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I've had 3 or 4 different evo's and it's been almost impossible to receive decent battery life on almost any rom. It started with CM6 and I switched even though I loved it and went to Baked Snack or some other rom that stated battery life, but it just always ends up dropping on me no matter what. I thought my expectations were too high, I just recently got my last replacement and it's now 3-4 days old. I heard how CM7 and Miui's latest had excellent battery life so I couldn't wait to test them. I first tried CM7 and as long as it's on stand by or not being used the battery was pretty decent I guess. That's with Green Power free running btw. when I turn the phone on to start using it, the percentages just drop. Tried Miui after hearing how good the new battery life is and almost the same thing.
So, that led me to believe it was due to some program, but for the most part I keep these stock. One of the first things I setup are a Gmail account, FB account setup... then of course my apps are added automatically hardly any widgets ever run. If anything it's Buzzbox, I've got beautiful widget's clock now. I use Vlingo, not sure if it's a hog. When I check the battery stats, there's nothing crazy or out of the ordinary. Anyways... there's got to be something wrong, I'm guessing. I've got a regular battery and an extended battery and they both do terrible. I'm going to install a rom from scractch with nothing loaded at all and test the battery. I hate to do that, because testing will take awhile especially with adding one program/widget at a time to monitor the percentages lost.
Here's a list of apps I normally have on my evo and run occassionally:
Vlingo
Green Power Free
Juice Defender (before green power and GB)
handcent
buzzbox
facebook
Swype
Google Services
Voicemail
Are any of these battery abusers without me knowing it?
I normally keep wifi on and connect to it over the 3g data, although I believe Green Power said it cant control the data on the GB roms as of now.
Today, I started with 98% with my extended battery, CM7 and now at 1:00PM I'm at 70% Minimal usage.
Sorry for the long post.
Bluetooth is off most time and Wifi like I mentioned usually is on, because I heard it uses less power than mobile.
sorry for the long post.
Just looking for some assistance.
Restore it to stock.
Calibrate your battery.
Use it for a few days without installing all your apps. If the battery still sucks, then you are probably going places that do not have signal and the phone is searching a lot. Check About - Battery for time without signal.
get a seidio 3500 mah battery and you will enjoy your phone with every little feature turned up to the max
iitreatedii said:
get a seidio 3500 mah battery and you will enjoy your phone with every little feature turned up to the max
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I've got a regular battery and an extended battery and they both do terrible
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It is a Seidio
Of course it's not as bad as the original, but watching the batter go down 10% while I'm using it is very disheartening. Awhile back, I was able to get decent battery life, but I can't remember what rom, it might have been Baked Snack like 1.6 lol, guessing anyway.
iitreatedii said:
get a seidio 3500 mah battery and you will enjoy your phone with every little feature turned up to the max
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what kind of use do you receive with yours? What rom/kernel as well.
Try my rom with ziggy I've getting great reviews from my rom users nets 4.3 works great for my evos today as of now stock 1500 10.5 hours 34% extended 3500 10.5 hours still in the 90's stock had my maps on all day literally and extended barely touched it will post screenshots in a few
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Nuggyunlimited looks like he is onto something. I do not know if he has 4G or not?
I have had my best luck with mikFroyo.
What is going on with google maps? I have the same problem wiht MikFroyo
I am one of the heaviest users around, I stream pandora for about 8 hours , listen to music app about 2 to 3, check facebook and certain websites constantly, my two email acounts check every five minutes, my brightness is at 100 percent, my gps and location services are on, I'm overclocked...using 4.3 mikfroyo with sbc number 7...at the moment I'm using miui with sbc 7 for aosp roms, depends what you do, but either way no matter what kernal or rom you use I'll tell you, this battery will last you all day, this battery changed my evo experience...
edit: I don't use setcpu for profiles, just for overclocking, i dont use juice defender, the useless task killer or anything
edit 2: Conductive i had the same problem update to 4.4 or 4.3
conductive said:
Nuggyunlimited looks like he is onto something. I do not know if he has 4G or not?
I have had my best luck with mikFroyo.
What is going on with google maps? I have the same problem wiht MikFroyo
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4g works with my rom and I've been using it most of the day I'll look into it for ya
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I am one of the heaviest users around, I stream pandora for about 8 hours , listen to music app about 2 to 3, check facebook and certain websites constantly, my two email acounts check every five minutes, my brightness is at 100 percent, my gps and location services are on, I'm overclocked...using 4.3 mikfroyo with sbc number 7...at the moment I'm using miui with sbc 7 for aosp roms, depends what you do, but either way no matter what kernal or rom you use I'll tell you, this battery will last you all day, this battery changed my evo experience...
edit: I don't use setcpu for profiles, just for overclocking, i dont use juice defender, the useless task killer or anything
edit 2: Conductive i had the same problem update to 4.4 or 4.3
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Lol sounds like my average use but I use it even more
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Lol sounds like my average use but I use it even more
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so let me get this straight, average use is 8 hours of pandora, 8 hours of sleep, and that leaves 8 hours for facebook and etc, so lets say 4 hours total for a guesstimate, leaving 4 hours of non activity of the phone being off. 20/24 hours is "average use". I mean this is not a competition of who uses theyre phone more, all im saying is that with this battery you can do pretty much whatever you want without caring with ANY rom or ANY kernal you want.
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so let me get this straight, average use is 8 hours of pandora, 8 hours of sleep, and that leaves 8 hours for facebook and etc, so lets say 4 hours total for a guesstimate, leaving 4 hours of non activity of the phone being off. 20/24 hours is "average use". I mean this is not a competition of who uses theyre phone more, all im saying is that with this battery you can do pretty much whatever you want without caring with ANY rom or ANY kernal you want.
