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I have flashed at least half of the custom ROMs released for my G3 CID-unlocked MDA for the last 15 months. It has given me great respect for the efforts of kyphur, faria, molski, anchillus, and others. I have spent too much time, as well, following events here due to the 2 issues that leave my “Wizard” performing less than its best – the radio rom (stuck on 2.19.11 because of missed calls/messages) and battery life.
I do use a few add-on apps, but the main 3 I add to most ROMs that lack them are: batterystatus, todayagenda, and smartskey. I’ve tried placing the blame on battery life on overclocking (via batterystatus, I’ve run mine at all sorts of different speeds with and without cpuscaler, w/wo boost, w/wo extra indicators, etc.). I have updated, removed, reinstalled, backflashed (to ensure a extended rom was present, as many said this would fix the battery life issue) apps and ROMs and nothing has fixed the battery issue. Seemingly ever since WM6, I have been able to get about 24-36 hours out of my phone, about half of what I got before. Last night I went back to Molski’s Wm5 Aku 3.3 Crossbow ROM and over the course of several hours, battery life held firm. Then I added my push e-mail account and synced my mail for the first time (I have a lot of mail) which took like 10-15 minutes, and I dropped 10% of my charge (all levels reported per batterstatus, whatever the bias). Whoa, I thought. Well, I will chalk it up to a squirrelly initial indication of 100% because it sometimes seems to show that when it has just been unplugged from the charger, even if it soon resets to a more accurate value. Anyway, this morning the battery issue seemed to still be a problem. Could it be push e-mail, I thought?
So, I turned off the immediate send/receive, and my battery life improved a great deal. Wait, I thought, could it actually not be push e-mail (which would stink, because I NEED that), but the SD card access when it stores my attachments to SD causing the drain (this was suggested some time ago, but I couldn’t recreate at the time, because the CABs supplied didn’t resolve the issue)? I decided to check. I changed the push settings back to immediate (true push, not SMS triggered) and told the ROM to store attachments in main memory again. And guess what? My battery drain issue appears to be fixed!
I really hope this may be the case. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that all the power users here are setting the option to store to SD card, or running apps off the SD card.
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I have been testing this theory for several days, and I can say with absolute certainty that the above fixed my battery issue. Some (WM6 and WM5) ROMs are better than others in this respect, but it is definitely fixed - life improved in all of them. I am currently using Business Edition v2 and it often shows 24mA consumption in BS. I am now seeing consumption under standby conditions of just a hair over 1% per hour, and excellent life even when I am working on it, using the phone, etc. And this is with bluetooth on, push e-mail, etc.
I admit I was surprised at the relatively limited response when I first posted, because this appears to be a gripe for a lot of people. Maybe I overestimated that....if it helps a post here would be nice, if only so others see it and can help themselves.
Thanks again to all the ROM cookers!
This could in fact improve the battery status for many people, and if so congrats on an awesome find.
However I do not have a data plan (being the poor college student that I am), therefore do not use push email. My battery life is similar to yours and I can stretch to maybe near 48hrs if there is very very little use of my wizard....
But I am glad we are on the right track
Zack
This might be it
I never thought of that. You just sparked something though. On both my HTC Wizard and my old MPx200, which has a full size SD card slot, I remember when I let the power completely drain out that one of the first things I couldn't access was the SD Card slot. I remember being surprised when I couldn't find it.
Nice Job! I'm willing to test with you but I will have to wait for two more weeks. I'm a freshman in high school and have final exams.
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Good find, I went to do this and it turns out that I had it already set to that . Also, when not using your phone turn the screen off and while you are in call turn the screen off by pressing the power button up top. Also, changing the brightness of the screen has really helped my battery out and the fact that I had a bad extended rom. with all that said and your finding my battery has been great. and AHHH finals week here for me.. I feel for you guys.. Mine start tomorrow! BOOOO
You mean you ever made it more then 24 hours?
My Wizard needs charged every night. It's usually chirping by the time I get home from work
I do have push email set up though so I attributed that to Push.
