Before you say "search" I'm not talking about where people don't understand that the battery drains when you unplug it, blah blah blah.
I recently updated to 2.3.2 and when I go to the battery status in settings the chart never resets itself. What I mean is if it says it's been running for 10 hours on the battery and I shut down my phone and pull out the battery, put it back in and boot up the phone, it will still say my phone has been running for 10 hours.
Before whenever you plugged in the charger and then took it out the stats would reset to show you how long you've been running on the battery and I thought that was a neat feature. Now, like I said it never resets itself even after a reset. Is this attributed to the 2.3.2 update? Like I stated previously, whenever I would either: A. Reboot the phone or B. Plug in the charger, the battery stats chart would reset itself to reflect the current on time of the battery.
Has anyone else had this problem?
SphericalPuma said:
Before you say "search" I'm not talking about where people don't understand that the battery drains when you unplug it, blah blah blah.
I recently updated to 2.3.2 and when I go to the battery status in settings the chart never resets itself. What I mean is if it says it's been running for 10 hours on the battery and I shut down my phone and pull out the battery, put it back in and boot up the phone, it will still say my phone has been running for 10 hours.
Before whenever you plugged in the charger and then took it out the stats would reset to show you how long you've been running on the battery and I thought that was a neat feature. Now, like I said it never resets itself even after a reset. Is this attributed to the 2.3.2 update? Like I stated previously, whenever I would either: A. Reboot the phone or B. Plug in the charger, the battery stats chart would reset itself to reflect the current on time of the battery.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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This is not new to 2.3.2. 2.3.1 does the same thing. It only resets the timer once you've hit a full charge. I just checked my 2.3.2 phone, and it shows only 1:33 on battery, which is about right, and I had it on charger overnight.
A lot of us actually find this more useful than the old way, since a short boost charge (ie., not full) doesn't skew the statistics up like it used to.
And actually, a little search would have found threads discussing that behavior on 2.3.1, the second result there has a post from me that gives a good idea of what's going on.
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Unplugged from charger this morning and all was well, after about 12 hours I rebooted and now have stats that are acting like I just charged the phone (back to counting from 0.
Any idea what would cause this or how to fix it?
Should I delete the battery stats file and go through a full up charge cycle?
i dont really know what you are talking about but if the battery meter is acting like it is on a charger ie the icon show a battery filling up every couple seconds then it is likely a problem with the usb port. there may be some trash in there. could also be just some random bug and a power down and battery pull will reset the battery meter.
if you mean something else by "counting from zero" please explain. also this phone and samsung galaxy s phones have a standalone battery meter. it has some mapping that is preset but doesnt actually use "battstats" all those recal procedures that "helped" people in the galaxy s forums is plecebo effect. the battery life tends to appear to get better within a couple days after flashing a rom. throw a recal in the middle of those couple days and people naturally connect the better battery life with the recal.
Dani897 said:
i dont really know what you are talking about but if the battery meter is acting like it is on a charger ie the icon show a battery filling up every couple seconds then it is likely a problem with the usb port. there may be some trash in there. could also be just some random bug and a power down and battery pull will reset the battery meter.
if you mean something else by "counting from zero" please explain. also this phone and samsung galaxy s phones have a standalone battery meter. it has some mapping that is preset but doesnt actually use "battstats" all those recal procedures that "helped" people in the galaxy s forums is plecebo effect. the battery life tends to appear to get better within a couple days after flashing a rom. throw a recal in the middle of those couple days and people naturally connect the better battery life with the recal.
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What I mean is that lets say for example the battery stats show that the phone has been on battery for 1 day and when I reboot the counter is reset to 0 days (like if I had just pulled it off the charger). Twice now I have had the phone reset the time on battery counter along with the signal, awake, wifi graphs by only rebooting. this should not happen, i.e. the stats should not reset until charging is done. Hope that helps explain what I meant. Thanks.
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What I mean is that lets say for example the battery stats show that the phone has been on battery for 1 day and when I reboot the counter is reset to 0 days (like if I had just pulled it off the charger). Twice now I have had the phone reset the time on battery counter along with the signal, awake, wifi graphs by only rebooting. this should not happen, i.e. the stats should not reset until charging is done. Hope that helps explain what I meant. Thanks.
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What ROM are you on? From what I know, what you said happens on Froyo based ROMs. GB ROMs should not reset counter until phone is charged to 100%.
