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I found this online
http://techsplurge.com/10665/solution-samsung-galaxy-s3-cell-standby-battery-drain-problem/
Just thought people should know. Although it doesnt mention if its NA or int version of the s3.
It been discussed in the forums and a lot developers have fix it their roms, but this could be good info for newcomers
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jgalan14 said:
It been discussed in the forums and a lot developers have fix it their roms, but this could be good info for newcomers
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And for people who arent flashing a ROM (like myself).
i had my first unusual battery drain last night, woke up with 74% left after 7hrs of sleep. today it's back to normal, 88% left after 11hrs of standby only (very light to no use of the phone), does it seem like i should still root and flash the fix?
MMakoto said:
i had my first unusual battery drain last night, woke up with 74% left after 7hrs of sleep. today it's back to normal, 88% left after 11hrs of standby only (very light to no use of the phone), does it seem like i should still root and flash the fix?
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Open up your battery usage and see how much of it (%) is being taken up by "Cell Standby". Mine is usually the highest on the list
So is this a fix that will actually give me more battery life or just fix the display of it?
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So is this a fix that will actually give me more battery life or just fix the display of it?
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It won't give you better battery life, just changed how much is "using"
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jgalan14 said:
It won't give you better battery life, just changed how much is "using"
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So basically it's useless, just for looks. Yeah?
niqjones said:
So basically it's useless, just for looks. Yeah?
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Yup o don't get it better ry life
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for some reason i've flashed the fix and it worked for a day, now it seems as though it stopped working.
Wond3r said:
I found this online
http://techsplurge.com/10665/solution-samsung-galaxy-s3-cell-standby-battery-drain-problem/
Just thought people should know. Although it doesnt mention if its NA or int version of the s3.
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This doesn't fix the problem that some AT&T users are having with poor battery life in areas with bad LTE reception. In those cases, Cell Standby is actually draining their batteries. It isn't just a reporting error. If your battery stays warm even when you aren't using your phone and have all your apps closed, this isn't going to help you.
If I have no Lte just hspa+ would that drain my battery? Like, is my phone constantly searching for lte? I heard to make a custom apn for just hspa + but Idk how or if it will help. I'm AT&T and am having poor battery life
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It seems that the battery drain on my newest N7 (RMA'd first one) is waay worse than on the other, I'll attach some screen shots of what I mean.. it may be just the WiFi is using a lot more than the other's :S I left it 4 hours alone with WiFi and the battery drained 20+ % which even with WiFi on seems excessive does it not? Is it possible I got one with a faulty WiFi radio? I will be testing tomorrow (or maybe tonight) to see battery drain with WiFi turned off to compare, because it also seemed to drain fast when I was just out and about with WiFi off :/ worried I have bad battery, deep sleep isn't working right (it is going into deep sleep or at least thinks it is from looking at cpuspy), or faulty WiFi... or just too early to judge XD has anyone noticed battery improve over time ? I forget if I did was a month ago I got the original
BTW first screen shot was taken pretty much right as I was leaving for work, so you can compare the battery drain there..
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I doubt it's a bad wifi radio, its probably an app that is syncing like crazy in the background.
I'm currently watching the MediaServer app use a disproportionate amount of battery (14% and rising). I deleted a number of images which must of kicked in the scanner which must be very inefficient.
I also noticed my N7 become very slow at the same time.
Possibly you downloaded a large amount of images/music/etc before putting your device to sleep...
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I doubt it's a bad wifi radio, its probably an app that is syncing like crazy in the background.
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I really wish I could figure out why maps keeps starting a process.. can you check to see how many instances of maps there are ? In particular one running Prefetcherservice.. as for the other comment, media server is sitting at 6%, android is at 14%, and screen at 67%.. though I did copy a bunch of songs and pictures over after the RMA, is there a way to fix these or should I delete them to see if it gets better ?
