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S III Battery use

...again I woke up to my device being dead. I charged it to 100% yesterday afternoon, and hardly used it all evening. So, to awake to it dead, I was simply not impressed.

I'm beginning to wonder if the issue has to do with the default weather widget that I turned on this weekend. Even if that was\is the case, surely the device was made to have said widget on, no?

I'm in the process of charging to 100% again, and then we'll see how it performs today. I sincerely hope I don't have to perform a system factory reset. If I do, I won't be happy...
 
naviwilliams said:
And for the past 24 hours or so, this is mine:

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This is nice. How did you get so much from the battery? (I know you weren't using social media, but did you literally just not open any social media apps and that's it?) Were you actually using your phone much if at all? Share pls:rolleyes:
 
I just picked up an SIII (AT&T) a few days ago. Here's my battery stats from yesterday:

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It saddens me when I see all the people in this thread that cripple their phones just for the sake of battery life.
 
Tman5293 said:
I just picked up an SIII (AT&T) a few days ago. Here's my battery stats from yesterday:

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It saddens me when I see all the people in this thread that cripple their phones just for the sake of battery life.
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Me too. It lasts the day pretty much whatever I do with it unless there's.low signal.
 
Tman5293 said:
I just picked up an SIII (AT&T) a few days ago. Here's my battery stats from yesterday:

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It saddens me when I see all the people in this thread that cripple their phones just for the sake of battery life.
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I agree. However I'm always curious how to use the battery and phone/OS to it's full potential just for self pride lol.
 
naviwilliams said:
...again I woke up to my device being dead. I charged it to 100% yesterday afternoon, and hardly used it all evening. So, to awake to it dead, I was simply not impressed.

I'm beginning to wonder if the issue has to do with the default weather widget that I turned on this weekend. Even if that was\is the case, surely the device was made to have said widget on, no?

I'm in the process of charging to 100% again, and then we'll see how it performs today. I sincerely hope I don't have to perform a system factory reset. If I do, I won't be happy...
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Check out this article; this may explain our problem:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/372878/20120812/samsung-galaxy-s3-release-date-specs-battery.htm
 
Wow i get nothing like some of the battery usage you lot get. Im looking to upgrade to a 4800mah and yes comes with a different rear casing but that doesnt fuss me. I game alot on this device. Constantly listen to music. Downlad and text/call.

I get like 6-8 hours out of the stock 2100mah stock battery. Ive also gone thru various measures to try and sort my battery dying like the sleep wifi option, Brightness and notications etc.

Would it make a difference that when my device was delivered my wife took it off charge after about a hour n half? I was very annoyed with her for that but she said she wanted to play.... I believe these li-ion batteries have a memory??? So would make sense that after 2 hours it will say charged.

Also if anyone can provide a link to a decent extended battery would be greatful. 4500 and up thou please lol.

Thanks

Adam
 
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GSTR21 said:
Wow i get nothing like some of the battery usage you lot get. Im looking to upgrade to a 4800mah and yes comes with a different rear casing but that doesnt fuss me. I game alot on this device. Constantly listen to music. Downlad and text/call.

I get like 6-8 hours out of the stock 2100mah stock battery. Ive also gone thru various measures to try and sort my battery dying like the sleep wifi option, Brightness and notications etc.

Would it make a difference that when my device was delivered my wife took it off charge after about a hour n half? I was very annoyed with her for that but she said she wanted to play.... I believe these li-ion batteries have a memory??? So would make sense that after 2 hours it will say charged.

Also if anyone can provide a link to a decent extended battery would be greatful. 4500 and up thou please lol.

Thanks

Adam
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I just got the Hyperion 4200 extended battery.... Not sure who makes a higher capacity battery...
 
Brightness on full, spent a long time browsing last night, texting etc. No games played.
Mobile data and wifi off all night.

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nyrmetros said:
I just got the Hyperion 4200 extended battery.... Not sure who makes a higher capacity battery...
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Hey thanks for the reply.

I have had a quick scout about and theirs all the capacities under the sun frm 2200mah to a godzilla 6000mah extended battery;
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=170911181893&index=6&nav=SEARCH&nid=68655034418

Now im going to order this to test but from what I can see looks very promising and also the seller offers a variety of colours for replacement back casing .... wondering what it will weigh at 6000mah thou lol.

Thanks again

Adam
 
My battery sucks...Not sure if I have something running in the background or not..It went from 100% at 6am to 81% now at 721am. Obviously something must be running..I also just got this strange icon on the top of my screen. Looks like an eye ball...anyone know what that is??
 
bft0a0 said:
My battery sucks...Not sure if I have something running in the background or not..It went from 100% at 6am to 81% now at 721am. Obviously something must be running..I also just got this strange icon on the top of my screen. Looks like an eye ball...anyone know what that is??
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that's 'smart stay' - screen stays light while you're looking at it -it won't dim as normally it would.
 
After about a month of having SG3 and having to charge it daily at night with moderate use, I activated the Power Saving mode yesterday and can see a dramatic difference in how the battery is discharged. It now holds charge for a long time.

It would have been nice if they could clearly state what all features are turned off when Power Saving is ON beside what it shows in the PS Settings screen. For instance I noticed that it no longer shows up all audio related apps in the Notifications area as soon as a headphone or car audio pin is plugged into the audio out socket. Not a big problem, but it would be nice to know and be able to choose which ones you still want ON. The provide list is very high level. I have completely turned S Voice off, it is useless and heard it sucks up battery. Turn Wifi off when at work as we don't have wifi at work. I don't ever turn the data off at home where I have wifi.
 
naviwilliams said:
I believe so. Plus, I turned off GPS (I turn it on when needed), and auto brightness is off, too...
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Navi - are you on LTE the majority of the day? I'm looking to get an S3 and live in NYC, so will be on LTE all day as well. Wanted to see what battery life was like with LTE (Vzw for me) on all day.
 
Question: If you leave your mobile data turned on while you are connected to a local wifi network, does your phone still spend battery using the LTE cell network?
 
Does anyone know the correct APN settings for HSPA+ on AT&T? I truly believe that my battery is being drained by trying to find a LTE signal and it only happens when I'm at work, which is away from the city.

Why don't they have a toggle switch for different networks like they do on Verizon?!?!?! Any help would be truly appreciated!
 
Hi everyone, I have only just got the Samsung galaxy S3. I charged it until it went green then turned it on after a day, I am unsure as to how long I charged it though.
At this precise moment its at 48% 6 hours 12 mins and the screen time is 2 hours 8 mins. My screen is at 32% and the game I installed today is at 24% which I played for maybe nearly an hour or thats what the cpu says.
I have power saver on and all of the networks off.
Do I need to do anything like let the battery run fully down and then charge it or something similar, as I have read online that your supposed to use it first let it run down and then fully charge it for the first time, so I am a little worried that I've damaged the battery, phone etc.
So sorry about the long winded message lol, I'm just a complete noob when it comes to gadgets.
Pooks
 
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That was over two days, and to be fair I charged it for a total of one hour over that time. But still, pretty impressive! That was on ICS, unfortunately Jelly Bean doesn't give anything near that :(
 
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so does this mean that the signal in my house is so bad that it's killing my battery? if you look at the end of the day, the time I get home from work is when the wifi is connected. At the same time, the signal goes from green to yellow and the battery graph drops at a steeper rate than it did all day on LTE.

It was at 40% when I got home, now after 2 hours on wifi, it's down to 15.

The funny thing is I live about a block away from where I work and my living room is closer to the window than my cubicle is. seems like it should be just as good.
 
So I use to have pretty decent battery life after only 3 weeks with the phone. On my longer (12 hours on the road) days, my phone would get home with still ~30% battery. Recently, I have been getting huge battery drains. First 3 hours of the day, I played music (offline music) on my 30 min drive and then phone was in my pocket during class. Got to my car and had 70% battery. Got to work and charged it for about an hour and downloaded an apk for betterbatterystats. Downloaded it, unplugged my phone, set it aside, and waited. Here are the results:

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Well apparently I can't post pictures yet. Battery started at 84% and is now at 44% in 2h 28m. From the betterbattery app, "bam_dmux_wakelock" has used 10% of my battery in 12m 51s. The android native battery app says the "Android System" is at 59% of the battery used. And the device has been idle for almost all of that time (screen idle is at 2h and 10m). So clearly something is running in the background reaping havoc on my battery.

Any ideas?
 
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