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very bad battery drain issue :(

my o2 xda is running tnt wm6 for a long time now with no problems but recently my battery has started draining super fast like right infront of my eyes it drops percent numbers. i run battery status but that has never bugged the battery before. i also tried switching batteries with two of my friends and their phones run fine but mine drains fast. i have charged it with both the computer and the charger. it charges super slow and upon charging when i restart it the battery drops something like 20 percent or more instantly. could this be a virus? i factory resetted my phone and formatted my memory card but im still getting this issue. please any help would be much appreciated!

d3aded said:
my o2 xda is running tnt wm6 for a long time now with no problems but recently my battery has started draining super fast like right infront of my eyes it drops percent numbers. i run battery status but that has never bugged the battery before. i also tried switching batteries with two of my friends and their phones run fine but mine drains fast. i have charged it with both the computer and the charger. it charges super slow and upon charging when i restart it the battery drops something like 20 percent or more instantly. could this be a virus? i factory resetted my phone and formatted my memory card but im still getting this issue. please any help would be much appreciated!
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try other ROMs.

the fact of the matter is that ive been using this rom for so long without problems and this battery charger thingy just started a few days ago. could this be hardware problem?

Time for a new battery. Try nothing else until you have replaced it, with a new one, not one from another phone.

new battery really? u mean a battery from another phone doesnt do? and yes my battery dies very fast even my friends battery in my phone. cudnt this be a problem in my phone then? cause its his battery

Its definately a battery issue.
Check out this thread and I think you will relate: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=353780
Then go to eBay and buy an new OEM replacement for like $10 shipped. I think I paid $8 for mine.

I personally think it is a bug.
On three separate occasions using various roms, my battery would drain from 100% to 0% in an hour. I would reset everything, recharge and it would run normal without problems.
I do not know what causes this but it does appear to be a software glitch, at least in my case.

try to hard reset your device and then test (after backup your data).
this can give you the clear reason (in case of the rom was running well with you).
good luck

try another radio!

i had the same issue, but it stop draining after i ordered the new battery

I suspect that it is not the battery or the unit.
its right said:
try to hard reset your device and then test (after backup your data).
this can give you the clear reason (in case of the rom was running well with you).
good luck
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Actually I am suddenly having the same problem with a brand new battery on a brand new Wizard.
I just loaded the newest Mfrazz Rom which seems to be fantastic in its applications, speed etc. however immediately on loading the ROM, my battery does get hot in normal use and drains to 30% in a normal day. I have even loaded the IRDA disable cab to no particular effect.
Is there some specific procedure to which you are referring for hard resetting the Wizard? I assume you don't just take out the battery?

Dead battery
Lithium batteries can be killed rather easily. I know from rc helis. Most mobile phones use lithium-ion batteries. Helis use lithum-polymer batteries but they have pretty much the same charactoristics. li-poly is a little more volitile, they can and will explode if you charge or discharge too much or too quickly. If you over charge, you kill it. If you over drain, you kill it.
If you are in a place where you get little or no signal turn off the radio. It will discharge quickly if it's searching for a signal. Also if you are not using the bluetooth or wifi turn them off, same thing. That's why they provided the Comm Manager. Try not to let your charge get below 20%. Definately don't let it run completely out or stay that way long.
A dead lithium battery will not hold a charge at all. Just like you see, the numbers dropping off quickly. It will charge fast too.

(Snot the battery)
licensedtoquill said:
Actually I am suddenly having the same problem with a brand new battery on a brand new Wizard.
Is there some specific procedure to which you are referring for hard resetting the Wizard? I assume you don't just take out the battery?
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Looking at it afresh, it isn't the battery which is heating up on installation of this ROM, it is the unit itself. The battery seems to be remaining at a comparatively normal temperature though the heat generation does drain it very quickly as I said.
Not sure that this problem has ever been addressed before on these boards? It may be something to do with not flashing to a manufacturer's ROM before flashing to Mfrazz's new one?
Has anyone ever seen these symptoms before?

