Battery Life?

**Prelover115** · 07-24-2012, 11:43 AM

Since I've updated to ics, my battery life has been awful. I've been up since about 9:30 today and with low to moderate use I'm down to 50% battery at 12:42. Does anyone else have this problem? I've been running juice defender which is saying is helping but i'm not convinced. Please help if I could get this to run through a day that would be great

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**Trevor07silvy** · 07-26-2012, 10:02 AM

Same here. Shortly after the update battery life was awesome. Now its horrible, even with juice defender.

**tvandegr** · 07-28-2012, 11:38 AM

My battery life was bad. So I started playing with my Exchange server's sync schedule. And for some reason setting it to "push" improved my battery life.

Also if I leave my bluetooth on when I don't need it, it sucks the life out of my battery (even when it is not connected to anything, and not serching).

**skyrocket9** · 07-28-2012, 03:19 PM

I get 6-6.5 hours of direct heavy non stop use before i get to 5%.
Set max processes to 4, disable dps and all locstion settigs. Screen brightness to lowest. And minimal random widgets on screen. I was using it at my cottage for 6 hours straight before having to plug in. The screen was dimmed probably for 5 minutes while i got a beer. In contrast my iphone 4s would only get 4 hours in the same test.

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**Prelover115** · 07-29-2012, 09:31 PM

I've been reading about this battery issue for awhile now, and it seems a process called MAPservicesamsung is chewing up a lot of juice. Any idea how to stop it? I'm not rooted mainly because I tried it once and failed so I'm too much of a wimp to do it again.

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**jldoom** · 07-30-2012, 06:38 PM

Don't know of any other way to be able to stop that process Mtcarlin95; If you follow the instructions exactly as they are laid out, you should be able to root if that's the only thing that's stopping you. I thought maybe it was because I was using it but my battery life DID turn to crap after ICS.

I'm planning on rooting just to be able to freeze all the bloatware again.

**Aceroller** · 07-31-2012, 04:41 PM

Yep, much worse battery life since ICS. With moderate to heavy use I was going from 7AM to 5PM before hitting 5% on GB, now i can only get to around 2PM before hitting 5%. I am always near a charger, and also have an extra battery so not too big of a deal for me.

**skyrockett** · 08-01-2012, 10:00 AM

to me it's much better on GB by the time i got to work my battery would be down to 85% on ICS it's 95%

**qbnkelt** · 08-01-2012, 10:15 AM

My battery life has seriously deteriorated. With same usage as on GB, I can only go to around 1 or 2 pm.
I have to plug my phone to charge the instant I get to work, and have to keep it there so I have a full charge before getting on the Metro.
Very disappointing.

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**mtech5** · 08-02-2012, 09:07 PM

I had the same problem with my battery. I recently downloaded juice defender and it has helped a little bit.

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**mwu** · 08-03-2012, 11:40 AM

I have same problem. So I got another battery. I will try out juice defender...see what happens.

**wakers8569** · 08-04-2012, 11:52 PM

My battery life was decent til I synched last night via Kies and a ton of updates installed. It seems like every time Sammy updates my phone, it just causes problems!!! I fully charged my phone last night and by 3pm, I was down to 29% remaining without a single call, text, or any internet. Bluetooth and wifi both disabled. Makes no sense at all!!!

**Prelover115** · 08-06-2012, 07:37 PM

So I've been experimenting over the last few days with my battery. I've force closed the MAPservicesamsung, which seemed to help a little bit, the the real winner I found out the other day. I've been keeping my data and wifi off whenever I don't need it (I don't get may important emails and I don't have much need to stay in constant contact with the interwebz), and this has helped immensely. I can go all day with turning on data or wifi a few times and still have 50% left. I'm quite happy, but this does render juice defender useless because I'm basically doing its job for it. Hope this helps.

Cheers

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