I've been troubleshooting this problem for weeks now - have never found a cause. I did a hard reset yesterday and have only installed the mainstream necessary apps - nothing sketchy or buggy at all.
My battery life is usually great and when unused drops less than 1% per hour...until suddenly it goes crazy and starts dropping ~10%/hour with NO USE.
I think perhaps something is wrong with my radio as the "mobile network signal" graph in the picture below is always spotty and shows the radio off for significant chunks of time when I know it's on. When these battery plunges start happening, it shows the radio as solid on, as you can see below...and reports the battery drain is from the radio.
A reboot fixes it but it comes back randomly within a day or two...the problem is that I can leave the phone unused for an hour to make dinner and when I pick it up next it has dropped a significant amount!
Hopefully AT&T will exchange it for me tomorrow and I will have better luck...I bought it on June 28th and tomorrow is July 28th...the 30th day, by my count.
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16hrs on battery and still at 43% is pretty darn good if u ask me.
This has happened to me too on stock and AOKP. Just happened again a couple of hours ago.
So I did the exchange 4 days ago. Have not rebooted since then. Thought I was in the clear until this afternoon when the battery started to plummet again...I updated the screenshots in the first post with today's data. Very disappointed and not sure what to do now except to try and do a hardware reset and use the phone stock with no apps for a few days and see what happens...
You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
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You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
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I have used it extensively. Posted numerous logs and screenshots in the developer's thread and had them examine it...no one could figure anything out.
Tonight I have watched it plummet again. I turned off wifi - it kept dropping. I turned off mobile data, it kept falling just as fast. Lastly I turned on airplane mode and it seems to have leveled off...seems to me the phone radio is the culprit but I have no clue what it could be doing!
(Forgive me if I'm hijacking)
I scooped up my SG3 on Sunday, and noticed almost immediately that my battery drops pretty quickly. I haven't rooted yet, and needless to say haven't flashed anything on it. I'm completely bone stock. I guess I'm wondering the same thing, in that I may need to return to AT&T. I lost as much as 70% in almost 8 hours with moderate to heavy use (Web browsing, textibg, a few calls, etc).
Something else: there is an orange sticker on the box it came un, much like a price tag at a retail store. On the sticker it reads: "REMATE 7.11.12" and has me wondering if this is a refurb they unloaded on me. Any ideas about the battery or this stupid aticker?
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I notice that my battery life seems very unstable - one day it goes 10 plus hours no problem, the next day with the same usage its dying at 8 hours. The phone went bezerk this weekend, to the point of multiple reboots and just turning the thing off since it was unuseable. Factory reset over the weekend, wow ! Battery life is rocking 12 hours easy with heavy use.
The software on this phone is strange to say the least -
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I lost as much as 70% in almost 8 hours with moderate to heavy use (Web browsing, textibg, a few calls, etc).
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Yep, your battery dies after using your phone a lot. Hmmmm.
Igotsanevo4g said:
Yep, your battery dies after using your phone a lot. Hmmmm.
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The reason I say this, is because of the fact I've heard of 12 to 14 hours or more of battery with the same (mostly) moderate to (occasional) heavy use. I understand that usage = battery discharge, I'm not a fool.
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my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
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my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
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So perhaps I'm worrying over nothing (hopefully). I have been doing full charge to full discharge cycles and charging once it shuts down to "gel" or "season" the battery. But, there still remains the question of what the "REMATE" sticker is all about. It clearly has a date printed on it, which strikes me as odd...
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So check out this graph...update of the earlier one.
-turned off wifi - plummet continued.
-turned off mobile data - plummet continued.
-turned on airplane mode to turn off the radio - battery stabilized. You can see the plateau towards the end.
-turned off airplane mode - plummet resumed as you can see.
Any conclusions I can take from this? It seems like it's the phone radio/standby and not apps...
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The reason I say this, is because of the fact I've heard of 12 to 14 hours or more of battery with the same (mostly) moderate to (occasional) heavy use. I understand that usage = battery discharge, I'm not a fool.
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Of course but battery loss is a corollary response to usage. Who made the rules on what moderate or heavy usage is? Besides other factors like strength of signal, etc.
That said I personally average 10-12 hours with 4hrs of screen on time.