Battery life is a bit of a bummer on these devices, but that's why I have a charger at home, in the car, and at my office, haha
Push definitely hurts battery life a bit, and that should be expected, but I have been using that for about a year and I really suspect that it is the combination of the original batteries getting "old" at 1 year and this SD card issue that is causing the accelerated decline. I am still optimistic, and my drain is still not too bad, so hopefully I can just learn to live with "fetching" my attachments to SD only when I need to see them (vs. having Messaging pull all of them automatically) to reclaim several hours to a day of battery life.
I can make it 24 hours. Usually at the end of the day say 10 or 11 my battery life is till about 50%. I tested it that night and didnt have to recharge till around 4pm the next day.
I'm sure that vettejock99 is on the right track for some users. My mail program (Xpress Mail) doesn't use the SD, so this wasn't an issue for me - only GPRS usage. When I use the card / applications that access the card, my consumption goes way up. I can see where an app that always runs in the bg and constantly reading/writing to the SD could have a huge effect on battery life, in addition to hardware that's left on - such as Wifi or beam.
-Matt
I don't know what u guys are talking about here. I use the Faria Vanilla ROM and my battery lasts for 96 hours, it's amazing! But when used other roms I never had my battery last less than 48 hours.
One more suggestion about the battry life: always close all active programs. They really drain the battery. I tested it luanching 15 applications at a time, and guess what happened? The battery lost 50% in 15 minutes. So, that might be one of the other factors...
Oh, and here is one last thing. The battery drain is also high when the phone network is unavailable. If u leave your phone somewhere where there is no network signal it will automatically try to search the network every n minutes. So, that also causes huge power drain.
I wonder if this little SD card thing affecting the battery drain isn't noticed when surfing the net. I set the temp folder on the sd card for IE...just a thought
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I wonder it this little SD card thing affecting the battery drain isn't noticed when surfing the net. I set the temp folder on the sd card for IE...just a thought
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I dunno, maybe (as was speculated some time ago) the power management is turned on/off by one activity such as surfing w/cache to SD and handled differently when writing attachments......
By way of an update, I ALMOST added earlier today that my consumption was creeping back up again, though it still seemed to be about 20% lower (better) than before. I decided to uninstall TodayAgenda and BatteryStatus from the Molski ROM (the versions integrated into it), even though that would make it less desirable to use. The drain still seemed to be creeping up. I was troubled. Then I realized I had installed Today Commander earlier today to ensure I had an extended rom, which I did in fact have (check that box). Well, I installed it to the SD card - so I uninstalled it. And I removed my SD card. And once again, it appears that my consumption is back down. I have used 1% in the last hour, and that is something I have been unable to accomplish in some time. So.....I could be wrong, but I really think this SD card thing has something to do with it.
I remain hopeful this is it, and there is a way we can fix it, or that I can ultimately leave the SD card in at least, and install apps to memory (as there is plenty of room for my needs) and only pull attachments to SD as needed.
Anyone else looking into this?
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I thought I remembered seeing a registry hack, or something to that effect, which turned off the polling of the SD slot. I think it was supposed to dramatically improve battery drain times. I'll take a look around for the hack, maybe I'm just dreaming though.
Pastamancer said:
I thought I remembered seeing a registry hack, or something to that effect, which turned off the polling of the SD slot. I think it was supposed to dramatically improve battery drain times. I'll take a look around for the hack, maybe I'm just dreaming though.
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You did, it's out there. Didn't help mine, though. I think that is because the polling does represent some drain, but it appears the actual writing/reading drain is the substantial part.
look here i think i solve this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1259754#post1259754
increasing paging pool of the ROM causes the battery to roll down heavilly.. this was proven a long time ago in himalaya (xda II) section)..
but ofcourse this isnt only the problem..
