Battery life

[amazin1988]

I had 100% of battery life for one hour and 45 minutes god I love my phone

iTz Young Amazed

 

[naes]

sigh... after an hour and 45 minutes my iphone would drop by 20+% in battery life.. =\ i need this phone already! lol

 

[smooches680]

I had 100% of battery life for one hour and 45 minutes god I love my phone

iTz Young Amazed

Well I have the Samsung galaxy S3 phone and start an hour and a half I am down like 75%.

Sent from my White, Sexy S3.

 

[amazin1988]

U must be a heavy user

iTz Young Amazed

 

[amazin1988]

Or u haven't turned off the simple stuff like sync disable vibration and u can also disable apps that u don't use to there a link somewhere if I find ill try my best to post for u

iTz Young Amazed

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

Well I have the Samsung galaxy S3 phone and start an hour and a half I am down like 75%.

Sent from my White, Sexy S3.

Are you using it during this time? Some people are having massive drain with no use due to bad network signal. extra apps shouldn't matter unless youre actively using them or they are set to auto update frequently. Many free apps are set to do that by default so check setting menus. Anything with notifications also can be a drain.

 

[ducatti20]

All I did was turn off s voice and the motion stuff as they both annoy me... worst life so far is 18 hours, which was heavy use... I can go almost 30 hours without much effort...

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[barakis]

Also, make sure your radio is using cdma only unless your on a upgraded town.

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[trunkmonkey1972]

I did my first test since LG8 update. After a fully saturated charge to 100% I left the phone alone for exactly 4 hours and it dropped to 99 %. This was with the following settings turned ON:
WiFi, screen rotation, mobile data, powersave, sync
Network signal 2 bars

Ironically, earlier I had noticed what seemed like heavier than normal drain and after running OS Monitor realized Android Central app was constantly chugging at around 2-5% CPU regardless of settings. The only way I could stop it was to kill the process. Uninstalled.

 

[slave]

I have only CMDA, power saving on, etc... Before upgrade, I got 30 hours, after the LG8 update, I get about 10.

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

Is cdma only better than cdma auto (PRL)? No LTE here yet.

 

[ducatti20]

All I did was turn off s voice and the motion stuff as they both annoy me... worst life so far is 18 hours, which was heavy use... I can go almost 30 hours without much effort...

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So my wife now has a white gs3 and I turned off the motion stuff and s voice and her battery life is mirroring my own... she makes no effort to save battery at all... love this phone.

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[Skunkape60]

Is cdma only better than cdma auto (PRL)? No LTE here yet.

I would say if you don't have lte the cdma only would be better.

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Just Flash It !!!

 

[McPlot]

The battery life sucked until I applied the LG8 update.

Sent from my Galaxy S3

 

[jaleesag88]

Before the LG8 update, I could unplug my phone beween 7-8am and it would last me until 12am without a problem. I would normally drain at about 3-4% an hour with moderate-heavy usage. Now in a half an hour I've lost 8% by checking Facebook and answering 2 text messages. I was only on Facebook for maybe 5 minutes?? I want my awesome battery life back!! Does anyone have any suggestions? I have everything disabled that I can...I only turn on WiFi when I'm using it other than that it stays off along with Mobile Data, Sync, blah blah blah. I also deleted a bunch of apps that I thought might be running in the background and still no luck. I though about just doing a factory reset and installing 1 app at a time to see if I could find anything else that could be contributing to my now awful battery life.

 

[furnace]

So...McPlot had great battery life AFTER LG8, and jaleesag88 had terrible battery life AFTER LG8?

This doesn't make sense...

 

[trunkmonkey1972]

So...McPlot had great battery life AFTER LG8, and jaleesag88 had terrible battery life AFTER LG8?

This doesn't make sense...

This brings up a good point. I think the update addressed some issues, but most battery drain is probably still dependent mostly on the many factors and conditions unique to each user's scenario. And these can change daily. Location, network, weather, CPU load, settings, etc. The list is long. This is why comparing battery life with others is more maddening than useful. Unless they are following you for the day and replicating every move and every use of the phone, it's a case of apples and oranges. A home pc has wild swings in power consumption but no one notices because it's plugged in. Adding radio signal strength x 5 radios makes power use extremely variable for a handset which is often on the move. I'm not dismissing anyone's frustration, just trying to give perspective on all the variability folks are encountering.

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[oskar1995]

Trunkmonkey,

Very valid point regarding battery life. I certainly agree that everyone will have different experiences based on their useage profile. I also agree that we shouldn't have to turn off every little thing in the phone to eek out a legit days use. I found on my Epic 4G Touch and now my S3 that I can make it through a day with what I deem to be normal use. Obviously with the S3, I see more battery at the end of the day, but both were acceptable.

I think the biggest culprit for a lot of people is their phone radio. I dont think a couple of apps or widgets are going to make this massive dent. Outside of radio I'd imagine screen on time is going to be the second biggest component. I leave bluetooth, wifi and GPS on all day and their total impact on my phone is nothing. GSam battery monitor tells me I'm averaging about 1day and 8 hours on a charge (although this is only a few day sample).

 

[jaleesag88]

Yesterday, after my phone decided to die, I let it charge to 100% cleared the cache and power cycled it. It's now at 15hrs and it is at 57%. I left it unplugged last night since it was fully charged before I went to bed and I decided to play around on it. But so far, a huge improvement since my little rant yesterday!

On another note, has anyone figured out how to sync your Facebook photos to the gallery on the s3? I keep getting a "sync is experiencing issues...blah blah blah" every time I try to do it.