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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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?
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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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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.
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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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Ok, I have been flashing for a few months trying to optimize my phone. My last rom was serendipity 6.2, with sp 59 and jl2. I restored to stock (bc I wanted to try something else and hadn't done that in a few weeks) my battery life on serendipity was atrocious.. 6 hours with medium usage. (hardly any calls or messages, looking things up or reading xda briefly) . I spent today on stock, after about 20 hours of light usage I am at 60% left. Now I did flash with a full battery serendipity, wiped battery stats and cleared cache and after several charge cycles and a few days battery life was still awful. I was about to get a new battery. Now I don't mean to single out serendipity, I've had bad battery life on paragon, dilli, and a few others (this time it just got unbearably bad), but why should battery life be so bad on custom roms? Am I alone on this? I hesitate to flash again bc I'm loving having a phone that won't die if I touch it, but I miss the functionality of the device with a custom 2.2.1 on it. Advice or opinions please.
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I'm having the same problem. Everybody keeps saying they've got excellent battery life and what not with custom roms but mine doesn't seem so good. Wifi is off, I've wiped battery stats, I've used the rom for several days letting everything get situated before I begin thinking about if its good battery life or not. Maybe I'm just expecting too much or I watch my battery a lil bit too much, idk it just seems pretty bad. If I stay on the internet for 20 minutes I've already dropped about 3%
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The normal Batt live on this phone with normal use is between 12 to 16 hours
I'm thinking part of it may be psychological and part may be usage.
Psychological in the sense that I have an expectation of an improvement, practical in that with my stock rom I haven't reinstalled certain apps like xda and pulse where I spend a lot of time reading and thus using the screen.
That being said I was still experiencing drains of 8% or more per hour when the phone was idle, wifi and gps off.
There is a way to check the cpu's time in each state, but I can't remember where the file is. If someone can, please let me know. I'm curious if under the custom rom my phone wasn't properly scaling down.
I'll probably flash something new tomorrow morning unless I see something shiny and new in the dev forum.
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So 6 hours seems a bit low then? Could it just be a cumulative effect of flashing rom on top of rom with restoring to stock?
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So 6 hours seems a bit low then? Could it just be a cumulative effect of flashing rom on top of rom with restoring to stock?
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Yeah 6 hrs does seem a bit low. There are many things that can contribute to it. If you are bouncing between H and 3g on a custom rom will drain it like crazy, I had to disable H and stick with 3g and that helped. could also look at OS monitor to find what is running in the background.
Ok, I did notice that recently I was jumping between h and 3g. I was experimenting with some of the new modems. Should I try finding a better modem for my location?
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Ok, I did notice that recently I was jumping between h and 3g. I was experimenting with some of the new modems. Should I try finding a better modem for my location?
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I would try others, as well as disable H in the hidden menus, and see how it fairs
@ zelendel.... so by H i assume you mean data... i see alot of back and forth when data is on. i know when data is off i'm still using wcdma from the gsm status, but it doesn't show the 3g icon.
i need my data because i'm from the states but living in australia and alot of my comunications are thru email/facebook.
when i look at battery usage i see rarely more than 5% from cell....usually 90 something from display ( i fiddle with it alot).
can't expect too much cause it's a powerhouse with a tiny battery........
for me the big Q at present is... can we top up the charge regularly or is it always best to let a full cycle run? if i knew it was fine to keep it topped i'd stay 50%+ most of the time i think................
It is not great to keep it topped off. The lithium battery will wear out faster and lose charging capacity over time. this process is sped up the more time the battery spends at a high charge
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Visit the Samsung web site and read the battery specs for the Captivate. The stock battery is only rated for 5 hours and 50 minutes of active phone use (which means the display is active). In sleep mode (display and other features of the phone are shutdown) the battery is rated for up to 300 hours (12.5 days).
I have NEVER seen a stock Captivate last for over 3 days in sleep mode. As for active phone use (display is active) my experience with several of the custom ROMS (Cognition, Paragon, Andromeda, and now my favorite, Continuum) is that the battery life is either on par with the stock ROM, or exceeds it. The kernels on some of these custom ROMs are more efficient than that of the stock ROM due to the many tweaks and cleaning up of bloated apps and code by the developer.
