I get an average of 20% drain if I non stop use whatsapp for an hour, on WiFi. Is this normal?
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Sounds above average to me. 5 hours screen on time doing anything is good, average is 3-4. That number shrinks the more intense the application such as video. You being on WiFi won't reduce the drain of the screen, its using the most power in that scenario.
WiFi drains more than 3G?
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Vivek_Vivek said:
WiFi drains more than 3G?
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Are you sure of that?
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Are you sure of that?
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Im asking
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Are you sure of that?
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In my experiences, cellular data uses way more battery than WiFi on my G3. I usually have 1-2% battery drain per hour on standby with WiFi on, but 1-2% drain every 15 minutes when on cellular data.
573W1E said:
In my experiences, cellular data uses way more battery than WiFi on my G3. I usually have 1-2% battery drain per hour on standby with WiFi on, but 1-2% drain every 15 minutes when on cellular data.
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I shifted from galaxy s3, thinking that this phone would give me a better battery life. But it is not. The idle battery consumption is very good, but screen on time is very less. Any tips to increase?
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Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete
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Hi guys,
Quick question. When checking phone battery use, standby is always the highest and nh time without a signal is always around or over 50%. Does this mean my phone is defective? Can you guys compare your results? Thanks Pete
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Are you in an area with bad cell reception? My time without a signal is always very low only a few minutes and thats just from the time it takes me to drive through the mountain pass to and from work.
At work I have very low signal but driving to work I have great signal. So today my phone has been on 1.5 hours before getting to work. Cell standby is 63% and time without signal is 51%.
Btw this is a replacement phone. My first one had gps issues. Ive had it 3 days but seems to have weaker overall signal.
Here are my screenshots. Should I get this phone replaced too. I swear my other phone had great battery life. I have barely touched this phone but it's only on its third battery cycle. Battery is at 82%. Opinions please.
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If its due to bad signal then that completely explains my battery. I have horrible signal at work
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If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.
popfan said:
If I am not wrong (I am assuming this is like the Nexus) you can turn off the LTE on your phone if you are not in the area that has it and will save some battery.
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Can't turn LTE off currently.
That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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That's a bummer that we cant...I think I'm suffering from the same issue.
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I would be happy if I got that amount of battery life. I can barely get 11-12 with normal usuage.
But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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But that's not "normal" Usage those. That's me constantly conserving by disabling data all the time or airplane mode in general. Those numbers only reach that high on days I ignore my phone
i also find it very uncool that 70 something % of my battery was cell standby? really? wtf is that...
i can't wait till we get ICS ... look at this pic of an xperia s after the ICS update
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Cell standby is caused by LTE searching, 4G Searching, GPS searching, and WIFI searching when it not connected.
So 70 % or more of my battery was used for searching for signal? That's pretty lame considering I keep everything off or disabled unless I'm using it. .... how does that make sense.
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Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
Here as well.
What ROM are you using?
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I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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What ROM are you using?
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I am using the stock rom.
owlchemist said:
I'm not sure but could it possibly be from the device constantly trying to get or maintain signal? Or perhaps it's just the most used thing on your phone? My battery has only dropped 15% in the last ten hours because I was working and barely used my phone, yet the cell standby was 51%.
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Yeah that's what it means. But why is it so high. My old HTC Aria only used about 15-20 percent battery for cell standby.
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Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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Now i'm even having trouble staying connected to my 5ghz network. I'm literally standing right next to my router and the phone just drops the connection like every hour.
As you use other stuff those percentages go up.
IF you have had your phone on for 3 hours and done nothing with it then cell standby will be high as the stuff below it was used a lot less.
I ve had mine on the battery for 20 hours and cell stand by is 34%
If you were to say play a game for a long time then your game and screen would go up in time.
Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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Cell standby should not be that high no matter if you're using your phone or not. This sounds like the bug the the og sgs1 epic had that always caused the phone to have a high time without signal that drained battery. It was eventually fixed with the gingerbread update. Can one of you click on cell standby so we can see if the time without signal bug is back? I would like to know b4 I upgrade.
Edit: my cell standby never goes above 7% on my SGSII. And once the og epic got the fix the cell standby would remain below the 10%. Cell standby should be at the bottom of list unless you have crappy reception and the phone is constantly searching for service.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here's what a normal cell standby looks like.
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Here's some info on it. They even tell you how to work around it. I honestly forgot about airplane mode. Brings back memories when I did it after every power up lol
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=13744
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Cell Standby is a bug, easily fixed. Use the Flashable zip from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
Some ROMS may not have this fix included, but most does. If you see that you have really high Cell Standby try this out. Worked for me, I was on FreeGS3 and the version I was running didn't have it, now the lastest release has it included.
