On Battery use won't reset - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Weirdest bug I've run across yet.
My On Battery time will never reset no matter how many times I plug in and unplug the phone.. I wiped cache, dalvik, bat stats.. Nothing.. Wiping bat stats resets the timer but it goes right back to never resetting.. Tried shutting down and pulling the battery.. Still the same.. I've completely flash 100% back to stock and locked her back up.. Still the same.. It's just continues counts down that I'm always on battery. I've tried two different USB cords also.
Any idea?

Do you usually unplug the phone before it becomes fully charged?? I've noticed that if I unplug it before the lockscreen states "charged", then it will continue adding to the timer.. If I do a full charge and unplug, then it resets the timer

Odd.. Sounds like a legitimate Gingerbread bug.. Yeah, unless it's over night I always unplug it before it says fully charge.. Like most people I plug in when I can but it's not usually till over night where its plugged in long enough to reach a full charge state. I know on Froyo soon as you unplugged the phone it would reset.

Ok.. Figured it out now..
90% full is the trigger point.. 90% or higher and your On Battery timer will reset every time you unplug..
89% or lower and your On Battery timer will only pause when plugged in and resume from that point when you unplug
*whew* I thought I had a hardware issue at first.

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From AWESOME to TERRIBLE overnight

Well, this was interesting... Since day 1, I have had great battery life and have not experienced what everyone else has been experiencing.. An occassional lock-up/reboot, but nothing major.
A couple of weeks ago, I switched to a backup battery (andida). Things have been going well w/ that battery. Yesterday, I updated cwm.. While the andida battery was out, I decided to switch back to the stock battery for a while. Then, the following items took place all within a few hours of use, which I have not experienced.. ever before:
- Battery temp running high.. Andida constantly hanging around 22.2 - 23.2. Stock was hitting around 43 until i rebooted the phone, then dropped to 40. It is currently running at 36.
- 2 shutdowns. I could not boot the phone past the LG logo after the shutdown. Was able to boot into CWM though > went to shutdown > tried to boot, same thing. Had to pull the battery in order for it to boot.
- Received a phone call, answered, but the phone kept ringing during the entire phone conversation.
- 2 screen lockups. Could slide the unlock, get the haptic feedback, but that was it. It would not unlock. Had to reboot.
- 1 black screen of death? Total black screen with the task bar displayed. Was able to go into settings, pull down the task bar, etc. Background was blacked out. Reboot, fixed.
- Can not get gps. Was driving for 5min trying to get a GPS lock, nothing. Opened up GPS test and not a single satellite showed up in the list.
- Finally... and worst of all. Last night I plug in the phone for a couple of hours. As I'm going to bed, I disconnect the usb from it.. and take a glance to see where it charged to - 100%. I go to bed at around 1:30am. I wake up at 7:30a, turn on the screen of the phone, and it gives low battery warning. It's at 2%. I reboot the phone to make sure. It's at 1%.
So idk.. maybe something was stuck running. I'll find out here shortly after this charge is done.. but I am seeing a major difference in the operation of the phone after putting the stock battery back in. I had not experienced this when I was running the stock battery in the past. (I had an occasional lockup/reboot.. but not to this scale.. and I had always had fantastic battery life. Every single time I unplugged before bed and had 100%, I would have 98% when I woke up).
Suggestions? Changes were updating to the new CWM 4 and putting the stock battery back in. Running Bionix RC1..which I have been running for a while. I'll let this sucker charge up and see what it does. Maybe I should wipe the batt stats?
yeah wipe the batt stats. possibly try cm7 its really stable now. i know it doesnt have the a2dp but every else works. i would say another kernel also faux's or morific work fine. use setcpu if your going to oc. if you choose to flash another i would do a complete wipe of everything then install so hopefully the problems wont pop back up in the new flash. i read in one of the thread that if your battery is dated 3/2011 it will have issues but the 4/2011 or whatever will have less reboot and freezes issues may wanna try getting a replacement if you wanna stick with bionix until krylon does an update.
The andida battery doesn't have a temp sensor, so it's worthless for testing temperatures.
well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....
schmit said:
well, idk.. who knows what the crap happened. I charged to 79% and unplugged. 2.5hrs later, I'm still at 72%. That's around 3% an hr. Last night was 17%/hr.. Something happened last night.. Man, I'd love to know what took place.
Either I had an app going wild all night, or the battery really never charged.. and the 100% was deceptive. It's just nuts how all of these probs all of a sudden surfaced right after cwm 4 and putting the stock battery back in. They never surfaced b4 on the same ROM and with the same battery that I used for weeks and weeks.
O'well....
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I know, it is just weird but it does happens from timr to time.
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When the battery is less than when it removed,After some time and putting it back will be full power display
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You should wipe battery stats when doing any major rom change (stock to custom or between different roms).
Battery will always be wonky the first time before a full charge/discharge on the rom unless it is 100% and battery stats are wiped.
Typically what I do (on CM7), is when I wake up the phone is at 100%. I download the latest nightly while I'm in the shower. Jump out, it starts to flash. When its done and booted up, I wipe stats then unplug the phone and go to work.
I don't always wipe stats. But with all of the battery tweaks and fixes he's done, I will occasionally.
I very rarely ever completely turn my phone off, but last night I decided to turn it off right before I went to sleep. My battery was down to 25% right before I turned it off. When I woke up this morning the phone would not turn on. So I decided to plug it into the wall charger to see if it would help. Well the phone did turn on after I plugged it in and to my surprise the battery was showing as 0% charged which is why it wouldn't turn on without being plugged in.
So, that means that something drained my battery from 25% to 0% while the phone was completely turned off. What in the world would be running while the phone is turned off that would drain the battery like that?

I think I messed up my battery

So, I wanted to calibrate my battery today, and so I charged it to 100%, turned it off and charged it to 100% again, then booted into cwr, wiped battery stats, restarted my phone. After a couple minutes I remembered to unplug my charger.
About an hour later off the charger, my phone went from about 70% battery to 0% and shut off automatically. I knew there was no way I actually ran it down all the way that fast, so I rebooted, and it showed it was at 4%. A couple minutes later it jumped up to 15%, and has been jumping back and forth for the past few hours.
I think I messed up the battery stats by keeping the phone on the charger after wiping the stats. How do I go about fixing it?
The only thing I can think of at the moment is running my phone until it actually dies, then charging to 100% while off, then wiping stats while actually unplugged. Will this work? Or, is there another solution?
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Im just guessing but maybe wipe cache along with the battery stats and try to re calibrate from there. Did the battery get really hot, like over heat?
I would just cycle it complete and see what happens. I've had some screwy numbers show up during a calibration before. I wish I'd taken a screenshot of the time it dropped to 50%, fell instantly to 25%, then slowly rose to about 42% before it started falling again. It was freaky. Once the full cycle was done, it didn't do it again.

[Q] Charges to 100% then settles at 97% while still charging?

So I plugged my GN in last night and stayed up late enough to see it reach 100%, but I left it charging all night. When I woke up this morning, the lock screen said Charged but my battery widget said 97%. This has happened a few times and every time I can fix it by just unplugging it and plugging it back in. Anyone know why it does this? Could it be because I get lots of emails at night and the LED running all night decreases the battery a little? Thanks!
I think it stops charging when it reaches 100%, therefore the 3% may be lost during that time. This is a good thing, because a laptop, or anything else, eventually the battery will go bad. When you unplug it, then plug it back in, it can cause that battery to go bad faster. Again, I think this is it. My phone seems to do that. I would not worry about it though.

Really Irritating Battery drain/percentage "jump"

Ever since I have flashed 4ext recovery My battery jumps percentages. For example: If i charge my phone from ~30% overnight with the device switched on, as soon as I unplug my phone it's fine, but after about 15 minutes the battery plummets to about 90% without me even using it! Second thing, if I decide to reboot into recovery to flash a theme or mod or whatever the percentage when in recovery mode shows that it is higher than what is indicated when fully turned on?? And once again, if i reboot from there, when the device has turned on the battery has plummeted even further to 50%! Yes I've deleted batterystats.bin and calibrated the battery, and yet still this happens!
I experienced a very similar issue with my last phone (HTC Desire) and that was linked to it being "USB bricked" and was able to resolve my problem.
Thank you all in advance
Matty Matt said:
Ever since I have flashed 4ext recovery My battery jumps percentages. For example: If i charge my phone from ~30% overnight with the device switched on, as soon as I unplug my phone it's fine, but after about 15 minutes the battery plummets to about 90% without me even using it! Second thing, if I decide to reboot into recovery to flash a theme or mod or whatever the percentage when in recovery mode shows that it is higher than what is indicated when fully turned on?? And once again, if i reboot from there, when the device has turned on the battery has plummeted even further to 50%! Yes I've deleted batterystats.bin and calibrated the battery, and yet still this happens!
I experienced a very similar issue with my last phone (HTC Desire) and that was linked to it being "USB bricked" and was able to resolve my problem.
Thank you all in advance
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Wel with my experience (do you have a percentage mod installed?) uot kitchen mods react weird with my device. The battery isn't necessarily draining. The mod isn't representing the actual percentage.
My work.around was as follows
Drain to 2 percent
Turn phone off and charge over night
(this way the battery decides when its full)
Deal with percentage reading being way off for a whole day. When it dies turn it back on and there will be the residual percentage that was skipped over. Let that drain down. Then try and turn it back on (repeat steps)
After phone dies completely then charge once again overnight with phone Off.
Wake up unplug phone, boot into recovery, plug phone back in, wipe dalvik/cache then bat stats. Reboot and unplug.
That's what I do. Sounds like a lot but you get a routine after a while. Ya a lot if people percentage mods do that to me.
Hope this helped
Good luck
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I have the same problem with one diference, when battery jump - phone turn off

Battery issues

Just got home from school to find my phone on 34%. It went from 100% to 34% in 5 hours. When I saw it was 34% I looked up in disbelief, when I looked down it was on ****ing 22%. (12% down in a fraction of a second) I decided to restart it to maybe get the battery to display the right percentage, but when I booted up I got the 30 seconds until shutdown warning because the battery was drained. What gives? Anyone have issues like this?
Calibrate battery.
Discharge completely until it doesn't even boot.
Having the phone off, let it charge completely.
Once charged, turn it on at let it still connected to power socket for 10m.
Disconnect from power and you're done.
If this doesn't help, then factory reset. Or install a battery monitor app to track app drain.
Rommco05 said:
Can you charge phone? Try factory reset, if reset not help and problem persists go to service center
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Just charged it to 100% again. Gonna do the calibration thing before factory reset though.
hmmm same isssues

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