Does this battery life look normal? - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

I think something is draining my battery, but I haven't downloaded anything thay could be draining it? Also my GPS iconnis stuck to on, even after rebooting and doong a battery pull...
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Found the problem. Had an app that had air push, removed it and the GPS icon went away, which is what I think was killing the battery...

I found the battery to drain hugely with wifi set to be on at all times, I've set mine to switch wifi off when locked and I'm at 63% and over 8 hrs up time

Wifi has never been an issue for me.. I'm on wifi 99% of the time...

GPS, Auto Sync, and Bluetooth are huge killers for me. If you don't use them too often I recommend leaving them off. Also staying on HSPA+ instead of LTE when your phone is idle is better as well.

nope definately not normal. try maybe disabling some radios, like bluetooth and gps when not in use, and try disabling some notifications like gmail, facebook...unless u want them. they seem to be big battery drainers. or its prolly just a bug..try restarting

DarthDerron said:
GPS, Auto Sync, and Bluetooth are huge killers for me. If you don't use them too often I recommend leaving them off. Also staying on HSPA+ instead of LTE when your phone is idle is better as well.
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Can we set the data switching using Tasker?

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Can we set the data switching using Tasker?
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I could be wrong but I think the only switching data modes is by temporarily removing he SIM, dialling the code to put the phone in service mode, selecting the data mode you want, but then won't take effect until you reboot...
If that's the case, I would say no because of having to remove the SIM...

As stated in post 2, I found the problem.

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How do you make the phone to go on hsdpa on idle instead of lte.... ?

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How i got rid of battery drain...

While I own an international unlocked version of the S2, i assume the Sprint version must be very similar. After countless hours of trying to figure it out, this is what i discovered and solved my battery draining issue (it's been two months with no problems at all) i get 4 to 5 hrs display time and it lasts me all day. I was on stock 2.3.3 and recently upgraded to 2.3.4. with same results. The following tips are things i did prior to rooting, and they solved my battery drain issue.
1. Anything that tracks location is a battery drainer and i discovered that i was using wireless networks for location (it's also not that accurate) and it was the biggest culprit, so i disabled it and now i use gps (more accurate) as needed and turn it off when done. If you use Google maps with google latitude enabled, sign out of latitude when done using it.
2. App killers use more battery than saving it by closing apps and processes that run in backgroung that will automatically open right back again. Stay away from them.
3. Some apps if left in memory will constantly cause cpu spikes (suspend and events/0), in my case it was Facebook and Xfinity apps. So i close all active apps in task manager. Don't really clear ram, just close active apps.
4. Use Watchdog from Market to track any apps that might be using a lot of cpu.
5.Enabling Back up my data also drained my battery, so i disable it.
Hopes this helps...
AqueousBor said:
1. Anything that tracks location is a battery drainer and i discovered that i was using wireless networks for location (it's also not that accurate) and it was the biggest culprit, so i disabled it and now i use gps (more accurate) as needed and turn it off when done.
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While I can't state for certain that it's causing any extra battery drain, Carrier IQ is hooking into the location service, and every time your location changes, grokking your latitude, longitude, accuracy, and a timestamp. This is new to the Epic Touch.
I constantly have alerts for suspend and event/0 in watchdog. In the stock task manager there really isnt much running to kill. It's driving me nuts. haha My battery life isnt horrible but I think it could be better..
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Google maps draining my entire battery

Since about a week the battery life of my one X has become terrible. According to the battery usage screen, google maps seems to be draining all the juice. Im not actually using gm though, so something must be going on in the background.
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Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there a solution to the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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Since about a week the battery life of my one X has become terrible. According to the battery usage screen, google maps seems to be draining all the juice. Im not actually using gm though, so something must be going on in the background.
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Does this sound familiar to anyone and is there a solution to the problem?
Thanks in advance!
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Just disable it
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And how do I do that? I can close the process, but it will automatically go back on. Disabling the app itself is not something I know how to do and not really something I would like to do either.
Perhaps one other thing of importance: when I open maps (or now) it says location services are turned off, while they are not.
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And how do I do that? I can close the process, but it will automatically go back on. Disabling the app itself is not something I know how to do and not really something I would like to do either.
Perhaps one other thing of importance: when I open maps (or now) it says location services are turned off, while they are not.
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disable from settings app manager OR
get greenify from playstore and just greenify it
problem solved :good:
Also, where do you live at? Might be your not connected to the right sattelites for your region. You could go to play store and download faster fix and make sure your phone is reading off the right satellites.

