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[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
And you can't wrap your mind around the thought that this was because the note has a even bigger battery right?

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9300 mit Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
Hi, what graph are you after? Is there a screen you want me to take a screen shot of?
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
Very similar usage and battery life as yesterday
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
If you click on the graph on the screenshot you've posted it shows awake time and so on. That is what I mean.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
Is this what you mean?
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
That's the one. Thanks. You do seem to be getting a lot of lock wakes as well
[Galaxy S III General] komugi:
Was the update pushed for XXALEF yet? Or only XXALE8?
[Galaxy S III General] hisee:
Is der is much improvment ? Shld i do this update or wait for sum other update/rom ? As i have to root again (lazy :S )
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
I'd say it's worth doing as rooting takes 5 mins
[Galaxy S III General] Tsukurimashou:
Yeah it's not like if you were on the one X where rooting is a headache.
[Galaxy S III General] tim_2812:
Kies

Is there a way to force the ota update because mine will not update on kies. It recognises the update but just gets stuck on 0%

Havnt received it ota yet on t-mobile
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
You can flash the update using odin
[Galaxy S III General] Sgs2(ab)user:
After updating ota from LE8 to LF2 then factory resetting a lot of apps I used to use now say device not compatible with this version in the play store. Just paid £4 for fifa !! Anybody else found this ??
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Weird. I Haven't had any problems like that.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
I have also noticed that not leaving multiple apps open gives better battery life with wifi on. The wifi will have a lore more wake locks. Try closing all apps.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Do you just mean holding the home button and closing all the apps sat there?
[Galaxy S III General] alias_neo:
I found that Google Photos, Picasa Web Albums and Instant Upload in Accounts & Sync were major culprits for battery killing.

Because I have almost non-existent signal at home over night, they were killing my battery trying to sync. I have disabled them all for each of my Google accounts and had a marked improvement. Bare in mind, this is mostly a problem for me due to the poor signal at home.

I still have something regularly waking the phone for fairly lengthy periods, although very consistently (equally spaced) that I still need to pin down.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
I'm always connected to WiFi when i'm at home so I doubt that is my issue
[Galaxy S III General] achuman:
I'm still waiting for the update. Have checked OTA and in Kies, nothing.
[Galaxy S III General] Mr_Twist:
Have you tried updating kies as well?
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Yes. It helps with wifi, but I honestly prefer to just keep wifi "off" as for some reason my wifi just drains my battery.
[Galaxy S III General] achuman:
Jup, everything is up to date. I suspect my region is the problem, which is strange because we got the phone the same time as everybody else (in South Africa).
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
You can always flash the UK update using odin
[Galaxy S III General] norpan111:
Haven't got **** either since I bought it at release.. Nordic unbranded
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
At the moment I'm getting a full days use out of my phone so I'm not too worried. It seems my cell standby use is better than some peoples though
[Galaxy S III General] sjtscott:
Got the phone tuesday, tried software update tues evening no joy. Installed Kies on my Mac early Weds which prompted me for the Firmware update. Disconnected as I didn't fancy a 1.14Gb download for something that should be small. Rechecked software update on the phone and the OTA update prompt came up, downloaded just over 8Mb update and installed it.

Unbranded SIM free UK phone (in blue) running on O2. Now on LF2

Cell standby still very high battery usage still on mine since the update.
[Galaxy S III General] gaui:
Cell Standby still high on LF6 (WanamLite V1.3)

Time on battery: 7,2h

Remaining capacity in %: 74

Cell standby in %: 37

(100 - 74) * 37 / 100 / 7,2 = ~1,34 %/h
[Galaxy S III General] gaui:
I wrote a script to do the calculations:

http://gaui.is/php/drain.php
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Nice one
[Galaxy S III General] Minoza:
I've got a problem with both OTA and Kies update. First time I tried to do OTA update it failed because there was something wrong with my wifi (there was actually nothing wrong but I forgot it uses PPPoE...). So, I skipped it, I thought I'll do it at a later time. Now whenever I try OTA update it says there are no updates found, and Kies says my device is not supported...