-dOUbleOfour
i dnt know what my problem is. i charge my fone all night to 100% and take it out the charger only when am leaving for work. when i get on the train its a 40minute ride to work. i only listen to windows media player and by the time i get to work my battery is like 50% or less.
so i bought a new battery today. i will update tomorrow
boto said:
look here i think i solve this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1259754#post1259754
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That is a cause, but as I said, I had an extended rom, not corrupted, and still saw the drain, as have others. So folks need to ensure they have an uncorrupted extended rom, and they need to fix the SD issue in some way or they will likely have battery drain with many ROMs.
Conditioned the battery gauge, bought a new charger from Amazon, and I've been very happy with the performance over the past 5 or 6 weeks. With my regular phone usage pattern, the battery lasts a couple of days.
That all changed this past weekend and I couldn't figure out why. I had taken a 500 mile roundtrip (GPS worked perfectly, fyi) with the phone plugged in to a car charger and all I could guess was that it somehow messed up my battery. I had installed one other application, but the battery stats didn't show any unusual behavior or partial wake usage, and the problem persisted after I uninstalled that app.
Then it hit me that I had changed one other thing: I had purchased a 32GB SanDisk microSD card from Verizon and the travel weekend was the first time that I had left it in the phone continuously.
I have experimented over the past few days and it is clear: my battery lasts for a significant time without the microSD card, while it drains ridiculously quickly (with no phone usage) if the microSD card is in. The comparison is like night and day. Two days of regular phone usage without an external microSD card installed, compared to less than a day of minimal phone usage with an external microSD card installed.
Has anyone else experienced this? Anyone else using the 32GB SanDisk from Verizon? Either way, which brand/capacity cards are other people using? I am not even certain which company I should report this to!
(Captivate on AT&T with the stock firmware)
I have an 8GB SanDisk card. I have not tried without the card, but I get one to two days of regular usage with it in.
Using an 8GB Trancend class 6 card and get great battery life.
In the past Samsung has had issues with SD cards killing battery life if you set things like the camera to store your pics on it. I had a eternity and if I set the phone to store pics on my SD card the battery would be dead in 4-5 hours, store pics on the phone and the battery lasts a week.
So I guess this would not be unheard of with Samsung phones.
Thank you, Pmac25, that perfectly describes my situation.
I had it set to store/record photos and video to the external microSD card on Saturday and I didn't change it back to the internal card when I was finished.
If I leave the Camera set to store things on the internal card and just use the external for previously stored music/movies, will it have the same effect on the battery?
Cheers for pointing out the issue, much obliged.
I have a 32GB SDcard installed. I only store older data on that card and I get 2 days on one charge.
Pmac25, does your observation also apply to storing/listening to music on the SD card?
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Pmac25, does your observation also apply to storing/listening to music on the SD card?
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I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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well this sucks..!! I have all my music and videos stored on external SD card so that they are portable I can just take sd card and all my music n vids are there...but now it seems I will have to transfer all my stuff on internal storage. But then whats the use of having external card when it drains a lot more battery. company like samsung should have fixed this issue long time ago.
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I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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1% every 5 minutes would equate to 500 minutes of continuous use (8.3 hours). I guess it depends how much of your mix is video and how much was audio.
The hardest part of any battery test is determining if anything else has been left running in the background between tests.
I have all my music and movies on the external card, but I record pics and video to my internal card.
I am not to sure about storing/listening to music off the SD Card. Like I said the Eternity has this issue and I have not really checked to see if the Captivate had it or not.
I have music and a couple movies on my Ext. SD Card and right now I have the camera set to store there as well. I guess I should run a test and see if the SD Card issue is still there.
If I remember right on the Eternity the bigger the SD Card the faster if drained the battery.
Ok now you guys got me thinking. Is the battery issues with the Cappy the same as with the Eternity.
I will see if I can find the thread on the Eternity board about the issue.
Did some more testing.
Empty external 32GB microSD card installed. Camera app set to store on the internal card, so nothing was "touching" the external card.
Battery drain was still substantially higher than I normally experience; test was run with almost no regular phone use today (a few texts and a few mins of phone calls). It isn't quite as bad as when I had the camera app set to store on the external card, but still a far cry from my battery performance with no external card installed and much higher actual phone usage (with the phone in the same location, with the same wireless connection, every other variable I can think of the same).
