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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bunglebp:
I am running Omega V15 JB Rom with Location on and full sync and wireless on and GPS on and suffer no problems with battery drain
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casanoaa:
Post this to BBS thread and you will get a answer
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
It is. I think an app might be causing this (although none of the tracking apps showed it).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
I'm sorry, BBS?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sxi200:
BBS = BetterBatteryStats.

It's an app which displays wakelocks. Widely used to resolve phone wake problems.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
I'll try to find that thread (could you please link it if it's not a problem.

I've been using BBS for quite some time actually, but I was unable to detect the problem. I've also been using GSam Battery. But what I've noticed is that this drain happens when I'm connected to a Wi-Fi network or at least it's bigger then.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexusino:
Maybe Google's location service can be a problem even though the GPS is OFF
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
I've turned it off and as far as I've seen it didn't fix the issue. However, I will leave my phone for a couple of hours tomorrow to see again. There are apps for which I have to have it turned on (Foursquare, Maps etc.) so that's a bummer.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arjunpaliath:
Even I am having the same problem of battery drain. Will it get fixed if the change the battery considering I have two 2 Galaxy S3 with the same problem of battery drain.?

Also I want to root my phones, but is there a way to root the phone without the warranty being void?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstech:
I've been experiencing some minor battery drain issues and what I found is that if I log out of all the apps I'm logged in to, my battery drain is significantly better. Not a perfect solution but I'm slowly figuring out which one is causing issues.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chamillikawi:
Do you have the "Cell Standby Fix" ? I doubt ithat t's a matter of location!!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
Cell Stanby fox doesn't fix the drain. It's only a visual fix (and a visual problem).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dstech:
I uninstalled Facebook and I'm getting stellar battery life! I made a link to the browser webpage instead. It's unbelievable how bad the app consumes power.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
I did that too, but it didn't fix the problem. I noticed Facebook asks you for a permission to keep your phone awake.

I'll try flashing the stock ROM again, but I'll add the accounts manually and not over TB, maybe that's causing the issue.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inflames_dnk:
You should log out all your account of gmail, facebook...they always update new feeds or emails even if your wi-fi network is off that causes battery drain
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
But I turned it off for Facebook (and deleted the app actually), but not for Gmail. Is there no way for me to have sync with Gmail? It would be kind of stupid having a smartphone and not knowing when I get a new email.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arjunpaliath:
After a long and extensive search I just realized that this issue is with the device and a lot of people are having the same issue. So I just tried to look into possible solutions that I could use, but most the solutions required root(which I dont want to do). Then there were some suggestions like using task killers turning off sync, uninstalling FB etc.

I have two Galaxy S3 international versions, so decided to test some options. In one of my SGS3(Pebble Blue) I disabled the animations, switched off sync from notification bar and disabled wifi and gps. I left my second SGS3(white) unchanged. Both the phones had 100% charge. After about 4hrs now I can see that my SGS3 PB still has 100% charge and my SGS3 white has 88% charge. So I guess this issue requires a minor fix which I hope samsung releases in the immediate future or atleast release the JellyBean update on August 29th, 2012.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlyShade:
I don't know, I think an app might be causing this. My friend has also got Galaxy S3 international version and he isn't experiencing any battery drains.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abidpioneer:
Try changing your modem ... Use XXLG9 as I personally had battery leak in LH1 modem now using LG9 and battery is normal... Give it a try...

:cowboy:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bagulhodoido:
It would be nice if someone with a nice battery life could tell us exactly how his S3 is set. With info like:

ROM

Kernel

Mods, or not

Tweaks, or not

Battery Management App and the settings used, or not

Usage, maybe some screenshots of the battery statistics

Charging cycles

Something else that could be helpfull

That way, things would get clearer.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhariamine:
Try disabling Synchronization of google services and related email and social apps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsmooth:
Since this is only a month or so old I will assume you still have the same problem if not maybe it helps someone else. I am running the stock release of 4.1 JB. No battery killer no task killer. At the time I was on 4.0 stock for these screen shots, but battery still is not a problem for my S3.

