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[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] vince24L:
Havent touched my phone in 4 hours and it dropped 60% because of it..anybody have any idea?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] thakrew317:
Try going into settings<applications<manage apps<running.....and see what app keeps running when ur not using it..OK on my phone dsp manager was always running even when I never even opened it
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
Gsiff_daemon is raping my battery, anyone know what it is?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] AndroidLonghorn:
Mobile data has been killing the battery on my AT&T Galaxy S3. I can always tell because it gets warm even with the screen off. The only way I can stop the drain is to turn off mobile data which is not a long-term fix. I can't understand why some days I get amazing battery life, and some days I get a few hours only.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
Use juice defender, I've used it for years, it turns off mobile data when the screen is off and re enables it on a schedule you set. It's the only long term fix I have found. Since calls and texts come through 2g this should fix your problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Tabulous:
just out of curiosity, are any of you with battery problem using a live wallpaper, or most importantly a weather live wallpaper?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Randomacts:
Can't you do that in tasker as well?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] vince24L:
no.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] rdwing:
I have a Sprint 32Gb SGSIII White and I'm also getting the same results. bam_dmux_wakelock and smdcntl0 wake locks as the top 2 kernel WL's. Top partials WL's are Mail_Service, AlarmReciever, AudioOut_1, and DownloadManager.

The 2 kernel wake locks really killed a lot of battery so I hope we can figure out what's going on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
I've noticed that right before gsiff_daemon goes crazy and starts destroying batteries, my launcher seems to die and when it reloads everything has been closed, but if I look at running processes gsiff_daemon is numero uno, every time I get this soft reboot (not sure what to call it) this happens, curious if anyone else has noticed the same thing.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] disturbd1:
I too have been experiencing issues with inconsistent battery life. I've flashed a couple different ROMS, with promises of "killer battery life", and have yet to see a major difference between them and the stock ROM. When I'm at work, and can't be on WiFi, my battery is down to 30% by the time I'm off, and that's with minimal screen-on time (maybe an hour at most). Being with Sprint, I can't use 4G LTE yet, so this is just over a 3G connection.

I'm thinking of wiping everything, flashing a different ROM, and just installing apps one at a time over the course of a few days. I hate doing the process of elimination, it would be nice to know exactly what is killing battery life so quickly from one day to the next. I'm especially jealous when I see that someone else is able to get 24hrs on one charge with moderate use.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] shaun0207:
This seems like a simple fix. From what I've read, there is a decimal point out of place somewhere in the framework. Not sure why Samsung hasn't made a update for this yet.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] zeesubalpha:
i think this was only an issue on the int'l version and caused issues with the "cell standby" process, not "android system"
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] dei13:
Me too ... and yes I have flashed with decimal place battery "fix"

I am experiencing this, too. My battery life is horrendous. Even when I barely touch the phone the battery drains extremely quickly. I have already rooted the phone with a few different roms with the battery setting "fix" to no avail. I'm on at&t. I have disabled wifi and gps. I have tried to use both the stock app killers and 3rd party ones recommended by these forums. My battery monitoring apps (both stock and 3rd party) consistently attribute the battery loss (always more than 90% of battery use) to an android system app. The android system app or file changes from day to day seemingly randomly. Files have included: UltaCfg, com.samsung.app.playreadyui and security storage.

Any help will be extremely* appreciated. I love the phone but it is nearly useless in this state.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] bjtheone:
I would go hunting for bad apps. My s3 is on Rogers (same hw slightly different sw) running a rooted stock Rogers rom with all the Samsung apps frozen, using tb.

I get 6am to midnight with 3-4 hours of screen time. Currently sitting at 20% with over 3 hours of screen time, most of that spent in a browser, and 17 1/2 hours since charged.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] drothenberger:
Having my pbxes.org SIP account registered in the Phone app was killing my battery unless I was on wifi. It kept my phone awake all the time. I switched (back) to CSipSimple and things improved a lot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] shaun0207:
I did notice that having my phone on Wifi at home last night definitely saved my battery
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
My phone dropped 25% in 15 minutes this morning, and once again gsiff_daemon was going crazy, but this time it was also making logcat go bonkers

7-11 06:51:27.881 E/Sensors ( 537): accelHandler 0.637524 9.136102 3.490591

07-11 06:51:28.041 E/Sensors ( 537): gyroHandler 0.014914 0.012783 -0.075634

These lines were repeated 100s of times.

