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[Q] Battery life has gone down the drain, plus lots of bugs. WHY?

I've had my captivate for over a year now, with mixed results.
Honestly i love the phone, and if i could work out my issues, probably can go another year without having to get a new phone.
My biggest problems are the battery, and the bugs.
When i bought my phone my battery life was ok. When i finally put a custom rom on and re-calibrated my battery, i would go as far as to say it was pretty good. (I even have a screen shot from the good ol days when i would go to work, and come home, and it would say something like - unplugged for 11 hours, and i would be at ~70 percent)
Now on an average day, i leave for work at about 630 and when i get out at 2 its usually down to 20-30 percent. I actually own 2 captivates and its the same case with both of them.
I dont understand what is different now from before. Ive actually tried the old roms which i got such good battery life from (serendipty 6.2 i think, and cognition) and still its terrible now.
I have recently used apex, cyanogenmod, miui, GR12, and maybe a few other, all with terrible battery and bugs.
Thats the next issue, the bugs are getting to a point where the phone is almost unusuable.
Many times google voice has just failed on me. Ill get out of work and see no texts, my data will work, so i figured theres no problem, but then ill restart my phone and everything will come in.
Im currently using apex, so thats my biggest problem with bugs, but cyanogenmod/miui were really bad.
Then theres the ugly, which is when my battery goes in super drain mode. Itll go down 1 percent every 2-3 mins sometimes, and the only way to halt the super drain is to plug it in for a few mins
I dont get what the difference is from then to now, but i was wondering if anyone else experiences these issues.
Maybe its the way im flashing or something, i dont really know anymore.
Any suggestions?

Have you seen which process/app is eating your battery? Could possibly be an app from market causing this

what is it you need from a custom rom? i've found i get the best battery life and stability from stock samsung roms, ie KH3. CM7 was wiped about 15 minutes after flashing.. it seems very experimental on the captivate, definitely no way i'd be able to use that as a daily rom

I had the same issue when i was using CM7. more battery drain on standby. Now i m using KH3, there is no battery drain on standby.
Try KH3 based ROM, if you are losing battery on standby

Well havent tried a KH3 rom yet, but i think apex is js7 based, which is an official rom.
I agree CM7 was very buggy, but ive seen the same with apex.
Honestly I used to get awesome battery life with cognition, and i reflashed that same rom, and now it sucks.
The only apps i have installed are:
adobe reader
beautiful widgets
colornote
docs 2 go
google voice
maps
pandora
screenshot
titanioum backup
zeam launcher
My biggest reasons for using a custom rom are:
tethering
adblocking
not as laggy (RFS)
screenshots
maybe a few more
I would glady give it up though if i could get some good battery life, and no bugs.
Am i better off just going back to stock jf6 and letting my phone update automatically?
Or should i try out a kh3 based rom? or just KH3 Stock?

i'm getting the best battery life from kh3. js7 is an i9000 rom that is not specifically optimized for the captivate so it may not be as good as kh3. regarding reasons for custom roms, i have all of that (except RFS) on the stock rom using these apps: adfree, screenshot er, open garden wifi tether -- all work great

Js7 is froyo.
apex is jvr gingerbread.
Both I9000 firmware.
Idk what you mean by "optimized for our device" but let me just say from personal experience that porting I9000, we don't just grab a firmware and theme it. There is coding to make it work. Plus I9000 has this thing called SOURCE CODE so that you can have a much more customizable kernel, instead of the time it takes to reverse engineer a kernel and then try to add things to it.
All in all custom roms will always be better than stock, because they take stock and improve on it. Also there is no such thing as bug free as every one uses their phone differently with different apps that may effect the phone in odd ways. You will have to just experiment and see what works best for you and your phone.

