Is wiping battery stats still the same process?
Wait for battery to completely drain
Plug in phone/boot into recovery
Wipe battery stats, then power off
And let it get a full charge?
Sent from my iPhone 4S using Siri
I almost never wipe Battery Stats, only when i'm getting horrible battery.
But if you want to do it, just wait until it's charged and wipe battery stats using "Battery Calibration" App (Faster than going into CWR). Then simply go through at least one complete battery cycle.
There's never a fixed and confirmed way about doing this.
Some said to fully drain, then wipe battery stats (no clue how do you wipe something if it's already fully drained), give it a full charge (they didn't specify if the phone has to be on/off either).
And some others said it's best to fully charge, wipe, full discharge, and then a full charge again.
Some don't even recommend it at all, saying the battery stats will "fix itself" after a couple of discharges anyway, so calibrating won't be necessary.
cabstrak said:
There's never a fixed and confirmed way about doing this.
Some said to fully drain, then wipe battery stats (no clue how do you wipe something if it's already fully drained), give it a full charge (they didn't specify if the phone has to be on/off either).
And some others said it's best to fully charge, wipe, full discharge, and then a full charge again.
Some don't even recommend it at all, saying the battery stats will "fix itself" after a couple of discharges anyway, so calibrating won't be necessary.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i tell people both ways, either charge completly full or completly drain it. then delete the batterystats.bin file and reboot. generally i use root explorer to delete it. its located in /data/system/batterystats.bin. theres many ways to do it.. in recovery, with root explorer, with a battery calibration app, or with a script in the terminal emulator.
Related
For my HTC Hero, people on the boards recommended wiping battery stats and fully draining the battery for a couple of cycles.
Is it recommended for the Gtab as well? Are you able to wipe battery stats on this thing?
clankfu said:
For my HTC Hero, people on the boards recommended wiping battery stats and fully draining the battery for a couple of cycles.
Is it recommended for the Gtab as well? Are you able to wipe battery stats on this thing?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you flash clockworkmod you can wipe battery stats.
What exactly does wiping battery stats do? My gtab never charges past 97%. Would this re-calibrate it so that full charge showed 100%?
It's not even a minor annoyance so I'm not intetrested in anything requiring me to drain completely but if this is a simple fix I would give it a go.
I have the same problem...battery won't charge past 96%. I've charged it overnight and wiped battery stats with no success. Any ideas how to fix this??
Vegan 5.1.1
Same issue here, sadly. First time charging, it got up to 100%. After that now though, it stops charging at 98%. No amount of bump charging, battery stat wiping, draining battery, etc, has seemed to work.
It charges to 100% when using it while plugged in. I mean if it matters to you to see the big 100 once in a while ;-)
Not for me, lol. Meh, not a HUGE deal, but kind of a bummer.
Mine has the same issue. Charged overnight while powered on and while powered off and the highest the battery meter reads is 98%. I have attempted to wipe the battery stats, completely drain the battery, and wipe user data- all to no avail. While slightly irritating, it really seems as if the battery is functioning normally and the breakdown is simply the calibration of the software. I am easily getting 6-8 hours depending on usage.
Mine did that as well in the beginning, but after a bunch of good charge discharge cycles charges to 100%.
My buddy recently rooted my phone, I don't know much about this stuff yet. I unplugged my phone and it stayed at 100% battery for like 6 hours. My buddy says we need to wipe battery stats.
Can anybody help me with this?
Thank you
Download battery calibration from the market. Its free and the easiest way to do it.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt
yes wipe your battery stats
I've had problems with aosp roms doing that. The battery percentage sticks, then when you reboot, it updates.
Not sure what the cause is, but wiping battery stats didn't help.
Thanks for the replies.
I'll try all three.
How would I go about wiping battery stats? Does the phone need to be charged to 100 before doing this? Please walk me through it as if I were a 4 year old.
Recovery/ advanced/ wipe batt stats/ reboot to recovery/ system reboot.
should battery be full/plugged in to full when this happens?
If I do this, should I avoid downloading the app mentioned above?
Kdeli said:
should battery be full/plugged in to full when this happens?
If I do this, should I avoid downloading the app mentioned above?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Charger should be unpluged , battery at 50% or above is ok , download the app after you are finished.
Kdeli said:
should battery be full/plugged in to full when this happens?
If I do this, should I avoid downloading the app mentioned above?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
it is best to do a full charge.
have the app on your phone, clear stats
use phone until battery is fully dead, or close to it
recharge again to 100% with out unplugging it
and you should be good.
however charging it to 100% and wiping stats will be fine.
you can do it from the battery app mentioned above, or once charged to 100%, hold power, select reboot, choose recovery, once clockwork shows up, go to advanced, wipe battery stats, "go back" reboot phone.
Thank you all very much. It is much appreciated.
I look forward to actually doing some reading in my spare time (yea right, spare time,) so that I can be more educated.
-k.d.
