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Your Galaxy S3 battery capacity after three years

Hey Folks,
It's been more than three years since the phone was released. Many would have replaced the battery similar to stock or higher capacities.
Let's share the battery life and usage of our phones. I have attached snapshots of my phone from GSAM battery monitor app. I have installed a 4400mAh Anker extended battery.
Please share yours. Cheers. :good:

Hi! Mi S3 has three years as well. You can see the date that it was built with the app Phone Info-Samsung- in the playstore. Mine it has a stock ROM, and with heavy usage (games, chrome and youtube) (didn't change the battery since got the phone), it gives 3h and 30 min screen on time. Very well to a phone that have three years. Greetings.

Stock battery 2 years plus
Offline Manga reading 5Hrs SOT
Online browsing 2~4hrs
Online streaming 2~4hrs
Gaming 2~3hrs
:C

3 1/2 years
Using Lollipop it drains in 4 hours of moderate using.
Using KitKat I can use the phone for 6 hours of moderate using.

I have been using my S3 since 1 year and 10 months and can go for 6-7 hrs with heavy usage

I bought my S3 in Sept 2013 so it has been close to 2yrs now and I have switched to Zero lemon which is 7000 maH monster..it lasts me for 3 days easily with super heavy usage...if I keep it in stand by it can last me for 20+ days without any issues...

I'm still using the stock battery. I've another stock battery as spare.
So far it working well with average of 7-8 hrs battery life with light usage.
Recently, I just use the Battery Repair app to repair some bad cells in the battery. Hopefully it will prolong the battery life a bit more.

Hi ******. Thats great timing so is yoir smartphone stable with this big monster 7000Mah . Can you guide me a bit so that i can buy one that i am sure about . I have galaxy s3 i9300 with 2 hours 3g use help me out
jbash79 said:
I bought my S3 in Sept 2013 so it has been close to 2yrs now and I have switched to Zero lemon which is 7000 maH monster..it lasts me for 3 days easily with super heavy usage...if I keep it in stand by it can last me for 20+ days without any issues...
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I changed recently to original Samsung's 3000mAh and would recommend it everyone who hesitate :good:

My S3 is now my second phone, so fairly light usage. Stock battery, 3 years 2 months old. Flashed Belokta Note 4 rom 5.1, Boeffla kernel 7.9. Greenify and Amplify. Able to achieve 2.5 days off the charger and 1 hour 15 mins SOT. Wi-Fi whenever possible. Not bad for a 3 year old battery and great work for the developers.
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gtfour88 said:
My S3 is now my second phone, so fairly light usage. Stock battery, 3 years 2 months old. Flashed Belokta Note 4 rom 5.1, Boeffla kernel 7.9. Greenify and Amplify. Able to achieve 2.5 days off the charger and 1 hour 15 mins SOT. Wi-Fi whenever possible. Not bad for a 3 year old battery and great work for the developers.
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Wow, excellent score, seems like I need to try Boeffla

Battery life discussion

Definitely impressed so far. How about your experience?

I'd like to know wich rom offers better battery life, xiaomi.eu or official global.

I get 6-7h of SoT regularly. But then I use my phone heavily every single day, needing to recharge at 3pm, almost never allowing the phone to sleep/turn off the display.

Amazing Batterylife

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Since I've used reading mode my screen on time is 5 hours, meanwhile at first my Sox was about 6.30 hours...

i got decent 6 hour screen on time in normal usage ( in performance and balance mode)
i always turn performance mode because i did notice some frame drop and lag
i just received redmi 4 prime view day ago
and it beat redmi note 4 battery life

Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!

I get on average 7 hours screen on time (chrome instagram twitter whatsapp spotify youtube twitch) and phone last about at least 18-20 hours. Amazing

someone261 said:
Battery life is awesome! I'm coming from the iPhone 6s and I'm completely stunned by the battery life I get with this phone!
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GSam works on your phone? MIUI keeps killing off mine, so the results are horribly inaccurate. Tried high priority, tried removing power saving from MIUI app settings, tried putting notification. Kept killing off the notification.

You should go to Settings and then Permissions and then Autostart and select the apps you want to be able to run in the background and autostart.