What can I do? Would factory reset help? I'm not rooted, and I don't want to just yet.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Has anyone from this thread edited the power values file?
[Galaxy S III General] pjacobs76:
I got the "system update available" today. I'm on US Sprint rooted. Will this break root?
[Galaxy S III General] P1n3apqlExpr3ss:
Did this ever get an official change log or a decent user one? Just got in here in New Zealand on Vodafone
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Yes it will and it may not install on a rooted phone.

jje
[Galaxy S III General] nativestranger:
After all this time no one knows anything about what these updates are supposed to change? Yet everyone just updates blindly? Amazing! I accidentally tapped on my update notification 2 days ago and it went ahead to update to XXALF6 without my approval. These are what I observed:

Cell standby: Still bad as before

Keyboard prediction: still doesn't remember my words with swipe input

Flash player video bug: Still freezes halfway through playback

Audio crackling: Much worse than before.

Performance: Unchanged
[Galaxy S III General] pjacobs76:
I went ahead and tried to install this update on my US Sprint rooted phone, and I got a message that said update failed. I still have root, and now when I click on system updates in the settings, it doesn't show any updates available.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
It will be caused by the custom ROM

Here is a link to my blog with the download on it

http://happylaptops.co.uk/2012/06/12/gt-i9300-i9300xxalf2-2012-june-i9300oxaalf2-united-kingdom/
[Galaxy S III General] Glifaus:
Hi Oli2k, seems that the page is down, if someone can upload this file to another server would be great!

I'll upload a mirror when i have the file.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
hi, can i ask was your gs3 supplied by orange uk?

I have received my upgrade from orange which is an unbranded device and i am in the uk.

did you get your update notification via keys as i cant seem to find anywhere on the phone to manually check.

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] mardon85:
Settings > (Scroll Down to the Bottom > About Device > Software Update.

As said though, unbranded UK phone no sign here.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Looks like the load has took my server down lol give me 2 mins
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
http://www.hotfile.com/dl/159515882/30b51b3/I9300XXALF2_I9300OXAALF2_BTU.zip.htm
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
thanks for the reply

that option is not there on my phone?

under 'about device' all i have is 'status' (no software update option there) or 'legal information' and nothing there

any ideas why i dont have it?
[Galaxy S III General] mardon85:
Whats that? Its a 750mb file not a 8mb one?
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
This is what I have under about phone
[Galaxy S III General] Tectas:
It's the whole system dump to be flashable with odin, not just the update.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
can anyone tell me what the info in the list means as in do i have the current latest (apart from the release today) firmware.

also is the 'generic' uk firmware i have ....i dont really understand the build and kernal stuff.

thanks
[Galaxy S III General] MrPhilo:
Has anyone tried installing the update with a 'Custom ROM & Kernel'? I got the update today (unbranded) but don't know if I should install it or not since my ROM is custom which means it's deodexed wheras the update should contain odexed files right?
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
Nevermind, deleted.
[Galaxy S III General] ICS.:
WTH, what about Indian users? my phone says NO UPDATE AVAILABLE.
[Galaxy S III General] mardon85:
I really don't know why yours doesn't have the option. My Three branded HOX even had the option to manually check.
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Relax it's coming. Samsungs probably getting everyone ready.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
yeah my htc one s does also.....seems very odd....does your gs3 have this?

anyone else any idea why my phone dosent have the 'software update' option?
[Galaxy S III General] Tectas:
Guys, really, download flashable, extract the tar from the zip and flash it with odin, no need to search for updates and works flawless (even on top of customs like zoom in my case).

Just use another modem instead of the shipped if your not from europe.

You will save yourself from annoyance that way.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
I would be happy to flash with odin if i knew if there was one available for me (based on my current firmware, see pic on earlier thread) and where i get ti from.

