Yeah that's kinda what I get in that timeframe with relatively light usage: Screen time of 30-40 min, no camera, 20-30 min of streaming music, 20 min of internet surfing.
My SGS3 battery life is incredible... i think there's something wrong with your particular phone or there's a rogue app screwing you up:
67% after using the camera a bunch/an hour of screen time after 15+ hours.
Yeah that's kinda what I get in that timeframe with relatively light usage: Screen time of 30-40 min, no camera, 20-30 min of streaming music, 20 min of internet surfing.
Haha, you know what, my SGS3 fucked up reporting battery stats, it's MUCH better than what i had in my original pic, i actually got to about 67% after almost 24 hours of use. I knew the time didn't feel right, so i refreshed the battery page:
Can you detail the apps/sync options you're using on a regular basis? Anything that's either running or uses the wifi/wireless radio in the background. For example:
1) WiFi Location services? Yes/No
2) Email Accounts? How many and what sync options?
3) Galleries (Picasa)?
4) Other streaming apps?
5) Other background running apps?
6) Power Saving settings if any? (CPU Power, Screen Power, Background Color, Haptic Feedback)?
7) Any other apps that use location services?
Oh, you know what, i am cheating a little though, i'm using juice defender ultimate so that should help my battery out. I don't sync much. I also have all 4 SGS3 built in power saving options turned on. I don't stream either.
But what options does your juice defender have? If your data is off while screen off then to me the notification options of any smartphone go down the drain. That may be ok with you, but many people want email syncing, twitter syncing, etc. while their phone screen is off.
You admit that the two biggest power drain items ,4g and screen size, are present on the S3 and are confused that the S3 drains much more power?
Hmm... Yeah i'd rather have a fully functional latest gen phone. I'm not sure what JuiceDefender is doing but i'd rather it not just shut down the radios randomly given some arbitrary triggers. I should still be getting emails + calendar entries synced. If I have a widget, it should still be getting updated and the apps that I WANT running should still be running. Also i'd prefer not to throttle the CPU manually. Seems kinda silly to put such a cap on the latest and greatest phone. The OS should be doing a better job of CPU throttling.
I dunno if iOS controls this better or maybe there's just a lot more multi-tasking functionality in the S3 but it seems that iphones do fairly aggressive task management. I actually sat with my girlfriend on the train the other day and we were both using our respective phones (GS3 vs Iphone 4) for exactly the same thing for exactly the same amount of time (browsing websites/facebook for 1 hour). While my phone drained about 10-12%, hers just drained about 5%. Yes I know it's LTE vs 3g, faster processor and bigger/better screen but you'd think competitors would design their flagship devices with the iphone 4/4s as the minimum benchmark.
But what options does your juice defender have? If your data is off while screen off then to me the notification options of any smartphone go down the drain. That may be ok with you, but many people want email syncing, twitter syncing, etc. while their phone screen is off.
You can sync while the screen is off with JD you know.
http://www.juicedefender.com/reference/#autosync
Honestly you're talking about using a smartphone completely differently now. Part of the purpose of a smartphone is for instant communication. You get to know when your emails come in, when you have a message, etc.
I understand you choose to use your smartphone that way, but I think the majority of us want to know when the email comes in, etc. That requires an always on connection.
Having a third party all always running, taking CPU cycles and sucking up RAM really isn't the optimal way to go about things. Sure it can work, but I think many features severely cripple the functionality of a phone.
I'm kind of shocked at how long the battery on my S3 lasts! I can get through a work day without needing to charge, much better than my Nexus.
Better than a Nexus. Not better than an iphone. Or a Nokia lumia 900 apparently. A friend has one of those and with light usage he easily gets 2 days at least (if not more). I'm not that interested in an iPhone 5 but i'm definitely interested to see how the 920 stacks up against the S3.
I have a really good cm jelly ROM on my gs3 and this nightly is pretty much perfect and I don't think I'll flash another until we get an official leak from Verizon.
This build by far has blown away every other ROM in stability and battery life.right now I'm at 11 hours and at 78 percent without using WiFi at all and this massive screen has been on for an hour.
They also fixed the bug in battery stats where the cell standby was showing like 60% instead of 6%
The only issue with this ROM is poor 3g performance but I get 4g everywhere around my area so I'll post up a cell log of my gs3 only using 4g and no WiFi.
PS my brother has an iPhone 4s and even he was amazed how long my gs3 is lasting.if almost converted him over and I think when he sees me playing Nintendo 64 emulator with a ps3 controller over Bluetooth playing mariocart 64 he will finally come over to the dark side lol.
He went to radio shack and messed with the iPhone 5 and didn't pull the trigger and he has an update.so I know he wants an s3 but is just sad to admit it and dump his iPhone.
Oh man I so want to get a custom ROM. Are you using Cyanogenmod 10 or some other ROM? I would love to hear stats on how long your battery lasts with regular usage:
> Syncing 2-3 email accounts (including calendars)
> Location Services on including WiFi location service
> 30 min of internet surfing a day
> Streaming service like Pandora or Songza for 30 minutes a day etc.
If in the future I can get Good for Enterprise out of my phone, the first thing i'll do is consider a custom ROM.
My experience with custom rom is it doesn't do much to battery life. Kernels can effect it little but really the difference is minimal at best. Don't let these geeks tell you otherwise. Most of it is just placebo.
yea im with you.I hate it when someone flashes a cm nightly and says OMG BATTERY life is so much better when 1) the rom is only out for a few hours and 2)the commit changes are minimal .
Oh man I so want to get a custom ROM. Are you using Cyanogenmod 10 or some other ROM? I would love to hear stats on how long your battery lasts with regular usage:
> Syncing 2-3 email accounts (including calendars)
> Location Services on including WiFi location service
> 30 min of internet surfing a day
> Streaming service like Pandora or Songza for 30 minutes a day etc.
If in the future I can get Good for Enterprise out of my phone, the first thing i'll do is consider a custom ROM.
IM using 9/23 nightly for the past 2 days and keeping it.There were many nightlys that had horrible battery life and all these come with tweaked kernals etc.
I set the phone up to never clock over 1.2ghz and honeslty even at 1.2 its way faster than the stock gs3 running ics and I have push set to 15 min for emails and I dont use facebook(I deleted it 3 days ago)chick issues lol
I just was on the phone with her for an hour and the screen time for being lit up is over 2 hours and the cell is at 45% battery.
This is without using wifi and only using 4g etc.
DO NOT use this rom if you are not in a 4g area,its 3g speeds are horrible and it has problems with signal big time and will kill your bat.Its 3g speeds are slower than 2g also but I hit 37mb download in 4g and have 4g everywhere.
It depends...My experience with custom rom is it doesn't do much to battery life. Kernels can effect it little but really the difference is minimal at best. Don't let these geeks tell you otherwise. Most of it is just placebo.