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I've installed the Yelp, Movies, and Amazon app, nothing else, and I'm losing around 15% an hour with light/normal usage.
I've let the battery run down to 0 and recharged completely, I've turned off gps and wifi, and still get really bad life. I live in the Bay Area and get a solid signal all of the time. There's really no excuse for it.
Please don't tell me to flash to a rom, because that's obviously not fixing the issue. Light browsing and the occasional Google Maps has my phone at <20% by the afternoon.
Battery stats just show android system and screen brightness taking up power. What's the deal?
I also constantly have at least 255 / 328mb in use even with all applications closed.
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The mb usage is normal i noticed this on stock because of Verizon apps that run in background. As far as not using the phone and only getting 6 good hours of use. i would take to the store and ask if they could change out the battery. Hope this helps.
+1 for that, sounds like you have a defective battery.
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Thats about how long my battery gets me.
And if I forget to power down my phone at night, or put it on a charger it is dead by morning no matter how much of a charge it has before I go to bed.
I have an extended battery starring me in the face and can't use it yet since I couldn't find a door and had to have one shipped from Samsung.
Hopefully the extended battery cures my issues.
(I am running Gummy Charged 2.3.3 Beta, currently waiting for the 2.3.4 release)
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Thats about how long my battery gets me.
And if I forget to power down my phone at night, or put it on a charger it is dead by morning no matter how much of a charge it has before I go to bed.
I have an extended battery starring me in the face and can't use it yet since I couldn't find a door and had to have one shipped from Samsung.
Hopefully the extended battery cures my issues.
(I am running Gummy Charged 2.3.3 Beta, currently waiting for the 2.3.4 release)
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I am curious as to what you guys are running. And if you go to bed with your phone on , and its dead by morning I can PROMISE you there is either something going on with your phone, or you are doing something wrong (i.e. you have your phone set to never sleep, your screen is set to maximum brightness, your are leaving your phone in desk cradle mode, etc etc etc.) But it's not the phone. May be a bad battery, but without being at your house and seeing what you are doing, I have no intelligent answer for you.
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I am curious as to what you guys are running. And if you go to bed with your phone on , and its dead by morning I can PROMISE you there is either something going on with your phone, or you are doing something wrong (i.e. you have your phone set to never sleep, your screen is set to maximum brightness, your are leaving your phone in desk cradle mode, etc etc etc.) But it's not the phone. May be a bad battery, but without being at your house and seeing what you are doing, I have no intelligent answer for you.
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charge phone to 100%, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats, then use the phone until you completely drain your battery until it shuts off. Then charge back up completely. This will calibrate your battery. try running a customer rom such as gummy charged or humble to see if you get bettery battery life... thousands of users have reported great battery life with both
I had same crummy battery life. I followed the calibration instructions and i went from about 5-6 hr batt life to ( right now im at almost 11hrs with 66% battery left on wifi with moderate use). Ill test tomorrow on 4g only and see how it does. I would get like 4-5 hrs before.
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danalo1979 said:
charge phone to 100%, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats, then use the phone until you completely drain your battery until it shuts off. Then charge back up completely. This will calibrate your battery. try running a customer rom such as gummy charged or humble to see if you get bettery battery life... thousands of users have reported great battery life with both
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I am running the latest humble and my battery drops really fast. If I go into task manager and clear my RAM, I get better battery. I calibrated per the instructions as well about a week ago or so and saw no improvement. Please note that I have not been scientific about it at all.
Stopping Data obv helps a million and clearing RAM seems to help as well.
EDIT: I am recalibrating in case it was not done properly before. Hopefully it will help. I am hopeful!
I charged my battery to full, booted into clockwork recovery and wiped my battery stats.
When I rebooted my phone it shows a 73% charge?
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I charged my battery to full, booted into clockwork recovery and wiped my battery stats.
When I rebooted my phone it shows a 73% charge?
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If you are on humble 1.x then that means your battery stats were way off. Basically your battery still needs 23% more charge before its full... thus better battery life... because you had a miscalibrated battery, your phone is erroneously reporting a full charge... charge it back to 100% then discharge fully then charge all the back up
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I'm on Gummy Charge GRE, but I assume the same reason?
