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Can not recalibrate battery

Im trying to recalibrate my batter because of terrible battery life. After letting it die and charging it while its on I had no issues getting it to 100%. I powered down the phone to charge it while it was off and it seems like its hanging at the last percent and wont go to 100. I have had it plugged in for a few hours now and its still showing the same charge but wont fill up the last little bit of the meter. Anyone have any ideas? Im really thinking about tossing the battery and getting a new one. It seems like i got a bad one. no matter what I do i can only get about 12 hours of light use. I work 10-12 hour days so I have to constantly worry about my phone dying everyday I work.

I had the same issues. Tried every battery trick I found on the forums, but nothing worked. I went to ATT, they sent me a new battery and it everything's good now
So try talking to ATT and getting a stock OEM battery before you buy one

I picked this up and it gives a lot of peace of mind: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004206TQ8/ref=oss_product

Dngen. Are you getting greater battery life now that your using a different battery? I'm convinced the first batch of batteries and phones were bad.
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Im also interested in that response
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Smallsmx3 said:
Dngen. Are you getting greater battery life now that your using a different battery? I'm convinced the first batch of batteries and phones were bad.
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At first I thought it was the phones that vary in battery life.
My first captivate had really good battery life. But it bricked after I tried to do the JH7 update. So I got the phone exchanged, but they used my original battery in the new captivate. For some reason my phone was draining really fast compared to my old captivate, and this was weird because both used the same battery.
This was really annoying me cause I loved this phone, but the poor battery life was ruining it for me. So I went to an AT&T store and told them how bad my battery life was. They shipped an OEM battery for free and I've found a new battery to significantly work better than the old one

Hmmm. I just got a replacement phone and everything works better...GPS ect... but the battery was the same as it is now.....10-12 hours. I've been thinking about getting another battery but I don't know if that will fix the problem. I guess I will try to anyway.
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Smallsmx3 said:
Hmmm. I just got a replacement phone and everything works better...GPS ect... but the battery was the same as it is now.....10-12 hours. I've been thinking about getting another battery but I don't know if that will fix the problem. I guess I will try to anyway.
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How long have you had your replacement phone? I know my battery life got better after a few days with my original captivate

I got my replacement phone about a week ago...I've been trying to drain and charge to make sure the system is getting a good read....I've had the battery since launch...the only time I got great battery life was when I used unhelpfuls undervolting and the first time I flashed jh7. I have only flashed one rom on my new phone. It just bothers me that it drains 5-6% an hour in idle. I don't have any Widgets and the only thing that is updating is email once an hour
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I think I might have caught a break....on my fourth day of charging and draining and I'm at 16 hrs with. 27% left. I guess ill continue with the whole charge and drain thing for the next couple of days.
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I somehow doubled my battery life. After draining and charging the last few days I managed to go from 12 hrs to 24 hrs of battery life while using it the same amount as before. I have had had my phone since launch and battery life sucked. I don't know it its because I got a refurbished phone that did it or what. I flashed my old phone almost every day for awhile. Even when I didn't flash I couldn't get it to last.
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Have you guys seen this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=806211

Good stuff, thanks

I've seen it and read most of the battery threads out there. I've come to the conclusion that: 1. There's a bad batch of phones out there that cause battery drain issues or 2. Since most of us ATT android users are new were unaware of the proper procedure to flash roms. I believe the second to be more true since most of the batterry drain issues happen due to flashing new roms according to most of the threads I've read. I would like to see the percentage of people out there who are still running there cappys stock with never Modding or flashing to see what type of battery life they are getting.
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Before rooting, sideloading and flashing unhelpful kernel I was getting the same battery life, 10-15 hours depending on use. The only thing unhelpful seemed to help with was my idle usage, about 1%/hour. I still need to tinker with the kernel and try wiping my bat stats. My phone reports the battery is at 5% but when I shut it off and plug it in it's more like 30% lol
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I had the same issue. Charge until full. Turn off and charge full... turn on and repeat. Erase battery stats via CW. The key is to let it die. Do not charge your battery until it dies....once it died I plugged it in and turned it on. If its at 1% then just let it charge completely. If its at 30% then you need to unplug and let it die again. Keep doing this until its at 1% when u plug it in. If you have to do the latter you have to start the process over again and erase stats and drain and fill the batterry. From here on out anytime you flash a rom make sure your phone is at 100%. Always let the phone die before charginging it the first time. I think the android system has to get a read of the batterry.
I think at some point along the way I charged my phone when it was at 30% after a flash so anytime after when my battery was dying I still really had 30% battery left but android was telling me my phone had no juice.. let me know if this works for you....
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Battery prob is now worse!

