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Battery performance and microSD card, interesting observation

Conditioned the battery gauge, bought a new charger from Amazon, and I've been very happy with the performance over the past 5 or 6 weeks. With my regular phone usage pattern, the battery lasts a couple of days.
That all changed this past weekend and I couldn't figure out why. I had taken a 500 mile roundtrip (GPS worked perfectly, fyi) with the phone plugged in to a car charger and all I could guess was that it somehow messed up my battery. I had installed one other application, but the battery stats didn't show any unusual behavior or partial wake usage, and the problem persisted after I uninstalled that app.
Then it hit me that I had changed one other thing: I had purchased a 32GB SanDisk microSD card from Verizon and the travel weekend was the first time that I had left it in the phone continuously.
I have experimented over the past few days and it is clear: my battery lasts for a significant time without the microSD card, while it drains ridiculously quickly (with no phone usage) if the microSD card is in. The comparison is like night and day. Two days of regular phone usage without an external microSD card installed, compared to less than a day of minimal phone usage with an external microSD card installed.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone else using the 32GB SanDisk from Verizon? Either way, which brand/capacity cards are other people using? I am not even certain which company I should report this to!
(Captivate on AT&T with the stock firmware)

I have an 8GB SanDisk card. I have not tried without the card, but I get one to two days of regular usage with it in.

Using an 8GB Trancend class 6 card and get great battery life.

In the past Samsung has had issues with SD cards killing battery life if you set things like the camera to store your pics on it. I had a eternity and if I set the phone to store pics on my SD card the battery would be dead in 4-5 hours, store pics on the phone and the battery lasts a week.
So I guess this would not be unheard of with Samsung phones.

Thank you, Pmac25, that perfectly describes my situation.
I had it set to store/record photos and video to the external microSD card on Saturday and I didn't change it back to the internal card when I was finished.
If I leave the Camera set to store things on the internal card and just use the external for previously stored music/movies, will it have the same effect on the battery?
Cheers for pointing out the issue, much obliged.

I have a 32GB SDcard installed. I only store older data on that card and I get 2 days on one charge.

Pmac25, does your observation also apply to storing/listening to music on the SD card?

kbm25 said:
Pmac25, does your observation also apply to storing/listening to music on the SD card?
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I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.

ArthurDents said:
I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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well this sucks..!! I have all my music and videos stored on external SD card so that they are portable I can just take sd card and all my music n vids are there...but now it seems I will have to transfer all my stuff on internal storage. But then whats the use of having external card when it drains a lot more battery. company like samsung should have fixed this issue long time ago.

ArthurDents said:
I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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1% every 5 minutes would equate to 500 minutes of continuous use (8.3 hours). I guess it depends how much of your mix is video and how much was audio.
The hardest part of any battery test is determining if anything else has been left running in the background between tests.
I have all my music and movies on the external card, but I record pics and video to my internal card.

I am not to sure about storing/listening to music off the SD Card. Like I said the Eternity has this issue and I have not really checked to see if the Captivate had it or not.
I have music and a couple movies on my Ext. SD Card and right now I have the camera set to store there as well. I guess I should run a test and see if the SD Card issue is still there.
If I remember right on the Eternity the bigger the SD Card the faster if drained the battery.
Ok now you guys got me thinking. Is the battery issues with the Cappy the same as with the Eternity.
I will see if I can find the thread on the Eternity board about the issue.

Did some more testing.
Empty external 32GB microSD card installed. Camera app set to store on the internal card, so nothing was "touching" the external card.
Battery drain was still substantially higher than I normally experience; test was run with almost no regular phone use today (a few texts and a few mins of phone calls). It isn't quite as bad as when I had the camera app set to store on the external card, but still a far cry from my battery performance with no external card installed and much higher actual phone usage (with the phone in the same location, with the same wireless connection, every other variable I can think of the same).

I did a quick test. Pulled out my 4GB SD card and waited 2 days to see what would happen. With normal use, my phone lasted about 12 hours longer (about 1.5 days) without the card. Put the card back in and my phone barely last 20 hours. I'm leaving the card out for now.
Incredible how the card has that much of a drain on the battery.
Ski

Very interesting
Very intersting, wish more people would jump in on this. Doing test myself, but this may explain my battery issues. Seems thats about the time it started draining faster is when installed my 16GB micro.

Are there any cases for the Captivate that have a microSD card holder? That would be really convenient; I have a 32gb card as well.