I exchanged my battery at verizon. So far it seems better. Ive let it drain and am recharging now. I will also try uninstalling g+ if the new batt hasnt solved the problem. I will post back with an update.
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I switched out my battery 2 days ago, and I'm still getting under 6 hours with moderate use.
Has anyone had luck with ROMs drastically improving battery life? I can't imagine it being the phone itself, but I might try exchanging it too.
EDIT: it seems like the new battery charges a bit faster. My old battery would take around a minute for one percentage gain. Can anyone comment on their charge times?
I read a lot of thread about battery calibration so I want to know if someone try this on XT720 and if it's really usefull and not dangerous for the phone.
Thank you
It is useful and not dangerous at all. Your battery has, if stock that came with phone, a full charge of 4.2v.
So let's say that you have been conservatively using you phone most of the day and are at 70%. You decide to flash the Hellmonger edition or CM6 but you make a nandroid backup first. You flash them and it goes horribly wrong and your phone power dwindles down to 30% and you freakout and charge it back up.
When it is charging, you decide to hold off on flashing for a bit and want to go back to your "home" ROM, whatever that may be. You let your phone charge up to 100% and re-flash your back up. Once it reboots and settles down, you happen to notice that just 5 mins ago you were at 100%, but now after flashing your backup, your battery shows 70%.
30% drop in 5 mins is rediculous. Yes it is, bit it didn't really drop 30% in 5 mins because when you backed up your original ROM, you also backed up your data/system/batterystats.bin that was calibrated to 70%.
If you use Battery Calibrator and charge it up fully, run app, hit it and then unplug, it deletes the data/system/batterystats.bin and in a few seconds (5 ithink) it creates a new one with you proper charge and voltz.
So if you flash a lot, this is good for you. Or you can delete the batterystats.bin manually if you want, but there's an app for that.
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It is useful and not dangerous at all. Your battery has, if stock that came with phone, a full charge of 4.2v.
So let's say that you have been conservatively using you phone most of the day and are at 70%. You decide to flash the Hellmonger edition or CM6 but you make a nandroid backup first. You flash them and it goes horribly wrong and your phone power dwindles down to 30% and you freakout and charge it back up.
When it is charging, you decide to hold off on flashing for a bit and want to go back to your "home" ROM, whatever that may be. You let your phone charge up to 100% and re-flash your back up. Once it reboots and settles down, you happen to notice that just 5 mins ago you were at 100%, but now after flashing your backup, your battery shows 70%.
30% drop in 5 mins is rediculous. Yes it is, bit it didn't really drop 30% in 5 mins because when you backed up your original ROM, you also backed up your data/system/batterystats.bin that was calibrated to 70%.
If you use Battery Calibrator and charge it up fully, run app, hit it and then unplug, it deletes the data/system/batterystats.bin and in a few seconds (5 ithink) it creates a new one with you proper charge and voltz.
So if you flash a lot, this is good for you. Or you can delete the batterystats.bin manually if you want, but there's an app for that.
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So, if I understand, it's not so usefull because after I lose my 30%, if I charge and I have 100% it's really 100% not 70% right ?
I would say that it is always best to start from a clean slate. It deletes that batstat file and starts anew. Can't hurt, but if you are flashing ROMs every 3rd day like most of us, it does come in handy.
For the moral of the stroy, it will not damage your phone. Just a one click app that you can do manually with Root Explorer if you wanted to.
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I would say that it is always best to start from a clean slate. It deletes that batstat file and starts anew. Can't hurt, but if you are flashing ROMs every 3rd day like most of us, it does come in handy.
For the moral of the stroy, it will not damage your phone. Just a one click app that you can do manually with Root Explorer if you wanted to.
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Ok, thank you, I will use it when I will flash a new ROM.
Do you actually have to drain the battery fully after calibration?
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Do you actually have to drain the battery fully after calibration?
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Its recommended that the battery drain fully, and then be recharged without interruption. I guess thats to give android a full scale from full to empty, to help better report battery stats and consumption.
However for me full drain means 10-15%, its hurts the battery to be drained till the phone powers off.
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Its recommended that the battery drain fully, and then be recharged without interruption. I guess thats to give android a full scale from full to empty, to help better report battery stats and consumption.
