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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aridon:
Those of you on AT&T and getting cheap battery life try the wap.cingular apn and check your social media stuff and photo sync apps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fausto77:
And where do i find this firmware update?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] speedfreak228:
Android os and cell standby is pretty high on my Verizon s3. Any body else's like this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] throwback1718:
Mine sucks. I've been on it all day. Aol it might improve cause this is the first real day of using it. I've been using it on 3g. ( No lte:()

So this is it. I've used it for most of the day non stop
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bieberhole69:
Any fixes for cell standby on Verizon besides rooting?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AmnChode:
This is what I pulled last night...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AndroidLonghorn:
Go to settings>about device>Software Update
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fausto77:
Sorry for being vague, any other way? I'm never able to OTA over air. I know how to update and checked that before just failure to communicate as always
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] torontommy:
Shouldnt the new AOSP or CM ROMs start giving better battery life since majority of the rom is mostly black or grey themed?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AndroidLonghorn:
I'm new to Samsung, but I believe you can download the Kies software for your computer, and you can download available updates.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] thawte:
Kyanrom is giving g me great battery life and I have switched to gosms with I phone styling and a black background.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stevesprivateaccount:
Went about 30 hours between yesterday and today, over 3 hours screen time
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
One thing to note with some of the screenshots is that they do not show the graph view. If you look at the awake time generally most of the screen shots with great battery life have very little awake time. At first when I got my phone for the first week l felt the same way as you. I have found that a short charge (15 - 30 minutes) during my lunch break really improves battery life. I have had mine playing music for 4 hours charge it during lunch and then play music / stream a iheartradio live station for about 6 more hours and still have 40% left all on LTE. I disable wifi 99% of the time since there isn’t any in range. The last two days I have not been using power saving which really seems to not have a huge impact on battery life. I have GPS enabled at all times I have even began to use an app to track my running and biking as long as the screen is off when I am using those apps they seem to not download map data which really kills the battery. I do have my device rooted however I have not disabled any bloatware yet but plan to very soon to see how much more juice I can squeeze out of the device. I am also planning on flashing a ROM but I am waiting for a few months because stability is a big issue for me and I would rather wait for others to test first.

EDIT: http://www.jayceooi.com/2012/06/16/how-to-remove-bloatware-on-samsung-galaxy-s3/ This is a page that has a list of all of the bloatware that can be removed. You do not have to root to remove / diasble most of it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drmanhattan:
screen on time is very nice 5hrs. I have not been able to get more then 8 hours but that is because i have literally been on this thing non stop my mac is getting no love at the moment but here is a little perspective my mom has had her verizon gs3 sense Tuesday and has not Evan bothered to take it out of the box opting instead to walk around with a droid x with dead pixels... I told her there are people on the forums that would kill for that phone and you are using it as a paper weight.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] loveubuntu:
21 hurs, 18 min, 29% left. Best battery I've ever had. Verizon on 4G full time with stock everything.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Solar257:
After a day of normal use with power saver on, and similar settings to what was above, I'm loving this phone on Verizon's LTE network. Now I have to root this Bad Larry and all will be right with my phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DUBVGALAXY:
Dam what's your secret?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jimcaw1911:
I use a foxhound rom which seems to have best battery life, sometimes 30 hours with 3-4 hours screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fleurdelisxliv:
54 hours 20 mins with 39% left granted ive only txt and made calls and checked weather for my helis bc im on shift but i dont worry about my charger now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bueller213:
Sent from Samsung Galaxy S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shahud:
I was on wifi for about 1/3 of the time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deputy13:
i got this life for the first two days then the second 2 days my battery would drop insanely fast, fully discharging itself within 7 hours with only 40 min of screen time./ had it drop form 60% to 11% just sitting in a movie. no abnormal background processes running. just died. went and exchanged for a new phone yesterday happy with it now
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stevesprivateaccount:
Disabled most back ground synch for apps that don't need it. Google sync was killing battery, WiFi as much as possible, screen set to low, disabled Sprint connection manager B-) and spreed the service was a big one, disabled media hub, Samsung cloud services as well

