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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pvc_:
I'd say the battery is pretty decent. Of course if you run the camera or cpu intensive apps and light up the screen on max, it'll drain faster. Yesterday after a full charge and a full day at work I had about 60% (8 AM to 6PM). Keep in mind that I just got the phone and kept turning it on aimlessly to look for apps and play around with different social apps and the browser.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdbeitz:
Just make a new apn for just hspa+ . That's what I did anyway.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ormandj:
There is no doubt that's a large portion of the change/difference in battery life, but with most battery technology (lithium ion, lithium polymer, etc) there is something to be gained from completing a learning cycle or two to get realistic discharge/charge boundries, so that your percentage accurately reflects the actual battery state.

Here's today's battery capture. I've disabled power saving for cpu/gpu, the other two options are on, screen is set to auto. I used the screen about an hour today, but drove ~2 hours with Slacker Radio playing and streaming via BT. GPS is on, BT is on, WiFi is on. There's about 4 hours of not being in WiFi coverage reflected by this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] stan.s:
I did a 2.5 hour trip with wifi (there's a lot of wifi from my cable company around here), blue tooth connected playing music, SVoice to control the phone, and Google gps navigation running, 20% of the battery, I didn't have the screen on all the time.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phositadc:
Looks like the cell standby bug is present on the AT&T version. That sucks. Cell standby should generally take up less than 10% battery. See attached.

-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drawde40599:
nevermind

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now this seems interesting , care to share your new apn settings ?

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my cell standby is only 11% so no bug
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ormandj:
Are you in an LTE area? I have LTE everywhere I go. Just because you don't have an issue with your phone doesn't mean there isn't a problem that affects others. :) I'm not intentionally making cellular standby 30% of my usage (or more), I assure you. If you're not in an LTE area, maybe that accounts for it - if you are in an LTE area, then something is odd.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] iam_ultrasonic:
Moderate to heavy use, mostly Wi-Fi
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] americasteam:
After1st full charge.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] americasteam:
I don't agree with this. If you compare your screen on time it should give you a good indication if it's improving. My One X started out at ~3 1/2 hours screen on time and now gets 5 hours regularly.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] robstunner:
How the hell do people get battery life like this? My one x never got to 3 hours screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phositadc:
Look at the screenshots in this thread. Cell standby is way too high for most of these people. Not to mention it's a known bug on the international version. It's clearly present here.

-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ewingr:
I did an overnight test, that is, checked battery when I went to bed, checked again when I got up.

I had WIFI on, GPS on, in Battery Saving mode, no APN turned off. It used 1.11%/hour. That is much better than I expected, because I use the battery up pretty fast while using a lot. Still in 'new phone syndrome' mode :p

My Captivate with Simply AOKP, and Devil Kernel, with same test uses < .5% / hour. I have an extended (2600) batter in it, and if not using much, I saw as much as 4 days on it (I know...hard to believe).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
First day using this beast very happy
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] naturefreak85:
Also FYI for everyone. If you are in an area where you have a mix of LTE and HSPA (Like me, they are only testing a couple towers in my area, I keep bouncing between LTE and HSPA) your battery life will take a hit. I'm lucky that I'm usually using WiFi when I'm near my house, but I figure you should be aware of such. If you notice a totally crappy battery life (Idle wasting 4-10% an hour, keep an eye on your signal bar. You might notice they are starting to enable LTE in your area)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] phositadc:
And this is exactly why AT&T should let you turn LTE off if you want to... for the times you are in a weak service area and your phone is switching back and forth between hspa and LTE, killing your battery.

-Sent from a GSM Galaxy Nexus (RAScream+Trinity).-
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drawde40599:
Well I don't have it; )

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LTE yes, odd NO
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] weedolo9y:
No im thinking of li ion they also never actually charge to there full capacity Its actually impossible to overcharge them i could show you some information if you want i know everything there is tom know about them i work at batteries plus

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wankelrx:
gsiff_daemon is killing my battery. Battery will drop 1% every 5 minutes. Even staying connected with a usb cable to a computer will not charge it fast enough. A reboot will make it go away for awhile, so far I can't narrow down what is causing it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
What rom?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] weedolo9y:
You need to know what rom what kernel scripts and also undervolting and cpu settings all effect them battery life

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dave_k605:
Bloated beauty from the lovely devs at vzw!!!!!!!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dave_k605:
This is depressing, you have a super capable phone, yet you don't use it......
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TechSilver13:
I have a job. That's not depressing. Its nice to know my phone isn't DEAD from no use after a 10 hour day.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] whatsitsnamenow:
Real world usage.

