Hey guys, so I charged my phone to full and then its been 3 hours since then.. I'm at 39% battery. When I go to battery stats, 96% usage is the "screen" category. What's going on? This is way too short. I'm on hyperdrive ROM with the stock kernel option.
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whats your screen on time?
do you have your screen timeout time set to a really high number?
You could try better Battery stats to get an idea of what's been draining your battery. I think that there is a link to a free download somewhere on Xda.
Yeah my screen timeout is like 10 minutes but should that matter if I'm not actually leaving the screen on for 10 minutes at a time? Screen on time is about 2 hrs
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Screen on time is about 2 hrs
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Well there's your answer. Average screen on time for stock battery is probably around 3-4 hrs depending on use (Wi-Fi vs 4g, amount of visual processing, etc)
corbn89 said:
Well there's your answer. Average screen on time for stock battery is probably around 3-4 hrs depending on use (Wi-Fi vs 4g, amount of visual processing, etc)
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Damn, seriously? That's really lame. Still though, 39% after 2 hours of screen on time seems really short to me.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00AKZWGAC is your answer
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You can always try a different kernel to see if it offers better power management. Quite a few of them floating around in development/original development.
Lean kernel, kt747, ziggy's, anthrax (not on xda), etc are all options
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cm9?AOKP m5? Stock rom? Please help , I am using mart1x 20
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I think it has more to do with the kernel and apps than anything. My phone is extremely picky and it seems only stock and Simple Kernel work well for me. I just finished off with almost 4 hours screen on(about 3:40 before the phone shut off) with 12 hours of use. That includes streaming music. It all depends on how you set the phone up and what apps you have installed.
Only you can answer you question..
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It's the display more then anything...
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Oh I always use my phone about 4 hours screen on and No battery left, but I saw that some people use their phones with 6 hours screen on therefore I think my phone have a problem
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4 hours is the average for a lot of us. I get a little under that, but that's because I have my phone at 25% brightness and this is over a course of 17 hours away from a charger. 6 hours is pushing it and that may be because they're using extended batteries. Your phone is fine. Stop worrying and just use it.
Try the flashable kernels in development section yourself. You might realize the answer in to your question.
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chronophase1 said:
4 hours is the average for a lot of us. I get a little under that, but that's because I have my phone at 25% brightness and this is over a course of 17 hours away from a charger. 6 hours is pushing it and that may be because they're using extended batteries. Your phone is fine. Stop worrying and just use it.
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exactly , i even have to use 2 batteries for day ... about 12 hours outta home
for me CM9 v7 with matrix 19.5 (idno but v20 just drains my battery on i9023). On that kernel and rom i get 15 days standby or 1 day heavy use
What ics ROM have you guys the best results for battery life? On AOKP, I'm getting like 8 hours with 20% left. I don't use data because it kills the battery fast.
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Prepare to be flamed for asking this question. Not sure why, but everyone seems to get their underwear in a bunch when this question is asked. Just a heads up.
Anyway, I had the same problem as you. I had the exact same setup as I did on CM9, but had much worse battery life, even after multiple fresh installs. I also don't have any widgets or many apps that sync very often. It seems that you just have to wait for the OS to "soak in." Make sure that you wait at least 10 minutes before doing anything after you flash the ROM. Just let your phone sit. After that, you can go into settings and tweak the phone. Also, try to go into the power saver settings, and setting sync to turn off after a set amount of time (I put 15 minutes), and for data to either turn off or turn to 2g mode after x amount of time.
Also, I'm sure you know the obvious.. turn off wifi/data/gps/bt/etc. if you're not using it. Set brightness to low or automagical.
I began with ~7 hours of battery life, and got to ~14 hours. Typically I don't have to be on battery power for 14 hours, and I tend to end up having ~35% of battery life after a full day of use.
Well I'm just asking how everybody uses their phone and hoe much they can get with it. Not saying that the battery life just sucks. I'm supportng my battery life with details
And i don't use many widgets either. I took off my live wallpaper too,i waiting to see how that works out
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aokp 17-20 hours EVERYTHING ON. Stock battery screen time about 35-45%. I unplug my phone from the charger at about 4:45am.
