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I just wanted to ask if anyone could make a guide to getting really good battery life, on any rom or stock(I'm on stock, stock kernel) I get around 7 hours of life with moderate use mostly texting all day but I used to get 16+ hours before I refreshed a few times. Someone made a guide for the galaxy vibrant for me before so I wanted to know if anyone could do that for this phone? Also does turning animation off on this phone (stock rom) and GPS off make a huge difference in battery life cause to me I get the same battery life. Thanks guys
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Here is a guide for all phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2104468
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Try juice defender ultimate...
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Try One Power Guard:
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I recently bought a GSM galaxy nexus (NTT DoCoMo version) and I use it on T-Mobile's prepaid network. The original battery that it came with was terrible.. Literally only lasted 7 hours regardless of screen on time. So I bought a stock Samsung battery off eBay thinking maybe it was a bad battery. No help whatsoever. I've flashed different ROMs, radios, and different kernels. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? I had a Sprint Galaxy Nexus and I could get up to a day on the battery with 2.5 hours of screen on time so I know the Galaxy Nexus can last a long time. What's the deal?
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shmoozie said:
I recently bought a GSM galaxy nexus (NTT DoCoMo version) and I use it on T-Mobile's prepaid network. The original battery that it came with was terrible.. Literally only lasted 7 hours regardless of screen on time. So I bought a stock Samsung battery off eBay thinking maybe it was a bad battery. No help whatsoever. I've flashed different ROMs, radios, and different kernels. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? I had a Sprint Galaxy Nexus and I could get up to a day on the battery with 2.5 hours of screen on time so I know the Galaxy Nexus can last a long time. What's the deal?
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What is the 'Battery' menu under Settings telling you?
shmoozie said:
I recently bought a GSM galaxy nexus (NTT DoCoMo version) and I use it on T-Mobile's prepaid network. The original battery that it came with was terrible.. Literally only lasted 7 hours regardless of screen on time. So I bought a stock Samsung battery off eBay thinking maybe it was a bad battery. No help whatsoever. I've flashed different ROMs, radios, and different kernels. Can anyone help me figure out what's going on? I had a Sprint Galaxy Nexus and I could get up to a day on the battery with 2.5 hours of screen on time so I know the Galaxy Nexus can last a long time. What's the deal?
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Could you post some info on battery drain statistics from battery settings tab or preferably gsam monitor over a full drain? I could probably help you out, just need some more info. Also try flashing fancy kernel if you haven't already. This is a newer kernel that gives the best battery life you'll find freshly flashed.
Before discharging toget battery stats I would try charging to 100% and using "battery calibration" by NeMa to clean your phone's batterystats file and then drain to zero with a screen flashlight or running gallery slideshow. This can always be a problem no matter how healthy your battery is.
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This is what I have showing for my battery so far. I flashed the newest radio last night and that seems to have helped a little bit with the battery. I have tried the battery calibration and it didn't really seem to help much.
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shmoozie said:
This is what I have showing for my battery so far. I flashed the newest radio last night and that seems to have helped a little bit with the battery. I have tried the battery calibration and it didn't really seem to help much.
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Try to flash stock rom,look like hardware battery problem.
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Try to flash stock rom,look like hardware battery problem.
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I have flashed a stock 4.2.2 ROM a week or so ago and I was still having this issue. I bought a new battery too and its still happening. Flashed the fancy kernel today and it seems to be helping a lot actually.
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The stock kernel performs way better then what you are experiencing. A custom kernel may help a bit, but it's not magic. I'd recommend using the app BetterBatteryStats in order to find out what's going on.
Do any of you think that me restoring apps would have anything to do with the battery drain? I'm not seeing anything out of the ordinary in the GSAM battery stats but the battery drains way too quickly. 10% per hour even when I'm not using it..
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I have flashed a stock 4.2.2 ROM a week or so ago and I was still having this issue. I bought a new battery too and its still happening. Flashed the fancy kernel today and it seems to be helping a lot actually.
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Glad to hear that fancy kernel is helping. It's probably the closest thing to magic you'll find. I agree that 1 hour of screen time and under 12 hours is under par, but I was having these same issues 2 months ago and could not believe how crappy battery life was. It really got better though trying a bunch of different radios to find the right ones, using minimal gapps/resource hogging apps as possible, finding the right build.prop tweaks to use, and most helpful flashing some good reliable kernels like fancy and AK/anarkia that have incredibly useful customizations that stock just doesn't have, I.e., contrast and color settings, battery friendly governors and frequency profiles, optimized smart-reflex, and custom regulator voltages for display.
Well, didn't feel like it lasted too long. Fell asleep with my battery at 33%, woke up 3 hours later and it's dead. I'm ready to throw this phone out the window.
