Can one one help explain this to me?

[Mr. Pedantic]

I plugged my SGS3 to charge last night, and then halfway through the night it seems to have stopped charging.

The list of processes doesn't show anything unusual, and it isn't awake or anything for a particularly large amount of time at night (as you can see from the graph). Is it something wrong with the charger?

 

[Mopetar]

Did it get moved at all during the night? It may just not have been a solid connection and might have come loose at some point.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Nah, I don't think so. The charging bar looks pretty solid, and I woke up with it in the same place as when I went to sleep.

On a related note, does anyone know about the gpsd daemon and how to turn the bloody thing off? It started up again this morning and I think that is what has been stopping it from charging properly.

 

[Dominato3r]

Do you plug it into your computer to charge?

 

[Mopetar]

Nah, I don't think so. The charging bar looks pretty solid, and I woke up with it in the same place as when I went to sleep.

On a related note, does anyone know about the gpsd daemon and how to turn the bloody thing off? It started up again this morning and I think that is what has been stopping it from charging properly.

Has it been doing this frequently or was that just a one time problem that you ran into?

Also, that's the GPS daemon so if you turn off GPS it shouldn't being doing anything, unless you've got some app that is constantly trying to get GPS data and keeps relaunching the process even after you've killed it.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Do you plug it into your computer to charge?

No, it's been plugged into mains.

Has it been doing this frequently or was that just a one time problem that you ran into?

Also, that's the GPS daemon so if you turn off GPS it shouldn't being doing anything, unless you've got some app that is constantly trying to get GPS data and keeps relaunching the process even after you've killed it.

It's quite frequent, and it only appeared after jellybean (along with a whole host of other, minor problems). The thing is that I can't ever figure out what is causing it. A lot of people said Google Now caused it, so I "uninstalled" Google Now and it disappeared for a while, but now it's back. Then people said Samsung's remote location service was he problem, but that had the same effect. Each time it goes away for a while but then it comes back and the only way I know it's there is when it uses up my entire battery in a couple of hours.

It ISN'T the stock Google Maps, I don't think. And disabling GPS doesn't help, it is there even when GPS is off

I forgot to say: it is a right royal pain in the f**king ass

 

[Mopetar]

Sounds really weird.

Are you running a custom ROM or anything else like that that might be causing the issue? You could even try a few different ones out just to see if that solves the problem. Otherwise, maybe see if it's still within warranty and if you can get it replaced.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Sounds really weird.

Are you running a custom ROM or anything else like that that might be causing the issue? You could even try a few different ones out just to see if that solves the problem. Otherwise, maybe see if it's still within warranty and if you can get it replaced.

It's not stock JB, it's the special TouchWiz version from Samsung. It's still under warranty and not rooted, and I'm hesitant to root it unless absolutely necessary. Also, I don't want want to have it replaced because they don't give a replacement phone and the last time I sent in a phone it took a month to get it back. Stuck between a rock and a hard place

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

As an update, maybe rebooting the device works? It basically means I have to carry around a spare battery all the time, because as I said before, the only way I know it's taking out my battery is either look at battery over time (which I often neglect to do) or go into the Battery settings page while it's running; otherwise, it just kills my battery in 2-4 hours depending on how I'm otherwise using it.

 

[Mopetar]

As an update, maybe rebooting the device works? It basically means I have to carry around a spare battery all the time, because as I said before, the only way I know it's taking out my battery is either look at battery over time (which I often neglect to do) or go into the Battery settings page while it's running; otherwise, it just kills my battery in 2-4 hours depending on how I'm otherwise using it.

You could try this. I've had my phone act flaky in regards to draining the battery before, and shutting it down, removing and reinserting the battery has made the problem go away. Not sure if it will work in your case, but it's definitely the easiest solution and isn't going to make matters worse.

Usually seems to happen when I'm traveling so I wonder if for whatever reason the phone is still trying to talk to some other tower that's impossibly far away and killing its battery in doing so.