I did a quick test. Pulled out my 4GB SD card and waited 2 days to see what would happen. With normal use, my phone lasted about 12 hours longer (about 1.5 days) without the card. Put the card back in and my phone barely last 20 hours. I'm leaving the card out for now.
Incredible how the card has that much of a drain on the battery.
Ski
Very interesting
Very intersting, wish more people would jump in on this. Doing test myself, but this may explain my battery issues. Seems thats about the time it started draining faster is when installed my 16GB micro.
Are there any cases for the Captivate that have a microSD card holder? That would be really convenient; I have a 32gb card as well.
A firmware bug could potentially cause this extra battery drain when microSD is not in use. Did you guys that notice the battery issue with SD card all still running stock JF6 firmware?
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A firmware bug could potentially cause this extra battery drain when microSD is not in use. Did you guys that notice the battery issue with SD card all still running stock JF6 firmware?
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May be you are right. I am running stock firmware. I hope samsung will fix this issue with froyo update. I guess we can suggest these changes on twitter or something. that is what I read some where that you can reach samsung & suggest then some thing on twitter they were very active ob twitter promoting this galaxy series.
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I left my phone off the charger last night for 7 hours. With 16GB microSD card in and cameras are always set to save to external microSD card as well all my podcasts and movies are on the SD card as well. GMail sync, weather sync (every 3 hours) are both on. My phone battery dropped only 5%. And I'm running latest JH7 firmware. So, it is safe to say there is no battery drain on external SD card in JH7 firmware.
I'd love to try running this with no SD, but my lag fix is there... Ugh, I wonder if it worked be worth the experiment.
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If your lag fix partition is on your external SD card, you will no doubt add extra battery drain to your phone because your external SD card will be accessed a lot while your phone is on.
I haven't seen these concerns mentioned anywhere else, so I'm sorry if it's a duplicate.
I updated to KB1 on the 24th. Yesterday & today, I have noticed unusual battery drain. The battery manager says that my screen has drained 83% of my battery (my battery total is 41%) from a 100% charge. My phone has been on for 7 1/2 hours and the display has bren on for 1 hour, 16 minutes. This just seems like an unusually high amount of drain compared to JH1. Do I need to let the battery stats reset after the update by draining the battery and charging it a few times?
Second issue... Whenever I was using my phone, the back was getting VERY toasty near the SIM and SD slots. I ejected my external SD and the heat has not returned. The same SD card has been used for several months with JH1. Anyone else experiencing this issue?
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Can't say as I have noticed any heat but I can relate about the display using a high percentage of battery on the phone. I am also typically not showing anything else using the battery other than idle, standby, voice calls, and Wi-Fi. Now for example I am at 10 hours of use, have 62% battery left, and was using the music player for a while at work, updated and downloaded apps from the marketplace, shot some HD video and stills, sent some texts, checked some FB, did some GPS tests, etc. I don't know if 2.2 stock is just very efficient (went about 36 hours before charging and still had over 25% left this morning) and so the only thing using the battery is the display but it seems like it just isn't reporting everything to me. Maybe a few more days of use, a full drain or two, etc and it might start reporting correctly if it isn't already.
Battery is normal, I have noticed some heat though...even went as far as to turn my phone off for an hour today because of it.
I thought it was just me, but I noticed batt drain too
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Yeah, I am starting to think the official 2.2 is a major flop. I had high hopes, but so far it just hasn't delivered to my expectations.
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...and so the only thing using the battery is the display but it seems like it just isn't reporting everything to me. Maybe a few more days of use, a full drain or two, etc and it might start reporting correctly if it isn't already.
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I also feel like it isn't telling me everything that is using battery. Since the update, I'm only seeing Display (always on top), wi-fi, and cell standby.
To add to the SD heat issue, the media scanner has been running for about 5 minutes now and still says that 0% has been scanned in the notification bar.
