Battery life - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've installed almost every roms. Even installed golden kernel. Hotplug and cqf combination. Did full wipe. Howw come my battery did not last more than a day? I alwats notice in settings >battery. My screen is always high. Its eating up my battery. Stays at 55% to 60%. anyone have idea?
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Thats cuz your brightness is too high.
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It is not. Anyone can give advice?
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with full usage i get about 6 hours, heavy youtube, facebook, texting. But with medium usage music surf web for 30 mins i get about 1.5 days. And little usage i last up to 2.5 days.

b2dj said:
I've installed almost every roms. Even installed golden kernel. Hotplug and cqf combination. Did full wipe. Howw come my battery did not last more than a day? I alwats notice in settings >battery. My screen is always high. Its eating up my battery. Stays at 55% to 60%. anyone have idea?
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Whats your brightness at? If screen is eating up all your battery, most probably it is too high

I put it in the minimum. Im kinda paranoid that my phone has hardware issue but the phone is working fine. Im still finding solution why im having this prob. Still not losing hope. Lols.
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b2dj said:
I put it in the minimum. Im kinda paranoid that my phone has hardware issue but the phone is working fine. Im still finding solution why im having this prob. Still not losing hope. Lols.
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if you've tried goldenkernel v2? then setting the hotplug and battery saver mode on, hopefully this can help you, especially if you use benzrom v6

Recalibrate your battery. Thats what helped me. my device can last 9 hours and still remain 70% battery with normal usage.
Heres how i callibrate.
1) download battery callibration in market.
2) charge the device till 100% (Dont plug it out)
3) power off the phone. I dont know if this will work on ur phone but i get 0% again. So charge it fully again.
4) once it shows 100% , unplug and plug it in again and wait till it reaches 100%. Do it for 4-5 times then reboot.
5) when your phone boots up, it wont be fully charged, so leave it charged till the battery full indicator shows up. Unplug and plug it in to charge again. Keep doing it for 10 times and the battery full indicator will pop up even quickier then the first time.
6) once u done it, open battery callibration and click callibrate.
7) after that, unplug your device and use it . The battery will last very long.
8) use the battery till 1-5%, u can completely drain it but i didnt do that cause some of my data will be removed after i completely drain my device.
9) charge it up to 100% again but dont use it while charging.
10) after that, enjoy ur battery life

RayQ1223 said:
Recalibrate your battery. Thats what helped me. my device can last 9 hours and still remain 70% battery with normal usage.
Heres how i callibrate.
1) download battery callibration in market.
2) charge the device till 100% (Dont plug it out)
3) power off the phone. I dont know if this will work on ur phone but i get 0% again. So charge it fully again.
4) once it shows 100% , unplug and plug it in again and wait till it reaches 100%. Do it for 4-5 times then reboot.
5) when your phone boots up, it wont be fully charged, so leave it charged till the battery full indicator shows up. Unplug and plug it in to charge again. Keep doing it for 10 times and the battery full indicator will pop up even quickier then the first time.
6) once u done it, open battery callibration and click callibrate.
7) after that, unplug your device and use it . The battery will last very long.
8) use the battery till 1-5%, u can completely drain it but i didnt do that cause some of my data will be removed after i completely drain my device.
9) charge it up to 100% again but dont use it while charging.
10) after that, enjoy ur battery life
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Battery calibration is a useless, it does not help with battery life
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1460553
b2dj said:
I've installed almost every roms. Even installed golden kernel. Hotplug and cqf combination. Did full wipe. Howw come my battery did not last more than a day? I alwats notice in settings >battery. My screen is always high. Its eating up my battery. Stays at 55% to 60%. anyone have idea?
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Try using Better Battery Stats (you can get it free from xda) and use your phone normally for a day then see what is draining your battery

Anyone can help me pls?
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Also my phone is always warm.
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Two battery related questions

