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[Galaxy S III General] spyro0610:
Hi Guys,

i try to run antutu on my S3 sadly i always got lowes score. and one thing i found out my S3 is only tri-core according to antutu software.

how should i check if this is true?

TIA
[Galaxy S III General] LiquidNarwhal:
holy hell what has happened here? :eek: I hope a dev hops over here quickly never seen such a thing.
[Galaxy S III General] spyro0610:
can you try to your S3?

can bring my device to customer service for them to check?
[Galaxy S III General] ploug:
Mine says triple to !
[Galaxy S III General] currydude:
Report this to the antutu developer. It's an report problem. By the why, but what kind of scores are you getting?
[Galaxy S III General] spyro0610:
before i always got 8000 +

now i try again

Quadrant and antutu

find attach file. is this accetable?

TIA
[Galaxy S III General] Rageypeep:
Why do people just want to number crunch benchmarks? They really mean nothing.... The best benchmark test is how it works in real life, is the OS smooth, do the apps work well on it, any lag at all... That is the best benchmark. Christ, my old HTC desire nearly had the same scores as the stock sensation according to BM scores, in real life however is was lagging like a pig stuck in mud. Lol :)
[Galaxy S III General] hefonthefjords:
There is no need to check if its true because its not.

Its probably just detected that one of the cores was turned off at the time.
[Galaxy S III General] currydude:
Quadrant is normal. Antutu definitely looks too low. Are you using anything like setcpu or any power saving apps?
[Galaxy S III General] Martin5000:
Are you triple core guys using siyah kernel? I use System Panel to monitor my phone and it only shows three active cores. Till now I didn't put much into it though, thinking that it's just because there wasn't enough load to start the fourth core. But maybe there is an issue after all?
[Galaxy S III General] naameh2002:
re

hello

well i used to have very random scores varying from 5000 to 12000

yesterday i ran the test and got 12064 but when checking it says dual-core armv7 processor(vf9v3, neon)

also i have another question regarding the processor, shouldnt it be arm v9 ???
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BasPilot:
I have been looking for a couple hours. I apologize if you can go out there and find the answer in seconds. I am not that great with searching forums.

I am looking to get single digit increments for my battery, and to put that in the status bar if possible to replace the battery icon already or to accompany it. I have found many of the mods that were out there before the ICS leaks came out. I am on the .232 ICS, rooted, ... I don't want to say stock, but for lack of a better term, I'm stock leak, if that makes sense. I'm not custom ROM, no MODS of any sort, I use a lot of apps and for the most part I have only put mods in on my Xoom, so I can do it, but haven't on this phone.... I'm thinking that's all the information you would require to help me out...

Also, if anyone has applied the older mods successfully, which ones did you use?

Thanks

EDIT - As of right now, I'm going to pick my favorite battery mod and see if it works... wish me luck!

Attempt one was a failure... Sorry to the guys who made these, but I gotta report what happens for others...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1274095&highlight=battery+percentage - Do not use... Result: Bootloop

FINAL EDIT - Okay, so for some reason I can't seem to get back into CWM I can only get to stock recovery mode right now, so I'm going to fix it but I don't want to do that more than once, so I will be patient and hope for an answer.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] caseyr7:
I just want to say thanks for taking the dive first and then keeping us updated, im having the same luck too, you would think it would be an easy tweak but then again im not a programmer! :p
[Motorola Droid Bionic] mike t:
If your on completely stock 232 and your familiar with boostrap you can download and install chronic rom without wiping and loosing data. It is a deodexed stock rom and includes 1% battery mod along with a few apps and build prop mods for speed. I got it at droidhive before it got hacked but you can get it here at rootzwiki. http://rootzwiki.com/topic/28127-ro...nks-in-op-updated-dailyformerly-whats-in-dev/ hope this helps.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent358:
I downloaded the Voodoo OTA Root keeper and I want to know does it work with the kf.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...yZy5wcm9qZWN0dm9vZG9vLm90YXJvb3RrZWVwZXIiXQ... It's says it works with any devices using ext3 or ext4 file system and Google style incremental Ota update zip .
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Agent358:
Thx
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] minion1835:
I used it today and it does what it is supposed to.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I've been troubleshooting this problem for weeks now - have never found a cause. I did a hard reset yesterday and have only installed the mainstream necessary apps - nothing sketchy or buggy at all.

My battery life is usually great and when unused drops less than 1% per hour...until suddenly it goes crazy and starts dropping ~10%/hour with NO USE.

I think perhaps something is wrong with my radio as the "mobile network signal" graph in the picture below is always spotty and shows the radio off for significant chunks of time when I know it's on. When these battery plunges start happening, it shows the radio as solid on, as you can see below...and reports the battery drain is from the radio.