Pretty decent battery with the alternative rom from cofface.
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Around 4-5 hours SOT, 20% brightness mostly reddit, FB, manga, that's with wifi + dualsim btw.

can you tell me what is the pecertange of cell standby on your phone when you have 5-6 hours sot and what ROM do you use? thank you

Thunder ROM, no tweaks or settings changed, WiFi + dualsim, 4G if there's no WiFi

Between the huge battery and the very customizable "doze" alternative, this thing sips its juice like a little bird. Could go for a few days if need be. Stock everything.

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Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).

Silvers91 said:
Lol what? That's impossible.. That's probably on multiple charges or you left the screen of the phone on overnight without using it (which will only consume some %).
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Would you believe if I showed graph ?
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Would you believe if I showed graph ?
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Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)

Silvers91 said:
Dude seriously? 23 hours with 11 hours of SOT? That's the craziest I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. What is your usage? (apps, wifi or 3G/4G)
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Usage is light with some gaming
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Battery life on LG G4 h815

Hi guys
I have just purchased a new LG g4 h815.
I am loving the speed, the looks and everything but I have an issue regarding battery life. I am getting a screen on time of around 2.5 hrs with moderate to heavy use, is it normal for LG g4 though to don't play any games or stuff . Previously I had used a Samsung Note 4 it had an amazing battery life, screen on time was around 3.5 to 4 hrs with moderate to heavy use.
Any suggestions to improve battery life I have turned off location services, auto sync and Bluetooth, screen brightness is @40 % but WIFI is turned on constantly
I have surfed a lots of sites and forums most of them are complaining about the battery life of this phone but still most of them are getting around 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time.
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The only thing you can do is get back on lollipop. 6h SOT is pretty average score on lollipop
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whitenote4 said:
Hi guys
I have just purchased a new LG g4 h815.
I am loving the speed, the looks and everything but I have an issue regarding battery life. I am getting a screen on time of around 2.5 hrs with moderate to heavy use, is it normal for LG g4 though to don't play any games or stuff . Previously I had used a Samsung Note 4 it had an amazing battery life, screen on time was around 3.5 to 4 hrs with moderate to heavy use.
Any suggestions to improve battery life I have turned off location services, auto sync and Bluetooth, screen brightness is @40 % but WIFI is turned on constantly
I have surfed a lots of sites and forums most of them are complaining about the battery life of this phone but still most of them are getting around 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time.
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I have basically given up on this phone. Never get any updates (in Norway) and battery is very poor. The worst phone I ever had comparing battery. You should not have to turn off everything and tweak the phone and ask in forums to get good battery time. My father have a samsung brand and don't know **** about android or phones and have he's phone full of crap and never optimized it for anything and he STILL have great battery... Much better than mine. Weird right?
A thing I think, is that this phone struggle with WiFi. I have a lot of wifi disconnects and it gets very hot when it struggles with wifi. Sometimes when im at home I can have 60% left battery and not use it for a while and then suddenly have 40%...

I like this.

MattheewHun said:
I like this.
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Is it even real..??
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That graph is horrendous. You need to check if the phone is real.
Download 'Lg From' in playstore.
Because really, I've never seen a graph like that!
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Man, i dont even know what are you talkin' about. I just showed that it can last long, not just the 3-4h SOT like a G2. Imperium Rom and Kernel, Greenify, 15% Brightness, Amplified all Facebook(not Messenger) and Google Wakelocks with 3600s. The phone is a 2 momths old H815.
Regards

I really have no idea.. If one could use phone like u did.
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whitenote4 said:
Hi guys
I have just purchased a new LG g4 h815.
I am loving the speed, the looks and everything but I have an issue regarding battery life. I am getting a screen on time of around 2.5 hrs with moderate to heavy use, is it normal for LG g4 though to don't play any games or stuff . Previously I had used a Samsung Note 4 it had an amazing battery life, screen on time was around 3.5 to 4 hrs with moderate to heavy use.
Any suggestions to improve battery life I have turned off location services, auto sync and Bluetooth, screen brightness is @40 % but WIFI is turned on constantly
I have surfed a lots of sites and forums most of them are complaining about the battery life of this phone but still most of them are getting around 3 to 3.5 hrs of screen on time.
Sent from my LG-H815 using Tapatalk
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Having just gone though the same hassles, I found the only way to get good battery life is to get the latest version of Lollipop (V10F-TWN-XX for me), root and install Greenify to hibernate hungry apps like facebook etc. I find my battery life is now better than my old G2. I get about 3+ hours SOT and lots of standby time. (Its 10:20 am right now, usage on battery is 3h 35 mins, estimated time remaining is 155 hours, 3 % use in last 3h, 28m screen on time) Previously my battery would have been on 50-60% by mid day, now its in the 90s.
I was almost ready to ditch the phone and find something else, which would have been a shame as I like this phone.
What I tried and found along the way:
- Use the battery charger that came with the phone, the charger that came with my phone had a different plug so I used another brand. This was charging my battery too fast and causing it not to hold as much charge.
- I tried almost every Marshmallow stock rom I could find. Nothing seemed to be that great with the battery.
- I disabled wifi when not in use, location bluetooth etc...went back to almost no apps just to see what was causing poor battery, but determined it wasn't anything other than the system.
Anyway, thats what worked for me. Hope that helps.