I'm pretty sure everyone here with system draining your battery like crazy have the same issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] NFSP G35:
Same bam_dmux_wakelock problem on my VZW 16GB SGS3.

It's driving me bonkers >:(
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] d1ez3:
I can't get better battery stats to work on my phone, VZW. I had it purchased earlier but it says not compatible. Anyone else?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] nojak:
I noticed mine had poor battery performance after rooting using invisiblek's root image.

I set the phone to factory defaults, flashed the stock image, and reset to factory defaults again, just to clear out potential issues.

I'll be keeping an eye on it, now.

Have you guys rooted, as well?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] NFSP G35:
I did the "stripped-down" root.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mt3g:
Mine has been going crazy as well, just got the phone last night and I killed the battery in, after a full charge, in 4 hours with maybe 1.5 hours of use... didn't try and figure out what the issue was... Rooted yes, and using Redrum's sonic rom... going to flash lean stock and see what happens. If not that then Cm roms, I wonder what it is. If I can help in any way let me know, I have the next 3 days off! If all else fails I'm going to go get a replacement.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] murdermonkey9000:
Was it hot for no reason?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mt3g:
Pretty much, I was just answering text messages. I'm on lean stock now and it's no longer hot, but 38 minutes in and I'm at 87% already. My G2X was better then this lol... I'm thinking its a bad battery.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] dwach414:
I'm on Verizon, but I have already replaced my phone with a brand new one and both have about the same poor battery life. The reps in the store seem to think that if you even get 8 hours of life no matter the usage that is really good. Not that they really know anything. Both phones would get about 2.5 hours of screen time and about 12 hours of total life till they'd die. I have two friends with the phone as well and they both get amazing battery life, but one isn't in a LTE area, and the other turns off her LTE and forces the phone to 3g so maybe that will help alot. Plus they both have white phones, which I doubt would make any difference, but who knows.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] bslate07:
My battery is spotty life is spotty. Sometimes it runs for a long time with 3-4 hours of screen time and then other times it's less than 2 hours of screen time before I'm needing to swap batteries.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] mt3g:
Ya I'm just going to order a couple spare batteries. If anyone wants to PM me where they got theirs, then awesome!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jayrod88:
I'm also having the bam_dmux_wakelock issue. I'm on Att stock, rooted with cell stand by and tethering fix enabled. This is driving me crazy!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jeffreii:
I've been dealing with this for a few weeks...is anyone else having the same pattern: reboot fixes it, then it comes back?

Normal standby with minimal usage is about 1-2% battery an hour for me. When this starts happening, now once a day, it spikes up to 10-15% battery life in an hour (minimal use, mostly standby). A reboot fixes it for awhile but it usually comes back the next day, same thing.

It happens with or without wifi though it seems that wifi makes it worse - I'm testing this now. I'm using GSAM (Badass) Battery Monitor and Better Battery Stats but not gaining a lot of insight...the BBS output is rather cryptic to me and the GSAM output shows it's mostly the kernel/android system using my battery...so no clue what to take from that.

It's a pain in the ass that I can get through half my day and be at about 80%...and then 2 hours later, with very little use, I see I'm at 50% all of a sudden! The reboot fixes it but usually not before I've lost a huge chunk of battery. Thankfully I can charge almost anywhere but this has got to be fixed! I'm ready to start removing apps to see if I can catch one misbehaving.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jayrod88:
I'm going to try to flash to stock via Odin to see if I can figure it out. Maybe the kernel is going a little crazy. I really wish a guru could narrow this down. I've done A LOT of searching and can't pin point it.

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] obutto:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1755180&highlight=hot&page=5

Check this thread out. It seems like from user experience that changing ROMs/going to stock does not do anything.

