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"Android System," "Android OS" and "Google Services" all killing my battery on SG3

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Today all 3 have contributed to 20% each of battery life. I've barely used my phone today, only have 25 min of screen time. I have restarted a few times with no help, and about a week ago disabled all google account sync except for Maps. Any tips for me?
 
If you haven't used your phone, naturally everything else is going to look like its taking up large amounts.


The percentages aren't really helpful (and are actually pretty misleading) for this very reason.
 
Oh, I forgot to mention that the battery is rapidly declining. I have the extended battery (Samsung 3000mah)and after four hours of use I was down to 50%, with 60% of that drain from those three services.
 
I'd suggest downloading a non stock battery app like betterbatterystats or gsam battery monitor. They give you more information than the stock app.

BBS is better but its paid
 
'Android System' should never be more than 15% unless you have a rogue app or serious memory leak. if your phone is hot to the touch and is only getting 3 or 4 hours of standby battery life like an old AMPS phone, obviously something is wrong. have you installed a task killer or app recently?

normally the top 3 battery hogs are:

1. Screen (normally most of it)
2. Wifi
3 Cellular Standby/radio/phone radio (if you have a CDMA phone with Verizon or Sprint, and are in a low-signal or dead zone, this will rapidly drain the battery, not sure why though)
 
No, in the particular case in my first post, 25 minutes of browsing, battery was down to about 50% and 60% of the drain was from Android OS, Android System, and Google Services. Mostly on wifi; LTE only a little bit during each day. Total battery up time was actually 9 hours (I lied in the first post). However, with the extended Samsung battery and only 25m of screen time, it has gone about 2 days. It usually drains about 5% every 2.5 hours of standby (or well, it used to).

I downloaded BBS even though I wasn't keen on paying for it, and it's only been an hour of a sample size, but what is the best category to be looking at? So far it defaults to "Other" which shows Bluetooth ON at 100%. If I click "processes" it shows surfaceflinger above and beyond any other stat nearby. Most of the other processes look mostly normal and at normal levels. I google'd surfaceflinger and it is part of the Android OS, but no idea what it is and why it is so high. Again, only a small sample size of an hour, but maybe that will give you guys an idea...?
 
so far i've got 35% of battery Andoid OS/System and in BBS all it shows it surfaceflinger at the top and chrome underneath at about 1/3rd the usage of surfaceflinger.

bluetooth shows 100% under "other" but not sure if this is actually causing an issue. i know it used to be on all the time and never was an issue. maybe it's constantly searching for new devices to pair with?
 
Have you tried restarting the phone?

If so, you could also try turning off the phone, then take the battery out, wait for about 10 seconds, put the battery back in and start the phone again.
 
nickdalzell said:
'Android System' should never be more than 15% unless you have a rogue app or serious memory leak. if your phone is hot to the touch and is only getting 3 or 4 hours of standby battery life like an old AMPS phone, obviously something is wrong. have you installed a task killer or app recently?

normally the top 3 battery hogs are:

1. Screen (normally most of it)
2. Wifi
3 Cellular Standby/radio/phone radio (if you have a CDMA phone with Verizon or Sprint, and are in a low-signal or dead zone, this will rapidly drain the battery, not sure why though)
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My android system is at 18% and my phone seems to run fine(shrug).
 
Screen is on auto. This is what the battery looks like today, and yes I restart the phone regularly. Screen time is 1hr 15min. This is exactly what everything looked like a couple of days ago, but the battery was at 50%ish. I turned blue tooth off, so for some reason I think that was was draining my battery. Does that make any sense to anyone?
 

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I never use Bluetooth. Went out with Bluetooth earpieces that were always making folks appear to be talking to themselves
 
I manage 14 hours normally but for odd reasons Play Music reduces that to 7, even with music saved locally. Still trying to track that one down, phone is responsive but playing music with Play makes it red hot
 
Your screen is on too often. Either you're a heavy user or something is triggering the screen on in the pocket, as if something is hitting buttons forcing the lock screen to display each time. An hour of screen time also drains my battery. The LCD is often the heaviest consumer, as I mentioned above. Let's face it, these aren't BlackBerries...even iPhone would eat batteries with the LCD on long enough.
 
nickdalzell said:
Dimming the screen doesn't help all that much in my experience. It may give me back fifteen minutes, maybe.
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My experience says otherwise, but to each their own.


You said it yourself screen is the main battery drain. So increasing that drain has a huge effect
 
Yup, percentages just tells us that the main culprit is the screen, basically the screen used up half the battery during the time since it was pulled off the mains.
 
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