I have the exact same problem. On every reboot, battery use starts counting from 0 seconds. Anyone has a solution?
bradld said:
Unplugged from charger this morning and all was well, after about 12 hours I rebooted and now have stats that are acting like I just charged the phone (back to counting from 0.
Any idea what would cause this or how to fix it?
Should I delete the battery stats file and go through a full up charge cycle?
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I had the same issue or should i say have. kinda. I'm on Zeus build 3 and when my batt gets to 100% i unplug...then maybe a cpl hours go by and i do a change and reboot..say three hours in. after reboot my "time on battery " resets to 0!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOt supposed to.
What i did and do still cause NO ONE else knows they have the prob or don't have it. so i don't have a sure fix..
charge to 100. go into recovery and wipe battery stats. let it boot. wait a cpl minutes. reboot...usually it will reset but sonce it;s only been a cpl minutes who cares. then go aobut your business...after some time..hours... try rebooting. shoud stay.
Best i can offer until i guess someone else says they have same issue...
THEN going forward after i re charge to 100 i reboot right then. and it seems to be good from there.
Pain In The Ass. I asked other on Zeus to check but not sure they get it.
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i dont really know what you are talking about but if the battery meter is acting like it is on a charger ie the icon show a battery filling up every couple seconds then it is likely a problem with the usb port. there may be some trash in there. could also be just some random bug and a power down and battery pull will reset the battery meter.
if you mean something else by "counting from zero" please explain. also this phone and samsung galaxy s phones have a standalone battery meter. it has some mapping that is preset but doesnt actually use "battstats" all those recal procedures that "helped" people in the galaxy s forums is plecebo effect. the battery life tends to appear to get better within a couple days after flashing a rom. throw a recal in the middle of those couple days and people naturally connect the better battery life with the recal.
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go into settings/about phone/Battery use.....That is what resets ..supposed to change of course when you upplug but try it...wait a few minutes..look at how much time on battery then reboot...it the "time on battery" starts over..you have the issue
I thought that was the normal behavior on Android, it resets the battery stats on every boot because while it was offline it might have been put in a charger and thus the battery stats might not be correct (or you could have changed batteries).
I for one don't see the problem with battery stats reseting on reboot, i reboot very rarely and when i do i usually do it to install firmwares or patches.
On the other hand now I've found an article by one of the Android developers and there it says :
This file (batterystats.bin found in data/system) is used to maintain, across reboots, low-level data about the kinds of operations the device and your apps are doing between battery changes. That is, it is solely used to compute the blame for battery usage shown in the "Battery Use" UI in settings.
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So, it says "across reboots" so it shouldn't be reset by a reboot, that means that i thought wrong that the file is reset on each reboot
P.S. maybe the ROM that's on the phone does something that either deletes the file or forces a reset on the battery stats.
Try changing/setting permissions (through that option for permissions, can't recall the exact wordings) in CWM and see if that helps.
Ok so I pulled my phone off the charger at 9:50am (it's 7:47pm now) and it says that it's been 2 hours and 12 minutes since my phone has been off the charger. earlier in the day it said 8 hours. Now I know for a fact I haven't plugged it into a charger. Is there something else I could be doing to reset the time on it?
In my experience, rebooting your phone, or turning it off can also reset the battery thing. Just curious to know why would you be annoyed by this, unless you are doing a battery test I don't see a problem about this at all. anyway, that's just my take..
ya I'm trying to see how long my phone can live off the battery. I do tend to reboot my phone once in a while; depending on what cool mod comes out. I will have to see if I can go a whole battery cycle without rebooting.
Hi,
I loaded my TR101 yesterday to 99 or 100% ( tablet, undocked), disconnected it from the adapter, used it for some time, and then shut it off. The battery level was around 75% then.
This morning I started it again and the battery level was 98%! So it tells me it loaded in the night from 75 to 98% from thin air. No adapter connected. The dual battery widget shows this too: battery level went up from around 75 to 98.
Is thre any explanation for this? I suppose the battery level is not really 98, but what happened? I conbected the adapter, and the it starts loading to 100%.
I am no twaeker, so I did nothing unusual. I installed all the system updates Asus gave me. Now I have Android 4.0.1.
Any thoughts?
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If you docked it again once you shut it off then the dock would have charged it
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If you docked it again once you shut it off then the dock would have charged it
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Yes, I know that the dock charges the tablet battery, but the tablet has not been docked for two days!
BTW: When I started the tablet (undocked) up again after two hours, the battery once more said that it was charged for 98%.
I then used it until the battery said it was charged for 31%. I wonder how the situation will be tomorrow.
