Samsung Galaxy S3 - Page 32

nstokes · 23-12-2012, 12:02

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

if you do not use them force stop them or uninstall them from your applications settings

Im force stoppimng them but some keep coming back in the list. Twitter for example i force stop and even if i dont use it, a few mins later its in the list again. Same as some other apps as well. Ive told it to Auto kill when screen is off

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Ive just gone into application manager and forced stopped some apps like s suggest etc and disabled them as samsung apps cant uninstall from what i can see

SnoopZ · 23-12-2012, 16:05

I find the battery on my new S3 to last far longer than my HTC Sensation, it easily lasts over a day with a few hours of internet usage.

Love the phone so fast compared to the my HTC, just want to update the frimware from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 though.

colin25 · 23-12-2012, 16:47

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I find the battery on my new S3 to last far longer than my HTC Sensation, it easily lasts over a day with a few hours of internet usage.

Love the phone so fast compared to the my HTC, just want to update the frimware from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 though.

If or when you get 4.2..let me know about battery life. I think that version has something that sucks the battery (not in a good way

)

qasdfdsaq · 23-12-2012, 17:53

Compared to the One X the battery life on my S3 is night and day. Quite literally

Still I always carry a spare and with the pair I can easily manage 15+ hours of internet/music/video consumption which is plenty for someone who needs a decent amount of sleep. With light usage it lasts 4 days.

I'd take a look at what's sucking the battery either in battery details or with an app like System Panel App that tells you the exact CPU consumption of every application. Then Titanium Backup to disable the sucky ones

nstokes · 23-12-2012, 18:56

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Compared to the One X the battery life on my S3 is night and day. Quite literally

Still I always carry a spare and with the pair I can easily manage 15+ hours of internet/music/video consumption which is plenty for someone who needs a decent amount of sleep. With light usage it lasts 4 days.

I'd take a look at what's sucking the battery either in battery details or with an app like System Panel App that tells you the exact CPU consumption of every application. Then Titanium Backup to disable the sucky ones

Ill take a look. Im using that Advanced task killer and even thou i kill apps, they come back, even apps that i havnt even opened are appearing on there

Qtx · 23-12-2012, 21:17

Not had issues with the battery use, even though I don't use the power saving option. First phone I have had that I have not installed advanced task killer on, just doesn't seem needed. Have light flow installed like you (awesome app

) so I doubt that is the issue. I keep GPS off most of the time and usually remember to turn off wifi when I go out. So maybe those make a difference.

The battery menu under settings isnt always useful finding the drain though.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Compared to the One X the battery life on my S3 is night and day. Quite literally

My brother in law asked me if he should get the S3 or the One X. Told him to get the S3 as he could change the battery and add more storage.

Naturally he got the One X against my advice but hasn't mentioned any battery problems. Did get a phone call from him asking for advice because it had frozen and wouldn't power off. Without thinking I told him to pull the battery out

He had to wait a day and half for the juice to run out and turn off, which I guess it pretty quick.

qasdfdsaq · 24-12-2012, 04:25

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Originally Posted by nstokes

Ill take a look. Im using that Advanced task killer and even thou i kill apps, they come back, even apps that i havnt even opened are appearing on there

That's normal. There's no reason to randomly kill apps.

What you want is to find out what is consuming power, and fix that. Ignore everything else.

SnoopZ · 24-12-2012, 07:19

Finally got offered the OTA update at 6.45am after getting stuck with the server queue message for 3 to 4 days.

nstokes · 24-12-2012, 08:24

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Originally Posted by Qtx

Not had issues with the battery use, even though I don't use the power saving option. First phone I have had that I have not installed advanced task killer on, just doesn't seem needed. Have light flow installed like you (awesome app

) so I doubt that is the issue. I keep GPS off most of the time and usually remember to turn off wifi when I go out. So maybe those make a difference..

I have Wifi off when out and GPS off as well. The light flow issue is a bug in the phone according to a post above. Ill see how i get on and try and compare each day

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

That's normal. There's no reason to randomly kill apps.

What you want is to find out what is consuming power, and fix that. Ignore everything else.

Its just stramge that random apps appear in the list even if i havnt opened them.

Im going to try and look into what is eating my battery useage and have a look

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Finally got offered the OTA update at 6.45am after getting stuck with the server queue message for 3 to 4 days.

At least you now have it. What to you think to the update?

SnoopZ · 24-12-2012, 08:32

I am still figuring out what is different, multi view will be useful as long as it doesnt drain the battery.

nstokes · 24-12-2012, 08:34

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I am still figuring out what is different, multi view will be useful as long as it doesnt drain the battery.

It uses more battery of course but i dont think it drains it, didnt with me anyway. You can cuztomise the notification bar which is great, im now only down to 4 options

SnoopZ · 24-12-2012, 08:42

I have been trying to figure how to do that?

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Oh I found it.

qasdfdsaq · 24-12-2012, 17:13

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Originally Posted by nstokes

Its just stramge that random apps appear in the list even if i havnt opened them

As I said that's perfectly normal. Android deliberately caches all applications it can in the background so that if/when you run them they start faster.

nstokes · 24-12-2012, 21:33

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

As I said that's perfectly normal. Android deliberately caches all applications it can in the background so that if/when you run them they start faster.

Oh ok. Thanks for advising

nstokes · 13-01-2013, 13:11

Well my phone got smashed the other night so having to have it repaired. Using a Samsung Y young cheap phone for time being. I miss my S3 already