I'm rooted first of all.
Well, wifi, all GPS, and bluetooth off.
my battery was okay, it lasted for a day mostly. and I think about 2 days ago, the battery suddenly getting worse. Everything remains same. I haven't changed any option, but the bettry is suddenly worse.
I don't use my phone that much. like I got a phone call yesterday and today? no texting, no internet, no app uses.
I charged my battery full(til 11am or til noon), then it dies before 5pm.
(Today I charged my phone til 9:40am, got only one single phone call lasted 1-2mins, and my battery is already 47%.)
It's just terrible! Anyone has same prob????
I'm in California BTW.

are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?

squeakyl said:
are you rooted?
what rom/kernel?
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I'm rooted and I think it's stock rom.
I just followed the manual perm root process.
It's weird because under same conditions, battery got totally worse than before. It lasted at least for a day, but now, it lasts only 4-5 hrs with same amount of usage under same conditions.

ever figure this out?

Just rooting will not change anything to your battery life. You need to install a rom or a different kernel in order for it to change anything.

Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Mine too has gotten worse in the last week. I am not rooted. At this point my battery is draining roughly 25% per hour with little or no use. Spare parts shows the most usage on my phone is 0. I have tried getting rid of weather bug, Pandora and sirius. I tried looking for something to explain exactly why 0 takes up 10x more battery than Android system itself and I have came to the conclusion that I am lost. Any direction to the correct forum topic would be appreciated.
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Have you tried the "Blockbuster" mod?
1) open the Blockbuster Application, it should ask you to update.
2) once the update has finished open the application back up and
3) navigate to Menu>Settings> "Disable Movie Updates"
Users have reported better battery life.

Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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Do you currently have 4g?
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Yes I do and I have been using LTE off/on for last 2 days .
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I also just logged of FB chat about 2 hours ago and Google talk. 2 hours later still at 52% maybe I am on to something.
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I guess you and I are on the same page! I charged mine til 9:40 am and went to work yesterday. I got only one phone call that lasted 1-2mins. The battery was already 52%. All GPS was off, bluetooth off, Wifi off, everything off except 4G. I sent a text and received a text, and the battery drained to 46%. After a few mins with no use of the phone, the battery warning sound played. So I had to charge my phone at that point. It is just totally weird. Under same condition and same usage of the phone, the battery lasted for a day at least. (4G was on at the point.) I don't know what cause this problem. Anyways, I just unrooted mine and got a software update via OTA. I don't know if this will fix the problem. Any luck to you yet?

I am going to charge tonight and try current settings tomorrow and see how long battery last. It is to the point if I have to turn all this stuff off, doesn't it defeat the purpose of having a smartphone?
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Try ZD Box
Try ZD Box, and use its task killer to stop any programs your not using right then. Pandora is another app that loves to stay on and chew at your battery...

My phone just started doing this as well. I've been using the TBolt for a couple of weeks now.
Just yesterday my battery life took a serious nose dive. I've adjusted all the settings I can and the battery is dropping like a drunk girl's panties...
I'm having to charge it all the time now just to keep it from giving me the low battery warning.