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No I use my bluetooth headphones for music from around 8am-6pm entire time I leave the house to the time I get home. Both facebook accounts every 15 minutes same with both.twitter accounts on xda off and on all day I.text a lot and use g talk a lot with a few calls I wasnt posting it as a battle I was actually just saying we get about the same times but I use the phone a little more and I was agreeing with you that the battery works wonders
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i just got my evo after a hero.
the battery life is exactly what i expected. ive got a stock sense, rooted with clockwork.
i dont use widgets, no auto syncs. i have complete control over my device and it never leaves my hand. that being typed, i can get about 13 hours of up time.
yes, id like the battery to last longer but im not willing to have a fatty evo for the 3500mAh battery. I purchased a second stock battery, official HTC, so if Im gonna have a long day, ill have a battery with me.
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No I use my bluetooth headphones for music from around 8am-6pm entire time I leave the house to the time I get home. Both facebook accounts every 15 minutes same with both.twitter accounts on xda off and on all day I.text a lot and use g talk a lot with a few calls I wasnt posting it as a battle I was actually just saying we get about the same times but I use the phone a little more and I was agreeing with you that the battery works wonders
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o okay i was just making sure, i was confused, and yeah, we seem to be heavy users, i cant kill a stock battery in 2-4 hours no joke
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o okay i was just making sure, i was confused, and yeah, we seem to be heavy users, i cant kill a stock battery in 2-4 hours no joke
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Cool lol I just can't go through the day without music and I believe you pandora itself would kill a stock battery in about 4 hours I got a extended rugged case so the phone doesn't look funny with the big back lol
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Ok, yesterday I loaded Miui with nothing additional except changing the LCD density to 200, green power (which is useless since wifi doesn't work with this kernel) and right now I'm at 14h, 49m since unplugged with 17% left (normal battery). That's with minimal to average use. I notice when I'm using it, I can watch the percentages just drop, so I guess it's functioning normally and it's due to just my usage and programs, I'm probably expecting too much from my battery, once again I guess. I'm going to try your rom next with my extended battery.
I know what stock battery users go through, and with heavy use they don’t last too long, but I’m now in a different, horrible place entirely and I have the 3500 mAh battery!
I know that something is clearly wrong with my Evo but no one seems to know what it is. As I said I’m also using a 3500 mAh battery, but not to any advantage. In fact I get considerably less usage with this now then I used to get with the stock 1500mAh battery, regardless of the ROM or kernel.
Current specs:
HTC EVO 4G, Hardware 0003
16GB Wintec Class10 MicroSD
SEIDIO 3500mAH Battery/Camera Protector
Calkulin's EViO 2 v1.7.7 (have run several different Sense and CM ROMs)
HTC kernel #15v7 (doesn’t matter, have tried stock and every TM, regular and SBC)
Quadrant ≈ 1365
Linpack ≈ 33.05 MFLOP
and…(drum-roll please)
Battery Life: 70% after 6 hours, literally next to no usage.
Before middle of last November, if I charged the phone fully (without the benefits of SBC), and then just unplugged it on a Saturday night and let it sit unused for like 19-hours, the charge would be around 89%, +/- 1%, with the stock battery. In that same scenario now the 3500 mAh battery would have shut the phone down long before 19-hours rolled around.
Yesterday, using the 3500 mAh extended battery, no phone calls, Bluetooth on for about 20-miutes this morning for the drive to work and was turned off upon my arrival, and I’ve sent and received 4-5 messages on GTalk. That’s it.
The current status:
Charge: 70%
5h 52min unplugged
Up time: 6:15
Awake time: 1:20
Battery Usage screen:
Cell Standby: 42%
Phone Idle: 43%
Android System: 8%
Bluetooth: 4%
Display: 3%
Phone runs great; everything works great, no other issues. It once fell about 10”-12” onto plush carpet (kitten attack). It was in the Sprint case with the stock battery then, and has not been dropped otherwise. If anything, I am ridiculously careful with it.
Something happened the middle of last November like a switch was flipped, and battery life has been horrible ever since. Since we got our Evos back in the very beginning of June, 2010, I don’t think that returning it to the Sprint Store was an option then or now.
No one seems to have seen anything like this or have any clue what the issue might be, but it was suggested that I RRU it back to original, update it to current and then test the battery usage. Then, basically just live with it and see if it helped. After that, I’ll re-root and get on with life, whether battery life is better or not.
Any constructive thoughts are welcome. Thank you for your time.
Note: my apologies is this constitues a thread hijacking; not my intention, just saw title of the thread and it sounds like my life.
nYdGeo said:
I know what stock battery users go through, and with heavy use they don’t last too long, but I’m now in a different, horrible place entirely and I have the 3500 mAh battery!
I know that something is clearly wrong with my Evo but no one seems to know what it is. As I said I’m also using a 3500 mAh battery, but not to any advantage. In fact I get considerably less usage with this now then I used to get with the stock 1500mAh battery, regardless of the ROM or kernel.
Current specs:
HTC EVO 4G, Hardware 0003
16GB Wintec Class10 MicroSD
SEIDIO 3500mAH Battery/Camera Protector
Calkulin's EViO 2 v1.7.7 (have run several different Sense and CM ROMs)
HTC kernel #15v7 (doesn’t matter, have tried stock and every TM, regular and SBC)
Quadrant ≈ 1365
Linpack ≈ 33.05 MFLOP
and…(drum-roll please)
Battery Life: 70% after 6 hours, literally next to no usage.
Before middle of last November, if I charged the phone fully (without the benefits of SBC), and then just unplugged it on a Saturday night and let it sit unused for like 19-hours, the charge would be around 89%, +/- 1%, with the stock battery. In that same scenario now the 3500 mAh battery would have shut the phone down long before 19-hours rolled around.
Yesterday, using the 3500 mAh extended battery, no phone calls, Bluetooth on for about 20-miutes this morning for the drive to work and was turned off upon my arrival, and I’ve sent and received 4-5 messages on GTalk. That’s it.
The current status:
Charge: 70%
5h 52min unplugged
Up time: 6:15
Awake time: 1:20
Battery Usage screen:
Cell Standby: 42%
Phone Idle: 43%
Android System: 8%
Bluetooth: 4%
Display: 3%
Phone runs great; everything works great, no other issues. It once fell about 10”-12” onto plush carpet (kitten attack). It was in the Sprint case with the stock battery then, and has not been dropped otherwise. If anything, I am ridiculously careful with it.
