Rooted phone battery plummet

[kucerakov]

I just rooted my galaxy s3 yesterday and I am noticing now that the battery seems to plummet in charge. The only thing I have done is install titanium backup and freeze quite a few of the bloatware apps. I have changed absolutely nothing else. In the 40 minutes since I have been up it has goen from 100% to 95% and I have only actually activelt been using it for about 5 of those minutes, and that was just reading a page or 2 of a book. Anyone know of a common issue? Is there a ROM I can install that has none of the bloatware and maybe addresses this battery issue but is not super different from the stock mod? Help! Thanks!

P.S. When I go into battery, it shows "Screen 41%, Android OS 17%, and Android System 12%" with a bunch of others at no more than 2 or 3 each.

 

[seanskiT1]

I just rooted my galaxy s3 yesterday and I am noticing now that the battery seems to plummet in charge. The only thing I have done is install titanium backup and freeze quite a few of the bloatware apps. I have changed absolutely nothing else. In the 40 minutes since I have been up it has goen from 100% to 95% and I have only actually activelt been using it for about 5 of those minutes, and that was just reading a page or 2 of a book. Anyone know of a common issue? Is there a ROM I can install that has none of the bloatware and maybe addresses this battery issue but is not super different from the stock mod? Help! Thanks!

P.S. When I go into battery, it shows "Screen 41%, Android OS 17%, and Android System 12%" with a bunch of others at no more than 2 or 3 each.

Which ROM did you flash? Give it a couple of days to settle in on your phone. There are tons of ROMS out for these phones, some look completely stock, some don't and are full of mods and themed apps. Most have the bloatware left on, theory is if you don't want it you should now how to get rid of it. That being said, gotta be careful some of it is needed.


Sent from my GS3 sporting Wicked Sensations...

 

[kucerakov]

I did just the CWM and flashed the CWM-SuperSU-v0.87 to get root. Have not done a full-on rom yet, I plan to just leave it stock-ish and then use Ti to remove a ton of bloatware, like the stuff in the list of safe stuff to remove in this forum. I am at 91% charge now after having had the phone on for just shy of 2.5 hours, almost all of which has been idle. I rebooted earlier when it seemed fast. It IS possible that I am being a hypochondriac if you will, does that rate of drain seem normal? I have like I said frozen several apps but it is still mostly stock. At this rate I will have a charge for... wow about 25 hours. I believe the verdict here is that I am trippin'. Yes?

 

[seanskiT1]

I did just the CWM and flashed the CWM-SuperSU-v0.87 to get root. Have not done a full-on rom yet, I plan to just leave it stock-ish and then use Ti to remove a ton of bloatware, like the stuff in the list of safe stuff to remove in this forum. I am at 91% charge now after having had the phone on for just shy of 2.5 hours, almost all of which has been idle. I rebooted earlier when it seemed fast. It IS possible that I am being a hypochondriac if you will, does that rate of drain seem normal? I have like I said frozen several apps but it is still mostly stock. At this rate I will have a charge for... wow about 25 hours. I believe the verdict here is that I am trippin'. Yes?

Yeah, I think your good. I've dropped 7% so far this morning and I have been on AC reading and posting quite a bit.

Sent from my GS3 sporting Wicked Sensations...

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Rooting, in and of itself, won't affect battery life at all. Rooting changes nothing on your phone, it only gives you access to files and folders that are normally locked. It's possible that something you froze is a process that another app or process is trying to execute.

Realistically though, based on the battery stats you provided, I don't see anything that stands out. 40 minutes isn't a long enough period of time to really tell anything, and the screen is your biggest battery user. That means nothing else is using very much battery. Also, 100% doesn't always mean 100%. See this: Your battery gauge is lying to you (and it's not such a bad thing) - xda-developers .

This is why many new phones will "lose" up to 10% within a few minutes of coming off the charger. The reality is that the battery was only at 100% capacity for a brief moment, after which the battery management system allowed it to slowly dip down to around 90%. Leaving the phone plugged in overnight does not make a difference: the phone only uses the wall current to maintain a partial charge state.

So even though your battery gauge said 100%, it might have been only at 96% when it came off charge.

Wait until it's down to 50% or less of full charge, and see what the stats look like.

edit: Oh, you asked about ROMs. IMHO, (or not so humble ) the best ROMs for the Galaxy S3 are those based on Touchwiz, and the best of those are Wicked Sensations and M.O.A.R. I'm currently running M.O.A.R. Most of the bloatware is gone; some of it can be added back if you want. Both WS and MOAR offer tremendous customization options, too.

MOAR: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ting-roms-hacks/253237-anybody-try-m-o-r.html
Wicked: http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...wicked-sensation-jellybean-v-3-0-mb1-rom.html

If you're looking for a more vanilla Android experience, I haven't tried any of them, but these threads might help:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ere-no-aokp-rom-sprint-samsung-galaxy-s3.html
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ks/254128-there-any-aosp-roms-sprint-gs3.html

The most important rule of all when flashing ROMs is this: ALWAYS, without fail, be 100% positive the ROM you're flashing is intended for the Sprint SPH-L710 Galaxy SIII. Many ROM developers aren't very good at identifying what devices their ROM is for. Flashing a ROM for a GSM phone (international i9300, AT&T, T-Mobile will hard brick your phone.

Regardless of what ROM you decide to try, my advice is to read the threads here on A|C and, especially for MOAR (which doesn't get a lot of coverage here), on xda. Make sure you understand what you're doing. If you're not sure, ask questions. (Ask here first. XDA isn't the most friendly place to noobs.) ALWAYS make a nandroid backup of your current, working configuration before flashing a new ROM or customizing one.That way if something goes wrong you have an easy way to get back to where you were.

