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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.
ArthurDents said:
I have noticed that running video/music from the external SD kills like 1% of battery life every 5 minues on my phone!. After making this observation, i moved some commonly used stuff to the internal sd and have not noticed such a drastic reduction in juice.
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well this sucks..!! I have all my music and videos stored on external SD card so that they are portable I can just take sd card and all my music n vids are there...but now it seems I will have to transfer all my stuff on internal storage. But then whats the use of having external card when it drains a lot more battery. company like samsung should have fixed this issue long time ago.
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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.
someone have optimus 3d problems? list it here:
i could not choose between optimus 3d and evo 3d
evo 3d has most options i think but lots of problems and optimus 3d has nice ui and better 3d quality... so if optimus have lots of problems to i think its gonna be.................
Main one for me at the moment is you cant move apps/games and their data to the external sd card on a unrooted phone ,they will only work if on the internal sd card which is only 8gb,once that is used up (which doesnt take much ) then you cant install any more games unless you delete an old game.
How is the battery life?
I calibrated my battery and it lasted me about 16 hrs with moderate use. Heavy use like 13
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How is the battery life?
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I have no problems with the battery life..
How did you calibrate the battery? (I've been having to charge my phone twice a day, as the battery only lasts about 3-4 hours with moderate to heavy use).
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I calibrated my battery and it lasted me about 16 hrs with moderate use. Heavy use like 13
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What's heavy use?
In 2D mode the battery lasts over a day with normal talking and browsing + e-mail. With 3D the battery goes down fast. Of course we are all playing a lot with our new toys so several hours is pretty OK for a beginning
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Main one for me at the moment is you cant move apps/games and their data to the external sd card on a unrooted phone ,they will only work if on the internal sd card which is only 8gb,once that is used up (which doesnt take much ) then you cant install any more games unless you delete an old game.
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if you go into settings then applications, there is a manage applications menu and in there if you click on the app it brings up a menu and has a move to sd card options
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I calibrated my battery and it lasted me about 16 hrs with moderate use. Heavy use like 13
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Could you tell us what settings you calibrated to get the battery to last that long?
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if you go into settings then applications, there is a manage applications menu and in there if you click on the app it brings up a menu and has a move to sd card options
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It moves the app to the internal sd card,not the external sd card.
Battery worries end here...........
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/ufo101/m.htm...&_odkw=&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3911.c0.m270.l1313
2 batteries and a stand alone charger (no more shoving your usb cable in and risking buggering it up) for 8 Quid, sorted.
Pete
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It moves the app to the internal sd card,not the external sd card.
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I think this will be quickly sorted. However, I'm putting all my photos/videos/music etc. onto the "external" card and some stuff (iGO8) seems quite happy to run with the data files on the external card. I actually installed this (as an .apk file) from the external card, It might be an idea to try this with others.
Pete
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I think this will be quickly sorted. However, I'm putting all my photos/videos/music etc. onto the "external" card and some stuff (iGO8) seems quite happy to run with the data files on the external card. I actually installed this (as an .apk file) from the external card, It might be an idea to try this with others.
Pete
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Yes i also have moved 3d movies,photos to the external sd card they seem to work well from there,but i did install a GPS navigation program which was a apk file from the external sd card,but once i installed it,it then downloaded the maps and other data to the internal sd card and would only work afterwards from there,tried moving the maps to the external sd card but no good.
I charged ny battery til its tells u its fully charged. Then powered it off then unplugged then plugged back in. Once offscreen battery indicator shows the battery fully green unplugged then powered on. Once phone is on i plugged power cabke back in. Once phone tells u is fully charged i repeat the steps a couple more times. Then i boot into clock work recovery and delete battery cache. Then use ur phone until battery is totally drained. And thats it. Before my phone would last barely 6-7 hrs. Now it lasts me all day, with some 2d gaming, 3d gaming, texting, web surfing, google +ing, fbing..etc.
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bolinao said:
I have no problems with the battery life..
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battery life will be even more improved with android update... froyo is well known for battery eating disorder... Nevertheless, i'm satisfied with battery life, although ALWAYS IT COULD BE BETTER
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Battery worries end here...........
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/ufo101/m.htm...&_odkw=&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3911.c0.m270.l1313
2 batteries and a stand alone charger (no more shoving your usb cable in and risking buggering it up) for 8 Quid, sorted.
Pete
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isn't this a lil bit cheap?
i mean, is it original?
I hope the battery will be better than the SGS2...
Proximity sensor...
Hiya,
Did anyone notice that the proximity sensor takes few seconds to deactivate?
I sent an email to LG and this is what they replied to me:
“We are not aware of this issue with the proximity sensor taking a few seconds to deactivate itself. We recommend to book it in for repair with ourselves if the issue progresses to an more severe level. This can be done by contacting ourselves on 0844 8475454.”
Does anyone have this “problem” as well?
Cheers,
Just pointing this out in case others may have noticed their S4's battery life is suddenly shorter than what it should be.
I checked my battery stats after a day of minimal use, and seeing it was at 1%. This also happened to be after I ordered a 32GB microSD and plopped it in. I didn't think to capture a SS, but it went something like this:
Media Server: 38%
Maps: 26%
Screen: 12%
Media server had an awake time for 1 day and 9 hrs out of 1 day and 12 hrs. I can only assume Maps is the second highest user since the location services stayed on because the phone never went to sleep.
I also had no system idle time.
I formatted the microSD using my phone last night and gave it a full charge. Now my phone nearly flat-lines when idle, as you would expect. If you're seeing media server take up a lot of your battery life, this is definitely worth a shot.
Good advice sir
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What brand sd you using and how is it working. Was thinking of the 64gb Samsung one myself--
Good tip. Noticed media server kept running in the background. But after doing this it doesn't do it any more
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No issues here. I formatted my 32GB card with a MacBook.
I got ScanDisc 64 GB class 10 card with over 500 song on card, formated in my PC and no problem with media server running in backgroud.
I am having an issue with battery drain on my Note 10.1 when the SD card is inserted. I've seen one or two posts before on this issue, it comes down to the fact that when the 32GB SD Card is inserted the battery dies in about 2-3 days regardless of the activity. The battery stats show that some Google service like Google+ is using all the power. I tried killing Google+ but this didn't yield any results. I then read somewhere that this is due to the device constantly scanning the SD card for changes, presumably looking for photos or something. Sure enough, when I removed the SD card my battery life is not back to normal, lasting days and days without a charge.
My question here is has anyone seen a fix for this behavior? I've tried simply unmounting the SD card but it apparently remounts itself at some point and drains the battery. I have to physically remove it. It would be nice not to have to keep track of this thing separately since it is so tiny.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Remove sd card and format it .
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.
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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??
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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.
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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: