Android OTA Android 4.3 firmware update for Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300

[mathrisk]

battery indeed ruined by this update. It drains as fast as 12% per hour when playing any game. I had to keep 'sync' off. Idle battery life not so bad - overnight with WiFi on (no download though) it drains 4/5% for me.

Another new problem was introduced - the screen acts weird sometimes when scrolling through the home pages. Had to restart to make it normal again. This happened quite a few times post update.

 

[Onemufc]

battery indeed ruined by this update. It drains as fast as 12% per hour when playing any game. I had to keep 'sync' off. Idle battery life not so bad - overnight with WiFi on (no download though) it drains 4/5% for me.

Another new problem was introduced - the screen acts weird sometimes when scrolling through the home pages. Had to restart to make it normal again. This happened quite a few times post update.

My overnight drop is around 40%.

 

[mathrisk]

Few more problems I am facing post 4.3 update
1. Contact name do not show in notifications for SMS.
2. SMS notification randomly disappears from lock screen/notification bar.
3. Alarm notification do not show even if alarm is ON. I had to do "on-off" of the alarm to show it on the bar.
4. Battery drains most when data connection is active.

Anyone did factory reset? Does it resolves the issues?

 

[ankushv]

I did factory reset in 4.3 . I installed stock rom through odin again but battery drain is still the same . I'm on 3g data for full day . Battery drains fast much more than 4.2 rom . I'm on stock and I'm unrooted . Waiting for kitkat .

 

[harisubs]

Got fed up of the battery drain issues!! Couple of calls and bam, down by 20%.
So I rooted my phone. Objective was to freeze all samsung bloatware using Titanium Backup and install Droidwall to control internet access.
Little by little, I have frozen a lot of (unwanted) samsung junk and things are slowly seeming to improve.
Now I am getting through 24 hours on a single charge with moderate usage.
Using tasker, Mobile data is switched on/off intermittently and flight mode is enabled from 12-6 in the night (secure settings needed)

 

[vaibhavyagnik]

Got fed up of the battery drain issues!! Couple of calls and bam, down by 20%.
So I rooted my phone. Objective was to freeze all samsung bloatware using Titanium Backup and install Droidwall to control internet access.
Little by little, I have frozen a lot of (unwanted) samsung junk and things are slowly seeming to improve.
Now I am getting through 24 hours on a single charge with moderate usage.
Using tasker, Mobile data is switched on/off intermittently and flight mode is enabled from 12-6 in the night (secure settings needed)

Ditch the 4.3 update and install cyanogenmod M3 4.4.2 snapshot. Way smoother in my opinion. No significant bugs too!

 

[harisubs]

Ditch the 4.3 update and install cyanogenmod M3 4.4.2 snapshot. Way smoother in my opinion. No significant bugs too!

Thanks for the suggestion.
Rooting itself was a big step for me as its been only a couple of months on Android for me, still learning the ropes.Have not got too much time to tinker around. Maybe when the official kitkat update for S3 is out, I would flash a Samsung based ROM...something like ArchiDroid.