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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] fzammetti:
I had the Maps setting turned off for a few days and also had A LOT of stuff disabled, but unfortunately my battery life (and my wife's as well) wasn't as good as ICS, and quite a bit worse actually.

Sadly, today, it looks like I figured out what the killer is:

Google Now.

This morning, 100% charged, I turned it off. My wife (who still had it on) and I were out and about together for about four hours, we both barely used out phones for that time. When we got home I checked both phones: I was at 96%, she was at 80%.

The only difference that I hadn't already accounted for:

Google Now.

So, unfortunately, it looks to me like one of the two biggest reasons for wanting JB in the first place (Butter being the other of course) turns out to be a big battery hog :( I don't yet know if there's maybe some setting within it that is a specific problem or if it's the whole thing in general... maybe you just need to disable a card or change an update frequency or something (I didn't touch any so I'm running whatever the defaults are), I don't know yet... but all indications are that's where the problem lies.

That, my friends, sucks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] budde2:
Well since my phone has calmed down I am getting 13-16 hr easily. Brightness maxed of course and about 4-6 screen on time I will never cripple my phone. Hell I bought it so I can use not to look at. Lol thanks for the post of this though if I'm ever I. A die hard , situation I'll know what to do
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] myn:
Google Now uses the "Report from this device" and "Enable location history" maps location settings to determine your driving patterns so it can suggest alternative routes and report traffic delays. Disabling "Enable location history" will disable the driving pattern suggestions completely.

FWIW Settings | More settings | Mobile networks | Network mode

Changing from "CDMA" to "LTE / CDMA" has gained me better battery life. My wife also noticed the same.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Majorzaid:
(To save time, I'm cutting & pasting my post from another similar thread.)

> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1963689&page=3

"I have had my Galaxy S3 for a week now. Battery life stabilized after the initial syncing, etc. I updated to Jelly Bean v4.1.1 two days ago, and battery life didn't seem noticeably different. However, that was until today. My phone was off of the charger, around 10AM, and had < 5% charge by 4:30PM. I was very busy, so I was hardly using the phone all day. It was in my pocket or on my desk most of the time. One of the only settings I changed last night, was enabling 'Use wireless networks' and enabling 'Location and Google search' under 'Location Services' in 'Settings'. I just disabled both settings, and will see if the battery drain is any less tomorrow. Also, Google Now was off, and was never enabled on my phone. I'll try to post the results, if at all possible..."

So, for me, it seems to be Location Services may have caused my poor battery life, and was definitly not Google Now, as it was never enabled. I'll try using the phone with the settings off, and see if that changes anything...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] OZGBLACK:
Stock stock stock jellybean ota... that's it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] El Mono:
I do love Jelly Bean; as it is ICS only improved or enhanced. But battery life has definitely taken a hit. I can barely make it through 24 hrs. On ICS I could do a day and a half to two days with really light use. I've tried just about everything mentioned with little change. Good thing I have an extra battery. Thank you Samsung for making a phone with a user replaceable battery.

Thanks for all the ideas/suggestions anyways,

El Mono
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] inmnbob:
I noticed the huge difference as well. I was walking around Chicago yesterday and not using my phone. After 4 hours I looked and my battery was at 50 %.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] abhaxus:
I have gotten significantly better battery life with jellybean without doing any tweaks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] mababer1:
If you are still soso battery usage out of you sg3 try this...charge the phone all the way...turn it off pkug it vack in and charge it till the green light comes on and battery reads 100%...when that is done unplug it turn the phone back on and plug it back in... after doing that my battery usage has been much better
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] Frostacious:
That's weird because the lithium polymer battery should have no memory effects increasing your battery life. But I can see that by being off and not such battery at the same rate its charging by being off, and than letting to truly charge to 100% is a great way to fully charge your phone. No need to re plug afterwards though but good tip.

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I concur that jellybean drains battery plus took away my adobe flash, and wifi tether. So went back to ics with clark44
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] cazman420:
After updating to jelly bean my battery life plummeted. Could not figure out why even in battery saver mode battery life is horrible. Tried everything I could. Android resources was using 20 percent or more of the power all the time could not get it to go away. Phone would heat up all the time especially when charging or using 4g and GPS almost to the point where I could not hold it. Finally I did a factory reset. Whatever was wrong is now gone battery life is back to normal everything seem to have stabilized I would recommend anyone having problems with battery life to do a factory reset unfortunately. It worked for me.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] SirSparkles:
Use a CPU monitor / JB was a big step up for me

hmmmm, seeing stuff all over the spectrum on JB experiences for battery.

I updated last week, at first, it had crazy cpu activity for a while, then settled down to 5% or less CPU activit for most of the time while 'idle'.

Along with that, came great battery life with JB, compared to my ICS experience.