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So check out this graph...update of the earlier one.
-turned off wifi - plummet continued.
-turned off mobile data - plummet continued.
-turned on airplane mode to turn off the radio - battery stabilized. You can see the plateau towards the end.
-turned off airplane mode - plummet resumed as you can see.
Any conclusions I can take from this? It seems like it's the phone radio/standby and not apps...
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Didn't see this mentioned, the stock rom had a cell standby bug where it drops by 32(whatever the measurement is) instead of what's supposed to be 3.2. This has effected me before and there are fixes.
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TRusselo said:
my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
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Juice Defender Ultimate works great for me at work. Shuts off my data radio while screen is locked.
The location for wifi(allowing it to control wifi) is a little funky so I stopped using it(and suffered a little in the beginning because i kept forgetting to turn off wifi at night)
You can see how much my phone goes into deep sleep mode - This shows last night when I went to bed
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This is my battery graph - note that sharp drop was last night when I was installing the Google Wallet fix and the dev had an issue with the update. Took me a little while to figure it out as you can see.
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Didn't see this mentioned, the stock rom had a cell standby bug where it drops by 32(whatever the measurement is) instead of what's supposed to be 3.2. This has effected me before and there are fixes.
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That doesn't explain why the actual battery it dropping so fast. I suppose it could skew the "reason" the system gives for the battery drop...but it's further proven by the fact that the only way to stop the drop is to turn off the radio - even turning off mobile data alone does not stop it at all.
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Juice Defender Ultimate works great for me at work. Shuts off my data radio while screen is locked.
The location for wifi(allowing it to control wifi) is a little funky so I stopped using it(and suffered a little in the beginning because i kept forgetting to turn off wifi at night)
You can see how much my phone goes into deep sleep mode - This shows last night when I went to bed
This is my battery graph - note that sharp drop was last night when I was installing the Google Wallet fix and the dev had an issue with the update. Took me a little while to figure it out as you can see.
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Your sharp drop is correlated to heavy screen on time. Mine is correlated to nothing...just sitting there with the screen off and nothing happening that I can tell.
I reported this problem back in June. This same exact thing happens to mine. Normally the battery is awesome, but sometimes it starts discharging at a crazy rate at which point I restart thee phone to fix it.
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You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"
Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
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That's definitely my problem. When gsiff_daemon hasn't gone crazy the battery life is very good. I've only had the phone 3 days now and on the second found the battery discharging quickly when the phone was in standby (like the OP). I diagnosed this to be caused by gsiff_daemon. Seems to happen after the phone stops responding to input then does a warm restart. I only found one thread on this issue on one of the other S3 forums at XDA (TMo or global?)
Is there any sign of a fix for this? This is making an otherwise excellent phone horrible. I tried to relate this problem to Samsung through their support site, but just got a generic robot answer. Samsung's support site appears to be useless. Is there any indication Samsung is even aware of these problems?
I use System Tuner to check for gsiff_daemon going nuts. I normally notice it because my phone gets hot. If you use the Task Mgr from System Tuner and turn on display of kernel processes, it will pop right to the top if that's your problem.
The easiest way to deal with the problem when you notice it is to kill the process with System Tuner. It will start up again, but will not longer pin your CPU. A restart also works, but takes longer (and uses more battery).
You might also want to set up the Watchdog app to notify you when gsiff_daemon goes nuts.
I noticed you posted BBS logs, but gsiff_daemon will show up in Process, which doesn't appear to be logged (at least it isn't in the log in just dumped from my BBS).
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As you can see only 18 mins off the Charger and already down to 90 percent! and thats with WIFI GPS BLUETOOTH AND 4G OFF!
my setup is on one of the pictures.
could it be a faulty battery?
I've been having this problem too, RECENTLY. used to be fine a month ago. Idk what's going on really
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I'll bite. First off, detail your setup. modem, kernel, ROM.
Second, from your graph it doesn't look like you are in a good service area, how many bars do you usually have?
4+ in screen time. At 4% left.
Rom: calkulin 2.8.1
Kernel: rogue desperado
modem: ek02
undervolted -100mv with calk's script. Max cpu set to 1ghz
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I'll bite. First off, detail your setup. modem, kernel, ROM.