GT I9300

*Rooted and I did install cell standby fix

105 apps installed

FB and Twitter 3 hour sync

I run the ticker updates every 3 hours

Running nova prime launcher, but better results in touch wiz

*Fast Dormancy Toggle available in play store for root- via xda tv Erica's suggestion.

*Emails sync daily but I check them periodically

Wifi is usually always on

*GPS always off less in use

*Samsung power saving is on everything but the CPU

*Bluetooth on when in use only

Google now is on

*screens on auto brightness

Developer Options> Apps> Standard limit (dont know if this helps) I experimented with killing process imitatively after leaving app, but it was inconclusive.

weather widget sync every 3 hours not like weather changes every 15 minutes

*Black Background> Straight Black

*Blackish weather widget> HD widget

*Black Lock Screen> Straight Black

Stock internet browser with change background in internet to save power under power saving

*LED indicator OFF - I found it kills my battery unbelievably fast like 1 flash will kill 10percent after a reboot

*Touch light duration - off I know where they are

NFC - Off Never use it

S beam - Off Never use it

Tethering is off I dont use it

Dynamic Screen mode

*Screen Timeout in 30s

Lock Screen weather updates every 3 hours

No water sound

No smart stay

No voice to wake up s voice

All voice services svoice/google now turned on and other motion and gesture services are turned on. Let me know if you want exacts

NO Battery Percentage

NO 3rd party task killers

Location services is ON

*NO Haptic Feedback

* = Items I think really made a difference.

I know it might not seem like I told you much but I get well over 10 hours easily. I average 14 hours and 3+ hours of the screen being actually on with the phone in use like playing dead trigger. I also stream a lot of Stitch, pandora, GListen and XM. If I put the processor on battery saver Ill get 15 - 17 or more hours. That's in use not just letting the phone sit idle. I kid you not I am always looking at this phone like wow! Crazy how around the same time you guys were starting this thread about battery drain I was in awe of how long this thing can go.

When just a few years ago I could not get 6 out of an Evo 4g and last year I struggled to get 10 out an s2 E4gT. Battery is the last thing I am concerned about. LOL It runs so long that I notice that it likes a reboot every other day or so just to keep things running properly. I posted some screen shots also. I had to take them because I know just saying it no one would believe me. With Androids battery killing reputation. So when I here ifans talk about how good their battery life is I say really? Tell me about it :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsmooth:
I tend to leave location on as I use the services, but battery life is still not a problem. I know everyone says the "battery fix" is a visual thing, but I thought it fixed the way the phone calculated battery life. After I have installed it my battery life has been interstellar. I installed the fix and never looked back. Guess my GS3 just needed the placebo to reach its full potential.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darwinwin:
hey, whats the cell standby fix u mentioned. I'm in lebanon and my gsm provider's support are too stupid to know if fast dormancy is enabled on my network..a little help with that please? I'm really having a bad battery life and no one could help me with the better battery stats dump file
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsmooth:
First you have to root. Hopefully you know how to do that, but here is the method I used if you dont. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1703488

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32485480#post32485480 <<<Cell Standby fix thread. I did the one you flash through Clockwork.

Cell standby supposedly fixed the battery reporting problem on the S3 when the phone is idle. Works for me because I have not been on the charger in 7hours and I have 75 percent of battery left. Prior to install I would loose battery life quickly when Idle.

Fast dormancy I guess that's just one of the things you just have to test yourself and see what the result is. Just download the app from Google Play install it toggle it on and reboot. Wait a couple of days and see if battery life improves. I am assuming you can monitor the network connection via the battery stats. Im not sure why it truns green. I know blue is connected so I assume the yellowish green means dormant?.?. Fast dormancy also adds a few second delay before it wakes up and connects back to the network. Look at Erica's video on XDA TV for more clarity on it.