I can't bring myself to keep a stock ROM now that I have used some excellent custom ROMs like those I name above.
As for flashing custom ROMs and seeing fast battery drain goes... I have had that experience with those I listed, but usually I was able to resolve the issue by ensuring my battery was at 100% (meaning showing that amount both on and off) and reflashing, or finding the cause of the high battery usage and going from there (e.g. I have had to reflash modems). Another thing I do, mainly out of habit from compiling code and deploying it in dev and test environments, is to make sure that I am working from a known good baseline ROM before flashing a custom ROM. In this case I always return to the stock ROM you can flash through Odin One Click. That way if you have battery problems after flashing a custom ROM you can have a good idea as to what is causing those problems. This is, of course, just a matter of personal preference. Some have repeatedly flashed one custom ROM over another with no issues. YMMV
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@ zelendel.... so by H i assume you mean data... i see alot of back and forth when data is on. i know when data is off i'm still using wcdma from the gsm status, but it doesn't show the 3g icon.
i need my data because i'm from the states but living in australia and alot of my comunications are thru email/facebook.
when i look at battery usage i see rarely more than 5% from cell....usually 90 something from display ( i fiddle with it alot).
can't expect too much cause it's a powerhouse with a tiny battery........
for me the big Q at present is... can we top up the charge regularly or is it always best to let a full cycle run? if i knew it was fine to keep it topped i'd stay 50%+ most of the time i think................
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No what I mean is disable HSDPA I think is the term lol. Sense you go back and forth I would say to disable that and just use 3g only.
If you don't know the code to get too the menu download sgstools it has the hidden menu keys.
Sorry but where can I find the hidden menus?
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I am the opposite, I got horrible battery on stock. Could not even make it through my work day without it dying on my way home unless I charged it midday. Now I am running Serendipity 6.2 and unplug at 7:30am and it is now 8:30pm my time and I have 30% remaining....
I have also tried other customs roms with noticeable improvements in battery life over stock but for me Serendipity gives me the best performance and battery.
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try apex5.1 room with tl3 modem comb
i used about 50 phone call, 2 hour websurfing, email sending, checking.
i still have 41% left, 1day 10hour 50 min.
Could I have a faulty battery? I rooted and rommed cuz of my battery life being terrible but It still is bad
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I had the exact same issue as you. I tried Darky's 9.3 first, then Serendipity 6.2, then Cognition 4.2.1. Each had major battery drain, meaning 6-8 hours with moderate use, and even without any usage it would drain 25% over 3 hours.
Use One-Click to flash back to stock JF6, then immediate do a Master Clear from the One-Click program after it has finished booting. Obviously move everything to an external SD or the computer prior to all of this, and make sure the external SD and SIM are out when flashing.
My battery has lasted for 14 hours today, and I'm only down to 54%. This is with about 1hr 20min screen on, ~30min voice calls, and always connected via 3G/H with background sync on, weather widget, and moderate web browsing.
Current setup: Serendipity 6.2, Speedmod K13C, JK4 Modem
Trying again
I couldnt keep myself away from custom roms, how i missed tethering, the custom theming, non marketplace apps and so much more...
Im trying Dilli's 7.1.1, bump charging at the moment...
Last night I drained my battery to 5% when i finally fell asleep... 6 hours later it was at 4%. Finally it drained and would not power on at all. Not even the backlights. Plugged it in for an hour and thought to take the sim card out so i would have a phone for the hours it would take to charge. When i plugged it back in the phone jumped from approximately 10% to 40% charged...
Oh well.
I have also been bouncing around flashing diff roms like crazy. I have to say though, I am using Continuum v4 with Hardcores speedmod Kernel K13D. I have been doing pretty good on this combo. Lasts for most the day with normal use.
Is it just me or do i get better battery life on sense froyo roms then i do on aosp gingerbread roms. On aosp i lose anywhere from 7-10% battery per hour, standard use, and on sense i lose 3-7% per hour, standard use. I am on Bamf Remix 1.8.6 with the desense script, and the aosp roms i tried were cm7 and omfgb. I really wish i got good battery life on aosp, it is so much smoother and quicker, but I need my battery to last as ling as possible. Am i alone here or what?