Second, from your graph it doesn't look like you are in a good service area, how many bars do you usually have?
4+ in screen time. At 4% left.
Rom: calkulin 2.8.1
Kernel: rogue desperado
modem: ek02
undervolted -100mv with calk's script. Max cpu set to 1ghz
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Sorry i could have sworn i uploaed a picture of my setup. its now the third picture.
i usually have around 3-4 bars. at that time i was at work but that is a constant drain home or anywhere else. at home i get much better signal.
Have you ever had reasonable battery life, or is this a new issue?
It's possible that your battery is bad, but I think it's unlikely unless it's been under high temps for an extended time.
Some suggestions I'd try if it was me;
- backup your sd card and reformat it
- try running calk 2.8.1 without the ics theme to see if usage improves
- run your setup without wiping/flashing for a few days and see if the phone settles in
Good luck getting it sorted.
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When I first started, I was getting horrible battery life. Like 50% loss in 4 hours. Here are a few things you can try.
1. Turn off auto sync to google
2. Turn off facebook and sync
3. Turn off email syncing
You get the pattern. I think for me it was the fact that I was in a horrible reception area and all of the syncing made the phone constantly try to get a connection. Now i get 5-10% loss in 4 hours, which I'm happy with.
Kernel and modem are important too, so might help to tell us what you're using exactly.
Hope this helps.
EL26 and EL29 Kernels/Modems were huge battery drainers for me.
My set up is calks 2.8.1
Kernel: Desperado flashed yesterday
And modem El 36.
You ask about having strong cell signal, I guess it will drain the batter if you're going in and out of service? Just curious because on my way to and from our shop there is one spot where all phones drop service. It only lasts about 1/8 mile but it happens with every carrier I've tested.
Like someone above said turn off all syncing also keep in mind that phone batteries now dont hold the first 10% of a full charge because that damages the battery in the long run. The first 10% always goes down that fast unless you bump charge which is when you plug in to 100% then unplug and replug for 5 minutes and repeat a few times. If it continues to die like that then try underclocking with setcpu while you have it with screen off or in a phone call also you can undervolt. Turn off auto syncing and check to see what proccesses you have running that eat your battery and kill them.
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I'll give you one solid advice. Run Blazer ROM.
Go back to stock voltages.
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hey i know every once in a while someone post a thread *****ing about battery life but i need some serious help. i think my pictures will speak for themselves. iv calibrated battery, wiped clean phone. drained battery and recharged to 100 percent. anything anybody has posted before im almost sure i have tried to no avail
As you can see only 18 mins off the Charger and already down to 90 percent! and thats with WIFI GPS BLUETOOTH AND 4G OFF!
my setup is on one of the pictures.
could it be a faulty battery?
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How long does the battery last to an almost full discharge? I had the same problem when I flashed a new ROM and tried calibrating the battery as you did (deleting battery stats file). I'd unplug my phone after a full chatge and 30mins later would be down to below 90%.
Turns out that deleting the battery stats file may not do anything to our phone in terms of calibration, and the way to calibrate it is by doing a battery pull for half an hour or so. Then just using the phone, and the battery eventually calibrates itself. Can't remember the link where I read this, but after doing that and after a couple weeks of usage, the first 10% drop wasn't so dramatic. I currently get a day with an average of 3-4 hour screen on time. Using the same ROM that seemed to give me problems in the first place.
Also like someone else mentioned, phone signal is a huge factor in battery usage. One of the cell towers went down where I live, and during those 7 days (yeah, thanks sprint!), my phone would constantly jump back and forth off of roaming... battery life would tank so quickly that I turned off data/3G/4G to get any semblance of battery life.
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How long does the battery last to an almost full discharge? I had the same problem when I flashed a new ROM and tried calibrating the battery as you did (deleting battery stats file). I'd unplug my phone after a full chatge and 30mins later would be down to below 90%.
Turns out that deleting the battery stats file may not do anything to our phone in terms of calibration, and the way to calibrate it is by doing a battery pull for half an hour or so. Then just using the phone, and the battery eventually calibrates itself. Can't remember the link where I read this, but after doing that and after a couple weeks of usage, the first 10% drop wasn't so dramatic. I currently get a day with an average of 3-4 hour screen on time. Using the same ROM that seemed to give me problems in the first place.