Sprint Network.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drpenguino:
Running the latest Diet ICS not too shabby. Not sure why cell standby is using so much... maybe searching for lte but afaik there is no toggle on att roms. Even with this battery life seems to be doing pretty well. Now just can't wait for a stable jelly bean rom that could be my dd.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] gr33nd3vil:
Blazer rom ftw.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] harrij4:
This is with 2.5 hrs of screen time on almost full brightness. Turning off the audio wakeup for s-voice dramatically improved my battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] scsudmbfan:
Quite a but of cell stand by but still really great numbers
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dbett4:
cell standby isnt really taking up that much battery it is one decimal place off so 34% is really 3.4%
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uzii305:
Here are my screen shots. This is with wap.cingular apn, cpu sleeper, rooted stock rom, juice defender ultimate, battery fully charged and discharged more than 10 times, 4g on the entire screen on time, settings optimized, gestures off, battery saving mode off, gps on, web browsing most of the time, 2 push mail accounts, 1 mail syncs every hour, brightness at 35-40%, and all bloatware disabled, anything else, just ask me. Anyone with knowledge on this please let me know if this is acceptable, or ill go get a replacement unit tomorrow. This is an ATT unit.

Someone tell me if this is good or bad please.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mon_J:
Battery results

Battery was off of charger for over 24 hours used CPU sleep.apk and EZ init_d cpu script.zip this was on ICS 4.0.4 I have since switched to Jellybean 4.1 for GS3 have installed files will post results hopefully they will work as they did on ICS. And I was using phone moderately emails web music moves, and after 24 hours and about 10 mins. I have about 10 percent battery left
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] M988:
i find battery to be slightly better after i disabled all those "gesture based" settings
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] AeCeEm:
wth..

So idk what going on. i got off work today (so 9 hours off the charger and looked at my phone and saw i had 5% battery life left..)

I posted in this thread two days ago and i was getting 50% after work. I think my last post showed I had 40% with the phone off the charger for 15 hours.

also the android system Shot up to 85% The only thing different i did was reset my phone last night before bed. No root or anything. wth:crying::crying:

I have no idea on what would make it go up so high. I'm kinda worried now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dondidit5:
Had great battery life but had to exchange that one for my current one. About 15 hours of actual use/standby and 4 hours of screen on time. Not bad and very close to my iPhone 4s if not better. I'm a happy camper!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dravrah1:
Battery Life

Battery Left 7%

Time On 11h 37m

Display on 4h 3m

~1.5 hours of Netflix Streaming over 4G/3G

Not too bad considering the streaming! :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jjenkins2005:
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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
Android system is really screwing my batt life....

Sent str8 from my half eaten Banilla Ice Cream Samich
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phantom87:
Same with me :/
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cablebarn:
Here is mine would like to see better but its ten time better than my droid charge turned off i like this phone :D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kimmilicious:
Eck! My cellphone is at 45% with about 5 hours remaining.

The battery life isn't so hot, it's draining so much just being idle... >_____<

The app "Juice Defender" doesn't seem to be helping much. Then again, I'm using the free version so maybe that's the problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaydawgx7:
Thought I'd post this since most posts show how good battery is. I tend to be at the wrong end of the spectrum...

AT&T, TuchMi Rom(same on stock), Wi-Fi & GPS on. Bluetooth off. Screen mostly off lol. Auto brightness... no way I could make it a full day so far. Probably couldn't even watch a movie fresh off the charger. No idea what to do besides buy a new battery to try...maybe wait on fuel cell technology?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
Wish there was a fix for this. I know I've read about it somewhere just can't find it.

Sent str8 from my half eaten Banilla Ice Cream Samich
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] weedolo9y:
wow that is odd i am using the same rom same phone i am running 4.0 was on 3.0 getting 5-6 hours screen on time using the kernal that came with the rom turning sync off wifi off and onpy turning data on when i need it no facebook app i used both the cpu script and v6 cpu script is set to governer=ondemand minimum cpu is 384kbps max is 1.8 then on v6 i am using number 9 i believe its 1000 something ... what else auto brightness go to sounds turn off vibrate on keypress mute keytone ...ect hope this helps if you want to save even more battery set max cpu to 1ghz but i wouldnt go lower

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] weedolo9y:
let me know now how it works for you

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Phantom87:
If you find it let me know, and ill do the same.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] npompei:
Hey guys. Stock Verizon. Had a lot of battery probs after the first day or two. I was losing over 10% an hr and not the using it hard. Took it back to, Verizon. They did a stock reboot there to test. I went home, pulled the battery and went back to what I had before. Now, good battery life.

