Cell standby is eating my battery - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I don't know if this is normal but the cell standby odds the mist thing that shows battery usage so is this normal?
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Anyone will help in this ?
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Not quite sure but i think thats happening because you might have left that "Hey galaxy" command on because of which the microphone is always working and therefore the battery gets consumed.
And if thats not the case then idk whats wrong

naguib.elsoussy said:
I don't know if this is normal but the cell standby odds the mist thing that shows battery usage so is this normal?
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download and install "bad ass battery monitor" from play store and find the culprit

Well in my HOX after 4hours of standby i get only 2% loss or less. Tegra 3 5th companion core helps saving it.

forumhookersdotcom said:
Well in my HOX after 4hours of standby i get only 2% loss or less. Tegra 3 5th companion core helps saving it.
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Cell standby has nth to do wif CPU..
I am getting the same problem too..

Got this problem too, would love to know what it is.

has anyone checked if one of the system's features is always on and that is why battery is getting low?

Yep having similar problem too, anyone have an idea?

4 hours 2% or less on the HOX, It maybe that yours is faulty. mines doesnt seem to change whatsoever from when I go to bed until the time I wake up over 8 hours or more ,
back to the SGS3 its definitely software related. just wait for an update from samsung

I know the epic had a similar issue. Check the time without signal and see if that shows a high percentage. If so, try cycling the airplane mode on and off and see if that helps. It was a work a round for the epic.
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i would say this cell standby drainage issue is down to either one of these being on:
S beam
Smart Stay
or you have left the voice command on.. the "hey galaxy" rubbish.
i would say the latter two would kill your battery fairly quickly as you are always having the FF camera on / the mic alwasy on.

Normally what's the average off the battery if I'm using the device normally for calls and having wifi link all the time?
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cell standby is the battery used by the radio mine is @ 38% top of my list two.
54% battery left, thats 17h 40m 20s lol on battery.there is nothink to worrie about mate!

Maybe cause I switched from iphone I used to have my mobile for two days and a half when I lower my screen brightness
But here it stays max for one and half day
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The Cell Standby is an idle process that must run: your CPU is always working, it can't ever turn off or it wouldn't recognise wake-ups, emails etc, so when it's not actually actively doing anything it has to run a low-priority process to keep it doing something.
The only way it can ever do literally nothing is when it's turned off.

Nocombneeded said:
The Cell Standby is an idle process that must run: your CPU is always working, it can't ever turn off or it wouldn't recognise wake-ups, emails etc, so when it's not actually actively doing anything it has to run a low-priority process to keep it doing something.
The only way it can ever do literally nothing is when it's turned off.
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The point is that it's using too much power, or at least it's being reported of using too much power. And nobody has been capable of showing details until now and I don't have my phone yet. It should not use more power than the S2 since they have almost identical broadband chips.

allenk524 said:
cell standby is the battery used by the radio mine is @ 38% top of my list two.
54% battery left, thats 17h 40m 20s lol on battery.there is nothink to worrie about mate!
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My standby is high as well but i get really good battery time though. Still only a couple of recharhes and a fair bit of use as i have had to hard reset as well.
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You are aware of the fact that the percentages must sum up to 100% don't you?
If you want to see what really happens when you phone is asleep you may wan to try BetterBatteryStats

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Help Me Find My Battery Eater