Also like someone else mentioned, phone signal is a huge factor in battery usage. One of the cell towers went down where I live, and during those 7 days (yeah, thanks sprint!), my phone would constantly jump back and forth off of roaming... battery life would tank so quickly that I turned off data/3G/4G to get any semblance of battery life.
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Don't think this is the same thread you mention, but here's one on battery calibration. I might give it a try, figure it can't hurt anything.
Rom took a couple days to settle in thsn BAM! 5 HRS screen on time. Stock el29 tegrak uv 75 Strongsteve. I did flash back to eko2 modem After high battery drain on EL 29
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Am I the only one who can squeeze 4 days out of their e4gt? That's with texting fairly often, emails, downloading an app or two, and checking my facebook once a day or so.
I unplug my phone at 8:30am and get home at 6:00pm and I'm at 60%. That's with 1 hr reading and some texting, compared to my Evo my S2 is a god sent.
MultiLockOn said:
Am I the only one who can squeeze 4 days out of their e4gt? That's with texting fairly often, emails, downloading an app or two, and checking my facebook once a day or so.
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One to two days, I won't question you on that (i get 2 days on Blazer ROM easy) BUT 4 days?!!! I seriously question that.
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MultiLockOn said:
Am I the only one who can squeeze 4 days out of their e4gt? That's with texting fairly often, emails, downloading an app or two, and checking my facebook once a day or so.
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That's awesome. Screenshots of battery life including display on time?
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Am I the only one who can squeeze 4 days out of their e4gt? That's with texting fairly often, emails, downloading an app or two, and checking my facebook once a day or so.
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I do not believe without some solid evidence and more info.
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I am sure if I owned a smart phone it would have a reasonably good explanation. But i went to bed at some time during the night took the charger off while checking messages and woke up to a dead phone.
At first I didn't even think it was dead I have had one other day where I woke up with it off. It wouldn't turn on at all even after a battery pull thought it was bricked for some ungodly reason. Tried download mode which actually told me it was dead so I plugged it in to investigate.
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Its not entirely abnormal after a few partial charges for some discrepancies in charge level. But thats a huge one if something was not severely draining the battery. Being half asleep I definitely messed up the screenshot.
There is a known issue with LED notifications causing a wake-lock on our phones. I see that you have a text message in your notification bar. Could the LED be the culprit here?
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There is a known issue with LED notifications causing a wake-lock on our phones. I see that you have a text message in your notification bar. Could the LED be the culprit here?
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Could be it and I didn't have anything else installed to verify wakelock. But the stock battery stats doesn't show it being awake. The LED itself couldn't drain a decent battery in 2 hours but if the phone was wake locked hell yeah.
Of course I am on CM9 so there is a bit of an issue with the LED among other things.
Wow that's pretty shocking. I wouldn't think a led wakelock would cause it, but maybe a another background process being stuck. One thing i was never clear of is the network signal colors. I see alot of green, so is that supposed to be good reception? What about grey, light yellow, dark yellow?
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Even with no leds on i get slightly worse awake to screen on ratio. I highly doubt it has anything to do with wake locks. It must be something with the ics leaks cause once i lost 30% in just 30 minutes while my phone was on standby doing nothing. Wasnt awake according to stock battery stats either. I left school with 30% charge left when i usually should have ~50%. I flashed back to calkulins GB rom after that. And now i get 30 minutes more SCREEN ON time. and life is overall better even though i dont have juice defender on unlike when i was on AOKP.
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One thing i was never clear of is the network signal colors. I see alot of green, so is that supposed to be good reception? What about grey, light yellow, dark yellow?
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and on the stock ICS leaks black as well lots and lots of black. Dont have that issue on CyanogenMod9 though.
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and on the stock ICS leaks black as well lots and lots of black. Dont have that issue on CyanogenMod9 though.
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I too am curious about the blacks on the ICS leaks. The phone radio doesn't match the up time like it used to in GB either. Is it some sort of efficiency management tool of ICS?
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Even with no leds on i get slightly worse awake to screen on ratio. I highly doubt it has anything to do with wake locks. It must be something with the ics leaks cause once i lost 30% in just 30 minutes while my phone was on standby doing nothing. Wasnt awake according to stock battery stats either. I left school with 30% charge left when i usually should have ~50%. I flashed back to calkulins GB rom after that. And now i get 30 minutes more SCREEN ON time. and life is overall better even though i dont have juice defender on unlike when i was on AOKP.