studacris said:
let me just say from personal experience that porting I9000, we don't just grab a firmware and theme it. There is coding to make it work. Plus I9000 has this thing called SOURCE CODE so that you can have a much more customizable kernel, instead of the time it takes to reverse engineer a kernel and then try to add things to it.
All in all custom roms will always be better than stock, because they take stock and improve on it. Also there is no such thing as bug free as every one uses their phone differently with different apps that may effect the phone in odd ways. You will have to just experiment and see what works best for you and your phone.
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i don't see how a modified i9000 (J**) rom/kernel could ever have better battery life or general stability than a stock K** rom on the captivate. the way i look at it, there is a great value in having root on the phone, but not so much in having a custom rom. i just haven't stumbled on any rom that will give me a better experience than stock while at the same time keep the battery life. i've tried quite a few.
this is coming from a standpoint where battery life and stability are a priority

[Q] Optimus 2x rom choice

So i am using topogiris ics Rom but i have 2 major problems , the battery drops really fast ( 8 hours without any serious use ) and its really laggy ..
i cant use the phone properly anymore , so my question is ... From your experiences which rom should i use ? i dont care if it is gb , ics or jb , i only want the phone to be fast and bug free ... I've got a tablet and now i use the phone only for facebook , camera and calls nothing else so i want a simple and fast rom ...

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ChrisAttart said:
So i am using topogiris ics Rom but i have 2 major problems , the battery drops really fast ( 8 hours without any serious use ) and its really laggy ..
i cant use the phone properly anymore , so my question is ... From your experiences which rom should i use ? i dont care if it is gb , ics or jb , i only want the phone to be fast and bug free ... I've got a tablet and now i use the phone only for facebook , camera and calls nothing else so i want a simple and fast rom ...
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With DjangoManouche ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2038631 ) i get about 10 hours batterylife, with light use, the rom is very smooth though.

You don't care if it's gb and it has to be bugfree well obvious!
CM7 or customg gb from stefan or carburano
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My options would be, a CM7 ROM, Stock ICS from LG (i warn you, it looks like crap) or Djang Manouche.
Hope it helps!

I am using Raums's 4.2.1 Rom for daily use....
Its pretty smooth and has a good battery backup(I easily get 10+ hours with wifi turned off)

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ChrisAttart said:
So i am using topogiris ics Rom but i have 2 major problems , the battery drops really fast ( 8 hours without any serious use ) and its really laggy ..
i cant use the phone properly anymore , so my question is ... From your experiences which rom should i use ? i dont care if it is gb , ics or jb , i only want the phone to be fast and bug free ... I've got a tablet and now i use the phone only for facebook , camera and calls nothing else so i want a simple and fast rom ...
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I use CM10 by pengus on new boot loader, it is perfectly stable.
I take it off charge at 6 in the morning check emails and new and use it through work for texting and watching the forums it will consume about 10% of the battery when i get home at 4.
It is soo smooth still makes people drool with the compositing. Especially those stuck with ics.
You can also flash the lg camera from ics to have great photos including wide screen, and videos that dont auto focus every 30 seconds.

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williamsjp said:
I use CM10 by pengus on new boot loader, it is perfectly stable.
I take it off charge at 6 in the morning check emails and new and use it through work for texting and watching the forums it will consume about 10% of the battery when i get home at 4.
It is soo smooth still makes people drool with the compositing. Especially those stuck with ics.
You can also flash the lg camera from ics to have great photos including wide screen, and videos that dont auto focus every 30 seconds.
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I use CM10 from Pengus77 as well. Great rom, smoothest and fastest I tried so far and I haven't found any bugs yet! About the battery life I san't say too much, I just flashed it yesterday but without wifi it consumed 2% battery overnight:good: when in use it consumes just at much as the stock rom i think.
Camera isn't included so you got to download it from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2091599
And here is the link to the rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2058231

Niel6s said:
I use CM10 from Pengus77 as well. Great rom, smoothest and fastest I tried so far and I haven't found any bugs yet! About the battery life I san't say too much, I just flashed it yesterday but without wifi it consumed 2% battery overnight:good: when in use it consumes just at much as the stock rom i think.
Camera isn't included so you got to download it from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2091599
And here is the link to the rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2058231
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django manouche, havent found any bugs