Ok well here it goes . Off charger for 30 mins 7 text ,this post and a restart and down 10% already. Wtf
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jimsteam321 said:
Thanks for the reply. Yes I have updated and disabled the Blockbuster app. Better yet even I just rebooted my phone and it drained 12% on the battery. How is that possible. I am using my stock battery now and not the extended, so the % would be different with the stock compared to my extended but really I don't think it should use 12% on a reboot.
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That's about what mine took on average to reboot. 10-12%.

I'm at 72% after 11 hours of idle usage and that's on the 2750mah extended battery. That would put me at 46% after 12 hours having not touched the phone once. I literally fell asleep as I took it off the charger...
Something is jacked up and I don't know what.
Rooted, Virus ROM B3, 1.8G kernel (forget which).

I've gone to Imoseyon's Sense lean kernel, special edition.
We'll see how that goes...?

Wanted to report back as I think the culprit may be the wireless tether app.
I turned GPS, WiFi and all my sync's back on and the phone is back to giving me decent battery life.
I did some changes with the tether app and I'll report back to see if my suspicions are correct.

Need better Battery life!!! help!!

hey im using leedroid v1.3 and the battery life on my phone is horrendous, i left the house at 11am this morning with 98 percent and after a 10 minute phone call i had 75 percent battery by 12 oclock. do you guys have any tips or things i can flash to get the phone through a day and a half or even 2 days somehow?
also having an issue with the speakerphone, its the lowest volume of any phone i think ive ever owned, ive got to put the phone to my head, so its basically like making a call but using the back as an earpiece. thanks for the help.

I'm having the same problem with my phone, on any rom. According to CurrentWidget, the Ma being used by my phone will not drop below 150, even while idling. I'm starting to believe that my battery is faulty.

Are u guys calibrating the battety?
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I thought I was, but apparently I'm not. Can you point me in the right direction?

Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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charlieb620 said:
Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?

Battery calibration + managing screen brightness massively increases battery life. You need root to be able to clear battery stats, right?

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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?
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I believe the calibration tools want you to use them at 100% charge. I got a chichitec 1900mA/Hr battery, calibrated (i guess it is now) and my phone went for more than 24 hours before hitting the 49% mark. This was with light use (checking email, checking web forums, playing some Angry Birds, and making some phone calls) but still a HUGE difference from the stock battery. Also, I turn off data connection via quick settings when I am at home. I do turn on wifi though while at home. Calibration ought to help out big time, as these phones are reporting a dead battery long before it is really dead.
Also, dont pay attention to the current battery monitor's report for standby current. It isnt accurate.
Matt

That's the one reason I keep going back to the stock setup I just seem to get better battery life out of is than any of the custom ones I've tried. I've only tried a couple. Has anyone found a ROM that gets better battery life than stock?

New question about battery life

*New* How much does your battery drain per hour. I can't remember what it was with the Note but I think it was 1% an hour. I'm at 90% currently after 5 hours so that's more than 1%. *New*
*Old* Man I have the absolute worst luck in the world. I had a phone with great battery life but had to return it because of light bleed. Now this phone is down to 92% after only 20 mins off the charger with 19 mins of use. I'm literally watching the battery decrease. That seems unacceptable to me. I never noticed it draining that fast on my previous one. But everything else on this phone is prefect. I can't win.
After 5 hours it is down to 59% with 44 mins screen on time.
I'm pretty sure I'd still be around 80% on the phone I had to return. I can post pics of that phone's battery life also if you want. *Old*
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How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.

^^^^
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KitF said:
How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.
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This, definitely.

