yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] KentuckyHouse:
After using my SIII for a couple of months now, I've got a good feel for how well the battery performs.

I feel like I get pretty darn good battery life, to be honest. It seems like the first 10-15% it drops fairly quickly, but after that it stabilizes and I'm easily able to get a day out of it. I will say that I'm in a non-LTE area, so take that for what it's worth. But overall, I'm very happy with the battery life. It also seems to charge faster than my SII did, so that's a good thing too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
I just got my 4200mAh Hyperion extended battery yesterday. Let it get its 1st. 12Hr. Charge. It was ready for me to use before work. So since a little after 6a.m. I had my phone off the charger. Been using it off and on. Watching videos , surfing the web, etc.. no power savings enabled either. After 5hrs., im just now hitting 89% battery left. Auto brightness on also. Im loving this extended battery so far. No worries of plugging up to a charger. I know if I put o hone in power savings mode + extended battery, I would get unbelievable battery life. Im just testing now to see how long itll last on no power savings.

I recommend the 4200mAh hyperion. Back cover that comes with it is nice. Not as thick as some make it seem. It hss a better feel to it than stock battery/cover.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ExcelonGT:
I too got the Hyperion 4200mAh just last night and here is my experience so far on Day 1

phone came off charger at 8:30am. its now 5hr 20 minutes later and the battery is at 71%. Screen time has been 1h 10min. LTE (4G) BT, and WIfi are on (Connected to WIFI AP as well).

I'm running CM10 nightlies (10/8 to be exact).

So i guess the battery life today has been acceptable compared to the stock battery. but man, this Hyperion 4200mAH battery has made the phone fugly as hell. not to mention its MUCH heavier in my hands. The 4.8" was on teh borderline of being too big for my hands, but now with the much thicker form factor, the phone is a little too awkward to use. I'll try this out for a few more days, but probably going to sell the hyperion and just carry two 2100mAH batteries on me at all times.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] garcia_jx:
When I had my Evo 4G, I purchased an extended battery for it. It was freaking good. Even if I tried draining my battery, it would only be at 35% by the end of the day. After a few months, I did notice that it took a drop. I wasn't able to get as many hours as when I first purchase it. It as still a good battery though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
baked blackbean with ktoonsez kernel, noop/ktoonservative
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] diablo009:
From my friend's phone. Brightness set are 17%.

Stock rom, non rooted.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] diablo009:
My phone battery.

Brightness set at AUTO all the time.

I rebooted once in between accidentally playing with power button options.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Ecip:
Had my s3 for a month now, heres my battery life. It's not bad, gets me through the day.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] holangjai:
Unplug at 100% and killed all apps. Went to bed and woke up with dead phone. On stock.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rmead01:
You may be having the same issue with me with your location updating way too much. I installed a monitoring app and had 1700+ wakelocks from maps alone. I turned off location services and will be testing today to see if it's any better. It's under location settings in the maps application. Maybe that will help. I lose over 20% a night when i'm sleeping and my phone would barely deep sleep.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rvbarton:
I dumped touchwiz in exchange for Zeam Launcher and my battery life tripled! I was getting around 5 hours, with all motion options turned off and display set to auto. Now I have display set to brightest, all motion options off, and I can go the full day and get home with between 50 -70% battery remaining. I'm on my phone all day so I"m quite pleased.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
Zeam LAuncher?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] NLCMOBSTA183:
running custom kernel
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] nonnarb:
I find the best way to gauge my battery life is by looking at the total time the screen has been on, assuming I used my phone under average conditions for the day. I am running cm9 and I can get about 4 hours of screen time on wifi the entire day and about 3 hours of screen time if not on wifi.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sherifyousri:
Custom Kernel?

That's a decent figure - which Kernel / ROM are you running?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EVOme:
I'm beyond excited about my battery life on this phone. I cannot believe I thought the iPhone was the best in the business and waited so long to move.

Stock Rom

Rooted

S-Voice removed

Google Now added

Stock battery
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
are you on an S3??? or HTC EVO?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] EVOme:
S3...sorry, I need to update that.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] munkyboy:
Those are pretty good results, what other settings are you using?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
Am I missing something? It looks like you charged your phone midway through
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] liltitiz:
Or switched batteries
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
Doubt it. I'm pretty sure it's a charge seeing how there's a sharp steady incline where it shows the power left.