The other thread on here lists one that says it is dated 5th june or something like thats....so that cant be it
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
No, it says it was built on the 5th.
[Galaxy S III General] treble4:
mate yours has orange firmware like mine did if you enter *#235*imei# it will say ora at the top as in orange you need to flash the latest uk fw and change your csc to btu you will then see update in your options
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
mate thanks for your help

so i need to download the one at the top of that list (the one built 5th june) and flash with odin

i dont understand the 'btu' thing you mention about though :(
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
It isn't a major update so I'd just wait if you are worried about flashing your phone. If it has come out here it will be released everywhere soon enough
[Galaxy S III General] ardeban:
Any news on cell standby issue?
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
To early to tell but overall my battery is doing better than normal. will post my findings later. Trying to fix my blog atm lol
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
im going to flash it anyway as it seems i have orange firmware on there and god only knows what they have cocked up on the phone this time!

Cant be any worse than it is at the moment...its either that or sell it.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
If you feel like that I would flash it, its an excellent phone. Just a few bugs to iron out like any new phone
[Galaxy S III General] port76:
how to install please guys:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] subvertbeats:
Only been up running this version for a couple of hours to test but for the first time since owning the SGS3, my Cell Standby is not listed as #1 battery use:

Screen: 26%

Android System: 24%

Cell Standby: 16%

Android OS: 7%

(I expect slightly higher than normal cell standby usage as I get near zero reception at home so radio is constantly working to try to find signal across T-Mobile and Orange networks)
[Galaxy S III General] SlimJ87D:
Do you need to be %100 charged for this update? I'm excited but it's taking forever haha.
[Galaxy S III General] Fornowagain:
No, best to be over 60%. Probably has a limit, don't what it is though.
[Galaxy S III General] hpsauce37:
i did mine with battery showing 56%

all went fine
[Galaxy S III General] port76:
can anyone supply another download link pretty please
[Galaxy S III General] Fornowagain:
Does seem better, at least its the main user any more. My Cell Standby was always at the top.
[Galaxy S III General] chamonix:
Just out of curiosity: what is the cell standby problem you expect to be fixed?
[Galaxy S III General] gavinfabl:
Seems faster since update. Keyboard more reponsive.
[Galaxy S III General] subvertbeats:
A higher than expected amount of relative processing cycles used by Cell Standby.
[Galaxy S III General] c0d3x42:
Today's update hasn't made much difference to my cell standby, still very high in comparison to everything else that's running
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
So what firmware are you running now? I downloaded and installed the newest firmware from Samsung through ChekFus and installed it with ODIN. Hoping it fixes the Cell Standby bug myself.
[Galaxy S III General] rovex:
This could just be a reporting error, not a real battery life reduction. I have it as well, but the battery lasts a lot longer than any android ive had before.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Blog is back up now, sorry about that. Currently working on some mirrors including dropbox :D
[Galaxy S III General] stunno:
There is something strange going on here.

I'm in the middle of upgrading through Kies on my laptop as Kies wont run on my desktop for some reason. I got my GS3 from Dialaphone and ported my number from Tmobile to Orange a couple of days after I got it.

Kies is showing a window saying Firmware update progress. Downloading file for firmware upgrade of 'GALAXY S III(GT-I9300) followed by the original phone number of the Orange SIM card not the number that I ported to it

How does that work,then?

EDIT: Finished now, it took about 45 minutes in total, but now in the phone info section it is showing the wrong phone number for my device, but when I ring the correct number the phone rings when I ring the number that the ohone thinks it is I get a 'Number does not exist' message. Very strange
[Galaxy S III General] @bushwilliams:
Updated through Kies, took about 10 minutes from start to finish. Root and CWM were both gone. I then closed Kies down completely and reflashed CF-Root-SGS3-v6.2 via PC Odin, all is well, root and CWM back in action.
[Galaxy S III General] hefonthefjords:
The number coded on the sim does not necessarily have to change when a new number is assigned to the account i dont think. I wouldnt worry about it too much since it seems to operate normally. :)
[Galaxy S III General] stunno:
Thanks for the reply. I'm not overly worried as everything seems to be working ok.Other than I am pretty sure that the number was showing correctly until Kies connected and started the upgrade
[Galaxy S III General] sarbe:
I swapped my number from Virgin to Orange and had the exact same problem, I put the sim in an older phone and changed the " my number" to my new one, put it back in S3 and it now shows correct ported number.
[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
i did flash to lf2 manually and it could be that the cell drain is fixed.

