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[Galaxy S III General] fndpena:
You mean "installed betterBattery and flashed Siyah Kernel zip", right?

The "betterbattery" app that you are talking about is the one from play store?

I have just installed Siyah Kernel and it looks pretty good. I didn't had time to play with Stweak settings yet.
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
Betterbattery.zip is not an app. It's a flashable zip for the STweaks app that comes with siyah kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] fndpena:
Hmmm. What it does exactly? And where can I download it?

I have to use this app to flash it, right?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2034981
[Galaxy S III General] authmn:
Dont need, just flash using CWM.
[Galaxy S III General] fndpena:
Will it show as a new tab in Stweaks?

I cannot find the file in this thread...
[Galaxy S III General] fndpena:
Looks like EBAY MOBILE app was draining my battery like crazy...

BBS was showing 41 wake ups in 30 minutes. Even with all notifications OFF...
[Galaxy S III General] Matcarroll:
It did the same for me also.
[Galaxy S III General] Matcarroll:
I flashed to the new btu 4.1.2 yesterday via kies. My battery seems better but early to say yet! I left it uncharged all night with wifi set to always on and in 9 hours it drained 5-6%. This is excellent for this phone and better than I have ever had previously.
[Galaxy S III General] omrif:
Regular wipe?
[Galaxy S III General] man.phone:
Siyah 1.84, omega v34, great battery life after stweeks.

my stweeks:

GENTLE_FAIR_SLEEPERS: notick

CPU IDLE MODE: IDLE+LPA

CPU UNDERVOLTING:-100

MAX CPU LOCK:Dual core mode

DEFAULT CPU GOVERNOR:pegasusq

CPU MAX FREQUENCY:1000 MHZ

CPU MIN FREQUENCY:200 MHZ

108，160，266，300，350

GPU VOLTAGE LEVELS: every default-25

GPU THRESHOLDs: 70% 50% 80% 65% 90% 80% 95% 90%

MDNLE NEGATIVE TOGGLE:no tick

TOUCH BOOST LEVEL:200

ANDROID LOGGER:no tick

DEFAULT I/O SHEDULER: deadline

NO BOOT-LOGO:yes
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Great battery life, no tweaks :D
[Galaxy S III General] zaqq1:
ive been wondering for a while how people are able to get 5 even 6 hours screen on time

I'll be lucky if i can hit 3.5 hours

-> using omega 35 and stock kernel.

All custom kernels ive tried always random reboots (siyah, phenomenal, perseus)
[Galaxy S III General] Poker gypsy:
Thanks a million

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Do you use power saving mode?
[Galaxy S III General] Ajdnet:
I do you power saving mode, but you can select which elements of power saving are active, and I only have 'CPU Power saving' active to limit CPU performance because it is pretty rare that I need to use 4 cores at 1.4 Ghz per core (plus most apps can't use more than 1 core anyway).

Forgot to add to my list of battery saving measures:-

11 - Try and use WiFi rather than 3G where possible, but don't have WiFi active when out of range or it will keep scanning;

12 - Aim for darker wallpapers (static, not 'live' wallpapers).

I would be interested to see how much extra battery life people save by adopting some/all of the my tips, especially those on Siyah which generally seem to get better battery life than stock.
[Galaxy S III General] Poker gypsy:
I'm going to try these things and I will let you know
[Galaxy S III General] omrif:
Somebody like me have an high usge of the procedure "android system "? There is a way to make this stop?
[Galaxy S III General] Ajdnet:
I have seen a number of users with high 'Android system' usage, which is something I don't suffer from, but no-one has managed to get to the bottom of what exactly is causing the issue. On my system there are 39 packages that are included under the 'Android system' banner (screenshots hopefully attached). Maybe if you compare yours to the list there may be additional packages on yours that are the drain issue? On the other hand, it could be one of the same packages that is doing something different on your system, but worth a try. Hope it helps.
[Galaxy S III General] colang:
Guys I started a thread regarding the steps I took to solve the battery drain. ... I'm now getting the phone in deep sleep allot more and my battery usage has been cut in half ... I'm a heavy user and was charging by early afternoon most days. ..