Now new problem. the phone turns on for 2 seconds and then turns off again. this is random though. Usually happens every 2 hours or so.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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I need you to actually click on cell standby from that screen. If your time without signal is high then it's the same bug from og epic days.
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Here you go.
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Lol it doesn't even show it! Maybe Samsung new about it so they just hid the time without signal from displaying on the cell standby
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here it is.
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im using wicked sensations v.1.... at the beginnig of his rom post post about mid way down the is a flashable cell stand-by fix... just fyi....goodluck
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Why is my cell standby always so high up? Right now the phone has been on for 3 hours and the cell standby is at 41 percent.
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This is probably due to a well known bug on the Galaxy S III series, originally reported in the international version. The actual power consumption of Cell Standby is being overstated in the stats by a factor of about 10. This is a reporting issue, not an issue with actual power consumption. See this XDA thread.
It needs a fix from Samsung.
Hello All,
I just received the DMA6 update from Samsung... I know this update is new but it would be good if all of you can post your comments on the battery drain after this update.. Feel free to post screenshots of the battery..
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Since flashing my battery life and deep sleep battery life is greatly improved. Very pleased with this update.
Thanks for your reply.. I just installed the update and am a bit skeptical and feel as if the battery is draining faster when the screen is on.. Might be that when the phone is in idle or deep idle the battery would be dropping less significantly.. let us wait for other users to post their comments... hope fr the best...
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I had no batt issues since upgrading to 4.1.2
with this new update battery life seems better. Left my phone at 10% before i slept and woke up to it still at 10% so deep sleep is really good
Thanks Paulito.. As i said i am suspecting that deep sleep is good now... but do you notice a faster drain when screen is on.. Do let us know.. I will also keep an eye on the battery stats for the coming weeks and keep all posted.. :beer:
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Guys, install Batter Monitor Widget and do a real test to see what your standby and screen on consumption is in %/hour. We need real numbers, not anecdotes.
With DLL7 I get between 0.6 and 2%/hour drain in standby. Screen on averages 10-18%/hour. Gaming is usually 30%/hour. Wifi on, brightness on auto, location on, Facebook , google plus, tapatalk and 2 gmail accounts syncing with notifications.
I'd love to see what this new firmware gets under those conditions .
I can't wait until it's available for my variant. On DLL3 my battery was terrible! I went back to 4.1.1 where I can easily go all day with 70% of my battery remaining.
I shall install the battery monitor widget and will upload my findings in a couple of days..
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Battery seems the same to me though deep sleep is killing it
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We need to get our hands on the release notes if any to get more info. On what the update is actually doing.. 2 updates back to back... Seems interesting..
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Battery seems the same to me though deep sleep is killing it
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Well 4.5 hours of screen time isn't that good at 33%. I got 9 hours the other day. And still had 12% left.
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I said battery seems the same mate the only thing that seems to be proved is deep sleep. I used to loose around 5 to 7 % in the night while sleeping and after the update I only loose 1 to 2 %.
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Ma6 seems to be tuned nicely except I experience battery consumption by screen and light is worsen.
Edit : Sorry for mislead but actually it was something bug that my stock battery status have not reported application which i have used, after restart its fine now
its <5%/hr only while screen on.
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Ma6 seems to be tuned nicely except I experience battery consumption by screen and light is worsen.
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On my second charge and noticing this lost 5 % in 40 mins just surfing the net. No idea what sammy is up to :s
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NightHawkUndead said:
Since flashing my battery life and deep sleep battery life is greatly improved. Very pleased with this update.
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Pardon me for asking but what is "deep sleep" ?
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CPU runs at minimum speed <200Mhz is deep sleep
you need application (like better battery stats) to check it.
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CPU runs at minimum speed <200Mhz is deep sleep
you need application (like better battery stats) to check it.
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Thanks Doctor but how to enable this deep sleep in N7100 ?
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Nothing required to enable it,
it should go to deep sleep, if it doesn't go to deep sleep then you have to find out which process stoping it to do so.
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Ma6 seems to be tuned nicely except I experience battery consumption by screen and light is worsen.
Edit : Sorry for mislead but actually it was something bug that my stock battery status have not reported application which i have used, after restart its fine now
its <5%/hr only while screen on.
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I installed yesterday and experience the same thing as the doctor. Wifi is still a mess, connection is difficult when the phone comes out of deepsleep
Send from my GNote 2 what else...
Some what solved now im getting 7hrs screen time with heavy usage
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Please post your SCREEN ON TIME screenshots here!
Thank you :good:
I'll bite. I must admit that I was indoors using wifi all day, so I didn't really need the brightness above ~30% or so.
Bump.
In considering the G Pro and I'd love to see more screen shots.
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Bump.
In considering the G Pro and I'd love to see more screen shots.
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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/06/24/6u2yza4e.jpg
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What kind of settings are you using?
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What kind of settings are you using?
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I have the zero lemon battery. Screen brightness was around 70%
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Thanks for the screen shots. I was also hoping some members with the stock battery could post their screen on time.
Bug or not ? I got a big expected time of use
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I have the zero lemon battery. Screen brightness was around 70%
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Ahh. That's with extended battery. I was going to say. For me running Clean ROM, I get ~5 hours. That's with pretty heavy usage. Location settings always on, exchange and gmail, FB, Twitter, RSS, weather widget, etc...
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Ahh. That's with extended battery. I was going to say. For me running Clean ROM, I get ~5 hours. That's with pretty heavy usage. Location settings always on, exchange and gmail, FB, Twitter, RSS, weather widget, etc...
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Cleanrom? On an OGP? Wrong forum? Lol
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Cleanrom? On an OGP? Wrong forum? Lol
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I'm running a modded rom..
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I'll bite. I must admit that I was indoors using wifi all day, so I didn't really need the brightness above ~30% or so.
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How do you get this much screen on time? I only get maybe 3
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I've been averaging about 4 1/2 hrs on screen time the past few days.
I'm so confident in the battery life I don't even have a charger at work yet.
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How do you get this much screen on time? I only get maybe 3
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As stated in that post of mine, I was indoors the entirety of the day. Being that I was home, I was on wifi which uses less power. In addition to that, I had the brightness turned down to around 25%-%30 since I was in a dimly lit room.
I more or less was in an optimal environment to get the most screen time possible. When I'm out and about, I average around 3.5-4.4 hours of screen time.
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I've been averaging about 4 1/2 hrs on screen time the past few days.
I'm so confident in the battery life I don't even have a charger at work yet.
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Same here, even with gaming or gps, I still averaging 4+ hours on screen time
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Battery saver OFF, Quad control OFF, 50% brightness and wifi On all the time, half to an hour of gaming, but mostly web browsing, Fb, and watching youtube vids most of the time and still have 36% battery left.
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i used v9 modded rom by feiyu
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i used v9 modded rom by feiyu
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COOOOOL
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The attached screen shots will give u an idea of what m talking about.
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Hahhahahahahha lol
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Hahhahahahahha lol
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Again increasing by itself. Makes me happy though lol
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Ok what I'm intrigue about is how did you manage to get 1 full day worth of battery?
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bOkz said:
Ok what I'm intrigue about is how did you manage to get 1 full day worth of battery?
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Its easily achievable on this phone. Also the screenshot lacks screen on time which determines overall battery life
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Ok what I'm intrigue about is how did you manage to get 1 full day worth of battery?
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The battery life itself is just amazing on this guy!
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Its easily achievable on this phone. Also the screenshot lacks screen on time which determines overall battery life
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Here you go bro..
Get 1 day with 7 hr SOT on an average pretty much every day which is same battery life as yours. [emoji3]
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Get 1 day with 7 hr SOT on an average pretty much every day which is same battery life as yours. [emoji3]
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The battery life on this guy is heaven on earth seriously
Don't want to be a smart arse but it looks to me that each time you battery is going up your phone was switched off or in flight mode. Voltage on your battery is slowly recovering as the load eg. Screen, wifi, network is switched off. It make sense to me
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Don't want to be a smart arse but it looks to me that each time you battery is going up your phone was switched off or in flight mode. Voltage on your battery is slowly recovering as the load eg. Screen, wifi, network is switched off. It make sense to me
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Emmm nop. Except for, may be at 1 or 2 places, it may seem like that. However if u look at the screen shots, almost all of them have the battery life bar increasing with my phone in normal/sim working mode. Don't know whats casuing this. And bdw yesterday I reached 6h 49m SOT with 17% remaining. This means it would have easily given over 7.5 and under 8 hours SOT. Toooooo good battery life on stock kernel.
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Same on my phone. But as I said before it is normal ocassionaly
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Same on my phone. But as I said before it is normal ocassionaly
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Ahan. May be your back-to-life-from-sleep-mode logic does apply to your SC but not mine. See my SC. It's increasing regardless of flight mode on or off.
P.S: I am not whining. I am enjoying it..but just wanted the reason behind this fun thing.. haha
it does the same to me seems normal