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Abysmal battery life

Hello,
The battery on my S3 is driving me crazy. I originally had an S3 and went to the Note II, but reverted back to another S3 because I couldn't stand the size of the Note. Anyway, this S3's battery is really bad - I barely use it and it drains 5% an hour, sometimes more. I've tried everything, location is turned off, social media is all turned off I just update it manually... I've attached some screenshots. it was 50% and dropped to 34% in just 2 hours and a half, I only used it for 2 minutes during that time according to the Screen data.
Any thoughts, suggestions or miracle solutions are appreciated.

Have you tried turning it on and off again?
Seriously try another ROM dude
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I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.

KarimSalloum said:
I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.
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I used to have abysmal battery life too, on LK4 stock till I discovered that several stock apps were the culprits. I disabled them and now my battery is almost on par with how it was when running ICS.
Try disabling the below apps. If it works well and good. If not, you've got to investigate what's happening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34927890
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Op take a look at this thread. It will help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1878828
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Oomahey said:
I used to have abysmal battery life too, on LK4 stock till I discovered that several stock apps were the culprits. I disabled them and now my battery is almost on par with how it was when running ICS.
Try disabling the below apps. If it works well and good. If not, you've got to investigate what's happening.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34927890
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Thanks, I've just disabled them, hope it'll work out

KarimSalloum said:
Thanks, I've just disabled them, hope it'll work out
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Ahlan.
Phone rooted. Since I installed the new JB 4.1.2 my battery live is really good : for example 48% remaining after 17 hours of use with 56 mns calls etc... and I keep everything working (WiFi, Bluetooth and all apps)

Updates from facebook and nova launcher seem to be your worst enemy
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KarimSalloum said:
I've tried turning it on and off, tried wiping data.... Forgot to mention I'm running Sotmax Ultimate Stock ROM v8 w/ Yank555 v2.7 kernel. Everybody's reporting great battery life with the setup, can't say the same.
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Try this. Im using Sotmax as well but with perseus kernel. In stweaks I under volted the CPU by -75mv and gpu by -50mv. Super smooth and completely stable.
I tried other kernels and I just couldn't get good battery life. I'm getting about 14 hours of solid use. Screen on of about 3.5 hours. I used to only get 7-8 hours.
The other thing I did was freeze the following which constantly run in background.
Video Hub
Software Update
SSuggest
Samsung Push Service (for Sammy app updates)
Make sure you remove your Samsung account. It constantly runs in background.
Wifi advanced settings change Wifi policy to only when charging. I find Wifi drains this phone fast.
I highly recommend resetting the battery levels by typing *#0228#
Then choose quick start. Unlock the phone and your battery will show the actual levels. Charge to 100%
Finally, I matched the ril with the modem included with this rom. Install the app getril and download the proper ril and install.
Hope this helps!
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Love it! I Battery is sick now!
Sync was on the whole time.
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Battery life problems

Is anyone else experiencing very bad battery life? I use it for five minutes and it drops 5%... Am I doing some
Thing wrong?
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Welcome to life of the S4. No youre not doimg anything wrong. The best thing I can suggest is using Juice Defender, and a Task Manager. Turning mobile data off when not in use, screen brightness at about halfway. I can squeez about 20 hours out of this phone with moderate use this way.
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You're doing something wrong if it drops one percent per minute
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You could give the new qualcomm battery app a shot... takes a few days to read your usage then starts adjusting things like app sync times etc to save your battery.
I just started trying it out. Looks promising.
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Battery life is like the only good thing about the galaxy s4. I'm so disappointed with the lag and the overall performance of the phone. But battery life lasts me the whole day. I have the At&t galaxy s4.

What's the app called?
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Right im just not sure what I am doing wrong though because I have restored my phone many times with no results.
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drucquerkellan said:
What's the app called?
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Battery Guru

Thanks
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joeybear23 said:
You could give the new qualcomm battery app a shot... takes a few days to read your usage then starts adjusting things like app sync times etc to save your battery.
I just started trying it out. Looks promising.
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From my personal experience with it, it keeps waking up my phone when it goes into deep sleep. It wastes more battery by constantly waking it than it saves me.

drucquerkellan said:
Right im just not sure what I am doing wrong though because I have restored my phone many times with no results.
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When you restore your phone, are you restoring all the apps? One bad app is all it takes. you should reset to stock, and not install any apps. Then when you see that it runs ok, install one at a time as you test.
Not sure who has lag issues, but my phone rocks. No lag here and battery life is great.