[Q] how to clear phone

I've got a rooted galaxy note, and have been using a few different roms recently,
i stuck with 1 certain rom and the battery is fine, lasting me a full day easily.
but recently after changing roms a few times, it dont matter which rom i use, my battery dies really quickly.
so, my question is....
could this be because i've changed roms a few times?
and is there a file or something i can go into and erase all the stuff i dont use on the phone?
I'm lost as to why my phone dies so quickly now.

this isn't due to flashing of many different roms. i have flashed 9 roms in a single day! the problem here is maybe the roms that you flashed are making the phone run on high cpu speeds thus rendering a bad battery performance. i'll strongly recommend you the 4.2.2 supernexus rom by faryaab. it is very limited in functionality but it is a bug-free stable rom which provides an excellent battery performance

[Q] CM 11 official nightlies - wifi, battery and stability

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues with the latest official CM 11 (http://www.cmxlog.com/11/maserati/#)?
1. The biggest issue I have...Wifi doesn't switch to LTE when the phone is out of the wifi network range unless I manually turn off wifi. Is there a setting I could modify?
2. Battery drain seems higher than on the stock rom. Processes that use more than I remember are Android system and Android OS. I have BetterBatteryStats installed. Is there something I should look for?
3. There is more RAM available which makes the ROM seem more fluid than stock at times, but I experience an occasional freeze and reboot.
How is Stargo's CM ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2535705) different than the official ROM?
Because I have fewer than 10 post I was unable to post to the ROM section. I hope this is OK.

Stargos rom is much much better than the officals, wifi switches to lte just fine, good connection to mobile as well, don't have random reboots really. Only funny thing I get is xda vanishes every time I reboot or update the nightly
Sent from my XT894 using xda app-developers app

Ive had battery issues too with CM11. After charging all night and it showing 100% it dies with 4-5 hours with me not even on it. As of today i bought a replacement battery and installed it. It 2100mh battery than original 1785mh. I got for 20 bucks off E bay. Hopefully this well help my phone. I love my D4 and the CM 11 make it sweet. I report any new changes. I really hope it not CM 11 and wasn't the battery but after almost 2 1/2 years I think battery was going weak.

I've used Stargo's CM11 for a bit and it worked great switching between LTE and Wifi. The Battery life was pretty great too. I have not used the official CM11, but Stargo's is pretty solid.
I've been trying the SlimKat build out, but the latest install won't boot, so I may switch back to stock or Stargo.
The only issue I really had with Stargo's was I would have to get a separate MMS app to be able to get MMS messages as the APN did not work for MMS for some reason.

Question about Stargo's mod: If I'm running the CM11 Snapshot M1 build, can I flash Stargo's version right over top of that, or do I have to wipe my ROM slot and start from scratch?

I've been using Stargo's ROM for a couple of days now, and I like it very much. The thing that strikes me most is how FAST it is, significantly faster than CM 10.1 which I was using before. UI elements load faster, apps load faster, my phone is just generally snappier and more enjoyable to use. Battery life seems just slightly less good than CM 10.1 - I was at 50% by the end of the day, after moderate use. The only issues I've seen so far are with GPS and MMS - GPS seems to lose its fix every now and then... using the app GPS Essentials I'm seeing the satellite lock drop randomly after acquisition. It seems to bork up Google Maps navigation a little, but I haven't tested it extensively. Using Go SMS Pro I was unable to send MMS.
But these aren't really dealbreakers for me - other people can send MMS just fine, so there might just be something screwy with my phone.

[Q] Poor battery life-custom ROM or new batteries?

