When I first got this phone it charged very quickly and the battery lasted for very long periods of time. I was impressed with the overall performance and assumed I had a great device that I would be able to use and enjoy for a very long time to come.
After 3 weeks of letting the battery run to around 10% to 20% and charging all the way to 100% everything was going great.
One night however, I let the phone drain completely dead and I placed it on the charger before going to sleep. I slept for around 5 hours and
when I woke up the phone was fully charged but also VERY VERY hot.
I immediately began having severe battery drains and assumed the battery was damaged from overcharging. I researched this a lot and many
people said that leaving the phone on the charger after it is 100% is not damaging to the battery, but when your battery goes from lasting 12 + hours to
maybe 2 hours you tend to think it's probably trashed.
After a couple days of being insanely frustrated, I purchased 2 new samsung batteries and expected my Galaxy S3 to go back to normal. The battery life improved slightly, but still drains completely dead within 2 to 3 hours... this happens even with the phone sitting and doing nothing. I applied the power profile xml fix... nothing... I flashed Liquid Rom (a lightweight rom that is reported by many to save a huge amount of power) I've calibrated the battery also... (i have root and I have tried everything)... the phone runs hotter than it did before even under normal use. It only got warm before when I would play heavy 3d games or watch long videos.
After a week of research and trying many different things to fix the severe drain, I have come to the conclusion that it has to be a hardware malfunction. I've tried different roms, kernels, tweaking options, wifi is not on during sleep... screen brightness is at its LOWEST setting.. and now with Liquid, I am running the least resource intensive rom out of every one I've tried. I've read other people complaining about similar issues... Anyone know anything new about these issus or something thatI don't know please share it with me.
My theory is that the phone is no longer capable of holding power because the severe overheating has caused it to lose its resistive capabilities to contain and use the battery power as it should. In just the last 30 minutes, my phone has went from 77% to 34% while just sitting idle.. and the SCREEN is reporting responsible... This is with the Liquid jellybean rom... also does it with tmobile's official ICS roms.
If all else fails, I'll stock the phone back to normal and try to return it for an exchange I guess.... *facepalm*
After 3 weeks of letting the battery run to around 10% to 20% and charging all the way to 100% everything was going great.
One night however, I let the phone drain completely dead and I placed it on the charger before going to sleep. I slept for around 5 hours and
when I woke up the phone was fully charged but also VERY VERY hot.
I immediately began having severe battery drains and assumed the battery was damaged from overcharging. I researched this a lot and many
people said that leaving the phone on the charger after it is 100% is not damaging to the battery, but when your battery goes from lasting 12 + hours to
maybe 2 hours you tend to think it's probably trashed.
After a couple days of being insanely frustrated, I purchased 2 new samsung batteries and expected my Galaxy S3 to go back to normal. The battery life improved slightly, but still drains completely dead within 2 to 3 hours... this happens even with the phone sitting and doing nothing. I applied the power profile xml fix... nothing... I flashed Liquid Rom (a lightweight rom that is reported by many to save a huge amount of power) I've calibrated the battery also... (i have root and I have tried everything)... the phone runs hotter than it did before even under normal use. It only got warm before when I would play heavy 3d games or watch long videos.
After a week of research and trying many different things to fix the severe drain, I have come to the conclusion that it has to be a hardware malfunction. I've tried different roms, kernels, tweaking options, wifi is not on during sleep... screen brightness is at its LOWEST setting.. and now with Liquid, I am running the least resource intensive rom out of every one I've tried. I've read other people complaining about similar issues... Anyone know anything new about these issus or something thatI don't know please share it with me.
My theory is that the phone is no longer capable of holding power because the severe overheating has caused it to lose its resistive capabilities to contain and use the battery power as it should. In just the last 30 minutes, my phone has went from 77% to 34% while just sitting idle.. and the SCREEN is reporting responsible... This is with the Liquid jellybean rom... also does it with tmobile's official ICS roms.
If all else fails, I'll stock the phone back to normal and try to return it for an exchange I guess.... *facepalm*
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