No lag here, at all... My best for battery is 3 days, with 4 and a half hours screen-time...

alphadog00 said:
When you restore your phone, are you restoring all the apps? One bad app is all it takes. you should reset to stock, and not install any apps. Then when you see that it runs ok, install one at a time as you test.
Not sure who has lag issues, but my phone rocks. No lag here and battery life is great.
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OK thanks I'll try that
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King Ding-a-ling said:
No lag here, at all... My best for battery is 3 days, with 4 and a half hours screen-time...
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Wow mine won't be on for a whole day and it'll drop down to 50%
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alphadog00 said:
When you restore your phone, are you restoring all the apps? One bad app is all it takes. you should reset to stock, and not install any apps. Then when you see that it runs ok, install one at a time as you test.
Not sure who has lag issues, but my phone rocks. No lag here and battery life is great.
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My screen time is 2 hours 3 minutes. The battery is already 28% and I just watched it drop to 26%
ALSO my screen brightness is 25%
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drucquerkellan said:
My screen time is 2 hours 3 minutes. The battery is already 28% and I just watched it drop to 26%
ALSO my screen brightness is 25%
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Keep in mind there are lots of variables at work.
Wifi vs. Cell data - Turn on Wifi and battery usage goes down a LOT - if you are in a wifi area all the time. Cellular data is a battery pig.
Weak signal area - another battery pig - i have had phones drain in 8 hours doing nothing if i had poor reception
Usage mix - Your 2.5 hours of screen time, could be good if you have screen at high brightness and are streaming cellular data (movie) and if you are also syncing email, facebook, and everything else in the background.
If you do all your data by Cellular, then 4 hours of screen time will probably be your limit. It is hard to tell if you have a wake lock issue or not, as we don't know anything else about your usage, apps that are frozen, gestures on/off, etc.

Monkz said:
From my personal experience with it, it keeps waking up my phone when it goes into deep sleep. It wastes more battery by constantly waking it than it saves me.
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Thanks I'll keep that in mind.
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drucquerkellan said:
My screen time is 2 hours 3 minutes. The battery is already 28% and I just watched it drop to 26%
ALSO my screen brightness is 25%
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What does the next screen show - when you tap on the graph - it will show screen on time and wake time.
And do you have power save mode on?

[Q] Nexus 4 Android 4.3 battery life ??

Hello guys i know thats my first thread in xda and that tread maybe looks noobish to you but i wanted to ask how is your Battery life with the OTA 4.3 update on nexus 4 i personaly installed
the update with fastboot and factory image as soon as it got realesed and until then i havent charged it yet.I ve seen some vids on yt surfed the
net and played some nfs most wanted by the way the battery status now is at 10% So how is yours ?

Was on OTA update til acouple minutes and from what I could tell, I felt my battery life last longer compared to stock 4.2.2 and slightly less than Franco's
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One of these days, someone will make a phone and everyone will rejoice at the satisfactory battery, the good screen, the awesome camera, the no-lagginess, the perfectly tuned speaker.... Ad infinitum....
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technaudio said:
One of these days, someone will make a phone and everyone will rejoice at the satisfactory battery, the good screen, the awesome camera, the no-lagginess, the perfectly tuned speaker.... Ad infinitum....
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Ubuntu phone.
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Battery life sucked after the update. Reflashed to 4.2.2 after about 48 hours.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2378455

This is what I'm getting on 4.3
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iStayHigh said:
This is what I'm getting on 4.3
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That is outstanding. But how in the world is it possible that you have a "screen on" state without being awake?
I have been fighting battery issues for so long now, I'd really like to get to something as good as what you get...

i get 5 hours on heavy use until i hit 10 % well my setup is in my signature on light use i am sure i can stretch it to 6 hours with brightness on auto and wifi is on most of the time

battery life is never going to be better for me unless i uv. the previous setup, i used cm 10.1.2 stable with matr1x kernel. i uv and set the max cpu to 1350. it was really really good. i can use the phone from 8am to 9pm.
now currently using aosp 4.3, the default setup battery life has improved a bit compared to 4.2.2 stock, but after semaphore kernel installed and uv a bit, even with max cpu at default which is 1.5ghz, battery life has been really great.
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For gods shake thats outstanding
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I've terrible battery usage after 4.3 update. I never had any issues before but now I get 20 to 30 percent drop during the night when before it was under 10 in the same scenario.
Android os Showing 6h usage...
Any help on sorting this out highly appreciated.

Battery life has increased a lot for me.
No heavy usage, I know. But still awesome compared to the stats I had when I bought my nexus 4

Deathmaker192 said:
Battery life has increased a lot for me.
No heavy usage, I know. But still awesome compared to the stats I had when I bought my nexus 4
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Custom rom?
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kdog1202 said:
Custom rom?
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Everything stock.
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For me is the same. No increase of battery life after 4.3 update.
Also i'm on stock from the first day when i bought my phone.

yulasinio said:
I've terrible battery usage after 4.3 update. I never had any issues before but now I get 20 to 30 percent drop during the night when before it was under 10 in the same scenario.
Android os Showing 6h usage...
Any help on sorting this out highly appreciated.
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Just out of curiosity, are in you the US/North America?
I had the same issue of losing tons of battery to the OS overnight. I reflashed to an older version of the modem. Most of the people I have seen so far with these symptoms have been in France and India. Must be something about the cell services and how they interact with the phone.

@Calebz: I'm in Ireland.
I've restarted the phone since and the battery usage is back to normal, will see for how long.

