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Samsung Galaxy S3 Battery life Canada

I have a Telus S3 and I must say for a 2100 mah battery, I can't event get a day out of it which I am very surprised because all the reviews were raving about battery.
What battery life is everyone else getting? I am thinking on swapping out but wanted to ask users first.
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I have the same issue, battery runs out in less than a day with minimal browsing usage. It also charges extremely slow as well.
Battery stats shows that Cell Standby is the top hog. I know there's a thread on that already and apparently it's just a 'miscalculation' but I want to see if anyone else is having the same issue.

colemac said:
I have a Telus S3 and I must say for a 2100 mah battery, I can't event get a day out of it which I am very surprised because all the reviews were raving about battery.
What battery life is everyone else getting? I am thinking on swapping out but wanted to ask users first.
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Are the reviews your reading is on the International model? If so, of course the battery life would be better because it doesn't support LTE. LTE drains the battery big time.
Are you using LTE or HSPA?

Wirelessgirl said:
Are the reviews your reading is on the International model? If so, of course the battery life would be better because it doesn't support LTE. LTE drains the battery big time.
Are you using LTE or HSPA?
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If it isn't a bug or a rebel app draining your battery then it must be the LTE. I'm using my SGH-T999V on Wind's network and the battery life is incredible. I get at least 24 hours per charge with moderate use.

Same here - in Ottawa - using the SGS3 - LTE.
I am "lucky" if I get 4-5 hours out of the battery - even when I am almost (not even "using" it).
It drains super fast.
I, too have wondered why there are some that rave about how great the battery life is, yet there are also those of us out here whose experience is just the opposite - in that the battery drain/life is ABYSMAL.
What's going on ?
Was there a bad "batch" from the factory ?
Are there some bad batches of batteries ?
Does LTE have something to do with it ?
Is the reported "standby info" the issue - in that it is not only the reporting of what is being used, but that it is actually using a ton of the battery power somehow ?
I have not found any answers out there yet.

I too am experiencing poor battery life. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S3 in British Columbia and am with Telus.
I'm lucky to get 8 hours with what I would consider relatively light use i.e. moderate texting, brief web browsing and no gaming.
I've done all the suggested tweaks to improve battery life such as turn wifi/bt off, sync off, power save on, screen brightness low, disabled many background apps, Haptic off, motion off, only one weather widget going etc etc. I've basically disabled every fun feature on this phone off and still get miserable battery life.
I'm going to turn LTE off today and switch to the GSM/HSPA Auto mode only and see what kind of difference this makes.
Maybe others could follow suit and post some results?
Let's sort this out. I bought this thing because initial reports had great reviews on battery life.
Cheers.

I was getting horrible battery life as well, so I left all the fun stuff on except for disabling LTE. With LTE enabled, I was losing about 10% per hour with very low use. With LTE off, I'm losing about 1% /hour. I only made the change around noon EST, but it made a very big difference right away.
I should note that I'm in downtown Toronto, with full signal strength. Checking the battery screen shows that Cell Standby is what used 42% of my battery so far today.

vercro said:
I was getting horrible battery life as well, so I left all the fun stuff on except for disabling LTE. With LTE enabled, I was losing about 10% per hour with very low use. With LTE off, I'm losing about 1% /hour. I only made the change around noon EST, but it made a very big difference right away.
I should note that I'm in downtown Toronto, with full signal strength. Checking the battery screen shows that Cell Standby is what used 42% of my battery so far today.
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It's only been a couple of hours but I'm getting the same results. With LTE off I'm seeing roughly a 1% drop in battery per hour down from about 10% with LTE on.
Lame.