Well anyways here is my best battery life yet. My next best is 5 hrs and 30 min. I played music for maybe an hour, watched a few YouTube videos, surfed a lot. Was on WiFi most of the time and 1/3 of the time on LTE. I'm on an old AOKP build with ktoon kernel undervolted and underclocked, however I found out that my under volt settings weren't loaded until I was 40% remaining on the battery. Stock battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
how do you "underclock" the S3?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] knarfl1:
Looks like he plugged the phone to charge on 5 different occasions based on the screenshot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
If you're on a custom ROM (not sure if you can do it in stock) you can download an app like SetCPU that does it. I know in AOKP you can change the maximum speed. If you have ktoon kernel then he includes an app called ktweaker that can underclock and undervolt.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rha_december:
This is close to what I'm getting on mine, and I'm using Triune II ROM.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
What is the power saving mhz level? What should max and min be?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
Whatever you want your highest and lowest clock speed to be. Personally I have the max at 1.2 GHz and lowest at .2 GHz.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
does that help you save a lot of battery?

thats a lot of fluctuation
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
By default its .4 to 1.5.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eujin209:
Crazy battery so far...using battery widget reborn pro to go into airplane mode during hours I sleep. Peep
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
i find that my phone is laggy now with me installing no frills CPU control..settings are at 1.5 ghz - 382 mhz governor ondemand and io scheduler cfq..

i dont know what governor or io scheudler is.

also i am rooted and my rom is ariel..my kernel version is 3.0.8-985684. I am not sure if i need a different kernel?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] IUH1991:
Aokp is insane!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apple deserter:
i found that turning automatic lighting helped but you always need to do it manually, annoying but it'll give you an extra 30 mins for sure.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rmead01:
Maybe someone can help me. System is crushing my battery and no idea why.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
what else are you using? juice defendeR?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ejatds:
when i first got the phone I was getting amazing battery life, but lately it's getting pretty bad :/ (stock unrooted). i've had the phone since the end of august. maybe ill just root the thing :), does anyone know if aosp-based roms include s beam?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sy007:
over 7hrs!!

i was curious to know mine so here they are..
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
what you using?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Extended battery? If not how in Sam hell are you getting 7 hours screen on time hah.

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No, they don't. They do have nfc but not s beam specifically.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] NLCMOBSTA183:
Stock ROM with CPU mod script
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DHTP:
AOKP
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
How many mah is your extended battery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DHTP:
4200 mah
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
Um getting similar results with my 4200mAh Hyperion. I'm just about to start my 3rd. Full cycle. I took phone off the charger yesterday around 6a.m. been off the charger ever since. 1day & 16hrs.. over 5hrs. On-screen time. Stock rom. Auto brightness on. No power savings. Still have 9% left. Could easily squeeze another hour or so of screen time out of it. Which I may try to do. But I'm ready to plug it up and start this 3rd. Cycle. It only gets better as I progress through recommended 5-6 cycles.

Highly recommend the 4200 Hyperion.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Heisenberg420:
Stock battery

Liquidsmooth and ktoonsez kernel, undervolted -100 all steps
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gujuvim710:
My S3 has horrible battery life. One night i went to sleep with my battery at 75% at 11:30 had no apps running except a battery saver app. Woke up at 5 to see my battery at 28%!!!! Has anybody else heard of this? So crazy! Well anyways i got juice defender ultimate after that and my screen brightness is at -20% via juice defender app. My wifi and data turn off when locked and i turned off all notifications. Here are my results.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] danchoi704:
Battery saver app could be the main cause of battery drain.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mbc663:
Looks more like light flow is keeping your phone awake
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] vnphantom:
Wanam rom. Stock kernel.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Gujuvim710:
I think I'm gonna try and go to att store and get my battery swapped out. What do you all think?

I have juice defender ultimate now with advanced setting and it's still getting bad battery life. Only lasts about 8 hours with 3 1/2 hours of screen time. Others have said they get more from their battery with 100% brightness and other stuff. I don't see what could be effecting my battery beside just being a faulty battery?

Any suggestions??

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I disabled light flow! I don't know how it is so high on my usage.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mbc663:
It's not your actual battery that is your problem. It's quite obvious that light flow is using most of your battery, it's above your screen time and you have over the hours of screen time. Your screen time should be around 50% of your battery life. definitely not 19%. Always on top, if u actually use your phone
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
excellent results so far!

Update: Squeezed some more out of my 4200 mAh Hyperion. no power savings. autobrightness on. stock rom. no b.s. battery savings app either..lol(they don't work).