In addition to some of the other posts ,you could check this :
WM6 may need to "learn" the battery levels again.
Try FULLY discharging & recharging your battery 3-4 times.
If this doesn't make things better, maybe you should check if you are running anything strange in the background...

jtrash said:
In addition to some of the other posts ,you could check this :
WM6 may need to "learn" the battery levels again.
Try FULLY discharging & recharging your battery 3-4 times.
If this doesn't make things better, maybe you should check if you are running anything strange in the background...
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Lithium batteries don't recover like ni-cad. Spend the $10 and solve the problem. DONT EVER FULLY DISCHARGE A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY. That is the quickest way to kill it.

mr.incredible said:
Lithium batteries don't recover like ni-cad. Spend the $10 and solve the problem. DONT EVER FULLY DISCHARGE A LITHIUM-ION BATTERY. That is the quickest way to kill it.
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As far as I am aware it is difficult to FULLY discharge one of those batteries in the Wizard? The unit starts giving error messages when it gets to the 15% level and some time thereafter shuts most of its functions down to prevent this. Whenever I have had problems with these units getting hot and even discharging and shutting down, the battery level never seems to be at 0% when I plug it in again. I have never thereafter found any permanent damage to the battery.
I think we should address the problem which seems to be in issue here which is that somehting in the OS is causing the battery to discharge as opposed to replacing the battery and watching the problem continue. At least, that was MY problem.
I am obviously not saying batteries don't die. All I am saying is that for a lot of users, the problem may lie elsewhere. Meanwhile I have flashed back to T-Mobile and re-flashed the newest Mfrazz which SEEMS to be quite VoIP friendly and overnight the unit doesnt seem to have heated up.

since i cant order a battery from where i live i tried reflashing my phone and memory card and i think that fixed it. maybe in my case its an os bug. and yes i definitely have been treating my battery badly on discharging and over charging. thanks for the info

They are not that delicate if you know what kills em it's pretty easy to avoid. They don't develop a memory like the older ni-cads. if you are going to store one charge it first. They don't power drain by them selves unless they are in a device. Just don't leave a battery drained. Also they wont over charge in the phone. The phone will stop charging when the battery is full, and 0% is not actually 0volts. There are built in safeguards for the average user.

universal battery not charging

hi all I have a problem
my universal battery is not charging ,after connectint to charger orange light glows and it battery status shows that the battery is charging but it cant be charged more than 5%,light remains orange but not being charged,I forgot to mention that I m using a charger with current rating of 550 mA.it was charging before,but not charging now having same problem with usb port charging ,what should be the problem
is my battery dead or some thing with my universal,
Does orignal charger solve the problem?
plzzzzzzzzz help?????????
what should i do?

Well charging with original charger is always the most recommended and trustable mode to preserve your batterry.
Alsoperhaps battery come to it´s end, try with another battery (original one!)
Have a look on Universal wiki there is a good tutorial of batteries that maybe can help you.

orb3000 said:
Well charging with original charger is always the most recommended and trustable mode to preserve your batterry.
Alsoperhaps battery come to it´s end, try with another battery (original one!)
Have a look on Universal wiki there is a good tutorial of batteries that maybe can help you.
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i have changed my batterie a couple of months ago
its mean my uni is fine problem is with my battery??

Most likely and more if it is not an original battery
Do the battery tests listed on the wiki

hi
universal use 1A charger
if use USB only, just have 500MA (not enough the charge the Battery)

I had a customer with identical problem and the cause was the battery. I ordered another battery and all went well - charging and working as it should.

its certainly a battery problem. there's nothing to do if even its wall or usb you are using, it simply varies the charging time. remember however the golden rule in battery charging, regularly using charger with higher rating than the recommended one could damage your battery.
my cent..

it is surely battery problem.

thanks all of you,
going to buy a new battery
once again thanks

orb3000 said:
Most likely and more if it is not an original battery
Do the battery tests listed on the wiki
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i could not find the battery test on wiki plz can you give me the link

There you are:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalBatteryIssue
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalSmallBattery
Hope it helps,

hi all
i charged the battery using external charger and it charged.and showing 97%.
what is this?????????

Perhaps it´s time for a new battery!

hi Dani,
everytime i full charge my battery with external charger, and put it on my uni, it never show 100%. I think we have a bad external battery
before you buy a new one, u should try what Orb3000 post in post #11.
sometime, for some battery, the battery meter can not read right becouse charging always in different %. I mean it charge in 5%, and tomorrow in 78%, and yesterday in 25% ... so you need to re-calibrate the battery. I ever have this problem and problem solve.
if it cannot solve your problem ... maybe the best one you should try is in post #13

indrastrid said:
hi Dani,
everytime i full charge my battery with external charger, and put it on my uni, it never show 100%. I think we have a bad external battery
before you buy a new one, u should try what Orb3000 post in post #11.
sometime, for some battery, the battery meter can not read right becouse charging always in different %. I mean it charge in 5%, and tomorrow in 78%, and yesterday in 25% ... so you need to re-calibrate the battery. I ever have this problem and problem solve.
if it cannot solve your problem ... maybe the best one you should try is in post #13
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thanks bro
I am going to buy a new one
bcoz it completely charged in 9 to 10 hours and discharge complety in just 3-4 hours

still not charging
i bought a new battery
but problem is still there
i charged the older one with external charger and it discharged with in one and half hour and it tunred off at 4% power.
is it a problem with device main board or some where it is shortcircuting???
plz answer soon me waiting for what to do.