There are a few problems floating around but if you did some research you would find that using better battery stats app will help you find what exactly is killing your battery life.
Anyways, apparently there's one particularly nasty bug where whenever you touch your screen (even when locked) it will wake and prevent it from going into deep sleep.
https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/AudioOut_1
Menu -> Sounds -> uncheck "Touch Sounds", uncheck "Screen lock Sounds"
Look at your battery info screen and see exactly what is draining your battery the most.
I am at 92% with 2h 11m 41s on battery. screen takes up 51% of that drain. At that rate my phone will last 27.5 hours.
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I was getting horrible battery life as well, so I left all the fun stuff on except for disabling LTE. With LTE enabled, I was losing about 10% per hour with very low use. With LTE off, I'm losing about 1% /hour. I only made the change around noon EST, but it made a very big difference right away.
I should note that I'm in downtown Toronto, with full signal strength. Checking the battery screen shows that Cell Standby is what used 42% of my battery so far today.
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Another problem is the cell standby % is wrong by a factor of 10. Either apply the cell standby fix for rooted phones or divide the % by 10 to get the actual drain.

franknozly said:
There are a few problems floating around but if you did some research you would find that using better battery stats app will help you find what exactly is killing your battery life.
Anyways, apparently there's one particularly nasty bug where whenever you touch your screen (even when locked) it will wake and prevent it from going into deep sleep.
https://github.com/asksven/BetterBatteryStats-Knowledge-Base/wiki/AudioOut_1
Menu -> Sounds -> uncheck "Touch Sounds", uncheck "Screen lock Sounds"
Look at your battery info screen and see exactly what is draining your battery the most.
I am at 92% with 2h 11m 41s on battery. screen takes up 51% of that drain. At that rate my phone will last 27.5 hours.
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Another problem is the cell standby % is wrong by a factor of 10. Either apply the cell standby fix for rooted phones or divide the % by 10 to get the actual drain.
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I did read about that bug a little bit when I was originally looking for info; but it was my understanding that it affects the reported usage by cell standby, not the actual battery remaining.
Is that not the case? Does the bug also affect the reported overall battery remaining? Also, I don't remember seeing anything about it affecting Canadian GS3s, only the international models. But I didn't look very hard at that, so I may be completely incorrect.

I'm just reaching 15 hours with 3.5 hours screen on,, 26% battery left.

same here in europe, no LTE here, i'm on HSDPA...i may be wrong but my baterry lasted first few days for 20 hours, than after firmware update maybe 10 with minimum use or 6 with normal usage....
expect solution soon or replacing it...
samsung

Jedarius said:
I have the same issue, battery runs out in less than a day with minimal browsing usage. It also charges extremely slow as well.
Battery stats shows that Cell Standby is the top hog. I know there's a thread on that already and apparently it's just a 'miscalculation' but I want to see if anyone else is having the same issue.
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Well the cell standby eating the battery thing was an issue reported on some international i9300
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722
Also this may also be a factor
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1712141

terrible battery
i was hoping people were having the same problem as me. 2nd day using my verizon sgs3 and right now 55% 4hrs and 10min. I hate this. Hope there is an easy solution or im going to have to take it back. Maybe i should drain the battery to 0 cuz i didn't last night and it might not be calibrated correctly yet...what do you guys think?

unplugging at 6.45 am, going to bed at 11.30pm I still had 17% left the day before yesterday. After some heavy use yesterday I only got to about 8.30pm before I was asking to be charged again.
Pretty happy over all. I think I'll comfortably get a day out of it once I stop obsessing with it

Turning off LTE has made a huge difference in battery life, dropping down around 1-2% per hour in standby.
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colemac said:
I have a Telus S3 and I must say for a 2100 mah battery, I can't event get a day out of it which I am very surprised because all the reviews were raving about battery.
What battery life is everyone else getting? I am thinking on swapping out but wanted to ask users first.
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I am using LTE when in the service area. I have installed Easy Battery Save and I must say it has helped on intelligent power saving mode but I mean why should we have to use a battery app to utilize this? Any other fixes without using the app that people have come across?

