Sprint galaxy s3 jelly bean battery drain

[GrooveRite]

I'm fairly certain that this will only address issues where Media is the number one process on the phone. And from what I've heard it absolutely works. The issue I'm having (and its possible others are as well) is that Maps is actually my highest useage (when I look at the battery info through the settings menu). However, if I look at my battery using GSam Battery Monitor I see that my highest app usage is actually the Kernel. When I look at the sub-processes included in the Kernel I see about 20 or so "Kworker" with various letters and number after. I've been unable to uncover what the cause of this is. What I will say is that disabling the Samsung sync made it part of the way better, but not back to my expectation.

Maps was my problem as well! I looked at everything, diabled the cache and stopped the process and it didn't clear up the problem. This is why I'm telling people that if you have problems after JB, you may have to reset the phone other than reformatting the SD card! I did both, resetted and reformatted and my phone is working beautifully!

 

[dbrides]

@Groove...did you reformat through phone or pc??

sent from my badazz sammy s3...

 

[Bcool]

Reset meaning a factory reset and all setting and programs wiped, not a restart? I'm thinking I would like to do this and reformat my SD card. Two questions, (1) How do you do a reset and (2) Does this reset leave Jelly Bean installed and just wipe to factory + Jelly bean?

 

[Skunkape60]

Reset meaning a factory reset and all setting and programs wiped, not a restart? I'm thinking I would like to do this and reformat my SD card. Two questions, (1) How do you do a reset and (2) Does this reset leave Jelly Bean installed and just wipe to factory + Jelly bean?

Factory reset will just remove all of the user installed apps and user data. You will have to sign in and setup your phone just like you did when you bought it. The only thing different is you won't need to activate it as that only gets done once.

 

[Bcool]

Ok so it leaves Jelly Bean on and reverts everything to default settings. How do you do it?

 

[GrooveRite]

@Groove...did you reformat through phone or pc??

sent from my badazz sammy s3...

I actually reformatted my 64gb card through my phone. I used my old 32gb SD card from my old Epic 4G to upgrade to JB since thats formatted in fat32. My Epic is rooted with CM9.

 

[ihbsbA]

Ok so it leaves Jelly Bean on and reverts everything to default settings. How do you do it?

Settings > back up and reset> factory reset

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[bdmridgback]

I did all this stuff on my S3 and Hard Reset afterwards and still a battery hog. The only thing that makes my battery last anywhere near what it did on ICS is turning OFF Google Now. Today I did nothing on my phone seens how I was out on a job out off office. I sent about a dozen texts and a few pics and that was all. No WiFi all day, just got home.

Here is where I am at...




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[GrooveRite]

I did all this stuff on my S3 and Hard Reset afterwards and still a battery hog. The only thing that makes my battery last anywhere near what it did on ICS is turning OFF Google Now. Today I did nothing on my phone seens how I was out on a job out off office. I sent about a dozen texts and a few pics and that was all. No WiFi all day, just got home.

Here is where I am at...




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What exactly did you do to try and remedy your problem? Can you tell us?

 

[GrooveRite]

Here is mine btw.....

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[Vladabeast]

what the hell. how is your battery life so good

 

[vapore0n]

his pic shows he is not running any data. No 3G, wifi, or 4G.

 

[Skunkape60]

For those having maps battery drain issues... Try this:
Open maps app
Goo to maps settings
Turn off auto reporting.

 

[zeraworld]

Tried what already??
Remove.
The.
SD.
Card.

Report back after.

:banghead:

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tried removing the sd card and i also formatted it and it didnt work. media still drains my battery

 

[zeraworld]

View attachment 44915 android system and the others are draining my battery. My phone was on airplane mode for most of the time and when I wasnt my battery woul. Drain 10 percent in 20 min

 

[IAmSixNine]

So comparatively speaking. Is this good or bad? To me it looks like the wake times are way off.. but ill let the experts chime in.
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[zeraworld]

So comparatively speaking. Is this good or bad? To me it looks like the wake times are way off.. but ill let the experts chime in.
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bad

 

[GrooveRite]

So comparatively speaking. Is this good or bad? To me it looks like the wake times are way off.. but ill let the experts chime in.
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bad

How so?? Can you see his attachment??

 

[barney_rebel]

I had this issue, and not having the SD card in at all solves my problem. The instant I install Google Music and play any MP3s, Media or Media Server because a huge pig. The files are stored on internal, and nothing on my SD card

I have a feeling it's a corrupt MP3 file.

 

[Ytsejamer1]

I ran into Media Server running nonstop, killing my battery life. I did a quick search and ran across something that mentioned Google Now is a pig. You can shut it off when not using it by going into Google Now>Settings>set slider to off. I installed it a couple days ago and my battery was getting sucked dry pretty quick in half a day. I will turn it on when I need to see traffic levels on my to/from work.