A reboot fixes it but it comes back randomly within a day or two...the problem is that I can leave the phone unused for an hour to make dinner and when I pick it up next it has dropped a significant amount!

Hopefully AT&T will exchange it for me tomorrow and I will have better luck...I bought it on June 28th and tomorrow is July 28th...the 30th day, by my count.

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] PattyWagon915:
16hrs on battery and still at 43% is pretty darn good if u ask me.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 21cdb:
This has happened to me too on stock and AOKP. :( Just happened again a couple of hours ago.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
So I did the exchange 4 days ago. Have not rebooted since then. Thought I was in the clear until this afternoon when the battery started to plummet again...I updated the screenshots in the first post with today's data. Very disappointed and not sure what to do now except to try and do a hardware reset and use the phone stock with no apps for a few days and see what happens...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] torred:
You are most likely suffering from almost famous "Gsiff_daemon"

Use BetterBatteryStats to see what's draining your battery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I have used it extensively. Posted numerous logs and screenshots in the developer's thread and had them examine it...no one could figure anything out.

Tonight I have watched it plummet again. I turned off wifi - it kept dropping. I turned off mobile data, it kept falling just as fast. Lastly I turned on airplane mode and it seems to have leveled off...seems to me the phone radio is the culprit but I have no clue what it could be doing!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
(Forgive me if I'm hijacking)

I scooped up my SG3 on Sunday, and noticed almost immediately that my battery drops pretty quickly. I haven't rooted yet, and needless to say haven't flashed anything on it. I'm completely bone stock. I guess I'm wondering the same thing, in that I may need to return to AT&T. I lost as much as 70% in almost 8 hours with moderate to heavy use (Web browsing, textibg, a few calls, etc).

Something else: there is an orange sticker on the box it came un, much like a price tag at a retail store. On the sticker it reads: "REMATE 7.11.12" and has me wondering if this is a refurb they unloaded on me. Any ideas about the battery or this stupid aticker?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Srgsx:
I notice that my battery life seems very unstable - one day it goes 10 plus hours no problem, the next day with the same usage its dying at 8 hours. The phone went bezerk this weekend, to the point of multiple reboots and just turning the thing off since it was unuseable. Factory reset over the weekend, wow ! Battery life is rocking 12 hours easy with heavy use.

The software on this phone is strange to say the least -
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Igotsanevo4g:
Yep, your battery dies after using your phone a lot. Hmmmm.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
The reason I say this, is because of the fact I've heard of 12 to 14 hours or more of battery with the same (mostly) moderate to (occasional) heavy use. I understand that usage = battery discharge, I'm not a fool.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] TRusselo:
my battery usually only lasts 12 hours with minimal use, the only way i can go more than 8 hours is if i switch on airplane mode while i know im not going to need my phone.. while at work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Apex:
So perhaps I'm worrying over nothing (hopefully). I have been doing full charge to full discharge cycles and charging once it shuts down to "gel" or "season" the battery. But, there still remains the question of what the "REMATE" sticker is all about. It clearly has a date printed on it, which strikes me as odd...
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
So check out this graph...update of the earlier one.

-turned off wifi - plummet continued.

-turned off mobile data - plummet continued.

-turned on airplane mode to turn off the radio - battery stabilized. You can see the plateau towards the end.

-turned off airplane mode - plummet resumed as you can see.

Any conclusions I can take from this? It seems like it's the phone radio/standby and not apps...

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/6889/20120802000137.png

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[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Igotsanevo4g:
Of course but battery loss is a corollary response to usage. Who made the rules on what moderate or heavy usage is? Besides other factors like strength of signal, etc.

That said I personally average 10-12 hours with 4hrs of screen on time.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] corythug:
Didn't see this mentioned, the stock rom had a cell standby bug where it drops by 32(whatever the measurement is) instead of what's supposed to be 3.2. This has effected me before and there are fixes.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] ElBeaner:
Juice Defender Ultimate works great for me at work. Shuts off my data radio while screen is locked.

The location for wifi(allowing it to control wifi) is a little funky so I stopped using it(and suffered a little in the beginning because i kept forgetting to turn off wifi at night)

You can see how much my phone goes into deep sleep mode - This shows last night when I went to bed

This is my battery graph - note that sharp drop was last night when I was installing the Google Wallet fix and the dev had an issue with the update. Took me a little while to figure it out as you can see.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
That doesn't explain why the actual battery it dropping so fast. I suppose it could skew the "reason" the system gives for the battery drop...but it's further proven by the fact that the only way to stop the drop is to turn off the radio - even turning off mobile data alone does not stop it at all.

