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tips to phone charging

i made this post because people might be wondering about how to charge their phones.
(i say these things from experience so if different for anyone then let me know)
make it a habit not to charger until its at least 15% or less. i always charged my g1 and left it plugged in even at 100 and after weeks the battery life went to hell. i went through 3 batteries that way.
Also try not to use the phone while its charging. i cant really explain what the hell causes that but i know from experience of two other phones that the phone overheats and messes up the battery. so that means avoid over-night charging. i charge mine either before i go to sleep of first thing when i wake up.
also when ur charging ur phone, DO NOT put it under anything, like between a pillow the bed. ur phone will overheat like to the point of too hot to touch. also from experience.

Thanks man,that why my old battery started die'n so fast
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yeah i never charge phone unless battery is on red and once fully charged unplug

Also try battery calibration. Its amazing!
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Yeah battery calibration worked great for me
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What do you mean by Battery Calibration?

What is battery calibrabration
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Streetz180 said:
What is battery calibrabration
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I normally do this to calibrate battery:
1. Charge to 100 % with phone on
2. Unplug and turn off
3. Charge to 100% when off (i normally leave it for 10-15 minutes)
4. Then unplug, turn it on, then after fully booted turn it back off
5. put it back on charger till it fully charges again
6. boot into recovery and wipe battery stats
now use your phone as normally and give it 3-4 full charge cycles till the battery is properly calibrated.

Battery calibration is a app on the market. Check it out! It saves you from having to go into recovery and wiping battery stats
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i follow all of this and i usually get around 20 hours of battery life. and ive only calibrated my battery once.

Phone Off Battery Drain?

First time I turned my phone off overnight. It was fully charged when I went to "shutdown." Woke up this morning turned it on and it read 91%. I understand there's parasitic drain and all, but 9% in 8hrs? Heck if I leave it on overnight it only drains about 10%?
Anybody else seen this?

Rom??? Stock kernel??? Kernel battery driver, cm or ds???

fcisco13 said:
Rom??? Stock kernel??? Kernel battery driver, cm or ds???
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MIUI 1.9.9, Faux 0.4.1 SV kernel, CM battery driver

Android phones are never truly off. When you turn it off you are shutting down the radios, screen and putting it in a low power state; but it is not off. If you want no battery drain you need to pull the battery.

Sure, that makes some sense. Basically there's no point in me turning off my phone except to keep the woman happy.
I'm still curious to see if other people see approximately the same amount of battery drain (9%) over 8hrs with their phone off.

smoothmoose said:
Sure, that makes some sense. Basically there's no point in me turning off my phone except to keep the woman happy.
I'm still curious to see if other people see approximately the same amount of battery drain (9%) over 8hrs with their phone off.
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You have to turn your phone off to keep your woman happy?

How does that work???
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That happened to me once but down to 71 percent in the morning
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How about just it or her on silent mode?

Q-battery percentage

so the last couple of days ive noticed that when i charge my battery and check the history. it seems to go from 76% to 100% right after it passes 76% ive calibrated the battery and used the "Battery monitor widget pro" to set the values. is there anything else i can do?
ive also ordered extra batteries and they seem to do the same around 80% and go up to 100% in a matter of seconds
thanks

Charge your phone to full while phone is on. Turn off fast boot and shut phone off leaving it plugged in. Let it continue to charge until the led turns green.
Once green go into recovery and wipe battery stats. It's in the advanced menu. This will reset any previous settings but its VERY important to make sure its been charged full, first while on and second while off, before doing this.
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Gizmoe said:
Charge your phone to full while phone is on. Turn off fast boot and shut phone off leaving it plugged in. Let it continue to charge until the led turns green.
Once green go into recovery and wipe battery stats. It's in the advanced menu. This will reset any previous settings but its VERY important to make sure its been charged full, first while on and second while off, before doing this.
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ive done that. its fully charged now but it went from 76 to 100 within a minute. i did the wipe stats last night but it took like 30 mins while playing a movie for it to go completely dead from 1% to off

Well i'd say let it drain and recharge for a few cycles and it should recalibrate itself. If you go through about five cycles of draining it to about 20 and then fully recharging without interruption and its still messed up, then it could be the Rom giving you trouble. Re install Rom with a full battery. If its still messed up after that then the battery is probably damaged.
Edit: try other roms too before deciding that it is definitely the battery. Sometime roms have minor bugs like this.
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Gizmoe said:
Well i'd say let it drain and recharge for a few cycles and it should recalibrate itself. If you go through about five cycles of draining it to about 20 and then fully recharging without interruption and its still messed up, then it could be the Rom giving you trouble. Re install Rom with a full battery. If its still messed up after that then the battery is probably damaged.
Edit: try other roms too before deciding that it is definitely the battery. Sometime roms have minor bugs like this.
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Also, any add on mods to the notification bar could be causing the bug.
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Battery reduces 20% in standby overnight, is this normal?