Wakelock, better battery help

So I feel like since I rooted my phone and installed nova my batter drains more...and I'm really new to all this stuff and I don't understand what any of this means:
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is this good or bad... It says it's awake 88% and only 12% deep sleep. If someone explains to me I'll be thank full
WendyB87 said:
So I feel like since I rooted my phone and installed nova my batter drains more...and I'm really new to all this stuff and I don't understand what any of this means:
View attachment 2871684View attachment 2871685View attachment 2871686 is this good or bad... It says it's awake 88% and only 12% deep sleep. If someone explains to me I'll be thank full
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That's not normal. Whatever wakelock is keeping it awake is not captured in your WLD screenshot. Track it down in better battery stats instead, using "partial wakelocks"
Thank you...that's what I thought... I don't know what happened...so I went into partial wakelocks and everything looks like low %... But kernel wakelocks there was a lot of high percentages...
First thing that sticks out is drop box. It shouldnt be running for that long. Did you turn on auto backup? This will cause huge drains. If turned on turn it off. Also check in service running for 21 minutes... Turn off your gps. This is Google now constantly running and locating you to try and provide you with what it thinks is useful cards (weather, traffic, food in your area) I only then on my gps when I'm gonna use navigation. Otherwise all apps with gps access will start to run and kill your battery. Also I suggest greenify. It'll help a lot with things like Facebook, Twitter, Google search, ect. Wakelocks. Also removing or freezing bloatware helps tremendously with battery drain. And last carrier iq. Something that always runs in the background. Google search it or read up in the battery threads here on XDA. They talk about it a lot and how to try and stop it. Also this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2816353
although for the SGS5 it can be applied to our device as well
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also your font looks distorted, i would return the phone! ?

Battery Drain on Tab Pro

Hey! I am back again.....looks like I have a lot problems......anyway,
I have a Massive battery prob....
So I brought my device badk to firmware after a lot of abusing of my device......but then,this happened (i changed to a different rom to stop the same battery problem but it wasnt any good) its not wakelock, like when the device is locked, no battery is wasted but when the screen is turned on and i do light activities like google translate, youtube, it drains SUPER FAST! Like for watching a 10 min video on youtube, it took away 3% of battery! I have also enabled power saving, have kind of a decent brightness and the wifi sleep thingybis set to never keep on. So I really need help with that.
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Do you use 2.4Ghz wifi or 5Ghz??
I had rootet mine to 5.1 and 6.0 and had put it on 5ghz, and it drained pretty fast
Now im back on stock and battery is pretty damn good
Bitness78 said:
Do you use 2.4Ghz wifi or 5Ghz??
I had rootet mine to 5.1 and 6.0 and had put it on 5ghz, and it drained pretty fast
Now im back on stock and battery is pretty damn good
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I checked and it says I use 2.4.....
Hmm, i guess you have checket others battery drain apps etc, i dont use facebook and messenger on mine..
You can try a full reset on it sometimes that helps. (Iknow it sucks to set it up again)
Bitness78 said:
Hmm, i guess you have checket others battery drain apps etc, i dont use facebook and messenger on mine..
You can try a full reset on it sometimes that helps. (Iknow it sucks to set it up again)
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No nothing like that....
And plus I just flashed it back to stock a few days ago and did a factory reset then.....
Ok, you could try root it again and try find the best battery calibration tools around, then im out of suggestions for now

Screen using power when turned off

I've got all gestures and everything else I can think of off, I even disabled "Prevent accidental touches" yet it's still draining the battery fairly considerably
Any ideas?
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It's one of them sweet new features Samsung added, just enjoy it and stop whinging.
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If your phone is rooted, check your deep sleep time in a kernel manager like mtweaks or ex. If it doesn't go into deep sleep, there's probably a app preventing it. You can probably find it under the battery usage in your settings. If you can't find it try DS battery saver, if that resolves your issue, it's probably an app keeping your phone awake. It also could be the AoD thats keeping it awake, I only know about this problem in custom roms, and I don't encounter it on my phone on OneUI, but this could be an issue aswell.
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Do you have an SD Card in your Galaxy?
When you have one, than take it out.
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Even if it fixed it, I use my sdcard every day for my media default save location but thanks
Bumo Gaming said:
If your phone is rooted, check your deep sleep time in a kernel manager like mtweaks or ex. If it doesn't go into deep sleep, there's probably a app preventing it. You can probably find it under the battery usage in your settings. If you can't find it try DS battery saver, if that resolves your issue, it's probably an app keeping your phone awake. It also could be the AoD thats keeping it awake, I only know about this problem in custom roms, and I don't encounter it on my phone on OneUI, but this could be an issue aswell.
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Not rooted unfortunately, shame they limited access to app usage, I mean even Android battery status has more info
Deep sleep seeems to work, battery drain in the morning is fine, this is through the day
Bit of an update for anyone wanting to see actual app stats, "Accubatttery" still works fine
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digibites.accubattery&hl=en_GB

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