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[Q] Battery drain on Galaxy 3 when on voice call & other battery problems

hello,
i have I5801 galaxy 3..
currently on kies Froyo firmware..
from since flashing to froyo ..
1) whenever i talk on phone (ie do voice call) battery drains out in even less then a hour when fully charged..
2) when kept for charging.. even if battery shows like 10% remaining .. within like a min or two.. battery indicator shows an 100% charged status.
and it drains out in like 10 mins if removed from charging
what i think is somehow froyo is assuming it's charged and is stopping the charging process.
i've rooted it, and tried calibration.. still no luck.. I've deleted batterystats.bin regularly, still a new file is created and no change in battery condition is seen
plz help.. too much frustrated
PS: i am not a pro.. so help plz

satishynd said:
hello,
i have I5801 galaxy 3..
currently on kies Froyo firmware..
from since flashing to froyo ..
1) whenever i talk on phone (ie do voice call) battery drains out in even less then a hour when fully charged..
2) when kept for charging.. even if battery shows like 10% remaining .. within like a min or two.. battery indicator shows an 100% charged status.
and it drains out in like 10 mins if removed from charging
what i think is somehow froyo is assuming it's charged and is stopping the charging process.
i've rooted it, and tried calibration.. still no luck.. I've deleted batterystats.bin regularly, still a new file is created and no change in battery condition is seen
plz help.. too much frustrated
PS: i am not a pro.. so help plz
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don't delete batterystats.bin do some full charge discharge then report.

tried that.. still no change
battery drained off in 30-40 mins..
does ATK make battery drain? somewhere along on some phone someone said that draining battery to nil and charging back cycle makes battery life even shorter.. dunno what to do..

satishynd said:
tried that.. still no change
battery drained off in 30-40 mins..
does ATK make battery drain? somewhere along on some phone someone said that draining battery to nil and charging back cycle makes battery life even shorter.. dunno what to do..
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Calibrate your battery after doing a full charge. And use as "normal" for few normal cycles, just like you usually did.
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satishynd said:
hello,
i have I5801 galaxy 3..
currently on kies Froyo firmware..
from since flashing to froyo ..
1) whenever i talk on phone (ie do voice call) battery drains out in even less then a hour when fully charged..
2) when kept for charging.. even if battery shows like 10% remaining .. within like a min or two.. battery indicator shows an 100% charged status.
and it drains out in like 10 mins if removed from charging
what i think is somehow froyo is assuming it's charged and is stopping the charging process.
i've rooted it, and tried calibration.. still no luck.. I've deleted batterystats.bin regularly, still a new file is created and no change in battery condition is seen
plz help.. too much frustrated
PS: i am not a pro.. so help plz
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Hi
Try using light version of g3mod kernel instead of oc based.
You can flash your phone with my Rom and test after full battery charge. note some apps are battery drainer like tweetcaster etc due to continuous sync.
Try to stop those services and test your phone thereafter..it will show improvement. .and dont delete any battery calibration seetting once done after you flash thats all.
Do let me know if it not happens.
Cheers.
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it's been almost one year from purchase ryt?? Its time for a new battery..
PS: I had d exact prob.. I replaced the battery , prob solved.
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@vivekmishra: did that performed two drain/full charge cycles.. still same condition
vivekchamoli said:
Hi
Try using light version of g3mod kernel instead of oc based.
You can flash your phone with my Rom and test after full battery charge. note some apps are battery drainer like tweetcaster etc due to continuous sync.
Try to stop those services and test your phone thereafter..it will show improvement. .and dont delete any battery calibration seetting once done after you flash thats all.
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i flashed g3mod-2.0-nonoc
still when i try to put it to charge..
say currently it shows like 40% charge.. but as soon as i put it on charging (via AC) .. it shoots up directly to 90-100 in two minutes.... this should be wrong, right?
darin rate is also bad
it showed 100% charged and a 3 min call .. made battery level goto 45%
ranadip.bswas said:
it's been almost one year from purchase ryt?? Its time for a new battery..
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yea it's been a year well exactly a year
but i dont think it's battery prob coz i tried battery of other I5801 same thing happens.. (

