Full battery drain after minor use. i8190L - Galaxy S III Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Fellows.
I've a serious problem with my phone. After I updated it to a stock rom (BRAZIL latest 4.1.2, released November 2013). My phone has started to drain its battery to levels I've not seen before. Let me explain.
I woke up on the morning with 100% charged phone, use it to play some music on my way to work, a little whatsapp, twitter an FB and usddenly it reboots. Then, when is loading up, gives me the beeps of "low battery" and is 7% or 0% and it keeps rebooting. I wait about 10 minutes after remove the battery to power it on again and works, but the battery is now 34% and so on it changes within the days this happened. Checking the battery status, it shows me this: (look how many minutes had benn on the phone, just 33)
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And this are my stats for the use (note that I haven't use chrome)
And, what is keeping me doubtfull, is that the ANDROID OS drain so much battery! this time is less, other times is 50%
So far I've returned to an stock from Chile (my country) but it keeps doing the same thing. So does anyone knows something about it? or like this?
I haven't delete all the stuff after re flash the stock version from my country. Will do it now. Please, any help will be very helpfull and sorry for the long post.

Installed a new custom rom, nothing happened. Still having those battery drains. Could it be possible that my battery has died? please! any help will be awesome.
EDIT: Since no one answered I've figure it out that the problem was the battery. Replaced it and everything is normal now. Original battery was getting "fat". Thanks guys.

nanox_al said:
Installed a new custom rom, nothing happened. Still having those battery drains. Could it be possible that my battery has died? please! any help will be awesome.
EDIT: Since no one answered I've figure it out that the problem was the battery. Replaced it and everything is normal now. Original battery was getting "fat". Thanks guys.
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You got it right. First thing you need to do is physical symptoms. A battery that swells is a sign that it needs to be replaced. :good:
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Walseth said:
You got it right. First thing you need to do is physical symptoms. A battery that swells is a sign that it needs to be replaced. :good:
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Also, just a piece of advice, as much as possible do not use the phone while charging and try not to use live themes as these eats up your battery juice fast.

Walseth said:
You got it right. First thing you need to do is physical symptoms. A battery that swells is a sign that it needs to be replaced. :good:
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Also, just a piece of advice, as much as possible do not use the phone while charging and try not to use live themes as these eats up your battery juice fast.
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I have the exact same problem. Only my battery isn't swollen, that's the first thing I checked. I don't know what to do.. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!
EDIT: Battery WAS in fact swollen, but not much, anyways solved the problem with a new one!

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New battery does not hold charge

New battery was drained and fully charged while the phone was off.
Now it drains to 15% after less then 12 hours of average use.
When charger is unplugged the battery imm goes down to 97%
what is the best way to improve the battery performance ?
Don't use it as much
Everything has a work in time, your phone needs to forget about old battery and dance with a new partner. Give it a chance...
Oh and search is a good thing. This phone isn't cutting edge anymore.
Sent from my brain to your eyes
12-13 hours battery is good.
Reset battery stats
Sent from my unbrickable cappy *bam*
Did you get this battery from china?
It probably has like 800mah.
Is there any battery today that does not originate in China ?
It is marked "SAMSUNG G7 1500mah".
I already tried to calibrate the battery about a week ago using a market application that claims to perform a reset of the battery stats.
after the reset I drained the battery for 3 days and recharged while the phone was off every night (during those 3 days).
then for the first few days the battery actually held up nicely reaching 50-60% after 12 hours.
after a week or so it started to drain more rapidly reaching 15-20% in the evening.
It also fails to hold 100% when the charger is unplugged, going straight to 97%.
should I try another battery or is there a another way to calibrate the battery ?
What does your 'Battery Use' say is using most of your battery?
kalda01 said:
Is there any battery today that does not originate in China ?
It is marked "SAMSUNG G7 1500mah".
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Its still quite possibly a fake samsung battery. Did it come from a reputable seller at least? If yes return it.
Heres an example of battery life with a genuine samsung 1500mah battery
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Hey BenKranged
What APP did you use for that screen capture? I know this has nothing to do with this post but looking for one on the market and there are so many to choose from.
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Hey BenKranged
What APP did you use for that screen capture? I know this has nothing to do with this post but looking for one on the market and there are so many to choose from.
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I've had good luck with the ShootMe app. (Sorry, I'm not BenKranged, but I thought I'd throw that out there.)
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I've had good luck with the ShootMe app. (Sorry, I'm not BenKranged, but I thought I'd throw that out there.)
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Thanks I will give it a try
Shootme is what I used.
Afaik pretty much all screenshot apps require root.
beast534 said:
What does your 'Battery Use' say is using most of your battery?
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Over 50% is used by "Display".
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Is there a way to identify a genuine non-fake G7 battery ?
That's how mine looks. My battery does seem to drain fast when I am actually using it. But, also when I'm not using it, it seems to keep at a steady battery level for a while. I guess it's a trade off. I also use Juice Defender which definitely helps.
I probably used juice defender for about 4 months. Then I tried running without it and found I got equal or better battery life.

