Has anyone else noticed that the phone App is draining the battery? Even if I just open the Phone app to look at a contact and leave it on that screen, the phone gets really hot and goes through about 20% of the battery in an hour.
madelman99 said:
Has anyone else noticed that the phone App is draining the battery? Even if I just open the Phone app to look at a contact and leave it on that screen, the phone gets really hot and goes through about 20% of the battery in an hour.
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Are you stock or on a custom rom? Did you install a different kernel?
Everything stock, received OTA update. This happened twice already.
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Ok so I just rooted added a few apps for root nothing that I know will drain my battery, ok so my battery goes down like 10% each hour doesnt last, thats just sitting in my pocket, any ideas
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Are you running stock Rom? I suggest using an SBC kernel..
more info needed what programs have you added. something maybe causing a wake lock issue.
rooted my new EVO with unrevoked3,then installed netarchy-toastmod 4.3.1 kernel and my battery lasts all day with moderate usage
I doubt rooting it made your battery worse. there are many rom choices and apps to help you out. With rooting comes tinkering and it looks like its time to tinker. Look into an app called Spare Parts and another one call Autostarts
playya said:
Look into an app called Spare Parts and another one call Autostarts
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Spare Parts can be downloaded here: www.4shared.com/file/253237538/37996617/SpareParts.html
^^ is your best bet to find out what's eating your battery.
Cheers!
The other issue is your battery stats may be off if you did something odd during rooting. There are several ways to fix that, the generally accepted way is to charge the phone while its on, turn it off completly, then:
1: Unplug phone when light is green
2: Plug in the phone
3: Repeat 10-15 times
I had the same issue, and this is what I did to fix my battery.
1. let the phone die completely, IE when the phone cannot turn on at all anymore.
2.Leave the phone off, let it charge overnight.
3.Verify that the phone is at 100% by going into settings->about phone->status
4.Power the phone off.
5.Boot into recovery
6.Wipe battery stats.
This should fix the issue, if not then consider using a different rom/kernel combo. I myself am personally using CM7 and suffer maybe 40% drain at most with my phone in my pocket with a typical 12 hour shift at work.
**Also, turn 3G off if you aren't using the internet, facebook, or Gmail ect ect. You can still recieve phone calls and text messages using this method. I believe there used to be an option to only have 3G running when the screen is on but i'm not 100% sure if this is still available.**
Yeah like I did that crazy charge thing I read about where you let It die and it helped for a bit and now thing just goes down like 20% after 30mins of just sitting in my pocket
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So I searched all day for an answer similar to mine and I did not see what I could do.
I was on rooted on ICS until this weekend when I updated to Jelly Bean and rooted again.
My Battery usage was working fine in ICS, what I would call normal battery drain.
After the update I am getting terrible battery use!!!!
I have tried closing, diabling all apps, radios, I have diabled bloatware.
But my battery keeps draining at a rate of 10% and hour!
All this with minor use.
I have opened a few apps and the Play Store but nothing else.
The S3 has just be inJust in standby.
In the settings, under battery it show my main power consumption is the SCREEN at 60%
I dont know how!
When the screen is off, I dont have a video wallaper and when I do power up the screen its so DIM I can hardley see anything.
All this happened after the Jelly Bean update!
Any idea on what I can do?
Do you think a factor restore would help?
Yes, back your dat up first though (contacts, calender, ect.) because you will have to redownload your apps. I did a reset and was on stock after updating but still had terrible battery life. The fix? Take the battery out 40 minutes, put it back in and run it COMPLETELY dead, and recharge it while it's turned off. Make sure you have time to do this without needing the phone because it takes a while. Like 7-8 hours. I've went a day now without much usage at all (still at 90% charge) and have a day left on standby. The battery reset helped more than anything I believe.
Yep same as mine jb update has a heavy battery drain..and my skyvalex callrecorder stopped working..i just flash back to ICS.
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My opinion, factory wipe and Re-root it.
Install SetCPU and the Ktoonsez kernal to manage the power settings. Also Go Power Master is a good app to tweak power settings.
In SetCPU you can have it clocked down when the screen it off.
Had the same problem. Called att went through the ranks until I was told by att warranty supervisor that they had no work around and I should root my phone. Shocking they told me that. But I found the problem. I uninstalled the update to Google now and then shut it down. Battery seams to be doing good now.
Got a free battery from att though. I guess cause there higher ups have no idea how to fix drain.
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Luckily your type of phone has a removable battery....unlike me...cannot replace to a higher battery capacity
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Semi-solved
I somewhat have solved my problem.
What I did was Factory Reset from the Setting menu. I thought I would have lost Root doing this.
It was already set in my mind to just wipe the S3 clean and start over but the root did not get washed out.
So, I used Kies to only restore my contacts.
Instead of having any old apps restored I downloaded them all over again from the Play Store.
So far so good!!
I have better battery life than prior to the reset.
I had been losing 8% and hour in Standby and 10%+ when in use.
So far today I have used the phone with my screen brightness high, made about 10 calls, surfed youtube and I only down 6% in the last 2 hours.
I consider that better.
If there are some things I can add to my diable list that you all know of to give me an EVEN BETTER result please let me know!
Poor battery life here too. Battery settings says screen is eating 78% and Maps eating 10%. I'm a heavy user but its mostly surfing this site and Facebook. I don't play games or watch YouTube much
Does this solve the battery drain issue?
Hiya all.
I haven't got a S3 so I can't confirm this works.....
A friend was having the same battery drain issue and I was going through his settings and noticed that "Sync All" was on.
Turned it off and the battery drain stopped. We think.
It seems to easy to be true. So I'd like more S3 owners to try.