I get 40% left from a day starting at 7am full charge and ending 11pm on wind version . Using lots of email, Facebook, what's app, browsing and YouTube. I find turning sync off and on only when you need to sync helps a lot
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Was down to 22% after 12 hours and 42 mins of standby and about 56 mins of screen usage. On Bell LTE most of the day.

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Turning off LTE has made a huge difference in battery life, dropping down around 1-2% per hour in standby.
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This pretty much says it all. LTE kills battery life.
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i was at 55% at about 5pm yesterday after 10+ hours of battery usage, 1.5hrs of screen, and probably 2 hours of LTE (the rest wifi). i use juice defender so when the screen is off it generally cuts data signals for me. well from 5pm to 9pm my battery went from 55% to 1% with maybe less than 30 minutes of usage (all on LTE though). i looked and no unwanted programs were running in the background.
i charged it overnight, got up and after an hour this morning of ALL standby (seriously the screen was on 3m), i went from 100% to 87%. that would mean on 100% standby the phone would have died within 8 hours, which is definitely not right or even similar to previous battery usage for me.
i restarted my phone, recharged, and so far it has been on for 40 minutes and the battery is at 99% with 2m of screen time, which makes a lot more sense. so have you ever experienced something like this where an android OS restart helps your battery, or does it sound like i might have a bad battery?

tuffluck said:
i was at 55% at about 5pm yesterday after 10+ hours of battery usage, 1.5hrs of screen, and probably 2 hours of LTE (the rest wifi). i use juice defender so when the screen is off it generally cuts data signals for me. well from 5pm to 9pm my battery went from 55% to 1% with maybe less than 30 minutes of usage (all on LTE though). i looked and no unwanted programs were running in the background.
i charged it overnight, got up and after an hour this morning of ALL standby (seriously the screen was on 3m), i went from 100% to 87%. that would mean on 100% standby the phone would have died within 8 hours, which is definitely not right or even similar to previous battery usage for me.
i restarted my phone, recharged, and so far it has been on for 40 minutes and the battery is at 99% with 2m of screen time, which makes a lot more sense. so have you ever experienced something like this where an android OS restart helps your battery, or does it sound like i might have a bad battery?
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Install Carat, it will tell you exactly what is draining your battery. I'm guessing something something is syncing in the backgruond and killing your battery.

tuffluck said:
i was at 55% at about 5pm yesterday after 10+ hours of battery usage, 1.5hrs of screen, and probably 2 hours of LTE (the rest wifi). i use juice defender so when the screen is off it generally cuts data signals for me. well from 5pm to 9pm my battery went from 55% to 1% with maybe less than 30 minutes of usage (all on LTE though). i looked and no unwanted programs were running in the background.
i charged it overnight, got up and after an hour this morning of ALL standby (seriously the screen was on 3m), i went from 100% to 87%. that would mean on 100% standby the phone would have died within 8 hours, which is definitely not right or even similar to previous battery usage for me.
i restarted my phone, recharged, and so far it has been on for 40 minutes and the battery is at 99% with 2m of screen time, which makes a lot more sense. so have you ever experienced something like this where an android OS restart helps your battery, or does it sound like i might have a bad battery?
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Lots of people are having an issue similar to this with ATT. Is your ATT?

i am in fact ATT. sorry i haven't seen the other posts about it, have they broken through to figure out the root of the problem? any link to a thread about this? it's very, very odd. 8 hours of battery life is no good, too.

tuffluck said:
i am in fact ATT. sorry i haven't seen the other posts about it, have they broken through to figure out the root of the problem? any link to a thread about this? it's very, very odd. 8 hours of battery life is no good, too.
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I seem to get it when I am in a poor LTE coverage area, which includes one of my offices. It is strange. "Cell Standby" will usually have the largest battery usage in your settings. My temporary fix is to turn off "mobile data" from the toggle in notifications, especially if you have wifi where you are. You can usually tell when the battery is being drained b/c your phone will stay warm even with no apps running and the screen off. The only other thing that seems to help is restarting it every day or so. When I don't have this problem, the battery life on this phone is amazing, so I don't think it's a bad battery. If you find out a better solution, please let me know!