However I still got will over 100 emails via exchange push, about the same on gmail push, equal number of texts,
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ercDROID:
Don't have a screen shot but this is my first full day. Unplugged at 730 am. At 930 am I am already at 79%. Phone is rooted and I froze some verizon bloatware. 47 minutes of screen time. Hopefully this gets better cause at this rate my battery will be dead in 10 hours. Coming from a Thunderbolt, this isn't too good at all. I did have the extended battery on the Thunderbolt, but getting 50-60 hours was no problem at all. I looked at the Cell Standby and it says that time on is the same as time unplugged. Is this right? I'll give it a few days, but not impressed at all so far. The phone itself is sweet though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stkiswr:
Why do so many people post graphs? Put up screen on times. That's the only way to get a good idea what's really happening. Waist any phone can sit on a desk for days and not die Haha.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Marcismo55:
First entire day with my new VZW S3 and im amazed. On a stock debloated rom at the moment with auto sync, gps, etc. on.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rifler26:
I'm on Verizon and I'm not getting anywhere near the kind of performance that I've seen from many other people here. Yesterday I was at 9% with a screen time of 3hrs and 20 mins. But here's the thing: I had data/wife/gps/sync off most of the day. Used wifi for half an hour and 4g for half an hour tops. Screen brightness was at the lowest setting most of the day. Sent 100-200 texts, checked facebook and gmail a few times each. BetterBattery doesn't report anything out of the ordinary. What is going on here?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scarrmrcc:
I am thinking i may have some battery issues... I wonder if it is related to audible, as many times when i start it up, it locks up for really long times.. like 30 minutes (audible locks up, not the phone.)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jhanford:
You think you have issues:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bustabo:
Download betterbatterystats and cpu spy from the market

Look for kernel and partial wake locks and check CPU soy and see if your phone is entering deep sleep.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cnguyen:
very happy with the battery
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cnguyen:
I remove alot of T-mobile apps & Sam apps set to battery saving and using Juice-defender app . I 'm still used Stock rooted . It's help alot
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
Well was doing good until today. Not sure why android is taking so much!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Asian Kyle:
the battery life is this phone is so much better than the epic 4G touch, I use to only get like 5 hours because I am on my phone constantly using data

on the S III I get 11 hours!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] niqjones:
Get off Google+.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] IceCreaMan:
battery life on my non-rooted Sprint SG3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BoostRoid:
My only disappointment with this phone is the terrible bbattery life :(. I can't get through a full work day with it on minimul use. I'll charge it over night to 100%. Wake up, send a few texts, check facebook and I'll lose up to 5% by the time I walk out the door. Lol I just lost 2% writing this post!! I really hope it's a fixable software issue :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] droidstyle:
Last charge i got 27hrs with 3hrs screen on, 2hrs talk, and still had 17% left.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] greyhulk:
I had pretty sad battery life, so I made some adjustments. I changed:

Autobrightness to on

Auto Adjust screen tone

Disabled "Wake up Command" in S voice

Most of my battery drain was with the screen off and it has been about 50% better today, so the only setting that makes any sense is the Wake up Command setting. It's the only one that really could have had this much of an impact on my battery life.

Something to try, for those of you having issues.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scarrmrcc:
your issues ar thet you use the heck out of google+, mine are that the OS is sapping my battery. there is a slight difference.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eddylee09:
Would you guys consider this normal battery usage/drain?

70% after 7hours:

Screen - 54% w/ 1H and 5M
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BoostRoid:
What?!? Really???
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stkiswr:
My coworker on vzw 4g all day sees over 4 hour screen on daily lol. Battery life is perfect. Just have to setup the phone correctly
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rifler26:
Well can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Yesterday I had sync/gps/wifi/BT/data off and spent most of the day on the lowest brightness. Had LTE on for an hour tops. Normal use. By 9% got 3 and a half hours of screen time and maybe 30 mins calling. Seems to me to be significantly lower battery performance than others considering how much I had turned off.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dLo GSR:
Such a stark difference, maybe because of wifi.

On the left, my AT&T on mostly LTE/4G all day, 53% left after 5.5 hrs and 2 hrs screen time

On the right, my gf's Verizon on wifi all day, 52% left after 13 hrs and 2 hrs 14 min screen time

Sent from my Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] BoostRoid:
I hear yahoo :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shugga101:
Currently at 14hrs 26mins with 45% battery life left. cell standby taking up 34% of the battery usage and screen on time at 1 hour 38 mins with 20% usage and xda at 12% usage with total of 23mins. Android system at 8% media server 5% and android os at 5% (incase its needed).

All is subject to change. Miles may very. I've also noticed that when I use my phone and leave the screen on and do things like netflix and what not the phone actually doesn't lose a charge as fast compared to letting it sit in standby. IDK why.