Something happened the middle of last November like a switch was flipped, and battery life has been horrible ever since. Since we got our Evos back in the very beginning of June, 2010, I don’t think that returning it to the Sprint Store was an option then or now.
No one seems to have seen anything like this or have any clue what the issue might be, but it was suggested that I RRU it back to original, update it to current and then test the battery usage. Then, basically just live with it and see if it helped. After that, I’ll re-root and get on with life, whether battery life is better or not.
Any constructive thoughts are welcome. Thank you for your time.
Note: my apologies is this constitues a thread hijacking; not my intention, just saw title of the thread and it sounds like my life.
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Thats crazy my extended has on for 2 days 4 hours only used it for a hour and the battery is @ about 80% your. Your awake and bluetooth time are low your battery shouldn't die like that it might be the battery seidio.should replace it sounds like you've tried everything in the book
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Thats crazy my extended has on for 2 days 4 hours only used it for a hour and the battery is @ about 80% your. Your awake and bluetooth time are low your battery shouldn't die like that it might be the battery seidio.should replace it sounds like you've tried everything in the book
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Thank you for the input. I thought about that so I tried the 3500 mAh in my wife's stock Evo and it runs forever. I'm so envious! I've swapped her stock battery and mine and they both run the same in either phone.
In mine, the stock battery usage is proportional, too. Fully charged and unplugged at 6:00 AM and with absolutely zero usage, sleeping screen off the entire time, by around 2:00 PM the stock battery was at 41%. That was also with very minimal synching (I've tweaked those settings nicely), no bluetooth, etc. I believe that the awake time was like 36mins. Sick, but unfortunately not in a good way.
Since it can't hurt, I think that I may do the RUU thing this weekend and then re-root afterwards. It may not help, but its literally the only thing that I can think of that I haven't tried.
Again, thanks for your thoughts. Have a great day!
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Thats crazy my extended has on for 2 days 4 hours only used it for a hour and the battery is @ about 80% your. Your awake and bluetooth time are low your battery shouldn't die like that it might be the battery seidio.should replace it sounds like you've tried everything in the book
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Sorry, I've bypassed your rom for so long, but I've got it loaded now. Looking forward to trying it out. I can't lie I love and miss CM7 and Miui, but if my battery seems to last longer with a sense rom, then I'll be switching. So far it is very snappy and quick. Do you recommend I stick with the stock kernel or switch to something else? Do you use any setcpu, juice defender, green power or anything?
Do you have theme's as well?
Updating a titanium backup for my apps now.
I'll post back how it goes. I would say I had the same problem as the user above, but this has happened on mutliple phones and roms.
I know with a new phone you need to cycle the battery quite a few times. Someone told me roms were similar, even though I never understood why. Would you say that's true? In order to give the rom time to adjust to the battery and settings you need to give it 3-5 days?
I LOVE the Galaxy Nexus, but the rate at which the battery discharges is just ridiculous. I'll use the phone for 15 minutes doing things like Twitter or Web Browsing, and it'll discharge 5% in that time. To me, that is horrible. I'm being really conservative too. Throughout a day I try not to play videos, games, or anything else intensive because I know it'll ruin my battery life. Even on standby it discharges 5% in an hour. Typically I lose about 10% an hour and my max has been 12 hours so far.
I have auto sync turned on and keep the screen low when possible. I NEED auto sync on because of the nature of my work. Compared to my iPhone 4S battery is downright pathetic.
Today my usage consisted of one phone call, a few text messages, lots of Twitter, and light web browsing. Nothing too crazy. Again I'm being really conservative with my usage whereas on my iPhone I can do whatever I want and not worry. I'm just not seeing how people are getting 15+ hours and claim heavy usage. I'd love to believe that! The battery drains so fast during normal usage it may be a deal breaker for me.
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It sounds like your definition of light usage is wrong.
I wouldn't consider heaps of twitter and some web browsing light usage. I would consider it moderate usage, in which case you seem to be in line with everyone else.
I agree with you in that the battery life isn't quite what I would have liked. Ideally I wouldn't have to worry about battery at all, and I'd be able to play games and browse the web as much as I like, but for normal usage it's fine.
The next Nexus though, man, that will only have to be charged once a month. I can't wait.
Niksko said:
It sounds like your definition of light usage is wrong.
I wouldn't consider heaps of twitter and some web browsing light usage. I would consider it moderate usage, in which case you seem to be in line with everyone else.
I agree with you in that the battery life isn't quite what I would have liked. Ideally I wouldn't have to worry about battery at all, and I'd be able to play games and browse the web as much as I like, but for normal usage it's fine.
The next Nexus though, man, that will only have to be charged once a month. I can't wait.
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Twitter hardly taxes the processors at all. Refreshing it every so often should hardly take any battery life at all. Web Browsing I can understand, but my total time browsing today probably amounts to 10 minutes total.
I wonder how much of the drain is attributed to the 4.65" screen. It's a monster.
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I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
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I wonder how much of the drain is attributed to the 4.65" screen. It's a monster.
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Most of it. 720p Super AMOLED HD is killing the battery. The only way to last a long time is to not turn the screen on.
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I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
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I've had the phone for a week so far.
almost 3hours of screen from 10h standby!! mate give us a break and get back 4s. !!
heavy usage not low!
i can see low signal (coverage) what can also produce higher battery drain.
twiter running 24/7 in backround sync on + wifi + games...
i dont know what you want... you will never get anything similar from for example HTC sensation or even your favourite 4s.
dont take it on bad way..but if you dont know what to do - try to save your battery..
-lower your screen britness
-remove/disable apps that are producing the heavy drain (use betterbatterystats app)
-stop playing games - if you wanna long life for your battery.
-etc...
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People using a G2x claim to get a day and a half... I'm lucky to get out of work. Push email for work is to blame I think. I get tons of emails (100 a day) and I think its taxing. From your pics, the screen used over 50% of it. That's a lot.
Sucks.
Also make sure your aren't turning on the screen every 5 minutes to check the status. Since your coming from an iOS, are you closing apps properly (back = close, home = minimize).