I'm assuming you get off work at 5 and use the phone more. If so, turn off juice defender when you leave work. Since juice defender turns off your signal, you have to reconnect every time you use the phone. That kills battery more than anything
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AndroidLonghorn said:
I seem to get it when I am in a poor LTE coverage area, which includes one of my offices. It is strange. "Cell Standby" will usually have the largest battery usage in your settings. My temporary fix is to turn off "mobile data" from the toggle in notifications, especially if you have wifi where you are. You can usually tell when the battery is being drained b/c your phone will stay warm even with no apps running and the screen off. The only other thing that seems to help is restarting it every day or so. When I don't have this problem, the battery life on this phone is amazing, so I don't think it's a bad battery. If you find out a better solution, please let me know!
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I would agree with your deduction. Cell standby is a battery hog. I use Wifi when I am at work and home. and HSPA+ everywhere in between. (No LTE in NH)

20blks said:
I'm assuming you get off work at 5 and use the phone more. If so, turn off juice defender when you leave work. Since juice defender turns off your signal, you have to reconnect every time you use the phone. That kills battery more than anything
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Doesnt that defeat the purpose of having JD? Has anyone shown than JD uses more battery than not having it at all?
Fyi cell standby doesnt actually use as much battery as it reports, its just incorrectly displayed on the battery meter. Hopefully there will be an update to fix it eventually. Google it if you want to fix it manually.

tuffluck said:
Doesnt that defeat the purpose of having JD? Has anyone shown than JD uses more battery than not having it at all?
Fyi cell standby doesnt actually use as much battery as it reports, its just incorrectly displayed on the battery meter. Hopefully there will be an update to fix it eventually. Google it if you want to fix it manually.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722 for directions on how to manually fix this. I am not sure if it works with AT&T variant. Correct me if I am wrong.
I wonder if this is a common issue with other phones. My Dinc shows more than 35% stand by most of the time.

SpartanG087 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1732722 for directions on how to manually fix this. I am not sure if it works with AT&T variant. Correct me if I am wrong.
I wonder if this is a common issue with other phones. My Dinc shows more than 35% stand by most of the time.
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Cell standby is just a reporting bug. It is not actually draining your phone as much as it shows.

There are two separate problems. There is the problem on the international S3's where it is reporting cell standby incorrectly. There is another problem with some of the ATT S3's where they are continually connecting or re-connecting to the network where they have a poor LTE signal. This is actually using the battery. You can feel the heat from your phone when you have no apps open and it is normally cool to the touch. The only solution I have found so far is to turn off mobile data, and the phone will cool down again and stop draining battery.

AndroidLonghorn said:
There are two separate problems. There is the problem on the international S3's where it is reporting cell standby incorrectly. There is another problem with some of the ATT S3's where they are continually connecting or re-connecting to the network where they have a poor LTE signal. This is actually using the battery. You can feel the heat from your phone when you have no apps open and it is normally cool to the touch. The only solution I have found so far is to turn off mobile data, and the phone will cool down again and stop draining battery.
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Yeah I agree I think this is exactly the problem. I've only seen it once in a while though
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I disabled some of my ATT apps yesterday. I'm hoping that may have something to do with this issue, but I am in a location with a better signal today, so I don't know yet if that helped.

arkard1 said:
Cell standby is just a reporting bug. It is not actually draining your phone as much as it shows.
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Right. It's just cosmetic.
I don't have LTE in my area and my battery life is okay. I use wifi at my house and at work. I just think it could be better, but i am used to my dinc with my custom rom and kernel. Amazing battery life. I can't wait until we get some sweet roms and kernels for the S3. So far i am super impressed with the phone.