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That has to be a wake lock. I think for the most part people are getting decent idle drain now. Looking at the screenshot, it doesn't look like something such as email where you have repeated lines equal distances from each other. That almost looks like something you would see if Sprint was working on the network and it was down so the phone was searching the entire time but your signal is green almost entirely
Edit..are you using a Task Killer?
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That almost looks like something you would see if Sprint was working on the network and it was down so the phone was searching the entire time
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Was my other thought. Searching will murder a battery but is green not good? lol. I have never had signal drop off for a long period of time ever so no clue. But normally yeah the signal is all over the place in colors.
However this below was a day of me using my phone near continuously. Remote desktop into my server. Which is why the battery life was bad. Mostly solid on the signal which tells me solid green is normal for good signal?
Once again this is my raping my battery using it.
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Edit..are you using a Task Killer?
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I put it on due to the missing task manager features from TW. The ICS swipe off method is annoying because it shows me apps that are no longer running. Can't tell me thats it though I mean 12 hour days of moderate usage with it and there is a problem in standby?
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Was my other thought. Searching will murder a battery but is green not good? lol. I have never had signal drop off for a long period of time ever so no clue. But normally yeah the signal is all over the place in colors.
However this below was a day of me using my phone near continuously. Remote desktop into my server. Which is why the battery life was bad. Mostly solid on the signal which tells me solid green is normal for good signal?
Once again this is my raping my battery using it.
I put it on due to the missing task manager features from TW. The ICS swipe off method is annoying because it shows me apps that are no longer running. Can't tell me thats it though I mean 12 hour days of moderate usage with it and there is a problem in standby?
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Green is great for signal. I am wondering if the task killer is somehow waking an app and causing it to run. That is seriously bad drain there. I didn't think it was possible to drain a battery in 2 hours no matter what you had running on your phone. The fact that you were asleep makes it even more strange
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That has to be a wake lock.
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It wasnt. BBS only reported pandora and audio out as a significant wake lock which only drains 5% from my 10-15 minute drive.
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I bet the task killer was fighting with the OS the whole time and your phone repeatedly opened and closed the same stuff
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I bet the task killer was fighting with the OS the whole time and your phone repeatedly opened and closed the same stuff
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Now why would it do that? There is 0 reason for it to close anything its not told to and I was clearly asleep It has no permission to auto kill applications.
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Now why would it do that? There is 0 reason for it to close anything its not told to and I was clearly asleep It has no permission to auto kill applications.
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I've never had good luck with those things and battery life. Oh well 14 is out now, maybe you just stumbled on a bug in 10.
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I've never had good luck with those things and battery life. Oh well 14 is out now, maybe you just stumbled on a bug in 10.
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Does no one notice I am not on Samsung firmware lmao. I mean reason for using a task killer since the TW task manager doesn't exist in this as i stated. That screen shot is no theme.
I guess I fail to see the point of this
I had a similar issue with this woke up one morning and phone was very hot. Turn it on and battery was almost dead, yet battery stats show's similar screen of what you have right there no awake time. My only theory is that on some occasions the phone goes into deep sleep with out throttling the cpu back down to 200mhz or what ever it normally sleeps at.
I'm thinking the cpu had to be pegged at max by a background task; you don't show any wake lock in your ss.
Perhaps it's a specific timing of turning on the screen, checking messages, unplugging, and turning off the screen left you with a cpu/gpu maxed out. Under normal usage, you'd use the phone some short time later, things get reset, and no one would be the wiser.
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Was it constantly downloading something over 4g? Looks like that's what happened
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Was it constantly downloading something over 4g? Looks like that's what happened
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If your talking to me the answer is no lol. Wipe your phonw turn it on put in your gmail account and slap a couple apps on it. Restart it charge it take it off the charger. 2 hours later it died.
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.
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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.
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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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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?
Our devices use a 4600 mAh battery and was wondering if anyone ever actually sees that figure? I've been struggling to get more than 4-5 hours use and started investigating why. The highest I've ever seen on a full charge is 4309 and the average is about 4260-4280.