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Sigh, I might just have a bad battery, or preferably poorly calibrated, since another hour of use, just browsing and such, and I'm down 20% more -_- hope I don't have to RMA again
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As a side question.. how hot does your tablet get under normal use? Mine has been heating up quite a bit in the battery section i think with just average on browser use :/
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As a side question.. how hot does your tablet get under normal use? Mine has been heating up quite a bit in the battery section i think with just average on browser use :/
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Nothing you've mentioned sounds even the slightest bit out of the ordinary. I know a person who thinks they are always sick is a hypochondriac so is someone who always thinks there is something wrong with their computing device a hypo-com-driac?
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Nothing you've mentioned sounds even the slightest bit out of the ordinary. I know a person who thinks they are always sick is a hypochondriac so is someone who always thinks there is something wrong with their computing device a hypo-com-driac?
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Bahaha good one I dunno, the problem is that this is literally my fourth N7 since the other three allll suffered from major screen lifting, so maybe I am looking for something wrong just so i can make sure it's perfect... Though I do think the battery life is pretty weak, I think I may have figured SOMETHING out, the only difference between this and my original is that my original had a huge section of the map of my area downloaded, and since I did that maps hasn't started any additional processes.. so good sign ? maybe ? haha
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Bahaha good one I dunno, the problem is that this is literally my fourth N7 since the other three allll suffered from major screen lifting, so maybe I am looking for something wrong just so i can make sure it's perfect... Though I do think the battery life is pretty weak, I think I may have figured SOMETHING out, the only difference between this and my original is that my original had a huge section of the map of my area downloaded, and since I did that maps hasn't started any additional processes.. so good sign ? maybe ? haha
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Yeah this might be a good time to stop looking for trouble and just enjoy the tablet for a while. I drop mine on the charger in the morning and don't ever really think about the battery other than that. Whatever the battery stats say now they won't say in a week and they won't say after you flash to a different ROM. If you have wifi on apps will sync and the tablet will loose it's charge. I'm never far enough away from an outlet to make it much of a concern. So maybe just take a breather, install the Angry Birds and have some fun for a bit. Eventually we'll have ROM's and kernels that make this thing sip electricity but for now I get the few hours a day I need out of it on one charge so I'm set.
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Yeah this might be a good time to stop looking for trouble and just enjoy the tablet for a while. I drop mine on the charger in the morning and don't ever really think about the battery other than that. Whatever the battery stats say now they won't say in a week and they won't say after you flash to a different ROM. If you have wifi on apps will sync and the tablet will loose it's charge. I'm never far enough away from an outlet to make it much of a concern. So maybe just take a breather, install the Angry Birds and have some fun for a bit. Eventually we'll have ROM's and kernels that make this thing sip electricity but for now I get the few hours a day I need out of it on one charge so I'm set.
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You think the battery life will get much better than what it is? My only other android experience is my HTC Desire Z which has a horrible battery as it is so it didn't improve much at all with custom roms
Speaking of improved life through ROMs and kernels, have you noticed any kernel providing particularly better battery life ? I'm on trinity right now, no voltage changing, but underclocked to 1.1 ghz from 1.3
Factory reset, see if the problem continues. That's the only way decide if it's a HW problem.
And my N7 uses effectively 0% battery in standby, it was off the charger yesterday for 6 hours and when I started playing around it was still at 99%. I turn off wifi on screen off, however.
Use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 to find out what's waking up your phone, the apk is in the second post. Install, charge it up, unplug, leave for 4 hours idle then look at partial wakelocks and alarms.
I saved quite a bit of standby time by disabling location services and Facebook.
If your not using nfc that could save battery?
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Salty Wagyu said:
Use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809 to find out what's waking up your phone, the apk is in the second post. Install, charge it up, unplug, leave for 4 hours idle then look at partial wakelocks and alarms.
I saved quite a bit of standby time by disabling location services and Facebook.
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^ do that
I used Better Battery Stats to figure out Google Maps was causing wakelocks. I cleared data in the maps app and now my 7 idles without much battery drain at all.
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^ do that
I used Better Battery Stats to figure out Google Maps was causing wakelocks. I cleared data in the maps app and now my 7 idles without much battery drain at all.
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Haha I actually just read your post in the kernel thread about this and immediately cleared map data, now I'm about to unplug and see what happens!
