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S III Battery use

I found the GS3 to have an awesome battery life.
I charge when I get home for maybe an hour or two and the phone is fine until for the next 24 hours. I keep my phone on 24/7 and I watch video's from time to time. HBOgo is a nice app by the way.
 
KeithSr said:
I found the GS3 to have an awesome battery life.
I charge when I get home for maybe an hour or two and the phone is fine until for the next 24 hours. I keep my phone on 24/7 and I watch video's from time to time. HBOgo is a nice app by the way.
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I would love to see this in action.
 
I had to get a replacement phone and for some reason the battery does not seem to last as long doing the same things, running the same app. I even took off the Facebook app and I am just using the browser. Will download one of those other apps that checks battery usage today see what it says.
 
rushmore said:
Why do folks try and compare their own use to other people and assume as the same standard? Too subjective. Battery use is relative to you (each person)..
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that's right,

unless people provide details on what exactly they do with their phone and for how long, whether or not they have battery saving apps running, and what programs they have installed or have removed these types of threads arent gonna tell anyone much of anything.
 
There are numerous people reporting massive battery drain without even using the phone and therefore result in people thinking the phone has crappy battery life. Threads like this serve to show them that they can optimize their phone and more than double their battery life. So, threads like this are not totally useless.

The root problem is the carrier bloating the hell out of the phone with useless garbage. Unfortunately, a large amount of this garbage can only be halted if you're rooted.

When I first got the phone, my battery life was horrible (about 15 hours or so tops standby). Once I rooted and used BBS to find the offenders, my battery life went up to an estimated 3 days. That's an insane improvement by simply disabling the stupid garbage that Verizon put on the phone.

Now, one very important thing to note is I don't use things like Facebook or Twitter. I'm also not a heavy talker. I use my phone for all the other features it provides (like a PDA). From what I've read, Facebook is a big offender in battery draining.
 
So my battery lasted 13 hours last night with 2 hours screen time. I had mobile data on as well as wifi. Does that sound normal?

Currently I'm down to 78% with 35 minutes screen time. :(.
 
Tkdaemon said:
So my battery lasted 13 hours last night with 2 hours screen time. I had mobile data on as well as wifi. Does that sound normal?

Currently I'm down to 78% with 35 minutes screen time. :(.
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Depends what you were doing during that screen time.

Best bet is to install BBS if you haven't already. Then plug the phone into your charger then unplug it and let it sit untouched for at least an hour (the longer the better). After you let it sit for that time, follow the instructions at the link below to generate and decipher a dump file. Be sure the dump file is "Since unplugged". The link below explains everything.

[APP] [30 Jul - V1.9.1] BetterBatteryStats adds battery history back to Android - xda-developers

The first step is to find out what background processes are waking your phone up. The more screen time that is shown, the harder it is to nail down the problems.
 
my battery sucks...my phone says "4g" but def not LTE speeds...is this att's way of saying its hspa+?

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I just installed BBS I will try it later tonight and see what it says. It figures today I get amazing battery life. I am at 70% after 6 1/2 hours. moderate text, facebook on browser and only about 20 minutes of quick phone calls.
 
After switch from the iPhone 4 to the GS3 I can't believe all the crap that runs in the background. I pull up Advanced Task Killer and 20 apps are doing something in the background. It looks like the GPS is either on or off whether I'm using navigation or not. Seems to me the GPS shouldn't be on unless I'm using an app that requires it. I switched to the GS3 because I got tired of Apple's iron grip on my device. So far I've got mixed feelings about this phone. I have 8 days left to return it. I always wondered how people managed to use their phones at work so much that they needed to bring in a charger. Now I see. With minimal use this phone will go 24hours on a charge when my iPhone 4 would go 2.5-3 days.

I had an unusually slow day a couple of days ago so I pulled up NBC's Olympic app to catch watch some videos. I don't think I could watch a full movie on a charge. After an hour I plugged the phone into a USB port and the battery still slowly ran down. That screen must pull a lot of juice! I noticed 49% of my battery life goes to screen usage.
 
Xyrax said:
There are numerous people reporting massive battery drain without even using the phone and therefore result in people thinking the phone has crappy battery life. Threads like this serve to show them that they can optimize their phone and more than double their battery life. So, threads like this are not totally useless.

The root problem is the carrier bloating the hell out of the phone with useless garbage. Unfortunately, a large amount of this garbage can only be halted if you're rooted.

When I first got the phone, my battery life was horrible (about 15 hours or so tops standby). Once I rooted and used BBS to find the offenders, my battery life went up to an estimated 3 days. That's an insane improvement by simply disabling the stupid garbage that Verizon put on the phone.

Now, one very important thing to note is I don't use things like Facebook or Twitter. I'm also not a heavy talker. I use my phone for all the other features it provides (like a PDA). From what I've read, Facebook is a big offender in battery draining.
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It would be different if the thread was about battery saving solutions but it's just people saying how long their battery lasts which is just as much if not more dependant on the user's activities as the quality of the battery itself.
 
Well, after almost a week, it's no where near I thought it was going to be, but it is at least as good, probably a bit better than my DroidX. Pretty much have to charge it daily.
 
Hey guys new here :)

I bought a Sammy Galaxy S3 (first Android device) yesterday and it is awesome, one thing though...

I fully charged it last night and fiddled around with it this morning for about 1 hr and 30min, not constantly but in and out. Played about 2 games for about 20min in total, a bit of browsing, whatsapping people and thats it.

my battery is already at 86%? I do have the power saving option on, syncing is off and brightness is on auto. I did hear that the Galaxy has superb battery life so it should survive longer on 90%+

Is this normal or am i being neurotic?

Cell standby says 24%

greetings from Cape Town, South Africa BTW.
 
That sounds pretty good to me, one thing though, I have my screen brightness set to 50% at all times, it`s more than enough.!! ( I use a great widget from Play store by CurveFish called Brightness Level) , I think the auto setting can use power with its constant dimming and brightening.!
 
Only 1 hour 38 minutes of screen time...
And before anyone says anything I work...in I.T., too :)
 

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whippey said:
Hey guys new here :)

I bought a Sammy Galaxy S3 (first Android device) yesterday and it is awesome, one thing though...

I fully charged it last night and fiddled around with it this morning for about 1 hr and 30min, not constantly but in and out. Played about 2 games for about 20min in total, a bit of browsing, whatsapping people and thats it.

my battery is already at 86%? I do have the power saving option on, syncing is off and brightness is on auto. I did hear that the Galaxy has superb battery life so it should survive longer on 90%+

Is this normal or am i being neurotic?

Cell standby says 24%

greetings from Cape Town, South Africa BTW.
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do you have your wifi and 3g/4g radios turned off?
 
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