I unplugged my phone at 100% charge around 230am, woke up around 1015am with literally 50% left. I had WiFi on the entire night (strong signal).
Unplugged 7h 39m
Cell standby 30%
Phone idle 29%
WiFi 16%
Android OS 8%
Maps 7%
Android system 7%
Display 2%
I've stopped blockbuster, removed city id. My only widget is the clock/weather widget set to update every 2 hours (hence maps).
Auto-Sync off, Facebook/twitter updates off.
Looking at my battery history under partial wake usage there is nothing abnormal. What could possibly be killing my battery so much?
I'm really looking for some help here guys.
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This topic has been beaten to death so either spend some time on reading or return the phone
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This isn't me complaining about poor battery life. I'm asking for help from the community to help me figure out what process is killing my idle phone. You don't have to troll my topic.
quattr0 said:
This topic has been beaten to death so either spend some time on reading or return the phone
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this is a help forum. not troll forum ass face.
wish i could help you but i have a similar problem and its totally random. sometimes i can last all day with a charge and other times 4 hrs.. makes no sense
If you click on "Cell Standby 30%" what does it say after "Time without signal" ?
I think its a radio issue. the 4g radio going in and out cuz on 3g only I don't see that problem at all
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Bimmer323 said:
If you click on "Cell Standby 30%" what does it say after "Time without signal" ?
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Cell Standby only shows Time on. Weird because my Droid 2 always had the Time without signal percentage.
marcogiudice said:
I think its a radio issue. the 4g radio going in and out cuz on 3g only I don't see that problem at all
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I was on WiFi the entire time.
If your rooted. I've had excellent results by setting a "screen off" profile in setcpu to a max setting of 245. It dramatically improved my standby time. I lost a total of 6% leaving the phone off the charger friday night. I've mentioned this in a few threads already without much response, but it works. I set up a test for this on a DF thread.
I think something is ramping up the processor during standby on these phones. That tweak helps a lot.
Good luck
System panel is what you need to find the offending app. The paid version though, but its totally worth every penny. It let's you track individual apps and what CPU they use, and shows you a top list of highest to lowest. I use it daily to track my apps.
Off topic, I've been unplugged for 15 hours now with 71% battery left. Of course this is over night idle use, but ginger bread made enormous improvements to idle power. It stays level at 10mA in standby which was never that good before.
My experience is almost exactly as the OP. I just posted this screenshot in another forum. I'll share it here. I did the exact same thing as the OP. I charged it to 100% and overnight it dropped to 49%. I haven't the foggiest idea what is killing my battery.
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/1061/screenshot2r.png
edit: forgot to mention I am rooted and debloated. I too am on wifi 100% at my house. I also have no "time without signal".
Wow.. did have have cupcake for lunch? My son probably could communicate better than you do sir.
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quattr0 said:
Wow.. did have have cupcake for lunch? My son probably could communicate better than you do sir.
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Is this your example of communication?
wow peeps can be such a** hats sometimes. I think its the radio with the 3g/4g.
My battery life in 4G is terrible (no wifi on, no bluetooth, no email, facebook, etc., checking automatically). In my 3G area near my work I get much better life.
Not rooted yet.

S3 standby is crap!

Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
you have something else going on i lose 2% overnight...try airplane mode see what happens
I think your charger may be broken lol. You charge it every night yet your phone is at 53% when you wake up? Anyway, assuming you sleep 8 hours and that your phone was at 100% that is less than 50% on 8 hours. You probably get 17 hours standby time, not the best but not the worst. Try airplane mode
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think you are alone... Yesterday, beach day: From ten o clock with 100% brightness, about 40 minutes surfing with dolphin browser, total in amount 35 minutes facebook, 30 sms, 9 calls all about 2-6 minutes and some recording of the soccer game; the rest of the time the phone was on standby. Coming home with 80% left....
what says your battery settings? what stands by "battery in standby"? How much takes "android system", how many apps are listed in total? Do you have battery save mode on?=> Try to turn it off. Do you have auto brightness? Turn it off, set the display to 40-50% and make a widget on home with settings to 100% so you can read under heavy sun. You are outside the day?=> turn the wifi off....
Tell us more and post your results, the comment that your device is a bucket full of crap is bull**** because the S3 has one of the best battery and settings in smartphone business!...
Greetings,
Snew
My S3 depletes 1-2 % overnight.
This the EUROPEAN variant of the phone?
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no-one can give you a legit answer as you haven't bothered to tell us anything about what rom/kernel you are using, what you have installed, whether you have any syncs switched on..
why leave wifi on overnight? thats gives apps the chance to update in the background
have you looked at bbs stats?
fail thread imo
You sleep with your wifi on? what do you expect to happen? Also try rebooting before you go to bed.
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Twelve hours standby for me = 1% to 2% drop on stock .
jje
"solid fone"? Are we serious with the spelling? No wonder your having trouble.
JJEgan said:
Twelve hours standby for me = 1% to 2% drop on stock .
jje
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now i would like to know how you get that because mine drops from 100% (99%) to 95% in just an hour on 3g but nothing else..
I think you have a defective battery. Mine just drains 2-3% in a 8-10 hour overnight standby.
I hate when people assume something sucks when it's their own doing that's causing the problem.
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themanguydude said:
I think you have a defective battery. Mine just drains 2-3% in a 8-10 hour overnight standby.
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thats what everyone is gettinn when no app or setting is draining the life out of the battery as seems to be the case with the OP's phone
incubus26jc said:
"solid fone"? Are we serious with the spelling? No wonder your having trouble.
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Don't forget grammar!!! Or is that American English?
Reckless187 said:
Don't forget grammar!!! Or is that American English?
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That's American Man. lol
Astonrynlds said:
Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
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Stop using Wifi, do not leave it on. Wifi is the culprit.
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Stop using Wifi, do not leave it on. Wifi is the culprit.
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I still suspect this may be router related though. When I had my crappy Netgear, I would get strange periods of battery drain on my SGS2 when WIFI was left on. That just about all disappeared once I upgraded to an Asus RT-N16 running Tomato, and now, I don't get any drain on my SGS3 as well when I leave WIFI (set to "Always On" under Advanced WIFI Settings) idling.
Astonrynlds said:
Been using s3 abt 2 weeks solid fone but i got one issue battery life on it sucks! funny thing when im using it for the web, video,etc the battery holds up pretty well but its the standby time thts killing it. I charge my fone full everynite wake up next morning and the battery's down to 56% jus on standby!! with nfc off s-voice off just wifi on. Am i only one experiencing this or is this normal?
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If mine is full before bed, its 85 percent plus in the morning
You have something that is sucking power, and you need to find it
cmd512 said:
I still suspect this may be router related though. When I had my crappy Netgear, I would get strange periods of battery drain on my SGS2 when WIFI was left on. That just about all disappeared once I upgraded to an Asus RT-N16 running Tomato, and now, I don't get any drain on my SGS3 as well when I leave WIFI (set to "Always On" under Advanced WIFI Settings) idling.
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I too think it's router related. It can possibly be due to Wifi dual banding in some routers that support it. Faster internet with less battery life.

[Q] Horrible Battery Life - Second Device- Crap Kernel?

