S III Battery life...

[jmaddox31]

Anddrewh, how'd you do that?
This is what I've got after 14hrs....


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[junglejunkie]

Need to see screen on time.

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[anon(153966)]

...to be honest, no matter the smartphone we have, we'll always have a fear that the battery will die on us when needed most. NO device is immune to that

 

[CarlGalgano]

Thus far, after 5 days, compared to my Samsung Captivate Glide, the S3 is better, but should be because the battery is much larger. I pretty much have my S3 set up exactly as my Glide was. A typical day for me is up at 5, read my mail, either gym or hike, generally 1.5 hours of listening to podcasts. Then I recharge as much as I can, and head to the office. I usually put it on the charger at night and am at about 20%.

I never did the secondary charge today and was on my phone a lot today. After about 14 hours I am at 36%. I really havent had a typical day yet with my phone since I didnt really work much this week and was out of town.

My two biggest uses of my phone are mail and calls. Is a business device for me, and this phone will not have any problems keeping up with a long day of travel and usage.

 

[CarlGalgano]

According to this...

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...you should be fine for Marietta. As for Big Canoe, that's near Jasper, right? According to the AT&T website, it should already support LTE. Maybe just a few areas there don't, yet.

Naviwilliams, wanted to update you on your comment on LTE in Marietta. Overall I think the reception is better. I was able to hold a call driving down my street yesterday, which is generally rare. Once I get into the shadow of Kennesaw Mtn, I generally drop a call. I can get an LTE signal in my house, but its not that great, and the calls are choppy. My 3G microcell works fine with the S3, however the phone seems to favor the 4GLTE signal and drops me off the microcell in certain parts of my house. This is a problem because there is only a one way handoff from the MC to ATT's network. I guess I am going to have to live with this.

A few other comments and notices of better signal strength. I hiked up Kennesaw yesterday and listened to streaming radio using TuneIn. I had about a 15 second drop out at the very top of the mountain, and another for about 30 seconds to a minute in another part of the park. This is much better than what I have experienced with my 3G only phones. Also noticed I had a fair signal in the basement of Health Place (gym) which is on the campus of Kennestone hospital. I need to stop by my office tomorrow and will gauge if the LTE signal there is decent. I currently have another microcell there because of poor coverage.

 

[anon(153966)]

Ah, brilliant, thanks for sharing. Rather interesting...

Naviwilliams, wanted to update you on your comment on LTE in Marietta. Overall I think the reception is better. I was able to hold a call driving down my street yesterday, which is generally rare. Once I get into the shadow of Kennesaw Mtn, I generally drop a call. I can get an LTE signal in my house, but its not that great, and the calls are choppy. My 3G microcell works fine with the S3, however the phone seems to favor the 4GLTE signal and drops me off the microcell in certain parts of my house. This is a problem because there is only a one way handoff from the MC to ATT's network. I guess I am going to have to live with this.

A few other comments and notices of better signal strength. I hiked up Kennesaw yesterday and listened to streaming radio using TuneIn. I had about a 15 second drop out at the very top of the mountain, and another for about 30 seconds to a minute in another part of the park. This is much better than what I have experienced with my 3G only phones. Also noticed I had a fair signal in the basement of Health Place (gym) which is on the campus of Kennestone hospital. I need to stop by my office tomorrow and will gauge if the LTE signal there is decent. I currently have another microcell there because of poor coverage.

 

[Dramer77]

Wait, let me make sure I read correctly...

If I use the back button, it in essence closes the app?
If I press the home button, it in essence leaves the app running in the back ground, but takes me to my home screen?

Interesting...

for most apps yea, thats how android is designed to work.. you should use the back button to back out of pretty much everything... i think with so many new android users alot of people havent learned the basics of android design

 

[jaltman]

Naviwilliams, wanted to update you on your comment on LTE in Marietta. Overall I think the reception is better. I was able to hold a call driving down my street yesterday, which is generally rare. Once I get into the shadow of Kennesaw Mtn, I generally drop a call. I can get an LTE signal in my house, but its not that great, and the calls are choppy. My 3G microcell works fine with the S3, however the phone seems to favor the 4GLTE signal and drops me off the microcell in certain parts of my house. This is a problem because there is only a one way handoff from the MC to ATT's network. I guess I am going to have to live with this.