I'm not saying your crazy but just saying.
LG G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Asus Transformer - 3.7 Revolver OC/UV
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I expect the battery life go improve within the first few cycles. I had a similar experience with the Nexus S last year.
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I had the same thing happen with the Nexus One. The battery wasn't that great but, got better after a few charge cycles.
I've never had a Android phone that could match the battery life of the Iphone. I can sit the iphone down at night without putting it on the charger and, if it's at 100% it will be at about 90-95% when I wake up. I did the same thing with my Mytouch 4G and, it was at 15%
To the OP, I would recommend keeping a charging cable with you when you out and about especially in your car. I've had car docks with a few of my android phones and, always keep the phone docked when I'm driving somewhere. It really helps.
What you also need to remember is this is the first release of ICS and is still in development so battery life my be improved in the next update. Like you mention iPhone4S there was massive battery leakage in the first release of IOS 5 which Apple apparently fixed in the newest update.. So maybe in the next update we can expect some bugs ironed out.
Used to only have ONLY 2-3 hours screen ON on my Vibrant so I know how SAmoled looks like.
I know iphone battery is good, but you need to consider the screen size too..
Get a spare battery with your "light usage", but I am thinking how much would it cost becoz of the NPC antenna.
Too good thing is, unlike iPhone, you can buy a spare battery and carry it with you.
3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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exactly what i am trying to say
+1
Hunteres said:
almost 3hours of screen from 10h standby!! mate give us a break and get back 4s. !!
heavy usage not low!
i can see low signal (coverage) what can also produce higher battery drain.
twiter running 24/7 in backround sync on + wifi + games...
i dont know what you want... you will never get anything similar from for example HTC sensation or even your favourite 4s.
dont take it on bad way..but if you dont know what to do - try to save your battery..
-lower your screen britness
-remove/disable apps that are producing the heavy drain (use betterbatterystats app)
-stop playing games - if you wanna long life for your battery.
-etc...
Best regards
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I already said I didn't play any games today and my screen brightness is low. For some reason Shadowgun stays in the battery info screen. I played the game two days ago and manually closed it out. Even after rebooting the phone its still there.
I'm being 100% real, stop trying to make excuses or act like I'm an iPhone fanboy. The Galaxy Nexus combined with ICS is the best phone I've ever used! I'm just terribly disappointed with the battery life.
Twittering all day is sucking up battery because of all the data use. Dude, youre not a light user with 3 hours screen time moderate, possibly heavy depending on background stuff sycing automatically. You have some tweaking to do, not whining.
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3 hours of screen use is what the problem is. That is a long time. I wouldn't complain about that at all.
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3 hours is not that much. Seriously. It shouldn't be damn near dead after 10 hours. Imagine if I decided to play a game for 15 minutes or watch 2 YouTube videos.
I bet if people were getting an hour and half with this phone, all the fanboys here would say the same thing. "Man, an hour and a half is a long time! You should be happy with that!".
pukemon said:
Twittering all day is sucking up battery because of all the data use. Dude, youre not a light user with 3 hours screen time moderate, possibly heavy depending on background stuff sycing automatically. You have some tweaking to do, not whining.
Sent from my samsung gt i9250 which is in the wrong country.
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I've tested out the battery difference by turning off auto sync. Doesn't make a difference at all. Fact of the matter is that the battery drains like crazy when the screen is on.
I'll just turn my phone on because actually using it is frowned upon here.
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Too good thing is, unlike iPhone, you can buy a spare battery and carry it with you.
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Except they aren't out yet
Hello all ,
sorry if it's duplicated question , but it's very urgent for me
I've made this topic before :
[Q] When it comes to heavy Continuous using .. which rom / Ker gives me more hours ?!
and as you can see , i tried almost everything to get more " screen on time "
someone told me to get extended battery
so , could anyone tell me please that is the best one so far ?
and how many extra hours i will get with this one ?
i mean in heavy using
thanx a lot ,
and sorry again
Either get the 2000mah samsung extended battery if you want to keep the slim profile, or get one of the brick sized extended batteries from ebay
any reports about this original Samsung one ?
is it better or the other ones ?
i don't care about size
cuz i have a Case-Mate tough and SPG neo hybrid and i guess they could handle it , right ?
so , any help about exact tested ones ?
Search. The. Fracking. Forum.
^ tried ..
but found many topics with tens of pages
so far i think the original extended battery feed me well
The best kernel is void.echo, excellent performance and battery.
I've got the Samsung 2000mAh battery and you get another cover with it as its slightly bigger. Got me 5 days with void.echo. WiFi on almost all the time. Hes a picture:
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They're also bigger ones on eBay but theyre fat and ugly. They are 3500mAh. Never tried them, never will. Ruins the look of the phone. Heres a pic from eBay:
I would go for Samsung's 2000mAh. My ROM is WajkIUI with void.echo. I hate siyah, it drained my battery in 5 hours, i didnt even do anything!
thanx a lot
could you please post some screens about usage ?
specially screen on time
i got max 3 ~ 4 hours with my current stock one
what about yours ?
u could also get an external 1350 mah battery from samsung
there is a link of it somewhere here
and also one more think u can do
disable one core
lock it at 500 mhz full load
undervolt it
and do the same to the gpu
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The best kernel is void.echo, excellent performance and battery.
I've got the Samsung 2000mAh battery and you get another cover with it as its slightly bigger. Got me 5 days with void.echo. WiFi on almost all the time.
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Really? 5 days? I would love to see some proof of that.
there's no rom\kernel combo wich give you that long juice time unless you turn your phone on, put it in "flight mode" and use it as a paper weight.
Anyways i manage to get about 30-40 hours of medium + usage with Anker 1900mAH battery.
Hertz33 said:
Really? 5 days? I would love to see some proof of that.
there's no rom\kernel combo wich give you that long juice time unless you turn your phone on, put it in "flight mode" and use it as a paper weight.
Anyways i manage to get about 30-40 hours of medium + usage with Anker 1900mAH battery.