I've got a 2 year old I9305 from the UK that's rooted and using the German 4.3 Stock ROM (couldn't update to 4.3 with a UK ROM at the time).
The battery life used to be much better - I've had it for a year (I bought it as not working from a family member and then got it running) and would easily get over a days use including hooked up to the wifi most of the day, 2-3 hours with the screen on etc but now I find I'm often getting less than a day with similar use. I've since done a factory reset and re-installed my apps but it's not improved anything noticeably.
I rotate through 4 Anker 2200mAh a genuine Samsung and a Samsung battery bought on Amazon (genuine - not sure about that!) using a wall mounted charger to do most of the charging as I spent the last 8 months traveling and didn't want my phone sat around in dorm rooms plugged into the mains while I wasn't in the room.
If I only had the one battery then it would make sense that it's ability to hold a full 2100mAh charge would drop after a year but with 5-6 batteries taking the strain, I'd assume that this would be less likely. I was looking at apps like Nova battery tester and An tu tu Tester and will give them a go tonight on which ever battery is in the phone - are they any good?
If the batteries are still taking a solid charge then I guess it's time to go back down the route of a custom ROM but as I travel a lot, I'm loathe to mess around with my S3 too much. I had an HTC HD2 that was running CWM and a couple of different ROM's and it died on me a couple of times while I was on the road. That was less of an issue than it will be now as I was traveling with a netbook - the S3 is my only device now so I need to to be stable. I'm not averse to going through the process of putting a ROM on the phone if there are a couple that are known to be super stable and lighter than stock on battery life, but if I can stick with my stock set up with some tweaks...I've got All in one toolbox controlling which apps load on boot, greenify to hibernate apps (instead of a task killer knocking them off) and No Bloat stopping the bloatware from running.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Hmm.. As you are using greenify, boot apps control and no bloat, you are extremely in control of your rom - that's good.
I think that there would be negligible to none difference in battery life between your rom and any custom. Stock Touchwizz roms are said to have better battery (from my own experience too), therefore installing any custom aosp rom should be rejected.
What I can suggest? Download some recent full rom from sammobile or live updates samsung (search google) and flash it through odin. Or maybe you have tried it?
However running one rom for few months may have some influence on battery too.
Also, installing custom kernel is the thing that may help you optimize battery/performance with few interesting features. Boeffla has great description and faq on the website and user-friendly config app. But that's only if you want to experiment (it is still rock-stable) a little bit.

Try custom
The 4.3 JB upgrade is well known as a battery killer. I had stock 4.3 from Base (Germany), but the 4.3 from H3G (UK) is the same for battery life. I have used CM 11.0 as well as others, almost all are nicer to batteries than stock.
Currently I use the S5 Elite Lite Rom. The current version 1.4 seems to be very stable even with both cpu and gpu overclocked. Battery life is still a little better than stock 4.3 and that is despite not using the deep sleep feature. CM 11.0 is even better for battery, at least for me probably down to there being none of the Stock bloatware. Hope that helps.

The best rom to stock rom good battery usage
custom rom is quickly depleted
Change battery to

Hbohd said:
Hmm.. As you are using greenify, boot apps control and no bloat, you are extremely in control of your rom - that's good.
I think that there would be negligible to none difference in battery life between your rom and any custom. Stock Touchwizz roms are said to have better battery (from my own experience too), therefore installing any custom aosp rom should be rejected.
What I can suggest? Download some recent full rom from sammobile or live updates samsung (search google) and flash it through odin. Or maybe you have tried it?
However running one rom for few months may have some influence on battery too.
Also, installing custom kernel is the thing that may help you optimize battery/performance with few interesting features. Boeffla has great description and faq on the website and user-friendly config app. But that's only if you want to experiment (it is still rock-stable) a little bit.
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The current ROM was one from a year ago when I first set up the phone but I've since done a factory reset and reinstalled all my apps.
I didn't realize that I could run a custom kernel with a stock ROM - that's something I'll look into. I don't have a custom recovery set up as the last time I used one on my HD2 I had nothing but trouble and, as I said, I need this set up to be reliable over pretty much everything else.

