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Was wondering if the amount of times i dropped my phone affect the battery life? It feels as if everytime i drop my phone and the batt flies out i feel as if my battery life decreases or am I hallucinating because recently i had 56% and dropped my phone when i booted up had 40%
Might be my mind but can someone clarify thanks
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Normal, booting up eats battery.
Try shutting down and booting back up, you will lose some battery.
But not 16%.
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Android OS estimates discharge by 1% steps, but there are checkpoints at some percentages. You can Google this and read more in detail. That's normal behavior.
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Any tips or threads on battery conditioning? I have a new extended battery for my DX.
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Just go though the standard conditioning cycle a couple times. You know, drain battery fully so it won't turn on,let charge till full,leave on charger another 2 hours, repeat. Got my battery (regular) to go from 4 hours to a good 12 doing that.
Cool. Thanks. So don't charge first just put in phone and drain?
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I am on serendipity 6.2 and suckerpunch#59 kernel, trying to stretch my battery life is always a hassle - is there a real solution here for me on the Samsung Captivate?
If you delete or freeze telelocation provider in an app like titanium backup it yeilds about 8 - 15 percent more battery but if you do so it will be really hard for emergency response people to locate you just based off your phone number.
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So I just looked at my battery usage and notices that my phone has been "awake" for such a long time. I know I haven't used it much at all today. Anybody have an idea why this is?
I would upload the screenshot, but its telling me that the file has the wrong extension. ???
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I have a huge battery drain (about 60%) by OS Android proccess even in the standby mode. I don't know what to do with this ****. From 100% to 0% it takes about 6 hours my phone dies in standby mode (with CM9 rom), with stock rom my phone lives in standby mode about 2-3 days.
Sounds like you have a rouge app(s). Download Better Battery Stats and CPU Spy. Read their respective threads to understand how to use them. There are threads where people will help you interpret the logs these provide.
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I agree with dnorthington. I had the same then I realized that drawfree was draining my battery in a matter of hours...
Android OS only reports such high values in ICS because it includes screen on time.
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How do I detect the rogue app?
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How do I detect the rogue app?
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Did you download better battery stats and CPU spy? Look in the ATT Galaxy S II thread. There's a pretty good known battery drain thread. My idle drain is less than 2% part hour. My deep sleep is over 95% when idle. Has to be a rogue app.
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I charged mine and let it sit for 7 hours. With wifi set to always on, I get 11% drain overall, 92% deep sleep and 6% at 192.
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Battery life is very good compared to the previous releases. I ran for forty minutes with Bluetooth turned on while listening to tune in radio and using endomondo app. Google now turned on. I lost fifteen percent compared to losing 35% with similar usage. Very satisfied.
What do you think?
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Why would you make a thread linking to a post you made in another thread?
Bit unnecessary. To answer the question it's too early for me to thoroughly test battery life.
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thats not fantastic at all...
I would wait for at least 2 complete battery cycles to make a thread like this.
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I would wait for at least 2 complete battery cycles to make a thread like this.
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Ditto. My phone ran like a champ on a freshly flashed ROM. Then my phone realized it was born as a Verizon-Nexus mutt and had a psychological breakdown to the point of 1.75 hours of on-screen time the day after.
Twas a sad day
I'm reading my work email over the exchange service account. After upgrde to 4.2 the exchange service process eats my whole battery so I can't tell about any improvement.
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When it comes to battery life (in general, though especially true with this newest release), it's crazy how many divergent opinions you get. Some people claim to get amazing battery life (exactly what quantifies for amazing?) and some people claim the battery life is crap. This is just to remind you that unless you have a good way of measuring battery life, your measurements can be plus/minus hour(s). Someone who just leaves their phone on a black screen with no wi-fi and cell may get 10 hours of screen-on time. Someone who is watching videos with cell/wi-fi might only get 2 hours of screen-on time.
In the future, I can make two recommendations:
Always report a complete cycle (from 100% to close to 0%). This is because the battery does not discharge at a constant rate.
Always report screen on time
Average for GNexus in previous builds was 2-4 hours. I've no idea about the plus/minus, but they tend not to be under 2 and over 4 with moderate usage. I think an average of 3-3.5 hours is what most people are happy to report.