Anyone else experiencing horrible batter drain? Android OS is taking up 50-60% on average and it just eats it up while idle. I'm thinking about a return, this is my second handset, and with a locked bootloader, im losing faith in a quick solution. Any ideas?
Minimal use and quick setup with two to three app dowloads, and my 40% charged new device was down to zero in 2 hours.
I've noticed some battery quirks so far. My percentage drops 3% simply by locking and unlocking my phone within a few minutes. I've also seen it jump up in percentage once so not sure. Maybe there is something in the OS that isn't optimized that's causing the battery drain and quirks? I dunno. Be great to hear from some other people on this issue.
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svntsvn said:
Anyone else experiencing horrible batter drain? Android OS is taking up 50-60% on average and it just eats it up while idle. I'm thinking about a return, this is my second handset, and with a locked bootloader, im losing faith in a quick solution. Any ideas?
Minimal use and quick setup with two to three app dowloads, and my 40% charged new device was down to zero in 2 hours.
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Working on BT unlock so i would wait.
I've only had one charge on mine but it seems to be going good for me. I made it over a full day with 3+ of screen time.
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what percentage does your "android os" show? I'm wondering why my second handset is the same. Did you root yours and remove the bloatware?
svntsvn said:
Anyone else experiencing horrible batter drain? Android OS is taking up 50-60% on average and it just eats it up while idle. I'm thinking about a return, this is my second handset, and with a locked bootloader, im losing faith in a quick solution. Any ideas?
Minimal use and quick setup with two to three app dowloads, and my 40% charged new device was down to zero in 2 hours.
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Hi give it a couple of charge cycles it will definitely improve.
Yes, I've got the same problem. The OS takes most of the battery. Idle is fine, but with any use battery drops very fast and gets extremely hot, as well.
svntsvn said:
Anyone else experiencing horrible batter drain? Android OS is taking up 50-60% on average and it just eats it up while idle. I'm thinking about a return, this is my second handset, and with a locked bootloader, im losing faith in a quick solution. Any ideas?
Minimal use and quick setup with two to three app dowloads, and my 40% charged new device was down to zero in 2 hours.
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Keep in mind that these are new phones with NEW BATTERIES. With that being said, you need to "cycle" (charge to 100% then discharge to 0% <repeat 3-5x's) the battery before we judge and jump into conclusions. Just sayin
Jove81 said:
I've noticed some battery quirks so far. My percentage drops 3% simply by locking and unlocking my phone within a few minutes. I've also seen it jump up in percentage once so not sure. Maybe there is something in the OS that isn't optimized that's causing the battery drain and quirks? I dunno. Be great to hear from some other people on this issue.
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keep that in mind. just came as a surprise, never had a device out of the box have this bad of battery life since my g2x or some old htc.
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For the record, I'm also having pretty lousy battery life. OS taking up 55%+. Last night I charged it to 100%, played with it until it was about 93% and then went to bed. Woke up this morning and it was at 65% with zero deep sleep and 80% OS usage.
Something's funky. I like the phone but can't be dealing with this constantly.
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EDIT: Turns out the extreme drain was from the radio. I had switched off LTE in the hidden menu and apparently that causes a ton of wakelocks and prevents deep sleep. As soon as I turned LTE back on, deep sleep came back. So that's somewhat encouraging.
I'll have to look at that. I'm getting a day with light use out of my second phone after a few charges, but it gets a little scary when im using it. I'm staying optimistic, my s3 was just phenomenal with battery life after rom kernel additions.
Can you explain how you turned off/on lte and the menu path?
I dont see an apn option other than the stock one (which im assuming is lte enabled). I'd like to see if it makes a difference. Thanks.
you need to enable network menu in the build.prop and a menu will appear where apn is
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My battery life is not great, but it is not bad either I'll judge it more in a couple days after it goes through a few cycles.
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Take a look in my "first impressions" thread for details on turning off LTE.
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This is really disappointing. Physically, this phone is fantastic. It looks great and the specs are terrific but it's crippled by absolutely horrid software which I suspect is the reason for the abysmal battery life.
After my first day with the phone yielded less than 10 hours I decided to do a factory reset and set the phone to Eco Mode. That improved things slightly... I managed to get 14 hours but that was with limited usage. In fact, the only significant difference in results was that, in Eco Mode, Android OS shows that it is consuming 80% of the battery vs 53% the previous day.
There is something seriously wrong with these things... the fact that some people are saying that they aren't seeing the problem has me worried that it may be some sort of hardware-related issue.
Cloudscout said:
This is really disappointing. Physically, this phone is fantastic. It looks great and the specs are terrific but it's crippled by absolutely horrid software which I suspect is the reason for the abysmal battery life.
After my first day with the phone yielded less than 10 hours I decided to do a factory reset and set the phone to Eco Mode. That improved things slightly... I managed to get 14 hours but that was with limited usage. In fact, the only significant difference in results was that, in Eco Mode, Android OS shows that it is consuming 80% of the battery vs 53% the previous day.
There is something seriously wrong with these things... the fact that some people are saying that they aren't seeing the problem has me worried that it may be some sort of hardware-related issue.
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I would guess those people that aren't seeing this are not looking at the battery stats, I have never seen Android take up this % of battery on any device and I have been using android since the Hero... about a good 15 devices or more ago I have lost count. Come next Thursday I am going to go switch out for something else if the boot loader is not unlocked yet.
Awesome battery life
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Awesome battery life
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That is with only 3 hours of use, and the android OS should never be that high, on every other device the screen is the highest... and this is a problem with the software.
whoamanwtf said:
That is with only 3 hours of use, and the android OS should never be that high, on every other device the screen is the highest... and this is a problem with the software.
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yes i know its a bug but battery life is still good i can use it for 7 hours screen on and still last me a day this lasted me almost 2 days.

Bad Battery Drain, HELP!