ianatuskix said:
The 4.3 JB upgrade is well known as a battery killer. I had stock 4.3 from Base (Germany), but the 4.3 from H3G (UK) is the same for battery life. I have used CM 11.0 as well as others, almost all are nicer to batteries than stock.
Currently I use the S5 Elite Lite Rom. The current version 1.4 seems to be very stable even with both cpu and gpu overclocked. Battery life is still a little better than stock 4.3 and that is despite not using the deep sleep feature. CM 11.0 is even better for battery, at least for me probably down to there being none of the Stock bloatware. Hope that helps.
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How long have you been running S5 Elite ROM? I think I'd probably stick with CM, though I'm intrigued by some of the other stuff out there, but ideally I'd like to stick with a solid, stock rom without a custom recovery.
SYMLY, I don't really understand what you meant in your post.

woldranger said:
How long have you been running S5 Elite ROM? I think I'd probably stick with CM, though I'm intrigued by some of the other stuff out there, but ideally I'd like to stick with a solid, stock rom without a custom recovery.
SYMLY, I don't really understand what you meant in your post.
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I have been running the S5 Elite ROM for a couple of weeks only. In that time I have found it very stable, by stable I mean no random reboots, and no force closes. It is not completely glitch free for example some apps need to have the sd card unmounted before being installed. I run it overclocked at 1.8Ghz and slight over clocking on the GPU too. Antutu score was around 20800. The S5 Elite ROM gives me a stock look including the S apps I want specifically SPlanner and SVoice.
If you really want to have a completely stock rom with good battery life you might need to consider downgrading to a 4.1.2 rom from Samfirmware or waiting for the fabled 4.4.2 upgrade. I've been waiting on that for months and finally gave up, hence I'm now using the S5 Elite.
Best of luck deciding, I guess there is no one size fits all solution.

Roms that may help with the batteries.
So far i've seen that stock roms usually consume less battery than stock firmware . something that may help you is deleting apps that you know you'll never use at all. that removes the autorun consuming less battery. Now. among the best but remains on 4.3, is the Alliancerom v3.5. i've seen that my battery drained less faster than on stock firmware. but also due to its kernel it can be controlled the amount of mhz using for process (if you don't know how to use it, do not touch it) . and also the charging rate can be controlled.

If you want a touchwiz based rom, i recommend AllianceROM V3.5 or AMCHA rom v6.11. Both roms are super stable, Alliance lags quite a bit though. Ive been using AMCHA (with S5 theme and agni kernel from aroma installer) rom for awhile, so far so problems and pretty good battery life

You can also try archidroid and neat ROM they are one of the best touchwiz 4.3 roms

To be honest, I'm thinking that I'd rather go down the route of checking over my batteries and trying out any other utilities that might aid in reducing the battery use of my S3.
If I were to go down the custom ROM route then I'd be more interested in the kernels as it's been pointed out that they're going to have more impact on power consumption.
So, any suggestions for utilities - as I've said I'm running all in one toolbox, no bloat and greenify. What about apps to check the actual capacity of the battery?

Well. That been said. Then my suggestion is that you delete apps you dont use at all. Actually that also works in alliancerom 3.5 or any rom or stock firmware. It is obvious that if you delete apps that have autorun enabeled by default when you restart or turn on it affects the ram and also affects the battery draining. My alliancerom 3.5 battery last even more than the original firmware. I've deleted plenty of apps i didnt need at all. More like junk to me. Of course. All of this you can do only if you are rooted. Also another suggestion. Ebay sells i9305 extended battery. It comes with the double, Triple and even more amount of mah for pretty good prices. With them i can assure you that you will use your smartphone with the highest performance without been worried of low battery until night.

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If I were to go down the custom ROM route then I'd be more interested in the kernels as it's been pointed out that they're going to have more impact on power consumption.
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No... nono ononono.
Stock kernel will have similar battery performance as agni or boeffla (on same settings). Sure, custom can bring a enhancment or two, but the battery improvements would be minimal.
A custom kernel will only improve a stock kernel battery performance if the stock kernel is ****ty to begin with. Not the case with TW 4.3
It's the rom, and it's apps and your apps.
How about installing Better Battery Stats and posting a few screenshots?