And that is really sad because my old atrix used to get over 8 hours on Wi-Fi with over twelve hours of standby time. I wish they would make this phone but with a smaller screen size. The technology used on this phone is not battery efficient at all.
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This tells us nothing....u don't show ur screen on time and uve been charging off and on..
Battery life in sleep mode is worse for me. I am losing 3% an hour with the screen off, I used to lose only 3% total overnight with the screen off not per hour. I tested this over the last 4 hours only waking the tablet up long enough to check the battery level and it has gone down by 3% each time. Nothing has changed with any apps or setting since I upgraded from 4.1.2 to 4.2. I got concerned when I noticed this morning that my battery was over 15% less then when I went to sleep. Anyone else notice this?
This is very good battery by my standards.
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This is very good battery by my standards.
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Not great by mine....and I have an LTE GNex
This is my battery life stats after using 4.2 for 2 days... Is it good?
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The screen on time is good but not much of an improvement. Also it appears you had WiFi off for most of the time.
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Last shot before my battery dies...
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50% left 23h 11m on baterry. wifi and location on all the time and 10% wasted on need for speed most wanted also. brightnes at 80% aprox. im very pleased with the baterry really maybe becouse the phone is relatively brand new and the battery still very fresh allways charging with care after discharge not on and off the charger all the time
yeah using the 4.2 factory image with trinity a4 and getting great battery life
Is it possible to calibrate the battery upon changing roms? I noticed that in the advanced menu in cwm that there is no 'delete batterystats.bin file' like there was on my Inc2. Also the battery calibration app says its not compatible with the Toro. Suggestions/ideas?
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Battery calibration is all hype really. It does more harm than good. Allow your device a few charging cycles and it should handle it's own battery statistics (unless the battery happens to be faulty, but even then it isn't a problem with the device itself) . That's what it was built to do.
I only ask because last night I noticed extreme battery drain. 35% to 10% in 7 hrs....no 4g no WiFi no GPS. I didn't even touch the phone (I was asleep). This concerns me. My last device would drain MAYBE 10% throughout the night under the same conditions
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I only ask because last night I noticed extreme battery drain. 35% to 10% in 7 hrs....no 4g no WiFi no GPS. I didn't even touch the phone (I was asleep). This concerns me. My last device would drain MAYBE 10% throughout the night under the same conditions
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Check for rogue apps. Better battery stats app will help identify which apps are creating excessive wakelocks or keeping processes running.
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So here's the short version of a very long ongoing story.
My fiancé and I each bought the GS3 back in October of 2012. Since then, she has been the victim of terrible idle battery life. Being more technically minded than she, I have done literally everything I would have done on my own unit to hers. I rooted it to take advantage of apps like Greenify and betterbatterystats. I even heard the app Wakelock Detector was a good way of pairing with Greenify to eliminate Rouge apps and bad wakelocks.
However it is now over a year and two separate batteries later and she is STILL suffering from this idle battery. Today she had a total of 8 minutes of on screen time and her battery died after about 6 hours of being idle. None of the previously mentioned apps have detected any sort of suspicious activity and I've tried factory resetting the phone numerous times.
Can anyone shed any kind of light on just what the heck might be plaguing her device? I've never experienced battery drain as severe as her unit has demonstrated.
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Since its less than an year, did you try going in for a warranty exchange? Maybe its an issue with the device itself?
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It's been over a year unfortunately. Every time we tried filing for a replacement inquiry Samsung has screwed something up so we never were able to get it exchanged.
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Have you tried swapping batteries for a day since you both have s3s and test out if the battery is faulty or just the phone? If this is not the case, you can try install a custom Rom, I suggest cyanogenmod, it's really light weight and doesn't take up power when idle. I combo cyanogenmod 10.2 stable with greenify and I get 15hrs of moderate light use and after 15hrs I still have 30 percent life left.
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I gave her my stock battery that came with my GS3 since I was given a Hyperion 4200 mAh external battery. I originally thought it was a faulty battery but my battery is not helping the issue. She's still having terrible battery life. The OP was using my old battery.
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