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You're going to get better battery life on Froyo over Gingerbread.
What are your setting though, I go all day with pretty good usage (browser/text/facebook/youtube/Music) and I'm always good to go.
I'm running CM7 stock kernel. Display at 40%, 4g disabled when not needed, Wifi disabled when not home and I can't really say I have any complaints.
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You're going to get better battery life on Froyo over Gingerbread.
What are your setting though, I go all day with pretty good usage (browser/text/facebook/youtube/Music) and I'm always good to go.
I'm running CM7 stock kernel. Display at 40%, 4g disabled when not needed, Wifi disabled when not home and I can't really say I have any complaints.
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I thought always thought that aosp GB was supposed to have better battery life.....
I had imoseyon lean kernel on battsaver and ondemandX, wifi off because I'm almost never home, 4g on, all the same settings I run on BAMF. Display at 25% usually unless the sun is blaring.
just curious did you wipe batt stats do a full drain and recharge and see what you got after that?
No, I'm guilty of not doing that. I guess I should try that shouldn't I?
I found the best battery life on Liquid ROM, which is GB.
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No, I'm guilty of not doing that. I guess I should try that shouldn't I?
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Can't hurt. I wipe batt stats every time I flash a rom.
Yknow, I'm on the 'stock' BAMF 3.0 rc4 and I'm at 57% after 8 hours with moderate usage, but using juice defender. I also use the OTA Mr2 mod.
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I really wish i got good battery life on aosp, it is so much smoother and quicker, but I need my battery to last as long as possible.
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There is a simple solution. Get an extra or extended battery, and you won't have to worry about it.
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There is a simple solution. Get an extra or extended battery, and you won't have to worry about it.
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Although that's an obvious solution. There's more he can try before he goes to spend the money for an extra battery. I honestly don't see a need for an extended battery and I play around on my phone all day. When I get in the car charge it. When Im at home on the pc charge it.
I definitely get better battery life on Froyo sense than aosp gb. I, personal, think I get the best battery life on a stock version. I'm currently running the rooted OTA and the OTA MR2 radio and am getting great battery life (4g off, don't have it in my area till the end of the month).
I wish CM7 got good battery life. I like it better than any ROM I've tried, but can't get over the battery drain. It's ok though, I like Sense a lot too.
But you know what they say: To each his own.
to each his own is right
But on the same platform (froyo vs gb) i just dont think you are going to get tremndous variations in battery life. There may be an outlier rom that uses it quickly by most of the roms are in the same ballpark. i think we are talking about squeaking out an extra 20-30 mins which is not nothing but 8+ hours of a battery charge i would be more inclined to go with whatever rom i like best. When GB is released for real, then we may see some improvements across the board.
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to each his own is right
But on the same platform (froyo vs gb) i just dont think you are going to get tremndous variations in battery life. There may be an outlier rom that uses it quickly by most of the roms are in the same ballpark. i think we are talking about squeaking out an extra 20-30 mins which is not nothing but 8+ hours of a battery charge i would be more inclined to go with whatever rom i like best. When GB is released for real, then we may see some improvements across the board.
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???? I get much better battery life on CM7 over froyo and TB sense. I'm talking 50% more per day. CM7 wont be leaving my bolt anytime soon.
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That's great but that's not the norm. Its clearly your setup. I'm only saying that because if it were true then we would all be using it
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???? I get much better battery life on CM7 over froyo and TB sense. I'm talking 50% more per day. CM7 wont be leaving my bolt anytime soon.
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I have to agree. CM7 has been way better than any other rom i've tried.
CM7 with Kang Bang does best on mine, but you can't compare sense froyo to aosp GB. That's too many different factors. That's a different framework, different kernel structure, different ROM. How do you know what the culprit is?
I'm running BAMF 1.8.6 as well on standard battery.
I just charge at night, take the phone to the car or motorcycle for commute and place on charger. When at work, I have another USB charger with micro USB cable. Charge when at desk. Reverse procedure for drive home.