Hope this helps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2058804

:):)
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Of all the things I see here the only one I disagree with is Juice Defender. A very nice list and along the lines of what I do.
[Galaxy S III General] brotakul:
Too bad nobody replied in months on this thread, even if it's the longest thread i could find on the battery drain issue concerning Jelly Bean.

I too have (or hopefully had) this problem with the stock 4.1.2 ROM on my SGS2. I switched to CM10.1 for a while and it gave me great battery life, but the user interface is too bare simple for me so i came back on the stock ROM (rooted, but stock kernel kept) and tried different solutions that i found online, mostly with no apparent success.

Than i also installed BetterBatteryStats and looked for the root cause. I found the same issue with WiFi not letting the phone stay in deep sleep while screen was off and no usage carried. It had to be some app trying to constantly sync and/or check for location.

So i went berserk on all apps that could cause this battery drain. First, i uninstalled Facebook, that is indeed a very poorly written app and a heavy juice drinker. Also, i uninstalled most of the bloatware that comes with stock Android for Samsung devices, and also a few widgets that i never used/needed (dual clock, youtube, etc). Google Now was switched off, but Location services was left ON (for Weather app, Maps, etc.).

But the real deal (as i believe) came only after i removed all "Samsung" branded apps and services. All those Samsung backup/cloud/sync services that i didn't really need.

So now, that's basically what i got, after only 2 full charging cycles on this fresh ROM install:

My WiFi is always ON, but no unnecessarily internet usage in background anymore. I'm looking forward to more battery life after it completes the calibration and really stabilizes. It usually gets a few days to even a week for the battery to actually perform at it's best.

I could say the CM10.1 is a little lighter than this (the UI is less demanding also), but for a stock ROM, after the disaster of a vanilla install, these results are quite great.

ROM: Stock Android 4.1.2

Baseband: i9100XXLS8 (older flash, the Spanish release)

BUILD: ......XWLSJ (Nordic countries)
[Galaxy S III General] KennyLegend:
See

U in the wrong forum dude. This is for the S3 (i9300).

The reason this thread hasn't been active is that jellybean has been on our phones a long time now and most folks have figured out what works for them with regard to battery life/drain etc.

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] disclaimernotice:
Also, this thread was mostly about the battery drain issues caused by 4.1.1 roms, many of which were solved by the 4.1.2 update and the use of custom kernels.
[Galaxy S III General] brotakul:
Ok. Thanks and sorry.
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
If you have a s2 I recommend you to do a full wipe. Format the internal sd card and flash your phone new with lse. Use your phone from full battery and never let him go under 40 % of battery. Do it for 5 cicles and you should have 30 % more battery then in ics.
[Galaxy S III General] Hodsgod:
What is the logic for that?
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Well friend I ve tryed to explain you in the simple way and the way it works... I don t want to explain in detail bootloader versions, the behaviour of li-ion battery and so on. If you want a full juice and a Phone with good performance just do it. Or you can browse through hundreds of threads. Good easter.
[Galaxy S III General] itzig112:
for me, the most useful think is ti disable 3G. With only 2G the Phone runs really 2 Days.
[Galaxy S III General] jmvelazquezr:
My battery drain problems got fixed when i disabled Google Now, Background Location Reporting, Location sharing and location history on the Maps app.

It even charges faster on usb now.

I was getting insane amouts of wakelocks from the Maps app, but that fixed it for me.
[Galaxy S III General] Jaxx89:
Gonna try that now. Thanks for letting us know about this.....

Just hope the battery drain issue is not with my battery like my charger went kaput in just 3 months.....
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
If you don't use maps freeze it with titanium backup. It saves you about 10 % juice per cycle. And some other apps that you don't really need. Just take a look at some apps list on the general thread and you can freeze at your taste and needs. That saves a lot. I mean getting 4 hours screen time with my mc3 stock Rom.
[Galaxy S III General] f(x)THaxxorX:
Lower the Processor Frequency maybe that can help?
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Lowering the processor speed will not give much gain. The exynos board is well optimised. And even then you will suffer some lags. undervolting isn't proof of battery gain. The great battery drainer in s3 is screen and some Google apps. And apps like Facebook and 3g.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
no need to freeze maps. Just used greenify

Sent from the mind of Galactus
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Greenify is a great app but it can not freeze deep system apps and many system bloat. That's why I prefer to freeze many stuff with tb.