satishynd said:
@vivekmishra: did that performed two drain/full charge cycles.. still same condition
i flashed g3mod-2.0-nonoc
still when i try to put it to charge..
say currently it shows like 40% charge.. but as soon as i put it on charging (via AC) .. it shoots up directly to 90-100 in two minutes.... this should be wrong, right?
darin rate is also bad
it showed 100% charged and a 3 min call .. made battery level goto 45%
yea it's been a year well exactly a year
but i dont think it's battery prob coz i tried battery of other I5801 same thing happens.. (
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Humm.. Strange..! U sure the other battery dsnt got any prob??
Ok try this .. convert all partition to rfs & flash any stock ROM with stock kernel.. Use Ur phone like that 2-3days.. See if any improvement..
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err STOCK kernel means official right?
also how to convert parition to rfs.. is this about partitioning SDcard? coz if it is i've tried using without any card insert .. still same
i was thinking about G3mod 2.0 Beta2 kernel .. heard it uses very less battery..
but i've got a question ( and i can't ask in development forum as per post limitation) that does the 2.0 Beta2 uses less battery than the official samsung jp6 kernel? or should i try flashing that?
(now i may look like stupid asking these question)

first of all, sorry for bumping this after a month..
actually G3 wasnt with me from then, now it's back and problem persists
what i notice is that
1) phone when put to charge, shoots up to 100% in 5-10 mins, even when off
2) and same with the drain, it goes to 1% in 5-10mins
i checked out with battery, and it is fine they(samsung service center) say,..
plz help, i am at question as to what is the reason for this sudden rise and fall of battery level.

if u got a costum rom use battery calibration from the market its free it fix the drains happend whit me to
greets Mathias
samsung galaxy 3 GT-I5800 running indroid v6 @1.3 Ghz

mathias1xxX said:
if u got a costum rom use battery calibration from the market its free it fix the drains happend whit me to
greets Mathias
samsung galaxy 3 GT-I5800 running indroid v6 @1.3 Ghz
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nope... i had used it before but now i am currently on I5801DDJP6 updated from 2.1 eclair via kies
its stock,unrooted, no modifications..
i'd calibrate battery, but the fact that it shoots up t0 100% in 10 mins
and what i guess is when phone detects 100% battery, it pretty much stops charging after that, thus battery starves ..
can something be done so that it actually gets accurate reading on battery status ?

Switch off your cell...let it full charge....
Then switch on the device and flash the cyanogen mod...
Its fast,stable and also increases the battery power...
had the exact same problem...did that and now works for almost two days...

satishynd said:
first of all, sorry for bumping this after a month..
actually G3 wasnt with me from then, now it's back and problem persists
what i notice is that
1) phone when put to charge, shoots up to 100% in 5-10 mins, even when off
2) and same with the drain, it goes to 1% in 5-10mins
i checked out with battery, and it is fine they(samsung service center) say,..
plz help, i am at question as to what is the reason for this sudden rise and fall of battery level.
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It may be possible that your battery may have gone bad and you need to replace it
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porwaldivyam said:
Switch off your cell...let it full charge....
Then switch on the device and flash the cyanogen mod...
Its fast,stable and also increases the battery power...
had the exact same problem...did that and now works for almost two days...
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cyanogenMod site doesnt show Galaxy 3 support...
btw u are saying ROM or kernel?? coz i like stock ROM of samsung as it's easy to use
@bscraze i contacted service center.. they say battery's good and doesn't need replacement...

hey i discharged until phone switched itself off couple of times
and charged it back to 100% while phone was off and then again when ON..
then, i increased brightness,turned on wifi,bluetooh,gps,etc and it dropped to 90% ..
as it is stock rom i think it was between 90-100% (coz with 1% mod)
but as soon as a call came, which was of 2:38 seconds, my phone battery dropped off to 3%
any guesses, why this is happening?

satishynd said:
cyanogenMod site doesnt show Galaxy 3 support...
btw u are saying ROM or kernel?? coz i like stock ROM of samsung as it's easy to use
@bscraze i contacted service center.. they say battery's good and doesn't need replacement...
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Cm7 is being ported by marcel and still has a few minor bugs and isnt fully working i think thats wjy the cm site doesnt show it. I have about the same problem as you im waiting to get my batt replaced. If it works i suggest you get one too. I'll probably get it nxt wk and I'll report here if theres any difference
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what i have been able to detect from last two days is,
that battery fall is severe only when on voice call,
i have been playing music,games without much battery drain
but a mere voice call with everything off (GPS,bluetooh,dataconntection) for not more than 10 mins, drains battery by 20-30%
any ideas about it's reason??

satishynd said:
what i have been able to detect from last two days is,
that battery fall is severe only when on voice call,
i have been playing music,games without much battery drain
but a mere voice call with everything off (GPS,bluetooh,dataconntection) for not more than 10 mins, drains battery by 20-30%
any ideas about it's reason??
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Check out which app uses more battery in battery - settings - usage. That particular process may use more battery than others.
I have a similar problem with my G3 - I'm running CM 6.2
While I checked the OS takes 76% of the battery. I found CM6.2 better in handling FC than 7.1..Or should i just go back to Cm 7.1??
Experts, please advice

