging, even once a day?
Does your phone always die at crucial moment due to running out of battery?
Want to find a perfect solution?
Now is your answer!
Save power, extend battery life and perfect experience of using phone with Easy Battery Saver!
Easy Battery Saver is a powerful yet easy to use power manager app specifically designed to extend battery life and optimize using habit.
Easy Battery Saver saves your battery by intelligently dealing with phone’s network connectivity, screen time out and screen brightness. What’s more, the considerable sleep schedule setting will save your battery when you are sleeping.
Easy Battery Saver is easy to use by four preset saving modes and advanced customized mode. Just choose one mode, the battery problems will go away.
General Saving Mode, it has the basic network control, screen control and the sleep schedule to meet your normal battery saving needs.
Intelligent Saving Mode, it has the eight different controls and runs intelligently to save more battery than general saving mode.
Super Power Saving Mode, it can keep your phone's standby time as long as possible; you won't have to worry about whether your phone dies at crucial moment due to running out of battery any more.
Advanced Customized Mode, it is the best choice for fanciers; you can set all the values as you like, let your phone running in your way. The more, waiting for you to find!
Normal Mode, it will do nothing for your battery.
Also, tutorials in Easy Battery Saver will tell you how to deal with multi tasking and how to charge your battery healthily.
No matter what the situation, no matter who you are, Easy Battery Saver can always find a suitable solution for you.
Just have a try, you’ll find it really a good assistant! It is free!
So there you have it guys. Not losing anything by giving it a go. Not getting anything out of this just wanted to share my find for you guys to improve your battery. Hope it helps you guys out. A very good alternative to Juice Defender and more user friendly in my eyes as well
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Taysider said:
Thanks for the tip
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no probs friend
thanks for the tip
saywhatt said:
thanks for the tip
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You can just hit the thanks instead friend.
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Performance Change?
Goku80 said:
But i must admit this application really got me thinking again about that opinion of mine.
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Could you please elaborate on how your battery life has changed after using this app? Do you have any idea what apps or processes did this app tone down in your phone to increase the battery life?
Thank you!
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Is ExtendedBatterie Worth it? and which is best?