Battery is great when only off the charger for ~4 hours per day. :-|
It seems that sense battery life is better. I've been on cm7 for a couple weeks now and my battery will be nearly dead by this time every day. So I'm getting 5 to 6 hourz max with cm7. I'm on gingertheory now with dream kernel and setcpu running a few profiles, battery life is at 70%. May have been using it a little less today but still that's a big difference.
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Getting the 2750mah extended was the best investment you can make into this phone, hands down. If your phone goes naked, then the difference in thickness is not that bad. In fact I love the new added thickness. It keeps my camera lens off the surface when I put it down flat. Not to mention it adds a certain heftyness that just exudes quality.
Sadly though I got an unlucky battery cover which creeks if you squeeze just a smidge on the sides
Other than that, man is it great. I can go about 48 hours without charging on CM7.1. At the end of the 48 hours, my screen would have been on for roughly 5-6 hours. That means nearly 3 hours of screen on time a day. If you sleep for 8 hours a day, that leaves 16 hours of awake time. 3/16 means nearly 20% of my time awake was spent looking at my phone. Hardly minimum usage, and if its not considered heavy then I fear for future generations. Screw these kids today 12 years old with a smartphone lol. I didn't get my first cellphone till I was a senior in highschool (2004) and even then, it was a crumby flipphone just for the sake of making calls and in case I was in trouble.
Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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I've found my battery life better. I haven't put down my phone since, and the battery life is on par with GB with my phone in deep sleep in my pocket. Lol
I did do a battery stat wipe and drained it and recharged it to full.
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Yeah, my battery went out pretty damn quick yesterday, but that could be because I've been fussing with my phone more than normal.
The first day of using ics my battery life was okay. The second day my battery life sucked. Why? Because I set up Facebook. Battery manager showed 10% use and I hadn't even checked it. Its the bloat!
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Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Same, my i727r battery life is horrible since i flashed ICS.
I have noticed that my android system is pulling a lot of juice compared to GB. I made some changes today like freeze all the bloat + installed UCLC4 modem. And wiped battery stats + complete drain and discharge of the battery. Lets see if it get better after a few cycles.
My battery seems a lot better! Way way way better. 25 minutes of web and its still full!
SkyRocket [ICS-Leak 4.0.3]
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Just curious is it just me or does the Skyrocket have ****tier battery life running on ICS compared to it running on Gingerbread? Anyone else having battery problems. I've been running ICS on my I727r for 2 days now and the battery life is very questionable. Probably a battery stat reset will work :S
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Battery has been much better for me with ICS.
Freezing tons of bloat helps..
My battery life has been horrible on ICS but when I look at the battery thing, Face Unlock used 35% of my batter (when my batter was 5% left) o-o it takes THAT much?
My battery life is absolutely amazing with ICS.
I have the stock rom debloated completely, and a lot of junk is disabled. Coupled with turning off auto brightness and leaving data off when i don't use it, the battery just chugs along.
This morning I got in my car at 7 AM, started playing music full blast through the stereo for an hour. Got to class, played some temple run, approximately a half hour worth. 30 texts or so, one 1 minute phone call. (data was off the entire time, it keeps facebook from butting in from behind) My battery has literally only gone down 10%, and it's 1 PM
I'm in love.
Seems fine here, I usually have it plugged in but today am testing it without. The couple charge blips are from when I had to get some files off of it.
I froze a bunch of the AT&T bloatware, have had Wi-fi, BT, GPS enabled the entire time. Moderate/light use... I've attached some screens.
I'm running http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1567817 with the flashable ICS modem.
My battery has been horrible but it's only been a day for me and my signal has been fluctuating a lot on day one. It's stabilized now so we'll see after a few days of use. But right now it is horrible.
It seems mine is doing worse.
But I have been adding a lot of stuff since this is my first time rooting.
I am about to get a battery depleted(at 12% right now) and reset the battery statistics and install the OEM battery.
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It seems mine is doing worse.
But I have been adding a lot of stuff since this is my first time rooting.
I am about to get a battery depleted(at 12% right now) and reset the battery statistics and install the OEM battery.