Hello everyone. its long since i posted here and thats bcoz of only one reason .. battery problem with my phone. i really was getting pissed off by the issue that i stopped posting here .. cursing my bad old phone.. my battery was lasting near abt 6-10 hrs lately .. finally i decided to..
1. flash eclair (stock) JG6 which came along at the time of my purchase and had reasonable to good batt back up. flashed that and i was like 18-24hrs of batt backup. Used it for almost one week. and as i was surfing thru our threads.. saw some really encouraging post abt Kyrillos 9.3 and its battery backup. so..
2. I flashed kyrillos 9.3 for last 3 days .. and did the calibration on my very first charging after flashing 9.3.. yesterday got almost 36 hrs of batt backup .. right now m on 84%.. unplugged @ 8pm yesterday .. it 10:15am right now in india. so its around 14 hrs .. which i feel is quite good considering my past exp with my battery ..
I dont know what actually has done the trick or its illusion to me . but after flashing eclair my phone performance has gone up smartly.
Using 9.3 NON-OC. with a2sd enabled.
i hope it can help ppl abt our all confusing battery issue .. if not .. at least it can throw some light ...
Press the thanks button if u find it helpful. Hve a gr8 day.

Battery Life Record

Moderate Use
Doctorz V8
Stock kernel
No voltage changes or clocking aside from what comes with the RoM.
Auto screen brightness.
Main difference is Background Data is off for everything but Market.
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What do you mean by background data and how do you set that?
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Just an observation, but the graph at the top under where it says 1 day 19 hours clearly shows your battery going up 3 times. Which I was just going to pass up but I have a bunch of shots of my battery stats and none of them go up.
[IMG]http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h472/BadFishCM/SC20110821-130202.png[/IMG]
So if I'm not mistaken you plugged in a couple times.

I seen that as well but I honestly have no idea why. I can assure you it has not been plugged in. I even have a prior screen shot on another battery run that has the same issue.
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Thats impossible, theirs no way for a phone to charge itself while discharging. Something is screwed up with your battery calibration.
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Battery Management
Hi, all.
I want to pass this tip along to anyone who want or need to conserve their battery for what ever reasons.
I have gone usually 3 day+ on one charge.
I'm running on stock rom. Froyo 2.2.1
It is rooted though
I use the phone moderately. Text occasionally.
I downloaded an app called "DataSwitch" by TomatoX.
I use wifi when I'm at home or work.
I have dataswitch activated when I don't need constant background data. ?I turn it on when I need to use it for surfing and such.
In Settings, there is also a toggle for background on/off, although I don't use this much.
With the data off, you can still get phone call and text msg.
I usually turn off data and wifi at bedtime.
On the third day, I'm usually down to 35%.
This may also be useful if you are low and can't get to a charge right away.
It may not apply to everybody, but it works for me..esp with only a 200mb data plan. Battery life is great!

lol look at that cell standby use your phone lol

xKrisx said:
Moderate Use
Doctorz V8
Stock kernel
No voltage changes or clocking aside from what comes with the RoM.
Auto screen brightness.
Main difference is Background Data is off for everything but Market.
Sent from my SGH-I997 using Tapatalk
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Good one. But next time on, it would be more useful if you post the screenshots showing call duration and display time. With just this one screenshot it could have display on for just 5 mins or 50 mins. Its hard to tell.
Just now noticed, the tiny green bars in the screenshot (circled in red) come up when the phone is charging.

I noticed that (at least for my phone) if you connect it to wall charging it would reset the "time on battery" count but if i connected it via usb to pc it was charging, yeah slowly maybe but the timer never reset when connected via usb as if the phone said "well im charging but it doesnt counts since the guy its transfering data"(lmao yeah my phone is smart) so if you wait for 10% battery ans then go usb mode and charge it and use it and repeat i once got displaying 4 days 10 hours on battery haha.
While on my real stats my phone never last more than 18 hours ;/
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koriotto said:
I noticed that (at least for my phone) if you connect it to wall charging it would reset the "time on battery" count but if i connected it via usb to pc it was charging, yeah slowly maybe but the timer never reset when connected via usb as if the phone said "well im charging but it doesnt counts since the guy its transfering data"(lmao yeah my phone is smart) so if you wait for 10% battery ans then go usb mode and charge it and use it and repeat i once got displaying 4 days 10 hours on battery haha.
While on my real stats my phone never last more than 18 hours ;/
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I got my phone to say 2 days 15 hours once. As long as I don't charge it 100% the time on my battery continues to go up. I can plug it in while it has 10% left charge it till its 90% unplug it, and the time won't reset.

