Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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 :) )

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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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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

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

I have been trying to figure how to do that?

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Oh I found it.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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.

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

Oh ok. Thanks for advising :)

Re: Samsung Galaxy S3
 

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 :(