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I also feel like it isn't telling me everything that is using battery. Since the update, I'm only seeing Display (always on top), wi-fi, and cell standby.
To add to the SD heat issue, the media scanner has been running for about 5 minutes now and still says that 0% has been scanned in the notification bar.
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I can't say I have had any issues with the media scanner taking an unusual amount of time. I have over 1000 songs, about 6 full length movies, photos, music videos, etc, and I can't say it ever runs more than about 20 seconds or so.
Just plugged my phone in and didn't notice any heat, but was still only showing display, wifi, standby, voice calls, and idle. Battery life itself though is still good (at least good enough for me - 24 hours + on a single charge with moderate use). I have been stock since I bought the phone back in August.
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I also feel like it isn't telling me everything that is using battery. Since the update, I'm only seeing Display (always on top), wi-fi, and cell standby.
To add to the SD heat issue, the media scanner has been running for about 5 minutes now and still says that 0% has been scanned in the notification bar.
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Go into MyFiles and delete your Android folder then reboot. Sometimes the media scanner freezes due to the cache in the Android folder.
I've also been having a lot of battery issues. Twice today my phone died within 2 hours of being off the charger. The first time was 1 hour and 15 minutes with sending and receiving 2 texts. The second time was 1 hour and 45 minutes, no texts. I didn't have GPS, Wifi, or Bluetooth on and didn't use the phone except for those texts. I used to get a full 14 hours + out of my phone before updating to froyo!
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Go into MyFiles and delete your Android folder then reboot. Sometimes the media scanner freezes due to the cache in the Android folder.
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Is there any sort of side-effect when deleting that cache folder? The scanner also hasn't been running since a reboot so that may have been a fluke.
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I also am experiencing terrible battery life. On jh1 with heavy use I would have to put the phone on the charger which was expected but it would be fine for the rest of the day without any problem. Now I'm having to live off of a charger. I haven't experienced heat issues but I haven't had my SD card in either.
Another issue I've been wondering about other people having is sending MMS. Before the update I done this without any problems at all, now I am very lucky to send one. I read somewhere that the MMS limit was actually smaller after the update, though I have no proof of this. I was just trying to send a couple 2-4 second audio clips that can't be larger than a few KB.
I had a Droid Incredible before this and was root doing everything under the sun with it, when I got this phone I didn't feel the need as much. This update has proved me wrong and I will be jumping on a custom ROM real quick like.
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I decided to completely drain my battery. It died after 2 hours of screen use (over the day) with texting, web browsing, a check-in or two on Foursquare & Gowalla (no GPS,) and a little gaming. Display, Wi-fi, & Cell Standby were the only listed items for battery drain. I don't understand!
I just bought a Captivate and updated to 2.2. I also have a quick drainging battery issue. Are the phones defective or are all of them likes this ?
So I got my phone from craigslist, used. It's been in a pretty good condition so far and I am satisfied with everything but it's battery life. Now i'm not sure if i'm used to my phones lasting longer or if my battery really does run out of life faster.
So, here are some facts, I installed CM9 20120706 from stock (got comparable to stock battery life) then migrated to AOKP milestone 6-02 and upgraded to 6-03. The transitions have been smooth, I haven't had any problems and am getting the best battery performance (so far) on AOKP.
I use my phone a lot, listen to music, read books and surf the web etc. My wifi, data and gps are always on. Upon continuous usage, my battery lasts me around 2 to 2 and a half hours. I have the stock battery, and i have no idea how old this phone is. I will try and upload screenshots tomorrow (I've been restarting the phone a lot today and have it on charge so the screenshots won't show anything definitive right now).
As far as new batteries go, I have This in mind. But really I'm looking for anything under $20 that'll fit in our phone without an extended cover..
Thanks for your help in advance. Virtual High five :highfive:
Look in the accessories section, the 2300mah battery should be good
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I just bought this battery recently for my SGS4G and have noticed a bit of an improvement in battery life compared to the stock battery. It's a genuine Samsung battery and you can find it for the same price as the third party battery you linked to.
