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Battery charging tips

Batteries are cheap. If mine causes me any problems I will simply buy a new one. That right there is worth me not worrying about how I charge it.
 
BrownMasterV said:
So basically...don't charge to 100% and don't drain it all the way, either.

Right?
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Do a couple deep charges early on (drain and fill). Also do this every month or 2. Beyond that charge when 20-40% and kill any apps that chug when not active (most apps don't). I throw on power save too. I think new phones are smart about not overcharging/cycling. Battery Monitor app is an OCD battery freak's best friend.
 
This might not be the right thread for this but while charge my phone I typically stick it on the charger over night. When I do this and it is fully charged it seems that the backlight on the phone just forces itself on and stays that way until I take it off the charger. Does this happen with anyone else's S3?

It is worrying me because I don't want the screen lit up on the same place for fear of burn in which I know is 100% on AMOLED screens.
 
Can someone please explain this:

Two nights I go I went to bed with 30% and woke up 7 hours later to a dead phone. Gsm was off, WiFi on.

Last night I went to bed with also 30% and woke up 7 hours later with 29%. Gsm was off, WiFi on.

I find it tough to believe that I might have left an app running which consumed all this power.
 
honestly...i can't be bothered with all of this stuff...i consider myself to be a little bit of a battery nazi, but here are my habits...and ive had ZERO noticeable change in battery performance over the past two years with my DX and have no intention of changing anhything with my S3...

i plug the phone in at night when i go to bed...and i unplug the phone when i get out of bed to start my day...

doesn't matter if its 5% at night or 75% when i go to bed, i just plug it in and leave it on the charger over night...if i wake up at 5am or a sleep late and wake up at noon thats when the phone comes off the charger...
 
noisydroid said:
Can someone please explain this:

Two nights I go I went to bed with 30% and woke up 7 hours later to a dead phone. Gsm was off, WiFi on.

Last night I went to bed with also 30% and woke up 7 hours later with 29%. Gsm was off, WiFi on.

I find it tough to believe that I might have left an app running which consumed all this power.
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You probably mean gps? I would never turn gps on unless you need it for turn by turn or some other instance when you need accuracy greater then a couple miles.
 
To be perfectly honest I haven't turned it on much to see if it's a better experience. But so far just using the network has located what city I'm in when needed.
 
On my Galaxy S (now 2 years old) battery charging was based on if it needed charging then I charged it. When at home if less than 10% when I was going to bed then it went on charge overnight. Other times I'd top up when getting low (10% or less) either in the car or connected to PC at work. Battery was still going strong though little less than at the start so bought a new one before passing on to my son, cost
 
Whilst I find this battery discussion interesting my experience with my previous mobile would suggest that batteries aren't all that fragile. I had three batteries for my Omnia. When one was empty I would swap it out with one of the others and leave it charging in a cheap wall charger for hours. Nearly three years later they still seem like new to me. As somebody else said batteries aren't that expensive anyway if you do have a problem with them.
 
Metfanant said:
honestly...i can't be bothered with all of this stuff...i consider myself to be a little bit of a battery nazi, but here are my habits...and ive had ZERO noticeable change in battery performance over the past two years with my DX and have no intention of changing anhything with my S3...

i plug the phone in at night when i go to bed...and i unplug the phone when i get out of bed to start my day...

doesn't matter if its 5% at night or 75% when i go to bed, i just plug it in and leave it on the charger over night...if i wake up at 5am or a sleep late and wake up at noon thats when the phone comes off the charger...
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I do the same If I know I am going to out all day and all night I will turn the power save mode on from the settings. I just charge it in the car if I need too. But have not really had to do that yet with this phone.
 
I am at my desk all day and I use my phone to play music all day. In doing this, I keep my phone plugged in throughout my workday, am I the only one doing this? It's that or running a few cycles through the battery in a day.. not sure which is worse.
 
antoeknee said:
On my Galaxy S (now 2 years old) battery charging was based on if it needed charging then I charged it. When at home if less than 10% when I was going to bed then it went on charge overnight. Other times I'd top up when getting low (10% or less) either in the car or connected to PC at work. Battery was still going strong though little less than at the start so bought a new one before passing on to my son, cost
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I realized a few days ago that the charging cable I had been using for the first few weeks from my old phone, a Samsung continuum (the usb plug is smaller and fit in to my case better), was a 1 amp charger not .7 like the stock one.

I stopped using it, but I'm wondering what effect it may have had on the battery.
 
trunkmonkey said:
The stock wall charger is 1 amp output, so you should be fine.
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I have a US Verizon S3 and it is definitely 5.0V=0.7A output. Do you have an international model? Although I don't see why that should matter, don't they all have the same battery?
 
TadeoNYC said:
I have a US Verizon S3 and it is definitely 5.0V=0.7A output. Do you have an international model? Although I don't see why that should matter, don't they all have the same battery?
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Sorry about the rotated pic. Portrait orientation isn't being processed correctly by the forum app. I'm surprised Verizon would go lower. How long does your phone take to charge?
 
Curious. I'll check my model#later at home. It seems to take at least 3 hours from below 20%.

Right now my battery is at 80% and Battery HD says 30 minutes to charge.
 
Just charge it at night and don't worry about it. If your battery is draining really fast it probably isn't because it's bad or broken. It's probably because you have something running all the time that is killing it. My Droid X was experiencing this issue before I purchased my S3. I was getting ready to give the DX to my wife so I wanted to return the DX to it's stock form without custom ROM. So I returned it to stock OS then I just rooted it for a few needed apps like Wi-fi tether. Once I returned it to stock and was no longer on the custom ROM with numerous Apps the battery went back to a like new state!!! Just my 2 cents. :-)
 
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