I've had the HTC One X+ for a week now and it's a really good phone, however, the battery really lets it down. The battery drain is terrible on my phone. The phone is really good in sleep mode, only losing about 2% in 1 hour, but as soon as it's not in sleep mode, as soon as you start to use the phone, the battery drains like hell. For example, when I'm web surfing or using applications, it loses 1% like every 2 minutes and that's crazy!
I don't know why, power saver is on, switched to 2G instead of 3G, disabled Google Now, auto-sync, basically everything I think would drain the battery. Brightness is on it's minimum. I feel so restricted when using my phone! But I've read other people having really good battery life even with moderate use, so am I doing something wrong? Should I factory reset my phone? Is there something wrong with my phone? Can someone help me?
Thanks!!
Have you disabled all AT&T apps? They drain battery as hell especially ATT locker.
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Under Settings/Sounds/Ring Tone untick the three options as they just have the sensors constantly checking, then under Settings/Power untick Fastboot.
Then get a battery monitor app like GSam Battery Monitor which pinpoints the power drainer. How many apps do you have installed? Dump the ones you hardly ever use.
Also, several charge/discharge cycles are necessary before battery reaches best performance.
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I think losing 2% of battery every hour of standby is pretty bad. How many hours of screen time on do you get from a full charge to around 10%?
Sharpshooterrr said:
I think losing 2% of battery every hour of standby is pretty bad. How many hours of screen time on do you get from a full charge to around 10%?
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2% isn't bad. You crazy.
My phone's battery life is really good and keeps improving with more usage. I do not however, expect more than a few hours of gaming.
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Won't lie i got the same problem you are facing right now. The battery life is horrible, in fact it only lasts about 3-4 hours gaming if i am lucky. Before 5 minutes i opened a game called "dead trigger" my battery was 94% after 5 minutes of playing guess what? BOOM 89% straight which is extremely bad from my point of view.
You know, you do have screen with a high resolution, and you're using the max of the graphic and other chips while gaming...and that costs power...most likely NFC is active, as is BT, 4G, brightness on 200%, the loudspeaker blearing some music out of the cloud, GPS on, and 15 apps not closed properly, weather syncing every 5 secs, and 700 apps installed from Happy Santa to FakeYourPhone!
I really can't get it that you complain about it. It is a mobile smartphone that can be used to play games. If your priority lies with the latter, have a charger handy with you! Play, enjoy, and stop moaning...Period!
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Bad Battery Drain as well
I'm going to tack onto this thread. I got the HTC One X+ about a week 1/2 ago. The phone is amazing. It has everything I want, but I cannot make it through the day once without always consciously thinking about battery drain and how quickly the phone just sucks down the power. The following Battery Monitor graph is when I have JuiceDefender installed so it turns off the data radio whenever the screen is off or I'm connected to WiFi. I was on WiFi from 7:45 this morning all the way to 5:00pm. The drain on this thing is so fast. I didn't watch a single video today nor any games. This is all facebook data, internet data, and just some general playing on the phone. I also turn on the power save feature for Jelly bean so I turned off vibration feedback, brightness is turned down, and CPU saving is turned on.
Do I have a dud phone or is the One X+ really that awful on the battery? I'm strongly considering taking it back but every single other thing about the phone is great but if the battery on every One X+ is that bad I don't know if it's worth it. Please help assuage my fears or give me some advice on what I can do better.
Do you have Google now active?
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You have WiFi, lte, and I'm assuming other radios on. Curious to see what other apps you're running in the background.
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Do you have Google now active?
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I do. I kind of thought it was one of the neater parts of Jelly Bean. Is it a complete battery hog? This is my 1st android phone but I'm a long time Smartphone owner. I'm guessing by your question I should disable it and see how the battery performs.
It is an LTE phone though i'm on wifi 90% of my day. Background apps that run are usually Whatsapp, Facebook, and Linkedin. Right now I'm losing about 2% charge every 10 minutes if I'm using it. I gotta plug the thing in as much as I can just so I can use it. I'm perfectly fine with tweaking the thing, just not sure how much 'tweaking' is needed to get some better performance out of the things.