However for me full drain means 10-15%, its hurts the battery to be drained till the phone powers off.
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Haha battery calibration definatly helps the battery a lot but u suggest not draining battery fully??
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Haha battery calibration definatly helps the battery a lot but u suggest not draining battery fully??
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I used to drain it fully till my phone turned off before calibration but I read a very detailed article about how draining the battery completely can hurt it. So I choose to drain it till 5-10% which is good enough
How come sometimes when the battery is full it shows 4200mah like it should but sometimes it shows less like around 4165mah in the battery calibration app? At 4165, I still left it there to charge to see if it would increase or not but it didn't...
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I know that the last little bit of charge just trickles in and takes a long time. If mine is at somewhere between 4150 and 4200, i call it good and go from there. If it was showing at say 4095 and 100%, then there might be something wrong with either the data or the battery. If you are sitting at 4165, then it is charged for the most part.
The app and what it does is more for when you are flashing a ROM and have around 60% and then once booted up fully, you charge it up to 100%. Decided you don't like your ROM and go back to your original ROM via backup, it will show 60% instead of the 100 or 90% you had before you went back to back up b/c you backed up the batstat bin when you nandroided your original ROM.
How about this:
ROM: Epicsteelblue 70% (and you made a backup) Then went to CM6, charged and hit calibrate battery at 100%. Used CM6 for a few hours and decided it wasn't your bag. Your batter is at 50%. You flash back to your Epicbluesteel ROM and you know for a fact you had 50% before you flashed back, but now once totally booted, you are showing 70%. This is why you use the battery calibrator after you flash a ROM. Gotta create a new batstat bin for you "fresh" ROM (even though it is a backup).
Hope this helps explain better.
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How come sometimes when the battery is full it shows 4200mah like it should but sometimes it shows less like around 4165mah in the battery calibration app? At 4165, I still left it there to charge to see if it would increase or not but it didn't...
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That happens sometimes to me aswell. The battery calibration app shows the battery full at 4165 or somewhere in that range. What I do with that is bump charge it. So if battery calibration shows 4165, i just calibrate it and turn the phone off while it is connected to the charger. When it turns off the charging screen appears and shows 100%, i leave it there for an hour or two. Then remove and turn the phone on. If you go into the battery information itll show the charge to be 4200 or close to that. Hope that was helpful you can try it next time.
EDIT: The reason I turn the phone off and let is charge is that when it reboots after fully charging to 4200 it can create a fresh battery stats. Remember battery stats are only rebuilt upon boot. If you calibrate your battery and then dont reboot its useless. To test calibrate it, and then use it for awhile and then try to recalibrate it the app will indicate that there are no battery stats avaible to delete. This is because the ROM has not made any new battery stats and will only make them on boot.
hey guys has anyone tried this method (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11803458&postcount=10) of calibrating battery? it seems the dev says that if u use his method, you can calibrate without downtime!!
wow this is damn cool. but its kinda complicated. the old way feels better for me i think...
Battery Updates
The battery updates every 10%, is there any way to make it update more precisely, like every 5%?
I've never been able to get anything better that 10% battery increments
Okay thanks maybe in a future rom this would be nice.
Hi
Is their a way to change from 10% to 1% increameants.
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How come sometimes when the battery is full it shows 4200mah like it should but sometimes it shows less like around 4165mah in the battery calibration app? At 4165, I still left it there to charge to see if it would increase or not but it didn't...
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It is the property of all rechargetable battery, 4.2V can only see at the moment charging progress just finished. when the power management IC pull of charge current, battery's voltage will drop a litte in a very short time, like you said, 4.165V for example. And, because of your charger is connected, battery will not drain, It won't be another charging progress witch you are expecting.
I know I'm digging up an old thread here, so sorry for that. I've recently tried a few other ROMs, but since have come back to CM6.3.7. I always do the battery calibration thing when I flash ROMs and each time I've tried it lately, it gives me odd information in the Battery Usage screen. I charged my phone to 100% yesterday before leaving work and when I got to work today, it showed 70%, which seemed normal, but the Battery Usage screen showed "1h 24m since last unplugged" and I know I hadn't plugged it into the wall or USB for about 12 hours. I did restart once....could that be the reason why the time since last unplugged is incorrect?