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aokp 17-20 hours EVERYTHING ON. Stock battery screen time about 35-45%. I unplug my phone from the charger at about 4:45am.
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What version because when I was running it I never got more than 5 hours
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tvotony said:
What version because when I was running it I never got more than 5 hours
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How is your signal where you live? Do you use your phone as a mp3 player? Have you seen this yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-T959V/Why_is_media_server_using_my_battery
Not everybody will get the same battery life. If you are getting good battery on another ics rom and not another it is user error. Even if you are getting good life on gb and that kind of life on a ics it is a user error. Next time just flash and dont restore any data at all.
My battery life problems are pretty much not there anymore. I'm running AOKP M6B3, and getting 16 hours with 25% left, mild data usage, Facebook, GMail push, GVoice push, always on 4G and wifi on too.
I think the key was a Heimdall to stock, then to AOKP.
Yep. That's what I've been recommending to people complaining with battery on CM9 and AOKP to do. My battery life is great, and I use GR every time I go to a new build.
Well, to be fair, I went stock to AOKP M6B1, installed apps. Then just did an upgrade flash to B2. But still, much better battery life.
eollie said:
How is your signal where you live? Do you use your phone as a mp3 player? Have you seen this yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S/SGH-T959V/Why_is_media_server_using_my_battery
Not everybody will get the same battery life. If you are getting good battery on another ics rom and not another it is user error. Even if you are getting good life on gb and that kind of life on a ics it is a user error. Next time just flash and dont restore any data at all.
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I need more conformation about battery being better be for I switch
hwchan said:
My battery life problems are pretty much not there anymore. I'm running AOKP M6B3, and getting 16 hours with 25% left, mild data usage, Facebook, GMail push, GVoice push, always on 4G and wifi on too.
I think the key was a Heimdall to stock, then to AOKP.
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Yep. That's what I've been recommending to people complaining with battery on CM9 and AOKP to do. My battery life is great, and I use GR every time I go to a new build.
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tvotony said:
What version because when I was running it I never got more than 5 hours
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tvotony said:
What version because when I was running it I never got more than 5 hours
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I'm running M6 version/beta 3. Gremlin remover does work but I did not do that I flashed over remics and doing great. I clear the battery stats and use all aokp features such as turn off wifi data when screen is off. I also have auto bright on and screen time out after 15 seconds. You also want to stay away from rebooting to much that will kill the battery and I also heard task killers drain the battery.
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I need more conformation about battery being better be for I switch
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Im not here to convince you. A hundred people can report good battery life and then two people come and complain and people will start asking why.
Screenshot of My battery stats, wondering how I compare to others
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Wow, very impressive. I think the best I got was when I was at work for 9 hours and barely touched my phone and went home with it at 80% from 95% at the beginning of my shift. Some peoples battery life amazes me!
My battery is terible!
I am getting only around 8 hrs with little use, most of my usage is from cell standby. Is there a way I can fix this?
i am getting similar battery life as yours. running everything stock, no root.
i was wondering why everyone was complaining about short battery life. it's ridiculously good for me!
All on wifi
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Yeah I can't complain at all. Thanks for sharing guys!
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nice
jonathonparker said:
I am getting only around 8 hrs with little use, most of my usage is from cell standby. Is there a way I can fix this?
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What rom are you using? Or are you stock?
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My battery life is horrible. After only moderate use at work it's down to at least 50%. How is it that your cell standby is so low?! Even if I'm using the phone a lot throughout the day, cell standby is always at the top; even screen won't surpass it.
Idk about that man, seems kinda ****ty. if I were you I'd look into a replacement battery but that's me
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Quacker said:
My battery life is horrible. After only moderate use at work it's down to at least 50%. How is it that your cell standby is so low?! Even if I'm using the phone a lot throughout the day, cell standby is always at the top; even screen won't surpass it.
