I've been having seemingly random crashes (phone turns off) since early December and I've been suspecting network problems since. But about 10 days ago I had a crash and when I booted up, as usual, the battery meter was showing 5% (down from ~50% just before the crash). This time, instead of turning the phone off and pulling the battery to get back to 50%, I just let the phone sit without doing anything after boot and let it charge to 100%. It hasn't crashed since I did that. I've probably jinxed it by posting this and the phone will crash again any minute now...
But anyway, could those of you (I know there are some) who have the same symptoms try this? So when the phone turns off/reboots and is showing lower battery, just let it sit and charge to 100% and see what happens.
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Ok I have searched and not found anything like this yet so I am going to ask. I know the phone has battery problems all around for a lot of people. Mine seems to be fine when it is on. It can sit and idle powered on all day locked and stay at full charge. It runs about 10 hours with minimal use and maybe 8 hours with some data use and a few calls and texts. Now I am experiencing a wired problem. When I go to work we cannot have cell phones. I leave my phone in my locker and power it off. After my 12 hour shift is up at work I come back to the phone with a dead battery? What could be causing this? And has anyone else noticed this issue?
defective battery? pull the battery and see if it still does it. If it does, gotta be a defective battery.. if it doesn't do it when pulled, you're not shutting off the phone maybe?
Yesterday I tried leaving the battery out. I took the battery out and let it sit 12 hours and it still had full charge when I put it back in. When I go to work I long press on the power/lock button and choose Power off then I watch it shut down and it just dies before I come back. I wish I could watch it the whole time. Today I left the phone off for around 6 hours and came back and it was fine though. Maybe it gets turned on some how at work. I have no idea. Or when I go to power it on it is just the issue where the phone isn't reading battery % correctly and it just says 0%
Seems like a battery driver issue or a defective battery? definitely call t-mobile and check if it's the battery. I've had some issues as well, but not that bad.
Weird.
So the phone powers off after you turn the screen on and it won't come back on? Try putting the phone in airplane mode.
Also, I'm assuming you are running the stock roms?
Might also want to check into a battery monitor to see if any 1 thing is pulling it down.
I think it might just be the battery driver. Sounds like the phone is in suspend so it doesn't power off properly until the screen is turned on and is revived, updating the battery % status, seeing 0%, and turning off.
CM7 fixed the wonky battery issue a few nights ago. Right now, I think a current CM based rom is the best bet as it has most of the drivers fixed. I'ved used mine pretty heavily today, unplugged at 8am and I just got a 15% battery warning at 11:30pm. It will usually last until I go to bed at midnight but I might want to play with it some more.
I am running IC 3.3.9 on my Sensation.
Today in evening i noticed my phone was getting laggy and stuttering alot so i thought I shud reboot it. it was 32% battery left. after reboot it was 8%.. how did that drastic change occur after a single reboot?
Then i kept it on charge as it was falling rapidly and after 2 mins i got a message that your Phone is consuming more power than what is supplied... its not exact quote but something like that.
I kept it on charge for 10 mins turning everything off... the phone was laggy again and battery showed 10%, so i rebooted again while it was plugged to charger..When it reboots, the battery indicator showed 62%... how could it change from 10% to 62% in one reboot???
When i dont reboots it falls down at constant rate except at 100% it stays for a longer time and then suddenly falls to 80%..
Damn, can someone fix this indicator issue or tell me a solution? What is causing this problem?
I deleted battery stats once i flashed it about 2 days back and i thought it would return to normal after some cycles but tis getting worst
EDIT: Just to add: I am on Stock Kernel
1( How are you running IC? EDIT: Oh stupid me pff
2( it might be a bug, nothing serious. What you can do to make sure it is a bug, is to just make one of those magically battery drain happen again, and let it drain.
He is running Insert Coin not icecream sandwitch... I have similar problem ...
Ok so I pulled my phone off the charger at 9:50am (it's 7:47pm now) and it says that it's been 2 hours and 12 minutes since my phone has been off the charger. earlier in the day it said 8 hours. Now I know for a fact I haven't plugged it into a charger. Is there something else I could be doing to reset the time on it?
In my experience, rebooting your phone, or turning it off can also reset the battery thing. Just curious to know why would you be annoyed by this, unless you are doing a battery test I don't see a problem about this at all. anyway, that's just my take..
ya I'm trying to see how long my phone can live off the battery. I do tend to reboot my phone once in a while; depending on what cool mod comes out. I will have to see if I can go a whole battery cycle without rebooting.
So for several weeks I had that - my phone heated up very fast, and very hot, in fact, even when charging the battery would deplete if my phone was in use (but if I left it on low power usage it's battery precent did go up). The battery is fixed.
A few minutes ago, I was on 1%, which happens to me a lot, I watch youtube videos, my battery goes below 15%, and I connect my phone so it charges, but the battery keeps emptying until it shuts down (it says 0% as it's shutting down) and then it starts charging "turned off" from "0%". So this time, my phone didn't get into charging mode, when I tried to turn it on, it didn't even give me the indication that my battery is too low to start android.
Right now it is unplugged, turned off. I'm about to sleep, should I leave it plugged for the night or let it stay unplugged? Is my phone hard bricked? It shows no signs of anything. (I'm on my laptop).
I did switch ROMs, long ago, but that didn't cause any problems, the battery problems were from almost the first week (when I still used the original ROM), but it doesn't make sense to me that it suddenly hard bricks when it's battery says to reach 0%. When it shutted down it turned off by android, not instantly (it turned off as if you would shut it down from the power menu), so I wasn't worried.
So, I have a Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 3 that I got around the time they first came out. It's never gotten wet or really had any problems until the past few months. The first thing that happened was the power button broke and it was stuck down for quite a while before I figured out how to "fix" that. A little carefully applied WD-40 around the power button did the trick. I got a new battery and everything seemed fine.
Lately, however, the charging is not working correctly at all. I'm using the same charger that came with the phone and it will seem to work fine most of the time, but it has problems once unplugged. For example, I'll charge it overnight and wake up to it being at 50-80% battery. Other times, I'll charge it overnight, it will then show 100%, but after unplugging it, it will very quickly, like a few minutes, drop to the ~85%. What happened today though was the final straw. I turned it off and let it charge for about 4 hours until it said it was full. I then took the battery out for 5 minutes before putting it back in and plugging it in again. It then said it was at ~15% battery. I turned it on and, yes, 13% after ~4 hours of charging. I still occasionally have problems with the power button getting stuck and causing a rapid discharge, but I can fix that now and I carry two batteries usually. Not being to charge them though isn't going to work.
I currently live in Taiwan and use Chunghwa Telecom. I constantly have a little notification that says "This SIM card is from an unknown source", but I didn't have problems until months after moving here.
Any thoughts on what could be causing the charging to malfunction and how to fix it? I love my phone and would hate to part with it.