Hi all,
i have a I9100, but the battery life is really bad, ihave to charge it up about 3 times a day.
i was wondering if getting one of thoses extended batteries (the ones which go in the phone, not the ones you plug in to the phone) is worth it?
and if they are, which one do you guys recomend?
Cheers Corey
fishingfon said:
Hi all,
i have a I9100, but the battery life is really bad, ihave to charge it up about 3 times a day.
i was wondering if getting one of thoses extended batteries (the ones which go in the phone, not the ones you plug in to the phone) is worth it?
and if they are, which one do you guys recomend?
Cheers Corey
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You will get ~20% more juice with genuine battery. If you are charging your phone 3 times per day I don't think it's worth it.
P.S. What are you doing with your phone?
fishingfon said:
Hi all,
i have a I9100, but the battery life is really bad, ihave to charge it up about 3 times a day.
i was wondering if getting one of thoses extended batteries (the ones which go in the phone, not the ones you plug in to the phone) is worth it?
and if they are, which one do you guys recomend?
Cheers Corey
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Wow 3 times per day? What`s your screen on time when you have to recharge? Maybe some Wakelocks?
However, a new battery the 2000 mah from Samsung can add some juice for about 2 more hours. At least for me it`s the case. With the normal battery I had about 16 h of juice, with the new one I can go with 18 h but of course depends on usage.
Hi, i get about 5 hours battery with about 3 hours screen time before I have to recharge, and is the any larger battery's then the 2000mh one?
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
Hi, i get about 5 hours battery with about 3 hours screen time before I have to recharge, and is the any larger battery's then the 2000mh one?
Cheers
Corey
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I think that there is something wrong, 5 hours is pretty bad. Instal Betterbatterystats and look if you have wakelocks.
Ok if you watch HD videos all the time while your screen is on or you play games very often then 5 hours is understandable.
There are batteries that provide over 2000 mah but they are not Samsung certified and could damage your phone and they are significantly bigger.
Do you use any rom or any modified kernel?
So you are on your phone 6-9 hours every day How is that even possible?
You really should read some other threads before actuly posting a question about the same thing that has been repeated 100 times.
Its on the first page as well...
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Hi,
I use cm9 and siyah kernel, with the profile set to battery, the second cpu core disabled, and lots of other mods to make the battery last longer, but it won't get me fast 5 or six hours.
Is the battery life in the screens normal?.
And u did Google it first, but I couldn't find an answer
Thanks heaps
Cheers
Corey
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fishingfon said:
Hi,
I use cm9 and siyah kernel, with the profile set to battery, the second cpu core disabled, and lots of other mods to make the battery last longer, but it won't get me fast 5 or six hours.
Is the battery life in the screens normal?.
And u did Google it first, but I couldn't find an answer
Thanks heaps
Cheers
Corey
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If you are using mobile data all the time, that is normal... You use your phone a lot! Genuine 2000 mah battery would give you another hour of use
Go to general section, you will find many configs (UC/UV) fot better battery life.
fishingfon said:
Hi,
I use cm9 and siyah kernel, with the profile set to battery, the second cpu core disabled, and lots of other mods to make the battery last longer, but it won't get me fast 5 or six hours.
Is the battery life in the screens normal?.
And u did Google it first, but I couldn't find an answer
Thanks heaps
Cheers
Corey
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Dude,if you're not using airplane mode ,then the problem with your battery is bad network signal.On your screenshots i can see that most of the time you have no network.When you have no signal ,the phone works to find it,thus eating the battery.
Hi, i only have airplane mode turned off for about an hour, and where it says the us no network signal is because the phone is in airplane mode
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5h is really short. What r u doing? Playing all the time? I world consider to restock to ICS to check if changes you made could actually degradated power efficiency.
And for sure dont mess with CPU cores - by disabling second core you loose 50% processing power and gain very little teorethical battery juice. Android needs to work longer and harder to perform tasks.
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Yes worth every penny, I'm using the 3500 its being very helpful for almost a year
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fishingfon said:
Hi all,
i have a I9100, but the battery life is really bad, ihave to charge it up about 3 times a day.
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I think your battery is faulty... try out a new one.
Declan79 said:
Yes worth every penny, I'm using the 3500 its being very helpful for almost a year
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I got the same... but it makes the phone look like a "boat"... and it's very heavy indeed...
fishingfon said:
Hi,
I use cm9 and siyah kernel, with the profile set to battery, the second cpu core disabled, and lots of other mods to make the battery last longer, but it won't get me fast 5 or six hours.
Is the battery life in the screens normal?.
And u did Google it first, but I couldn't find an answer
Thanks heaps
Cheers
Corey
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Its kinda logical your battery don't last very long.... I mean your phone never sleeps. Its almost awake all the time!
I advise u to try betterbatterystats to find out what is keeping your phone awake all the time.....
And u probely don't wanna hear this but if u can't find anything wit BBS then try a fresh install , don't install apps or do any tweaking, and keep away from changing any kernel settings..
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I think the original samsung extended battery is very good. My sgs2 without juice defender have a 16h standby with exchange push mails.
spookhc said:
Dude,if you're not using airplane mode ,then the problem with your battery is bad network signal.On your screenshots i can see that most of the time you have no network.When you have no signal ,the phone works to find it,thus eating the battery.
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Based on his screen shoot he's in airplane made 90% of the time... His mobile sign would be red if there was no cellular connection.
On the side note regarding the battery it might be that you might need a new battery try the 2000mah one it gives me 5hrs of screen time with around 20hrs of total use on AOKP. If not there are plenty of 3000mah batteries available that can boots your battery life tremendously and increase the bulk of your phone, and you decide. Btw based on what you said 9 hrs of sitting in front of your phone is not normal in one day. You don't even need bb to see what's causing the wake locks.... It's clearly the user the screen time on is consistent with the wake locks.
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yep 6 hours with screen all the time on and wifi its normal.
Salatschlachter said:
I think your battery is faulty... try out a new one.
I got the same... but it makes the phone look like a "boat"... and it's very heavy indeed...
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i'm using this bumper when 3500mah attached (1st photo from the right)
help to time t charge

Stimulating a battery pull?

