yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] :
Go to the gallery settings and look if there's a daily sync set up. Disable it if you want. If that doesn't work, go to settings>accounts and sync>google and disable picasa web album sync.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] auronx62:
This is mine. Running stock out the box. Brightness set up about 40%. Power save mode but enabled the haptic. To be honest about 8 hours of that total was sleeping overnight draining about 5 % which is great... but the rest of this I'm not sure what to think of it. Seems to drain a little faster than I would like it to be. Any inputs?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] inm8num2:
Too lazy to screenshot right now. Stock rom, auto brightness, no major setting changes so far. Just installed some apps and toyed around a bit on this charge.

62% left

14 hours, 31 min on battery

Cell standby - 43%

Screen - 20% (1 hour 40 min)

Android system - 9%

OS - 5%

idle - 5%

etc.

I'm not sure what to think. I feel like I should have better battery life. My Droid Incredible 2 had a standby time with 3G constantly on of about 3 days until it reached ~20%. That's with little screen use.

Just seems like LTE is killing battery life, and I have full bars on reception. Only syncing with gmail (push) and hotmail (hourly) right now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] egyptshun:
Id love to snowboard on this ahaha
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] llfloyd79:
Here is mine. Not bad in may opinion. Somewhat light to moderate use.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Eddie Bombay:
Not sure how I did it but I managed to get 6 hrs screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ali87va:
Is this normal?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Eddie Bombay:
Holy **** what's your screen time?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Eddie Bombay:
Lol at 1 percent left...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uzii305:
Sir, how did you manage to get on 3G?? Im on ATT GS3 and i cant get 3g.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kenneth.Torres:
If you're on stock, you are probably getting 3G. Att puts that 4g logo to represent 3g, hspa, and hspa+. If you load up cm9 or cm10 you'll see the 3G, H, and 4G (lte) logo. And he's either on sprint or Verizon, att logos don't show 3G
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] inm8num2:
1 day, 17 hours, 4G always on, auto brightness, nothing else modified really

23% left

cell standby - 56%

screen - 13% (2 hours 25 min on time)

Is the cell standby usage accurate or a bug in the software?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uzii305:
Does anybody see something wrong with my battery stats? Might i have a bad battery? Im rooted, on stock ATT rom, all bloatware disabled, brightness 50%, 1 push mail account, 1 at 1 hr interval, hspa+ with wap.cingular apn to disable LTE, no social network of any kind( i think their a waste of time), no wake locks that i can see, very few apps running in background. Someone please give me some advice.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Kenneth.Torres:
I would try a new battery, when I was on stock I could get 10-12 hours with heavy use
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xxjrsmith3xx:
How in the world did you manage to get 6hr screen time...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] uzii305:
Being rooted doesnt drain battery right?? Like superuser and w.e else it installs doesnt drain battery rignt??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] taeksoo:
I find this to be my best battery life using this changes below.

On Verizon w/ CDMA only.. Lte only when needed.

No battery save setting.

No gps.. No blue tooth.. Wifi on. Was on Wifi all day today for this.

Screen deemed low.

SetCPU to 384min & 1024max.... Increase only when required. It I'm happy w/ 1024max at the moment.

Used pretty heavy today.. Surfing, YouTube, light games, emails, lots of Tapatalk, etc.

I'm pretty happy with this.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaskil1975:
Sent from my SCH-I535
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] subrar08:
7 hrs at 38%
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] hightechlive:


Very happy
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] boogyman12:
i've been getting about 2 days with moderate use -- mostly listening to music w/ power amp for several hours per day at work, and some light gaming (30 min or so) per day
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] auronx62:
Any users on t-mobile getting more than a day's worth of battery life?? I see all these 4-5 hour screen time and I am nowhere near it.

Anyone having problems like I do with battery life?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] DUBVGALAXY:
could you provide some more details about your setup? what rom etc?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
The best I've gotten on verizon with lte most of the day
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] grkmaster:
Very odd that last night I went to sleep with wifi on and my alarm woke me up this morning and my battery was around20 percent from 91percent in 7 hours... usually on wifi i never had a issue.. anyone know which app i can use to see if any specific app destroyed my battery while idle?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] cuhrazy:
This was with over 4 hours of screen on time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] auronx62:
Only 1 hrs+ screen time.... should I be concerned about this?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GalaxySIII:
My guess is you are on bone stock??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] auronx62:
In response to GalaxySIII