arkard1 said:
Cell standby is just a reporting bug. It is not actually draining your phone as much as it shows.
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mobilehavoc said:
Yeah I agree I think this is exactly the problem. I've only seen it once in a while though
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i think you guys are right. the only thing that fixed my problem was restarting, which obviously also turned off/on the mobile data. how would you do that normally? just hit airplane mode and then turn it back on?
do you guys think this is a bug with AT&T that will be fixed?

tuffluck said:
i think you guys are right. the only thing that fixed my problem was restarting, which obviously also turned off/on the mobile data. how would you do that normally? just hit airplane mode and then turn it back on?
do you guys think this is a bug with AT&T that will be fixed?
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Turn it off in the notification drop down.

tuffluck said:
i think you guys are right. the only thing that fixed my problem was restarting, which obviously also turned off/on the mobile data. how would you do that normally? just hit airplane mode and then turn it back on?
do you guys think this is a bug with AT&T that will be fixed?
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This isn't a problem that too many people are having, but there are enough that it must be a bug, at least for ATT. There is a toggle in your notifications that will turn off mobile data. I don't think it is enough to just turn it off and back on. If you are in an area with bad reception, you have to leave it off or the draining continues. If you find something else that works, please share with us.

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This isn't a problem that too many people are having, but there are enough that it must be a bug, at least for ATT. There is a toggle in your notifications that will turn off mobile data. I don't think it is enough to just turn it off and back on. If you are in an area with bad reception, you have to leave it off or the draining continues. If you find something else that works, please share with us.
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Just to confirm, a reboot fixed it. I was running my phone for over 10 days straight before it happened so as long as it only happens every 2 weeks or so it doesn't matter
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mobilehavoc said:
Just to confirm, a reboot fixed it. I was running my phone for over 10 days straight before it happened so as long as it only happens every 2 weeks or so it doesn't matter
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I'm also seeing this issue; battery gets hot and drains quick in sleep.
I'm running stock, and only rooted.
I do notice when checking my battery that "Android System" is taking up the majority of my battery, by a considerable amount. Is anyone else who is experiencing the drain issue also seeing this under their battery reporting menu?

Android 6.0.1 Battery Life Dicussion

Discuss all battery life and doze info here for Android 6.0.1 Only

It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....

eSu.Matix said:
It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....
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That is indeed true.. I for one been hitting that button like crazy but sadly only the G920F is getting it and not my "I" variant.

eSu.Matix said:
It's gonna be better for the most people on this forum, cause they're going to stop checking for MM updates every 2 minutes....
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So ture

eSu.Matix said:
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Agreed, also would be good if those who tried it can post a comparison about how much was lasting battery with 5.1.1 and now with 6.0 on same scenario (I mean apps, settings, etc)

befor update i think battery life getting better ,but after one night and a some program ,it's show only 22 hours battery life ,,,, hey sami what you think about batterylife .?
i totaly disapoint...

Installed French XEF yesterday at 15:00 (03:00PM)
Popped it off the charger at 16:00
Now : 08:00, the next day
43% charge
16h 8m on battery
1h 44m SOT
Maybe 2% loss overnight.
Disabled Google Apps and Samsung bloat via Settings => Applications
WIFI : ON
Location : GPS, WIFI and Mobile
Brightness : 25% + Auto
Turned OFF LTE : Only 3G speeds in my area
Action Launcher 3

There's not so much to do fellaz. We've got a 2500 mah battery giving juice to a monster cpu and monster useless display. These things swallow harder than sasha grey.
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esi2121 said:
befor update i think battery life getting better ,but after one night and a some program ,it's show only 22 hours battery life ,,,, hey sami what you think about batterylife .?
i totaly disapoint...
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System calculate time left on battery based on your usage in 7 days, if you use it a lot then system will shows that you have short life of battery, if you use moderate or low, then you would see longer time of usage. So You should check your real time on battery, when you use in similar way than in on 5.1.1 and then compare to 6.0.1. For me at the moment i see much better battery performance.