I definitely think there are some serious calibration issues on my phone as well...
TWRP recovery always shows 10-15% more battery than I see in the ROM ...also, when I reboot the phone the battery% comes down by around 5-10% and when I connect it to a USB cable to transfer some files , the battery% goes up by 5-10% in 2 mins ...
but the good part is , my phone still shuts down when the battery % reaches "0" ... so I am good with it

Hmm. Interesting. In all the smartphones I've hard previously (Sanyo zio, HTC EVO 3G, HTC Inspire 4G, HTC ONE X), the battery drains quickly. I'm a field technician so I drive a lot. I've found that usually the battery will die near the end of the day if I don't keep it on a charger at some point in the day. Normally when I'm driving, its plugged into the car charger. And really I don't think I do a whole lot with it. Well actually, I do everything with it. But I'm not gaming or anything like that. Mostly bluetooth calling, browsing the web, sending emails, taking photos, etc.
I do agree, don't make a judgement call when its 92% battery.

I was getting 1 day and 5 hours with 3 hours screen on time consistently with the previous phone. The best I've gotten with this one is 20 hours and an hour and 45 mins screen on time. Maybe I just need to put this through its paces longer. Who knows.
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KitF said:
How about using it for more than 20 minutes before making your judgement call?
My battery meter is always a bit off, sometimes I am below 90% before I even get into work at 9 AM but it ends up lasting until 2 AM.
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That's what I usually do but it seems this one doesn't last nearly as long. About half of my previous one.
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Battery meter isn't calibrated out of the box. Charge to full, and use until 10-20%, repeat a couple times to calibrate the battery meter. Then make judgement on battery life.

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Battery meter isn't calibrated out of the box. Charge to full, and use until 10-20%, repeat a couple times to calibrate the battery meter. Then make judgement on battery life.
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Completely agree with this.
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Alright here are some pics. Tell if you think this is acceptable. I did record about a 10-12 min video early in the day.
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Man I have the absolute worst luck in the world. I had a phone with great battery life but had to return it because of light bleed. Now this phone is down to 92% after only 20 mins off the charger with 19 mins of use. I'm literally watching the battery decrease. That seems unacceptable to me. I never noticed it draining that fast on my previous one. But everything else on this phone is prefect. I can't win.
After 5 hours it is down to 59% with 44 mins screen on time.
I'm pretty sure I'd still be around 80% on the phone I had to return. I can post pics of that phone's battery life also if you want.
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On my previous phone I was on it for like 20 mins and it didn't drop at all from 99%. I'm literally watching this drop from 63% to 53% in the 10 mins it took me to posts these and a few other replies. So frustrated. And it makes it worse knowing I sent back one that had phenomenal battery life.
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That looks relatively the same stats I get on a slow(er) day... But with that said, I use my phone for everything and scrambled eggs. So far today, as I'm on the train to work, I'm getting a LOAD of screen-on time; 1.5 hours of screen on time (lots of reading, lots of emails, lots of music going on all at once, all the time) and I'm at 58% after 2.8ish hours of total "up time".
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Aviras said:
That looks relatively the same stats I get on a slow(er) day... But with that said, I use my phone for everything and scrambled eggs. So far today, as I'm on the train to work, I'm getting a LOAD of screen-on time; 1.5 hours of screen on time (lots of reading, lots of emails, lots of music going on all at once, all the time) and I'm at 58% after 2.8ish hours of total "up time".
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Makes me feel a little better.
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After the update to 1.85 my battery drained really quick. Then the battery completely drained and phone died while idle. I charged it while off and the battey life was much improved after.
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2 hours and only 14 mins of screen on time and down to 90%. WTF is wrong that they can't make every phone relatively the same?! I feel like I only paid 5 bucks for this phone. Seems like that's all it's worth. Out of the five One X's I've had, every single one was different. That's bs. I'd still be at 99% with every one of the four previous ones I had.
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If they can't make these phones consistent for every user them they shouldn't sell then at all. If they took more time making the batteries insteadof rushing them through the line as fast as possible then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems.
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Rogers HTC One X (2 days old)
- Day 1: At 40% out of the box; charged to 100%
- Day 2: 1 hour screen time, auto-brightness, auto-sync, disabled bloatware apps; at 78% with 1 hour of screen time.
I'm lovin' this! I got ****ty battery life on the Tegra 3 Quad-core HTC One X. I guess kernels does make a big difference =P

