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  • My new Galaxy S3
  • warton
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    so, decided to go for an S3, to replace my old iPhone, very happy with it, apart from the battery life. was having to watch what I was using it for today incase it ran out. since then I’ve turned off the generic ‘sync’ option in settings. Will this help?

    Also turned off GPS when not using it. Got a battery life app and was shocked to see all the apps running in the background. Will turning off sync solve the problem, or do I need to keep on manually killing all these background apps?

    also, whats a good music player? Noozy? Power Amp?

    cheers

    couldashouldawoulda
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    Screen is the biggest eater on mine. Then wifi. Turn power save on. Sync / push email will also use a bit.

    A spare genuine Samsung battery is about £15 that you can swap in/out anytime.

    Overall mine is a little better battery wise than the old iphone but still not ideal.

    bruneep
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    Power saving on?

    turn down screen brightness?

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    warton
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    power save is on, screen is on auto, may turn that off and turn is down. Did have it on very bright today…

    bruneep
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    turn screen as low as it can go then tick auto. Adjust Screen timeout as well

    can view whats using by settings>battery.

    warton
    Free Member

    Will do, cheers

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    Jeeeesus. iPhone 5 here, charged last night, currently at 75%. Pretty much everything switched on bogland I made the right choice.

    druidh
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    Apart from the spell-checker eh?

    bigphilblackpool
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    Jeezus, for a new phone thats poor, my new 5 was charged yesterday fully, again everything on, used ipod for 3hrs yt for an hr and its on 46% now!!!, my old s2 you had to do all the switching off and faffing but why should you have 2!!!!!!! Plus if u swap battery u loose time date etc and have to reboot the playstore, not good imo.

    santacruzsi
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    Hold down the silver button in the centre; it will bring 2 options, Task Manager & Remove All. If you go to Task Manager it will close all the apps that are running in the background. As above, turn down the screen brightness too!

    Kryton57
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    druidh – Member
    Kryton57 » Pretty much everything switched on bogland I made the right choice.
    Apart from the spell-checker eh?

    Oh…. 😳

    santacruzsi
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    Sorry to hijack…Does anyone know how to turn off push emails? For example if i receive an email to my hotmail it comes through straight away, where as all I want to be able to do is go into my emails and manually sync at my choosing. I run 2 email accounts on the email app thingy!

    mikewsmith
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    I get up to 2 days out of mine.
    As above battery life is monitored already. Use that first.
    Only use gps when you need it is the best idea most location stuff will go off the towers fine.

    Switching signal is my normal culprit for killing battery. Are you out of signal a lot?

    Have a look at power save mode and tune that. I still have sync every 10 mins or so but tend to drop anything data hungry to wifi only. Not sure if that helps.

    singlecrack
    Free Member

    I regularly get about 2 days from mine as well ….when I’ve been camping (no rechargeable power source )I’ve managed 3.5 days ……….but that’s stretching it

    mikewsmith
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    Oh and inactive aps shouldn’t consume much battery if any.

    Also it lasts a lot longer at the bottom if the tank than I expected.

    I for normally see a new phone bad battery period when I’m playing with it a lot.

    DickBarton
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    REduce your screen brightness…I have GPS/Bluetooth and Mobile Data switched off unless I need them, next thing I do is reduce the screen brightness to <50% and set it to auto brightness – this does seem to make a huge saving in battery life…I see a noticeable difference if I turn the brightness up to max and leave it for 3 hours.

    I have the S2 and if I don’t hammer the wifi or mobile data, I can get 3 days out of it…I make calls and texts largely, check emails and web stuff if I’m bored…

    Turn screen brightness down and you will extend battery life. Android apparently manages resources and background apps differently to a PC so I wouldn’t worry too much about those…switch off what you don’t need, same with the screen wallpaper – if you don’t need the interactive version, turn it off…

    landcruiser
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    I find Bluetooth is usually the culprit.

    martymac
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    poweramp is good, sounds better than standard media player due to more control over graphic equaliser.

    singlecrack
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    Yep …come to think of it Bluetooth does do some real battery damage

    dasnut
    Free Member

    Get doubletwist as a music player and sync your music wirelessly (will also import itunes playlists so you can ditch that bad apple once and for all)

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    For the original question I use Spotify now

    bruneep
    Full Member

    do you pay for it on the mobile?

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    Yep but I now don’t buy any CD’s/mp3 so much cheaper. (Random Italics)

    Cougar
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    If you go to Task Manager it will close all the apps that are running in the background.

    Apps don’t run in the background. (Unless they’re supposed to, like GPS loggers)

    spacemonkey
    Full Member

    Bruneep’s piccy reminds me why I much prefer Apple’s icons over Android’s any day. Can’t stand the latter – tis like a silver bullet to moi.

    druidh
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    Those aren’t “Android” – they are “Samsung”

    bigphilblackpool
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    Funny my htc work mob has same icons as that s3??? I couldent be without my 5.

    spacemonkey
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    @druidh: I was referring to the entirety of icons across the Android environ, i.e. variants from HTC/Samsung/et al.

    couldashouldawoulda
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    I like that iphone 5 users come across as stupid. They dont answer the question – just something in their own universe. Usually that takes drugs, or well, ……

    bigphilblackpool
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    Takes drugs?? None of your business, in my own universe, maybe, iphone 5 users stupid?? Opening a big kettle of fish there as 5million units sold in first 3days???? There must be a lot of stupid people out there. Its called banter if youd forgot.

    couldashouldawoulda
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    Well then stop **** about and wasting folks time. Answer the OPs question. What’s your experience of an i 9300 vs an ip5?

    bigphilblackpool
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    I own both, and a htc one x for work, and i have a close friend who owns a franchise run phone shop specialising in samsung and htc, so ud tell mr cadbury how to make a dairymilk?? Just experiance, and i did give my opinion on the op about how the playstore wont work unless u reset time and date munually, (a big problem for some people who dnt know about phones or miss the obv), thus the in my opinion bit on the end, no need to use profanities, free speech and all.

    bigphilblackpool, ladies and gentlemen, the average iphone user.

    bigphilblackpool
    Free Member

    Serioisly?? Grown men married etc are supposed to use this forum, my s3 a showcase for me pals shop, iphone 5 upgrade and links to my ipad and imac, one x free work phone?? Problem? Everyone able to “prefer” a certain brand of product and i never said my s3 was shit or worse i prefer my iphone?? Anyway buy a higher ah battery worked in my one x cost 23quid and its double the ah of the standard s3 unit works a treat.

    couldashouldawoulda
    Free Member

    Oh dear. I think I’ve been suckered in to a row. New members are always welcome, but .. I’m out.

    bigphilblackpool
    Free Member

    Iv not bin abusive, rude or missing the topic, iv offerd help to op about a higher ah battery n a known glitch that can occur in battery swapping?? Glad apple infuriates so many people 😀

    warton
    Free Member

    Cheers for all the advice 🙂

    I’ve turned the screen right down and I can already see its made a massive difference to battery life.

    Got poweramp. Using Airdroid to xfer music and other files wirelessly from Mac, nice piece of kit!

    I’m not going to get into the whole android v iOS debate 😯

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