I can't seem to figure out whats wrong with my phone. I have a draining issue with my battery and i don't know if my battery indicator is not accurate. I used odin and went back to stock on a full indicated battery. Then I flashed VB and adrenaline shots 1.4-1 and camera tweak and scrolling mod and booted the phone and let set for 10 minutes before I reloaded all my apps. My battery was indicating it was at 100% ok so i unplugged the battery and wham it dropped to 79% plugged it back in and it started charged from where it left off at 79%. After a few min and the phone goes to sleep mode and indicates 100% i unplug the phone and it charged from where it left off at 79%. So i kept unplugging it and plugging it back in every few minutes till i got to 100%. So sounds ok now but i had to reboot my system and wham again down to 79% and even with the uv settings my battery drains fast. I tried calibrating the battery and also charged it with the phone being off and no results. All I want is a full charge as I work long shifts lol. thanks and i hope this is understandable the way i tried to describe it.
Also Thanks to the devs on here who dedicate their time to making this device do what it was meant to do..
Try letting the phone die completely. After about ten minutes power it back on then let it die completely again. Leave it off for an hour then plug into wall charger. Let it charge to 100% while off. After it hits 100% unplug it and leave it sit for an hour while off. Then turn it on and use normally.
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Try letting the phone die completely.
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Not to contradict hechoen - but take note that Samsung recommends against completely discharging your battery in the manual for the phone.
+1 (edit: on previous calibration routing)
also you may try to "jump start" MAX17042 (fuel gauge) chip... when your phone at 100% on a charger (verify this by looking at battery voltage - OS Monitor / Misc tab. or other similar apps) - voltage should be around 4.15 - 4.2V. When you disconnect charger - what would be the voltage then? If around 4.0V then may be your battery is going south.
To "jump start" FG - turn off the phone, pull battery out and wait for 5 - 10 min. - just to be sure internal circuits got completely discharged.
When you install battery, FG chip will use "average" model for new lipo... see if it makes difference.
Yeah I've heard that this kind of batteries last longer if charged continuously (short and often charges) instead of full charges after letting it die. Something about battery cycles or some.
I'd recommend fully charging and battery calibration from market. Also, reflash rom but not tweaks yet, and see how it behaves. Then install tweaks/mods and see if the battery continues to decrease rapidly. If it does, get an app for battery info, check its health.. Your battery might be dying for good.
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battery calibration from market.
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Google has also debunked the battery calibration myth. There is a thread about it in the General Section with a link to the article.
To add to the recommendations...
Check how often your phone is set to sync. Big battery drainer. Auto starting apps. And display brightness.
if all fails you could try to reflash and see if that fixes it
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Google has also debunked the battery calibration myth. There is a thread about it in the General Section with a link to the article.
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+1 on that too... glad to see that finally common sense based on knowledge prevails "Battery Calibration by wiping batterystats file" apps myths.
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Google has also debunked the battery calibration myth. There is a thread about it in the General Section with a link to the article.
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Wait, I didn't say battery calibration is going to make your battery last longer. It doesn't do that.
But it's a fact that after installing a rom a battery calibration is needed. Normally, developers code their install scripts to perform a battery calibration when installing the rom, so this is not needed afterwards, I still do it anyways when charging the first time to 100%.
I for one had the issue for the first time when installing a rom (don't remember which one) and after rebooting or shutting down the phone, the battery would go from >90% to <20% for no reason at all. Someone here at XDA suggested battery calibration app (or, manually at CWM/advanced, clear battery stats) and the issue was gone. Maybe the rom is misreading battery data and that could cause this kind of issues... which a battery calibration would fix it.
Just saying.. if there's an option for it in CWM, then chances are it is needed for some reason!
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+1 on that too... glad to see that finally common sense based on knowledge prevails "Battery Calibration by wiping batterystats file" apps myths.
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Indeed. It's on our wiki, too, under the batterystats.bin Buzz Word entry.
So i think I needed to do a factory reset. I re flashed vahnilla black and then did a factory reset in the rom. Before I re flashed the rom I
had 60% as soon I restarted the phone on the freshly flashed rom it dropped to 1% then I did a factory restart within the rom and when I rebooted the battery indicated 20% and I am in 16% charge now, only went down 4% within the last 6 hours. So I will run it till it dies tonight and charge it with the phone off to see the results tomorrow.