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Are you in a weak signal area?
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Last charge cycle i went 20hrs and had 50% left
jonathonparker said:
I am getting only around 8 hrs with little use, most of my usage is from cell standby. Is there a way I can fix this?
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Are you in a weak signal area? Do you have 4G on all the time?
Those are typically the two biggest issues with cell standby.
droidstyle said:
Last charge cycle i went 20hrs and had 50% left
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Same area as myself
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How are you guys getting such good battery life. I am at 61 percent with very little usage through out work. Only a couple short phone calls and checking email occasionally.
Is there a 4G toggle yet for our phone?
keitare said:
How are you guys getting such good battery life. I am at 61 percent with very little usage through out work. Only a couple short phone calls and checking email occasionally.
Is there a 4G toggle yet for our phone?
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my screen shot above is with wifi,4g, and gps all on! I leave them on all the time and let the device do its thing.
here is my setup:
Beans b5 with imoseyons 12.1 leankernel
deadline/ondemand
486mhz min / 1.67ghz max
start up applications limited to 24 from 44+ stock
these shots are good, but screen on time is crucial for these screenshots. the phones will last forever if the screen is never turned on
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my screen shot above is with wifi,4g, and gps all on! I leave them on all the time and let the device do its thing.
here is my setup:
Beans b5 with imoseyons 12.1 leankernel
deadline/ondemand
486mhz min / 1.67ghz max
start up applications limited to 24 from 44+ stock
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What are you using to limit start up applications?
dougmod said:
these shots are good, but screen on time is crucial for these screenshots. the phones will last forever if the screen is never turned on
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screen on was 2hrs at 50%
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keitare said:
What are you using to limit start up applications?
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system tuner
This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
Seriously?
I have been on my phone all day with a full charge and I still have about half the juice. I am on stock 4.0.4 ICS. The one that droidstyles has in his guide. The Rom that came with my phone sucked on battery. This Rom works great for some reason.
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What are your settings on? Post your settings (like screen, whether GPS is on, ect), a lot of times it has to do with your settings. I used to have so-so battery life but I tweaked some stuff in my settings and am very pleased with the phone.
Believe me, if you want bad, try the Droid Charge. Worst 4g phone I have ever had in terms of battery life.
This is on clean rom. Ignore the screen percentage, going down since this was a recently flashed rom.
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I have nothing running... Only thing that I actually did was run v6 and I am running kt kernel
I'm on pure motives rls7
I'll add a screen shot of my battery status tomorrow cause I just plugged in
I get 30 hours with 5 and a half hours screen time.
Idk why your battery life is so bad.
I have power save on, no vibration, and sync set to manual. That's about it. Battery life for me is amazing.
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Don't know if this problem could occur with different ROM's, but I had issues with a runaway process that kept showing up. Maybe try Developer Options -> Show CPU Usage. I noticed that one called gsiff_daemon kept showing up at the top and was making my battery drain extremely fast. Everyone on this forum said it was a common issue and that it wasn't a crucial file, therefore I should just change the name so it wouldn't get accessed.
On RLS7 and kt kernel? This kernel has capabilities for overclocking/underclocking & overvolting/undervolting. By default your min Mhz is set to 384. Go into ktweaker and lower it to 96, test your phone out with a scaled stress test (play store app for stress testing). Then you can also go into the extra settings of ktweaker and set the Mhz for when your screen is off in addition to the governor (many options of which some are powersaving labelled).
If you want to save more battery read the kernel's thread to see starting undervolting values and lower from there while testing your phones limits. More undervolted you are, the less battery your phone uses for that particular frequency.
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You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
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You obviously never had the thunderbolt, now that battery sucked. You have to let the rom settle in and your battery will improve. Usually for me the first day not so good after that everything is fine.
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I had a Thunderbolt. Yep, now that was poor battery life.
My S3 gives me 12 hours if I use it heavily. Typically, at 16 hours, I still have 40% remaining. I leave WiFi, bluetooth, and GPS on 100% of the time.