1 day & 18hrs. total. over 6hrs. on-screen time

I'm now about to plug up and begin my 3rd. full cycle ;)

I forgot to add, I'm on 4g LTE 24/7. Love the faster speeds and coverage everywhere I go in my area.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
what the ****? my aokp doesn't do that

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by full cycle do you mean you left it go to 0% and die?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dntesinfrno:
I recently picked up an Anker 4400mah extended battery on ebay for 14.99 shipped and after two full charge/discharge cycles i easily get 2 full days on a charge with moderate to heavy usage including 3d games (Asphalt 7, ME Infiltrator, etc) internet browsing, gmail on active sync, light sms, to name a few apps and fairly heavy use flashing roms, modding, etc. At one point i had 36 hrs on battery with close to 8 hrs of screen on time and 35% charge remaining. Its worth mentioning im running AOKP with ktoonez kernel with standard clocks but undervolted quite a bit.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
Yes, i let it go 2-5% before I recharge. I heard letting battery go to 0% isn't good. Seen.other people say 10% or less good to begin recharge cycle.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DHTP:
I'm using the exact same battery, it is a beast!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intub8:
Dang thats nice compared to my 12 hiur with 3 screen on time on stock rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
What I'm finding is that if I'm mostly in standby, it is great (even with WIFI, GPS, and Bluetooth on). But use the screen? Zaps pretty fast. I have never gotten 5 hours of screen time on a charge like some claim.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Aridon:
I'm getting about 10 hours of continuous use (web with Pandora streaming h) on Wi-Fi. Cellular I haven't had enough time to see but it's night and day better than my galaxy nexus which was tweaked to no end and this phone is mostly stock with some junk removed. Standby time is ridiculous.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TheWyzeMan:
Life at 5%. I'm not seeing 5+ hours either.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] eatkabab:
I've had the ATT 'un'variety for four days now and gone through at least 5-6 charge cycles. My battery life is still horrible. I have noticed in the past that new phones seem to want a good week or so to become accustomed with respect to the battery. Weather that's the actual battery or just the phone learning what the battery can do, I'm not sure.

I'm getting 2hrs screen time (maybe I got like 140min one cycle) and I've got EVERYTHING turned down with power saver on (which turns the phone into a slow POS). I only use it for phone tasks (email, text, browser for news n such, and medical drug look up); no games or videos or any of that. Totally stock everything, it did however auto install all my apps from my ICS HP Touchpad which I wasn't thrilled with but whatever, they've been functioning fine on the TP. I'm in surgery all day so I couldn't even use it if I tried but around 6pm I do my news read for 30min and it's just about dead. Almost nothing syncs/updates save my two email accounts and ChatON(with an !!! for some reason) messenger. Screen brightness is locked at 25% (which is a little too low for me actually). It hasn't really improved and I'm really really really not jiving.

Coming from the Atrix which would give me almost 4hrs screen time which I thought was absolutely superb even through the brightness was always on minimum on it's ****ty washed out LCD (Little Crappy Display).

I would really appreciate any/all suggestions/advice. I've tried the wipe batt stats in the past on other phones and it's had zero effect and I doubt it will do anything on this too.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
How many hours a day are you using Pandora? I have been using Google Play Music (I think thats the official name for the app?) for 6 - 8 hours a day with songs that are on my SD card (also made sure the app was set to only play offline music) and I am typically at about 20% of battery at the end of the day. I have wifi switched off and brightness set to auto along with power saving on accept for the CPU limit. I use Chrome to browse stuff every once in a while but generally, if I am lucky, I can squeeze 3 hours of screen time out of the device. I did do a test with the movie Horrible Bosses, and after 1 hour and 45 minutes of streaming it with brightness on auto, sound turned half way up, speaker set to 50%, and with about 3 or 4 bars of 4g (non LTE connection) the battery only consumed 20% which is on par for what most reviewers have been ranting about. I will post results from my day tomorrow. I think I will hang onto the phone for at least two weeks before I really start to question its reliability and battery life however.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Comando156:
Damn I wonder if my battery is faulty... Because I have 8percent left with only 13 hours on and 2 hours 40 mind screen on time... And like 2 phone calls.... Not impressed.... I really hope fter a few more charge cycles it picks up or I will be having it swapped out.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fatboypup:
10 hours 45 mins on first charge
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
Yea this thing has been very good for me but no lte here . Take that into consideration as well
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gtafairlane:
Sent from my SGS III
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pauliewalnutted:
Could you post your settings so we could do the same?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wildgamer100:
Idk how but i absolutely love it!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AttachedSilver:
My first Samsung phone with an impressive battery life :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] rbj13:
Here's my best.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
I haven't used my phone much at all, thankfully it hasn't used much battery in response. I have never experienced such a thing on a stock unrooted phone.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Buckyball60:
Hot mine S3 two days ago from AT&T. Put it fully charged on the desk last night before I went to bed and after 8 hours and 15 min the battery was down to 80%. :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdelano:
I got mine on the 21st (pre-order from sprint).