(on Sprint, running stock rom with Odin injected step up updates while rooted)

Previously had a few processes that were draining the battery often with ICS, couldn't home in on why.

I had CPU activity spike or run an substantial loads while 'idle-ing'

I used to only get a handful of hours out of it prior to 0% battery.

Now, with JB, I can go overnight w/o much drain, and go over 10 hours on moderate use all day before 0%.

In case some non-root non-crazy noobish tweakers are reading this...

Sometimes there are a few minute factors going on with battery drain, sometimes, simple stuff.

After tons of hours of perusing these forums, the best thing I found/used was..

Elixir 2 and placing a CPU% circle in the status bar 100% of the time.

That way I could see exactly when and how much cpu actvity was going on.

It helped so much with one/two of the battery drain glitches i was having in ICS, and the could go and see which apps and processes were loading the system, and troubleshoot from there.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] DaWeav:
Could you confirm this please? Because I would think turning off LTE using the CDMA only setting would be better for battery usage.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] derf8966:
i get amazing battery life with Paranoid Android 2.xx... i average 15-20hrs on and about 4.5-5.5 hours of screen on time.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] clemson91:
I notice on Samsung's website you can buy either a

Galaxy Note™ II Standard Battery (3100mA)http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB595675LABXAR

or

Galaxy Note™ II Standard Battery (3100mA) (Verizon & US Cellular)http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB595675LZBXAR

I was just wondering if anybody had any insight of what the differences could be, thanks in advance.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Acorns:
I have the US Cellular one (which that non-standard battery is supposed to cover).

Same mAh, same voltage. Obviously they used the same stock photo for both on that site. Could be pin positioning or form factor. We'd have to get a Verizon/USCC battery beside another type's to see.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrlaigle:
Part Number on each match... My guess is that it's the same battery.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imnuts:
My guess would be that it's similar to the Galaxy Nexus. The battery is positioned slightly different in the phone, so it needs a different size or pin position to work with the layout. Anyone have actual pictures of both batteries side by side for comparison?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] clemson91:
I hope they are the same, because I was going to order the charging kit which I guess comes with the standard battery. Meh, I'm getting it on Verizon so I unfortunately have plenty of time to call and check just to be sure.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] kimdoocheol:
I'm not positive, but when I had my Droid I think the battery placement was different, like stated above. However, this was due to the lack of a sim card so the position was slightly different. Upon looking at the photos of the note 2 sim slot, it doesn't look like this would be an issue.

However, it is Verizon, so maybe they made a slightly different battery to put in some more proprietary logos.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jiggity Janx:
The part numbers are the same so I would assume they were the same (but possibly with a different pin position).

Another possibility is that the Verizon version will have NFC in the battery like the S3 vs having it in the battery door like the rest of the Note2 versions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] snapz54:
Okay, this will leak soon anyways so I might as well just post it up here.

Verizon's battery is actually very different than the other carrier's versions. I'm a Senior Customer Experience Manager within Verizon's corporate structure. The company has made some major breakthroughs regarding power management and they will be showcased first on the Galaxy Note 2 from Samsung.

I know this is hard to believe but read through and you'll understand. Verizon's Galaxy Note 2 battery is actually charged with sound in a way. It sounds farfetched, but I'll tell you how it works. The battery has a copper charging coil similar to other wireless charging standards, the hardware is tuned to a very specific frequency which you can reach specifically when you scream the phrase "VERIZON WIRELESS" in an open, public area. Unfortunately, due to the light in the VZW branded home button(which can be seen from space), the battery discharges pretty much immediately during use, but the good news is this. As long as you keep screaming "VERIZON WIRELESS" at the top of your lungs in crowded public areas without stopping for more than 2 seconds at a time, the phone maintains a charge! Like MAGIC! Amazing! You can also buy an $80 conveinence adapter that verizon has designed in conjunction with samsung. Another first in the field of consumer electronics, it's a suppository! You place the adapter inside your a%&hole and power is generated off of the energy being depleted from your broken spirit as a verizon customer! All of this will be released with the note in 3-7 months, this is of course after the delays we will experience due to branding and wiring the home buttons.

We at Verizon really wish you as customers didn't demand home button branding so we could get these out to you faster, but we are happy to do anything and everything we can to fulfill our customers slightest whim.

-Chad Stankonya

Senior Customer Experience Manager

Verizon Wireless Communications

666 DevilsAsshole Parkway

honolulu, HI 12345
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] blipsqueak:
LOL, I fell for it until a few sentences in.

:crying:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] r0n0c:
I wonder since US Cellular and Verizon both use LTE if the Verizon/USC phone has a different layout. /speculation
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
I just emailed Samsung so hopefully in a couple of days we will get a useful response.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] impala454:
The part numbers are not the same.

EB595675LZBXAR = Verizon/USCellular version

EB595675LABXAR = Standard version

With the price being the same, I couldn't imagine there being much difference feature-wise. My guess would be that they're keeping them separate simply for initial supply reasons.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] SFBPro:
So I got a response from Samsung's technical support. It sounds like there is no difference between the batteries. However, the little pr crap that they spewed right after the definitive answer confuses me so I still remain skeptical.

Where are you getting the last 5 digits? Is that from the URL?

If it makes you feel better, all the webpages for the different phones link to the same charging dock.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] brizey:
Does the battery come with a new cover? There may be different antennas in the battery covers (cdma vs gsm).
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] Jeff_in_LA:
That was funny!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] impala454:
Yes. But it looks like all the other batteries follow the same pattern. If it's a Verizon battery it has a Z in that spot vs the "regular" one has an A. Not sure what it means but it's different for a reason I'm sure. Even if the battery is identical, could just be a distribution thing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] imnuts:
Some past VZW phones have had device specific batteries, but some other versions did work with it, even though they had a different number on them.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cdmoore74:
I just ordered the charger and battery combo from Samsung and it says it's compatible with Sprint, t-mobile, Verizon, US Cellular and AT&T. So this sucker better work with the Verizon model. I wanted to take advantage of the 50% off.

http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB-H1J9VMAGSTA?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] RaptorMD:
I too am considering the extra battery/charger combo and maybe one other accessory from Samsung's site with the 50% off promo. Funny how the battery alone costs the same as the battery w/ charger unit.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II] cdmoore74:
Samsung's own website says it's compatible with the Verizon model. We need to squash these battery rumors with an actually comparison.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ratix0:
I've gotten my Desire HD early, when it was still running Froyo. I have rooted it and installed custom roms since then.

However at the current moment I want to un-root and un-s-off the device and install stock rom. I have a nandroid backup of my stock froyo before I installed any custom roms and after rooting with visonary. If I were to restore my froyo rom, am I able to do OTA update and update to gingerbread and unroot the device + s-on at the same time?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Muikkuman:
I'm sure you've heard of the advanced ace hack kit? Cause that's the best way to get S-ON and stock ROM.

Sent from my ViperDHD v1.0.0
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adilrenzu:
Yes u can but its a lengthy process coz first u need to restore ur nandriod backup thn update via ota to gb thn unroot n s-on rather thn doing this u can just download a stock RUU run it on ur computer follow the instructions n u will hv stock GB on ur phone without root thn u can use AAKH(Advance ace hack kit) to make ur phone s-on.

By the way dnt mind me asking y do u want ur phone s-on.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] playerjunglejosh:
If I'm not mistaken the AAHK can do this all by itself. I used it to do it before on my phone because I had made a small mistake, and then I used AAHK to unroot go back to stock and reroot.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adilrenzu:
Yes it can do wonders.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoJo ^^:
I don't know if it's the right place, if not tell me where should i post that. Would it be (easily) possible (for a dev, so not me) to add undo/redo buttons to text editing? This is a HUGE feature missing in Android, soon 2013, five years of android, and still not there...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoJo ^^:
Still Android 4.2 is not having it... D.A.M.N
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clemson91:
I notice on Samsung's website you can buy either a

Galaxy Note™ II Standard Battery (3100mA)http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB595675LABXAR

or

Galaxy Note™ II Standard Battery (3100mA) (Verizon & US Cellular)http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones-accessories/EB595675LZBXAR

I was just wondering if anybody had any insight of what the differences could be, thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FloatingFatMan:
Weird, the feature description isn't even right. Note 2 doesn't have the NFC antenna in the battery, it's on the back cover.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Anyone have this card http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007W...-5410429?ref_=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1 or any 64gb SD card? I'm having a problem getting cwm to recognize it. I already reformatted it and still it does not work in cwm. Anyone know anything about this? My 32gb card works just fine
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mountainbyker:
Try formatting on a Mac. I have that card, tried three PCs with no luck but works perfectly after formatting on Mac using FAT.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
I guess cwm does not support exfat which the gs3 defaults to when formatting 64gb cards. I found out here http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ting-roms-hacks/184708-64gb-micro-sd-cwm.html I need to partition the card with a program. I'll do that tomorrow I'm going to bed lol
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] rlatjs17:
Format to fat32 and it should work
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ratledge:
One of those "believe it or not" things: the SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity = 64GB or more) specification says that the default (factory) format is exFAT. The GS3 recognizes both exFAT and FAT32, but some ROMS do not support exFAT due to Microsoft's funky licensing.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
You don't need to partition it. You need to format it to Fat32 as was mentioned.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nathan951:
I am now on my 3rd 64GB MicroSD, the same one in OP.

It works when I get it, but it preformatted as exFat, which wont work with ROM.

The first 2 SDs I used EaseUS Partition to format as Fat32. Format went fine, but when I went to place files on card, card unmounted. This last one I used Ridgecorp’s Fat32Format, but same problem.

When I insert card, Win7 sees it, but if I go to format/write it disconnects.

Before I send this third one back to amazon, any ideas how to format it?

FYI, I took the last one to a frien with a mac to see if he could fix it, after i tried to format Fat32, but no luck.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Brian Gove:
Yea, I believe that's the same card I have(had for working on 3 1/2 months now) and I used the Ridgecorp GUI utility in this thread, http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1773735 to format it as soon as I got it.

I've loaded it with music and continue to play said music all the time, use my ext for all my ROM downloading and storage. I access it all the time thru the phone and computer with no problems attributed to the card. (Some ROMs screw with my computer seeing my phone period)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tekrhino:
Surprise! TW UI Did the trick!

S'up Crew

I don't know if this would apply to anyone on this thread but I bought a SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC and my SGS3 Wouldn't recognize the card and all.

At the time I was running CM10 Stable.

After trying several different methods found around the forums (both here and external) nothing worked.

W7 would only recognize it as a 32GB because of OS limitations and with every single third party software I tried it was always the same thing (32GB only).

So on a whim I decided to try a slightly different approach.

I flashed a backup I had of the Original Touch Whiz UI I had laying around back onto the device. Shoved the SD card into it and LO and BEHOLD.. It recognized the card.. Erased the Contents and Formated it properly!

I went into Titanium Backup to see if it actually worked and there it was..

63.xGB.. Woohoo!

So apparently CM has problems seeing a 64GB MircoSDXC correctly and the Stock Touch Whiz UI OS works nicely to see it and format it.

Hope this helps the next person who reads this!

:cool:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] nosympathy:
I formatted my 64GB class 10 card in my Mac to fat32 and it has worked fine since.

CWM sees it as that size, TWRP does, both my Mac and PC do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] havok019:
So I formatted my 64gb micro to Fat32. PC recognizes it at 64gb, but I can't get it to transfer any files to it. Says there's no space available. What gives?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mikeman45:
What type card is it? Also when trying to transfer files is the card in the phone or straight to the computer via micro SD adapter ect....
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dan798:
So I managed to install AOKP rom 4 jellybean on my htc one x for telus. But there is no play store, how can I get it back?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] WarRaven:
In the very first post of that thread where you got this Rom from,

Does it mention anything about installing Gapps?

WR

Sent from my HTC One X

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I'd try step 2, then see if problem is fixed or not.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29516652

WR

Sent from my HTC One X
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dan798:
No, I downloaded it straight from the aokp website
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dan798:
Oh I see your added stuff now, thought it was a signature at first. Hey thanks a lot!
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Crappyvate:
it;s ok to thank him by pushing the thanks button on the bottom left corner. here i'll thank WR to show you. ^^^^^^^^
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] ptesmoke:
might as well give credit where it's due..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hirenvasani:
Does anyone thinks that, Nexus 7 will get 4.2 update? As we just received 4.1.2 update few days ago. It will be surprising, if we get update soon...

Whats your thoughts?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rxpert:
Yes, this is a nexus device,

We will likely get it the same day.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay Aristide:
This. That's why you go nexus, after all :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hirenvasani:
Does all past nexus devices runs on 4.1.2?
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay Aristide:
[DEV] [ROM] [N1] Evervolv Jellybean w/ nightly builds

JellyBean on the Nexus One :)
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styckx:
5.0 isn't even questioned let alone 4.2. Nexus 7 will be getting updates for quite awhile. The only way Google wouldn't update it is if they decide to get all Samsung on us and reskin AOSP in PNGs made at Industrial Light and Magic

Sent frm my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay Aristide:
Nexus devices will always have development until the hardware can no longer handle the os. To put things in perspective, the nexus one runs jellybean pretty well, from what I'm reading.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] styckx:
The Nexus One got cut off by Google at Gingerbread because the system storage was only 190MB and ICS and JB would never fit on the partition. Developers got around it by resizing and creating partitions on the MicroSD Card.

Nexus S officially got 4.1.2 by Google and it's only a single core, 1ghz, 512MB shared RAM device.. Only 340MB of RAM is usable on stock kernels and it runs JB decently. Custom kernels allow it to have 407MB of usable RAM by using Big HIGHMEM.

Nexus S has been one of the best supported, best performing (considering its age) phones I've ever owned.. When I finally replace it I'm not selling it as I'm keeping it as imo it's a legendary handset.. I think 4.1.2 is the last official update the phone will see though. While JB runs decent on it, it's obvious it's pushing the limits of the phones hardware..