I have read every possible thread you can imagine on battery calibration and can never seem to do this correctly, is it a myth? No matter what I do, if I restart my phone, I end up going from 100% down to 85-86% EVERY SINGLE time.
This is after "bumping it". (letting it drain all the way to 0% and then fully charging again).
This is after using BATTERY CALIBRATION in the market which was told works well. (again, advises you charge to 100% then "calibrate" it via the APP).
This is after charging it to 100% and restarting it, recharging up to 100%, restarting and recharging (repeat, repeat, repeat), and then going into bootloader and wiping battery stats.
None of these have worked, does someone have a sure fire EXACT way to do this properly or is at ALL just hype? Help.
Your battery will never say 100% after a reboot. It sucks up a lot of juice on a power up and the battery doesn't charge during powering on. I usually drop about 10% on a reboot using the rezound battery. That is normal behavior. If you can charge to 100% with the phone on then you're fine.
Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk
Interesting because I've never lost 15-16% consistently although I guess it using some juice to cycle makes sense. Anyone else seen 10+ every restart? Thanks for the help man in either case.
Hmm, never seen this before. On my phone which is running skyraider uc to 768mhz and uv only loses 1percent on reboot or doesn't even lose charge at all. Not sure why your phone is doing that.
Sent from my ADR6400L using xda premium
I am running G3D uc to 768mhz and on restart I may lose 1 - 5% at most depending on if i made any changes that take a longer restart. I bet you are overclocked? no need, under clock to 768mhz and your phone will run as smooth as 1.2mhz..maybe smoother while using less battery
Running liquid 3.2.1 on my T-Bolt with the Rezound battery and I only lose 1% battery at boot up. Never lost more...oh and I have never calibrated my battery. Also I get about 8-10 hours of moderate to heavy use too. All stock clocks btw
Just to double check - or reword... do it this way - if you aren't already.
Charge to 100%.
Wipe Batt stats
Drain to zero without recharging in any way (AKA let it drain until it shuts off on you).
Recharge until 100% (till it says 100%, not just "green."). And unplug.
And you're good! Try that and check back in.
Battery Calibration doesn't work
Ignore the % number, it means nothing. Use the battery monitor widget or another program that will show you the actual battery voltage. A fully charged battery will be somewhere around 4200 mV and a discharged battery between 3600 and 3200 mV. I've also noticed that the rezound battery throws things off as the mAh rating doesn't match up to either of the thunderbolt batteries. This is why the battery monitor widget shows the rezound battery as 2750 mAh instead of 1620.
What I recommend to my Evo peeps [which I have] is this:
-Charge battery to 100%
-Wipe battery stats in recovery
-Let the battery drain, so it manually powers off
-Charge to 100% again, and good to go
Battery Calibration doesn't work
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
By this I mean Google Developers have came out recently and said battery calibration does not increase or have any effect on the state of battery life. All wiping the battery stats does is wipe the stats as to what has been using the battery, etc.
still handy for when you flash a new rom to wipe the stats, but it doesn't improve battery life at all.
smoody said:
By this I mean Google Developers have came out recently and said battery calibration does not increase or have any effect on the state of battery life. All wiping the battery stats does is wipe the stats as to what has been using the battery, etc.
still handy for when you flash a new rom to wipe the stats, but it doesn't improve battery life at all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Actually, the post from Dianne @ Google said nothing about calibration. She only talked about wiping or deleting the battery stats file.
You are correct, however all the battery calibration apps available only delete the battery stats file. So like I said it doesn't affect battery life.
wherestheboost said:
Just to double check - or reword... do it this way - if you aren't already.
Charge to 100%.
Wipe Batt stats
Drain to zero without recharging in any way (AKA let it drain until it shuts off on you).
Recharge until 100% (till it says 100%, not just "green."). And unplug.
And you're good! Try that and check back in.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is what I thought I had done but will do again. The problem is even after its 100% and in between your 1st and 2nd step when I reboot into recovery, it's no longer at 100% and sometimes down to 85%ish. I will try again tho, thanks!
http://rootzwiki.com/_/articles/wiping-battery-stats-is-pointless-says-google-r316
That pretty much says it. Wiping stats and calibrations are placebos.
l7777 said:
That pretty much says it. Wiping stats and calibrations are placebos.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I read that too. But when I flashed my first rom on the tb I got abysmal battery life. 25% in like 20 min. I recalibrated and it got so much better. If its a placebo its a good one.
Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt using Tapatalk
all that says is the the deleting the batterybin file doesn't help. The battery is handled by each by software outside of android itself. So, following the battery calibration from the manufacturer of your phone still might help.
jefferyriess said:
Yeah I read that too. But when I flashed my first rom on the tb I got abysmal battery life. 25% in like 20 min. I recalibrated and it got so much better. If its a placebo its a good one.