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It's actually very easy reaching 5 days with wifi always on and GSM... If in all the five days you turn the screen on like 1 hour total.
Those statements of "my phone lasted x hours" without any aditional info are completely useless.
Molitro said:
It's actually very easy reaching 5 days with wifi always on and GSM... If in all the five days you turn the screen on like 1 hour total.
Those statements of "my phone lasted x hours" without any aditional info are completely useless.
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true, gsm only saves looooooooots of battery but dont get mad if you wont receive some of the calls. im happy with phone lasting about 30-40 hours with avarage use, wifi always on brightness set to 0 unless going outside- auto , and pretty much it. better than my desire anyway
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thanx a lot
could you please post some screens about usage ?
specially screen on time
i got max 3 ~ 4 hours with my current stock one
what about yours ?
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My stock battery gets me 2 days max with my rom and kernel
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Really? 5 days? I would love to see some proof of that.
there's no rom\kernel combo wich give you that long juice time unless you turn your phone on, put it in "flight mode" and use it as a paper weight.
Anyways i manage to get about 30-40 hours of medium + usage with Anker 1900mAH battery.
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That's right, 5 days. I could get more hours with it underclocked and undervolted
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Regarding those chinese batterys off ebay.. I dont have any first hand experience with them.. I ordered a 3000mAh battery for my Samsung Galaxy S (the first one). It took maybe 2-3 weeks to arrive, and by that time I had already upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S II. I sold the Galaxy S to a friend, gave her the huge battery when it arrived.. she later said that the bigger battery didnt last any longer than the official original Samsung battery! She also had a couple of other chinese batterys that fit the standard casing, and she said those ones didnt last as long. I personally didnt really notice a difference, but I was always tending to swap out batteries around 5pm when I finished work.
I've just ordered an official Samsung 2000mAh extended battery for my Samsung Galaxy S 2. And I'm starting to play with custom ROMs and kernels. I'll report back my findings when the battery gets here in 2-4 weeks. I'm currently struggling to get through an entire day.. auto brightness, 3g enabled, checking emails every now and then, facebook pushing data down at will, and often with music or FM radio playing through the earbuds.
I"ve got the Samsung Extended Battery with SensatioN Rom with Siyah Kernel.
With bare minimum usage, few phone calls, texting, no 3G connectivity, no Wifi, no music, no gaming, I can get over 5 days.
With normal usage, few phone calls every day, send few texts, internet via 3G or Wifi every now and then, email and weather sync set to every hour, few hours of music here and there gets me little over 2 days.
My heaviest usage was 5 hour continuous gaming without Wifi or 3G connectivity and the battery went from 100% to 12% in that 5 hours.
If you use the display a lot, then forget about getting days of usages on one charge. You might, at the lowest brightness settings, but I never bothered with it. I"ve had my display brightness set at one step above middle ever since I got this extended battery.
could you post screenshot of the " screen on time " please ?
because this is the real challenge for the battery
Better go for original samsung kit 2000 mah....
Please everyone i need numbers
my current stock one gives me max 3~4 screen on time
what about those ??
how many exactly it will gives me screen on time ?
help me on this way please
there is no point other users giving you their max screen time as usage will be very different.
I could say 2 hours of screen time, but I could have GPS connected, Wifi or 3G downloading massive file, music playing and other background tasks doing stuff all at once...
Or I could say 6 hours of screen time at lowest brightness setting while I typed out an essay with no Wifi or 3G, no music minimum background tasks. Almost using the phone as a typewriter.
What you are asking is like "how much farther will 40 litres of fuel get you in a particular car, compared to 30litres of fuel".
It depends on how you accelerate, whether aircon is on or off, are you going uphill or downhill, is it in city driving or highway driving??? People will give you different figures and unless their driving condition is exactly same as yours, the figures really mean nothing.
All you need to know is the extended battery is about 25% larger than stock, there for should give you 25% more usage time.
I received my Galaxy SIII on Monday and haven't been able to complete a full day with light to moderate usage. Yesterday after about 11 hours of mainly standby / light usage I had about 3% battery before I was able to charge it.
Is this normal? I'm coming from an iPhone 4 (this is my first android phone) and was quite excited about this. But if I can't make it through the day what's the point. I have noticed at times that the back of the phone can get quite warm, not hot, but definitely warm. Perhaps I have a faulty battery?
I've heard Android can be a bit notorious for poor battery life, but I didn't expect that I wouldn't be able to use it for the fear of the phone not lasting the day.
My iPhone 4 I could use it quite often throughout the day and end the day with close to 40% battery life and if needed I could last through the night well into the next day without a charge.
Will I have to carry around a spare battery / charger at all times.
Here are some screen shots from today. I've been awake and unplugged for nearly 3 hours, barely used the thing and I'm already at less than 70% with HIGH cell signal standby.
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Hmm, looks like yours may be fairing better than mine based on your usage. Looks like you used it for a good 40 minutes.
When I use mine I can watch the battery percentage drop. I really hope that this is an issue with my phone and not the phone in general. I really like the phone and it's a nice change from the iPhone (little quirks here and there but still nice).
However, if the battery life is this bad (bad IMO perhaps this is actually good), then I think I'll have no choice but to return this phone - assuming I can. Otherwise I guess I'll have to drop the money for extra batteries.
I've gone as far as basically making email manual. I've turned off that stupid S-Voice thing so it won't wake up by me saying "Hi Galaxy". Guess I'll turn off WiFi and GPS (though I feel I shouldn't need to). I have battery saving mode on as well and I've dimmed the screen down to what looks like 20%...
EDIT: also, the maps that used 6% of total battery usage was me just taking a look at the widget and disabling it. Less than a minute of usage...
Your phone is not sleeping. Install better battery stats to see what is keeping it awake.
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Also cell standby means you are in a low signal area which from your screenshot appears to be correct.
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Also cell standby means you are in a low signal area which from your screenshot appears to be correct.
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Unfortunately I can't do much about that since I'm at work
Do you have a recommendation for a good battery monitor? One that preferably doesn't cost money?