A firmware bug could potentially cause this extra battery drain when microSD is not in use. Did you guys that notice the battery issue with SD card all still running stock JF6 firmware?

foxbat121 said:
A firmware bug could potentially cause this extra battery drain when microSD is not in use. Did you guys that notice the battery issue with SD card all still running stock JF6 firmware?
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May be you are right. I am running stock firmware. I hope samsung will fix this issue with froyo update. I guess we can suggest these changes on twitter or something. that is what I read some where that you can reach samsung & suggest then some thing on twitter they were very active ob twitter promoting this galaxy series.
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I left my phone off the charger last night for 7 hours. With 16GB microSD card in and cameras are always set to save to external microSD card as well all my podcasts and movies are on the SD card as well. GMail sync, weather sync (every 3 hours) are both on. My phone battery dropped only 5%. And I'm running latest JH7 firmware. So, it is safe to say there is no battery drain on external SD card in JH7 firmware.

I'd love to try running this with no SD, but my lag fix is there... Ugh, I wonder if it worked be worth the experiment.
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If your lag fix partition is on your external SD card, you will no doubt add extra battery drain to your phone because your external SD card will be accessed a lot while your phone is on.

[Q] Longer Battery Life?

Hello there! Newbie here.
I recently purchased the Optimus 3d and was amazed how poor the battery life is. I must have charged it 4 times in the past day alone! Is there anything I can do to make the battery life last longer?
Any new/better batteries on the market? Or can I change the settings somehow on the device to make it last longer?
Sorry if it's a ridiculous question, i've only had the phone since Saturday so still getting to grips with it.
If anyone can help it'll be much appreciated

cmpunk86 said:
Hello there! Newbie here.
I recently purchased the Optimus 3d and was amazed how poor the battery life is. I must have charged it 4 times in the past day alone! Is there anything I can do to make the battery life last longer?
Any new/better batteries on the market? Or can I change the settings somehow on the device to make it last longer?
Sorry if it's a ridiculous question, i've only had the phone since Saturday so still getting to grips with it.
If anyone can help it'll be much appreciated
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You can try to use an apps called "Juice Defender".

superage said:
You can try to use an apps called "Juice Defender".
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Deffo a good app i use it all the time now i have to have this program installed lol..

Meemo23 said:
Deffo a good app i use it all the time now i have to have this program installed lol..
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Enjoy.
Camp on 2G only would extend your battery 25%. Why?
3G network required force location update every 1 hour. This is known standard.
The timer called T3212.
2G network also having this procedure for every 4 hours.
When we are on 2G network also will have better DRX (discontinues RX) function.
Our phone will listen to BCH (broadcast channel), in some way but not so frequent compare with BCH on 3G.
My preferences:
1. 2G only. (Extend 25%)
2. Switch off data connection, WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth, if you do not use it.
3. Set screen brightness 10-30%.
4. Use widget only when you need it.
5. When you switch data connection ON or WIFI ON, you also need to install AdAway. Ads will eat up your battery too. Eliminating Ads would be great.
Hope this one helps.
I think "Juice Defender" seems to be ultimate solution for almost everyone to manage their battery life.
I also have an habit when charging the battery.
1. I always charge my phone when battery level < 30%
2. I charge it when my phone on.
3. When reach > 95% (or may be already 100%). I switch off my phone.
4. Wait for 1 hour. Keep the charger connected.
5. Switch on my phone again. Keep the charger connected.
6. Wait for 10 minutes. It would be 100% full and check the voltage > 4150 mAH.
7. Then I unplug the charger.
See the differences by yourself.

You may also reduce the display brightness and set it to auto mode,change the animations from all to some,reduce also the screen timeout,disable the haptic feedback of the touch buttons.

Update to V21E ASAP

Thank you superage for that tips. I'm using v21e and the last Promethius pack from Samno (kernel and rom) and the life baterry is more than ok, but with 3G on, lots of wifi and data usage... I will try your methods to improve the life of the battery.
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16 hours and 60percent battery. Checking for GC by ringing the phone randomly, browsing, facebook, backup files installation through TB etc and still going strong. Tons of widgets on desktop like battery, Diagnosis pro showing realtime memory, cpu, Dl/UL speed, SD r/w @ 1 sec update. Elixer icons showing bat temp, sd internal/external remaining sizes, xboxlive friends list etc. This setup would last about 18 hours and battery would die but with new rom its going strong
On V20F UAE/ Samno's promethius rom for v20f @ 1.35ghz/196mhz
Finally we have a good phone almost dont want to change it for SGIII anymore