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Haha I actually just read your post in the kernel thread about this and immediately cleared map data, now I'm about to unplug and see what happens!
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If that doesnt work for you, Better Battery Stats should be able to tell you what app is causing the drain.
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If that doesnt work for you, Better Battery Stats should be able to tell you what app is causing the drain.
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Well, left it for an hour on standby with wifi on, 0% drain, let's see how rest of day goes !
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If that doesnt work for you, Better Battery Stats should be able to tell you what app is causing the drain.
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So it seems like partial wakelock is mostly audioout_2 which i assume comes from me playing a game with music amongst other things?
Alarms says com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox has 50 wakeups, and maps has 38 :S why does maps keep trying to kill me?! and what is the googlequicksearchbox doing waking the tablet up...
Wlan_Rx_wake seems to be the culprit of semi bad battery. Is there a way to prevent the tablet from waking up all the time? Maybe just unsync or turn off WiFi instead?
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So it seems like partial wakelock is mostly audioout_2 which i assume comes from me playing a game with music amongst other things?
Alarms says com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox has 50 wakeups, and maps has 38 :S why does maps keep trying to kill me?! and what is the googlequicksearchbox doing waking the tablet up...
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When my battery drain was bad I had something like 250+ wakeups from maps under the alarms section in only a few hours off the charger and Maps was showing up as the most common reason for partial wakelocks.
I think AudioOut_2 is normal - Im not sure what it does though. Im now at 8+ hours of standby with 99% battery. Under alarms im showing 138 Maps wakeups and 76 from google quick search box. My drain is all gone now though so i assume this is within normal range. The better battery stats thread and a few other threads on XDA have detailed descriptions of the different battery draining wakelocks and possible remedies. Not all wakelocks are bad though.
I think I'm getting really bad battery life is this normal?
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Install this and check what apps or wakelocks are draining the battery
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gsamlabs.bbm
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I think I'm getting really bad battery life is this normal?
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I am also experiencing the same thing.
Mine started with this and from next day onwards it is getting over heated and now currently heating issues and crashing
Do what spaceman said your phone isn't sleeping. One hour+ of staying awake.
Also, go into Google maps into settings into location settings and disable automatic location reporting and uncheck the other things.
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Okay I downloaded it and this is what I get
What's wakelock?
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Okay I downloaded it and this is what I get
What's wakelock?
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I think it means that it prevents your phone from going into deep sleep.
Not entirely sure though, you might want to wait for someone to confirm what I said or tell you what it really means.
Regarding your question in post #1:
What have you been doing on your phone (i.e. playing games, phone calls, watching videos)? Do you have GPS and Bluetooth on? WiFi? 3G? How many (and which) widgets do you use?
Wakelocks stop your phone from entering deep sleep which therefore causes battey drain. The app will tell you what is causing the wakelocks so you know what is draining your battery and can deal with it. However, it might just be that your phone usage is causing the battery drain e.g 3G and GPS always on as the battery life isn't exactly amazing on the nexus 4
Hi everyone,
I noticed some heavy battery drain during the night. So I installed BetterBatteryStats to find the culprit.
The phone was fully charged and uplugged before going to bed. 7,5 hours later there was 80% left.
In the log "kernel wakelock", "msm_hsic_host" was on for 99% of the time and in "other" it showed my phone was awake the whole time.
I couldn't find any related threads here, but some on the nexus 4 forums. It seems to be related to the radio searching for a good signal, am I wrong?
I'm on stock rom XXUAMDE, rooted. Wifi was on, mobile data off. I set network mode to GSM only. I noticed yesterday the signal bar in the battery log was yellow/grey most of the day with GSM/WCDMA (auto connect) and green with GSM only. It appears 3G signal isn't the best in the area.
Any thoughts on how to fix this or some tests I can do?
Here are my battery stats for last night. 3,1%/h seems a bit too much. This is with MDN firmware btw, but no change.
Nobody had same problem?
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Same problem here... Really annoying :/
Solution plz?
BUMP !