OT kinda, but I bought the samsung case from the ATT store that has the screen flap. Well, I'm capable of touching the screen cover flap thingy and my touch going through to the phone and pressing things on the screen (not pressing hard at all). Anyways this allowed my phone to die really fast because if I got a notification the screen would stay on because the case would make my phone think I'm touching the lockscreen so the screen stayed on. Well my phone died after having 6 hours of screen on time and maybe 12 hours on the battery. I wish I had a screen shot but I didn't know how to when that happened. Now I do.

Overall, i'm very satisfied with my phones battery life. I just hate bloatware and don't want to root just yet.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Yetamedi:
This is what I got today after about 14 hours of use. Had several hours of reading on the nook app and watched 2 hours of hbo go.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gdaysoccer:
After looking at most people battery life here, I feel like Im doing something wrong or have something set wrong...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rwright64:
Cell standby on my phone is at 3% right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] || Acer ||:
I love this phone. This is my battery life with very heavy usage playing games all day.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shahud:
Astonishing battery life for me. Had 4G on about half the time and wifi for the other half. Screen time of 4+ hours cause I just got the phone on Tuesday and I'm messing with it a ton. Can't wait to see what this thing will be able to do with some custom ROMs
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSilver13:
AOKP baby!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] torontommy:
I get about a good 18-20 hours

Hopefully it increases with each charging cycle and HOPE a good Battery sipping rom is released soon :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostsoul565:
can you link me to the foxhound rom ? are you with ATT?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mad96:
My setup isn't crazy but I have power saver mode turned on with all options checked

And my display is set to auto bright, there is also another option in display if I remember right you can check to auto set display colors and I typically leave auto sync off or at least half the time, it really doesn't affect it too much. And I leave 4g on all day, ill look thru my settings again and see if i find anything else I may have forgotten to mention, hope this helps.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TeamERA:
Nothing special, actually was doing a test to see if wifi idle was beter then 3g idle. Seems 3g is a little better, and I have everything se to not sync, even if on wifi, yet phone still shows its waking up.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] em2drvr03:
I have A quick question about my battery life. I charge my phone like normal and i take it off at a 100% then it notify's me. Then within a few minutes it drops down to 98%. Now from what a friend told me with a nexus s, is that samsung phone dont charge to 100%. Is this true or do i have a problem with my phone??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rifler26:
This doesn't happen to me but I am used to bump charging coming from the Droid Incredible. So I'll use the phone for a few minutes once I take it off the charger, and then it will get to 100% but the charging light will remain orange. You have to keep it plugged in for another 10-15 minutes or so past that until it becomes green again and then it should be actually 100% charged. Someone please correct me if this sounds wrong.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Luk_Sch:
That's the way how Smartphones are charging, first to 100 and then always between 90 and 100 again. If you finally plug it off it shows 100, but is at 9X and because of that it goes down that fast. ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rjshenoy:
happy with the battery life so far. moderate to heavy usage. 2 hours of voice calls , 20 minutes angry birds space, mobile data always on , sync on, music for half hour,wifi set to sleep when phone sleeps. I am located in Raleigh which is a LTE market for AT&T.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Seems like my verizon sgiii is staying awake all the time. How can I find what app is doing this? I have almost every setting turned off except for LTE
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stkiswr:
This is mad96 Verizon s3. All apps are enabled whether he uses them or not. All powersaver features are active. It was not connected to WiFi all day, it shows up simply because he forgot to turn it off and by the graph you can see where. This is hammering the phone w watching a movie, browsing. Etc. To me this is excellent for a stock phone or any phone with a 2100.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ptaros:
LTE turned off, don't get it inside building where I work
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kivlad:
First: My best, around 3 days since I got the phone with minimal usage. Only about 1h of screen on time.

Second one is a few days ago, with 2.5h screen time and around 30-40m of call time. (Of course much more of screen on was the second day)

Strangely enough I've been seeing slightly worse every now and then where it drops to 40%-ish after a full day with similar usage to the bottom one.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Rev1vaL:
nothing but impressed
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] disturbd1:
Ok, I gotta ask - those with Sprint specifically - are you getting at least 12hrs on one charge in an area that doesn't have LTE yet? If so, have you achieved this with mobile network on, and wifi off? I'm trying to find some basis for comparison, but there are too many variables unless I narrow it down to same carrier, similar usage. My on-screen time varies from 1-4 hours per day, sometimes a bit more. I do have apps that I reinstalled, mostly via TB, after I got my phone. At first the battery life was great, no complaints. Once I started flashing ROMs, that seems to be when it went downhill. I don't really have the gripes with TouchWiz that everyone else seems to (it seems cool to hate original overlays on phones anymore), so I haven't gone in the direction of CM9 Nightlies or anything like that. I'm running the TeamSonic FreeGS3 v.03. Battery life sucks at this point; basically as bad, if not worse than my OG Evo. I shouldn't have to turn off every feature the phone offers, and never have my screen on (never using it) to get a full day out of it. It's 4:38pm, I took it off an overnight charge at about 7:30am this morning, and it had drained to 15% by 2pm. Not acceptable. I run NOTHING except GOSMS Pro, occasional FB checking, and whatever updates are in the Play store from time to time. Zero talk-time during my work hours, and no streaming or media of any kind is viewed/listened to.