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I just bought this battery recently for my SGS4G and have noticed a bit of an improvement in battery life compared to the stock battery. It's a genuine Samsung battery and you can find it for the same price as the third party battery you linked to.
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Ooh thank you very much for this link, I feel much safer with an OEM battery!
The 2300mah battery works you just may have to rig it to work. I was getting about 4 hours max on the stock battery and now I get a day and a half. The improvement was amazing.
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The 2300mah battery works you just may have to rig it to work. I was getting about 4 hours max on the stock battery and now I get a day and a half. The improvement was amazing.
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Thanks bud, just bought the 2300mah battery, should be here in about a week (maybe even faster)! I can't wait to use it
I have the regular battery. So far I'm at 1d 10h 8m on the current charge, with 54% left. That's pretty amazing.
Usage plays a large part in the length of battery life. I didn't think I used mine heavily but from what I've read from others (not just on this thread) mine might be considered a bit more heavy than others. My wifi is on most of the time, I use my phone as a phone a lot (gasp! LOL) and that really chews the battery. I ordered and received the 2300mAh battery recently. I didn't have to mod anything to make it work. I had to press the back cover down a little harder than before but otherwise it was a great fit. It says you have to go through 4 charge cycles (100% down to dead, apply, lather, rinse, repeat) and I'm on the 2nd cycle currently.
That being said, I was probably getting around 14 hours of battery life throughout the day using AntonX's barebones ROM, his kernel, and the stock 1650mAh battery. Right now I'm at 11 hours, 56 minutes and still have 63% life left on the 2300mAh. I'm not sure at what level it'll find it's sweet spot but so far I'm happy with it.
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Usage plays a large part in the length of battery life. I didn't think I used mine heavily but from what I've read from others (not just on this thread) mine might be considered a bit more heavy than others. My wifi is on most of the time, I use my phone as a phone a lot (gasp! LOL) and that really chews the battery. I ordered and received the 2300mAh battery recently. I didn't have to mod anything to make it work. I had to press the back cover down a little harder than before but otherwise it was a great fit. It says you have to go through 4 charge cycles (100% down to dead, apply, lather, rinse, repeat) and I'm on the 2nd cycle currently.
That being said, I was probably getting around 14 hours of battery life throughout the day using AntonX's barebones ROM, his kernel, and the stock 1650mAh battery. Right now I'm at 11 hours, 56 minutes and still have 63% life left on the 2300mAh. I'm not sure at what level it'll find it's sweet spot but so far I'm happy with it.
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That's awesome. Apparently I'm a heavy user too, can't wait to get mine and test out it's awesomeness!
While doing some more reading about the mediaserver issues, I found that another work around is to put a file named .nomedia in the folders you dont want mediaserver to scan. I tried this and it wasnt excluding the folders. If somebody else gets it to work let me know por favor.
This seems to be a issue that rears its ugly head every so often. Its been happening off and on since Froyo.
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This weekend I used pandora to stream music for about 30-45 minutes mediaserver went nuts and chewed through my battery. It wasnt horribly bad but it used more in that time then it did all day. I cant remember where I read it but I did read somewhere that some of the issue was caused by VBR files. Somebody re-ripped them as CBR and mediaserver stopped error looping and chewing the battery up. The fact pandora triggered media server leads me to believe this is a valid point. Pandora has to use a VBR format since the Pandora One service increases the bit rate to 192 kbps. Also if your data connection drops to 2/g or 1/g the bitrate has to decrease to limit the amount of buffering.
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While doing some more reading about the mediaserver issues, I found that another work around is to put a file named .nomedia in the folders you dont want mediaserver to scan. I tried this and it wasnt excluding the folders. If somebody else gets it to work let me know por favor.
This seems to be a issue that rears its ugly head every so often. Its been happening off and on since Froyo.
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Did you delete the database files after creating .nomedia? They will rebuild and shouldn't include anything with .nomedia afterwords. Try deleting data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/anything with a .db. Reboot and give it some time to rebuild then check to see if the folders contents are still listed.