Ok first, it seems when I shut my screen off and its not doing anything, the battery seems to just drain. I'll be using it for like 10 minutes and maybe lose 1 or 2 percent of charge, but then I turn the phone back on, it lost like 8 percent. I don't get it.
Second, whenever I completely shut off my phone, it usually looses around 10% of power. Just now, I reset it and lost 20% of the charge. I mean wtf?
If anyone could help me out here and explain this that'd be great.
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Go to menu, settings, about phone, battery, and click on battery use...what does it say? Also, you might want to cycle your battery a couple times to maximize the performance.
If all else fails recalibrate your battery.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6399061&postcount=3546
Dave2582 said:
Go to menu, settings, about phone, battery, and click on battery use...what does it say? Also, you might want to cycle your battery a couple times to maximize the performance.
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Display 42%
Cell Standby 35%
Wi-Fi 23%
That's it.
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problem with battery please help

Hey guys
I have problem with battery
Now my battery 40% when left note sleep up to 3h i back i see battery 41%
I saw it with custom roms and stock i tried all kernels
And problems sometimes appear and sometimes no i tried wipe battery and
No diffrent
I want to destroy this problem for ever
Thanks alot.
No One Know How i can fix it ?
I don't think it's a bug.
I'm pretty sure it's just the way it estimates your battery percentage.
Here's how I think it works.
If you've been using your phone for, say, 3 hours straight, your phone calculates your drain rate like batt%/min or something.
And judging by how long you've used it for, it will estimate the approximate percentage of battery remaining.
When it's on deep sleep for a while, not only is the clock rate different (probably <200mHz at deep sleep), but the drain rate will change too.
The phone will re-estimate the battery percentage according to that new rate, hence the different (often higher) battery percentage, after a period of inactivity.
I could be completely wrong, but that's how I see it.
Thanks for ur Idea Brother
Any one have other Idea ?
I didnt get your problem....
Is your battery draining fast???you mean to say this???
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shivg86 said:
I didnt get your problem....
Is your battery draining fast???you mean to say this???
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Hmmm i mean My Battery sometimes up 1% with itself
Charge your battery overnight n Wipe your battery stats in recovery.
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little-vince said:
I don't think it's a bug.
I'm pretty sure it's just the way it estimates your battery percentage.
Here's how I think it works.
If you've been using your phone for, say, 3 hours straight, your phone calculates your drain rate like batt%/min or something.
And judging by how long you've used it for, it will estimate the approximate percentage of battery remaining.
When it's on deep sleep for a while, not only is the clock rate different (probably <200mHz at deep sleep), but the drain rate will change too.
The phone will re-estimate the battery percentage according to that new rate, hence the different (often higher) battery percentage, after a period of inactivity.
I could be completely wrong, but that's how I see it.
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This might right ... I event experienced ..battery almost empty ..after restart the phone ..1 bar become 2 bars on battery indication ..
Portgas-D-Asce said:
Hmmm i mean My Battery sometimes up 1% with itself
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If Battery drain is your problem, try this-
Discharge your battery till it switch off automatically
Now connect your charger in switch off mode and charge it till the full.
Now after recharging it fully, unplug your charger from the socket.
Go to recovery mode and go to advance,wipe battery stats and restart your device.
HIT THANKS BUTTON,AS IT IS MANDATORY.
shivg86 said:
If Battery drain is your problem, try this-
Discharge your battery till it switch off automatically
Now connect your charger in switch off mode and charge it till the full.
Now after recharging it fully, unplug your charger from the socket.
Go to recovery mode and go to advance,wipe battery stats and restart your device.
HIT THANKS BUTTON,AS IT IS MANDATORY.
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Brother my Battery Not Drain its Incrase 1% with itself on deep sleep

[Q] my new High capacity batter!

Hi I got a new 1900mAH battery (By Feipusi) and I use it for a week now, though I noticed it doesn't do it full work and the battery status bar is sometimes incorrect, is it true I need to discharge->charge it 4-5 times? Do I need to charge it when the phone is off?
xXJaSoN21Xx said:
Hi I got a new 1900mAH battery (By Feipusi) and I use it for a week now, though I noticed it doesn't do it full work and the battery status bar is sometimes incorrect, is it true I need to discharge->charge it 4-5 times? Do I need to charge it when the phone is off?
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Hello!
Have you wiped battery stats? And after every rom flashing I charge fully, than discharge fully my phone once! So it's not needed to charge and discharge fully your phone 4 or 5 times....
When I discharge and charge again do I need to turn off my phone?
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xXJaSoN21Xx said:
When I discharge and charge again do I need to turn off my phone?
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First charge up the phone, and wipe battery stats in CWM or with an app from the Play.
Than let the phone copletelly drain and it will turn off itself... Than charge up fully and turn it on. :good:
And you will have a nice, calibrated battery.
ok I downloaded a tool, it says STEP 2 OVERIDE, what does that mean?

