Sprint galaxy s3 jelly bean battery drain

[Tomas Harrington]

Hi everyone, My S3 seems to be using a lot of its battery while idle. It goes from 100% when I go to bed down to 60ish%. It never used to go this quickly, can anybody help?
It says that cell standby is using the most battery but when I tried flight mode it was similar battery drain. I'm running 4.1.2 on in Ireland

 

[coachpelkey]

quick question, how do you disable alot of those apps mentioned? I can for some of them, but the google books, movies, google plus etc...oye, its a pain.

 

[anon(94115)]

Most of them you need to root to get rid of

Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.

 

[Tomas Harrington]

Apologies, I didn't mean to post that four times!

 

[anon(94115)]

Something is waking your phone then if airplane mode didn't help

Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.

 

[Skunkape60]

quick question, how do you disable alot of those apps mentioned? I can for some of them, but the google books, movies, google plus etc...oye, its a pain.

Titanium backup pro.

 

[Tomas Harrington]

Yea, under battery it shows it's being kept awake. Any idea what it could be?

 

[anon(94115)]

More than likely an app you installed since the stock ones aren't supposed to keep it up like that

Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.

 

[Tomas Harrington]

I think I've cracked it! I disabled some Samsung applications, uninstalled App Lock and removed my Hotmail account. I haven't charged to 100% and left overnight yet but during the day battery drain was significantly less. Thanks for your help!

 

[anon(94115)]

Sounds like maybe Hotmail was polling too often and killing things but that is jut a guess

Sent from the nexus of the Android world, the SGS3.

 

[zeraworld]

is there any other way to stop media from draining my battery. one of the ways was to remove the sd card, but i need it and dont want to. ill post up a screenshot of the problem.

 

[Sergiu Ioan Cojocaru]

Usually my S3 battery drain in 2-3 days. But, I disabled Gmail aplication, and I deleted my accounts in Email application. Now I have 45% battery remaining, charged 4 days and 6 hours ago. I think that is the probblem. If you want to use your email adress try to use just one program, and fewer email adresses will lead to fewer power consumption. Depends on email application you can customize how offen the application will try (in background) to syncronize the email.

And if this worked for you please help the others and post this on other sites!
Good luck!

 

[zeraworld]

This is media draining my battery.

 

[Ryan_Clark]

Do u have power save on!? Helps alot! I've gotten 21 hrs using moderately!

Galaxy S3........

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Try unmounting and removing the SD card, and then reinserting it. I seem to recall reading somewhere that might resolve this issue.

 

[zeraworld]

Do u have power save on!? Helps alot! I've gotten 21 hrs using moderately!

Galaxy S3........

Yes im on power saving mode

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And this only started happening after a jellybean update

 

[xesulius]

Hi,
I had battery drain issue with "Media" application. It was trying to download a pdf or something. I cancelled all downloads and my problem solved.

 

[BatteryLife100]

Based on usage your battery will drain much faster. The rate of drain you report though is obviously much higher than it should be. Try removing the micro SD card as that has been known to be a possible read issue that leads to battery drain with the newest Jelly bean update.

 

[ttwiitch]

Before 4.1.2 I would unplug my phone from the charger at 100% and I could go 10-15 minutes and more with the phone idle and it would still be at 100%....

Now, with the same scenario, the phone goes down to 98-99% within 5 minutes of just 'on' idle time.....

Pisses me off!

Sent from my Galaxy S3?

 

[meyerweb#CB]

How quickly the battery drops when you first take it off the charger depends more on where the phone is in the battery maintenance cycle than anything else. See http://phandroid.com/2010/12/25/you...is-lying-to-you-and-its-not-such-a-bad-thing/

The first 10 - 15 minutes just isn't a meaningful gauge of battery usage. If it drops to 50 or 60% noticeably faster, that's something that might be an issue, and might be curable, but the first 2 percentage points are pretty meaningless. Some mornings I pull my phone off the charger and am still at 97-98% when I get to work 45 minutes later. Other days I drop that much by the time I get out of my driveway.