sak500 said:
16 hours and 60percent battery. Checking for GC by ringing the phone randomly, browsing, facebook, backup files installation through TB etc and still going strong. Tons of widgets on desktop like battery, Diagnosis pro showing realtime memory, cpu, Dl/UL speed, SD r/w @ 1 sec update. Elixer icons showing bat temp, sd internal/external remaining sizes, xboxlive friends list etc. This setup would last about 18 hours and battery would die but with new rom its going strong
On V20F UAE/ Samno's promethius rom for v20f @ 1.35ghz/196mhz
Finally we have a good phone almost dont want to change it for SGIII anymore
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That's incredible. Do you leave on data-connection? Because I can reach only 14 hours with an whole charge.
Sgnao
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sgnao said:
That's incredible. Do you leave on data-connection? Because I can reach only 14 hours with an whole charge.
Sgnao
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No i dont use data connection but my desktop is filled with widgets as attached.

There's 3500mha batteries with replacement back on Ebay going for dirt cheap. You might want to look at all the background services running and turn off what you don't need, stuff like auto synch and the extra network options.
Trial and error will get you a bit more out of the existing battery.

Why dont you come with Cyanogenmod 7.2 RC2 released in May ? This one excellent coz you can prevent Ads
And dont use Advanced Task Killer I highly recommend you

my advise
hello,
in my opinion you must buy another battery, because software you can't do too much.
Look on obostore.com for battery ANDIDA 1980mA, bring too your phone 25-30% battery time ...
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Android Recovery

I have a coworker thats got horrible battery life on his Charge. I've read through the forum about charginging and charging and charging untill the battery percentage is at 100% then reset the battery cache.
For the life of me, I can't get this thing into simple Android Recovery to reset the battery stats. I've tried holding down the volume button while powering on with and without the power cord and also plugged in to the cpu. The only thing it does is give me the big yellow warning triangle about downloading. Is there something I'm leaving out or possibly not tried yet? This Charge is bone stock and plain jane. No tweaks at all. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Deleting battery stats does nothing for your battery life. It is cleared when you unplug the phone at full charge anyway.
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As reinforcement for what JihadSquad said, here it is, straight from the mouth (keyboard) of a Google engineer: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT

Gotcha. Thank you both!!
My reason for asking is that this thing drinks battery juice like its going out of style. He can have the phone at full charge and power off, 3 hours later he turns it back off and its already at 60 percent.
I will add that after doing the charge and charge and charge again repeatedly, that it has helped. He doesn't have any apps on his phone that he's downloaded and really dont know anything about that.
It just blows me away at how bad the phone won't hold a charge

I'm assuming he isn't rooted. Most likely, there's an app that's keeping the phone from sleeping, but without rooting, it'll be hard to tell. I usually recommend a combination of CPU Spy and Better Battery Stats to diagnose the problem, but without root, there's not a lot that can be done other than turning down the frequency of updates and trial and error to find misbehaving apps.

True. I was thinking an app or something along the line of that too. But initially I asked about that and the guy didn't even know what the Market is......
It's not rooted. The only difference from the way it is to having it turned on in the Verizon store is, well, its just that lol.
It boggles my mind as to why the phone looses a charge and the power isn't even on. There is a very noticeable difference in just over 3 hours of the power being off from a full charge.

Try another battery. I started having problems and a new battery solved them. If nothing else, it proves your battery is good or bad, as well as giving you a backup when the primary is discharged.

My guess is that he's in a fringe 4G area and the radios are struggling for signal, which can cause a large amount of battery loss.

The facebook app drains alot of battery n i think it comes with stock.
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Cilraaz said:
My guess is that he's in a fringe 4G area and the radios are struggling for signal, which can cause a large amount of battery loss.
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This is what I would expect too. When the phone is on the border of a 4g area and constantly switching between 4g/3g, the battery gets drained rather quickly.
You say the phone loses battery when the power is off? Do you mean the phone is completely powered down, or just the screen is off? If the phone is completely off and the battery is draining, then it's time for a new battery. If just the screen is off, then it's either the radio doing the damage, or a rogue app. The problem is, like other have said, that you have to be rooted to really pinpoint what is causing the issue. If you are not rooted, a rogue app can easily be discovered in the stock battery stats by charging completely before bed and letting the phone sit overnight. Ideally you should be getting a 1-2% drop per hour while the phone is idle. If there is an app eating battery in the background, it will be high on the list when you wake up.
I can't stress enough how much a good kernel can help with battery life. Imnuts did a great job with PBJ and I'm reaping the benefits . I'm not on my phone all that much, but this is typical battery life for me (about 1:30 hrs of screen on time):

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I have ever use this Android mobile Manager,this is really a useful and powerful mobile data transfer and recovery software,I backup and my mobile sms and contact to Mac yet
You can free download and trial for Windows computer

I speak Engrish good, yes?
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Was that an add? :what:
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Does your friend have wifi. That helps a lot.