First, wipe battery stats if you can. Second, empty it out completely (be careful about the 0% bug) then do a full charge.
Recommended battery use is always to empty it out completely then charge it completely. It'll extend its performance and lifetime.
How do I wipe my battery stats? I cannot find any control to do so. My tablet is not rooted btw.
Anyway: This morning when I started it up the battery icon was red and it shut down by itself (empty battery?), but when I started it up then with the adaptor the battery stood at 17%. This might have been the real status after several wrong indications yesterday, I suppose. Battery health is displayed as "good".
It only seems a matter of wrong indication. The battery last the normal time, it seems to me.
I will let it go to down now util just a few % and fully load it again then.
The reason why I normally shut the tablet completely down when I do not plan to use it for several hours, is that the battery drains when the tablet is 'sleeping', but when I shut it down completely it later starts up at the same level when I shut it down.
This sees to be an issue Asus had to solve (you could read about it all over the internet when I fist noticed it) but as usual Asus is only intrested in upgrading its latest models and soon abandons active support for what they consider "older" models.
However, I do not buy a new tablet every few months. I consider a tablet old after maybe 3 years or longer.
To continue the battery issue: Also, when I shut the tablet down when docked both battery levels have changed when I start it again. To avoid these battery annoyances I often shut it down.
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Well the battery stats part is debatable really, but you need root as far as I know, so you can ignore that part.
About the battery draining while sleeping, I've heard other people having that issue. Not sure if it was ever solved... I haven't had that issue.
Last case scenario would be to make sure it's not a software issue by doing a full factory reset with something like Easyflasher. Corrupted files happens, and there's no easy way to "fix" it. Make sure you backup all important data as easyflasher will completely wipe your device clean, but it's the best way to confirm it's a software-related issue.
Hi,
A cold reboot did it!
For those of you that are as afraid of a factory reset as I am: a cold reboot does not wipe any of your data. You press the 'on/off' button together with 'volume down' button for about 10 seconds. You will see some small print and some unfamiliar pics on your screen. Ignore everything, because a cold reboot is the default thing that will happen.
When your Transformer has booted after this, several things have changed for the better, including your battery indication.
If this instruction is not clear enough, google for 'cold reboot Transformer'.
For me it worked and I found it to be fool-proof.
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Hello.
Recently (~one+ month ago), I replaced the battery of my OnePlus.
The problem is that I can not find any way to calibrate it. I have tried the "manual method" (fully drain then charge, then fully drain again and charge again e.t.c.) many times. I even tried to use some applications (that I really do not trust them for their reliability, but...).
Today, I have found some time and reinstalled the phone's OS (I am using Ressurection Remix - latest build). Nothing changed.
Here's the problem, with some concepts as examples:
I charge the battery until it gets to 100%. I use the phone for example till it gets to 60% (the drain is NOT quick. It needs some time till I get to that point). Then, if I restart the phone two (2) times, I get again 95-99% of battery. Then again, I use the phone till it gets to, for example, 40%. I twice reboot it again. ~90±%! If I do not reboot it twice, the battery indicator will not change. Or it will just lose 1% percent (for example, if I reboot one time when the phone is at 60%, I may get 59% when the phone will power up).
I charge the phone until it gets to 100%. I let the phone drain out the whole battery (0%). I boot it up again. No, the battery is still alive and it may give me around 70-90% (I am not so sure about those numbers, but the idea is that the phone can still operate - there is enough juice for the phone to work).
Any ideas? I really do not know what else to try.
Thanks in advance.
giorgos147 said:
Hello.
Recently (~one+ month ago), I replaced the battery of my OnePlus.
The problem is that I can not find any way to calibrate it. I have tried the "manual method" (fully drain then charge, then fully drain again and charge again e.t.c.) many times. I even tried to use some applications (that I really do not trust them for their reliability, but...).
Today, I have found some time and reinstalled the phone's OS (I am using Ressurection Remix - latest build). Nothing changed.
Here's the problem, with some concepts as examples:
I charge the battery until it gets to 100%. I use the phone for example till it gets to 60% (the drain is NOT quick. It needs some time till I get to that point). Then, if I restart the phone two (2) times, I get again 95-99% of battery. Then again, I use the phone till it gets to, for example, 40%. I twice reboot it again. ~90±%! If I do not reboot it twice, the battery indicator will not change. Or it will just lose 1% percent (for example, if I reboot one time when the phone is at 60%, I may get 59% when the phone will power up).
