I just recently flashed a different battery indicator(the ones from the Humble thread) and ever since then my Charge freezes if I hold the power button down, you know so I can shut down/restart/all that jazz? Ya, it just freezes and no menu pops up, I can either wait a few seconds and it restarts on its own or take the battery out and do it that way. WTF.
Bad flash maybe? You tried using Quick Boot?
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I've got a feeling it's because I flashed a Humble battery mod on Gummycharged, man I feel dumb lol. I'm disabling Voodoo right now and flashing Humble anyhow. I like the constant updates and support that ROM receives.
This was happening to people flashing battery mods on gummy too. It happened to me, so I am staying away from the battery mods.
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Well I just went to Humble and I'm liking it a lot better then GC for sure. I'm not even going to attempt flashing a battery mod, don't want to risk it haha. Also the current battery indicator on Humble is perfect, better then any of the current mods available.
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So I have a weird charging issue. Anytime I plug in my G tablet it will charge to 96% or 97% and the light will turn green like it has a full charge. It never reaches 100% Can anyone help?
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My gtab does exactly the same thing, could be normal.
I know this has been brought up before....
Mine does that too... But the battery life is pretty freaking awesome, so I don't let it bug me too much....
It can be fixed if you want. There are threads about this in the general section. Hit up a quick search for battery issues and you will find them. One way is to drain the gtab dead and then plug it in and boot to recovery. In cwm under advanced you wipe battery status and then power down and let it charge to full. May not work the first time though.
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Mantara said:
It can be fixed if you want. There are threads about this in the general section. Hit up a quick search for battery issues and you will find them. One way is to drain the gtab dead and then plug it in and boot to recovery. In cwm under advanced you wipe battery status and then power down and let it charge to full. May not work the first time though.
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Hmm, interesting. If this eats away and bothers me enough I may attempt this, but I agree with the statement above regarding the great battery life regardless of the presented battery percentage being reported when fully charged.
I am on PunkRom and I usually don't charge my Triumph until its almost dead. So I am around 20% on my phone and when it gets around 15% It dies, well shuts off on me. And I'm like, well, is it because this Rom is programmed to be this way or is it a tweakable bug that it's having? Or maybe something I forgot to read. Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks.
And all Props to the person who made the Rom I like it most of all.
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I am on PunkRom and I usually don't charge my Triumph until its almost dead. So I am around 20% on my phone and when it gets around 15% It dies, well shuts off on me. And I'm like, well, is it because this Rom is programmed to be this way or is it a tweakable bug that it's having? Or maybe something I forgot to read. Anyone else having this issue?
Thanks.
And all Props to the person who made the Rom I like it most of all.
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What you want to do is charge the phone full by charging it while on tto 100%, then unplug it, turn it off, and plug it in until the red light turns green. Boot into cwm recovery, and go into the advanced folder. Wipe battery stats. This should fix your problem.
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Weird enough. I can vouch for Punk ROM not being the source of that issue, it could be a b_randon14 tweak... but even I wouldn't be able to say what Or where as even it seems relatively stable.
....that much said, do what the person above said. Wiping your battery stats on a regular basis is unwise, but in a situation like this it makes the most sense.
Also, for a generally longer battery life, charge once you reach fifty percent or lower.
First off I've been around a while, long time flasher. It has just recently started to upset me. When my battery is around 20% the phone just shuts off as it has shut down due to no charge. I have used search function and can't seam to find matching issues. Its not a recent situation just started to annoy me. Oh and it does the notification low battery before powering off. I have calibrated battery and wipe battery status and getting pretty good battery life. Thanks in advanced.
I am currently running tweakstock 2.0 with Imnuts official 0502 pbj kernel and system tweak v66.
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Try another battery to see if the issue is replicated.
My phone has been acting really weird the last few day. I had [ROM][MTD]CyanogenMod 9.0.0-rc2 UNOFFICIAL by TeamAcid[R5][Jul-20-2012 installed on my phone. But it would crash all of the time. Afterwards when the phone rebooted the battery would go from 100% to 9%. If I dont boot the phone back up right after a crash and wait a little while. When I boot it up the battery will be around 40-45%. I used [Heimdall][One-Click] The T959V Heimdall One-Click Collection [05/20/2012] earlier today, Just to see if I continued to have the battery problem. I only had the phone crash once while on the stock rom, and the battery did drain about 50% but I also started having a problem where I would lose my data connection all together. Rebooting the phone brought it back, only to lose it again after around 30min to 1hr. It has not crashed for about 3hrs now and I have not lost my data connection either. Anyone have any ideas what might be going on here? I tried deleting the battery stats with the battery at 100% before going back to stock but that did not seem to help at all. I downloaded a batter calibrator from the market place and tried that as well. Used it when the battery was at 100%. None of this has worked. Now that im back on the stock rom its only crashed once, but the battery did still drain. Any ideas? I would really like to go back to CyanogenMod 9 but its not worth it if the phone continuously crashes and kills the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try Gremlins Remover.