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100% no data connection and 100% no or unknown signal. I have almost full bars. WHAT THE HELL
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I've tried to find a rom and kerneI that would help with battery too, nothing made that much of a difference though. I use the 2x battery saver app now. I get at least double the battery life sometimes more.
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100% no data connection and 100% no or unknown signal. I have almost full bars. WHAT THE HELL
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I see you got the app. Good. Now a few minutes isn't enough time to gather reliable stats. Review the results after a full drain cycle of the battery. Check partial wakelocks and alarms for suspicious activity.
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I see you got the app. Good. Now a few minutes isn't enough time to gather reliable stats. Review the results after a full drain cycle of the battery. Check partial wakelocks and alarms for suspicious activity.
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Here's what was listed on BBS after a full drain. Do you see anything unusual? I turned my data on and kept it on 2G to prevent the no or unknown signal from eating more battery but that was the only change. Battery life still looks terrible.
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Here's what was listed on BBS after a full drain. Do you see anything unusual? I turned my data on and kept it on 2G to prevent the no or unknown signal from eating more battery but that was the only change. Battery life still looks terrible.
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I'm missing screenshots of partial wakelocks and alarms.
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Could you post some info on battery drain statistics from battery settings tab or preferably gsam monitor over a full drain? I could probably help you out, just need some more info. Also try flashing fancy kernel if you haven't already. This is a newer kernel that gives the best battery life you'll find freshly flashed.
Before discharging toget battery stats I would try charging to 100% and using "battery calibration" by NeMa to clean your phone's batterystats file and then drain to zero with a screen flashlight or running gallery slideshow. This can always be a problem no matter how healthy your battery is.
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No need for the snake oil app, as simply unplugging the phone after a full charge wipes battery stats. Wiping battery stats and draining to zero aren't going to have any bearing whatsoever on this issue and would needlessly shorten the battery's serviceable lifespan.
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I'm missing screenshots of partial wakelocks and alarms.
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Whoops.. I forgot to screenshot those. I'll get those later today. So I put my phone in airplane mode to see if maybe it was the reception... Phone kept draining. I will try to wipe everything off the phone later and not install any apps and see if that helps.
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According to these stats, it looks like Google talk and the calendar are my biggest wake locks? I disabled Google talk, turned off location history for Google maps last night, what should I do about the calendar? I feel like my phone is becoming useless because I have disabled so many things.
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Forgot to add these, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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When restoring a nandroid, do you have to cycle your battery a few times for better battery life?
Or does it come back to where the battery life was?
Reason I'm asking is because I flashed a new kernel but want to go back to my old kernel without going thru 4 or 5 cycles for best battery life.
I'll never buy all that battery nonsense.
Is battery life an issue for you?
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I'll never buy all that battery nonsense.
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Exactly!!
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Its not an issue but its fair to say I want the most outta my battery.
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I bought two spare batteries with an external charger from Anker on Amazon for $20.
Totally worth it and even restarting the phone isn't as annoying as I thought it would be.
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Well, it you dont wipe your battery log it shouldnt affect the system but I alway recalibrate my battery after flashing a new ROM. Search on PlayStore for the app : BatteryCalibration . It work great and I see the difference!
From what I've used aosp ROMs tends to have pretty bad battery life in comparison to stock tw ROMs. My question is why and how it can be addressed? Now I've used a multitude of aosp ROMs including cm10.1, aokp, and root box just to name a few (all 4.2.2) and my battery life is pretty bad. I won't post any screenshots because it varies but take my word for it, took it off charger by 10am by 2pm (2 hours of screen on time later) it was already at 30% (this was underclocked to 1.2ghz mind you) I think my only option is the nexus 4 at this point as it has stock android and I've heard it is having fantastic battery life on 4.2.2. We'll see, anyone have input on this?
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You're doing something wrong at some point, out your phone simply doesn't like aosp, I get 3.5 hours screen on time with stock kernel at stock voltage and 12 hours use normally. Yesterday got 18 hours with 2.5 screen on.
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mt3g said:
You're doing something wrong at some point, out your phone simply doesn't like aosp, I get 3.5 hours screen on time with stock kernel at stock voltage and 12 hours use normally. Yesterday got 18 hours with 2.5 screen on.
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I really don't know what I'm doing wrong, I've tried underclocking, undervolting, brightness adjustments, battery saving apps, etc. Different kernels too (lean, kt, bms, stock, etc) with different governors and io schedulers. I'm so fed up at this point. I want to use my phone without worrying about if I'll have enough battery left. I refuse to use touchwiz.
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Something may be wrong with the phone or battery. Yesterday on liquid I got 5 hrs screen time with around 14 up time
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Something may be wrong with the phone or battery. Yesterday on liquid I got 5 hrs screen time with around 14 up time
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Liquid smooth right? That's aosp?