I charge the phone until it gets to 100%. I let the phone drain out the whole battery (0%). I boot it up again. No, the battery is still alive and it may give me around 70-90% (I am not so sure about those numbers, but the idea is that the phone can still operate - there is enough juice for the phone to work).
Any ideas? I really do not know what else to try.
Thanks in advance.
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All generic batteries have these issues.So far,there's no perfect replacement to be found for battery.Visit Battery Thread in General section for more information.
try to flash CM 13.1.2 from BRT (Bacon root toolkit). it should work..
Hi, I decided to post this in a new thread because it's a different behavior from others I've seen in this forum. If the admin says I shouldn't, I can delete it and post it on other thread!
Posted videos of the issue:
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My nexus 5 had a custom ROM, unrooted, simple apps (facebook, twitter, etc) and original screen and battery.
After crashing the screen, I bought a new one plus a new battery. Immediately after connecting the new screen plug and the new battery plug, the flat cable started to overheat, and the screen never turned on - ok, something is bogus. I tried again with the old battery and had the same problem. So, the screen must be no good, I just reinstalled the other broken one that still works.
However, since then, the cellphone always is turned on with 100% battery even knowing that it is not fully charged. And, a little while after, it starts to drain, 1% per second, even when I'm charging it, untill it turns off, or - sometimes - get back to 100%.
While on bootloader, it never turn itself off, thou. But if I turn it on, sometimes this happens, sometimes the cell only works untill the lockscreen and immediately turns itself off - even while charging or hours after charging. (pls check the youtube videos)
What i have tried:
Change the charger and cable
Use original charger
Switch back to the old battery (same problem)
Reinstall ROM
Reinstall Original ROM from google
Wipe batterystats.bin (I know, I know, just in case)
Install battery calibration apps
Root and install battery calibration apps
Charge to 100%, let it drain to 20% and recharge (thou it constantly drops)
Charge all night
Wait to drain a lot and charge again
Wait to drain a bit and charge again...
And nothing worked.
I saw no similar issue on this forum, even on the "battery drain while charging" posts, they're not exactly the same issue.
So... is it possible that crappy screen broke my both batteries? Anyone know what else could I try?
dvdfranco said:
Hi, I decided to post this in a new thread because it's a different behavior from others I've seen in this forum. If the admin says I shouldn't, I can delete it and post it on other thread!
Posted videos of the issue:
My nexus 5 had a custom ROM, unrooted, simple apps (facebook, twitter, etc) and original screen and battery.
After crashing the screen, I bought a new one plus a new battery. Immediately after connecting the new screen plug and the new battery plug, the flat cable started to overheat, and the screen never turned on - ok, something is bogus. I tried again with the old battery and had the same problem. So, the screen must be no good, I just reinstalled the other broken one that still works.
However, since then, the cellphone always is turned on with 100% battery even knowing that it is not fully charged. And, a little while after, it starts to drain, 1% per second, even when I'm charging it, untill it turns off, or - sometimes - get back to 100%.
While on bootloader, it never turn itself off, thou. But if I turn it on, sometimes this happens, sometimes the cell only works untill the lockscreen and immediately turns itself off - even while charging or hours after charging. (pls check the youtube videos)
What i have tried:
Change the charger and cable
Use original charger
Switch back to the old battery (same problem)
Reinstall ROM
Reinstall Original ROM from google
Wipe batterystats.bin (I know, I know, just in case)
Install battery calibration apps
Root and install battery calibration apps
Charge to 100%, let it drain to 20% and recharge (thou it constantly drops)
Charge all night
Wait to drain a lot and charge again
Wait to drain a bit and charge again...
And nothing worked.
I saw no similar issue on this forum, even on the "battery drain while charging" posts, they're not exactly the same issue.
So... is it possible that crappy screen broke my both batteries? Anyone know what else could I try?
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Hey, did u ever figure out the reason ? I'm having a similar issue.. maybe we can work together n figure smthn out
sorry bro, I just gave up. It was too much to pay for another screen or new parts; I never discovered what the real problem was =(
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sorry bro, I just gave up. It was too much to pay for another screen or new parts; I never discovered what the real problem was =(
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Figured out the problem and fixed it. Posting it here in case someone has this issue, so after trying everything from getting a new battery to installing different roms, installing various apps rooted and not to see what's draining my battery. Funny how the phone was never going into deep sleep. Anyway long story short the problem was hardware, I changed the flex cable, the whole strip, some may call it the charging strip. Now it's fixed charges to 100% in 2 hours and battery lasts all day.