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Taking my sd card out doubled my battery life

In an attempt to tame mediaserver wake locks I copied all music and pictures to internal storage, then removed my sd card.
Mediaserver used to keep my phone awake for an average of 30 minutes a day. Now it's showing about 1 minute total.
My average battery life also changed from 24 hours to 48!?
My sd card was a pny class 10 16 gb, I tried exfat and fat32 and different allocations sizes before just removing it completely.
I really changed nothing else on my phone. It is possible the way the s3 handles sd cards is severely flawed.
Try it and let us know your results!
I'd also like to note that my s3 killed a new class 10 SanDisk in about a month.
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I'll have to try this too; I also have a 16gb card. My battery life has been just like yours with the card so maybe that's my ticket. Also anyone who gets amazing battery life with a card in should also comment I feel as well.
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Are you running a Jelly Bean leak??

I have a 16gb class 6 in my s3. And have since day one. Here are my battery results.
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david7598 said:
I have a 16gb class 6 in my s3. And have since day one. Here are my battery results.
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Those pictures don't seem anywhere near right. Your screen was on for 3 hours and the cell standby took almost 4x the juice that 3 hours of screen would(therefor like 11-12 hours of screen time, 14-15 total) and you got over 36 hours out of your battery?
Somethin ain't right with that. Or do you have the extended battery?

I have the stock battery. I have always had really good battery life with my phone.
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I don't know how you got 36 hours of battery life with as much juice as the screen and cell standby took...not to mention the rest of the apps. It just doesn't make any sense.
I'm running probably one of the best ROM's for battery life, CM10 Official, and if I don't use my WiFi tether I can get about a full day with moderate use. Screen time roughly 2 hours +/- half an hour depending on what I'm doing. And that's staying in a 4g area where my phone isn't searching for towers or anything.

Cell standby on some roms is "calculated" wrong and appears to eat way more battery than it does. It is a glitch in the system and should generally be ignored. First couple ROMs I ran cell standby was always top of my list. Now it never is, and I do nothing different, just running a different ROM.
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Brian Gove said:
I don't know how you got 36 hours of battery life with as much juice as the screen and cell standby took...not to mention the rest of the apps. It just doesn't make any sense.
I'm running probably one of the best ROM's for battery life, CM10 Official, and if I don't use my WiFi tether I can get about a full day with moderate use. Screen time roughly 2 hours +/- half an hour depending on what I'm doing. And that's staying in a 4g area where my phone isn't searching for towers or anything.
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How do you figure cm10 is the best rom for battery life? I had the best battery life on touch wiz...aosp yields 3.5hrs screen on, touchwiz i was getting 4.5-5hrs screen on. Gps and lte on the whole time.

droidstyle said:
How do you figure cm10 is the best rom for battery life? I had the best battery life on touch wiz...aosp yields 3.5hrs screen on, touchwiz i was getting 4.5-5hrs screen on. Gps and lte on the whole time.
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I always seem to have my battery last longer on AOSP. Of course I only ran Synergy up until he stopped developing. I dunno if other TW ROMs have significantly better life.

Here's the rom I'm running.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1911118
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z06mike said:
Are you running a Jelly Bean leak??
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I am running stock ics VRALF2 odexed and rooted. I also have lean kernel 0.9 installed which is undervolted so that definitely helps with battery but I was running that before I took the card out.
The radio showing as taking so much power is because Samsung accidentally has it set as taking up 39 milivolts rather than what it should be, 3.9. The error doesn't affect your battery life at all, it just gives the battery app the wrong info. There is a fix for it in the Android dev forum for our phone but I think you have to be rooted to do it.
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Running stock ICS on rooted S3,8g Samsung card.Normal use, phone, data text.....always get around 24 hrs of battery. I always keep an eye on running apps, especially after rebooting.
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droidstyle said:
How do you figure cm10 is the best rom for battery life? I had the best battery life on touch wiz...aosp yields 3.5hrs screen on, touchwiz i was getting 4.5-5hrs screen on. Gps and lte on the whole time.
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I get much better battery life on AOKP than I ever did with TW.

