Galaxy S3 Battery life

**truenoob** · 01-22-2013, 12:31 AM

I had poor battery life after the JB update. So I cleared my device cache and reset my phone. I didn't want to set up all my stuff again but took a chance since this worked for me before. And it worked again. Now i have really good battery life and can get through a day 12-14 hrs on medium use. I have everything but BT on all the time and screen brightness on Auto.

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**zwj1234** · 01-22-2013, 03:47 AM

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**ybcthanerd** · 01-22-2013, 03:09 PM

I don't kno where these battery issues come from

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**meyerweb** · 01-22-2013, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Spreeuwtje1986

Hi,
After 24 hours my phone is 78%

Wait, you're saying you've still got 78% of your battery left after 24 hours? You've got nothing to worry about. Be happy. Understand these phones are never really asleep. You can worry about trying to make your battery last for days, or you can actually USE the phone for what it's designed for and charge it up once in a while. If all you want is something to send and receive SMS's on, you can buy a dumb phone and have the battery last for a week. And save a whole lot of money on the phone and a data plan.

I've never understood what the big deal is with plugging your phone in every night to recharge the battery. Or even for an hour or two during the day if needed.

As nolittledroid suggests, using wifi is more efficient than using 3G/4G, as long as you have a fairly strong wifi signal.

**B_Smitty** · 01-25-2013, 01:06 PM

I can only tell you what I have done that has helped. I turned off "automatic" for screen brightness and have it set the lowest light I can comfortably deal with. My area only has 3G, so I have it set to not look for 4G. My previous phone used a lot of battery looking for wifi (which I never use because I rarely have access and do have unlimited data), but I'm not so sure about the SG3...I have tried it both ways and don't see much difference. One thing that I did discover was sucking a lot of juice was the annoying Google+ app. After disabling it (I would uninstall if I could) that helped quite a bit. I try to keep wallpaper for home and lock screens dark and do not use live wallpaper. I was told Juice Defender would help, but it seemed to use more than it saved so I don't use it. I typically charge it every night, and go to bed at over 40%. That usually means 1 or 2 calls, checking a social site or 2, maybe poking around Google Play or checking email, and then anywhere from 50 to 200 texts in a day. Is that light use? I'm not sure, but I usually start the evening at around 85%, so compared to previous phones, I am pretty happy so far. I think for the most part, it depends on what you expect, and what your previous experience is.