Thanks Raver for the help in this matter. Will keep everyone posted on the end results.
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Not to contradict hechoen - but take note that Samsung recommends against completely discharging your battery in the manual for the phone.
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No contradiction at all. You shouldn't fully discharge all the time. But once in a while it's actually good for the battery. Especially lithium ion. Take a look at this. For those of you who don't like to read that much just skip to the bottom.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/inner_workings_of_a_smart_battery
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No contradiction at all. You shouldn't fully discharge all the time. But once in a while it's actually good for the battery. Especially lithium ion. Take a look at this. For those of you who don't like to read that much just skip to the bottom.
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Forgot link?
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Forgot link?
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Sure did. Sorry about that.
vwgtiturbo1 said:
So I will run it till it dies tonight and charge it with the phone off to see the results tomorrow.
Thanks Raver for the help in this matter. Will keep everyone posted on the end results.
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so you call hechoen (guy who posted calibration routing) Raver...
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so you call hechoen (guy who posted calibration routing) Raver...
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no actually raver answered a few questions for me through pm. but hechoen thank you and i will do that when my battery is fully charged. thanks again to everyone for the info! will update tomorrow!
I fully charged my battery last night while it being off and let it sit for a hour before turning it on. Well great seemed to now indicate it's fully charged after a hour I threw on adrenaline shots 14-1 with camera and scrolling mod. Let it air for 30min went into recoveryand fix perms. When I rebooted the phone the battery dropped again from 80 to 60 and then went back up to 75. Then I rebooted again it dropped to 25% and then I rebooted again and now it indicates 59% I believe this battery is heading south. What do you guys think?
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drywolf said:
How old is the battery. If it is a quality battery it should take between 500 and 900 recharges. Do you own a volt meter?
Also calibrating your battery should be done occasionally. Not to somehow make your battery last longer, but to clear out the old data and use new data to show your batteries usage. Just like resetting the computer in your car that shows average MPG. Fresh input will give you a better idea of what your car is getting today and same goes for your battery stats.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/battery_calibration
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I have calibrated the battery. Everything seems to of been working fine until I added adrenaline shots. Once I rebooted after installing adrenaline shots my battery started acting up again. I pulled the battery out for 10 min and popped back in and now I'm indicating 56% after 4 hours of heavy use with wifi on. :/
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Is this a factory battery? Or a aftermarket ebay/amazon battery?
Im sure people will disagree but some of those aftermarket batteries are not the greatest quality.
Do you live in a town that had a battery store, like the interstate battery shop or something of the likes? Most of those places can do a brief diagnostic of the battery and tell you if it is bad. Or if you have a volt meter fully charge it and test it that way.
It really sounds like the battery is being stupid. There should not be any reason installing A.S. could cause a instant battery drain. If that were the case your phone would be so hot you could not hold it. Because draining that much juice in that little of time would indicate you have a short or something of that nature.
Hello. This issue has been going on for a while now. But when I take my phone off the charger when its not fully charged. The battery percentage keeps going up. For example if I unplug it at 78%, the percentage will gradually go up to like 86-88%. Can anyone give me a hint as to why its doing this? Thanks!
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Hello. This issue has been going on for a while now. But when I take my phone off the charger when its not fully charged. The battery percentage keeps going up. For example if I unplug it at 78%, the percentage will gradually go up to like 86-88%. Can anyone give me a hint as to why its doing this? Thanks!
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Battery stats are wonked out.
Do you have Clockwworkmod recovery installed? Or is this a pure stock unrooted?
EDIT: Mr. Jacob, what are you tense about? LOL ! Just kidding....
Try using an app called battery calibration (can be found in the app market) when the phone is fully charged. This will reset all the battery stat logs and set your 100% to a true 100%
I have clockwork installed. I'm running SkyICS rom. And I have already tried battery calibration.