Maybe you can look at this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385843
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Battery Life/Stats {Discussion}.. For HTC Dual Sim 802 D/T/W

Battery life is always such a huge concern as it should be. Use this thread to share and post your battery life & stats For HTC One Dual Sim . Screen shots, Even if you are on Stock or Custom Rom , written experiences or whatever you got were willing to listen and learn from others possible tips and tricks.
Thanks​

You first
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criszz said:
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Lol Sure I'm on stock rom My stats are Off charger since 9 am
4 hours and 44 minutes screen time
3G on all day
Lots of browsing
Heavy texting
few calls
Display Half way
and it is at 17 percent.
With Normal Usage I get around 9 to 11 hours, Battery drain 1% every two minutes

my old usage >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46086704&postcount=2125 JB Soul Rom
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new usage, Tommy KitKat rom, 3g on, gps on , wifi conected, alot of read and viber messages ==> half of batt for 5h screen time and 11 phone on, is that bad ? is good, you tell ..

criszz said:
my old usage >>> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=46086704&postcount=2125 JB Soul Rom
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new usage, Tommy KitKat rom, 3g on, gps on , wifi conected, alot of read and viber messages ==> half of batt for 5h screen time and 11 phone on, is that bad ? is good, you tell ..
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The old usage is actually quite impressive i tried soul rom but never had this screen time like this
The new one is also Good :good: ! are you using any battery tweaks with Tommy

Amar.B said:
The old usage is actually quite impressive i tried soul rom but never had this screen time like this
The new one is also Good :good: ! are you using any battery tweaks with Tommy
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im using grenify for almost all non important aps and i don't have fb or twiter app installed

I am on 802w KK 4.21.401.5, I use multiple devices so very difficult to judge the all day performance, however since upgraded to KK, the battery performance is at least 20-30% better, I am charging this once in 2 day, mostly on wifi and I use snapdragon battery saver along with Trigger app for automated sleep mode etc.

Wth?? I am on maximus, can hardly do more than 20 hours. But I also have all services on the except for BT and use Google Now as well as take pics a lot. I have mainly Kernel eating up 20-40% of my battery... See attached my Gsam Homepage
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shwetkprabhat said:
I am on 802w KK 4.21.401.5, I use multiple devices so very difficult to judge the all day performance, however since upgraded to KK, the battery performance is at least 20-30% better, I am charging this once in 2 day, mostly on wifi and I use snapdragon battery saver along with Trigger app for automated sleep mode etc.
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That's actually us pretty awesome battery stats, I realized that 802d kitkat has a bug n Google services draining battery and makes the phone a wake all the time..
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geenyous said:
Wth?? I am on maximus, can hardly do more than 20 hours. But I also have all services on the except for BT and use Google Now as well as take pics a lot. I have mainly Kernel eating up 20-40% of my battery... See attached my Gsam Homepage
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This is actually not bad.. Try to do physical battery calibration and reset to factory settings this may help you a lot
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My status now on 802d normal usage
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Screen on time? Thx
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Friggin Android System eating away my battery, look at the sensor usage
And wth is the alarmManager?
Do you guys think that's a device or KK specific problem?
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geenyous said:
Friggin Android System eating away my battery, look at the sensor usage
And wth is the alarmManager?
Do you guys think that's a device or KK specific problem?
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looks like stock to me
on stock rom kk i also have alarm manager wake lock's

criszz said:
looks like stock to me
on stock rom kk i also have alarm manager wake lock's
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Anybody knows what that is?
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geenyous said:
Friggin Android System eating away my battery, look at the sensor usage
And wth is the alarmManager?
Do you guys think that's a device or KK specific problem?
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Faced the same problem with KK but i did downgrade and this issue was gone.. two bugs was on KK google services eating the hell out of my battery and Android system with 70 to 80% usage

criszz said:
Screen on time? Thx
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never had more than 4 to 5H screen on time.. on ''Stock''
How much time you get on Tommy!

Amar.B said:
never had more than 4 to 5H screen on time.. on ''Stock''
How much time you get on Tommy!
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5h scrren on for 50%

criszz said:
5h scrren on for 50%
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i wish if that possible it was on 13% .. 53% was @shwetkprabhat attached pic and i don't think he can get more than 5h.. Shwetk could you please share your screen on time stats
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[Q] android system taking half of battery?

I realized that android system takes up almost half of my battery in comparison with screen time? What's draining it?
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Ev0d3vil said:
I realized that android system takes up almost half of my battery in comparison with screen time? What's draining it?
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Something is wrong with ROM you can try reinstall rom or make factory reset...

BLiNKT said:
Something is wrong with ROM you can try reinstall rom or make factory reset...
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Its stock and I haven't used it for long. Say two weeks?
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It's bugged.
Mine is always listed around 30%, yet it only drains 1% in 10 hours in Deep Sleep.
When I play a game (like one of the Kairosoft ones), it lists the game as 6% and Android System as 30%. That simply doesn't seem valid.
When you view the battery consumption in a battery app like GSAM, Android System is listed as 0,1%, whilst it's 32% in Settings>Battery.

Android system includes google apps ao if you are rooted install appmaster or any other app that can remove preinstalled apps after you do that reboot andbyou are ready
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