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Consensus on new radio

For those who have upgraded their radio to the new leak, do you think it is better or worse than the official radio?

Worse. It keyed my car, impregnated my dog, and stole my wife.
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adrynalyne said:
Worse. It keyed my car, impregnated my dog, and stole my wife.
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Thats weird. For me it got me a raise a work, bought me a new car, picked the winning lotto numbers and otherwise tends to my every need.
Note: all these results were only while the phone was still on the charger. fearful of that the new radio actually requires a gas powered generator to keep this up.

with old radio i use to get full bars at work but now it shows up 2 or 3 with six bar signal icon
I know you cant base it off that but now it seems to drop all signals more often
and when i use usb tethering now for some reason it runs at snail mail speeds
but i was going to give it as much of a chance as i could before flashing back but its not looking good for me anyways

I have been running the new radio on my own ROM and it seems the same.
I would mention that this is original ROM from Verizon, not the new leak. This weekend I plan on installing the leaked RUU and trying that for a while.
Anyway, I do agree with adrynalyne, **** did key my car..

I've noticed no difference. Literally. My GPS is still broken and my battery life is still mediocre. How do you activate the "steal wife" feature?

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I've noticed no difference. Literally. My GPS is still broken and my battery life is still mediocre. How do you activate the "steal wife" feature?
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For paid donations only sorry...

Funny, after I installed it, my phone now runs on oxygen. It actually charges on my belt clip. Also, my GPS consistently can tell me where I'm going to be 20 minutes from now.

I am running the new radio and Bamf 1.5 Debloat. I have not had any improvement in keeping 4G signal. I am in very strong coverage area most of the time and if I keep it on CDMA+LTE it will prefer CDMA. If I change it to LTE only it will grab 4G and keep it even if I switch back to CDMA+LTE. Just seems I should not have to do that.
Seems like Verizon is still having problems in my area with 4G if I even go near the border of 4G 1-2 blocks from it but still inside it drops 4G.

better battery life for me for sure sure but gps still sucks..
as far as signal, 4G signal in Houston has always been great so im not sure

I haven't noticed a bit of difference unfortunately.

GPS is a lot faster to lock on. 4G has always been stable for me, so I don't notice a difference there. Battery life seems to be about the same as before, but then again, my radio almost never switched over to 3G and that was a problem a lot of people were having on their phones, which drained battery like crazy.

No difference at all. So far.
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Well, contrary to what everybody here seems to be experiencing (or not experiencing), the new radio has been an improvement for me.
The building I work in is pretty terrible, signal-wise. With the old radio, if I had the phone on CDMA + LTE, it would jump from 3G to 4G to 1X to no data all over the damn place. And the "no data" happened somewhat frequently, would last for a minute or two, and then kick back on. Kind of a pain if I was browsing web (while I should have been working).
But today, with the new radio, 4G was pretty much constant. I did see it drop out for a second here or there, but it resumed much more quickly and wasn't bouncing to 3G and 1X.
Only one day's worth of observation, but definitely seems to have helped here.
BAMF 1.5 Remix, if it matters.

With the new radio and bamf my phone sucks. Battery has gone to hell in stadby (even with all data off). 4G doesn't even work now. I even tried going back to stock RUU and reflashing everthing from the new RUU. No dice.
I'm going back to stock radio and bamf 1.4. At lease everything worked there... I think the new radio is to blame. BAMF 1.5 was running great when I didn't have the most recent raido.

my battery has gotten worse, and i cant send mms, signal has been about the same. GPS works better.
Edit : just flashed the new new radio and mms now works. We will see about battery.

On perfect storm 1.3 and the new radio has shown some signal improvement, and bettery battery life. My gps locks on within a couple seconds.
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Flashed new radio and BAMF Remix this morning. So far, I'd say it's been a pretty fair improvement. GPS is dramatically faster (I used to get no lock at all, now it takes maybe 30 seconds), 4G to 3G hand off seems smoother, and battery life seems reasonably improved though that may have more to do with the ROM + kernel than the radio.
I'd have to give it a few days to make a definitive call, but over a day's usage it's been a fairly solid improvement for me.

I've had a fair improvement in GPS locks, and a noticeable increase in battery life. I have a feeling that at least some of these complaints are tied to not using the proper GPS app fix, not wiping battery stats, etc.
That being said, these leaks normally give some people headaches, which is why it's only a leak ;-)
Bolted!