A few other comments and notices of better signal strength. I hiked up Kennesaw yesterday and listened to streaming radio using TuneIn. I had about a 15 second drop out at the very top of the mountain, and another for about 30 seconds to a minute in another part of the park. This is much better than what I have experienced with my 3G only phones. Also noticed I had a fair signal in the basement of Health Place (gym) which is on the campus of Kennestone hospital. I need to stop by my office tomorrow and will gauge if the LTE signal there is decent. I currently have another microcell there because of poor coverage.

Just to add on about coverage, in downtown Atlanta, coverage and speed are just stunning! 30-50 MB/sec! At my house near Grant Park, signal sucks. I dont understand that. My house is on a high point and I can see all of downtown and to the west clear out to six flags. If I climb my ham tower and get over the trees, I can see Kennesaw Mountain to the north and Stone Mountain to the east. I have had a microcell since they came out and my previous phones would occasionally mysteriously gain and lose the mc just sitting still in the house. I NEED the mc as I do "on-call" work from the house and the "on-call" number is forwarded to my cell. With gs3 I stay locked on the mc very nicely and have had no trouble with mc coming and going. With 5 bars of service and wifi for data I am at 15 hours and still have 67% of battery. Now most of that time has been overnight, doing nothing with the phone, but thats what I need, 12 solid hours of strong battery and solid coverage to never miss a call. I do see the mc needing a reboot once every week or two. At this time, I am a very happy camper.

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[CarlGalgano]

for most apps yea, thats how android is designed to work.. you should use the back button to back out of pretty much everything... i think with so many new android users alot of people havent learned the basics of android design

In one of the help screens I happened upon last night in my phone, it states exactly this: the back button closes apps, the home button leaves them open. (Im paraphrasing).

 

[scavok]

Figured I would upload mine. Is this good?

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[jcp007]

I am not entirely sure about that. You may want to check it out. If you go to the homescreen and long-press the Home key, the Task Manager will bring up apps. I have gotten in the habit of closing all in the Task Manager before selecting the lock screen. I am new to Android so I could be wrong.

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[jcp007]

Question: Does having the temperature/weather conditions on the lockscreen eat the battery? I would think that it would be static until updated on the homescreen,

 

[CarlGalgano]

To be fair, anything that uses data, uses battery. But you can set the refresh rate of the weather/temp on the lock screen. The settings are in the security menu, the lock screen. I had an issue where mine never seemed to update (and it was not) because i didnt have the auto refresh set. I think the most frequent update you can have is 1 hour, so I cant image a quick hit once an hour to get a small amount of data is going to have any significant impact on your battery.

 

[anon(153966)]

If the widget is the type to update constantly, yes. Albeit I only have my weather updating every 3 hours. I don't really need it to update less than that. I don't use Social Media widgets...

Question: Does having the temperature/weather conditions on the lockscreen eat the battery? I would think that it would be static until updated on the homescreen,

 

[jcp007]

My weather is set to update every 3 hours. I use Flipboard as well. Battery life has been pretty decent.

 

[garciepdx]

Not even calibrated yet and I was on this thing all day.

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[garciepdx]

Not even calibrated yet and I was on this thing all day.

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What image and/or brightness percent did you pick. That's the lowest percent for the screen I've seen.

 

[robh2]

My wife and I have the same settings and spent the last few days together and my battery lasts twice as long as hers. Hers says the phone is using a lot of power but she is only surfing at the same time I am. Is it because its in her purse the rest of the time and is searching for signal more since mine is on my hip? Is there a way to tell it not to search so much?

Thanks.

Robert

 

[icwhatudidthere]

Wow, I'm only on my third full charge and I'm at 22 hours with 36% left still!

Albeit it was a Sunday so I'm not on it as much but I'm still pretty amazed. I returned an LG Nitro a few months back since it couldn't even make it from morning commute to lunch time.

 

[ZacD22]

Ok guys there are bad phones out there like I said my phone dropped 68 % in 5 hours on stand by mode tried it again closed everything possible still went from 99%to 0 over might while sleeping took it back yesterday and got a new one went to bed with 58% and woke up with 55% only dropped 3 overnight in stand by mode so take your phones back if u have this prob they said that some phones are using 34ma instead of 3.4ma it's a software issue in standby mode some got screwed up so it's using 10x the amount of power