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I thought there was a lot of debating over deleting the battery stats, i remember an article from a google programmer saying that it actually decreases battery performance...i personally stopped doing it a year ago and noticed a better batter experience, most of the time bad battery comes from a bad flash or apps that run in the backround and use location services
My battery life was horrible with ICS so im back to GB. At work with phone in pocket for 2hrs and was already down to 75% off killing battery and charging it fully next day. When I got home after 8hrs of work already at 50% and thats when its in sleep mode. Using it I would drain 1% every couple minutes definitly bloat. Might try new debloated ones but kinda skeptical since GB gives me amazing battery life.
Once the kernel source drops custom kernels will make all you guys stop crying your all used to optimized stuff not samsucks stuff lol give it time
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I thought there was a lot of debating over deleting the battery stats, i remember an article from a google programmer saying that it actually decreases battery performance...i personally stopped doing it a year ago and noticed a better batter experience, most of the time bad battery comes from a bad flash or apps that run in the backround and use location services
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Well condiering I have never reset them and did this first and only flash of the ICS leak, I'm hoping it helps out. We'll see what happens.
I have Juicedefender turning everything off while sleeping(set widgetlocker to deinied so when locked, widget locker stays active to be ready, and juicedefender see's that and turns off data)
On my 2100mAh nexus battery I barely got over a day(was getting 36-40 hours on GB)
Either way, I have two batteries so I'll deal with it until either an official ICS release or a new rom with better battery performance comes around.
I also have the nexus battery. Def have less battery life with this version of ics .
It could be the algorithm the use. At the start of the day is slowly draws down. As the day goes on it seems to drain faster
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Actually, I have been having the Best battery life to date. I will post my list of APK's that I removed. I don't do FB or anything like that, so not sure if that is affecting it. Also, in a non LTE area. on the UCLA3 kernel, I was absolutely getting horrid battery life.
I live in an LTE area and I am getting almost a full day of use. Never got that with GB. I keep wanting to charge it, but I dont have to.
I do have Juice Defender running though, and it disables my data in 15 or 30 min intervals when the screen is locked. And I have SetCPU which limits the CPU to a max of 384 when the screen is locked.
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I also have the nexus battery. Def have less battery life with this version of ics .
It could be the algorithm the use. At the start of the day is slowly draws down. As the day goes on it seems to drain faster
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Battery discharge isn't a linear function my friend.
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Hey how does this look for battery life guys? Any tips to make it better?
Btw, I get no signal inside school so 7 hours of that was little/no signal.
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kyle1087 said:
Hey how does this look for battery life guys? Any tips to make it better?
Btw, I get no signal inside school so 7 hours of that was little/no signal.
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Since you know you don't get a signal inside your school, you might as well turn off mobile data or even just airplane mode it while you're in there.
I agree, turn off the radio so you don't waste the battery. Maybe you can use something like Tasker to do it for you only when in class.
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I agree, turn off the radio so you don't waste the battery. Maybe you can use something like Tasker to do it for you only when in class.
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Tasker is very difficult to use. I have tried and failed. haha. but i found an app called autopilot that will basically do the same thing youre looking for. it will check for signal strength and enable airplane mode if its low. then recheck in intervals to see if it should turn airplane mode off.
Yeah. Idk why I dont already do that. Lol. But I do seem to get a little bit worse battery when using it. Not too bad but not like before
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Just turn off data in school. You'll still be able to receive calls and texts without data. I'm using the Synergy JB R106 build and I'm getting decent battery life.
kyle1087 said:
Hey how does this look for battery life guys? Any tips to make it better?
Btw, I get no signal inside school so 7 hours of that was little/no signal.
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The cell standby is calculated incorrectly so don't worry about that. It's not really using up any battery.
For the exception where it's trying to locate the towers.
Anyways, i'm on CM10 latest night build and i'm getting awesome battery life, along with the VRL15 radio and RPM
I have "my profiles lite" it lets you set times you can have the airplane mode activate so if you have brakes at certain times it will come on at that time
I have used the app called NoBars, which puts the phone in airplane mode when it loses signal for a set amount of time. It then retries after another set amount of time. Sure, you don't restore the connection immediately after getting back to a signal, but it works pretty well overall.