Contribute. Maybe we can piece together something from our usage patterns.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jeffreii:
Still troubleshooting my issue and found kernel wakelocks: "bam_dmux_wakelock" and "smdcntl0" as possible culprits.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] lblacklol:
Same issues here pretty much exactly. VZW Sgs 3 16gb. All the same issues with bam_dmux.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] Nightwind Hawk:
Have any of you tried resetting your phone to see if it's still just as bad?

Do a full backup in recovery (so you can go back if you want) or backup some of your apps in Titanium backup... then just wipe everything. See if it fixes it.

While I notice the apps are what also uses most of the battery for me, it's nothing like what you guys post. I only get about 7-8% for the system which includes *wakelock* and mediaserver, so that's probably why (whatever those are???)....

VZW model here...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jeffreii:
It's only been 24 hours but I uninstalled an app called "Birthdays" and my battery has been stable...was too busy to play with my phone at all today and only made a few calls and texts. Over 15 hours since I woke up and unplugged it and I'm at 78%. We'll see if this holds up...

The app is not that popular so I'm not sure if this will help any of you but I hope so...

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] sluzbenik:
Same deal, here. VZ GSiii. Comes and goes, and I'll just reboot more frequently till we narrow it down. I have noticed both times after I went into an area with no service where I went into airplane mode (that's one of my big peeves, when this thing has barely any signal, it will actually start heating up in your pocket and burning battery fast as it has Scotty send emergency power to the radios!)

Some of you guys who have gone back to stock, report back please and try to avoid the cool widgets for a day or two...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] NFSP G35:
OK, figured out what it was for me at least!

I had my company exchange server set up syncing email, contacts and calendar. And using the built in exchange sync, mind you. So I removed that account, cleared data, disabled the email and exchange services, and switched to apps from the market for synching my email, contacts and calendar. Battery drain is gone, phone deep sleeps like it should, and battery life is greatly improved.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] lblacklol:
Ok, well I don't have an exchange server account. What I do have is gmail and yahoo (through the app, not built in app) as well as Google calendar (using a separate app called Jorte to sync it.) Wondering now what mine could be. Maybe calendar?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] NFSP G35:
^I'd say it's worth a shot to disable those for a day just to see.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jeffreii:
48 hours now and I've had very stable, excellent battery. It hasn't been this stable since a few weeks ago - right around the time I first installed the "Birthdays" app (according to Google Play).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] jayrod88:
As you can see, something decided to keep my phone awake after it being great in the AM. I use group me a lot for work, maybe this is keeping it awake? BBS had an update and it reset the settings.

As you can see, Android system had a lot of wake locks.

This is driving me crazy!

Sent from my Galaxy S3
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] kingdady:
jayrod88, this worked for me. Found it in a SGS2 thread. Sorry for the attachment. I had it saved for myself.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] ventzi:
Hi all,

I also notice this and these are the steps that I did and seems to help me to reduce this process to like 5 %. I'm on Sprint S3 but should be the same for the all carriers.

Go ahead and open Talk application. You should see your account in green (I'm not using this application) then hit the menu and then select sigh Off. Make sure that your account changes to Offline (sometimes it is change back it self so open one more time make sure that it says Offline). Then what else I change is in wi-fi advanced options: under Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep I choose Only when plugged in option. then I reboot the phone and from now on (almost 2 days) my Android system process show up only 5% of usage and my battery life improve significantly. I hope this will helps.

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] rondietz1:
Overall battery life