I am not sure why you would root, change radios, update kernels, etc... if the end result is that the things that work out of the box, stop working. What is it that you are looking for? I had an HD2 so I get it, and I have done the whole android thing, but what is the end game?

[Q] How to extend battery life in area with poor Verizon service.

Anyone have any good ideas on how to improve battery life in an area with crap Verizon data and voice? I am running CleanRom 2.5, and have used CPU master to lower the clock speed, but my phone is dying in less than a day probably due to it using 1X voice and data. Short of turning off my phone most of the time, is there any way to extend the battery? (At home with good reception I go a day and a half usually.). Thanks for any help.

android94301 said:
Anyone have any good ideas on how to improve battery life in an area with crap Verizon data and voice? I am running CleanRom 2.5, and have used CPU master to lower the clock speed, but my phone is dying in less than a day probably due to it using 1X voice and data. Short of turning off my phone most of the time, is there any way to extend the battery? (At home with good reception I go a day and a half usually.). Thanks for any help.
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If you have wi-fi that's the best way. Turn off mobile data when you don't need it and just connect to wifi.

I'd like to know this too. When I have fewer than 2 bars, my battery life is horrible and my phone runs hot. 3+ bars = no problems.

It seems like any Samsung I have had has poor signal. Returned 3 before I realized because of this it was partially Verizon. Turn off 4g.

Deathbynukes said:
I'd like to know this too. When I have fewer than 2 bars, my battery life is horrible and my phone runs hot. 3+ bars = no problems.
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Would flashing a different modem help?

as already mentioned, turn off data and turn on wifi is your best option. flashing a different radio/modem may help aswell.

Grr
I got so tired of the poor radio that I bought a Motorola Razr MAXX that I use at home and the weekends. I swap to my S3 when at work. Hate the locked bootloader but love the radio.

balaams_ass said:
I got so tired of the poor radio that I bought a Motorola Razr MAXX that I use at home and the weekends. I swap to my S3 when at work. Hate the locked bootloader but love the radio.
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I think there is a huge variance between hardware on the gs3's...reason being, I have compared my signal against 3 different razrs. Two of them had -4 db better signal, the other one was exactly the same. My device gets great signal, anyplace that it drops data other devices do the same. The inconsitent issues with radios has been a ongoing issue with Samsung for some time. Problem is the only thing you can get is a certified replacement... and most likely it will have the same issue lol.

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Would flashing a different modem help?
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It could help. It seems like a lot of the updates have been to help get better signal, but YMMV. You'll probably also wnat to be mindful of the rom you're running and if it relies or is made for a certain RIL. In any case, here's the modem list: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-of...zon-sgs3-sch-i535-odin-or-recovery-flashable/

Battery life with Jelly Bean very poor

I have to say there are lots of thing that went backwards in the Jelly Bean update, but battery life seems to be worst. With all location services off, all maps location repoting/history off, the idle drain in low cell signal areas is terrible. Way worse than ICS.
I don't see any abnormal processor usage or wake locks. I think this means the radio is to blame.
Damn am I tired of Samsung/Android updates adding new features but making some things worse. I tried to like Android and defend it. I can't do it anymore. It's sloppy and rushed. I hate it now.

I am running stock deodex BLK3 and have had no problems with battery drain. Actually I am getting better than I had on ICS.
Only things done to it are kinda crap mods and removing stock applications. I have GPS on about 50% of the day and hardly ever use wifi.

I'm on cleanrom 5.5.1 and battery life is very good I can easily make it through the day
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On on stock with Apex launcher. I'm a moderate user (browser, calls etc) and I get 24 hours and still at 30%+ Most of the time I'm on wifi as our building does not have great interior reception.

IP, download Carat app and see what is draining the battery. I assume you already used BetterBatteryStats and there were no wakelocks? Check if there are any apps that are refreshing at short intervals. The battery drain issue should not be that drastic. From my experience, I was completely stock ICS (bloat and all) until the JB update. Right now I am unlocked, rooted and debloated but still stock - and battery life is only slightly worse (VZW remote diagnostics were also disabled). If nothing else works, then wipe/ODIN to stock and see if things are different then.