If anyone mistook my comment, I'm not really interested in claiming any specific record as the op as stated.
I simply meant to share my thoughts on "dataswitch" app and how I had applied it.
I think found it useful to limit data usage and to conserve the battery when I can't get a charge right away.
You'll be surprise how much battery life background data consumes.
The other part tech part of me also recognizes that battery memory exist...it may be best to "widen" your charge range (0% to 100%) when possible.

Well, I figured out what caused that.. My radio in my truck has a USB port that I plug my phone into to listen to my music. Worked great on my Ipod but it wouldn't charge my Ipod. However today when coming home, I plugged my phone in and it doesnt show to be charging, but when I looked at the Battery Use chart, it deffinately showed an increase.
And here I was thinking I was getting impecable battery life lol.
Oh well.. Sorry for the fuss. However, I will keep trying

xKrisx said:
Well, I figured out what caused that.. My radio in my truck has a USB port that I plug my phone into to listen to my music. Worked great on my Ipod but it wouldn't charge my Ipod. However today when coming home, I plugged my phone in and it doesnt show to be charging, but when I looked at the Battery Use chart, it deffinately showed an increase.
And here I was thinking I was getting impecable battery life lol.
Oh well.. Sorry for the fuss. However, I will keep trying
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There you go. Mystery solved. Case closed.

more like....busted?

alc630 said:
more like....busted?
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Can't use a hard word. Looks like he is still new and didn't realize his phone was charging. Well, he didn't realize that the green line in pic meant charging. So he gets benefit of doubt.

stock Froyo...
one charge...for real
lol..light use.

qkster said:
stock Froyo...
one charge...for real
lol..light use.
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Good one. Capture the display time and call time too please next time on.

qkster said:
stock Froyo...
one charge...for real
lol..light use.
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And I'm a kung fu panda.

diablo009 said:
Good one. Capture the display time and call time too please next time on.
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How do I do that?
I tried going into settings, about phone, and battery use. That was the img I got.
I'm not sure how to bring up the charge graph, display time and call time as well...
On stock froyo 2.2.1. Baseband I997UCKH1. Kernel 2.6.32.9
I can try it again in a few days if you can tell me how
I'm also using screenshot from the Market.
I'm new at this so tell me step by step pls.
thnks

qkster said:
How do I do that?
I tried going into settings, about phone, and battery use. That was the img I got.
I'm not sure how to bring up the charge graph, display time and call time as well...
On stock froyo 2.2.1. Baseband I997UCKH1. Kernel 2.6.32.9
I can try it again in a few days if you can tell me how
I'm also using screenshot from the Market.
I'm new at this so tell me step by step pls.
thnks
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phone short circuit, draining battery in 2 hours

i have just purchased a new infuse 4g .. ...its draining battery at bery fast rate ( around 2-3 hours)
and if i restart it it drains out around 40-50 of battery...i hve also gave them to samaung service center(india) ..they told me that the charger connector was short circuited....and they changed it..but the condition is still same..can anyone help.. (ive tried every rom from 2.2 to 4.2.2 and calibration stuff everything but noyhing helped ..so this is not a software problem) i mean what could be the problem...? ...any help would be great....

raj9800 said:
i have just purchased a new infuse 4g .. ...its draining battery at bery fast rate ( around 2-3 hours)
and if i restart it it drains out around 40-50 of battery...i hve also gave them to samaung service center(india) ..they told me that the charger connector was short circuited....and they changed it..but the condition is still same..can anyone help.. (ive tried every rom from 2.2 to 4.2.2 and calibration stuff everything but noyhing helped ..so this is not a software problem) i mean what could be the problem...? ...any help would be great....
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Have you tried to get Gingerbread? Cause thats overall the best version for battery life and if not.. Then i guess you have to get a new phone

I didn't know that there were any NEW Infuses around.
Bad Battery

raj9800 said:
i have just purchased a new infuse 4g .. ...its draining battery at bery fast rate ( around 2-3 hours)
and if i restart it it drains out around 40-50 of battery...i hve also gave them to samaung service center(india) ..they told me that the charger connector was short circuited....and they changed it..but the condition is still same..can anyone help.. (ive tried every rom from 2.2 to 4.2.2 and calibration stuff everything but noyhing helped ..so this is not a software problem) i mean what could be the problem...? ...any help would be great....
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So let me get this straight. New infuse just purchased, tried ROMs from 2.2-4.2, and it is bad already...you're good. Took me at least as week to screw mine up.
Try one ROM and let it settle for a few days.
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2-3 hours of real usage?
If so, that seems like right. With my fairly new infuse, I can surf web about the hours and half.
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Post your battery usage

