S III Battery life...

**jbthebullfrog** · 08-14-2012, 10:56 AM

I'm central time. So it's now 1057 @54% .

**The Hustleman** · 08-14-2012, 11:29 AM

This is with about an hour and 40 of heavy usage

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**meenas9** · 08-14-2012, 01:17 PM

Noticed the same battery issue initially. I took the advice of a previous post which suggested: after charging overnite, remove from charger, then when battery shows approx 88-94% plug it in again until fully charged. This has helped immensely! I can actually get thru the day without the "low" warning.

I also noticed the battery is getting better with each charging cycle.

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**naviwilliams** · 08-15-2012, 10:15 PM

...for the past two days, something has been killing my battery, quick. I think it might be the weather widget. I just put it back on my main screen a few days ago. Albeit, the update was set to three hours!

Anyway, I've removed it, and gone back to just a clock widget.

Also, I installed Google Reader and Google Voice this week. I think I'll uninstall those; not like I use them anyway, and we'll see how the battery behaves.

**naviwilliams** · 08-16-2012, 10:10 AM

...something is seriously wrong with the battery life on Samsung device(s). It has been this way for a few days now, and various users, and various Samsung devices(s). I bet an update to an app is causing this.

Today I woke up to a dead device, after going to bed with it at 78%, and NOTHING was running in the background.

I just did a factory reset, and now I'm at 100% (11:05 EST). Let's see where it is when I leave the office around 16:00 today.

Anyone else?

**FunkMasterJoe** · 08-16-2012, 10:43 AM

Mines been pretty good so far. I've had it last upwards of nearly 30 hours before. Screen time on this one was a little over 5 hours.

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**DallasFlier** · 08-16-2012, 11:48 AM

My battery life is just awful. Down to 18% this morning in about 4 hours from fully charged! What would be making my "Android System" drain so high??

Also, no way to upload a picture directly here, must put it somewhere on the web first?

**Reice23** · 08-16-2012, 08:16 PM

Sorry but ima Android noob come from Apple...I'm scared to remove or stop thing from my applications because I don't wanna remove something important...how do I disable thing running in the background and what stock apps do I need to keep running

**The Hustleman** · 08-16-2012, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by FunkMasterJoe

Mines been pretty good so far. I've had it last upwards of nearly 30 hours before. Screen time on this one was a little over 5 hours.

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5 hours?

I've never had more than 4 hours screen time out of this phone.

Screen time is the reason I say if you really use this phone it won't last all day

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**taylorz_412** · 08-17-2012, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by DallasFlier

My battery life is just awful. Down to 18% this morning in about 4 hours from fully charged! What would be making my "Android System" drain so high??

Also, no way to upload a picture directly here, must put it somewhere on the web first?

Are you running a custom ROM?

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**jontalk** · 08-18-2012, 11:27 AM

I'm running Juice Defender, the weather widget is set to refresh every 3 hours and right now, the charge has lasted over 19 hours with 51% charge remaining. Granted I'm not a heavy user and also am on WiFi while at home. I also work from home and there aren't many LTE towers yet in the SF North bay, though tons of HSPA+.

I suggest anyone having battery issues makes sure they do the battery calibration described here: I did this when I first got the phone and one charge before using the phone a bunch I ran well over 36 hours before needing to charge again. Juice Defender seems to work great too, along with power saving mode in settings.

**jjb70** · 08-18-2012, 01:53 PM

I've noticed that if I have bluetooth and wifi on all the time I get the same battery life as with them off. I'm at about 40% by the end of the day with moderate to heavier use. Brightness at 50%. I'm happy with that. No third party apps.

**LadiJae** · 08-21-2012, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by naviwilliams

...for the past two days, something has been killing my battery, quick. I think it might be the weather widget. I just put it back on my main screen a few days ago. Albeit, the update was set to three hours!

Anyway, I've removed it, and gone back to just a clock widget.

Also, I installed Google Reader and Google Voice this week. I think I'll uninstall those; not like I use them anyway, and we'll see how the battery behaves.

Something is killing my extended battery.how funny does that sound !!!!!!!!!
It's not that battery because I switched with my husband and its sit the same, and his phone is still at 80% from this morning.Mines is at 48% it's only been like 6 hours

Just started happening last week all of a sudden.

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**pcguys** · 08-21-2012, 02:39 PM

Gsam battery monitor should show what's eating it

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**LadiJae** · 08-21-2012, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by pcguys

Gsam battery monitor should show what's eating it

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I've had that installed for weeks now

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**LadiJae** · 08-21-2012, 02:47 PM

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**LadiJae** · 08-21-2012, 02:53 PM

I've had friendcaster since the beginning, I'm not sure if that's REALLY the culprit or not. It has had quite a few update the last two weeks though....

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**naviwilliams** · 08-22-2012, 07:16 AM

The battery life is so much better when I'm not using Social Media.

**LadiJae** · 08-22-2012, 07:31 AM

Wonder if I should use Facebook on the internet on my phone instead of the apps.

I have some support groups that I MUST tend to throughout the day on there.

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**LadiJae** · 08-22-2012, 08:46 AM

I uninstalled friendcaster and restarted and I can already tell a difference my battery isn't draining as fast

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**naviwilliams** · 08-22-2012, 11:18 AM

I do find it weird how some applications simply 'chew' the battery really quickly!

Originally Posted by LadiJae

I uninstalled friendcaster and restarted and I can already tell a difference my battery isn't draining as fast

~Jae, Tap'n on my White Samsung Galaxy S3~

**LadiJae** · 08-22-2012, 11:21 AM

Yes and it pisses me off

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**soli2005** · 08-23-2012, 05:17 PM

I was fully charged this morning and my phone is already at 49% by lunch time! I'm not entirely sure what it is and all I've opened was email. I do constantly get emails and I've never had this issue before.

**spacecasespiff** · 08-23-2012, 06:57 PM

I noticed that everyone who is having battery issues there android system is very high. My wife's is up to 65% and she has bad battery life. Mine is at 10% and my battery life is very good. What would course that.

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