Absolutely correct. But even though I'm stock (t-mobile), shouldn't I get better numbers than that? I mean I made calls surfed the web and turned the phone on and off ( from sleep) a bunch of times...shouldn't I get something a little more respectable?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Randomacts:
What black magic is that?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] GalaxySIII:
you"should" but that's the same numbers I get with full stock .. not debloated or anything just rooted
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] krips2003:
I got my phone yesterday and so far I'm happy with the Battery life just after single charge. This is running bone stock minus the current OTA, which I haven't installed and not planning to do so.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] auronx62:
So I shouldn't go looking for a phone exchange or battery change or anything..??
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaydawgx7:
I think I need some help. This is probably my worst day yet. I have been at home all day and as you can see I've barely used it. When I heard the low battery beep.com it blew my mind... Don't even know where to start. I'm stock rooted.com and that is all. Only thing I've done is installed a few apps.com but they don't even show up as running

EDIT: just realized the I hit the volume button. Down to 14% after only 14m and 25s of screen time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Boss Daddy:
Loving the battery life!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] contentryder:
Wanam!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Shep FC3:
My battery has really gone down the tubes last couple of days. I only get about 6hrs moderate usage. I would at least get 12-14 for the first week I had it. Think I'll go into the AT&T store and see if they have a replacement.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tonysunshine:
looks like your cell signal is really low, thats why Cell Standby is taking up 53% of your battery. Are you in an area with low reception?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaydawgx7:
No, the cell standby is the known issue of reporting it incorrectly. Normally have 3-5 bars Lte. Think I'm going to factory reset and not install anything but a new keyboard tomorrow to see if there is a rogue app causing this. Have to charge my phone twice to make it through a day. Literally ran it down to 2% twice yesterday. Good thing is my girlfriend gets her sgs3 today, so I can swap batteries with her and compare.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dieselgrizzly:
This was the best I got so far. Took 3 weeks of obsessive monitoring and deleting to accomplish this and I'm not even sure I have anything to show for it. Is this any good? Coming from iPhone 4 where you don't have to put in effort to survive a day.

Additional info:

Hspa (4g) Telus only

Power saving off

No gaming

Wifi and bt off

No root, but disabled a lot in stock app manager
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shugga101:
Same thing happened to me. I'm on stock att rom non rooted . Had 13mins of screen on and phone died in 9 hours
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
I had my worst day today as well. I slept all day bc I worked all night last night.... Not sure why it changed so drastically. I had really good days in the beginning but they've gotten worse over time. When I'm at work I don't get a signal 75% of the time so I don't expect it to be outstanding there, but I want/need more than I'm getting. I'm probably going to order a spare battery tonight anyway. Anyone got any ideas??

Including a SS of one of the good days so you'll see previous performance.

Sent str8 from my half eaten Banilla Ice Cream Samich
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bakasam:
I've been getting about 16 hours of battery life with about 2.5~3 hours of screentime on stock rom
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] samarasas:
can you help me to reduce battery consumption, I want to be upset at how quickly we consume battery, one day might be, please help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Intercrew:
I'm having a problem with my battery as well. The cell standby as you can see in the photo is freaken high. I don't even use data and the reception on the status bar is always full so I'm not sure whats going on and even on the page where it shows the strength, the mobile network is fully green with a minor gap near the end.

Any suggestions? My baseband ends with LLE8 and kernel version is 3.0.8 with the date being may 23rd.

I'm just rooted, no special rom/kernel.

EDIT: I fully charged it to 100% then left the phone for 9h 30min, and you can see it went down nearly 30% from being idle throughout the night o_O
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tdunks:
I seem to be getting really high android os usage for some reason... my battery life is absolutely terrible. 4.5 hours on battery 48% battery left, 58% android os, 15% cell standby and 13% screen..with only 43 mins screen on
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theROMinator:
Pretty good for jelly bean.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Dieselgrizzly:
I'm realizing now that battery life is really hit or miss, I had a day where I was out from 7am to 3 am the next day (26 hrs unplugged) and the phone still had a juice when I got back. The next day I saw it drop to 75% 3 hrs after unplug because some random android backup process was keeping my phone on for no apparent reason. It's annoying when 3rd party apps kill your battery but it REALLY ticks me off when built in android features like latitude, gtalk, and media storage (???) that I really don't want or use, start up on their own in the background and eat away precious battery life. Google should know that battery life is the main factor holding them back from completely dominating as a mobile platform.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] samarasas:
Can you help me and explain that process to extinguish, impossible to eat more watch battery, please help
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jebise101:
Full stock with CWM and root, debloated using build in disable option from the app manager, wifi/gps on24/7. This is after 1 week of use, remember guys cycle you batteries full charge and then let it die completely repeat a few more times and then remove bloat.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] shugga101:
Let me start off by saying that my girlfriend and I both have sgs3's and both on At&t network. The only difference is that my phone received the update and hers did not. Now this is where I start to question the update and why she still hasn't received it yet when she is on wifi all the time, maybe att pulled the ota because it was causing issues on the phones receiving them by causing a battery drain issue which I've noticed on my phone and hers has not had a battery draining issue.