Another strange thing I've noticed is that if I start playing a game with 100% charge and the tab plugged in I still loose about 1% per minute.
I've tried multiple roms and they all seem about the same as far as battery usage goes. Right now I'm back to the stock LG KitKat as it seems to perform about the best for me and very stable. I use the battery calibration app and was wondering is there another that might work better?
In closing looking forward to any suggestions or advise
Yep,same for me.battery life is terrible.have tried multiple roms,lucky to get anywhere near 4hrs.
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I just tried an experiment, 100% charged, unplugged tab w/o turning anything on and I already lost 7% in 15 minutes !! I have Greenify installed and all non system apps hibernated and it still eats the battery.
My Sero Pro can sit all day and only loose 1%. If I could be sure I would receive a perfect unit I would consider RMA. But after reading all the issues with the screen problems I'm not going to take the chance. My tab is perfect aside from battery life.
I found a replacement battery on Ebay and am considering buying it to see if I have a bad battery. Something definitely isn't right.
I went to Mahdi rom as soon as I got my tablet about 2 weeks ago. This past weekend I did two battery tests.
These tests were done with wifi always on (medium signal strength, most google apps synced, google location reporting off, no twitter/facebook app, no greenify or any power management apps
If I left the display on indoors at auto brightness, it lasted for about 7-8 hours.
If I left the tablet idle (display off), it consumed about 3% per day (most of it consumed by wifi).
I would suggest trying the same thing with yours and see whether its a hardware issue. You can just do it for a few hours and extrapolate.
I've never calibrated my battery (drain until its empty) unless I notice an erratic drain from a constant task.
Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Mine is the same, not being used it drains almost nothing. Currently mine is at 49%, been unplugged about 12 hours with 2:47 of screen on time according to the battery stats in settings. 100% stock KitKat, bluetooth off. 15 minutes of screen off (with the screen on long enough to look at battery settings) and no % lost.
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Same. If I leave it in standby overnight, I see zero battery drain (in 8 hours). I also tested a full HD movie (1080p) in full screen at 45% brightness and medium loudspeaker volume, and measured roughly 12-14% drain per hour, which suggests it could run 7-8 hours of movie playback on a single charge.
I'm happy with my battery usage. I think it's at least as good as my 2012 N7.
Here's a screen shot of usage just reading the other day. Keep in mind I mainly stop my tablet charging at between 90-95% as often as possible.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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I'm with the OP as far as battery drain goes. Mine loses almost 10% in 12 hours at idle with wifi on. With wifi off it'll lose about 3-4% in 12 hours. I haven't done a full to zero test, but battery life is not that great on my personal unit. That is the only thing I don't like about it. I'm running idterror's v50018a ROM.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
Well I went ahead and ordered the battery. I'm fairly confident it'll solve my problem. To Subtleone, with my tablet even with a barebones install I still have real bad battery life. It does not change very much between barebones and all my apps installed.
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Then you have an issue with software you installed. It is neither the battery nor the ROM.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
Don't have any battery problems here (stock KitKat, rooted and most non-system apps greenified), get about 6 hours screen-on time at 70-100% brightness when reading books (wifi off) and an hour or so browsing/youtube'ing.
Are people actually going by unplug time until the device physically shuts down, or just what the battery bar claims? Battery stats are rarely 100% accurate, and there's protection measures built in to prevent a battery actually reaching 100% or 0% despite what the device says.
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I don't think so. Even with a barebones install I get similar battery drain. But I knew the G Pad had terrible battery life going in as noted by every industry review I read prior to purchase.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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Except that I don't have terrible battery life. In fact, most don't. With KitKat (the one in my sig), with WiFi on, I get exactly 0% drain after 8 hours with it in standby (not actually off). Zero. Needless to say, I do not have any known battery killers such as the Facebook app.
At 45% brightness or so, I see about 13% battery drain after an hour of watching a 1080p movie in full screen with sound coming through loudspeakers.
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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That's incredible. What exactly are your settings? And what are these known battery killer apps so I can freeze them when I'm traveling?
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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To test a lot of theory I loaded up stock LG KitKat this A.M. . After letting it install and rebooting 3 times in 60 minutes I turned off WIFI and GPS and left it idle. In 4 hours and 12 minutes I was at 79%. Keep in mind when I left it idle the last time I was at 100%.