Let me know how it goes.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darwinwin:
hey there. i read about cell standby and i dont have the reporting problem, i am rooted and on latest siyah, .

when i disabled fast dormancy i noticed that the phone stays awake all the time after a network loss. though this "awake" reporting is not really accurate for i dont have the normal battery drain on other wakelocks. ( I'm not sure how this mod is supposed to report)

although i can barely make it trough the day, other s3 near me have a better battery life, the best screen on time i ever had is 2 hours, 13 hiurs on standby, my brother works in a place with 0 signal, makes it trough 24 hours and 3 hoyrs screen on although we have the same xdllib, same siyah and same mods( he just drops by and asks me what new kewl features i have :p )

would you help if i submitted better battery stats dump? and what conditions should i do to make an easy to read , global log?

thanks in advance

sent from my microwave
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DominionZA:
For the last 3 weeks I have been struggling to get stand by strain under control. Was averaging around 6.7% PH.

After trying different ROMS, settings, blah... even new battery... I decided to RMA my phone.

I got a new phone yesterday morning. Rooted it, flashed JB stock, and been very happy since.

So turns out there was an actual fault with the device.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bodoma:
JIMIUI ROM - Jimbo's Jellybean MIUI ROM, which I really like and allows a great deal of customization, especially aesthetic, which you can find on the MIUIdotUS site.

Using the latest Siyah kernel.

Always at the dimmest screen brightness, change manually if and when I need it.

I use JuiceDefender Ultimate. I know that many people don't believe in this app, but honestly the scheduler function is fantastic and many of the other features are pretty helpful. The scheduler is great because it overrides the way that you receive notifications (i.e. push and pull) and gives them all to you at one time at a frequency of your choosing. i.e. I have JuiceDefender set up to disable data, enabling it only once every 15 minutes to receive all new events, it keeps data on for 30 seconds, or if there is an exchange of data going on above a certain threshold, it will wait until the transfer is done before it turns data off again. However, when I am on WiFi, I have it set up to just keep all lines open. You don't have to pay and get Ultimate for this function, it comes in the basic free version as well. One of the nicest features is that it also shows you how much battery it's saved you.

In terms of charging cycles, lately, because I've been at university from 10am until around 7 or 8pm, I've been doing mostly full charges and by the time I get home I'm at around 3-10%. Generally, though, it is supposedly better to charge lithium ion batteries between 20-80%, as that prolongs battery life and slows down how quickly its capacity is reduced over time, so that's what I've been doing.

Finally, my statistics. Yesterday I was calibrating my battery, so I gave it a full charge and a full discharge, keeping an eye on screen time and call time. I got 18 hours of battery life with 3 and a half hours of screen time and 20 minutes of call time.

Supposedly, one of the admins on the Siyah chat got 40-42 hours of life on his S3 with 7 hours of screen time by undervolting a flat value of -100mV across all CPU frequencies, which is what I actually just did this morning. So I'll update this post tomorrow letting you guys know how my battery is doing with this new tweak.

Hope this post helped!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaspo53:
Samsung S3 Battery Drain overnight on 4.1.1

Is anibody still following this thread? I have a S3 with the official poland 4.1.1, and I have a drain problem on stand by... Not so much, but I loss 1.5% per hour. And BBS shows me almost 7 hours of no signal. (I'm from Argentina, I don't know if the CSC can be problematic with the signal over here...)

Another cuestion is, wich firmware is the unbranded and unlocked version for Argentina (LATAM) of these? Because if the problem is the firmware, I want to have a unlocked version of the firmware and no problems with the CSC (to upgrade when Samsung releases JB here) and there are 3 versions, ARO, CTP and ANC (Wich one is the right?)

Thanks
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
You are on wifi and seemingly using google now (as shown by the high amount of attempts to get your current position)

Both drain battery so your standby is far higher than you could get otherwise - you always have to choose between features and battery saving.

However ask yourself a question: why did you buy a 600$ device if you don't use the features?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dazblink:
I had a very strange battery drain problem over the weekend. I was working away in a different part of the country (Somerset) and hardly used my phone and the battery drained extremely quickly in standby. I`m talking 100% to 0% in 6-7 hours with very little usage - far less usage than if I had been at home. It did this 3 days running. I installed skype for the first last week and thought it had got something to do with that but now that I am back home in the midlands it has gone back to normal. This does not make sense to me. Any thoughts?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsmooth:
If I had to guess I would say your phone was searching for a signal. Do you use fast dormancy? Im no pro just a guess. Should have taken a battery history details pic and posted it so we could see.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chiraagt:
Mate were you on Jelly Bean after you installed this? Cause I was on ICS and noticed a difference and have since been upgraded but I am finding that the battery is draining post upgrade! Could it be the removal of this "FIX"?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dazblink:
To be honest I have never heard of fast dormancy until you just mentioned it. I am currently looking into it cheers. Searching for a signal would make sense because I did not have much / any. It's a bit surprising that it nailed the battery that quickly though. It drained as quickly as if the GPS/sat nav had been on! I looked at the battery usage at the time and cell standby was on 70something percent. It is currently 30 percent! I don't really know what "cell standby" means either tbh.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugenfa5:
I recently upgraded to Jellybean from Synergy and I notice a tremendous battery drain with very light usage. I read that media storage / download 4.1.1 app is the problem but removing it didn't seem to fix the issue. I was having decent battery life running ICS 1.7 Synergy but with Jellybean I'm losing battery life a lot faster.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LenAsh:
You have a rogue app or didn't wipe etc. - Have you used BBS (or even CPU Spy)?

You should easily achieve this (lightish use, plenty of deep sleep) 4.1.2:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricardoassaad:
Why don't you try to change your modem

It might fix the wifi problem
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mugenfa5:
I did perform a wipe (clearing cache/dalvik and wipe system) before installing jellybean. I would post screenshots of my BBS but I haven't reach 10 post yet to post links
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LenAsh:
Modem has nothing to do with WiFi...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fernandojk3:
battery drain...

maybe Juice Defender? im using and it helps a bit...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LenAsh:
That is not solving the cause of the problem, just (partly) masking it.

Do the investigation properly and learn...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xclub_101:
Hmm ...

Have you tried enabling PowerSave mode? Also I remember some advanced settings under WiFi ...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timsmooth:
I actually reinstall the fix and fast dormancy after every upgrade. Im on 4.1.2 now, and my phone still lasts a good bit of time between charges.....unless I play games on it, but even then it does well. I have been playing need for speed underground over the holidays and I would loose up to 50 percent after 2 hours of playing games, but after I quit and close the game I would be left with 50percent battery and still make it about 7 or 8 hours before needing a charge. Usually I install the Fast Dormancy and the Battery reporting fix while I am rooting my phone. Most likely the fix was removed during your upgrade.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avdaga:
Some time ago I had the problem that after a ROM update my battery was drained within 2 days, where I was used to get 4 out of it... After clearing my user data (and not restoring the backup from google) everything was great again... till today. Only thing I changed yesterday was activate google now and install some game... so I just cleared the data of the google apps/services, in the hope that its fixed now... will report back tomorrow
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] avdaga:
After disabling Google now and clearing the google services, the drain continued.. Since I cleared Maps, the has stopped though, at least it seems like it. Will update in half a day or so. By the way, at googlecode there's a similar discussion with some proposed solutions: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35481
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nhariamine:
CHECK wakelocks and if ur S3 is deep sleeping properly with BBS
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueeagle69:
On my S3, it appears to be Gmail causing it.

Don't know how long it's been like this, but I know it hasn't always been a problem.

I checked the battery stats and Gmail showed battery usage of 20-30% usage. Sometimes even higher.

Gsam Battery Monitor showed the same.

So I froze gmail and yesterday battery life was vastly improved again.

No problems with Gmail on my Nexus 7, so it makes no sense.

Will keep it frozen for a while longer and monitor.

But yesterday my phone was on battery for over 15 hours and still had 56% left.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Huxflux:
It happens to me to, in my case, Gsam says gmail is using gyroscope sensor almost all the time. I don't know if that is relevant or not...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blueeagle69:
Exactly, I noticed that too.

Ever since having Gmail frozen my battery life is fine.

On my Nexus 7 Gmail isn't even showing in the battery usage list.

So for now.

Interestingly enough, Facebook today was showing a power usage of 15%, and that had a gyroscope usage time of 7 hours according to GSam on my S3.

Beginning to see a pattern here.

Weird.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MnCC:
Hi,

Read this thread and i loved it, i just dont like to charge my phone or worry that i wont make it through the day (even if its the second or third day).

So i decided to strip my phone and now I charge my phone every saturday :victory:

- rooted: cf-root

- kernel: stock 4.1.2 xxella

- rom: stock 4.1.2 xxella

- i have a stripped it to the bone, removed all bloatware

These are the 3 major factors that cause battery drain:

- wifi

- sync

- stock bloatware incl. most google and samsung apps

I've added more screenshots to give a better impression. The last one clearly shows what happens when you install a bad application, the drop is like gravity.

I you have any questions, feel free to ask.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crewster:
Can you make a list of all removed bloatware? Thanks in advance

Enviado desde mi GT-I9300 usando Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Can you make a list of all removed bloatware? Thanks in advance

Search its in Themes and Apps
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MnCC:
Execute order 66

Hi

I think a better way would be to list whats neccesary, based on that everyone will be able to remove as it will differ per vendor,country,release

A note before you start your "rm" binge:

- This list is not 100%, although tested little over year now.

- Configure and backup your phone before you start removing, i'm not sure if this survives a factory reset, its been a while.

- If you remove an .apk also remove its .odex.

- Clear dalvik cache

These system apps is whats left in /system/app:

AllshareMediaServer.apk

BadgeProvider.apk

BestGroupPose.apk

CertInstaller.apk

ClockPackage.apk

ContextProvider.apk

CSC.apk

DefaultContainerService.apk

DirectConnect.apk

DirectShareManager.apk

DrmProvider.apk

DSMForwarding.apk

DSMLawmo.apk

DttSupport.apk

EdmSysScopeService.apk

EdmVpnServices.apk

GoogleServicesFramework.apk

Hearingdro.apk

InputDevices.apk

JobManager.apk

KeyChain.apk

Keystring_DFT.apk

Keystring_factory.apk

Keystring_misc.apk

Kies.apk

LogsProvider.apk

MtpApplication.apk

NetworkLocation.apk

Nfc.apk

OmaCP.apk

PackageInstaller.apk

Personalization.apk

PolarisViewer.apk

PopupuiReceiver.apk

Preconfig.apk

SamsungCamera.apk

SamsungIME.apk

SecBluetooth.apk

SecBrowser.apk

SecCalculator2.apk

SecCalendarProvider.apk

SecContacts.apk

SecContactsProvider.apk

SecDownloadProvider.apk

SecDownloadProviderUi.apk

SecEmail.apk

SecExchange.apk

SecFileShareClient.apk

SecFileShareServer.apk

SecGallery2_Galaxy.apk

SecLauncher2.apk

SecMediaProvider.apk

SecMms.apk

SecOmaDownloadProvider.apk

SecPhone.apk

SecSettings.apk

SecSettingsProvider.apk

SecTelephonyProvider.apk

SecurityProvider.apk

SecWallpaperChooser.apk

SlideShow.apk

SystemUI.apk

TrimApp_phone.apk

UserDictionaryProvider.apk

VpnDialogs.apk

WfdBroker.apk

Some extra's incl. the best file manager uptil now: http://www.ghisler.com/android.htm

Superuser.apk

com.ghisler.android.TotalCommander.apk

com.ghisler.tcplugins.LAN.apk

com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler.apk

Don't forget to backup