Sent from my HTC ThunderBolt using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
25% in 20 minutes means nothing. The % is an estimated number. Find an app that reads the battery voltage if you want a true reading on the battery's charge. Full is 4.2 volts, dead is between 3.0 - 3.6 volts. Battery life should only be measured in hours from full to dead. I've seen my phone stick on 100% for several hours before as well as sticking at 20% for several hours. Ignore the %. Anyone spending all day looking at a % to judge their battery life should go back to a battery indicator that doesn't show %.
I just flashed a new kernel on ic 4.6.1.
Do I wipe battery stats, charge to full, then turn everything on to run out the battery, then charge to full
Or charge battery to full, run it out, then wipe then charge to full?
I just had it fully charged, wiped battery stats, killed the battery and am now chargoing to full
Which method is right?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
rickyiswhite said:
I just flashed a new kernel on ic 4.6.1.
Do I wipe battery stats, charge to full, then turn everything on to run out the battery, then charge to full
Or charge battery to full, run it out, then wipe then charge to full?
I just had it fully charged, wiped battery stats, killed the battery and am now chargoing to full
Which method is right?
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Fully charge. Then wipe stats. When you wipe the battery stats, it should be full, then your device can know what a full charge is. It doesn't really need to know when the battery is empty or partial.
Google would have found you a couple of articles about this... I answered this question earlier this week in another forum.
Try googling "wipe battery stats android", and you should find a good article on Lifehacker as well as a couple of informative blog entries.
Battery calibration is a myth
Battery calibration is a myth guys
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
mic180 said:
Battery calibration is a myth guys
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105051985738280261832/posts/FV3LVtdVxPT
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, I've seen and read that post. But a quick calibration let's me hit 100% charge without having to trickle charge for excessive hours.
You can say it's not necessary, but the truth is...my phone sometimes says 'Charged' then when I remove it from the charger it immediately drops to 98%. Calibration changes this.
Theory is great. But the real world is the real world.
Hello guyz,
I want to wipe battery stats of my nexus s but there is no option like that in cwm>Advance>Battery Wipe Stats
Can anybody help me in this?Thx
don't ... it's quite useless
( there are tons of app,but u can also charge to 100% and battery stats are deleted automatically, or pull out battery, anyway it doesn't affect battery life ... )
Yeah as the last poster said, a Google person came out and busted the myth that wiping battery stats helps in batterylife/precise readings. The stats wipe on their own after each cycle, I don't know exactly how long those cycles are but most likely after full charges/a day or two etc.
Its best to just let it be and it will calibrate itself.
But if you really want to the batterystats.bin file is located in the system or data folder in the root directory, delete it and it will automatically start a new one.
I wan to wipe battery stats of my nexus s bcaz it's not fully charging to 100% Only charging to 98% and saying fully charged.Today i have flashed a new rom and now it's charging to only 95%.What the heck problem it is
rakeshbro said:
I wan to wipe battery stats of my nexus s bcaz it's not fully charging to 100% Only charging to 98% and saying fully charged.Today i have flashed a new rom and now it's charging to only 95%.What the heck problem it is
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Some ROMs have a ceiling for charging the battery in order to 'preserve the battery' so it doesn't completely die as fast. So they make it so that it can't charge all the way to 100%
So its not an actual problem on your phone and wiping stats won't help you
However if you still want to be able to charge to 100% you can download nstools which has an option to fully charge
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
kriout said:
don't ... it's quite useless
( there are tons of app,but u can also charge to 100% and battery stats are deleted automatically, or pull out battery, anyway it doesn't affect battery life ... )
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
abccg said:
Yeah as the last poster said, a Google person came out and busted the myth that wiping battery stats helps in batterylife/precise readings. The stats wipe on their own after each cycle, I don't know exactly how long those cycles are but most likely after full charges/a day or two etc.
Its best to just let it be and it will calibrate itself.
But if you really want to the batterystats.bin file is located in the system or data folder in the root directory, delete it and it will automatically start a new one.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
frenchie007 said:
Some ROMs have a ceiling for charging the battery in order to 'preserve the battery' so it doesn't completely die as fast. So they make it so that it can't charge all the way to 100%
So its not an actual problem on your phone and wiping stats won't help you
However if you still want to be able to charge to 100% you can download nstools which has an option to fully charge
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok guyz thx for ur post and ur time.
Batterystats is nonsense. Batterystats are wiped every time you charge your phone to full or almost full. It makes no sense to wipe battery stats with an app. Fully charging your phone and letting it turn itself off because its empty works best!
Me Gusta!
I used an app called battery calibration..
Sent from my Nexus S using xda app-developers app
rakeshbro said:
I wan to wipe battery stats of my nexus s bcaz it's not fully charging to 100% Only charging to 98% and saying fully charged.Today i have flashed a new rom and now it's charging to only 95%.What the heck problem it is
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I had the same issue when i was using stock google ICS/JB ROM.
It disappeared when i made the switch to CM.
No need to delete batterystats.bin
Just flash kernel with blx