Ops wrong thread
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Heavy use. 40-70% brightness about 1h more SOT than Lollipop.

The battery life for now is not so impressive, not more than L

One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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The doze feat is deff working. With WiFi on all night and apps open I lost 2%.
no sight of the R.A.B but some say they are exparience it.

How do you guys check whether Doze is actually working or not? Is there any specific part of the settings where I could check it?
Thanks!

By now your phone battery would have deteriorated for those who have had it a while that whatever gain MM has would be negligible.
For those of us who got it at release day, battery health would be about ~95%.
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unotretresette said:
There's not so much to do fellaz. We've got a 2500 mah battery giving juice to a monster cpu and monster useless display. These things swallow harder than sasha grey.
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Indeed, but no one is asking for Xperia Z3 battery either, where I could get around 8+ hours SOT with Amplify, Greenify and a few other tweaks. I no we can't let the battery drop slower when using the phone, but the main complain is the standby drop, which would give us more SOT if we could lower it. Really, my phone should not use power on anything else than be ready for calls, text and else the apps I set it to, like Snapchat, Messenger and so on when in standby and you can get this with Amplify and Greenify. On 5.1.1 I managed to get around 0-1% drop over 8 hours of sleep, so as I got more standby time, I would eventually get more SOT too, which made the phone still last a day.
The problem now with the high standby drain is that you can't really feel a difference (might be kind of ironically here) between using the phone or having it in standby as it still drains hell a lot.

nothing has changed in marshmallow since 5.1.1 . I am using for 2 days. the battery consumption is the same as lollipop. (i did clean flash of france mm)

I've noticed App Optimisation is using 7% of my battery.... Cell standby 3% and Android system 8% with screen nicking 50%.
Seems good, but i'm disabling App Optimisation and comparing over the next few days.
Haven't experienced any drain from mobile or radio signals or any other bugs.

sathishm07 said:
One more thing to notice is that the battery fares better in wifi. But suffers a lot in Lte or in 3g mobile network. I get no more than 3 hrs of SOT when connected to mobile network in lollipop, but 4.5 to 5 hrs in wifi. Could anyone manage to get better battery in mobile network in MM?? The main battery suckers in network are google services and the annoying mobile radio active bug in lollipop. Are these two things fixed in MM touchwiz rom?? Confirmation is appreciated..
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Its pitty but i still face the radio bug in some apps, even android system has it
Jonathan-H said:
I've noticed App Optimisation is using 7% of my battery.... Cell standby 3% and Android system 8% with screen nicking 50%.
Seems good, but i'm disabling App Optimisation and comparing over the next few days.
Haven't experienced any drain from mobile or radio signals or any other bugs.
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You mean its better App Opt to be off rather than On?

Mobile standy battery drain

Hey. I am just curious. I always get big mobile standy battery drain, also during the night time. It is not affected by enabling or disabling location, bluetooth or wifi.
On battery settings - mobile standy is always bigger than screen drain, I think it is very strange. I am using 4G setting on phone, but anyway if I choose 3G, I got same drain. Please take a look into screenshots. I suppose that there is no fix for it, but I cant believe that all of users have same stats on battery also (4G users).

Honestly, it doesn't look too bad. I would say it is about as good as you can get on 4G unless you use Xposed.