My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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teobeo94 said:
My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Nope. With data/wifi turned on (data auto-off since Wifi is active), I lose at most 2% overnight. With airplane mode on OR data/wifi off, you should be seeing practically 0% loss.
Check your battery usage and see what's eating up the battery. Sounds like an rogue app/process that's wasting cycles or is out of control.
One of the best things about this phone is its standby life, as it seems to sip battery juice very lightly.

My battery was still 100% after I woke up today.
Nevertheless it dropped very quickly after using the phone, about 11% in 10-15 min but I assume that's completely normal after 8 hours standby.

I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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teobeo94 said:
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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That means that of the whatever % battery (out of 100%) that you've used, 20% of that drain was due to standby. That's not necessarily bad. So if you have 50% charge left, then it means that (50% x .2)% of your drain was from standby. My cell standby has currently used 23% of my current drain percentage. Since your phone is often left in the sleep/not-active state, then a large % of battery drain happens in standby.
Battery usage on Android is frequently misunderstood. And keep in mind that the 2% from the LWP you used is because it's only displayed when you're on the home screen. Otherwise, it remains dormant/paused.

that's strange that you are having that much usage in standby.. i have been getting a solid day and a half out of my battery and it doesnt really use any battery in standby.. there has to be an app of some sort that is sucking the battery or still running.. i always at bedtime though clear the cache thru storage in the settings menu and end all tasks in the task manager and close all the windows/programs with the far right virtual button on the bottom of the screen.. I am a bit OCD but heck if its working why stop..lol

Area with poor cell reception? If you were in plane mode it is an app for sure.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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I would have to agree with everyone else. I only experience 1% loss at most times overnight. Best standby battery life i've ever gotten on a HTC phone.

I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.

Lost 8% tonight (86/78). Saw this morning that the signal was not perfect. But wifi went off during the night. That should not happen. Maybe my custom rom is switching off wifi on sleep...
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teobeo94 said:
I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
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It's either a faulty battery or a rogue app. Shouldn't happen to a new battery either.
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Use better battery stats to diagnose rogue apps.

vasp3690 said:
My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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Right.
Battery lasted up to 2:30pm being off the plug from 7 am the previous morning. So a total of 31hours.
That is with tapatalk, a bit of web browsing, a bit of WiFi and google store updating, 2 short phone calls.
The app. 2x was running on mild battery saving,mainly by cutting the data periodically when the phone is idling.
I must say that this is really good and the phone took quite a while to go from 15% to 4% after which it switched off before I noticed it again.
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Battery discharging while OFF while on plane.

I got on a plane heading from New Orleans to San Francisco via Las Vegas. I turned my phone off just before boarding and didn't turn it on again until I landed in San Francisco. My battery was nearly fully charged as It had only been off the charger for about an hour and I wasn't using it. When I turned it on in San Francisco 7 hours later, it was nearly dead, with only 20% charge. I definitely saw the power off animation. It was definitely off when I took it out of my pocket, but the battery use told me the screen had used up most of the charge. What the hell happened? Has this happened to anyone else?
As a precaution, on the return flight I pulled the battery after powering down. I did not have any battery drain on the flight home after the battery pull.

Maybe the shutdown animation took a very long time and kept the screen on.
I have never heard of this, so I have no idea.

I've had this happen to me a few times. I power off my (fully charged) Charge at night before going up to bed and when I come back down in the morning and power up (and it goes through the power up cycle) I find I have limited battery left. I haven't tried to track down what is happening since I simply replace the battery with a fully charged one and continue on with my day.

I found that I had some file on my SD Card was draining my battery.
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dSlice said:
I found that I had some file on my SD Card was draining my battery.
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I don't suppose you remember which file that would have been.
So when the Charge is powered off it really isn't powered off?

jusliloleme said:
I don't suppose you remember which file that would have been.
So when the Charge is powered off it really isn't powered off?
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It is truly off when powered down.
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I think it's just a glitch of the battery meter. Either it was lying to you when it was full or lying when it was 20%. If it doesn't happen on a regular basis then the battery should be fine, right?
I think we've all had it happen (at least to me a few times) where I switch out batteries that I know have been charged and the phone says that it's dead. The solution I found was to take the battery out and try to power it on, then put it back in or put in the fresh one. I don't know why, but it seems to get rid of some sort of bad juju.
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kvswim said:
I think it's just a glitch of the battery meter. Either it was lying to you when it was full or lying when it was 20%. If it doesn't happen on a regular basis then the battery should be fine, right?
I think we've all had it happen (at least to me a few times) where I switch out batteries that I know have been charged and the phone says that it's dead. The solution I found was to take the battery out and try to power it on, then put it back in or put in the fresh one. I don't know why, but it seems to get rid of some sort of bad juju.
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Actually when my phone glitches out and reboots sometimes it shows the battery level more than 50% below what it used to be when it died. A glitch in the kernel that reports the battery level could be the culprit.

jusliloleme said:
I don't suppose you remember which file that would have been.
So when the Charge is powered off it really isn't powered off?
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No, I just went purging of files, I don't use.