my uni again alive
hi guys thanks for your suggestions.but there was no problem with battery
problem was with charging circuit, it was shortcircuted,now it is repaired and working very fine.happy to see my uni working again.

My Uni is not charging
after using my uni the battery went down to 19%. i thought of charging it up but before i plugged it to a charger i did a soft reset. after that the phone is not charging nor it is coming up. i do not see any LED lights as well. i have plugged the phone to the charger for more than 2 hrs now but still no sign of led light or the phone booting...what can be the cause, kindly help

[Q] Aftermarket batteries + charger, power level glitch

I bought 2 x aftermarket 1600mah batteries from eBay with a charger to charge them directly.
I don't have high hopes but I figured for £10 I couldn't really go wrong.
So I charged one of the new batteries in the supplied charger overnight and tried it out this morning. At first boot, my Desire HD said the battery was empty and to connect the charger. If I leave it the phone shuts down after 20 seconds. I did connect the charger and and then instantly the phone said the battery was 99% full. After I disconnected the charger the phone has run all day on one of these ebay batteries, with life being comparable to the stock battery.
My question is, is this some kind of software glitch? Or a problem with the charger pergaps? I am using Cyanogenmod 7 (Gingerbread). Anyone else seen this issue?
I'd like the phone to report the correct power level when I swap the battery, so that it doesn't shut down automatically, and can be used when Im away from a charger.

where can i find a 1600mAH official battery??

ds4 said:
where can i find a 1600mAH official battery??
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You can't no such thing as an official one
E=Mc2

I have the same issue with what sounds like the same batteries and charger running cm6. The problem isn't there when I use the stock rom. Think it's a cm issue. I don't know of a fix except that sometimes wiping battery stats before booting sorts it out. Good luck and if you find a fix, please post.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

pwraggcan said:
I have the same issue with what sounds like the same batteries and charger running cm6. The problem isn't there when I use the stock rom. Think it's a cm issue. I don't know of a fix except that sometimes wiping battery stats before booting sorts it out. Good luck and if you find a fix, please post.
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Not a fix, just my workaround:
I charge the phone with the unofficial 1600mah battery overnight, and run it all day until it runs out. Then I switch to the official HTC battery, which lasts me all evening.
For example I went to a wedding Saturday, and taking pictures/playing Angry Birds during the boring bits, the two batteries easily lasted the whole day. I don't think the 1600mah battery is any better than stock though. Wouldn't say it's worse mind.
I think the CM7 builds have issues around battery life with WIFI/Bluetooth and Cell standby. From what i can see.
I'll let you know if I find a fix though!

[Q] HTC one X cannot charge

Hello. I bought a HTC one X in China and send it to my GF who's in UK. But she constantly get charging problems.
The problem is like this:
1) Can't charge at all using AC adapter if the battery is not empty. The battery bar just keep decreasing no matter whether you pluged the power line or not. (Faster with the line pluged). The only way to get it charged is to wait until the phone drain its battery and die. Then it charges again.
2) Battery can be charged with computer USB, but very very S..L..O..W. Maybe after hours and you get an 1% increase.
3) When using 1) the battery bar is aroud 50% after one night's charge. Restarting or shutting down\start again from the Android GUI won't help. But if we shutdown the phone and restart using the HBoot, it will show a bar of nearly 100%.
My GF didn't have the adapter shipped along with phone. She has a BlackBerry 5V600mA adapter and a 5V1A adapter bought from AMAZON. Neither of them work. We hesitate to use a 2A adapter because we fear it may do harm to the battery.
I have read a lot threads these days. I think its maybe caused by some error on battery SW of system or HW error. But others' problems didn't seem totally the same with mine, and the solutions to these problems didn't work.
Does anyone have idea to deal with it?