The battery has steadily improved (as most android phones do) over the time I have had it. I was impressed right from the get go.

when I first got it I left the sprint optimizer and gps on and I was getting nearly 2 days.

after like 3/4 days I turned off the optimizer (which changes your data connection automatically for you and wants to use wifi whenever it can) because ever since getting my d-link 855 using wireless is more battery draining than keeping 3G on (go figure) and I keep gps off (unless I leave the house)

obviously battery is very subjective this is what I've done:

no Facebook app (its a MONSTER drain on the battery) i use browser based access if I want to check it out.

email - no automatic checking (i'm near a computer a lot anyway and when I'm not I check it now and again)

weather - i use fancy widgets (free) - it has an other to only update when I unlock my phone

the a fore mentioned wifi and gps set to off

I use the task manager to close apps after using them (press and hold the home button to get a list of running apps)

EDIT: also; first thing I did was open google talk and logout. That is a battery drainer too!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] thejust:
hey guys, i've got my virgin mobile sgs3 been running 1d3h still at 33% on second charge with moderate usage and i know i can switch between (GSM/HSPA/LTE), (GSM/HSPA), GSM, HSPA.

so not sure if you guys have the option but here's where it is in my phone

phone settings - wireless and networks - more settings - mobile networks - network mode and i use GSM/HSPA (Auto mode)

hope this helps

edit: sorry guys just found out its not part of your rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] codo27:
Not terribly impressed but it's my first full charge since purchase, hoping to see more than a little increase over the coming days. Hope the standby is nerfed eventually as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Eddie Bombay:
Pretty decent battery life. Juice defender ultimate on aggressive. Nothing special coming from the galaxy Note but the phone fits good in the hand.

14+ hours unplugged.

4 hr 36 min screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
Apps I froze/disabled on stock rom:

Google+

S suggest

Media hub

At&t navigator

Yahoo news

Yahoo finance
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] flip3d:
Battery life is decent. Like my SII.

Using AOKP.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] demandarin:
4200 mAh Hyperion. check it out! Beastin!

it keeps getting better and better.

4200mAh Hyperion. just finishing 3rd. full cycle. I got over 8.5hrs. of on-screen time. still have 2% battery left. I could've easily gotten another half hour out of it. to make me have 9hrs. of on-screen. this battery drains super slow.

this is with no power savings. autobright on. moderate usage this cycle. towards the end I found myself purposely trying to drain it faster so I could begin new cycle. I could've got 10hrs.

here's the proof ;) also what makes this killer is that I'm completely stock. imagine if I were to use a rom or custom kernel battery optimized. or if I would've used power savings. unreal
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tarphoun:
I do often 2 days during the weekend because i use it less. During the week i will listen to podcast or music all day long at work with it. and check Twitter etc once in a while and it's usually around 40% when i plug it at night. Never came close to running out in 1 day. Great so far
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] x10forevers:
Black jelly 0.8 release.....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zap12341:
Using cm10. Usually I get 15 hours, but today I took a long nap.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] fear101:
idk how good this is. But this my brand new S3, been about two days. Everything is stock, no root, no mods, no kernal, and stock battery.

How much extra battery and screen life do you think I would get if I modded/rooted my phone?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] schefdog:
I have just finished first full cycle with my Hyperion extended battery. It has been amazing so far.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] SevenSe7enSeven:
This is what I have on cm10
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dntesinfrno:
Sig says it all
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
any different settings? voltages etc?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dntesinfrno:
Yes, scattered about the forums....lets see..

Ktweaker settings at this thread on post 150, also i discuss any other configuration settings that have an effect on battery life on page 23, post 227 of the same thread. I think thats the majority of it although im sure i've got other opinions and whatnot elsewhere in similar threads.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] enomi:
were you able to find any good cases for the phone WITH the bulkier anker battery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shawn122:
I posted my battery life in this thread here.

Attached are screenshots.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dntesinfrno:
I dont use cases, just a good PET plastic screen protector.