I looked at the phone info on both phones and she has a different kernel on her phone. So this update kernel I have could be causing the random battery drain issue I've noticed for a few weeks now since I got my update. We are both stock and non rooted.

When going to the settings menu and trying to manual update hers to check whether she could get it or not. It returned with a network error on her phone.

So I'm thinking those with the update that removes the local search or whatever it's called will suffer from a battery draining issue. This is only a theory but sounds like it makes sense to me. Input would be great.

(this is about battery life so I feel it is necessary to be in this post, mods can remove and place where needed or a new thread can be opened if necessary)

Thanks
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] bbgt2:
Bam. Lovin it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] REDFOCZ:
This was with 1 hour and 50 mins screen on time
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Something is probably keeping your phone awake. This has happened to me. Reboot should shut down the rogue app/process
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] weedolo9y:
Best I've had hour and a half screen on time still have 92 percent battery

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Xparent ICS Blue Tapatalk 2
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] krips2003:
Here's my second post about battery life. I'm running latest stock firmware with root. As I said before, I'm still happy with the battery life on the stock rom.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jaskil1975:
Stock not rooted. Definitely not a power user but for basic everyday use a few hours of reading facebook Twitter tapatalk surfing the web a few calls etc overall pretty good results. Screen on time of over 4 hours pretty good. Much better than my nexus.

Sent from my SCH-I535
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Latty:
Pretty terrible with LTE on running the latest CM10...

No major wakelocks, and very little screen on time. I guess the rest is just radio drain...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] CrazyTomato76:
Pretty much on wifi all day
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lineux:
I'm very satisfied with the battery life!

EDIT:

I'm using Ultimatum S3 1.2 by Howtomen and Vlara [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1732191]

and CPU Editor configured to 'Battery' [http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1798765]

Good performance and awesome battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] composi:
Definitely gonna have to go back to stock. Tried out a JB rom and the battery life has been horrible since. I used full brightness on stock and could easily get 8 or 9 hours before hitting 40% (bout 2 1/2 to 3hr screentime)...I've been on my phone an hour and a half just checking emails, FB, Twitter, and watched a 10-minute video on YouTube. Its already dropped 3% since I took the screenshots...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
I've posted battery life here a couple times because it can vary. I thought this run deserved a place in this thread though. Pretty damn good IMO. AT&T completely stock.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] xstayxposix:
Here's mine.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JB calhoun:
Ur phone is hardly ever awake lol
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] JB calhoun:
Tht proves nada u charged some
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Eddie Bombay:
Latest version of Facebook screwing up my battery life!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostsoul565:
Not sure what to do anymore. I rooted, flashed rom and kernel and still not getting WOW battery life. before root i was getting about 1 day 4 hours post room i am getting 1 day 10-12 hours depending on usage. Am I expecting too much from this phone?

i charged it 100% last night when I woke up I was at 91% then I google 1 thing, checked weather and went down to 82% so right now i am at 80% 9 hours on battery and only 15 minuets on screen??? not sure what is draining my battery.

i have the weather widget which checks weather every 3 hours, gmail synced and advanced task killer running.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TBayTom:
Have you tried the Juice Defender app yet? It's free and seems to save me a good amount of battery life throughout the day. I used it for my GS II as well.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] lostsoul565:
nah i used juice defender before but i did not like it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] werked:
I don't think that a five minute plug in makes that mean "nada"as u said. AND I washy trying to "prove" anything. I had nine percent battery left so jus for ****s and giggles lets say that's what I got from my little bump charge. Well....excellent batt life. :rolleyes:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
It's really simple....WiFi = best battery life, 4G = OK battery life, 4GLTE = forgetaboutit!!