Your sharp drop is correlated to heavy screen on time. Mine is correlated to nothing...just sitting there with the screen off and nothing happening that I can tell.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pvc_:
I reported this problem back in June. This same exact thing happens to mine. Normally the battery is awesome, but sometimes it starts discharging at a crazy rate at which point I restart thee phone to fix it.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tmagritte:
That's definitely my problem. When gsiff_daemon hasn't gone crazy the battery life is very good. I've only had the phone 3 days now and on the second found the battery discharging quickly when the phone was in standby (like the OP). I diagnosed this to be caused by gsiff_daemon. Seems to happen after the phone stops responding to input then does a warm restart. I only found one thread on this issue on one of the other S3 forums at XDA (TMo or global?)

Is there any sign of a fix for this? This is making an otherwise excellent phone horrible. I tried to relate this problem to Samsung through their support site, but just got a generic robot answer. Samsung's support site appears to be useless. Is there any indication Samsung is even aware of these problems?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] drothenberger:
I use System Tuner to check for gsiff_daemon going nuts. I normally notice it because my phone gets hot. If you use the Task Mgr from System Tuner and turn on display of kernel processes, it will pop right to the top if that's your problem.

The easiest way to deal with the problem when you notice it is to kill the process with System Tuner. It will start up again, but will not longer pin your CPU. A restart also works, but takes longer (and uses more battery).

You might also want to set up the Watchdog app to notify you when gsiff_daemon goes nuts.

I noticed you posted BBS logs, but gsiff_daemon will show up in Process, which doesn't appear to be logged (at least it isn't in the log in just dumped from my BBS).
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] davidstech11:
Some people worry something is wrong and so many times it's just them not understanding everything at play.

The battery can go down with so many factors at play. Besides apps, settings and location can play a part. Location can because your signal can change and vary so many times throughout the day. The lower the signal the more your battery is going to work.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pvc_:
This definitely isn't a location problem. I've noticed it in my bedroom where it normally works fine [4 signal bars and connected to wifi] as well as at my office. There is indeed something wrong with one of android's processes because once it gets like this, even clearing the memory won't stop the madness.

There's been a few instances when my phone had ~60% battery at night and was completely dead in the morning. I started noticing this in the first week I got the phone when I didn't even have that many apps to blame.

Btw, there is a big thread about this right here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1755180
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I read in the gsiff_daemon thread that people see it in BBS logs.

I also saw a tip to go to developer options / show cpu usage - and it puts an overlay in the top right corner that shows processes and gsiff_daemon will be there. It's not there for me.

I have to assume my problem is not related to that.

I understand the factors. That's why I did a factory reset, exchanged my phone, installed only mainstream apps. I verified the problem occurs with 4/5 bars of LTE signal so no problem there. I even turned off wifi/gps/mobile data and it still "plummets".
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tmagritte:
I've never used System Tuner. Is it possible to set it up to automatically kill or restart gsiff_daemon if it goes over some threshold for some period of time? I've set up Watchdog to alert me when it goes nuts but I still have to manually intervene.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Jaskwith:
This battery plummet thing just happened to me, is this something that can be fixed in OTA updates or new radio releases/patches? Or else I am considering bringing the S3 back and then just grabbing the GNexus outright from google to be off contract....
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
We have to first figure out what's causing it before determining a fix...but certainly it can be fixed...you can fix anything, especially here at XDA!

I've been trying hard to troubleshoot it but haven't found the problem yet...hopefully there will be a breakthrough or an OTA that comes along and wipes it out.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
Thanks for this. I'll definitely have to try it. Please let us know in a few days if you're still "plummet" free as I've gone as many as 4 days without it...thinking I had solved the problem...only to have it pop up again!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] tjb433:
I created a request for developers to look at this issue, i don't think this issue is well known enough yet for many of them be familiar with it, please support this request so we can possibly get the input of some of the more knowledgeable devs on this forum, and look forward to a possible fix down the road.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1827087
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] meaintsmart:
Same for me

I'm also having similar results as my battery is down to 20% after 7-8 hours of use, where as seeing others say they are getting 15 hours with ~40% left. But I would think my battery should be even better because I'm using the Diet rom. But however, I don't remember how I flashed the rom and there is a possibility I went stock > TuchMi > Diet (then kernel) instead of stock before Diet, not sure if that would cause extra system apps to run in the background.