Within reason I really don't get into a process by process accounting of all my battery usage, I do look at anything major and out of the ordinary and try to address it. Unless you are really into all the technical aspects of android and how it handles everything, I think it's nearly impossible for the average person to keep up. I have found, however, that JuiceDefender Ultimate, with just a standard setting of balanced, seems to make a real difference on a daily basis. You can get into your own personal settings within the app, it would just be a bit of a learning curve that I'm currently too lazy for. Honestly, I have used this app on my current Galaxy S3, my previous Epic 4G Touch, and even my Hero before that, and it seems to do something right! Without tracking exact statistics (once again, I'm basically lazy) I would guess a daily increase in battery life of anywhere from 25% to 40%. Now, I'm not a real heavy usage guy, so this probably varies greatly based on your usage pattern (this is probably where the custom settings would be useful) but it seems to greatly conserve while the phone is idle. I realize I could probably accomplish some of the same settings by playing with turning radios on and off and changing the cpu settings, and there are plenty of other programs to do these things with, but I can get great results by just using one program and not having to do much digging as to what settings it's effecting. I have no great attachment to JuiceDefender (I think there's a free version also, however I don't know it's capabilities) and I'm sure there are equivalents out there, but for my two cents worth this seems to work great!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)] smeatr0n:
Had this issue, I'm on a Canadian Rogers device running Wanamlite (an AT&T rom). The culprit for me was AT&T software update. Seems like it was stuck trying to connect and of course, was never going to. Froze it with Titanium, no problems after that.
[Nook Color General] josepha24:
I apologize if this has been answered already. I did read the 2 threads involving the 1.4.3 update, but did not get a clear answer.

Can I use the same method I used when I rooted NC running 1.4.2? (clockworkmod 3.2.0.1 and manualnooter 5.02.19)

I also installed the kernel. I have all this info on my PC, saved from my SD card. I misplaced my SD card and thankfully saved all the info on it. I have a new card and am ready to try this root. Can you also offer any info on blocking OTA updates? I tried that once before (2 updates ago) and it didn't work.

I hope I conveyed this clearly. I am ready to scream with the B & N update nightmare!! :eek:

Thanks for any help~
[Nook Color General] linwiz:
I am also trying to root my nook color, 1.4.3. it's not rooted.. it is stock, but it has been rooted in the past. the NC 1.4.3 will not boot CWM or TWRP bootable sd cards. looking for some advice.
[Nook Color General] yelloguy:
I was rooted on 1.4.2 when I got OTA update to 1.4.3. I used the same tools and utilities to root it again without any issues. And this time I blocked the OTA updates.

Here are the instructions I followed both times.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1438212
[Nook Color General] linwiz:
I understand being previously rooted but I was not previously rooted. The nc simply will not boot from the cwm sd. I don't know how to proceed with any steps without this critical step.
[Nook Color General] Sardonic95:
linwiz, try going back to stock and loading 1.4.2 and root from there...
[Nook Color General] leapinlar:
It could be your CWM card. Look at my tips thread linked in my signature to find out why some cards do not boot. I also have a new version there you can try.
[Nook Color General] josepha24:
Where can I get a copy of 1.4.2?

Want to go back to 1.4.2 and then use my already prepared SD card to re-root.
[Nook Color General] linwiz:
I am going to retry with the 5.5.0.4 "new" sd image. in the mean time, how do i load 1.4.2 once my nook is completely factory/stock? i tried to load 1.4.1 like i would do on a official b&n update, but it just erases the file.

edit: i could not get that sd image to work either. i am following the same steps as I used to root in the past. im using the same sd card and card reader. i honestly think b&n might have done something horrible in 1.4.3 to block us.

edit: after several attempts at resetting, my nc says its 1.2.0 now. but yet it still goes from off to "read forever". i dont know whats going on any more.

edit: I am now sitting with a stock 1.4.1 nc and it still wont boot from sd. i dont know how many times i've burned different sd images to 3 different sd cards and nothing will boot.

edit: i decided to try windows instead of linux to burn the image, worked first shot.
[Nook Color General] mamabearcf:
How to turn off OTA?

Hey guys, how do I turn off the stupid OTAs???

Thanks!
[Nook Color General] Sardonic95:
I got this from the B&N Nook board. Sorry I can't give props to who posted it, or the link.

I already had Root Explorer but had to buy a SQL Lite Editor to edit the registry...both are worth it...

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You can do this to block OTA updates:

Download Root Explorer from the play store....its not free but its worth it.

Open Root Explorer:

Tap on Data

Tap on Data

Tap on com.bn.devicemanager.

Tap on databases

Tap on devicemanager.db

Tap on registry

Turn to go to landscape mode (should look like a spread sheet)

Go to com.bn.device.fota.mode and look over to the "value" column. It should say auto or automatic.

