The Truth About Your Battery

[phil75231]

Ever since I updated to JB, the "Media" is using up to 40% of the battery. Any ideas? I have a feeling Google Music is the culprit.

While I do not have Jelly Bean yet (damn Verizon), from what I read it could be Google Now. That is supposed to be a huge drain.

 

[barney_rebel]

While I do not have Jelly Bean yet (damn Verizon), from what I read it could be Google Now. That is supposed to be a huge drain.

I read that for a google nexus just now. Ironically, I spoke into GoogleNow "Why does battery suck so bad on Jelly Bean?" and that's what I got.

I uninstalled Play Music, Kies Air and going to disable Google Now next charge to see if it improves. Right now, the percentage of "Media" is down to 26%, even though I am listening to music with the stock player, and scrobling with last.fm.

 

[phil75231]

I read that for a google nexus just now. Ironically, I spoke into GoogleNow "Why does battery suck so bad on Jelly Bean?" and that's what I got.

I uninstalled Play Music, Kies Air and going to disable Google Now next charge to see if it improves. Right now, the percentage of "Media" is down to 26%, even though I am listening to music with the stock player, and scrobling with last.fm.

For what it's worth, I listen to music all day long while at work (average about 10 hours) using WinAmp and in doing so I can still get about 13 hours of battery life out of my s3.

 

[barney_rebel]

For what it's worth, I listen to music all day long while at work (average about 10 hours) using WinAmp and in doing so I can still get about 13 hours of battery life out of my s3.

Sure, that was me with 4.0. Now with 4.1.1 I have this issue.

Listening so far with the stock player and the Media item is falling down below 23%. I really think Google Music was the culprit.

 

[barney_rebel]

OK full charge, and GSam shows "Media" nowhere in sight. Either it's Kies Air or Play Music.

 

[trunkmonkey]

I have read about others having issues with media services eating battery life. I think it was something involving a few corrupted media files. That's all I know as it hasn't been an issue for me, but would be worth looking into. Might have been on Xda developers forum. Report back if you find out more. Better battery stats and system tuner are 2 apps that have been useful for sleuthing system power drains, especially what's keeping the cpu from sleeping.

 

[trunkmonkey]

Sure, that was me with 4.0. Now with 4.1.1 I have this issue.

Listening so far with the stock player and the Media item is falling down below 23%. I really think Google Music was the culprit.

We're you using Google Music previously as your main player or was all of the power use just happening in the background?

 

[barney_rebel]

We're you using Google Music previously as your main player or was all of the power use just happening in the background?

I used it as the main player, but for that charge I didn't use it a whole lot. Yesterday I used the stock player for a good couple hours, and powered off my phone at night. When I woke up, the two culprits came back when i powered on my phone this morning:

 

[barney_rebel]

I have read about others having issues with media services eating battery life. I think it was something involving a few corrupted media files. That's all I know as it hasn't been an issue for me, but would be worth looking into. Might have been on Xda developers forum. Report back if you find out more. Better battery stats and system tuner are 2 apps that have been useful for sleuthing system power drains, especially what's keeping the cpu from sleeping.

I saw that thread on there too. My next move is to remove my SD card completely for one whole charge.

 

[poopsie]

I posted this in another battery thread but thought it might be useful here also. Listed below is everything I did that seemed to help.

I am running Stock AT&T, Rooted with Titanium Backup

Chrome - Developer - Motion off

Screen AUTO set off-Turn way down

GPS - Off, all other radios on

Power Saving mode
All on except GPU

Gmail PUSH, Exchange check 1 time per hour

Unistalled Handcent and using stock Messaging app-Seems weird I know but I noticed higher battery drain when there was a pop up from Handcent

Turn off Haptic Feedback

Turn off auto updates and notifications on all apps
Facebook
Twitter
Google Reader

Titanium Backup Freeze
Airstash
Allshare stuff
AT&T message
AT&T Navigator
AVCRP services
Bluetooth test
Bubbles
ChatOn
ChocoEUkor
Flipboard
Google Reader
Helv Neue
Internet 4.0.4
Both Kies
Maps SErviceSamsung
Media Hub
NewsDaemon
SMemo-Both
S Suggest
S VOice
Samsung account, backup, Cloud, Push
SNS
Talkback
WeatherDaemon
WEathermain
Yahoo Finance and News
YPmobile

The only apps that I have running in the apps manager are:

Settings

Visual Voicemail

Adblock Plus

HelloGuest Wifi

Facebook

Dropbox

HD Widgets

Viber

Factory Mode

AT&T Software Update

Google services

All push-1 email, contact, calendar account

Exchange services

1 time per hour-Email only

Maps

Bluetooth Share

Email

Secphone

AT&T Hot spots

Synchronize

Light Flow Lite

Swype Beta

I am averaging 3% per hour with normal email, texts and calls

Hope this helps-

 

[barney_rebel]

So far, phone has been acting the way it was with no SD card inserted. Windows did find errors on the card, so that may have been the problem.