if you guys don't reset the battery stats in cwm recovery, you wont be able to even check if it is still present after updating.

i did reset the battery stats and now it says:

power consumption for 1 hour

38% screen

23% android system

13% cell standby

seems reasonable, doesnÄt it ?

btw. wifi was on all the time
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Let it sit undisturbed for about an hour and then check it again.....
[Galaxy S III General] thegregulator:
Well if you let it sit undisturbed it will creep up. Generally, from what I've seen people post, the cell standby seems to be slightly better than it was before. I think it is mostly a reporting error, as I get the best battery life I've ever had on a smartphone.
[Galaxy S III General] Plexicle:
I can say beyond a doubt that it's better.
[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
of course, but that's only because screen will stay the same with the phone idling and the cell standby gaining on amount consumed power.

that is no drain issue and as already stated by others it might simply be a displaying error just like the alleged AOS bug.

if we get people who get 7 hours of screen-on-time there can hardly be the talk of an battery drain bug.

EDIT:

an hour after the initial report the values for cell standby did not change (still 13%) with the phone being idle all the time. evidence enough ?
[Galaxy S III General] yatbond:
I can assure you that there is a battery drain problem. My cell standby is taking 1.5-2% per hour. It is not a reporting problem, because i can see the actual percentage going down without really using the phone.

The latest update doesn't help either, and I seem to get worse results. When some of you don't have a problem, it doesn't mean others can't have a problem. The standby is much worse than my GS2.

And the latest update created another problem that I need some help. My sms are no longer identified by the names of the sender but are by phone numbers only. My contacts are still there.... Can someone please help.
[Galaxy S III General] jamesbra:
Just a quick refresher, the number next to the battery usage indicate what percentage of the /used/ battery was consumed by a particular service. So if your cell standby increases with your screen off it is because the screen is no longer using power but the cell standby is, thus increasing its percentage of total power used.

tldr

percentage is what that service used of what has been used so far, not the percentage of the total capacity
[Galaxy S III General] hisee:
I have rootd and insll cwm so can i insll this update( by going to sw update from phone )? Or i have to unroot it?
[Galaxy S III General] jamesbra:
you will have to reroot after applying this upgrade
[Galaxy S III General] hisee:
So after updating my fone will be offical phone :D is sw uodate givig this update ( coz i have rootd thats y asking ) and hw i come to knw which update to insll ciz i have insll uodate of 1-6 so it will insll that one 1st or dircly yesterday update?

(Binary count not reset )
[Galaxy S III General] gaui:
Don't drink and Tapatalk :D
[Galaxy S III General] Fornowagain:
If you squint it kinda makes sense :)
[Galaxy S III General] thegregulator:
If by squint you mean drink 9 beers and then try and read it, then yes, it does kind of make sense.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
can i just flash this tar file from odin on any i9300 or does the GS3 it have to be from certain specific region?
[Galaxy S III General] Baldilocks:
Any i9300.
[Galaxy S III General] dehaani:
Old numbers remaining on your SIM can cause problems with some apps like Whatsapp which read the number and use it to identify your phone.

Blackberrys and older dumb phones will correct the number stored in the SIM easily, just pop the SIM in the older phone wait for it to register on the network and go back to your android phone. I've done this twice in the past with a BB and a RAZR V3.
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
Ok. Just finished installing this using odin. Is it just me or the keyboard looks different ? Hone key does feel more responsive now. I flashed it without wiping and all my apps are there. I had to reroot it though.
[Galaxy S III General] port76:
iv still got high cell stand bye here after update ?
[Galaxy S III General] maschenazi:
+1, unfortunately
[Galaxy S III General] mardon85:
Grr still not coming through OTA for me. Why would this be? UK UN branded??
[Galaxy S III General] ceo.mtcl:
I just went ahead and flashed over my current ayur rom v 1.3 everything works great here.

May be im just seeing things but it does feel faster to me.
[Galaxy S III General] JagDave:
Update has definitely speeded things up, allot smother now.

