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[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Scrappy1:
My Jelly Bean battery issues are very tied to cell signal level. At home today, with good signal (LTE -100 dbm), I see no idle drain issues with JB. Its just like ICS. However, this last week at work with poor signal (LTE -112 dbm), with JB I had terrible idle drain. In that exact same setting ICS had no issues.

I have a feeling the new radio is doing some hyper spastic searching for better towers now around -110 dbm, where it didnt used to. If my woes at work keep up I'll flash back to ICS radio.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Hulk0069:
I've gotten great battery also on ics whether on 4g or Wi-Fi that time really didn't matter,I loved the hd radio.but on jb the lk3 is ok I do get faster gps lock.

Clean Romed&themed the f!@#out
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
My record on cleanrom 5.5.1
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dems86:
On aosp with ktk/lk or even meanlean/jellybeans also on ktk/lk, I've been getting absolutely ridiculously, great battery life. It was kinda shocking my first fully charged run through on the roms I listed.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Elite818:
After tweaking the voltage via System Tuner, battery life increase greatly. OC to 1.62 Ghz and with moderately heavy use, I had 17% left after being off charger for ~13 hours. This is great by comparison to my TB where I barely can squeeze 6 hours under the same type of usage,
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yorginfo:
Battery insight

I noticed a great improvement in the jelly bean ota battery life. There are a few things that may contribute. I would immediately calibrate your battery. Doing manually or through app will require root. If you have root I would try a firewall to limit apps that might hog network resources. If you are within range of a weak wifi, your device may search and connect often but you will notice this eventually. The other is maybe it is switching towers too much. All of which can drain battery life. If it is neither than your battery itself maybe is at the end of it's load cycle. I purchased my galaxy right at launch and I know my battery has decreased in performance since then. Overcharging is the most common way to decrease battery performance, more deadly than wall sockets are cars because you can pass high voltage to your phone without knowing much about it. Best to buy chargers that will control these spikes. I think the most reliable power of a phone is nuclear but I don't see many of those around except maybe far in russia past outer siberia.

You will be fine. Look at the issues. Low cell signal means your phone works harder to get signal. The harder it works more battery bars it will use.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dohturdima:
The phone has overcharge protection, I thought this was common knowledge.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jonapunk:
So the indexing of media how long does this go on for? It's been almost two weeks since I got the update and have not added any more media

I am about ready to do a factory reset and see if this helps as I'm sick of my phone dieing in less then 12 hours a day
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] cell128:
Media saver should not be that high. Try to go into settings>storage and unmount then remount SD card. By the way what's the screen on time there?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Juroid:
My situation is really weird. I am on Clean Rom 5.5.1 with a theme No OC. My battery drains normal or slightly worst than when I was on Synergy R73 OC to 1.9ghz when on WiFi or LTE but when I am in a area where its only 3G, my battery drains really fast. Not only that but my phone gets HOT. I check the battery stats and 72% usage is Cell Standby. With 1 hour and 8 mins, I am down to 59%.

Synergy Rom R73 with VRLG7 modem has the best battery life even with OC to 1.9 GHz.

I am thinking of trying VLRK1 modem and see if that helps with less battery drain in 3G area's.

Sent from Samsung Galaxy Note I717

Using Xparent Blue Tapatalk
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AndrewH05:
Before doing a reset, if you're rooted, download Rescan Media Root from the Market, it will disable that stupid media scanner. After doing that my battery life increased by at least 50-65% alone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dohturdima:
Thank you for this recommendation. Another app that I find very useful is GSam battery monitor from the market (free version is just fine). It breaks down the battery usage per app, identifies wakelocks and has a much more intuitive interface vs. BetterBatteryStats
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] donebrasko:
Mine is awful
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] kintwofan:
It looks like your screen was on that entire time. The screen will kill your battery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] JWalker:
I've had good luck with Clean Rom 5.5.1, K3 modem and rpm with the stock kernel (16 hours light use w/ 3.5 hours screen time) Trying Faux's kernel now cause I'm a flasaholic, but so far it seems to be good.

Sent from my Grumpey phone
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SmokeyDP:
I used to have 40% battery left at the end of the day, now I'm plugging in 2 hours before bed so the phone doesn't die. I'm just using the stock ROM with light usage. Nothing has really changed from the last couple months with the phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] donebrasko:
Yeah but should it drop that quick? My display is always set below 20%
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jpent:
List of Freeze Suggestions

I am rooted on stock JB, and have used Titanium Backup to freeze what I knew could obviously be frozen without causing issues. For other androids in the past I have seen lists of processes that could be frozen and the consequence of doing so. I have looked for such a list for the Verizon Galaxy S3 with the OTA Jelly Bean, and have had no luck finding it. I am close to switching over to Clean Rom, but was trying to see if I could tweak this a bit more.

Does anyone know of such a list that is compiled? Thanks to all!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
for those with battery issues:

Under Maps>settings>location settings>location reporting change it from "Detect your location" to "set your location".

For Wi-Fi settings change to keep wi-fi awake only when plugged in; otherwise it reverts to 3g/4g.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] AngryGibson:
I would love to see a list on what can be frozen myself. I've done all that I could for now but a list would be most helpful.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jguns112:
My battery life was atrocious before I flashed a rom.. I was lucky to get more than 2 hours. I think it may be caused by having Google location services turned on but I have not done any testing to confirm this.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SmokeyDP:
The one day I was digging through my battery settings after having it on for 2 hours and being at 88%, I noticed that Google Maps used 17% of the battery and I never even had it on. Today Google Maps is showing 7% of battery after being turned on for 30 min and I haven't used it yet.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] bobloblaw1:
To the guys talking about maps ducking the battery... Look up.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SmokeyDP:
When I change this setting it no longer detects where I actually am, it prompts me. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the map itself? Maybe Google Now is using the mapping locator which is causing the issue.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] yorginfo:
Google now uses google location services
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] dan02gt:
I noticed the same thing. When I was in a poor coverage area my battery just seemed to fry with the K3 modem. I went back to the HE modem and my battery life went back to being about the same as ICS.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Ryno77:
If you disable "report location from device" under maps>settings>location settings it makes a drastic difference in battery life and I've noticed no disadvantages of doing this. Google still knows my location and reports my drive time home.... GPS is off.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] 1000cleverlines:
Ok so I have MAPServiceSamsung taking up a lot of battery daily. I'm on stock JB. Any clue what app is causing this? I would flash a clean rom but I don't want to lose everything.
[Nexus 7 General] Jon12345:
I have my Nexus 7 but no Contacts data there. Also got a Nexus 4 and would like the Contacts synched between my Nexus 4,7 and Outlook on my PC.

How would I go about this?

Thanks,

Jon
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
I answered this question in an almost identical thread that can be found by doing a search.
[Nexus 7 General] michaelkenward:
I suppose this could be the answer referred to.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2032654

But who knows?
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
That's the one.:good:
[Nexus 7 General] MikeM:
I think that google sync is no longer a viable option. As of December 14th you can no longer download it. See link below.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936
[Nexus 7 General] Danielfr:
Try CompanionLink.

Daniel
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
CompanionLink costs money and is very hit and miss with Outlook data. The method in the link I posted is THE best way to sync Oulook with an Android phone, costs nothing, syncs contacts, calendar and e-mail and does not cut off any data or fields. It also avoids Google's cloud if that matters to you.
[Nexus 7 General] Danielfr:
.

I am using CompanionLink since years and had never a problem with it.

You can wipe all contacts on your Nexus, you can sync one way ( Outlook to Android or Android to Outlook ) or both ways,You can also sync via their Cloud , etc.

It synchronizes also your tasks (memos) and your journal.

But everyone has of course is own experience and opinion.

Daniel
[Nexus 7 General] Miami_Son:
Read some of the experiences with CL posted in the link. Some real horror stories with corrupted or lost Outlook data. Whatever floats your boat, if it works for you the you're the only one it has to please. I would still be more comfortable with a solution that comes from the same company that makes Outlook and is free, but to each his own.:good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tymico:
it's cm7 nightly
[RAZR i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirocyl:
I've had an idea for a while, concerning Intel-based Android devices, with unlocked bootloaders.

Would it be possible, to run kexec on a kernel built for one of these devices, and use it to load a bootloader, such as GRUB, to load another OS, such as Ubuntu, Meego, or WebOS?

I know that for any other OS or loader, drivers will be a major issue, but being able to load other OS code opens development opportunities.

Haiku, BSD, or any Windows/Mac would be quite a stretch for sure, but an x86-based Linux doesn't seem horribly far-fetched.
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ramkiller1:
I rooted my kindle fire not to long ago and trying to get Google Play Store. I press 6 then 1 and this happens. Please Help

Also, these are all the folders on the kindle Fire
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thepooch:
Save yourself the hassle flash modaco if your just on rooted stock no data loss wipe dalvik and cache after flashing http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1439916 .
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rodrigo9430:
utility solution

Go to the folder where you have kindle utility and look for a folder called apps look inside in and there should be apps.zip delete it and try again installing it now it should appear a progress bar when it finishes downloading its should install the google market or how its call now play store
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Yasharkhan:
I have a question,will I be able to get OTA updates and Pc companion updates after relocking my unlocked xperia S bootloader?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
No. You would have to relock to do a stock update through PC companion, sus or ota.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ TL
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
My gnex recently has gotten into the habit of refusing to charge over 90%. It will say "charging" but does not pass the 90% mark. ive been running the latest PA with franco kernel.

Things i have done to try to resolve this are:

reflash PA to get stock kernel

use different wall chargers and cables

completely drain battery, recharge while phone is off (twice)

tried the above steps on my stock battery (have been using official extended)

use toolkit to wipe phone back to unrooted stock from verizon

reflash PA

Nothing has resolved this. i thought for sure using a different battery would do the trick.

Does the latest CWM still have the reset battery stats option? I thought i read somewhere a google dev explained that the batterystats file doesnt actually affect charge reading, but I could be wrong.

Any other suggestions for me to try?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] altimax98:
Are you using Francos app? It has a setting that will only charge to a preset limit. I think its called 'Battery Xtender'
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
I initially thoughtthat too, but iit's been at 100. I've been trying to think of anything I can do more. If only one battery did it, I would attribute it to a dying battery but they both do the same.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] najaboy:
That is correct. Wiping battery stats will accomplish nothing. It would seem that if you have eliminated sofftware and the battery itself as the root cause, there is but one common denominator.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
I just dont get how the phone itself could let it charge until 90% (it has since dropped to a max of 88% on either battery) and just not let it charge any more. What internally would fail that would cause such a weird occurrence? Anyone else have any further ideas I could try short of replacing the phone?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
I am only replying because my phone is doing the same.

I have ATT Galaxy S2. I have

Changed the charger.

Tried different ROMs / kernels / battery's.

Reset battery stats.

It is hit or miss. Yesterday I got 100% today I got 92%.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
Today mine only is getting up to 87%. I'd even be ok if the phone said 100% then as soon as i unplugged it the level dropped to whatever. The fact that it refuses to report anything more than 87% (or another number) is weird. This whole issue is boggling my mind.:eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
I have went back to a stock ROM (still rooted ) and I will get a error something to the effect of " changing paused voltage to high ".

I only bring this up to see of you have had the same thing.

Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
Interesting, I will definitely check this out later when I have the opportunity to mess with it more. Stuck at the in laws now. Woohoo. Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
One more thing. I read on a sight it could be something in the micro USB port. I (believe it or not) found a magnifying glass and a plastic tooth pick and I pulled out a wad of lint. I will report back when I charge it tonight.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
I cleaned out the port. I just charged my phone to 100% . like I said it is hit or miss but that is promising. I will report tomorrow. Please tell me if the same is true for you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
Glad to see this worked out for you, but mine looked pretty clean and I cleaned it out anyway and no beans. Still haven't tried running a stock rom but I decided that I'm going to buy one of those wall powered battery chargers and just charge my 2100mAh battery overnight on that and use my original battery when I'm just at home/not out and about. I hope this works since im 99% sure the batteries are not at fault. I'll find out soon.

Charger i bought, looks pretty slick really:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058XGN7I/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
Well I cleaned out the port but still the same. Last night only 93%

:(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
more weirdness today. I woke up and checked my phone (it was plugged in charging) expecting to see my usual "84%, charging" on the lockscreen but was greeted with a "charged". I hadnt changed anything recently so I thought its a belated christmas miracle! i went into the battery stats to find it said 84%- Full. So now i'm wondering why the phone suddenly decided that 84% is full. perhaps my batteries actually are bad (my extended i bought no more than 3 months ago, got the phone/original battery in march). More mysteries for me to solve :eek:

(bad screenshot, look through the volume bar to see 84%-Full)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
Well since cleaning the micro USB port I got 2 out of 3 100% charges. Way better then before.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
After getting my external battery charger (which is great btw) my problems persist, leading me to believe that perhaps my batteries are both crapping out (somehow...neither of them are that old). I'm trying not to throw any more money into this so does anyone know who has the cheapest batteries? I'd prefer samsung oem but not neccesary. I'm sure amazon will be my best bet again.

Does anyone think it is still possible that it could be a hardware issue in the phone? I've ruled out a microUSB issue since the batteries still only charge to 80something%.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
To report for anybody reeding I now have another morning at 100% so I have to believe that cleaning my port was the issue. PS i took a vacuum and held it to the port after I used a toothpick to break up anything in there.

But to your issue. I know eBay has great cheap batteries. I got a extended battery for 8 bucks. Also I think you said you have already done it but in case you have not should you be running clock work mod there is a setting inside of it to reset battery stats. Might be worth a try.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] JJ2525:
I bought the Samsung 2100 mAh extended battery on eBay about 3 months ago. It has worked really well, but now only charges up to 99%. Is my battery dying, is that normal?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
I bought my 2100 extended direct from verizon 4 months ago. I currently charges to 82%. Mine also used to charge only to 99 or 98% but I had assumed this was normal or within a margin of error. One day i woke up to it being only 90% charged, there didnt seem to be any intermediate steps, just directly to 90% and it has fallen over the past week.

I wouldnt say your battery will end up the same way just yet, besides there's not a whole lot you can do anyway except watch it die.

After putting my original 1800 battery on the external charger then into the phone, it reads 88%, higher than my extended. So perhaps my batteries are both bad. Very disappointing that they are dying off after less than a year, even half a year!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] msavic6:
This morning I woke up and my phone only charged to 90%. I'm on stock 4.2.1 takju with unlocked bootloader, warranty ran out 3 days ago...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
Very strange. Mine also started (or at least i started to notice maybe) after i flashed the 4.2 PA release. I had assumed it was some buggy quirk in the rom, but since it does it now matter what rom or version i am on i know it cant be that. Are you using the stock battery or an extended one?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] msavic6:
The stock 1750mah battery that came with my gsm nexus.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] d0wns3t:
try cleaning both the usb port and the phones battery connectors well with alcohol and see how that goes. when you said you cleaned it, did you mean with alcohol or something similar? if not definitely give it a try (and especially battery connectors based upon the issue your having)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
I tried cleaning the contacts with alcohol, but nothing noticable. However I think i may have an idea as to what caused this all to happen. The charger I most often use is the charger that came with my nook tablet (shame on me for not using the oem, i know). It is rated at 5v and 1.9A output. The oem charger is rated at 1.0A output, and other chargers i have are between 500mA and 1.0A. I'm thinking that the higher current perhaps damaged/exhausted the charging capabilities of the batteries. I cant seem to find any recommended info on the batteries, but I bet they probably werent designed for nearly double the current of the oem charger. Hopefully it didn't damage anything hardware-wise in the phone (I'd like to think not, since it still is able to charge, file transfer, etc). Anyone else think this could be a cause of my issues?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] msavic6:
The charger only feeds the amount of current the phone is able to accept I think. So using a 2a charger won't damage your battery/phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
Yes. My understanding is amps is not important or as important as volts.

So if .5 volts 2 amps on a charger means the charger will deliver a constant minimal .5 volts but should your device require it can go up to X amps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] d0wns3t:
i agree, plus also i read a good explanation of how a higher current charger will charge faster to start with, but will actually drop to a lower current after the initial charge phase, and through this stage will take longer than the charger starting at the lower current.

i also am a bit puzzled why people insist on only using the oem equipment, they are building it to a standard, so that parts can be interchanged, couldnt it potentially be described as not meeting the description of the product, if it says micro usb, but is actually (samsung only) micro usb?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] semihbalcioglu:
mine also has similar problem. charging normally till 90%. and slowing, takes 1 hour to 90% to 99% and hangs there. never gets %100 until I pull out and put the charger again.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
Does everyone have USB debugging off. If you have it on turn it off. Just a guess
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] crowmallet:
i definitely don't think it makes a difference. i just assume when you say you've used something other than the oem equipment you give people reason to believe that's where the problem lies and think no further than that. (in my mind i liken this to if i were to take my phone to the verizon store and explain the issue they would ask if ive been using the oem charger, and as soon as i say no they say "thats why sorry tough luck" even though it nearly certainly isn't the cause)

ive been on roms (mostly PA and aokp jb-m1) and have had both debugging on and off at various points, no change

anyway i've just been living with my problem. my next step at some point will be to buy another (3rd) battery and see if it is able to charge fully. since neither of the one's i have charge to 100% i suppose maybe they are at fault (?). the wall charger led indicates they are fully charged but the phone still only reports 82% +- 2% when i put it in. since i have 2 batteries that hold a decent amount of charge i dont see any reason to do too much more, put up with it, and hope it doesnt get any worse.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Doomhamma:
Have you tried with fast charge ? I remember having problems with battery charging only to 99 % ... Then i tried the fast charge once, it charged it to 100 % ... I used it all the time afterwards, and after a while i used my normal charger and it charged to 100 % without any problems ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lishron:
Is fast charge a setting ? If so where ? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Doomhamma:
It is kernel enabled ... Use Franco's Kernel to activate it ...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
Fast charge is for usb only. Has no effect on AC charging.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 063_XOBX:
It won't do anything. The best practice is to let the GNex and battery function as they were intended.