This is common when batteries or the battery control module is failed. Sounds hardware related to me
Sent from my VENOMized HoxL

zaxliu said:
Hello. I bought a HTC one X in China and send it to my GF who's in UK. But she constantly get charging problems.
The problem is like this:
1) Can't charge at all using AC adapter if the battery is not empty. The battery bar just keep decreasing no matter whether you pluged the power line or not. (Faster with the line pluged). The only way to get it charged is to wait until the phone drain its battery and die. Then it charges again.
2) Battery can be charged with computer USB, but very very S..L..O..W. Maybe after hours and you get an 1% increase.
3) When using 1) the battery bar is aroud 50% after one night's charge. Restarting or shutting down\start again from the Android GUI won't help. But if we shutdown the phone and restart using the HBoot, it will show a bar of nearly 100%.
My GF didn't have the adapter shipped along with phone. She has a BlackBerry 5V600mA adapter and a 5V1A adapter bought from AMAZON. Neither of them work. We hesitate to use a 2A adapter because we fear it may do harm to the battery.
I have read a lot threads these days. I think its maybe caused by some error on battery SW of system or HW error. But others' problems didn't seem totally the same with mine, and the solutions to these problems didn't work.
Does anyone have idea to deal with it?
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I'm having the same issue. Strange indeed. With the small battery and this problem, I think I'll go for a Nexus 4.

alex_herrero said:
With the small battery and this problem, I think I'll go for a Nexus 4.
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Has nothing to do with the size (maH) of the battery. Its probably a hardware malfunction (possibly a battery failure) which can happen to any phone.

redpoint73 said:
Has nothing to do with the size (maH) of the battery. Its probably a hardware malfunction (possibly a battery failure) which can happen to any phone.
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Sure, but it is the combination of symptoms that leads me to find another device without them...

[Q] Question on Battery charging and temps

Hi i bought a used sensation of ebay from a reputable seller and it arrived the other day. The two main problems i've been having is also the battery taking long to charge and the heating issue.
Firstly im not sure if the heating issue occurs on stock rom as i was not on it very long but on any custom JB rom the Bottom part of the phone gets very hot very quickly. I used a battery monitor and it tells me its the battery temp that's going up but when i pop out the back cover it seems to be coming from right at the bottom under where the micro sd card is. However i think i have kind of solved this by flashing the Inspiration 1.01 ICS 4.04 rom with bricked Kernel. Now the phone only reaches a max of abut 40.5 degrees and the heat is spread around the whole back case rather than one spot.
Secondly the battery seems to be the big problem here. The phone didnt come with a charger but it did come with a USB cable to charge with. The problem is when i plug it into charge it takes long time to charge up. I used a battery monitoring app and the results are quite weird. When i plug it into charge it starts of drawing about 300ma of charge but after a while especially when it gets to around 30% battery the amount of power the battery is absorbing is around 70ma some times even as low as 40.
I have tried this with a Motorola charger as-well which is from a Motorola defy mini which had a higher Mah battery and the same thing happens.
Bearing in mind its a used phone the battery is probably quite old shall i try my luck with a new official replacement HTC battery or shall i try a new HTC Charger first?
Quick Update:
i took out the battery and then put it back in again and turned on the device and now the phone is reporting 65% when it was only at 47% before i turned it off. Secondly onthe battery contacts there seems to be a darker colour of gold where the pins actually meet which looks like a burnt contact but im not too sure.

I highly suggest you buy an Anker battery instead of HTC official one. If you've been loading battery with USB cable from another device (PC for example); it will load slowly!
About the battery percentage problem; I think this is a known problem on HTC Devices. It should show pretty accurately after a little while after restart.
I myself have the original battery, and I have the darker marks there too. Don't worry about those.. Because all you need is the Anker 1900mAh.

Thanks for your suggestion i have done a bit of research on the anker battery and it definitely seems like a must have not only for the better battery life but it apparently runs alot cooler than the stock battery aswell. Only £21 for a pack of 2 and a travel charger on amazon aswell!
Also shall i get a HTC charger or should i be fine with the Anker travel charger?

Anushan said:
Thanks for your suggestion i have done a bit of research on the anker battery and it definitely seems like a must have not only for the better battery life but it apparently runs alot cooler than the stock battery aswell. Only £21 for a pack of 2 and a travel charger on amazon aswell!
Also shall i get a HTC charger or should i be fine with the Anker travel charger?
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I don't know, but I am pretty sure both chargers will be just fine.

Awesome ordered one now should be here in a few days! Thanks for your help