So at least in "my" case its most certainly not the software. My battery is scheduled for delivery 5/9/14. I'm hoping that will solve the battery issues.
Once I receive the new battery I'll update the thread. And thanks for the replies
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Biggest battery eaters are apps like Google+ and Facebook.
UCCW and Weather apps too. Also having gps on.
There's some smashing eye candy apps for use and just for info on your lockscreen, they all seem to suck juice like no tomorrow. It's all the updating they do.
Best advice is to use something like wakelock detector to highlight your problem apps, then use greenify to get them to sleep properly. Also have your wifi set to only stay on when your tablet is plugged in.
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My GPS is always on so I do not think it drains battery in any unusual way. I'll also add that it works darn well. I used the tablet for navigation in a car and it was impressive.
So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
I know it's not a fair comparison but I've been using my mum's Acer W4 tablet as my 8.3 is being repaired for bad LCD (mura/spots). The W8.1 tablet actually gives me about 8-9 hours of web browsing time. Yes, it's got fewer pixels to push but bear in mind it is running the full fat Windows 8! I just think it's quite disappointing that the LG pad for me barely lasts 4 hours SOT when I mainly use it for web browsing.
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So to continue the theories I put my screen @ 50% watched 60 minutes of 1080p video via MX Player and lost 31%! That's totally bare aside from MX Player. So after seeing Subtelone's results I'm very convinced I indeed have a bad battery.
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Yes, something is seriously wrong with your battery if everything else is identical. My results are exactly as posted.
Hey Guys,
you have also a massiv battery drain on your Pixel Device?
I need to charge it twice a day since I updated to Android 13 ...
Do you think Google will fix it asap?
There are a ton of battery life threads in this section - more than one page of search results. I know battery life has been mentioned with regards to Android 13 in some threads in this section, although I'm not sure if it was in a battery-specific thread.
For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any difference on mine.
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Have you checked to see in the battery usage what's using it
I had this problem before. The fix was completely wipe the device then install everything from scratch, not using restore service. Additionally, I putting background restriction on many battery hungry apps like Facebook, Messenger, Google Maps, etc... Also, I'm using Kirisakura kernel on top of battery restriction. My battery can last up to 22-23 hours.
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I had this problem before. The fix was completely wipe the device then install everything from scratch, not using restore service. Additionally, I putting background restriction on many battery hungry apps like Facebook, Messenger, Google Maps, etc... Also, I'm using Kirisakura kernel on top of battery restriction. My battery can last up to 22-23 hours.
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hmmmm, thats a shame, because it is bad enough setting everything back up again after restoring it. But incredible the battery life you are getting.
My phone has Shamesung health app smashing battery, phone idle and and mobile network cosuming huge battery again
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hmmmm, thats a shame, because it is bad enough setting everything back up again after restoring it. But incredible the battery life you are getting.
My phone has Shamesung health app smashing battery, phone idle and and mobile network cosuming huge battery again
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Try disabling the Physical Activity permission of the Samsung Health App, it might actually do wonders when it comes to battery life. While it wouldn't affect your watch, your device would no longer be able to count steps [for me, that was worth the trade-off].
the answer is bluetooth and wifi failure and trying to reconnect NONSTOP. after 4 factory resets my phone suddenly doesnt do it anymore and battery life is fine. came to this conclusion when i connected my galaxy watch to my phone and is disconnected every couple minutes. looking at the quick settings id see bluetooth looking like its resetting itself. i didnt check the crash log but at this point its kind of common sense what it was. after some research last night i saw i wasnt the only one. it actually was so bad that my phone died over night even tho it was 43% when i went to sleep
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/wrfqze
I had my first full day with A13 yesterday and it was hard not to notice how fast the battery was draining, I would have expected this to have been picked up during beta testing
Less than 24 hours since update and I noticed it too.
My Pixel 6 used to be awesome in terms of battery.
But today, after 9 hours it's 30%. It's been some heavy usage, but it should be 50% at least.
Edit: The second day things went back to normal. After 16 hours i'm still at 66%.