When it was awake I believe I had been messing around with it. I've checked it again and it hasn't been awake that often (just spurts). Looks like it's periodically syncing with my email, while I realize this will cause the battery to be drained I wouldn't expect this to be too large a deal. I would think I should be able to have my phone idle and still be able to receive emails without it causing too much of an issue. All my accounts are set-up through IMAP (minus my exchange account - which I've set-up to run manual during peak hours and check once an hour during non - peak hours) so the emails should be pushed to the device since I shouldn't be polling the servers (although it's possible I don't know too much about IMAP....).
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Unfortunately I can't do much about that since I'm at work
Do you have a recommendation for a good battery monitor? One that preferably doesn't cost money?
When it was awake I believe I had been messing around with it. I've checked it again and it hasn't been awake that often (just spurts). Looks like it's periodically syncing with my email, while I realize this will cause the battery to be drained I wouldn't expect this to be too large a deal. I would think I should be able to have my phone idle and still be able to receive emails without it causing too much of an issue. All my accounts are set-up through IMAP (minus my exchange account - which I've set-up to run manual during peak hours and check once an hour during non - peak hours) so the emails should be pushed to the device since I shouldn't be polling the servers (although it's possible I don't know too much about IMAP....).
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Better battery stats is free if you search for it on XDA and from your above screenshot it is awake without the screen being on for a while. I think you have an app using up CPU processes.. poorly written apps will do this
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If WiFi is enabled and I'm connected does mobile data get disabled?
I also found an App called Juice defender, is this something that is recommended to use?
I got the BetterBatterStats app installed. I'll do a full charge, then see what it has to say.
Thanks for your help.
patmann03 said:
If WiFi is enabled and I'm connected does mobile data get disabled?
I also found an App called Juice defender, is this something that is recommended to use?
I got the BetterBatterStats app installed. I'll do a full charge, then see what it has to say.
Thanks for your help.
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That's what I am here for juice defender is good for longer periods for use so yes you might want to look into it. Wifi does not automatically disable mobile data I do not believe.
I also think you can load up better battery stats right now and it will tell you data
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That's what I am here for juice defender is good for longer periods for use so yes you might want to look into it. Wifi does not automatically disable mobile data I do not believe.
I also think you can load up better battery stats right now and it will tell you data
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He'll have to full charge first to get a reference point for BBS. And as far as I know, once Wi-Fi is on, mobile data is off.
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He'll have to full charge first to get a reference point for BBS. And as far as I know, once Wi-Fi is on, mobile data is off.
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I don't know, I am pretty sure I thought the same of BBS but tried it for the hell of it last time and it was able to pull my stats from the current charge because they were just pulled from the system anyways.
Mobile data is not toggled off in the settings when wifi is on
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I just got and activated my S3 on Wednesday and am having the exact same problem. I'm also on ATT and am coming from an iphone 3GS. First day I had the S3 I barely got 8 hours out of it, most of that time in standby mode and with nothing but the stock apps installed. Yesterday I cycled the battery and drained it to completely dead to where the phone wouldn't even try to turn on. I then charged it to 100% with the phone turned off. I then unplugged it to see how much battery life it would drain on standby overnight. In about 6 hours while I was asleep it went from 100% to 93%. Then I left home and between that time and now, 7.5 hours, with minimal use which included less than 20 minutes of phone calls, downloading 3 apps, syncing email a couple of times, etc.. no games, no videos, no music, no internet browsing, nothing....
Battery is now down to 24%
Screen - 1h 42m 26%
Android OS - 10m 7%
voice calls - 17m 5%
and the rest of the stuff at about 5% or less,
basically, in 7.5 hours of doing almost nothing, with power saving mode turned on and juice defender also active, my phone has gone from 93% to 24%.
Before I got the phone I read several reviews that said the battery life on these phones was supposed to be excellent. I can't imagine that this is what would be considered excellent. My iphone, which I replaced because the battery was dying, would easily last twice as long as this and that's with heavy use including games, pandora, youtube, and internet browsing.
Aside from the short battery life I'm also experiencing horrible wifi issues. On my wifi at work it will constantly disconnect and reconnect over and over. I had my iphone sitting next to the S3 and the connection was rock solid.
I contacted samsung and ATT and they did not have any suggestions or solutions but the guy from ATT did suggest taking the phone to an ATT store and they would give me another battery to try and if that didn't work I could exchange the phone.
I hate running around exchanging stuff but I'm very disappointed with this phone so far. Half the battery life of my iphone and horrible wifi connectivity isn't what I'd expect from a phone which has been touted as being significantly better than the iphone 4S and possibly even the iphone5 when that's released.
Any suggestions? I'm really trying to love this phone but so far...meh....not so much..... I love the screen, the interface is very cool, it's lighter than my iphone, but if I can't get more than a couple of hours of very light usage and no solid wifi connectivity, I don't know.... Once I get these problems ironed out I have a couple of other total newb questions about things I need to do with it but first things first...if I can't solve these problems, this phone won't work for me. Hope you guys can help! :good:
I'm glad (but not glad) to hear I'm not alone. It really is frustrating. I've been in the process of charging my phone which is taking a long time in and of itself (although I am connected to USB on my PC). It's been plugged in for 2 hours and gone up 24% eh.
I'll probably take it to the AT&T store and talk to them about it. If I can't get is solved I'll probably exchange it, but that exchange would have to be a guarantee that I'd either get the iPhone 5 when it comes out without having to pay full price, or perhaps the HTC One X, but I hear that isn't much better either. I have a friend who has the HTC One X (or the variant of it on Sprint) and he get's two days of battery life with some gaming even.
I do not want the 4S since IMO it's a worthless upgrade from the 4.
I'm located in the suburbs of Chicago so I have 4g LTE just about everywhere, granted my signal is a bit weak in my building... by a window.
If you come up with anything let me know and vice versa.
Yeah, you're definitely not alone. I've read some other posts on this and other forums of people complaining about the same thing. I have 30 days to return it so I really want to see if I can figure out how to make it work. If not, I'm going to do the same thing you're thinking of -- take it back and hopefully they'll let me go back to using my old iphone until the iphone 5 comes out, then get that one at the new contract price. Like you, I have zero interest in the iphone 4S.