Next I am going to format the card and put minimal MP3 files on there.

 

[barney_rebel]

So no SD card today, and my battery is amazing. No music playing too. Looking at the card on my PC, I got tons of errors. I think this card is toast. That would drain your battery.

 

[dportal2006]

It was said that 3g/4g us a drain on the battery. How about if I browse while on 1x? Would that be a significant drain?

I don't mind browsing on 1x as the pages load about as fast as when I'm on 3g or 4g, believe it or not. I was thinking about doing that and saving 4g for YouTube, etc. Thoughts?

There is no way you are getting the same speed on 1x as in 4g

 

[Faithfull]

Help!!

Afternoon people,

I currently have an S3 after getting rid of my iphone 4s. Absolutly loving the phone until a day or so ago...

For some reason the battery is draining very very quickly, it has been on charge all night, i removed the phone from the charger at about 7.45 this morning and this battery is now at 5% or something ridiculous. I did get some strange messages about my SD card trying to download a strange image but unsuccessful yesterday so i have now re-formatted the card and also removed it but the battery is still being drained heavilly.


Please help me!

 

[Faithfull]

Please find an attached picture/screenshot of my phone (sorry should have attached it to the above post)

 

[Freebee271]

New Android user..Two Weeks

AT &T GS3 Stock ROM
4.1.1 (Via Kies)
Rooted 12/11/12 (yesterday)

I installed Juice Defender (free version) last night, set it to the "Balanced" setting to get a feel for the app.

I'm thinking with moderate use today 40% for Android System seems high.
Prior to the Root and Juice Defender install, My screen time was always the highest percentage of battery use.

Any thoughts or is this normal ?

 

[cassatta]

We're you using Google Music previously as your main player or was all of the power use just happening in the background?

For info, I don't listen music on my GS3 and the media player is here after each recharge!
I have to force it to stop to triple my battery time!

 

[rushmore]

Battery life is less since the update to JB on the VZW version. I turned off Google now and started fresh again but same result. It would be okay if the radio was better in weak signal areas, but same issue with battery drain there too.

 

[rushmore]

There is no way you are getting the same speed on 1x as in 4g

On the VZW version, even weak 3g is slow to the point of forget it. 1x usually barely works and the battery drain is awful.

I agree there is no way, if on VZW.

 

[barney_rebel]

Rooted my phone, froze a bunch of apps I don't, or rarely use. This is why I miss a rooted a phone:

 

[djnott]

What r u doing to get that? I'm going dead by noon. It was 30% in the evening but I've donessomething that's messing it up.

 

[KOLIO]

What r u doing to get that? I'm going dead by noon. It was 30% in the evening but I've donessomething that's messing it up.

Don't be impressed w/most screenshots posted about "miraculous" battery life.

The abovementioned doesn't even have data or WI-FI turned on.

It's kinda like having a "FERRARI",only upon further inspection that you find it's a kit car based on a VW BEETLE chassis/drivetrain.

Nothing to look at here people,............

 

[barney_rebel]

Don't be impressed w/most screenshots posted about "miraculous" battery life.

The abovementioned doesn't even have data or WI-FI turned on.

It's kinda like having a "FERRARI",only upon further inspection that you find it's a kit car based on a VW BEETLE chassis/drivetrain.

Nothing to look at here people,............

And just because wifi isn't on right at that second during the screen shot, doesn't mean that wifi was not on the entire duration It was asleep and about to connect, as it was connected probably most of the duration.

 

[KOLIO]

And just because wifi isn't on right at that second during the screen shot, doesn't mean that wifi was not on the entire duration It was asleep and about to connect, as it was connected probably most of the duration.

Yeah, what a coincidence

Why don't ya post a shot of BIGFOOT while you're at it next time...... & while you're at it, take a 2nd look at the thread title before posting....

 

[barney_rebel]

Don't be impressed w/most screenshots posted about "miraculous" battery life.

The abovementioned doesn't even have data or WI-FI turned on.

It's kinda like having a "FERRARI",only upon further inspection that you find it's a kit car based on a VW BEETLE chassis/drivetrain.

Nothing to look at here people,............

Yeah, what a coincidence

Why don't ya post a shot of BIGFOOT while you're at it next time...... & while you're at it, take a 2nd look at the thread title before posting....

Here you go, bro:

Pretty cool shit eh ?