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Just turn off data in school. You'll still be able to receive calls and texts without data. I'm using the Synergy JB R106 build and I'm getting decent battery life.
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How's the synergy rom treating you in comparison to CleanRom 4.0?
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Jellybean ROMs have all been worse on the battery life IME, so I am interested in seeing what the official JB stock will do. I have heard that part of project butter for Jellybean was to ramp the CPU to max upon touch interaction which could be a clue as to why it is worse.
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Jellybean ROMs have all been worse on the battery life IME, so I am interested in seeing what the official JB stock will do. I have heard that part of project butter for Jellybean was to ramp the CPU to max upon touch interaction which could be a clue as to why it is worse.
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leak has a wakelock issue.. hopefully the next leak or ota will fix it.. but i still like me some jbtw lol
i dont understand how people get days on end with the stock battery......I end up using about 25-30% every hour i'm using it with various battery hungry processes disabled. Now I'm using an extended 4500 mah battery that I hate because it ruins the cosmetic appeal of the phone by making it look fat and heavy. I feel theres something I'm missing in all of this.......
I am not rooted before anyone asks what programs I use.
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i dont understand how people get days on end with the stock battery......I end up using about 25-30% every hour i'm using it with various battery hungry processes disabled. Now I'm using an extended 4500 mah battery that I hate because it ruins the cosmetic appeal of the phone by making it look fat and heavy. I feel theres something I'm missing in all of this.......
I am not rooted before anyone asks what programs I use.
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its easy to manipulate your battery screen to be on for many hours.
your screen on time is a better indicator of how your battery is performing.
all is dependent on settings o course though.
ya went back to synergy ics rom and its night and day my battery last forever on this ics rom with lean kernel at 1.7ghz compared to stock speeds on jb and this ics rom is SO smooth has google now so im not to worried about jb till they get battery life straightened out.
Loving CR4 and the battery.
It was asked how the battery is on CleanRom4... it's doing great! I don't have specific but let me say I use my phone all day for surfing XDA forums as well as standard apps/mms. Talk about 2 hours total daily for work. Even throw in some Netflix and I don't charge it except for every other day.
I would say that's great battery life.
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Battery life is normally different from each person but similar results may happen
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I'm on Synergy r111 and I get great battery life, 5 hrs average on screen time with brightness at 50% n newest radio n rpm. Before only used to average around 3 hrs. I even managed to get 6.5 hrs at one point.
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On I5 my battery life was 15hrs with 3hrs screen on. On J1 im at 20hrs, 2hrs screen on, 44% to go...both setup the exact same.
I've been satisfied with battery life on cleanrom le 3.5 thus far. I'm not a heavy user but I'll get 3 hours screen time easily. Tried going back to ICS after jb and I can't lol
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The stupid keyboard sometimes stays on the screen even after hitting home and hangouts is glitchy at times it does several transitions like popping up and down the keyboard when hitting the space to type.
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My battery life on WiFi has gotten much better but on the cell radio, it's just terrible. On NB1, I was getting right around 3 hrs screen on time with LTE, now I'm barely getting 2 hrs. On WiFi, I'm getting 4.5 hrs. A little frustrating when there's no WiFi available.
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Battery life has been the biggest issue here since the update to Kitkat . I have a Hyperion Extended battery on my S4 . The thing barely lost battery life no matter how much hell I put the battery through . Since the jump to Kitkat it has been been reduced . Granted the extended battery gets me through the day but even I am feeling the reduction in life .
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That's terrible?? That's almost 2 days!
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My battery seems to be much better and the phone seems to be much smother.
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aw1974 said:
That's terrible?? That's almost 2 days!
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i didn't use mobile .. next day only i used .. previous update my mobile battery stands near 3.5 days
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My battery seems to be much better and the phone seems to be much smother.
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agree - but I found today phone started acting really sluggish and freezing.
Guess what it turns out to be the damn SD card - it's an old microSD from my epic4g. Took it out and voila - phone is lightning fast.
