Ches111 said:
Do you have a Live Wallpaper running? Such as Windy Weather or the Animated Weather application? Both Windy Weather and Animated Weather do near constant data dips even though they are told not to. Just a thought. I turned on the CPU monitor on my S3 and found these to be using cycles. They may have been the culprit for me (keeping for deep sleep).
Thanks for your replies Ches111, I don't have a live wallpaper running no, I changed the stock wallpaper for just a picture of a little green android robot thing lol, its not live though. I also changed the lock screen background for just a basic photo in the hope it may help.
Ches111 said:
Also do you see mediaserver in your list of services using much? If so you may follow this thread for the eris:
http://androidforums.com/eris-support-troubleshooting/217747-mediaserver-using-battery.html
Just reaching now but trying to help
I appreciate that, I don't have media server no, as far as I can see anyway, I sometimes have one called 'Media', but that appears to have gone now. I have however already deleted all my photos, music etc.
In the battery section, I have:
Cell standby, Device Idle. Android System and Android OS. (No screen usage as I'm not using it at all during testing)
My exhaustive list of running apps include:
Settings, Software update, Factory mode, MapServiceSamsung, BroadcomMEMsService, Google Services, Maps.
I have obviously been reading other threads in the hope of picking up a vital bit of information and I downloaded an app that somebody mentioned called 'GSam Battery Monitor'.
After a test with this, it gives me the following information;
Phone Radio - 94.9%
Phone 0.2%
Android System - 1.4%
Screen - 2.9%
Kernel - 0.3%
System (*wakelock*) - 0.3%
All that, and the BBS stats, and all the tests I have done, with combinations of various/all apps removed, sync on/off, no emails, case off, upstairs, downstairs, at work, in factory state etc etc etc etc etc (probably hundreds by now lol) seems normal to me, apart from the massive standout of phone radio.
Then when I click on Phone radio within the 'GSam Battery Monitor' app to see more information it says I had (on a scale of 1-5, 5 being high) a 5) signal for 99% of the time, and the other 1% was a 4. So I clearly have a good signal, but the cell radio seems to be the problem?
This goes back a full circle, to the cell radio issue and false reporting, but other than the false reporting is there actually a cell radio issue on some phones?
I guess only Samsung can answer that, and maybe that is the 'fix' they said they were aware of and working on (copy of which can be seen in my original post).
I think I will have to either:
A) Contact the store I purchased from and try a new battery/GS3.
B) Seek a refund.
C) Hold out, and wait indefinitely for a fix from Samsung, Three, a forum member or whoever/wherever the problem lay (If there will ever be a fix, who knows)
I'm still more than happy to try any suggestions people have, but I must admit I am, slowly losing hope :hmmmm:.
Thanks, John