"Android System" was at like 60% or something terrible. Now she's much better. So really not sure what was causing it as I have installed the same apps again? So maybe you guys should do a full back to stock reboot and start over. I was pissed off but the Verizon guy said "hey if it's bad you're going to need to get a new phone and be flashed to stock again anyway" Damn good point...

Galaxy S3 - Locked...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxmelissaxx:
My phone is always awake help lol I downloaded better battery stats can someone help me figure this out please?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
completely stock
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ChocolateSnow:
Got mine from ATT a day after it dropped, first two days went phenomenal battery. 15+ hours with 3+ hours screen time usually hitting around 4 and a half on weekends. then for some reason after that it all went downhill, battery life is still good, but now im only getting 2.5 hours screen on time and it annoys the crap out of me when nothings changed. Battery life is pretty much = to my S2 and thats the one thing i never wanted. seeing lots of people get 4 hours screen on time and i think its about high time that i marched on over to att and asked for a new battery! :p
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sluzbenik:
I'm doing much better today, but much lighter use.

I'm at 15h21m since last charge with 49% remaining. Not heavily using the screen, just checking emails and texting today.

Before I went to bed last night I watched a full episode of something on Netflix at max brightness though. 1h 51m screen time. So not shabby at all really. I am starting to believe the people who are getting 20 hours, you can easily get that if you have brightness turned down and keep your screen time under 3 hours I suspect. However, I've been on Wifi nearly the entire time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ElvenSlurpee:
Overall, I've been very happy with the battery life. I would say I'm a moderate user: I rarely use WiFi, use ~200-300mb of 4G a day, and play a healthy amount of Temple Run. Since I got it, I've averaged about -4.5%/Hr. I recently installed a new rom, Bean's Custom Rom - mostly for the Dropbox upgrade - and I've noticed some weird battery activity. I would post screenshots, but I haven't hit that 10 post mark :(. The phone shows a weird linear drop from 100% to 75% at about -10%/Hr - after this drop it resumes normal activity of -2.5% to - 5%/Hr. Any ideas?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Douchie0221:
I feel like the cell standby shouldn't be taking up this much battery and my screen hasn't been on that long...... I'm rooted and running beans rom and have the cpu saver running as well. Hope these may help others as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DudeWatsThat:
This is my battery life since I had to factory reset it,after reading its suggested it would solve my battery issues. I've had my SGS3 for about four days.

This is without power saving mode.

GPS: off

Wifi: on,because I havent gone out these last few days.

Brightness:No more than 20% usually at 10%

I live in a LTE area just in case.

Since I did the reset I had about 60% battery(down 40% since 10am to 11:30am) this is how I set my apps to sync to see how long did that 60% battery would last to find out if it solved my issues.

Apps that sync:

Scope:every hour

Facebook:every 2 hours

Weather:every 6 hours

Google account sync is on.

Email syncs once a day.

I barely receive gmail so I only get a notification from it once or twice a day.

Regular use:

Moderate texting.

No gaming.

1 to 5 calls no more than 10 mins each except one witch is for about 1hr with 30mins.(didnt do calls while testing)

Moderate to heavy browsing.

With this use I think I should get more than 15+ hours of moderate use.

----------------EDIT/UPDATE------------------------

The reset worked getting 15+ hours with full charge.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] twentysided:
So, generally my battery life has been great. I've taken it from 6:30AM fully charged, with moderate usage and had it last with enough to be asleep overnight unplugged and a good 10% left to call a cab in the morning.

Most of the time, it easily makes it through the night if I am not able to charge it.

Today, it was different. I unplugged it around 6:30AM and it just ran out about an hour ago (just over 10hrs) - it was at about 2%.

Cell Standby - 32%

Screen - 20%

GPS - 16%

The phone was also getting hot in my pocket during the afternoon, and it was in my pocket for the last 3.5 hrs of the day - not being taken out and used at all.

So I am inclined to believe it was a terrible cell reception day, and the battery got sucked out trying to connect.

I spent about 30minutes on Facebook today, otherwise the GPS was off. So thanks Facebook for screwing me out of the 16% juice for location services that I never used. Dicks.

We need root, because until I have it I can't tell Tasker to shut the effing GPS down when Facebook is started. That worked great on my Droid Incredible.