From my experience, Moto voice was the culprit. When disabled I get about 4 hrs sot. Once enabled, cell standby drain jumps and sot drops to around 2 hrs.
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SirMiks said:
From my experience, Moto voice was the culprit. When disabled I get about 4 hrs sot. Once enabled, cell standby drain jumps and sot drops to around 2 hrs.
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Moto Voice is not the culprit or cause... The issue is cellular signal strength, and SD808 SOC does not use battery efficiently unless signal strength is excellent, anytime it drops the battery usage increases exponentially. The OP's Mobile Standby drain looks very normal to me.

acejavelin said:
Moto Voice is not the culprit or cause... The issue is cellular signal strength, and SD808 SOC does not use battery efficiently unless signal strength is excellent, anytime it drops the battery usage increases exponentially. The OP's Mobile Standby drain looks very normal to me.
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Hm I must be thinking of something else. Thanks for clarifying. Sorry for the misinformation.
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SirMiks said:
Hm I must be thinking of something else. Thanks for clarifying. Sorry for the misinformation.
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No worries... Moto Voice CAN cause battery drain, although it isn't common, it just won't show up as mobile standby, that is purely radio usage.

acejavelin said:
Moto Voice is not the culprit or cause... The issue is cellular signal strength, and SD808 SOC does not use battery efficiently unless signal strength is excellent, anytime it drops the battery usage increases exponentially. The OP's Mobile Standby drain looks very normal to me.
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This is why I primarily use 3G and will only occasionally turn on LTE. 3G signal strength is typically better in my area and it helps prevent the extra battery drain. For the most part, since I don't stream much video on mobile data, 3G speeds are more than sufficient for my day to day tasks like email, forum postings, banking, etc.
I kept Moto voice off for some time when I first got the phone because I worried about battery. I decided to give it a try one day and over the course of a couple of weeks I noted the battery drain was negligible despite always listening so I left it on. Any unusual battery drain during standby/sleep I've experienced since then has been due to a rogue app causing wakelocks but it has never been due to Moto voice that I could determine.

aybarrap1 said:
This is why I primarily use 3G and will only occasionally turn on LTE. 3G signal strength is typically better in my area and it helps prevent the extra battery drain. For the most part, since I don't stream much video on mobile data, 3G speeds are more than sufficient for my day to day tasks like email, forum postings, banking, etc.
I kept Moto voice off for some time when I first got the phone because I worried about battery. I decided to give it a try one day and over the course of a couple of weeks I noted the battery drain was negligible despite always listening so I left it on. Ancy unusual battery drain during standby/sleep I've experienced since then has been due to a rogue app causing wakelocks but it has never been due to Moto voice that I could determine.
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Might want to test with LTE on... In many cases LTE uses less battery than 3G in modern SOC's.

acejavelin said:
Moto Voice is not the culprit or cause... The issue is cellular signal strength, and SD808 SOC does not use battery efficiently unless signal strength is excellent, anytime it drops the battery usage increases exponentially. The OP's Mobile Standby drain looks very normal to me.
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Ou. If you are saying that it looks fine for you, then I believe it. I am living in the place where are a lot of base stations nearby, so I suppose phone is always switching between the cells to find the best signal at that moment. Thanks.
I was just worried that Mobile Standy is always in first place, and then I got only 2 hours of SOT.

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Might want to test with LTE on... In many cases LTE uses less battery than 3G in modern SOC's.
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If I can get Tasker to do the switch LTE on/off via location I will give it a try. At work I usually get decent enough signal to get data and phone calls on 3G all day but LTE is extremely weak and drops regularly back to 3G so the switching back and forth between bands is murder on the battery and data consistency.
UPDATE: Gave a shot to running LTE on for a few days. Thanks @acejavelin. While my battery life is not really noticeably better, it is not worse either so I can enjoy the greater speed. I just have to manually switch to/from 3G when arriving and leaving work, but I can deal with it.

Getting very less standby time. Please help me

Hi all,
I tried all the possible solutions Greenify, Format etc. but my battery still drains more than 3% per hour.
Should I go and change the device from service center? I am wondering they will not take this as a replacement.

Do you disable GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when not using?

The standby drain will persist depending on the 4G signal strength. If you are in a strong coverage area, it should not be more than 1.5%-2%/hr. Also are you on WQHD or FHD? Disabling AOD and being on FHD helps.