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So you don't waste any more time, "battery calibration" is snake oil, lithium ion batteries don't need "conditioning" (and actually suffer from both high temperatures and deep discharge cycles), but the moon is made of cheese. Ok, at least the first two are true.
As you're having problems with one of the most stable and reliable GB ROMs for this phone, I suspect that you may have one or more of:
Bad battery
Bad user-land applications
Corrupt application data
Corrupt media data (for example, music on your microSD)
Bad phone
Bad luck
A "start over" approach with a complete clean-out either using the above-mentioned one-click, or doing the equivalent by hand (wiping all partitions, flashing stock, starting with a fresh microSD), then seeing how the phone/battery behaves without any apps would be the path I would take. If it passed that, I'd slowly start adding back apps, and only restoring data/preferences where you really need them.
Im doing the gremlin remover right now. I will let you guys know how to goes. Thanks for the advise, this has been driving me crazy.
Tried the gremlin remover last night and played with my phone today. Its still crashing and then when I boot it up back the battery is pretty much dead... I think i have a bad battery. Never had these problems with the phone before. Thanks for the help guys. I guess Ill get a new battery and see if that fixes the problem.
I have this EXACT same problem. I'm on AOKP and the battery with go from having a decent charge and die. Then if I take the batt out, hold the power button for 15 secs and let the phone sit with no batt for 10 minutes or so, the phone will go back to around 50% batt life. After gremlin remover and Bryan's one click back to stock multiple times, I've finally come to the conclusion that I need a new battery.
I ordered a new battery today. I will let you know how it goes.
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Mine does the same thing... doesn't really crash often.. once in a blue moon. But if I reboot. . I get that instant battery drain ...GR didn't fix it.... I just attribute it to ageing battery.
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So I looked I to this issue more. For anyone having this problem, remove the battery and place it on a hard flat surface to see if it has swollen any, if it has then the battery is defective. My battery actually rocks a little. I could actually tell it had swollen before I even put it on my desk.
That is only for seeing whether a cell has busted. It is normal wear and tear. That is kind of like how u lose battery life after hundreds of cycles because it is just how the current li-ion battery technologies work.
I would download the one click and also reflash boot loaders and repartition your device.
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Tried that, even with bootloaders. OP also stated they used gremlin remover as well. As we we're both having the exact same problem, I was giving him a better solution that wasn't the standard "reflash, repartition, etc."
I finally got my new battery in. And all is well now. Thanks everyone for the advice and help
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thats crazy swapping you battery worked. lol, mine does it too. not so much the crashing just a simple reboot and it will be drop down from 70% to 1%. This was doing the same thing with my phone before my charging port got busted. So i had to swap out the guts from my old galaxy s with broken screen. When i put the new internals in i started with bh's one click back to stock and flashed antonx kernal. Then flashed cm9 and it still does it. i will try a new battery as well.
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Well, I don't mean to come off as rude, but come on guys! I've had this problem for a while, and as soon as it happened I knew I needed a new battery. On top of my phone being somewhat "old", the fact we all play around with it so much, and do so many battery pulls most likely does NOT help the matter. At least I screw around with my phone and try out many ROMs...
But I'm glad I have confirmation that a battery swap will do the trick. It sucks that stores don't carry the t959v battery anymore... Guess I'll be ordering online tonight.
I'm having issues of the phone rebooting by itself and consequently draining ~90% of the battery when it does so. I've tried flashing a bunch of different ROMS to see if I can stop it from happening, but to no avail. I'd like to go completely from scratch and hopefully I can get to a point where the phone works for an entire day without crashing. I've been using the HD2 instead of the SGS4G for a couple months now, so I'm a bit rusty, which is why I came here to ask for suggestions. This is what I was planning on doing:
- Flash one of these stock ROMs in order to get back to where I started.
- Format my SD card completely and let the phone convert it back to EXT4
- And then flash either Barebone or Valhalla
Do you guys think this would be sufficient enough to remove the problem that's causing these reboot & battery drains?
I would flash eollies kj6 with the blastoff v2 if your not planning on going to ics after because that's the latest gb kernel available and then flash Valhalla or barebones (then you might have to flash blastoff again can't remember right now but it should say in the op of each rom). And I'm pretty sure when you one click back to gb that will convert back ext4 so I would format SD card and reload it before you one click back. Good luck friend
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Thanks for your input! Do you think the gremlin remover is necessary, or is it overkill in the context of what I'm doing?
If you want quick and easy use my one click the other two listed is just kernels.