Ok Guys its been a while that we all have been using this beast , share your battery stats , incase u have any tweaks , do share them
please make sure you also share your SOT ( screen on TIme )

This phone lasts a good long day with some 3g , phone calls , music playing , video playing , and some gps

Here is my battery posts :
https://app.box.com/s/7p6rw4fhxn6es897ydzc
https://app.box.com/s/d4m4cba6unxz8mhkolhf
https://app.box.com/s/6rcdvhwsifs5gywu60ri
With 2 account email pushing alwais, 8 hours and half in 3g and 6 hours of wifi, browsing over 1 hour and about 200 mb of download/upload, including cloud

That is quite impressive considering large screen
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anirudhks said:
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Wooooooh
Fantastic
As soon as, i will buy a zerolemon battery and i will post the result:good:

this is my phone
thus is my batry use

This is mine

Stand by time is amazing
Here is mine I generally get two-three days out of it not using it alot.

bjscott55 said:
Here is mine I generally get two-three days out of it not using it alot.
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may i know how much time your GP2 stayed in idle condition in that 21h 14mins..
based on ur screenshot GP2 decreases 1% of battery for every hour, am i right??? thats f***ing awesome man

RdxGuru said:
may i know how much time your GP2 stayed in idle condition in that 21h 14mins..
based on ur screenshot GP2 decreases 1% of battery for every hour, am i right??? thats f***ing awesome man
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generally mine takes about 6 hours for 1% drop... in fully idle state like night

It fights till the end.
RdxGuru said:
may i know how much time your GP2 stayed in idle condition in that 21h 14mins..
based on ur screenshot GP2 decreases 1% of battery for every hour, am i right??? thats f***ing awesome man
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hmm was in idle around 16hours if I'm honest as I barely used it over the weekend and took that screenshot the next day, yeah I'm pretty impressed by it! In idle this phone hangs on to life with a urge to live!

Awesome
anirudhks said:
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How did you get 8 hour of screen time.?....For now i get at most 6 hour of screen time i cant get anymore than that....And also I have bought this phone just 5 days ago so should i visit customer care or is it normal screen time?
Because most of time my screen time gets reduce in little bit whatsapp , call and very little gaming....!!!

luffyys said:
How did you get 8 hour of screen time.?....For now i get at most 6 hour of screen time i cant get anymore than that....And also I have bought this phone just 5 days ago so should i visit customer care or is it normal screen time?
Because most of time my screen time gets reduce in little bit whatsapp , call and very little gaming....!!!
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naa i think ur voice calls draw a lot of battery, i dont use my phone too much for calls ( all though phones are for it primarily ) depends on individuals usage and also signal stregnth.
6 hours I would say pretty good...

my battrey
;D

Is there problem with my S6 battery?

Hai, It's not even 20 days that i have started facing battery problem . My s6 battery drains so fast..
Today i did a test. I enabled wifi location bluetooth fullscreen brightness and played game in normal mode .
It lasted only 2 Hours and 30 min..
Here is image .
i[dot]imgur[dot]com/MpDuHN8[dot]png
Is it only for me ??If yes should i complain and get warranty for it . I will ask other question in thread
Please help i think i wasted my 720$ for purchasing it .
Thank xda developer .

Yes your battery is defective. I've played a game for an hour and it only went down 10%

LordAbolition said:
Yes your battery is defective. I've played a game for an hour and it only went down 10%
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Do warranty give me new battery? or they change mobile ?

bloggervista said:
Do warranty give me new battery? or they change mobile ?
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In here finland we get new phone if you bought the phone within 7days. Other than that your battery will be replaced.

bloggervista said:
Hai, It's not even 20 days that i have started facing battery problem . My s6 battery drains so fast..
Today i did a test. I enabled wifi location bluetooth fullscreen brightness and played game in normal mode .
It lasted only 2 Hours and 30 min..
Here is image .
i[dot]imgur[dot]com/MpDuHN8[dot]png
Is it only for me ??If yes should i complain and get warranty for it . I will ask other question in thread
Please help i think i wasted my 720$ for purchasing it .
Thank xda developer .
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Your battery is fine. 2 and half hours of gaming on full brightness with connections active is about average. Nothing wrong with your phone
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