I did a factory reset. I could not find the problem, so I had to do something. While installing the apps I kept an eye on the battery consumption, but
everything seems normal. At night it lost 3% with wifi/data/nfc on!
Still no idea what was causing the battery drain though, but at least it is solved now.
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Pinocheckio said:
I did a factory reset. I could not find the problem, so I had to do something. While installing the apps I kept an eye on the battery consumption, but
everything seems normal. At night it lost 3% with wifi/data/nfc on!
Still no idea what was causing the battery drain though, but at least it is solved now.
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Dont have time for a factory reset...Will try to solve it in another way then.. :/
Heavy battery drain here too :/
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Did a factory reset but the wake lock is still there... ****ing ****!!
I am on the HTC One and seeing the same problem. I guess we can exclude specific samsung/htc software but maybe we have something else in common
Pinocheckio said:
I did a factory reset. I could not find the problem, so I had to do something. While installing the apps I kept an eye on the battery consumption, but
everything seems normal. At night it lost 3% with wifi/data/nfc on!
Still no idea what was causing the battery drain though, but at least it is solved now.
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I don't think 3% overnight is bad? My S3 discharges about 1.5% per hour.........
Xperia Z
godutch said:
I am on the HTC One and seeing the same problem. I guess we can exclude specific samsung/htc software but maybe we have something else in common
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In my Xperia Z is the same, almost 30% after 14 hours, still in 20% battery, but is annoying to have this "issue"
I also have this issue but only on mobile network, with WIFI no problems.
Looks like it's a qualcom issue and Nexus 4 owners have the same problem, some say it's fixed with android 4.2.2 but we have that one already:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=41855
update: Seems that I solved it by enabling fast dormancy. Had that disabled cause I was under the impression that my local provider (KPN) is not supporting it.
Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!
montrealguy said:
Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!
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So many things could be draining your battery. You need to provide more data in order to troubleshoot.
Use BetterBatteryStats and/or wakelock detector (both in Google Play) to identify apps causing wakelocks. Then Google those wakelocks for possible solutions. Out posts screenshots of your wakelocks here or in a wakelock thread.
Plus provide details of what ROM, kernel, and radio you're using.
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montrealguy said:
Is anyone else experiencing exceptional battery drain in the last week or two? I'm not sure if it is since 4.3, but my phone barely lasts a full day and it is the same with all my other friends with a Nexus 4.
We are all wondering what is going on!
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Possible answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Possible answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Interesting--- but the OP says it was resolved with the latest updates, but mine is still draining superfast.
I had the same problem. At my nexus it was the zooper widget which causes the draining. After uninstalling the battery consumption went normal. Maybe you have a similar problem...
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I had the same problem. At my nexus it was the zooper widget which causes the draining. After uninstalling the battery consumption went normal. Maybe you have a similar problem...
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No- the only widgets I have are the ones for Google Voice and Google Calendar.
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Interesting--- but the OP says it was resolved with the latest updates, but mine is still draining superfast.
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LOL, I´m the OP, but also there is some Android System wakelock that is caused by a bad radio. Try to install some app to detect wakelocks or post a screenshot to see how it looks the battery drain, so we can help you better.
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LOL, I´m the OP, but also there is some Android System wakelock that is caused by a bad radio. Try to install some app to detect wakelocks or post a screenshot to see how it looks the battery drain, so we can help you better.
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I installed Wakelock Detector but I have no idea how it works or how to interpret the data. If you can show me how to paste the data here, I'd appreciate it.
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I installed Wakelock Detector but I have no idea how it works or how to interpret the data. If you can show me how to paste the data here, I'd appreciate it.
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I just installed once the app, but can´t remember well how it exactly work.
It is not too hard. Just install app and then wait for a full cycle. What this app does, is just monitoring all the processes on your phone. When you make a full battery cycle, it detects which processes are awake and it shows them on the wakelock screen as well as the name of the process.
Sometimes, it will show crazy names or not so conventional names, but better to make a screenshot of the overall wakelocks and then the detail of the major wakelock. I think this was on top of others.