Anyone with disappointing battery life...

[PeteJE]

... do you also have handcent ? Get rid of it, watch your battery come to life.

 

[kath00]

Not here. This is by far the best battery life phone I have had.

I am going on day 2 with 50% charge right now with moderate use including phone calls, games, reading the Kindle on the phone and email checks, etc. No longer plugging in nightly, which is super nice!

Katherine

 

[PFD664]

View attachment 31248No complaints with mine, with moderate use it shows this.

 

[Joe the Insider]

Amazing battery and I came from a maxx. I easily get 14-16 hours.

 

[taylorz_412]

Amazing battery and I came from a maxx. I easily get 14-16 hours.

Same here I get at least 14 hours with over 3 hrs of screen on time

Galaxy SIII via android central forums

 

[PeteJE]

Mine is great now. I was unenthused at first, but I looked at the stats and handcent listed as 40% of batt use on a day I only had and sent one text. I deleted and switched text programs - made a huge improvement in batt that is now incredible.

I read about past handcent wakelock errors in the way it notifys...... I definitely was having some issue with it that is now fixed.

 

[Papadakis]

I can get loss of about 1% per hour with very light use on a 3-bar 4g connection at work, but i have absolutely horrible service by my house(1 bar of 3g if i'm lucky) so if i'm not on wifi at home my battery can drop like it's its job

 

[TXZach]

I came from a brick (thunderbolt) with an extended battery. S3 battery is pretty disappointing and I am looking in to a 2nd battery and backup charger. I went to the gym this morning at 7, streamed sirius while at the gym, and was under 70% by 9a. Yesterday, I was out all day with minimal usage and battery was toast by about 4p.

 

[mikesmith]

If you don't use CPU intensive apps or games then go to Power Saving and check CPU Power Saving.

HUGE improvement in battery life for me. I was down to about 20%+ after 8 hours at work with mostly using tweetcaster, AC forum app, texting, and light Internet use. I had to charge the phone around noon to get me through the rest of the day.

Today, I'm at 50%. Screen on time of 2hr 35mins.

And there is NO lag, slowing down, or any other visible issue from turning the power Saving on.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using Android Central Forums

 

[didiwags]

I have great battery life AND have hand cent!