This is all good info. Let's try to stay on topic though. Anyone try removing SD card?
I am still netting huge battery gains. I will post gsam graphs and stock battery graphs soon.
Oh and my mediaserver wakelock stay awake time was 30 minutes yesterday but still same battery life.
Maybe our phones use a lot of power scanning for media on an SD card. SD cards are MUCH slower than the internal storage. Or maybe the s3 supplies too much power to the SD card resulting in battery issues and the "is your s3 killing your SD card?" thread.
The sandisk that died on me was a 30 mb/s version. I use those on my Nikon D90 with microsd plugged into an adapter, whichever is on sale SD or micro. Those have lasted me thousands of pictures and at least 2 years, and still are not dead.
It may be a good idea to rig up a multimeter to the power contact on our microSD cards and make notes of the max and average voltage during normal every day use. We would also need an entirely different phone to compare it to. Different manufacturer mainly. But still ICS.
Is it possible to change SD card supplied voltage in a kernel?
Again, let's please stay on topic and not turn this into a what ROM is better thread.
Thanks all!
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igloohed73 said:
Running stock ICS on rooted S3,8g Samsung card.Normal use, phone, data text.....always get around 24 hrs of battery. I always keep an eye on running apps, especially after rebooting.
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Thanks. It is also possible Samsung cards can take the possible "beating" our phones throw at it.
Is it fat32 and do you know the file allocation size? Sorry I can't tell you how to check the allocation size as I do not know. Windows and I believe mac os will tell you the file system though if you plug it into a card reader.
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droidstyle said:
How do you figure cm10 is the best rom for battery life? I had the best battery life on touch wiz...aosp yields 3.5hrs screen on, touchwiz i was getting 4.5-5hrs screen on. Gps and lte on the whole time.
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I get more battery life on stock then i do with AOSP.

fr8cture said:
I get more battery life on stock then i do with AOSP.
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Same here. I love my battery life! Except when I play bike racer app...Im on that app way too long

It's not fat32.Thought bout it but havnt gotten around to it.Would just be for CWM anyway.Allocation size, ya got me there, guess whatever default is cuz I never tweaked or partitioned anything when I formatted.Tried a SanDisk initially but wouldn't mount right.That's why I just kicked extra cpl bucks for Samsung card.Sounds like it paid off in more ways than 1.Forgot what size your card was but I think the bigger the more juice it uses up.Sorry not much help other than go the Sammy route.
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Note 3 issue

Hello XDA members I just bought Note 3 N9005, but I have a problem that the phone is very warm before 4.4 update and after while wifi on only without even playing, with or without charging, temp reaches 36-38 C, although I did factory reset, unlike my S3 which had a temp of 32-34 even while playing heavy games and browsing internet, I searched for answers before posting but couldn't find any decent one, always would like to know what is normal temp for this beast, thanks :good:
P.S: can 32 gb kingstone class 4 be the cause?? I noticed after removing it that the temp decreased a lot, which SD card do you recommend??

Rumors say, that opting out location/interest based ads in Google Settings fixes this issue. May be the cause for overheating for you as well.

darkshaft said:
Hello XDA members I just bought Note 3 N9005, but I have a problem that the phone is very warm before 4.4 update and after while wifi on only without even playing, with or without charging, temp reaches 36-38 C, although I did factory reset, unlike my S3 which had a temp of 32-34 even while playing heavy games and browsing internet, I searched for answers before posting but couldn't find any decent one, always would like to know what is normal temp for this beast, thanks :good:
P.S: can 32 gb kingstone class 4 be the cause?? I noticed after removing it that the temp decreased a lot, which SD card do you recommend??
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Try formatting your Kingston card. If not, install BetterBatteryStats and see what's draining your battery (higher heat, the more battery drain).

I have a problem of thr Note 3 overheating while gaming, so I did a little research avout the problem.
You said that when you remove the SD Card the phone is fine?
Might be the Index Service in your phone constantly working.
This service is responsible for file Indexing in our Note 3. I think that there is a file on your SD Card that won't be indexed, and that's why the phone is constantly working to index it.
You ahould check this using the many apps that gives you information about the running processes like BBS, SystemPanel etc..
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Like @Someguyfromhell said. Beginning with Android 4.2, Google has been continuously polling your location. Turn this off and you will eliminate a significant portion of your battery drain.

raied115 said:
I have a problem of thr Note 3 overheating while gaming, so I did a little research avout the problem.
You said that when you remove the SD Card the phone is fine?
Might be the Index Service in your phone constantly working.
This service is responsible for file Indexing in our Note 3. I think that there is a file on your SD Card that won't be indexed, and that's why the phone is constantly working to index it.
You ahould check this using the many apps that gives you information about the running processes like BBS, SystemPanel etc..
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Indexing generally takes 1-3 hours, so just let it be until it's done. I'd recommend cooling it while indexing occurs, just so that you can reduce the battery strain.

Thanks everyone for your answers, problem was solved by formatting SD card :good: