[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] andriodnewuser:
Hello Everyone,

I know this has been talked about before, but none of the so far solutions have worked.

So as the title says, my SGS3 battery barely lasts 6-8 hours.

The main causes of this I have seen is either due to the high battery consumption of the Andriod OS or Andriod System. Usually however, the Andriod OS takes up to 30-50% battery consumption.

And I know how everyone is saying pretty much turn everything off your phone besides the cell reception and you'll get your desired battery life.

This is not the case, I tried taking off wifi, 4G, all syncs, google now, and after already performing a factory reset once and a hard reset once, I pretty much only have whatsapp on my phone..

So my andriod version is 4.1.1. ANd after the first firmware reset, I am unable to even switch off google now and it gives me an error that there is an error with my network connection. Even if I switch on/off in any sequence or series all my communication methods.

Anyways, the main issue I have been seeing after looking at the battery consumption, the Andriod OS takes up all my battery consumption and when looking at the graph, I see that my phone is almost never going to sleep. I have seen other people's galaxy S3 and I've seen their away status and its pretty much more black than blue (black indicating that its been asleep).

So its clear that the case of my battery drain is due to my phone almost never going to sleep. And the result of that is due to the high levels of Andriod OS usage.

And I have see a bunch of other galaxy s3 battery consumptions, and both the Andriod OS and Andriod system are always well below 10%, with the highest consumption being the Screen of 23% usually.

And I know for a fact, its none of my downloaded apps as the phone is pretty much stock. And its not wifi or screen brightness or any of that, because when I had my iPhone 4, I pretty much had everything open, with my phone doing all kinds of stuff and it lasts all day.

As for my current phone, I barely sent one or two whatsapp messages a day before the phone dies out..

And to illustrate the even greater extent of the battery drain. During my break today, I walked to the telus store (about 10 minutes to get there), I have 15% charge. By the time I got to the store, I had 7%.

Anyways, after taking the phone to the telus store, they told me to do a firmware reset, which i Already did with no avail. Then they suggested to get a new battery, which I ordered from them. However, it is clearly not the issue.

They won't let me even send the phone for repairs until I actually try replacing the battery, which I will only get 2 weeks from now.

Any ideas on what to do?

I've pretty much tried everything posted on most websites on how to resolve this issue and its not something to do with my settings or any of that. Its the phone software (rather than hardware) that is giving me high battery usage.

On top of that, the lower part of my backside of my phone is warming up when I just use my phone for a few minutes to message. To be clear, the battery is on the middle half of the phone. So its probably my CPU warming up to the texting that I am doing that is already adding to the Andriod OS high usage for some reason.

The phone is only 4 months old. And resetting the firmware puts it back to version 4.1.1

Also, Just connecting the phone to wifi over night with 100% charge before I went to bed, I woke up 8 hours later with 70% charge.

Nothing open, caches cleared. Almost every useless app off.

Sorry, I would post photos of it, however, my phone is currently dead and I am fully charging it before performing a full firmware reset (hard reset)

Please advise..

Thank you,