Scrappy1 said:
I have to say there are lots of thing that went backwards in the Jelly Bean update, but battery life seems to be worst. With all location services off, all maps location repoting/history off, the idle drain in low cell signal areas is terrible. Way worse than ICS.
I don't see any abnormal processor usage or wake locks. I think this means the radio is to blame.
Damn am I tired of Samsung/Android updates adding new features but making some things worse. I tried to like Android and defend it. I can't do it anymore. It's sloppy and rushed. I hate it now.
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Lol don't blame Android. Samsung is the one who puts so much stuff on top of android. If you want a stock android go buy a nexus.. Not a modified version of Android
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jager420 said:
Lol don't blame Android. Samsung is the one who puts so much stuff on top of android. If you want a stock android go buy a nexus.. Not a modified version of Android
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You are correct, most of my anger should be directed at Samsung. I'm very curious if Nexus devices are free from this eternal flakyness.

Slim Bean
Scrappy1 said:
I have to say there are lots of thing that went backwards in the Jelly Bean update, but battery life seems to be worst. With all location services off, all maps location repoting/history off, the idle drain in low cell signal areas is terrible. Way worse than ICS.
I don't see any abnormal processor usage or wake locks. I think this means the radio is to blame.
Damn am I tired of Samsung/Android updates adding new features but making some things worse. I tried to like Android and defend it. I can't do it anymore. It's sloppy and rushed. I hate it now.
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I use slim bean and get very good battery life. I spend 8 hours at work with no reception and I will get 34 hours out of my phone if I dont put airplane on and 42 if I do.

Scrappy1 said:
You are correct, most of my anger should be directed at Samsung. I'm very curious if Nexus devices are free from this eternal flakyness.
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I came from a galaxy nexus. The battery life was bad, really slow updates, and signal sucked (till jellybean)

I lost about 30m - 1hr of screen on time going to 4.1, but 4.2 seems to have it all worked out again. Hopefully Verizon allows us to have 4.2.
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I've gotten better battery better signal faster GPS on clean Rom(jb)
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I think each battery usage is different. Making your screen turn off quicker will save battery, turning off GPS will help too. I would like to know if WiFi or 4G:LTE uses more battery because with an unlimited data plan I can work with it a lot easier one way or the other.
Anybody done any research or have an inkling for one or the other?

Wi-Fi uses less power 4G uses more power, that's a fact.
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I had terrible batt life after updating to JB. On ICS i would get 1% loss each hour when idle, right after the update it was more like 10% each hour. I ended up reading thru tons of posts not only for sgs3 but other phones updating to JB and having batt problems. So i factory reset and formated the sd card then put my files back on it. Then i finally found a post where it was stated that if you have a lot of media either on phone or sd the system will have to index each file, for thumbnails, quicker pinch zoom in gallery etc. That kept my phone awake and killing the battery for a good 12+ hours after the update. Today it finally ended. I am now 24 hours off the charger with 89% batt remaining, making it about .4% discharge per hour. I know this wont solve everyone's problems with the battery drain but maybe it will help some. GL!

I see a big difference for me with the battery between ICS and Jellybean rom. I was on Bean's custom stock build 15 originally and with medium - med heavy use, I see about 15-20% remaining battery after 10+ hours of use. With the new Bean's jelly rom b7, I need to charge before 10 hours with the type of same usage. This morning, I saw a 12% drain in 20 minutes for checking facebook/instagram and some email.

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Wi-Fi uses less power 4G uses more power, that's a fact.
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That's not true. If you have good LTE coverage it uses less power than WiFi. I have confirmed this checking power consumption with Battery Monitor Widget Pro. I'm losing ~22 mV every 10 minutes with WiFi turned off and pretty good LTE coverage (-100 dBm) and ~28 mV with WiFi on. When there is poor coverage WiFi will be better choice of course.

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That's not true. If you have good LTE coverage it uses less power than WiFi. I have confirmed this checking power consumption with Battery Monitor Widget Pro. I'm losing ~22 mV every 10 minutes with WiFi turned off and pretty good LTE coverage (-100 dBm) and ~28 mV with WiFi on. When there is poor coverage WiFi will be better choice of course.
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I will keep that in mind. Thanks

With Wi-Fi the signal is right there no sharing with millions of ppl no searching for signal, with 4g you'll use more power.I've done test with both and my 4g is great but still Wi-Fi uses less examples 4g great signal maybe 12-18hrs battery moderate use...Wi-Fi 1 day 9 hrs same usage.you do the math
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My Jelly Bean battery issues are very tied to cell signal level. At home today, with good signal (LTE -100 dbm), I see no idle drain issues with JB. Its just like ICS. However, this last week at work with poor signal (LTE -112 dbm), with JB I had terrible idle drain. In that exact same setting ICS had no issues.
I have a feeling the new radio is doing some hyper spastic searching for better towers now around -110 dbm, where it didnt used to. If my woes at work keep up I'll flash back to ICS radio.

