HELP! Awful battery life...

[jay_g]

I was doing good, off charger all day. Today for some reason it just went down hill, 9hours and im at 15%. I'm not a heavy user, couple calls during the day and checking email.

 

[npompei]

I was having the same issues alot of you are having and looked everywhere for a solution and i think i found it. I turned off the option in S Voice for the "Wake Up Command" which keeps the phone listening for your voice command. After turning it off i noticed that cell standby moved from first on the battery report to second behind screen which had much lower time than cell staandby. Hopefully this helps and brings the awesome battery life some of your are getting.

I just turned this off as well so let's hope it helps. I was getting good life but the last 2 days have been really bad. I think I can remember turning that on hoping it would actually do something but it never did. And now let's hope this works!

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[npompei]

I am following up immediately. After I posted right above, I took my phone off the charger. So its been say 3 hours - I went to a restaurant, basically sent an email and text, on vibrate and lost 30%!!! Something is def not right. Service was still 4G the whole time.

As I said said right above, I even disabled the same voice wake thing and that obviously didn't help. I pulled it off the charger at either 99 or 100% and have lost 10% an hour. No wifi, gps, etc. I swiped out every app in the task menu as well. System is at 64%,standby and screen top 3. But 64% for system?! It hasn't done anything for 3hrs?!

Bad battery or phone? Or am I really missing something?!



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[jay_g]

Battery is back to greatness for me. Before I was 10% a hour, now I'm back to 2-3% an hour. I did turn off S voice wake up option so maybe that was it.

 

[liteon163]

I've been getting great battery life out of my GS3, lasting over 24 hours on my normal usage.

I use Widgetsoid and did some tweaking to a 4x1 widget I have running on my homescreen. On my last phone (an LG Spectrum) I needed to have a screen orientation switch, but on the GS3 I don't. So I switched that portion of the widget to a battery temperature readout.

This morning I came off the charger at 100%. An hour and a half later I was down to 85%. I don't need to know my battery tempt that badly. I switched that portion of the widget to a flashlight toggle instead. I should be back to me regular battery usage pattern.

 

[robh2]

I posted a few posts up and the battery pull helped but the next day, same problem. I can go 2 days on mine. My wife is now on her 3rd S3 and its actually working much better. She can now get a day out of it so far. We will see. It also is not locking up and having the other errors the other 2 phones had.

 

[jenks5150]

I'm on Verizon, and I have the cell standby issue. At work today I had a full battery when I hit the office at 8, by noon I was down to 40% battery with screen only having been on 20 minutes. Biggest contributed to the battery was cell standby.

I know the international version had that issue with the calculation it used (34 vs 3.4), but if that is true, shouldn't everyone be having the same issue with cell standby? I love this phone, but the more I use it, the worse it gets. At dinner I had 55% battery after a quick charge-up on the way home, and by the end of dinner I was down to 30% after checking the weather twice.

Not sure if a factory reset will help (gosh, i don't want to do that), or if I just need to wait for a firmware update.....

This sounds strikingly similar to my experience with the GS3 thus far. Phone does a lot of cool stuff, but it doesn't matter because it's always dead, and you disable all the cool features to save battery. Makes me want to fire up my BlackBerry again because I could get through a business day at least.

I've got it set to auto brightness toned down quite a bit, no s voice, no carrier bloatware, I even disable GPS and WiFi when not in use, and always use WiFi when available....

Feel like I'm going out of my way to be conservative on battery but this thing just pisses it away. Cell standby and screen are usually about the same in terms of battery drain.

Any insight would be appreciated