I figured WiFi is really efficient on HOX. Here is what I got exclusively on WiFi.
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I figured WiFi is really efficient on HOX. Here is what I got exclusively on WiFi.
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That's fantastic battery life, you sir are a magician lol

Some more crazy battery antics

So a couple weeks ago I went to bed with my phone unplugged with maybe 80% juice left. Woke up, phone was completely dead and refused to turn on, even after sitting on a charger for 20 minutes. The only way I was able to get it to boot was through recovery. I checked my battery stats and it showed that it dropped steadily to maybe 65% over the course of 4 hours and then dropped straight to zero from 65%. I chalked it up to issues with my ROM because I was having other quirks here and there. The other day I flashed CleanROM 4.5 and everything was gravy. I also flashed the radio from 2.20 and had great signal and LTE speed increases after the flash.
Last night I decided to see how well my phone was sleeping so I took it off the charger at about 11 with 100% charge. When I unplugged it the phone was very warm and was reading about 110 F. I killed everything just to be safe. This morning at 8 my phone was down from full to 75%. WTF. I used to lose MAYBE 2% over night so 25% is a massive drop for me. I plugged it in to my MBP to charge (like I always do) and as soon as I did I got a warning message saying my phone was using more current than the charger could output and the battery dropped instantly from 75% to 18%. I am going to flash a different radio but I am not hopeful that it will solve this considering it has happened with two completely different ROM/Radio combos. I have checked betterbatterystats and even had system panel on monitor all night and nothing was out of the ordinary. Cell standby was at the top of the list in the stock battery stats but that seems normal to me considering I didn't turn the screen on once. There was no time without signal. Has anyone else experienced this issue? What do you guys think- hardware or software?

Couple weeks ago, sometime after flashing the rooted stock 2.23 and 2.23 radio, I had the issue of the battery being dead overnight. It was something like 70% when I went to bed, so I was surprised it died. I typically get more drainage while idle than you, but still usually only 2 to 3% per hour. Even less on the 2.23 radio, around 1.5% (or less) an hour while idle.
Hasn't happened since. I'm still wondering what happened?

This happened to me once as well, dropped from 70% to completely dead overnight. I could not figure out why, but it hasn't recurred.

It's a virus!
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I'm having a ton of awake time with very little screen on time when using aokp/cm10.
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Yeah I have no idea what's going on. Now it seems to be fine, and I haven't done anything to it yet. Took it off the charger at noon with about 80% on it, now it's almost 9 and I'm at 65% with 33min screen time and 30 minutes of voice calls. Pretty good for only a 15% drop. Really confused. Gonna charge it up all the way and unplug it again before bed to see if the same thing happens again.
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It's a virus!
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Oh noes! Maybe I should get an iPhone?!

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Oh noes! Maybe I should get an iPhone?!
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Definatly.
My battery has been absolute crap the last 2 days but that's just from installing google now I think. Going to have to revert to my backup soon.

Last night I went to bed with 83%, woke up 7 hours later with the same 83%. This is madness I tell you. Madness.

Just my hunch, a dead vertical drop on the battery meter (you mentioned it had dropped straight from 65% to zero?) is just an error in the meter reading, and the "later" reading is the correction. I would think such an instantaneous (or near instantaneous) drop in actual voltage is improbable, if not impossible. But I'm just a dump civil engineer, not an electrical.
I've seen a vertical drop once. Others have reported seeing it repeatedly. In those cases, a factory reset seems to fix it, but flashing a ROM (with the usual data and cache wipes) would seem to do the same.

I've seen it twice now, across two different ROM/radio configs. I'll just chalk them up to random flukes and go about my merry way.

_MetalHead_ said:
I've seen it twice now, across two different ROM/radio configs. I'll just chalk them up to random flukes and go about my merry way.
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sir, i sent you a pm .. can you have a look ?
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Just replied. Sorry for the delay.