I've gotten great battery also on ics whether on 4g or Wi-Fi that time really didn't matter,I loved the hd radio.but on jb the lk3 is ok I do get faster gps lock.
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[Q] Burning hot GS3 and indoor reception issue...

Alright, so I have my SCH-I535 rocking ParanoidKangDroid 2.2.1, although this isn't exactly the primary contributer to this problem as its happend across all roms. If I use 3g for any extended (see 10 minutes) amount of time, the thing goes up to about 38 degrees C, which is enough to be noticeable and slightly uncomfortable. It also drains battery like a mother on 3g. This is ONLY on 3g though. On 4g and wifi I get great battery life and it stays at a normal temperature. it is only on 3g that I see this unusually high drain. I am running paranoidkangdroid 2.2.1 with the CPU at ~1100 max and 96 min running the smartassv2 governor if that's any help. Also, for some reason after a full shutdown and turn on it started to get incredibly hot. it went from 30 C to 50 C in 5 minutes then shutdown. I have since turned it back on and now see that this ordeal drained the battery by half. It has not however become hot again. Is this a ROM issue? Is there anything I can do to fix it without switching roms? Also, does anyone get terrible reception indoors? I get 4g everywhere where I live, unless I happen to be indoors. At which point it becomes rather selective and spotty.

nrock2256 said:
Alright, so I have my SCH-I535 rocking ParanoidKangDroid 2.2.1, although this isn't exactly the primary contributer to this problem as its happend across all roms. If I use 3g for any extended (see 10 minutes) amount of time, the thing goes up to about 38 degrees C, which is enough to be noticeable and slightly uncomfortable. It also drains battery like a mother on 3g. This is ONLY on 3g though. On 4g and wifi I get great battery life and it stays at a normal temperature. it is only on 3g that I see this unusually high drain. I am running paranoidkangdroid 2.2.1 with the CPU at ~1100 max and 96 min running the smartassv2 governor if that's any help. Also, for some reason after a full shutdown and turn on it started to get incredibly hot. it went from 30 C to 50 C in 5 minutes then shutdown. I have since turned it back on and now see that this ordeal drained the battery by half. It has not however become hot again. Is this a ROM issue? Is there anything I can do to fix it without switching roms? Also, does anyone get terrible reception indoors? I get 4g everywhere where I live, unless I happen to be indoors. At which point it becomes rather selective and spotty.
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Happens to me sometimes too. I hadn't necessary attributed it to 3G, but it would make sense because it only happens at work where there's spotty 4G coverage. I thought it was just a rogue background process
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Could be the modem you're using. What version are you on now? I've heard the latest one does better with switching to 3g. See here: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-modems-vrbmb1-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535-recovery-flashable/
Also, AOSP is just not as good with the 3g switching as stock. It's always been that way.

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Could be the modem you're using. What version are you on now? I've heard the latest one does better with switching to 3g. See here: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-modems-vrbmb1-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535-recovery-flashable/
Also, AOSP is just not as good with the 3g switching as stock. It's always been that way.
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I had my issues before switching to aosp, so maybe mine was a different issue
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If you don't get good reception indoors change modem and rpm, each phone is different so no one is the best. Depending on what rom you are on some seem to be better than others. Look at the Radio thread and it will link you to the full thread on another forum. second when it gets hot turn on airplane mode and see if it cools if so that most likely shows its the radio connecting and disconnecting constantly to be the problem. If so changing modem is the best bet. Also on Verizon I found better signal on SynergyRom r373 and new r4?? with the latest radios (modem and rpm).
Good Luck
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[Q] All the sudden can't get past 1 hour screen on time?

Hey guys, for whatever reason I cannot get past an hour to an hour and a half screen on time per charge. I used to be able to consistently get 3 but for whatever reason that no longer seems to be the case. I use CM 10.1, usually the official but sometimes mastamoon's build. Intially I thought my battery went bad but even after replacing it with a new one I've seen no real difference. I actually replaced the phone once as well but still to no avail. Any ideas?

What's eating most of your battery? Do you have Better Battery Stats it has more specific info on wakelocks.
If you have no significant wakelocks first thing I would try is a different ROM/kernel combo. TouchWiz roms generally get better battery life than AOSP.