I sure hope that is my problem and not the battery or some other issues discussed in this thread.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] kingjamesthe3:
I also had the extra battery drain which was terrible. I would get at the most 6 good hours and sometimes less. I also had the popping/clicking speaker problem which was annoying. I took my phone back to sprint and they gave me a brand new S3! So far this one is working great. Much better battery life so far!:D
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] proud a-clown:
Mine did that once. Got very hot and dropped like a stone. I'm careful to do a "remove all" before I set the phone down now.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
Again, my issue is not related to the gsiff_daemon problem (I am the OP). I understand it is a similar issue but I have not found gsiff_daemon in my processes.

Also, again, the issue described in this thread results in GOOD battery life for a significant period of time (usually at least 12-36 hours) followed by a sudden and unexplained "plummet". You can see this illustrated in my battery graphs.

I made a thread awhile back in the Q & A section that you can find here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1811182
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pshah:
Update on Network switch

So I am happy to report that I have been on HSPA (wap.cingular) for about 5 days now and not had any random battery drains (10-20%/hr). There are times where the phone drains 2-3%/hr and then switches to draining <1%/hr, but this probably has to do with my sync settings, apps that are waking the phone, and poor signal strength.

I think this was my problem when on LTE, the constant network switching (which is done automatically by AT&T) that the phone was unable to manage. I hope a fix is coming for this, because I would love to get back on LTE.

I hope this helps others, for those who are experiencing generally good battery life, but once in awhile have some trigger that causes 10-20% per hour drain and hot phone, try to set up the APN as I mentioned in the previous post. If this does help others, please post if anybody finds a quick toggle to 4G LTE and back to 4G HSPA.

I think I can optimize better after understanding wakelocks and sleep states too, and the google account sync settings. Given that some nights my phone will drain 1% the whole night and sometimes 1% an hour. This is my 1st android phone...coming off AT&T Tilt (Windows 6.0) until last month.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] allmightyspiff:
I had this same problem, and I think it was the charger. I'd leave my phone on the charger (a cheapo one which worked for my s1) all night, and by the time I got to work i'd be at 25%. However when I charged from my computer I could go easily 24-48 hours without charging.

I changed out the wall charger and haven't seen a drop since, so you might want to try charging from a different source to see if that helps. This is a bit of layman speculation of course, but since I changed out my wall charger to the one Samsung gave me with the phone I haven't had any problems.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] geoldr:
I would just like to add a few things. If you have bad signal, your battery is gonna be bad.

Also, when I had my Galaxy SII Skyrocket, I HAD TO use the charger and cable that came with the phone. If I did not, the phone would not go into sleep more or something and battery would drain really fast. It was something to do with Samsung having an extra pin in the USB cable or something like that. So everyone who is having this problem make sure you are using the charger that came with your phone. Maybe that will help.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I've never used anything but the stock charger that came with it.

These battery plummets have nothing to do with poor reception. They happen with 4/5 bars.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
I'm looking to test this next. Can you share how you set up your new APN? I read just to use wap.cingular but what about the numerous other settings which control other connections like MMS? Do I just copy those from the current APN?
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] pshah:
switching APN

So I set it up simply by typing "wap.cingular" into the APN section. And then in the Name field made up a name "HSPA". I think you can put anything you want into here. I didn't put anything into other fields. So far I have received a text message, made and received phone calls, and of course, used the mobile data without any problems (I do drop signals more often than before). Haven't tried picture messages or anything. Don't know much about the difference between SMS, MMS, text etc. Hopefully won't encounter any problems. I will post if I do.

Found another interesting note about the random battery drain on ICS and galaxy note. A kernel process random trigger.

at allaboutgalaxynote.com/how-to-solve-battery-issues-after-ics-update-in-your-galaxy-note

I did find some posts about other "APN"s that can be used. I read "phone" is one also.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] RiPpeR_dUdE:
I've confirmed (at least what I've tested) that the GS3 doesn't appear to be as sensitive as the GS2, I've tried to re-create that same situation and luckily not seeing the problem, regardless of cable, charger, etc, phone always goes into deep sleep.... so appears Samsung has resolved that problem.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] jeffreii:
Thanks - what about MMS? There appear to be specific settings in the APN for MMS.

I think I'm sticking to this method for now as it seems solid - no signal drops or anything - and totally controlled by the phone, not by user-entered APN data:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30058548
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Deveron888:
I am kinda new at all this but I think I have a solution, after rooting my phone i fixed the standby issue so it uses less power while in standby mode. The next thing I did was to remove gsiff.daemon all together, i have found nothing that needs it in order to function and my device works fine. CPU sleeper is also a good one, it turns off the unused cores in your phone when your in standby so it isn't killing the battery as fast. I have also turned off alot of the bloatware that comes with the phone using App Quarantine. Last but not least go into settings->Developer options-> force GPU rendering is checked off and limit background processes has been set to 4. Also turned off window and transition animations. I have had excellent battery life ever since. I hope this helps some of you.