I'm pretty sure my battery needs to be reset as my battery life has dropped dramatically. Just wondering if there is a way to simulate a battery pull on the Note?
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Big4570 said:
I'm pretty sure my battery needs to be reset as my battery life has dropped dramatically. Just wondering if there is a way to simulate a battery pull on the Note?
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Is this since the kitkat update? If yes let samsung know
Not sure how you would simulate it
Nope stll running stock 4.2.2, with CWM, with no major changes to my OS. I figure it just needs to be recalibrated.
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Why not changing your battery?
Big4570 said:
I figure it just needs to be recalibrated.
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As far as I am concerned I ended up replacing my batteries after +10 months of daily intensive use although the battery status was reported as good. I bought a Samsung original part from eBay and followed a Youtube tutorial. I'm glad to report I did not break anything and obtained significantly enhanced runtimes.
Big4570 said:
Nope stll running stock 4.2.2, with CWM, with no major changes to my OS. I figure it just needs to be recalibrated.
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Supposedly holding the power button down until it shuts off is simulating a battery pull. Only other way I know of is to open the device and physically unplug the battery.
Have you tried just running the battery down to nothing, then with the unit off charging to 100%, then keeping it off the charger until dead and then charging to full agian? This may help re-condition the battery. I don't have any evidence to suggest this works but others have reported longer battery life afterwards. If it doesn't work then nothing lost.
Either that or just buy a new battery.

[Q] New Battery - Better Android System Usage?