I have to say, this is really frustrating and disappointing. I was expecting an "iphone killer" and instead I've wound up with a phone that with light to normal usage is pretty much dead by 3 in the afternoon. I can't work like this.
And like you've noticed, it does charge very slowly. Even through usb my iphone would charge very fast. 20 minutes in my car would give it about 15% more charge. The S3 goes up maybe 2 or 3% in the same time. I can live with this but not with the battery life or wifi problems.
btw, I'm trying another full discharge cycle tonight to see if that helps any. I really hope I can get this resolved. When I got the phone I started shopping for accessories like a car dock, screen protector/case, etc.. and was ready to order some but held off when I saw how crappy the battery life was.
No one has said this yet, but you are using a different version of SGS3 from us. You should go over to the ATT LTE boards and get help.
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patmann03 said:
I'm glad (but not glad) to hear I'm not alone. It really is frustrating. I've been in the process of charging my phone which is taking a long time in and of itself (although I am connected to USB on my PC). It's been plugged in for 2 hours and gone up 24% eh.
I'll probably take it to the AT&T store and talk to them about it. If I can't get is solved I'll probably exchange it, but that exchange would have to be a guarantee that I'd either get the iPhone 5 when it comes out without having to pay full price, or perhaps the HTC One X, but I hear that isn't much better either. I have a friend who has the HTC One X (or the variant of it on Sprint) and he get's two days of battery life with some gaming even.
I do not want the 4S since IMO it's a worthless upgrade from the 4.
I'm located in the suburbs of Chicago so I have 4g LTE just about everywhere, granted my signal is a bit weak in my building... by a window.
If you come up with anything let me know and vice versa.
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I am also in the Chicago area weak signal will destroy your battery so that could have a LOT to do with it. The sprint One X also is 3G only for the time being, so it doesn't have those life-sucking "4G" issues.
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I just got and activated my S3 on Wednesday and am having the exact same problem. I'm also on ATT and am coming from an iphone 3GS. First day I had the S3 I barely got 8 hours out of it, most of that time in standby mode and with nothing but the stock apps installed. Yesterday I cycled the battery and drained it to completely dead to where the phone wouldn't even try to turn on. I then charged it to 100% with the phone turned off. I then unplugged it to see how much battery life it would drain on standby overnight. In about 6 hours while I was asleep it went from 100% to 93%. Then I left home and between that time and now, 7.5 hours, with minimal use which included less than 20 minutes of phone calls, downloading 3 apps, syncing email a couple of times, etc.. no games, no videos, no music, no internet browsing, nothing....
Battery is now down to 24%
Screen - 1h 42m 26%
Android OS - 10m 7%
voice calls - 17m 5%
and the rest of the stuff at about 5% or less,
basically, in 7.5 hours of doing almost nothing, with power saving mode turned on and juice defender also active, my phone has gone from 93% to 24%.
Before I got the phone I read several reviews that said the battery life on these phones was supposed to be excellent. I can't imagine that this is what would be considered excellent. My iphone, which I replaced because the battery was dying, would easily last twice as long as this and that's with heavy use including games, pandora, youtube, and internet browsing.
Aside from the short battery life I'm also experiencing horrible wifi issues. On my wifi at work it will constantly disconnect and reconnect over and over. I had my iphone sitting next to the S3 and the connection was rock solid.
I contacted samsung and ATT and they did not have any suggestions or solutions but the guy from ATT did suggest taking the phone to an ATT store and they would give me another battery to try and if that didn't work I could exchange the phone.
I hate running around exchanging stuff but I'm very disappointed with this phone so far. Half the battery life of my iphone and horrible wifi connectivity isn't what I'd expect from a phone which has been touted as being significantly better than the iphone 4S and possibly even the iphone5 when that's released.
Any suggestions? I'm really trying to love this phone but so far...meh....not so much..... I love the screen, the interface is very cool, it's lighter than my iphone, but if I can't get more than a couple of hours of very light usage and no solid wifi connectivity, I don't know.... Once I get these problems ironed out I have a couple of other total newb questions about things I need to do with it but first things first...if I can't solve these problems, this phone won't work for me. Hope you guys can help! :good:
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Almost 2 hours of Screen On, is not bearly doing nothing. It's nearly a 5" light bulb you're leaving on.
Your signal may also not be as good as on your iphone in the same areas. But both of you seem to be on par. Yes android devices don't last as long as an iphone. There's more to do and more do on an Android than an iphone. You're also in your honeymoon stage..
Did some research found this link to force hspa so it disables lte or wont connect to it. Going to try that. Not sure if this disables the antenna and you'd still get the battery drain.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338109
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Did some research found this link to force hspa so it disables lte or wont connect to it. Going to try that. Not sure if this disables the antenna and you'd still get the battery drain.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1338109
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No you will not experience the battery drain if you disable LTE in this way.
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No one has said this yet, but you are using a different version of SGS3 from us. You should go over to the ATT LTE boards and get help.
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If I'm understanding you correctly, are you saying that the ATT S3s are different than the other S3s and are expected to get less battery life?
btw, where are the ATT LTE boards you're talking about?
So today, with pretty heavy usage (at work...checking facebook, twitter, email, web, texting, maybe 15 mins of youtube) I ran through all 100% of my Samsung 2100mah battery from 7:30am until 1:30pm. And I put my 100% fully charged third-party 2200mah battery in right after and now it's at 40% by now.
Unbelievably how terrible the battery life is with the S3.
This is with wifi turned off. with GPS and bluetooth turned off. with not a ton of apps running in the background.
So 1.6 fully charged batteries in 10 hours of occasional use. Wow.
The battery life is like 95% the only reason why I miss my iPhone.
ps. yes I've done the fully charging and fully discharging thing with these batteries.
That's either a bad device or something rogue is running. You are one of the few with that bad of battery.
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I have no idea what in the hell it is.
I am rooted, running CyanogenMod 10.
I forgot I had music playing for part of the day, and some internet streaming radio (at like 48kbps).