Anyway - I'll definitely reboot the phone tonight after I can get some charge on it, but I'm pretty PO'd about the massive drain I took today, on what has otherwise been an outstanding battery life experience.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] wavrunrx:
screen on time is 2Hr

juice defender is installed on "Balanced" profile.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Imatoasta:
4 hours of screen on with about 3 hours of music while the screen was off and mobile data most of the time. Vzw version rooted with bloat removed.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] antiseen:
That's all on 4g. No wifi, not once. Pretty freaking good, man.

That one little bump up doesn't make sense. I don't remember plugging in, and am pretty sure I didn't but maybe it's just slipping my mind.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Div033:
Its luck of the draw.

Once reaching full capacity, the phone will start a cycle of draining and recharging so not to damage the battery. I've experienced this but I usually have a good charge when I unplug and see 100% for a good bit before it drops.

On my old Incredible, I would see it drop as low as 92% after unplugging, so this isn't that bad.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeschevelle:
I will get a screen shot up to support this, but (and I am a fairly light user) I got to 47 hours before recharging it at 3%.

I normally see at least 30hrs on a full charge with lighter days getting into the 40 hr range.

Maybe I am just lucky, but I am a happy man.

I checked our demo at work (which never gets used for anything), and it was close to 4 and a half days when it was a bout to die
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] zzd4nzz:
wo
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Zylograth:
Here is my battery from yesterday, new phone abuse has slowed and getting much better.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] spyker73:
Same here. Terrible battery life after I never had any battery draining issues with iphone. Oh well, I will probably install one of the custom roms.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
Thought I'd just throw this out for others to see. Today I wanted to push my battery bc I haven't been very happy with it. So, I've been on it b.s.ing most of the day to see where I could go with screen on time. I am using wifi today since I'm home and have been busting my data plan open all week. Anyway, here's a screen shot. Will update later tonight when this thing drains.

Edit:

I'm outta the box stock and auto brightness.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DarkredD14:
I'm

Well not bad vs mine. I however was on LTE 95% of the screen time. No power saving stock rom auto brightness.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TriC_101:
I'm getting huge battery drain.. and my stock texting app crashes a few a day and my bookmarks stop updating.. running stock rogers Rom.. here is a screen shot.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bmanhooch:
I have been trying to figure out what is draining my battery. I can charge it 100% and it will be completely dead in 8-10hrs with no screen time, ie sitting on the counter all night. I have uninstalled basically everything.

I looked this morning and noticed it was fine till about 3/4's of the way through the night and then took a sudden dive for the remainder. Looking at my emails (gmail), it looks like I received an email around 5am. I have the notification LED turned off. Can a notification drain the battery?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shades333:
This is real battery life! Only using 3g never connected to wifi and without 4g. I have the sprint version and have the cdma/lte setting on. I'm currently running Blazer Rom 1.6....

I hate when people post pics of their battery life when using wifi 90% of the charge. This is an example of someone on the go and not having wifi to link to.

I'd say its pretty impressive. Almost 2 hours on screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jayrod88:
If you're rooted, download better battery stats to look into any kernel wake locks. I had a major issue and wound up switching from stock to a different rom. Something was causing a dmux wakelock and I never figured it out.

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jdbeitz:
I wish I could test my battery. But I have a bad flashing addiction so my rom never gets to settle in enough to get a good readying :(
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] dualbf:
Mine is pretty awesome. With fairly moderate use, GPS, Wifi, and Syncing turned off
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jethro650:
AOKP and ktoonsez kernel. Mostly wifi though.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] duhitsrandy:
is it normal for the android system to use this much battery? been like this for a few days. when i first got the phone screen and cell standby were the top users like how everyone elses looks.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fausto77:
Try taking out your battery for a few moments. I just did this and today I've gotten 19 hours! Steady same wifi and or hspa+ 4g though but I think even when I return to work where I get 8-10 hr's it'll be better
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] abanh:
I have the sprint galaxy s3, and I get through the work day with no problems. One thing I do notice, however, is the Gallery app seems to have a wake lock daily (at around the same time every day too). I manually close it every day (settings > applications > running apps).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] G1_enthusiast:
LMAO the things people do for longer battery life...LOL i laugh so hard.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] throwback1718:
What you guys think?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] VikingoRMCF:
Sent from my Galaxy S3, Blazin' v1.6
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tyshemi:
All stock still Damn imei thing has me freaked
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] einrae214:
This was the days into having three phone
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TriC_101:
I'm having the same issue
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] norbarb:
This is mine. Not that bad