Great battery life on Genisys for BL developed by Ignacio R. No root, bloatware blocked, Hibernation Manager on board. It's not heavy used, most browser on wifi/lte, g+, youtube.

MattheewHun said:
Man, i dont even know what are you talkin' about. I just showed that it can last long, not just the 3-4h SOT like a G2. Imperium Rom and Kernel, Greenify, 15% Brightness, Amplified all Facebook(not Messenger) and Google Wakelocks with 3600s. The phone is a 2 momths old H815.
Regards
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could you post more specific settings for the modules you posted?
thanks

RR Nougat rom+Llama kernel+Greenify,auto brightness,slider on half,lowered screen resolution to 1080x1920,battery 1 year old

I am getting 3-3.5 hours sot i will change my loving g4 soon. Everything is stock rom MM. Too bad battery life for this beauty

Sorry for the little OT:
Someone can suggest me a MM rom with good battery life and minimal lg bloatware?
Is it Lineage pretty good too in comparison?
I'm now on H-Rom but actually sot time it's ****ty (even using titan kernel and disabled big cores)

Crappy Battery life. Even after Root and Xposed.

Hi.
My battery life has been very crappy lately.
Ive rooted. Flashed Audax. Installed amplify and xposed and used the glassfish governor as well as naptime. The standby hours raised from 9h to 12h but sot is still the same. 1h 30 mins !!
All i use is whatsapp and facebook and gmail!!
Is there's any hope? I love my phone but the battery is really making me think of ditching it.

Me too i barely get 2 hours got only 3 in miui
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I can get 3 or more hours on sot with extraliterom anda audax kernel ...

cryptonx said:
Hi.
My battery life has been very crappy lately.
Ive rooted. Flashed Audax. Installed amplify and xposed and used the glassfish governor as well as naptime. The standby hours raised from 9h to 12h but sot is still the same. 1h 30 mins
All i use is whatsapp and facebook and gmail!!
Is there's any hope? I love my phone but the battery is really making me think of ditching it.
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Hopefully on nougout we can change the resolution and get better battery life

xdamember143 said:
Hopefully on nougout we can change the resolution and get better battery life
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I do not want to disappoint you but gsmarenas review of the nougat update for the s7 proved that the battery is worse thab marshmallow and the whole resolution thing didnt cut anything.

So...didn't like to resort to this but Greenify is really good on this phone.

I still get more than 3h SOT with at least 12hr stand by time.
My phone is 13 months old.

Could it just be you need a battery replacement?

Bad battery life no matter what

So, I had a couple good days off amazing battery life and then went back to appalling battery life. No matter what I flash, stock kdz, v20a via twrp. Fulmics, stock nougat. Nothing works. Now I'm going to replace the battery. If that doesn't fix the issue I'll be at a loss.
Anyone else? Is this a bad batch.
Btw SoT is 4 hours on normal usage.

What is your "normal usage"?
4 hours could be OK depending of what is your usage... Also, you should give some days to the battery calibrates itself...

DJPRMF said:
What is your "normal usage"?
4 hours could be OK depending of what is your usage... Also, you should give some days to the battery calibrates itself...
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Normal usage is just texting every now and again with some YouTube and chrome mixed in. Definitely not a rogue app, about 2 weeks ago I had by far the best battery life with 11 hours SoT with my regular usage, then I changed nothing and I went back to 4 hours or less

Install the BetterBatteryStats for check a little more in detail what could be causing that issue. Could be some wakelocks from some app installed, but that app should give you more details...
I'm also a little like you, but for me i never had more that 4 hours of SoT in a brand new G6. I notice some big drains when using instagram or something that have camera permissions (even if the camera is not used at all).