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Liquid smooth right? That's aosp?
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Yup that's right
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You might have a bad battery. If you don't mind the bulk or weight, I would recommend getting the Zerolemon 7,000 mAh extended battery. Then you could go a couple of days without charging your phone.
If you do want to keep the slim and sleek look of the S3, Zerolemon also sells 2300 mAh batteries (which are 2400 mAh) for $20 for two of them on amazon.
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On liquid smooth, I get around 17 hours with 4 hr 30min~ screen time.
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You might have a bad battery. If you don't mind the bulk or weight, I would recommend getting the Zerolemon 7,000 mAh extended battery. Then you could go a couple of days without charging your phone.
If you do want to keep the slim and sleek look of the S3, Zerolemon also sells 2300 mAh batteries (which are 2400 mAh) for $20 for two of them on amazon.
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Yeah I'll definitely look into some extended batteries. Wouldn't be a bad idea, I was just thinking of ditching this for a nexus 4 tbh. Just don't want to lose this awesome S3 community though
I'll give liquid smooth a try as well. Thank you everyone!
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I feel your pain. I have the same exact issue and I have tried everything as well.
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I just bought the OEM 3000 battery for my S3 and on TW its amazing, I can go 14 hours, with playing pocketcast and google music almost all day and still have 40% left.
on AOSP roms, 4 hours in I'm at 60%
so something is def wrong with AOSP roms when it comes to battery
it sucks cause I REALLY wanna use Liquid smooth or CM, I loved them both but the battery was killing me, forced me to go back to TW
Something is wrong with your setup.
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I just bought the OEM 3000 battery for my S3 and on TW its amazing, I can go 14 hours, with playing pocketcast and google music almost all day and still have 40% left.
on AOSP roms, 4 hours in I'm at 60%
so something is def wrong with AOSP roms when it comes to battery
it sucks cause I REALLY wanna use Liquid smooth or CM, I loved them both but the battery was killing me, forced me to go back to TW
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I have a similar problem. Whats the ideal setup kernel wise?
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I have a similar problem. Whats the ideal setup kernel wise?
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Ktoonz with a matching nightly.
Battery life actually varies per device an usage. I use some on my S3 an rarely touch it, the battery will last practically all day long. Also if you run a high over clock that will destroy battery life, along with too many apps running at the same time too. A simple underclock with a good governor can extend battery life too. Staying on wifi helps too. There's many ways to get good battery life for you device. As Faux123 said "every device is different". Even though we all have the same phones, some act differently.
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Hi guys, I am new to android OS. My Slll that is on cm 10.1 RC2 is losing its half of battery life overnight. What should I do to fix this? I wanted to post this on the cm 10 nightly forum but my posts haven't reached 10, thus, I just can't.
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Hi guys, I am new to android OS. My Slll that is on cm 10.1 RC2 is losing its half of battery life overnight. What should I do to fix this? I wanted to post this on the cm 10 nightly forum but my posts haven't reached 10, thus, I just can't.
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Pretty much nothing you can do, other than maybe turning off sync and using airplane mode at night. Also, the latest nightlies after rc2 seem to have improved battery life, though it's still not impressive by any means...
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klin1344 said:
Pretty much nothing you can do, other than maybe turning off sync and using airplane mode at night. Also, the latest nightlies after rc2 seem to have improved battery life, though it's still not impressive by any means...
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Not really...I was having similar problems and here is what I did and my current setup (only lost 6% overnight with WiFi on)
SlimROM
BMS Kernel (3.4 Version)
Download Trickster mod app from playstore and select the "interactive governer and in the settings change your hifreq speed to 81K...
Good performance and battery
I have the same issue and I have 3 batteries I rotate I don't think I have 3 bad batteries the drain on this aosp ROMs are drastic my phones died in 4 hours. That's bad. Touchwiz is ugly. MIUI ROM last me like 12 hours with very heavy user and stock 4.1.1 last me up to 17hrs shame cause really love the look and feel of aosp and aokp
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I have the same issue and I have 3 batteries I rotate I don't think I have 3 bad batteries the drain on this aosp ROMs are drastic my phones died in 4 hours. That's bad. Touchwiz is ugly. MIUI ROM last me like 12 hours with very heavy user and stock 4.1.1 last me up to 17hrs shame cause really love the look and feel of aosp and aokp
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I feel the same...I hate touchwiz so I'm forced to use CM10.1, which had been giving bad battery life ever since the 3.4 kernel update back in march.
I disabled all sync for all my accounts, use greenify, always keep screen brightness at lowest, only turn on WiFi or data when I need to use it, and did a clean wipe, yet the battery still drains faster than a bloated touchwiz ROM.
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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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