Also seeing strong standby drain after the last update, not sure why?
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Jostian said:
Also seeing strong standby drain after the last update, not sure why?
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by strong do you mean good or bad?

Bad, dropping 2 to 3 percent per hour
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linom said:
The standby drain will persist depending on the 4G signal strength. If you are in a strong coverage area, it should not be more than 1.5%-2%/hr. Also are you on WQHD or FHD? Disabling AOD and being on FHD helps.
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4G signal may be an issue.. I dont have strong network at home and office. but rest of the things like FHD, disabling AOD all the tweaks I have done.

sp1312 said:
4G signal may be an issue.. I dont have strong network at home and office. but rest of the things like FHD, disabling AOD all the tweaks I have done.
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Download 'Network Cell Info" from playstore and check your signal strength. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wilysis.cellinfo&hl=en). Also here is a ready reference to evaluate 4G LTE signal parameters: http://blog.industrialnetworking.com/2014/04/making-sense-of-signal-strengthsignal.html
Hope this helps!

linom said:
The standby drain will persist depending on the 4G signal strength. If you are in a strong coverage area, it should not be more than 1.5%-2%/hr. Also are you on WQHD or FHD? Disabling AOD and being on FHD helps.
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This. For some reason, the signal at my house is just horrible. Maybe it has to do with the tall trees surrounding the area? I get much worst standby time compare to when I'm at my vacation home.

Yeah this is only the negative I have right now with this phone. I get impressive 6 to 7 hours SOTs before needing recharge but standby times are bad despite no using AOD and keeping all apps at always sleep in settings but I am not rooted yet.
My rooted S5 LTE-A with RR gets impressive 2 and sometimes up to 3 days standby with 3G/LTE but thats with greenify and adaway.
Anyone here with rooted S8 with greenify get more standby time?

janver22 said:
Yeah this is only the negative I have right now with this phone. I get impressive 6 to 7 hours SOTs before needing recharge but standby times are bad despite no using AOD and keeping all apps at always sleep in settings but I am not rooted yet.
My rooted S5 LTE-A with RR gets impressive 2 and sometimes up to 3 days standby with 3G/LTE but thats with greenify and adaway.
Anyone here with rooted S8 with greenify get more standby time?
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How do you get 6-7 hrs SOT when your standby is bad?. My standby is about 2%/hr and I get 4-5 hrs SOT mixed wifi and 4G LTE.

linom said:
How do you get 6-7 hrs SOT when your standby is bad?. My standby is about 2%/hr and I get 4-5 hrs SOT mixed wifi and 4G LTE.
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That scenario would be charging the phone to 100%, LTE/3G at full bars, watching youtube podcast videos @ 480p for total of 4+ hours, reading ebook for an hour and some web browsing for remaining time till 5%.
Problem is when I charge 100% and just leave the phone for about 6 hours no use whatsoever, i get 85 - 80 after checking again. That is with good signal as well.

janver22 said:
Yeah this is only the negative I have right now with this phone. I get impressive 6 to 7 hours SOTs before needing recharge but standby times are bad despite no using AOD and keeping all apps at always sleep in settings but I am not rooted yet.
My rooted S5 LTE-A with RR gets impressive 2 and sometimes up to 3 days standby with 3G/LTE but thats with greenify and adaway.
Anyone here with rooted S8 with greenify get more standby time?
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Yes when using continuous it gives 5-6 hours SOT. But when phone is idle it gives me really less SOT

sp1312 said:
Yes when using continuous it gives 5-6 hours SOT. But when phone is idle it gives me really less SOT
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The SOT needs to be ignored. What matters is standby time. If we dont use the phone for a couple of hours and you see the battery drop considerably then something is wrong with your apps/signal. BBS/GSM helps point out the wakelocks for apps, but a bad signal has limited options. Its high time, Google & OEMs should try and address the standby drain issues. This is one area where iOS excels, due to a closed and nuclear approach towards apps.