Moral of the story - sluggish phone? TRy removing the SD CARD
My battery live has decreased pretty dramatically since the kitkat updates. I tried to odin back to stock NB1 and retok the NC1 update but nothing changed. Also swapped batteries thinking maybe the battery had an issue but no change. I hope they release a new update soon that helps with this. Standy uses a little more than JB but when I am on LTE it drains really quickly!
I read somewhere that when you update, you gotta let the kernel settle in for a day or two (maybe more).
NC1 contained a new kernel.
Right now I'm running a custom ROM (but with another base), but the kernel is stock NC1.
Long story short: with power saving mode on and all connectivity off (wi-fi, 3G, Bluetooth, GPS) off, for 8 hours the thing lost 1% battery.
But, alas, some one hour of browsing on wi-fi, and it fell down to 88%.
Don't ye worry, folks! Graphene batteries will hit the market in several years, and our phones will last a week on a single charge with heavy use, and the charging time itself will be 5 minutes!
(Or at least that's what the science news tells us. )
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You're complaining about nearly 2 days of battery life with a few hours of screen time? ....... You might want to reconsider what good battery life is. It's not a Nokia 3210.
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You're complaining about nearly 2 days of battery life with a few hours of screen time? ....... You might want to reconsider what good battery life is. It's not a Nokia 3210.
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Yeah You Are Right It's not a Nokia 3210.But Past Update NB1 Kitkat It Stands Nearly 3.5 Days Then Screen Time Is Around 3.5 hours -- 4 hours
After NC1 update, mms no longer works on stock messaging app!!
I'm actually getting incredible battery life!
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But I thought...
From everything I have read about Kitkat it was supposed to increase batter life take less RAM and CPU ect. Kinda like Windows 98 was . I have messed around with it on my PC in the X86 download. Its pretty sweet there but on a High-end 6-Core PC I'm not surprised. Has any one had a positive experience?
When a root method is discovered will it be worth it to upgrade or would you go back if you could.
One recommendation. I haven't used many Samsung Devices as this is my first. However I have use many other and I know when a new OTA comes out if your battery isn't fully charged at the time of update as well as plugged in. You might have caused the battery info to be incorrect. A battery calibration would do the trick. If your don't have root its not the easiest task.
You will have to recharge the phone with the power off. After a full charge power up. Use the phone till it powers down all by itself. Repeat the process 1 to 2 more times. Then your phone should have a calibrated battery.
I don't plan on upgrading at this time so if this helps please let people know.
I have used this on LG's Motorola's and several China Tabs. Some people don't want root but I help them as best I can with there issues.
Good Luck
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Anyone get randomly reboot? Sometimes the phone just stopped responding and automatically reboot!!!!
I have witnessed an obvious decrease in battery life.
Also my Google contacts wont sync I get a "sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly" error. My other Google account syncs just fine.
aw1974 said:
That's terrible?? That's almost 2 days!
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That's fantastic battery life for this phone in general... let alone any of the baseband versions... I've found on NC1, that I am indeed getting better battery life, and it's a hell of alot snappier as well...
Mind you, I also tweak the snots out of it... for instance, I get rid of all samsung & AT&T bloatware, I get rid of TouchWiz (due to it being such a memory hog.... thus a big battery drainer)
I then go an install Greenify, and Tasker to set a task to hibernate almost everything including most system apps whenever my screen timesout (or I lock it)
I haven't had a chance to really test out how good the battery life is now, due to themeing, getting up to a NC1 Rom, and getting it setup, etc... but once I get a chance I'll post some results
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agree - but I found today phone started acting really sluggish and freezing.
Guess what it turns out to be the damn SD card - it's an old microSD from my epic4g. Took it out and voila - phone is lightning fast.
Moral of the story - sluggish phone? TRy removing the SD CARD
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or getting a newer class 10 one
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Claw22000 said:
You will have to recharge the phone with the power off. After a full charge power up. Use the phone till it powers down all by itself. Repeat the process 1 to 2 more times. Then your phone should have a calibrated battery.
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This really isn't a good idea with these batteries, as you can dramatically decrease the battery life overall. They weren't meant for things like this. Instead a better idea would be to root, and find a re-calibrater in the play store... just my opinion.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-tips-for-extending-lithium-ion-battery-life/#.
Those without root... well... get on the ball and root your device