Plus, GTalk status in contacts now works.
[Galaxy S III General] stunno:
It comes through kies not ota to your phone
[Galaxy S III General] simonk83:
Pretty sure the OP said he got it OTA.
[Galaxy S III General] bernard134:
previously on XXALE8 and now running latest XXALF2 firmware, cell standby still at 53% although battery life is not affect. Now is cell standby, screen (display) then android OS.

Previously, Galaxy S, SII and Note is: Display the highest follow by Android OS. Just want to know what the reason, that all
[Galaxy S III General] Xplorah:
Just done mine OTA
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Yeah I got mine OTA, it was a 8.5Mb download. Did it over 3G and it installed in a few mins.

Looks like cell standby is still an issue though, but at least it has solved the home delay / home screen redraw issue.
[Galaxy S III General] ShiroEd:
I've downloaded flashable and extracted the tar file but it's over 1GB big. If I flash this with odin will my phone keep all of its settings/programs/etc. or will it be reset back to 'out of the box'?

Sorry for the noob question.
[Galaxy S III General] Bigmille:
No, the operating system on your phone will be re-written, so it will loss all user customised settings.

It is like factory reset.

P.S. Not sure why it is over 1GB, I flashed my with Odin yesterday and it tar file was just over 750mb for UK firmware.

Here is the link where I go the file.
[Galaxy S III General] v1rtu4l:
so how does that compare to a drain bug, when even the gs2 had similar drain on early stock firmware while having far less powerful hardware.

just to quote a post of IT_ler

if the optimized gs2 kernels do take between 1% and 1.5% battery per hour i find it totally reasonable that an early untweaked gs3 kernel does need 1,5% to 2 % drain.

you can not compare the old drain on other phones. you would not compare the fuel consumption of an old vw beetle with the prototype (unoptimized) of an mc laren, would you ?
[Galaxy S III General] norpan111:
How is the keyboard different? Screenshot?
[Galaxy S III General] ShiroEd:
Thanks for that.

In that case I'll wait for the OTA I think...
[Galaxy S III General] yatbond:
My gs2 has about 0.5 percent drain per hour.

Gs3 has about 3-4 times more consumption. We are talking about deep sleep. Not using the real power of the phone.
[Galaxy S III General] lelik11a:
Only difference i can see is that to change language you have to swipe the space key. the globe icon is gone.
[Galaxy S III General] ShiroEd:
Literally just got notified of the OTA now.

Downloaded and started to do it's thing but gave me an error saying something like 'Failed to initialise'.

Rebooted and now the OTA isn't available anymore!

Does this have anything to do with the fact that I'm rooted?

I've never used Kies before (New to Samsung). How do I get it to do the update for me?

Thanks for the help.
[Galaxy S III General] subvertbeats:
My early reports that the new stock Firmware fixed the reporting of relatively high cell standby processing cycle usage may have been premature.

Checking this morning and it's back to the top of the list.

Was hoping that this might just be me, as at my home I get between zero coverage and one bar so my phone is constantly trying to find signal.

Seems others are seeing the same though.
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
I've posted a dropbox download link on my blog for anyone who needs the full download.

http://happylaptops.co.uk/2012/06/12/gt-i9300-i9300xxalf2-2012-june-i9300oxaalf2-united-kingdom/
[Galaxy S III General] _Belial:
I got the update OTA but then phone boots into CWM too try and install and fails. Rebooting back and update wasn't installed.
[Galaxy S III General] ShiroEd:
+1

Exactly what happened to me too!
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
Just install the whole ROM via ODIN
[Galaxy S III General] ShiroEd:
I'm gonna do that right now. I just didn't want to have to set up my phone again... Oh well.:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
You won't lose any settings, well I never have anyway. You only need to do a full wipe if you have issues.
[Galaxy S III General] yatezy:
Brand new to XDA and Android, done a bit of lurking though so take it easy on me =]

I don't seem to be getting an update either from OTA or from Kies, my phone has been bought through 3 so will it have to released by then first?
[Galaxy S III General] Oli2k:
If the phone is 3 branded then yes you will. It can take ages with some networks so I'd just flash it yourself.
[Galaxy S III General] yatezy:
Cheers I might leave it for a bit then give flashing a try
[Galaxy S III General] Deusdies:
Do I lose my apps if I flash via Odin?