Literally if I use WiFi I can be at 20hrs of standby with 2 hrs of screen and be at 50%. Meanwhile on 4GLTE, I have 1.5 hours of screen time and 6 hours of standby and I'm at 50%. LTE kills batteries - that's all there is to it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sheriffa:
Is there a way to turn off LTE and keep just 4G?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] aaroncal:
With 2hrs screen on time what do you guys think. I just got the phone last week so I'm not sure if it's considered good or not. It's weird though I've experienced battery drops off when rebooting once
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fausto77:
Lol my battery sucks on just 4g
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
This I can live with

Sent from my GS3 pretending to be a Nexus so Google Wallet works
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] siddharthadutta31:
Average Battery Life

I am getting slightly battery result compared to my samsung captivate (ATT galaxy S). I just got my S3 a few days ago and will give it a few more days for the battery to settle in. I remember my captivate taking 1 week to settle down before I started getting decent battery life.

I am using this phone quite actively nowadays and getting approx 6 hrs of screen time (Browsing, email, videos, gaming, calls etc)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] blue265:
have to agree that being on wifi makes a huge difference. The other day I watched a bunch of netflix and YouTube videos and was able to get 6.5 hours of screen on time. It lasted 14 hours but would have lasted a day or two easily if I hadn't used so much. On hspa or LTE it wouldn't have this much display especially when streaming YouTube videos

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Andrew149:
Here's mine, Android system is way too high I'm on power savings mode WiFi off GPS off
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Fausto77:
Stock rooted with cwm. Debloated via the stock app manager. Part of the day with just mobile data on and part with just wifi. Overnight was kept both off and I used CPU sleeper. Still at 19% this was my best day ever!!

Note* after a full charge I pulled the battery out and put it back in then booted

Edit: power saver too. Not always on though
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sm00nie:
Pretty happy with the battery life. Made quite a bit of phone calls and I had no time to charge it for just over 24 hrs. Surprised it lasted so long :)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sw07tc:
One word! sucks!!! was one of the reason i went with iphone years back when iPhone 2g release.

anyways I have 35% left, Data was turn off, it stay in my pocket idle most of the time, 2-3 times I pull it out probably look at the clock on it and battery. after 4hrs going to the market right when my wife call ring 2x when I pick up and the phone is dead... wth?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hunt3r.j2:
You have something that is absolutely destroying your battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] brekec88:
Could have pulled 4+ hours screen time easy . This is stock non rooted. Bloat disabled. 100% screen brightness. All sync turned off. I'm very happy with battery on this phone gets me through the day with one charge, couldn't ask for more. I have a HOX and have had a gs2 and a iPhone 4s but gs3 gives me best battery life.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] sheriffa:
So.......I think i found a good tip to help the battery life. I found a link that allows me to disable bloatware apps. I did this and installed Automatic task Manger. My battery life has signficantly improved but once again it is still on the first day i've tried this and could be untrue.

Here is the link on how to disable bloatware

http://www.jayceooi.com/2012/06/16/how-to-remove-bloatware-on-samsung-galaxy-s3/

So far here are my results, what do you guys think?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jcbzr:
My battery life on my 3 week old SGS3 isn't bad; it can go through on a 6am to midnight with minor usage. Is the 24h battery charge needed when you first get the phone? Or is that just a myth?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Hunt3r.j2:
Myth, especially with Samsung phones that have a self-calibrating fuel meter. Just charge it and use it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mms6:
depending on my usage and sleep mode on or off.. medium usage its around 50 hours or so.. light usage can last up to 3 days...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theking_13:
What seems to be the norm? About an hour of screen on time per 25% of battery? Curious as I might be getting a GS3.

Sent from my sexy white HTC One X on T-Mobile ;)
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] mobilehavoc:
In general I think assuming 20% of battery for every hour of screen time is fair. It will vary depending on screen brightness, wifi or mobile data and what you're doing. For example reading a Kindle book with a black background will take a long time to drain your battery

Sent from my GS3 pretending to be a Nexus so Google Wallet works
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] crazymikey:
Battery Life

I have been using Kyan's Rom for a couple of weeks now(always updated with the latest version) and I have to say that my battery life has greatly improved when comparing to the complete stock ROM. I was on my phone the other day and I had 15hours of use on one charge with a little over 4 hours of screen use and still had about 20% left. Keep in mind I am not using any kind of custom kernel or tweaks. I can easily get through the entire day with light to moderate usage and still have power to play with on my phone later in the evening. I have flashed other ROMS but did not stay on them long enough to be able to provide an opinion on those.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] theking_13:
^About how bright was your screen? And data/wifi on at all?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kicker18:
Getting pretty **** battery life. Hopefully after I root it will be better. New member, first post btw! :cool:
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Latty:
Pretty much my experience as well. Is there a way to enable fast dormancy to have the radio automatically switch to 3g on idle?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Uzi578:
Easily get a day+ with I have data turned off and am just texting/calls.