BattsNotIncld said:
What's eating most of your battery? Do you have Better Battery Stats it has more specific info on wakelocks.
If you have no significant wakelocks first thing I would try is a different ROM/kernel combo. TouchWiz roms generally get better battery life than AOSP.
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Yeah, but it seems like people usually end up getting better battery life on AOSP ROMs than I am. I haven't checked this iteration of CM but usually it's screen on time eating most of it and wake-locks doesn't seem to be an issue. It just drains super fast, especially with even 5 minute phone calls. I'm in the middle of Cleveland so signal shouldn't be an issue. Although it is usually yellow on the graph.

I would definitely install BetterBatteryStats and see what that shows you. I only run AOSP roms and while battery life isn't great its nowhere near that bad.

I'm having the same issue. No big wake locks, my phone just dies really fast. Running latest AOKP nightly with latest KT747 kernel
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So here are some pictures from my dreadful battery life. More to come. Anyone see anything? I'm not sure what deleted wake locks is.

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So here are some pictures from my dreadful battery life. More to come. Anyone see anything? I'm not sure what deleted wake locks is.
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So those were yesterday, here is today. Noticeably less talk time but I hit that magic 1hr screen on time.

The only thing I can get from that is your poor signal, it's simply destroying your battery. I don't see anything else that could be the problem besides a bad battery.
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The only thing I can get from that is your poor signal, it's simply destroying your battery. I don't see anything else that could be the problem besides a bad battery.
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****ed up thing is I live in Cleveland and work down town yet sometimes this phone refuses to get signal. It's really frustrating that it's also killing my battery.
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****ed up thing is I live in Cleveland and work down town yet sometimes this phone refuses to get signal. It's really frustrating that it's also killing my battery.
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I also think it's mostly due to signal loss. You have an 8 hour no data connection. That entire time your phone is looking for a signal and killing your battery. I highly recommend trying to use a touchwiz rom, doesn't really matter which one. I used to use cm10 but it would drop my signal constantly. From my experience, touchwiz roms are much more stable when it comes to holding a phone signal.
There are some amazing devs who've made some cool aosp features and customizations built into touchwiz roms. Some highly customizable roms are goodness and hyperdrive. In my opinion, pair one of those with nova launcher and you'd get a very aosp like experience with the stability of touchwiz.
I also recently flashed the mb1 firmware, that's giving me slight increases in signal strength. Might just be a placebo affect, but I think it helps.
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You might have to try a touchwiz Rom. My battery is at 77% after extensive use for an hour and 40 minutes.

jmxc23 said:
You might have to try a touchwiz Rom. My battery is at 77% after extensive use for an hour and 40 minutes.
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I am having a similar issue with stock, verizon OS. There was a system update just a couple days ago through verizon, and I installed it, ever since then it's been horrible. My battery usage blames it on "Media Server" though. Not really sure if it's related, but wanted to let you know in case it might help someone trouble shoot. Also, I noticed that since the update, my 4G icon in the top is on at the same time as my Wifi icon, which previously was just one or the other depending on if I was connected to Wifi or not.

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I am having a similar issue it with stock, verizon OS. There was a system update just a couple days ago through verizon, and I installed it, ever since then it's been horrible. My battery usage blames it on "Media Server" though. Not really sure if it's related, but wanted to let you know in case it might help someone trouble shoot. Also, I noticed that since the update, my 4G icon in the top is on at the same time as my Wifi icon, which previously was just one or the other depending on if I was connected to Wifi or not.
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Just disable the caller id app and the 4G icon won't show up. Also I don't think you get my post as I said extensive meaning watching movies and playing games with out any screen off time all in an hour and 40 minutes the person who started this thread is on an AOSP ROM and is getting the same. The main difference is I still had 2/3 of battery life left while his battery is dying or dead. Right now I have been on this phone for 3 hours and have about 60% of battery life left. I don't have a media server problem and on a custom touchwiz ROM with a custom kernel.

Usually the ROM is not a factor, its one of two things 99% of the time,.
1. a rogue app, that won't stop looking for location or data or is just hung
2. Poor or lost signal and the phone keeps boosting power to stay attached or search for signal;

Slacker101 said:
So those were yesterday, here is today. Noticeably less talk time but I hit that magic 1hr screen on time.
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Edit: As many have pointed out by now,
It appears that you are not getting the best cell signal on your phone. From personal experience, I can tell you that bad reception takes a huge toll on battery life.
You could try switching modems/roms to see if that will solve your problem. In my experience, I have gotten better signal using a TouchWiz ROM. However, I do miss the lag-freeness of CM