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Help Is this normal for my 1 week old S3?

are you using the international version of the galaxy s3? Is it rooted? There is a known issue with cell standby taking up battery when the phone is not in use. Have a look at the below thread for more info

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http://www.xda-developers.com/android/international-galaxy-s-iii-cell-standby-power-drain-issue-identified/


Code: 
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
 
That issue isn't causing the battery drains. In fact, it would only affect the battery statistics. The overall battery life isn't affected.
 
kingjavs said:
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I took my phone off the charger this morning at 7:30 am, its 2pm. I have no used my phone except for texting, and its already at 23%...

Any suggestions?
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no, it's not normal. i posted a few days ago (see below) about battery life. generally if your battery life is in a straight nosedive, you have an app or process running in the background even when the screen is off. you can check this by tapping the graph at the top of your screenshot and looking at "Screen On" vs. "Awake." if there is a solid blue line or a lot of blue for Awake and nothing for Screen On, that means the phone is doing stuff while the screen is off and the phone is in your pocket. that is not good. it's normal to have a little bit of Awake without Screen On if you have your Gmail account synced and your weather app updates once an hour, but if it's constant, something is wrong.

i would recommend dropping your update intervals in your installed apps to something like once an hour or once every couple hours instead of once every 10 minutes (or whatever the setting may be).

another big thing to keep in mind is that when you are exiting out of apps, don't use the home (middle) button to exit. use the back button to exit apps. this will ensure that the app closes and isn't running in the background. if you long press the home button, your recently used apps will appear, and you'll also see Task Manager in the lower left. if you tap that and go to Active applications, you'll see which apps are open and how much CPU % they're taking. if you use the back button to exit apps (sometimes you have to tap back a bunch of times), it'll generally close it. if you use the home button, more often than not, you'll see that the app is still running when you check Task Manager.

also, to confirm with what someone else posted, the high cell standby battery use % is just in the reporting; it's not actually pulling that much in the way of battery (unless you're in a place where you have no cell phone service).

good luck.

boofer said:
do you use the Email app for your gmail account, or the actual gmail app? three friends of mine used the email app instead of gmail and its weird push setting would drain the battery from 100% to 0% in 8 hours with no usage. they either deleted their accounts from the Email app or changed the retrieval setting from push/instant to once an hour or so and their battery life improved dramatically.

as it is, i don't use the Email app, only Gmail, it's set to sync at all times, and i get about 3.5-4 hours of screen-on time over an ~18 hour period before i go to sleep at night. pretty good. if your battery is draining that fast, it's either (1) the Email app, (2) another rogue app that's constantly sending/receiving data, or (3) a faulty battery. i would think that #1 or #2 would be the culprit 99% of the time. it is for this reason that i only install apps when i absolutely have to, and use mobile-optimized websites when i can.

people come on here with facebook, twitter, ebay, and all sorts of other apps running all the time, and they wonder why their battery life is bad. the simple math of it is that with more apps running in the background, more data is being sent/received, and more battery juice is being used.
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I had a similar problem then I found out I was causing it myself. I was using super task killer to kill apps that I wasn't using. That's the wrong thing to do on a phone running Android. Apparently it's ok to have 80+ apps "running" in the background. They aren't really running, they are placeholders. But Android knows when they are not there and tries to restart them. I think that is what was eating my battery.
I did a factory reset and reloaded all my apps except for super task killer.
Now I let everything run, except when I exit out of an app like Dolphin or calculator and they keep running, I will kill those. And I did buy a replacement battery just in case.
Now my battery lasts all day, no problem. I leave wifi and GPS off because I don't use them and they will eat the battery. But even today I had GPS on for about a half hour and I had a pretty normal day, phone calls, emails, texts. etc. After about 12 hours of being off the charger my battery shows 61%.
I did install an app called TaskManager but I don't let it kill anything. I just check it once in a while to see how many apps are "running". Right now my number is 83.
I think I was used to Windows, too many running programs slow down the machine.
Not the case with Android.
I may be talking out of my @** but I have great battery life now and I love this phone all over again.
just my 2 cents...
 
GPS doesn't use battery unless it is actively tracing your location via navigation or something else like that. Its pretty safe to leave it on.

Other than that you're spot on, let android do its thing and both you and it will be happier :D


I'd suggest uninstalling the task manager apps altogether. Get in the habit of not checking what's running.:D
 
Thank you guys!

I followed some of your guys's advice, and its 1:10pm right now, and my battery is still at 69%.

I took off the charger around the same as usual 7:30am. Havent used it much, just some texting and facebook, pandora, same usage as before.

I also deleted a bunch of crap that I had downloaded.

Thanks :)
 
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