Archienj7 said:
Yes, back your dat up first though (contacts, calender, ect.) because you will have to redownload your apps. I did a reset and was on stock after updating but still had terrible battery life. The fix? Take the battery out 40 minutes, put it back in and run it COMPLETELY dead, and recharge it while it's turned off. Make sure you have time to do this without needing the phone because it takes a while. Like 7-8 hours. I've went a day now without much usage at all (still at 90% charge) and have a day left on standby. The battery reset helped more than anything I believe.
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Hi have the lte version that i got couple of days back and i have the same problem. I have not rooted and it came stock with jb. So you have to do a factory reset and remove the battery and try or just the battery?
Also how to remove some stock apps, I don't use any.
My battery life stinks. I had to get the Mophie case with extra battery built in. works great
Hello everybody.
I need help with my Note 2. I have a baterry drain and i have no idea what to do with it.
Some screens:
http://postimg.org/gallery/3gjxgmks/9af5d852/
i dont have root, so i cant unninstall anything, but i turned off some of bloatware apps.
when i charged my phone to 100% and disconnected from the power for 10 min decreased 3%
xbaker said:
Hello everybody.
I need help with my Note 2. I have a baterry drain and i have no idea what to do with it.
Some screens:
http://postimg.org/gallery/3gjxgmks/9af5d852/
i dont have root, so i cant unninstall anything, but i turned off some of bloatware apps.
when i charged my phone to 100% and disconnected from the power for 10 min decreased 3%
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after update did you a factory reset?
this help a lot.
also try to disable programs you don't use
Yes, i do factory reset twice. Yesterday battery seems to be nornal, almost 6h SOT with 20hrs on a single charge.
but today after i charged my phone something starts drain my battery again. I dont have much apps.
xbaker said:
Yes, i do factory reset twice. Yesterday battery seems to be nornal, almost 6h SOT with 20hrs on a single charge.
but today after i charged my phone something starts drain my battery again. I dont have much apps.
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Download wakelock detector from play store and see what app drain your battery
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did u see screenshots which i posted in first post?
Sorry I just saw it, everything seems to be normal
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I installed kitkat 4.4.4 in my grand it was working well but from yesterday phone is acting weird , i hv a new battery so no issue with it but while i charge my phone it stuck on one place like 80% , 85% even its showing that it getting charged so no issue with charger too..., pluged charger like half an hr ago and its on same position 87% !!
i installed latest update of ROM today. still same problem... and draining very fast too..
please help!!
Saurabhrajoria said:
I installed kitkat 4.4.4 in my grand it was working well but from yesterday phone is acting weird , i hv a new battery so no issue with it but while i charge my phone it stuck on one place like 80% , 85% even its showing that it getting charged so no issue with charger too..., pluged charger like half an hr ago and its on same position 87% !!
i installed latest update of ROM today. still same problem... and draining very fast too..
please help!!
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Hi, Its simple Install Battery Calibration app from Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=enand perform calibration. It will reset battery stats data. Reboot. Tell whether this has solved ur issue or not.
Trilochanaaya said:
Hi, Its simple Install Battery Calibration app from Play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&hl=enand perform calibration. It will reset battery stats data. Reboot. Tell whether this has solved ur issue or not.
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as i told u it got Stuck on 84% and not increasing since an hr... and the calibration app say to chrge phone upto 100%.
Saurabhrajoria said:
as i told u it got Stuck on 84% and not increasing since an hr... and the calibration app say to chrge phone upto 100%.
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No need to wait till 100%. Press that and change it to calibrate any time. Now go ahead with calibration. All the best.
Battery Problem
Guys
I updated my GD to 4.4.4 CM11 and everything is working ok except for one detail.
I carry my cell phone and start using normal, if not shut down or restart, but if I turn off or restart
sometimes ends when rebooting the battery for example was 74% back to 39%.
This has happened to me a few times, i already reinstalled the ROM, calibrated the battery but the problem remains.
Do you have any experience or story about this behavior?
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Guys
I updated my GD to 4.4.4 CM11 and everything is working ok except for one detail.
I carry my cell phone and start using normal, if not shut down or restart, but if I turn off or restart
sometimes ends when rebooting the battery for example was 74% back to 39%.
This has happened to me a few times, i already reinstalled the ROM, calibrated the battery but the problem remains.
Do you have any experience or story about this behavior?
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May be you are using an old battery. My phones old battery used to get reduced by 10-15% whenever i used to remove my battery. Since the new battery im not facing this issue
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Hi all,
I got a new battery a week ago, because my phone didn't turn on or charged anymore.
But my battery keeps draining. I lose around 25% in idle at night time. And around 3% every 5 minutes when I use it.
I used gsam for a few days now to see iff there are any applications that are causing the drain. So far I can't discover any.
Also when I'm using my phone the side of the power button gets hotter then the rest of my phone. While the battery and cpu both are under 40 C.
I do have android 10 and 2.1 ui from devbase rom with soldier 6.0 clean installed, tried other roms aswell, so maybe I should get back to android pie?
I also started using ex kernel with the standerd underclock option you can choose while flashing this helps a bit.
Hopefully somebody can help me out.
Some gsam data
I have the same. I used different roms and kernels, all the same. I turn on airplane mode for the night. it helps a bit.
bolek932 said:
I have the same. I used different roms and kernels, all the same. I turn on airplane mode for the night. it helps a bit.
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Thank you, this reassures me that It's just a coincidence that my battery died, and that the behavior of my phone at the moment doesn't mean it would happen again.
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Some gsam data
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I do notice, that gsam says that that I am using wifi all the time. And it shows that battery usage is high when this happens.
The only thing is that I never use wifi anywhere..
I don't know if this is something to go on or just normal behavior?