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Did you delete the database files after creating .nomedia? They will rebuild and shouldn't include anything with .nomedia afterwords. Try deleting data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/anything with a .db. Reboot and give it some time to rebuild then check to see if the folders contents are still listed.
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Totally forgot about that. Total derp on my end haha.
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Totally forgot about that. Total derp on my end haha.
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LOL. It's easy to forget the small things. Could looking out on the .nomedia file. I should of mentioned that before. It's just that I have 10gigs of music and my media server is usually only at 3-5% after listening to tunes for hours. Guess none of mine a corrupt.
I tried using this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yschi.ID3Fixer
1. I used the first option and applied to all music
2. Then i used the second option to all music and during the process it said that some files failed (usually a whole album folder)
3. Got rid of the files that error during the second process
And today my battery lasted longer with much less media server drain.
22%
I'm using a stock battery 1500mah and I unplugged at 7 this morning and its been on 13hrs and 21 mins and 1 hr 49 mins screen on time.
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I mentioned earlier in this thread about the 2300mAh battery. I threw some comments about it in the Accessories forum. Given the positive results you guys are finding here, having that larger battery might be worth the minimal investment.
It definitely is worth it. I'm a heavy user and I've played fifa, listened to music, read on my kindle app and surf the web while my wifi is always on, not to mention the spotty coverage I have at home, my new battery lasted me a day. It was amazing
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Hello XDA members I just bought Note 3 N9005, but I have a problem that the phone is very warm before 4.4 update and after while wifi on only without even playing, with or without charging, temp reaches 36-38 C, although I did factory reset, unlike my S3 which had a temp of 32-34 even while playing heavy games and browsing internet, I searched for answers before posting but couldn't find any decent one, always would like to know what is normal temp for this beast, thanks :good:
P.S: can 32 gb kingstone class 4 be the cause?? I noticed after removing it that the temp decreased a lot, which SD card do you recommend??
Rumors say, that opting out location/interest based ads in Google Settings fixes this issue. May be the cause for overheating for you as well.
darkshaft said:
Hello XDA members I just bought Note 3 N9005, but I have a problem that the phone is very warm before 4.4 update and after while wifi on only without even playing, with or without charging, temp reaches 36-38 C, although I did factory reset, unlike my S3 which had a temp of 32-34 even while playing heavy games and browsing internet, I searched for answers before posting but couldn't find any decent one, always would like to know what is normal temp for this beast, thanks :good:
P.S: can 32 gb kingstone class 4 be the cause?? I noticed after removing it that the temp decreased a lot, which SD card do you recommend??
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Try formatting your Kingston card. If not, install BetterBatteryStats and see what's draining your battery (higher heat, the more battery drain).
I have a problem of thr Note 3 overheating while gaming, so I did a little research avout the problem.
You said that when you remove the SD Card the phone is fine?
Might be the Index Service in your phone constantly working.
This service is responsible for file Indexing in our Note 3. I think that there is a file on your SD Card that won't be indexed, and that's why the phone is constantly working to index it.
You ahould check this using the many apps that gives you information about the running processes like BBS, SystemPanel etc..
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Like @Someguyfromhell said. Beginning with Android 4.2, Google has been continuously polling your location. Turn this off and you will eliminate a significant portion of your battery drain.
raied115 said:
I have a problem of thr Note 3 overheating while gaming, so I did a little research avout the problem.
You said that when you remove the SD Card the phone is fine?
Might be the Index Service in your phone constantly working.
This service is responsible for file Indexing in our Note 3. I think that there is a file on your SD Card that won't be indexed, and that's why the phone is constantly working to index it.
You ahould check this using the many apps that gives you information about the running processes like BBS, SystemPanel etc..
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Indexing generally takes 1-3 hours, so just let it be until it's done. I'd recommend cooling it while indexing occurs, just so that you can reduce the battery strain.
Thanks everyone for your answers, problem was solved by formatting SD card :good: