hi. I am o supernexus build 5 wth siyah kernel. I got round 7 hiurs if heavy usage on gs2. I've done facebook, viber, internet using stock browser and downloading around 200mb zip file. what can you say about this battery life. its my first time to use gs2 and I am using 2000mah. the battery life seems pretty bad in my opinion. I will attach screenshot of my hardware info, battery use and screen time. hoping for any opinions out there
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I think is good , for me with stock battery (1650mah) i get 3 hours and 30-40 minutes (screen on time), wifi on , screen brightness auto
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I think the battery life should be better with a 2000mah battery..
Is the battery properly callibrated??
krazy1101 said:
I think is good , for me with stock battery (1650mah) i get 3 hours and 30-40 minutes (screen on time), wifi on , screen brightness auto
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oh really that means I should be getting better because I am on 2000mah but it seems not. Im not sure what's the problem if its the battery or the kernel. I also used an ICS firmware from Samsung I9100TDULP4. I don't know if that affects the battery life
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I think the battery life should be better with a 2000mah battery..
Is the battery properly callibrated??
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Well I dont know if it is properly calibrated. By the way I got this unit from my uncle so I am not really sure if the battery is still good. How do we know if its still good. I dont know how old is this battery. How do we calibrate the battery and does the room affect this battery life?
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by the way I just installed this rom A week ago. The battery takes 3-4 hours to be charged using my xperia charger
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I have suggestion for you , go to miuiandroid.com and download the latest build , install Siyah Kernel v6.0b5 with that and you will love the battery timing on that (Trust me, i am using it right now)
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I have suggestion for you , go to miuiandroid.com and download the latest build , install Siyah Kernel v6.0b5 with that and you will love the battery timing on that (Trust me, i am using it right now)
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you mean downloading the miui rom? yeah definitely I'll give it a try after slimbean which I will try if I see no improvement on the bAttery. Has anyone had 2000mah and siyah kernel with supernexus rom build 5? What are your timings?
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you mean downloading the miui rom? yeah definitely I'll give it a try after slimbean which I will try if I see no improvement on the bAttery. Has anyone had 2000mah and siyah kernel with supernexus rom build 5? What are your timings?
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I have tried Slim Bean too and after trying that i came to Miui Rom
anyone who have experience with 2000battery
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anyone who have experience with 2000battery
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right now I am using the original 1650 mah stock battery of s2. I've been doing a lot of file transfers as of this moment via e.s. file explorer and currently I am transferring almost 13gb of data via wifi from my laptop. its been awake for 4 hours now with screen time of 1 hour and 30min. e.s. file explorer is keeping the system awake for 3 hours. I did some facebook and viber chats. screen at 35% brightness.. do you think this is the expected life of the stock battery? I am fairly new to samsung and I found the battery life to be disappointing even with the stock jelly bean rom from samsung. I will post some pics of the battery stats and cpu stats from cpu spy. another thing though. is there a good app from the market where I can test my two batteries and compare them? thank you
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right now I am using the original 1650 mah stock battery of s2. I've been doing a lot of file transfers as of this moment via e.s. file explorer and currently I am transferring almost 13gb of data via wifi from my laptop. its been awake for 4 hours now with screen time of 1 hour and 30min. e.s. file explorer is keeping the system awake for 3 hours. I did some facebook and viber chats. screen at 35% brightness.. do you think this is the expected life of the stock battery? I am fairly new to samsung and I found the battery life to be disappointing even with the stock jelly bean rom from samsung. I will post some pics of the battery stats and cpu stats from cpu spy. another thing though. is there a good app from the market where I can test my two batteries and compare them? thank you
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To callibrate battery..first completely drain the battery to about 5%, then charge the phone non stop without disturbing it till 100% and immediately remove the charger..again fully drain the battery and follow the above steps and u will get better battery life after a few cycles!
About roms..battery life does differ from rom to rom...i suggest u could check the custom kernels packed with zzmoove governor, ithat particular governor definitely improves the battery backup!
And in the above post es file explorer is eating ur battery..for that u should download greenify and hibernate apps continuously running in background!
great. I will follow your steps. one more thing. how can I know if the battery is still good or if its still holding the proper charge its suppose to have? thanks
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best I can get is about 3 days standby in jb stock.
I use the 2000mAh battery is primary battery.. no big surprise to expect here, capacity is just 21% more by construction...
With wifi on, JB burns in my case about 3% in IDLE.. stock kernel.. and about 5% in 3G mode, IDLE.. then battery drains more or less fast depending on screen on, phone calls etc. I use the phone extensively for work (email sync & replies, phone calls, sms and voip) and i have to topup the battery twice or trice a day!
Have tried various custom kernels with all sort of magic to reduce battery drain.. more or less effectively.. sometimes with less stability.
Right now trying out latest dorimanx 8.27.. seems thatn IDLE with WIFI on drains around 2% per hour.. better than stock.. still not quite awesome
I miss the GB battery life.. but JB is so beautiful in comparison, I cannot go back!
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I use the 2000mAh battery is primary battery.. no big surprise to expect here, capacity is just 21% more by construction...
With wifi on, JB burns in my case about 3% in IDLE.. stock kernel.. and about 5% in 3G mode, IDLE.. then battery drains more or less fast depending on screen on, phone calls etc. I use the phone extensively for work (email sync & replies, phone calls, sms and voip) and i have to topup the battery twice or trice a day!
Have tried various custom kernels with all sort of magic to reduce battery drain.. more or less effectively.. sometimes with less stability.
Right now trying out latest dorimanx 8.27.. seems thatn IDLE with WIFI on drains around 2% per hour.. better than stock.. still not quite awesome
I miss the GB battery life.. but JB is so beautiful in comparison, I cannot go back!
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Does Jb stock for you has better life or does custom rom have more? I really like the custom roms but as per observation stock rom offers more battery time. Right now I just reverted to stock rom i9100xwlss. Touchwiz really sucks. Supernexus is really beautiful but offers less battery (but I will have to try yet their latest build). Also one of the reasons for going back to stock is the camera shot quality. Custom roms really have poor camera quality. I guess when it comes to lowlight shots the stock roms are best. So much for that. Does stock rom offer more battry for you or custom rom does?
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hi. I am o supernexus build 5 wth siyah kernel. I got round 7 hiurs if heavy usage on gs2. I've done facebook, viber, internet using stock browser and downloading around 200mb zip file. what can you say about this battery life. its my first time to use gs2 and I am using 2000mah. the battery life seems pretty bad in my opinion. I will attach screenshot of my hardware info, battery use and screen time. hoping for any opinions out there
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Below is a reply in some other forum by Samsung offcials regarding a specific method to Hard-Reboot your phone after a Firmware update: This method particularly helped me improve the battery life on SGS2 after 4.1.2 update.
"1. I’m sorry you are having issues with your device after upgrading the firmware. I can understand your frustration about this.
Old systems settings can be left on the phone after an update occurs, which is why we usually recommend a full factory reset after updating. If this isn’t done your device may begin to give false readings from system resources, or experience technical problems, which may explain the issue you are having.
We would advise on doing the following, which is designed to reset the settings on your device. Please back up your device using Samsung KIES before you do this.
1) Remove the battery for at least 40 minutes, put the battery back in and allow it to fully discharge. Afterwards, perform a full battery charge with the device turned off. Do not interrupt the charging process.
2) After the battery is fully charged, we would like you to perform a full factory reset, which can be done via Settings > Backup > Reset.
This process will reset your device, remove old system files that are no longer needed and enable your device to operate normally again.
Please let us know if your device continues to experience problems after the reset so we can investigate further.
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.
Kind regards,
Stewart
Online Support Team
SAMSUNG Customer Support Centre
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Does Jb stock for you has better life or does custom rom have more? I really like the custom roms but as per observation stock rom offers more battery time. Right now I just reverted to stock rom i9100xwlss. Touchwiz really sucks. Supernexus is really beautiful but offers less battery (but I will have to try yet their latest build). Also one of the reasons for going back to stock is the camera shot quality. Custom roms really have poor camera quality. I guess when it comes to lowlight shots the stock roms are best. So much for that. Does stock rom offer more battry for you or custom rom does?
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Actually I only use stock JB.. and trying to get it last longer with some custom kernels.. recently trying snapdragon rom, which is stock JB as well but with some S4 apk made compatible with S2... tried some time back omega, vanila rootbox and some other android builds for s2.. but was facing few stability issues / bugs and also missed some features that i was getting from stock rom.. so i gave up with these... now just aiming at stability and if possible battery endurance.. but not at the cost of stability.
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Hey guys im keen to know your experiences with the various custom roms out there.. I have flashed villianrom today as my first custom along with various kernals but have had constant drain issues..
Looking at my battery awake stats it seems as if it never sleeps :-(
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Hey guys im keen to know your experiences with the various custom roms out there.. I have flashed villianrom today as my first custom along with various kernals but have had constant drain issues..
Looking at my battery awake stats it seems as if it never sleeps :-(
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Screenshots showing battery usage and more importantly screen on time.
I don't have Villian ROM but from reading the comments on thst thread this is one of the best as regards battery drain so im amazed you experience high drain.
I run Cognition and am happy with this.
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You can see it just gettin eaten away screen off doesnt stop drain note the awake vs.screentime i have tried 4 kernals to no avail
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Put on watchdog and let it run in the back ground and see if it's any app or widget misbehaving.
Thanks trying now
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Just read in another thread that having motion sensor enabled causes this.
In my case ... Absolutely confirmed!
Very weird
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Just read in another thread that having motion sensor enabled causes this.
In my case ... Absolutely confirmed!
Very weird
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That is very very weird!!
I was on Villain too,1.4 to be exact...drains as well,now on Litening 2.2,after resetting batt stats,best so far screen on time almost 5 hours, using mostly wifi..but with 3G,I get around 4hr 30mins...I usually leave my wifi on all the time at home,and switch on data only when I leave...
literom 2.2 doubled my battery life (no exageration) coming from stock rom. impressive.
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I was on Villain too,1.4 to be exact...drains as well,now on Litening 2.2,after resetting batt stats,best so far screen on time almost 5 hours, using mostly wifi..but with 3G,I get around 4hr 30mins...I usually leave my wifi on all the time at home,and switch on data only when I leave...
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That sounds really poor performance..
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Some extended idling:
Cognition 1.13 with CF KG1 Kernel, Phone undervolted as in screenshot + GPU @ 750mV for both states.
Android OS still taking 1h15m CPU time in that screenshot, which, in my experience in this case is I *think* because of Skype running all the time there. Also Trillian connected to multiple services running constantly with Wifi.
I'm using Cognition 1.15 with modified 1.4 ninmphetamine kernel, very good battery life so far! (probably the best compared to villainrom and litening rom for me)
Having fixed my awake issue my battery life is reasonable but i expected betted with villainrom + nenphetamine custom + undervolt.
We need to guage some good comparisons id like to get an extended idle test dont know if i can leave my phone for that long. LOL
Btw How did you undervolt gpu?
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I would stay away from these newer kernels like Nephetamine until they actually mature. I alslo tried some other custom kernels and they kinda drained the battery way more. So I'm sticking to a plain kernel like CF for the moment. Also seems better to stick to the normal ondemand governor.
Undervolting GPU via Tegrak Ultimate, it's worth it imho, especially since I basically shaved off 25% voltage without any issues.
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That sounds really poor performance..
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How many hours are you getting if 4:30 and 5 hours screen display on time is poor performance? Please enlighten me...
I too flashed Villain rom (KF2) 2 days back and after flashing I get more battery drain compared to KF2 stock rom. android os is consuming 60% of battery.
BTW How can i see that graph thats shown above? is there any app for that
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I too flashed Villain rom (KF2) 2 days back and after flashing I get more battery drain compared to KF2 stock rom. android os is consuming 60% of battery.
BTW How can i see that graph thats shown above? is there any app for that
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Just tap on the grey part,where it states the hours and minutes on battery, the graph will be expanded and shown...
I will post screenshots i took this morning 9 hours standby wifi off, background data off, auto sync off, everything else on, stock rom KF3, no freezing of anything
the result?
1%!! loss over 8.5 hours
Guys, as I am truly annoyed by the fact stock JB is draining like hell, I would like to know the best rom available now. If any of you have good experience with a particular rom let me know
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Try Adam's ROM I'm getting similar battery life as in ics
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It's most likely not a ROM issue. I tried Adams and CM10 and had similar battery life. Make sure you turn off google now (just the cards that need to know your location constantly). It might also be that your update didn't go that well, so you might try a factory reset. It could also be a misbehaving app, so when you do a factory reset, maybe test the ROM before restoring/reinstalling your apps. Also, the more information you give us the better we can help. Good luck!
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It's most likely not a ROM issue. I tried Adams and CM10 and had similar battery life. Make sure you turn off google now (just the cards that need to know your location constantly). It might also be that your update didn't go that well, so you might try a factory reset. It could also be a misbehaving app, so when you do a factory reset, maybe test the ROM before restoring/reinstalling your apps. Also, the more information you give us the better we can help. Good luck!
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Thanks for the info. I installed the stock factory image 4.0.4 and then waited for the official OTA. I updated and all works well, but I get around 15 hrs on a full charge with some Whatsapp and Facebook use. When I use it more intense with more screentime the battery drains the most. I think a factory reset wont give me more battery life then this, but I know my drain was not so big while I was on ICS.
By the way, which one is the most stable; CW10 (That chocolate river one??) or Jellybelly?
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Thanks for the info. I installed the stock factory image 4.0.4 and then waited for the official OTA. I updated and all works well, but I get around 15 hrs on a full charge with some Whatsapp and Facebook use. When I use it more intense with more screentime the battery drains the most. I think a factory reset wont give me more battery life then this, but I know my drain was not so big while I was on ICS.
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Sounds weird. But also keep in mind that there are still some apps that don't cope very well with JB, and Facebook has never been Androids best friend . But it doesn't make sense that it's only during screen on, most people report issues related to google now and apps doing **** in the background. If you want to switch ROM anyways, I suggest you use Adams Jellybelly, it's mostly stock (less features means less that can go wrong) and it includes thalamus kernel, which is IMHO the best JB kernel at the moment. I do not recommend any CM10 based ROMs if you're after stability. I assume you checked your battery stats and didn't find anything?
Edit: Chocolate river was abandoned when official OTA came afaik, so definitely Jellybelly . Make sure you do a full wipe though, if something's wrong dirty flashing isn't worth it.
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Sounds weird. But also keep in mind that there are still some apps that don't cope very well with JB, and Facebook has never been Androids best friend . But it doesn't make sense that it's only during screen on, most people report issues related to google now and apps doing **** in the background. If you want to switch ROM anyways, I suggest you use Adams Jellybelly, it's mostly stock (less features means less that can go wrong) and it includes thalamus kernel, which is IMHO the best JB kernel at the moment. I do not recommend any CM10 based ROMs if you're after stability. I assume you checked your battery stats and didn't find anything?
Edit: Chocolate river was abandoned when official OTA came afaik, so definitely Jellybelly . Make sure you do a full wipe though, if something's wrong dirty flashing isn't worth it.
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Sounds good to me. Downloading Jellybelly now. I checked my battery stats and didn't find anywhing weird. I dont have much apps installed so there is not much that could give issues. When I leave my screen off (at night or while working) the battery life is not that bad. It's weird, but JB is still very fresh and new, so I'll just try some other roms =)
Agreed jelly belly provides the best performance, stability, and battery life
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Now running JellyBelly and its much faster then my stock JB
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also for me battery life was improved in jb
Wouldn't agree that jellybelly provides best performance and battery. I suggest trying out cm10 v1.2
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I am currently on JellyBelly and the battery life is definitely not better than stock for me. Battery drains like crazy when idling.
BUT, I do have Google Now activated. So really make sure to deactivate if you do not need it.
IMO all ROMs should give similar battery life.
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I am currently on JellyBelly and the battery life is definitely not better than stock for me. Battery drains like crazy when idling.
BUT, I do have Google Now activated. So really make sure to deactivate if you do not need it.
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Even with Google now turned on the battery should last some time. Do You get the same time as with ICS when it's deactivated? If not, something's borked .
Even if the battery life isnthe same with Jellybelly, the performance is great!
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after a few days weith stock jb i reach 3h45 / 4 h of screen use
with ics stock i never reached 3 h!
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Wouldn't agree that jellybelly provides best performance and battery. I suggest trying out cm10 v1.2
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ironia. said:
after a few days weith stock jb i reach 3h45 / 4 h of screen use
with ics stock i never reached 3 h!
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Really? That's what I was getting that on ICS. Haha. Well that's an improvement for you!
I got 5 hours on time with jelly belly WiFi almost always on
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Link to v1.2?
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https://plus.google.com/u/0/111722836277981844223/posts/C8Ykk6Fvu3t
For some reason Kalin is posting new versions of CM10 on G+ now
Please post your battery life experience in here. I am doing this because if Samsung does come here from time to time, let us show them how many users experience poor battery life with the JB rom. Also, let us ignore wipes or full resets since people may receive this update via OTA or Kies and they should not have to do a full wipe or reset to get a good battery life.
No doubt it is better.
Why make another thread....
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It's definitely about 30% worse.
Common, do you really think project butter is free?
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It's definitely about 30% worse.
Common, do you really think project butter is free?
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Yeah I think because my batter life is so damn good.
jb
mine is better than ics in jb. using android revolution hd 12.
If i fully charge mine before i go to, then by the time i wake up after about 7 hours, ive only lost 2% battery power.
Thats with data still so not in flight mode or with the phone turned off.
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I've tried litterally every JB leak so far inckuding the official ones.
I got sick of having bad battery life on all of them, no matter if I wiped etc.
So two weeks ago I put the very first stock rom on my phone (dated may!), and let it run auto updates from my carrier.
It ended up on LH3 and the battery life is night and day better. I'm getting over 24 hours easy now with what I consider to be decent use -phone calls, lots of facebook, whatsapp, browsing and at least 90 mins of mp3 playback each day. I leave wifi, 3g and BT one the whole time and it always gets over 24 hours.
Today though I flashed the newest UK Hutchison 3G official JB as it's my carrier. I'm going to see how this goes but I'm not expecting it to keep up with ICS. I'll be very happy if it does though.
It was terrible on JB for me (less than 24 hours of moderate use).
I disabled google now and installed juice defender and I get at least 2 days and maybe 3 if lighter use.
Swedish ROM is by far the best in battery life.
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Battery life for keeps getting better with each jellybean update. Currently on omega v28 with perseus kernel and battery life is the best its ever been. 24hrs easily with 5± hrs screen time.
On Jellybean i get 6hrs on screen at 25% brightness and 16hrs idle with Wi-Fi off during sleep and whilst using mobile data
WanamLite 4.0, Siyah 1.7RC1 -100mv CPU and -100/-125mv GPU coupled with dualcore only at 1.2Ghz and touch-boost for 600Mhz at results are shown above and below whilst remaining lag free
Other tweaks: EXT4 optimizations, Multi-tasking fix, SQLite tweaks, SD card cache increase for internal&external to help maintain speed
16 hours max and my battery is empty, crazy...
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Swedish ROM is by far the best in battery life.
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Try switching radio?
Sometimes, battery need more than 2days to settle down. It took me 1week to start seeing my battery performing on par with ICS rom.
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With Google Now: Very bad.
Without Google Now: As good as ICS (very good)
On Polish ROM
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With Google Now: Very bad.
Without Google Now: As good as ICS (very good)
On Polish ROM
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Agreed.
People complaining about battery life: Disable Google Now and untick every option in Maps!
You will see a huge difference.
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Agreed.
People complaining about battery life: Disable Google Now and untick every option in Maps!
You will see a huge difference.
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If you disable Google Now it just disables the notifications that it gives you and you can still make searches right?
Ics was much better
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Disabled Google Now, and all maps options.
Battery life is epically rubbish, as expected.
Back to ICS I go.
Hi Guys,
I am on the Three network in UK. I recently updated my to JB and immediately noticed that the battery performance has deteriorated. I used to get nearly two full days with a 2 - 2.5 hours of screen time, 1 hour talktime and 1 hour music and little maps with GPS. I can merely a day now with the same usage. I would like to mention that the standby time was brilliant on the last update I received on ICS. Is anyone facing the same issue. I am thinking of of doing a full factory reset. Not sure if that will solve the problem. The battery graph shows that something keeps the phone awake
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I flashed the french version last night and I literally only got my S3 yesterday too and I can't really comment on the battery life compared to ICS but the battery life is way better than on my Xperia Play... Anyway I intend on trying out CM10 soon.
for me the other way around
ICS used to eat battery faster.
everything depende on how you setup and how you use your phone. it's not as simple as ICS > JB or JB > ICS
All the leaks I used, including the Polish Rom, had rubbish battery. H3G is working fine. Even better than ICS (or about the same).
Disable google now & SVoice
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Yep getting similar battery as that screen shot... Seems to be a lot of wake locks also I have realised even with data turned off it still drains battery as if it was on... On ics with data off I would lose like 2% over night bit with jb data off I lose 10±% battery easily over night... Hoping this is fixed soon... I though jb is suppose to be more efficient than ics?
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Was wondering if there was a way to roll back to the previous firmware using Kies?
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yes pal . I am using three network and I updated my s3 from ICS to JB the battery is so bad if you compare it to ICS
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I know how to disable Google Now, but how to disable S-Voice on a stock (unrooted) ROM other than simply "not using it"?
Like an earlier poster, I used to get huge battery life with ICS by turning data off overnight etc, however now with JB it seems to drain much quicker.
I'm only sync'ing the minimal essential things as before, pretty much exactly the same settings, so disappointed in the battery life.
I made a point of doing a full wipe both before and after the update to be sure of starting "with a clean slate".
Some people have said that battery life should improve after a few days. Why should that be? Is it busy housekeeping its flash memory or something?
Did you try Settings->Application Manager->All->S-Voice->Disable?
Works for me.
I'm the same. Ics was much battery. I have turned everything off, disabled everything unsynced everything and batteryvstill draining at 3-4% per hour, whats the point of a smart phone if you can't use it! My battery drains pretty much the same whether the screen is on or off!
I found battery life in JB to be poor IF my wifi was connected - with wifi off or just disconnected battery life seemed to be similar to ICS. I use wifi a lot though, so for the moment I've gone back to ICS... wifi range and performance seemed to be lower in JB too for what it's worth.
Im loosing 2% overnight using foxxhound
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I get roughly 10-15% more juice out of JB with identical apps and settings.
My battery life is a lot worse on stock unrooted UK BTU JB aswell ... didnt even get 10 hrs out of it yesterday ... doing a full wipe and restore just now but its taking hours to put my apps back on ..
Didnt take this long to restore a iphone or is something wrong here ...My back up is only about 300mb and its been about 3-4 hours and still just at 50% complete ...
To be honest, that looks alright to me. 17 hours with network on all the time? And look at those wakes while the screen is off.
Post some BBS stats
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I found battery life in JB to be poor IF my wifi was connected - with wifi off or just disconnected battery life seemed to be similar to ICS. I use wifi a lot though, so for the moment I've gone back to ICS... wifi range and performance seemed to be lower in JB too for what it's worth.
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How did you roll back to Stock ICS?
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My battery is the same as on ICS as on JellyBean.
I got average screen-on time of 3 hours.
samkol18 said:
How did you roll back to Stock ICS?
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Odin shout do the trick
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THIS THREAD WAS INSPIRED BY MOST OFF YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO GET MAXIMUM BATTERY LIFE WITH SOME CUSTOM ROMS.
Before Galaxy S3, I had Galaxy S2 which battery wasn't soo good. I was always searching for battery friendly roms and I was flashing one or two roms every day.After every custom rom I was thought like that: Why I done that, when every stock firmware gives better result(battery life and performance) then any custom rom. I know that there are some excellent custom roms, for me ,these are STOCK LOOK roms with bloatware deleted and some unused apps. But, we don't need to flash them when we can do that alone.
NOW,I HAVE GALAXY S3 :
Let's see my result on stock battery,stock rom (4.1.2 , DDELK1,XXELLC), and with some apps turned off in application manager,battery saving is turned on just for color of backoground,nothing else.That was heavy usage,I installed that firmware updated, all appps that I am using , and charged it. Viber,WhatsApp,Instagram,Sync,Wifi,3G,Facebook,Gmail, are always ON.
Results:
4h of screen on,phone was used(wasn't just screen on) , 52% battery left. I lose about 3-4% maximum during the night ( 7-8 hours) with wifi on.
See this on attachments.
Mostly ,my battery lasts for 2 days, I achieve min. 5,5 hours screen on in every charge with hd gaming,facebook,gmail,whatsapp,viber, about 40min-1h talk in 3g every day.
My tips for battery life improvement are:
-Turn the Energy saving(I turned it on just for background color i vibration,if you turn on full battery saving you will get much better result, but it seems to slow and laggy)
-Turn off apps that you aren't using in app manager( Settings,Application Manager,All > than find apps which are unusal for you. I turned off : All yahoo apps,samsung suggest,google +,flipboard,dual clock,chat on ,all samsung hubs because they doesnt work in my country, google maps(I use google earth).)
That's all. Enjoy that battery,that performance and that beauty of stock rom
I can get 7.5 hrs screen on over 3 days battery was better on ics but still pretty darn good
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Hi Guys,
This is actually my 1st post, but I was looking around xda for couple of months now.
I am using stock rooted XXELLA with Siyah kernel. I can make my phone last easily for 2 days, with 2g mostly on, disabled lots of unused apps, lowest brightness, sync off, etc. and UC to 1200 mhz. I'm using pegasusq gov and noop scheduler.
But I can't imagine 4 hours screen on and get 52% battery left, or get 7,5 hrs totally. I always monitor the usage with BetterBatteryStats and when the screen is off I can even get about 4-6 hrs / 1%. But I can't reach >5,5-6 hrs screen on. Any suggestions? Do you think I can lower the min. brightness in build.prop?
Btw, I think if you share your battery stats, it would be nice if you also share your governor/scheduler and OC/UV values.
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p33t-r said:
Hi Guys,
This is actually my 1st post, but I was looking around xda for couple of months now.
I am using stock rooted XXELLA with Siyah kernel. I can make my phone last easily for 2 days, with 2g mostly on, disabled lots of unused apps, lowest brightness, sync off, etc. and UC to 1200 mhz. I'm using pegasusq gov and noop scheduler.
But I can't imagine 4 hours screen on and get 52% battery left, or get 7,5 hrs totally. I always monitor the usage with BetterBatteryStats and when the screen is off I can even get about 4-6 hrs / 1%. But I can't reach >5,5-6 hrs screen on. Any suggestions? Do you think I can lower the min. brightness in build.prop?
Btw, I think if you share your battery stats, it would be nice if you also share your governor/scheduler and OC/UV values.
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Everything is fully stock.
Suggestion for you: flash stock firmware, do wipe of everything from recovery and enjoy
Ausboy 2011 said:
I can get 7.5 hrs screen on over 3 days battery was better on ics but still pretty darn good
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How do you get 7.5 hours?
mariotg said:
THIS THREAD WAS INSPIRED BY MOST OFF YOU WHO ARE TRYING TO GET MAXIMUM BATTERY LIFE WITH SOME CUSTOM ROMS.
Before Galaxy S3, I had Galaxy S2 which battery wasn't soo good. I was always searching for battery friendly roms and I was flashing one or two roms every day.After every custom rom I was thought like that: Why I done that, when every stock firmware gives better result(battery life and performance) then any custom rom. I know that there are some excellent custom roms, for me ,these are STOCK LOOK roms with bloatware deleted and some unused apps. But, we don't need to flash them when we can do that alone.
NOW,I HAVE GALAXY S3 :
Let's see my result on stock battery,stock rom (4.1.2 , DDELK1,XXELLC), and with some apps turned off in application manager,battery saving is turned on just for color of backoground,nothing else.That was heavy usage,I installed that firmware updated, all appps that I am using , and charged it. Viber,WhatsApp,Instagram,Sync,Wifi,3G,Facebook,Gmail, are always ON.
Results:
4h of screen on,phone was used(wasn't just screen on) , 52% battery left. I lose about 3-4% maximum during the night ( 7-8 hours) with wifi on.
See this on attachments.
Mostly ,my battery lasts for 2 days, I achieve min. 5,5 hours screen on in every charge with hd gaming,facebook,gmail,whatsapp,viber, about 40min-1h talk in 3g every day.
My tips for battery life improvement are:
-Turn the Energy saving(I turned it on just for background color i vibration,if you turn on full battery saving you will get much better result, but it seems to slow and laggy)
-Turn off apps that you aren't using in app manager( Settings,Application Manager,All > than find apps which are unusal for you. I turned off : All yahoo apps,samsung suggest,google +,flipboard,dual clock,chat on ,all samsung hubs because they doesnt work in my country, google maps(I use google earth).)
That's all. Enjoy that battery,that performance and that beauty of stock rom
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i do exactly the same thing like you did. I am searching for custom roms giving the best battery life with good performance. But it seems like i cant get over 4 hours screen on time (especially with data turned on).
I dont know how you got that kind of amazing result... 4h screen on time with 52% battery left. wow...
I never turned on power saving mode cause i just dont like the laggy system performance. do u have any advice what to do to achieve the same battery life without having a laggy slow phone?
Odp: Samsung Galaxy S3 *AWESOME STOCK BATTERY LIFE*
mariotg said:
Everything is fully stock.
Suggestion for you: flash stock firmware, do wipe of everything from recovery and enjoy
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I don't think it would make any difference, since I have only few apps, I don't like putting garbage to my phone Could you maybe share kernel and partial wakelocks from BBS, maybe cpu states too?
And again about the 4h screen / 52% left - how did you use the phone? I can see no games, so only web surf etc?
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Everyone uses their phone differently so comparing battery life is not possible, someone who demands smooth scrolling and instant response is not going to get 2 days use or more than 4hr screen on time.
Personally I'm not worried by stutters or lag, I'd rather get 9hr screen on time over 48hr up time - this is with a super lite ROM, I have all the bell and whistles turned off and all power saving options on, as close to AOSP as a stock based ROM can get.
I'm very happy with this phone, compared to my old htc sensation I no longer worry about battery life, I have two batteries which get swapped over between phone and desk charger every two days, unless playing games when I only get 1 day life.
boomboomer said:
Everyone uses their phone differently so comparing battery life is not possible, someone who demands smooth scrolling and instant response is not going to get 2 days use.
Personally I'm not worried by stutters or lag, I'd rather get 9hr screen on time over 48hr up time - this is with a super lite ROM, I have all the bell and whistles turned off, as close to AOSP as a stock based ROM can get.
I'm very happy with this phone, compared to my old htc sensation I no longer worry about battery life, I have two batteries which get swapped over between phone and desk charger every two days, unless playing games when I only get 1 day life.
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On which rom you get 9hr screen? link?
p33t-r said:
I don't think it would make any difference, since I have only few apps, I don't like putting garbage to my phone Could you maybe share kernel and partial wakelocks from BBS, maybe cpu states too?
And again about the 4h screen / 52% left - how did you use the phone? I can see no games, so only web surf etc?
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Web surfing,facebook,viber,whatsapp. - always use them
Stock kernel,stock everything. I say again. If I need to repeat 10 times, ok.
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On which rom you get 9hr screen? link?
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Vikingway, search in development. Best not start a ROM discussion or this thread with get locked, try it yourself and see.
I'm inspired by your story. But i smell BS.
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Hd revolution 23, 3, 6 days 4h without sim card but wifi turn on, sync all my email and social accounts and dropbox and skydrive , took 243 pictures one movie with 10m, play some games for 15m per day. Go to facebook 15m per day
My battery Is better than ipad xD
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Ive done a cahrge and until now 9:30h 5% battery drain
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I don't think this is all that spectacular to be completely honest. 4hours screen on time with 5hour since unplugged - pretty much nonstop use. Just my opinion though.
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Hey op, sorry to say this but you might be wrong. For battery life it depends on kernels and tweaks rather than on roms. Roms are actually just themed/stock themed firmwares with additional apps/removed apps and pre-installed tweaks and kernels. Most roms use v6 supercharger tweak. For me I use phenomenal kernel which has undervolted and underclocked gpu and cpu. But if you want more options with oc/uv try boeffla kernel where there"s an app included that allows you to over/underclock you gpu and cpu. By underclocking, it will save more battery. My ohone lasted about 12+ hours of continuous use of my phone (gaming, watching videos) with the kernels I use
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Vikingway, search in development. Best not start a ROM discussion or this thread with get locked, try it yourself and see.
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which version of vikinway?
I have had over 8 hours of screen time, but that was literally not using phone just leaving screen on with videos playing for a lot of the time, but everyday usage using the Xperia Rom I get about 5 hours. I charge every night so don't need 2 day 3 day usage etc, unless my plane crashes onto a deserted island where I have to survive with no form of electricity anywhere.
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So to summarise op. You have created this thread to advise people to turn off a few apps and turn on power save mode. Ingenious.
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Mr Woolf said:
To summarise op. You have created this thread to advise people to turn off a few apps and turn on power saving mode. Ingenious.
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Agree, the op's a total noob. Turning on power saving mode and closing apps is what an average user with common sense would do. What's so awesome and special about that. This thread is rubbish for advanced users but somewhat useful for a no brainer
mariotg said:
How do you get 7.5 hours?
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That's right...i don't know how the battery can be used that long...
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