How To Increase The Battery Life Of Samsung Galaxy S3

Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has become one of the best selling smartphones in the market, within two months after it’s launch it reached 10 million-unit sales mark . The galaxy s3 come with a lot of new attracting features but the main issue of galaxy s3 is regarding it’s battery life even though the phone is powered with 2100 mAh battery. The main issue is that even if the phone is in standby state the battery will get drained automatically. It seems that you’re one of the device owners suffering from this problem then we could have details of a simple fix for you.

Seem like Samsung has made a mistake in thepower_profile.xml  file. Samsung may have set the value to 34 mA in the standby cell power_profile.xml (practically impossible). In order to rectify this issue we need to modify the value to 3.4 mA instead of 34 mA.
A few developers from XDA Developers released a small mod which could solve this issue, you can install that mod easily on you Samsung Galaxy S3 by following these steps!

Follow these steps to install the mod on your galaxy S3.

You need to have root previlages to continue with the procedure, beofre starting you need to root your phone and install ClockworkMod . Once youinstalled ClockworkMod just follow these steps:

• Download the mod from the following  link
• Aftre downloading that file copy it to your SD card which is currently in use with the device.
• Turn off your Galaxy SIII and boot  it into the recovery mode you can enter recovery mode by pressing (home button + volume down + power station).
• Once the recoevry is loaded choose  Install zip form sdcard  and then  choose zip form SD card.
• Select the file (cell_stand by_Fix.zip), confirm and apply the mod and reboot the device.
• The mod will get successfully installed!

You will notice the diffrence once you start using your device, as you can see from the following images:

Setting personalized message & notification tone in Samsung Galaxy Phones

On buying your first ever much-hyped Samsung Galaxy phone, you must be very happy on becoming part of the “Android based Galaxy” family. But as you start up with the dissection of your phone you will figure out a trifle issue that soon will turn up into a ginormous pain to figure out and that is “HOW TO SET PERSONALIZED MESSAGE TONE FOR YOUR SAMSUNG GALAXY?” 

 

An easiest way to resolve the issue is as follows,

1. Open up the ‘MENU’
2. Go into ‘My Folder’ (Check if an Audio or Notification folder exists or not)
3. If exists then go back to the ‘Main Menu’, click on to ‘Settings’ icon go to ‘Ringtones’ and there, set the ‘Notification Ringtone’ of your choice. On every notification (Be it Email, SMS or any other) you will get the same ring
4. But if the folder does not exist which mostly does not then create one by the name of ‘Audio’ and in that created folder, create another one with the name of ‘Notification’
5. In that ‘Notification’ folder cut/copy/move and paste the ringtones you would want to set as your notification tone. On being done with that, go back to the ‘Main Menu’, click on to ‘Settings’ icon go to ‘Ringtones’ , now here you could see those ringtones that you wanted to set as your message tone. Now ‘Select’ that tone and you are done with the conquest. On every notification you will get the same ring
6. If you want to have a message tone different from the notification tone then revise step 1-5, click on the ‘Home Screen’ button, select ‘Message’ icon appearing on the Home Screen you will find yourself into inbox now tap on the left most button of your phone a sub-menu will appear from the bottom. Here, select ‘Settings’ icon a new menu will open up. Now scroll down until ‘Notification (see your messages in the status bar)’ option comes across then you should checks this given option. On being done with that there would be another option of ‘Ringtones’ right under the ‘Notification’ option, now select that option and choose the ringtone of your choice for your incoming messages which would be different from the other notification tones.