And last, always check your ril and baseband if matches. Bad combination drains battery a lot.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
Freeze system apps you don't use then use titanium to convert maps to a user app then it will work with greenify.

Sent from the mind of Galactus
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Not only maps drain battery. Maps was just one example. As you well mentioned you can convert maps to user app. But there are many others that you can not and they together are heating up your battery for nothing. Just check a list in general thread and you will see there's much to freeze. Greetings.
[Galaxy S III General] Galactus:
I'm just going by my personal experience. I freeze a few apps and greenify the rest. Easily get 24 hours use with a good screen on of 4-5 hours with brightness at 50% with whatsapp and gmail syncing on as well as a live wallpaper.
[Galaxy S III General] stevae:
thank everyone who contributed to this thread. after cycling the battery a few times, it is much better now. and i turn off my wifi when i go to bed.
[Galaxy S III General] Dima_2005:
Greenify is a lifesaver indeed...

Just have some issues with apps that use the magentic field. (f.e. Temple Run 2, GPS Status,...)

These apps, even when frozen, greenified and manually killed trough emulator, they still use the magnetic field sensor (=G-sensor?)...

Only solution for that is a reboot...

I suggest to check it out, if you've got some usage. For me these 2 apps use 10% of the power...

(now I just reboot every evening so they don't suck the battery empty)

Any tips for the high usage of Phone (rild) btw?

For some reason when the phone is in airplane mode f.e. (overnight), Phone uses a ****load of CPU time...
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Wich Rom and Kernel are you using?
[Galaxy S III General] f(x)THaxxorX:
Maybe.try to clear battery bin. :S
[Galaxy S III General] Dima_2005:
I use stock rom and kernel...

Xxemc2, the xxella had the same problem.

Hopefully the 4.2.2 is not going to have the problem
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
I'm using mc3. I think it's slightly better then mc2. And andreilux kernel. It's a good combination. And you can read a bit more in his thread about body bias. It's interesting enough.

Battery stats bin is a myth. If you want to calibrate battery you must go other way. And in lt26 it is not the same as on Samsung. It's easier to calibrate battery on a phone as in a square with speakers.
[Galaxy S III General] storm_spirit:
try Wanam Lite Rom 6.5 with adam kernel 2.3. It gives a very good battery life and you don't have to tweak anything :D
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Wanam lite is a tweaked Rom by Wanam. It's a stock tweaked Rom. But if you can do it by yourself fulfilling your needs. Nothing better then that.
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
My battery times without nothing. Only personal tweaks. Hard heavy use with 3g on.
[Galaxy S III General] arun_response:
Plese help me wid my battery drain.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2264963

I wud really appreciate your help.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
Format your sd card new and flash your phone again. That helps if battery is in good condition.
[Galaxy S III General] arun_response:
Sd card is the internal memory or usb storage of the phone??

Am askng bcoz after flashing this rom I did do a full wipe from stock recovery. ..even d cache wipe frm there!

And I donot hv an xternal sd card...

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
I meant the internal memory. Backup all your data. Take a rom from samfirmware and use odin.
[Galaxy S III General] arun_response:
I used to do factory wipe in stock recovery. Isnt dat the same thing?

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S III General] testadeferro:
No. Do a factory reset then put your phone in download mode and flash it again with stock firmware. Then root it. Install recover afain and then use custom roms again.

If it doesn't help then is battery. Can do a calibration with this steps. Let phone charge to 100 % disconnected. Then without unplugging the cable from phone pull the battery out of it. Disconect cable.Let phone without battery for 5 minutes. Put battery again and turn on. Battery should be calibrated now.
[Galaxy S III General] a1194171:
Think I just beat my problem

...i tried siyah kernel 1.6.8 ...it didn't work :(

So I went and downloaded siyah 1.7 from http://www.gokhanmoral.com/ and so far (last 2) hours I've seen an enhancement in my battery charging rate and decrease in drainage :). Also have a look at the forum below some zip folders to add onto kernel to help with this problem (also forum is all about siyah 1.7 ).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1709686

One problem I have found is that with WiFi off battery is better

P.s I also added xxdlid modem ...which helped

BTW I'm running paranoid android 2.51 with cm10 (25-10)
[Galaxy S III General] Demonhotrod:
I would just like to add my 2 cents on this matter, when DLJ4 first came out, I downloaded it from Samfirmware and flashed it via Odin and for the 4/5 days that I was using it I had absolutely terrible battery drain, to the point that from full to about 20% took 13 hours, I can't remember the exacts but I think it was draining 5 or 6% an hour. I don't have many apps installed but I did have Google Now turned on, Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp, which people seem to think are devil apps. Anyway after 5 days or so, I was having problems with the ROM, text messages from MyBackup couldn't be restored etc so I reflashed in Odin, and again after a 2/3 days I was still having huge battery drain.

Fast forward and I was getting annoyed, so I flashed an ICS ROM via Odin, installed all my apps, restored MyBackup and then used KIES to update to Jelly Bean and honestly the battery is about 3x better, my battery drain currently stands at 2% an hour, and that's WITH Google Now turned on and my battery lasted for 29 hours (still 32% remaining)

I don't really have a point to my post, I just find it amazing that using KIES (yes you read that right!) seems to of fixed the problems that I was having, especially when most people consider wiping/flashing with Odin, the better route to go
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
I've tried phenomenal extreme with Jellybean and still had bad battery drain then tried Shiyah Kernel 1.7 and the battery drain is really slow, also used the even more battery profile zip from the Shiyah Kernel topic and the battery is excellent (it does do the undervolting to -100 so use at your own risk, my s3 is fine. Also changed from dual to quad as it set it to dual-battery did drain even slower with dual though)
[Galaxy S III General] Matcarroll:
By JUST disabling WiFi my battery is now fantastic! I would have run out of battery hours ago but now going strong!

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Can I ask you something? I have flashed Rom before but not kernels. How would I flash this shiyah kernel via Odin, do I need a specific jb version same as my Rom version, I'm on latest jb btu firmware. Do I need to be rooted and do I loose ota updates? Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S III General] kiking:
I don't think it come from JB, im on JB too and my wifi signal is fine. Maybe u should flash a new kernel or modem i dont know which is responsible about wifi.
[Galaxy S III General] BillyBiro:
My experiences

Hi all,

I'll just add my experiences to this thread too as I'm experiencing similar issues with increased battery drain since upgrading to Jelly Bean.

I've had my S3 for approx. 1-2 months. It's the International version and I'm in the UK.

My week days consisted of a fairly consistent routine which would mean the phone being removed from overnight charge at 7am (so it's 100%). I'd get into work for 8am whereupon I'd turn off sound and turn on Wifi (The phone signal is awful in our office, especially 3G, so I used Wifi to maintain GMail updates and other syncs etc.). Finish work at 5pm, turn sound back on and Wifi off. Running until bedtime (around 11pm) on 3G - usually at home where the 3G signal is stronger. During this time, there may be very light usage of the phone. One or two brief (3-4 minute) calls every other day, turning on screen to quickly scroll through some twitter updates (1 min), a quick browse to a specific website (1-2 mins). When going to bed, the phone be put back on charge overnight.

With this routine, when running on the stock ICS, battery would be approx. 50-60% by the end of the day.

Since upgrading to stock JB (JRO03C.I9300XXDLJ4), with the same routine, battery is now around 30-40% by the end of the day.

I've only ever run the stock and official Samsung ROMs and Kernels. This phone isn't even rooted.

If it makes a difference, the JB upgrade was performed OTA as one day (with the Wifi being on all day in the office) turning on the screen prompted me that the update had been downloaded and did I want to install it. I postponed it for a few hours, but eventually installed it that night.

One other thing to note is that I did find (when I first got the phone and it was on ICS) that I needed to go through a few days (perhaps a weeks worth) of this routine and the discharge/recharge cycle before the ICS battery life was as reported above. At first it was a lot less consistent. I've only been running with the JB upgrade for 3 days so far, so maybe it needs more time for the battery issue to somewhat resolve it (like ICS did) or maybe it's going to be as it is now.

I'll post back at a later date to let you know how it's going.
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
I downloaded the Odin mobile version and then flashed the kernel with my phone, it's really easy and I've flashed roms with it in zip format and my flash counter didn't go up.

After rooting your phone you can't update via ota anymore as Jellybean doesn't allow updates for modded phones.

I believe you need to be rooted to flash kernels but not 100% sure only had my phone a month so haven't tried kernel flashing without rooting.

You can get mobile Odin from here, don't know the link though but you can search for it :)
[Galaxy S III General] 101gamzer:
Lets All hope that Samsung will fix this by a minor UPDATE or wait until android 4.2 comes out :crying:
[Galaxy S III General] jnr21:
Xxdlj4 has great batt life for me, after 3h25min screen on-time i have 51% left. Few calls, wifi on, some tapatalking and mostly homescreen customizing, auto brightness (slider is on full), siyah kernel.
[Galaxy S III General] rchtk:
On stock jb unrooted, wifi on,eco and with sync dropbox,gglesync,2 gmail, greader. Screen off.

I am loosing a little less than 1%/h

The only midification i did is to disable gglenow.

To be noted is that theres no special activity on my wireless network.

Not sure if this is battery drain?
[Galaxy S III General] arsenals:
What is BBS? :$
[Galaxy S III General] rchtk:
Better Battery Stats a must for knowing what is using battery
[Galaxy S III General] waazup531:
Anyone experiencing drain with data activated(not wifi)? I lose about 2-3% in per 5 minutes and the phone gets quite hot. Any ideas? Should i rush it to warranty?
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
Haha...same here...3g does eat up battery like crazy :p
[Galaxy S III General] a1194171:
Hey installed super nexus rom from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1817345

Great on battery... Near normal battery drainage. But can't appearance modify as much But what's the use of having a phone with nice looking appearances but your battery is stuffed. But there are links on the forum to flash different themes and appearances to turn this rom near perfect.
[Galaxy S III General] eggman89:
94% to 77 % in 7 hours.

WIFI : On , PSM off

Most power and wakelocks were by Kernal.

Normal?

I'm on LJ4, stock kernel?
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
Ah cleared up one problem just noticed after checking my WiFi advanced had my notify me when open network is available ticked.

Even though I had my WiFi awake when asleep as never, after checking my battery stats my WiFi was on but not running over night even though it was meant to be off plus I remember switching my wifi off before leaving the screen off overnight.

Also main network drain is playstore even though I updated just one game and have my auto update not ticked so unticked notify me about updates to notifications to see if that helps.

Alarm manager also which drains battery, this is from all the apps that keep updating automatically so going to find out which apps they are after I find out how to do an alarm manager txt dump and switch them to manual update.

I'll get to the bottom of this drain problem :)

After I unticked the open network option my drain is slow and my s3 isn't overheating like it was. :D

Maybe that's why I was losing a lot of % over night

I'm using stock Rom and kernel at moment as Shiyah Kernel was a bit risky after I used someones stweak script and my s3 froze and unpixelled, thought it was dying.
[Galaxy S III General] marcindpol:
Hi. I don't think that changing WiFi settings will help. On my phone even after I unticked that I can still see its scanning for open networks . It only gets rid of the notifications you get.
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
It stopped my s3 from heating up which is was before when I had it as scanning for open networks.
[Galaxy S III General] raied115:
So, how do we solve it?
[Galaxy S III General] amen pray:
dpi

a quick question...does changing the dpi value consumes more battery life
[Galaxy S III General] XenomorphXx121:
Ha found my biggest problem for drain, an app called applock, 224 wakeups in 1 minute :)
[Galaxy S III General] Keydogg1:
After installing Better Battery Stats due to poor battery life since the JB update I have found a Partial Wakelock that looks like it's using a lot of power. It's called NetworkLocationLocator and it seems to be connected to the option in the location services which says "Use Wireless networks" to help determine location.

See this thread for more info. It have a suspicion it's to do with Google Now, even though I have it disabled, because this option was in ICS (as far as I'm aware) and it never caused problems until JB.

I've just un-ticked that box in location settings, I'll let you know if it changes anything!
[Galaxy S III General] LenAsh:
You should be able to get this kind of life (stock BTU JB rooted CF)