Battery drain JB LSA

I observe of the 2 jb leaks ls7 and lsa, I find battery drain is more in lsa. Did anyone else experience the same?
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Pff I don't call it drain, I call it waste...
I thought LS7 was bad, but LSA is really crazy...
Losing 20% battery in 2 hours while the screen is off and the phone is idle/standby.
the battery drain in the jb leak was pretty high ...so I moved to alliance jb rom . my battery life is decent now.
I just did a whole day at uni with heavy use for most the day wifi on nearly the whole day.... after 11 ish hours i had 15% left ..... ultimate lsa.... seems good to me.
No. LSA is greattt here
Dsteppa said:
Pff I don't call it drain, I call it waste...
I thought LS7 was bad, but LSA is really crazy...
Losing 20% battery in 2 hours while the screen is off and the phone is idle/standby.
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may be you got wakelocks.. LSA is pretty good, lost 5% in 12 hrs with deep sleep
nokiamodeln91 said:
may be you got wakelocks.. LSA is pretty good, lost 5% in 12 hrs with deep sleep
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post the screenshot of settings > battery and click on the graph
i have no battery issue on XXlsa
i check with CPU spy and deep sleep very good
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post the screenshot of settings > battery and click on the graph
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No clue though why 2 programs say that it's 7h+, but the other says 9h+
I never had battery issues on LS7.
When I first flashed LSA it was draining like mad.
No other problems though. After two days of 'burn in'
without any improvement, I decided to wipe cache+dalvik+battery.
Result : Bootloop. Only solution, full wipe + 3formats and reflash.
After this my battery life is normal.
Hope my story will help some, just wipe and reflash.....
Oh and I didn't recover anything by titanium, I just reinstalled my apps from playstore
both times I flashed.
Just for being complete: I followed the flash instructions of the OP as usual
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I never had battery issues on LS7.
When I first flashed LSA it was draining like mad.
No other problems though. After two days of 'burn in'
without any improvement, I decided to wipe cache+dalvik+battery.
Result : Bootloop. Only solution, full wipe + 3formats and reflash.
After this my battery life is normal.
Hope my story will help some, just wipe and reflash.....
Oh and I didn't recover anything by titanium, I just reinstalled my apps from playstore
both times I flashed.
Just for being complete: I followed the flash instructions of the OP as usual
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Hmm that could be a/the solution. I did use titanium.
Even though I only recovered like 1 program with titanium.
I'll give it a try later

Battery life question

Sup guys I have been having issues with awake time. While I'm still getting good batter life I'm thinking it could be better if I figure out what's keeping my phone awake. Well today I was in a not so great service area for most of the day and I see my awake time coincides with the bad service area. When it goes green the phone sleeps when its yellow it is awake. Is this a known thing for bad service to keep the phone awake? I know it searches for signal and burns more battery but I did not know if it should be awake. Thoughts?
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r.storm85 said:
Sup guys I have been having issues with awake time. While I'm still getting good batter life I'm thinking it could be better if I figure out what's keeping my phone awake. Well today I was in a not so great service area for most of the day and I see my awake time coincides with the bad service area. When it goes green the phone sleeps when its yellow it is awake. Is this a known thing for bad service to keep the phone awake? I know it searches for signal and burns more battery but I did not know if it should be awake. Thoughts?
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Are you rooted? I doubt its just from radio. Something is constantly waking your phone. But you need gsam or wakelock detector to show you what is waking the phone. Without root, its not so easy to find out tho.
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And no, that is not good battery life. For the amount of screen time it seems you have there, the battery should still be at 50 or 60...or more, percent.
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Are you rooted? I doubt its just from radio. Something is constantly waking your phone. But you need gsam or wakelock detector to show you what is waking the phone. Without root, its not so easy to find out tho.
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And no, that is not good battery life. For the amount of screen time it seems you have there, the battery should still be at 50 or 60...or more, percent.
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No I'm not rooted and would rather not. I just shut off Google now. Gonna see what that does. Never use it anyway
But do you see how the awake happens when I go into yellow or worse signal. Is that weird or what?
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No I'm not rooted and would rather not. I just shut off Google now. Gonna see what that does. Never use it anyway
But do you see how the awake happens when I go into yellow or worse signal. Is that weird or what?
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It actually seems pretty consistent to me, green or yellow.
Its probably an app or service. Without root, very hard to track down.
Try turning off gnow, location services completely off, in Google settings app...uncheck both options in android device manager.. And then turn off sync completely in your Google account settings....and see how it is then. If it still happens, its an app for sure. You'll have to track it down by process of elimination. If all that stops it, then turn things on one at a time....with a few hours in between...until you catch the culprit.
Good luck!!
Great I will do that. Thanks man
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[Q] feel like returning after battery life ?