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No... nono ononono.
Stock kernel will have similar battery performance as agni or boeffla (on same settings). Sure, custom can bring a enhancment or two, but the battery improvements would be minimal.
A custom kernel will only improve a stock kernel battery performance if the stock kernel is ****ty to begin with. Not the case with TW 4.3
It's the rom, and it's apps and your apps.
How about installing Better Battery Stats and posting a few screenshots?
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Cheers for that. I'm aware of the obvious basic stuff affecting battery use like cutting down the number of running apps (hence why I use all in one, no bloat etc) but no little about kernels or their battery related benefits.
That app sounds good, I'll stick it on today and then happily post a few screenshots for you to look through. I've just had a look and it's a paid app - bearing mind I'm only needing the use of this once or twice are there any similar free ones.

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Cheers for that. I'm aware of the obvious basic stuff affecting battery use like cutting down the number of running apps (hence why I use all in one, no bloat etc) but no little about kernels or their battery related benefits.
That app sounds good, I'll stick it on today and then happily post a few screenshots for you to look through. I've just had a look and it's a paid app - bearing mind I'm only needing the use of this once or twice are there any similar free ones.
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If you have zillion apps (like me), then they tend to update frequently, use more and more resources, and services.
I was astonished to see that some apps that i installed just in case - like ebay, skype, tripadvisor - and never used yet, - were running services and have put themselves into autostart!
if you are rooted and use autostarts utility, you can disable a lot of junk in the on start and after start events.
you will immediately see the difference in boot time.
i also deinstalled the apps mentioned above, and battery usage back to normal.

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If you have zillion apps (like me), then they tend to update frequently, use more and more resources, and services.
I was astonished to see that some apps that i installed just in case - like ebay, skype, tripadvisor - and never used yet, - were running services and have put themselves into autostart!
if you are rooted and use autostarts utility, you can disable a lot of junk in the on start and after start events.
you will immediately see the difference in boot time.
i also deinstalled the apps mentioned above, and battery usage back to normal.
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Ok, for those new to these things I'll give you a brief run down of the 3 apps I keep mentioning to save people posting suggestions for things that they already do....
Nobloat (root) - delete (including permanently) any apps including system apps (get rid of the pre-installed bloatware.
All in one toolbox pro (there's a free version) - I use this to clean up my autostarts - I can determine which apps will load on boot - both user apps and system apps.
Greenify - hibernates apps rather than killing them so they don't then autostart. There's also a way to have apps brought out of hibernation if their push notifications come through.
All in all, 3 very useful apps.
Feel free to mention any other ones to help things run a little smoother.

woldranger said:
Ok, for those new to these things I'll give you a brief run down of the 3 apps I keep mentioning to save people posting suggestions for things that they already do....
Nobloat (root) - delete (including permanently) any apps including system apps (get rid of the pre-installed bloatware.
All in one toolbox pro (there's a free version) - I use this to clean up my autostarts - I can determine which apps will load on boot - both user apps and system apps.
Greenify - hibernates apps rather than killing them so they don't then autostart. There's also a way to have apps brought out of hibernation if their push notifications come through.
All in all, 3 very useful apps.
Feel free to mention any other ones to help things run a little smoother.
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Do what i did, i bought a 6000mah mbuynow battery off ebay which seems to be around 4000mah true. It lasts about 90% more than the stock battery. im still not impressed with the battery life as phones these days can achieve the 8 hours of screen on time that i get with my extended battery with there stock batterys. i9300 has better battery life for some reason even though my i9305 is undervolt and underclock

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Do what i did, i bought a 6000mah mbuynow battery off ebay which seems to be around 4000mah true. It lasts about 90% more than the stock battery. im still not impressed with the battery life as phones these days can achieve the 8 hours of screen on time that i get with my extended battery with there stock batterys. i9300 has better battery life for some reason even though my i9305 is undervolt and underclock
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That sugestion is completly wrong. A 6000mAh battery is huge and adds a lot of weight and bulkiness to the phone.

Exactly! it's perfectly viable to live with a standard battery on our device, if you use a right rom and de-bloat.
Say no to bulk! ))

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