Long touch on Auto and choose "edit fields".

Change Auto to Manual and hit save.
[Nook Color General] mamabearcf:
Thank you so much!!!
[Nook Color General] thewaywardgeek013:
Yes you can use the same method when rooting 1.4.2. You can also create a Stock Rom 1.4.3 w/ CWM on it by following the instructions here. This will also disable OTA Updates AFAIK.
[Nook Color General] Arana207:
Root the nook verison 1.4.3

I have the color nook version 1.4.3 can you put up the directions on how i can root it its possible. Thanks
[Nook Color General] davidr415:
rooting instructions are at:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1494901
[Android Themes] WhiteBoy997:
Introducing Dark Mint. A Darker version of my Blue ICSelcius theme available for MIUI v4. Thousands of hours have gone into making this for everyone. Included in the theme are my new icon set called Supra. Click the link below for the icons thread to grab the template, and give me your request. :D

Whats themed: Mostly everything. Too lazy to list everything.

NOTE: this is built on top of the MIUI.us rom, so certain parts of the theme may not work on other MIUI versions.

Update v2:

MIUI JellyBean 4.1 sms text box fixed

Soft Keys Changed. No more crowns

W.I.P Lockscreen included

:D

Downloads

Dark Blue Mint v1

Dark Blue Mint v2

Thread for Supra PSD, Click Here

BUY ME A DRINK :D
[Android Themes] devilsden:
Awesome Thanks
[Android Themes] akoe:
Nice release man :D
[Android Themes] Edvin73:
Beautiful theme.
[Android Themes] saul1991:
I'm using miui v4 for the dx its on miui.us. when I go to settings all the text is white with white background.
[Android Themes] 21vm:
Thx a lot, i'll try asap. Thx for sharing your work !
[Android Themes] Ivant 1968:
Theme super!

Would be even more icons?
[Android Themes] migy:
try reboot, it helped me, but there are some spots where the text is not visible :). It will be fixed in next version (I think). And thank you for this super theme.
[Android Themes] Oskarssi:
thanks for awesome theme :good:
[Android Themes] Beachbum2049:
Theme is so sexy, I have one request:

Dark unlock icon on lock screen.
[Android Themes] lombyzgz:
Realy nice! THXXX!
[Android Themes] pa.pn2:
thankyouuuuuuuuuuuuu whiteboy
[Android Themes] bennybaz:
very good!

one problem tho with new permissions manager.

White on white text..
[Android Themes] abumhmmd1:
OMG

This is GREAT ;)
[Android Themes] androidindian:
Thank you.my friend...amazing theme
[Android Themes] WhiteBoy997:
yes it will be included in the next update

yes there will be, i'll be working on more this afternoon, keep an eye on the Supra icons thread

Great Suggestion!! Ive included this in the next update!

It will be fixed

=====================

Thanks for the support everyone!!
[Android Themes] Negroid:
i love the theme, but i have some requests/suggestions. can you make a version the number pad and the music player controls have the normal\icselcius icons? i feel like the shiny buttons fit the overall theme. but still, i love it

Edit: i was able to replace the music player file in the theme with the icselcius one and that solved my issue but the phone buttons didnt change when i replaced it lol.
[Android Themes] CheesyNutz:
must get my phone back to MIUI asap
[Android Themes] TexasLTE:
Looks Really Nice !
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] M4457:
From XDA Rules:

6. Do not post warez.

If a piece of software requires you to pay to use it, either pay or find your cracks and serials somewhere else. We do not accept warez nor do we permit any member to promote or describe ways in which Warez, cracks, serial codes or other means of avoiding payment, can be obtained.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Themes and Apps] M4457:
Sorry people. I don't know how to open a theard that doesn't have problem. Please help me. What should I do?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ceyo14:
As title says. Its not my primary device so i want an opinion from someone current... Shes had a lot of problems with LOS... Thanks
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] revamper:
Los is most likely caused by the modem. I suggest running the el29 modem with whatever ICS ROM you choose.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] ceyo14:
Ok but what about the latest stable rom.