PS: And nothing really xD its been my screen name since the early Xbox days
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Battery calibration does nothing. Normally I wouldn't recommend that u COMPLETELY drain the skyrocket battery as its lithium based and can cause dead cells, yours needs calibrating, and wiping battery stats or using a battery calibration app won't help (both of these are myths by the way, Google if). Use phone until its completely dead, and won't turn on at all, only vibrate with a black screen. Then charge phone for a continuous 8 hours uninterrupted, that should fix it
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I have clockwork installed. I'm running SkyICS rom. And I have already tried battery calibration.
PS: And nothing really xD its been my screen name since the early Xbox days
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As a first try, charge to 100%. Then go into CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. It should be good to go....On ICS, thsi seems to fix it for me.
IF you then stilll have weird battery problems a proper recallibration will be in order.
I had to just wipe battery stats when charged to 100%. DON'T just wait for 100%. Alow the phone to get to fully charged.....if you have "Full Charge" notification on your ROM wait for that.
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As a first try, charge to 100%. Then go into CWM recovery and wipe battery stats. It should be good to go....On ICS, thsi seems to fix it for me.
IF you then stilll have weird battery problems a proper recallibration will be in order.
I had to just wipe battery stats when charged to 100%. DON'T just wait for 100%. Alow the phone to get to fully charged.....if you have "Full Charge" notification on your ROM wait for that.
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Half of this is right chappatti
charging to 100% and letting it sit for at least an hour even after full charge notification is the best way. Wiping battery stats in cwm won't actually do anything though, thats a myth.
Actually, for lithium ion batteries, it is not recommended to let them discharge to zero. It's better to run it down to 10% or so (i usually do about 5%). and then charge it completely. Rinse and repeat over a few days, and there should be a difference.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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Half of this is right chappatti
charging to 100% and letting it sit for at least an hour even after full charge notification is the best way. Wiping battery stats in cwm won't actually do anything though, thats a myth.
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Yup, ice, ur are right. Wiping stats is not about battery charging stats....
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
What a revelation !! It's like realising my religion is all wrong !
BUT, BUT, BUT : reading the whole battery stats discussion, it i also clear that the business of charging for an hour after 100% is also not worthwhile, but is just a customer gimmick to make people feel thier batteries are topped off. This was started by HTC and the consensus is that is also does not help.
The simple solution is to let the battery go through 2-3 charge-discharge cycles.
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Actually, for lithium ion batteries, it is not recommended to let them discharge to zero. It's better to run it down to 10% or so (i usually do about 5%). and then charge it completely. Rinse and repeat over a few days, and there should be a difference.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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A good read. Very useful, thanks !
I had this same issue with my Exynos G2, my problem was flashing different roms or putting a theme on. My fix came not by wiping battery stats but only doing flashes at 100% and plugged in. I never noticed it on my SR though. I'm not saying don't try what the others say, just giving you more options.
I don't know if i'm being paranoid or what about my battery %, but whenever my phone reaches around close to 30% it goes down instantly to 19% in like a minute all the time.. Not sure if my phone isn't used to my rom yet but it did that when i flashed sc7 and sc6 (gb).. Has anyone experienced this issue before, or my battery needs to be replaced?
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I don't know if i'm being paranoid or what about my battery %, but whenever my phone reaches around close to 30% it goes down instantly to 19% in like a minute all the time.. Not sure if my phone isn't used to my rom yet but it did that when i flashed sc7 and sc6 (gb).. Has anyone experienced this issue before, or my battery needs to be replaced?
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Wipe battery stats?
If that even works on this device, I know it was just placebo on Samsung devices.
Yes you wipe battery stats through custom recovery. But you need to calibrate your battery as well. Each time you switch ROMs, be sure to do this. I was having same issue except mine would hit 30% then instantly drop to 5%. Calibrating the battery and a few setcpu tweaks fixed my insane drainage.
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Okay thank you, when i charge it 100% i will wipe battery stats because it seemed to annoy the heck outta me. When it reaches 100% i will wipe battery stats, i don't know why i didn't think of that. But yes i believe my battery needs to be calibrated
jangeles323 said:
Okay thank you, when i charge it 100% i will wipe battery stats because it seemed to annoy the heck outta me. When it reaches 100% i will wipe battery stats, i don't know why i didn't think of that. But yes i believe my battery needs to be calibrated
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Go grab the Battery Calibration app from Google Play, it will alert you when the battery reaches full charge and you can re-calibrate. It'll also show the mAh value when fully charged, something good to observe...