Spend a bunch of time reading the threads in the rooting forum here (you are on Sprint, right?): Sprint Galaxy S3 Rooting, ROMs, and Hacks - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

Understand that these ROM developers, while very, very talented, don't have the resources to do the kind of testing that Samsung and Sprint do. We are their testers. WS and MOAR have been around long enough they're very stable, but a new version likely will introduce some bugs.

 

[seanskiT1]

Thanks meyer, I hadn't seen that yet.

Sent from my GS3 sporting Wicked Sensations...

 

[Golfdriver97]

I just rooted my galaxy s3 yesterday and I am noticing now that the battery seems to plummet in charge. The only thing I have done is install titanium backup and freeze quite a few of the bloatware apps. I have changed absolutely nothing else. In the 40 minutes since I have been up it has goen from 100% to 95% and I have only actually activelt been using it for about 5 of those minutes, and that was just reading a page or 2 of a book. Anyone know of a common issue? Is there a ROM I can install that has none of the bloatware and maybe addresses this battery issue but is not super different from the stock mod? Help! Thanks!

P.S. When I go into battery, it shows "Screen 41%, Android OS 17%, and Android System 12%" with a bunch of others at no more than 2 or 3 each.

Another thing to consider is some app don't always close when you completely back out of them. Stupid, I know, but still true. Check your task manager for active applications and see if anything is constantly running. For me, sometimes my clock app, Chrome, and YouTube don't always shut down after exiting.

 

[kucerakov]

Another thing to consider is some app don't always close when you completely back out of them. Stupid, I know, but still true. Check your task manager for active applications and see if anything is constantly running. For me, sometimes my clock app, Chrome, and YouTube don't always shut down after exiting.

Yeah I have an app called advanced task manager and I use it to kill everything and free up ram, but I find several things just immediately start up again and are there to be killed when I open ATM immediately thereafter.

I thank you all for your very very generous help and the ROM suggestions.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Yeah I have an app called advanced task manager and I use it to kill everything and free up ram, but I find several things just immediately start up again and are there to be killed when I open ATM immediately thereafter.

I thank you all for your very very generous help and the ROM suggestions.

Certain things will always be running, and that's fine. Those are typically system apps. The reports from the ATM app are only showing a small portion of the app running. Hold the Home button and it will bring up your recent apps list with a bar at the bottom. If you hit the pie chart on the left, that is your built in task manager. the will bring up active applications (Apps still running in the background) available RAM, Storage summaries, etc. The active apps section is what I am talking about. That will show anything that is still running. So, if everything is properly shut down, you should have 0 apps running. Any app that is running either was left on, (hitting home and not returning to the app) or it didn't shut down properly. I would try to get in the habit of checking that every few hours.

 

[Golfdriver97]

Yeah I have an app called advanced task manager and I use it to kill everything and free up ram, but I find several things just immediately start up again and are there to be killed when I open ATM immediately thereafter.

I thank you all for your very very generous help and the ROM suggestions.

I am also running MOAR and I LOVE IT!!!!!!

 

[seanskiT1]

I am runninng Wicked Sensations and love it. Updated the firmware and kernal to the MD4 stuff last night and no issues. Also of you want to try WS, 3.1 is the most current version.

Sent from my GS3 sporting Wicked Sensations...

 

[meyerweb#CB]

Yeah I have an app called advanced task manager and I use it to kill everything and free up ram, but I find several things just immediately start up again and are there to be killed when I open ATM immediately thereafter.

I thank you all for your very very generous help and the ROM suggestions.

Task managers really are not necessary with modern versions of Android, and often make things worse. Android is designed to keep recently used apps in RAM, in an inactive state, on the assumption that an app you used recently you're likely to use again soon. That's why things start up again. If you kill an app, and then go to use it again, Android will be forced to copy the executable code from ROM to RAM, and restart the app. That uses a lot more battery than just letting it sit in RAM in a quiescent state. A lot of the force closes and other issues people report on these forums end up being cause by task killers that are too aggressive and kill needed system processor.

And empty RAM is wasted RAM. Your system won't run any faster with a bunch of empty RAM. If you start a new app that needs that memory, Android will release it and let the new app use it. The phone doesn't use less battery with empty RAM. Every byte of that 2 GB of RAM is constantly refreshed whether its being "used" or whether its "empty." In truth, it's never empty. When you kill an app, all that Android does is set an indicator that a particular block of RAM is available. It doesn't delete what's there.

I urge you to kill your task killer, and just let the phone do what it was designed to do. I'd be very surprised if it's really saving you any battery at all. Since you see the apps restarting, it's probably using more.

Task Managers: Just say "no."

 

[Lynette Carothers]

Did you mean Advanced Task Killer? Great app - use it frequently to zap the apps still running. And for those of you that may ask, NO it does not remove them from phone - just shuts them down till you open the app again. As with any app be careful when you hit the top line to kill the apps - double check which ones are checked - those are the ones you will shut down, Task Killer will sometimes have an app you are using checked and you have to uncheck before you kill all open apps.

 

[meyerweb#CB]

See the post immediately above your, Lynette. Try using your phone without the task killer for a few days. I'm willing to bet you find the app does nothing to improve your battery life.

 

[rs7jr]

Did you mean Advanced Task Killer? Great app - use it frequently to zap the apps still running. And for those of you that may ask, NO it does not remove them from phone - just shuts them down till you open the app again. As with any app be careful when you hit the top line to kill the apps - double check which ones are checked - those are the ones you will shut down, Task Killer will sometimes have an app you are using checked and you have to uncheck before you kill all open apps.

See this...

http://www.howtogeek.com/127388/htg-explains-why-you-shouldnt-use-a-task-killer-on-android/

See the post immediately above your, Lynette. Try using your phone without the task killer for a few days. I'm willing to bet you find the app does nothing to improve your battery life.

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