I have an AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop. I've noticed I have been having fairly poor battery life over the last few days with Android System taking up the most usage. I purchased a spare battery for my Note 4 yesterday and I have been using the new battery with my phone. My android system usage is significantly lower with the new battery. Does this mean the older battery is defective? Or is it something else with the phone? Has anyone experience the same circumstances?
And yes, I have a SD card installed and I have factory reset my phone and wipe the cache after I installed Lollipop.
hw335 said:
I have an AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note 4 running Lollipop. I've noticed I have been having fairly poor battery life over the last few days with Android System taking up the most usage. I purchased a spare battery for my Note 4 yesterday and I have been using the new battery with my phone. My android system usage is significantly lower with the new battery. Does this mean the older battery is defective? Or is it something else with the phone? Has anyone experience the same circumstances?
And yes, I have a SD card installed and I have factory reset my phone and wipe the cache after I installed Lollipop.
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If I were you, I'd use the new battery a few days before jumping to conclusions. The Android System usage may start up again. Knock on wood that it doesn't.
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spexwood said:
If I were you, I'd use the new battery a few days before jumping to conclusions. The Android System usage may start up again. Knock on wood that it doesn't.
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Thanks for the reply. Hopefully it won't start up again. I just feel it's weird because a new battery shouldn't affect what is using the battery but rather how long the battery lasts. Isn't that right?
hw335 said:
Thanks for the reply. Hopefully it won't start up again. I just feel it's weird because a new battery shouldn't affect what is using the battery but rather how long the battery lasts. Isn't that right?
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I think so. I mean, the only thing I could think of that might reduce ASystem with a new battery would be if the new battery didn't have NFC. Then MAYBE ASystem will go down just because the system wouldn't be detecting the NFC chip. But even then, I wouldn't expect a huge drop in %usage.
If the old battery was defective, I also wouldn't expect ASystem to run high. If the CPU were bad though, then it definitely would because the cpu may not enter deep sleep, so the phone is always technically on. (I had the happen with my old phone. Had to get it warranty replaced).
Just keep an eye on it for a few days to see if things continue to stay good.
Btw, what battery? OEM? Third party? Large capacity (like a 6400mAh battery)?
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spexwood said:
I think so. I mean, the only thing I could think of that might reduce ASystem with a new battery would be if the new battery didn't have NFC. Then MAYBE ASystem will go down just because the system wouldn't be detecting the NFC chip. But even then, I wouldn't expect a huge drop in %usage.
If the old battery was defective, I also wouldn't expect ASystem to run high. If the CPU were bad though, then it definitely would because the cpu may not enter deep sleep, so the phone is always technically on. (I had the happen with my old phone. Had to get it warranty replaced).
Just keep an eye on it for a few days to see if things continue to stay good.
Btw, what battery? OEM? Third party? Large capacity (like a 6400mAh battery)?
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The new battery is just OEM. and thanks for your input.
So...with the new battery about 10 hours of run time and 4.5 hours of screen time (mostly YouTube). I am at 8% battery life? Is this normal?
Also here's my setup
- Bluetooth off.
- Location On - Power Saving Mode
- WiFi on and connected, look for WiFi network is On. Always connected to WiFI is on.
- YouTube @ 15% of Battery and Screen / Android System both taking up 14%.
- Screen Brightness on Auto
Is this normal or should I be getting battery life out of my phone?
hw335 said:
So...with the new battery about 10 hours of run time and 4.5 hours of screen time (mostly YouTube). I am at 8% battery life? Is this normal?
Also here's my setup
- Bluetooth off.
- Location On - Power Saving Mode
- WiFi on and connected, look for WiFi network is On. Always connected to WiFI is on.
- YouTube @ 15% of Battery and Screen / Android System both taking up 14%.
- Screen Brightness on Auto
Is this normal or should I be getting battery life out of my phone?
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I think many people report 4.5-5 hours of constant screen on time, so I think your getting normal battery life.
I usually get about 1-2 hrs screen on time, but my phone is in standby for tge rest of the time. I usually then get a day and a half of battery life (or 2 days).
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Question Advanced optimization

Does anyone know what this option does? Like does it really save battery or help apps operate better?
I can't seem to find this option on mine
It save battery life optimizing power consumption in case of system detect unusual drain with some apps.
Hunter_87 said:
It save battery life optimizing power consumption in case of system detect unusual drain with some apps.
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I know but what I'm wondering is does this actually use battery itself or does it actually save battery?
dalelindley76 said:
I can't seem to find this option on mine
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Settings>battery>battery optimization> three dots upper right corner> advanced optimization
Not sure either. I finally turned mine on this morning i wanted to see if there's a difference.
lendawg said:
I know but what I'm wondering is does this actually use battery itself or does it actually save battery?
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In my own experimentation, it seems to make a significant difference in overall battery life. I'd like to know more about what it's doing too, though.
Interested as well.
I'm just going to turn it in and see what happens. Usually at about 50 percent battery I have between 4 and 4 1/2 hours of screen time so that's what I'll compare it with.
lendawg said:
I'm just going to turn it in and see what happens. Usually at about 50 percent battery I have between 4 and 4 1/2 hours of screen time so that's what I'll compare it with.
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Im setting mine up today since i have unlocked the bootloader and rooted. Anything special in settings you have done to get that good of SOT?
Disabled a few apps from settings, don't use 5g as it's not great in my area yet, only turn on location when needed. Other then that nothing I have the tmobile version and haven't had any of the heat or battery issues people are talking about. The only problem Im having is getting used to having to charge every day after owning the LG v60. Nothing can touch that phone as far as battery goes.
I turned on this option once i receive it and did first setup. Actually my best sot time was of 8h2.
So what does it do?
If it was all good then it would be on by default

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