I'm wondering if Facebook is the problem... Just a thought...
The One X+ isnt that bad in terms of battery life in my experience, I've done 15.5 hours with 2.5 hours screen on time, Not sure what folks are expecting, Thats pretty average for a smartphone... That is with Wi-Fi on, LTE on, Google Now on, Autosync on, the little weather widgety clock thing on.. and pretty much me not doing anything besides closing apps when im done with it, I have Kik messanger and TextPlus on in the background but they arent doing much to my battery life... I dont use the power saver until it toggles at 15% battery life, I have vibration on, and my brightness is fixed at like 33% constantly... I have every ATT app disabled in the app thing.. I also have the "best Wi-Fi performance" thing ticked which says it might use more battery...
Yes, Gaming and watching videos on the thing is going to drain the battery out fast, Just like every smartphone I've ever owned... Its better than my GSM Nexus with the stock battery (Its roughly halfway between the stock battery and the extended one) and better than the S3 I had very briefly (However I will note the S3 couldnt keep a signal at all whereas my One X+ can...) The conversion seems to be that you trade about 2 hours standby time for 30 minutes of screen-on usage in my case
Picture 1 is me using my phone normally in a day.. 15.5 hours is more than enough (I'd say i get closer to 13 or 14 average) with 2.5 hours of screen on time
Picture 2 was me basically doing nothing but watching Youtube and playing games this morning... its really not all that bad, the biggest consumer/ battery hog for me is Mediaserver for some reason, I'm not actually 100% sure why (I know what it is...) or if i could pull even better battery life if there is something actually wrong with it and its draining my battery excessively... But I'm not complaining about it because well.. this was me abusing my phone pretty much
Not arguing that some folks are getting rubbish battery life, Because they are, I'm actually more curious as to whats causing it, There has to be something here and some way to fix it
Follow up to yesterday's battery
Ok in the attachment is my usage today. As you can see it is totally what I would expect from the phone. I got it to that point by disabling Google Now. That kind of stinks however, I can actually use my phone without being nearby an electrical outlet all the time. The other thing that works well is how much cooler it is to the touch under normal use. Normally it was quite hot. I work in a basement(3 bars with LTE) so my guess is Google Now was always trying to utilize location (even if it wasn't immediately obvious) on the screen via the indicator and thus would just kill my battery especially when I would pick it up to use it with the screen. I wish I could use Google Now but perhaps I can slowly bring back some of it's abilities and find a happy medium.
I'd also like to make note that I am still utilizing the power saving features for Jelly Bean along with JuiceDefender.
No offense but I cant read that battery thing you got. I cant see how long you used it or anything, all i can tell is your battery is at 70%...
-edit- i think i might have got it, 7h or so?
KenjiS said:
No offense but I cant read that battery thing you got. I cant see how long you used it or anything, all i can tell is your battery is at 70%...
-edit- i think i might have got it, 7h or so?
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Yeah my apologies, the timeline is on the X axis at the bottom. Unplugged at 7am, and at 2:32pm it was above 70%. Pretty drastic difference since normally the last week or so I've been hitting 70% at about 9am.
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Yeah my apologies, the timeline is on the X axis at the bottom. Unplugged at 7am, and at 2:32pm it was above 70%. Pretty drastic difference since normally the last week or so I've been hitting 70% at about 9am.
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Sounds more in line with what im getting... Though i have Google Now on... Weird.. Very weird
GSam is a bit nicer and free FYI so you might wanna give it a look
how much playback time should I be getting for 720p mp4 files? My phone drains about 10% every 20 minutes with power save on, auto sync and all wireless radios off and minimum brightness, I am quite disappointed, is this normal drain?
I had to open my big mouth, Now my One X+ has developed a little problem It wont enter Deep Sleep so yeah... now the battery life isnt terribly great
You guys might wanna check that your phone is entering deep sleep and not getting held awake by something, because now im seeing similar drain to you guys...
Very new issue though, Weird... I uninstalled an app I felt might have caused it and ill see if that fixes it, Currently recharging my One X+ to reset the counters and everything...
According to BBM, It appears to be my Wi-Fi keeping the phone awake for some reason... Next step if the uninstallation doesnt fix things will be to disable Wi-Fi and see if that changes anything