Either way. 160% battery life cycle in 10 hours of sort of heavy usage is nuts.
In the morning I'll be just reading news on Flipboard and Pulse with brightness at like 60% and running wifi, no GPS running, with no huge apps in the background and it can go from 100% to 90% in like 30 minutes of reading news.
Could be a bad device or maybe some garbage running in the background. I get 14+ hours of average use out of my device.
I usually go by screen time. I get about 4.5 to 5 hrs on a charge with Sync on andeeverything. Running tasks Aokp jellybean
My 4200 mah hyperion battery is fantastic. Easily over a full 24 hour period with 9-10 hours screen time
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My 4200 mah hyperion battery is fantastic. Easily over a full 24 hour period with 9-10 hours screen time
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Seeing posts like this make me want to order that battery. Probably will this weekend.
Okay, I know comparing battery stats is almost pointless but I will finally share my experience.
I am a copier technician. I work roughly 8-10hr days. I am literally constantly on my phone. Why? Because I use OTG USB A LOT. My usb flash drive is connected to my phone from the time I get to my first service call, to the time I get in my truck to drive home. I use OTG because I have to use different service manuals through out the day. So I am constantly accessing my flash drive for at least 45 minutes, each hour, every hour until my day is done. By the time I get home, I am down to about 30% or so, give or take 5% maybe. I use it at home to browse XDA until it just about dies. Charge it all night, than do it all again the next day. By the way, on my way to and from work, I play music in my truck. So roughly I get 10-14hrs out of my stock battery.
I have 58 apps installed. And Adobe Reader and sometimes that stock PDF doc viewer bloat is constantly running because my service manuals are pdf.
IDK.... There are so many threads/posts about battery life. I enjoy my Smartphone to the fullest. Run a ton of apps and and many widgets.
I used to try to do EVERYTHING to increase battery life, task managers, Better Battery Stats, going thru cycles of discharging and charging, wiping batt stats, calibrating battery, (which I still do). Underclocking, messing with voltages, etc etc etc.
It got to the point where I was so concerned about battery life I was missing all the great features of these phones.
I use my phone and all its features to the full potential. I bought a cpl batteries I keep charged around me incase I need them. And Overclock and just enjoy my phone.
Watching my battery life constantly and doing everything thing I can to increase it just took the fun out of of having a Smartphone with all these features.
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So today, with pretty heavy usage (at work...checking facebook, twitter, email, web, texting, maybe 15 mins of youtube) I ran through all 100% of my Samsung 2100mah battery from 7:30am until 1:30pm. And I put my 100% fully charged third-party 2200mah battery in right after and now it's at 40% by now.
Unbelievably how terrible the battery life is with the S3.
This is with wifi turned off. with GPS and bluetooth turned off. with not a ton of apps running in the background.
So 1.6 fully charged batteries in 10 hours of occasional use. Wow.
The battery life is like 95% the only reason why I miss my iPhone.
ps. yes I've done the fully charging and fully discharging thing with these batteries.
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What I've noticed on my att GS3 is that the battery destroyer without a shadow of a doubt is the LTE/HSPA+ radio. With this on battery drains at least 10% per hour especially with the LH9 update. As a test I shut off only mobile data toggle and the amazing battery life I had with my iPhone 4 returned on a more advanced phone. However, that came at the cost of having to shut off the mobile data connection. Mobile data toggle off all day at work 8+ hours and when I got home battery was like 85%.
I believe the data radio is the culprit and I hope they learn how to optimize its battery usage.
Had the same issue with the stock battery I had for 2 months, where just playing music screen off with about 15 minutes of data drained ~40% of my battery in about 2 hrs. Decided to get a replacment, with the same usage I still had 86% after 2 hours. Battery drop has also gotten worse with LTE on the LH1 update
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Sianspheric said:
So today, with pretty heavy usage (at work...checking facebook, twitter, email, web, texting, maybe 15 mins of youtube) I ran through all 100% of my Samsung 2100mah battery from 7:30am until 1:30pm. And I put my 100% fully charged third-party 2200mah battery in right after and now it's at 40% by now.
Unbelievably how terrible the battery life is with the S3.
This is with wifi turned off. with GPS and bluetooth turned off. with not a ton of apps running in the background.
So 1.6 fully charged batteries in 10 hours of occasional use. Wow.
The battery life is like 95% the only reason why I miss my iPhone.
ps. yes I've done the fully charging and fully discharging thing with these batteries.
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Rooted phone with CM10 ROM, stock battery installed - I get about 13 hours of extremely heavy usage (Wi-fi, Bluetooth on, 3G when not near Wi-fi, checking Facebook, stocks, mail, etc.) out of mine:
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I'd say you've got a bad battery, or a bad phone, or your ROM is bonked - there's no way you're burning through that much juice with normal operation. Maybe talk to your provider and see if you can swap the handset?
Oh, and discharging/charging your batteries does absolutely nothing. Li+ batteries have no memory, so you don't need to drain them - just use them out of the box and they'll work fine.
Might be a bad device or some garbage may run in the background, my cheap Lvbattery the Extended Battery For the Samsung Galaxy S3 [4500mAh the extend the battery] purchase. Eiemall.com fantastic. Easily over a full day
flashed a different ROM than C9/C10, "Triune 2" and started using the excellent battery/setting tweaks in "Go Power Master" and have noticed a pretty decent improvement.
Mainly by having Power Master turn off wifi/gps/location services while the screen is off, and only having my music/messaging apps running and shutting the rest off.
Highly recommend that app.
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knightblaze said:
My 4200 mah hyperion battery is fantastic. Easily over a full 24 hour period with 9-10 hours screen time
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How much did that cost?
MISSBIANKA1 said:
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looks like its about $25 on amazon
but its thicker than the normal battery, so you get a extended back cover with it. sounds awesome but if you (wisely) use a case with your GS3, you'd have to find a different case
http://www.amazon.com/Hyperion-Extended-Compatible-GT-i9300-T-mobile/dp/B008GWIVTQ/ref=pd_cp_cps_0