I DO plan to flash another ROM, because frankly at this point, I'm almost certain that's part of the problem, but I'd really be interested in feedback from anyone who fits my description as far as their usage goes. Next step for me (tonight) will be to wipe everything 100%, flash a different ROM, and install barebones stuff only at first (GOSMS Pro, FB, One More Clock widget).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stkiswr:
Good question for the sprint users. If you patent under the lte blanket are you using phone info app to turn lte off?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] disturbd1:
It's off by default on my phone. I have to manually switch to CDMA+LTE.

Sent from my GS3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sultanqasim:
Terrible battery life with CM9 Nightly

I recently started flashing my SGH-I747 Galaxy SIII with CM9 nighties (d2att). Under the old Samsung/Touchwiz system, battery life was good, and standby would last several days if untouched. Now, under the CM9 nighties, the phone guzzles battery power like it never goes to sleep, even when its supposedly on standby in my pocket. I suspected that it could be a battery calibration issue, but it doesn't seemed to be, as I charged the phone to 100% and left it on a while longer, then reset the battery calibration using the BatteryCalibration app. Still no difference.

The battery life when surfing the web continuously is around 3.5 hours, which while shorter than what it was with the Samsung system, is tolerable.

The worse part is that the phone's standby battery life is now only ~5.5 hours, instead of the 200+ hours it is rated to get.

There seems to be a bug in the currently CM9 nighties for this phone that causes such drain. Is anyone else experiencing such drain? Any ideas as to a solution?

The CM9 nighties for this phone are rock solid stable and fast, except for two minor bugs (USB data transfer and the camera stopping responding when changing the resolution settings, after the camera patch has been applied). However, this battery drain issue makes CM9 practically unusable. I may need to revert to the bloated touchwiz for now if no fix currently exists.

See the attached graphs to show how the battery drains at a very similar rate when the phone is asleep or awake. All apps where closed when the battery was draining when asleep, and turning off wifi had little effect either (as show on the graph).

EDIT: One more discrepancy I noticed is that the battery usage breakdown for the same period shows that the screen used 61% of the power, even though the bulk of the battery drain occurred when the device was asleep. Something is indeed mysterious here. (at least to a noob like me)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Asian Kyle:
the battery life of this phone is amazing. 11 hours with 15% left (post number 256). now I'm at qt hours with 40% left.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rifler26:
Ignore this, my suspicions were wrong.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sultanqasim:
Now, I recharged the phone partly (to 48%) and decided to let it discharge itself slowly on standby and see what happens. Now, after letting it sit unplugged for 20 minutes, the battery has crept up to 51%. Is it charging itself magically through the air? No, it seems my battery calibration was screwed up (perhaps the reset did it) and it's now recalibrating itself as the battery charges and discharges.

Moral of the story as it currently seems:

1. Always flash ROMS at when plugged in at 100% charge to prevent messing up battery calibration.

2. After resetting the battery calibration with the phone at full charge, battery life will be poor for the first couple charge cycles, and it'll figure itself out after a while.

Now, in hindsight, that sounds obvious. Shows what a noob I am.

See the gradually rising part at the end of the attached screenshot graph for the "magical charging" (i.e. battery recalibrating itself).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdhommert:
just posted this in att battery thread-

I live/work just outside of an LTE area, and lately have been using my phone pretty light due to not being able to use it at work other than when I'm on lunch. I get almost no signal in my entire building, so 75% of the day I turn airplane on so my battery doesn't get raped.

So for me and my use recently, the battery has been doing good enough for me.

the standby thing raping my battery is weird,same thing with maps even though i never use it... but i guess both are common. Chrome use was at 3% and i forgot to check screen on time.

On the current charge I'm siting at 47% at almost 24 hours, about 1hr 15 mins of screen on time. 30 mins of voice, 10 of chrome...but i accidently unplugged the phone right before i went to sleep last night instead of starting this morning, and i just took a nap so again there is a lot of sleep time

Take all that for what it's worth, which I have no idea lol