Xperia Z - fast discharging at around 30% (4.1.2 software .253)

I've got a doubt about battery discharging in my phone. When it normally discharges from 100 to 35% everything is in normal, with similar drops every hour for ex. 2 days. But (even in standby) when battery is on app 35% I see very fast drop to 25-20% in couple mins. At the beggining I thought it is maybe broken cell in battery but I notice that around camera surface is warm, not hot. So it is probably matter of software. What drains my battery so fast and always at app 35-30%? Do you have similar issues? I made factory wipe few charging cycles ago but it did not make any changes.
Do you use any of the power management settings like stamina more or....
What apps do you have installed?
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Yes, I always use stamina, I switched it off just before taking picture. I use dropbox, GO backup, Network Singal Info, netmonitor, Gmail and one additional mailbox. I have Google backup - off, Hangouty - logged off, google now - off.
Well, I don't use stamina mode anymore. I too had these sudden drops when stamina mode was on.
Try switching off stamina for a couple of cycles.
If you find that there are no drops, then you have your culprit.
So you mean not use stamina at all or switch it off at around app. 50%?
Try without stamina mode.
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Ok, I'll give feedback in few days. Thanks.
Get root access, charge to 100%,delete battery stats(or use battery calibration app),drain battery to 0%,charge again to 100%, now see if still the same problem...
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I've tried once without stamina but I got visible faster discharging so now after update to 4.2.2 I am testing with stamina ON.
rtanner85 said:
Get root access, charge to 100%,delete battery stats(or use battery calibration app),drain battery to 0%,charge again to 100%, now see if still the same problem...
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Deleting battery stats does nothing. I post this every time I see someone recommend it, but I feel that the point needs driving home until people realise that it is a placebo at best.
https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13dgb0rksywh3muq222fzkqnwfgdbgrk04
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my opinion
Sorry, it will not improve your battery, just if you have wrong indicated battery %,it maybe solve that. I solved a problem like that.my battery went from 50% down to 18 in a cuple of min.after deleting the stats and a few charges it was O.
rtanner85 said:
Sorry, it will not improve your battery, just if you have wrong indicated battery %,it maybe solve that. I solved a problem like that.my battery went from 50% down to 18 in a cuple of min.after deleting the stats and a few charges it was O.
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No. The batterystats.bin file has no relation to the percentage displayed in the notification bar. It is used to calculate the usage statistics displayed in the battery usage section of settings. Nothing more. The file is deleted every time the battery is fully or nearly fully charged anyway.
The G+ post I linked to was written by an Android framework engineer, so I think they know their stuff
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Ok,maybe i'm wrong,but somehow my problem was solved
I am sure that I hadn't wrong percentages but period of strange drain battery (when % suddenly drops) because I felt warm temperature around camera. So I suspect any strange thread/wakelock/trigger.

Problem with battery

Hi guys,i installed this ROM yesterday to my GT-S5830
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2212438
Now i have a problem with battery, this morning I charged it to maximum, and after 5 hours after getting off the charger (and about 45 minutes of effective usage (reading news and using facebook over mobile data)) battery level is 13%...
When I go into Battery stats it says that Screen uses 100% of battery ,and it's Time on is 1h 1m 6s
Brightness is set to 50%.
What could be the problem?
I'd guess that you can't go into deep sleep mode and that some kind off app is waking up your device..
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Blackbox421 said:
I'd guess that you can't go into deep sleep mode and that some kind off app is waking up your device..
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That came to my mind too. How can i find which app is waking it?
I have installed WakeLock Detector, and it showed that Facebook made 120 wakelocks over night, though Facebook is not even listed in Battery stats.
I have set refresh interval of facebook to 1 hour, chat is off, how do I solve this problem, my phone is almost unusable with battery like this?
guys please help me, i deleted facebook completely, but it's not problem, when I get phone off the charger and use it for few minutes, battery drops to 70%!! It should not be battery issue,as when I used it with stock ROM there until few days ago it was OK. I've done Wipe battery stats in CWM after ROM install.
Try a full wipe & flash your rom again.
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