S5 Battery Consumption

I had an LG G Pro and when i went to sleep every night the phone was at 100% and it would be like that for 8 hours of sleep, now with my Galaxy S5 the phone will consume 1% in 8 hours. I know that's nothing but why is it doing that if i'm not using the phone.
TikyPR said:
I had an LG G Pro and when i went to sleep every night the phone was at 100% and it would be like that for 8 hours of sleep, now with my Galaxy S5 the phone will consume 1% in 8 hours. I know that's nothing but why is it doing that if i'm not using the phone.
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It all really depends on what your phone is doing or what is running in the background.
If you want to get to the root of the problem ( stand by for pun ) you should root your device (eyyyy ) but seriously root it and install wake lock detector. See what is using your phone and waking it up out of sleep. It could be that it randomly looses signal and starts searching for it during the night or it could be something like Facebook waking up and checking for updates.
The lg g pro has a stronger battery thats y
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You make is sound like you lost 1% of battery in 8 hours... umm that is actually quite good, amazing actually. Whats the problem?
Gerr1985 said:
You make is sound like you lost 1% of battery in 8 hours... umm that is actually quite good, amazing actually. Whats the problem?
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It's not a problem, is just that if the phone screen is off and i'm not using it at all. It's not suppose to lose 1% of battery. I'm going to try what
Sparatan117
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Said.
TikyPR said:
It's not a problem, is just that if the phone screen is off and i'm not using it at all. It's not suppose to lose 1% of battery. I'm going to try what Said.
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1% in idle is still amazing. Unless the phone is powered down, I'm not sure how you can really get much better than that.
"Samsung’s press materials say that the phone offers about 390 hours of standby time with LTE on." - Still insanely impressive and you probably have to have Ultra Power Saving mode on, which puts your phone's appearance and operations in crap mode.
If you lost 1% every 8 hours, then you will be getting roughly 800 hours of standby, which is double what Samsung claims you can achieve.
If you are going by what the other poster said, then he/she is likely referring to having the phone rooted and applying the "Greenify" app. This will hibernate anything, including system apps. I do hope you have luck with that... for some reason, when I use Greenify on this phone, I get worse battery life than with it off. I"m too lazy to tinker with it...
you do know that the phone is still on consuming power / electricity during idle/sleep mode, right...? I get about 3 days idle if I rarely use the phone and have like 11 things syncing stuff, which I find good.
Gerr1985 said:
1% in idle is still amazing. Unless the phone is powered down, I'm not sure how you can really get much better than that.
"Samsung’s press materials say that the phone offers about 390 hours of standby time with LTE on." - Still insanely impressive and you probably have to have Ultra Power Saving mode on, which puts your phone's appearance and operations in crap mode.
If you lost 1% every 8 hours, then you will be getting roughly 800 hours of standby, which is double what Samsung claims you can achieve.
If you are going by what the other poster said, then he/she is likely referring to having the phone rooted and applying the "Greenify" app. This will hibernate anything, including system apps. I do hope you have luck with that... for some reason, when I use Greenify on this phone, I get worse battery life than with it off. I"m too lazy to tinker with it...
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Thanks for The Fast Replys And Overall everything
TikyPR said:
It's not a problem, is just that if the phone screen is off and i'm not using it at all. It's not suppose to lose 1% of battery.
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How can you expect any electronic device that is ON to not have any battery consumption over 8 hours? obviously it needs to consume power to stay powered on...cpu is still running..cellphone still needs to maintain communication to the cell towers...syncing is still happening...running apps or system apps are still updating their status....
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How can you expect any electronic device that is ON to not have any battery consumption over 8 hours? obviously it needs to consume power to stay powered on...cpu is still running..cellphone still needs to maintain communication to the cell towers...syncing is still happening...running apps or system apps are still updating their status....
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Exactly.
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Could be s5 battery is smaller than your old phone or u have more stuff syncing
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raw2000j said:
Could be s5 battery is smaller than your old phone or u have more stuff syncing
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Could also be because the S5 just uses more power than the G Pro when on standby. I highly doubt it used less than 1% power in 8 hours though...
Just found out something, not sure if it helps, but I did notice a significant increase when you turn off location services for Google apps... namely the ability for Google maps to access your surrounding area and probe it for updated information. I saw an immediate increase after 19 hours I was at 62% having used the phone for regular use... so I think this might be the main culprit, although I'm not sure what LG is doing. I suspect that there is some sort of background killer in there working behind the scenes though.

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