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Apex_Strider said:
Go grab the Battery Calibration app from Google Play, it will alert you when the battery reaches full charge and you can re-calibrate. It'll also show the mAh value when fully charged, something good to observe...
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yeah i read your post on battery calibration and download watchdog to see if there is any rogue apps sending data in the background. But for some reason i can't get my battery to 100% its always stuck at 99%. so i just calibrate it at 99 at 4296( (not sure on mv)
jangeles323 said:
yeah i read your post on battery calibration and download watchdog to see if there is any rogue apps sending data in the background. But for some reason i can't get my battery to 100% its always stuck at 99%. so i just calibrate it at 99 at 4296( (not sure on mv)
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Try the charging trick in my 2nd post, might solve that for you...
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Try the charging trick in my 2nd post, might solve that for you...
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DId that, didn't fix the issue.. But its nothing really significant to me because once it reaches 100 it goes down to 99 rather quickly.. but it stays at 99 for awhile unless i use it
edit: well i just reflashed a rom yesterday.. maybe i need to do more calibrations
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DId that, didn't fix the issue.. But its nothing really significant to me because once it reaches 100 it goes down to 99 rather quickly.. but it stays at 99 for awhile unless i use it
edit: well i just reflashed a rom yesterday.. maybe i need to do more calibrations
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The full charge (100%) to 99% immediate drop is completely normal with this phone...
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The full charge (100%) to 99% immediate drop is completely normal with this phone...
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yeah i'm completely aware of that.. which isn't a problem for me anyways.. But it should show that it can reach 100% on the percentage when charging but doesn't.. Anyways that isn't an issue anyways its the drainage from 30 down to 19% in an instant.. which i hopefully fixed when the battery is now calibrated thanks to that app
Hmmm I just saw my battery went from 30 down to 20 again.. maybe my battery isn't calibrated enough? i followed the steps in charging it phone off and then calibrating the battery with the app..
jangeles323 said:
Hmmm I just saw my battery went from 30 down to 20 again.. maybe my battery isn't calibrated enough? i followed the steps in charging it phone off and then calibrating the battery with the app..
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Which App? All you need to do is go into CWM and wipe battery stats. Anything else you use will not work right on this phone. After that it needs to be 3 "FULL" battery cycles (fully charged to fully dead, or to 5-10% at least, then fully charged again).
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Which App? All you need to do is go into CWM and wipe battery stats. Anything else you use will not work right on this phone. After that it needs to be 3 "FULL" battery cycles (fully charged to fully dead, or to 5-10% at least, then fully charged again).
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battery calibration app.. I used it to calibrate it but I usually only charge my phone when it reaches under 10% or so..
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I have the exact same issue as does my wife. She is on stock ics and has never done anything on her phone whereas I am on svc7 rooted and have done everything anyone ever recommended to eliminate that loss from 30% to 19%. No avail.
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Pilgrimtozion said:
I have the exact same issue as does my wife. She is on stock ics and has never done anything on her phone whereas I am on svc7 rooted and have done everything anyone ever recommended to eliminate that loss from 30% to 19%. No avail.
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How quickly is the discharge from 30-19%? Can you attach a log of wakelocks found? Have you tried another battery?
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How quickly is the discharge from 30-19%? Can you attach a log of wakelocks found? Have you tried another battery?
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Well same thing here..switched off the screen and when switched back on whoa battery is at 19% from 30%
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Literally from one second to the next it goes down 10% or so. Don't have another battery but my wife has the same thing. Does it after a factory reset as well as after installing 60 apps. Before and after battery calibration. None of it makes any difference.
The only other thing I can think of is that a certain battery percentage kicks in a certain lower clock speed and that that process kicks 10% of the battery. Not likely in my mind, but possible.
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After about 3 weeks after making this thread I still get the same thing.. From 30% down to 20% in seconds sometimes it happens at around 40% which is utterly absurd
I have also noticed this problem sometimes, when I do run it that low. My jump is from around 30 to 20 percent. I did wipe stats a couple of days ago after I flashed swiftytrix from ICS leak 1. However, after wipe stats, I didn't discharge to completely dead, but close to it. Does that matter?