As for getting battery life on ICS flavored roms, well take the time using BBS and STT to figure out whats killing your battery. As long as Im not jumping between wifi and mobile data I can go around 15 hours on a battery. And I havent spent tons of time to figure out why Im not getting more battery life. But others like jeffsf has. And with that I can honestly say if your not getting battery life comparable to GB roms its YOUR fault not the rom. Most ICS roms have stuff built in that you have to use a app for. Therefore a GB rom with nothing installed will get better battery life. But once you put your stuff on and start running the battery life is not being compared properly. The reason for this is most people will keep a app just because they are use to it and not even know the ICS rom has it built in.
I personally think most of our batteries - if still using the one that came with the phone - are starting to run their course. New batteries are inexpensive on Amazon.
I think you guys are misunderstanding my issue. My problem isn't the battery draining quickly over a certain amount of time due to regular use. My problem is that once my phone crashes and reboots, the battery will literally go from whatever percentage I was at, all the way down to below 10%. I can be at 90% battery, and if my phone crashes, it will be on low battery once it powers back up. I'm not sure what's causing the crashes, which is why I'm just trying to start at step 1 and work my way from there.
To test if it was the battery simply draining out very quickly, I turned brightness to 100% and turned WiFi & GPS on, and disallowed the screen from turning off. The battery drained normally.
That happens to me... It gets fixed by shutting down and taking out the battery for 30 seconds.
Sounds like a bad battery
i had the same issue and also would get diff battery levels when booting with or without charger plugged in...i used a toool from market to calibrate battery. i cant remember exact app but will post back if i find it.
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and i had to do it a couple of times to get it to set in.
Like thecontroller stated its a bug and you should be able to correct it by pulling the battery out and waiting a few extra seconds. If it does it still hold the power button down for a little while with the battery out.
Do this next time you have a crash on ics. Time how long it takes for the phone to restart. It is seems abnormally long you could have some scripts that are running on boot that is causing issues.
Calibrating the battery can be done manually. All you have to do is delete the batterystat.bin file. That is all those apps do. And really If you fully charge your battery it should be deleting itself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1445698
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Originally Posted by kalel29 So,all the battery calibration tutorials are useless???????
In a nutshell, yes. You are only putting extra stress on your battery by "tricking" it according to various calibration guides. Batterystats.bin file is generated for a reason. Batterystats.bin is in /data partition, so after you install a new ROM that wipes your previous data, it gets wiped too. So, "Wipe battery stats after installing a new ROM", which is a cliche among those guides, is pointless. Last but not least, batterystats file is simply a logging tool that monitors your battery behavior. The "stats" part is pretty self-explanatory. The actual Power Manager lies in kernel, not in /data partition which accessible to anyone.
SBD all that info is true. But if you use the aroma installer it will backup and restore the data partition. Not sure if it will restore the batterystat.bin file or not. That is why I posted what I did. I do not believe in calibrating batteries as much as making sure they file is not storing data that is out of date.
As you guys mentioned earlier ...hard resets are the best ....I find our batteries do go bad. And when they do....they do all kinds of odd things to the device
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i had the same issue and also would get diff battery levels when booting with or without charger plugged in...i used a toool from market to calibrate battery. i cant remember exact app but will post back if i find it.
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Battery calibrations are garbage. They do nothing. The file that any battery calibration app deletes is deleted by Android anytime you do a full charge anyway.
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I personally think most of our batteries - if still using the one that came with the phone - are starting to run their course. New batteries are inexpensive on Amazon.
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Not to mention the screen. Was in Costco last week, saw the old T959V on display and held mine up to it. Screen is faded bad I don't know if any of you else have noticed that lol
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Okay, so I formatted my SD card, and flashed Eollie's KJ6 using Heimdall. After that, I flashed Raver's Valhalla Black.
Initially, I didn't install anything extra other than updating gmail and superuser. Everything worked fine, apart from one random reboot. Once it booted back up, everything was normal. Today, I installed around 5 apps. I was using one of those apps (Reddit Is Fun), and while using it, the phone crashed. Once my phone booted back up this time, everything force closed, and log provider force closed over and over. I had someone text me, and right after they did my phone just crashed. I tried fixing permissions, but that didn't do anything.
Any suggestions?
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I just factory reset and tried reflashing Valhalla Black, but everything just force closes again even on a fresh install.
Boy I don't know what the hell you're doing but you are doing something very wrong.
Flash back to stock (complete stock). http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1358498
Then flash AntonX http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19601810&postcount=2
Once you do that, flash a ROM.
I just went through the same issue. This was going on rarely for several weeks then got more frequent. I have a couple of extra batteries that T-Mobile sent me when I first got the phone....swapped in one and its been 10 days without a single issue. Before posting here tonight I put my old battery back in and guess what? Symptoms came back within 30 minutes....so....
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Then there's your answer, you need a new battery my friend
Just so weird, I don't see how a battery can affect the OS in that way haha. I've ordered a new battery anyway, they're only like $5 on Amazon, but I'm gonna try your steps anyway, controller. Thanks a lot guys.