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
man, i barely get 8 hours at times
PureLife90 said:
This is probably one of the worst phones on battery life that I have ever had... No matter what I do, what tweaks I use of what rom I'm on... I always only get 7 to 8 hours of battery with 1 hr screen on time.
I honestly have no idea what to do... I'm so sick of it. Anybody have any suggestions?
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Its not the phone.
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worwig said:
As bad as your battery is, I would suspect that you have a poor radio signal.and the radios are cranking up the power to work. Try using WiFi or turning off mobile data for a while to get the LTE radio turned off.
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This. For example, I have a 4g tower nearby at work, normally (4-5 bars). But sometimes it disappears, and I end up on a 1-2 bar 3g tower for the day. On those days, my battery life is around 8hrs max, barely using it. On good signal, even with crazy heavy usage (4hrs screen on and lots of 4g web browsing) I can get over 8 hours.
Signal strength has a LOT to do with battery life.
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I get amazing battery life. Stock battery too.
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Check your Google account sync - could be something in there is not syncing correctly. Settings / Accounts / Google.
I had this - Internet Sync was not working but kept trying burning CPU, network, and battery. Disabled the failing sync and all was better.
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Is it switching between 3 and 4g a lot? Constantly searching is rough on a battery.
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Wow. I've never gotten that bad of battery life. This thing is amazing on battery life!
Devices:
Samsung Galaxy S3 - stock JB leak
HTC Incredible - JB Inc RC3
Here is my battery life.
Sgs 3
Rom Wicked jb v1
Kernel stock
Uc 1.35
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I seriously doubt you guys are getting 7 plus hours of screen on time with the stock battery. If you are then you are charging it at some point.
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I am using stock battery on stock jellybean leak and get 30+ hours with 5.5 to 7 hours screen on time you can see from the pics above that we are not charging. The bar would go UP at some point if we were.
I just have my phone set up the perfect way to get maximum battery life.
It's simple. I personally have nothing to gain from lying about something so silly as battery life.
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I'm running HyperDrive RLS 5 with the stock kernel and like the features but I am on my phone a lot and my battery is suffering. I've seen people getting 20+hours of battery life on their S3 with 3 to 4 hours of screen time. Right now I'm at 7 and half hours with 2 and a half hours of screen time. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, text, and phone calls. I'd like to keep with the phone but I have an upgrade and may jump ship. What Roms and kernel combos are you running that are yielding this stellar battery life I hear of? Please help before I do something brash and get a Motorola or even worse an iPhone, ugh!. Thanks guys!
I run Carbon ROM +Ktoonz. I regularly get 4 hours of screen time.
My best battery life was from Synergy +Ziggy or Lean or Ktoonz. I got 5 hours of screen time.
iPhones have crap battery life, with no option to expand battery, undervolt, or underclock. How would that help you? You also can't freeze apps, make screen off profiles, etc. That's like getting a Dodge because your Honda wasn't reliable enough for you.
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Clean ROM and lean kernel does wonders for me
Device idle puts my at about 80% with very little use.
Battery will last all day with very very heavy use.
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Thanks for the input, gonna give the ktoonsez kernel a spin. Hopefully this helps. PS I'd never go to an iPhone. I like technology not toys. #teamdroid
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barrackOBAMA said:
Clean ROM and lean kernel does wonders for me
Device idle puts my at about 80% with very little use.
Battery will last all day with very very heavy use.
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I have this set up but I feel as though I'm getting iffy battery life. I keep my screen pretty dim and am on consistent wifi 100% of the day with mobile data off, no games or any CPU intensive tasks, and I get maybe 15 or 16 hours of battery life with 2-3 hours of screen time. Perhaps that is good though? I keep seeing people write about 24 hour battery life and I just don't see how.
That's pretty good. Screen on is the most important stat. You could not touch it, put it in airplane mode and boast about how many hours. I would assume some of those people are forgetting to mention they have extended batteries or are charging at some point.
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Carbon ROM with Ktoonsez kernel.
3 hours screen time.
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