The battery drain is bad for the initial 3-4 charge cycles, then it goes back to what was "normal" on A12. Which sucks, since if you listen to YouTube (downloads only, screen off) and use Google Maps while snapping photos (20-30 and no video), the phone will die in less than 8 hours.
In other words, the phone is unfit for travel. Pitty, because the camera is great.
You would think that now that Google has better control over the hardware and complete control over the software (including services), plus a huge 5000mAh battery, the P6P would do far better.
Sure, it's better than my last Pixel, a 3XL, but that was so bad I swore off Pixels.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max lasts twice as long with a much smaller 4353mAh battery. Without having to turn off 5G or regular services. What a joke.
SITREP !
Bluetooth issue still ongoing and still causing the major battery drain. Has 0 to do with what this guy said ^ . Sometimes its OK but most times it just crashed and restarts.
I dont have any of those issues. I guess I got lucky.
43% and it died overnight? Dude that is insane. Even if it is Bluetooth/wifi keeping the phone from truly going into deep sleep, you wouldn't think that alone would be able to completely drain the battery to 0 over the course of what... 5 - 8 hours? (Unless your my ex, then it's more like 14 hours ). Have you pulled any logs or looked at the battery usage? I'd be hesitant to believe that there isn't more going on there contributing to the massive drain. Gotta love google... I remember the first talks of Android 13 was geared towards smarter battery usage. Go figure.
Today my phone has been (and is yet cause the battery is not charged) plugged to a google charger for 3 hours and half and the battery has charged from 40% to 82%
The phone had the screen off for 1 hour by this time. This was when the battery recovered 40%.
I tend to think that we've got, Houston, a big problem here...
No massive battery drain for me. 8.39%/hr active drain and .80%/hr idle drain on stock kernel. Active drain is a little higher than usual for me, probably because of rebooting many times doing stuffs.
Fast charging is also the same for me using an Anker Nano II 30W charger. No problems in that area.
I have no solution, but I can confirm this is an issue. I had no issue before the update lasting up to even 2 days with light use. Now, I even with battery saver turned on, it dies in about 6 hours in my pocket.
I just went on a trip to Toronto last week and it was terrible, had to keep my phone powered off in my pocket so I could still be sure to have enough battery to get an uber back to my airbnb.
So far today at work. I unplugged my phone at 730am to leave for work, it's 1105 and typing this out is the most I've used my phone. It is both warm to the touch and the battery is at 73%.no wait 72% it just went down...
FakeGiraffe01 said:
I have no solution, but I can confirm this is an issue. I had no issue before the update lasting up to even 2 days with light use. Now, I even with battery saver turned on, it dies in about 6 hours in my pocket.
I just went on a trip to Toronto last week and it was terrible, had to keep my phone powered off in my pocket so I could still be sure to have enough battery to get an uber back to my airbnb.
So far today at work. I unplugged my phone at 730am to leave for work, it's 1105 and typing this out is the most I've used my phone. It is both warm to the touch and the battery is at 73%.no wait 72% it just went down...
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Here are 2 examples showing the difference between before and after A13
Just when I was about to switch to my P6P, I'm reading all these problems with slow charging and mediocre battery life. I wonder how widespread they are?
I can't use a new phone that seems to have a worse battery life than my P4XL...
Not to mention the whole sideloading apk FC thing.
Guys, I am also having massive issues with my new Pixel 6 phone which is approx 10 days old only....
A12 was fine for the first days then I want to A13 and then all hell brooke lose The battery drain is awful and I am facing these problems :
- Phone idle is between 20-37% - even when phone is in flight mode for the night it consumes 20-30% instead of normal 1-2%
- Viber is draining battery with 20%+ consuming when its not really used shows usage of 20+ hours Never had such issue.
I am over now 4-5 recharge cycles and I have turned off adaptive almost anywhere... What to do?
Just pray and wait for Google to drop a fix/patch for A13 for our Pixel 6 ???
For those that upgraded from A12 to A13 and having the issue, have you wiped the phone (factory reset) and started fresh? I know it's a PITA getting everything setup again, but that's crazy. I was at 100 percent at 7 am, now 7 hours later, I am at 66 percent with pretty heavy usage... Generally YouTube constantly along with everything else I'm doing. By no means is my battery life amazing, but def comparable to A12 on my end.