Anyone felt like returning this phones after a week cause of battery life?
Im not cause its not that bad and maybe a custom ROM may be able to work on that just looking for other people's experience and what they think thanks!
It's useable with a few temp.. tweaks .
The bottom line is this all occurs with lollipop in general S5 was great on kitkat ...until 5.0
It's not the phone it's features and O.S
People are disabling Volte and WiFi calling it helps a lot
I wouldn't return it over battery life yet the camera is way to good
Give it time We get roms soon and mods it's I take back everything +I said
Samsung needs to take back every s6 and Rethink there whole O.S
For a 750$ flag ship release its so buggy it's hopeless .
Camera is only worthwhile feature
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Do one factory reset and set up phone again and disable VOLTE FOR NOW under Phone /More .
Cycle the battery meaning charge filly and let it fully drain as far as you can before recharging again .Another words don't fully charge it when it hits 40%
This is true the battery's learn a drain span
I'f you recharge anything above 10% it isn't gonna learn it's max capacity Takes like a week.
The main fix is Volte disable and WiFi calling
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i turned off volte i dont really see the need for it i mean its a phone call why do you need such high speeds lol my phone is at 2 percent waiting for it to die lol thanks
If it wasn't for the rapid quick charge I probably would have
returned it but the fact that I can top off in a half an hour it's really not a problem getting through the day.
I think it has something to do that the phone is not going to deep sleep, i rooted mine and flashed a custom kernel, now it does deep sleep and battery is ok now
While battery life isn't as good as some phones I've used recently I still got 5hrs SOT yesterday. Not bad at all.
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dc82 said:
While battery life isn't as good as some phones I've used recently I still got 5hrs SOT yesterday. Not bad at all.
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That is pretty good for this phone ....
Has anyone tried going into Developer Options }Limit Back
Ground Processes to 4 ?
I wonder if this barely slows the Phone for most things but might give an additional ( wild guess 10% to 25%) Battery Life.
I don't have one but if this works....be easier for me to decide.
I may put this idea in a separate Thread.
robertkoa said:
That is pretty good for this phone ....
Has anyone tried going into Developer Options }Limit Back
Ground Processes to 4 ?
I wonder if this barely slows the Phone for most things but might give an additional ( wild guess 10% to 25%) Battery Life.
I don't have one but if this works....be easier for me to decide.
I may put this idea in a separate Thread.
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Yea I can't complain about battery life. The screen is so ridiculous I end up using the phone for no reason, so my usage at least for now since it's new, isn't my normal usage.
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Real battery capacity?

Hello everybody! I own a Huawei P9 running Eva-L19 version. And using whatever root app inside my phone, they all shows that my phone has a 2900maH battery. What seems weird is that on every site, GSMArena etc. they all say that Huawei P9 has got a 3000maH battery. Few months ago I've dropped my phone and crack the screen and went into factory, I'm thinking would it be that my battery has been changed...? I don't remember what is the battery capacity showed before it went into factory, thats the problem! It would be kind for anyone to confirm with me what's their battery capacity. Thanksss
my eva-l19 right now on resurection remix android 7.1.2
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Normally wiping battery stats dont do anything in newer devices/android versions(in terms of making battery last longer), but you can try turning off phone, charge it to full and wipe battery stats. Maybe battery was disconnected and phone dont see it properly(but I doubt it... )
As for my phone Its 3000maH on all apps that check it.
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my eva-l19 right now on resurection remix android 7.1.2
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thanks a lot! it's kind of you to even attach a screenshot, altho it's kind of sad knowing I'm the only one with 2900mah battery
roottree said:
thanks a lot! it's kind of you to even attach a screenshot, altho it's kind of sad knowing I'm the only one with 2900mah battery
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Its just a number on some apps. It would be sad if your battery life would be worst than normal. Its imposible to say how long battery will last because everyone use phones differently, they have different apps working in background and features enabled/disabled but no matter of OS version average should be two days before battery on P9 reach 5%
And taht is with LTE turned off(that is one of most power hungry feature in every phone. Tip: just dont use it, HSPA is enough to stream even 1080 videos)
I normally have 40% at the end of the day because I have Gear Fit synced and I use NFC and GPS all the time, but even if phone would have 2900mah battery difference should be not bigger than 5% So dont worry about it that much.
Akinaro said:
Its just a number on some apps. It would be sad if your battery life would be worst than normal. Its imposible to say how long battery will last because everyone use phones differently, they have different apps working in background and features enabled/disabled but no matter of OS version average should be two days before battery on P9 reach 5%
And taht is with LTE turned off(that is one of most power hungry feature in every phone. Tip: just dont use it, HSPA is enough to stream even 1080 videos)
I normally have 40% at the end of the day because I have Gear Fit synced and I use NFC and GPS all the time, but even if phone would have 2900mah battery difference should be not bigger than 5% So dont worry about it that much.
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Thanks a lot! Will try and monitor how my phone behaves this few weeks. But yeah, since its just 100mah, guess I'll just sleep with it

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