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battery life

well i didnt use much data this week since i went over my 2gb limit

but if you toggle off/on wifi and 4g when using and not using i found out that i can make the stock battery last about 2 days and the extended 4-5 days. While gettin around 4 hrs of screen time and about 2 hrs of voice calls
 
Good point about folks with data caps, since they are not using much data anyway. Which brings the question of what is the point of 4G with low data caps? I sure in the h e ll would not use it.
 
I re-enabled sync to see what would happen, it's not good. Here are some screenshots from today. The problem is that I need sync for my email for work, ive disables all syncing but that email and the android system usage is still very high. Any ideas on how to remedy that? Also this is on my hyperion 4200mAh battery, only on its second charge so it hasn't reached its peak yet.
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Yeah exchange email is a drain. I have mine set to sync in work hours then not to sync out of hours at all. That makes the evening go better.
 
SUroot said:
Yeah exchange email is a drain. I have mine set to sync in work hours then not to sync out of hours at all. That makes the evening go better.
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How do you set the hours like that? I'm using Gmail not Exchange, you would think Gmail wouldn't drain that much.

I forgot to mention that I also have a Comcast acct set to get mail every hour using K9 Mail. That would show up under the usage of K9 itself and not android system right? K9 is so low on usage its not on the list.
 
I might be wrong but one explanation for high andriod usage when sync is that if you are in a low signal area it is taking the os a while to find a signal.... No clue how long the giii will try to sync when there is no signal.
 
I had a similar problem as posted here. Download an app called Watchdog from Zomut - it will alert you if a process is consuming too much CPU while on standby. I found out it was a corrupt file on my SD card that was (for some inexplicable reason) causing the Android Media Process to consume 50% of my CPU sporadically throughout the day. My short term solution is to unmount my SD card, which has gained me considerable battery life - I'm looking at 14h off charge now at 77%, with an estimated 60h left. Eventually I'll need to figure out which file was causing the issue, but for now it seems to work pretty well.
 
My S3 was working beautifully with battery life the first 3 weeks. Normally after about 1.5 - 2 hours of work calls over bluetooth, moderate usage with emails, texts, and Facebloke, I'd be at about 65-70% or sometimes a little bit under by 5pm when my work day ended, which is typically 9-10 hours after taking the phone off the charger. Mind you I work from home so all my data activity is WiFi.

Suddenly the last 2 weeks or so, with the same usage I'm in the 40% - 50% range by 5pm. The one thing that I noticed changed is Cell Standby. I know this is a known issue, but my first 3 weeks with the phone, Cell Standby was consistently BELOW 10%. When I started noticing the battery drain the last couple of weeks, Cell Standby has been in the 30% - 40% range. It seems just turning on the phone for 30 seconds to check an email drops 1% - EVERY TIME. And on standby with no direct usage from me, it drops typically 5-6% per hour. Previously there were times before this drain started happening when I wouldn't touch the phone for an hour it would maybe drop 1-2%.

I did a factory reset about a week ago, and with ZERO apps installed other than the defaults, the drain was still happening and Cell Standby was in the 30-40+% range.

Anyway, now that I'm off my soapbox :p, the one thing I changed the last 48 hours that has seemed to help is I turned off Keep WiFi Alive, and also turned off Mobile Data (obviously I only do this when I'm in range of my router). I had one hour worth of calls this morning which only drained 9% compared to the almost 20% when the problem started. So this solution is helping, but still not to the level of battery performance I had the first 3 weeks, and it sucks having to micro-manage this and turn Mobile data back on when I'm away from my router. I shouldn't have to do that just to save battery life considering it wasn't a problem the first 3 weeks. Also, there's definitely still network activity during standby because even in the above configuration I still get notifications from network apps like Facebloke and email. I had assumed doing the above would kill said activities in standby.

So anyway, I think in my case Cell Standby is the culprit, but I'm puzzled as to why the first 3 weeks of having the phone, Cell Standby usage was low, and then out of nowhere it's taking the majority of standby usage?
 
tandy400 said:
I had a similar problem as posted here. Download an app called Watchdog from Zomut - it will alert you if a process is consuming too much CPU while on standby. I found out it was a corrupt file on my SD card that was (for some inexplicable reason) causing the Android Media Process to consume 50% of my CPU sporadically throughout the day. My short term solution is to unmount my SD card, which has gained me considerable battery life - I'm looking at 14h off charge now at 77%, with an estimated 60h left. Eventually I'll need to figure out which file was causing the issue, but for now it seems to work pretty well.
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I downloaded Watchdog and this it what it tells me:
Anyone know what this process is and how to kill it?


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tburd150 said:
I downloaded Watchdog and this it what it tells me:
Anyone know what this process is and how to kill it?


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Here's a thread that mentions gsiffdaemon killing battery life - you might try digging through that thread to see if their suggestions help. Looks like it is something to do with GPS, possibly.
 
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